US09931811B2
Adhering systems for magnetizable laminates to assist preventing delamination of magnetizable laminates exposed to direct sunlight; and, relating to preventing fouling of cutting blades during cutting of magnetizable laminates.
US09931808B1
The invention relates generally to carrier materials. More specifically, the present invention relates to silicon-free thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) materials for use in carrier devices. In some embodiments, a textured film to temporarily immobilize a device is provided, characterized in that a surface of the film in contact with the one or more objects is comprised of textured topology.
US09931804B2
A method of forming a decorated midsole element for articles of footwear includes obtaining a decorated film having one or more graphic elements applied to a first surface of the film and placing the decorated film in a mold. A midsole element is obtained and placed in the mold, and pressure is applied to the mold to form a midsole element having a decorated surface. The decorated film may include a layer of polyether-block co-polyamide polymer and the midsole element may be formed of ethylvinylacetate. A midsole assembly and an article of footwear having decorated midsole top layers are also described.
US09931802B2
A method and system for manufacturing a tire tread with lugs, the tread having a tread base, and a number of lugs projecting upwards from the tread base; the method having the steps of: preparing a green-rubber blank tread of constant thickness; applying rubber blocks to the areas of the blank tread where the lugs are to be formed, each block varying lengthwise in cross section, so it is thinner at the center and thicker at the side; and curing the blank tread, together with the blocks, in a curing mold negatively reproducing the pattern of the tread.
US09931796B2
In accordance with the present disclosure, there is provided a method for producing an interior trim part. The method includes introducing a planar heating element into a cavity of a mold tool. The planar heating element has a first planar side facing away from a visible side of the interior trim part and a second planar side opposite to the first planar side, the mold tool has a plurality of protrusions protruding into the cavity, and the first planar side is seated on at least a portion of the plurality of protrusions. The method further includes adding a foam material into the cavity to cover the planar heating element, such that a foam layer is formed on both the first and second planar sides.
US09931795B2
An assembly and method for infusing composite material with liquid resin to form a composite part with a smooth outer mold line (OML) surface and a complex inner mold line (IML) surface. The method may include placing a flow media into a deepest tier of a two-tiered recess in a rigid tool, placing a perforated caul sheet into a shallowest tier of the two-tiered recess, and placing uninfused composite material over the perforated caul sheet. Next, the method may include placing an impermeable membrane over the composite material and sealing the impermeable membrane to the rigid tool. Finally, the method may include vacuuming air from a vacuum port of the impermeable membrane to compress the impermeable membrane toward the composite material and the rigid tool, thus pull liquid resin from a resin reservoir, through the flow media, through the perforations of the caul sheet, and throughout the composite material.
US09931792B2
A powder recycling machine includes a casing, a powder collector, a dust-sucking system and a dust-removing system. An accommodation space within the casing is divided into a first space and a second space by a partition plate. The powder collector is disposed within the first space for collecting excess powder from the first space. The dust-sucking system includes a connector, a cyclone separator and a first suction device. The connector, the cyclone separator, the first suction device and the powder collector are sequentially in communication with each other through plural transmission ducts. The dust-removing system includes a second suction device. The first space, the second suction device and the powder collector are sequentially in communication with each other through plural guiding ducts. After the excess powder suspended in the first space is introduced into the dust-removing system, the excess powder is transferred to the powder collector.
US09931790B2
A method and system for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) planning is disclosed. An anatomical surface model of the aortic valve is estimated from medical image data of a patient. Calcified lesions within the aortic valve are segmented in the medical image data. A combined volumetric model of the aortic valve and calcified lesions is generated. A 3D printed model of the heart valve and calcified lesions is created using a 3D printer. Different implant device types and sizes can be placed into the 3D printed model of the aortic valve and calcified lesions to select an implant device type and size for the patient for a TAVI procedure. The method can be similarly applied to other heart valves for any type of heart valve intervention planning.
US09931785B2
There is provided improved laser sintering systems that increase the powder density and reduce anomalies of the powder layers that are sintered, that measure the laser power within the build chamber for automatic calibration during a build process, that deposit powder into the build chamber through a chute to minimize dusting, and that scrubs the air and cools the radiant heaters with recirculated scrubbed air. The improvements enable the laser sintering systems to make parts that are of higher and more consistent quality, precision, and strength, while enabling the user of the laser sintering systems to reuse greater proportions of previously used but unsintered powder.
US09931783B2
A vacuum forming apparatus includes a die set including an upper die and a lower die. The upper die is configured to move in a horizontal direction from a normal position at which the upper die is initially set. The lower die includes a suction channel through which a vacuum is applied to a cover. The lower die is opposite the upper die that is at the normal position. The upper die is configured to move from the normal position to a space lateral to the lower die so as not to face the lower die after the die set is opened, and return to the normal position before the die set is closed. The lower die is configured to move downward during opening of the die set and upward during closing thereof. The die set is configured to form the base member with the cover into a predetermined shape.
US09931779B2
An extrusion die is provided with an adjustable end seal assembly. The extrusion die includes a die body, and the adjustable end seal assembly includes an end seal device and a wedge mechanism. The adjustable end seal assembly has an engaged configuration and a disengaged configuration. When in the engaged configuration, the adjustable end seal assembly is held forcibly against the die body. When in the disengaged configuration, the adjustable end seal assembly is either spaced apart from the die body or held against the die body with less force than when in the engaged configuration. Methods of operating such an extrusion die are also provided.
US09931775B2
Wings are provided on mold components and linear ways are provided below these wings. A pad rides on each linear way below each wing. A force generator, such as a spring, is disposed between each wing and underlying pad. In this way the weight of the mold components is borne, at least in part, by the linear ways so that the weight on components that might otherwise sag is lessened.
US09931766B2
A method to make sawing beads by means of laser cladding is disclosed whereby metal matrix powder is molten by means of a laser beam on a rotating sleeve while diamonds are thrown in the molten metal pool. By carefully controlling the temperature of the molten metal pool at or above 1150° C. for less than 200 ms the internal graphitization of the diamonds can be limited. Although some of the diamonds in the sawing bead show internal graphitization it is demonstrated by the inventors that a sawing cord using the bead obtained by the method has an above standard sawing performance.
US09931754B1
A dual shaving razor assembly includes an arched central main body and first and second pairs of legs extending down from first and second sides of the main body, respectively, the legs of each pair being in spaced relation to each other. Each pair includes a securing arrangement for securing a shaving cartridge having blades thereto such that each shaving cartridge is adapted to pivot relative to the main body. First and second flexible and resilient wings extend from the first and second sides, respectively, of the main body between the first and second pairs of legs to a position immediately above a respective shaving cartridge held by the respective pair of legs. The wings are adapted to engage an upper surface of the respective cartridge to pivot the shaving cartridge relative to the main body upon application of an external force to the respective flexible and resilient wing.
US09931741B2
A power driven in-line disposable torque-limiting device having a tool shaft extending axially through upper and lower shanks, and a spring to connect to a nut and a drive shaft, the tool shaft extending from the distal end of the device and a drive shaft extending from the proximal end of the device which mates with a power supply to provide rotational force, is disclosed. The face-to-floor gears within the device provide superior heat management capabilities, thereby reducing ablation and melting as compared to traditional gear arrangements. A fortified connector mount supports a power driven shaft.
US09931734B2
The present disclosure provides a carrier disk for holding at least one cutting, grinding or polishing element in a floor grinding machine. The carrier disk comprises a carrier body having a downwardly exposed face, at which the grinding element is arranged, a opening formed in the carrier body and a plurality of flanges extending axially from the carrier body and between the opening and a radially outer edge of the carrier body.
US09931731B2
This invention relates to compressed composite backing materials (e.g., compressed polymer impregnated backing substrates) and coated abrasive articles that include such compressed composite backing materials. This invention also relates to methods of making and using said compressed composite backing materials and coated abrasive articles. The claimed processes and systems related to the use and manufacturing of coated abrasive articles are improved and cost effective.
US09931729B2
Polishing pads with grooved foundation layers and polishing surface layers are described. In an example, a polishing pad for polishing a substrate includes a foundation layer having a pattern of grooves disposed therein. A continuous polishing surface layer is attached to the pattern of grooves of the foundation layer. In another example, a polishing pad for polishing a substrate includes a foundation layer with a surface having a pattern of protrusions disposed thereon. Each protrusion has a top surface and sidewalls. A non-continuous polishing surface layer is attached to the foundation layer and includes discrete portions. Each discrete portion is attached to the top surface of a corresponding one of the protrusions of the foundation layer. Methods of fabricating polishing pads with a polishing surface layer bonded to a grooved foundation layer are also described.
US09931716B2
A solder alloy is a tin-silver-copper solder alloy substantially consisting of tin, silver, copper, bismuth, nickel, cobalt, and indium. With respect to the total amount of the solder alloy, the content ratio of the silver is 2 mass % or more and 5 mass % or less; the content ratio of the copper is 0.1 mass % or more and 1 mass % or less; the content ratio of the bismuth is 0.5 mass % or more and 4.8 mass % or less; the content ratio of the nickel is 0.01 mass % or more and 0.15 mass % or less; the content ratio of the cobalt is 0.001 mass % or more and 0.008 mass % or less; the content ratio of the indium is above 6.2 mass % and 10 mass % or less; and the content ratio of the tin is the remaining ratio.
US09931713B2
Laser systems and methods improve the processing velocity of the routs or other features to avoid exceeding the laser system's dynamic limits. A laser processing system divides laser processing commands corresponding to a plurality of features to be processed on or in the workpiece into process segments. Laser processing parameters and beam trajectories are simulated to determine a maximum processing velocity for each of the process segments. The laser processing system selects one or more of the maximum processing velocities for processing the plurality of features on or within the workpiece. A slowest processing velocity of the maximum processing velocities may be used to process each of the plurality of features. Alternatively, each continuous rout sequence may be processed using a different processing velocity. In other embodiments, each process segment is processed using its corresponding maximum processing velocity.
US09931707B2
In embodiments, a welding apparatus includes an automated wire feed mechanism to output wire at a wire feed rate, where the wire is to provide a welding arc to a weld site. The wire feed rate is based at least in part on selected power to be provided to the weld site. Additional embodiments are described and claimed.
US09931703B2
A starting hole for milling in a surface of a workpiece by a CNC milling machine with a milling cutter mounted to a rotating spindle is created by milling a first hole at a first diameter to a first depth into the workpiece along the axis of the starting hole; and then successively milling a second hole at a second diameter to a second depth into the workpiece along the axis of the starting hole, wherein the second diameter is smaller than the first diameter. One or more additional holes may be successively milled to additional depths at successively smaller diameters.
US09931699B2
A recess surface portion 123 is formed in a predetermined range L1 from a front end 103 toward a rear end, of a lateral flank 120 of a front end portion 102 of a holder 100, so as to be recessed relative to a lateral flank 120b of a rear portion 122, a circular arc surface portion (frontward-facing surface) 125 formed in a circular arc shape as seen from a rake face 105 side is provided on the rear of the recess surface portion 123, and an ejection port 150 is opened in the frontward-facing surface. Accordingly, supply of the coolant at the lateral flank side is ensured, and cutting can be performed at a position closer to a chuck Ck due to no protruding portion being present at the lateral flank side of the holder as in the conventional art.
US09931695B2
An article and a method for making shaped cooling holes in an article are provided. The method includes the steps of depositing a metal alloy powder to form an initial layer including at least one aperture, melting the metal alloy powder with a focused energy source to transform the powder layer to a sheet of metal alloy, sequentially depositing an additional layer of the metal alloy powder to form a layer including at least one aperture corresponding to the at least one aperture in the initial layer, melting the additional layer of the metal alloy powder with the focused energy source to increase the sheet thickness, and repeating the steps of sequentially depositing and melting the additional layers of metal alloy powder until a structure including at least one aperture having a predetermined profile is obtained. The structure is attached to a substrate to make the article.
US09931684B2
A draw die for use in a draw stage configured to process a work piece in a forming operation is provided. The draw die includes a first segment, a second segment positioned adjacent to the first segment, and an isolation material positioned between the first segment and the second segment and configured to substantially isolate the second segment from ultrasonic vibrations of the first segment.
US09931682B2
A spinning forming device includes: a receiving jig supporting a central portion of a plate to be formed; and a rotating shaft to which the receiving jig is attached. The spinning forming device also includes: a heater configured to locally heat a transform target portion of the plate by induction heating; and a processing tool configured to press the transform target portion to transform the plate. The spinning forming device further includes a pair of holding rollers configured to sandwich an outside portion of the plate, the outside portion being located outside the transform target portion.
US09931676B2
A tunnel-type machine to wash objects comprises a containing structure which internally delimits a work volume and is provided with at least an entrance door to feed the objects in a loading direction. The work volume comprises at least two processing chambers contiguous in the loading direction, a single separation door is provided between the two processing chambers, and is mobile through a passage aperture of the containing structure. At least a front packing is provided between the two processing chambers, and at least an upper packing is provided at the passage aperture, and the separation door is configured to contact, in a closed and separated position of the two chambers, both the front packing and the upper packing.
US09931672B2
The present invention relates to side tensioning assemblies for retaining screen media to the side plates of a vibrating-type screening machine. The side tensioning assembly includes a tensioning rail and at least one angle box mountable to a side plate. At least one bolt assembly provided for fastening the tensioning rail to the side plate and to angle box. Bolt assembly is provided with is a shoulder bolt that is secured to a terminal end of the bolt. The angle box includes an aperture sized to allow the bolt assembly passage therethrough, and a movable plate with a cutout. The cutout is sized larger than the bolt but smaller than a nut. The movable plate has a bolt-securing position and a bolt-releasing position to allow access to the aperture in the angle box such that the bolt assembly can be detached from the angle box without being disassembled.
US09931671B2
There is provided a piezoelectric vibration actuator including: a flat cover member; a vibration portion including a vibration plate that is spaced apart from the cover member in parallel by a predetermined distance and a piezoelectric element that generates a vibration force by repeatedly expanding and contracting according to power applied from the outside; a weight portion disposed on the vibration portion to increase the vibration force of the piezoelectric element; and a binding member fixing the vibration portion and the weight portion.In addition, an enclosure portion is interposed between the weight portion and the vibration portion to enclose the center areas of the vibration portion, thereby making it possible to protect the piezoelectric element.
US09931668B2
A method of lining an interior wall of a pipe is provided. Casting equipment such as a spin caster is used to centrifugally cast material onto the interior wall while the pipe is partially filled with liquid so as to form a coating on the wall above the liquid. In some embodiments the method further comprises diverting liquid from the pipe after the casting step, and then lining the wall of the pipe below the coating with material to form a continuous lining on the wall.
US09931662B2
A method for quickly replacing an air outlet pipe of an air blow gun includes providing a gun body, a C-shaped clamping ring, a rotation knob and a nozzle head, and rotating the rotation knob to rotate the clamping ring, moving the oblique guide faces of each of the clamping jaws of the clamping ring to touch the resting portions of each of the arcuate slots of the mounting head of the gun body, pressing outward each of the clamping jaws of the clamping ring, releasing the clamping jaws of the clamping ring from the locking groove of the nozzle head, detaching the nozzle head from the clamping ring, and detaching the nozzle head from the mounting head of the gun body. Thus, the nozzle head is detached from the gun body quickly.
US09931661B2
A mask for depositing a thin film and a thin film deposition method using the same are disclosed. The mask includes pattern bars disposed on a frame. The pattern bars are moveable and are position to form a deposition pattern. The mask includes a pattern modification mechanism configured to move the pattern bars to a plurality of positions to modify the deposition pattern.
US09931644B2
A system for automatically processing a biological specimen is provided that includes an elevator comprising a plurality of shelves configured to receive a plurality of sample trays. The trays may comprise a plurality of sample containers containing a sample and having a plurality of respective caps engaged therewith. The trays may further include a plurality of centrifuge tube racks each containing a plurality of centrifuge tubes. The system may include a first transport mechanism, a second transport mechanism and a third transport mechanism. The system may include a chain-of-custody device configured to read identifiers on each of the containers. The system may also include a pipetting device configured to remove a portion from the sample containers and dispense the sample into the centrifuge tubes.
US09931641B2
The present invention is an air purification method and device. Due to the lower airflow resistance that the present invention induces, an exhaust fan or blower with motor of lower torque is adopted. Consequently, the whole air purification is operated at a lower noise level. Lower operational voltage is applicable for the high-voltage electrostatic precipitator device and provides a similar or superior performance and effectiveness for dust removal. The air purification device/system is designed with higher flexibility and of more compact in dimension and size. Dust is removed from the environment by a high voltage electrostatic precipitator. The airflow stream within a high-voltage electrostatic precipitator is such that the direction of the path of the airflow is changed at least twice.
US09931640B2
Magnetic filter systems may be constructed with various arrangements of permanent magnets, including but not limited to checkerboard and spiral arrangements. When coupled to a conventional filter, exemplary magnetic filter systems capture ferrous particulates against the outer wall of the conventional filter by magnetic attraction, thereby reducing the number of particulates in a fluid stream and improving the quality of the filtered fluid.
US09931639B2
A fragmenter provides fragmentation of frangible blast media entrained in a subsonic flow. The flow is converged prior to reaching a fragmenting element, and the convergence may be followed by a constant cross-section area section. Immediately upstream and downstream of the fragmenting element may be an expansion area to reduce the potential of water ice buildup.
US09931628B2
A manual pipette includes a manual volume adjustment having three discreet resolutions. The pipette uses three rotatable step cylinders and one non-rotatable cylinder to set the overall stroke length for the piston. The step cylinders are rotated by manual dials that are accessible on either side of the pipette body. The dial bodies include numerical scales corresponding to the setting of the respective step cylinders.
US09931617B2
The present invention concerns a hydrotreatment catalyst comprising a support, at least one metal selected from group VIB and at least one metal selected from group VIII of the periodic table, the quantity of metal from group VIB, expressed as the oxides, being in the range 6% to 25% by weight with respect to the total catalyst weight, the quantity of metal from group VIII, expressed as the oxides, being in the range 0.5% to 7% by weight with respect to the total catalyst weight, the support comprising at least 90% by weight of alumina, in which said alumina is obtained from a mixed and extruded boehmite gel, and in which the specific surface area of said catalyst is in the range 60 to 250 m2/g.
US09931609B1
The invention provides a composite of silver nanoparticles decorated with graphene quantum dots (Ag-GQDs) using pulsed laser synthesis. The nanocomposites were functionalized with polyethylene glycol (PEG). A concentration of 150 μg/mL of Ag-GQDs, a non-toxic level for human cells, exhibits strong antibacterial activity against both Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria.
US09931607B2
The invention provides a new apparatus (20) and method for producing entirely new types of nanoparticles exhibiting novel properties. The apparatus comprises a vacuum chamber (22) containing a gas and feed means (1) for feeding a liquid jet (26) into the chamber and through the gas. The invention extends to the new types of nanoparticles per se, and to uses of such nanoparticles in various biomedical applications, such as in therapy and diagnosis, as well as in opto-electronics.
US09931604B2
An apparatus for performing sonication on liquid samples comprises a rack for holding an array of sample vials, an ultrasonic probe with an arrangement of recesses corresponding to the array of sample vials and adapted to respectively receive and contact an outer surface of a bottom portion of a respective one of the sample vials, and a counter-holder with an arrangement of pushing members corresponding to the array of sample vials and adapted to respectively apply a force to a respective one of the sample vials so as to push the bottom portion of each vial into contact with the associated recess of the probe. The apparatus can be used in a method of preparing a sample for detection of cell components (e.g. cell analyte, proteins, nucleid acids etc.) and applying sonication within certain parameter ranges which can provide a universal lysis method that can be applied to a large variety of cells or organisms like all bacteria, viruses, spores, yeast and mold within the same apparatus and process.
US09931602B1
An apparatus and method for increasing the mass transfer of a treatment substance into a liquid flowing in a pipe in a full pipe flow regime has a diversion conduit which receives a portion of the liquid. The portion of the liquid is mixed with a treatment substance and then reintroduced into the pipe at a downstream location through an injection structure. Between the diversion conduit, on the upstream side, and the injection structure, on the downstream side, there are a plurality of flow vanes disposed circumferentially about a cylindrical inner wall of the pipe, where each flow vane extends radially inward toward a central axis of the pipe, extending into the main stream flow of the liquid. Another embodiment of the invention has a flow grid located downstream of the injection structure.
US09931600B2
A mixing assembly includes an inlet, an outlet and a mixing chamber, the inlet is fluidly connected to the outlet through a plurality of micro fluid flow paths in a direction perpendicular from the inlet. The micro fluid flow paths fluidly connect to the perpendicular inlet via a transition portion. The micro fluid flow paths are constructed radially inwardly to a concentration area in the mixing chamber. By directing multiple fluid flows to a concentrated area within the mixing chamber at high speeds, the energy dissipated at the point of collision is maximized, which helps to increase consistency and quality of mixing, and to reduce particle size of the fluid in the mixing chamber.
US09931599B2
A delay system for a stirring machine includes a plurality of vertical stirring augers, supported to a cross tube, with each auger having a tilt switch. A gear motor is connected to the cross tube and moves the cross tube forwardly around a bin. A delay assembly is connected to the tilt switches and the gear motor. The delay assembly shuts off the gear motor when the stirring augers are vertically displaced and starts the gear motor after a time delay once the stirring augers return to a vertical position.
US09931596B2
An emissions treatment system for an exhaust stream of an internal combustion engine including hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides is provided. The disclosed system can include an exhaust conduit in fluid communication with the internal combustion engine via an exhaust manifold; a first three-way conversion catalyst (TWC-1) located downstream of the internal combustion engine in the exhaust conduit; an SCR-HCT catalyst comprising a selective catalytic reduction catalyst and a hydrocarbon trap downstream of the TWC-1 in the exhaust conduit; and a third catalyst downstream of the SCR-HCT combination in the exhaust conduit, the third catalyst comprising a platinum group metal (PGM) e.g., in an amount effective to oxidize hydrocarbons. Methods of making and using such systems and components thereof are also provided.
US09931594B2
A process for removing acid gases from a water vapor-containing fluid stream comprises a) providing an absorption liquid which is incompletely miscible with water; b) treating the fluid stream in an absorption zone with the absorption liquid to obtain an acid gas-depleted treated fluid stream and an acid gas-loaded absorption liquid; c) directing the treated fluid stream to a rehydration zone and treating the fluid stream with an aqueous liquid to volatilize at least part of the aqueous liquid; d) regenerating the loaded absorption liquid to expel the acid gases at least in part and obtain a regenerated absorption liquid, and directing the regenerated absorption liquid to step b); and e) separating, from the absorption liquid, an aqueous liquid that has condensed in the absorption zone, and directing the aqueous liquid to step c). The process allows for an efficient removal of water accumulated in the absorption liquid system.
US09931589B2
A filter cartridge for operatively engaging a spool valve manifold having an ejection cam and an insertion cam. The filter cartridge includes a filter element and inlet/outlet portion in fluid communication with the filter element.
US09931583B2
A rectification column for multi-component mixture separation with internal heat and mass exchange, which ensures a heat and mass exchange in the film mode with internal reflux generation along the whole length of heat and mass exchange tubes and which allows for an increased efficiency, is proposed. The rectification column includes the rectifying/enriching section with the heat and mass exchange in its tubular and annular spaces being topped by a heat carrier distributor with a distributor chamber (17) on top of the heat carrier distributor in such a way that a higher pressure of fluid heat carrier in the distributor chamber (17) than in the annular space is allowed. The design of the distributor allows to separate an upper outlet for heat carrier vapors and a lower outlet for liquid heat carrier from the annular space completely from the fluid supply of fluid heat carrier in the distributor chamber. A feed-in device allows the multi-component mixture to enter the tubular spaces from below. A device for liquid phase (from the multi-component mixture) discharge from the rectification column. A heating medium vessel may be connected to the annular space and steam condenser of the heat carrier medium. One or more additional lower rectification section/s (19) with the heat and mass exchange in its tubular space of the tubes being aligned with the tubes may be provided directly below the enriching section. A steaming section, wherein the tubes and may be equipped with turbulators. The rectification column permits to extract intermediate fractions of the separated mixture with the help of appropriate devices installed below the enriching section.
US09931582B2
Disclosed is a process for use with flue gas having a moisture content M. The flue gas is introduced to strong brine adapted to exothermically absorb moisture. Simultaneously, heat is withdrawn. This produces heat, water-enriched brine and a gas having a moisture concentration less than M. The strong brine can be recovered by distillation from enriched brine to produce water. The brine temperature throughout absorption can remain within 2° F. of a temperature T in the range 220° F.-300° F. The heat withdrawal can be associated with gas-liquid phase change of a working fluid. The terminus of the heat flow can be associated with gas-liquid phase change of the working fluid. The working fluid can: as liquid, flow only by gravity, convection or wicking; and, as gas, flow only by diffusion or convection. The heat flow can drive a boiler producing steam. M can be greater than 15 wt. % water.
US09931575B2
In order to achieve the object, disclosed is a dart game apparatus for recording a moving picture of a part during a dart game. The dart game apparatus includes: a camera unit for recording the dart game; a touch unit for sensing that a dart game player is ready for throwing a dart; and a controller for controlling the camera unit, wherein the controller allows the camera unit to start recording at the time when the touch unit senses that the dart game player is ready for throwing the dart.An object of the present invention is to store or transmit only small-capacity data by recording only a part of a dart game or selecting and storing or transmitting only a part of an image of an entire dart game to reduce a burden in storing and transmitting data and remarkably reduce a time for verifying the data.
US09931561B2
An athletic garment is provided that has a plurality of fabric panels sewn together to form pants. The pants have a continuous interior cavity with a pair of leg portions each terminating at a leg opening. The pants have a front face and a rear face. A waistband is sewn to an upper edge of the pants. A fabric pouch is provided for containing an athletic support cup, and this pouch is disposed within the interior cavity of the pants proximate to the front face. The pouch is attached to the waistband by a top attachment panel, and it is attached to the front face of the pants on right and left sides of the pouch by side wing attachment panels. The side wing attachment panels are spaced apart from each other so as to leave a tip portion of the pouch unattached.
US09931557B1
A golf chipping and putting training device supports a bucket at an angle for a golfer to practice chipping golf balls. The device includes a base support assembly configured to adjustably support the bucket at a selected angle. The device has a frontal face with a lower opening that is designed to simulate a true 4¼ inch green cup hole. A target assembly presents a target in the bucket opening. Depending on the clip mount, the flag is either static mounted or may act as a signal flag that is operable in response to a golf ball striking the target.
US09931552B2
Provided are tubular carbon fiber reinforced composite material and having excellent cylindrical bending strength and a golf club shaft using the same. This tubular carbon fiber reinforced composite material is formed by laminating and curing a straight layer and a bias layer. The straight layer comprises carbon fibers S coated with a sizing agent S and arranged in parallel in a direction of −20° to +20° with respect to the axis of the tubular body, and contains a thermosetting resin S. The bias layer comprises carbon fibers B coated with a sizing agent B and arranged in parallel in a direction of +25° to +65° with respect to the axis of the tubular body, and contains a thermosetting resin B. The carbon fiber reinforced composite material constituting the bias layer has an interlaminar shear strength of not less than 110 MPa. A cured product of the thermosetting resin S has an elastic modulus of not less than 4.0 GPa.
US09931545B1
A sports apparel top is adapted with an integral generally tubular, flexible sleeve affixed for holding and dispensing tennis balls. The sleeve defines first end forming a ball-receiving inlet disposed at the shoulder portion of the apparel, and a second end forming a ball-dispensing outlet disposed at the side of the apparel proximal the wearer's waistline. This configuration allows a tennis player to insert tennis balls into the sleeve inlet, and to retrieve tennis balls from the sleeve outlet using his/her free left hand. The sleeve may further be adapted with external loops that may be employed to hold a tennis racket by insertion of the handle end therein.
US09931541B2
In a hand paddle (1) comprising a plastic element (10) and at least one attachment element (16) used to attach the hand paddle (1) to swimmer's hand, the flat element (10) is fabric (11) padded along a periphery or rim (12) at least at the front (17) and along the sides (18) by a stiffening element (20). In particular, the stiffening element, around the swimmer's hand, is horseshoe-shaped or flattened-arch-shaped.
US09931529B2
A push up device includes a support device including a base for positioning on the floor, side supports and a top. A control device at the top includes a push up counter, a timer, and/or an audio signaling device. The support device includes adjustable arms which adjust the relative height between the top and the base. Hand supports extend from opposite sides of the support device. In one embodiment, the hand supports are removably mounted from the support device.
US09931522B2
Methods and system for facilitating rapid radiation treatments are provided herein and relate in particular to radiation generation and delivery, electron source design, beam control and shaping/intensity-modulation. The methods and systems described herein are particularly advantageous when used with a compact high-gradient, very high energy electron (VHEE) accelerator and delivery system (and related processes) capable of treating patients from multiple beam directions with great speed, using all-electromagnetic or radiofrequency deflection steering is provided; or when used with a high-current electron accelerator system of energy range more conventionally used in photon radiation therapy to produce much faster delivery of intensity-modulated photon radiation therapy, that can in both cases deliver an entire dose or fraction of high-dose radiation therapy sufficiently fast to freeze physiologic motion, yet with a equal or better degree of dose conformity or sculpting compared to conventional photon therapy.
US09931515B2
A powered case is provided that includes a case, configured to hold an electroactive medical device with an integrated battery; an energizing system, configured to provide electric energy; and an energy transfer system, configured to receive energy from the energizing system; and to transfer the received energy to the integrated battery of the electroactive medical device. Further, a medical device system is provided that can include an electroactive medical device, including an integrated battery; and a powered case, including a case, configured to hold the electroactive medical device with the integrated battery; an energizing system, configured to provide electric energy; and an energy transfer system, configured to receive energy from the energizing system; and to transfer the received energy to the integrated battery of the electroactive medical device.
US09931513B2
A connector assembly, and its method of assembly, for use in a medical device for connecting an IPG to a connector assembly for connecting the IPG to a relatively large plurality of electrodes that can support 24 or more stimulation channels for stimulating one or more stimulation regions of a patient. Also the IPG and the stimulation system and the stimulation therapy utilizing the connector assembly.
US09931508B2
Neurostimulator devices using a machine learning method implementing a gaussian process optimization
Neurostimulator devices are described comprising: a stimulation assembly connectable to a plurality of electrodes, wherein the plurality of electrodes are configured to stimulate a spinal cord; one or more sensors; and at least one processor configured to modify at least one complex stimulation pattern deliverable by the plurality of electrodes by integrating data from the one or more sensors and performing a machine learning method implementing a Gaussian Process Optimization on the at least one complex stimulation pattern. Methods of use are also described.
US09931499B2
A method and apparatus for iontophoretically administering an anesthetic medicament and simultaneously providing electroanesthesia to a patient is provided. The apparatus comprises a generator operable to produce an electrical current comprised of a direct current superimposed with either an alternating current or a pulsed direct current. A conductive mask is configured to cover the anesthetic medicament applied to a treatment area on the skin of the patient, wherein the conductive mask includes an electrical contact connectable to the generator for receiving the electrical current such that the conductive mask functions as an electrode. One or more additional electrodes are applied to the skin of the patient, wherein each of the additional electrodes is connectable to the generator for receiving the electrical current. At least one of the additional electrodes may comprise a conductive applicator for a cosmetic treatment device.
US09931486B2
The invention provides a catheter (1) which is movable between an un-expanded and an expanded configuration by use of an advancing mechanism (20). The advancing mechanism facilitates safe and non-contaminated use of the catheter.
US09931482B2
A seal for a gas treatment hood assembly is disclosed. The hood assembly is placeable over a user's head for treating a user with a gas such as oxygen. The assembly may have a neck ring around a user's neck with an elastomeric, tubular neck seal with one end of the neck seal connected to the neck ring and the other end configured to fit around the user's neck. The neck seal may have a double sealing element construction and may also have variable thickness along a sidewall for enhanced structural properties and improved patient comfort. The seal and hood assembly may be used in providing oxygen to a patient in a hyperbaric chamber.
US09931477B2
An apparatus provides feedback regarding the material in which tip of the apparatus is located as the tip is advanced into matter of varying resistances. The apparatus responds to a change in pressure, force, or other parameter such that when the tip reaches matter of a certain resistance, a change in the parameter is sensed. The apparatus provides a driving force to a penetrating medical device, such as a needle, when the apparatus tip encounters material of high resistance. When the apparatus tip encounters a low resistance material, no further driving force is applied to the apparatus. An inner core may be advanced into the low resistance material for deployment of a gas or a liquid as desired.
US09931474B2
The present invention relates to a device for removing delivery member shields which are intended to cover and protect delivery members, said device comprising a remover body arranged to accommodate a delivery member in its interior. The invention is characterized in that the remover body comprises at least two sets of gripping members extending into its interior and wherein each set of gripping members is configured for gripping a certain type of delivery member shield.
US09931470B2
An auto-injector device for administering a liquid pharmaceutical composition, in which an end-user can select between doses that the device is capable of delivering. The end-user choices that translate into the selected doses can be based on end-user perceived severity of symptoms, end-user weight and other such factors. In some embodiments the auto-injector is configured to administer the one chosen dose only. In other embodiments, the auto-injector can deliver second and subsequent doses up to full dose of the pharmaceutical composition disposed in the injector. The auto-injector can provide visual, audio, and tactile feedback, alone or in combination, to the user to indicate the dose selected, instructions for use, and when the dose has been administered.
US09931456B2
An extracorporeal treatment assembly including a pump and a controller wherein an extracorporeal circuit is mounted to the assembly, the controller causes the assembly to: control the pump to pump liquid through the passage and the flow coupling; collect actual fluid pressure data; store circuit type data uniquely corresponding to a certain type of extracorporeal circuit; determine a dimension of the certain type of extracorporeal circuit; determine an expected fluid pressure for the certain type of extracorporeal circuit; based on a comparison of the actual fluid pressure data and the expected fluid pressure, determine whether the certain type of extracorporeal circuit corresponds to the actual extracorporeal circuit.
US09931449B2
An electrical breast pump may include a permanently unobstructed continuous passageway across the diaphragm and a rolling diaphragm that is movable between a vent orientation and a vacuum orientation, or a vent piston configured to actuate a closure between a vent orientation and a vacuum orientation so that a pressure chamber is selectively in direct communication with atmospheric pressure.
US09931447B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for rapid venting of vacuum to mitigate occlusion break surge within a phaco fluidics aspiration system. The aspiration system may utilize a positive displacement pump to generate flow and a vent valve to vent or moderate the pressure or vacuum level based on pressure sensor feedback detected within the eye and at the pump. Embodiments described herein provide a quick-opening vent valve that produces a quick-opening flow response upon angular rotation of the quick-opening vent valve. The flow performance at the quick-opening vent valve is improved by increasing the effective cross-sectional area of the valve at near-closed valve positions. In particular, the increase in the cross-sectional area is achieved by forming a concaving edge portion to complement a circular edge of and opening of a flow channel formed through the vent valve.
US09931446B2
A portable system for subatmospheric pressure therapy in connection with healing a surgical wound is provided. The system includes a wound dressing dimensioned for positioning relative to a wound bed of a subject, and a collection canister in fluid communication with the wound dressing. The canister includes a base defining a fluid receiving cavity and having a fluid inlet port and a vacuum port. The fluid inlet port is configured for fluid communication with a wound dressing, The system further includes a cover selectively engageable to the base, e.g., in a snap-fit manner. The cover is configured to receive a control unit and has a vent assembly for exhausting the control unit. A seal member is interposed relative to the base and the cover to establish and maintain a substantial sealed relationship between the two components when assembled.
US09931445B2
A system for extracting and processing adipose tissue to generate a therapeutically effective amount of adipose-derived stem cells, comprising an adipose tissue extraction device and a modified centrifuge tube comprising a plurality of lipoaspirate inlet fittings, a plurality of processing fluid inlet fittings, and a plurality of pellet extraction tubes. The adipose tissue extraction device is used to extract a quantity of adipose tissue from a human being, the lipoaspirate is moved into the first modified centrifuge tube via a sterile transfer, a plurality of processing steps are performed to clean and dissociate the lipoaspirate, and a pellet containing an enhanced fraction of stem cells is obtained by centrifuging the modified centrifugal tube. The pellet is resuspended in a fluid and administered to a human patient for a therapeutic or cosmetic purpose.
US09931434B2
The inventions provided herein relate to compositions, methods, delivery devices and kits for repairing or augmenting a tissue in a subject. The compositions described herein are injectable such that they can be placed in a tissue to be treated with a minimally-invasive procedure (e.g., by injection) and/or be molded flexibly into a tissue void of any shape and/or size. In some embodiments, the composition described herein comprises a plurality of silk fibroin particles, which can retain their original volume within the tissue for a period of time. The compositions can be used as a filler to replace a tissue void, e.g., for tissue repair and/or augmentation, or as a scaffold to support tissue regeneration and/or reconstruction. In some embodiments, the compositions described herein can be used for soft tissue repair or augmentation.
US09931424B2
Technologies are generally described for positionable air freshener devices. The devices may comprise an insertion section. The insertion section may include electrodes effective to receive and conduct an electric current and secure the device to an electric source. The insertion section may include a ball. The devices may comprise a base. The base may include a socket. The socket may attach to the ball. The socket and ball may form a ball joint. The base may include a port effective to receive electric current from the electrodes. The base may include a collar effective to apply heat sufficient to release a fragrance from a material when electrical current is supplied to the collar from the electrodes. The device may include a cap with a ring shaped cross-section, sized and shaped so as to be connectable to the base such that the port is accessible when the cap is connected.
US09931413B2
The present invention concerns methods and compositions for forming cytokine-antibody complexes using dock-and-lock technology. In preferred embodiments, the cytokine-MAb DNL complex comprises an IgG antibody attached to two AD (anchor domain) moieties and four cytokines, each attached to a DDD (docking and dimerization domain) moiety. The DDD moieties form dimers that bind to the AD moieties, resulting in a 2:1 ratio of DDD to AD. The cytokine-MAb complex exhibits improved pharmacokinetics, with a significantly longer serum half-life than either naked cytokine or PEGylated cytokine. The cytokine-MAb complex also exhibits significantly improved in vitro and in vivo efficacy compared to cytokine alone, antibody alone, unconjugated cytokine plus antibody or cytokine-MAb DNL complexes incorporating an irrelevant antibody. In more preferred embodiment the cytokine is G-CSF, erythropoietin or INF-α2b.
US09931410B2
Provided herein are compositions that contain a nanoparticle containing a plurality of polymers, wherein at least a fraction of the polymers comprise a hydrophobic polymer, a topoisomerase inhibitor, and a Pt-containing chemotherapeutic agent, where the polymers self-assemble in an aqueous liquid to form the nanoparticle, and where the Pt-containing chemotherapeutic agent and the topoisomerase inhibitor are present within the hydrophobic core of the nanoparticle in a ratio of between about 24:1 to about 1:24. Also provided are methods of reducing the proliferation of a cancer cell and methods of treating cancer in a subject that include the use of these compositions. Also provided are methods of making these nanoparticles.
US09931405B2
A novel pharmaceutical composition, which comprises a therapeutically effective amount of active principle(s) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or enantiomer or polymorph thereof, optionally one or more release controlling agent(s) and pharmaceutical acceptable excipient(s) thereof, wherein the composition is formulated to increase the residence time of the said pharmaceutical composition and/or active principle(s) in the gastrointestinal tract. A novel pharmaceutical composition comprising at least two entities wherein one entity is an immediate release/fast release and the other is controlled release. A pharmaceutical composition comprising at least two entities wherein one entity is an immediate release/fast release and the other is bioadhesive. A pharmaceutical composition comprising: at least two entities wherein one entity is controlled release and the other is bioadhesive All the three compositions are formulated to increase the residence time of active principle(s) in the gastrointestinal tract. A multilayered composition with active in a layer which provides immediate release or controlled release of active principles and layer providing increased residence time in the GI tract.
US09931385B2
The present invention provides a method of inhibiting maturation of the gonads of a juvenile animal which comprises administering to said juvenile animal an immunologically active molecule (IAM) or a vector comprising nucleic acid encoding an immunologically active molecule, said IAM being specific for a target protein within the gonads and binding thereto or causing an immune response against that target protein, and thereby inhibiting maturation of the gonads, as well as molecules of use in such methods.
US09931380B2
The object of the present invention is to provide an olfactory disturbance therapeutic agent that is effective in repairing or regenerating olfactory epithelium that suffered damages such as scratches and can be administered for a long time.The object of the present invention is achieved by an olfactory disturbance therapeutic agent including at least one active ingredient that is selected from among a group consisting of insulin, insulin analogs, and insulin secretagogues. Preferably, the olfactory disturbance therapeutic agent is used for people with olfactory disturbance who have, or are at risk of having, impaired insulin secretion or insulin resistance, or for people who could suffer an iatrogenic increase in blood sugar level or a disturbance in a balance of adrenocortical hormone stemming from a long-term use of steroid as olfactory disturbance treatment.
US09931359B2
The invention provides methods and compositions for administration of allogeneic lymphocytes as an exogenous source of CD4+ T cell help for endogenous, tumor-reactive CD8+ T cells. Depletion of CD8+ T cells from the donor lymphocyte infusion reduces the risk of sustained engraftment and graft-versus-host disease. Removal of regulatory T cells from the infused population may augment the ability of non-regulatory T cells to provide help for endogenous effectors of anti-tumor immunity. Allogeneic T cell therapy is typically given in the context of allogeneic stem cell transplantation, in which the patient receives highly immunosuppressive conditioning followed by an infusion of a stem cell graft containing unselected populations of mature T cells. In the treatment described here, the graft is engineered to minimize the possibility of sustained donor cell engraftment, and the anti-tumor effector T cells derive from the host.
US09931357B2
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for preventing or treating acute or chronic oral mucositis, esophagitis, enteritis, colitis, or gastrointestinal acute radiation syndrome (GI-ARS) caused by radiation exposure, using one or more enteron sorbent polymers administered gastrointestinally (e.g. orally, via feeding or gastric tube, via ostomy, or rectally).
US09931355B2
The invention relates to a combination of compounds derived from gallic acid, with an antitumoral and antimetastatic activity via a mechanism that involves the induction of apoptosis and the immunogenic death of the tumor cells and the subsequent activation of the specific immune response. The invention also relates to a composition containing a combination of derivatives of gallic acid and pharmaceutically acceptable excipients for the production of useful medicaments in the treatment of cancer. The invention further relates to the use of said composition in a coadjuvant in conventional chemotherapy, reducing the doses of chemotherapeutic agents used in the treatment of cancer.
US09931353B2
The present invention relates to a method for treating an individual having Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy by using pharmacological chaperones to increase the activity of gangliosidase and/or sialidase enzymes involved in ganglioside catabolism.
US09931345B2
This invention is in the area of improved compounds, compositions and methods of transiently protecting healthy cells, and in particular hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC) as well as renal cells, from damage associated with DNA damaging chemotherapeutic agents. In one aspect, improved protection of healthy cells is disclosed using disclosed compounds that act as highly selective and short, transiently-acting cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 (CDK 4/6) inhibitors when administered to subjects undergoing DNA damaging chemotherapeutic regimens for the treatment of proliferative disorders.
US09931331B2
The present invention relates to an anticancer supplement containing loperamide as an active ingredient. More specifically, a proteasome inhibitor alone cannot exhibit an anticancer effect on solid cancers and some blood cancers, but when the proteasome inhibitor and loperamide are co-administered or a composition containing the proteasome inhibitor and loperamide is provided, cancer cell death by the proteasome inhibitor can be effectively induced, thereby exhibiting an improved anticancer effect, and enhancing anticancer effects on solid cancers and blood cancers while reducing side effects caused by a high-concentration of the proteasome inhibitor. Therefore, the composition containing the proteasome inhibitor and loperamide as active ingredients, according to the present invention, can be useful for preventing or treating cancer, and loperamide can be provided as an anticancer supplement when the proteasome inhibitor is used to treat cancer.
US09931328B2
The present application relates to topical compositions. In particular, the present application relates to a topical composition comprising retinoid as active agent, and pharmaceutically acceptable excipient(s), and a process of preparing such compositions. Further, the present application relates to method of using topical compositions for the treatment of skin disorders such as acne, rosacea, psoriasis etc.
US09931324B2
The present invention relates to indolizine compounds, and pharmaceutically acceptable compositions thereof, useful as antagonists of P2X7, and for the treatment of P2X7-related disorders.
US09931323B2
Cyclic ether pyrazol-4-yl-heterocyclyl-carboxamide compounds of Formula I, including stereoisomers, geometric isomers, tautomers, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R2 is a cyclic ether and X is thiazolyl, pyrazinyl, pyridinyl, or pyrimidinyl, are useful for inhibiting Pim kinase, and for treating disorders such as cancer mediated by Pim kinase. Methods of using compounds of Formula I for in vitro, in situ, and in vivo diagnosis, prevention or treatment of such disorders in mammalian cells, or associated pathological conditions, are disclosed.
US09931321B2
The present invention addresses the problem of providing a pharmaceutical combination composition and drug combinations for the prevention and/or treatment of dyslipidemic conditions such as atherosclerosis, hypercholesterolemia, low HDL blood disease in mammals including humans. A pharmaceutical composition for the prevention and/or treatment of dyslipidemia, etc. which comprises (a) a compound represented by the general formula (1) (in the formula, each symbol is the same as defined in the specification) or a salt thereof or a solvate thereof and (b) a cholesterol absorption inhibitor (1).
US09931316B2
Compounds having unique antiviral properties found in mushroom mycelium and their analogs are extracted, concentrated, isolated or manufactured to create compositions useful in preventing the spread and proliferation of various viruses afflicting animals, particularly viruses harming humans, pigs, birds, bats and bees. Such compounds and compositions can be used individually or in combination with known medicines or natural products to improve health.
US09931314B2
A method for treating skin cancer including the steps of applying an isothiocyanate functional surfactant to an area affected by skin cancer, wherein the isothiocyanate functional surfactant comprises at least one isothiocyanate functional group associated with an aliphatic and/or aromatic carbon atom of the isothiocyanate functional surfactant.
US09931313B2
The present invention relates to methods, compositions, and diagnostic tests for treating and diagnosing proliferative disorders, such as cancel-, that result in dysregulation of malic enzyme 2. In particular, the methods and compositions include monotherapy with malate, or a derivative thereof, as well as combination therapy, such as malate, or a derivative thereof, combined with another therapeutic agent, such as a malic enzyme 2 inhibitor, an antineoplastic agent, a glycolysis inhibitor, an antiangiogenic agent, an immunomodulatory agent, an antibody, or a cytokine.
US09931311B2
Methods of treating at least one condition chosen from pain, inflammation, and fever in a critically ill patient in need thereof, comprising administering to the critically ill patient an intravenous pharmaceutical composition comprising ibuprofen using a first dosage regimen, wherein the first dosage regimen produces a first pharmacokinetic profile in critically ill patients that is about equivalent to a second pharmacokinetic profile produced by administration of the intravenous pharmaceutical composition using a second dosage regimen of ibuprofen to non-critically ill patients, wherein the at least one condition of the critically ill patient is thereby treated.
US09931301B2
Method for the realization Hof a calcium phosphate-based biomaterial in form of granules and/or agglomerates of re-absorbable granules which can be used in the biomedical industry as, e.g., bone fillers, for increasing the bone mass, as a sealing for the internal orthopaedic prosthesis, for releasing drugs and/or medicaments and/or other substances beneficial for the organism. A calcium phosphate-based biomaterial in form of granules and/or aggregates thereof obtained according to such method.
US09931295B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a pharmaceutical composition containing a stable azole-based compound, which is useful as an antifungal agent. According to the present invention, the above-mentioned object can be achieved by adding magnesium hydroxide carbonate, triethylamine, arginine, or another such basic substance to an azole-based compound that is unstable in acids. The above-mentioned pharmaceutical composition is stable enough that the compound will not degrade if the temperature, humidity, or other such conditions should change during production or storage. Also, this composition is useful as a therapeutic agent for deep mycoses because systemic administration is possible by applying it to an oral agent or an injection.
US09931291B2
Provided is an oral care composition comprising a phosphate/acrylate co-polymer, zinc and an orally acceptable carrier and methods of using the same.
US09931282B2
A stable, multiphase liquid isotropic cleansing composition is described that contains high levels of Petrolatum and shows a substantial decrease in reflectance compared with isotropic cleansing compositions containing other oils and liquid crystalline compositions with similar levels of oils. The inventive composition has a total of less than 2% by wt. of other oils such as glyceride, mineral and silicone oils, or blends thereof.
US09931278B2
A device detects the removal of drugs from a drug blister pack. The device contains a base for receiving the drug blister pack which has a base surface which is configured for contact with the electrically conducting, metal foil that closes the pockets. In the region of the pockets, the base has holes that are configured for the passage of the drugs present in the pocket. In the region of the holes one transmitting coil and at least two receiving coils are each arranged and extend around the respective hole. The receiving coils are associated with each other with respect to the transmitting coil and are arranged such that when the foil resting against the base in the region of the respective hole is undamaged the difference of the voltages induced in the receiving coils by an electric current in the transmitting coil lies below a predetermined threshold value.
US09931277B2
A drug and fluid dispenser includes a first mechanism for holding and dispensing a fluidized food; a second mechanism for measuring, holding, and dispensing a specified amount of fluid to be taken with a set of medicines at a specified time; a third mechanism for holding and dispensing one or more sets of medicines in a chronological order according to a pre-determined schedule of administration to an individual; a fourth mechanism for granulating a next scheduled set of medicines and mixing the granulated next scheduled set of medicines with the specified amount of fluid at the specified time; a first output mechanism for administering contents of the first mechanism and contents of the fourth mechanism to the individual; and a second output mechanism for rinsing the fourth mechanism subsequent to administration of each of the sets of medicines.
US09931276B2
Some embodiments disclosed herein related to a device for transferring precise amounts of fluid from at least one source container to a at least one target container. In some embodiments, the fluid is first transferred from the source container (e.g., a vial) through a connector to an intermediate measuring container (e.g., a syringe). In some embodiments air can pass through an air inlet and enter the vial to compensate for the volume of fluid withdrawn from the vial. An air check valve or a bag or a filter can prevent the fluid from escaping through the air inlet. The precisely measured amount of fluid can then be transferred from the intermediate measuring container to the target container (e.g., an IV bag). In some embodiments the connector can include a source check valve and a target check valve to direct fluid first from the source container to the intermediate measuring container and then from the intermediate measuring container to the target container. Some embodiments of the device can include a motor and a controller for automatically actuating a plunger of the syringe to transfer the desired amount of fluid.
US09931272B2
A method for reducing an individual's weight through hunger control is provided, wherein predetermined biologically active hunger control points and/or areas on the skin are stimulated utilizing removably attached point stimulation elements (PSEs) (e.g., spherules, etc.), in accordance with a predefined configurable cyclical treatment schedule. Maintenance procedures are also performed by the individual, after a predetermined amount of treatment cycles, to maintain weight reduction benefits gained during the treatments. Additional optional features of the inventive hunger control method include application of at least one of: a dietary plan, a vitamin and chronologically selected herb plan, behavioral modification, and an physical activity protocol.
US09931269B2
A digital display air pump includes a rectangular, box-shaped body having a standard AC power cord extending from it, two air supply output ports, and a control and information panel located on its front side with user-operated buttons, a digital display for showing air pressure and alarm codes, a variable air pressure set dial, and status lights. Within the hollow interior of the body is an air compressor, a dual-output electromechanical valve having to two air output tubes, an air pressure sensor, an AC power connection, an internal loudspeaker, and an electronic circuit board controlling the digital display air pump's function. The air supply output ports, an extension of the air tubes within the body, supply air to Intermittent Pneumatic Compression (“IPC”) Therapy device garments through flexible air supply tubes.
US09931265B2
A walk-assistive apparatus may include at least one joint that corresponds to at least one joint of a wearer, at least one link that connects the joint, and is rotated in response to rotation of the joint, a spring that is mounted in the link or the joint so that a length of the spring is changed in accordance with rotation of the link or the joint, and a processor that controls the change in the length of the spring to compensate for a weight by gravity when the wearer walks. Accordingly, the walk-assistive apparatus and a method of controlling the walk-assistive apparatus may use a mechanical element such as a spring to reduce energy, and weight compensation having uniform performance may be performed even in an arbitrary posture.
US09931249B2
A reduced-pressure, deep-tissue closure device for applying a closing force on a deep tissue includes a contractible matrix that is formed with a first plurality of apertures and which has a first side and a second, inward-facing side. The contractible matrix is for disposing proximate to the deep tissue. A reduced-pressure source is fluidly coupled to the contractible matrix and operable to deliver reduced pressure to the contractible matrix. When under reduced pressure, the contractible matrix grips the deep tissue adjacent the contractible matrix and provides a closing force on the deep tissue. A system and method are also presented.
US09931248B2
A method and system are provided for enhancing vision. The method includes capturing a first image by a first camera. The method further includes capturing a second image by a second camera. The method also includes combining the first image and the second image to form a combined image. The method additionally includes projecting the combined image on at least one eye of a user by a wearable image projection device. The combined image represents a wide screen image having a field of view greater than any of the first image and the second image taken individually.
US09931247B2
The present invention relates to the interworking controlling method of an electronic eye protection apparatus for welding and a smartphone, or more specifically, it relates to the interworking controlling method of an electronic eye protection apparatus for welding and a smartphone, which enables remote management from a smartphone by interworking history state data on utilization, operation, settings, failure of the electronic eye protection apparatus for welding, and which enables location searching and anti-theft function such as password setting of electronic eye protection apparatus for welding with a smartphone.
US09931242B2
An intraocular lens (IOL) injector assembly comprising an injector body having a shuttle reception opening defined at least in part by a first sidewall and a second sidewall, and a shuttle comprising a first wing including a first portion of a shuttle lumen wall and a second wing including a second portion of a shuttle lumen wall. The first wing and the second wing are coupled together by a hinge. When in a closed state, the first portion of the shuttle lumen wall and the second portion of the shuttle lumen wall define at least a portion of an operative shuttle lumen. The shuttle and sidewalls are configured such that the first wing and the second wing interfere with the first sidewall and the second sidewall, respectively, as the shuttle passes through the shuttle reception opening, such that the closed state of the shuttle is attained.
US09931225B2
An acetabular cup excise device includes a cup excising portion, an elongated handle shaft extending along a longitudinal axis from the cup excising portion, and a positioning assembly operably coupled to the handle shaft. The positioning assembly is configured to allow rotation of a handle lever, about the longitudinal axis, to position the handle lever along at least a first radial axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and a second radial axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.
US09931224B2
An intervertebral implant includes an insertion end, an opposing engagement end, and first and second opposed main surfaces configured to contact respective adjacent vertebral endplates. Each of the first and second main surfaces has an anterior edge, a posterior edge, and extends between the insertion and engagement ends. Anterior and posterior walls are formed between the first and second main surfaces and along the respective anterior and posterior edges and converge at the insertion and engagement ends. A slot is formed at the engagement end and extends continuously between and at least partially along the anterior and posterior walls. A post is positioned within the slot, spaced from at least one of the anterior and posterior walls and extending at least partially between the first and second main surfaces. The post includes a plurality of exposed facets and is configured for engagement with a pivotable insertion instrument.
US09931223B2
An expandable intervertebral implant is provided for insertion into an intervertebral space defined by adjacent vertebrae. The expandable intervertebral implant includes a pair of outer sleeve portions and an inner core disposed between the outer sleeve portions. Movement of the inner core relative to the outer sleeve portions causes the outers sleeve portions to deflect away from each other, thereby engaging the expandable intervertebral implant with the vertebrae and adjusting the height of the intervertebral space.
US09931216B2
An orthopaedic knee prosthesis includes a femoral component having a condyle surface. The condyle surface is defined by one or more radii of curvatures, which are controlled to reduce or delay the onset of anterior translation of the femoral component relative to a tibial bearing.
US09931212B1
A method of fusing a sacroiliac joint including implanting a joint implant into the sacroiliac joint such that the joint implant passes through an inferior boundary segment, the joint implant having an implanted position in the sacroiliac joint such that a portion of a body of the joint implant is positioned within a caudal portion of the sacroiliac joint. The method may include accessing the sacroiliac joint via a presacral surgical pathway having an entry point near the coccyx while being protected by an inflatable bowel retractor.
US09931207B2
An exemplary two-stage prosthetic heart valve system has a radially expandable base stent implanted within a native valve annulus. The two-stage heart valve system also has a valve component that is delivered to and mounted within the base stent in a separate or sequential operation after the base stent has been anchored within the annulus. The valve component in certain embodiments comprises a hybrid valve component that includes a conventional, non-expandable surgical valve that is modified to include an expandable coupling stent that can be expanded to engage the inner surface of the base stent, thereby anchoring the valve component to the base stent. In its expanded configuration, the outflow end portion base stent has tri-lobular shape that closely conforms to the shape of the aortic root and a support ring of the prosthetic valve that is mounted within the base stent.
US09931203B2
An optical accommodating system for an eye includes a sensor assembly and an adjustable optic assembly. The sensor assembly includes a sensor configured to sense a movement of the ciliary muscle and produce a signal, an electronic processor, a transmitter and a power source. The adjustable optic assembly is configured to be either implanted within or on the eye, or configured to be disposed adjacent to or near the eye. The adjustable optic assembly includes a switchable optical lens assembly configured to change its optical power between a first state and a second state, a receiver configured to receive the transferable signal from the transmitter of the sensor assembly, a second electronic processor connected to the receiver which directs the switchable optical lens assembly to change its optical power between the first state and second state, and a second power source connected to the second electronic processor.
US09931202B2
An IOL includes a fluid optic body having a cavity defined by a sidewall, a deformable optical membrane intersecting the sidewall around an anterior circumference of the sidewall, and a posterior optic intersecting the sidewall around a posterior circumference of the sidewall. The posterior optic includes a central protrusion extending anteriorly into the cavity and the deformable optical membrane includes a ring-shaped protrusion extending posteriorly into a space between the sidewall and the central protrusion. A second optic body is spaced apart from the fluid optic body and coupled thereto via a plurality of struts. Axial compression causes the plurality of struts to deform the sidewall in a manner that increases the diameter of the cavity, modifying a curvature of the deformable optical membrane is modified. Contact between the ring-shaped protrusion and the central protrusion defines a maximum modification to the curvature of the deformable optical membrane.
US09931185B2
A system and method for providing variable power is disclosed. The system includes a power supply which provides power to at least one instrument. A pedal comprises a variable resistor that is configured to produce a resistance value within a predetermined range based on an amount of pressure which is being applied to the pedal. The voltage being supplied to the instrument is varied in accordance with the resistance value produced at the pedal.
US09931176B2
A cleaning swab device and method for cleaning a fluid coupling or connector. The device includes a generally elongate cylindrical tubular swab body, and a channel formed at an end thereof to define at least one cleaning finger for insertion into a housing and/or port of the connector to remove residual fluids, clean and disinfect the connector. The cleaning device optionally further includes a guide stem or plunger configured to extend through the tubular body of the swab, having a plug at one end for sealing debris out of a lumen of the connector during cleaning.
US09931172B2
Devices, systems, and methods for providing commanded movement of an end effector of a manipulator while providing a desired movement of one or more joints of the manipulator. Methods include calculating weighted joint velocities using a weighting matrix within the joint space to anisotropically emphasize joint movement within a null-space to provide the desired movement of a first set of joints. Methods may include calculating joint velocities that achieve the desired end effector movement using a pseudo-inverse solution and adjusting the calculated joint velocities using a potential function gradient within the joint space corresponding to the desired movement of the first set of joints. Methods may include use of a weighted pseudo-inverse solution and also an augmented Jacobian solution. One or more auxiliary movements may also be provided using joint velocities calculated from the pseudo-inverse solution. Various configurations for systems utilizing such methods are provided herein.
US09931168B2
A system and method for performing a procedure is disclosed. The procedure may include preparing one or more bones for a prosthetic implant. The method may include provide instructions to a user for using identified instruments to perform a procedure. Instructions and may be provided for settings of adjustable instruments.
US09931148B2
A bone plate includes (a) a body having a first surface which, in an operative configuration, faces away from a bone on which the plate is to be mounted and a second surface, which in the operative configuration, faces the bone, the body including a first section extending along a first longitudinal axis and a second section extending along a second longitudinal axis angled with respect to the first longitudinal axis; (b) a first hole extending through the body from the first surface to the second surface and defining a first hole axis, the first hole being structured to lockingly engage a head of a first bone anchor inserted therein such that a shaft of the first bone anchor extends along the first hole axis; and (c) a second hole extending through the body and spaced apart from the first hole. The second hole defines a second hole axis and is structured to lockingly engage a head of a second bone anchor inserted therein such that a shaft of the second bone anchor extends along the second hole axis. The first and second hole axes defines a single plane and intersecting at a point on a side of the bone plate facing the second surface.
US09931146B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for fusion, stabilization, or fixation of bones are provided.
US09931143B2
Technologies are generally provided for devices and methods for use in bone fixation, bone fusion and/or bone stabilization. In various embodiments, the devices and methods relate to a bone stabilization having a first end, second end and a bridge connecting the first and second ends. The first end has a bone engagement feature and may be fused to bone over time without the use of osteogenic materials.
US09931131B2
A method of performing surgery includes the steps of providing a forceps having a housing including a shaft that extends therefrom and at least one handle moveable relative to the housing and providing an end effector assembly configured to selectively engage a distal end of the shaft. The method also includes the steps of inserting the forceps through a first opening formed in a body; inserting the end effector assembly through a second opening formed in the body; engaging the end effector assembly with the distal end of the shaft in vivo; and actuating the end effector assembly by moving the handle relative to the housing. The method may also include the steps of providing a coupling at the distal end of the shaft, and engaging, via the coupling, the distal end of the shaft with the end effector assembly.
US09931130B2
A medical instrument effectively suppresses a situation in which the edge of a blade springs immediately after completion of incision, excision, or the like. The medical instrument (1) includes manipulation members (14) that are held by a user, elastic members (11) that are respectively secured on one end of the manipulation members, and intersect each other at one end thereof, and opening-closing members (15) that are respectively secured on the other end of the manipulation members (14), and intersect each other at a pivot (13), functional parts (15a) for implementing a gripping operation, a holding operation, a cutting operation, or the like being respectively provided at one end of the opening-closing members (15), the functional parts (15a) being opened and closed by adjusting a pressing force applied to the manipulation members (14), the opening-closing members (15), the manipulation members (14), and the elastic members (11) being configured so that the pressing force applied to the manipulation members (14) and an opening-closing amount of the functional parts (15a) have a linear proportional relationship during a period in which the functional parts (15a) are operated.
US09931125B2
Bleeding from blood vessels located in difficult-to-compress regions of the body (especially the abdomen, pelvic or groin region) is controlled by the use of a portable, small-footprint belt-like device that contains multiple inflatable bladders. The inflatable bladders are selectively positioned and inflated over exsanguinating blood vessels, thereby exerting pressure to stop the bleeding. The device may also be used to provide perfusion support in low flow disease states such as hemorrhagic shock and cardiac arrest.
US09931118B2
A battery assembly is disclosed which includes a housing and one or more battery cells position in the housing. The battery assembly further comprises features configured to absorb an impact force and protect the battery cells. The battery assembly further comprises features configured to accommodate the thermal expansion of the battery cells.
US09931107B2
A neuromodulation therapy is delivered via at least one electrode implanted subcutaneously and superficially to a fascia layer superficial to a nerve of a patient. In one example, an implantable medical device is deployed along a superficial surface of a deep fascia tissue layer superficial to a nerve of a patient. Electrical stimulation energy is delivered to the nerve through the deep fascia tissue layer via implantable medical device electrodes.
US09931106B2
A medical instrument including a shaft and an actuated structure mounted at a distal end of the shaft can employ a pair of tendons connected to the actuated structure, extending down the shaft, and respectively wound around a capstan in opposite directions. A preload system may be coupled to maintain minimum tensions in the tendons.
US09931100B2
The invention relates to a method and device for locating wireless fetal monitoring probes in a set area. The method comprises the following steps: instructions are sent via a plurality of wireless base stations to instruct the wireless probes in the action scopes of the wireless base stations to send base station signal intensity data tables; the wireless probes search all receivable base station signals, establish the base station signal intensity data tables; operations are carried out based on the received current base station signal intensity data tables and base station signal intensity data tables of reference points to obtain a distance reference table; the position of one with the smallest distance value is selected to be regarded as the current position of the corresponding probe. The method and the device have the benefits of quickly locating each wireless probe and avoiding loss of monitoring data.
US09931099B1
An electronic stethoscope lacking an earpiece assembly can include a chestpiece base. The base can include a diaphragm, a transducer, a computer readable storage medium, and a transceiver. The transducer can detect analog auscultatory sounds from an auscultatory source and convert the sounds to a digital encoding. The encoding can be transmitted to a proximate or remote computing device via a secure communication channel. The earpiece assembly can be a cavity for transmitting the analog auscultatory sound from the base to the ear canal of a user.
US09931089B2
A radiation irradiation apparatus includes a radiation source that irradiates, with radiation, a subject to be examined, a camera that obtains a photographic image of the subject to be examined by performing photography on the subject to be examined, a monitor that displays the photographic image, a housing that houses the radiation source, the camera and the monitor with a display direction of the photographic image directed in a second direction opposite to a first direction that is an irradiation direction of the radiation and a photography direction of the photographic image, and plural grasp units that project in directions different from the first and second directions and are attached to positions of the housing facing each other.
US09931085B2
Methods and devices for monitoring the position of a subject are disclosed. One such method includes sensing pressure waves generated by the subject moving on a divided bladder comprising interleaved portions, generating signals indicative of the pressure waves for each of the interleaved portions, and sending the signals to a processor. The method further includes determining the position of the subject based on the difference between the signals from each of the interleaved portions and generating a pattern for the subject. The pattern includes the presence and/or position of the subject over time. The method further includes predicting an action such as an exit of the subject from the divided bladder based on comparing a current pattern for the subject to previous patterns for the subject.
US09931079B2
A clamp for securing a terminal end of a wire to a surface electrode formed on a cylindrical tube includes a first semicylindrical element. A second semicylindrical element is configured to be attached to the first semicylindrical element to form a tubular clamp structure that is adapted to be clamped around the cylindrical tube. The tubular clamp structure includes an interior surface configured to securely hold a terminal end of a wire against a surface electrode formed on the cylindrical tube.
US09931078B2
A sensor includes a sensor pad configured to be disposed on a portion of a patient's body. A light sheet is disposed on the sensor pad and has a first substrate and a second substrate spaced from one another. The light sheet further includes a light source configured to emit near-infrared light and a light detector configured to detect near-infrared light. The light source and the light detector are disposed between the substrates. The sensor pad is configured to allow light generated by the light source to travel through the portion of the patient's body to the light detector. The light received by the light detector is indicative of oxygen saturation of the portion of the patient's body through which the light travelled.
US09931076B2
A method for determining an artery location on a living subject's skin and positioning a tonometry pressure sensor on the artery location for tonometric blood pressure measurement is provided. The method comprises a non-contact optical search followed by a contact pressure search. In the non-contact optical search, an optical-sensing unit is used to scan the skin along a scan path while maintaining a pre-determined distance between the unit and the scan path. A search region within the scan path and a height profile characterizing the scan path's curvature are determined. The search region is determined such that an artery is predicted to lie thereunder. The artery location is then searched within the search region by the contact pressure search, in which the pressure sensor sweeps along the search region and the sweeping is guided by curvature information provided by the height profile. A device using the method is also provided.
US09931061B2
A balloon catheter comprises a catheter and a balloon located on the distal end of the catheter. A pair of stimulating electrodes for receiving a constant current stimulating signal when the balloon is inflated with an electrically conductive medium and a plurality of sensing electrodes for producing voltage response signals are located on the catheter. The voltage response signals are indicative of the values of the transverse cross-sectional area of the balloon adjacent the sensing electrodes. A first lumen accommodates the inflating medium to and from the balloon, and a second lumen accommodates electrically conductive wires to the stimulating and sensing electrodes. A pressure sensing element is located in a protective housing in the second lumen, and communicates through a communicating opening in the protective housing and through a communicating port in the catheter with a hollow interior region of the balloon. The balloon catheter may also be provided with a guide wire engaging element for engaging a guide wire externally of the balloon catheter.
US09931054B2
A low dead space liquid trap includes: a tube, having an inlet, an outlet, and an aperture disposed between the inlet and the outlet at a bottom of the tube, wherein the tube defines a channel extending in a first direction between the inlet and the outlet, the channel having a cross section perpendicular to the first direction; a reservoir disposed beneath the aperture of the tube; and a gas permeable membrane extending across the channel at an angle greater than zero with respect to the cross section of the channel.
US09931048B2
Systems, methods, and interfaces are described herein for identification of effective electrodes to be used in sensing and/or therapy. Two or more portions of a signal monitored using an electrode may be compared to determine whether the electrode is effective. The two or more portions may correspond to the same portion or window of a cardiac cycle. Further, signals from a first electrode and from a second electrode located proximate the first electrode may be compared to determine whether one or both of the electrodes are effective.
US09931043B2
A pressure sensing apparatus has a pressure sensor component that includes a pressure sensing port, a pressure sensor for sensing a pressure of a fluid in the pressure sensing port, and a digital processor communicating with the pressure sensor for performing calculations involving fluid pressures sensed. The pressure sensing apparatus further includes a first chamber in fluid contact with the pressure sensing port, a second chamber fluidically connectable with a patient's cerebrospinal fluid system, and a membrane located between the first and second chambers so as to transmit fluid pressure from the second chamber to the first chamber.
US09931042B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for monitoring baby physical characteristics. In some embodiments, the method may include projecting light from a video monitoring system toward a monitored user, and detecting a heart rate of the monitored user at the video monitoring system based at least in part on detecting the projected light. The method may further include comparing the detected heart rate with a predetermined heart rate threshold, and initiating an alert based at least in part on the comparing.
US09931041B2
A method of determining fractional flow reserve (FFR) in a blood vessel having stenosis includes injecting fluid into the blood vessel upstream of the stenosis using a power fluid injector, measuring pressure drop across the stenosis, and calculating FFR from measured pressure drop. The injected fluid may comprise a contrast medium. Further actions may include placing a pressure sensor proximal of the stenosis, injecting fluid into the blood vessel upstream of the stenosis using the power fluid injector, and measuring pressure in the blood vessel proximal of the stenosis. The pressure sensor may then be repositioned to a position distal of the stenosis, fluid may be reinjected into the blood vessel upstream of the stenosis using the power fluid injector, and pressure may be measured in the blood vessel distal of the stenosis.
US09931039B2
A method of achieving instrument independent measurements for quantitative analysis of fiber-optic Raman spectroscope system, the system comprising a laser source, a spectroscope and a fiber optic probe to transmit light from the laser source to a target and return scattered light to the spectroscope, the method comprising transmitting light from the laser source to a standard target having a known spectrum, recording a calibration spectrum of the scattered light from the standard target, comparing the known spectrum and the calibration system and generating a probe and/or probe-system transfer function, and storing the transfer function. Further provided is a method of performing real-time diagnostic Raman spectroscopy optionally in combination with the other disclosed methods.
US09931034B2
An optical coherence tomography includes a light source, a light separator, a light generator configured to generate interference light, a detector configured to detect the interference light, a first optical element, and at least one of second optical elements comprising a pair of surfaces, and performs forming a tomographic image of a subject. The first optical element is arranged on a measurement light path so as to be closest to the subject, and satisfies at least one of following conditional formulas: −(W−S)
US09931033B2
A system, method, medium, controller, or ophthalmoscope for imaging a fundus of a subject. Estimating a first illumination center position for an illumination beam relative to a center position of a pupil of the subject. The first illumination center position may be offset from the center position of the pupil. Sending instructions to an ophthalmoscope to shift a center position of the illumination beam to the first illumination center position.
US09931024B2
An endoscope includes: an operation portion; an insertion portion pivotable relative to the operation portion; a pivot state switching instruction portion; a sliding member slidable in a longitudinal axis direction of the operation portion along with a switching operation of the pivot state switching instruction portion; a holding ring configured to hold the sliding member; and a pivot restriction switching device provided with a braking member on an end portion on pivot portion side of the sliding member, and configured to switch over a state of a pivot portion from a pivotable state to a pivot restricted state or from the pivot restricted state to the pivotable state, the braking member being pressed against and disposed on the pivot portion to apply braking force.
US09931020B2
A surgical instrument, such as an endoscope, having a hermetically sealed housing for accommodating, optical and/or electrical devices therein. The housing having a wall with a via provided in the wall to electrically connect an electrical contact formed on the inside of the wall with an electrical contact formed on the outside of the wall, wherein the via has a penetration in the wall, and the penetration is filled with a filling material to form a hermetically sealed housing, wherein the electrical contacts are formed as at least one electrically conductive conductor path on the inside of the wall and on the outside of the wall, wherein one conductor path on the inside of the wall, and one conductor path on the outside of the housing are connected to each other by means of the via, and wherein the filling material of the via consists of metal or solder.
US09931012B2
A vacuum cleaner includes: a body case having an outer circumferential surface formed along either a circular arc or a polygon; a drive wheel allowing travel of the body case on a cleaning target surface; a side brush provided to the body case to be movable in a certain direction. The side brush: projects from the outer circumferential surface of the body case by an amount that changes in response to movement; includes a brush body movable to retreat toward the outer circumferential surface of the body case in response to external force acting in a direction crossing the certain direction; and includes a cleaning unit rotatably provided to the brush body. The cleaning unit rotates to clean the cleaning target surface. The side brush projecting from an outer circumferential surface of a body case can retreat readily and reliably when the side brush contacts an obstacle.
US09931010B2
In an autonomously traveling floor washer, a position estimating unit estimates position data. When a manual operation teaching mode is being executed, a taught data obtaining unit obtains taught position data and a taught cleaning condition at a taught data obtaining time. A cleaning schedule generation unit generates a cleaning schedule. When an autonomous cleaning mode is executed, a cleaning reproduction unit calculates and outputs a reproduced travel control command and a reproduced cleaning condition in an elapsed time based on the cleaning schedule. An elapsed time determining unit determines the taught data obtaining time and the elapsed time.
US09931004B2
The hand-held cleaning device, especially the hand-held cleaner for smooth surfaces, comprising a supporting unit, a wiper blade, a guiding device and a capture unit, wherein the wiper blade is fixed to the supporting unit, wherein the wiper blade at least in certain areas has a guiding element, which is designed for guiding fluid present at wiper blade in the direction of the guiding device, and wherein the guiding device is arranged adjacent to the wiper blade and is directly adjoining to the capture unit in order to transport the fluid from the wiper blade across the guiding element and the guiding device to the capture unit.
US09931003B2
A first head of a beauty device includes a stirring mechanism stirring bubbles, and a head case provided with an opening for allowing the bubbles stirred by the stirring mechanism to pass through. When the first head is used while being mounted to the body of the beauty device, bubbles are supplied to the stirring mechanism from the body of the beauty device. In a state where bubbles supplied to the stirring mechanism are present between the stirring mechanism and the skin, the bubbles are stirred and moved between the stirring mechanism and the skin by the stirring mechanism, and thus impurities of the skin are removed by the bubbles.
US09930989B2
In a beverage brewing apparatus and method for brewing a beverage from a ground ingredient, a filter is configured for containing the ground ingredient. A distribution system is coupled in fluid communication with a source of liquid. A showerhead is disposed above the filter and is coupled in fluid communication with the distribution system for receiving liquid from the source of liquid. The showerhead is rotatable about a rotation axis thereof and has an exit nozzle through which liquid delivered to the showerhead by the distribution system exits the showerhead for delivery to the filter. The exit nozzle is located other than at the rotation axis of the showerhead such that liquid is channeled into the filter in a generally circular pattern upon rotation of the showerhead.
US09930986B2
The present invention has an object to provide a vacuum electric cooker as can be easily worked by an operator and as can minimize a stress to be applied to the container. The vacuum electric cooker of this invention includes a cooker body having a horizontal base and a stand section, a cooker container including a cooking tool, a cover member having a discharge nozzle, a connecting arm having a base end attached to the stand section as to rock in a vertical plane between a horizontal active position and a vertical inactive position. A connecting nozzle is attached to the connecting arm and connected to the discharge nozzle when the connecting arm is at the active position. A vacuum pump is disposed in the cooker body, and a tube is connected to the vacuum pump and the connecting nozzle.
US09930985B2
An article for magnetically attaching a purse to a vertical magnetized surface such as a public restroom stall partition. The article includes enclosed magnet(s) joined to a clasp or ring, which is removably attached to a purse strap or purse hardware. Once attached to the purse, the article may be removably adhered to a magnetized surface.
US09930977B1
An inflatable pillow, having a predetermined shape when inflated, such that the bottom face of the pillow sits securely on an airplane table tray, the pillow's back face, above the arm space, leans fully against the seat back that the table tray is mounted on, providing lateral stability for the upper region of the pillow, unique over the prior art, and an angled front face upon which the confined traveler can lean forward from their seated position and get full support for their upper torso and head so they can comfortably rest or sleep. The pillow is composed of flexible, air-retentive material and has a valve for inflating and deflating the pillow. In its deflated state the pillow is compact enough to fit in most carry-on bags for ease of transport and storage. A simple bellows is provided with the pillow for inflating the pillow. An arm space is provided behind the pillow along the table tray for the users forearms to be folded there, allowing the user to lean onto the front face of the pillow and hug the pillow, providing physical and psychological security for the passenger.
US09930976B2
The disclosure includes in one aspect a mounting sticker comprising a non-adhesive front side defined by a planar sticker body and a rear side defined by the planar sticker body and including a planar magnetically receptive member disposed thereon with the magnetically receptive member completely peripherally surrounded by a portion of the sticker body, at least a portion of the sticker body defining the rear side comprising an adhesive. The sticker body can define a teardrop shape having a circular head portion with a peeling tip extending from the head portion and terminating at a point defined by an acute angle or can be circular.
US09930972B2
The legless, planar, rectangular platform may consist of a top that will be the primary play surface. In addition to the rectangular platform, additional members may be included. A front member may be attached to the primary platform and may run along the width of the invention. A second member, considered one side of the invention, may be attached in like manner to the primary platform as the front member, as well as being attached at a 90 degree angle to the front member with slots for drawers. The four members when attached together may form a rectangular shaped structure to which the primary flat member is attached. Removable bins may also be included. Each bin may attach along the periphery of the primary flat platform for ease of access and secure storage. Each bin may be comprised of five (5) members; a bottom and four (sides).
US09930960B2
A rack component having a component body with a front, back, top, base, width between the front and the back, and an aperture extending through the component body near the top, the top of the component body configured to be the negative of a cut-out on the base, such that the cut-out on the base of one component body can receive the configuration on the top of an adjacent component body below it. A rack system using a series of the rack components is also disclosed.
US09930957B2
Various dental devices are available for cleaning the mouth, gums and teeth. However, these dental devices may also cause abrasions to the mouth and/or gums. Dental devices may comprise a reservoir for storing a liquid and for application of the liquid to the mouth, teeth and/or gums. The liquid may be an antibacterial liquid, such as a hydrogen peroxide solution, a salt solution or a teeth whitening solution or gel, for example. An antibacterial liquid may be applied to prevent infection of the abrasions. The reservoir may be in a hollow handle of the dental device, such that the liquid may be easily pumped or moved from the reservoir to an outlet at the functional end that may cause the abrasions.
US09930954B2
A dispenser for viscous or pasty materials comprises a storage container in the form of a flexible tube (2) and an applicator (24). The tube (2) comprises an elongate, 1-piece hollow moulding of polymeric material, one end of which is closed and formed at the other end of which is an integral dispensing valve defining one or more dispensing slits (22). The or each dispensing slit is defined by a respective pair of resilient plates (18), which are opposed and inclined to one another and have a respective free edge, the two free edges defining a dispensing slit. The applicator has an applicator surface and one or more passages (30), into which the free edges of a respective pair of resilient plates is received. The width of each passage in the applicator is dimensioned such that there is a gap between the free edges of the resilient plates and the associated side surfaces of the passage, when the dispensing slit is closed and so that this gap is substantially closed, when the dispensing slit is opened by the application of pressure to the flexible tube in order to dispense material within the tube.
US09930950B1
A device comprises a fan, a motor configured to operate the fan for moving air, a heating coil configured to heat air moved based on operation of the fan, a first arm, a second arm and a coupler. The first arm is configured to move air through the first arm based on operation of the fan. The second arm is configured to receive air moved through the first arm, heat received air using the heating coil, and expel heated air through an outflow opening of the second arm. The coupler couples the first arm to the second arm. The coupler is configured to orient the second arm in one of multiple positions relative to the first arm, and also configured to receive air from the first arm and transfer received air to the second arm through inflow and outflow openings respectively associated with the coupler.
US09930949B2
The expander includes side walls positionable against a bag interior, members articularly connected together and to the side walls, and an arcuate enabling diamond shaped mechanism connected between the members and the side walls to provide a selected expanding and contracting amongst the members and the side walls. The members are in a folded condition when the bag is compressed and, with the aid of an expansion motivator such as a rubber band, spring and the like, the bag is expanded to its deployed condition.
US09930939B2
A slider includes lower flanges placed on left and right side edges of a lower wing plate. Each of the lower flanges includes a downwardly inclined surface portion which is placed on the shoulder-opening-side tip portion on a side of its upper surface and on an outer side in a width direction of the slider, and which downwardly inclines toward a shoulder and downwardly inclines toward the outer side in the width direction of the slider. According to this, in a slide fastener having the slider, even if a sliding operation of the slider is repeated in the slide fastener, it is possible to avoid defects that the lower flange of the slider comes into sliding contact with the fastener tape and the fastener tape is broken, and it is possible to extend the life of the fastener tape.
US09930937B2
There is provided a buckle including a plug and a socket. The plug includes a plug-side base part, a pair of leg parts, and a pair of engagement protrusions. The socket includes a socket-side base part, an upper plate, a lower plate, upper side wall parts, lower side wall parts, engagement stepped portions, slits, and guide surfaces. A dimension of the pair of engagement protrusions in the upward and downward direction is set to be greater than a dimension of each of the slits in the width direction.
US09930931B2
A system and method for connecting two loose shoelace ends, or for connecting two loose lace or cord ends in any lacing situation. A specific lace or cord orientation is used along with a heat-shrinkable tubular connector in order to easily and securely connect the two ends of the laces or other such cords.
US09930930B2
A shoe includes a sole, an upper, and a welt. The upper is operatively secured to the sole. The sole and upper define a seam. The seam has a seam toe region, a seam heel region, a seam lateral side region, a seam ball region, and a seam instep region. The welt is secured to at least one of the sole and the upper. The welt covers the seam toe region, the seam lateral side region, the seam heel region, and the seam instep region. The welt does not cover the seam ball region.
US09930924B2
An extraction platform helps disengage a load from a pliant surface by pumping a portion of the pliant surface out from beneath the platform. By forcibly removing portions of the pliant surface, i.e., debris, mud, snow, from beneath the platform housing, any seals, vacuums, tensile forces, or adhesive constituents are broken or disturbed sufficiently, such that the platform housing and the load disengage from the pliant surface. The platform also provides a large surface area for spreading out the weight of the load. The platform includes a mounting surface that joins with the load. A traction surface engages the pliant surface. A pump portion pumps portions of the pliant surface into an intake aperture, and out through a discharge aperture. A drive portion having sprockets and a cable drives the pump portion through momentum forces created by the platform housing, such as articulations of a walking gait.
US09930921B2
The invention discloses a drinking arrangement for location within a diver's helmet, which includes a container being adapted to contain a hydration fluid; support means for supporting the container within the helmet; a supply line being adapted to supply flow of the hydration fluid from the container; and a mouthpiece for normally sealing the supply line and being adapted to selectively dispense hydration liquid therefrom.
US09930908B2
Nutritional compositions having high amounts of protein and low ratios of omega-6:omega-3 fatty acids, and methods of making and using the nutritional compositions are provided. The nutritional compositions include an increased amount of protein, and a low ratio of omega-6:omega-3 fatty acids to provide a patient with adequate amounts of protein for the preservation of lean body mass, while reducing inflammation associated with administration of pro-inflammatory drug formulations such as propofol. The nutritional compositions also help to avoid potential complications associated with overfeeding of an enterally-fed patient being treated, or having been treated, with high fat medications such as propofol. Methods of making and using such nutritional compositions are also provided.
US09930907B2
A cryogenic freezer includes a plurality of conveyor rail supports that rest upon side walls of a lower housing of the freezer. The conveyor rail supports include upper and lower bars that support upper and lower conveyor support rails extending perpendicular to the bars.
US09930905B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising lyophilized Lactobacilli and a plant-based food, wherein the composition is substantially free of animal products. The present invention also relates to methods of treating plant-based food by administration of a Lactobacilli and a plant medium composition. Methods of using the Lactobacilli and plant-based food composition to treat E. coli or Salmonella infection in an animal in need thereof and methods of using the Lactobacilli and plant-based food composition to reduce E. coli or Salmonella contamination in an agricultural product are also provided.
US09930901B2
The invention relates to a process for the production of a liquid coffee concentrate that has an improved storage stability at ambient temperature. The process comprises treating a coffee concentrate to a heat treatment and a pH increasing step.
US09930899B2
Variants of chymosin with improved milk-clotting properties.
US09930898B2
A pasteurization system includes a liquid inlet configured to receive a liquid to be pasteurized. The system also includes a pump coupled to the liquid inlet for pressurizing the liquid. Further, the system includes a counter flow heat exchanger coupled to the liquid inlet and the pump, the counterflow heat exchanger configured to heat the liquid to a predetermined temperature for at least a predetermined time and configured to exchange heat between a flow of liquid in a first direction in a first channel with the flow of liquid in a second direction opposite the first direction in a second channel. A heating section that heats the liquid flow is integrated into the heat exchanger and heats at least a portion of the first channel or the second channel.
US09930897B2
A solid fuel smoker oven having a cooking chamber and a heat source chamber separated by a vertical divider. The heat source chamber includes a gas fired firebox to burn solid fuel. The cooking chamber comprises air channels defined by perforated wall panels comprising calibrated orifices that vary in size from the top of the channel to the bottom to allow air flow and temperatures inside the cooking chamber to be balanced. A fan in the cooking chamber draws heat and smoke emissions from the firebox and directs them into the air channels and recycles the heated air and smoke through the heat source chamber, which limits heat and smoke escape and maximizes temperature stability inside the oven. The fan also functions as a spark arrestor.
US09930879B2
A visual cue system associated with a plurality of consumer product packages includes a first visual cue with at least a first symbol and first text associated therewith and is further associated with a first consumer product. A second visual cue has at least a second symbol and second text associated therewith and is further associated with a second consumer product. A regimen key is associated with at least one of the first or second consumer products. Further, the first and second consumer product packages are different.
US09930866B2
An automated animal feeding assembly includes a housing that may be positioned to be accessible to an animal. A turret is rotatably coupled to the housing. A plurality of tubes is provided and each of the tubes is positioned within the turret. Each of the tubes may contain animal food. A rotation unit is positioned within the housing. The rotation unit engages the turret such that the rotation unit selectively rotates the turret. A dispensing unit is positioned within the housing. The dispensing unit selectively urges the animal food outwardly from the tubes into the third well. Thus, the animal may consume the animal food. A control is coupled to the housing and the control may be manipulated. The control is electrically coupled to rotation unit and the dispensing unit. Thus, the control controls operational parameters of each of the rotation unit and the dispensing unit.
US09930861B2
A system comprises a milking box, a robotic attacher, a sensor, and a controller. The milking box has a stall to accommodate a dairy livestock. The stall comprises a first exit gate on a first side of the stall leading to a first sorting region and a second exit gate on a second side of the stall leading to a second sorting region. The robotic attacher extends from the rear between the hind legs of the dairy livestock. The sensor identifies the dairy livestock within the milking box stall. The controller selects and opens the first exit gate or the second exit gate based at least in part upon the identity of the dairy livestock in order to direct the first dairy livestock into either the first sorting region or the second sorting region.
US09930855B1
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety AR1319046 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety AR1319046 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using AR1319046 in a breeding program.
US09930850B1
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety CL1460643 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety CL1460643 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using CL1460643 in a breeding program.
US09930849B1
A novel maize variety designated PH44WJ1 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH44WJ1 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH44WJ1 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH44WJ1 or a locus conversion of PH44WJ1 with another maize variety.
US09930847B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV346136. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV346136, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV346136 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV346136 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV346136.
US09930843B1
The invention provides seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated X13512. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety X13512, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety X13512 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety X13512.
US09930839B2
An arrangement in a boom system, specifically in a forest machine, includes at least two interlinked boom parts and at least one power transmission connected to the boom parts for moving the boom parts in relation to each other and the environment. The boom part includes an elongated body with a hollow structure and at least one set of joints intersected by turning axles for attaching the boom part to an adjacent structure, and at least one set of attachments for attaching an actuator controlling the boom system to the body, whereby at least one boom part is formed as a uniform, hollow piece made of fluid material. The cross-section of the body is made to cinch toward the midpoint of the body.
US09930837B2
The present invention is directed generally to a demountable silo (10) comprising a series of interconnected silo modules (12A to 12F) constructed in accordance with a preferred embodiment of this invention. The silo modules such as (12A) are each of a substantially identical configuration and interconnected in a side-by-side and end-to-end relationship. The demountable silo (10) is designed to contain particulate material and configured depending on the nature of the material and its storage requirements. It will be appreciated that the provision of multiple silo modules such as (12A to 12F) together contains significantly more particulate material in a heap than a single silo module. The maximum storage capacity for the demountable silo (10) is determined largely by the angle of repose of the heaped particulate material.
US09930834B2
An agricultural material baling system comprises, in one example, a bale forming component configured to form a bale of agricultural material from a terrain, and a control system configured to determine that the bale is to be released from the baling system onto the terrain, determine that a current location of the baling system has a slope above a threshold, determine a different location, that is spaced apart from the current location, for releasing the bale onto the terrain, and provide an output indicative of the different location. In one example, the control system is configured to receive yield data indicative of a volume of agricultural material in a path of the baler and to control the baling system based on the yield data. In one example, the yield data is obtained from a raking operation that rakes the agricultural material into a windrow.
US09930832B2
A plain mower includes a plurality of rotary cutters for cutting a crop and a swathing unit for forming the cut crop material into a swath. The swathing unit includes an auger that rotates about an axis to transport crop material axially through the swathing unit. The swathing unit can be configured in a first configuration in which the crop material is ejected axially from the auger, and can be reconfigured in a second configuration in which the crop material is ejected radially from the auger.
US09930828B1
A rake includes a first unit of a plurality of tines and a second unit of a plurality of overlaying rod arms. For each rake tine there is a corresponding overlaying tine. At the end of each overlaying rod arm is a ring the opening through which each corresponding rake tine runs through. The overlaying tines are secured to a sliding member which itself is slidably engages a pole. Lateral movement of the sliding member effects a corresponding lateral movement of the overlaying rod arms along the length of each tine.
US09930825B2
A device for coating items is provided. The device includes a hopper configured to hold particles of coating. The device also includes a spout including a first end and a second end. The spout is coupled to the hopper at the first end and is configured to receive the particles of coating from the hopper. The device also includes a distribution device coupled between the hopper and the spout and configured to distribute the particles of coating from the hopper into the spout at the first end of the spout. The device also includes a size adjuster device coupled to the second end of the spout. The size adjuster device is configured to resize the particles of coating and to discharge the particles of coating.
US09930823B2
A system for reducing implement wheel forces on a field surface has an agricultural implement with a frame mounted on frame wheels and ground engaging tools mounted on the frame. When the ground engaging tools move down to penetrate the field surface they exert an upward tool force on the frame. Support arms are movably connected to the implement frame and a support wheel is rotatably mounted to each support arm. A support bias element exerts a support bias force on each support arm to force the support wheel against the field surface and to correspondingly force the implement frame upward, transferring a supported frame weight from the implement frame to the support wheels, such that an unsupported frame weight is carried on the frame wheels. A bias control varies the support bias forces to maintain the unsupported frame weight at a level greater than the upward tool force.
US09930822B2
A down-pressure system for an agricultural implement has a linear actuator connected between a frame assembly and an opener assembly. A mounting structure for connecting the linear actuator to the opener assembly includes a bushing and an alignment member attached to the linear actuator. The bushing has protrusions extending transversely from opposite sides of a longitudinal axis of the linear actuator. Each protrusion has a curved engagement surface for engaging a flat surface on the opener assembly to prevent bending stresses on the linear actuator when the opener assembly is raised and lowered. The alignment member is arranged to lock the bushing into a predetermined rotational position about a longitudinal axis of the linear actuator relative to the opener assembly. The alignment member comprises a first structure that mates with a corresponding structure on the bushing, and a second structure that engages opposite sides of the opener assembly.
US09936617B2
A splice device for electromagnetically sealing a junction or bond between a plurality of cables is provided. A first and second cable each has a conductive core wire, an inner insulation, a braided sleeve, and an insulating cover. The junction or bond fixes and electrically connects the core wire of the second cable to the core wire of the first cable. A plurality of ferrules overlays the braided sleeve and the insulating cover of the first cable and the braided sleeve and the insulating cover of the second cable. A plurality of ring collars overlays the plurality of ferrules and is fixed to the plurality of ferrules. A splice cover or shield overlays the first cable, second cable, plurality of ferrules, and plurality of ring collars and electromagnetically seals the junction/bond between the core wires of the first cable and the second cable.
US09936613B2
A rack for supporting a sleds includes a pair of elongated support posts and pairs of elongated support arms that extend from the elongated support posts. Each pair of the elongated support arms defines a sled slot to receive a corresponding sled. To do so, each elongated support arm includes a circuit board guide to receive a chassis-less circuit board substrate of the corresponding sled. The rack may include a cross-member arm associated with each sled slot and an optical connector mounted to each cross-member arm. Additional elongated support posts may be used to provide additional sled slots.
US09936610B2
A multilevel converter contains at least two submodules which are connected in a row. Each of the submodules contains at least two switches and a capacitor and two current-carrying outer module terminals. Accordingly, at least one of the submodules has at least one outer cooling member which acts as a current-carrying outer module terminal.
US09936607B2
Methods are provided for facilitating cooling of an electronic component. The methods include providing a liquid-cooled cold plate and a thermal spreader associated with the cold plate. The cold plate includes multiple coolant-carrying channel sections extending within the cold plate, and a thermal conduction surface with a larger surface area than a surface area of the component to be cooled. The thermal spreader includes one or more heat pipes including multiple heat pipe sections. One or more heat pipe sections are partially aligned to a first region of the cold plate, that is, where aligned to the surface to be cooled, and partially aligned to a second region of the cold plate, which is outside the first region. The one or more heat pipes facilitate distribution of heat from the electronic component to coolant-carrying channel sections of the cold plate located in the second region of the cold plate.
US09936606B1
A liquid immersion cooler including: a refrigerant tank that stores a silicone oil-based insulating refrigerant immersing an electronic device; a circulation passage that is provided between the refrigerant tank and a refrigerant cooler, and through which the silicone oil-based insulating refrigerant flows; and a pump that is arranged on the circulation passage, and circulates the silicone oil-based insulating refrigerant between the refrigerant tank and the refrigerant cooler.
US09936600B2
Disclosed herein is a motor drive unit. The motor drive unit includes a base part; a middle base part disposed above the base part; a heat discharging part mounted on the base part and disposed under the middle base part to slide on the middle base part, wherein an area in which the heat discharging part is installed is smaller than an area of the middle base part; and a power PCB part disposed above the middle base part, an EMC PCB part disposed above the power PCB part with a spacing; a control PCB part coupled with a side portion of the power PCB part; and a condenser unit penetrating the middle base part to be fixed to it, wherein a lower end of the condenser unit is disposed on a side of the heat discharging part.
US09936597B2
A kit that includes multiple rectilinear elongate polygonal elements having five unique shapes, four of which are concave polygonal elements. In some examples, when arranged with respect to one another, the elements of the kit form a girih strapwork pattern. In one aspect, respective elements in a kit may include bezels or boarders along longer sides to enhance an over/under weaving effect of the girih strapwork pattern. In other aspects, one or more elements may be formed as a tray, and some of the trays may include various components or materials disposed in the tray (e.g., architectural surface materials, biological systems, various electronic components) to provide for a variety of creative designs and structural/sculptural installations for built environments. In some implementations, one or more such trays may have beveled rims so as to appear light and thin when viewed.
US09936589B2
An electrical device for soldering to a circuit board with a solder includes a capacitor, a lead frame including a solder dam, and a solder joint electrically coupling the capacitor to the lead frame. The solder dam includes one of a physical barrier to flow or an area of reduced wettability to the solder. The solder dam is between the solder joint and the circuit board. The solder dam is on one or both of a lead portion and main portion of the lead frame. In one embodiment, the first solder dam extends substantially the full width of the first lead portion. The solder dam may be a barrier and/or include a metal oxide. A method of manufacturing the device includes soldering a lead frame to a capacitor with a solder and modifying a surface on the lead frame to include a physical barrier and/or an area of reduced wettability.
US09936583B2
A wiring board is provided which includes an insulating layer; and a frame body disposed on the insulating layer. The frame body is provided with a through-hole. The insulating layer has a concave portion in one main surface on a frame body side. In a plan view of the wiring board, the concave portion has a first portion positioned at the through-hole, and a second portion which is positioned at the frame body and is continuous with the first portion. An air gap is formed between the frame body and the insulating layer in the second portion.
US09936579B2
Embedded PCB (printed circuit board) is used for the packaging and assembly of a low profile power conversion system module that can be employed in space constrained environment of small computer/electronic systems. The low profile power conversion system module includes an embedded PCB, a power silicon device embedded within the PCB, a magnetic component which is either embedded within the PCB or disposed on the PCB, and input/output terminals disposed on the side of the embedded PCB. The embedded PCB and the magnetic component are thin planar shaped to save vertical space. The low profile power conversion system module can be placed inside a cavity formed in the system PCB to save even more vertical space.
US09936576B2
A method includes forming a multi-stacked electronic device having two or more electronic components, each of the electronic components includes a leadframe, the leadframes of each electronic component are physically joined together using a non-solder metal joining process to form a joint, and the joint is located outside a solder connection region.
US09936573B2
Methods of fabricating tamper-respondent assemblies are provided which include a tamper-respondent electronic circuit structure. The tamper-respondent electronic circuit structure includes a tamper-respondent sensor. The tamper-respondent sensor includes, for instance, at least one flexible layer having opposite first and second sides, and circuit lines forming at least one resistive network. The circuit lines are disposed on at least one of the first or second side of the at least one flexible layer, and have a line width Wl≤200 μm, as well as a line-to-line spacing width Ws≤200 μm. In certain enhanced embodiments, the tamper-respondent sensor includes multiple flexible layers, with a first flexible layer having first circuit lines, and a second flexible layer having second circuit lines, where the first and second circuit lines may have different line widths, different line-to-line spacings, and/or be formed of different materials.
US09936572B2
A differential trace pair system includes a board having a first board structure member and a second board structure member. A differential trace pair in the board includes a first differential trace pair portion of a first width outside the board structure, and a second differential trace pair portion of a second width extending through the board structure. A first outer edge and a second outer edge of the second differential trace pair portion define the second width that is less than the first width. A first board structure member channel is defined by the first outer edge adjacent the first board structure member, a second board structure member channel is defined by the second outer edge adjacent the second board structure member and the first and second board structure member channels provide a third width of the second differential trace pair portion that is less than the second width.
US09936563B2
A stretchable display device includes: a stretchable substrate; a plurality of light emitting units on the stretchable substrate; and a plurality of reflective mirrors positioned to correspond to the light emitting units, respectively, and reflecting light emitted from the light emitting units, respectively.
US09936552B1
In one example, a system includes a controller, a transformer including at least a primary winding and an auxiliary winding, a voltage supply, and a driver. The controller is configured to output an indication of a target current or a target power. The voltage supply is configured to receive an electrical current having a constant average current over time from the auxiliary winding and to output variable electrical current for supplying the controller. The voltage supply includes a capacitor for storing energy and a current sink for consuming a current. The driver is configured to selectively energize the primary winding for supplying one or more load devices based on the target current or the target power and selectively energize the primary winding for operating the voltage supply based on an indication of a voltage at the voltage supply.
US09936551B2
An LED driver comprising a power converter for powering an LED unit and a control unit for controlling the power converter is provided. The power converter comprising an input terminal for receiving a rectified AC supply voltage, and an output terminal for supplying a current to the LED unit, and the control unit comprising an input for receiving a supply signal representative of the supply voltage and an output for providing a control signal to the power converter. The control unit is further arranged to: determine the control signal for controlling the power converter based on the supply signal, and control the power converter to supply the current to the LED unit based on the control signal, the current being amplitude modulated in synchronism or in phase with the rectified AC supply voltage.
US09936543B2
A display device includes a circular display panel, an encapsulation substrate on the circular display panel, and an optical element interposed between the circular display panel and the encapsulation substrate, the optical element including a light guide member having a ring shape to correspond to a boundary of the circular display panel, the light guide member configuring a boundary of the optical element.
US09936538B2
The invention relates to a an electric radiator element having multiple heating zones for the production of energy-efficient eco-design applications, radiator heating flanges and radiator heating pipes in the low-voltage range, having integrated radiators which increase the heating output of a heater resistor without the additional consumption of energy.
US09936529B2
Disclosed are a method for performing or supporting D2D communication in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. The method for enabling a D2D terminal to perform D2D communication according to the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving polling interval information allocated to transmit a polling signal for the D2D communication from a base station; and transmitting the polling signal to the base station within the allocated polling interval. The polling signal comprises an identifier of the D2D terminal, an identifier of a target D2D terminal selected through a search, and an indicator for indicating the execution of D2D communication.
US09936528B2
A device is disclosed which is programmed with an application or “app” to share bandwidth to and from multiple sources. In one embodiment, this uses a mobile device with a computer running a controlling program for operating functions of the mobile device, and an app that controls sharing of bandwidth from the mobile device, and obtaining shared bandwidth from another mobile device. Usage data is accumulated which indicates an amount of data received and shared from the one client.
US09936527B2
A method and apparatus for configuring a cell in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives a radio resource control (RRC) message which includes a configuration for a secondary cell (SCell) and an indication of an initial state of the SCell. The initial state of the SCell is set to either one of an activated state and deactivated state. The UE configures the SCell based on the configuration and the initial state of the SCell.
US09936526B2
Systems and methods are described to enable management of an asset to be transferred from a first entity to a second entity such that an Information Manager that stores information for the asset can authenticate the management transfer when the second entity requests the Information Manager to access or modify the stored information for the asset. Authentication is enabled using a token assigned to the asset by the Information Manager which is provided to the first entity by the Information Manager, transferred from the first entity to the second entity following the transfer of management and provided to the Information Manager by the second entity to enable authentication of the request by the second entity to access or modify the stored information for the asset. In an embodiment, the asset may be a WiFi access point or Bluetooth beacon and the Information Manager may be a National Emergency Address Manager.
US09936525B2
A method provides for wireless transmission and reception of messages in an asynchronous ad hoc network having multiple network nodes, of which at least a first network node periodically transmits messages with a predefined period length. A second network node carries out: Defining two consecutive time intervals, each having the length of one period and a first time interval being past and a second time interval being future; subdividing the time intervals into two time slots each; calculating an occupancy for each time slot of the first time interval based on the number of messages of other network node(s) received in this time slot; identifying the time slot having the lowest occupancy; and transmitting a message in a time slot of the second time interval that corresponds to the identified time slot. The exact transmission point is defined on the basis of the time stamp derived from the synchronized TSF.
US09936523B2
The present disclosure concerns radio communication. More particularly, the present disclosure concerns random access procedures used in communication between user equipments (UEs) and radio network nodes, such as evolved NodeB's. According to one exemplary embodiment disclosed herein, a method in a UE 10 comprises transmitting 110, 130 two or more Physical Random Access Channel, PRACH, signals, where the two or more PRACH signals have different frequency bandwidths. Hereby it is made possible to improve the resource utilization during the random access procedure.
US09936519B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a self-contained subframe structure for time division duplex (TDD) carriers. Information transmitted on a TDD carrier may be grouped into subframes, and each subframe can provide communications in both directions (e.g., uplink and downlink) to enable such communications without needing further information in another subframe. In one aspect of the disclosure, a single subframe may include scheduling information, data transmission corresponding to the scheduling information, and acknowledgment packets corresponding to the data transmission. Furthermore, the subframe may additionally include a header and/or a trailer to provide certain bi-directional communications functions.
US09936517B2
Systems and methods disclosed in certain implementations relate to identifying, by a processor, user equipments (UEs) associated with a base station, determining applications associated with the UEs; allocating portions of a bandwidth associated with the base station to the applications; and scheduling transmission of data from the base station based on allocating the portions of the bandwidth to the applications. Scheduling transmission of data from the base may include, for example, determining a particular application associated with the data; determining a particular bandwidth associated with the particular application; determining whether the data can be transmitted from the base station based on the particular bandwidth; and scheduling the data for delivery when the data can be transmitted from the base station based on the particular bandwidth.
US09936516B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication at a wireless device having collocated radios employing different radio access technologies (RATs). For example, a second radio of the wireless device may receive a first scheduling message. The first scheduling message may include information relating to timing, priority, transmission power, and radio capabilities. Using this scheduling message, a determination of whether a first radio employing a first RAT and the second radio employing a second RAT can transmit in parallel may be made. A first transmission on the first radio may be coordinated with a second transmission on the second radio based on the determination of whether the first radio and the second radio can transmit in parallel. A number of data units may be aggregated into an aggregate frame to be transmitted by the second radio. The number of data units may be based on the scheduling message.
US09936513B2
An apparatus and a method for a wireless communication network. The apparatus includes circuitry configured for acquiring the first information associated with an indicator indicating communication quality of user terminals served by an interfering base station; acquiring second information associated with an indicator indicating interfered degree of user terminals interfered by the interfering base station; configuring, based on the first information and the second information, transmission of the interfering base station for inter-base station coordination. The technical solution improves the overall performance of the wireless communication heterogeneous network.
US09936505B2
A base station can prevent deterioration of data channel application control accuracy due to influence of transmission power control to a control channel. In the base station, each encoding section performs encoding processing to an SCCH (Shared Control Channel) of each mobile station, each modulating section performs modulation processing to the encoded SCCH, an arranging section arranges the SCCH to each mobile station to one of a plurality of subcarriers which configure an OFDM symbol, and transmission power control section controls transmission power of the SCCH based on reception quality information reported from each mobile station. The arranging section arranges a plurality of the SCCH to be under transmission power control to one of the subcarriers so that combinations at resource blocks are the same.
US09936502B2
Embodiments are provided for implementing a control function in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) for allocation of resources to multiple stations (STAs) to enable Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) communications. An embodiment method includes determining a plurality of transmission resources for OFDMA communications of a plurality of STAs in the WLAN. The determination includes allocating a plurality of subcarriers to the STAs. The method further includes signaling the determined transmission resources to the STAs. The signaling of the transmission resources is piggybacked on at least one of data and management frames, such as in a sub-header of a MAC frame, or is an explicit signaling, such as in one or more dedicated fields of a traffic specification information element. The transmission resources for OFDMA communications allow simultaneous transmissions of the STAs in the WLAN.
US09936492B2
Methods and apparatus for multiple user uplink are provided. In one aspect, a method of transmitting a physical layer convergence protocol data unit on a wireless medium includes generating a first portion and a second portion of the physical layer convergence protocol data unit, transmitting the first portion at a first data rate, the first portion decodable by a first and second sets of devices, and transmitting the second portion at a second data rate higher than the first data rate, the second portion decodable by the second set of devices.
US09936490B2
A macrocell base station controls to reduce interference between cells by a downlink signal of the macrocell base station with specific timing, the interference which a downlink signal of a low transmission power cell suffers for a wireless terminal. A low transmission power cell base station decides measurement timing with which the wireless terminal measures reception quality of the low transmission power cell based on information about the specific timing, and sends a setting message including a parameter according to the measurement timing to the wireless terminal. The wireless terminal measures reception quality with the measurement timing indicated by the parameter, and when the wireless terminal satisfies a condition for executing an event based on the measured result, the wireless terminal sends a reception quality measurement message including information indicating that the measurement is made with the measurement timing to the low transmission power cell base station.
US09936484B2
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises allocating a control channel resource in a wireless relay transmission frame on a wireless relay link; generating a control signaling based on at least one of a resource allocation scheme, a status of the wireless relay link and a traffic condition of the wireless relay link; mapping the control signaling to the allocated control channel resource via at least one of a time-first mapping, a frequency-first mapping, and a multiplexing mapping; and transmitting the control signaling in the allocated control channel resource on the wireless relay link to at least one associated relay node.
US09936482B2
A method and apparatus for performing device-to-device (D2D ) transmission in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) determines that it is out of coverage (OOC). Even though the UE is OOC, the UE continues to perform D2D transmission by using D2D resources for in-coverage under a specific condition. Based on a specific condition, if the UE determines that is in coverage before the specific condition is met, the UE performs D2D transmission by using the D2D resources for in-coverage. If the specific condition is met while the UE is OOC, the UE performs D2D transmission by using the D2D resources for OOC.
US09936476B2
A user terminal connected to a system to provide social network service (SNS) includes a transmission unit configured to send a friend request and location information of the user terminal, and receive user information of at least one other user terminals, and a display control unit configured to control a display of the user terminal to display a current location of a user of the user terminal and the user information of the at least one other user terminal present within a predetermined distance based on received location information of the other user terminal. Within the display control unit, a particular region of the display is set as a current location of the user terminal.
US09936470B2
Among other things, a communication system comprising remote units, a reference timing source, a controller, a controller clock, and a remote unit clock. The remote units exchange radio frequency (RF) signals with mobile devices. The reference timing source is synchronized with a coordinated universal time (UTC) or a Global Positioning System (GPS). The controller clock is synchronized with the reference timing source and provides timing information to the controller. The remote unit clock is synchronized with the controller clock and provides timing information to a remote unit. The controller and the remote unit are configured to transmit time stamp messages to synchronize the controller clock and the remote unit clock, by avoiding contention between time stamp transmissions and baseband data transmissions or between time stamp transmissions of different remote units to the controller.
US09936465B2
The present invention is designed to enable adequate transmission power control when inter-base station CA is employed. The present invention is designed so that, when inter-base station CA is employed and the transmission power of a user terminal reaches the maximum transmission power, the user terminal executes transmission power control by carrying out power scaling autonomously. For example, the user terminal has a transmission section that transmits an uplink physical channel in each component carrier, and a control section that switches, over time, the component carrier to which the uplink physical channel is transmitted preferentially.
US09936449B2
The described apparatus and methods may include a receiver configured to receive a control signal, and a controller configured to regulate power consumption of the receiver during intervals of less than one radio frame based on the control signals. The controller may also be configured to regulate power consumption of a transmitter during intervals of less than one radio frame based on the control signal.
US09936436B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for setting a wireless network among a plurality of beacon devices constituting a mesh network and a computer-readable recording medium storing a program for carrying out the method, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for measuring quality of service (QoS), which is a reference for setting a network path, and setting a path of a mesh network using the QoS, and a recording medium storing a computer program for carrying out the method.
US09936432B2
The present disclosure concerns movements, such as handovers, of user equipments (UEs) 120a-e from one radio cell 130a to another radio cell 130b. Disclosed herein are methods as well radio network nodes 110a, 110b. A radio network node 110a, 110b may, for example, select the most suitable UE(s) 20a-e to move from a source radio cell 130a to a target radio cell 130b in case the traffic load in the source radio cell 130a is below or equal to the traffic load of the target radio cell 130b. Hereby it is made possible to improve the resource utilization.
US09936431B2
Generally, this disclosure provides devices, systems and methods for performance monitoring of WLAN data traffic offloading in wireless cellular networks. A wireless local area network (WLAN) access point (AP) may include a performance measurement module to measure the number of User Equipment (UEs) connected to the WLAN AP for data traffic offload and further to measure packet throughput from the UEs to the WLAN AP; a measurement granularity timer to trigger the performance measurement module to perform the measurements; a performance report generation module to generate a WLAN report based on the measurements provided from the performance measurement module; and a performance report timer to trigger the performance report generation module to generate the WLAN report.
US09936424B2
A first method (and related first apparatus) includes transmitting, in a handover request message, an indication of a first protocol version; a second method (and related second apparatus) includes receiving, in the handover request message, the indication, deciding, based on the received indication and a second protocol version, on a value of an information element included in a handover request acknowledgement message to be transmitted, the information element indicating usage of a first or second signaling scheme, and transmitting the handover request acknowledgement message including the information element; and in the first method receiving the handover request acknowledgement message including the information element; and a third method (and related third apparatus) including receiving the handover command message including the information element, and configuring according to one of the first and second signaling schemes indicated by the information element.
US09936416B2
A method for controlling network transmission delay, a QoS control entity, and a communication device are disclosed. In the method for controlling network transmission delay, the QoS control entity, and the communication device in the embodiments of the present invention, a service flow delay threshold is set to monitor the network transmission delay, and, when it is determined that the service flow transmission delay requirement is not met, a delay control policy is formulated to adjust the network transmission delay dynamically, thereby improving user experience.
US09936401B2
Messages transmitted between a receiver and a transmitter are used to maximize a communication data rate. In particular, a multicarrier modulation system uses messages that are sent from the receiver to the transmitter to exchange one or more sets of optimized communication parameters. The transmitter then stores these communication parameters and when transmitting to that particular receiver, the transmitter utilizes the stored parameters in an effort to maximize the data rate to that receiver. Likewise, when the receiver receives packets from that particular transmitter, the receiver can utilize the stored communication parameters for reception.
US09936400B2
Techniques for channel selection in a shared communication medium are disclosed. A communication apparatus may include one or more transceivers, a processor, and memory coupled to the processor and configured to store data and/or instructions. The one or more transceivers may be configured to monitor signaling on a plurality of available channels associated with a communication medium. The processor may be configured to determine an interference level for each of the plurality of available channels based on the monitored signaling, determine that the interference level for each of the plurality of available channels is greater than a first threshold, determine whether a triggering condition is met, and select the first channel of the plurality of channels as an operating channel for a primary radio access technology based on the triggering condition being met, the first channel having an interference level that is greater than a second threshold.
US09936399B2
A method and a device are provided for controlling operation of a wireless device (200). The method (500) includes transmitting an initial signal (410) to a controller device (120) in an initial mode (505); receiving initial instructions (420) from the controller device in the initial mode, after transmitting the initial signal (510), the initial instructions identifying an operational mode; setting transmit and receive circuitry in the wireless device to transmit and receive according to the operational mode (515, 520, 525); and transmitting operational signals (430) in the operational mode (530). The wireless device 200 includes an antenna controller (290) and an antenna switch (225) for implementing this method.
US09936393B2
The disclosure is directed to a method of radio resource scheduling in an unlicensed spectrum and related apparatuses using the same method. In one of the exemplary embodiments, the method would include not limited to transmitting a node control information which may include an occupancy pattern of a radio resource of the unlicensed spectrum before receiving an occupancy notification; transmitting an equipment control information which comprises the occupancy pattern of the radio resource of the unlicensed spectrum before receiving the occupancy notification; transmitting a packet data by using the radio resource of the unlicensed spectrum before receiving the occupancy notification; and receiving the occupancy notification which informs an availability of the radio resource of the unlicensed spectrum.
US09936390B2
Receive a first device identifier from a first computing device; determine whether the first device identifier matches the second device identifier stored in a database at the second computing device; locate first user data associated with the first device identifier in the database of the second computing device based on a match; transmit the first user data to the first computing device based on a location of the first user data associated with the first device identifier; select an application to automatically launch on the first computing device based on application information within the first user data; update a user data list with the first user data, wherein the user data list is associated with the application and is stored at the second computing device; and launch the application on the first computing device, wherein the application uses second user data determined from the user data list.
US09936389B2
Methods and systems for preventing a user input device from controlling the user equipment are described herein. The method includes receiving, over a first communication path, by a user equipment, data indicative of a first request to restrict control by the user input device over the user equipment. The method includes disregarding a first command from the user input device response to receiving the first request. The method includes receiving, over the first communication path, data indicative of a second request to restore control by the user input device over the user equipment. The method includes receiving a second command from the user input device, the second command intended to alter a second setting of the user equipment, in response to receiving the second request. The method includes altering the second setting of the user equipment in response to receiving the second request and the second command.
US09936388B2
In some embodiments, a network regulator device protects a local network of client systems (e.g. Internet-of-things devices such as smartphones, home appliances, wearables, etc.) against computer security threats. When introduced to the local network, some embodiments of network regulator take over some network services from a router, and automatically install the network regulator as gateway to the local network. The network regulator then carries out an automatic device discovery procedure and distribute device-specific utility agents to the protected client systems. An exemplary utility agent detects when its host device has left the local network, and in response, sets up a virtual private network (VPN) tunnel with a security server to maintain protection of the respective device.
US09936386B2
A method of controlling a timer in a User Equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes determining, by a controller in the UE, whether a current international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) matches a stored IMSI if the UE is powered ON, activating, by the controller, the timer if the current IMSI matches the stored IMSI; and stopping the timer if the current IMSI does not match the stored IMSI.
US09936372B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for performing communication using wi-fi between devices. The method includes: scanning channels that are available to gather information related to surroundings: transmitting a probe request frame through a social channel for searching devices that are to perform communication; receiving a probe response frame from the second device through a listen channel in response to the probe request frame in a listen state; and performing a group owner negotiation with the second device in order to determine a group owner, wherein the listen channel is included in the social channel, and wherein the probe request frame is transmitted from each social channel, and a predetermined hold time is present for receiving the probe response frame after transmitting the probe request frame in each social channel.
US09936368B2
A method at a wireless device outside of base station control, the method comprising: transmitting a device presence signal for a predetermined time period; and listening for a network presence signal sent in response to the device presence signal. Further, a method at a wireless device, the method comprising: listening for a device presence signal; and transmitting a network presence signal in response to the device presence signal.
US09936362B2
A social messaging hub provides communication services including intelligent presence detection messaging for a data enabled device having Internet network access capabilities. In one embodiment, a user is given a registered phone number and has multiple devices with unique IP addressable identifications which serve as a source and destination identifiers of the associated data enabled devices. The hub receives device and default location information, sets geofence boundaries, receives a notification of device positions and then delivers messages based on the proximity of devices to each other and user preferences.
US09936350B2
A system and a plurality of methods for location detection are disclosed. In some cases, the user's present location is represented by a circle, having a center and a radius, where the radius is indicative of the accuracy of the present location. The desired destination location, or geofence, is also defined as a circle, having a center and a radius. The various methods disclosed are used to determine when a user has entered or exited the geofence. In some embodiments, these methods attempt to minimize power consumption or another parameter. In another embodiment, the methods attempt to achieve the highest degree of accuracy possible or required for the task.
US09936349B2
A mobility management node and a method in a mobility management node for reducing signalling caused by changes of location of a radio terminal, which mobility management node is configured to be operatively comprised by a wireless communication system and to operatively manage the mobility of the radio terminal and to operatively communicate with a gateway node acting as an interface between the system and an external network. The method comprises obtaining initial position information; obtaining boundary information indicating a boundary area wherein at least one of a policy or a charging rule is to be applied for the radio terminal; obtaining current position information; determining whether the radio terminal is inside or outside the boundary area; providing mobility information when the radio terminal is outside the boundary area and not providing mobility information to the gateway node when the radio terminal is inside the boundary area.
US09936346B2
Architecture that enables the capability to more effectively define and resize geofences to provide improved geofence utility based on rich context and crowd-sourced data. The architecture enables the intelligent placement of geofences based on rich context that includes both user context and ambient context such as the (predicted or implicitly/explicitly defined) user's travel path, mode of transport, the type of the entity to be visited by the user and geofenced, and the user incentive for visiting the entity to be geofenced. The ambient context includes non-user specific information such as external conditions that may limit or thwart user mobility such as traffic and weather conditions. The rich context and crowd-sourced data assist in improving the spatiotemporal accuracy of suggested/constructed geofences thereby creating a “shaped” geofence that is sufficiently defined to approximate the shape of the entity being geofenced with some degree of accuracy.
US09936343B2
A method and apparatus for a wireless device that can adapt a rate of related wireless network unit scans for adjacent networks is disclosed. In one embodiment, the wireless device can include a wireless network unit and a co-located geo-location signal receiver, and a processor. The processor can determine the position and speed of the wireless device from data received from the geo-location signal receiver. The processor can configure the wireless network unit to adapt the rate of related wireless network scans based upon determined speed and position. In one embodiment, the wireless network unit scans can be wireless scans for other nearby networks for roaming or location based services.
US09936341B1
Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for standardizing addresses and providing information associated with geographic areas/points of interest. For example, location data can be collected for serviceable points. From the collected location data, addresses can be standardized, location-based searches can be performed, correct locations of serviceable points can be confirmed, and geographic representations can be generated.
US09936340B2
Techniques for wirelessly receiving, at a mobile device, information related to another mobile device determined to be in a line of sight relative to the mobile device, are presented. In an aspect, a method includes, determining by a first mobile device, a location of a mobile object determined to be in a line of sight relative to the first mobile device, and wirelessly receiving descriptive information associated with a second mobile device having a location substantially corresponding to the location of the mobile object.
US09936320B2
A transfer function calculation unit is configured to calculate a transfer function from a sound source installed in a predetermined target direction to each microphone of a microphone array, and a determination unit is configured to determine whether or not the microphone array is normal on the basis of a difference amount between a transfer function to each microphone and a predetermined ideal transfer function to each microphone.
US09936319B2
A microphone device that can be thrown to a member of an audience or to another user so that the microphone device recognizes the state of the motion of the microphone device and switches from a first state of motion to another state of motion when the state of motion is changed during the throw and switches the state of the microphone device from a mute state to unmute state according to the state of the motion.
US09936310B2
A hearing assistance system having an audio signal wireless transmission unit for transmitting a stereo audio signal with left and right ear channels, a first ear unit for being worn at a user's ear and having a hearing instrument and a wireless audio signal receiver unit, the hearing instrument providing the first receiver unit with information as to which ear of the user the hearing instrument is being worn and information as to whether, or not, there is a like second ear unit. The first receiver unit is adapted to decide, depending on the received information as to which ear the first hearing instrument is fitted and whether a second ear unit is worn at the other ear, to receive one of the right and left ear channels, and, in absence of a stereo channel, to supply the respective mono channel of the audio signal to the first hearing instrument.
US09936308B2
A hearing aid apparatus includes a frequency analysis device configured to determine an instantaneous fundamental frequency value of a speech signal for a time portion of the speech signal. A statistical evaluation device is configured to determine an average fundamental frequency value of the speech signal over several time portions. A hearing aid apparatus further includes a fundamental frequency modifier that is configured to modify the instantaneous fundamental frequency value to a modified fundamental frequency value such that a difference or a quotient of the instantaneous fundamental frequency value is changed to the average fundamental frequency value according to a specific function. Thereby, a frequency range may be modified within which the fundamental frequency value varies. The hearing aid apparatus further includes a speech signal generator that is configured to generate, on the basis of the modified fundamental frequency value, a speech signal modified with regard to the fundamental frequency.
US09936307B2
A hearing aid communication system and a hearing aid communication method thereof are disclosed. The hearing aid communication method includes the steps of: determining whether a sound-providing apparatus is providing a sound signal; when the sound-providing apparatus is providing a sound signal, establishing a connection with a hearing aid; receiving the sound signal from the sound-providing apparatus for transmission to the hearing aid; and when the sound-providing apparatus stops providing the sound signal, breaking the connection with the hearing aid.
US09936303B2
A multi-diaphragm speaker comprises at least four diaphragms, inner connecting rods, and outer connecting rods. The diaphragms located at odd-numbered positions are connected to the inner connecting rods via connecting points, and then the inner connecting rods are connected via the outer connecting rods, thus forming a first set of diaphragms. The diaphragms located at even-numbered positions are connected to the inner connecting rods via connecting points, and then the inner connecting points are connected via the outer connecting rods, thus forming a second set of diaphragms. The long rods and short rods of the inner connecting rods in the first set of diaphragms and in the second set of diaphragms are staggered. The present invention can implement connection of diaphragms without requiring penetration of the diaphragms, thus preventing occurrences of air leakage and poor sound quality, and enhancing sound effects of the speaker.
US09936297B2
A headphone set can enable the substantially simultaneous output of two or more audio sources to a user. The audio from the multiple sources may be mixed so that a listener can hear and understand audio received from multiple audio sources. Thus, in certain embodiments, a user can consume media and also engage in conversation with other users or listen to ambient sounds, such as a telephone ringing or an alarm. Further, a mobile device, such as a mobile phone, can mix audio from multiple sources enabling a user to consume audio from the device while also listening to ambient sound or audio received from a source other than the device, using currently-available headphones.
US09936293B2
According to one embodiment, a loudspeaker is provided in a case of an earphone. The case closes an external auditory canal extended from a tympanum of a listener. The earphone has an opening toward the external auditory canal. In an apparatus for generating a sound reproduction to the loudspeaker, a storage unit stores a correction filter in which a maximum of a gain at a frequency band lower than or equal to 10 kHz is larger than a maximum of a gain at a frequency band higher than 10 kHz. An acquisition unit acquires a first sound reproduction signal. A correction unit generates a second sound reproduction signal by convoluting the correction filter with the first sound reproduction signal. An output unit outputs the second sound reproduction signal to the loudspeaker.
US09936291B2
A spherical microphone array that includes a sound-diffracting structure having a closed three-dimensional shape of at least one non-regular, regular or semi-regular convex polyhedron with congruent faces of regular or non-regular polygons and at least two omnidirectional microphones disposed in or on the sound-diffracting structure on an oval line whose center is disposed on a center line that subtends the center of one of the faces of the regular polygons.
US09936270B2
The present disclosure discloses a communication system and a power control unit included therein. The communication system comprises a signal source, one or more amplifiers, one or more terminators and leaky transmission lines. The signal source is configured to provide communication signals. The one or more amplifiers are configured to amplify incoming communication signals. The one or more terminators configured to terminate communication signals. The leaky transmission lines are disposed in correspondence with sections of a elongated area and connect the signal source to each of the one or more terminators via at least one of the amplifiers. The communication system further comprises sensors and the power control unit. Each of the sensors is positioned in correspondence with one of the amplifiers and the terminators and configured to sense whether a vehicle approaches said one of the amplifiers and the terminators. The power control unit is configured to receive sensing results from the sensors and to control each of the amplifiers to amplify its incoming communication signals to a normal power level Pnormal or a power level lower than Pnormal based on the received sensing results.
US09936268B2
Systems and methods for routing an incoming service request to one of a plurality of pod units are described. A communication system can be provided that includes a plurality of pods each having a first pod serving a first subset of user accounts associated with a hosted PBX system. The first pod can include a first pod unit in a first data center and a second pod unit in a second data center. A global user directory (GUD) can be used to store a plurality of user keys that are mapped to the plurality of pods. A router can be provided to identify a user key from an incoming service request, query the GUD to identify the first pod as being associated with the user key, and route the incoming service request to one of the first and second pod units.
US09936265B2
The present disclosure discloses a method, a system, and a website server for playing a website video. The method includes: receiving a video playback request that includes a client identification and a video identification, and querying a playback record corresponding to the client identification; accumulating video playback times in the playback record to obtain current video playback times; determining advertisement information duration corresponding to the current video playback times, where the playback times are inversely proportional to the advertisement information duration; and extracting, from an advertisement information library according to the determined advertisement information duration, advertisement information that meets the duration, acquiring video data corresponding to the video identification, inserting the extracted advertisement information ahead of the video data, and transmitting the extracted advertisement information and the video data to a client for playing. The solutions of the present disclosure can improve efficiency of playing a website video.
US09936264B1
A method may include receiving, by a processing device of a user device, a media item and storing the media item in a local store for offline playback of the media item on the user device, responsive to a user request to play the media item, identifying one or more offline playback settings associated with the media item, determining, based on the offline playback settings, whether the media item is to be played with an advertisement, and if the media item is to be played with the advertisement, providing playback of the media item from the local store with the advertisement on the user device.
US09936256B2
Disclosed herein is a receiver including: a reception section adapted to receive AV, namely audio and visual content; a registration section adapted to register related content relating to the AV content based on control information included in an application program executed in response to the AV content; and a presentation control unit adapted to exercise control in such a manner that if the registered related content is selected, the selected related content is presented.
US09936248B2
Control, based upon one or more pre-determined and user-configurable criterion, the loudness or intensity of audio as output by a television or handheld mobile device.
US09936247B2
Disclosed herein are methods and apparatuses for requesting and obtaining data, in which time information is generated by use of a first device, and a data request command requesting data output by a second device is generated at a time point indicated by the time information. The generated data request command is transmitted, wherein the data request command includes the time information.
US09936244B2
An image processing terminal comprising: a processor, a memory for storing one or more commands executed by the processor, and a control signal receiving unit for receiving a control signal in accordance with an input to a key by a user from a remote controller. The one or more program commands include commands for, comparing a sensing level corresponding to a pressure or an area applied to the key by the user with a preset value, determining whether the input to the key corresponds to a normal input or a force input depending on the comparing, outputting an identification image for identification of the force input on a screen during a predetermined period of time or adjusting a full size of the screen when the input to the key corresponds to the force input, and performing a control process corresponding to the force input after the predetermined period of time elapses.
US09936243B2
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph of a social-networking system, and determining, from the social graph, that a user “likes” a first page associated with a particular version of a media content. The social graph includes a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes. The nodes include user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system. The method further includes determining that one or more other versions of the media content exist, determining that a main page is associated with the particular version and the one or more other versions of the media content, and aggregating the user's “like” of the first page to the main page. Each of the one or more other versions of the media content has one or more associated pages.
US09936242B2
A method for merging content channels is disclosed. The method includes identifying, by a processing device, target channels to merge into a result channel, wherein the result channel is formed in view of at least one set of users of the target channels viewing at least one of a same set or a similar set of content items from the target channels. The method further includes subscribing, by the processing device, the users of the target channels to the result channel and associating, by the processing device, the set of the content items of the target channels with the result channel.
US09936239B2
System and techniques for multiple stream tuning are described herein. A plurality of content streams may be received. The plurality of content streams may be ranked. A user attention level may be scored as the user observes at least one content stream of the plurality of content streams. The user attention level and a rank for the at least one content stream may be compared to remaining ranks of the plurality of content streams to produce a difference. A stream action may be performed on a set of content streams from the plurality of content streams based on the difference.
US09936235B2
A personal base station (PBS) having wireless video capability. The PBS authenticates a mobile device within range for cellular services, and authenticates the user for a level of service for cable television. The PBS operates in accordance with a dual-purpose subscriber identity system (SIS) includes a subscriber mobile identity component (SMIC) and a video security component (VSC) such that the cellular and television services can be authenticated. Mobile devices incorporating the disclosed innovations, as well as the PBS, can access video content from a cable television provider through any available broadband link, regardless of the mobile device's physical location.
US09936228B2
A system for asynchronous uploading of live digital multimedia with guaranteed delivery is provided. The system comprises a video encoder and a remote server, wherein the video encoder includes instructions for acquiring video and audio, encoding the video and audio, creating a manifest file, storing the manifest file, adding the manifest file to an upload queue, creating a segment file, storing the segment file, adding the segment file to the upload queue, initiating at least one upload worker thread, taking a first file from the upload queue, attempting to transmit the first file to the remote server, determining if an instability with the connection to the remote server exists, and, if so, repeating the attempting and determining steps, executing a data integrity test on the first file upon a successful upload of the first file, and repeating, if the data integrity test fails, the attempting, determining, and executing steps.
US09936222B2
Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for determining local-analysis-window size and weighting parameters in a gradient-based motion estimation system.
US09936217B2
A method and encoder for video encoding a sequence of frames is provided. The method comprises: receiving a sequence of frames depicting a moving object, predicting a movement of the moving object in the sequence of frames between a first time point and a second time point; defining, on basis of the predicted movement of the moving object, a region of interest (ROI) in the frames which covers the moving object during its entire predicted movement between the first time point and the second time point; and encoding a first frame, corresponding to the first time point, in the ROI and one or more intermediate frames, corresponding to time points being intermediate to the first and the second time point, in at least a subset of the ROI using a common encoding quality pattern defining which encoding quality to use in which portion of the ROI.
US09936215B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for reference picture set mapping for scalable video coding. A device may receive an encoded scalable video stream comprising a base layer video stream and an enhancement layer video stream. The base layer video stream and the enhancement layer video streams may be encoded according to different video codecs. For example, the base layer video stream may be encoded according to H.264/AVC and the enhancement layer may be encoded according to HEVC. The enhancement layer video stream may include inter-layer prediction information. The inter-layer prediction information may include information relating to the base layer coding structure. The inter-layer prediction information may identify one or more reference pictures available in a base layer decoded picture buffer (DPB). A decoder may use the inter-layer prediction information to decode the enhancement layer video stream.
US09936213B2
A progressive JPEG bitstream may comprise an image component that is comprised of multiple scans of MCUs/data units that are in turn comprised of at least one MCU/data unit segment. Each MCU/data unit segment is successively scanned. The MCU/data unit segment is then reconstructed using multiple entropy decoders operating in parallel on different scans of each MCU/data unit segment.
US09936210B2
A video encoder (70) for coding moving pictures comprising a buffer (16c) with a plurality of memory areas capable of storing frames composed of top fields and bottom fields, a motion estimation unit (19) operable to code, field by field, inputted pictures performing moving estimation and moving compensation by referring, field by field, to the picture data stored in a memory area, a motion compensation unit (16d), a subtractor (11), a transformation unit (13) and a quantization unit (14), a memory management unit (71) operable to manage, frame by frame, a plurality of memory areas, an inverse quantization unit (16a) and inverse discrete cosine transform unit (16b) operable to decode picture data in coded fields and store the picture data in the decoded field in any of the plurality of memory areas under the management by the memory management unit (71).
US09936209B2
Methods and systems therefrom are provided for task processing in a computing environment. The method includes identifying a program to be executed by a processor for performing at least one task and determining that a memory requirement for the program does not exceed a capacity of a cache memory for the processor to perform the task. The method also includes, in response to determining that the memory requirement for the program does not exceed the capacity of the cache memory, instructing the processor to enter into a slice mode from a current mode and execute the program in the slice mode to perform the task. In the method, the slice mode comprises copying the program from the backing store memory to the cache memory and executing the program to perform the at least one task by utilizing the program copied to cache memory.
US09936199B2
Compared to traditional gamma-coded video, perceptually quantized video provides greater flexibility for the transmission and display management of high-dynamic range video, but it does not compresses as efficiently using existing standard codecs. Techniques are described to improve the coding efficiency of perceptually coded video by applying a color cross-talk transformation after the RGB/XYZ to LMS transformation. Such a transform increases luma and chroma correlation for color appearance models, but improves perceptual uniformity and overall coding efficiency for wide color gamut, HDR, signals.
US09936198B2
In a moving picture coding device that further divides a first block acquired by dividing each picture of a moving picture into a predetermined size into one or a plurality of second blocks and codes the moving picture in units of blocks, a quantization parameter calculation unit calculates a quantization parameter of the second block. A predictive quantization parameter deriving unit derives a predictive quantization parameter of the second block by using the quantization parameter of one or a plurality of third blocks that are neighboring to the second block. The predictive quantization parameter deriving unit derives the predictive quantization parameter of the second block by using a quantization parameter of a fourth block coded before the second block in a case where the third block neighboring to the second block is located at a position beyond a boundary of the first block.
US09936195B2
Generally, this disclosure provides systems, devices, methods and computer readable media for calibration of an eye tracking system. In some embodiments, the method may include analyzing a video stream received from a scene facing camera to detect moving objects and estimate angular locations of the moving objects. The method may also include receiving images from an eye tracking camera and estimating gaze angles of a user's eye, based on the images. The method may further include computing, for each of the moving objects, a first distance measure between the object angular locations and the gaze angles; accepting or rejecting each of the moving objects for use in calibration based on a comparison of the first distance measure to a threshold; and estimating an eye tracking calibration angle based on a minimization of a second distance measure computed between the angular locations of the accepted moving objects and the gaze angles.
US09936189B2
The present application discloses a method for predicting stereoscopic depth comprising capturing object images of a target scene; generating a stereoscopic depth image associated with the object images; identifying a no-depth-data region in the stereoscopic depth image; identifying a depth-data region correlated to the no-depth-data region; and assigning a depth data to the no-depth-data region based on a depth data of the depth-data region correlated to the no-depth-data region.
US09936172B2
The present disclosure relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, and a signal processing program which can more accurately perform color reproduction to an image captured by using visible light and infrared light.A plurality of pixel signals, output by a color-difference sequential system from an image sensor on which light having passed through a color filter array including a plurality of complementary color filters is incident, are acquired. With respect to the plurality of pixel signals, a parameter to eliminate a term corresponding to a predetermined infrared wavelength in an equation to calculate a color-difference signal from the plurality of pixel signals, is set using the plurality of pixel signals. Thereafter, a luminance signal obtained by performing an addition process of the plurality of pixel signals and a color-difference signal obtained by performing a subtraction process between the plurality of pixel signals are calculated using the parameter.
US09936165B2
A video communication system that replaces actual live images of the participating users with animated avatars. A method may include initiating communication between a first user device and a remote user device; receiving selection of a new avatar to represent a user of the first user device; identifying a new avatar file for the new avatar in an avatar database associated with the first user device; determining that the new avatar file is not present in a remote avatar database associated with the remote user device; and transmitting the new avatar file to the remote avatar database in response to determining that the new avatar file is not present in the remote avatar database.
US09936162B1
A video communication system that includes a computer readable medium and a processor, coupled with a wide angle and high resolution digital camera and the computer readable medium. The processor causes the wide angle and high resolution digital camera to acquire a digital image of a local participant during a video communication session. The processor extracts a first image of a first set of objects and a second image of a second set of objects from the digital image and provides the extracted first and second images to a remote endpoint for display to another participant.
US09936159B2
A display control device includes: a receiver configured to receive an image signal; a measurer configured to measure the number of vertical scanning lines and horizontal scanning time of the image signal; a table generator configured to generate a provisional signal table when data measured by the measurer has not been retained in a previously prepared signal table; a detector configured to detect data for regulating an active display region of an image, from the image signal; and an updater configured to update the provisional signal table, based on a detection result by the detector.
US09936152B2
According to one aspect of the present invention, an image sensor and a sensor module have a configuration in which the image sensor outputs first brightness information representing brightness information of first image information obtained with a first exposure time and second brightness information representing brightness information of second image information obtained with a second exposure time separately from a composite image obtained by synthesizing the first image information and the second image information, updates the first and second exposure times based on an exposure time set value externally generated based on the first brightness information and the second brightness information, and changes a synthesis set value used for synthesis of the composite image based on the exposure time set value externally generated based on the first brightness information and the second brightness information.
US09936150B2
Imaging pixels may be operated in a rolling shutter scanning mode. Charge signal that is generated on a first chip may be capacitively coupled to signal processing circuits on a second chip. A capacitor may be placed in the signal path that provides signal coupling between the chips and stores overflow charge from pixels that have been exposed to high light level illumination. This enables high dynamic range using only a single charge integration time. The pixel may include an in-pixel negative feedback amplifier. The chip-to-chip electrical connections between the first and second chips may be realized at each pixel as a hybrid bond with a single bond per pixel. Image sensors fabricated using this technology may have small size pixels, high resolution, high dynamic range, and a single charge integration time.
US09936144B2
An imaging device, comprising a shooting control section for acquiring divided image data for each of a plurality of exposures, a determination section for determining, for every pixel data of the divided image data, whether or not a pixel value is within a specified determination threshold value, an image combination section for carrying out first image combination or second image combination for every pixel data of the divided image data, an image combination control section for selecting either the first image combination or the second image combination based on a determination result by the determination section, carrying out image combination for every pixel data in the image combination section in accordance with this selection, and generating combined image data, and a first storage section for storing the combined image data that has been generated as a result of controlled by the image combination control section.
US09936141B2
The amount of light to be emitted by an auxiliary light source for capturing an image to which correction processing is applied, as well as a parameter used in the correction processing, is determined based on a degree of shadows of an object to be captured using the auxiliary light source. In this way, shadows in an image obtained through image capture using the auxiliary light source can be appropriately corrected with a simple method.
US09936140B2
An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit, a memory configured to store the image signal, a writing unit configured to write the image signal to the memory, a readout unit configured to read out at least a partial region of the image signal, a display unit configured to perform live-view display of an image, and a control unit configured to perform control for each frame of the image signal, wherein the control unit sets, when electronic zoom is in operation, the delay time such that the operation of the writing unit writing the image signal to the memory and the operation of the readout unit reading out the image signal from the memory end within a period of one frame of the image signal, regardless of the reading region changing.
US09936134B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an actuator which can realize a further reduction in height. Provided is an actuator which performs shake correction by tilting a driven member using the drive force of a voice coil motor, wherein a support part tiltably supports a movable body with respect to a fixed body in which one from between a magnet part and a coil part is disposed on a base member, the movable body being configured so that the other from between the magnet part and the coil part is disposed on a frame-shaped retaining member on which the driven member is mounted. The retaining member has steps, and these steps enable a mounting site of the driven member to be closer to the base member than the disposition site of the one from between the coil part and the magnet part.
US09936131B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for generating a seamless and error-free panorama image using a selective set of views from a multi-view image from each of the several captured light field (LF) images. The method identifies the view and corresponding image for each captured LF image which has the same or closely located center of projection with the views of neighboring LF images. Image registration and warping techniques are applied across the images and the parallax error is calculated which indicates the closeness of their center of projections. The view from each LF captured image with minimal parallax error is selected and stitched together with the other views identified as having minimal parallax error.
US09936123B2
A digital widescreen camera has an anamorphic lens focusing a field of view nearly twice as wide as tall on a photosensor array having nearly square aspect ratio. In embodiments, the photosensor array has an 8-pixel tiling unit organized as four pairs of adjacent left and right pixels, a first pair having two red-responsive pixels, a second pair having two blue-responsive pixels, and a third pair having two green-responsive pixels. In embodiments, signals from the 8-pixel tiling unit are processed into signals equivalent to signals from two adjacent Bayer-pattern 4-pixel tiling units. The corresponding method of digital photography includes receiving light through an anamorphic lens onto a photosensor array. In embodiments, the photosensor array has an eight-pixel tiling with four pairs of adjacent left and right pixels, a first pair with two red-responsive pixels, a second pair with two blue-responsive pixels, and a third pair with two green-responsive pixels.
US09936113B2
A smart device and controlling method thereof are disclosed. The smart device includes a camera including a lens and an iris positioned over the lens, the iris including a single layer film; and a controller configured to cause the iris to adjust a size of an aperture formed in the film to adjust quantity of light incident on the lens. A method for controlling the smart device includes obtaining a video of a subject consecutively via the camera, using preset conditions; detecting a relative movement between the subject and the smart device; and adjusting at least one of the conditions based on the detected movement.
US09936096B2
An image forming apparatus includes a docking unit configured to mount a plurality of portable display apparatuses therein, a communication interface configured to receive data, and a processor configured to control to store the received data in at least one of the plurality of portable display apparatuses.
US09936093B2
An image reading apparatus includes a sensor, a light source, and an image-capture controller. The sensor has a sensitivity area that is in a predetermined wavelength band, and acquires an image signal in accordance with light from sheet. The light source has a first light emitting unit that emits first light having a wavelength within the sensitivity area of the sensor, and a second light emitting unit that emits second light that has a wavelength which is outside of the sensitivity area of the sensor and that excites a fluorophore applied on the sheet. The image-capture controller irradiates the sheet with the first light and the second light to acquire a first image signal using the sensor, and irradiates, after acquiring the first image signal, the sheet with only the second light to acquire a second image signal using the sensor.
US09936091B1
An embodiment includes an image processing apparatus. A driving unit drives at least one mechanism of the image processing apparatus. A network interface receives location information which indicates the presence or absence of a person in a surrounding area of the image forming apparatus at a time of a requested function of the image processing apparatus. A control unit determines, based on the received location information, whether the person is present in the surrounding area of the image forming apparatus. The control unit controls the driving unit so that, when the person is determined to be present, the at least one mechanism is driven in a first operating mode causing noise at a first volume, and, when the person is not determined to be present, the at least one mechanism is driven in a second operating mode causing noise at a second volume louder than the first volume.
US09936090B2
One or more printing apparatuses, one or more control methods for same and one or more storage mediums are provided herein. A control method in or for a printing apparatus according to at least one embodiment includes reading an image of an original document and generating image data, storing the generated image data in a storing unit (e.g., of the printing apparatus), reading out the image data stored in the storing unit and printing the image on a sheet on the basis of the image data, and controlling the printing apparatus in a manner that: (i) the reading of the image is started before a storage area for storing the image data generated by the reading is secured by the storing unit, and (ii) the image data generated by the reading is stored in the storing unit after the storage area is secured by the storing unit.
US09936085B2
When an address is inputted through input means for inputting an address of a receiving end, an image transmission apparatus carries out an authentication process that determines whether or not the inputting person is a right authorized person. When it is determined that the corresponding operation is right through the authentication process, the image transmission apparatus transmits image data to the address of the receiving end thus inputted.
US09936083B2
An image output system includes a terminal, a server, and a printing device that are communicable with each other via a network. The server includes: a storage device; and a CPU that executes a program for the server to function as a data generating portion configured to generate raster image data by executing a RIP process on the basis of print data received from the terminal and as a data transmitting portion configured to transmit data for outputting an image, to a destination that outputs the image. The data transmitting portion transmits, to the destination, the print data received from the terminal or the raster image data generated by the data generating portion, according to a kind of the destination.
US09936076B1
A computer-based system and method for responding to customer calls. The method includes automatically determining whether at least one incoming call meets existing customer criteria and further automatically determining a market segment of the at least one incoming call. The market segment may indicate whether a specific customer prefers: (i) no voice or face-to-face interaction with a representative; (ii) a face-to-face interaction with a representative; and/or (iii) a voice only interaction with a representative. The method further includes automatically routing the at least one incoming call based upon the determined market segment to one of: (1) an automated voice prompt; (2) a gaming system having two-way video capability; or (3) a person-to-person voice call system to facilitate answering incoming calls in a customer-friendly or customer preferred manner.
US09936073B2
A mobile device, such as a smart phone, receives and presents interactive audio content from an interactive voice response (IVR) system. The mobile device provides an interface that enables a user to navigate through a menu presented in the interactive content. The interface further presents action elements that identify actions that can be requested through the menu, and selection of the one of the action elements may cause the IVR to perform an associated action. For example, the interface may identify representatives at a call center, and a selection of one of the action elements causes the IVR to establish a communication between the mobile device and the selected representative. The action elements may further identify status information associated with the call center, such as an expected wait time.
US09936070B2
A system and method includes one or more processors one or more processors coupled to a memory. The one or more processors may execute instructions from the memory to perform the steps including receiving an audio communications request from a first user device of a user, identifying a second user device of the user in response to receiving the audio communications request, providing a suggestion that the user use the second user device with the system, receiving a response from the user responding to the suggestion, establishing a communication channel with the second user device, and providing content associated with the audio communications request to the second user device.
US09936066B1
A real-time speech analytics system (“RSTA system”) detects speech during a call involving a contact center agent and a remote party. Upon detecting the speech, an event message is generated by the RTSA system and transmitted to a module, which is configured to generate a topic meta-data record stored in a topic meta-data file. A real-time topic dashboard indication may be presented on a graphical user interface to a user based on analysis of a plurality of topic meta-data records. Selection of the topic dashboard indicator may result in presentation to the user of further text-based information about detection of the speech event for one or more calls. Selection of the further information for a particular call may result in a corresponding portion of recorded audio of that call associated with the speech event to be retrieved using the corresponding topic meta-data record and played to the user.
US09936064B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed that identify a motor vehicle operation and whether a driver is operating a mobile device. One example of operation may include a method that includes receiving vehicle data based on active operation of a vehicle and compiling a candidate driver identification profile (DIP) based on the received vehicle data. The method may also include comparing the candidate DIP to a pre-stored DIP and determining a match between the candidate DIP and the pre-stored DIP. The method may also include applying a restriction to a mobile station operated by a driver of the vehicle responsive to the match determination.
US09936061B2
A method for accessing offline voicemail messages within a mobile messaging application may be provided. First, a voice mail message may be received and the voicemail message may be transcribed to text. Next, the voicemail message and the text transcription may be stored. The recipient may then be presented with a list of voicemail messages and the voicemail message may be retrieved in response to the recipient. The recipient may read or listen to the voicemail message or both. The recipient may also annotate the voicemail message.
US09936053B2
In a method for generating a physical layer (PHY) data unit for transmission via a communication channel, information bits to be included in the PHY data unit are received. A number of padding bits are added to the information bits. The number of padding bits is determined based on respective virtual values of each of one or more encoding parameters. The information bits are parsed to a number of encoders and are encoded, using the number of encoders, to generate coded bits. The coded bits are padded such that padded coded bits correspond to respective true values of each of the one or more encoding parameters. The PHY data unit is generated to include the padded coded bits.
US09936043B2
User interfaces such as web pages may be customized in terms of appearance and content based on user interests. For example, information items may be arranged such that items corresponding to strong user interests are displayed in more visually identifiable locations while items corresponding to weaker user interests are displayed in less visually valuable positions. The size of and space allocated to the information items may also be customized based on the relative strengths of the corresponding interests. For example, information associated with a strong user interest may be allotted 50% of the user interface. Other visual characteristics of the user interface and the information items such as font size/style, color, transparency and the like may also be customized to reflect the importance or strength of corresponding user interfaces.
US09936042B2
An example method includes determining an operating context of a small cell, wherein a base station of the small cell is co-located with an edge computing device. The method may further retrieving content from a network to the edge computing device based at least in part on the operating context and storing the content at the edge computing device for subsequent access by a mobile device in the small cell.
US09936040B2
A cache server, a method, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a memory and one or more processors configured to acquire one or more segments of media data associated with a first request, the first request being generated by one or more client devices, store the one or more segments associated with the first request, generate a key for each segment of the one or more segments associated with the first request, and generate a first set entry and a first set key for the one or more segments associated with the first request.
US09936037B2
A redirection of a URL page request may be performed by monitoring an upstream path from a subscriber to the internet through an ISP. When a URL page request is detected from a subscriber for whom a redirection is required, a redirection device generates a single TCP packet response that mimics a response from the intended destination server. The single TCP packet includes a set FIN bit that closes any active session with the destination server to prevent the subscriber from accepting packets from the destination server.
US09936035B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first notification through a communications network. The first notification includes a subset of user-facing information of an object having one or more states, the subset being determined at a first point in time. A second notification is received through the communications network. The second notification is an update to the user-facing information of the object, and the update may be a subset of user-facing information determined at a second point in time after the first point in time.
US09936027B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for application session sharing are disclosed. According to one method, the method includes receiving, from a first client node, a request for initiating a remote application session for interacting with an application instance by one or more users. The method also includes initiating the remote application session and configuring a remote control server for interacting with the remote application session. The method further includes providing communications between the first client node and the application instance associated with the remote application session using the remote control server.
US09936024B2
A storage server generates a device tree representing a maximal topology of the storage server, wherein the maximal topology is a maximum number of storage controllers and solid state drives (SSDs) that are supported by the storage server, and wherein a plurality of entries in the device tree contain placeholder information. The storage server discovers one or more SSDs of the storage server and determines drive information for the one or more SSDs that have been discovered. The storage server replaces the placeholder information in one or more of the plurality of entries in the device tree with the drive information for the one or more SSDs.
US09936021B1
Systems and methods for storage operations are provided. As an example, a method includes configuring a non-volatile memory of a network device to be used as a storage device for storing data for an application; generating a logical storage object for the application for using storage space at the non-volatile memory of the network device to store data for the application, where the network device creates a unique identifier for the logical storage object; identifying the logical storage object as a mirror logical storage object such that data written at the non-volatile memory device is mirrored by another network device operating as a peer to the network device; providing the unique identifier to the other network device for generating a mirror logical storage object for mirroring data that is stored at the non-volatile memory; receiving a request at the network device for writing data to the non-volatile storage object; writing data at the non-volatile memory of the network device when the request identifies the network device; and mirroring the data at the other network device, when the request indicates that the data needs to be mirrored.
US09936007B1
A virtualization instance (VI) uses a first virtual device that is a virtual form of non-virtualizing devices or a second virtual device that is a virtual form of self-virtualizing device to meet Quality of Service (QoS) objectives. A method for managing resources comprises receiving first QoS metrics, determining QoS objectives are unmet, determining that a first substitute virtual device comprising a virtual form of self-virtualizing device is available and can meet QoS objectives, configuring the VI to use the first substitute virtual device in place of the first virtual device, receiving second QoS metrics, determining QoS objectives are exceeded, determining that a second substitute virtual device comprising a virtual form of the non-virtualizing device is available and can meet QoS objectives, and configuring the VI to use the second substitute virtual device in place of the second virtual device. A computer programming product and a system can embody the method.
US09936003B1
Methods and systems for transmitting information are provided. A threshold message size is configured to determine when an application executed by a computing system can send a latency message identifying a memory location from where a device can procure a payload for transmission to a destination. The computing system sends a latency message to the device, where the latency message includes the memory location, a transfer size and an indicator indicating if the application wants a completion status after the latency message is processed. The computing system stores connection information at a location dedicated to the application that sends the latency message. The device transmits the payload to the destination; and posts a completion status, where the device posts the completion status at a completion queue associated with the application with information that enables the application to determine whether other latency messages can be posted.
US09936000B2
A server is in communication with a plurality of clients being executed by a host. The server is configured to receive a message from a first client of the plurality of clients. The message indicates that the first client currently has focus, wherein the message is transmitted by the first client with a first cookie. The server is configured to identify that a second client of the plurality of clients utilizes a second cookie that matches the first cookie, wherein the second client is currently receiving data from the server using a low-latency update mechanism. The server is also configured to downgrade the second client from the low-latency update mechanism to a high-latency update mechanism, wherein the high-latency update mechanism is configured to enable the second client to conduct a poll of the server periodically for updates.
US09935999B1
A download module accesses a download queue including at least two file download requests from an application running on a client device of a server. The application and each of the file download requests is associated with a context that comprises a set of context components that each indicates a part of the application. The file download request context components indicate parts of the application that use the requested file and the application context components indicate parts of the application that are active. The download module ranks each of the file download requests based on a comparison of the respective file download request context components of each file download request to the application context components of the application. The download module then selects two or more file download requests in the download queue for concurrent execution based on the respective rankings of the file download requests in the download queue.
US09935988B2
To provide an information processing device that facilitates an audience to transmit information thereto. This information processing device is configured to include a memory part having an audience area and to be connected with first (presenter side) and second (audience side) terminals. The audience area records a various kinds of information including a presentation material of plural page numbers. The device operates to (1) read out only a character string added with a page number selected by the second terminal from the memory part and causes the second terminal to output the resulting string, (2) record additionally an information combination on an audience writing area which is formed of a character string entered from the second terminal, the selected page number, and a terminal ID, and (3) cause the first terminal to read out the information combination added with the selected page number and to output the resulting information combination.
US09935985B2
An apparatus, and an associated method, for directing communications of a communication session to a selected communication device, or devices, of a group of commonly-registered devices. A device-direction policy is created and stored at a network entity. The policy identifies preferred devices to which communications of a communication session are to be provided. A SIP Invite, or other communication-session initiation message, is provided to the network entity. The network entity detects the message, accesses the policy, and forwards on the message in accordance with the policy.
US09935981B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for exchanging information. Communications between an intrusion prevention system (IPS) and at least one end-point are facilitated by controlling network traffic flow in an IPS and the at least one end-point and formation of an information plane. The formed information plane allows attributes of the IPS and the at least one end-point to reside in the formed information plane. A network access policy (NAP) works in conjunction with an IPS and leverages created customized network objects (CNOs). Upon analyzing data packets, the data packets may or may not be forwarded to the IPS.
US09935978B2
Controlling application behavior in the context of managed accounts. A device includes one or more applications. At least one of the applications is configured to be used with a plurality of user accounts including zero or more managed user accounts. The device includes or communicates with a client component. The client component is configured to identify active user accounts for the applications. The client component is further configured to receive policy from a management system, where the policy specifies application controls a user account basis. The client component is further configured to enforce application configuration based on the policy from the management system and the active user accounts.
US09935977B1
Techniques are described for delivering one or more first resources of a page using a first security level, and delivering one or more second resources of a page using a second, different security level. A page is generated to include elements identifying resources to be presented in the page, and the elements may include security level identifiers indicating a security level to be employed in communicating the corresponding resource. Each security level may be associated with a set of security measures that ensure the integrity or confidentiality of the resource while it is communicated. The use of multiple security levels to communicate multiple resources may provide appropriate security for each resource, reducing latency and overhead in page generation, communication, and rendering.
US09935976B2
In one embodiment, a security system includes a central communication unit and a first surveillance device. The central communication unit is communicatively connected over a network to cloud storage, by way of a first transmission channel and a second transmission channel. The second transmission channel is redundant with the first transmission channel. The first surveillance device configured to record first surveillance data, and is communicatively connected to the central communication unit by way of a third transmission channel and a fourth transmission channel. The fourth transmission channel is redundant with the third transmission channel. The first surveillance device is configured to transmit the first surveillance data to the central communication unit, and the central communication unit is configured to transmit the first surveillance data to the cloud storage.
US09935973B2
The present disclosure describes systems and methods for detection and mitigation of malicious activity regarding user data by a network backup system. In a first aspect, a backup system receiving and deduplicating backup data from a plurality of computing devices may detect, based on changes in uniqueness or shared rates for files, atypical modifications to common files, and may take steps to mitigate any potential attack by maintaining versions of the common files prior to the modifications or locking backup snapshots. In a second aspect, the backup system may monitor file modification behaviors on a single device, relative to practices of an aggregated plurality of devices. Upon detection of potentially malicious modification activity, a previously backed up or synchronized store of data may be locked and/or duplicated, preventing any of the malicious modifications from being transferred to the backup system.
US09935966B1
A method, a system, and computer readable medium comprising instructions for message delivery security validation are provided. At least one authentication setting from an end user is received at a data collection system. A validation key is generated based on the at least one authentication setting. A message and the validation key are sent to a device of a recipient. The device of the recipient are automatically authenticated using the validation key. The message is delivered to the device of the recipient upon authentication.
US09935964B2
An aspect of the present disclosure facilitates controlling access to objects having attributes defined against hierarchically organized domains, with each domain containing a corresponding fixed number of values. In one embodiment, in response to receiving data indicating specific hierarchies of the hierarchically organized domains, the corresponding fixed number of values of the corresponding domains in each hierarchy is displayed. Accordingly, a user is enabled to select a desired set of values from the corresponding fixed number of values of the corresponding domains, and to specify a security rule for a combination of the selected set of values and a user entity. The security rule is thereafter enforced when objects having attributes matching the selected set of values are accessed by the user entity.
US09935956B1
A computer-implemented method of limiting access time to a computer network for client computing devices may comprise disposing an access controlling device such as router between the computer network and the client computing devices such that the client computing devices can only access the network through the access controlling device, at least while within an area of coverage thereof. A unique identifier may be stored for client computing devices whose access to the network is to be limited and a selectable allowable cumulative network access time period may be stored for at least some of these client computing devices. Using at least the unique identifiers, the cumulative network usage time may be tracked for each of the client computing devices. The access controlling device may then prevent further network access to those client computing devices whose tracked cumulative network usage time exceeds the selectable allowable cumulative network access time period.
US09935953B1
Securely authenticating a user of a device for a service during a session including a transaction between a client and a connected server connected to a Behaviometric-server.
US09935951B2
A remote data protection network provides a blind hashing service. A blind hashing server receives a message such as a digest from a client, and uses the message to derive a set of indices or offsets into a huge block of random data that is maintained by the remote data protection network. The corresponding extents of data in the block are combined, e.g. using a hash or HMAC function, and then returned to the invoking client, e.g. as a salt. The message and response may be salted with a unique client salt.
US09935947B1
Biometric information from an initial sample is used to generate a biometric template for a user. The biometric template is split into multiple template shares using a polynomial secret sharing scheme, such that at least some threshold number of the resulting template shares must be combined to reconstruct the biometric template. After the biometric template is split, the resulting template shares are distributed to multiple components in the system, such as a server, and/or one more user devices, and the original copy of the biometric template is destroyed. To subsequently verify the identity of the user, the threshold number of template shares are obtained and combined to reconstruct the user's biometric template, and the reconstructed template is compared with biometric information extracted from one or more subsequently collected biometric samples. If there is a match between the reconstructed biometric template and the extracted biometric information, the user's identity is verified.
US09935944B2
At a client computer, a web browser displays a control for a local utility executed on the client computer, wherein the control includes a link. The web browser receives a user input selecting the control and, in response to the user input, issues a request through the link to a local web server coupled with the local utility. The link includes a domain that resolves to a loopback network address. The loopback network address is a self-referencing address for the local web server at the client computer. The local web server receives the request and provides the local utility with a command portion of the request. In response to receiving the command portion of the request from the local web server, the local utility takes one or more actions based on the command portion of the request.
US09935943B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores instructions for execution by a first client device, including instructions for transmitting an indication of availability of a first media presentation system and for transmitting to a second device a first authentication token for allowing the second device to access the first media presentation system, in response to a request from the second client device. The instructions also include instructions for requesting access to a second media presentation system that a third client device has indicated as being available and for sending to a server system a media control request directed to the second media presentation system. The media control request includes a second authentication token received from the third client device to allow the first client device to access the second media presentation system.
US09935940B1
Techniques are disclosed for increasing the security of a database. A database is coupled with an access manager to limit certain applications that use the database to store user password information to queries that return at most one row. Additionally, returning a record may be limited to a case where the query includes the hash of the user name and password that is stored in the database. Other techniques may be implemented for other user account operations, such as password resets.
US09935936B2
A federated realm discovery system within a federation determines a “home” realm associated with a portion of the user's credentials before the user's secret information (such as a password) is passed to a non-home realm. A login user interface accepts a user identifier and, based on the user identifier, can use various methods to identify an account authority service within the federation that can authenticate the user. In one method, a realm list of the user device can be used to direct the login to the appropriate home realm of the user. In another method, an account authority service in a non-home realm can look up the user's home realm and provide realm information directing the user device to login at the home realm.
US09935930B2
A method for use with a public cloud network is disclosed. The method includes setting up a private cloud routing server and a smart device client in a client server relationship. The private cloud routing server includes a first message box. The smart client includes a second message box. The first and second message boxes are located on the public cloud network. The method also includes passing an authenticated session based message between the first and the second message boxes in a secure manner. The smart device client and the private cloud routing server can communicate with each other after authentication to provide security. The method also includes setting up another smart device client in a client server relationship with the private cloud routing server. The two smart device clients can privately and securely communicate with each other through the public cloud network.
US09935928B2
A method and apparatus are provided for protecting security credentials (e.g., username/password combinations) and/or other sensitive data in a “password vault.” A password vault device may be or may be incorporated into a portable (or even wearable) electronic device, such as a smart phone, smart watch, smart glasses, etc. When a security credential is requested during a user's operation of the password vault device or some other computing/communication device, such as when the user is accessing an online site or service via a browser program, the request is passed to the password vault, and the appropriate security credential is retrieved, delivered, and entered into the requesting interface.
US09935927B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for Bluetooth low energy (BLE) double authentication between a mobile device and server nodes. A system using BLE authentication can receive at a mobile device, an identifier of a dongle attached to a server that enables wireless communication and can establish a wireless low energy connection with the dongle without paring. The system can receive a server identifier and can determine whether the server has previously been authenticated to yield a determination. When the determination is that the server has not previously been authenticated, the system can receive a baseband management controller username and a password. When the determination is that the server has previously been authenticated, the system can determine whether to perform a double authentication to yield a second determination. The system can perform the double authentication when the second determination indicates that the double authentication should be performed.
US09935921B2
Nameserver addresses are correlated in a multi-tier name server hierarchy comprising a first level authority for a domain, and one or more second level authorities to which the first level authority delegates with respect to a particular sub-domain associated with the domain. Preferably, the first level authority is IPv4-based and at least one second level authority is IPv6-based. The first level authority responds to a request issued by a client caching nameserver (a “CCNS”) and returns an answer that includes both IPv4 and IPv6 authorities for the domain. The CCNS is located at an IPv4 source address that is passed along to the first level authority with the CCNS request. The first level authority encodes the CCNS IPv4 source address in the IPv6 destination address of at least one IPv6 authority. Then, when the CCNS then makes a follow-on IPv6 request (with respect to the sub-domain) directed to the IPv6 authority, the IPv6 authority knows both the IPv6 address of the CCNS (as well as its IPv4 address. The IPv6 authority maintains the IPv4-IPv6 correlation. Over time, the IPv6 authority builds up a database of these CCNS IPv6-IPv4 associations.
US09935919B2
This disclosure relates in general to the field of directory information systems and/or services. In a method embodiment, a method of arranging objects in a directory information system includes providing a plurality of objects to a computer-readable medium having a directory information structure. Each object may have one or more characteristics and each object may be stored, for example, in the computer-readable medium according to the directory information structure. Storing the objects may further include performing a mathematic operation on at least one of the characteristic(s) of the object, and arranging the object in the directory information structure based at least in part on a result of the mathematical operation performed on at least one of the characteristic(s) of the object.
US09935913B2
Online system users interact with one or more third party systems, with the online system maintaining an account for each of its users and each third party system maintaining a third party account for each of its users. The online system compares information in a user's account to accessible information in third party accounts and establishes connections between the user's account and third party accounts based on the comparisons, a connection including a confidence level indicating a likelihood of a third party account being associated with the user of the online system corresponding to the user's account. Similarly, the online system compares information in different third party accounts and establishes connections between different third party accounts based on the comparisons including includes a confidence level indicating a likelihood of a third party account and an additional third party account being associated with the same user.
US09935907B2
A system and method for synchronizing messages between client application instances and a message service provider includes a connection service communicatively coupled to a plurality of client messaging application instances; a first intermediary transfer layer with an inbound message data queue that queues message updates of a client application instance and an outbound message data queue that queues message updates and notifications from a mailbox service layer; a mailbox service layer communicatively coupled to the connection service through the first intermediary transfer layer; a second intermediary transfer layer with an mailbox message data queue that contains queued message data directed at the mailbox service layer and a message service data queue that contains queued message updates directed at a message service layer; and a message service layer configured for message interactions with an outside message service provider.
US09935900B2
A method for providing a protection switching service in a virtual tenant network (VTN) and a controller are provided. The method enables a real-time protection switching setup on a VTN path in order to provide reliability of a VTN service.
US09935888B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for queuing and sending messages to recipients according to historical latency values associated with each recipient. In some embodiments, a plurality of messages are received, each message including a network address of a recipient. The messages are sent to the recipients by threads that remain active (i.e., cannot be used to send another message) until confirmation responses are received from the recipients. Latency times are measured between when the messages were sent and when the confirmation responses were received. The latency times may be used to assign future messages to queues designated by certain latency ranges.
US09935887B1
A device may include one or more processors. The one or more processors may receive a request for one or more parameters associated with the device. The one or more processors may determine, as a response, the one or more parameters associated with the device. The one or more processors may generate a set of logical units associated with encapsulating the one or more parameters. The set of logical units may be associated with a particular communications protocol. The one or more processors may fragment the set of logical units into a set of segments based on a maximum transmission unit (MTU) size for a network path. The set of logical units may be fragmented without fragmenting any logical units of the set of logical units. The one or more processors may transmit the set of segments to a destination network device.
US09935886B2
An operation unit detects that a received first ACK packet is an ACK packet transmitted in response to a single data packet. The operation unit determines whether to calculate a round trip time by using reception time of the first ACK packet on the basis of a window size included in the first ACK packet and a window size included in a second ACK packet acquired immediately before the first ACK packet. If the operation unit determines to calculate the round trip time, the operation unit outputs the round trip time calculated by using the reception time of the first ACK packet.
US09935885B1
A device may receive a packet associated with a flow and may identify a capacity indicator associated with a flow table. The capacity indicator may indicate an available storage capacity associated with the flow table. The flow table may be stored by another device and may include entries for one or more flows and one or more corresponding actions to be taken in association with the one or more flows. The device may determine a service indicator that indicates a priority associated with the flow and may compare the capacity indicator and the service indicator. The device may selectively provide a message to the other device based on comparing the capacity indicator and the service indicator. The message may include an instruction for the other device to store an entry, associated with the flow, in the flow table.
US09935883B2
A load distribution for data units received by a particular packet inspection device that is part of a collection of packet inspection devices is determined, where the packet inspection devices in the collection are to examine content of corresponding received data units. For corresponding data units received by the particular packet inspection device, the determined load distribution favors keeping the corresponding data units at the particular packet inspection device. Based on metric information regarding utilization of at least the particular packet inspection device, the load distribution is dynamically modified.
US09935872B2
A process and apparatus to facilitate communication between callers and callees in a system comprising a plurality of nodes with which callers and callees are associated is disclosed. In response to initiation of a call by a calling subscriber, a caller identifier and a callee identifier are received. Call classification criteria associated with the caller identifier are used to classify the call as a public network call or a private network call. A routing message identifying an address, on the private network, associated with the callee is produced when the call is classified as a private network call and a routing message identifying a gateway to the public network is produced when the call is classified as a public network call.
US09935865B2
This technique determines the possible Service Level Agreement (SLA) violation during migrating a workload from a physical environment to a virtualized environment and also migrating a virtual machine (VM) from one physical machine to another within a virtualized environment. This technique uses capacity factor, i.e. the ratio of host physical machine (host PM) capacity and target physical machine (target PM) capacity, to determine the service rate change in the target PM compared to host PM and eventually calculates the VM utilization and response time in the target PM. It then checks if the VM utilization and response time in the target PM lies within the SLA limit. It further checks if the migration in the target virtualized PM is violating a predefined target PM utilization threshold or not and finally causes the migration in the target physical machine if all the SLA parameters are satisfied.
US09935864B2
Provided are systems and methods for determining and displaying service performance information via a graphical user interface. In one embodiment, a system can provide, for each of one or more machines associated with a service: obtaining performance data for the machine; and comparing the performance data for the machine to one or more predefined performance thresholds for the machine to determine a health status for the machine; and determining a health status for the service based at least in part on the health status of at least one of the one or more machines associated with the service.
US09935858B1
A network monitoring device responds to a network status data (whether “pushed” from the network device or “pulled” from the network device), maintaining a buffer of saved status data. The status data is reordered, manipulated, and presented to users in order. The monitoring device can thus report an accurate momentary report of the status of the network environment. When status data is delayed too long, the monitoring device can discard it, or reduce its weighted consideration. The monitoring device adjusts its wait for status data, either as an average or individually per device, attempting to balance accuracy and latency. The monitoring device also records of how much status data it is required to process, in response to the amount it can process reliably, and maintains a sampling rate for status data, somewhere between evaluating all of the status data, and evaluating only a small portion of the status data, when capable, attempting to balance the degree of sampling, against both error and latency.
US09935856B2
A system automatically determines end user timing across multiple platforms and network browsers. End user timing data may be captured using one or more techniques. The techniques may include utilizing a navigation timing standard and handler call back functionality. The end user timing data may be analyzed to identify which technique's data is most accurate, and the most accurate end user timing data is then reported.
US09935855B2
An apparatus and method for a power-efficient framework to maintain data synchronization of a mobile personal computer (MPC) are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the detection of a data synchronization wakeup event while the MPC is operating according to a sleep state. Subsequent to wakeup event, at least one system resource is disabled to provide a minimum number of system resources required to re-establish a network connection. In one embodiment, user data from a network server is synchronized on the MPC without user intervention; the mobile platform system resumes operation according to the sleep state. In one embodiment, a wakeup alarm is programmed according to a user history profile regarding received e-mails. In a further embodiment, data synchronizing involves disabling a display, and throttling the system processor to operate at a reduced frequency. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09935853B2
A system determines the performance of a network within the context of an application using that network. Network data is collected and correlated with an application that uses the network as well as a distributed transaction implemented by the application. The collected network data is culled, and the remaining data is rolled up into one or more metrics. The metrics, selected network data, and other data are reported in the context of the application that implements part of the distributed transaction. In this manner, specific network performance and architecture data is reported along with application context information.
US09935849B2
An approach for assessing a service offering selected by a user in a networked computing environment (e.g., a cloud computing environment) is provided. In one aspect, a network environment containing the service offering is monitored for a software configuration activity performed by the user. This software configuration activity is analyzed to identify the software application that is being configured. A set of provider-managed service offerings can be searched for any provider-managed service offering that contains an offered application corresponding to that of the software application. This managed service offering can be included in an alternative suggestion for the service offering.
US09935827B2
Some embodiments provide an elastic architecture for providing a service in a computing system. To perform a service on the data messages, the service architecture uses a service node (SN) group that includes one primary service node (PSN) and zero or more secondary service nodes (SSNs). The service can be performed on a data message by either the PSN or one of the SSN. However, in addition to performing the service, the PSN also performs a load balancing operation that assesses the load on each service node (i.e., on the PSN or each SSN), and based on this assessment, has the data messages distributed to the service node(s) in its SN group. Based on the assessed load, the PSN in some embodiments also has one or more SSNs added to or removed from its SN group. To add or remove an SSN to or from the service node group, the PSN in some embodiments directs a set of controllers to add (e.g., instantiate or allocate) or remove the SSN to or from the SN group. Also, to assess the load on the service nodes, the PSN in some embodiments receives message load data from the controller set, which collects such data from each service node. In other embodiments, the PSN receives such load data directly from the SSNs.
US09935820B2
A transmitter used in a transmission system in which a first network is connected, via a second network, to a third network, the transmitter being arranged between the first network and the second network, the transmitter includes: a generator configured to specify an identifier of data area in which communication data affected by a failure occurred in the first network are stored, in a frame transmitted from the second network, and to generate failure information associated with the identifier specified; and a transmitter configured to transmit the failure information generated by the generator, via the second network, to another transmitter arranged between the second network and the third network.
US09935813B2
A method and system for capturing and transmitting screen content and input/output events from a server to a client device are provided. The method includes transmitting, to the client device, a screen output rendered by the server respective of a first instance of a first application; and transmitting, to the client device, the screen output rendered by the server respective of a second instance of a second application, wherein the first instance is contained in a first securable object associated with the first application and the second instance is contained in a second securable object associated with the second application, wherein the first instance and the second instance are simultaneously executed by the server under a single logon session.
US09935801B2
The invention relates to a method for controlling digital data transmission in a remote-reading apparatus including a plurality of metering devices, each equipped with a radiofrequency module for communicating with a radiofrequency transmission/reception device of a gateway system of the apparatus, the method comprising a step of transmitting a digital signal from the radiofrequency module to the radiofrequency transmission/reception device and/or from the radiofrequency transmission/reception device to the radiofrequency module, the transmission being carried out via a carrier modulated by frequency shift modulation, the method being characterized in that the frequency shift modulation has a modulation index strictly equal to an integer value divided by two, and in that it includes a step of receiving the signal transmitted according to the modulation, comprising operations of generation of a synchronization signal synchronized with the received signal and synchronous detection of the received signal using the synchronization signal.
US09935799B2
Modulated signal A is transmitted from a first antenna, and modulated signal B is transmitted from a second antenna. As modulated signal B, modulated symbols S2(i) and S2(i+1) obtained from different data are transmitted at time i and time i+1 respectively. In contrast, as modulated signal A, modulated symbols S1(i) and S1(i)′ obtained by changing the signal point arrangement of the same data are transmitted at time i and time i+1 respectively. As a result the reception quality can be changed intentionally at time i and time i+1, and therefore using the demodulation result of modulated signal A of a time when the reception quality is good enables both modulated signals A and B to be demodulated with good error rate performances.
US09935797B1
A method for implementing interference mitigation in wireless network such as a Link 16 network does not require interference recognition and does not degrade signal detection even in the absence of interference. An unmitigated correlation score is obtained by correlating received, unmitigated preamble symbols with expected symbols. At least one of the input signals is also correlated after mitigation to obtain a mitigated signal. A mitigated correlation sore is obtained from the mitigated signals, and a mixed correlation score is obtained by combining mitigated and unmitigated signals. A signal is detected if any of the correlation scores exceeds a corresponding threshold. Embodiments use the unmitigated correlation for subsequent message time of arrival determination if the unmitigated correlation score is above its detection threshold. In embodiments, mitigation is applied to only one of the message frequencies. Implementation of the disclosed method does not require excessive additional electronic resources.
US09935786B2
A method of sending information between first and second modules connected by a signal bus comprises generating a clock signal in the first module, and imposing the clock signal on a first line of the bus. A first pattern of bit values is transmitted from the second module to the first module on a second line of the bus, during first half-periods of each period of said clock signal. A second pattern of bit values is transmitted from the first module to the second module on the second line of the bus, during second half-periods of each period of said clock signal, wherein the second half-periods of each period of said clock signal are different from the first half-periods of each period of said clock signal. Information can then be transmitted from the first module to the second module by altering the second pattern of bit values; and information can be transmitted from the second module to the first module by altering the first pattern of bit values.
US09935785B2
A system and method for full-duplex communications provided by modifying the Media Access Control sub-layer of communication node protocols. The modification allows communication nodes to communicate with one another in full-duplex, where each node transmits and receives data simultaneously with other nodes in a single frequency. A timing of the simultaneous data transmissions, acknowledgments, and short-interframe-space waiting periods can be determined based on network-allocation-vector data transmitted in association with request-to-send or clear-to-send signals.
US09935784B2
The lower-level information acquirer searches a lower-level network, and acquires lower-level addresses for air-conditioning devices that are connected to the lower-level network. A database generator searches an upper-level network, and generates a database of upper-level addresses of air-conditioning devices that are connected to the upper-level network. An address assigner references the database generated by the database generator, and assigns vacant addresses existing among the upper-level addresses of the upper-level network to air-conditioning devices that are connected to the lower-level network. The table generator generates an address conversion table for converting the upper-level addresses assigned by the address assigner to lower-level addresses acquired by the lower-level information acquirer.
US09935773B2
This application is directed to trusted platform module certification and attestation utilizing an anonymous key system. In general, TPM certification and TPM attestation may be supported in a device utilizing integrated TPM through the use of anonymous key system (AKS) certification. An example device may comprise at least combined AKS and TPM resources that load AKS and TPM firmware (FW) into a runtime environment that may further include at least an operating system (OS) encryption module, an AKS service module and a TPM Certification and Attestation (CA) module. For TPM certification, the CA module may interact with the other modules in the runtime environment to generate a TPM certificate, signed by an AKS certificate, that may be transmitted to a certification platform for validation. For TPM attestation, the CA module may cause TPM credentials to be provided to the attestation platform for validation along with the TPM and/or AKS certificates.
US09935772B1
A system and method for servicing secure data object management aware applications using a cloud-based host environment and a local secure container. The cloud-based host environment creates a controlled digital object from a master digital object, and activates a tether associated with the controlled digital object. The tether includes an access permission, and optionally an operation permission (e.g., view, delete, store, edit, and copy) and a command (e.g., timeout, destroy). The controlled digital object is stored to an isolated storage of the secure container. The tether contents control access and manipulation of the controlled digital object. Certain conditions (e.g., timeout period reached, anomalous data access pattern detected), cause the controlled digital object to be destroyed and/or the tether to be inactivated. In accordance with applicable law, the cloud-based host environment utilizes the tether to detect, identify, and/or thwart unauthorized host environments in possession of the controlled digital object.
US09935752B2
A method for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) at a user equipment in a time division duplex (TDD) communication system; and the user equipment are discussed. The method includes receiving downlink control information (DCI) including a request of the SRS transmission. The DCI includes information for receiving downlink data using multiple antennas by the user equipment. The method further includes transmitting the SRS to the base station according to the request of the SRS transmission.
US09935748B2
In the present invention, disclosed is a method for a user equipment transreceiving signals with a network in a wireless communication system. More particularly, the method comprises the steps of: receiving a downlink control channel from the network; and either transmitting an uplink data channel to the network or receiving a downlink data channel from the network, depending on scheduling information included in the downlink control channel, wherein the scheduling information includes information with respect to a reference signal-to-downlink data channel power ratio.
US09935747B2
Embodiments herein relate to a method performed in a transmitting node (12) for transmitting at least one burst of energy to one or more receiving nodes (10,13) in a wireless communication network (1). The transmitting node (12) comprises a number of transmit antennas being more than one and wherein the at least one burst of energy carries a payload for one or more receiving nodes (10,13). The transmitting node (12) determines a shift, for one or more transmit antennas, in one or more signal characteristics of a burst of energy of the at least one burst of energy. The shift indicates one or more additional information bits, in addition to the payload, for a first receiving node (10). The transmitting node further transmits, over the one or more transmit antennas, the burst of energy of the at least one burst of energy with the shift in the signal characteristic carrying the payload to one or more receiving nodes (10,13) in the wireless communication network (1).
US09935741B2
In general, to provide acknowledgment information by a first wireless device, the first wireless device sends repeated instances of acknowledgment information in respective first and second frame structures, in response to receipt of first information from a second wireless device. In addition, the first wireless device also sends further acknowledgment information in the second frame structure that is responsive to second information received from the second wireless device.
US09935697B2
Provided is a precoding method for generating, from a plurality of baseband signals, a plurality of precoded signals to be transmitted over the same frequency bandwidth at the same time, including the steps of selecting a matrix F[i] from among N matrices, which define precoding performed on the plurality of baseband signals, while switching between the N matrices, i being an integer from 0 to N−1, and N being an integer at least two, generating a first precoded signal z1 and a second precoded signal z2, generating a first encoded block and a second encoded block using a predetermined error correction block encoding method, generating a baseband signal with M symbols from the first encoded block and a baseband signal with M symbols the second encoded block, and precoding a combination of the generated baseband signals to generate a precoded signal having M slots.
US09935688B2
The present invention refers to a system for medical treatment comprising a medical device and a separate hand-held device. The medical device comprises an energy-receiving unit and the separate hand-held device comprises a housing and an energy-transfer unit to transfer energy to be used at least in part for performing medical treatment to the energy-receiving unit of the medical device when the energy-receiving unit and the energy-receiving unit are in an energy-transfer position. The system further comprises at least one position sensor adapted to detect at least when the energy-transfer unit and the energy-receiving unit are in the energy-transfer position. The system further comprises a controller for controlling the energy-transfer unit such that the transfer of energy needed for medical treatment from the energy-transfer unit to the energy-receiving unit is enabled only when the energy-transfer unit and the energy-receiving unit are in the energy-transfer position.
US09935686B2
A method of preventing priority inversion in power line communication includes generating a priority notification signal of each node in order to prioritize a packet transmitted by each of the nodes, decreasing carrier detection threshold value of a prioritization section in the priority notification signal of each of the nodes, increasing transmission power level of the prioritization section in the priority notification signal of each of the nodes, transmitting the priority notification signal generated by each of the nodes, prioritizing the nodes by comparing the prioritization sections of the priority notification signals, and preferentially transmitting a packet of a node with a higher priority. This can solve a priority inversion problem between signals in a network to safely transmit signals without collisions and latency.
US09935676B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for switching antennas in devices that have multiple antennas for communicating via aggregation of multiple carriers.
US09935674B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, which can include computer instructions to determine a subset of use cases from a group of use cases stored in a memory of a communication device, and to determine a target use case from among the subset of use cases based on an operational parameter associated with a transceiver of the communication device. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US09935667B2
Method and system for obtaining on-line service are provided. The method may include: a vehicle mounted system sending a first piece of information about its capability and a request for an on-line service to a mobile communication device connected to the vehicle mounted system; and the vehicle mounted system receiving contents of the on-line service from the mobile communication device, where the contents of the on-line service are obtained by processing to match the capability of the vehicle mounted system. Computation load of the vehicle mounted system may be reduced and more utilization may be realized.
US09935663B1
The power combiner circuit includes a transformer having a first primary coil coupled to a first power amplifier (PA), a second primary coil coupled to a second PA, and a secondary coil. The secondary coil supplies a current to an antenna based on a first direction of a first phase of a first amplified constant-envelope signal in the first primary coil with respect to a second phase of a second amplified constant-envelope signal in the second primary coil. A first load impedance is associated with the first PA and a second load impedance is associated with the second PA. The first load impedance and the second load impedance receive currents from the first PA and second PA, respectively, based on a second direction of the first phase of the first amplified constant-envelope signal with respect to the second phase of the second amplified constant-envelope signal.
US09935654B2
In general, a minimum determination capability, adapted for determining one or more minimum values from a set of values, is provided. The minimum determination capability may enable, for a set of values, determination of a first minimum value representing a smallest value of the set of values and a second minimum value representing an approximation of a next-smallest value of the set of values. The minimum determination capability may enable, for a set of values where each of the values is represented as a respective set of bits at a respective set of bit positions, determination of a minimum value of the set of values based on a set of bitwise comparisons performed for the respective bit positions of the values.
US09935646B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for identifying failures in an analog to digital (A/D) converter. An intelligent electronic device (IED) may monitor a digital output of one or more A/D converters. The IED may determine a slope value limit associated with the A/D converter. The IED may determine an output slope value of the digital output based on a difference of a converter output value measured at a first time and a converter output value measured at a later time. If the determined output slope value exceeds the slope value limit, the IED may identify a failure of the A/D converter. An IED may determine that concurrent failures in multiple, parallel A/D converters are indicative of a problem upstream from the A/D converters.
US09935645B1
Circuitry for correcting non-linearity of an analog-to-digital converter. A non-linearity correction system for an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes coefficient storage, coefficient transformation circuitry, and correction circuitry. The coefficient storage is encoded with a first set of coefficients for correcting non-linearity of the ADC at a first sampling rate. The coefficient transformation circuitry is coupled to the coefficient storage. The coefficient transformation circuitry is configured to generate a second set of coefficients for correcting non-linearity of the ADC at a different sampling rate. The correction circuitry is configured to apply the second set of coefficients to correct non-linearity in output of the ADC while the ADC is operating at the different sampling rate.
US09935633B2
The drive capability of a logic circuit is improved. The logic circuit includes a first output node, a dynamic logic circuit, a diode-connected first transistor, and a capacitor. The dynamic logic circuit includes a second output node and a plurality of second transistors forming and evaluation circuit. The first transistor and the plurality of second transistors all have one of an n-type conductivity and a p-type conductivity. One terminal of the capacitor is electrically connected to the first output node. The other terminal of the capacitor is electrically connected to the second output node. A first terminal of the first transistor is electrically connected to the first output node. A first voltage is input to a second terminal of the first transistor. The voltage of the first output node is changed by a voltage applied to a back gate of the first transistor.
US09935631B2
A control indication assembly. A first control mounted on a surface of a computer is coupled to a first sensor, to a first sensing circuit to send an electrical signal to the first control when a user-touch occurs to the first sensor, and to a first indicator to indicate an occurrence of said user-touch. A second control mounted on a surface of a display which is coupled to the computer is coupled to a second sensor, to a second sensing circuit to send an electrical signal to said second control when said user-touch occurs to the display, and to a second indicator to indicate an occurrence of the user-touch. The first and second control are configured such that the first and second indicator are synchronized to exhibit identical behaviors when the user-touch occurs to either the first control or the second control.
US09935630B2
An AC switch circuit coupled between an AC input signal and an AC load has a first switch, a second switch, a driving circuit, and a power generation circuit. The first switch blocks a first half-cycle of the AC input signal when turned OFF, and the second switch blocks a second half-cycle of the AC input signal when turned OFF. The driving circuit provides a driving signal to control the first switch and the second switch based on an enable signal. The power generation circuit provides a voltage signal to power the driving circuit. The power generation circuit stores energy from the AC input signal when the first switch and the second switch are turned OFF, and the power generation circuit is disconnected from the AC input signal when the first switch and the second switch are turned ON.
US09935611B2
A SAW filter device defines a filter including a high acoustic velocity member, a low acoustic velocity film, a piezoelectric film, and an IDT electrode are stacked in this order. A comb capacitive electrode electrically coupled to the filter is provided on the piezoelectric film. Where λc is a wavelength determined by an electrode finger pitch of the comb capacitive electrode, and, among modes of an elastic wave generated by the comb capacitive electrode, VC−(P+SV) is an acoustic velocity of a P+SV wave, VC−SH is an acoustic velocity of a SH wave, and VC−HO is an acoustic velocity of, out of higher-order modes of a SH wave, a higher-order mode at the lowest frequency side, VC−(P+SV)
US09935608B1
A resonator includes a piezoelectric plate and interdigitated electrode(s). The interdigitated electrode includes a plurality of conductive strips disposed over a top surface of the piezoelectric plate. A two-dimensional mode of mechanical vibration is excited in a cross sectional plane of the piezoelectric plate in response to an alternating voltage applied through the interdigitated electrode. The two-dimensional mode of mechanical vibration is a cross-sectional Lamé mode resonance (CLMR) or a degenerate cross-sectional Lamé mode resonance (dCLMR).
US09935603B2
In a laminated LC filter, at least four LC parallel resonators are provided inside a multilayer body. At least a pair of loops of inductors in odd numbered-stage LC parallel resonators among the at least four LC parallel resonators are disposed at an angle at which magnetic coupling is obtained therebetween, and winding directions thereof are the same, so as to obtain magnetic coupling between the inductors. In addition, magnetic coupling may also be obtained between a pair of loops of inductors in even numbered-staged LC parallel resonators among the at least four LC parallel resonators.
US09935598B2
An amplifying circuit comprises a differential input stage having a first input terminal, a second input terminal, and an intermediate node, wherein the differential input stage is configured to generate a differential current flowing through the intermediate node in response to an input voltage difference between the first and second input terminals. The amplifying circuit further comprises a first current source coupled to the intermediate node, which is configured to provide a first bias current which allows the differential current to vary within a predetermined range. The amplifying circuit further comprises an output terminal coupled to the intermediate node, and a second current source coupled to the intermediate node and configured to provide a second bias current. The second bias current compensates the differential current and the first bias current and produces an output current flowing through the output terminal in a predetermined direction. A measurement device is also described.
US09935594B2
A Doherty power amplifier includes a carrier amplifier, a peaking amplifier, and a peaking amplifier bias circuit coupled to the peaking amplifier and configured to provide a peaking amplifier bias signal to the peaking amplifier based on a saturation level of the carrier amplifier.
US09935584B1
A self-biased gyrator-based input receiver amplifies and equalizes single-ended signals. The input receiver implements inductive impedance useful for high-frequency peaking circuits using an active gyrator-C circuit comprising only resistive, capacitive, and transistor elements, which are easily and efficiently fabricated on a conventional integrated circuit. Transistors comprising the input receiver, along with resistive elements and capacitive elements may be implemented as digitally adjustable circuit elements, providing for adjustment of at least peak frequency, low-frequency gain, and termination impedance.
US09935578B2
A control device of a power converter controls a system including a converter that converts alternating current (AC) power of a power supply into direct current (DC) power, an inverter that converts the DC power into AC power, a capacitor that is charged with and discharges the DC power, and a rotary electric machine that is driven by the AC power supplied from the inverter or regenerates the AC power to the power supply, the control device including: a vibration suppression control unit that outputs a torque current command correction value for canceling an axial vibration component due to a vibration frequency of a transmission system including the rotary electric machine and an output compensation control unit that outputs a correction value for suppressing AC power of the power supply fluctuated by the vibration suppression control unit to a voltage control unit of the converter.
US09935576B1
A controller and methods for hybrid operation control of an electric motor in an electric motor system are provided. The controller is configured to receive a speed command for operating the electric motor, measure available voltage on an inverter configured to provide conditioned AC voltage to the electric motor, and determine a winding phase angle difference based on the received speed command and the measured available inverter voltage. The controller is also configured to adjust a phase angle difference between winding voltage commands for the switches of the inverter using the determined winding phase angle difference, and apply the winding voltage commands including the adjusted phase angle difference to the inverter switches to control the electric motor.
US09935569B2
A motor drive control apparatus according to the present invention includes: a three-phase rectifier to rectify an AC voltage supplied from a three-phase AC source; a booster circuit including a reactor, a switching element, and a backflow preventing element, to boost a DC bus voltage supplied from the three-phase rectifier; a smoothing capacitor to smooth an output of the booster circuit; and an inverter circuit to convert the DC bus voltage smoothed by the smoothing capacitor into an AC voltage and supplying the AC voltage to a motor. During a starting operation of a boosting operation of the booster circuit or a stopping operation of the boosting operation thereof, a rotation speed of the motor is fixed.
US09935567B2
A rotating electric machine control device includes: a q-axis PI controller calculating a pre-restriction q-axis voltage instruction value based on a q-axis voltage detection value and a q-axis current instruction value; a first q-axis restricter calculating a post-restriction q-axis voltage instruction value by restricting the pre-restriction q-axis voltage instruction value, for an excess of output exceeding a maximum outputtable voltage V_max; a correction value calculator calculating a q-axis correction value that has a reverse phase of a ripple current of a q-axis current; and a corrector correcting the post-restriction q-axis voltage instruction value with the q-axis correction value. In such manner, even when the pre-restriction q-axis voltage instruction value is saturated, a ripple current is reduced, thereby reducing a sound and/or a vibration caused by the ripple current.
US09935565B2
In accordance with an embodiment, motor control circuit has a first selector connected to a second selector through an analog to digital converter. The first selector has an input that is connected to an external pin. In addition, the second selector has a plurality of inputs and a plurality of outputs, wherein a first register is connected to a first input and a second register is connected to a second output of the second selector. In accordance with another embodiment, at a beginning step of a method for setting a duty of a drive signal of a motor, a duty setting signal is applied to an external pin. The duty setting signal is converted into a digital duty setting signal. One of the digital duty setting signal or a predetermined duty signal is transmitted to a storage register.
US09935564B2
A propellant flow actuated piezoelectric igniter device using one or more hammer balls retained by one or more magnets, or other retaining method, until sufficient fluid pressure is achieved in one or more charging chambers to release and accelerate the hammer ball, such that it impacts a piezoelectric crystal to produce an ignition spark. Certain preferred embodiments provide a means for repetitively capturing and releasing the hammer ball after it impacts one or more piezoelectric crystals, thereby oscillating and producing multiple, repetitive ignition sparks. Furthermore, an embodiment is presented for which oscillation of the hammer ball and repetitive impact to the piezoelectric crystal is maintained without the need for a magnet or other retaining mechanism to achieve this oscillating impact process.
US09935559B2
A flyback converter is provided with a synchronous rectifier (SR) controller including a pulse linear regulator (PLR) charging path and an LDO charging path. The SR controller is configured to monitor the switching period and/or duty cycle of a power switch in the flyback converter to select between the PLR and LDO charging paths.
US09935556B1
A method for controlling a resonant converter includes maintaining an output current equal to an output power of the converter divided by an output voltage of the converter in response to a secondary current of a transformer being greater than or equal to a maximum output current. The output power is maintained at a constant output power in response to the output power being greater than or equal to a maximum output power, and the secondary current being less than the maximum output current. Maintaining the output current ratio and the constant output power each comprises changing the duty cycle of a primary-side switch configured to gate a primary current of the transformer. The output voltage is limited to a maximum output voltage in response to the secondary current being less than the maximum output current, and the output power being less than the maximum output power.
US09935554B2
One embodiment includes a power supply system including a transformer comprising a primary, secondary, and auxiliary winding that are magnetically coupled. The system also includes a switch stage that generates a current through the primary winding in response to activation of a switch based on a control signal that is generated based on a feedback voltage associated with the auxiliary winding. The current can be induced in the secondary winding. The system also includes an output stage coupled to the secondary winding and that generates an output voltage based on the current induced in the secondary winding. The system further includes a feedback stage coupled to the auxiliary winding and comprising a discriminator configured to determine a zero-current condition associated with the current induced in the auxiliary winding based on monitoring a change in slope of the feedback voltage and to measure the feedback voltage during the zero-current condition.
US09935553B2
A circuit and method for power converter for improved current monitoring, comprising a buck converter comprising a high side switch, a current sensing circuits parallel to the buck converter configured to sense a current through a low side switch, and a positive slope inductor coil estimator sensing circuit parallel to a buck converter configured to estimate a current magnitude.
US09935551B2
A high-withstand-voltage normally-on transistor and a low-withstand-voltage normally-off transistor are connected in series, and diodes are provided in reverse parallel to the transistor. A gate terminal of the transistor is connected to a source terminal of the transistor, and a gate driving circuit that outputs a control signal to a gate terminal of the transistor is provided. Forward voltage of the diode is made lower than forward voltage of the diode, and an inductance component of a path connecting nodes via the diode is made greater than an inductance component of a path connecting the nodes via the diode. Accordingly, a switching circuit which includes transistors connected in series and in which transient current at a time of turning off is reduced is provided.
US09935543B2
A control circuit of a digital control power circuit is provided. The control circuit includes a feedback controller configured to generate a digital duty command value such that a digital feedback value corresponding to an output voltage of the digital control power circuit is close to a target value thereof, a pulse generator configured to generate a pulse signal having a duty ratio corresponding to the digital duty command value, a non-linear controller configured to correct a pulse width of the pulse signal when a variation in the output voltage is detected, and a driver configured to drive a switching device of the digital control power circuit depending on the pulse signal.
US09935542B2
A method for implementing a Semiconductor Integrated Circuit device using Near/Sub-threshold technology with SOFTWARE programmable Adaptive Dynamic Voltage Control (ADVC) algorithm using different sensors inside the chip in order to improve the target speed and reduce the energy per operation of the final product. This method achieves the best power per performance for a given solution operating at a required speed.
US09935541B1
A voltage converter includes at least one charge pump voltage converter circuit. The voltage converter generates three voltages (e.g., 1.2 volts, 2.5 volts, and 1.8 volts) for an electronic system, which can be a smartphone or electronic tablet or other device. The charge pump voltage converter circuit provides an output voltage that is an average of its input voltages. Compared to a low dropout regulator, charge pump voltage converter circuit has high efficiency. This voltage converter will save power compared to converters using a low dropout regulator. An implementation of the voltage converter can includes at least two charge pump voltage converter circuits to generate to different output voltages.
US09935525B2
An electric motor to be easily assembled while taking the advantages of a retrofitted electric motor, excellent maintenance performance and no fear of damage in a temperature sensitive device due to resin injection pressure. The electric motor includes an electric motor shaft, a rotor, a stator, a housing, a sealing body formed of sealant to cover a coil end of the stator, a temperature sensitive device, an end cover, and a resilient retaining member. The electric motor shaft passes through the end cover. The sealing body includes a temperature-sensitive-device support surface opposed to the end cover. The temperature sensitive device is retained between the end cover and the temperature-sensitive-device support surface while the retaining member is interposed between the temperature sensitive device and the end cover.
US09935524B2
An Expandable Modular Information Technology (EMIT) Facility (EMITF) includes: an EMIT Building Infrastructure (EMITBI) having an initial enclosure that includes: a base pad providing a fixed usable space area on which one or more modular IT components are placed; and a plurality of exterior walls, including at least one removable expansion wall (REW) that enables expansion of the usable space area of the EMITBI; a plurality of modular IT components placed within the EMITBI on the usable space, and which dissipate heat; and a power subsystem electrically coupled to the EMITBI via a power distribution configuration that includes a first power generating component coupled via a power distribution scheme to the power consuming IT components of the EMITBI, where the power subsystem is pre-configured to support additional requirements for power via a power capacity on demand structure, including modular expandability of the power generating components, while maintaining resiliency.
US09935513B2
According to an electric motor, a cooling hole is formed outside of a circular arc-like region having an intersection between extension lines from inner side surfaces of adjacent permanent magnets as a center of the circular arc-like region and a distance between the intersection and an intermediate point on the side surface of the permanent magnet as a radius of the circular arc-like region. Thus, heat generation by a magnetic resistance due to the cooling hole is suppressed to improve efficiency.
US09935511B2
A component designed to form a rotor for an electric machine includes a shaft, and an active part which is disposed in concentric circumferentially surrounding relation to the shaft. The active part has a radially inwardly open slot. A leg is connected to the shaft and has a tip which points radially outward from the shaft and is received in the slot of the active part. Further received in the slot of the active part is a first end of a connecting element. A fastening element secures the connecting element in a region of a second end to the leg to thereby establish a form-fit connection of the leg and the connecting element to the active part.
US09935508B2
The aim is to provide an individual-segment rotor, the construction of which requires low production expenditure. For this purpose, an individual-segment rotor having an axis of rotation and a plurality of laminated core segments (5) arranged around the axis of rotation is provided. Each laminated core segment (5) is radially fastened to a separate flexural support (11). All flexural supports (11) are radially retained by at least one fastening ring (14).
US09935506B2
A segment for supporting electromagnetic coupling elements of a stator or rotor of an electrical machine comprises a plurality of elongate laminations which are stacked in a first direction to form a lamination stack with elongate edges of the laminations defining opposite first and second major faces of the lamination stack. The segment comprises a plurality of elongate compression devices passing internally through the lamination stack in the first direction and arranged to compress together the laminations in the lamination stack.
US09935503B2
Systems according to the present disclosure provide one or more surfaces that function as heat or power radiating surfaces for which at least a portion of the radiating surface includes or is composed of “fractal cells” placed sufficiently closed close together to one another so that a surface (plasmonic) wave causes near replication of current present in one fractal cell in an adjacent fractal cell. A fractal of such a fractal cell can be of any suitable fractal shape and may have two or more iterations. The fractal cells may lie on a flat or curved sheet or layer and be composed in layers for wide bandwidth or multibandwidth transmission. The area of a surface and its number of fractals determines the gain relative to a single fractal cell. The boundary edges of the surface may be terminated resistively so as to not degrade the cell performance at the edges.
US09935501B2
A wireless power transmitting and receiving device includes: a coil including a first section having a first number of turns and configured to receive power and a second section having a second number of turns different from the first number of turns and configured to transmit power and a converting and rectifying unit configured to: rectify the power received through the coil, convert externally-supplied power into alternating current power, and apply the alternating current power to the coil.
US09935483B2
An inductive charging unit is provided, in particular a hand-held power tool inductive charging unit, which is provided for transferring energy in a coupled state with an induction battery, including at least one charging coil and a housing which includes at least one receiving area for accommodating the induction battery in a coupled state. It is provided that the at least one receiving area has at least one recess.
US09935482B1
The embodiments described herein include a transmitter that transmits a power transmission signal (e.g., radio frequency (RF) signal waves) to create a three-dimensional pocket of energy. At least one receiver can be connected to or integrated into electronic devices and receive power from the pocket of energy. The transmitter can locate the at least one receiver in a three-dimensional space using a communication medium (e.g., Wi-Fi technology) and use this medium to monitor the electronic device. The transmitter generates a waveform to create a pocket of energy around each of the at least one receiver. The transmitter uses an algorithm to direct, focus, and control the waveform in three dimensions. The receiver can convert the transmission signals (e.g., RF signals) into electricity for powering an electronic device. Accordingly, the embodiments for wireless power transmission can allow powering and charging a plurality of electrical devices without wires.
US09935469B2
Methods and systems for wirelessly transmitting power and/or data.
US09935467B2
A power supply system, an electronic device and an electricity distribution method, which can enhance, with maximum efficiency, power distribution of the electronic device. The power supply system includes a power source unit, an electricity distribution unit connected to the power source unit, a system load power supply unit connected to the electricity distribution unit, and a peripheral power supply unit connected to the electricity distribution unit. The electricity distribution unit includes a power consumption prediction module configured to detect system load power consumption and calculate a variation trend of the system load power consumption and a power consumption control module configured to adjust power supply capacities of the system load power supply unit and the peripheral power supply unit according to the variation trend of the system load power consumption.
US09935457B2
Various arrangements for mitigating voltage droop in a direct current circuit configured to power multiple capacitive loads are presented. A voltage source configured to output a direct current voltage to power the multiple capacitive loads may be present. First and second outputs electrically coupled with the voltage source such that the outputs, when electrically coupled with capacitive loads, provide a voltage to the capacitive load may be provided. A transformer module (which may include a transformer and an impedance) electrically coupled with the first output and the second output may also be provided. When the first capacitive load is electrically coupled with the first output, the transformer may be configured to mitigate droop of the first voltage to the first output upon the second capacitive load being connected to the second output and receiving inrush current.
US09935448B2
A power cable includes a conductor; an insulator; an inner shield layer; an inner corrosion-proof layer; an outer shield layer; and an outer corrosion-proof layer, provided from center toward outside, wherein only the inner shield layer among the inner shield layer and the outer shield layer is directly grounded at one end of the power cable in an axial direction, and wherein only the outer shield layer among the inner shield layer and the outer shield layer is directly grounded at the other end of the power cable in the axial direction.
US09935430B2
A spark plug having a of center electrode, a ground electrode, and a noble metal tip that is laser-welded to at least one of the center electrode and the ground electrode The noble metal tip is joined to the electrode through a fused portion formed by laser welding, and the fused portion includes a first fused portion and a second fused portion.
US09935427B2
A vertical cavity light-emitting element includes: a first-conductivity-type semiconductor layer; an active layer; a second-conductivity-type semiconductor layer that are formed in this order on a first reflector; an insulating current confinement layer formed on the second-conductivity-type semiconductor layer; a through opening formed in the current confinement layer; a transparent electrode covering the through opening and the current confinement layer and being in contact with the second-conductivity-type semiconductor layer via the through opening; and a second reflector formed on the transparent electrode. At least one of a portion of the transparent electrode corresponding to the opening and a portion of the second-conductivity-type semiconductor layer corresponding to the opening that are in contact with each other in the through opening includes a first resistive region disposed along an inner circumference of the through opening and a second resistive region disposed on a center region of the through opening.
US09935417B2
The light power monitoring device includes: a first optical fiber; a second optical fiber connected to the first optical fiber; a low-refractive-index resin layer which covers (i) a connection between the first and the second optical fibers and (ii) a predetermined region of the second optical fiber which region extends from the connection toward a forward-propagating-light-output side; a high-refractive-index resin layer which covers a region of the second optical fiber which region is not covered by the low-refractive-index resin layer; and an outputted light detecting device which is provided at a position corresponding to an end of the low-refractive-index resin layer which end is located on the forward-propagating-light-output side of the second optical fiber or at a position which is away toward the forward-propagating-light-output side of the second optical fiber from the position corresponding to the end of the low-refractive-index resin layer.
US09935416B2
A method of assembling a connector module is provided. The method of assembling includes abutting an engagement surface of a connector extending from a circuit board with corresponding engagement surfaces of first and second support members disposed within a housing. The method of assembling includes resisting movement of the connector towards a base of the housing at a first end of the connector through a substantially perpendicular extension from at least one of the first and second support members. The method of assembling includes constraining lateral movement of the connector through engaging a receptacle formed on a second end of the connector with a pin of the first support member.
US09935415B2
A brush box (23) for a brush-holder, which is useful as a housing for an electric machine brush (25). The brush box (23) comprises a lower portion (56) for guiding the brush, connected to a mounting (60), and an upper portion (58) for guiding the brush, the lower (56) and upper (58) guiding portions being open on the side of a front surface (35) and a rear surface of the brush (25). The lower (56) and upper (58) guiding portions are separated from one another by a space (61) enabling a braid of the brush (25) to pass through.
US09935412B1
A product and an electrical connector assembly includes a first component and a second component. The first component includes a plurality of inner walls spaced from each other to define outer boundaries of respective openings. The first component also includes a first electrical interface. The second component includes a plurality of retention members each having an outer surface and a projection extending from the outer surface of each of the retention members. The outer surface of the retention members is configured to elastically deform along the respective inner walls when inserted into the respective openings such that part of the outer surface of the retention members remains in contact with the respective inner walls when the second component is secured to the first component. The second component also includes a second electrical interface that engages the first electrical interface when the second component is secured to the first component.
US09935406B2
Provided is a plug for use as a disconnector for current transformers. Two types of short circuits are provided in the plug. A first short circuit is used for diverting overvoltages by short-circuiting the electrical contacts in the plug. A second short circuit is provided for short-circuiting electrical contacts in the plug when the plug is not contacted. The short circuits are designed in such a way that the first short circuit is used as a fuse when the second short circuit fails.
US09935404B2
The invention relates to a connector for a shielded electric cable (1), said shielded electric cable (3) comprising at least one conductor and a shielding (5) that at least partially covers said shielded electric cable (3), said connector (1) comprising a connector housing (7) containing the conductor, the invention being characterized in that said shielding (5) is partially arranged around said connector housing (7), said connector housing (7) being electroconductive, and said connector (1) comprising a holding ferule (11) arranged around the shielding (5) in such a way as to maintain the connection of the shielding (5) to the connector housing (7) both mechanically by means of clamping and also by direct electrical connection. The invention also relates to a method for the assembly of such a connector for a shielded electric cable.
US09935401B2
An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated member received in a metallic shell. First and second receptacle terminals are held in the insulated member. A shielding plate is between the first and second receptacle terminals. The metallic shell includes a shell body and a contact arm. The metallic shell includes a receptacle cavity for receiving the insulated member. The contact arm includes a supporting portion extending outward from the shell body, and a plurality of contact surfaces extending from the supporting portion. The contact arm is in contact with an inner wall of a housing of an electronic device, and the contact surfaces are conducted with the inner wall of the housing of the electronic device, thereby improving the performance of electromagnetic compatibility.
US09935400B1
An arc discharge prevention structure of a socket for preventing continuous occurrence of an arc discharge which can result in a fire, by using a configuration for deflecting an arc to avoid damage to a contact is provided. At least part of a pair of permanent magnets that forms a magnetic field for deflecting an arc in a connection/disconnection area where a plug pin and a socket contact are connected and disconnected is located in an opening surface side of a socket housing in which a plug insertion hole is opened. A magnetic body of the plug is attracted to bias the plug pin to a connection position where the plug pin is hot connected to the socket contact.
US09935393B2
A waterproof connector including one or more contacts each having a contact-side waterproof shaped section formed around a surface of a contact-side fixed section, a shell having a fitted section with a pair of flat shell outer surfaces and a shell-side waterproof shaped section formed around a surface of a shell-side fixed section, a housing holding the one or more contacts and the shell, and a seamless waterproof member disposed around a periphery of the housing, the shell-side fixed section being positioned closer to a fitting axis between the waterproof connector and a counter connector than the shell outer surfaces of the fitted section is when viewed in a direction of the fitting axis, the shell-side waterproof shaped section, the contact-side waterproof shaped section and the waterproof member being disposed to overlap each other at a position in the direction of the fitting axis.
US09935389B1
An inline connector housing assembly having a terminal positioning assurance configured to be released from the inline connector housing assembly so as to allow for the replacement of either a male or female electric connector is provided. The inline connector housing assembly includes a male housing, a female housing and at least one terminal positioning assurance. The male housing has a first elongated body with a first through-bore. A first finger lock is disposed within the first elongated body, and a locking plate is disposed within the first elongated body opposite the first finger lock. The locking plate includes a receiving aperture defining a first lip. The female housing includes a second elongated body with a second through-bore configured to receive the male housing. The terminal positioning assurance is removably engaged within the male housing and configured to engage the first finger lock.
US09935387B2
The C-type female connector contains at least a C-shaped clamp. The C-shaped clamp contains a base, one or two flexible arm pieces extended from the base's lateral sides toward each other, respectively, thereby forming a C shape. Along a slit between front edges of the arm pieces, each arm piece has a flexible contact section. The C-shaped clamp further contains a plug piece for positioning extended from a bottom edge, and a contact piece for establishing electrical connection extended from a top edge, of the base. The connector is structurally simple, efficient to assemble, more reliable, and has highly improved yield.
US09935377B2
A microwave system and method comprising a center fed parabolic reflector; a radio transceiver, said transceiver disposed on a circuit board and coupled to a radiator, said radiator disposed on the circuit board and extending orthogonally from a surface of the circuit board. Embodiments also include directors on the circuit board and a sub-reflector comprising a thin plate disposed on a weather proof cover and said sub-reflector having a substantially concave surface with a focus directed towards the radiator. The circuit board may be physically integrated within the feed mechanism of the center fed parabolic reflector and the radio transceiver is configured to provide OSI layer support.
US09935363B2
In a semiconductor device in which a copper plating layer is used for a conductor of an antenna and in which an integrated circuit and the antenna are formed over the same substrate, an object is to prevent an adverse effect on electrical characteristics of a circuit element due to diffusion of copper, as well as to provide a copper plating layer with favorable adhesiveness. Another object is to prevent a defect in the semiconductor device that stems from poor connection between the antenna and the integrated circuit, in the semiconductor device in which the integrated circuit and the antenna are formed over the same substrate. In the semiconductor device, a copper plating layer is used for the antenna, an alloy of Ag, Pd, and Cu is used for a seed layer thereof, and TiN or Ti is used for a barrier layer.
US09935362B2
This invention provides conformal antenna structures, how to make and use the antenna structures, and systems in which the antenna structures may be used for biometric sensing of humans and other animals. The antenna structures of the invention includes at least one relatively flexible section connecting relatively rigid sections. The relatively flexible section connecting relatively rigid sections may flex so that the relatively rigid sections connected to the relatively flexible section can change orientation relative to one another. This allows the relatively rigid sections to be conformed to a region of a surface of a human or animal that is not flat (that is curved).
US09935360B2
An antenna structure includes a metal shell including a grounded middle frame provided with a main body and sides bent and extending from two sides of the main body and a radiating part serving as an antenna radiating body. The radiating part forms an insulation filled gap with the middle frame. Two ends of the radiating part are arranged opposed to each other for forming an insulation filled breaking joint. A circuit board is arranged below the metal shell, and one side of the circuit board adjacent to the radiating part forms a clearance zone between the circuit board and the radiating part. The antenna further includes a feeding point, at least one ground point, and a tuning circuit. The feeding point is close to the breaking joint, and the ground point includes a first ground point and a second ground point.
US09935355B2
A THz photomixer emitter is disclosed. The emitter comprises a photoconductive material, an antenna structure, and an electrode array. The electrode array is disposed such that an electric field associated with photocarriers generated in the photoconductive material is coupled to the antenna for emission of a THz wave via the antenna structure. The electrode array is configured such that an electric field resonance pattern of the electrode array is substantially aligned with an emission field pattern of the antenna structure.
US09935351B2
Disclosed are embodiments of isolator/circulator junctions that can be used for radio-frequency (RF) applications, and methods of manufacturing the junctions. The junctions can have excellent impedance matching, even as they are being miniaturized, providing significant advantages over previously used junctions. The junctions can be formed of both high and low dielectric constant material.
US09935348B2
A method for implementing a TM dielectric resonator is provided, which includes: a dielectric resonant column component with a metal connecting plate is machined; a metal cavity with an opening at one end is machined; the metal connection plate of the dielectric resonant column component is fastened to the inner wall of the metal cavity by a screw; the opening of the metal cavity is covered with a prefabricated cover plate; and a prefabricated tuning screw is screwed from the cover plate into the metal cavity.
US09935337B2
The present invention relates to a lithium secondary battery, comprising a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and a non-aqueous electrolyte solution, wherein the non-aqueous electrolyte solution contains a phosphate polymer represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 to R5 each independently represents aliphatic hydrocarbon group or fluorinated aliphatic hydrocarbon group, wherein the group may have a substituent, and n represents an integer of 1 or more, with the proviso that when n is 2 or more, two or more R1(s) may be the same as, or different from each other and two or more R4(s) may be the same as, or different from each other; and a fluorinated phosphate represented by the following formula (2): wherein R6 to R8 each independently represents aliphatic hydrocarbon group or fluorinated aliphatic hydrocarbon group, wherein the group may have a substituent, with the proviso that at least one of R6 to R8 is fluorinated aliphatic hydrocarbon group.
US09935333B2
A novel anode for a lithium battery cell is provided. The anode contains silicon nanoparticles embedded in a solid polymer electrolyte. The electrolyte can also act as a binder for the silicon nanoparticles. A plurality of voids is dispersed throughout the solid polymer electrolyte. The anode may also contain electronically conductive carbon particles. Upon charging of the cell, the silicon nanoparticles expand as take up lithium ions. The solid polymer electrolyte can deform reversibly in response to the expansion of the nanoparticles and transfer the volume expansion to the voids.
US09935332B2
Copolymers useful as components of polymer electrolytes are provided in which the copolymer comprises at least one block sequence represented by formula (I): A—(T)—B (I) wherein A is a vinyl aromatic block, T is a tapered copolymer region copolymerized from a vinyl aromatic monomer and an oligo(oxyalkylene) acrylate monomer and B is an oligo(oxyalkylene) acrylate block.
US09935316B2
Provided are a non-woven fabric current collector and a method and system of fabricating a battery using the same. The non-woven fabric current collector comprises a upper conductive non-woven fabric sheet and a lower conductive non-woven fabric sheet including a network of a conductive fibers; and a tension reinforcing layer that has a greater tensile strength than the conductive non-woven fabric sheets, arranged between the upper conductive non-woven fabric sheet and the lower conductive non-woven fabric sheet, mediates adhesion between the upper conductive non-woven fabric sheet and the lower conductive non-woven fabric sheet, and has pores via which the upper conductive non-woven fabric sheet and the lower conductive non-woven fabric sheet communicate with each other.
US09935306B2
Battery parts having retaining and sealing features and associated assemblies and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a battery part includes a base portion that is configured to be embedded in battery container material of a corresponding battery container. The battery part and base portion include several torque resisting features and gripping features that resist torsional or twist loads that are applied to the battery part after it has been joined to the battery container. For example, the base portion can include several internal and external torque resisting features and gripping features that are configured to resist twisting or loosening of the battery part with reference to the battery container material, as well as prevent or inhibit fluid leakage from the battery container.
US09935303B2
An alumina slurry containing alumina dispersed in a dispersion medium, the alumina having an average primary particle diameter of 0.1 μm or more and 1.0 μm or less, the alumina satisfying the following condition (1), and the slurry having a content of the alumina of 30% by mass or more and 70% by mass or less and a content of water in the dispersion medium of 50% by mass or more:condition (1): in relationship of a pore diameter r1 (Å) and a pore volume Dv1 (mL/g) of the alumina measured by a nitrogen desorption method based on JIS Z8831-2 (2010), the pore volume Dv1(80) at r1=80 and the maximum value Dv1(M) of Dv1 in a range 20≤r1≤80 satisfy Dv1(M)>Dv1(80).
US09935301B2
A pressure equalization element for a housing includes a water-impermeable membrane. The membrane is combined with either a pressure relief valve acting in two directions or with a corresponding combination of two pressure relief valves such that a volume of air exchange is reduced. An amount of moisture transported into the housing is thus also reduced.
US09935300B2
An illustrative battery retaining assembly comprises a retaining plate, and a casing including mounting devices. One of the mounting devices may include a hinge device, and another of the mounting devices may include a latch device. The retaining plate includes engagement portions engageable with the mounting devices, such that the retaining plate may be mounted to the casing. One of the engagement portions may include a channel engageable with the hinge device, and another of the engagement portions may include a catch engageable with the latch device. The mounting devices and engagement portions may be configured to enable the retaining plate to slide at an oblique angle with respect to the casing, to provide a variable separation distance between the casing and the retaining plate.
US09935298B2
Disclosed herein is a battery cell case. The battery cell case includes a front case plate and a rear case plate which are separably coupled to each other. The structures of the front and rear case plates are symmetrical structures, so that the battery cell case can be easily assembled in such a way that the front and rear case plates are coupled to each other with the battery cell disposed therebetween and are fastened to each other by holders fitted over the opposite ends of the case plates. In another embodiment, the structures of the front and rear case plates may be asymmetrical structures so that the front and rear case plates can be coupled with each other in an insert coupling manner without using a separate tool or fastening means.
US09935297B2
The disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a flexible display panel and a flexible display panel. Wherein the method comprises: binding a flexible substrate with a supporting column matrix on a supporting plate, and fixing the flexible substrate with the supporting plate by a sealant in vacuum, wherein the sealant is disposed at the edge of the supporting column matrix, such that the supporting column matrix is surrounded in a sealed space formed by the sealant, the supporting plate and the flexible substrate; forming a flexible display panel on the flexible substrate; and cutting the supporting plate and the flexible display panel along the inner side of the sealant, such that the flexible display panel separating with the supporting plate. Thus, the flexible substrate can be separated from the supporting plate without damaging devices disposed on the flexible substrate.
US09935293B2
An organic light emitting diode display includes: a substrate; a gate line on the substrate; a data line crossing the gate line; a driving voltage line extending parallel with at least one of the gate line and the data line; a first thin film transistor coupled to the gate line and the data line and comprising a first semiconductor layer; a second thin film transistor coupled to the first thin film transistor and the driving voltage line and comprising a second semiconductor layer; and an organic light emitting element coupled to the second thin film transistor, wherein at least one of the gate line, the data line, and the driving voltage line comprise a plurality of layers, and the lowest layer of the plurality of layers comprises a first metal layer made of a reflective metal.
US09935280B2
In an aspect, a flexible substrate may include a base substrate, an insulating layer positioned on a first surface of the base substrate, a protective film positioned on a second surface facing the first surface of the base substrate and an adhesive layer positioned between the base substrate and the protective film and attaching the protective film on the second surface of the base substrate. The adhesive layer may include a cross-linker.
US09935275B2
An organic electroluminescence device including an anode, a cathode, an organic layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, the organic layer containing a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer and an emission layer containing a host material, wherein the hole injection layer, the hole transport layer and the emission layer each contain a phosphorescent light-emitting material, wherein the hole injection layer contains the phosphorescent light-emitting material in an amount of 10% by mass or more but less than 50% by mass, and wherein a concentration of the phosphorescent light-emitting material contained in the hole transport layer is lower than that in the hole injection layer, and a concentration of the phosphorescent light-emitting material contained in the emission layer is lower than that in the hole injection layer and higher than that in the hole transport layer.
US09935274B2
The present invention relates to an organic compound represented by the following formula 1. The organic compound according to the present invention can produce an organic electroluminescent device having low driving voltage, excellent current and power efficiencies, and remarkably improved driving lifespan.
US09935272B2
A compound represented by the following general formula (1) is useful as a light-emitting material. Y1 and Y2 each independently represent N or C(R7); and R1 to R7 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, provided that at least one of R1 and R2, and at least one of R5 and R6 represent a group represented by the following general formula (2). Z represent a divalent linking group having a linking chain length of 1 atom; L1 represents a single bond or a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group; and R11 to R18 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent.
US09935260B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, a third magnetic layer, and a first non-magnetic layer. The third magnetic layer is provided between a first part of the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer. The first non-magnetic layer is provided between the second magnetic layer and the third magnetic layer. The first magnetic layer further includes a second part. At least a portion of the second part overlaps at least a portion of the third magnetic layer in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction from the first part toward the second magnetic layer.
US09935240B2
A near-infrared light emitting device can include semiconductor nanocrystals that emit at wavelengths beyond 1 μm. The semiconductor nanocrystals can include a core and an overcoating on a surface of the core.
US09935230B1
A method of forming a photovoltaic device that includes ion implanting a first conductivity type dopant into first regions of a semiconductor layer of an SOI substrate, wherein the first regions are separated by a first pitch; and ion implanting a second conductivity type dopant into second regions of the semiconductor layer of the SOI substrate. The second regions are separated by a second pitch. Each second conductivity type implanted region of the second regions is in direct contact with first conductivity type implanted region of the first regions to provide a plurality of p-n junctions, and adjacent p-n junctions are separated by an intrinsic portion of the semiconductor layer to provide P-I-N cells that are horizontally oriented.
US09935227B2
A solar cell module includes: solar cells, each of which includes first and second principal surfaces, on which a first and second bus bar electrodes are provided respectively; a wiring member connecting the first bus bar electrode of one of adjacent solar cells and the second bus bar electrode of the other adjacent solar cell; a first resin adhesive layer connecting the wiring member and the first bus bar electrode; and a second resin adhesive layer connecting the wiring member and the second bus bar electrode. The wiring member includes a first bent section bent toward the second principal surface at an end of the first bus bar electrode or the first resin adhesive layer on the adjacent side, and a second bent section bent toward the first principal surface at an end of the second bus bar electrode or the second resin adhesive layer on the adjacent side.
US09935223B2
A method for fabricating a device with integrated photovoltaic cells includes supporting a semiconductor substrate on a first handle substrate and doping the semiconductor substrate to form doped alternating regions with opposite conductivity. A doped layer is formed over a first side the semiconductor substrate. A conductive material is patterned over the doped layer to form conductive islands such that the conductive islands are aligned with the alternating regions to define a plurality of photovoltaic cells connected in series on a monolithic structure.
US09935219B2
It is an object of the present invention to improve photoelectric conversion efficiency in a photoelectric conversion device. The photoelectric conversion device 11 according to the present invention uses a polycrystalline semiconductor layer including a plurality of semiconductor particles 3a coupled together as a light-absorbing layer 3, each of the semiconductor particles 3a including a group I-III-VI compound, each of the semiconductor particles 3a having a higher composition ratio PI of a group I-B element to a group III-B element in a surface portion thereof than that in a central portion thereof.
US09935214B2
A method for forming a back contact on an absorber layer in a photovoltaic device includes forming a two dimensional material on a first substrate. An absorber layer including Cu—Zn—Sn—S(Se) (CZTSSe) is grown over the first substrate on the two dimensional material. A buffer layer is grown on the absorber layer on a side opposite the two dimensional material. The absorber layer is exfoliated from the two dimensional material to remove the first substrate from a backside of the absorber layer opposite the buffer layer. A back contact is deposited on the absorber layer.
US09935210B2
The present disclosure relates to a microelectronics package with optical sensors and/or thermal sensors. The disclosed microelectronics package includes a module substrate, a thinned flip-chip die with an upper surface that includes a first surface portion and a second surface portion surrounding the first surface portion, and a first mold compound component. The thinned flip-chip die is attached to the module substrate and includes a device layer with sensor structure integrated at a top portion of the device layer. Herein, the sensor structure is below the first surface portion and not below the second surface portion. The first mold compound component is formed over the second surface portion to define a first cavity over the upper surface of the thinned flip-chip die. The first mold compound component is not over the first surface portion, and the first surface portion is exposed at the bottom of the first cavity.
US09935207B2
Disclosed is a tunneling diode, which includes a graphene-silicon quantum dot hybrid structure, having improved performance and electrical characteristics by controlling the sizes of silicon quantum dots and the doping concentration of graphene. The ideal tunneling diode of the present disclosure may be utilized in diode-based optoelectronic devices.
US09935193B2
A method, in one embodiment, can include forming a core trench and a termination trench in a substrate. The termination trench is wider than the core trench. In addition, a first oxide can be deposited that fills the core trench and lines the sidewalls and bottom of the termination trench. A first polysilicon can be deposited into the termination trench. A second oxide can be deposited above the first polysilicon. A mask can be deposited above the second oxide and the termination trench. The first oxide can be removed from the core trench. A third oxide can be deposited that lines the sidewalls and bottom of the core trench. The first oxide within the termination trench is thicker than the third oxide within the core trench.
US09935187B1
Disclosed are an ambipolar transistor and a leakage current cutoff device using the same. The ambipolar transistor includes: a substrate; a gate formed on the substrate; a gate insulating film formed of an SiOC thin film and disposed on the substrate and the gate; and a source portion and a drain portion formed on the gate insulating film and spaced apart from each other, wherein the source portion and the drain portion comprise: a main source terminal and a main drain terminal disposed on the gate insulating film at right and left sides of the gate, respectively; and a plurality of source sub-terminals and a plurality of drain sub-terminals alternately arranged between the main source terminal and the main drain terminal, respectively.
US09935182B2
A method of fabricating a thin film transistor structure is described. An oxide semiconductor layer is fabricated by a self-aligned method and a lift-off process, and a source electrode and a drain electrode are fabricated by another lift-off process, so as to solve a problem in the conventional technology, wherein a semiconductor channel is damaged when an etching is performed, and a problem of raising a process cost due to the increasing complexity of the process.
US09935165B2
There is provided a semiconductor device that includes a substrate, an electric field shielding layer, and a semiconductor element. The electric field shielding layer is provided on the substrate. The semiconductor element includes an electrode, and is provided on the electric field shielding layer with an insulating film in between.
US09935157B2
The present invention provides an OLED display including a red organic light-emitting element, a green organic light-emitting element, and a blue organic light-emitting element set corresponding to a red filter device, a green filter device, and a blue filter device respectively. Thus, the chromaticity coordinate of the OLED display can be adjusted and NTSC can be increased. Selection of material made of the red, green, and blue light-emitting elements and light-utilizing efficiency are increased.
US09935148B2
A chip package is provided. The chip package includes a sensing device. The chip package also includes a first conductive structure disposed on the sensing device and electrically connected to the sensing device. The chip package further includes a chip and a second conductive structure disposed on the sensing device. The chip includes an integrated circuit device. The second conductive structure is positioned on the chip and is electrically connected to the integrated circuit device and the first conductive structure. In addition, the chip package includes an insulating layer covering the sensing device and the chip. The insulating layer has a hole. The first conductive structure is positioned under the bottom of the hole. The top surface of the insulating layer is coplanar with the top surface of the second conductive structure. A method for forming the chip package is also provided.
US09935146B1
In order to increase angular response or otherwise customize the response of phase detection pixels to incident light, phase detection pixels may include optical structures. The optical structures may be formed between a microlens and at least first and second photodiodes to redirect incident light between the microlens and the photodiodes. The optical structures may include two or more layers with different indices of refraction. For example, a layer of silicon dioxide and a layer of silicon nitride may form a concave lens that increases the angular response of phase detection pixels. The optical structures may have any desired shape to customize the response of the photodiodes to incident light.
US09935145B2
An image sensor includes a first pixel and a second pixel. The first pixel includes a first light sensitive element, a first light filter, and a first microlens. The second pixel is disposed adjacent to the first pixel and includes a second light sensitive element, a second light filter, and a second microlens. The first pixel is configured to direct at least some of the light received at the first microlens to the second light sensitive element of the second pixel to increase optical crosstalk so as to reduce color aliasing.
US09935144B1
An image sensor package includes a ceramic substrate with a cavity disposed in the ceramic substrate. A glass layer is adhered to the ceramic substrate and encloses the cavity in the ceramic substrate. An image sensor is disposed in the cavity between the glass layer and the ceramic substrate to electrically isolate the image sensor. An image sensor processor is disposed in the cavity and electrically coupled to the image sensor to receive image data from the image sensor.
US09935142B2
An image sensor is described. The image sensor includes a photodiode that is formed in a substrate, a floating diffusion region that vertically overlaps with a first portion of the photodiode, a shallow trench isolation (STI) region that vertically overlaps with a second portion of the photodiode and has an elbow shape, and a transfer gate that is adjacent to at least two sides of the photodiode and has an elbow shape.
US09935141B2
In a semiconductor device in which a plurality of light receiving elements are provided in each of a plurality of pixels that form a solid-state image sensor, a decrease in the performance of the semiconductor device is prevented, the decrease occurring due to an increase in the number of wires. In the pixel having a first photodiode and a second photodiode, a first transfer transistor coupled to the first photodiode and a second transfer transistor coupled to the second photodiode are respectively controlled by the same gate electrode, thereby allowing the number of wires for controlling the first and the second transfer transistors is reduced.
US09935140B2
A manufacturing method of a solid state imaging device according to one embodiment includes the steps of forming, on a substrate, a gate electrode of a first transistor and a gate electrode of a second transistor adjacent to the first transistor; forming an insulator film covering the gate electrode of the first transistor and the gate electrode of the second transistor such that a void is formed between the gate electrode of the first transistor and the gate electrode of the second transistor; forming a film on the insulator film; and forming a light shielding member by removing a part of the film by an etching.
US09935138B2
A scalable fuse design for individual pixels of a focal plane array of photodiodes comprises a fuse disposed on the upper surface of each photodiode in the array, wherein the fuse is situated proximal to a side of each photodiode. The fuse of each photodiode is electrically coupled to the active region thereof via a first bus and is electrically coupled to an ROIC via a second bus.
US09935134B2
In a transistor substrate of a display device, a plurality of signal lines to which any one of drive signals of a gate signal and a video signal is supplied include a plurality of first signal lines to which the drive signal is supplied. The first signal line is connected to a driving driver, and is formed in an edge region positioned between an end portion of a substrate and a pixel region and in the pixel region. The first signal line is formed to pass through a first wiring formed in a first layer from a second wiring formed in a second layer in the edge region.
US09935133B2
A display device includes: a first substrate comprising a display area including a plurality of pixels, and a peripheral area around the display area; a plurality of driving signal transmission lines on the first substrate and arranged in the peripheral area; a first insulating layer on the first substrate and arranged under the plurality of driving signal transmission lines; and a second insulating layer on a portion of the plurality of driving signal transmission lines and arranged in the display area, and the first insulating layer includes a trench between two driving signal transmission lines adjacent to each other among the plurality of driving signal transmission lines, and an edge portion of the second insulating layer overlaps the trench.
US09935132B2
A pixel structure including scan lines, data lines, and sub-pixels is provided. The scan and data lines are disposed on the substrate. The sub-pixels include switch devices, contact pattern layer, color filter pattern layers, and pixel electrodes. The switch devices are electrically connected to one scan line and one data line respectively. The contact pattern layer and the color filter pattern layer are disposed on the substrate and the switch devices. The contact pattern layer covers part of two adjacent switch devices. At least two color filter pattern layers include a patterned opening respectively, and the contact pattern layer is disposed in the patterned opening. The pixel electrodes are disposed on the color filter pattern layer, the contact pattern layer, and the switch device. At least one pixel electrode is partially disposed between the color filter pattern layer and the corresponding switch device while electrically connected to the switch device.
US09935130B2
A pixel structure includes pixel electrodes, data lines, and gate lines. Each of the pixel electrodes has two opposite ends that are each provided with one of the gate lines. The data lines and the gate lines re perpendicular to each other. Each of the pixel electrodes includes at least two sub-pixel domains. The data lines are located beneath the pixel electrode at interfacing between every two adjacent ones of the sub-pixel domains. The pixel electrodes each include slits located in the interfacing of the two adjacent sub-pixel domains. The slits are in alignment with the data line and located above the data line. Also provided is a liquid crystal display. The pixel structure and a liquid crystal display including the pixel structure have a reduced overlapping area between the data line and the pixel electrode above the data line so as to reduce parasitic capacitance and improve V-crosstalk.
US09935128B2
An electro-optical device formed on a semiconductor substrate, includes: a first transistor controlling a current level according to a voltage between a gate and a source; a second transistor electrically connected between a data line and the gate of the first transistor; a third transistor electrically connected between the gate and a drain of the first transistor; and a light-emitting element emitting light at a luminance according to the current level, in which one of a source and a drain of the second transistor and one of a source and a drain of the third transistor are formed by a common diffusion layer.
US09935124B2
Split memory cells can be provided within an alternating stack of insulating layers and word lines. At least one lower-select-gate-level electrically conductive layers and/or at least one upper-select-level electrically conductive layers without a split memory cell configuration can be provided by limiting the levels of separator insulator structures within the levels of the word lines. At least one etch stop layer can be formed above at least one lower-select-gate-level spacer material layer. An alternating stack of insulating layers and spacer material layers is formed over the at least one etch stop layer. Separator insulator structures are formed through the alternating stack employing the etch stop layer as a stopping structure. Upper-select-level spacer material layers can be subsequently formed. The spacer material layers and the select level material layers are formed as, or replaced with, electrically conductive layers.
US09935123B2
An alternating stack of sacrificial material layers and insulating layers is formed over a substrate. Replacement of sacrificial material layers with electrically conductive layers can be performed employing a subset of openings. A predominant subset of the openings is employed to form memory stack structures therein. A minor subset of the openings is employed as access openings for introducing an etchant to remove the sacrificial material layers to form lateral recesses and to provide a reactant for depositing electrically conductive layers in the lateral recesses. By distributing the access openings across the entirety of the openings and eliminating the need to employ backside trenches for replacement of the sacrificial material layers, the size and lateral extent of backside trenches can be reduced to a level sufficient to accommodate only backside contact via structures.
US09935122B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment comprises a memory cell, the memory cell comprising: a semiconductor layer; a control gate electrode; a charge accumulation layer disposed between the semiconductor layer and the control gate electrode; a first insulating layer disposed between the semiconductor layer and the charge accumulation layer; and a second insulating layer disposed between the charge accumulation layer and the control gate electrode, the charge accumulation layer including an insulator that includes silicon and nitrogen, and the insulator further including: a first element or a second element, the second element being different from the first element; and a third element different from the first element and the second element.
US09935120B2
Some embodiments include a memory array which has a stack of alternating first and second levels. Channel material pillars extend through the stack, and vertically-stacked memory cell strings are along the channel material pillars. A common source is under the stack and electrically coupled to the channel material pillars. The common source has conductive protective material over and directly against metal silicide, with the conductive protective material being a composition other than metal silicide. Some embodiments include methods of fabricating integrated structures.
US09935119B2
The present disclosure relates to a flash memory cell. In some embodiments, the flash memory cell has a control gate arranged over a substrate, and a select gate separated from the substrate by a gate dielectric layer. A charge trapping layer has a first portion disposed between the select gate and the control gate, and a second portion arranged under the control gate. A first control gate spacer is arranged on the second portion of the charge trapping layer. A second control gate spacer is arranged on the second portion of the charge trapping layer and is separated from the control gate by the first control gate spacer.
US09935108B2
A semiconductor memory device includes stacks on a substrate, each of the stacks including word lines stacked on the substrate and first and second string selection lines laterally spaced apart from each other, vertical pillars passing through the stacks, and first and second bit lines extending longitudinally in a first direction and alternatingly arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction. In a plan view, at least two adjacent ones of the first bit lines in the second direction and at least one of the second bit lines overlap each vertical pillar. A distance between a center of the vertical pillar and one of the first bit lines is different from that between the center of the vertical pillar and another of the first bit lines.
US09935107B2
Techniques and methods related to dual strained cladding layers for semiconductor devices, and systems incorporating such semiconductor devices.
US09935106B2
The present disclosure generally relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to multi-finger devices in multiple-gate-contacted-pitch, integrated structures and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a first plurality of fin structures formed on a substrate having a channel surface in a {110} plane; and a second plurality of fin structures formed on the substrate with a channel surface in a {100} plane, positioned in relation to the first plurality of fin structures.
US09935098B2
An electronic device includes a semiconductor body and a dielectric layer extending over the semiconductor body. A galvanic isolation module includes a first metal region extending in the dielectric layer at a first height and a second metal region extending in the dielectric layer at a second height greater than the first height. The first and second metal regions are capacitively or magnetically coupleable together. The second metal region includes a side wall and a bottom wall coupled to one another through rounded surface portions.
US09935091B2
A package includes a package component, which further includes a top surface and a metal pad at the top surface of the package component. The package further includes a non-reflowable electrical connector over and bonded to the metal pad, and a molding material over the package component. The non-reflowable electrical connector is molded in the molding material and in contact with the molding material. The non-reflowable electrical connector has a top surface lower than a top surface of the molding compound.
US09935085B2
Semiconductor substrates with unitary vias and via terminals, and associated systems and methods are disclosed. A representative system in accordance with a particular embodiment includes a semiconductor substrate having an opening that includes a generally cylindrical portion with a generally smooth, uniform surface. The opening also includes a terminal portion extending transversely to the cylindrical portion and intersecting. A single, uniform, homogeneous volume of conductive material is disposed in both the cylindrical portion and the terminal portion of the opening, the conductive material forming a conductive path in the cylindrical portion and at least a portion of a conductive terminal in the terminal portion. The conductive terminal has a cross-section with generally flat walls aligned with crystal planes of the semiconductor substrate material. The conductive terminal projects away from the semiconductor substrate.
US09935079B1
Embodiments of a microelectronic packaged device and methods of making are provided, where the microelectronic packaged device includes a system package comprising a first die and a second die, wherein the first die and the second die are laterally positioned to one another, and the first die and the second die are laterally separated from one another by mold compound; and a conductive trace formed between a first conductive surface on an exposed surface of the first die and a second conductive surface on an exposed surface of the second die, wherein the conductive trace is laser sintered directly on the first conductive surface, on a portion of the exposed surface of the first die, on a portion of a top surface of the mold compound, on a portion of the exposed surface of the second die, and on the second conductive surface.
US09935078B2
[Problem]To provide a bonding device in which a capillary can perform stable vibration from a low frequency to a high frequency while achieving lightening and downsizing of a load to be driven by a piezoelectric element and in which stable vibration can be transmitted to the capillary without disturbing operation of expansion and contraction of the piezoelectric element as keeping preliminary pressure to the capillary constant.[Solution]The bonding device is provided with a vibration driving portion (7), the vibration driving portion (7) including a piezoelectric element (10) that is expanded and contracted along an axial direction of a bonding arm (3) with one end thereof fixed to a leading end of the bonding arm (3), a capillary holding portion (15) that is in contact with a circumferential face of a capillary (20) at a base end side thereof as being fixed to the other end of the piezoelectric element (10), a string-like member (23) that is wound to a half circumferential face of the capillary (20) at the base end side on a side opposite to the capillary holding portion (15), and a tension mechanism (25) that is arranged at the bonding arm (3) side to press and hold the capillary (20) to the capillary holding portion (15) by exerting tensile force on the string-like member (23).
US09935073B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor package, including a semiconductor die and a substrate having a first surface electrically coupled to the semiconductor die and a second surface opposing to the first surface. The first surface includes a core region having a plurality of landing pads and a periphery region surrounding the core region and having a plurality of landing traces. A pitch of the landing pads is from about 55 μm to about 280 μm. The semiconductor die includes a third surface facing the first surface of the substrate and a fourth surface opposing to the third surface. The third surface includes a plurality of elongated bump positioned correspondingly to the landing pads and the landing traces of the substrate, and the elongated bump includes a long axis and a short axis perpendicular to the long axis on a cross section thereof.
US09935072B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor package that prevents a bump bridge from being formed between adjacent conductive bumps to realize a fine bump pitch when each unit circuit part is directly stacked without using a printed circuit board and a method for manufacturing the same. The semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor chip structure including a first unit circuit part, a first passivation layer disposed on the first unit circuit part, and a conductive bump electrically connected to the first unit circuit part, and a second semiconductor chip structure including a second unit circuit part, a second passivation layer having a stepped portion that is recessed inward and disposed on the second unit circuit part, and a bump pad provided in the stepped portion. The first semiconductor chip structure and the second semiconductor chip structure are stacked to allow the conductive bump to be bonded to the bump pad within the stepped portion.
US09935058B2
Package assemblies including a die stack and related methods of use. The package assembly includes a substrate with a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface bordering a through-hole extending from the first surface to the second surface. The assembly further includes a die stack, a conductive layer, and a lid. The die stack includes a chip positioned inside the through-hole in the substrate. A section of the conductive layer is disposed on the third surface of the substrate. A portion of the lid is disposed between the first chip and the section of the conductive layer. The conductive layer is configured to be coupled with power, and the lid is configured to be coupled with ground. The portion of the lid may act as a first plate of a capacitor, and the section of the conductive layer may act as a second plate of the capacitor.
US09935053B2
An electronic component integrated substrate includes a first substrate including a first pad, a first solder resist layer provided with a first open portion that selectively exposes the first pad, and a connection pad formed on the first solder resist layer, and electrically connected to the first pad; a second substrate, stacked on the first substrate, including a second pad, and a second solder resist layer formed on the second pad and provided with a second open portion that selectively exposes the second pad; an electronic component mounted on the first substrate and sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a substrate connection member that electrically connects the connection pad and the second pad with each other, the diameter of the connection pad being larger than each of the diameter of the first pad and the diameter of the second open portion.
US09935049B2
Provided is an e-fuse structure of a semiconductor device having improved fusing performance so as to enable a program operation at a low voltage. The e-fuse structure includes a first metal pattern formed at a first vertical level, the first metal pattern including a first part extending in a first direction and a second part extending in the first direction and positioned to be adjacent to the first part, and a third part adjacent to the second part, the second part being positioned between the first part and the third part, the first part and the second part being electrically connected to each other, and the third part being electrically disconnected from the second part; and a second metal pattern electrically connected to the first metal pattern and formed at a second vertical level different from the first vertical level.
US09935047B2
A method includes forming a first dielectric layer over a conductive pad, forming a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer, and etching the second dielectric layer to form a first opening, with a top surface of the first dielectric layer exposed to the first opening. A template layer is formed to fill the first opening. A second opening is then formed in the template layer and the first dielectric layer, with a top surface of the conductive pad exposed to the second opening. A conductive pillar is formed in the second opening.
