US09934096B2
In a fault management system, each of one or more image forming apparatuses includes an agent unit that transmits, upon occurrence of a fault, a notice that the fault has occurred and service call information indicative of details of the fault to a fault management server. The fault management server includes a manager unit that transmits a reboot command to the agent unit of the image forming apparatus in which the fault has occurred, upon reception of the notice and the service call information from the agent unit of the image forming apparatus in which the fault has occurred. The agent unit of the image forming apparatus in which the fault has occurred reboots the image forming apparatus in which the fault has occurred, according to the reboot command.
US09934085B2
A detector detects, using an error code, an error in data stored in a memory. The detector determines whether the error is uncorrectable using the error code. In response to determining that the error is uncorrectable, an error handler associated with an application is invoked to handle the error in the data by recovering the data to an application-wide consistent state.
US09934077B2
A method and system for implementing a reader-writer lock having a write lock requested by a thread is disclosed. The reader-writer lock is structured to have counters and a flag. The counters use an atomic process to count read locks held or outstanding read lock requests. The flag identifies a counter and is configured to distinguish between counters. A read lock is prepared, acquired, and released. The atomic process is used and the flag or flagged counter is polled. A write lock is prepared, acquired, and released.
US09934075B2
Technologies are generally described for task management on computing platforms. In some examples, a method performed under control of a task management system may include determining a relationship among a plurality of tasks executed on a first platform to identify one or more associated tasks; identifying at least one attribute of each of the one or more associated tasks; generating a job that includes the one or more associated tasks and the identified at least one attribute of each of the one or more associated tasks; and instantiating, on a second platform, the one or more associated tasks included in the job based on the at least one attribute of each of the one or more associated tasks, in response to a request to launch the job.
US09934073B2
A method comprising receiving, by a processing thread executing on a host server, a container request to create a container on the host server by employing a container engine, wherein the container request indicates a first resource constraint and a second resource constraint for executing an application within the container, directing, by the processing thread, the container engine to create an operating environment for the container according to the first resource constraint and to execute the container on the host server, reserving, by the processing thread, a first resource from an operating system (OS) of the host server according to the second resource constraint of the container request, and updating dynamically, by the processing thread, the operating environment of the container to enable the container to directly utilize the reserved first resource for execution of the application to meet the second resource constraint of the container request.
US09934061B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for black box techniques for detecting performance and availability issues in virtual machines exploiting hardware assisted virtualization are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes capturing multiple hardware assisted virtualization exit calls generated in connection with a given virtual machine; calculating one or more virtual machine performance metrics attributed to the given virtual machine based on the multiple hardware assisted virtualization exit calls; determining one or more virtual machine performance issues and/or one or more virtual machine availability issues attributed to the given virtual machine based on the one or more calculated virtual machine performance metrics; and outputting an alert identifying the one or more determined virtual machine performance issues and/or the one or more virtual machine availability issues attributed to the given virtual machine.
US09934055B2
Evaluating the performance of an application when migrated from a first environment in which the application is currently executing to a different second environment includes generating a configuration file using data obtained from the application executing in the first environment, installing the configuration file in a virtual machine residing in the second environment, launching the application in the virtual machine after the installing, and obtaining a metric indicative of the performance from the virtual machine.
US09934053B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for optimizing a configuration of virtual machine (VM) instances. In a typical embodiment, such optimization comprises either the splitting of a single VM instance into multiple VM instances or the consolidation of multiple VM instances into fewer (e.g., a single) VM instance. Along these lines, it will first be determined which VM instances would be good candidates for reconfiguration. Under one approach, VM instances that are candidates for reconfiguration are identified based upon an analysis of applicable/associated service level agreement (SLA) terms versus the performance of the VM instances. For example, VM instances can be reconfigured if such reconfiguration will maximize a benefit provided by the applicable SLA terms (e.g., if the splitting of a single VM instance into multiple VM instances would cause a workload to be processed more efficiently, resulting in a more favorable cost/benefit ratio). In another embodiment, candidate VM instances can be identified based upon a commonality of an entity (e.g., a consumer) associated therewith. For example, if a single entity is utilizing multiple VM instances, such VM instances could be considered candidates for consolidation to avoid unnecessary computing resource consumption.
US09934050B2
This disclosure generally relate to remote booting of a computing system. The present technology relates techniques that can enable deploying boot parameters to one or more booting servers in a scalable and autonomous approach. A service controller can receive and transmit a boot sequence and/or boot configuration to other computing components, such as a BIOS or a host bus adapter. The service controller can transmit boot information by a system interface called a keyboard controller style interface.
US09934049B1
All steps required to create and operate a peripheral device of an electronic device can be performed without the need to plug in the peripheral device to the electronic device. Setup information for a peripheral device is extracted, modified and stored to fit to a physical existent peripheral device. The modified setup information is used to create a data structure that is passed to the peripheral bus driver. As the data structure contains a hot plug notification the reception causes the peripheral bus driver to initiate the setup process for the peripheral device. As the data structure is built from setup information that is available at the electronic device no additional user action is required. The invention also allows the creation of a device object for existing signed driver packets that may not be altered.
US09934038B2
An acquisition unit acquires a command that is executable by a processor of an other type being a processor of a different type from a processor of a processing execution subject apparatus. An identification unit identifies processing that is executable by the processor of the processing execution subject apparatus which is associated with the command acquired by the acquisition unit. An execution control unit controls execution of the processing performed by the processor of the processing execution subject apparatus based on a value of a parameter which is set in a specific command for the processor of the other type, the value of the parameter which is set in the specific command not affecting execution of processing performed by the processor of the other type.
US09934036B2
A compiler method that performs parallel processing on a data set using multithreading. The method includes calculating a divisor for dividing the data set. The data set is divided into a number of subsets greater than a number of threads. The method generates a plurality of data subsets and executable code. The code performs processing operations and an instruction executed by a first thread that reaches the code. After completing processing operations related to the subsets that have been assigned to the threads, the next subsets are assigned to the threads. When assigning the next subsets, synchronous processing is performed in order to determine which one of “unprocessed”, “processed”, and “assigned to a different thread” is the state of each of the subsets.
US09934034B2
State machine engines are disclosed, including those having an instruction insertion register. One such instruction insertion register may provide an initialization instruction, such as to prepare a state machine engine for data analysis. An instruction insertion register may also provide an instruction in an attempt to resolve an error that occurs during operation of a state machine engine. An instruction insertion register may also be used to debug a state machine engine, such as after the state machine experiences a fatal error.
US09934028B2
The method includes adjusting, by one or more computer processors, a Javascript object notation structure to comprise a tag on at least one object and a tag on at least one array. The method further includes receiving, by one or more computer processors, data indicating a first set of at least one change to the Javascript object notation structure. The method further includes adjusting, by one or more computer processors, the tags in the Javascript object notation structure to include the first set of the at least one change in the Javascript object notation structure. The method further includes receiving, by one or more computer processor, data indicating the first set of the at least one change to the Javascript object notation structure is complete. The method further includes displaying the first set of the at least one change to the Javascript object notation structure based upon the adjusted tags.
US09934019B1
Technology for converting an application function to a service is provided. In one example, a method may include analyzing an application to identify a function of the application including logic. The method may further include extracting the function from the application. The function may be uploaded to a service provider environment to be implemented as an application service. A function access wrapper for the function may be retrieved from the service provider environment. The function access wrapper may be configured to call the application service in the service provider environment to execute the logic in the service provider environment and to receive a result of execution of the logic from the application service. The function access wrapper may be inserted into the application in the place of the function.
US09934014B2
An electronic device (such as a cellular telephone) automatically installs and optionally personalizes a purposed application (which is sometimes referred to as an ‘applet’) on a secure element in the electronic device (which is sometimes referred to as ‘applet creation’). In particular, when a digitally signed installation package containing the applet is received from an installing device (such as a server), the secure element verifies the digital signature of the installation package using an encryption key associated with a vendor of the secure element. Then, the secure element installs the applet. In addition, the secure element may optionally export user data from another applet installed on the secure element. Moreover, the secure element may personalize the installed applet using the user data from the other applet. In this way, the electronic device provides a scalable installation solution while allowing personalization from the other applet.
US09934010B1
Programming in a multiprocessor environment includes accepting a program specification that defines a plurality of processing modules and one or more channels for sending data between ports of the modules, mapping each of the processing modules to run on a set of one or more processing engines of a network of interconnected processing engines, and for at least some of the channels, assigning one or more elements of one or more processing engines in the network to the channel for sending data between respective processing modules.
US09934002B2
A method includes receiving, by a computer, input from a client device. The input is indicative of a software environment for software to be developed by a user. The method further includes analyzing, by the computer, the received input against a knowledge base to generate a technology recommendation for the user to use to develop the software. The method also includes providing, by the computer, the technology recommendation to the client device.
US09933997B2
A method and apparatus are provided for manufacturing integrated circuits performing invariant integer division x/d. A desired rounding mode is provided and an integer triple (a,b,k) for this rounding mode is derived. Furthermore, a set of conditions for the rounding mode is derived. An RTL representation is then derived using the integer triple. From this a hardware layout can be derived and an integrated circuit manufactured with the derived hardware layout. When the integer triple is derived a minimum value of k for the desired rounding mode and set of conditions is also derived.
US09933994B2
In one aspect, a device includes a processor, a display accessible to the processor, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to receive first input pertaining to second input to the device that will be spelled, receive the second input, and execute a function based on the second input. The second input is audible input.
US09933991B2
An audio mixing system for providing an audio processing interface at a mobile device may include a mobile device including an interface configured to present a display screen to receive user input to control a remote audio mixer that is operably coupled to at least one musical instrument, transmit, via a wireless network, a mobile device command indicating an audio setting, the command being generated in response to user input, receive, via the wireless network and in response to the mobile device command, first mixer data indicative of audio settings of the remote audio mixer, and present an updated display screen, the updated display screen reflecting the first mixer data as a result of the mobile device command to present a real-time display of the audio settings of the remote audio mixer.
US09933990B1
Embodiments of the invention include methods, systems and computer program products for generating at least one control parameter for controlling a signal processor that processes audio signals. A point set is defined, wherein the point set may assume a plurality of topological configurations. Each topological configuration comprises at least one region, each of the at least one region associated with at least one or more topological attributes. A mapping is defined from each of the plurality of topological configurations to a respective plurality of parameters, wherein the mapping is performed based upon the topological attributes of said topological configuration. A user input is received wherein the user input expresses a transformation of the point set from a first topological configuration a second topological configuration. An updated set of topological attributes is determined based upon the second topological configuration. The one or more control parameters are updated based upon the second topological configuration using the mapping.
US09933984B1
Method and arrangement for displaying a digital waveform in an eye diagram simultaneously with an indication of acceptability of the digital waveform. A decoded digital waveform is separated into overlapping waveform permutations based on a number of digital states and transition points in the eye diagram. Submasks equal in number to the waveform permutations and that are derived from a common, known good waveform, are retrieved from a memory component. Each retrieved submask is applied to a corresponding waveform permutation to determine any locations at which the waveform permutation exceeds a boundary of the submask. Only one submask is applied to each waveform permutation. The waveform is displayed in the eye diagram simultaneous with a visual indication of the locations at which any of the waveform permutations exceeds the boundary of the corresponding submask, to enable visual assessment of the acceptability/validity of the digital waveform.
US09933983B2
A first communication apparatus may comprise a first type of interface configured to function as an IC tag, a second type of interface, and a controller. The controller may cause the first type of interface to execute a sending operation. The sending operation may be executed by using a first wireless connection established between the first and second communication apparatuses. The sending operation may include an operation of the first type of interface to send network identification information to the second communication apparatus. The network identification information may be information to be used in a first wireless network to which both the first and second communication apparatuses belong. The controller may execute, after the first type of interface has executed the sending operation, a wireless communication of target data with the second communication apparatus via the second type of interface by using the first wireless network.
US09933981B2
A method for printing digital images on at least one input roll of media in order to form at least one output roll by means of a roll-to-roll printing system is disclosed. The roll-to-roll printing system includes a digital image queue including an entry for each digital image to be printed. The method includes registering in an entry of the digital image queue a first digital item identifying the digital image and digital items of print properties of the digital image, printing the digital image according to the order of the entry in the digital image queue, and registering in the entry a second digital item identifying an input roll on which the digital image is going to be printed and a third digital item identifying an output roll on which the printed digital image is going to be wound. A roll-to-roll printing system is configured to apply the method.
US09933980B2
An array controller for connection between a solid state drive controller and multiple non-volatile storage units is provided. The array controller comprises a plurality of enable outputs, each of which is connected to an enable input of one of the non-volatile storage units, and a buffer in which data to be written into or read from the non-volatile storage units is stored. The array controller further comprises a control unit configured to enable a communication path between the solid state drive controller and one of the non-volatile storage units according to an address received from the solid state drive controller.
US09933979B2
The data storage device includes a separator configured to separate data requested to write by clients into data chunks, an address translator configured to translate first addresses generated by the data chunks into second addresses as global addresses, a storage node mapper configured to map the second addresses to a plurality of storage nodes, and a data store unit configured to select a target storage node among the plurality of storage nodes and store the data chunks in the target storage node. The data chunks include a plurality of data input/output unit blocks. If other data chunks that are the same with the data chunks are pre-stored in the plurality of storage nodes, the data store unit is configured to establish links between the same pre-stored data chunks and the second addresses, rather than stores the data chunks in the plurality of storage nodes.
US09933977B1
A memory device includes a memory unit including a plurality of memory cells, and a controller including a storage unit that stores a plurality of operation selections each corresponding to a property of at least one selected memory cell among the plurality of memory cells.
US09933975B1
A data transmission method, a memory storage device and a memory control circuit unit are provided. The method includes: obtaining a first command from a host system and counting a first time value; performing a first access operation corresponding to the first command on the rewritable non-volatile memory module; and generating a first completion message corresponding to completion of the first access operation and buffering the first completion message in a buffer area; and transmitting the first completion message buffered in the buffer area to the host system if the first time value meets a first waiting time value. Accordingly, a data access speed detected by the host system is stabilized.
US09933972B2
Methods of accessing memory cells, methods of distributing memory requests, systems, and memory controllers are described. In one such method, where memory cells are divided into at least a first region of memory cells and a second region of memory cells, memory cells in the first region are accessed according to a first address definition and memory cells in the second region are accessed according to a second address definition that is different from the first address definition. Additional embodiments are described.
US09933967B1
Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, a system, and a computer program product for aggregating physical storage pools and ports into a virtual storage array. The method includes selecting a plurality of physical storage pools in a storage environment, selecting a plurality of ports in the storage environment, and aggregating the physical storage pools and ports into a virtual storage array. Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, a system, and a computer program product for aggregating a plurality of storage resource from a plurality of physical storage pools into a virtual storage pool. The method includes selecting a plurality of storage resource from a plurality of physical storage pools and aggregating the plurality of resources from the plurality of physical storage pools into a virtual storage pool.
US09933960B2
A system includes a memory controller and a memory device having a command interface and a plurality of memory banks, each with a plurality of rows of memory cells. The memory controller transmits an auto-refresh command to the memory device. Responsive to the auto-refresh command, during a first time interval, the memory device performs refresh operations to refresh the memory cells and the command interface of the memory device is placed into a calibration mode for the duration of the first time interval. Concurrently, during at least a portion of the first time interval, the memory controller performs a calibration of the command interface of the memory device. The auto-refresh command may specify an order in which memory banks of the memory device are to be refreshed, such that the memory device sequentially refreshes a respective row in the plurality of memory banks in the specified bank order.
US09933959B2
A method and computer program product are provided to ensure a timely secure data erase by comparing a number of secure data erase operations in a queue to a maximum queued threshold, the secure data erase operations corresponding to physical volumes to be secure data erased. In response to determining that the number of secure data erase operations in the queue is greater than the threshold, an average time to a secure data erase deadline is determined. The average time to the secure data erase deadline is compared to a predefined expiration threshold. In response to determining that the average time to the secure data erase deadline is less than the predefined expiration threshold, at least one additional resource is allocated to perform the queued secure data erase operations for completing the secure data erase operations prior to the secure data erase deadline.
US09933958B2
A data storage device including a flash memory and a controller. The flash memory includes a plurality of blocks, and each of the blocks has a plurality of pages. The controller receives a write command which is arranged to write a plurality of data sectors into a plurality of first pages of a first block of the blocks, calculates an offset index according to a first erase count of the first block, retrieving a plurality of seeds from a random seed table according to the offset index, encodes the data sectors by using the retrieved seeds to obtain a plurality of encoded data sectors, and writes the encoded data sectors into the first pages.
US09933957B1
A technique for migrating data of a virtual machine running on a server from a first storage array to a second storage array includes configuring a virtualization appliance to mirror data between the first storage array and the second storage array and redirecting IO (Input/Output) requests, which were previously directed to the first storage array, instead to the virtualization appliance. The virtualization appliance performs data mirroring to bring the data in the second storage array into synchronization with the data in the first storage array, such that migration of the data from the first storage array to the second storage array is achieved.
US09933946B2
Methods and systems for processing failover operations in a storage array configured for Fiber Channel communication are provided. One example method includes executing a primary process in user space of a controller of the storage array. The primary process is configured to process request commands from one or more initiators and has access to a volume manager for serving data input/output (I/O) requests. The primary process has a connection to a port of storage array when in operation. The method further executes a secondary process in the user space of the controller to process request commands from one or more of the initiators. The secondary process is not provided access to the volume manger and is provided access to data for responding to non-I/O requests. The secondary process is not provided a connection to the port when the primary process is in operation. The second process is configured to detect that the primary process has entered a state of non-operation, and in response performing a port grab of the port by the secondary process. The method further includes causing a replay of in-progress commands that were being executed by the primary process before entering the state of non-operation and deleting the in-progress commands. The method continues to execute the secondary process while the primary process is in the non-operation state.
US09933943B2
A tape storage system having a physical control unit configured to support multiple logical control units is provided. Each logical control unit supports communication with a single tape drive model type up to a maximum number of drives. A customer obtains a number N of logical control units through purchase, lease or other legitimate avenues. Based on the number of tape drive model types L and the number of tape drives for each type QL, the model types are mapped to the N LCUs. In general, mapping priority is given to the newer generation model types and the model types in which the number of attached tape drives QL exceeds the capacity M of a single LCU. An exception being that the oldest model type is ensured a mapping to an LCU. The LCUs may be reconfigured and the model types remapped on the physical CU if the customer adds different model types to the storage system or obtains a different number of LCUs.
US09933938B1
The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented user interface method including displaying on a touchscreen display a representation of a keyboard defining a top edge and a bottom edge, and a content area adjacent to the keyboard. The method further includes receiving a user dragging input having motion directed to the bottom edge of the keyboard. The method further includes removing the keyboard from the touchscreen display and expanding the content area to an area previously occupied by the keyboard.
US09933936B2
A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication; a touch screen; and a controller configured to receive a first touch input to access an icon for an application on the touch screen, display a text window on the touch screen, the text window including notification information related to the accessed icon for the application in response to the first touch input, receive a second touch input to select the notification information included in the text window, execute the application corresponding to the accessed icon on the touch screen in response to the second touch input, and display an executed application screen on the touch screen.
US09933932B2
An information processing apparatus has a display unit operable to display an object, a contact detection unit operable to detect a plurality of contact points on the display unit, and a control unit operable to control the object displayed on the display unit so as to be movable with use of the contact detection unit. When the control unit detects contact with a display range of the object displayed on the display unit with use of the contact detection unit, detects contact with an active range of a display screen other than the display range of the object, and further detects a movement instruction to the object, then the control unit controls the object so as to be movable within the active range. Thus, use of a contact detection unit capable of a plurality of contact points permits a user's intuitive operation.
US09933931B2
A grid structure has a header section and a content section. A scroll user input is detected and columns in the content section are scrolled without scrolling the header section. The displayed grid structure is snapped to a column boundary.
US09933928B2
A method displays a graphical user interface for a data visualization application. The user interface includes shelves for specifying data visualization characteristics for a dataset. The method selects a map view based on geographic location field name(s) placed onto the shelves, and displays a geographic map. A user selects a visual encoding by placing a first field name onto a first shelf, which specifies a visual property of displayed marks. The property for each mark is determined by values of the first field in records of the result set. A mark displays for each record in the result set. When the first shelf specifies color of marks, each displayed mark fills the respective geographic region with a color based on the value of the first field. When the first shelf specifies size of marks, point marks are displayed with a respective size corresponding to the value of the first field.
US09933919B2
Systems and methods for simultaneously monitoring operations data for multiple wells in real-time using a graphical user interface.
US09933915B2
Methods and system pertaining to displaying vehicle data parameters (VDP) are described. A vehicle service tool (VST) with a display can receive vehicle data messages or signals from a vehicle to receive the VDP. Some of the VDP can be associated with a PID. The VST can display VDP thresholds and indicators when a received VDP has breached a VDP threshold. The VST can determine being changed from a landscape orientation to a portrait orientation or vice versa and responsively change the presentation of VDP graphs displayed by the display. The display can receive various inputs such as a drag-and-drop or pinch-and-expand input to alternatively change the presentation of the VDP graphs being displayed. Changing a VDP presentation of graphs can include resizing or repositioning one or more VDP graph windows including a VDP graph.
US09933913B2
A portable electronic device displays a plurality of icons (e.g., graphical objects) in a region in a touch-sensitive display; detects a predefined user action, with respect to the touch-sensitive display, for initiating a predefined user interface reconfiguration process; and varies positions of one or more icons in the plurality of icons in response to detecting the predefined user action. The varying includes varying the positions of the one or more icons about respective average positions.
US09933912B2
A method for operating virtual reality spectacles, having the steps of: display of at least one virtual object, arranged in virtual surroundings, by means of the virtual reality spectacles from a first observation position that is prescribed within the virtual surroundings; display of at least one position symbol at a position within the virtual surroundings that corresponds to a second observation position prescribed within the virtual surroundings; identification of a virtual standard line of vision to the virtual object from the second observation position; selection of the displayed position symbol as soon as a predetermined selection action has been sensed; and display of the virtual object from the second observation position as soon as a predetermined confirmation action for the selected position symbol has been sensed. Furthermore, the invention relates to a system having virtual reality spectacles.
US09933908B2
This document describes interactive textiles. An interactive textile includes a grid of conductive thread woven into the interactive textile to form a capacitive touch sensor that is configured to detect touch-input. The interactive textile can process the touch-input to generate touch data that is useable to control various remote devices. For example, the interactive textiles may aid users in controlling volume on a stereo, pausing a movie playing on a television, or selecting a webpage on a desktop computer. Due to the flexibility of textiles, the interactive textile may be easily integrated within flexible objects, such as clothing, handbags, fabric casings, hats, and so forth. In one or more implementations, the interactive textiles may be integrated within various hard objects, such as by injection molding the interactive textile into a plastic cup, a hard casing of a smart phone, and so forth.
US09933906B2
An example processing system for a capacitive input device includes a first interface coupled to at least one first electrode of at least one lighting element and a second interface coupled to at least one second electrode of the at least one lighting element spaced apart from the at least one first electrode. A controller is configured to: forward-bias the at least one lighting element during first time periods to provide illumination; drive the at least one first and the at least one second electrodes with substantially the same voltage during second time periods; and drive the at least one first electrode with a modulated voltage relative to a reference voltage while guarding the at least one second electrode during third time periods to measure capacitance. A determination module is configured to determine presence of at least one input object in a sensing region based on changes in the capacitance.
US09933892B2
The reliability of a display device with an input device is improved. A plurality of detection electrodes (input position detection electrodes) forming an electrostatic capacity between them and a common electrode of a display device to detect an input position are formed on a different substrate from substrates configuring the display device. Moreover, a polarizing plate and the substrate on which the plurality of detection electrodes are formed are adhesively fixed via, for example, an adhesive layer so that the plurality of detection electrodes are fixed so as to be separated apart from the display device. Thus, a distance between electrodes (the detection electrode and a driving electrode) for detecting an input position can be set separately from a thickness of the display device, and therefore, reduction in detection sensitivity (detection reliability) for the input position due to increase in the electrostatic capacity can be suppressed.
US09933889B2
Disclosed is a GOA driving circuit. In screen awakening stage, the first global control signal (Gas1) controls the twelfth thin film transistor (T12) to be activated for realizing the All Gate On function, and meanwhile controls the eleventh thin film transistor (T11) to be activated to pull down the voltage level of the second node (P(n)); in reset stage, the reset signal (Reset) controls the first thin film transistor (T1) to reset the voltage level of the second node (P(n)), and to set the duration of the single pulse of the reset signal (Reset) to be at least the sum of durations of initial pulses of the first, second clock signals; in touch scan stage, the second global control signal (Gas2) controls the thirteenth thin film transistor (T13) to be activated to make the output ends of the GOA units of the respective stages output composite signals (CS).
US09933887B2
A display device and method of driving the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a flexible display panel and a flexible touch panel disposed on one surface of the flexible display panel. The flexible touch panel is configured to output a plurality of sensing signals indicating a bent shape of the display device. The display device also includes a controller configured to receive the sensing signals, determine the bent shape of the display device based on the received sensing signals, compensate an input image signal based on the determined bent shape so as to generate a gradation signal and provide the gradation signal to the flexible display panel.
US09933873B2
An array substrate comprises a common electrode, an insulation layer, and a sensing layer, the common electrode comprises the touch electrodes, they are in spaced arrangement, the sensing layer comprises the touch traces and the suspending traces, the touch trace is disposed above the touch electrode and electrically connects to the touch electrode by the through hole, the suspending trace is disposed above the interval between two of the touch electrodes and electrically connects to the touch trace by the first trace. Using the electrical connection between the suspending trace and the touch trace, the electrical potentials of the suspending trace and the touch electrode are the same, the difference of the electric field between the interval area of the adjacent touch electrodes and the touch electrode decreases for avoiding the electric field formed in the data line under the touch electrode ingresses into the liquid crystal layer.
US09933871B2
A sensor substrate includes a base substrate, a black matrix pattern, a sensing electrode pattern, a driving electrode pattern, and at least one bridge line. The black matrix pattern is disposed on the base substrate and divides the base substrate into a light transmission area and a light blocking area. The sensing electrode pattern includes a plurality of first unit patterns arranged in association with a first direction. The driving electrode pattern includes a plurality of second unit patterns arranged in association with a second direction and disposed adjacent to the plurality of first unit patterns. The at least one bridge line is connected between at least two of the plurality of first unit patterns or between at least two of the plurality of second unit patterns.
US09933866B2
In certain embodiments, a stylus includes one or more electrodes and one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying logic for transmitting signals wirelessly to a device through a touch sensor of the device. At least some of the signals are high-voltage signals generated by a relatively large potential difference compared to a voltage within a voltage range of approximately 1 to approximately 3 volts. The stylus includes a stylus tip, and one or more of the one or more electrodes are disposed at the stylus tip.
US09933865B2
There is provided a navigation device including an image sensor and a processing unit. The image sensor is configured to capture reflected light of a work surface with a low-speed period to generate image frames, wherein the image sensor captures a pair of image frames in each low-speed period. The processing unit is configured to calculate acceleration according to the pair of image frames to accordingly identify whether to adjust the low-speed period to a high-speed period.
US09933854B2
A virtual input device using a projector and a method for receiving a user input using the same are provided. The virtual input device includes a first sensor configured to detect at least one user hand, a processor configured to determine a virtual input layout based on the detected at least one user hand, a projector configured to optically project the determined virtual input layout on a user input plane, and a second sensor configured to detect a user input through the projected virtual input layout.
US09933847B1
A system and/or method that uses a body posture of a user to determine and modulate a content mode of a virtual reality system. The content mode may define the manner in which virtual reality content is presented to the user and/or the manner in which the user interacts with the virtual reality content. The user's body posture and/or a change in body posture may cause the content mode and/or the virtual reality content to change accordingly. In some implementations, primary content may be presented to the user according to a first content mode in response to the user sitting. Secondary virtual reality content may be presented to the user according to the second content mode in response to the user standing. As such, a user may initiate a change in the virtual reality content and/or the content mode by standing from a sitting posture and/or sitting from a standing posture.
US09933844B2
Embodiments relate to clustering execution in a processing system. An aspect includes accessing a control flow graph that defines a data dependency and an execution sequence of a plurality of tasks of an application that executes on a plurality of system components. The execution sequence of the tasks in the control flow graph is modified as a clustered control flow graph that clusters active and idle phases of a system component while maintaining the data dependency. The clustered control flow graph is sent to an operating system, where the operating system utilizes the clustered control flow graph for scheduling the tasks.
US09933839B2
A computer system includes a power supply unit, a system component including at least one processor, a microcontroller and a memory functionally connected to the microcontroller and stores information relating to an interruption in at least one operating voltage of the computer system. When at least one secondary standby voltage is applied to the microcontroller and the information relating to an interruption in the primary supply voltage of the computer system is read from the memory, the microcontroller is configured to selectively switch the computer system to a first operating state on the basis of the information which has been read.
US09933838B2
Computations are performed on data objects via two or more data storage sections. The data storage sections facilitate persistently storing the data objects in parallel read/write operations. The data objects are used in computations within a storage compute device. At least one of the storage sections is deactivated during the computations to reduce power usage of the storage compute device.
US09933837B2
Aspects of the present invention include a device comprising a first sensor and a circuitry configured to detect a first user action and a second user action, the second user action being detected by the first sensor. The circuitry is further configured to designate a first mode based on the first user action and a second mode based on the second user action, the first mode and the second mode being power saving modes and the second mode is configured to save power consumed by the first sensor.
US09933830B2
A computer-implemented method for identifying power line segments and power line redundancies in a datacenter are provided. The computer-implemented method for identifying power line segments and power line redundancies in a datacenter include; transmitting a data packet from equipment compilers to a host program, where the data packet includes unique datacenter equipment identifiers, the datacenter equipment includes IT equipment and a power source; identifying one or more power line segments from the power source to the IT equipment; and determining an existence of a power line redundancy between the power source and the IT equipment.
US09933827B2
Various aspects of a power management approach for a system-on-a-chip (SoC) is disclosed herein. In one aspect, the approach includes implementing a power profile for supplying power to a plurality of subsystems on a shared power bus in the SoC. The power profile includes at least one adjustable parameter for controlling the supplied power during an active use state. The approach further includes detecting a power profile change trigger; modifying the power profile based on the power profile change trigger; and adjusting the supplied power during the active use state based on the modified power profile to maintain a predetermined supplied power level.
US09933823B2
A retractable component tray holder includes: an outer tray having first and second outer tray sidewalls, and a bottom; an inner tray configured to retract into and extend from the outer tray, the inner tray having a first inner tray sidewall and a bottom; a fan chassis configured to receive at least one fan, the fan chassis being adjacent a rear of the inner tray; a bottom support assembly comprising a first bottom support slideably mounted on the bottom of the outer tray, a second bottom support slideably mounted on the first bottom support, and the inner tray being slideably mounted on the second bottom support; and a second side support assembly comprising a side support slideably mounted on the second sidewall, a bracket slideably mounted on the side support, and the fan chassis mounted on the bracket.
US09933821B2
An apparatus may include a chassis that can receive a sled and a locking mechanism. The locking mechanism can mechanically lock the sled to the chassis to prevent a sudden power loss that can be caused from an unexpected removal of the sled from the chassis. To avoid a sudden power loss, a voltage-sensing electrical switch lock can be implemented to the chassis to mechanically lock the sled to the chassis until the sled is ready to be removed. The sled may include one or more computing devices that need to be inactive before removing the sled. The apparatus includes a controller that may detect whether at least one of computing devices in the sled are in an active state or in an inactive state. Based on the determination of the state of the computing devices in the sled, the controller may activate the locking mechanism or de-active locking mechanism.
US09933820B2
A flexible display apparatus and an adjusting apparatus which is designed to move the flexible display apparatus from a stowing position into a usage position are included in a display device for a motor vehicle. The adjusting apparatus is designed to bend the flexible display apparatus from the stowing position into the usage position.
US09933817B2
A protective case for a tablet device having a back face and a front face, a touchscreen on its front face, and one or more control buttons and ports on its perimeter walls. The case comprises a shell having front and back sides wherein the front side is configured to receive and retain the tablet device while providing user access to the touchscreen and user access to one or more of the control buttons, said shell including a back wall that is configured to cover at least a portion of the back face of the tablet. The protective case further includes a front cover that includes a tray, a wireless keyboard and keyboard housing. The tray includes opposing side rails and the keyboard housing includes opposing grooves on opposing side walls that are concealed and configured to engage the rails to allow the keyboard housing to slide in and out from the tray in a defined manner. The tray, keyboard and shell may each include magnets to facilitate the positioning of the case in the various open and closed positions.
US09933814B2
Examples disclosed herein provide a computing device. One example computing device includes a base member, a support member rotatably connected to the base member at a first end of the support member, a display member rotatably connected at a second end of the support member opposite the first end, and a latch mechanism disposed along a back side of the base member. When the computing device is to change from a first operation mode to a second operation mode, the display member is to depress the latch mechanism to make contact with the fixed shaft.
US09933798B2
Provided is a voltage regulator configured to stably operate with low current consumption, and having good responsiveness. A delay circuit is provided between a transient response improvement circuit and a voltage amplifier circuit.
US09933797B1
An integrated electronic device includes a core having a first terminal and a second terminal. The core includes a first branch with a first diode-connected bipolar transistor coupled in series to a first resistor between the first terminal and a reference terminal intended to be supplied with a reference voltage, and a second branch with a second diode-connected bipolar transistor coupled between the second terminal and the reference terminal. The second diode-connected bipolar transistor has a current density higher than the first diode-connected bipolar transistor. The core also includes a first resistive network coupled between a base of the first diode-connected bipolar transistor and the reference terminal. An equalizer is configured to equalize potentials of the first terminal and of the second terminal and a voltage generator is coupled to the first and second terminals of the core and configured to generate the bandgap voltage.
US09933792B2
A flow regulator system includes a flow regulator placed within a fluid flow path to maintain fluid flow therethrough at a desired flow rate. The flow regulator includes a flow washer having an orifice therethrough and a regulator body that receives the flow washer. At fluid pressures between a first fluid pressure and a second fluid pressure, the flow washer rotationally deforms to decrease or increase the size of the orifice, thereby maintaining the desired flow rate. When fluid pressure is greater than or equal to the second fluid pressure, the flow washer contacts a portion of the regulator body to prevent further rotational deformation of the flow washer. In addition, the flow washer radially compresses or expands to increase or decrease the size of the orifice, thereby maintaining the desired flow rate.
US09933781B1
A system and method are provided and include a subject vehicle having vehicle actuation systems. A driving context database stores driving trends associated with driving locations. A state estimation module determines a current location of the subject vehicle. A global route planner module determines a route to an inputted destination. An action primitive planning module retrieves a driving trend associated with the current location, selects a sequence of action primitives based on the driving trend associated with the current location and based on the determined route, and generates waypoints for the subject vehicle to travel to based on the sequence of action primitives, each waypoint including location coordinates and a direction. A trajectory planner module determines a trajectory for the subject vehicle based on the waypoints. A vehicle control module controls the vehicle actuation systems based on the determined trajectory.
US09933776B2
A numerical control device includes an NC program storing unit, a parameter change unit configured to change parameter based on parameter change operation by an operator, a parameter change monitoring unit configured to detect change of the parameter by monitoring the parameter change unit and output command for starting the NC program based on the change of the parameter, and an NC program execution unit configured to execute the NC program based on command from the parameter change monitoring unit.
US09933775B2
A bed adjustment apparatus and method includes a linear actuator attached to a bed to move a portion of a mattress. A control box activates the linear actuator based on commands and sequences received from a remote control. The control box optionally includes a PLC to store the commands and sequences. The remote control optionally communicates wirelessly with the control box. The remote control allows a user to select and send the control box commands and sequences to control the linear actuator. The sequences are pre-installed, user programmed, received from another remote, or downloaded as desired. The apparatus allows a user to alleviate pressure points during sleep without requiring the user to adjust their sleeping position by adjusting the mattress based on a selected sequence.
US09933772B2
A method for analyzing SCADA projects includes generating a configuration for the SCADA system deployed in a default environment, receiving a first result of a set of tests run on the SCADA system using the configuration in the default environment, determining whether the first result of the set of tests is successful, deploying the SCADA system using the configuration in a customer environment, comparing the default environment with the customer environment, determining differences between the default environment and the customer environment, receiving a result of another set of tests run based on the differences between the default environment and the customer environment, adjusting the configuration in the customer environment based on the result of the another set of tests to generate an adjusted configuration, and receiving a second result of the set of tests run on the SCADA system using the adjusted configuration in the customer environment.
US09933759B2
A servo control apparatus includes a subtractor configured to calculate a difference between a first command value for controlling a servo motor, and a first detection value from the servo motor; an integral term creation unit configured to create an integral term based on an output of the subtractor; an internal division processing unit configured to internally divide the first command value; a subtractor configured to calculate a difference between an output of the internal division processing unit and the first detection value; a proportional term creation unit configured to create a proportional term based on the subtractor; and a adder configured to add an output of the integral term creation unit and an output of the proportional term creation unit, in which a calculation period calculated by the proportional term creation unit is shorter than a calculation period calculated by the integral term creation unit.
US09933751B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main body, a cartridge support member configured to have a process cartridge provided with first electrical contact points attachable thereto, and a holder configured to have second electrical contact points which are electrically contactable to the first electrical contact points. When the cartridge support member is moved from a first position to a second position in the main body, the second electrical contact points are electrically connected to the first electrical contact points while the cartridge support member is at the first position, while the cartridge support member moves between the first position and the second position, and while the cartridge support member is at the second position. The holder electrically disconnects the second electrical contact points from the first electrical contact points when the cartridge support member is moved to a third position outside the main body.
US09933749B2
A developer cartridge may include a gear configured to be movable between an engagement position in which the gear engages an auger or supply gear to provide toner from a toner container to a developing unit and a disengaged position in which the gear does not engage the auger or supply gear. The gear may be moved by a cam and/or cam gear from the engagement position to the disengaged position and vice versa. The cam gear may include toothless and toothed portions to allow the developer cartridge to maintain the movable gear in either the engagement position or the disengaged position. In some arrangements, an urging member such as a spring may bias the cam gear in a rotation direction, while a lever may provide a counteracting force when the movable gear is to be maintained in a particular position.
US09933744B2
A power supply includes a first switching unit, a power restriction unit connected between the first switching unit and a load, a second switching unit connected between the power restriction unit and the load, a controller configured to output a control signal to the first switching unit and the second switching unit, and an adjusting unit configured to adjust input of the control signal to the second switching unit, and the second switching unit is operated selectively in accordance with the control signal.
US09933743B2
A recording material processing apparatus includes: a first stacking unit configured to stack a recording material; a second stacking unit provided on a downstream side of the first stacking unit in a conveyance direction of the recording material; an alignment unit configured to align the recording material stacked in the first stacking unit before the recording material is discharged to the second stacking unit; and a control unit configured to perform control of discharging the recording material to the second stacking unit by switching between first control not to align the recording material by the alignment unit and second control to align the recording material by the alignment unit.
US09933739B2
A drum unit includes a photosensitive drum and a cleaning member. A scratch remaining depth measured by a scratch test of the photosensitive drum under a following Test Condition 1 is 110 nm or less. Test Condition 1 is; test environment temperature=25° C.; test environment humidity=50%; test indenter=pre-mount type Berkovich indenter; scratch direction=horizontal direction; scratch speed=20 μm/sec; initial load=0 mN; maximum reaching load=4 mN; and load at the time of measuring the scratch remaining depth=1.9 mN.
US09933728B2
A toner container includes a first rotation member rotatably provided in a container main body, a stirring member rotatably provided in such a way as to be parallel to the first rotation member, a lid member closing an opening portion of the container main body, a first bearing portion provided on an inner surface of the lid member and rotatably supporting a first end portion of a first rotation shaft of the first rotation member, a stirring bearing portion provided on the inner surface of the lid member and rotatably supporting a lid-side end portion of a stirring rotation shaft of the stirring member, a storage concave portion formed on the lid member and recessed from an outer surface of the lid member inward, and a transmission mechanism provided in the storage concave portion to transmit a rotation of the first rotation shaft to the stirring rotation shaft.
US09933725B2
A developing device includes a developer storage chamber configured to store developer to be supplied to the development chamber, a partition configured to separate a development chamber and the developer storage chamber and having an opening allowing communication between the developer storage chamber and the development chamber, and a protruding portion configured to protrude toward the inside of the developer storage chamber from the partition on a downstream side of the opening in the rotation direction of a rotating shaft, and within one turn of rotation of the rotating shaft, a receiving member moves while contacting the protruding portion according to the rotation of the rotating shaft.
US09933721B2
Disclosed is a decolorizable electrophotographic toner, including: a binder resin; and a colorant which contains at least a color developable compound and a color developing agent and is covered with an outer shell so as to have a capsule structure, wherein the number ratio of particles having an equivalent circle diameter of 0.6 μm or more and 2.5 μm or less of the toner when measured using a flow particle image analyzer after the toner is dispersed in an aqueous medium at a ratio of 0.08% by weight and the resulting dispersion is subjected to a stirring treatment in which stirring is performed at 5000 rpm for 30 minutes using a homogenizer (T-25 digital ULTRA-TURRAX (manufactured by IKA Japan K.K., provided with a shaft generator S25N-10G)) is 30% by number or less.
US09933720B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an electrostatic image developing toner including toner particles containing: an amorphous resin including an amorphous vinyl resin; and a crystalline resin, wherein the toner particles contain: a coloring agent including C. I. Pigment Yellow 74; and alkoxy aniline with an amount in the range of 0.1 to 50.0 mass ppm in the toner particles.
US09933715B2
The present disclosure is related to coated photoconductors. In an example, a coated photoconductor can comprise a photoconductor including a substrate having a charge generation layer and charge transport layer adhered thereto and a top coating adhered to the photoconductor.
US09933708B2
A liquid immersion exposure apparatus in which a substrate is exposed with an exposure beam, includes a projection optical system by which the substrate is exposed to the exposure beam, a first inlet disposed at a first position, which is capable of supplying a first liquid to a space adjacent to a bottom surface of the projection optical system, and a second inlet disposed at a second position which is different from the first position, the second inlet being capable of supplying a second liquid that is different from the first liquid to the space.
US09933704B2
A microlithography illumination optical system is used to guide illumination light from a primary light source to an object field. A mirror array of the illumination optical system has a plurality of individual mirrors, which can be tilted independently of one another by actuators and are connected to associated tilting actuators. A controller is used to activate the actuators. A raster module of the illumination optical system has a plurality of raster elements to produce a spatially distributed arrangement of secondary light sources.
US09933701B2
Provided are a photobase generator having higher sensitivity to light than do conventional photobase generators, and a photosensitive resin composition containing the photobase generator. The present invention is a photobase generator characterized in containing a salt represented by general formula (1). (In formula (1), R1-R4 are mutually independent groups represented by general formula (2), C1-18 alkyl groups, or Ar, with at least one being a group represented by general formula (2); in formula (2), (D) is a divalent group bonded on at least one side to elemental boron, and Ar1 is the same as the aforementioned Ar; and Q+ is a monovalent onium cation.)
US09933698B2
To provide a phase-shift mask in which the reduction in thickness of a light-shielding film is provided when a transition metal silicide-based material is used for the light-shielding film and by which the problem of ArF light fastness can be solved; and a mask blank for manufacturing the phase-shift mask.A mask blank 10 comprises a phase-shift film 2 and a light-shielding film 4 on a transparent substrate 1, the phase-shift film 2 is made of a material with ArF light fastness, and at least one layer in the light-shielding film 4 is made of a material which contains transition metal, silicon, and nitrogen, and satisfies the conditions of Formula (1) below: CN≤9.0×10−6×RM4−1.65×10−4×RM3−7.718×10−2×RM2+3.611×RM−21.084 Formula (1) wherein RM is a ratio of the content of transition metal to the total content of transition metal and silicon in said one layer, and CN is the content of nitrogen in said one layer.
US09933692B2
A head-up display device includes a screen, a projector that projects a visual image to the screen using a projection lens, and a processor. The processor is programmed to generate a virtual image of the visual image from the projected visual image and determine an image-generation position at which the virtual image is to be generated. The screen and the projection lens are configured to be movable along an optical path of the projector. The processor is programmed to determine a screen position to which the screen is to be moved based on the decided image-generation position and determine a lens position to which the projection lens is to be moved based on the determined screen position. The projector includes a screen-drive motor that moves the screen to the determined screen position and a lens-drive motor that moves the projection lens to the determined lens position.
US09933685B2
A liquid crystal Fresnel lens is provided. The liquid crystal Fresnel lens includes a liquid crystal cell and two polarizers. The liquid crystal cell includes: two transparent substrates having conducting layers disposed thereon with alignment layers, wherein an alignment pattern formed by the alignment layers are configured to provide multiple alignment domains in a Fresnel zones pattern, and wherein an easy axis of adjacent alignment domains are oriented at an angle relative to one another; and a ferroelectric liquid crystal layer disposed between the two transparent substrates, wherein the ferroelectric liquid crystal layer has a planar surface orientation and smectic layers perpendicular to the two transparent substrates. The liquid crystal cell is disposed between the two polarizers.
US09933684B2
One embodiment provides an apparatus for displaying an image comprising: a first optical substrate comprising at least one waveguide layer configured to propagate light in a first direction, wherein the at least one waveguide layer of the first optical substrate comprises at least one grating lamina configured to extract the light from the first substrate along the first direction; and a second optical substrate comprising at least one waveguide layer configured to propagate the light in a second direction, wherein the at least one waveguide layer of the second optical substrate comprises at least one grating lamina configured to extract light from the second substrate along the second direction; wherein the at least one grating lamina of at least one of the first and second optical substrates comprises an SBG in a passive mode.
US09933682B2
An electrochromic device is structured to include multiple independently controllable electrochromic regions which can be independently controlled to switch to different transmission levels. One of the electrochromic regions is isolated from any direct electrical connection with any electrodes, and one or more other electrochromic regions interpose an indirect electrical connection between one or more electrodes and the isolated electrochromic region. The electrochromic device can be structured to include multiple independently controllable electrochromic regions, based at least in part upon segmentation of the conductive layers into separate segments to establish the various electrochromic regions.
US09933678B1
An active element array substrate includes a substrate, first to third data lines extending along a first direction, first and second scan lines and a common electrode line extending along a second direction, and first to third sub-pixel units that are provided on the substrate. The first and third data lines respectively intersect with first and second adjacent ones of the first scan lines to define a pixel region. The second data line is located between the first and third data lines and passes through the pixel region. The first data line intersects with the second scan line and the common electrode line to define a plurality of sub-pixel regions in the pixel region. The first to third sub-pixel units are respectively provided in the sub-pixel regions and respectively electrically connected to the first data line and the first one of the first scan lines, the second data line and the second scan line, and the third data line and the second scan line.
US09933673B2
A liquid crystal display panel, an array substrate and a manufacturing method for the same are provided. Designing a black matrix for light shielding, and an insulation layer between a pixel electrode and other structures in order to reduce the type and the number of the masks, simplify the manufacturing process and decrease the production cost. Besides, a distance between the black matrix located above a data line and the data line is shorten such that lights of a pixel emitting out through an adjacent pixel is avoided in order to reduce the light leakage at a large viewing angle.
US09933669B2
A liquid crystal display includes first and second substrates placed opposite each other, a common electrode on one side of the first substrate to substantially cover a whole surface, a segment electrode on one side of the second substrate, a routing wire on one side of the second substrate and connected to the segment electrode, a liquid-crystalline resin film without electrical conductivity on one side of the second substrate, and a liquid crystal film between the substrates. The liquid-crystalline resin film has refractive index anisotropy being substantially equal to that of a liquid crystal material of the liquid crystal film, has molecular alignment being substantially equal to that of the liquid crystal film, and is disposed to fill a space between the routing wire and the common electrode. The liquid crystal film is disposed to fill a space between the segment electrode and the common electrode.
US09933668B2
Display device, including: substrates, color filters having first and second color filters, drain and gate signal lines (of light blocking material), wherein, an overlapping portion adjacent the first and second color filter overlap, is formed on a region with one of the drain or gate signal lines, a first color filter edge is a first taper and a second color filter edge is a second taper, in the overlapping portion, the first taper is closer to the drain or gate signal line than the second taper in the overlapping portion, the first taper angle is 45° or more and 90° or less corresponding to a surface of the drain or gate signal line, the second taper angle is 45° or more and 90° or less corresponding to a surface of the first taper and, the first taper angle is larger than the second taper angle.
US09933660B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a first alignment film covering a pixel electrode, a second substrate including a second alignment film covering a second common electrode, a sealant attaching the first substrate and the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer held between the first alignment film and the second alignment film, wherein the first alignment film and the second alignment film are formed of a material in which a principal chain is composed of silica (SiO2), and extend at a position overlapping the sealant between an inner face and an outer face of the sealant.
US09933658B2
A backlight unit for a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel, includes: a light source including a light-emitting diode (“ED”) which generates and emits light; and a light converting layer between the light source and the liquid crystal panel, spaced apart from the light source, and converting the light from the light source into white light and emitting the white light toward the liquid crystal panel. The light converting layer includes: semiconductor nanocrystals, and a barrier material which restricts penetration of moisture or oxygen.
US09933656B1
Devices such as electronic book readers, tablet computers, laptops, and so forth may use reflective liquid crystal display (“LCD”) technologies. Described herein are devices and methods for illuminating the reflective LCD with a light guide panel. The light guide panel is configured with diffractive or other optical features configured to distribute light to the reflective LCD. A directive reflector may be arranged behind the reflective LCD to improve overall reflectivity by directing impinging light such that optical obstructions such as transistors and electrical traces within the reflective LCD are avoided.
US09933653B2
The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal panel and a fabricating method thereof. The liquid crystal panel has an array substrate, a color film substrate and a liquid crystal layer mounted between the array substrate and the color film substrate. The color film substrate forms multiple color resists thereon to form multiple color filter units. The array substrate at least forms a first spacer and a second spacer thereon. A height of the first spacer is equal to a height of the second spacer. A thickness of the color resist corresponding to the first spacer is different from a thickness of the color resist corresponding to the second spacer. The present disclosure simplifies a fabricating art, saves cost and effectively maintains a thickness of the liquid crystal panel at the time to ensure that the liquid crystal panel can clearly display image.
US09933637B2
The present invention includes a holding stay made of a heat conductive material that is the same as that of an isolator holder, the holding stay being in contact with a radiation stay made of a member having good thermal conductivity, the radiation stay being in contact with radiation fins extracted from the inside of the isolator holder through an external opening for extraction, columnar welded portions bond the holding stay and the isolator holder through openings for welding, the welded portions apply tensile force toward the isolator holder to the radiation stay via the holding stay, and the radiation stay presses the radiation fins by means of the above-described tensile force to be fixed to the isolator holder.
US09933636B2
An eyewear lens is described that provides polarization filtering and spectral filtering using polarization interference. The lens produces enhanced saturation and colorfulness, increasing enjoyment when observing commonly encountered imagery. The lens can be configured to optimize accuracy/efficiency when performing a task involving colored imagery, and can improve performance in sports. The lens can further be helpful for color discrimination by those with certain types of color vision deficiency.
US09933634B2
Techniques and mechanisms for determining a direction of gaze by a user of an eye-mountable device. In an embodiment, the eye-mountable device includes a first circuit and a second circuit, each comprising a respective photodiode. The second circuit is configured to provide a light response profile that is more linear than a light response profile provided by the first circuit. Light sensing by the first circuit results in generation of a first signal indicating a level of ambient light in a surrounding environment. Other light sensing by the second circuit results in a second signal being generated. A direction of gaze by a cornea of the user is detected based at least in part on the first signal and the second signal. In another embodiment, the first signal is provided to configure the second circuit.
US09933632B2
An additive processing method is used to produce a customized eyewear lens by selectively building layers of radiation-polymerized material onto a lens substrate that has optical power properties discernibly different from the optical properties of the customized eyewear lens. The method involves obtaining the lens substrate, calculating the modifications needed to convert the lens substrate's properties to the desired set of properties of the customized lens, generating an additive layer design to achieve the calculated modifications, and identifying at least one control point for confirmation or revision of the additive layer design. The method further involves applying liquid layers of radiation-polymerizable material to the lens substrate and irradiating the liquid layers in selected areas with controlled radiation such that the material is only polymerized and the additive layer is only formed in the select areas irradiated, according to the additive layer design.
US09933631B2
A variable transmission filter combines in optical series first and second guest-host liquid crystal devices arranged such that one of them is rotated 180° about its normal axis with respect to the other one. The reverse arrangement of the liquid crystal directors of the first and second guest-host liquid crystal devices improves the viewing angle range of the variable transmission filter but, without compensation, introduces a diminution of contrast ratio. A polarization state-changing device positioned between the first and second guest-host liquid crystal devices changes the polarization states of light exiting the first guest-host_liquid crystal device such that transmittance of light in first and second orthogonal polarization states incident on the first guest-host liquid crystal device responds to electric fields applied to the first and second liquid crystal devices and thereby counteracts the diminution of contrast ratio while maintaining the improved viewing angle range.
US09933629B2
Provided is an optical unit with a shake correction function, said optical unit being capable of ensuring a space wherein a drive mechanism and the like are positioned between a side surface of an optical module and a side surface of a stationary body, even when the optical module is supported by a gimbal mechanism in such a manner as to be able to swing with respect to the stationary body. In the optical unit, a gimbal mechanism is disposed by utilizing corners of an optical module and corners of a square tube-shaped body section of a stationary body. In other words, the optical unit is configured in such a manner that: a rectangular movable frame is positioned between a rectangular second frame of the optical module and a rectangular frame secured to the square tube-shaped body section); and a first corner and a third corner of the movable frame are swingably supported by corners of the rectangular frame. The optical unit is further configured in such a manner that a second corner and a fourth corner of the moveable frame swingably support corners of the second frame.
US09933627B2
An optical system includes: a first optical member having a concave surface that reflects a light having a first circularly polarized light component and transmits a light having a second circularly polarized light component a rotation direction of which is opposite to a rotation direction of the first circularly polarized light component; and a second optical member that transforms the light having the first circularly polarized light component reflected from the first optical member into the light having the second circularly polarized light component to be reflected so as to be incident on the first optical member.
US09933622B2
A compact head-worn display with multiply folded optics providing displayed images overlaid onto a see-through view of a surrounding environment includes a solid prism of a first material with an angled planar surface to fold an optical axis and one or more surfaces that provide optical power, one or more additional lens elements with optical power made of a second material that is different from the material of the solid prism, an image source that provides image light associated with the displayed images, a combiner that folds the optical axis and directs the image light toward a user's eye and wherein the multiply folded optics provide a more compact head-worn display and the first and second materials are selected to reduce a lateral color in the displayed images.
US09933621B2
An image display device includes an image forming unit and a light guide unit. The light guide unit includes a light guide plate and a housing member. The light guide plate is configured to guide light of an image formed in the image forming unit. The housing member is configured to house the light guide plate. The housing member includes a first cover member, a second cover member, and an attachment member. The second cover member is attached to the first cover member. The attachment member is configured to attach the light guide plate to a housing unit that is surrounded by the first cover member and the second cover member.
US09933620B2
Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a method and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, via light from a light source, rendering an image on a retina.
US09933619B2
The present invention provides a member for projection image display, including a reflection layer and a retardation layer, wherein the reflection layer includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer exhibiting selective reflection in a visible light region, the cholesteric liquid crystal layer is a layer formed from a liquid crystal composition containing a discotic liquid crystal compound, and a front phase difference of the retardation layer is in a range of 50 nm to 400 nm; and a projection image display system which includes the above member for projection image display, wherein the retardation layer is disposed on an incident light side relative to the reflection layer, and the incident light is p-polarized light that vibrates in a direction parallel to a plane of incidence, which is capable of displaying a clear image having high reflectance and high transmittance, without a problem of a double image.
US09933617B2
Mirrors for a deflection unit in a scanning system, scanning systems using such mirrors, and methods of manufacturing such mirrors are disclosed. In an embodiment, a mirror for a deflection unit in a laser system includes a sintered polycrystalline diamond body including a plurality of randomly oriented diamond grains defining a plurality of interstitial regions. At least a portion of the interstitial regions includes a material disposed interstitially therein. The mirror includes a reflective surface formed at least partially from the sintered polycrystalline diamond body or provided thereon. The reflective surface exhibits a surface roughness of less than about 50 nm Rrms.
US09933613B2
Techniques, systems, and devices are disclosed for manipulating light beams using one or more mirror mount assemblies communicatively coupled through a communication channel to similar devices or an external device for sensing purposes, providing user interface, or connection to the internet cloud. This mirror mount assembly provides movement of a mechanical mount and further includes an actuator, a driver electrically coupled to the actuator to drive the actuator; a control module electrically coupled to the driver to provide drive signals to the driver, a position sensor, and a control module including a processor for generating the drive signals and for autonomously implementing user defined functions on the mirror mount assembly. The mirror mount assembly also includes one or more communication interfaces coupled to the control module to receive one or more input signals from external devices. The external interface devices can include optical sensors and user interfaces.
US09933602B1
An optical imaging lens includes a first lens of an image-side surface with a concave portion in a vicinity of its optical-axis, a second lens of an object-side surface with a convex portion in a vicinity of its optical-axis, a third lens of an image-side surface with a concave portion in a vicinity of its optical-axis, a fifth lens of negative refractive power and with a thickness along its optical-axis larger than that of the second lens. EFL is the effective focal length of the optical imaging lens, TTL is the distance from the object-side surface of the first lens element to an image plane, ALT is a total thickness of all five lenses, the second lens has a second lens thickness T2 and an air gap G34 is between the third lens element and the fourth lens element along the optical axis to satisfy TTL/EFL≤1.000, TTL/G34≤12.000 and ALT/T2≤12.900.
US09933599B2
The invention discloses a five-piece optical lens for capturing image. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis comprises a first lens which can have positive refractive power, and an object-side surface thereof can be convex; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; a fourth lens with refractive power, wherein both surfaces of each of the aforementioned lenses can be aspheric; and a fifth lens which can have negative refractive power, wherein an image-side surface thereof can be concave, and both surfaces thereof are aspheric; at least one surface of the fifth lens has an inflection point thereon. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
US09933597B2
An imaging lens includes a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having positive refractive power; and a third lens group having negative refractive power, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The first lens group includes a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens, and a third lens. The second lens group includes a fourth lens having positive refractive power and a fifth lens having negative refractive power. The third lens group includes a sixth lens and a seventh lens having negative refractive power. The seventh lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the object side and a surface thereof on the image plane side have positive curvature radii. The surface of the seventh lens on the image plane side is formed in an aspheric shape having at least one inflexion point.
US09933594B2
A primary mirror mount assembly includes a body including a mirror surface and a mount surface, with the mount surface having at least one feature formed therein. The mount assembly further includes a hub configured to be secured to the body. The hub includes at least one corresponding mating feature configured to receive the at least one feature of the mount surface of the body therein. The at least one feature and the at least one corresponding mating feature are configured to be welded together. A method of assembling a primary mirror mount assembly is further disclosed.
US09933592B1
A passive 5x athermalized afocal beam expander comprising a housing integrally formed of a single material. Using titanium for the housing as well as lens materials having a minimal change of index of refraction over changes in temperature provides for a 5x athermalized afocal beam expander constructed to operate in a wavelength range from about 1460 nm to about 1675 nm at temperatures ranging from about −40 degrees Celsius to about +75 degrees Celsius.
US09933585B2
A compact and highly efficient coupling structure for coupling between DFB-LD and Si PIC edge coupler with suppressed return loss may include a DFB-LD, a Si PIC comprising at least one input edge coupler and at least one output edge coupler, a silica cover lid disposed on the Si PIC and aligned edge to edge with the Si PIC, a single-mode fiber aligned to the at least one output edge coupler of the Si PIC, a lens disposed between the DFB-LD and the at least one input edge coupler of the Si PIC, and an isolator bonded to a facet of the at least one input edge coupler with a first volume of an index matching fluid. The lens may be configured to minimize a mismatch between an output spot size of the DFB-LD and a spot size of the at least one input edge coupler of the Si PIC.
US09933584B2
A duplex fiber optic connector plug includes at least one fiber optic connector, a first casing, a second casing and a release lever. The release lever is axially coupled to a surface of the first casing and has an end coupled to a release bracket of the fiber optic connector to form a seesaw design. During operation, the release lever is compressed by the force of the finger, so that an end of the release lever is elevated, and the other end compresses the release bracket downward to release from a fiber optic socket, so as to provide an intuitively convenient operation and improve the convenience of use.
US09933569B2
An evanescent light generation element for oscillating evanescent light from an optical waveguide to a clad layer, including a 0.1 μm-10 μm thin layer composed of a ferroelectric single crystal or oriented crystal having first and second principal surfaces, and incident side end and exit side end surfaces. A ridge optical waveguide is formed in the thin layer and extends between the incident and exit side end surfaces of the thin layer. At least a pair of grooves is formed on both sides of the ridge optical waveguide in the thin layer and opened at the first principal surface of the thin layer. A clad layer is provided on the first principal surface or the second principal surface. A width of the ridge optical waveguide at the exit side end surface is less than a width of the ridge optical waveguide at the incident side end surface.
US09933567B2
Provided is a photonic crystal structure and the photonic crystal structure includes a polymer structure layer including a first polymer domain and a second polymer domain; and a photonic crystal material designed to be reversibly bonded to at least a portion of the first polymer domain to adjust a degree of swelling of the first polymer domain, thereby reflecting a light of a certain wavelength.
US09933566B2
Embodiments herein describe a photonic chip which includes a coupling interface for evanescently coupling the chip to a waveguide on an external substrate. In one embodiment, the photonic chip includes a tapered waveguide that aligns with a tapered waveguide on the external substrate. The respective tapers of the two waveguides are inverted such that as the width of the waveguide in the photonic chip decreases, the width of the waveguide on the external substrate increases. In one embodiment, these two waveguides form an adiabatic structure where the optical signal transfers between the waveguides with minimal or no coupling of the optical signal to other non-intended modes. Using the two waveguides, optical signals can be transmitted between the photonic chip and the external substrate.
US09933559B2
A light guide plate, a backlight module, and a display device are disclosed. The light guide plate includes a main body, which includes a light-reflecting surface and a light-exiting surface, a first lattice portion arranged on the light-reflecting surface, and a second lattice portion arranged on the light-exiting surface. The light-exiting surface includes a lattice region formed on a peripheral portion thereof, and a central light-exiting region that is surrounded by the lattice region. The second lattice portion covers the lattice region. According to the present disclosure, the brightness of the peripheral portion of the light-exiting surface can be reduced effectively, and thus the display effect of the electronic products including the light guide plate can be improved.
US09933556B2
A backlight device includes a light guide plate on which a plurality of different light exiting patterns are formed and a display device. According to the backlight device and the display device, positions at which light is extracted on the light guide plate are changed, and thus, a 3-dimensional image of a high resolution may be provided.
US09933547B2
A method and cable cleaning device that includes a housing and at least one cleaning element attached to the housing. The cleaning element is configured to clean marine fouling from a cable. The cleaning element is at least partially rolled around the cable and its tautness is adjustable.
US09933545B2
A method of estimating a parameter of an anomaly in an earth formation includes: disposing a measurement device at at least one measurement location, the measurement device including a frequency standard; estimating a frequency shift of a frequency standard due to a gravitational potential at at least one measurement location; and deriving a relationship between a mass and a depth of a formation anomaly at a distance to the at least one measurement location using the frequency shift.
US09933544B2
An example apparatus includes an outer housing and a drive shaft at least partially within and rotationally independent from the outer housing. A drill bit may be coupled to the drive shaft. At least one gamma ray sensor may be rotationally coupled to the drive shaft within the outer housing. In certain embodiments, the apparatus further includes a housing rotationally coupled to the drive shaft, wherein the housing comprises at least one pressurized cavity; and the at least one gamma ray sensor is located within the at least one pressurized cavity.
US09933539B2
A foreign object detector includes a detection coil; a transmitting circuit generating an unbalanced signal; a balanced-to-unbalanced transformer transforming the unbalanced signal supplied from the transmitting circuit to a balanced signal; and detection circuit detecting a foreign object by sensing a change in frequency characteristic of reflected power that is a power component reflected by the detection coil. The foreign object detector detects a foreign object while preventing a wire between the detection coil and the detection circuit from functioning as a linear antenna even if the wire is long.
US09933535B2
Various implementations directed to determining a fracture type using stress analysis are provided. In one implementation, a method may include receiving seismic data acquired in a seismic survey of a region of interest. The method may also include performing a kinematic analysis on the seismic data. The method may further include generating fracture planes from the seismic data based on the kinematic analysis. The method may additionally include generating a mechanical earth model based on the seismic data. The method may further include performing a critical stress analysis on the fracture planes based on the mechanical earth model. The method may also include determining a fracture type of respective fractures in the fracture planes based on the critical stress analysis.
US09933532B2
A logging tool may include a stabilization source configured to emit gamma rays, a gamma ray detector configured to collect gamma rays from the stabilization source and a formation and an analysis module. The analysis module may be configured to determine a photopeak of the stabilization source in a gamma ray spectrum including counts of the gamma rays collected by the gamma ray detector and perform resolution calculations using the photopeak to determine a resolution of the gamma ray detector.
US09933531B2
An apparatus for optical imaging of a low radiance object is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a fixed polychromatic imaging device, the optical path between the polychromatic imaging device and the low radiance object being defined by a first section extending from the polychromatic imaging device to a fixed point, and a second section extending from the fixed point to the low radiance object. The apparatus also comprises a fixed high-sensitivity imaging device, the optical path between the high-sensitivity imaging device and the low radiance object being defined by a third section extending from the high-sensitivity imaging device to the fixed point, and the second section; and a focus controller arranged to control the focus of the high-sensitivity imaging device based on the focus of the polychromatic imaging device and the respective lengths of the first and third sections.
US09933522B2
A system uses range and Doppler velocity measurements from a lidar system and images from a video system to estimate a six degree-of-freedom trajectory of a target and generate a three-dimensional image of the target. The system may refine the three-dimensional image by reducing the stochastic components in the transformation parameters between video frame times.
US09933520B1
Disclosed herein are embodiments that relate to phase coded linear frequency modulation for a radar system. Embodiments include transmitting at least one signal pulse with a binary phase shift keying (BPSK) encoding. The method also includes receiving a signal associated with reflection of the at least one transmitted signal pulse. The received signal may include at least two channels. Further, the method may also include processing the received signal to determine target information. The processing may include performing a despread operation that provides a phase offset based on a filtering range. Additionally, the processing may include performing a reconstruction operation that comprises creating a virtual spatial channel based on combining the two received channels. Yet further, the processing may include determining the target information based on the virtual spatial channel. An autonomous vehicle may be controlled based on the determined target information.
US09933519B2
A system and a method of generating a three-dimensional terrain model using one-dimensional interferometry of a rotating radar unit is provided herein. Height information is evaluated from phase differences between two echoes by applying a Kalman filter in relation to a phase confidence map that is generated from phase forward projections relating to formerly analyzed phase data. The radar system starts from a flat earth model and gathers height information of the actual terrain as the platform approaches it. Height ambiguities are corrected by removing redundant 2π multiples from the unwrapped phase difference between the echoes.
US09933505B2
Described here are systems and methods for estimating bulk rotation and translation of an imaged subject between different blades in a PROPELLER MRI or similar sequence. Correlations between unique pairs of blades are calculated and the relative shift values that maximize the correlation between each pair of blades are identified as relative shift values to be applied for motion correction. Using this method, no reference blade is required, nor does a computationally expensive iterative process need to be performed.
US09933504B2
In a method and apparatus to determine a magnetic resonance image from magnetic resonance data entered into k-space that are acquired with the magnetic resonance apparatus, in the acquisition of the data a deviation from ideal homogeneity, described by an interference field, is present in the imaging region that is covered by the magnetic resonance data. To reduce image artifacts generated by this interference field, the transformation of the magnetic resonance data from k-space into the image domain, at least along a readout direction of a readout gradient used in the acquisition, takes place by multiplication of the data with the inverse of a transformation matrix that is calculated depending on the interference field.
US09933503B2
The invention provides for a medical instrument (200, 400, 500) comprising a magnetic resonance imaging system (202), a transducer (222) for mechanically vibrating at least a portion of the subject within the imaging zone. Instructions cause a processor (236) controlling the medical instrument to: control (100) the transducer to vibrate; control (102) the magnetic resonance imaging system to repeatedly acquire the magnetic resonance data (252) using a first spatially encoding pulse sequence (250); control (104) the magnetic resonance imaging system to acquire navigator data (256) using a second spatially encoding pulse sequence (254); construct (106) a set of navigator profiles (258, 804, 904, 1004, 1108, 1208, 1308) using the navigator data; determine (108) at least one parameter (260) descriptive of transducer vibrations using the set of navigator profiles; and reconstruct (110) at least one magnetic resonance rheology image (262) from the magnetic resonance data.
US09933496B2
A sensor for sensing an external magnetic field along a sensing direction comprises a sensor bridge. The sensor bridge has a first sensor leg that includes a first magnetoresistive sense element and a second sensor leg that includes a second magnetoresistive sense element. The first and second sense elements have respective first and second pinned layers having the same reference magnetization. The first and second sense elements have respective first and second sense layers, each self-biased to have a first sense magnetization. A permanent magnet layer is proximate the second sense element. In the absence of an external magnetic field, the permanent magnet layer magnetically biases the first sense magnetization of the second sense layer produce a second sense magnetization of the second sense layer that differs from the first sense magnetization, and the first sense layer of the first sense element retains the first sense magnetization.
US09933492B2
A method for determining a safe and economic voltage operating range dependent on current density and/or a specific energy consumption operating range of a cell element of an electrolyser. A method for improving voltage results and/or specific energy consumption results, in which the voltage operating range and/or specific energy consumption operating range is determined depending on an operating parameter associated with the cell element.
US09933475B2
Provided is a semiconductor inspection circuit which is capable of inspecting connection states of power supply, ground, and signal bumps in a semiconductor package or a printed circuit board equipped with a semiconductor LSI mounted in a product operation state. As a means to solve the problem, a circuit capable of switching a path is provided at an input portion of a driver/receiver, a mechanism capable of transferring an output of a path switching circuit near a receiver circuit to a voltage waveform circuit with an internal variable terminal is provided, and a breakage state of a bump can be observed in the product operation state by observing a DC level at a terminal having a certain DC resistance when a signal bump connection state is observed and receiving a step wave and observing a response waveform thereof when an IO power supply bump connection state is observed.
US09933461B2
A current-sensing assembly that includes a power module, for providing switchable power, having a current output extending through and directly away from the top exterior surface of the power module, a Hall sensor, capable of measuring current traversing through a conductor, having an opening, and the current output extending through the opening.
US09933459B1
Systems and methods of providing a magnetically coupled ground reference probe for use with test equipment, such as digital multimeters (DMMs). The magnetically coupled ground reference probes disclosed herein may be used instead of a typical test probe or alligator clip. A magnetically coupled ground reference probe may be provided which includes an insulative housing surrounding a conductive magnet such as a permanent magnet or an electromagnet. The magnet may autonomously retract into a cavity of the insulative housing when not coupled to a ground reference so that the magnet does not contact a high potential source when being handled by the operator. In at least some implementations, at least a portion of the insulation material of the housing may be compressible to allow the magnet to come into physical contact with a ground reference surface while providing a sufficient creepage and clearance path.
US09933448B1
Magnetic sensor modules, systems and methods are provided, configured to detect a rotation of an object. A magnetic sensor module includes an axially polarized back bias magnet that generates a radially symmetric bias magnetic field about a center axis of the axially polarized back bias magnet in a sensor plane, and a magnetic sensor including a plurality of sensor elements arranged in the sensor plane of the magnetic sensor and are configured to generate measurement values in response to sensing the radially symmetric bias magnetic field. The plurality of sensor elements are arranged on a circumference of a circle at equidistant angles about the center axis of the axially polarized back bias magnet. The plurality of sensor elements are grouped into a plurality of pairs such that each pair has a sensitivity axis sensitive to a different in-plane magnetic field component of the radially symmetric bias magnetic field.
US09933446B2
This disclosure is directed to information management techniques that may be used during automated processing of biological growth media. In one embodiment, a method comprises reading an identification element associated with a biological growth medium, identifying manufacturing information associated with the biological growth medium based on the identification element, wherein the manufacturing information includes one or more manufacturing variables measured from the biological growth medium when the biological growth medium was manufactured, adjusting one or more processing parameters associated with processing of the biological growth medium based on the manufacturing variables measured from the biological growth medium when the biological growth medium was manufactured, and processing the biological growth medium in an automated system based on the processing parameters.
US09933445B1
Systems and techniques for detecting a target substance, such as THC, in a breath constituent sample are provided.
US09933443B2
Disclosed is a blood sample determination method including: preparing a mixed plasma by mixing a subject plasma and a normal plasma; emitting light to a measurement specimen obtained by mixing the mixed plasma and a clotting time measuring reagent, to obtain optical information regarding an amount of light from the measurement specimen; and determining whether the subject plasma is suspected to be a coagulation-factor-deficient plasma, on the basis of optical information obtained from one measurement specimen.
US09933442B2
A monoclonal antibody that does not show a crossreactivity with middle-molecular weight (MMW) adiponectin and specifically reacts with high-molecular weight (HMW) adiponectin alone is disclosed. The monoclonal antibody of the present invention can be produced by using HMW adiponectin as an antigen. According to the monoclonal antibody of the present invention, a convenient, high-accurate, and versatile reagent for analyzing HMW adiponectin can be provided.
US09933440B2
Non-invasive method for diagnosing or prognosing Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, or other dementia involving isolating astrocyte-derived exosomes (ADEs) and neuron-derived exosomes (NDEs) from a human biological sample (i.e., plasma, serum, urine or cerebrospinal fluid), analyzing cargo extracts of the ADEs and NDEs to detect at least one specified protein or microRNA biomarker, comparing the levels and activities of detected biomarker(s) to those in control samples to identify a statistically significant difference between the detected biomarker(s) and corresponding biomarker(s) in the control sample to determine presence of Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, or other dementia; and testing effects of drugs on levels and activities of each biomarker, as well as effects of drugs administered to test subjects on levels and activities of each biomarker in ADEs and NDEs from subsequently obtained biological samples.
US09933431B2
A system for the iterative detection of biological molecules includes a probe, and a fluorophore tethered to the probe with an azide-based linker. The linker is configured to be cleaved in the presence of tris(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine (TCEP), and the on/off ratio between a signal measured before treatment with TCEP and a signal measured after treatment with TCEP is at least about 20:1.
US09933426B2
A method for determining, in vitro, the probability of a patient developing severe dengue, based on a blood sample, according to a) the quantity in the blood sample of at least one marker, which is olfactomedin 4, is determined, b) the quantity of olfactomedin 4 determined in step a) is compared with a reference quantity of the marker obtained from a group of individuals who have been diagnosed with non-severe dengue, wherein, if the quantity of olfactomedin 4 determined in step a) is greater than the reference quantity established in step b), it is determined that the patient will develop severe dengue.
US09933422B2
The invention is to devices and method for rapid determination of analytes in liquid samples by various assays including immunoassays incorporating a sample dilution feature for forming a diluted sample for analysis. The devices and methods also include a dilution verification feature for verifying the degree of dilution of the diluted sample. The devices preferably are capable of being used in the point-of-care diagnostic field is provided.
US09933419B2
The present invention provides small molecule compounds that can form covalent adducts with specific sequences of RNA, such as the hairpin loop r(CUG)exp sequence which is a cause of myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), or the r(CGG)exp sequence which is a cause of fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS); to methods of making the small molecule compounds; and to methods of using the small molecular compounds in the treatment of DM1 or of FXTAS in patients afflicted therewith. The invention further provides a method for identifying an RNA target of a small molecule drug in vivo, using a small molecule drug conjugated to an RNA-reactive crosslinker group and a reporter group, contacting a cell or nucleic acid extract with the small molecule drug conjugate, then separating RNA targets crosslinked to the small molecule drug conjugate by interaction of the affinity group with a complementary affinity group.
US09933415B2
The invention generally relates to analytical and monitoring systems useful for analyzing and measuring cells and biological samples. More particularly, the invention provides systems and methods for internal calibration and focus reference for cytometry imaging.
US09933413B2
A method of assaying metastasis can include: providing a device of one of the embodiments; introducing the at least one cancer cell into the at least one internal chamber or at least one fluid channel; and studying metastasis of the at least one cancer cell. Optionally: introducing cancer cells into a first internal chamber; detecting escape of the cancer cell from the first internal chamber into the fluid channel; detecting migration of the cancer cell through the fluid channel; detecting adhesion of the cancer cell to a coating on the fluid channel; detecting invasion of the cancer cell into a second internal chamber from the fluid channel; or visualizing metastasis of the cancer cell with a visualization device.
US09933410B2
A biological sample measurement device includes a biological sample measuring instrument and measurement-related information supply instrument which supplies measurement-related information. Measurement-related information supply instrument has reading unit which reads the measurement-related information, first storage unit which stores identification information of measurement-related information supply instrument, and transmission unit which transmits the measurement-related information and the identification information of measurement-related information supply instrument to the biological sample measuring instrument. The biological sample measuring instrument has a main body case which has a mounting portion of a biological sample detection sensor and a display unit, a measurement unit which is connected to the mounting portion inside the main body case, a control unit which is connected to the measurement unit, and a reception unit which is connected to the control unit and receives the measurement-related information and the identification information of the measurement-related information supply instrument transmitted from the transmission unit.
US09933389B2
A sensor control apparatus of a gas detection system includes a digital computation section having a PID computation section, a first filter section, and a second filter section as functional sections. The first filter section digitally extracts a DAC control signal (first filter signal) from a digital signal representing a supply control current Tip computed by the PID computation section. The DAC control signal is a digital signal which represents the supply control current Tip for pump current and in which noise components superimposed as a result of digital computation in the PID computation section have been attenuated.
US09933384B2
An example approach and structure for providing a chemical sensor, having an electrode that may receive a fluid that is passed on towards a dielectric between the electrode and one or more other electrodes. A capacitance between the electrodes may be changed by the dielectric which is affected by a parameter of the fluid. Measuring a change of the capacitance may indicate a magnitude of the parameter. The electrode receiving the fluid may have one or more layers of metal particles that by design of the particles and their arrangement can result in determined pore sizes and routes through the electrode for a controllable porosity of the electrode.
US09933376B2
The present invention provides a method for analyzing defects by using heat distribution measurement, comprising: a sample loading unit for loading a sample to check whether or not there is a defect through heat distribution characteristics; a light source for radiating visible light onto the sample; a power supply unit for generating a driving signal in order to periodically heat the sample; a detection unit for detecting reflected light from the surface of the sample; and a signal generator for synchronizing the detection unit with the driving signal of the power supply unit.
US09933372B2
A lighting dome that can be used to inspect semiconductor wafers can include a small aperture, backlighting, a reflectance gradient and/or a broad spectrum light source.
US09933359B2
Disclosed herein is a paper based diagnostic device including a portable biomedical diagnostic device comprising, paper, wax, and reagents. The biomedical diagnostic device can analyze biochemical assays in test fluids such as blood, urine, and saliva. Diagnostic devices can include one or more of tracking information, personal identification information, security information, color calibration information, and environmental indicators. The security information can further include keys or codes identifying one or more unique characteristics. One aspect of the security information ensures that only predeterminable vendors are able to determine the results of a test from the diagnostic devices.
US09933356B2
An apparatus for detecting macromolecules in a biological fluid is discloses which includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a plurality of sampling apertures, at least some of which have different diameters. The sampling apertures are configured to screen and isolate the macromolecules in the biological fluid. The second substrate is stacked with the first substrate and includes a plurality of detectors vertically corresponding in position to the sampling apertures. Each of the detectors is configured to detect whether one of the macromolecules is present in a corresponding one of the sampling apertures and produce a detection output signal. A method for detecting macromolecules in a biological fluid is also disclosed. The apparatus has high integration and simple manufacturability, while the method is easy to use.
US09933353B2
The technique relates to a system and method for assessing corroded pipeline defect growth rate from partial defect growth rate information. The method involves obtaining a plurality of observed defect growth rates from the inspection data collected at different time intervals then determining at least one unobserved defect growth rate on the basis of distribution pattern of the plurality of observed defect growth rates thereafter simulating condition of at least one hyper parameter on the inspection data based on prior information of the at least one hyper parameter then simulating the plurality of observed defect growth rates and the at least one unobserved defect growth rate based on the simulated hyper parameters and finally obtaining defect growth rate point estimate from the simulated growth rate data. The method also involves determining a probability of failure of a defect from the defect growth rate point estimates.
US09933350B2
Atmospheric particle detectors having a hybrid measurement cavity and light baffle are provided. In one aspect, an atmospheric particle detector includes: an optical measurement cavity; a light baffle attached to the optical measurement cavity, wherein the light baffle is configured to i) permit unobstructed airflow into the optical measurement cavity and ii) block ambient light from entering the optical measurement cavity; a photodetector on a first side of the optical measurement cavity; a retro reflector on a second side of the optical measurement cavity opposite the photodetector, and a light source configured to produce a light beam that passes through the optical measurement cavity without illuminating the photodetector. A method for particle detection using the atmospheric particle detector is also provided.
US09933347B2
A method and system for determining a density of a fluid is provided. The method is carried out using an electrospraying apparatus connected in the system. At a first step fluid is introduced into an emitter of the electrospraying apparatus. A voltage is applied between the emitter and a counter-electrode spaced apart from the emitter for a number of intermittent time periods, wherein the duration of at least some of the time periods during which the voltage is applied progressively decreases. The current between the emitter and the counter-electrode is measured for each time period during which a voltage is applied and the shortest time period for which a current reading is obtained is recorded. The shortest time period is used to calculate the density of the fluid in the emitter.
US09933346B2
An apparatus for performing a contact mechanics test on a substrate includes a stylus, a core configured to engage the stylus against the substrate, a stylus engagement mechanism configured to induce a contact load or a penetration depth to the stylus, a core engagement mechanism configured to maintain contact of the core and to move the core along the substrate surface, a frame configured to be fixed with respect to the apparatus or to be moved together with the core engagement mechanism as an assembly, a frame engagement mechanism configured to engage the frame with the substrate surface; and a substrate monitoring device configured to measure characteristics of substrate contact response and/or collect material machined from the substrate. Methods of performing a contact mechanics test are also provided.
US09933339B2
The present disclosure is directed to embodiments of microtome devices and methods of their use. In some embodiments, a microtome can be mounted on the built-in stage of a scanning electron microscope and used to perform serial block-face scanning electron microscopy. In some cases, a microtome installed in a scanning electron microscope can cut the sample at a location off the electron beam axis of the scanning electron microscope. In some cases, a microtome can include a capacitive sensor which can measure the location of a blade of the microtome, and the microtome can be computer-controlled by program implemented in MATLAB.
US09933338B2
An objective is to identify the health state of mechanical equipment and provide information usable for determining maintenance work timing or the like. A health management system includes a time-series data acquisition unit configured to acquire multi-dimensional sensor data and environmental data from mechanical equipment; a first discrimination unit configured to quantify the equipment state of the mechanical equipment by a statistical method using normal data as learning data; a second discrimination unit configured to quantify the health state indicating the performance or quality of the mechanical equipment by a statistical method using normal data; and an output unit configured to display and/or output to the outside the quantified equipment state and health state.
US09933329B2
The system utilizes conductivity equipment as well as a camera, pressure sensor, and acoustic hydrophone within a probe deployed via cable into a pipe to be inspected. The probe completes an electric circuit back to ground when the probe is adjacent a defect through which electric currents can pass, thus producing varying electric current. The camera, incorporated into the electric probe, is utilized for both inspection and navigation through the pipe by providing a close-circuit video data feed. The pressure sensor detects alterations in the pressure and flow field of the fluidic region in the area of a leak. The acoustic hydrophone listens for the sound leaks in a pressurized pipeline. The inspection device is tethered to a cable and inserted a measured distance into the pipeline, typically with the pipeline under pressure, via a launch tube. Multi-sensor data versus pipeline position is thus obtained.
US09933325B2
Test leak device including a gas-filled container and a capillary extending through a container wall. The gas including at least 10% of atmospheric air.
US09933320B2
Method, systems, and devices for determining instantaneous heat exchange between an airflow and a heat exchange element of an HVAC system are disclosed. In some embodiments, methods and systems include receiving or otherwise obtaining airflow data, temperature and humidity data. The airflow data may be used to calculate the volumetric airflow rate, and the temperature and humidity data may be processed with enthalpy data to determine the change in enthalpy (Δh) of the airflow after encountering a heat exchange element. The instantaneous rate of heat exchange (E) between the airflow and the heat exchange element may then be determined from the volumetric airflow rate and change in enthalpy.
US09933319B2
Acoustic ambient temperature and humidity sensing based on determination of sound velocity is described, in addition to sensors, algorithms, devices, systems, and methods therefor. An exemplary embodiment employs sound velocity in the determination of ambient temperature and humidity. Provided implementations include determinations of sound velocity based on time of flight of a coded acoustic signal and/or based on resonance frequency of a Helmholtz resonator.
US09933314B2
An improved system and method of measuring the temperature of a workpiece being processed is disclosed. The temperature measurement system determines a temperature of a workpiece by measuring the amount of expansion in the workpiece due to thermal expansion. The amount of expansion may be measured using a number of different techniques. In certain embodiments, a light source and a light sensor are disposed on opposite sides of the workpiece. The total intensity of the signal received by the light sensor may be indicative of the dimension of the workpiece. In another embodiment, an optical micrometer may be used. In another embodiment, a light sensor may be used in conjunction with a separate device that measures the position of the workpiece.
US09933310B2
An infrared bolometer. In one embodiment a waveguide configured to transmit infrared radiation is arranged to be adjacent a graphene sheet and configured so that evanescent waves from the waveguide overlap the graphene sheet. The graphene sheet has two contacts connected to an amplifier, and a power detector connected to the amplifier. Infrared electromagnetic power in the evanescent waves is absorbed in the graphene sheet, heating the graphene sheet. The power of Johnson noise generated at the contacts is proportional to the temperature of the graphene sheet. The Johnson noise is amplified and the power in the Johnson noise is used as a measure of the temperature of the graphene sheet, and of the amount of infrared power propagating in the waveguide.
US09933306B2
There is provided a photoelectric switch capable of reducing a size of a whole device while suppressing light amount irregularity and color irregularity of detected light. The photoelectric switch includes: a surface mount LED, configured to generate a light containing a plurality of color components with different hues; an optical shield disposed between the surface mount LED and a light projecting lens to shield the light around an optical opening passing the light from the surface mount LED to the light projecting lens; a light receiving element configured to selectively receive the light to generate a plurality of light reception signals; a controller configured to control a light projecting amount of the surface mount LED based on the light reception signal.
US09933303B2
A radiation imaging apparatus includes a radiation detection panel configured to detect radiation irradiated by a radiation generation unit, a first member and second member arranged on the incident direction side of the radiation, and a third member and fourth member arranged on a side opposite to the incident direction of the radiation. The second member is arranged between the first member and the radiation detection panel, and the third member is arranged between the radiation detection panel and the fourth member. The second member and the third member are lower in elastic modulus than the first member and the fourth member, and the elastic modulus of the second member is equal to or lower than that of the third member.
US09933302B2
An electronic circuit including a current conveyor connected to a load is provided. The load delivers at least one first voltage output and one second voltage output. Such a circuit is noteworthy in that the second voltage output has what is called a non-linear behavior relative to the magnitude of the input current of the electronic circuit in a given range.
US09933290B1
A flow measurement sensing device includes a first venturi having a first shield portion, an elongated portion connected to an outer surface of the first venturi, and a second venturi housed within the first venturi. The second venturi has a second shield portion and at least one air inlet. The flow measurement sensing device further includes a first integral passageway extending from the air inlet through the elongated portion. The first integral passageway has a first segment with a first cross-sectional shape and a segment with a second cross-sectional shape.
US09933288B2
The flow channel unit includes: a pair of end flow channels disposed at an inflow port and an outflow port, respectively, and extending along in flow direction; a center flow channel including a pressure receiving portion having a thin film shape and disposed at a position sandwiched between the pair of end flow channels, a distance from an inner peripheral surface of the pressure receiving portion to an outer peripheral surface thereof being shorter than a distance from an inner peripheral surface of the pair of end flow channels to an outer peripheral surface thereof. The pair of end flow channels and the center flow channel are integrally formed of a flexible resin material, and the pressure detection portion is disposed such that the pressure of the fluid circulated through a flow channel is transmitted via the pressure receiving portion.
US09933283B2
A displacement sensor for a power tool includes: a stator element, having a first conductive pattern, and a rotor element, having a second conductive pattern, for relative movement along a measurement path, wherein the first and second conductive patterns are mutually inductively coupled so that the first conductive pattern receives an excitation signal and the second conductive pattern generates an intermediate signal. The intermediate signal indicates relative displacement between the stator and rotor elements, wherein the excitation signal is a constant amplitude high-frequency signal. A signal processor circuit receives and processes a single phase receive signal corresponding to the intermediate signal to provide an output signal indicating relative displacement between the rotor and stator elements. A phase detector circuit processes the single phase receive signal to detect a phase difference between the receive signal and a reference signal corresponding to the excitation signal to provide the output signal.
US09933282B2
A sensing device for a digital linear position sensor is disclosed. The sensing device may have a mounting device including a mounting surface. The sensing device may also have a plurality of resistors mounted on the mounting surface. The plurality of resistors may be electrically connected between a first voltage node (Uin) and a second voltage node (GND). Further, the sensing device may have a plurality of Hall switches mounted on the mounting surface at predetermined intervals in a longitudinal direction of the mounting device. Each of the plurality of Hall switches may be configured to adjust a total resistance of the plurality of resistors between the first voltage node (Uin) and the second voltage node (GND) upon actuation by an applied magnetic field.
US09933264B2
Described is a robotic system for detecting obstacles reliably with their ranges by a combination of two-dimensional and three-dimensional sensing. In operation, the system receives an image from a monocular video and range depth data from a range sensor of a scene proximate a mobile platform. The image is segmented into multiple object regions of interest and time-to-contact (TTC) value are calculated by estimating motion field and operating on image intensities. A two-dimensional (2D) TTC map is then generated by estimating average TTC values over the multiple object regions of interest. A three-dimensional TTC map is then generated by fusing the range depth data with image. Finally, a range-fused TTC map is generated by averaging the 2D TTC map and the 3D TTC map.
US09933262B2
A positioning system for generating pose information of a machine includes a primary positioning controller and a plurality of local positioning controllers coupled to the primary positioning controller. The primary positioning controller is configured to generate primary pose information of the machine. The primary pose information reflects an overall pose of the machine. Each of the local positioning controllers is configured to generate local pose information based on at least the primary pose information. The local pose information reflects a local pose of a portion of the machine corresponding to the local positioning controller.
US09933256B2
A system is provided for programming workpiece feature inspection operations for a coordinate measuring machine (CMM). The system includes a computer-aided design (CAD) file processing portion and a user interface which includes an editing user interface portion and an execution time indicator. The CAD file processing portion analyzes an input CAD file to automatically determine workpiece features. The editing user interface portion includes an editable plan representation including an editable set of the workpiece features to be inspected. The execution time indicator is indicative of an estimated inspection program execution time for operating the CMM to execute a corresponding workpiece inspection program. The execution time indicator is automatically updated in response to a utilization of one of a first set of operations to modify the current workpiece feature inspection plan, so as to automatically indicate the estimated effect of the modification on the inspection program execution time.
US09933254B2
Processes and systems including providing at least one computer input field for a user to input location data generally corresponding to the location of the building; providing visual access to a first aerial image of a region including a roof structure of a building corresponding to said location data, the first aerial image having a first resolution; providing a computer input capable of signaling user-acceptance of a final location within the aerial image; and providing visual access to one or more second aerial images of an aerial imagery database corresponding to location coordinates of the final location, the one or more second aerial images having a second resolution that is higher resolution than the first resolution.
US09933247B2
A method and system for monitoring a mandrel. A first plurality of transmitting devices is positioned with respect to the mandrel. Signals from a portion of the first plurality of transmitting devices are received at a receiving device. The signals are processed to determine a configuration of the mandrel.
US09933246B2
There is provided an optical coherence tomography device provided with: an OCT optical system configured to output OCT signal; and an analysis processing unit configured to process the OCT signal and generate motion contrast data of the specimen. The analysis processing unit is provided with: a first image data generation unit configured to process multiple OCT signals to generate first image data representing phase difference information of the multiple OCT signals, and a second image data generation unit configured to process the OCT signal to generate second image data representing amplitude information of the OCT signal. The analysis processing unit generates the motion contrast data based on the phase difference information in the first image data and the amplitude information in the second image data.
US09933245B2
The invention relates to an interferometric distance measuring arrangement for measuring surfaces, with at least one laser source, which can be tuned, with a coherence length for generating measurement radiation modulated by a wave length ramp, an optical beam path with an optical transmitting system for emitting the measurement radiation to the surface and an optical capturing system for capturing the measurement radiation back-scattered by the surface, comprising a measuring arm and a reference arm and a radiation detector and an evaluation unit for determining the distance from a reference point of the distance measuring device to the surface. Channels are defined by at least one beamsplitter n≥2 for the parallel emission of measurement radiation, respectively one different sub area of the measurement range defined by the coherence length is allocated to the channels.
US09933244B2
A beam-shaping optical system suitable for use with optical coherence tomography including a sheath defining a central cavity, a beam-shaping insert defining a beam-shaping element positioned within the central cavity, and an optical fiber having a core and a cladding. The optical fiber defines an angularly prepared fiber end configured to emit an electromagnetic beam toward the beam-shaping element with the core of the optical fiber locally expanded at the fiber end.
US09933241B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a polymeric ammunition cartridge and methods of making and using the same. The cartridge includes a substantially cylindrical insert connected to a substantially cylindrical polymeric middle body. The substantially cylindrical insert includes a top surface opposite a bottom surface and a substantially cylindrical coupling element that extends from the bottom surface, a primer recess in the top surface that extends toward the bottom surface, a primer flash hole positioned in the primer recess to extend through the bottom surface, and a flange that extends circumferentially about an outer edge of the top surface. The substantially cylindrical polymeric middle body includes a substantially cylindrical polymeric bullet-end and a substantially cylindrical polymeric coupling end connected by a powder chamber, wherein the substantially cylindrical polymeric coupling end extends over the substantially cylindrical coupling element and covers a circumferential surface of the primer flash hole.
US09933240B2
The invention concerns an underwater vehicle equipped with electrochemical means of electrical power generation, characterized in that it comprises a data processing unit (2) with inputs connected to sensors (4) of a parameter selected from amongst temperature, pressure, and hydrogen concentration, of the water in the area of the vehicle, and of the electrochemical means of the vehicle, and with outputs connected to means (5) of transmitting signals to transmit signals authorizing (or not authorizing) an operator to approach the vehicle, depending on whether the sensed value of the parameter of the electrochemical means is in a predetermined range around the value of the parameter corresponding to water in the area of the underwater vehicle.
US09933238B1
The present invention is a bleed out arrow that allows a wounded animal to bleed out and die more quickly. The arrow is provided with a hollow shaft with openings in it that serve as conduits for blood to exit the animal's body when the arrow has lodged in the wounded animal's body. The openings are in the form of slits that are located at the front end of the shaft just behind the blades of the arrow tip and aligned longitudinally with the blades of the arrow tip, at the rear end of the shaft just behind the fletches and aligned longitudinally with the fletches, and in the middle of the shaft, preferably behind the blades and preferably aligned longitudinally with the blades of the arrow tip.
US09933237B2
A pressure impulse mitigating barrier including a crosslinked gel, the gel including water and gelatin which has been crosslinked using a functional silane compound, the compound including an electrophilic group (where the electrophilic group is not a silane) and a group of formula (B) where R is a C1-10 alkyl group, C6-10 aryl group, or C7-12 arylalkyl group; R′ is a C1-10 alkyl group, C6-10 aryl group, or C7-12 arylalkyl group; n is 0-1, and where the functional silane has Mw of 800 g/mol or less.
US09933227B2
A device is disclosed that is used temporarily to replace a trigger assembly of a weapon. In one embodiment, the device is self-resetting, including a biasing mechanism to reset a trigger lever to a firing position. As such, the feel of depressing a cocked trigger with each simulated trigger pull is simulated. This device allows the user to experience a more realistic dry fire training session, allowing the user to still cycle the gun action normally if they choose.
US09933224B2
A modular silencer includes an outer tube and a plurality of chamber separators suspended through a tensile force within a bore of the outer tube and defining chambers between each pair of chamber separators in the silencer. An outer edge of the chamber separators is spaced apart from an inner surface of the tube to allow gas equalization between the chambers. A plurality of tube portions separate the chamber separators from each other and from the proximal and distal ends of the silencer assembly. The tube portions define a continuous center tube suspended in tension within the outer tube and through which the projectile travels. The tube portions have can have angled openings through which gas discharge exits into the chambers. Rotatable sleeves can be disposed over the tube portions to further disrupt gas flow and dissipate heat and sound. A carbon fiber sleeve can be disposed over the outer tube to inhibit burn injuries from contacting the silencer.
US09933223B2
A cover system for a sound suppressor that reduces the mirage created by the heat generated when a projectile is fired through the sound suppressor and allows the sound suppressor's appearance to be easily changed to blend in with the sound suppressor's surroundings. The cover system comprises a front cap and a cylindrical member. The front cap is configured for attachment to the cylindrical member. The cylindrical member is configured for attachment to the front cap and to receive the sound suppressor. An air gap is formed between an outer surface of the sound suppressor and an inner surface of the cylindrical member when the sound suppressor is at least partially received within the cylindrical member.
US09933222B2
A catch device for the breech of a pistol, in which a spring acts upon a pivotable holding lever so that the latch thereof passes out of the path of the breech and the handle thereof is pressed away from the breech. Part of the holding lever is pivoted by the magazine slide, after the final cartridge has been pushed in counter to the force of the spring, so that after the cartridge has been fired, the breech is caught against the latch and remains in the region of the rear end position thereof. In order to increase service life, the spring is a compression spring, pretensioned between two claws of the holding lever and arranged in a slot of the housing so that one end bears against the base of the slot and the other end bears against the claw.
US09933216B2
A heat exchanger includes a bundle of tubes, which can be inserted into a tubular housing. Exhaust gas can flow through the tubes. A coolant duct can be arranged between the tubes. The bundle of tubes can have at least one grid-like securing structure which supports the bundle in the housing. The behavior of the heat exchanger with respect to vibrations is affected by outwardly curved metallic springs attached to the bundle of tubes which may be deformed in the opposite direction to the insertion direction of the bundle into the housing. The spring force is directed against the housing in order to dampen vibrations. The heat exchanger can also include an elastic device for permitting a change in length caused by temperature changes.
US09933215B2
A heat exchanger module adapted for being mounted directly to the outer surface of the housing of an automobile system component, such as a transmission or engine housing, is provided. The heat exchanger module comprises a heat exchanger fixedly attached to an adapter module. The adapter module contains one of more fluid transfer channels, interface connectors, seals and mounting holes for screws and/or bolts. In one exemplary embodiment, the adapter module is comprised of an adapter plate that is sealed with one or more shim plates, the shim plates also providing a brazing surface for brazing the adapter module directly to the heat exchanger, the heat exchanger therefore being attached to the adapter module without the use of a base plate.
US09933214B2
A plate heat exchanger reduces the cross-sectional diameter of channels and suppresses clogging of the channels with a brazing material. First heat transfer plates each include a plurality of rows of inverse V-shaped waves formed on its surface, and second heat transfer plates each include a plurality of rows of V-shaped waves formed on its surface are alternately stacked. The intersections of the waves are joined by brazing. Further, a distance (L) between joint points in the short-axis direction of the heat transfer plates and a fillet dimension (f) in the short-axis direction of the heat transfer plates satisfy a relation 0≤((L−f)/L)×100≤40.
US09933199B2
The present invention relates to a method, device and computer program for terminating a defrosting cycle within a refrigerated transport container. The container may include: a transport volume, a cooling unit comprising an evaporator arranged in a cooling space, a return air grid arranged to separate said cooling space from said transport volume, means for sensing temperature indicative of the return air temperature of air returning to said cooling space from said transport volume or the temperature of the return air grid, means for actively heating said evaporator during defrosting cycles, and a processor configured for controlling the duration of said defrosting cycles. The method includes: establishing an indicator(s) indicative of frost and/or ice build-up on said return air grid, and terminating a defrosting cycle when an indicator(s) of frost and/or ice build-up on said return air grid indicates that said return air grid is free of frost and/or ice.
US09933176B2
Systems and methods of operating a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system are disclosed that may include starting a timer substantially concurrently with the HVAC system, entering a cooling cycle, and preventing a multi-speed blower in the HVAC system from changing speeds until the timer expires.
US09933168B2
An air supply apparatus used for an air conditioner, includes: an annular outer frame (21), having an outer surface formed as a partial spherical surface and having an accommodating space (24) therein; and the impeller assembly (22) provided in the accommodating space (24) and pivotally connected to the outer frame (21), in which the impeller assembly (22) has an air suction side and an air outlet side. Also disclosed is an air conditioner having the air supply apparatus.
US09933161B1
A combustor dome heat shield has a heat shield panel adapted to be mounted to a combustor dome with a back face of the heat shield panel in spaced-apart facing relationship with an inner surface of the combustor dome to define an air gap between the heat shield panel and the combustor dome. Rails extend from the back face of the heat shield panel across the air gap. An anti-rotation notch is defined in at least one of the rails for receiving an anti-rotation tab of an adjacent element, such as a fuel nozzle floating collar. The rails include notch cavity rails extending on either side of the anti-rotation notch. The notch cavity rails define a notch cavity for capturing coolant air leaking through the anti-rotation notch.
US09933151B2
The present invention relates to a basketball stand lighting system comprising a fixing seat connected to a U-shaped supporting structure, a main stand, an inclined support frame, a telescopic frame outer pipe, a telescopic frame inner pipe, a lower fixing plate, a light, a lower support, and a column. This basketball stand lighting system allows convenient installation by using the basketball stand's own backboard height adjustment system to adjust the height of the installed lighting system, so there is no dangerous high altitude operation. The lighting system uses the basketball stand's own backboard height adjustment system to ensure that the installation is fixed in place. The lighting system saves time and labor, and the structure is ingenious and simple. This basketball stand lighting system need not employ complicated installation auxiliary equipment, and it has reduced time used when the equipment is loaded and unloaded.
US09933139B2
The invention relates to a light fixture (1) comprising an elongated carrier element (5), a number of lighting modules (20), which can be detachably secured to the carrier element (5), and means for supplying power to the lighting module (20), said means comprising an operating device (100) and contacting means (40, 41) which are connected to said operating device (100) and to which the lighting modules (20) can be electrically connected. In said light fixture, the operating device (100) and the contacting means (40, 41) are arranged on a device carrier (50) that can be detachably secured to the carrier element (5).
US09933134B2
A lighting device may include a light generating unit configured to generate at least two light beams; at least one phosphor surface which is illuminatable by the light beams; and at least one movable deflection mirror for the scanning deflection of the light beams onto the phosphor surface, such that the light beams impinge on the at least one phosphor surface in a spaced-apart fashion, and such that at least one region of the phosphor surface is illuminatable by at least two light beams in a manner spaced apart temporally.
US09933133B2
A light adjusting sheet includes a base and a first light adjusting structure layer. The base includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first light adjusting structure layer is disposed on the first surface of the base, and the first light adjusting structure layer includes a plurality of light adjusting structures. Each light adjusting structure includes a major axis, a minor axis and a thickness, wherein the major axis of the light adjusting structure is in parallel with an extending direction. A ratio of a length of the minor axis to a length of the major axis is between 0.093 and 0.6, and the thickness is between 2 μm to 6 μm. A backlight module using the light adjusting sheet can achieve high brightness and large viewing angle.
US09933127B2
This invention relates to illumination systems, namely, to automotive headlamps and can be used as the principal head lighting of light and cargo vehicles. The automotive headlamp includes at least one LED and a system of lenses. The system of lenses includes both composite diverging and regulating lenses. The composite diverging lens is made up of two plano-concave lenses. The composite regulating lens is made up of the converging plano-convex lens and the refracting right-angled wedge placed in a series through the luminous flux. The composite regulating lens is placed between the LED and the composite diverging lens, which is suitable for controllable obscuration of the light flux. The invention enhances the reliability of the high/low-beam switch system.
US09933125B2
A bulb simulating light emitting diode headlight is disposed through a lamp bowl of an illumination device on a vehicle or motorbike body. The bulb simulating light emitting diode headlight includes a main body, a circuit board, and two light emitting diode modules. The main body has a seat, and a first plate and a second plate disposed on the seat. The first and second plates have a first opening and a second opening, respectively, and form a housing space. The circuit board is disposed between the first and second plates. The light emitting diode modules are disposed on two lateral sides of the circuit board and face the first and second openings. When the light emitting diode modules are broken, the user simply picks out the circuit for replacement, without the need of replacing all the components, thus lowering the cost.
US09933124B2
A ceiling mounted lighting assembly is disclosed having a below-the-ceiling junction box with a ceiling-mounting surface and a light socket disposed at least partially within the below-the-ceiling junction box; a terminal block disposed at least partially within the below-the-ceiling junction box and electrically couplable to the light socket; and at least one fastener coupled to the ceiling-mounting surface and extending in a direction away from the ceiling-mounting surface.
US09933119B2
The present invention relates to a floating LNG plant (1, 1′, 100) comprising a converted LNG carrier with a hull and a plurality of LNG storage tanks (4, 104) wherein in that the floating LNG plant (1, 1′, 100) comprises: —at least one sponson (2, 2′, 3, 3′, 102, 103) on the side of the hull, for creating additional hull volume, —process equipment (110) for LNG processing on the floating LNG plant (1, 1′, 100), and—a reservoir for storing fluids separated during the LNG processing, wherein said reservoir is formed by the ballast tank or in the space reserved for the ballast tank of the original LNG carrier.
US09933107B2
A display mount includes roll, yaw, and pitch adjustments to precisely position the display. A wall mount is secured to a room wall. A roll axis is provided by a first vertical plate pivotally engaging a horizontal stud held by the wall mount. A first horizontal plate is fixed to the first vertical plate. A yaw axis is provided by a vertical stud pivotally attaching a second horizontal plate to the first horizontal plate. A second vertical plate is fixed to the second horizontal plate. A pitch axis is provided by a second horizontal stud pivotally attaching a third vertical plate to the second vertical plate. The third vertical plate includes a display engaging clamp or mount. Cork clutch disks residing between pivoting surfaces provide a clutching function retaining hand adjustments.
US09933105B1
An underground pipe repair device is for a joint between a service pipe and a branch pipe. The underground pipe repair device may include a first T-shaped joint liner having a base portion extending laterally in the service pipe, and an arm portion extending vertically into the branch pipe, and a second ring-shaped liner under the first T-shaped joint liner and aligned with an opening in the branch pipe. The underground pipe repair device may include an annular spacer aligned with the opening in the branch pipe and being between the first T-shaped joint liner and the second ring-shaped liner. The annular spacer may include a radial step, and the second ring-shaped liner may be coupled to the base portion of the first T-shaped joint liner to retain the annular spacer.
US09933100B2
An absorber for use in a fluid delivery system is disclosed which includes a housing defining an interior chamber, a connective fitting extending from the housing in fluid communication with the interior chamber for connecting the housing to the fluid delivery system, and at least one gas-filled bladder or cell disposed within the interior chamber of the housing to accommodate changes in fluid characteristics, such as, for example, pressure and volume, within the fluid delivery system, the gas-filled bladder or cell having a predetermined pre-charge pressure and a multi-layered flexible polymeric shell including a plurality of successive relatively thin polymeric shell layers to inhibit the formation of leak paths through the shell in the event that a single shell layer fails.
US09933086B2
A gas supply control device includes a main body, a control valve assembly extending into and received in the main body, a bottom lid attached to a bottom surface of the main body, and a top cover attached to a top surface of the main body. The gas supply control device provides an effect of simplicity and accuracy of gas supply therethrough.
US09933084B2
Methods and apparatus to assemble actuators are described. An example method includes positioning a biasing element in a cavity defined by a housing of an actuator such that the biasing element is in an uncompressed state and at least a portion of the biasing element is to extend outside of the cavity beyond an end defined by the housing; compressing the biasing element to a compressed state until the portion of the biasing element extending outside of the cavity is positioned inside the cavity; coupling a cover to the end of the housing to capture the biasing element in the cavity; and maintaining the biasing element in the compressed state during the coupling such that the biasing element does not engage the cover.
US09933081B2
A bursting disc with a flange area for attachment to an edge of an opening in a wall of a ventilation system, the central area adjacent the flange area along a predetermined breaking line equipped with thermal insulation on the bursting disc side which stretches at least not across the mounting element of the flange area so a niche is formed, bordered by the flange area and the thermal insulation on the bursting disc side. A bursting disc arrangement in which the bursting disc is mounted at the edge of an opening in a wall of a ventilation system and closes the opening, the wall equipped with thermal insulation on the system side which stretches to the flange area of the bursting disc, a gap corresponding to the niche is formed between at least one thermal insulation on the bursting disc side and the thermal insulation on the system side.
US09933078B2
A passive isolation valve equipped with one or more nozzles configured to deliver a flow of gas to an area adjacent the valve seat so as to remove accumulated particulate material from the area of the valve adjacent the valve seat that otherwise may adversely affect closure of the valve in response to an energetic event.
US09933073B2
An aircraft including: a penetration member that penetrates an airframe between an inside and an outside via an opening provided in the airframe; a seal that seals a gap set between an opening formation member forming the opening and the penetration member; and a retainer that presses the seal against the penetration member and the opening formation member, wherein each of the penetration member and the opening formation member includes a receiving section that receives the seal, both of the receiving sections are arranged along a direction connecting one side and the other side of the gap with the gap therebetween, and the seal is fixed to only one of the receiving section of the penetration member and the receiving section of the opening formation member.
US09933064B2
A drive pulley for a CVT has a fixed sheave, a movable sheave, a spider, a biasing member biasing the movable sheave axially away from the fixed sheave, at least one centrifugal actuator and first and second rollers rotationally connected to one of the movable sheave and the spider. The first roller rolls along the other one of the movable sheave and the spider as the movable sheave moves axially. The second roller rolls along the other one of the movable sheave and the spider as the movable sheave moves axially. The first and second rollers transfer torque between the movable sheave and the spider.
US09933062B2
A mechanical system forms a cam follower or a rocker arm. The mechanical system comprises: a support element, a pin extending between two opposite ends along a first axis and supported by the support element, and a roller adapted to receive the pin. The roller being mounted on pin, movable in rotation relative to the pin around the first axis and adapted to roll on a cam. The support element comprises two separate parts, generally semi-cylindrical, each having a contact face, in contact with one other, and a holding feature for maintaining parts assembled together.
US09933060B2
A locking differential assembly includes a differential case defining an axis of rotation and a gear chamber. A first side gear is at a first end of the differential case. A second side gear is at a second end of the differential case opposite the first end for selectable rotation relative to the differential case. A solenoid is at the first end. The solenoid is directly wound onto a stator.
US09933058B1
An actuator having an output slidable between extended and retracted positions is provided. The actuator includes a primary module having a power drive, power screw rotatable by the power drive, and a nut operable to translate rotation of the power screw to linear motion of the nut across the power screw. The actuator includes a secondary module having a power drive, a shaft rotatable by the power drive, a power screw, and a nut. The power screw is slidably coupled to and rotatable by the shaft, and coupled to the output. The nut is coupled to the power screw and is operable to slide linearly across the shaft by rotating through the nut. Both the primary nut and secondary power screw are operable to move the output to the extended position or the retracted position depending on the rotational direction of the primary power screw and secondary power screw.
US09933050B2
A steering system is provided in which a bearing of a tension pulley has a reduced load-carrying capacity. A belt tension adjusting mechanism has a seat provided on an inner surface of a reduction gear housing so as to be able to swing, a rod that is in abutting contact with the seat (bent portion), a feed nut that is screw-threaded over the rod, and a spring member (helical torsion spring) that is fixed to the feed nut at its one end and to the reduction gear housing at the other end. When the belt is loosened, the feed nut is rotated by an elastic force of the spring member, and in conjunction with the rotation, the rod moves away from the feed nut to push the seat (bent portion).
US09933049B2
A vehicle drive system including a transmission has a gear set with first, second, third and fourth elements. The second element connects with an output shaft of the transmission. The system has a transmission housing and a first electric motor having an output shaft connecting with the first element for driving the first element in response to a first electrical signal. A second electric motor has an output shaft connecting with the fourth element for driving the fourth element in response to a second electrical signal. The motors operate together to cause transmission ratios to change steplessly through an infinite number of ratios between maximum and minimum values.
US09933042B2
A robochain including a plurality of link units, a connecting member (1300) between the link units, a hollow part formed inside the link unit (1100) for enabling the connecting member (1300) to be detachably attached to each of the link units, and a neck part (1316) formed in the connecting member (1300) for preventing the connecting member (1300) from being easily detached from the hollow part (1118). Repair of a link plate is facilitated by simply separating the engaging part of the connecting member from the hollow part.
US09933041B2
An endless rubber power transmission belt such as a CVT belt having a main belt body with a compression portion, tension portion, an adhesion portion, and a tensile cord in contact with the adhesion portion and embedded between the compression portion and the tension portion, angled sides, and a width to thickness ratio on the order of 2 to 3. At least one of the compression portion, the tension portion and the adhesion portion has an elastomer composition that includes a saturated ethylene-alpha-olefin elastomer, a staple fiber, and a pulp fiber, or an elastomer, a high-modulus staple fiber, and a high-modulus pulp fiber. The pulp fiber constitutes less than 40% of the total high-modulus fiber amount.
US09933037B1
A traffic control assembly comprising a length of flexible cable as a cable dampener. The cable may be formed of wire rope, which comprises a bundle of twisted wire strands, with a fitting at each end. The cable section has the ability to resist torsional movement and the ability to bend to a limited extent along its vertical axis in response to wind forces and to return to its resting or straight configuration like a spring as the wind subsides. This provides a dampening function between the components of the traffic control assembly to absorb impacts imposed by winds or moving objects so as to reduce the likelihood that the connection will break and disconnect or dislocate the signal or other traffic control device.
US09933035B2
Method for manufacturing an asbestos-free friction material having as component materials inorganic and/or organic and/or metallic fibers, at least one organic binder, at least one friction modifier or lubricant and at least a filler or abrasive. The raw components of the friction material are mixed together to obtain a raw mixture which is then molded to obtain a block or layer of friction material. The mixing step includes a first step of hot blending of at least part of the organic binder with at least part of the other components of the friction material by a rolling mill blender that is open to atmospheric pressure at a temperature lower than the polymerization temperature of the organic binder but greater than or equal to its softening temperature, in order to obtain a semifinished solid product. A second step of grinding the semifinished solid product reduces the product to a powder.
US09933034B2
A motor drive apparatus includes: a motor current detection unit; a brake release determination unit that determines that the brake is not released when the motor current detected when the motor is operated under a predetermined load by application of a voltage to a brake coil is larger than a current for when the brake is normally released; a brake coil voltage change unit that changes a voltage applied to the brake coil when it is determined that the brake is not released to a larger value; a change history storage unit that stores the voltage after being changed and change date and time; and a life prediction unit that calculates a predicted life of the brake apparatus based on the voltage after being changed and the change date and time and the previously stored failure-time brake coil voltage.
US09933033B2
A caliper assembly (100) of a disc brake caliper, of the type with a modified braking action, comprising a caliper body (1) suitable to arrange astride of a brake disc, at least one first pad (8) being slidably received in at least one first seat (101) and so as to position itself between a first vehicle side elongated portion (5) and a first braking surface of the brake disk to abut, with a first pad plane (128) thereof, against said first braking surface (3) and to exert a braking action on the brake disc when pressed by the thrust means upon demand for a first friction action exerted by the first pad friction material against said first braking surface (3) causing a braking action, said assembly (100) further comprising a first insert (106) in a separate body from said caliper body (1) and in a separate body to said first pad (8) and particular in a separate body to said first pad plate (102), said first insert (106) comprises a balance wheel body (119) hinged to the caliper body (1) and oscillating in relation to the caliper body (1) so as to change, in an adjustable manner avoiding replacement of the insert, the angle between the plate support surface (107) of said insert (106) and said plane (104) defined by the braking surface (3) or said pad plane (128).
US09933032B2
This eddy-current retarding device includes: a magnet holding member that is coaxially provided to a rotating shaft and holds plural permanent magnets in a circumferential direction; a brake member that includes paired disk portions disposed on both sides of the magnet holding member in the axial direction of the rotating shaft, a connecting portion that connects the paired disk portions, and an eddy-current generating portion that causes eddy current due to rotation of the permanent magnets, and this brake member being supported in a relatively rotatable manner with respect to the rotating shaft; and a friction brake that causes a friction member to press against the brake member at the time of braking to bring the brake member to a stop.
US09933029B2
The invention is directed to a reduced-diameter brake rotor for heavy-duty vehicles. The rotor has a reduced diameter to enable it to be used in conjunction with reduced-diameter wheel end configurations. The rotor includes a radially-extending disc that in turn includes an inboard surface and an outboard surface, and a solid, constant cross-section between the inboard and outboard surfaces. The rotor also includes a radially-extending mounting flange for mounting the rotor to a wheel hub of the vehicle. An axially-extending sleeve is integrally formed with and extends between the disc and the mounting flange. The solid disc and other features of the rotor desirably reduce the peak temperature of the rotor by increasing its mass, reduce coning of the rotor during braking, and desirably maintain the heat transfer properties of the rotor while decreasing the brittleness and improving the hot strength of the rotor.
US09933028B2
A caliper disc brake of a vehicle has a brake disc with an axis of rotation, a brake caliper, a brake anchor plate, a force transmission element, such asa lining support and/or a pressure plate, a holding-down spring for holding down the force transmission element, and a holding-down device (36) which is held and supported on the caliper by a holding device, which pretensions the holding-down spring adially against the force transmission device and tangentially in the direction of rotation against the force transmission device during forwards travel. The holding device has a center line parallel to the axis of rotation. The tangential pre-tensioning is at least partially due to the dimensions (V1, V2) of the holding-down device in the tangential direction from the center line (M) being larger on the disc exit side than on the disc entry side.
US09933027B2
A damped anti-rotational system is provided comprising a pawl carrier having an axis of rotation, a pawl pivotably mounted to the pawl carrier on a pivot joint, the pawl having a contact portion and a counterweight portion, a stop pin axially disposed in the pawl carrier and configured to contact the contact portion of the pawl in response to radially inward movement of the pawl, wherein the stop pin is mounted to the pawl carrier at a forward portion of the stop pin and an aft portion of the stop pin, wherein a forward O ring is disposed on the forward portion of the stop pin and an aft O ring is disposed on the aft portion of the stop pin.
US09933015B2
The invention relates to a rolling element bearing having at least one inner bearing inner and at least one outer bearing ring. Rolling elements are arranged between the inner ring and the outer ring, and the rolling elements are guided by a cage. To improve the lubrication of the bearing the invention proposes that the cage includes at least one opening, preferably a bore. The opening penetrates the cage from a radial inner surface to a radial outer surface.
US09933007B2
Provided is a sliding bearing that has a bearing inner peripheral surface covered by a resin overlay layer configured from a binder resin and a solid lubricant and/or hard substance, reduces the running-in time during an operation start, and can obtain the effect of increasing wear resistance and the effect of reducing friction. In the sliding bearing, halved members resulting from halving a cylinder parallel to the axial direction are disposed at the top and bottom, the inner peripheral surfaces of the top and bottom halved members are covered by a resin overlay layer configured from a binder resin and a solid lubricant and/or hard substance, and a fine groove is provided to an axial-direction end of the bottom halved member in the peripheral direction from the mating surface at the downstream side in the rotational direction to a predetermined bearing angle.
US09933002B2
An expansion anchor including a stud and at least one expansion element arranged on the stud, whereby the stud has a slanted surface that pushes the expansion element radially outwards when the stud is moved in a pull-out direction, relative to the expansion element is provided. It is provided that the expansion anchor has at least one swelling element consisting of a swellable compound that can swell in order to secure the expansion element onto the wall of a drilled hole in the pull-out direction.
US09932998B2
A hydraulic cylinder has a cylinder housing in which is formed a pressure chamber variably bounded on one side by a piston of a piston subassembly that is longitudinally displaceable. A piston rod is rigidly connected with the piston, wherein the piston has an outer contour, which permits tilting of the piston subassembly in the cylinder housing, and a projection, which is at the pressure chamber side and on which a sealing element is centered and retained by a retaining ring. The sealing element has an encircling sealing lip that slidably and sealably bears against a sliding surface of the cylinder housing. The retaining ring is provided on the side thereof opposite from the sealing element with a stiffened prolongation.
US09932991B2
Methods and systems are provided for mitigating noise generated by a compressor operating at low flow rates. A swirl device with two concentric flow passages upstream of the compressor directs intake air flow to the compressor through two different flow paths, depending on air flow rates. Angled swirl vanes at an outlet of the swirl device pre-whirl the air flowing to the compressor to reduce noise generation at low air flow rates.
US09932984B2
The present invention provides a pumping system for moving water of a swimming pool, including a water pump and a variable speed motor. In one example, a target volume amount of water and an operational time period is provided, and the operational time period is altered based upon a volume of water moved. In another example, operation of the motor is altered based upon the volume of water moved. In addition or alternatively, a target flow rate of water to be moved by the water pump is determined based upon the target volume amount and a time period. In addition or alternatively, a plurality of operations are performed on the water, and a total volume of water moved by the pump is determined. In addition or alternatively, an optimized flow rate value is determined based upon power consumption.
US09932979B2
An oil pressure control device for supplying oil pressure by rotating a hydraulic pump, by means of a motor, comprises an oil pressure sensor; a speed instruction operation unit for outputting a speed instruction value, based on a difference between an oil pressure determination value from the oil pressure sensor and an oil pressure instruction value; a torque instruction value operation unit for calculating a torque instruction value, based on a difference between a speed determination value and the speed instruction value; and a current control unit for controlling a current of the motor, based on the torque instruction value, and adds the load variation compensation speed outputted from the load variation compensation unit and the speed instruction value.
US09932972B2
A hydraulic machine comprising a drum (12) rotated by an input shaft, comprising cylinders (14) distributed around the shaft, each receiving a piston that slides on the basis of the rotation of the shaft, each cylinder opening at an opening (30) on a transverse face of the drum bearing on a plate having inlet and outlet manifolds, the openings (30) comprising, relative to the cylinders (14) of same, angular offsets comprised within a total offset range, characterized in that the offsets of the openings (30) are disposed at one end or the other of this offset range.
US09932971B2
A piston pump for a high-pressure cleaning appliance is provided, which includes a plurality of pistons that are movable back and forth and each of which enters a pump chamber and is displaceably held at a piston guiding part. The piston guiding part has a supporting wall on which a plurality of guiding elements, each of which guides a piston, are disposed. In order to be able to produce the piston pump in a more cost-effective manner, it is proposed according to the invention that the supporting wall is curved.
US09932958B2
A method of aligning shear webs for the construction of a wind turbine blade is provided. The method comprises providing one or more jigs (402), each configured to receive one or more spacer elements (701) and providing one or more spacer elements (701). First and second shear web panels are placed on the one or more jigs (402) to align them. The first and second shear web panels are restrained relative to each other and are separated by the one or more spacer elements. The first and second shear web panels are then removed together with the one or more spacer elements from the jig. A corresponding apparatus is also provided.
US09932957B2
Hydrostatic adjusting device of a hydraulic machine, the swept volume of which can be adjusted by way of a servo adjusting unit, having a control unit which has a control cylinder which has at least one inlet for pressurized hydraulic fluid, at least one servo connector for a connecting line to the servo adjusting unit, and at least one outlet to a hydraulic fluid collecting region. A control piston is arranged in the control cylinder, which control piston can be displaced by means of at least one control piston actuator and has control edges. In interaction with control edges which are configured in the control cylinder, the inlet or the outlet can be alternately connected hydraulically to the connecting line, whereby the pressure which prevails in the connecting line can be returned hydraulically via a control line to at least one end side of the control piston.
US09932953B2
A heating device for a drive unit in a motor vehicle includes at least one heating element and at least one sensor by means of which a predetermined behavior of the vehicle user preceding the start of the drive unit can be detected. The sensor interacts with the heating element in such a manner that it is switched on when the sensor detects the predetermined behavior. The predetermined behavior may be one or more of the following: inserting an ignition key in an ignition lock of the motor vehicle; actuating a shifting, clutch or braking device of the motor vehicle; or a behavior through which an anti-theft device of the motor vehicle can be triggered.
US09932947B2
An electromagnetic actuation system includes an electrical coil, a magnetic core, an armature, a controllable bi-directional drive circuit for selectively driving current through the coil in either of two directions, and a control module providing an actuator command to the drive circuit. Current is driven though the electrical coil in a first direction when an actuation is desired. When the actuation is not desired current is driven through the electrical coil including in a second direction sufficient to reduce residual flux within the actuator below a level passively attained within the actuator at zero coil current.
US09932940B2
A fuel cooled cooling air heat exchanger includes a fuel injector and an airflow body. The fuel injector has a fuel flow passage formed therein that includes a fuel inlet port and a fuel outlet port. The airflow body is coupled to and surrounds at least a portion of the fuel injector. The airflow body has an inner surface that is spaced apart from the fuel injector to define an airflow passage between the airflow body and the fuel injector, and the airflow passage includes an air inlet port and an air outlet port.
US09932939B2
A dedicated exhaust gas recirculation (“D-EGR”) system of an internal combustion engine can include an exhaust recirculation passage, and a rotary valve. The recirculation passage can be coupled for fluid communication with an outlet of a D-EGR combustion chamber. The rotary valve can have a housing and a rotor. The housing can have a valve inlet coupled to the recirculation passage to receive exhaust gases from the recirculation passage, and a valve outlet coupled to an intake passage of the ICE to deliver exhaust gases from the rotary valve to the intake passage. The rotor can be disposed within the housing and rotatable relative to the housing. The rotor and housing can define a plurality of valve chambers.
US09932929B2
A piston for a diesel engine is prepared as a piston for a direct injection engine, a cavity face of the piston is grinded, and a squish face thereof is masked. Next, a high-purity aluminum coating is formed on the cavity face, and the masking of the squish face is removed and the entire area of the piston top face is subjected to an anodizing treatment. Thereafter, the cavity face is masked, and the squish face is subjected to a sealing treatment.
US09932926B2
Disclosed is an injector controlling method using an opening duration. The injector controlling method using an opening duration converts a target fuel quantity into an opening duration and sets relationship between the opening duration and an injector actuation signal in order to control the fuel quantity of injectors more accurately.
US09932923B2
An internal combustion engine to which the apparatus is applied is a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine that includes a passage injection valve and a cylinder injection valve and that can use gasoline and alcohol as fuel. The apparatus performs abnormality determination for a determination object device, based on a detection signal of an oxygen sensor provided in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine. The concentration sensor detects alcohol concentration ALp of the fuel in a first fuel passage through which the fuel is fed to the passage injection valve, and alcohol concentration ALd of the fuel in a second fuel passage through which the fuel is fed to the cylinder injection valve. When a difference ΔAL between the alcohol concentrations ALp, ALd is a determination value or greater (S13: YES), the execution of the abnormality determination is prohibited (S12).
US09932922B2
Methods and systems are provided for detecting cylinder air-fuel imbalance. In one example, a method may include adjusting engine operation based on an indication of cylinder air-fuel imbalance. The imbalance may be detected based on output from a second exhaust gas sensor and a plurality of individual cylinder weighting factors, the second sensor located in an exhaust system downstream of a first sensor located in the exhaust system.
US09932918B2
An engine includes an exhaust gas recirculation system with a high pressure exhaust gas recirculation loop and a low pressure exhaust gas recirculation loop, and an air charging system. A method of controlling the air charging system includes monitoring an actual exhaust gas recirculation rate, operating conditions of a compressor and turbine in the air charging system. A compressor flow is determined based on a target exhaust gas recirculation rate, a target intake manifold pressure and the actual exhaust gas recirculation rate. A power requested by the compressor is determined based on the compressor flow, the target intake manifold pressure, and the monitored operating conditions of the compressor. A power to be generated by the turbine is determined based upon the power requested by the compressor. A turbine flow is determined based upon the power to be generated by the turbine and the monitored operating conditions of the turbine. A system control command is determined based on the turbine flow and the monitored operating conditions of the turbine. The air charging system is controlled based on the system control command.
US09932913B2
A method for analyzing a driving pattern of a vehicle includes setting a driving pattern measurement condition, measuring a driving pattern, deducing an engine operating region for the measured driving pattern from an engine control map, calculating each weighting determined according to a distance from the measured driving pattern to each vertex of the engine operating region, accumulating each calculated weighting for each coordinate of the engine operating region, determining whether a current measurement condition departs from the set measurement condition, and calculating a weighting factor for each coordinate under the set measurement condition when the current measurement condition departs from the set measurement condition, wherein, in the step of deducing an engine operating region, the engine operating region refers to a virtual block defined by four vertex coordinates of a pixel, in which the measured driving pattern is present, in the engine control map.
US09932898B2
A pipe arrangement for a turbomachine is provided having a fluid pipe for guiding fluids and a coupling element for coupling the fluid pipe to a temperature affected component. The coupling element is configured to provide a first connection between the coupling element and the component by a first end of the coupling element. The coupling element provides also a second connection between the coupling element and a first surface section of the fluid pipe by a second end of the coupling element. Furthermore, the coupling element has a sleeve portion surrounding a second surface section of the fluid pipe and being spaced apart to the second surface section of the fluid pipe. A fluid inlet or outlet arrangement is also provided having such a pipe arrangement and also a gas turbine engine having such a pipe arrangement.
US09932894B2
Variable compression ratio engines and methods for homogeneous charge, compression ignition operation. The engines effectively premix the fuel and air well before compression ignition. Various embodiments are disclosed including embodiments that include two stages of compression to obtain compression ratios well above the mechanical compression ratio of the engine cylinders for compression ignition of difficult to ignite fuels, and a controllable combustion chamber volume for limiting the maximum temperature during combustion. Energy storage with energy management are also disclosed.
US09932878B2
Methods and systems are provided for sensing particulate matter in an exhaust system of a vehicle. An example system comprises a particulate matter sensor inside a tube configured to receive a portion of exhaust gas in an exhaust passage.
US09932873B2
An exhaust gas purifying device includes a honeycomb catalyst body, a plugged honeycomb structure and a can member to receive therein the honeycomb catalyst body and the plugged honeycomb structure, and the plugged honeycomb structure disposed at a position on a downstream side of the honeycomb catalyst body is designed so that a pressure loss in an end face central region of at least one of a second inflow side end face and a second outflow side end face of a second honeycomb substrate is larger than a pressure loss of an end face circumferential region positioned around the end face central region.
US09932865B2
A valve timing control device for an internal combustion engine includes: a driving rotation member; a driven rotation member fixed to a cam shaft; an electric motor; a speed reduction mechanism; a power feeding brush; and a power feeding plate which is provided to the driving rotation member, and which includes a slip ring on which the power feeding brush is abutted, the power feeding plate including a rigidity plate portion whose outer circumference portion is fixed to the driving rotation member, and a resin portion formed by molding an outer surface of the rigidity plate portion, and the rigidity plate portion including a holding hole which holds the power feeding brush through the resin portion, and being integrally formed with a reinforcement portion which is formed at a portion except for the holding hole, and which extends in a radially inward direction.
US09932862B2
A waste heat recovery apparatus, for use with an internal combustion engine, includes a working fluid circuit to circulate working fluid, a boiler connected on the working fluid circuit and adapted to recover waste heat from a source to heat working fluid, an expander connected on the working fluid circuit to receive working fluid from the boiler, and, a heating jacket associated with the expander. The working fluid circuit downstream of the boiler includes a first branch connecting to an inlet of the expander and a second branch connecting to the heating jacket. A valve is connected on the working fluid circuit to selectively control working fluid flow to one of the first branch for expansion and recovering work or to the second branch to heat the expander responsive to a temperature of the working fluid.
US09932856B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide cooling systems for turbomachinery and methods of installation. In an embodiment, an apparatus of the present disclosure can include a ventilation conduit for routing a cooling air from a compressor of a power generation system to a turbine component of the power generation system; and a nozzle in fluid communication with the ventilation conduit, wherein the nozzle delivers water from a water supply into the ventilation conduit.
US09932853B2
Assemblies and methods for monitoring turbine component deformation are provided. An assembly includes a first strain sensor configurable on the turbine component, the first strain sensor including at least two reference points and having a first dimension. The assembly further includes a second strain sensor configurable on the turbine component, the second strain sensor including at least two reference points and having a first dimension which corresponds to the first dimension of the first strain sensor. An initial value of the first dimension of the second strain sensor is different from an initial value of the first dimension of the first strain sensor. In accordance with another embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for monitoring turbine component deformation is provided.
US09932852B2
A sensor assembly is described herein. The sensor assembly includes a housing that includes an inner surface that defines a cavity within the housing, and a proximity sensor positioned within the cavity. The proximity sensor includes a first connector, a second connector, and a substantially planar sensing coil that extends between the first connector and the second connector. The sensing coil extends outwardly from the first connector such that the second connector is radially outwardly from the first connector.
US09932849B2
A fluid seal structure of a heat engine including a steam turbine includes an inner case which houses a turbine rotor rotatably inside, an outer case which houses the inner case and forms a space through which a fluid can flow between the outer case and an exterior surface of the inner case, a protruding portion protruding into the space from one of the exterior surface of the inner case or an interior surface of the outer case, and a partitioning plate extending into the space from the other one of the exterior surface or the interior surface and being formed annularly in a circumferential direction of the surface. The partitioning plate partitions the space into first and second space sections, and is flexurally deformable in the axial direction of the turbine rotor by an internal fluid pressure difference between the first and second space sections.
US09932848B2
A power turbine unit includes a turbine housing, an exhaust duct, a turbine wheel with blades positioned in the exhaust duct, a shaft rigidly connected to the turbine wheel and rotatably supported in the housing, and an oil sealing system. The oil sealing system includes a sealing arrangement positioned in the vicinity of the turbine wheel for preventing oil from escaping from the turbine housing along the shaft to the exhaust duct. The oil sealing system further includes a buffer gas duct that is arranged to supply exhaust gas from the exhaust duct to the sealing arrangement for pressurizing the sealing arrangement.
US09932840B2
A rotor for a gas turbine engine includes a central wheel and a plurality of blades that extend outwardly from the central wheel. The blades are non-uniform to reduce flutter and forced response effects induced during operation of a gas turbine engine including the rotor.
US09932839B2
A blade includes a blade body extending from a blade root to an opposed blade tip surface along a longitudinal axis. The blade body defines a pressure side and a suction side. The blade body includes a cutting edge defined where the tip surface of the blade body meets the pressure side of the blade body. The cutting edge is configured to abrade a seal section of an engine case. A method for manufacturing a blade includes forming an airfoil with a root and an opposed tip surface along a longitudinal axis, wherein the airfoil defines a pressure side and a suction side. The method also includes forming a cutting edge where the tip surface of the airfoil meets the pressure side of the airfoil.
US09932830B2
Efficient energy storage is provided by using a working fluid flowing in a closed cycle including a ganged compressor and turbine, and capable of efficient heat exchange with heat storage fluids on a hot side of the system and on a cold side of the system. This system can operate as a heat engine by transferring heat from the hot side to the cold side to mechanically drive the turbine. The system can also operate as a refrigerator by mechanically driving the compressor to transfer heat from the cold side to the hot side. Heat exchange between the working fluid of the system and the heat storage fluids occurs in counter-flow heat exchangers. In a preferred approach, molten salt is the hot side heat storage fluid and water is the cold side heat storage fluid.
US09932823B2
A selective locking apparatus for an indicating tool, the selective locking apparatus includes a mandrel having a rotational collet finger receiving area including a plurality of unlocked-position tracks alternatingly arranged with a plurality of locked-position detents. A rotational collet rotatably supported on the mandrel, the rotational collet including a j-track on an outer periphery of the rotational collet, the rotational collet further including a plurality of rotational collet fingers having heads engageable within the rotational collet finger receiving area of the mandrel. An indicating collet supported on the mandrel, the indicating collet including a plurality of indicating collet fingers; and, at least one pin fixedly mounted on the indicating collet for receipt within the j-track of the rotational collet; wherein longitudinal movement of the mandrel with respect to the indicating collet cycles the rotational collet via j-track interaction and selectively places the heads of the rotational collet fingers into either the plurality of unlocked-position tracks or the plurality of locked-position detents. A method of selectively locking an indicating tool.
US09932821B2
A bend angle sensing assembly for determining a downhole bend angle of a downhole adjustable bent housing. The bend angle sensing assembly includes a flow diverter having a plurality of diverter apertures for receiving drilling fluid, the flow diverter orientable to a plurality of diverter configurations in dependence on the bend angle of the associated downhole adjustable bent housing. Each of the plurality of diverter configurations have one or more of the plurality of diverter apertures opening or closing to form a corresponding flow path configuration, each flow path configuration having a different flow area whereby the pressure of the drilling fluid changes for each flow path configuration. Additionally, a pressure sensor is communicatively coupled to the drilling fluid.
US09932820B2
A method to perform a drilling operation. The method includes calibrating an axial survey sensor of a bottom hole assembly (BHA) by obtaining, from the axial survey sensor, a data log as a first function of azimuthal angle within a borehole, generating, by a computer processor of the BHA and using a pre-determined algorithm, a fitted curve as a second function of the azimuthal angle, wherein the fitted curve is generated based on the data log to represent a calibration error of the axial survey sensor, and extracting, by the computer processor of the BHA, a calibration parameter from the fitted curve. Accordingly, the drilling operation is performed using at least the axial survey sensor based on the calibration parameter.
US09932808B2
A process of producing liquid oil from shale gas condensate reservoirs and, more particularly, to increase liquid oil production by huff-n-puff in shale gas condensate reservoirs. The process includes performing a huff-n-puff gas injection mode and flowing the bottom-hole pressure lower than the dew point pressure.
US09932800B2
A fracturing system is provided. In one embodiment, the fracturing system includes a fracturing manifold for routing fracturing fluid to multiple wells. The fracturing manifold can be coupled via fluid conduits to fracturing trees installed at the wells. In some cases, each fracturing tree that is coupled to the fracturing manifold is coupled by at least one rigid fluid conduit. The fracturing manifold can include a trunk line that provides fracturing fluid to multiple outlet branches, which can include valves for controlling flow of fracturing fluid to wells downstream of the valves. Additional systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.
US09932799B2
A system using a semi-tractor and the engine of the semi-tractor to heat a fluid from a cryogenic temperature to approximately room temperature while pressurizing the fluid is disclosed. The system is mounted on the frame of the semi-tractor and preserves the ability of the semi-tractor to haul a standard semi-trailer tanker. The system uses a semi-tractor having an internal combustion engine cooled by a liquid coolant, a cab with a sleeper section. The sleeper section is used as a control cabin for allowing an operator to monitor the operation of the system in the field. The frame includes a fifth wheel type coupler that is mounted forward of the rearmost wheel axle of the semi-tractor.
US09932787B2
Stable back pressure control devices are used to control fluid pressure in a wellbore to provide constant downhole pressure. Back pressure may be estimated from a correlation between the speed of a mud pump and the pressure exerted from the pump. Drilling plans disclosed herein provide for the continued operation of one or more back pressure control devices for providing constant bottomhole pressure when casing connections are being made.
US09932785B2
Methods and apparatus for running a tubular into a wellbore. The method includes attaching a first member of a lifting coupling to a first tubular, and attaching a second member of the lifting coupling to a second tubular. The second tubular extends downward through an opening of a rotary station. The method also includes connecting together the first and second members of the lifting coupling, such that a weight of the second tubular is transmitted via the lifting coupling to the first tubular. The method further includes lowering the lifting coupling, the second tubular, and at least a portion of the first tubular through the opening, and disconnecting the second member from the first member. The method additionally includes moving the second member of the lifting coupling and the second tubular laterally, away from the opening.
US09932778B2
A top sub, for connection to a tubing string of a production well, has a first engagement structure, and a mandrel has a second engagement structure. A coupling engages the first and second engagement structures. A housing covers an internal space of the tubing swivel, in which the coupling is located. The coupling includes a first coupling structure having a shape complementary to a shape of the first engagement structure and a second coupling structure having a shape complementary to a shape of the second engagement structure. One of (i) the first engagement structure and the first coupling structure and (ii) the second engagement structure and the second coupling structure has a clutch mechanism to enable the top sub to be rotated in a first direction relative to the mandrel and to rotate the mandrel with rotation of the top sub in a second direction opposite the first direction.
US09932777B2
An inground isolator and associated method can provide an electrically isolated break in a drill string using electrical insulating members/isolators that are supported by a housing. During drill string operations, the isolators are subject only compressive forces responsive to both extension (pushing) and retraction (pulling) by the drill string. The isolators can be formed from an electrically insulating material such as a ceramic material. An interchangeable inground tool system is described which integrally serves to provide an electrically isolating gap in the drill string.
US09932776B2
A gap sub comprises a female member comprising a first and second plurality of apertures, and a male member comprising a first and second plurality of cavities. A plurality of non-conductive pins may be inserted through the second plurality of apertures and the second plurality of cavities, thereby locking the relative positions of the female and male members. A plurality of conductive pins may be inserted through the first plurality of apertures and the first plurality of cavities such that there are no electrical connections between the conductive pins and the male member. A dielectric material may be inserted between the male member and the conductive pins.
US09932775B2
A threaded drill string component having a hollow elongate body with a box end portion, an opposing pin end portion and a cylindrical mid-body portion that extends longitudinally between the respective box and pin end portions and has a variable wall diameter. The mid-body inner wall of the mid-body portion has at least one projecting portion or upset that is spaced from both the box and pin end portions and extends inwardly toward a central longitudinal axis of the hollow body and a plurality of troughs defined in the mid-body inner wall of the mid-body portion.
US09932772B2
A drill string for drilling a subterranean wellbore includes a shaft connectable to a first drill string portion and a housing connectable to a second drill string portion. A torque relief section is disposed between the shaft and housing. The torque relief section includes a slip section operable to slip and release torque buildup when torque applied between the shaft and housing exceeds a threshold torque. The threshold torque of the torque relief section is selected to be within the range of about 110% and 150% of the operating torque and below the peak operating torque for the drill string.
US09932769B2
A hidden insect screen system for tilt-to-clean, double hung windows whereby raising the bottom sash (104) causes resultant opening to fill with insect screen (115a) dispensed from an ordinary self-storing roller mechanism (114) mounted inside bottom rail (109) of said sash and whereby lowering the upper sash (105) causes resultant opening to fill with insect screen (115b) dispensed from an ordinary self-storing roller mechanism (122) mounted inside window head frame (103), all furnished such that vertical edges of the screens are protected from insect passage by contacting weatherstrip-like edge seals (127), and arranged such that insect protection is maintained with minimal interruption when each sash is tilted and its glazing is cleaned, the lower end of the upper screen being attached so as to be quickly repositioned from top to bottom of said upper sash.
US09932768B2
A window structure is configured to form a principal chamber enclosing a first window pane installed in an exterior wall of a building. The window structure includes a first surface configured to absorb solar energy and a main frame including a second window pane. An axial hinge is configured to allow to the main frame to tilt between a first position and a second position. When the main frame is tilted in the first position, the first surface is positioned in a first orientation that allows the first surface to directly receive sunlight through the second window pane. When the main frame is tilted in the second position, the first surface is positioned in a second orientation in which the first surface is prevented from directly receiving sunlight through the second window pane. The window structure may be used for ventilating the structure and shading during the warm weather.
US09932766B2
An approach for creation of an electrical vault cover that is able to generate power that is stored in a battery for use by a heater to maintain the temperature above a minimum in a utility vault.
US09932764B2
The invention is a bag, suitcase, wallet, money belt, purse or briefcase; a flexible vault of the present invention includes an outer pouch having a multilayer construction. The multilayer construction includes at least an inner layer, an outer layer, a first middle layer, and a second middle layer. In addition to the outer pouch, the flexible vault can also include an inner pouch having an extendable roll up portion which extends through an opening in the outer pouch when the outer pouch and the inner pouch are in an open position. The front panel, back panel, and fold over panel of the outer pouch each include an aperture. When the outer pouch is in a closed position the apertures align, enabling a locking mechanism to be threaded through all the apertures which secures the pouch in the closed position.
US09932761B2
A vehicular door device in which an inner handle is connected to a latch mechanism with a wire so as to be capable of being linked, and in which a latch release restriction device that disables and restricts a link between the inner handle and the latch is provided in an operation transmission path ranging from the inner handle to the latch with the wire in between. A release motor that actuates the latch in an engagement releasing direction is provided, the release motor being linked to the latch without having the wire between itself and the latch. When a switch operation of the door opening switch is performed, restriction to the link performed by the latch release restriction device is cancelled and the release motor is actuated in the engagement releasing direction without waiting for the cancellation of the restriction to be completed.
US09932754B2
A system and method for tensioning cables for use in railings includes anchor bodies positioned in posts to receive terminal ends of cables and tensioner members that apply force to the terminal ends of the cables.
US09932753B1
A fence panel is provided having a plurality of sub-panel assemblies positioned in a linear arrangement and coupled together via panel rails extending between opposing lateral ends of the fence panel. Each sub-panel assembly may include a plurality of fence boards coupled together by sub-panel rails that extend between opposing lateral ends of the sub-panel assembly. The panel rails may insertably receive a respective linear arrangement of the sub-panel rails. In addition, a respective sub-panel assembly spacer may be positioned between adjacent ones of the sub-panel assemblies to separate the sub-panel assemblies from each other. The fence panel may be provided in a kit consisting of a single packaged arrangement of fence panel components comprising or consisting of the sub-panel assemblies, sub-panel assembly spacers and the panel rails.
US09932748B2
The present invention relates to a movable and height-extensible automated bicycle storage facility of which the height is simply increased by separately manufacturing a section exceeding a height limit under the Road Traffic Act, transporting and assembling the section at a desired place to use the automated bicycle storage facility manufactured in a container shape at the place. The present invention is characterized by ensuring a sufficient height by coupling a height extension cover to the top of the bicycle deck to prevent a bicycle from hitting against the top of the bicycle deck when the bicycle is loaded at an angle in the bicycle deck in the front-rear direction and then lifted and loaded onto the second floor, and by temporarily reducing the height by separating the height extension cover in order not to violate the Road Traffic Act when moving the bicycle deck to another place.
US09932743B2
A dampening mechanism in combination with a compound applicator. The combination includes a compound applicator which further includes an incrementally iterative advancement mechanism for urging a plunger along a tube reservoir in preselected incremental strokes. The plunger urges compound along the tube reservoir and out through an applicator head. The compound applicator includes a device for dampening pressure spikes created in the tube reservoir during an incremental stroke of the plunger.
US09932742B1
The present invention is directed generally to building tools that are high quality, durable, and in some case lightweight. For example, various tools may made by forming multiple sections into a single integrated piece by, for example, casting the parts using a molding process so as to reduce manufacturing cost and increase the structural durability of the tool. The tools may be made in such a way as to allow for easier assembly, operation, and cleaning. Further, various tools may be made, at least in part, using a material including magnesium to reduce the weight of the tool. Still further, various tools may be made using one or more protective coatings for protecting various metals against corrosion, for example, using a high impact coating such as paint covered with a clear coat of lacquer.
US09932734B1
Deck components comprising a post sleeve and flanges extending away from side walls of the post sleeve are described. The post sleeve has a rectangular cross section. Interior flanges can comprise attachment holes for affixing the interior flanges to box-frame-segments having square-cut edges. Box-frame-segments and box-frame-segment attachments with square-cut edges can abut the exterior surface of a post sleeve side wall. Use of the post sleeve can reduce or eliminate the need to produce beveled joints box-frame-segments and box-frame-segment attachments.
US09932732B1
A grease trap for separating waste from waste water includes a tank, an inlet in the tank for receiving incoming waste water, a pump discharge for discharge of grease from the tank and a cartridge fitting within the tank. The cartridge includes a pump that is housed in a lower portion of the tank for removing grease from the tank, a plumbing disconnect that provides a communication between the cartridge and the pump discharge when the plumbing disconnect is engaged and optionally terminates the communication if the plumbing disconnect is disengaged and a remote pumper interface distally connected to the pump discharge and including a releasable connection for a pumping truck hose. Methods for separating waste from waste water are also shown and described.
US09932722B2
A shovel may be provided with a main pump, hydraulic actuators including a swing hydraulic motor, a control valve that controls a flow of a working oil between the main pump and the hydraulic actuators, and two accumulators connected between the swing hydraulic motor and the control valve. The two accumulators can respectively release the working oil at an upstream of the main pump.
US09932719B2
The invention provides a control system for a construction machine comprises a construction machine and a measuring instrument, wherein the construction machine comprises at least two targets, a tilt detecting component, a driving unit, a machine control unit and a machine communication unit, wherein the measuring instrument comprises a distance measuring unit, an optical axis deflecting unit for deflecting the optical axes, a projecting direction detecting unit for detecting a deflection angle and a deflecting direction and a measurement control unit for determining a measuring point and transmitting a measurement result, wherein the measurement control unit allows the distance measuring unit to alternately measure the targets and calculates a direction and front-back and left-right tilts of the construction machine based on three-dimensional positions of the targets and a detection result of the tilt detecting component, and the machine control unit controls the driving unit based on a calculation result.
US09932714B2
A paving machine for wide-width paving includes a conveyor system, an auger system disposed adjacent to the conveyor system, a screed adjacent to the auger system, and sensing circuitry configured to sense paving material height at one or more of an entrance to the conveyor system and a front side of the auger system to sense or detect underflow or overflow conditions of the paving material. The sensed heights are communicated to control circuitry of the paving machine, through signals from the sensing circuitry, and control circuitry controls rate of movement of one or more of the conveyor system and the auger system.
US09932703B2
A carbon fiber sizing agent imparts good bonding performance to carbon fiber, is used to reinforce a thermoplastic matrix resin, and provides a carbon fiber strand applied with the sizing agent and a fiber-reinforced composite reinforced with the carbon fiber strand. The sizing agent for carbon fiber is used to reinforce thermoplastic matrix resin. The sizing agent essentially contains a polymer component having a glass transition temperature of at least 20 deg.C. and exhibits no endothermic peaks indicating an endothermic heat of fusion due to crystalline melting of at least 3 J/g in a determination with a DSC. The weight ratio of the polymer component is 10 to 100 wt % of the nonvolatile components of the sizing agent. The polymer component is at least one component selected from the group consisting of an aromatic polyester resin, aromatic polyester-polyurethane resin and amine-modified aromatic epoxy resin.
US09932700B2
The invention provides an apparatus and method for use in the treatment of substrates, the apparatus comprising housing means (1) having a first upper chamber having mounted therein a rotatably mounted cylindrical cage (2), a second lower chamber located beneath said cylindrical cage (2), at least one recirculation means, access means, pumping means, and a multiplicity of delivery means, whereby both the apparatus and the method find particular application in the cleaning of soiled textile fabrics.
US09932698B2
A device that attaches to a standard fabric compactor and allows narrow collar material to be processed through the standard fabric compactor. The device includes a pair of air openers. Each air opener includes an air inlet assembly and an air outlet assembly. The air inlet assembly of each air opener pulls air therein to form pulled air and pressurizes the pulled air to form pressurized air. The air outlet assembly of each air opener fluidly communicates with the air inlet assembly of an associated air opener, receives the narrow collar material therethrough, receives the pressurized air from the air inlet assembly of the associated air opener, and directs the pressurized air onto the narrow collar material, simultaneously from above and below, and in doing so, suspends the narrow collar material allowing the narrow collar material to be processed through the standard fabric compactor.
US09932685B2
A method of synthesizing metal nanoparticles is provided. The method includes submerging an electrically conductive substrate in a polysaccharide solution containing a predetermined concentration of a metal salt; applying an electric potential between the electrically conductive substrate and the polysaccharide solution for a predetermined period of time to form a polysaccharide layer containing metal nanoparticles on the electrically conductive substrate; re-dissolving the polysaccharide layer in a solvent to form a solution including the polysaccharide and the metal nanoparticles; and separating the metal nanoparticles from the polysaccharide.
US09932683B2
The invention relates to a method for electrowinning a metal from an electrolyte in an electrowinning cell that comprises an electrolysis tank, one or more anodes, and one or more cathodes, which anodes and cathodes are housed in the electrolysis tank. The method comprises supplying sulfur dioxide to the anode to depolarize the anode process and to reduce the energy consumption of the electrowinning cell.
US09932674B2
A film deposition apparatus includes a vacuum chamber into which first and second gases are sequentially supplied for a plural times, a rotation table including a first surface having a receiving area and rotating the receiving area inside the vacuum chamber, a first part supplying the first gas to a first region, a second part supplying the second gas to a second region separated from the first region in a peripheral direction of the rotation table via a separation region, a plasma gas part supplying a plasma generation gas into a plasma region inside the vacuum chamber, an antenna facing the first surface of the rotation table and generating plasma from the plasma generation gas inside a plasma space by inductive coupling, and a faraday shield being grounded and provided between the antenna and the plasma space and including slits aligned in a direction perpendicularly intersecting the antenna.
US09932671B2
Precursor and process design for photo-assisted metal atomic layer deposition (ALD) and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is described. In an example, a method of fabricating a thin metal film involves introducing precursor molecules proximate to a surface on or above a substrate, each of the precursor molecules having one or more metal centers surrounded by ligands. The method also involves depositing a metal layer on the surface by dissociating the ligands from the precursor molecules using a photo-assisted process.
US09932668B2
A circular PVD chamber has a plurality of sputtering targets mounted on a top wall of the chamber. A pallet in the chamber is coupled to a motor for rotating the pallet about its center axis. The pallet has a diameter less than the diameter of the circular chamber. The pallet is also shiftable in an XY direction to move the center of the pallet beneath any of the targets so all areas of a workpiece supported by the pallet can be positioned directly below any one of the targets. A scanning magnet is in back of each target and is moved, via a programmed controller, to only be above portions of the workpiece so that no sputtered material is wasted. For depositing a material onto small workpieces, a cooling backside gas volume is created between the pallet and the underside of sticky tape supporting the workpieces.
US09932663B2
A method to transfer a layer of harder thin film substrate onto a softer, flexible substrate. In particular, the present invention provides a method to deposit a layer of sapphire thin film on to a softer and flexible substrate e.g. quartz, fused silica, silicon, glass, toughened glass, PET, polymers, plastics, paper and fabrics. This combination provides the hardness of sapphire thin film to softer flexible substrates.
US09932646B2
The present invention relates generally to viral variants exhibiting reduced sensitivity to particular agents and/or reduced interactivity with immunological reagents. More particularly, the present invention is directed to hepatitis B virus (HBV) variants exhibiting complete or partial resistance to nucleoside or nucleotide analogs and/or reduced interactivity with antibodies to viral surface components including reduced sensitivity to these antibodies. Vaccines and diagnostic assays are also contemplated herein.
US09932640B1
The present invention relates generally to the field of human genetics. More specifically, this invention relates to the clinical application of a bioinformatics methodology described in patent application Ser. No. 14/154,303 for the early detection of cancer. Said clinical application relates to obtaining the genome sequence from an individual's healthy tissue and comparing it to the DNA sequence obtained from that same individual's body tissues, wastes and/or fluids. Said method inspects the DNA sequence obtained from body tissues, wastes and/or fluids for the presence of DNA damage at bioinformatically predicted genetically unstable loci within cancer-linked regions of the patients healthy DNA. The identification of DNA damage within a predicted locus is considered to be evidence of cancer. Said method then uses the unique signature of any damaged DNA sequence which has occurred at predicted unstable cancer-linked loci to construct patient-specific cancer biomarker(s). These biomarkers can be used for monitoring the progression of cancer and for treatment of the cancer in a patient.
US09932630B2
Methods, systems, and devices for decontaminating materials containing biological or biologically derived materials, such as microorganisms or DNA products, are provided. The methods, systems, and devices may be used for decontaminating or sterilizing materials, such as surfaces, including, but not limited to reducing the number of viable microorganisms on surfaces. The methods, systems, and devices may further be used for rendering DNA non-amplifiable in nucleic acid amplification reactions that synthesize DNA amplification products.
US09932623B2
Provided herein is technology relating to the manipulation and detection of nucleic acids, including but not limited to compositions, systems, methods, and kits related to nucleotides comprising 3′-O-propargyl deoxynucleotides wherein the 3′-O-propargyl deoxynucleotides are linked to a nucleic acid by a polymerase.
US09932614B2
A method for producing an L-amino acid of glutamate family such as L-glutamic acid is provided. An L-amino acid of glutamate family is produced by culturing a coryneform bacterium having an ability for producing an L-amino acid of glutamate family, which has been modified so that the activity of an α-ketoglutaric acid (α-KG) uptake carrier is increased, in a medium, and collecting the L-amino acid of glutamate family from the medium.
US09932607B2
Methods for inserting a polynucleotide sequence into the genome of a human cell are provided. The present methods result in insertion of a polynucleotide sequence of interest into the H11 locus in the genome of a human cell. Also provided are nucleic acids that include sequences for integrating a polynucleotide sequence of interest into the H11 locus in the genome of a human cell. A transgenic human cell including site specific recombination sites at the H11 locus is also disclosed.
US09932604B1
An inbred corn line, designated XHE21, the plants and seeds of the inbred corn line XHE21, methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred corn line XHE21 with itself or with another corn plant, and hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line XHE21 with another corn line or plant and to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic corn plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line XHE21, to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line XHE21 and to the inbred corn lines derived by the use of those methods.
US09932595B2
Provided herein are methods and compositions for the treatment of metabolic disorders. Also provided herein are methods and compositions for the reduction of blood glucose level, the reduction of gluceoneogenesis, the improvement of insulin resistance and the reduction of plasma cholesterol level. In certain embodiments, the methods comprise inhibiting the activity of miR-103. In certain embodiments, the methods comprise inhibiting the activity of miR-107. In certain embodiments, the activity of both miR-103 and miR-107 is inhibited. In certain embodiments, such methods comprise administering a compound comprising an oligonucleotide targeted to a microRNA.
US09932593B2
The invention relates to double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) compositions targeting the CD274/PD-L1 gene, and methods of using such dsRNA compositions to inhibit expression of CD274/PD-L1.
US09932588B2
Disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions and methods for inhibiting oxidative stress in a subject having atrial or ventricular arrhythmias, ventricular failure or heart failure. The methods include administering an effective amount of a NOX2 inhibitor agent to the subject, wherein said administering is under conditions such that a level of oxidative stress in myocardial tissue is reduced or eliminated. The pharmaceutical compositions include a NOX2 inhibitor agent.
US09932581B2
Provided herein are oligomeric compounds with conjugate groups targeting apoplipoprotein C-III (ApoCIII). In certain embodiments, the ApoCIII targeting oligomeric compounds are conjugated to N-Acetylgalactosamine Also disclosed herein are conjugated oligomeric compounds targeting ApoCIII for use in decreasing ApoCIII to treat, prevent, or ameliorate diseases, disorders or conditions related to ApoCIII. Certain diseases, disorders or conditions related to ApoCIII include inflammatory, cardiovascular and/or metabolic diseases, disorders or conditions. The conjugated oligomeric compounds disclosed herein can be used to treat such diseases, disorders or conditions in an individual in need thereof.
US09932580B2
Provided herein are oligomeric compounds with conjugate groups. In certain embodiments, the oligomeric compounds are conjugated to N-Acetylgalactosamine.
US09932576B2
The invention provides a method for genetic analysis in individuals that reveals both the genetic sequences and chromosomal copy number of targeted and specific genomic loci in a single assay. The present invention further provide methods for the sensitive and specific detection of target gene sequences and gene expression profiles.
US09932574B2
A device, method and system is provided for binding particles for the separation and/or isolation of biological materials. In particular, a container is provided including a suspension of binding particles for the isolation of biological material, inner walls forming an elongate groove at the bottom of said container, and a cover having openings and/or being penetrable for a linear arrangement of multiple pipets or pipet tips, said openings being located above and parallel to said elongate groove.
US09932570B2
Disclosed herein is a peptide substrate that is cleaved specifically by anthrax lethal factor (LF), and assays for detecting the presence of anthrax lethal factor in a sample using the peptide substrate. In some cases, the sample may be obtained from an individual at an early stage of an anthrax infection. Kits that include the peptide substrate and that find use in carrying out the assays are also disclosed.
US09932564B2
Certain embodiments are directed to recombinant vesiculovirus encoding a heterologous polynucleotide and methods of using the same.
US09932560B2
Disclosed herein is the finding that Zscan4 is an early embryonic factor that facilitates cellular reprogramming. In particular, Zscan4 can replace the oncogenic reprogramming factor c-Myc to produce induced pluripotent stem cells when co-expressed with Klf4, Oct4 and Sox2. In addition, several Zscan4-dependent genes were identified that promote iPSC formation when co-expressed with known reprogramming factors. Thus, the present disclosure provides an ex vivo method of producing an iPS cell by reprogramming of a somatic cell. The method includes contacting the somatic cell with a Zscan4, or a Zscan4-dependent gene, and at least one reprogramming factor. Also provided are iPS cells produced by the disclosed method and non-human animals generated from such iPS cells.
US09932529B2
The invention discloses a rubber process oil and a process for manufacturing rubber process oils which are non-carcinogenic in nature. The process comprises of selectively producing Hildebrand solubility components enriched vacuum residue by selective distillation of reduced crude oil (RCO) to obtain minimum of 10 vol % boiling components in the range 490° C. to 50° C., which leads to higher solubility of rubber process oil with an aniline point of less than 70° C. and with extremely low concentration of selective polycyclic aromatics which makes the 15 product non-carcinogenic. The process comprises of selectively enriching higher Hildebrand solubility components in vacuum residue by vacuum distillation of reduced crude oil (RCO), then subjecting the enriched vacuum residue to solvent deasphalting process and subjecting the deasphalted oil to aromatic extraction process and then blending the enriched aromatic extract with Heavy Alkyl 20 Benzene (HAB) or Solvent processed base oil or hydroprocessed base oil or mixture thereof. The rubber process oils manufactured by the invented process have a polycyclic aromatics (PCA) content of less than 10 ppm, specifically benzo(a)pyrene content of less than 1 ppm. They have aniline point less than 70° C. but have high kinematic viscosity of 25 to 75 cSt at 100° C., pour point of 27° C. or less and a flash point minimum of 250° C. or more.
US09932515B2
A fracturing fluid comprising: a base fluid, wherein the base fluid comprises water; proppant; and an additive, wherein the additive: (i) is a cross-linkable polymer, wherein the polymer is a polysaccharide comprising a backbone and pendant functional groups, wherein the polysaccharide is derivatized by substituting one or more of the pendant functional groups with furan; (ii) is a viscosifying agent; and (iii) is a curable resin for consolidating the proppant. A method of fracturing a subterranean formation comprising: introducing the fracturing fluid into the subterranean formation; and creating or enhancing one or more fractures in the subterranean formation.
US09932511B2
Compositions useful as wellbore fluids are generally disclosed. In some embodiments, the compositions include polymerizable olefinic surfactant compositions, which, under certain conditions, can polymerize via free-radical polymerization to form surfactant polymers. In some embodiments, the compositions are introduced to an oil well as part of the drilling or extraction process, e.g., to assist in flushing hydrocarbon material out of subterranean formations.
US09932504B2
Provided is an aqueous emulsion composition which has excellent chemical stability (stability with respect to impurities) and excellent mechanical stability. Disclosed is an aqueous emulsion composition which contains: (A) a polymer that contains a fluoroalkyl group; and (B) a surfactant that contains (B1) an amidoamine surfactant having an amide group and an amino group, and (B2) a nonionic surfactant. It is preferable that the surfactant does not contain a monool having an unsaturated triple bond or an alkylene oxide addition product of a polyol.
US09932502B2
A hot melt adhesive composition is provided which contains at least one silane group-containing thermoplastic poly-α-olefin which is solid at 25° C. and at least one paraffin wax. The hot melt adhesive composition has only low adhesion to uncoated aluminum tool surfaces, wherein at the same time they have high final strengths and thermal stabilities comparable to conventional adhesives, as well as good resistance to environmental influences. The hot melt adhesive is suitable as a laminating adhesive for laminating films made of thermoplastic olefins, which have sufficient stability for subsequent deep-draw lamination.
US09932499B2
The present invention relates to a polymerizable composition, comprising a polymerizable monomer of formula (I), a copolymerizable UV-initiator, at least one copolymerizable (meth)acrylic monomer: R1—(OCH2CH2)n-L-OC(O)—CR2═CH2 Formula (I) wherein R1 is hydrogen or a C1-C6 alkyl group, n is an integer from 1 to 100, L is a single bond or a divalent linking group, preferably a single bond or a C1-6 alkylene group, and R2 is hydrogen or a CH3 group; and optionally (d) at least one copolymerizable non-acrylate monomer; wherein the amount of the polymerizable monomer of formula (I) is between 2.5 and 40% by weight of the total of all polymerizable monomers (a), (b), (c) and (d). The invention also relates to a random copolymer obtained by reacting the polymerizable composition, a crosslinked product of the random copolymer and an adhesive composite material comprising the random copolymer or the crosslinked product on a substrate.
US09932497B2
A polishing liquid comprising an abrasive grain, an additive, and water, wherein the abrasive grain includes a hydroxide of a tetravalent metal element, produces absorbance of 1.00 or more and less than 1.50 for light having a wavelength of 400 nm in an aqueous dispersion having a content of the abrasive grain adjusted to 1.0 mass %, and produces a liquid phase having a content of a non-volatile component of 300 ppm or more when centrifuging an aqueous dispersion having a content of the abrasive grain adjusted to 1.0 mass % for 50 minutes at a centrifugal acceleration of 1.59×105 G.
US09932495B2
Coating compositions that provide hydrophilic and self-cleaning properties upon exposure to an electromagnetic spectrum are disclosed. Coatings can include lignin-coumarate derivatives and/or lignin-azobenzene derivatives. When exposed to the electromagnetic spectrum, these compounds isomerize to cis-configuration which are hydrophilic in nature as compared to when these compounds are in their hydrophobic trans-state.
US09932493B2
Disclosed are one-component compositions that include: (1) an isocyanate-functional urethane acrylate and (2) a polyisocyanate containing allophanate and/or uretdione groups, wherein the one-component composition has a viscosity of less than or equal to about 800 mPa·s and an isocyanate content of greater than about 5% by weight, based on the weight of the one-component composition. Also disclosed are circuit boards and electronic components that are coated with such compositions.
US09932491B2
A method for preparing an emulsion for a cationic electrodeposition coating composition at an emulsification field, wherein the method includes synthesizing a base resin for a cationic electrodeposition coating composition, removing the base resin in a liquid state from a reaction vessel and then changing the resin into a solid state, and optionally, adjusting a size of the resin into an predetermined size, and emulsifying the resin at the emulsification field by adding water and an optional solvent, a neutralizing agent, a curing agent or additives, wherein the base resin is an aminated resin and has a softening point of 20-90° C., and wherein the adjusted shortest size of the base resin is 40 cm or less. Furthermore, the present application relates to a method for transporting a resin for cationic electrodeposition coating composition.
US09932489B2
The invention relates to improved non-efflorescing cement-free and water-dispersible powder building material compositions comprising a homopolymer or copolymer as binder, useful for the preparation of wet formulations of plasters grouts, waterproofing coatings or mortars for the construction and the civil engineering industry. The binder is obtained by spray-drying or lyophilization of a dispersion containing a polymer and a protective colloid. These compositions also comprise a deprotection agent and a specific adsorbent filler. The invention also refers to the methods of preparation of these dry compositions and wet formulations, the application of these latter onto the surface of buildings or civil engineering works, the so obtained coatings as well as the so coated elements. The hardened products obtained therefrom are remarkably water-resistant, non efflorescent and easy to obtain.
US09932484B2
A self-healing, scratch resistant slippery surface that is manufactured by wicking a chemically-inert, high-density liquid coating over a roughened solid surface featuring micro and nanoscale topographies is described. Such a slippery surface shows anti-wetting properties, as well as exhibits significant reduction of adhesion of a broad range of biological materials, including particles in suspension or solution. Specifically, the slippery surfaces can be applied to medical devices and equipment to effectively repel biological materials such as blood, and prevent, reduce, or delay coagulation and surface-mediated clot formation. Moreover, the slippery surfaces can be used to prevent fouling by microorganisms such as bacteria.
US09932483B2
The present invention relates to a solventborne primer surfacer which comprises at least one additive preparable by reacting at least one alpha,omega-hydroxy-functionalized oligoester which possesses an OH number of 30 to 160 mg KOH/g, a theoretical carbon-carbon double bond content of 1 to 2.5 mmol/g, a number-average molecular weight of 1000 to 3000 g/mol, and a weight-average molecular weight of 2800 to 10 000 g/mol, and at least one alkoxysilane which possesses an OH-reactive functional group, the sum of the weight percentage fractions of all additives of the invention being 0.5 to 10 wt %, based on the total amount of the solventborne primer surfacer. The present invention further relates to a process for producing multicoat paint systems, and to multicoat paint systems producible by means of said process. The invention further relates to the use of the additive identified above in solventborne primer surfacers for improving adhesion.
US09932482B2
The present disclosure describes a strategy to create self-healing, slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPS). Roughened (e.g., porous) surfaces can be utilized to lock in place a lubricating fluid, referred to herein as Liquid B to repel a wide range of materials, referred to herein as Object A (Solid A or Liquid A). SLIPS outperforms other conventional surfaces in its capability to repel various simple and complex liquids (water, hydrocarbons, crude oil and blood), maintain low-contact-angle hysteresis (<2.5°), quickly restore liquid-repellency after physical damage (within 0.1-1 s), resist ice, microorganisms and insects adhesion, and function at high pressure (up to at least 690 atm). Some exemplary application where SLIPS will be useful include energy-efficient fluid handling and transportation, optical sensing, medicine, and as self-cleaning, and anti-fouling materials operating in extreme environments.
US09932481B2
Actuatable microstructures and methods of making the same are disclosed. An example a sheet includes a first side including an elastomeric material and a second side opposite the first side. The sheet defines sealed channels. In response to a pressure differential across the elastomeric material, the elastomeric material is to be in a deformed position relative to the sealed channels to define microstructures.
US09932480B2
A process of forming a multi-layered pigment includes the steps of: providing a metal core material; dispersing the metal core material in a first solvent and organic binder mixture; depositing a high refractive index material onto the metal core material; drying the deposited high refractive index and metal core material wherein the high refractive index layer is uniform and crack-free.
US09932478B2
The invention relates to a package of performance additives for bitumen or bituminous compositions including an acidic adjuvant and a H2S scavenger chosen from organic or inorganic copper salts. The invention also relates to the use of said H2S scavenger in order to reduce the H2S emissions of bitumen or of a bituminous composition treated with the acidic adjuvant. The invention additionally relates to a process for the preparation of a bituminous composition. The preparation process according to the invention makes it possible to obtain bitumen/crosslinked polymer compositions having better mechanical and dynamic properties in comparison with the bitumen/crosslinked polymer compositions of the prior art, while substantially reducing the releases of hydrogen sulfide (H2S).
US09932473B2
An encapsulating resin composition contains a thermosetting resin component, a curing accelerator, an inorganic filler, an ion trapping agent, and an aromatic monocarboxylic acid having one or more electron-withdrawing functional groups selected from a nitro group and a cyano group. The encapsulating resin composition is solid at 25° C., and has a sulfur content, measured by X-ray fluorescence analysis, of 0.1 mass % or less in terms of SO3.
US09932463B2
The present disclosure relates to a curable transparent rubber composition containing one or more synthetic isoprene polymers, a styrenic block copolymer, a curing agent, and additives that do not influence transparency of the final composition. Once cured, the curable transparent rubber composition has a haze of less than 30% and a total light transmission of more than 80%. The disclosure further relates to a cured transparent rubber composition made thereof, and a manufacturing process for the cured composition. The present disclosure also relates to an article including the rubber composition, in particular for tubes, medical stoppers, catheters, dental dams and other medical applications and artificial nipples.
US09932460B2
The present invention provides a rubber composition that can enhance the fuel economy, wet-grip performance, and abrasion resistance in a balanced manner, and a pneumatic tire using this rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition that contains a rubber component, silica, and a liquid resin having a softening point of −20 to 20° C., wherein the rubber component contains, based on 100% by mass of the rubber component, not less than 5% by mass of a conjugated diene polymer containing a constituent unit based on a conjugated diene and a constituent unit represented by formula (I) below, at least one terminal of the polymer being modified with a specific compound; and an amount of the silica is 5 to 150 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.
US09932459B2
A resin composition is provided for a sliding member. The composition contains an amorphous resin, flake graphite, and a carbon fiber. The content of the flake graphite is 5 to 40 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the amorphous resin, and the content of the carbon fiber is 5 to 60 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the amorphous resin.
US09932448B2
A method of preparing hydrogel particles includes applying a solution including a plurality of hydrogel particles to a stir cell. A retentate side of a filter defines a lower surface of the stir cell. The filter has the retentate side and a permeate side. The method further includes, while stirring the solution within the stir cell, dispensing a buffer solution at a first flow rate to the stir cell and drawing a permeate from the permeate side of the filter using a pump at a second flow rate, the permeate including a subset of the plurality of hydrogel particles.
US09932446B2
To provide a method for manufacturing a purified product of an alkyl-modified polydimethylsiloxane that is practically odorless and compatible with other cosmetic raw materials. The manufacturing method comprises the steps of: [A] synthesizing an alkyl-modified polydimethylsiloxane by subjecting a hydrosilyl-containing polydimethylsiloxane and an C2-C30 α-olefin to a hydrosilation reaction, and [B] subjecting the crude alkyl-modified polydimethylsiloxane obtained in Step [A] to a treatment of rendering it odorless by a hydrogenation reaction in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst in an organic solvent (c) that is essentially free of active hydrogen atoms and has a boiling point equal to or greater than 70° C.
US09932443B2
The subject invention pertains to peptide-based materials comprising cross-linked peptides with random amino acid sequences that are soluble in water or ethanol before crosslinking but insoluble in water after crosslinking.
US09932440B2
The present invention, among other things, provides highly syndiotactic poly(dicyclopentadiene) and/or hydrogenated poly(dicyclopentadiene), compositions thereof, and compounds and methods for preparing the same. In some embodiments, a provided compound is a compound of formula I, II or III. In some embodiments, a provided method comprises providing a compound of formula I, II or III.
US09932439B2
Provided is a photosensitive resin composition that is, after being applied to an adherend surface, rapidly cured by photoirradiation to form a cured product having excellent light-shielding ability and adhesiveness. The present invention relates to a photosensitive resin composition that includes components as follows: (A) a cationically polymerizable compound at least including a compound containing an alicyclic epoxy group and devoid of ester bonds; (B) a photo-cationic polymerization initiator including a cationic moiety and an anionic moiety containing a boron atom; and (C) a light-shielding material.
US09932425B2
Improved reaction processes comprise reacting a mixture to form a product comprising a metal alkyl, metal oxide, or mixture thereof and then passing said product to a post-reactor heat exchanger. The improvement comprises one or more of the following: (1) reacting said metal alkyl compound with an acid to produce a soluble metal ester; or (2) adding an ionic surfactant; or (3) adding a mixture comprising an antioxidant to the product under conditions sufficient to avoid formation of significant amounts of insoluble metal or metal compounds derived from said metal alkyl compound; or (4) purging said post-reactor heat exchanger with an inert gas under conditions to remove metal oxide from the post-reactor heat exchanger.
US09932424B2
Compositions and methods for compatibilizing fluorinated materials in nonfluorinated solvent systems
A copolymer of polyvinyl alcohol and trifluoro acetaldehyde derivatized to have a substituent that contains fluorine. Such compositions are useful in compatibilizing fluorinated molecules that are to be blended into liquid materials or systems, as well as materials and systems that may be aerosolizable or foamable liquids.
US09932422B2
The present embodiments provide a system and method for separation within a polymer production process. Specifically, a flashline heater configured according to present embodiments may provide more time than is required for complete vaporization of liquid hydrocarbons that are not entrained within a polymer fluff produced within a polymerization reactor. Such extra time may allow for liquid hydrocarbons that are entrained within the polymer fluff to be vaporized.
US09932415B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing a formyl group-containing porous base matrix, comprising the steps of introducing a spacer in a formyl group-containing porous particle; and then oxidizing the spacer with periodic acid and/or a periodate, to transform the part of the spacer into a formyl group; wherein the formyl group content in the porous particle after introduction of the spacer is not more than 3 μmol per 1 mL of the porous particle. Also, the present invention relates to a method for producing an adsorbent, comprising the step of immobilizing an amino group-containing ligand on the formyl group-containing porous base matrix. According to the present invention, a formyl-group containing porous base matrix and an adsorbent produced from the porous base matrix of which adsorption amount is high and which is has high strength and of which ligand is difficult to be leaked are provided.
US09932411B2
The invention provides antibodies which bind to the extracellular domain of the Tyrosine-protein kinase transmembrane receptor Matriptase. Nucleic acid molecules encoding the antibodies, expression vectors, host cells and methods for expressing the antibodies are also provided. The antibodies may be used for the treatment of cancer, including gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer lung cancer, preferably SCLC, esophageal cancer, head and neck cancer, pancreatic cancer, lymphoma preferably non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and skin cancer.
US09932409B2
The present disclosure relates to a modified Interleukin-1 (IL-1) family member cytokine, with reduced activity via its cytokine receptor, wherein said interleukin-1 family member cytokine is specifically delivered to target cells. Preferably, the IL-1 family member cytokine is a mutant, more preferably it is a mutant IL-1 with low affinity to the IL-1 receptor, wherein said mutant IL-1 is specifically delivered to target cells. The targeting is preferably realized by fusion of the modified IL-1 family member cytokine to a targeting moiety, preferably an antibody or antibody-like molecule. The disclosure relates further to the use of such targeted modified IL-1 family member cytokine to treat diseases.
US09932404B2
Toll Like Receptor 3 (TLR3) antibody antagonists, polynucleotides encoding TLR3 antibody antagonists or fragments thereof, and methods of making and using the foregoing are disclosed.
US09932401B2
The present invention provides antibodies useful as therapeutics for treating and/or preventing diseases associated with cells expressing Claudin-6 (CLDN6), including tumor-related diseases such as ovarian cancer, lung cancer, gastric cancer, breast cancer, hepatic cancer, pancreatic cancer, skin cancer, malignant melanoma, head and neck cancer, sarcoma, bile duct cancer, cancer of the urinary bladder, kidney cancer, colon cancer, placental choriocarcinoma, cervical cancer, testicular cancer, and uterine cancer.
US09932398B2
Mice having a restricted immunoglobulin heavy chain locus are provided, wherein the locus is characterized by a single polymorphic human VH gene segment, a plurality of human DH gene segments and a plurality of JH gene segments. Methods for making antibody sequences that bind an antigen (e.g., a viral antigen) are provided, comprising immunizing a mouse with an antigen of interest, wherein the mouse comprises a single human VH gene segment, a plurality of human DH gene segments and a plurality of JH gene segments, at the endogenous immunoglobulin heavy chain locus.
US09932392B2
The invention relates to compositions and methods to prevent enteric infection in a subject at risk of such infection. In particular, the invention relates to the prevention of recurrence of infection by Clostridium difficile.
US09932388B2
The present invention relates to a chromatographic process for obtaining purified fibrinogen and thrombin from human plasma. The purified fibrinogen and thrombin preparations contain plasminogen in amounts less than 1 ug/mL. The low levels of plasminogen eliminates use of a proteolytic inhibitor, such as aprotinin in fibrin sealant kits which are used for human therapeutic applications.
US09932384B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US09932382B2
Peptides capable of interfering with the Kv2.1-mediated apoptotic K+ current surge that leads to neuronal cell death are described. The disclosed peptides are derived from the C-terminal region of Kv2.1, which mediates binding to the SNARE protein syntaxin. Disruption of Kv2.1 binding to syntaxin inhibits the apoptotic K+ current surge that leads to neuronal cell death. The present disclosure provides methods of inhibiting binding of Kv2.1 to syntaxin in a cell (in vitro or in vivo), such as for neuroprotection following cerebral ischemia, stroke, or traumatic brain injury, or during the course of a neurodegenerative disease, or any other condition associated with neuronal cell death.
US09932380B2
Provided herein are IL-2 muteins and IL-2 mutein Fc-fusion molecules that preferentially expand and activate T regulatory cells and are amenable to large scale production. Also provided herein are variant human IgG1 Fc molecules lacking or with highly reduced effector function and high stability despite lacking glycosylation at N297. Also, provided herein are linker peptides that are glycosylated when expressed in mammalian cells.
US09932379B2
In certain aspects, the present invention provides compositions and methods for increasing red blood cell and/or hemoglobin levels in vertebrates, including rodents and primates, and particularly in humans.
US09932374B2
The invention provides methods, proteins, nucleic acids and antibodies for preventing or treating a C. difficile infection in a mammal.
US09932373B2
The present invention provides isolated polypeptides isolatable from a Staphylococcus spp. Also provided by the present invention are compositions that include one or more of the polypeptides, and methods for making and methods for using the polypeptides.
US09932372B2
Porcine circovirus (PCV2) vaccine compositions comprising a peptide antigen derived from a PCV2 capsid protein are described. In various embodiments, the peptide antigen contains amino acids of the capsid protein from about amino acid 47 to about amino acid 202. In some embodiments, the peptide antigen is optionally linked to an artificial T helper epitope and/or mixed with T helper epitopes derived from the ORF1 and ORF3 proteins of PCV2. Methods of using PCV2 vaccine compositions are also described. In various embodiments, a vaccine composition is used in animals for the prevention of PCV2 infection. In other embodiments, a PCV2 vaccine composition is used as an antigen for diagnosing PCV2 infection.
US09932370B2
The invention features isolated human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) envelope (Env) trimers, in which the amino acid sequence of the Env polypeptides is optimized to stabilize formation of the trimers. The invention also features vaccines, nucleic acids, and vectors to deliver and/or facilitate production of the stabilized HIV Env trimers. In addition, the invention features methods of making and using the stabilized HIV Env trimers of the invention.
US09932369B2
The present invention relates to a biopolymer and a cell-harvesting scaffold comprising same, as well as the associated cell-harvesting method that allows said harvesting to be performed in a simple and effective manner by reducing the culture temperature. The present invention also relates to a method for synthesizing said biopolymer.
US09932365B2
The invention provides compounds and methods for site-specifically labeling proteins with cyanobenzothiazole derivatives of formula I. For example, the invention provides methods for labeling the N-terminus of a protein that terminates with a cysteine residue. The invention also provides methods for isolating an N-terminally labeled protein and methods for detecting an N-terminally labeled protein.
US09932364B2
Antisense nucleic acid molecules, such as ribozymes, shRNA and siRNA, targeting the Gag region of HIV-1 open reading frame, and uses thereof for inhibiting HIV-1 replication and infection, are disclosed. The antisense nucleic acid molecules more specifically target a sequence corresponding to about nucleotide 1495 to about nucleotide 1526, or nucleotide 1497 to about nucleotide 1521, of HIV-1 clone pNL4-3.
US09932358B2
The present disclosure provides an energy storage molecular material, crystal dielectric layer and capacitor which may solve a problem of the further increase of volumetric and mass density of reserved energy associated with some energy storage devices, and at the same time reduce cost of materials.
US09932349B2
8-Substituted-2,6-methano-3-benzazocines of general structure I in which A is —CH2—OH, —CH2NH2, —NHSO2CH3, and Y is O, S or NOH are useful as analgesics, anti-diarrheal agents, anticonvulsants, antitussives and anti-addiction medications. 8-Carboxamides, thiocarboxamides, hydroxyamidines and formamides are preferred.
US09932340B2
The invention provides for compounds of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 have any of the values defined in the specification, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, that are useful as agents in the treatment of diseases and conditions mediated and modulated by SUV420H1. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprised of one or more compounds of formula (I).
US09932337B2
The present invention relates to methods for the production of enantiopure or enantioenriched Praziquantel precursors and to methods for the production of enantiopure or enantioenriched Praziquantel comprising the methods for the production of the Praziquantel precursors. The present invention further relates to compounds or intermediates useful in such methods.
US09932336B2
The present invention relates to an improved process for the preparation of Apixaban and intermediates thereof. Further the present invention also relates to novel intermediate of Formula V and its process for the preparation.
US09932329B2
The present disclosure is directed to certain inhibitors of RLK and ITK of formula (I), pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and method of treating diseases mediated by inhibition of RLK and ITK.
US09932328B2
Compound of formula (I) wherein: R1 is heteroaryl either unsubstituted or substituted by methyl, ethyl, halo or ═O; and R2 is H, methyl or ethyl; and salts thereof are KMO inhibitors and may be useful in the treatment of various disorders, for example acute pancreatitis, chronic kidney disease, acute kidney disease, acute kidney injury, other conditions associated with systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, spinocerebellar ataxias, Parkinson's disease, AIDS-dementia complex, HIV infection, amylotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), depression, schizophrenia, sepsis, cardiovascular shock, severe trauma, acute lung injury, acute respiratory distress syndrome, acute cholecystitis, severe burns, pneumonia, extensive surgical procedures, ischemic bowel, severe acute hepatic disease, severe acute hepatic encephalopathy or acute renal failure.
US09932327B2
The present invention relates to the rohitukine (5,7-dihydroxy-8-(3-hydroxy-1-methyl-piperidin-4-yl)-4H-chromen-4-ones) analogs of formula A and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. In addition, the invention relates to pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising at least one such compound, and methods of using the compounds for treating or preventing various proliferative disorders such as melanoma, leukemia, breast cancer and prostate cancer etc. [insert Formula A here] wherein, n=0 or 1, when n=1, the dotted line indicates the double bond.
US09932313B2
The invention provides pyrazolyl guanidine compounds that inhibit F1Fo-ATPase, and methods of using pyrazolyl guanidine compounds as therapeutic agents to treat medical disorders, such as an immune disorder, inflammatory condition, or cancer.
US09932310B2
Disclosed herein, inter alia, are compositions and methods for inhibiting DNA2.
US09932308B2
Provided is a salt including a compound represented by a formula (4) and a compound represented by a formula (5). A method for producing the salt includes reacting a compound represented by a formula (2) with a compound represented by a formula (3) in the presence of a quaternary onium salt and a base to form the compound represented by the formula (4); and mixing the compound represented by the formula (4) with the compound represented by the formula (5). A method for producing a compound represented by a formula (6) includes removing, from the salt including the compounds of formulae (4) and (5), a protecting group P1. In the following formulae, P1 and P2 are both protecting groups.
US09932303B2
The disclosed subject matter provides N-hydroxymethanesulfonamide compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and kits comprising such compounds, and methods of using such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions. In particular, the disclosed subject matter provides methods of using such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions for treating heart failure.
US09932292B2
In a process for workup of a crude ester comprising esterification catalyst hydrolysis product in suspended particulate form, a) the crude ester is admixed in an emulsifying tank with 1% to 10% by weight of water and the water is emulsified in the crude ester to obtain a suspoemulsion, b) the suspoemulsion from the emulsifying tank is transferred to an agglomerating tank containing an initial charge of water-undersaturated crude ester, such that a water content below the solubility limit of water in the crude ester is established in the mixture of the suspoemulsion and the initial charge of crude ester, as a result of which the suspended particulate esterification catalyst hydrolysis products form stable agglomerates, and c) the agglomerates formed are filtered off.
US09932289B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing ethyl esters of polyunsaturated fatty acids, comprising transesterifying triacylglycerols in extracted plant lipid.
US09932281B2
The present invention relates to a process for the production of olefins from oxygenates, comprising the following steps: (i) heterogeneously catalyzed conversion of methanol to a product stream containing a C3− and a C4+ fraction, (ii) distillation of the product stream for separating the C3− fraction from a bottom product, and (iii) distillation of the bottom product for separating a stream containing the C4+ fraction and dimethyl ether from a stream containing water and methanol. Furthermore, the invention also comprises a plant for carrying out this process.
US09932261B2
A doped silica-titania (“DST”) glass article that includes a glass article having a glass composition comprising a silica-titania base glass containing titania at 7 to 14 wt. % and a balance of silica, and a dopant selected from the group consisting of (a) F at 0.7 to 1.5 wt. %, (b) B2O3 at 1.5 to 5 wt. %, (c) OH at 1000 to 3000 ppm, and (d) B2O3 at 0.5 to 2.5 wt. % and OH at 100 to 1400 ppm. The glass article has an expansivity slope of less than about 1.3 ppb/K2 at 20° C. For DST glass articles doped with F or B2O3, the OH level can be held to less than 10 ppm, or less than 100 ppm, respectively. In many aspects, the DST glass articles are substantially free of titania in crystalline form.
US09932258B1
An apparatus and process for making glass and glass gobs on demand. A sheet of molten glass is provided in a staging section. The sheet of molten glass is held within the staging section when there is no demand for glass articles. When there is a demand for production of glass articles, a portion of the sheet of molten glass is flowed into a gob forming section.
US09932254B2
The invention relates to a method for treating wastewater by means of photosynthetically active algae that form a sediment in the resting state, comprising the following steps: a) supplying wastewater to photosynthetically active algae that form a sediment in the resting state, b) conveying the wastewater supplied to the algae against gravity from a lower level to a higher level while simultaneously exposing the wastewater mixed with the algae to light, c) introducing the wastewater supplied to the algae from the higher level into the upper region of a sedimentation tank, d) allowing the algae to sediment in the sedimentation tank, and e) removing the wastewater freed of the algae by sedimentation as treated wastewater.
US09932251B2
Disclosed are microfluidic devices and systems for the desalination of water. The devices and systems can include an electrode configured to generate an electric field gradient in proximity to an intersection formed by the divergence of two microfluidic channels from an inlet channel. Under an applied bias and in the presence of a pressure driven flow of saltwater, the electric field gradient can preferentially direct ions in saltwater into one of the diverging microfluidic channels, while desalted water flows into second diverging channel. Also provided are methods of using the devices and systems described herein to decrease the salinity of water.
US09932250B2
According to one embodiment, a membrane filtration system includes a raw water tank, a pretreatment membrane module, a raw water feed line, a high-pressure RO membrane module, a high-pressure line, a preceding power recovery unit which pressurize the pretreated water by transmitting the pressure of the concentrate to the pretreated water, a succeeding power recovery unit which pressurize the raw water by transmitting a remaining pressure of the concentrate to the raw water, a concentrate discharge line, a first pressure transmission line communicating to the power recovery unit by being branched from the high-pressure line, a second pressure transmission line communicating to the power recovery unit by being branched from the raw water feed line, and a valve provided in the drain line to regulate a discharge of the concentrate from the power recovery unit in accordance with a pressure loss in the pretreatment membrane module.
US09932244B2
The invention relates to the proppants and proppant substrates treated with active compounds that reduce the presence of contaminants in fluids, methods of using those materials, as well as methods of making those materials. The invention further provides that the contaminated fluids are associated with wells, including oil and gas wells.
US09932241B2
The present invention discloses a method for quickly extracting lithium carbonate from saline lake water and a system for the same. The method comprises: first quick-freezing the saline lake water to obtain lithium-rich brine, then evaporating under reduced pressure to enable lithium carbonate to be rapidly precipitated out. The method has advantages of short process flow and less labor consumption, thereby enabling continuous automatic operation, high energy utilization and environment-friendly. Further, the crystallization rate is several times faster than that of the salt-pan process and the grade of lithium carbonate salt mine obtained can reach 95% or more, therefore the method of the present invention is particularly suitable for industrial production in the remote saline lake region. The system comprises a reduced-pressure evaporation crystallizer, a vacuum-pumping apparatus, a brine preheating apparatus and a brine cooling apparatus, which concentrates the brine by quick-evaporation of the water, promotes lithium carbonate to form non-uniform nucleus, and improves the crystallization efficiency.
US09932230B2
A method for conversion of greenhouse gases comprises: introducing a flow of a dehumidified gaseous source of carbon dioxide into a reaction vessel; introducing a flow of a dehumidified gaseous source of methane into the reaction vessel; and irradiating catalytic material in the reaction vessel with microwave energy. The irradiated catalytic material is heated and catalyzes an endothermic reaction of carbon dioxide and methane that produces hydrogen and carbon monoxide. At least a portion of heat required to maintain a temperature within the reaction vessel is supplied by the microwave energy. A mixture that includes carbon monoxide and hydrogen can undergo catalyzed reactions producing multiple-carbon reaction products in a lower-temperature portion of the reaction vessel.
US09932225B2
A method of forming a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) includes forming a lower electrode on a first insulator layer within a cavity of the MEMS. The method further includes forming an upper electrode over another insulator material on top of the lower electrode which is at least partially in contact with the lower electrode. The forming of the lower electrode and the upper electrode includes adjusting a metal volume of the lower electrode and the upper electrode to modify beam bending.
US09932220B1
A distribution station includes reels that are arranged on first and second opposed sides in a mobile trailer, with an aisle walkway down the middle of the mobile trailer. The aisle walkway has an aisle width and the mobile trailer has a trailer width, and a ratio of the trailer width to the aisle width is no greater than 5. The reels have a reel diameter, and the aisle width is greater than the reel diameter by a factor of at least 1.3.
US09932214B1
A lift truck platform apparatus for transporting rolling racks provides a platform and a frame extending upwardly from the platform. A clamp is attached to the frame. The clamp is vertically moveable relative to the platform for selectively engaging and securing in place the rolling racks when the rolling racks are loaded on the platform. The clamp is vertically moveable away from the platform for releasing the rolling racks.
US09932204B2
A conveyance system includes a car; a machine for imparting motion to the car, the machine including a stator and a rotor, the stator including 12*k stator teeth, the rotor including 11*k rotor poles, wherein k is a natural even number, the machine including windings located at the stator teeth, the windings arranged in 6 phases; and a drive unit for providing drive signals to the machine, the drive unit including a plurality of drives, the number of drives being an integer multiple of 2.
US09932195B2
A sheet conveying apparatus has a belt with a widthwise side portion extending in a traveling direction of the belt, the widthwise side portion including a portion defining a notch being recessed in a width direction orthogonal to the traveling direction, the notch being defined by less than an entire length, in the traveling direction, of the widthwise side portion, a contacting member arranged to be in contact with an end portion of a sheet to be conveyed, the contacting member being attached to the belt so that at least a part of the contacting member is arranged in the notch of the belt, a regulating portion configured to regulate a position of the belt in the width direction by contacting with the widthwise side portion of the belt, and a driving portion configured to drive the belt.
US09932192B2
In some examples, a media stacker includes a drawer defining a chamber, and a plurality of moving elements to engage media sheets of different sizes as the media sheets are output from a system. The plurality of moving elements are to slide the media sheets to a target position in the drawer, and the plurality of moving elements are to disengage from the media sheets once the media sheets have reached the target position. A plurality of retaining elements are to engage the media sheets of the different sizes as the media sheets slide into the drawer.
US09932191B2
There is provided a sheet post-processing device that has a first tray, outlet rollers, and a control section. The first tray holds sheets for post-processing with respect to the sheets supplied from an image forming device. The outlet rollers discharge the sheet to the first tray. The control section controls a rotational speed of the outlet rollers to be decelerated after a leading end portion of the sheet passes through the outlet rollers and before the leading end portion of the sheet comes into contact with the first tray.
US09932189B2
An image forming system includes: a sheet conveying section configured to convey a long sheet; an image forming/fixing section configured to execute an image forming/fixing operation to form and fix a toner image on the long sheet to be conveyed by the sheet conveying section; a skew detection section configured to detect a skew of the long sheet to be conveyed by the sheet conveying section; a skew correction section configured to execute a skew correction operation to correct the skew of the long sheet; and a control section configured to perform control to execute the skew correction operation when the skew has been detected in a first area where the skew correction operation does not affect the image forming/fixing operation, and perform control to execute the skew correction operation when the skew has been detected in a second area where the skew correction operation affects the image forming/fixing operation.
US09932180B2
A packaging dispenser, for dispensing stacks of nested trays to a packing device, has a frame, a first conveyor for conveying and supporting a first plurality of stacks of nested trays in a first level, and a second conveyor downstream of the first conveyor for receiving stacks of nested trays from the first conveyor. The packaging dispenser also includes a vertical chute underneath the second conveyor for dispensing stacks of nested trays to a packing device. The second conveyor has a pair of laterally spaced conveyor elements for supporting only lateral edge regions of a stack of nested trays. The laterally spaced conveyor elements are retractable to allow a stack of nested trays, supported thereon, to be released into the chute. The packaging dispenser can further be provided with a tray separator upstream of the chute for loosening individual trays of a stack, while keeping the trays in a stacked and nested arrangement.
US09932177B2
A method of tensioning a conveyor element of a conveyor. The method includes generating, with a proximity sensor, an output signal indicative of the conveyor element being under-tensioned, receiving the output signal from the proximity sensor, and activating a solenoid-controlled valve to an open state in response to receiving the output signal from the proximity sensor. The method also includes driving, with a pump, a piston of a cylinder while the solenoid-controlled valve is in the open state, pushing, with the cylinder, a take-up bar including a second portion of a ratcheting mechanism to engage with a first portion of the ratcheting mechanism of a locking plate, and imparting, via the locking plate, a locking force on the take-up bar. The method further includes overcoming the locking force and moving the shaft of the conveyor away from a centerline of the conveyor with the take-up bar when the locking force is overcome.
US09932176B2
A dispensing system, apparatus and associated method for dispensing individually packaged products includes maintaining positive physical control of the individual packages throughout the apparatus and may include different storage and dispensers for products having different frequencies of use as well as buffering of products. The system, apparatus and method described herein may be particularly useful for dispensing pharmaceutical products such as solid medications and nutritional supplements to be taken orally in health care settings, including but not limited to long term care (LTC) and assisted living settings.
US09932174B2
A trash bin having parts optimized for partial or full automated assembly. Components are fabricated of materials that are easily manipulated by factory automation equipment as well as those that may be selectively deformed during the assembly or installation process. Elastic or deformable characteristics also facilitate the retention of assembled or installed parts. A barbed element deforms during installation into a received aperture, then returns to a relaxed state in which one or more barbs inhibit the dislocation of the element from the aperture. A post having an aperture for receiving an axle therein is formed of resilient materials such that the post flexes outward under the urging of the axle until the axle is aligned with the aperture, at which point the post resumes a neutral position with the axle engaged in the aperture. Interfaces between components are selected in order to simplify the mechanical mating of components.
US09932173B2
The invention is a trash compacting device with a handle configured horizontally, so a person can grip the handle with the palm of their hand facing downward to maximize compression force and minimize slippage. The frame supports one or more smite plate receivers that may extends horizontally from the frame to increase the distance between center regions of two smite plates. Each smite plate receiver may extends downward at different heights to ensure that bulky trash, such as boxes, does not impede the downward movement of every smite plates. The frame may houses a telescoping tube to ensure ergonomic operations when a garbage can is less than full. Smite plates of different shapes and sizes may be attached to the smite plate receiver to further ensure more uniform compaction of trash. Smite plates and handle grips are pivotally attached to allow for portable transport and compact storage.
US09932172B2
A versatile container a versatile pipe section comprising a sleeve and a tube inserted into the sleeve, the tube being held in place using a first capping element at a first end, at least one mounting element in a middle portion and a second capping element at a second end. The first and second capping elements are provided with an opening of a diameter corresponding to the diameter of the tube for allowing liquid or gas to flow through the tube. Also, a versatile container comprising a sleeve, at least one liquid or gas holding compartment adapted to be positioned within the sleeve, the at least one compartment being held in place using at least one mounting element. The sleeves are adapted to hold the contents of the tube or the at least one compartment in case of a leak.
US09932169B2
A foldable shipping container is provided. The foldable shipping container has improved locking mechanisms on the inside and outside of the shipping container to improve assembly and disassembly of the container.
US09932168B2
A pod containing one or more beverage ingredients is provided, where the pod comprises a generally rigid outer member (12) with an open top and an outlet opening in the bottom, with an internal filter (16) adjacent a bottom portion of the outer member, one or more beverage ingredients disposed above the filter, and a lid (14) closing the open top. The outer member has an outer peripheral sidewall (20) defining the open top and extending downwardly from the open top toward the bottom portion and inwardly converging toward the outlet opening. The bottom portion of the sidewall defines a plurality of ribs (36) extending inwardly in the interior of the outer member toward the outlet opening. Beverage outlet flow paths are disposed between adjacent ribs and directed toward the outlet opening. The filter is supported above the outlet opening and the beverage outlet flow paths by the ribs.
US09932167B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a remaining-amount reduction member capable of preventing the generation of space whose periphery is closed by pressurized fluid, reducing a final remaining amount of a content to be ejected, stabilizing an ejection amount of the content per unit time, and smoothly ejecting the content to the end.Provided is a remaining-amount reduction member 110 that is attached inside a flexible interior bag 102 arranged inside an aerosol container 100, the remaining-amount reduction member including: an attachment part 120 attached such that the content F is capable of flowing in an inflow port 103 of the interior bag 102; and a guiding part 130 having a plurality of grooved blocks 132, each of which has a guiding groove 131 in a longitudinal direction, connected in the longitudinal direction.
US09932166B2
A portable tablet dispensing device is provided for dispensing tablets to an athlete. The dispensing device includes: an elongate magazine body, a tablet follower positioned within the magazine body, the tablet follower being slidable along a vertical length of the magazine body and a spring positioned between the tablet follower and lower end of the magazine body, the spring configured to urge the tablet follower towards the upper end of the magazine body; a dispensing head slidably mounted to the top elongate body and having a tablet pickup shaped to contact a tablet within the cavity of the dispensing head and urge the tablet towards a front of the tablet dispensing device when the tablet pickup moves from the first position to the second extended position.
US09932164B1
A sponge for insertion into the open upper end of a mud pan which acts as a plug to prevent the mud in the mud pan from drying out during periods of non-use of the mud pan.
US09932161B2
An apparatus is improved to successively make plastic bags each of which includes an end surface provided with a spout, by employing the general feeding way of panel material, to be simple in structure, low in cost, high in speed and to make it possible to successively make the plastic bags two by two. A first folded portion is formed in a first web of panel material 1. An aperture is formed in a second web of panel material 2. A spout is inserted into the aperture, the spout and the second web of panel material 2 being heat sealed with each other. The second web of panel material 2 is guided by a guide device 18 to be folded after being heat sealed so that a second folded portion should be formed in the second web of panel material. The spout is turned over by the second folded portion. The second folded portion and the first folded portion are heat sealed with each other while the second folded portion and the second web of panel material 2 are heat sealed with each other about the spout.
US09932160B2
A foldable and flexible carrier which may include a polymeric form that is foldable to provide a carrier having sufficient strength to securely hold and carry items while maintaining position about the items and which can be assembled without fastening hardware.
US09932151B2
A draw-cord cinching system includes various element. For example, the system generally includes a tube having a tubular wall forming a through-channel between a first end of the tube and a second end of the tube. The tubular wall includes at least a first portion with a first amount of pliability and a second portion with a second amount of pliability, which is less than the first portion. The first and second portions may be arranged or located such that the when the tube is shortened, such as by pulling a draw cord positioned in the through-channel, the tubular wall folds or bends at the first portion having a higher amount of pliability than the second portion.
US09932146B1
An apparatus attached or formed on the sidewalls of a standard 5 gallon bucket with diverging sidewalls that enables stacked buckets to be vertically stacked and locked together so the handle on the upper bucket may be used to carry the stack of buckets and allows the individual buckets to be easily separated from the stack. The apparatus comprises a ring body made of elastic material with a center opening configured to fit transversely around the middle or upper region of the bucket. The ring body includes a downward facing circular groove sufficiently configured to receive and engage the upper edge on the bucket. Located inside the groove may be a protruding outer lip that extends inward and engages the upper edge. In another embodiment, a plurality of hooks are integrally formed on the top surface of the ring body that engage a laterally extending reinforcement ring on the bucket.
US09932144B2
A configurable shock pallet accommodates different types of rack-mounted information handling systems (IHSes) having different weight profiles. A bottom structure has a pair of parallel apertures to receive forklift tines. A top deck receives a rack-mounted IHS of a selected weight profile for shipping. A horizontal array of pad locations is designated between the bottom structure and the top deck. Dampening inserts are assigned to respective pad locations of the horizontal array from dampening inserts of different densities. Attaching components secure the top deck to the bottom structure, separated by the dampening inserts to provide appropriate shock protection for the weight and weight distribution of the IHS. A shock pallet configuring system can receive a weight profile and indicate on an output interface the assigned pad configuration to manually or automatically assemble the configured shock pallet.
US09932137B2
A wrapping apparatus and method utilize a corner geometry-based wrap control that controls the rate at which packaging material is dispensed at least in part based on the geometrical relationship between one or more corners of a load and a packaging material dispenser.
US09932136B2
The present invention relates to a pouch and a method for making the same. In the inventive method, which is adapted to produce pouches having a limited amount of fusible material, a heat-sealable cord is arranged on a web forming confronting side surface of each pouch. Those confronting side surfaces are fused by heating the heat-sealable cord. The present invention furthermore provides a pouch, in particular containing a brewable or extractable commodity such as tea, with a pocket defined between confronting side surfaces of a web. The pouch of the present invention can have a limited amount of fusible material as the confronting side surfaces are joined by solidified melt of a heat-sealable cord arranged in vicinity of at least one edge of the pouch.
US09932122B2
A protective cover for an aircraft engine comprises a lower portion mountable to a corresponding lower portion of an opening of the engine, and an upper portion articulated to the lower portion. The upper portion is deployable from a collapsed position to a deployed position in which the upper portion extends upwardly from the lower portion. A handling tool may be used to operate the panel from a remote location on the ground.
US09932120B2
A turboprop control system 10 for use with a turboprop 2 having a turbine engine 12 operably coupled to and rotationally driving a propeller 14 having variable pitch blades 16 to control the engine speed, propeller speed, and propeller pitch. The pilot provides, by a single power control lever 30, the control input used to control the engine and propeller.
US09932119B2
A thermal blanket system is provided on an aircraft component to protect the component, for example, from engine heat. The component has a latch half attached thereto, which is also covered by the thermal blanket system. In some scenarios, the latch half may need to be detached from the component because the latch was stuck closed. The thermal blanket system includes a portion thereof which overlaps the latch half and breaks away from the remainder of the thermal blanket system when the latch half is detached.
US09932118B2
A vertical take-off and landing aircraft using a hybrid electric propulsion system includes an engine, a generator that produces electric power using power supplied by the engine, and a battery that stores the produced electric power. A motor receives the electric power stored in the battery and electric power produced by the generator but not stored in the battery and provides the power to a thrust generating apparatus. A controller selects either silence mode or normal mode, and determines the amount of electric power stored in the battery and the amount of electric power not stored in the battery from the electric power supplied to the motor. In the silence mode, the controller supplies only the electric power stored in the battery and controls a duration by adjusting output power of motor. In the normal mode, the controller supplies electric power not stored in the battery.
US09932116B1
A fluid activated parachute release apparatus includes a liquid sensor component moveably coupled to a cam member including a cavity; a disk configured to engage the cavity of the cam member; and a fork member releasable from the disk responsive to rotation of the cam member.
US09932115B2
An aircraft wing element comprises two temperature sensors that are situated on each side of an electrothermal mat, between a structure portion and a shield of said wing element. A shield temperature can be measured more accurately, and a thermal energy flow that is transferred to the shield can be evaluated.
US09932109B2
A method of fabricating a blade spar that includes transversely at least one arrangement. A pressure-side mold and a suction-side mold are defined for each arrangement that is to be fabricated. Each mold includes at least one removable slide and a base. Each slide is then removed from a mold and the tape segments of a hank are laid by a fiber-placement method on each mold. Each mold is closed by putting the slides into place on the mold. During a finalizing step, the molds are juxtaposed and the spar is heated.
US09932103B2
A device and a control method are described for a swinging aircraft door (3), mobile around a swinging axis (21) substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft via a motorized mechanism and having integrated boarding stairs (31). The method includes the capture of electromagnetic or ultrasonic radiation using at least one sensor (401, 501); the detection of something on the stairs on the basis of captured electromagnetic or ultrasonic radiation, in order to deduce therefrom whether a detection condition is satisfied or not; and, driving of the motorized mechanism in order to control the closure of the door in response to a closure command except in case of detection of something on the stairway.
US09932101B2
A ceiling provided with a plurality of rigid panels. Presser means tending to press each panel longitudinally against at least one adjacent panel. At least one panel is a “sliding panel” carried by a guide device so as to slide in a sliding plane. One panel is a “retractable panel” movable from an open position towards a closed position, the sliding panels being free to move in longitudinal translation along the guide device when the retractable panel is in the open position and being locked while being arranged longitudinally one after another when the retractable panel is in the closed position. The ceiling comprises movement means for moving the retractable panel in reversible manner from the closed position to the open position.
US09932100B2
A marine propulsion device includes an engine, a cylinder cooling pathway through which a cooling water passes, a water pump, an electromagnetic valve, a water pressure sensor, a water temperature sensor, and a controller. The engine includes a cylinder. The cylinder cooling pathway is disposed in an area surrounding the cylinder. The water pump supplies the cooling water to the cylinder cooling pathway from outside. The electromagnetic valve restricts a flow of the cooling pathway in the cylinder cooling pathway. The water pressure sensor detects a water pressure of the cooling water in the cylinder cooling pathway. The water temperature sensor detects a water temperature of the cooling water in the cylinder cooling pathway. The controller is configured or programmed to control an opening degree of the electromagnetic valve based on a detection value of the water pressure sensor and a detection value of the water temperature sensor.
US09932099B1
A marine drive has an internal combustion engine that rotates a propulsor shaft that is operatively coupled to a propulsor to impart a propulsive thrust in water. The marine drive has a gearcase housing having an upper portion above a lower portion, the lower portion supporting the propulsor shaft. An exhaust passage in the gearcase housing is configured to convey exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine. An exhaust outlet on the upper portion of the gearcase housing is configured to discharge the exhaust gas from the exhaust passage to the water. The exhaust outlet faces the propulsor so that the exhaust gas is discharged into the water and towards the propulsor so as to aerate the water encountered by the propulsor.
US09932098B1
Systems and methods for reducing steering pressures of marine propulsion device steering actuators are disclosed. First and second sensors sense first and second conditions of first and second steering actuators. A third sensor senses an operating characteristic of the marine vessel. A controller is in signal communication with the first, second, and third sensors. In response to the marine vessel travelling generally straight ahead, the controller determines a target toe angle between the first and second marine propulsion devices based on the operating characteristic. The controller commands the first and second steering actuators to position the first and second marine propulsion devices at the target toe angle. The controller thereafter gradually adapts the target toe angle between the first and second marine propulsion devices until the controller determines that an absolute difference between the first condition and the second condition reaches a calibrated value.
US09932086B2
A brake assembly has a lever configured to press a knee against a pushrod of a piston of a master cylinder assembly. The knee is configured to receive removable inserts that allow a user to modify the angle at which the lever activates the master cylinder assembly. The master cylinder assembly can include protrusions on the outer surface of the cylinder to protect the cylinder from impact damage.
US09932081B2
A saddlebag container has a tub made of a plurality of composite fiber panels three dimensionally thermally molded or thermoformed in a chill forming process to form at least a plurality of structurally supporting tub walls and can have a lid of such construction. A preferred tub is formed of a plurality of panels with one panel three dimensionally shaped to form one sidewall and at least one of an endwall and bottom wall and another panel three dimensionally shaped to form the other sidewall that serves as a base to which the one panel is attached which can also provide a vehicle attachment mount. A preferred lid is formed of a panel that can have an outwardly extending mounting flap used to attach the lid to the base which can also serve as a hinge of the lid. A preferred tub and lid construction has at least two layers with one layer of a fibrous material and another layer of a different material that can provide a cover.
US09932076B2
A track cleaning system includes a vehicle that has at least one track. A collection unit is coupled to the at least one track. The collection unit collects debris that collects on the at least one track. The collection unit is electrically coupled to the vehicle. The collection unit is actuated to vibrate. Thus, the collection unit may dislodge the debris from the at least one track thereby inhibiting the debris from impeding performance of the at least one track.
US09932071B1
An energy absorbing assembly includes a beam that extends in a first direction, a structural member that extends in a second direction transverse to the beam, a load transfer structure that restrains motion of the beam relative to the structural member by transferring lateral loads between the beam and the structural member, and a recess defined in the structural member. The beam is connected to the structural member within the recess and extends out of the recess. The beam is configured to shorten during an impact to define a failed portion of the beam, and the beam is connected to the structural member such that the failed portion of the beam is at least partially receivable in the recess.
US09932065B2
A steering device includes a motor, a first shaft, a transmitter, a second shaft, and an engagement portion. The first shaft of a hollow cylindrical shape is coupled in a torque transmittable manner to a steering member with which a driver performs steering operation. The transmitter is disposed on an outer circumference of the first shaft and configured to transmit torque of the motor to the first shaft. The second shaft is coupled in a torque transmittable manner to a wheel-turning unit configured to turn wheels. The second shaft is inserted in the first shaft. The engagement portion is interposed between an inner surface of the first shaft and an outer surface of the second shaft and configured to make the first shaft and the second shaft engage with each other.
US09932063B2
Vehicles and vehicle systems including locking devices are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a vehicle includes a front wheel, a steering rack assembly that includes a rack coupled to the front wheel, where the rack extends in a vehicle lateral direction and is translatable with respect to a unibody of the vehicle in the vehicle lateral direction, and a locking device coupled to the steering rack assembly, where the locking device includes a deactivated configuration that allows translation of the rack and an activated configuration that restricts translation of the rack.
US09932053B2
Provided is a hand brake limiting device, comprising a bearing I (10), a spring, a spring holder (12), a guide plate (9), and a guide plate holder (23); the bearing I (10) is disposed on the spring holder (12); the spring is sleeved on the outside of the bearing I (10); the guide plate (9) and the guide plate holder (23) are sequentially disposed at one side of the spring away from the spring holder (12); a stopper post III (7) is secured to one side of the spring holder (12) facing the spring; a stopper post In (8) is secured to one side of the guide plate (9) facing the spring; a stopper post II (26) is secured to one side of the guide plate holder (23) facing the guide plate (9).
US09932052B2
A locomotive brake controller that has a body configured to interconnect to a desktop location in the cab of a locomotive and a mount that can attach the base of the controller to a vertical stand in the cab of a locomotive. The controller also includes an operator interface adaptor that can be clocked relative to the body and an operator face plate that can be clocked relative to the mount depending on the location of installation to ensure proper tilting of the interface relative to the operator and proper orientation of the operator display. Alternatively, the adaptor may include a fixed face plate that includes a moveable display and an adhesive membrane with operator buttons to properly orient the display.
US09932049B2
A railcar bodyshell includes: a plurality of modules into which at least one of a floor portion, side portion, and roof portion of the bodyshell is divided in a car longitudinal direction; and an elongated member extending in the car longitudinal direction, the plurality of modules being attached to the elongated member. The elongated member includes a groove portion for fixing the plurality of modules to the elongated member the groove portion extending in the car longitudinal direction.
US09932034B2
Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system comprising: a first, controller operable to assume one of a plurality of respective states, in a first state the first controller being configured to generate a first controller powertrain signal in order to cause a powertrain to develop drive torque, and a first controller brake signal in order to cause application of a brake to one or more wheels, the first controller being configured to generate the first controller powertrain signal and first controller brake signal to cause a vehicle to operate in accordance with the target speed value, wherein when the first controller is in a predetermined one or more states the first controller is configured automatically to perform a brake wipe operation in which the first controller generates the first controller brake signal in dependence on one or more predetermined conditions while continuing to cause a vehicle to operate in accordance with the target speed value.
US09932030B2
A hybrid drive system for a motor vehicle includes an internal combustion engine and at least one electric motor, each driving wheels of the motor vehicle. The internal combustion engine is coupled to the corresponding wheels via a first multispeed transmission. The electric motor is coupled to the corresponding wheels via a second multispeed transmission.
US09932029B2
A system and method for balancing the states of charge between a plurality of energy storage modules in a hybrid vehicle is disclosed. The method comprises determining states of charge of individual energy storage modules in said plurality of energy storage modules operatively connected to a power source in the hybrid electric vehicle. The vehicle is operated using a subset of the plurality of energy storage modules when the states of charge of said subset the plurality of energy storage modules is outside of a tolerances relative to the remaining energy storage modules of said plurality of said energy storage modules. The energy storage modules may be charged or discharged using the method in order to equalize the states of charge of the energy storage modules.
US09932023B2
The present invention relates to a braking device and to a braking system, each having a master brake cylinder (10) having at least one first pressure chamber (12) that is subdivided or is able to be subdivided at least into a first partial volume (12a) and a second partial volume (12b), which are hydraulically connectable or connected to a brake fluid reservoir (24), a first brake circuit (28) being hydraulically connectable or connected to the first partial volume (12a), and having a valve device (38) that is mechanically designed in such a way that a pressure buildup up to a mechanically specified limit pressure may be brought about in the second partial volume (12b), brake fluid being transferable at least into the first brake circuit (28) via at least one subcomponent (38a) of the valve device (38), and an exceeding of the limit pressure in the second partial volume (12b) being prevented.
US09932018B2
A product metering system for accurately dispensing one or more products. The product metering system generally includes a vehicle wash product supply fluidly connected to an electronic control valve and a control unit in communication with the electronic control valve. The electronic control valve operates at an open/close ratio that dispenses the product supply at a desired flow rate.
US09932017B2
A vehicle wiper comprises a retainer that is formed in an elongated shape open at the lower side facing toward a windshield, and that is provided so as to be capable of swinging about a shaft axis of a pivot shaft that is swung to-and-fro; a first nozzle member that is housed inside the retainer, and that is capable of ejecting washer fluid from an ejection portion; and 1 a retainer cover member that closes off an opening of the retainer, and that is formed with a window through which the ejection portion of the first nozzle member is externally exposed.
US09932015B2
A blade rubber has an elongate shape extending along a longitudinal direction. The blade rubber includes a basal portion retained by a rubber holder and a wiping portion extending downward from the basal portion. The wiping portion slidably contacts and wipes a wiped surface along a width direction. The wiping portion has a cross-sectional shape, which inclines with respect to a downward hanging direction when the blade rubber is in an unloaded state. The cross-sectional shape is a shape of a cross-sectional surface of the wiping portion. The cross-sectional surface extends along a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The downward hanging direction is a direction, which extends along a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and the width direction.
US09932012B1
A vehicle seating assembly includes a seatback. A seatback panel is operably coupled with a back side of the seatback. The seatback panel includes a front side and a rear side. Multiple laterally-extending mounting features are disposed proximate edges of the front side of the seatback panel. An inner carrier includes multiple clip embossments extending laterally and releasably coupled with the mounting features. Multiple forwardly-extending clip towers are spaced vertically between the mounting features. A cushion assembly includes attachment features releasably coupled with the clip towers. After deployment of an airbag module, the mounting features of the seatback panel and the clip embossments can be recoupled for continued use of the vehicle seating assembly.
US09932004B1
A sensor bracket assembly is configured to extend between a sensor beam and a bumper beam of a vehicle. The sensor bracket assembly can include a bracket first section that is configured to be directly or indirectly connected to the bumper beam. The sensor bracket assembly can also include a bracket second section that is configured to be directly or indirectly connected to the sensor beam. The sensor bracket assembly can further include a spacer section that projects from the bracket first section and is configured to extend towards but be spaced from one of the bracket second section and the bumper beam.
US09932003B2
An in-vehicle power supply apparatus for supplying operating power to a microcomputer is configured such that the microcomputer can securely enter into a standby state in a case where a voltage supplied from an in-vehicle power source is interrupted. The in-vehicle power supply apparatus according to the invention generates a second voltage to be supplied to a control IC and the like other than the microcomputer and a third voltage to be supplied to the microcomputer, and, in a case where the second voltage is reduced, the in-vehicle power supply apparatus transmits a reset signal and bypasses the second voltage to an input of the third voltage.
US09932002B2
A wire harness includes a power source line and a signal line which connect a control ECU for controlling motor units disposed on each seat of a vehicle, switch units for operating the motor units and the motor units to each other. Drive connectors in which drive circuits for driving the motor units are incorporated are provided to terminals of the wire harness on a motor units side. Signal connectors for transmitting operation signals indicative of states of the switch units are mounted on terminals of the wire harness on a switch units side. The drive connectors and the signal connectors are provided as parts separate from each other, and the control ECU, the drive connectors and the signal connectors are provided that multiplex communication is possible among them through the signal line.
US09931998B2
A vehicle window control panel for controlling a plurality of vehicle window assemblies comprises a common window control switch and a plurality of selector interfaces. The common window control switch is configured for controlling operation of a window assembly when the window assembly occupies an active state. The plurality of selector interfaces is electrically coupled to the common window control switch, and each of the plurality of selector interfaces is associated with an associated window assembly and configured for selectively coupling the associated window assembly to the common window control switch so as to cause the associated window assembly to occupy an active state. Each of the plurality of selector interfaces is also configured for selectively decoupling the associated window assembly from the common window control switch so as to cause the associated window assembly to occupy an inactive state.
US09931997B1
A vehicle door protector is formed of a first segment, a plurality of intermediate segments, and a last segment. The axes of the segments are in axial alignment. Each segment has a leading end and a trailing end, an exterior surface and a rectangular planar passageway, and a top and a bottom. The first segment and the intermediate segments each have a radial stop extending into the passageway of an adjacent segment. The intermediate segments and the last segment each have a circumferential stop axially aligned with the radial stops. A securing strap has an inner end attached to the trailing end of the last segment. The securing strap has an outer end with a magnet to hold the vehicle door protector in an operative orientation with respect to the vehicle door to be protected.
US09931994B2
A variably positionable bicycle wheel anchor for fixing a bicycle wheel at a desired location along an elongate support rail. The bicycle wheel anchor includes a body configured to be slidingly coupled to an elongate support rail for variable, fixed positioning of the body along a length of the elongate support rail. The underside of the body has a support rail engagement surface and the upper side of the body has a bicycle wheel receiver. The wheel anchor has a deployable interference mechanism coupled to the body and having a deployed configuration in which at least a portion of the interference mechanism protrudes beyond the underside of the body for releasable engagement with the elongate support rail.
US09931984B2
Vanity mirror assemblies are provided for vehicles having a body, front seats, a rear portion behind the front seats, and a vanity mirror assembly. The vanity mirror assembly includes a housing, a light source, a display screen, and a two-way mirror. The light source is disposed in the rear portion of the vehicle. The display screen is disposed within the housing between the front seats and the light source. The two-way mirror is disposed within the housing between the light source and the display screen. The display screen is movable with the two-way mirror.
US09931983B2
A stereo camera includes a first lens and a second lens, a first light shield unit and a second light shield unit respectively provided at front sides of the first and second lenses to shield light incident on the first and second lenses, a first fan and a second fan respectively provided at the sides of the first and second lenses to defrost a windshield of a vehicle, and a front case in which the first and second light shield units are provided at both sides of a main body. The first and second light shield units are attachable to or detachable from the front case, a width of the first light shield unit is less than a length thereof and is greater than a height thereof, and a distance between the first and second lenses is greater than the width of the first light shield unit.
US09931980B1
A voice message warning device for the driver of a motor vehicle with a three button arrangement set into the front face of a plastic, anodized aluminum or stainless steel case, which once activated play a pre-set recorded message on each button warning the driver of a motor vehicle that his or her parking meter is about to expire, it's time to take a break and to check your speed.
US09931978B1
A warning sign structure includes an activating mechanism and a stretching-retracting mechanism movably joined to the activating mechanism. The stretching-retracting mechanism includes a retractable unit connected to the activating mechanism and a light emitting unit movably disposed on a top of the retractable unit. When the vehicle breaks down, the activating mechanism drives a stretching-retracting mechanism to stretch its retractable unit to an appropriate height manually or automatically and turns on a light emitting unit. The light emitting unit emits light in a high position to warn the rear-coming vehicles. The driver can also detach the stretching-retracting mechanism and use the stretching-retracting mechanism as a hand-held warning sign or a traffic baton.
US09931974B2
In a motor vehicle having motor vehicle exterior lighting devices and an operator control device, the following lighting modes of the motor vehicle exterior lighting devices can be set: deactivated, parking light, daytime running light, forwarding lighting, and automatic mode in which the motor vehicle exterior lighting devices are operated by an automatic forward light controller. The operator control device further has a single monostable operator control element by which the lighting modes can be set; or the operator control device has a monostable operator control element by which the deactivated, parking light, daytime running light and forward lighting lighting modes can be set. The operator control device has a pushbutton key or a toggle lever by which the automatic mode can be set.
US09931967B2
A vehicle seat includes: a first member; a second member; an insertion fastening structure configured to apply an axial tension to an opposed surface portion of the first member and an opposed surface portions of the second member so as to be pressed against each other; and an adjustment member. The opposed surface portion of the second member includes different surface shape portions facing respective surfaces toward directions different from an application direction of the axial tension, and the adjustment member plastically deforms the opposed surface portion of the second member such that the opposed surface portion of the second member, including the different surface shape portions, is pressed and sandwiched between the adjustment member and the opposed surface portion of the first member by the application of the axial tension.
US09931966B2
A device for rapid removal/reinstallation of a back of a seat of a vehicle, the back being attached, by at least one first strap, to a ceiling. The device includes a hanging intermediary structure and a fixed structure integral with the ceiling and retaining the structure in the use position of the seat, in which it has been brought with an upward movement, and locking the structure in the use position or unlocking it such that it is moved away from the ceiling to release the tension exerted by the first strap and allow the structure to be disengaged from the retaining unit. The back can thus be removed or reinstalled without any action on the tension setting of the strap.
US09931964B2
A vehicle classification system includes a processor programmed to determine a seated height and seated weight associated with a vehicle occupant. The processor is further programmed to assign a classification to the vehicle occupant based at least in part on a ratio of the seated weight to the seated height.
US09931962B2
Provided are a control device for an electric vehicle and a control method for an electric vehicle capable of appropriately suppressing a vibration. In the control device for an electric vehicle according to the present invention, when a torque is controlled that is generated by a motor configured to generate a torque for braking or driving a drive wheel via a speed reduction mechanism and a drive shaft coupled to the speed reduction mechanism, the torque generated by the motor is controlled based on a rotational torque command value based on an accelerator operation or a brake operation by a driver, and a vibration suppression control torque command value for suppressing a vibration component caused by a resonance of the vehicle. Then, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, the torque generated by the motor is reduced.
US09931957B2
The invention relates to a battery system (100) with a battery (20), which is designed to supply a high voltage network (70) with electric energy, and a measuring device (130) for measuring at least one insulation resistance provided between the battery (20) and a housing of the battery (20). The measuring device (130) is equipped with two measuring paths (140, 150), each of which is paired with one of two high-voltage connections (21, 22) of the battery (20), each of which comprises a series circuit that comprises a first resistor (142, 152) and a relay (145, 155), and each of which is connected between the paired high-voltage connection (21, 22) and a point (25) that has a housing potential. Furthermore, each series circuit has a semiconductor switch (147, 157). The measuring device (130) also has two functional modes in which the relays (145, 155) of the measuring paths (140, 150) are closed. When switched to a passive functional mode of the two functional modes, the measuring device (130) is designed to open each semiconductor switch (147, 157) or to keep the semiconductor switch in an open state. When switched to an active functional mode of the two functional modes, the measuring device (130) is additionally designed to alternately open and close the semiconductor switches (147, 157), to measure a first voltage which drops over the first resistor (142, 152) of each measuring path (140, 150) when the semiconductor switch (147, 157) of the corresponding measuring path (140, 150) is closed, and to determine a corresponding insulation resistance of the battery (20) using each measured first voltage.
US09931954B2
A park assist system may, in response to receiving a signal indicating that a remote inductive charge source is within a vicinity of a vehicle, transition from a park assist mode to a wireless charging mode. During the wireless charging mode, the park assist system generates instructions to assist a driver in positioning the vehicle relative to the inductive charge source.
US09931952B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed for electric vehicle wireless charging. In one aspect, a method of transferring wireless power to an electric vehicle is provided, including initiating a charging cycle comprising at least one initialization state during which a wireless power link sufficient for charging is established between the wireless power transfer system and the electric vehicle and at least one charging state during which wireless power transfer from the wireless power transfer system to the electric vehicle is performed. The method further includes generating a first timestamp indicating a start time of the wireless power transfer in response to entering the at least one charging state and generating a second timestamp indicating an end time of the wireless power transfer.
US09931949B2
A vehicle bus system includes a controller programmed to, after issuing a command to close first and second contactors, wherein the first and second contactors are arranged to share a first terminal of a battery, the first contactor is configured to power a first load when closed, and the second contactor is configured to power a second load when closed, initiate pre-charge of a second terminal of the battery in response to respective first and second voltages across the first and second contactors exceeding corresponding first and second closed-state voltage thresholds, and generate a notification and preclude initiation of the pre-charge in response to one of the first and second voltages being less than the corresponding first and second closed-state voltage thresholds.
US09931945B2
A control circuit 6 determines whether a difference between an input/output potential difference V11 and an input/output potential difference V13 when bypass switches SW1 and SW2 are again turned on is equal to or smaller than a threshold value Vth2 in a case where the control circuit 6 determines, at normal times other than an engine restart after being idle-stopped, that a difference between the input/output potential difference V11 of a bypass circuit when the bypass switches SW1 and SW2 are turned on and an input/output potential difference V12 when the bypass switch SW1 is turned on and the bypass switch SW2 is turned off is equal to or larger than a threshold value Vth1 and that the bypass switch SW1 has an open fault, and validates the determination of the open fault of the bypass switch SW1 in a case where the control circuit 6 determines that the difference between the input/output potential differences V11 and V13 is equal to or smaller than a the threshold value Vth2.
US09931941B2
The invention relates to a current transmission device for stationary charging of electrical energy stores of devices and/or for mobile supplying of electrical drive units of devices having a current transmitter which is embodied as an articulated arm system, and which can swivel between a current-transmitting extended position and a current flow interrupting retracted position, an adjusting drive interacting with the current transmitter as well as a spring system interacting with the current transmitter, wherein the adjusting drive is self-locking-free and has a switchable electromagnetic brake device.
US09931939B2
An electrical apparatus is provided including an electrical drive system and an electrical machine. The electrical machine includes a rotor, a first separate multi-phase stator winding and a second separate multi-phase stator winding. The drive system includes a first multi phase bridge inverter connected to the first multi-phase stator winding and which is adapted to be connected to a line voltage supply by a connection means when charging a battery. The apparatus further includes a second multi-phase bridge inverter connected to the second multi-phase stator winding and to the battery. A battery can be charged without the need of a specific charger and charging with galvanic isolation is provided.
US09931927B2
Containment systems are provided. In one example embodiment, a containment system is provided, the containment system comprising: a container; and a skeletal reinforcement comprised of flexible fibers.
US09931923B2
A bracket-equipped vibration-damping device including: a vibration-damping device main body including vertically-separated, elastically-connected first and second mounting members; a bracket receiving the device main body inserted laterally thereinto; a connection-insert section provided for the second mounting member; a connection groove provided for the bracket extending in an insertion direction of the device main body; at least one up-down urging rubber fixed on an outer surface of the connection-insert section on an upper-lower first side; and a lock protrusion formed on an inner surface of the connection groove on an upper-lower second side, with a smaller protrusion dimension than an up-down thickness of the up-down urging rubber such that the connection-insert section is laterally inserted into the connection groove beyond the lock protrusion before being urged to the second side by the up-down urging rubber to be positioned to the connection groove.
US09931922B2
When an insertion groove, into which various parts are inserted, is formed on a sealing member, the present disclosure may maintain a width of an opening of the insertion groove greater than or equal to a predetermined width, facilitating the insertion. A sealing member 30 includes an insertion groove S opening toward an outside of a compartment. A protruding portion 36b is formed on a side face S1 of the insertion groove S, and protrudes toward another side face S2. The protruding portion 36b is connected to the other side face R2 via a connecting portion 36c smaller in strength.
US09931916B2
A moving device includes: a moving body; guide rails extending in a moving direction of the moving body on both sides in one direction orthogonal to the moving direction and each of which has first and second guides mutually symmetrical in the one direction, and a third guide interposed between the first and second guides; connecting portions provided at both-side end portions of the moving body in the one direction and mutually symmetrical in the one direction; first and second shoes respectively mounted on the connecting portions, sliding the first and third guides and the second and third guides, and having the same shape; first and second drive belts respectively connected to the first and second shoes in the first and second guides to be integrally moved and moving and driving the first and second shoes.
US09931915B2
A sliding member includes a casing and a plate spring. The plate spring is placed in a middle accommodating portion of the casing between front and rear portions of a middle lower wall portion and a protruding portion of a middle upper wall portion constructed by a mountain-shaped wall portion and the protruding portion.
US09931898B2
A tie down apparatus for securing an item is shown and described herein. The tie down apparatus may include first and second body members, where the first body member is configured to be located and rotated about a first axis within a first receiving member and the second body member is configured to be located and rotated about a second axis within a second receiving member. The tie down apparatus may also include first and second locking members each extending through the first and second body members, respectively, where rotating the first and second body members about the respective first and second axes engages the first and second locking members and generally prevents removal of the first and second body members from the first and second receiving member, and a safety chain holding member selectively engaged with either of the first and second body members.
US09931895B2
A pneumatic tire includes a tread, sidewalls, clinches, beads, a carcass, and strips. Each bead includes a core, a first apex and a second apex, the carcass includes a carcass ply which is turned up around the core from the axially inner side toward outer side such that the carcass ply is divided into a main portion and a turn-up portion, each strip has radially inner edge positioned between the main and turn-up portions, the second apex is positioned between the turn-up portion and each clinch, each strip has outer edge positioned to correspond to or on inner side of a point of maximum width of the tire in radial direction, the second apex has outer edge positioned on radially inner side of the outer edge of each strip, and the second apex includes crosslinked rubber and has complex elastic modulus in range of from 60 MPa to 70 MPa.
US09931889B2
A heavy goods vehicle (10) having a vehicle frame (12) and at least one driving axis (A), which has on either longitudinal side (10a) of the vehicle (10) a bogie (22) comprising a wheel assembly (14), each wheel assembly (14) comprising at least two wheels arranged symmetrically in relation to a central axis (S), and a wheel suspension (18) by means of which said wheel assembly is fastened to a rotary plate (28) of the bogie (22), this rotary plate (28) being mounted on a rotary bearing (24) of the bogie (22) which is engaged with the vehicle frame (12) so as to be rotatable about a steering swivel axis (X). According to the invention, the rotary bearing (24) of the bogie (22) can be adjusted in the width direction (B) of the vehicle relative to the vehicle frame (12) and can be detachably connected to the vehicle frame (12) in an operationally stable manner.
US09931879B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet recording medium which exhibits excellent adhesiveness with respect to an ink and has excellent scratch resistance and in which density unevenness at the time of printing is suppressed, a method for manufacturing the ink jet recording medium, a printed material using the ink jet recording medium, a method for manufacturing the printed material, ornamental glass, and a roll.An ink jet recording medium of the present invention has a support and an ink receiving layer on at least one surface of the support, in which the ink receiving layer is a cured layer of a composition containing a radical polymerizable compound, a polymerization initiator, and a compound represented by Formula C-1.
US09931874B2
A mounting of a ribbon supply on a re-useable cartridge is described where the mounting is designed so that the supply friction, supply and control of the ribbon supply are substantially independent of the cartridge. When the supply rolls are initially mounted on the cartridge, the supply rolls are frictionally engaged with the cartridge to reduce the tendency for the supply rolls to rotate or move prior to being loaded into the printer, which would loosen the ribbon material by unwinding, thereby reducing slack in the ribbon material. When the cartridge is loaded into a card personalization machine, features on the card personalization machine automatically reduce the frictional engagement between the supply rolls and the cartridge, permitting the supply rolls to rotate substantially freely relative to the cartridge so that the supply friction, supply and control are substantially independent of the cartridge.
US09931869B2
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure a media transport device is described. The device includes a number of drive rollers coupled to a frame. A number of media rollers are also coupled to the frame. The media rollers are in contact with, and rotated by, the number of drive rollers. Media rollers in a first set have a first diameter and media rollers in a second set have a second diameter that is different from the first diameter. The device also includes a number of pinch rollers coupled to the frame. The pinch rollers are in contact with the number of media rollers to form a number of nips through which media passes along a feed path.
US09931862B2
A printing unit includes a thermal head, a platen roller, a head support member and a guide member. The platen roller is abutted against the thermal head with the recording sheet therebetween and rotated to feed the recording sheet. The head support member pivotably supports the thermal head around a pivot shaft so as to move the thermal head toward the platen roller. The head frame pivotably supports the head support member via the pivot shaft and rotatably supports the platen roller. The guide member guides the recording sheet between the thermal head and the platen roller. The thermal head and the guide member are positioned with respect to the head frame through the pivot shaft.
US09931858B2
A self-weight pressure control valve includes a hollow case main body with an opening, a partitioning wall dividing the case main body into first and second pressure chambers in communication with the opening, a communication opening in the partitioning wall and communicating the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber to each other, a valve rod including a rod portion inserted through the communication opening to pass the partitioning wall, and a valve portion located in the first pressure chamber, and a pressure sensitive film covering the opening of the case main body, coupled with a tip of the rod portion of the valve rod, and flexibly deformable toward the rod portion. When the pressure sensitive film is not flexibly deformed toward the rod portion, the communication opening is maintained in a closed state by the valve portion by use of a self-weight of the valve rod.
US09931857B2
An expendable supply includes a memory that stores a timing of a last warning after a recommended limit. A warning generator of a printer determines whether to generate a warning upon occurrence of certain operations. The warning generator generates a warning when the last warning generation time is not stored in the memory of the expendable supply upon detection by a printer detector, or upon the last warning generation included in a first time period is stored in the expendable supply memory at the detection by the detector and the first time period has elapsed at the detection by the detector. A warning is not generated upon the timing of the last warning generation included in the first time period is already stored in the expendable supply memory upon detection by the detector and the first time period having not elapsed at the detection by the detector.
US09931843B2
A print head includes a substrate having a hole, a circuit on the substrate, the circuit having traces and a hole corresponding to the hole in the substrate, the hole forming a fluid path, and a raised structure on the substrate around the fluid path, the raised structure positioned to seal the circuit from the fluid path.
US09931839B1
In some examples, a printhead drop detector comprises a plurality of drop detection units to detect any drops passing through a sampling volume between the radiation source and the radiation detector. A radiation detector of a first drop detection unit and a radiation source of a second drop detection unit is arranged on a first side of the sampling volume and a radiation source of the first drop detection unit and a radiation detector of the second drop detection unit is arranged on the second side of the sampling volume. The distance between the first drop detection unit and the second drop detection unit is based on an angle of a beam producible by the first radiation source such that the beam is wide enough to cross into a portion of the sampling volume corresponding with the second drop detection unit.
US09931838B2
An inkjet printing method includes: setting a first region to be printed at a constant print density within a target region to be printed; setting a second region within the target region and closer than the first region to an edge of the target region, wherein the second region is to be printed at a print density that varies according to a position; generating control data for a plurality of nozzles provided on an inkjet head in order to print the first region and the second region; and driving the inkjet head according to the control data.
US09931837B2
An example device in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure includes modules to communicate an input signal to an ink sample to obtain an ink signal, compare the ink signal to a reference value, and identify an indicator of nozzle chamber operation corresponding to the ink signal. A module may be contained on an inkjet printhead die, such that the device may generate the input signal on the inkjet printhead die.
US09931832B2
There is described a multicolor letterpress printing press, in particular a numbering press, comprising a printing group (50) with at least a first letterpress (e.g. numbering) cylinder (51) and a second letterpress cylinder (52) which are inked by an associated inking system (60, 71, 72, 81, 81 a, 81 b, 82, 82a, 82b). The inking system (60, 71, 72, 81, 81 a, 81 b, 82, 82a, 82b) comprises (i) a first inking device (81) supplying ink to a first chablon cylinder (71), (ii) at least a second inking device (82) supplying ink to a second chablon cylinder (72), and (iii) an ink-collecting cylinder (60) contacting the first and second chablon cylinders (71, 72) and the first and second letterpress cylinders (51, 52). The ink-collecting cylinder (60) collects a first ink pattern (A, D) from the first chablon cylinder (71) and a second ink pattern (B, C) from the second chablon cylinder (72). As a result, a first multicolor pattern of inks (A-D) is formed on the ink-collecting cylinder (60), which first multicolor pattern of inks (A-D) is transferred onto the first letterpress cylinder (51). The ink-collecting cylinder (60) further collects a third ink pattern (A, D) from the first chablon cylinder (71) and a fourth ink pattern (B, C) from the second chablon cylinder (72), thereby forming a second multicolor pattern of inks (A ″D) on the ink-collecting cylinder (60), which second multicolor pattern of inks (A ″D) is transferred onto the second letterpress cylinder (52).
US09931830B2
The invention pertains to a printing form and a process for preparing a polymeric printing form from a curable composition that includes a multifunctional urethane in a specified reactive group equivalent weight range, and an initiator. The process includes coating the curable composition onto a supporting substrate, such as a print cylinder, to form a layer, curing the layer with heat or by exposure to actinic radiation, and engraving the resulting cured layer to form at least one printing cell in the cured layer. The process prepares novel polymeric printing forms, particularly novel polymeric gravure printing forms, having a cured polymer-based composition layer that is engravable, resistant to solvent inks, and capable of printing gravure-quality images. The present invention shortens the time to prepare gravure printing cylinders and removes the need for and disposal of toxic heavy metals such as copper and chrome associated with conventional gravure print cylinder preparation.
US09931827B2
A structural repair includes a tell-tale optical witness that allows the health of the repair to be visually monitored. The optical witness includes a stress sensitive fluorescent dye that shows changes in local strain/stress patterns when the repair is subjected to electromagnetic energy of a particular wavelength. The dyes fluoresce more or less strongly as a function of the local stress/strain.
US09931825B2
A composite acoustic liner has a septumized cellular core. Septa are installed in the core as the individual core cells are being formed. Individual tools are used to both form the cells of the core and index the septa within the cells. The septa and the cellular core are cocured.
US09931823B2
Devices, methods and systems disclosed herein relate to the application of a protective film on a surface of an electronic device that instantly reduces air bubbles and eliminates the waiting time usually required when using a wet fluid solution. In one embodiment, a flange may be configured to couple to the protective film. The flange may aid in the accurate application of the protective film to the electronic device.
US09931819B2
The present invention relates to a vacuum insulation board (1) comprising: a hermetically closed covering (3) in which the pressure is lower than atmospheric pressure, a core material (5) made of organic aerogel placed inside said covering (3), said organic aerogel being based on a resin resulting at least in part from polyhydroxybenzene(s) R and formaldehyde(s) F, said organic aerogel being a polymeric monolithic organic gel comprising at least one water-soluble cationic polyelectrolyte, or said organic aerogel being a pyrolysate of said gel in the form of a porous carbon monolith comprising the product of the pyrolysis of said at least one water-soluble cationic polyelectrolyte P, said organic aerogel exhibiting a specific thermal conductivity of between 10 and 40 mW·m−1·K−1 at atmospheric pressure.
US09931816B2
A glass roll reliably prevents a glass film from breaking from an end surface of the glass film as an origin of breakage. The glass roll is formed by winding the glass film into a roll while superposing the glass film on a protective sheet. The glass film is formed by an overflow downdraw method to have a thickness of 1 μm or more and 200 μm or less, and has each end surface in a width direction formed as a cut surface cut by laser splitting.
