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| US09483818B2 |
Bleed-through detection method and bleed-through detection apparatus
The present invention discloses a bleed-through detection method and a bleed-through detection device. The method includes: obtaining a recto image and a verso image, thereby obtaining pixel pairs including the first points and the corresponding second points; determining some foreground pixels and some background pixels; performing modeling for four types of pixel pairs, so as to form four models; calculating, for a pixel pair that hasn't been modeled, similarities of the pixel pair with respect to the four models respectively, so as to determine a type of the pixel pair; and judging, as bleed-through on the verso image, a second point determined as a background pixel which corresponds to a first point determined as a foreground pixel, and judging, as bleed-through on the recto image, a first point determined as a background pixel which corresponds to a second point determined as a foreground pixel. |
| US09483817B2 |
Electronic camera, image processing device, and image processing program
There are provided an imaging section imaging a subject and generating a plurality of images; an evaluating section performing evaluation on the plurality of images generated by the imaging section; a selecting section selecting, based on an evaluation result of the evaluating section, a part of images from among the plurality of images generated by the imaging section; a recognizing section performing scene recognition on a plurality of images selected by the selecting section; and a determining section determining, based on a recognition result of the recognizing section, reproduction order of the plurality of images subjected to the scene recognition. |
| US09483813B2 |
Image processing apparatus, computer-readable medium storing an image processing program, and image processing method
An image processing apparatus that can be connected to a display device and removes blurring from a first-order image is provided. The image processing apparatus includes a generation unit, a display control unit, and a selection reception unit. The generation unit generates multiple I-th order intermediate images by performing blur correction in multiple blur directions on an I-th order image. The display control unit causes the multiple I-th order intermediate images to be displayed on the display device. The selection reception unit allows the user to select an (I+1)-th order image from among the displayed multiple I-th order intermediate images as a corrected image whose blurring has been reduced more than in the I-th order image. The generation unit, the display control unit, and the selection reception unit execute the above processing in order with respect to I=1, 2, . . . , K (K being a natural number). |
| US09483808B2 |
Display method and display device
The present invention relates to the field of display control processing and provides a display method and a display device. The display method includes: obtaining an object to be displayed; parsing the object to obtain corresponding information of the object; obtaining a media resource corresponding to the corresponding information based on the corresponding information; and displaying the object and presenting the media resource corresponding to the corresponding information. With the present invention, the display effect of the object can be enriched and the user's reading experience can be enhanced. |
| US09483807B2 |
Hospital communication system
The invention is a hospital scheduling system that allows for real-time updates of the status of a medical procedure to be transmitted. More particularly, this transmission allows for the consistent flow of a pre-arranged sequence of events a hospital may use for patient treatment procedures. Once an event has transpired, notice of the event occurrence may be transmitted to interested personnel through specific transmission, or a general broadcast for all personnel such that updates may be checked by any interested hospital personnel. The devices capable of receiving the transmissions may be a wired device, or may be a portable wireless device, such as a hand-held unit. Moreover, the invention describes a pedal that may be capable of programming such that when specific areas of the pedal are compressed, coding will be sent to a computer for translation into status messages that may be transmitted through a network to any number of recipients. The pedal may be adapted such that compressions may be performed by the user's foot. |
| US09483800B2 |
Method and apparatus for analyzing and applying data related to customer interactions with social media
Embodiments of the invention provide techniques that quantize community interactions with social media to understand and influence consumer experiences. |
| US09483795B1 |
Social network risk analysis
An enhanced social network module associated with an entity may create a social network for an individual, group, and/or organization. The module may then use the social network to determine risk associated with insuring a member of the social network. The determined risk may be used to calculate a rate for insuring the member. Additional features of the module may allow for the calculation of a group rate for insuring all members of the social network, the calculation of various centrality measures for each member of the social network, the calculation of a trust score for any given member, and the ability to poll members of the social network to determine various characteristics of any given member. |
| US09483793B1 |
Immersive multimedia views for items
Disclosed are various embodiments that provide immersive multimedia views for items. An immersive view for an item is rendered upon a display. The immersive view features an image of the item surrounded by a user interface layer that provides information about the item. The user interface layer is hidden when a cursor moves onto a first portion of the immersive view corresponding to the image of the item. The image of the item is replaced with a video stream of the item when the cursor moves onto a second portion of the immersive view corresponding to the image of the item. |
| US09483791B2 |
Network software and hardware monitoring and marketplace
A method, system, and network for interfacing the work-flow monitoring and reporting of a host computer, a local network of information technology devices, a community of network users, and third party vendors is provided. This includes processes and systems for initiating an inventory, including software, of a plurality of information technology devices associated with a local network of information technology devices from a host computer and determining the operational status of the information technology devices associated with the local network. The operational status of the information technology devices associated with the local network is monitored and presented to a host computer. Needs relating to the local network are identified and determined and a purchasing platform for purchasing product solutions from third party vendors is provided. |
| US09483788B2 |
System and method for graphically building weighted search queries
A system and method allows a user to define a search request by selecting and weighting graphical icons provided on a search creation interface. The graphical icons may be selected by using an icon selection feature provided on the search creation interface. The graphical icons may further be assigned relative search weights using an icon weighting feature provided on the search creation interface. The system and method generates search results based on metadata associated with the selected ones of the graphical icons and the search weights assigned to each of the selected ones of the graphical icons. The search results may comprise a ranked list of items, such as products listed for sale on an e-commerce server. |
| US09483778B2 |
Generating a user profile
An example method for generating a user profile for a user based on a static profile and a dynamic profile of the user includes compressing dynamic rules into aggregated rules for validation. The dynamic rules associated with a particular user are matched to one or more validated aggregated rules to generate the dynamic profile for that user. The static profile for the user is generated for the user based on factual user information and historical transactional data for the user. The static and dynamic profile are then combined to form the user profile. |
| US09483776B2 |
Wireless electronic couponing technique
An electronic couponing technique includes transferring coupon information, which may include a coupon ID (identification) to a first portable terminal and storing same therein. The portable terminal displays a representation of the transferred coupon information on a display thereof. The stored coupon information may be transferred from the portable terminal to another terminal for redemption. The stored coupon information may also be transferred from the portable terminal to another portable terminal. Various schemes may be used to transfer the coupon information including a Bluetooth low-range radio link or an optical bar code scanner scanning an optical bar code or an infrared link or a wireless link from the portable terminal. The Internet or wireless LAN (Local Area Network) may also be used in transferring the coupon information to and from the various terminals. |
| US09483770B2 |
Social aggregation communications
The present invention provides techniques for utilizing opportunities presented by events and social gatherings, such as online advertisement targeting and communications-related opportunities. Techniques are provided in which information is obtained that provides an indication that a set of users, including mobile electronic device users, are in a specified area, and indicating that at least some of the set of users are at a particular event or gathering. A virtual user grouping may be formed, and communications between users of the grouping is facilitated, based at least in part on the particular event or gathering. |
| US09483769B2 |
Dynamic electronic coupon for a mobile environment
Dynamic mobile coupons (DMCs) having a variable commercial value and/or other variable coupon characteristic are provided herein. By way of example, a DMC can be distributed to a mobile device based on criteria established by a sponsor of the DMC. A redemption value of the DMC can be variable and dynamically established based at least in part on data associated with a recipient mobile device. Upon redemption of the DMC at a retail entity, the value is fixed and applied to a transaction. Details of the transaction are provided to a remote clearinghouse that performs mediation and indemnification functions to finalize the transaction. As described, the subject disclosure provides a DMC that facilitates a rich and flexible mechanism to generate purchasing incentive for consumers in a mobile environment. |
| US09483761B2 |
Methods and systems for contactless payments at a merchant
A coordination server of a contactless payment system may receive a total bill of purchases for a customer from a merchant point-of-sale terminal, associate the total bill of purchases with a unique identifier of an RFID tag of a check presenter, and receive notification that payment of the total bill of purchases is authorized. The coordination server may receive the unique identifier and payment information from a contactless-enabled device, and transmit the payment information and the total bill to the merchant point-of-sale terminal for transmittal to a merchant acquirer for completion of the transaction under business as usual standards. In one embodiment, the coordination server transmits the payment information and the total bill to a merchant acquirer, which then routes the payment request to an appropriate payment network. In another embodiment, the coordination server transmits the payment information and the total bill directly to the appropriate payment network. |
| US09483757B2 |
Monetary information processing server and monetary information processing method
In a monetary information processing method, an amount remitted by a remitter to a financial account in a banking system and monetary terminal identification information identifying a monetary terminal that stores a monetary value are acquired from the banking system. The acquired amount is divided into unit amounts when the acquired amount exceeds a preselected amount. Amount update information is transmitted to the monetary terminal to increase the monetary value by the acquired amount when the acquired amount does not exceed the preselected amount or by any selected one of the unit amounts provided that the acquired amount or the selected unit amount does not exceed an allowable limit previously set for the monetary terminal. The amount acquired from the banking system is decreased by the amount by which the monetary value is increased in accordance with the amount update information. |
| US09483756B2 |
Mechanism for multiple system common scheduling and analysis of unrelated events in a corrections facility
A method is presented for use in correctional facilities to manage resources. Particularly, the method includes using a scheduling engine capable of receiving scheduling requests from other systems or direct entry of scheduling data and which is equipped to provide reports that inform the facility of the schedules of all inmates, transportation requirements, and space accommodations. The method may be employed for evaluating the needs for transportation and space and may also be used to generate reports that show relationships between inmates based on activities, locations, and time. |
| US09483750B2 |
Location independent communication in a virtual world
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to virtual worlds and provide a method, system and computer program product for deploying and managing an avatar silhouette in a location in a virtual world. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for deploying and managing an avatar silhouette in a location in a virtual world can include creating and inserting a silhouette avatar into one location of a virtual world in correspondence with a primary avatar in a different location in the virtual world, rendering the silhouette avatar recognizable by an avatar in the one location and prohibiting independent movements by the silhouette avatar, and passing a communication directed from the avatar in the one location to the silhouette avatar in the one location along to the primary avatar in the different location. |
| US09483749B2 |
Method and system for reconciling transportation records
Aspects of the present invention are directed to a system for next day reconciliation of transportation records. The system having a transportation record storage provider (TRSP) that receives and stores storage medium transportation requests; an outside service provider (OSP) inventory manager that receives and maintains records of transported storage mediums scanned at the OSP; and a reconciliation provider that receives a first list from the TRSP and a second list from the OSP inventory manger, for reconciliation. The reconciliation provider includes receivers for receiving the first and second list; a processing engine that reconciles the first list and the second list; and a reporting unit that reports the results of the reconciliation. The processing engine matches inbound and outbound records of the first list and second list, and processes invalid records; and analyzes and accounts for un-matched records. |
| US09483748B2 |
RFID enabled dynamic object verification with GTIN decoded from EPC
Electronic Product Codes (EPCs) can be read from RFID labels and tags to verify shipments. The EPCs are decoded to Global Trade Item Numbers (GTINs), which are then matched to GTINs of products on a shipping list. If all of the decoded GTINs match and there are no GTINs in the shipment list that are left unmatched, then shipment verification is successful. If some of the decoded GTINs fail to match, the verification process fails with extra, unexpected products. If some of the GTINs in the shipping list are left unmatched, the verification process fails with the missing products. |
| US09483746B2 |
Comparing utility and warranty of services
An invention for comparing utility and warranty of services in an information (IT) stack is provided. The invention determines, at each layer of the IT stack, a required utility and warranty (RUW) value for each of a set of services, wherein the RUW value represents a desired solution for implementing a business process; determines, at each layer of the IT stack, an available utility and warranty (AUW) value for each of the set of services, wherein the AUW value is a measure of an ability of each of the set of services to satisfy the RUW at each layer of the IT stack; and compares the RUW value against the AUW value at each layer of the IT stack to determine whether each of the set of services satisfies the desired solution for implementing the business process. |
| US09483737B2 |
Identifying an event associated with consumption of a utility
A method of identifying an event associated with consumption of a utility comprising the steps of generating a utility consumption profile from utility consumption data, the utility consumption data comprising a plurality of utility consumption values measured at a corresponding plurality of measurement points, detecting a plurality of events within the utility consumption profile, grouping the plurality of events using a clustering process to produce a probability density map, comparing the probability density map to a stored profile of events of a particular type, and identifying the group of events as events of the particular type when the probability density map corresponds to the stored profile of events of the particular type, wherein the probability density map is compared to a stored profile of an event which is a probability density map. |
| US09483736B2 |
Filtering user actions based on user's mood
Technologies are provided for filtering user's actions based on user's mood. User's actions may include online actions. To prevent “in the heat of the moment” actions, which a user may regret later, a mood based filter may identify a user action such as posting a message to a social network, a professional network, an email network, a blog, or an instant message network. An automatic system action may then be taken based on the detected user's mood. In some examples, the user's mood may be assigned to a numeric or alphanumeric category. Various system actions such as blocking or delaying the user action may be tied or associated to the user's mood category through one or more predefined, customizable rules. In other examples, a user confirmation of the user action may also be included in addition to the automatic system action. |
| US09483734B2 |
Transforming predictive models
A system for translating a boosting algorithm includes an interface communicatively coupled to a processor. The interface is operable to receive a trained boosting model. The processor is operable to identify a plurality of split-node variables associated with the trained boosting model. Each of the plurality of split-node variables comprises a variable name, a cutoff point, and a weight. The processor may aggregate the split-node variables by variable name and cutoff point and then combine the weights of each of the plurality of split-node variables having the same variable name and cutoff point. The processor may then create a linear model based on the combined variables. The processor may further create a performance scorecard based on the combined weight, and create a model evaluation based on the error rate of the trained boosting model. |
| US09483731B2 |
Method of answering questions and scoring answers using structured knowledge mined from a corpus of data
In a method of answering questions and scoring answers, a title and at least one topical field are identified for a document. A field name and field content associated with the topical field is identified, and a title-oriented document is created by combining the title, the field name, and the field content associated with the topical field. For each title-oriented document, a term in the title is matched to previously established categories to produce a title concept identifier. The topical field is synthesized to produce a field concept identifier and a field content concept identifier. A question is received. The question topic term and the question content identifier are used to identify at least one question-matching relation instance. The title concept identifier of each question-matching relation instance is identified as a candidate answer to the question. Each candidate answer and a corresponding answer score is output. |
| US09483730B2 |
Hybrid review synthesis
A method of generating a summary review of an entity from a set of reviews includes generating a distribution and determining a polarity of the distribution associated with a plurality of aspect ratings based on the set of reviews. The set of reviews are associated with the entity, and the plurality of aspect ratings are associated with an aspect, or feature, of the entity. The method includes selecting an opinion correlated with the polarity from the set of reviews, and generating the summary review, the summary review comprising: a summary statement based on the distribution and the polarity; and the opinion. An apparatus and computer-readable device are also disclosed. |
| US09483729B1 |
Mining group patterns in dynamic relational data via individual event monitoring
Described is a system for detecting group behaviors in dynamic relational data by monitoring individual events of interest. Data is collected from a domain of interest at predetermined time intervals. Examples of domains of interest include internet data, video behavior analysis, social networks, and diagnosis and prognosis. The data is then monitored for at least one local event of interest defined by a user. The system is configured to analyze a relationship between at least two monitored local events of interest. Finally, a visual representation of the relationship between the monitored local events of interest is generated and presented to the user for further analysis. Also described is a method and computer program product for detecting group behaviors in data. |
| US09483728B2 |
Systems and methods for combining stochastic average gradient and hessian-free optimization for sequence training of deep neural networks
A method for training a deep neural network (DNN), comprises receiving and formatting speech data for the training, performing Hessian-free sequence training (HFST) on a first subset of a plurality of subsets of the speech data, and iteratively performing the HFST on successive subsets of the plurality of subsets of the speech data, wherein iteratively performing the HFST comprises reusing information from at least one previous iteration. |
| US09483727B2 |
Reduction of computation complexity of neural network sensitivity analysis
As part of neural network sensitivity analysis, base outputs of hidden layer nodes of a neural network model for non-perturbed variables can be reused when perturbing the variables. Such an arrangement greatly reduces complexity of the calculations required to generate outputs of the model. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. |
| US09483723B2 |
Passive control secure transaction card
A secure transaction card does not interact with an interrogating radio frequency field without user interaction. The user interaction may include pressing on the card to cause a smartcard chip to connect to a coil on the card. The user interaction may also include exposing the card to light, motion, touch, or the like. Control of the secure transaction card may be active or passive. |
| US09483720B2 |
Analysis of stimulus by RFID
The present invention is directed to a stimulus monitoring system. The system includes an RFID device, item, interrogation device, and reception device. The RFID device includes a brace affixed to an inductor or capacitor. The brace is constructed from a material structurally responsive to a predetermined stimulus, such that stimulus-responsive structural alterations to the brace structurally alters the inductor, capacitor, or other RFID subcomponent of the RFID circuit capable of generating a current alteration, which in turn alters the signal frequency of the RFID. |
| US09483717B2 |
Method and apparatus for stocking and/or restocking an item
A method and apparatus are provided for stocking and/or restocking an item. During operation, an RFID reader will determine items to be stocked/restocked. This determination may be made by performing a first scan and determining all items within range. Once determined, the RFID reader will continuously scan items that are within range. When the RIFD reader encounters an additional item that is similar to an item to be stocked/restocked, a notification is provided to a user. |
| US09483716B2 |
Image formation data generating device and method for generating image formation data of simultaneously displayed images
In an embodiment, a display control device includes: a control unit configured to control the display and output of image data; a display information generating unit configured to generate display information including at least an image ID for identifying the image data and a display period whenever the image data is output by the control unit for display; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the display information to an external device so that the display information is managed by the external device as one unit information item serving as a unit of image formation together with other display information items having a predetermined relation with the display information. |
| US09483715B2 |
Classifying device, classifying program, and method of operating classifying device
When each pixel forming image data is classified into one of N labels (where N>2) which are ordered from 0 to N−1, a binary graph setting unit sets a binary graph where the i-th layer i is a boundary between the label i−1 and the label i of the N labels, a class to which a label equal to or higher than i is assigned corresponds to a virtual label 0, and a class to which a label equal to or smaller than i−1 is assigned corresponds to a virtual label 1, a layer-by-layer labeling unit performs a graph cut operation on the binary graph of each layer, and then a label determining unit determines which of the N labels each pixel belongs to based on the virtual labels assigned to all the binary graphs. |
| US09483712B2 |
Method for accurately determining the position and orientation of each of a plurality of identical recognition target objects in a search target image
Embodiments of the invention relate to detecting the number, position, and orientation of objects when a plurality of recognition target objects are present in a search target image. Dictionary image data is provided, including a recognition target pattern, a plurality of feature points of the recognition target pattern, and an offset (Ox, Oy) from the coordinates at the center of the image to the coordinates of the feature point. The sizes (Rt) and directions (θt) of feature vectors for the coordinates (Tx, Ty) of a plurality of feature points in the target image are also provided. The coordinates (Fx, Fy) of a virtual center point in the target image is derived. Additional virtual center points within a radius of the coordinates (Fx, Fy) is counted. Presence of a recognition target object is recognized near the virtual center point coordinates of the search target image. |
| US09483711B2 |
Object detection system
An object detection system including a storage unit, image acquisition module, feature searching module, calculation module, and confirmation module is provided. The image acquisition module obtains a first, second, and third image respectively corresponding to a first, second, and third timepoint of a video sequence from the storage unit, where time difference between the first and second timepoint is less than or equal to that between the second and third timepoint. The feature searching module searches for at least one feature from the first image. When the feature is within a near-distance detected region, the calculation module calculates a motion vector of the feature according to the first and second image; otherwise, it calculates the motion vector of the feature according to the third and one of the first and second image. The confirmation module confirms the existence of a moving object according to the motion vector of the feature. |
| US09483706B2 |
Hardware accelerator for histogram of gradients
One of the challenges in bringing computational imaging to a mass market is that computational imaging is inherently computationally expensive. The computational challenges associated with computational imaging are apparent with the computation of a histogram of gradient descriptors. Oftentimes, generating a histogram of gradient descriptors involves computing gradients of an image, binning the gradients according to their orientation, and, optionally, normalizing the bins using a non-linear function. Because each of these operations is expensive, the histogram of gradient descriptor computations is generally computationally expensive and is difficult to implement in a power efficient manner for mobile applications. The present application discloses a computing device that can provide a low-power, highly capable computing platform for computing a histogram of gradient descriptors. |
| US09483704B2 |
Realogram scene analysis of images: superpixel scene analysis
The techniques include an image recognition system to receive a realogram image including a plurality of organized objects and to detect and identify objects in the realogram image of one or more items on a retail shelf, identify shelf fronts and labels on the shelf fronts, identify empty space under shelves, identify areas where unidentified products may be, and identify areas where products are “out of stock”. |
| US09483699B2 |
Apparatus and method for detecting traffic lane in real time
An apparatus and a method for detecting traffic lanes in real time are disclosed. The disclosed real-time lane detection apparatus may include: a candidate area establisher unit configured to establish as a candidate area for lane detection an area having an intensity value which corresponds to the intensity of a traffic lane marking from among the intensity values in a color space of a color image; and a lane-marking determiner unit configured to determine a traffic lane marking from the established candidate area by using a line component of the candidate area. According to the present invention, traffic lanes can be detected accurately and quickly, even in environments where the lighting conditions of the road vary. |
| US09483697B2 |
Display device content selection through viewer identification and affinity prediction
Method and device are described for customizing the content selection to present on a display device based on identifying the viewer of the device. In one embodiment, the present disclosure relates to selecting from among a group of digital images, those images that are most likely to be of interest to the viewer. In general, many of the images available to the display device will be comprised of images containing subject faces. Using the relationship information to predict subject affinity, the display device computes an image affinity for each image by accumulating the individual subject affinity predictions between the viewer and each subject identified in each image. The image affinities are used to select images for presentation on the display device. |
| US09483691B2 |
System and method for computer vision based tracking of an object
A system and method for computer vision based tracking of a human form may include detecting a shape of an object in an image of a space and determining the probability of object having a human form shape based on movement of the object. If the probability of the object of being of a human form is above a predetermined threshold the object is tracked and if the probability is below the threshold then the tracking is terminated. Occupancy in the space may be determined based on the tracking of the object. |
| US09483690B2 |
Calibrating vision systems
Methods, systems, and computer program calibrate a vision system. An image of a human gesture is received that frames a display device. A boundary defined by the human gesture is computed, and gesture area defined by the boundary is also computed. The gesture area is then mapped to pixels in the display device. |
| US09483689B2 |
Biometric matching technology
Biometric matching technology, in which a watch list is managed, multiple images of a potential suspect are accessed, and parallel pre-processing of the multiple images is controlled. Based on the pre-processing, an image of the potential suspect to use in matching against the watch list is determined and the determined image is used to search sorted biometric data included in the watch list. A subset of persons from the watch list is identified based on the search and parallel analysis of the determined image of the potential suspect against detailed biometric data associated with the subset of persons in the watch list is controlled. Based on the parallel analysis, it is determined whether the potential suspect matches a person in the watch list and a result is outputted based on the determination. |
| US09483688B2 |
System and method for evaluating face recognition performance of service robot using ultra high definition facial video database
Provided are a system and method for evaluating the face recognition performance of a service robot using an ultra high definition (UHD) facial video database. The system includes a video output unit configured to output a registration-purpose or test-purpose UHD facial video, a robot test controller configured to control transmitting identification (ID) information on a video currently being output to a service robot having a face recognition function when the video currently being output is a registration-purpose video, and control performing evaluation of the face recognition function of the service robot using a recognition result received from the service robot when the video currently being output is a test-purpose video, and a wired/wireless communication unit configured to transmit the ID information and usage information indicating whether the video currently being output is a registration-purpose video or a test-purpose video to the service robot. |
| US09483684B2 |
Medical image processor and storage medium
A medical image processor and storage medium are shown. According to one implementation, a medical image processor includes an input unit, an operation unit, a cell nucleus extracting unit, a fluorescent bright point extracting unit, a feature amount calculating unit, and an output unit. The input unit is used to input a cell shape image showing a shape of a cell and a fluorescent image showing expression of a specific protein as a fluorescent bright point. The operation unit is used to specify an analysis target region. The cell nucleus extracting unit extracts a region of a cell nucleus. The fluorescent bright point extracting unit extracts a fluorescent bright point. The feature amount calculating unit calculates a feature amount showing an expression amount of the specific protein. The output unit outputs the calculated feature amount. |
| US09483678B2 |
Listing instances of a body-insertable device being proximate to target regions of interest
A described system includes a feature matching circuit that determines a correspondence between a present-location landmark subsurface feature of a body part of an individual patient and a candidate reference landmark subsurface feature of the individual patient body part. The present-location landmark subsurface feature has a first spatial relationship to a distal end portion of a body-insertable device deployed in the individual patient. The candidate reference landmark subsurface feature has a second spatial relationship to a particular selected target region of interest of at least two selected target regions of interest. An event data circuit generates data indicative of a proximity event that includes the distal end portion of a body-insertable device being proximate to the particular target region of interest. A list management circuit adds the proximity event to a proximity event list. A computer-readable media maintains informational data corresponding to the proximity event list. |
| US09483677B2 |
Machine-readable symbols
A variety of forms of machine-readable symbols are disclosed, as well as methods and systems of constructing machine-readable symbols, methods and systems of acquiring machine-readable symbols, and methods and systems of decoding machine-readable symbols. |
| US09483675B2 |
Image display processing device and display processing program
The invention provides an image display processing device and an image display processing program for displaying information concerning diagnosis of correspondence with an RF tag. The image display processing device includes a unit for obtaining diagnostic information concerning correspondence when correspondence between the RF tag and an RFID reader/writer has been successful, and a display controller configured to make a display unit display an image based on the diagnostic information. The diagnostic information includes correspondence margin based on a characteristic value obtained from the correspondence signal. |
| US09483671B2 |
Methods and apparatuses to identify devices
Embodiments of the present invention include systems with Readers and Tags in which a Reader queries the Tags with a parameter that includes a level of probability of reply according to which the Tags individually and randomly decide whether or not to reply. In one embodiment, the Tags can switch between two states: A and B. The query command also specifies a state (A or B) so that only the Tags in the specified state can reply. After successfully sending the Tag identification data from a Tag to the Reader, the Tag switches to the other state from the specified state. In one embodiment, the operations about the two states are symmetric. In one embodiment, the Tags can remember the parameters used in a query so that a short form of query command can be used to repeat the query with the same query parameters. |
| US09483667B1 |
Dip card reader
In accordance an example embodiment, there is disclosed herein a card reader having an opening allowing for card to be inserted. The card reader determines how long a card has been inserted into the card reader. If a card is inserted into the card reader for a time period greater than a predetermined time period, the card reader reads a chip on the card to obtain card data. If the card is removed from the card reader before the predetermined time period, the card reader obtains the card data from a magnetic stripe on the card. |
| US09483665B2 |
Method for monitoring an electronic security module
A method and a computer program are provided for implementing memory accesses. A hypervisor is used for this purpose, via which the memory access takes place. |
| US09483662B2 |
Method and apparatus for remotely provisioning software-based security coprocessors
A virtual security coprocessor is created in a first processing system. The virtual security coprocessor is then transferred to a second processing system, for use by the second processing system. For instance, the second processing system may use the virtual security coprocessor to provide attestation for the second processing system. In an alternative embodiment, a virtual security coprocessor from a first processing system is received at a second processing system. After receiving the virtual security coprocessor from the first processing system, the second processing system uses the virtual security coprocessor. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US09483656B2 |
Efficient and secure data storage utilizing a dispersed data storage system
A method of securely storing data to a dispersed data storage system is disclosed. A data segment is arranged along the columns or rows of an appropriately sized matrix. Data slices are then created based on either the columns or the rows so that no consecutive data is stored in a data slice. Each data slice is then stored in a separate storage node. |
| US09483654B2 |
Method and apparatus for storing, sharing, and/or organizing personal information
Embodiments of the subject invention relate to systems and methods for presenting and managing user information. Specific embodiments allow creating, editing, presenting, and storing user information. In a more specific embodiment, the systems and methods can be used to provide a digital safe deposit box (DSDB) that allows users to save, maintain, update, and/or share information about themselves and/or their organization. Specific embodiments provide a personal financial solution that is designed for customers interacting with professional institutions, such as accounting firms, banks, and insurance agencies, and/or interacting with family members and people that may need to access certain documents. Embodiments of the invention provide individuals, based on permission granted/allocated to them, access to specific information, while providing safety from fraud. |
| US09483642B2 |
Runtime detection of self-replicating malware
A method for detecting malicious active processes and self replicating executable binary files on a computing device. The method comprises monitoring in runtime active processes running on a computing device, extracting unique identifier(s) of each of the active processes which maps the active process to executable binary file(s) containing executable code of the active process, monitoring in runtime creation and modification of data files hosted by the computing device, identifying executable binary files among the data files, monitoring concurrent operation of logical sensors which detect malicious behavioral patterns of the active processes and maintain one or more lists of malicious behavioral pattern findings, and detecting malicious active process(es) of a malware from the active processes and self-replicating executable binary file(s) of the malicious active process(es) according to a match between the respective unique identifier(s), the malicious behavioral pattern findings and at least one the executable binary files. |
| US09483640B2 |
System and method for deterring malicious network attacks
A system and method for deterring malicious network attacks. The system and method is configured to execute instructions on at least one of the processors to generate a plurality of random blocks of data; generate a first XOR result by using the XOR function with the plurality of random blocks of data as the XOR function inputs; generate a tail value by using the XOR function with the first XOR result and a random encryption key as the XOR function inputs; encrypt a designated file using the random encryption key; write the plurality of random blocks and tail value to at least one storage medium; and write the encrypted designated file to at least one storage medium. |
| US09483632B2 |
Intelligent controller system and method for smart card memory modules
A storage device contains a smart-card device and a memory device, both of which are accessed though a controller. The storage device may be used in the same manner as a conventional smart-card device, or it may be used to store a relatively large amount of data in various partitions corresponding to the protection level of the data stored therein. The smart-card device stores critical security parameters that are provided to the controller to protect access to some or all of the partitions of the memory device. A host connected to the controller issues commands, and the controller analyzes the commands and responds to them in various ways depending upon the nature of the command. In particular, depending upon the nature of the command, the controller may either pass the command to the smart-card device, or ignore the command either indefinitely or until a predetermined event has occurred. |
| US09483629B2 |
Document authentication based on expected wear
Systems and methods are disclosed that enable authentication based on a physical document. Specifically, a document authentication service is disclosed that utilizes characteristics of a physical document, such as an identification card already in a user's possession, to authenticate a user. In one embodiment, the characteristics of a document may be processed based at least in part on an expected wear of the document (e.g., from use by the user). Expected wear may be identified, for example, based on historical data gathered across a number of users of the document authentication service. |
| US09483628B2 |
Methods and systems for altering settings or performing an action by a user device based on detecting or authenticating a user of the user device
Systems and methods according to one or more embodiments are provided for detecting or recognizing a user and intelligently altering or adjusting user device settings appropriate for the detected user. In an embodiment, a method comprises detecting, electronically by a processor, a first user interacting with a user device via a user input interface of the user device; determining, electronically by the processor, one or more characteristics associated with a primary user of the user device; determining, electronically by the processor, the first user is not the primary user based at least in part on comparing interactions of the first user with the user device and the one or more characteristics associated with the primary user of the user device; and altering one or more settings of the user device. |
| US09483624B2 |
Method and apparatus for configuring privacy settings for publishing electronic images
A method and apparatus configure privacy settings for publishing electronic images. An image including first image content and second image content can be received. A first image content data file can be created for the first image content and a second image content data file can be created for the second image content. A publication privilege can be assigned to the first image content data file. The publication privilege can be based on a relationship between a consumer of the image and a subject of the first image content. The first image content data file with the publication privilege can be stored separate from the second image content data file. Image reconstruction data can be stored. The image reconstruction data can provide information on how to reconstruct the image from the first image content data file and the second image content data file |
| US09483623B2 |
Displaying targeted website content based on social user profile data
Displaying targeted website content based on social user profile data is disclosed. In some embodiments, the displaying of targeted website content based on social user profile data includes requesting social profile data for a user from an authentication provider using a token associated with the user; and generating a rule for web site customization using the social profile data. |
| US09483622B1 |
Pain visualization system and method
A computerized pain visualization system and method. A web-based application and interface allows individuals to anonymously share information about where they hurt or specific regions of the body that are most worrisome to them. The web-based application comprises a visual interface that supports selection of parts or regions on an image of a human body. The data becomes viewable and filterable by geographic location, age, sex, or a variety of other data sets collected from the anonymous users. In an example embodiment, Users register and sign in at a web site. A selectable body interface is presented and the user is prompted to select one or more pain locations on the virtual body. The user's selections are recorded in a database. Another page of the application presents a search option that facilitates searching and visualizing the data, filterable by users' registration information. |
| US09483621B2 |
Ambulatory medication on demand dispenser
A medication dispenser. The dispenser comprises a sensor for receiving biometric information from a user, a memory for storing a minimum dosing interval, a controller for determining whether the user is an authorized user, a belt having medication-carrying slots, a dose opening defined in an exterior surface of the dispenser, and a signaling device. The controller activates the signaling device and the sensor only when the minimum dosing interval has elapsed as measured from a last successful user authentication. The sensor is responsive to user biometric information provided any time after activation of the signaling device and the sensor, but not before activation of the signaling device and the sensor. After determining the use is an authorized user, a medication-carrying slot is aligned with the dose opening. |
| US09483619B2 |
Means and method for improved glycemic control for diabetic patients
A glycemic control system includes a physician processor, remote processor, and a portable telephone having a data input mechanism, a display, and an internal processor for bi-directional communication with the physician's processor and the remote processor. A patient inputs data to the internal processor responsive to input from the physician's processor and then transmits the information to the remote processor where an optimized number of units to be administered is sent back and displayed on the portable telephone. |
| US09483613B2 |
Determination of neuropsychiatric therapy mechanisms of action
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product of determining mechanisms of action for therapies. A first set of brain scans for each subject in a plurality of subjects generated at a first time period and a second set of brain scans for each subject generated at a second time period are received. Each subject is diagnosed with a given condition and received a given therapy. A set of changes in the set of brain scans is identified for the each subject based on a comparison of a first set of regions of interest in the first set of scans for each subject with a second set of regions of interest in the second set of scans for each subject. A set of typical changes attributable to the given therapy is identified. A mechanism of action for the given therapy is generated based on the set of typical changes. |
| US09483611B2 |
Protective HDL particle number evaluations
Embodiments of the invention are directed to improved discrimination of protective (anti-atherogenic) HDL from atherogenic or non-protective (NP) HDL. The methods, systems and computer program products determine protective high density lipoprotein particle (HDL-P) numbers. The methods include obtaining concentration measurements of at least twenty subpopulations of HDL-P subclasses in a blood plasma or serum sample and calculating a protective HDL-P number using (i) a defined subset of the obtained HDL-P concentration measurements or (ii) a zero or defined weighting factor below 1 for HDL-P concentration measurements for HDL subclasses associated with particle sizes above about 11 nm. |
| US09483605B2 |
Probabilistic high cycle fatigue (HCF) design optimization process
A novel probabilistic method for analyzing high cycle fatigue (HCF) in a design of a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The method may comprise identifying a component of the gas turbine engine for high cycle fatigue analysis, inputting parametric data of the component over a predetermined parameter space into at least one computer processor, using the at least one computer processor to build a plurality of flexible models of the component based on the parametric data of the component over the predetermined parameter space, using the at least one computer processor to build a plurality of emulators of the component based on the plurality of flexible models, and using the at least one computer processor to predict a probability of HCF based at least in part on the parametric data of the component over the predetermined parameter space and the plurality of emulators. |
| US09483604B1 |
Variable accuracy parameter modeling in statistical timing
Systems and methods compute a mean timing value of an integrated circuit design for variables using a first timing calculation of relatively higher accuracy; and calculate a first timing value of the integrated circuit design for the variables, using a second timing calculation having a relatively lower accuracy. Such systems and methods calculate second timing values of the integrated circuit design for additional sets of variables using the second timing calculation; and calculate finite differences of each of the second timing values to the first timing value. Thus, these systems and methods calculate a statistical sensitivity of the first timing value to the additional sets of variables based on the finite differences. Further, such systems and methods calculate a statistical sensitivity of the mean timing value to the additional sets of values based on the statistical sensitivity of the first timing value to the additional sets of values. |
| US09483603B2 |
Micro-benchmark analysis optimization for microprocessor designs
Embodiments include systems and methods for optimization of micro-benchmark analysis for microprocessor designs. For example, embodiments seek to generate a suite of micro-benchmarks and associated weighting factors, which can be used to effectively define a weighted aggregate workload condition for a fine-grained (e.g., RTL) simulation in a manner that is a sufficient proxy for predicted commercial workload conditions. The suite of micro-benchmarks can be appreciably more efficient to simulate than the commercial workload, so that using the suite of micro-benchmarks as a proxy for the commercial workload can provide many benefits, including more efficient iterative design. |
| US09483601B2 |
Circuit routing based on total negative slack
A method, executed by a computer, for routing a circuit includes partitioning a netlist for a circuit into a plurality of nets, determining, for each net of the plurality of nets, a corresponding net cone to provide a corresponding plurality of net cones, computing a total negative timing slack for each net cone of the corresponding plurality of net cones, assigning routing constraints for the plurality of nets according to the total negative timing slack for the corresponding plurality of net cones, and routing the netlist according to the routing constraints. Examples of routing constraints include a routing priority, a routing weight, a scenic ratio, a wire code assignment, and a layer assignment. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed herein. |
| US09483594B2 |
Reset verification
This application discloses an electronic design automation tool configured to perform one or more static reset checks on reset functionality in a circuit design. The electronic design automation tool can detect the reset functionality in the circuit design, identify a portion of the circuit design having a set of resettable components, and determine whether the portion of the circuit design includes a reset design error based, at least in part, on the reset functionality in the circuit design. The static reset checks can include a domain congruency check, a reset skew check, and a glitch detection check, each of which can identify different design errors that may cause reset functionality in the circuit design to operate improperly. |
| US09483590B2 |
User-defined application models
A system (and corresponding method) that employs wiki-type models to consider authoring rather than composition in an application environment is provided. The innovation enables collaborative information and templates to be used to enhance quality, productivity, etc. within a software application environment. These wiki-type models can provide features, functions and benefits related to, but not limited to, general information, auto-fills, formats, schema, conversions, preferences, etc. |
| US09483586B2 |
Modeling and designing of well drilling system that accounts for vibrations
A method and apparatus associated with the production of hydrocarbons is disclosed. The method, which relates to modeling of drilling equipment, includes constructing one or more design configurations for at least a portion of a bottom hole assembly (BHA) and calculating results from each of the one or more design configurations. The calculated results of the modeling may include one or more performance indices that characterize the BHA vibration performance of the design configurations for operating parameters and boundary conditions that are substantially the same or may be different. These results are then simultaneously displayed for a user to facilitate design selection. The selected BHA design configuration may then be utilized in a well construction operation and thus associated with the production of hydrocarbons. |
| US09483582B2 |
Identification and verification of factual assertions in natural language
A system for verifying factual assertions in natural language. Receiving a text input. Identifying, a verifiable factual statement in the text. Forming a query based on the verifiable factual assertion. Searching a corpus based on the query. Determining the veracity of verifiable factual assertion based on the search results. |
| US09483576B2 |
Offline application support
An offline support system operates to record a plurality of request/response pairs exchanged between an application and a web service. The system determines if a current request from the application can be communicated to the web service. Upon a positive determination, the current request is passed to the web service. Upon a negative determination, a most recent recorded request/response pair having a request matching the current request is identified. The response from the identified pair is passed to the application as if it were a response to the current request. |
| US09483575B2 |
Reproducing a graphical user interface display
A method for reproducing a graphical user interface display includes, with a graphical user interface display reproduction system, extracting data from network traffic being sent from a server to a first client device, the network traffic including cacheable files used to create a graphical user interface display on the first client device, storing the cacheable file in a trace file associated with the first client device, and sending the cacheable file to a second client device in response to a request from the second client device. |
| US09483572B2 |
Interactivity analyses of web resources based on reload events
The initiation of a reload event by a user of a client-side application who requests a web resource from a server is an implicit indication that the user is dissatisfied with at least some aspect of the loading of the web resource by the client-side application. Information regarding the operational condition of the application at the time of a reload event may be instructive in identifying any issues or deficiencies exist regarding the web resource, the client-side application or the server. Code for displaying the web page may include one or more detection scripts which instruct the client-side application and/or the server-side application to detect a reload event, to capture the information upon the initiation of the reload event and to transfer the captured information back to the server, where the information may be compared against thresholds or tolerances to determine whether any such issues or deficiencies exist. |
| US09483570B2 |
Driving a user experience of a web application using rules that establish or change requests based on user behavior
A set of hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) requests for Web application content can be routed from a client computing device to a Web server. The routed HTTP requests can be analyzed for patterns indicative of user interest in a business offering available via the Web application. An unrequested HTTP request can be conveyed to the Web server for Web application content that was not explicitly requested from the client computing device. The Web server can convey a response to the unrequested HTTP request that provides content from the Web application related specifically to the user interest. The response can cause a user interface of a Web browser of the client computing device to display the content that is related to the user interest. |
| US09483569B2 |
Electronic-manual browsing apparatus and system
An electronic-manual browsing apparatus includes an electronic-manual-display processing section that displays, on an electronic-manual display screen on a display section, an electronic manual including a sample program concerning a control apparatus, a program-creation-screen-display processing section that displays, on the display section, a program creation screen for creating a program used in the control apparatus, and a program copy section that copies the sample program in the electronic manual selected according to an instruction from a user and temporarily stores the sample program. The program-creation-screen-display processing section pastes the stored sample program in the program creation screen in a format editable on the program creation screen. |
| US09483567B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing suggestions driven by nearby favorites
A computer-implemented method and system may promote points of interest (POIs) for display on a digital map at a client computing device based on context information associated with a user. Location data from a client computing device may indicate a geographic location of the computing device. Using the location data, the system may determine a user classification indicating a degree of familiarity with the location indicated by the location data. Promotion data may be determined based on the location data and the user classification. The promotion data may indicate one or more sets of POIs to be promoted. The system may then send the determined promotion data to the client computing device, enabling display on the client computing device of the one or more indicated sets of POIs. |
| US09483565B2 |
Associating a task with a user based on user selection of a query suggestion
Methods and apparatus related to associating a task with a user based on the user selecting a task suggestion that is provided to the user in response to a user query. In some implementations, the task may be identified based on similarities between the words and/or phrases of the user query and a task suggestion that is associated with a task. In some implementations, the task may be identified based on user data associated with the user. In some implementations, the task may be associated with additional information related to completing the task. |
| US09483563B2 |
Link management system and process for dynamically updating backlinking and non-backlinking SEO criteria profiles
Some embodiments include a novel link management system and process in which a webmaster of a website responds to a change in a backlink algorithm of a search engine by performing an update operation to each of a set of backlinks that appear on another website and that reference back to the website. In some embodiments, the update operation is a change operation that modifies the backlink on the other website. In some embodiments, the update operation is a delete operation that removes the backlink from the other website. |
| US09483558B2 |
Assessing user performance in a community of users of data storage resources
According to certain aspects, a method of assessing users of a data storage system can include receiving configuration information relating to a deployed configuration of a first data storage cell and including number of installed data storage hardware and/or software components, the first data storage cell comprising a plurality of client computing devices and being configured to create and store one or more secondary copies of primary data generated by the plurality of client computing devices. The method may also include receiving information relating to an incident opened by a user of the first data storage cell. The method may further include updating a performance metric associated with the user to a new value to reflect a negative impact on the performance metric resulting from the opening of the incident by the user, wherein the degree of the negative impact is based at least in part on the configuration information. |
| US09483553B2 |
System and method for identifying related elements with respect to a query in a repository
In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: receiving a query comprising at least one unrecognized element in a repository; mapping the query with a plurality of knowledge references to identify one or more words comprising one or more elements related to the unrecognized element of the query; identifying the relationship of the unrecognized element and the words, wherein the relationship is derived using a parent and sibling relationship; determining, by the one or more hardware processors, a number of occurrences of the one or more elements related to the unrecognized element; assigning, by the one or more hardware processors, a weight to an element from the one or more elements, wherein the one or more elements are related to the unrecognized element based upon the number of occurrences; and determining, by the one or more hardware processors, a relevance of the query using the weight assigned to the element. |
| US09483551B2 |
Methods and systems for technology analysis and mapping
Systems and methods for cladistics-based content searching, analysis, and/or diagrammatic representation of results in graphical user interface format for viewing by at least one user on a computer-type device or network, in particular for technology and patent-related content stored in at least one database. |
| US09483549B2 |
Persisting state at scale across browser sessions
The management of application state storage associated with a hierarchical application. The hierarchical application includes multiple parent user interface elements, each of at least some having child user interface elements arranged in a corresponding hierarchy. The user may navigate through the hierarchical application. For instance, by selecting a child user interface element of a first parent user interface element having a first hierarchy of child user interface elements, the user might navigate to (and potentially also create) a second parent user interface element having a second hierarchy of child user interface elements. A hierarchical storage agent manages the state of the hierarchical application. The hierarchical storage agent provides application state to a remote storage over an application program interface in a manner that preserves at least some of the hierarchy of one or more parent user interface elements of the hierarchical application. |
| US09483543B2 |
Data collecting method and apparatus, and mobile terminal
A data collecting method and apparatus, and a mobile terminal are provided. The data collecting method may be applied in an apparatus including multiple data collecting units. The method includes collecting, by at least two data collecting units, initial data simultaneously at their respective collecting frequencies and at a collection starting moment and collecting, at a synchronous collecting frequency, the initial data collected by the at least two data collecting units so as to obtain synchronous data. The synchronous collecting frequency is a common divisor frequency of the respective collecting frequencies of the at least two data collecting units. |
| US09483538B1 |
Two-way data sharing between disparate data stores
A system for data sharing. The system comprises a ticket management application comprising a link to an asset bridging data structure, where the asset bridging data structure is stored in an asset data store, a ticket data store coupled to the ticket management application and comprising data structures associated with tickets and data structures associated with a current view of asset information stored in the asset data store, an asset management application for managing information about assets, where the asset management application is separate from the ticket management application, the asset data store comprising the asset bridging data structure, a mirrored asset bridging data structure, and data structures comprising asset information, a script that copies changes in the asset bridging data structure to the mirrored asset bridging data structure, and a script that writes attributes in the mirrored bridging data structure into the plurality of data structures comprising asset information. |
| US09483537B1 |
Automatic data warehouse generation using automatically generated schema
Techniques for automatic data warehouse generation are disclosed herein. A first data set is received. The first data set includes a plurality of tables and includes a plurality of keys. A dimensional model is mapped onto the first data set. A schema is automatically generated based on the dimensional model. |
| US09483536B1 |
Search dialogue user interface
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a search dialog user interface. In one aspect, a method includes displaying a search using interface, comprising: a search dialog user interface in which a plurality of search threads are initiated, each search thread comprising a plurality of entries, wherein the entries comprise: one or more query messages, each query message being descriptive of one or more search criteria, one or more result messages, each result message being a message describing criteria for a corresponding search and that is responsive to one or more preceding query messages within the search thread; and a search result display location in which search results corresponding to an active result message are displayed. |
| US09483529B1 |
Selection and presentation of unviewed messages
A method for message selection, including: receiving a request for unviewed messages, the request identifying a context account, ranking the set of unviewed messages according to ranking criteria, where the ranking criteria is used to rank each of the set of unviewed messages based on an engagement history between the context account and an authoring account of the unviewed messages; generating, based on ranking the set of unviewed messages, a result set identifying a subset of the set of unviewed messages, and providing the result set in response to the request. |
| US09483528B1 |
Social ranking metric
The disclosure includes a system and method for calculating social ranking scores for websites. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: process user interaction data describing user social activities associated with a website; classify the user social activities based on a plurality of social activity types associated with the user social activities, the plurality of social activity types including one or more characteristics describing the user social activities; determine candidate user social activities based on the classified user social activities, the candidate user social activities configured to calculate a social ranking score for the website; and calculate the social ranking score for the website based on the candidate user social activities, the social ranking score indicating a social ranking for the website. |
| US09483527B2 |
System and method for decision reasoning
A method for decision reasoning, the method comprising using at least one hardware processor to: provide a database comprising decisions, questions and reasons; receive, from a user, a selection of a decision being part of said decisions; retrieve, from said database, relevant questions out of said questions, wherein said relevant questions are associated, within said database, with said decision received from the user; receive, from the user, answers to at least some of said relevant questions; process said answers so as to retrieve, from said database, one or more relevant reasons out of said reasons; and display said one or more relevant reasons to the user. |
| US09483526B2 |
Automatically subscribing users of an enterprise network to a record
Various implementations are directed to systems, apparatus, computer-implemented methods and storage media for detecting a change in a status of a record and, in response to the detection of the change in status, identifying related users that are currently relevant to the record based on the change in the status. The identified users are subscribed to the record, and as a result, communications generated for the record are distributed to them. In some implementations, currently relevant users are users that have a role in developing, working with or supervising the record in the record's current status, or a role in transitioning the record from its current status to another status. It can be desirable to subscribe currently relevant users because the distribution of communications concerning the record in its current status to these users can benefit an enterprise by virtue of these users knowing the information in the communications. |
| US09483523B2 |
Information processing apparatus, distributed processing system, and distributed processing method
An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives an access request for data from one of a plurality of information processing apparatuses in a distributed processing system in which the information processing apparatuses execute a process in a distributed manner, a query issuing unit that issues, when the access request for the data is received by the receiving unit, a query to each of the information processing apparatuses as to whether the data is stored in a page cache managed by an operating system on each of the information processing apparatuses, and a responding unit that makes a response to the access request, the response specifying, as an access destination, an information processing apparatus that has responded to the query issued by the query issuing unit. |
| US09483521B2 |
Abstraction refinement for scalable type reasoning in ontology-based data repositories
A computer-implemented method for computing a concept materialization of an ontology is presented whereby a compression technique called “ABox abstraction and refinement” is used that may significantly reduce time, memory, and computing resources for reasoning and in particular for computing and outputting the materialization. |
| US09483515B2 |
Managing a table of a database
A method, a system, and a computer program product for managing a database are disclosed. Managing the database includes managing a table of the database, the table having a set of fields including a first field in a first row of the table. Managing the table includes selecting, in the first field, a first input value configured to identify a first dynamic data function utilized to determine a first output value for the first field. Managing the table includes determining the first output value for the first field using the first dynamic data function. Managing the table includes returning (for a read request) the first output value for the first field. |
| US09483512B2 |
Columnar database using virtual file data objects
A plurality of virtual files are instantiated in a columnar database. The columnar database includes a columnar data store that persists tables of data contained therein to the plurality of virtual files. Each virtual file is stored in physical data storage and a portion of the virtual file can be cached transiently in a persistence layer intermediate the columnar data store and the physical data storage. The virtual files each comprise a database object for storing data records. Operation are processed, in the columnar database, using the virtual files such that changes to virtual files resulting from the operations of one transaction are isolated from changes on the same virtual files resulting from the operations of other transactions. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. |
| US09483509B2 |
Dynamic shuffle reconfiguration
A method includes receiving a request to perform a shuffle operation on a data stream, the request including a set of initial key ranges: generating a shuffler configuration that assigns a shuffler from a set of shufflers to each of the initial key ranges; initiating the set of shufflers to perform the shuffle operation on the data stream; analyzing metadata statistics to determine whether a shuffler configuration update event occurs, the metadata statistics produced by the set of shufflers during the shuffle operation and indicating load statistics for each shuffler in the set of shufflers; and upon occurrence of the shuffler configuration update event and during the shuffle operation, altering the shuffler configuration based at least in part on the metadata statistics to produce an assignment of shufflers to key ranges that is different from the assignment of shufflers to the initial key ranges. |
| US09483506B2 |
History preserving data pipeline
A history preserving data pipeline computer system and method. In one aspect, the history preserving data pipeline system provides immutable and versioned datasets. Because datasets are immutable and versioned, the system makes it possible to determine the data in a dataset at a point in time in the past, even if that data is no longer in the current version of the dataset. |
| US09483502B2 |
Computational processing device including request holding units each provided for each type of commands, information processing device including request holding units each provided for each type of commands, and method of controlling information processing device
A computational processing device includes: a computational-processor that outputs access requests to a storage device; a plurality of request-holding-units that respectively hold access requests output by the computational processor according to individual access types, the access types being types of access requests; an arbitration-unit that arbitrates access requests held in the plurality of request holding units; a buffer-unit that includes a plurality of entries that hold data; and a buffer-controller that causes one of the plurality of entries to hold data output by the storage device in response to an access request arbitrated by the arbitration unit, on the basis of a result of comparing, for each access type, a count value that counts, for each access type, the number of entries holding data from among the plurality of entries against a maximum value for the number of entries made to hold data for each access type. |
| US09483501B2 |
Mobile terminal and a method of controlling the mobile terminal
Provided is a mobile terminal including: a camera; and a controller that captures a moving image using the camera, in which wherein in response to a control command that is applied in a state where the moving image is captured using the camera, the controller captures a static image, and after the capturing of the static image is completed, the controller performs processing that associates at least one portion of the captured moving image with the static image in such a manner that information on the at least one portion of the captured moving image is provided along with the captured static image. |
| US09483494B1 |
Opportunistic fragmentation repair
Opportunistic repair of fragmentation in a synthetic backup is disclosed. In various embodiments, data generated to perform processing other than fragmentation repair is received. At least a portion of the received data is used to compute a locality measure with respect to a group of segments comprising a portion of a file. A decision whether to repair fragmentation of segments comprising the group is made based at least in part on the computed locality measure. |
| US09483486B1 |
Data encryption for a segment-based single instance file storage system
Various embodiments of a system and method for backing up a plurality of copies of a file are described. A first copy of the file may be owned by a first user, and a second copy of the file may be owned by a second user. The file is split into a plurality of segments, and each segment is encrypted with a respective segment key. Each encrypted segment is transmitted to and stored on a server computer system. De-duplication techniques are used to ensure that only a single instance of each encrypted segment is stored. The segment keys used to encrypt the file segments are also stored on the server computer system in an encrypted form. De-duplication techniques may be utilized so that only a single instance of the encrypted segment keys is stored. |
| US09483483B2 |
Applying a minimum size bound on content defined segmentation of data
Applying a content defined minimum size bound on blocks produced by content defined segmentation of data by calculating the size of the interval of data between a newly found candidate segmenting position and a last candidate segmenting position of same or higher hierarchy level, and then discarding the newly found candidate segmenting position if a size of an interval of data is lower than the minimum size bound, or retaining the newly found candidate segmenting position if the size of the interval of data is not lower than the minimum size bound or if there is no last candidate segmenting position of a same or higher hierarchy level as the newly found candidate segmenting position. When a last candidate segmenting position of a same or higher hierarchy level becomes available, the evaluation is reiterated to converge edge segmenting positions of the outputs of consecutive calculation units. |
| US09483475B2 |
Content recommendation method
A content recommendation method for use in a portable electronic device is provided. The method includes the steps of fetching current context information from the portable electronic device; calculating a relevant ranking value of each item within each type of media files stored in the portable electronic device based on the context information; sorting the relevant ranking value of each item within each type of the media files; highlighting at least one of the items of a first user interface of the portable electronic device according to the sorted ranking values. |
| US09483469B1 |
Techniques for optimizing disk access
Techniques for optimizing disk access are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a system for optimizing disk access comprising a module for reading files in a filesystem, the files comprising one or more file fragments, a module for determining a relative location of the one or more file fragments on a disk, a module for sorting an index of the one or more file fragments on the disk in one or more fragment tables according to the relative location of the one or more file fragments on the disk, a module for reading the one or more file fragments from the disk, a module for assembling one or more of the files from the one or more file fragments. |
| US09483467B2 |
Tagging geographical areas
A method of tagging a geographical area includes obtaining, with a processing device, attribute information and mobile tracking data of a plurality of mobile objects, wherein the mobile tracking data comprises sampling time and corresponding sampling point locations of the mobile objects; converting the mobile tracking data of the plurality of mobile objects into new mobile tracking data according to the correspondence relationship between the sampling time and a time slices, wherein the new mobile tracking data include time slices and corresponding sampling point locations; and obtaining a set of attribute information of at least one geographical area with respect to the time slices based on the new mobile tracking data, wherein the at least one geographical area is obtained by clustering the sampling point locations. |
| US09483460B2 |
Automated formation of specialized dictionaries
A document analysis system analyzes a corpus of documents and automatically generates a dictionary of specialized phrases not already in conventional dictionaries. The dictionary generation process involves a series of operations on the phrases to identify the phrases most suitable for inclusion in a dictionary, such as phrase scoring and phrase clustering. The dictionary generation process also comprises the identification of one or more corresponding definitions for the various phrases identified for inclusion in the specialized dictionary. |
| US09483459B1 |
Natural language correction for speech input
A system is configured to receive a first string corresponding to an interpretation of a natural-language user voice entry; provide a representation of the first string as feedback to the natural-language user voice entry; receive, based on the feedback, a second string corresponding to a natural-language corrective user entry, where the natural-language corrective user entry may correspond to a correction to the natural-language user voice entry; parse the second string into one or more tokens; determine at least one corrective instruction from the one or more tokens of the second string; generate, from at least a portion of each of the first and second strings and based on the at least one corrective instruction, candidate corrected user entries; select a corrected user entry from the candidate corrected user entries; and output the selected, corrected user entry. |
| US09483455B1 |
Ingestion planning for complex tables
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for generating a plan for document processing. A plurality of electronic documents are received from a data store. The plurality of electronic documents are analyzed. Textual data within the identified tabular data are identified, by performing a first natural language search of the analyzed plurality of electronic documents. Textual hints are generated, where the generated textual hints are mapped to a lookup set. References are identified, and a count of identified references are determined. A priority score is calculating based on the count of identified references. In response to receiving a priority score modifying value, a modified priority score is calculated. Ingestion plans are generated based on the modified priority score. Generated ingestion plans are communicated by the computer using the network. |
| US09483450B2 |
Method and apparatus for extracting localizable content from an article
A computer implemented method and apparatus for extracting localizable content from an article. The method comprises accessing a page content tree comprising a plurality of nodes; generating a set of all properties for each node in the plurality of nodes of the page content tree; accessing a localization tree comprising a global set of localizable properties of nodes; generating a set of localizable properties from the localization tree for nodes that match nodes of the page content tree; performing an intersection of the set of all properties for each node of the page content tree and the set of localizable properties; and extracting a value for each property in the intersection. |
| US09483446B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium
An information processing apparatus includes an extraction unit configured to scan document data in a direction from a first page to a last page to extract a first page range required for reducing one page and to scan the document data from the last page in the first page range in a direction opposite to the direction of scanning the first page range to extract a second page range required for reducing one page, and a page reduction unit configured to execute page reduction processing by reducing a blank region included in a page in the second page range if a number of pages included in the second page range is smaller than a number of pages included in the first page range. |
| US09483439B2 |
Picoengine multi-processor with power control management
A general purpose PicoEngine Multi-Processor (PEMP) includes a hierarchically organized pool of small specialized picoengine processors and associated memories. A stream of data input values is received onto the PEMP. Each input data value is characterized, and from the characterization a task is determined. Picoengines are selected in a sequence. When the next picoengine in the sequence is available, it is then given the input data value along with an associated task assignment. The picoengine then performs the task. An output picoengine selector selects picoengines in the same sequence. If the next picoengine indicates that it has completed its assigned task, then the output value from the selected picoengine is output from the PEMP. By changing the sequence used, more or less of the processing power and memory resources of the pool is brought to bear on the incoming data stream. The PEMP automatically disables unused picoengines and memories. |
| US09483437B2 |
Addressing multi-core advanced memory buffers
In some embodiments a method of addressing advanced memory buffers identifies whether a dual inline memory module includes more than one advanced memory buffer. If the dual inline memory module includes more than one advanced memory buffer, then each of the advanced memory buffers of the dual inline memory module is addressed separately, and an address is computed for a next dual inline memory module. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US09483436B2 |
PCI function measurement block enhancements
Embodiments relate to an enhancement of a function measurement block. An aspect includes obtaining common statistics from a function table. An aspect includes obtaining adapter-specific statistics from an adapter. An aspect includes providing the common statistics and the adapter-specific statistics in the function measurement block. An aspect includes providing adapter-specific counters in the function measurement block. |
| US09483434B2 |
Wireless communication device and method for manufacturing wireless communication device
The present invention provides a wireless communication device and a method for manufacturing a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device includes: an antenna; a main board, including a ground part, where the ground part is connected to the antenna; at least one matching network, connected to the ground part; a USB connector, including a shell and at least one first pin extending from the shell, where the at least one first pin is connected to the at least one matching network, and at least one first pin is one-to-one corresponding to at least one matching network. According to the present invention, a matching network may be connected between a pin of the USB connector of the wireless communication device and the ground part of the main board, and is configured to control wireless performance of an antenna radiation system of the wireless communication device. |
| US09483427B2 |
Data storage apparatus
A data storage apparatus includes a controller including a controller input/output unit suitable for receiving a ready/busy delay signal and generating a ready/busy output signal in response to a first control signal, and a memory chip including a memory input/output unit suitable for receiving a chip enable delay signal and generating a chip enable output signal in response to a second control signal. The ready/busy delay signal and the chip enable delay signal are transmitted through a substantially same transmission line. |
| US09483424B1 |
Peripheral component interconnect express (PCIE) pseudo-virtual channels and non-blocking writes
Embodiments of the present disclosure use non-blocking writes (NBWs) to send high priority information (e.g., cache writebacks) on a designated channel that is separate from a channel used for other commands (e.g., normal memory write commands). By using NBWs and a designated channel to send cache writebacks, the cache writebacks will not be blocked by normal memory write commands. For example, an endpoint device may indicate that a TLP includes an NBW. Based on the indication, the root complex may send the NBWs on a dedicated NBW channel such that the NBW is not blocked by normal memory writes. |
| US09483422B2 |
Access to memory region including confidential information
Embodiments herein relate to accessing a memory region including confidential information. A memory request from a process may be received. The memory request may include a process ID (PID) of the process, a requested memory address, and a requested access type. The memory request may be compared to a permission set associated with a memory region including the confidential information. Access to the memory region by the process may be controlled based on the comparison. |
| US09483415B2 |
Method and apparatus for managing memory
An apparatus for managing a memory including a working region and a compression region is provided. The working region stores uncompressed data. The apparatus includes a management module and a compression/decompression module. According to a recent used index and a compression ratio of a set of target data stored in the working region, the management module determines whether to transfer the target data to the compression region. When the management module determines to transfer the target data to the compression region, the compression/decompression module compresses the target data and transfers the compressed target data to the compression region. |
| US09483414B2 |
Ordered memory pages transmission in virtual machine live migration
Systems and methods for virtual machine live migration. An example method may comprise: identifying, by a first computer system executing a virtual machine undergoing live migration to a second computer system, a plurality of stable memory pages comprised by an execution state of the virtual machine, wherein the plurality of stable memory pages comprises memory pages that have not been modified within a defined period of time; transmitting the plurality of stable memory pages to the second computer system; determining that an amount of memory comprised by a plurality of unstable memory pages is below a threshold value, wherein the plurality of unstable memory pages comprises memory pages that have been modified within the defined period of time; and transmitting the plurality of unstable memory pages to the second computer system. |
| US09483410B1 |
Utilization based multi-buffer dynamic adjustment management
Provided are techniques for utilization based multi-buffer dynamic adjustment management. A sub-buffer is assigned to each entity of multiple entities. A percentage utilization is determined for each entity. Based on the percentage utilization, for each sub-buffer assigned to each entity, one of one of allocating at least one random data segment from a free list of data segments and removing at least one data segment to change a size of the sub-buffer is performed. |
| US09483408B1 |
Deferred metadata initialization
Various embodiments for initializing metadata in a computing storage environment by a processor. A Release Generation Number (RGN) is associated with a volume, and an RGN is associated with a metadata track. Upon a release of storage space in the volume, the RGN associated with the volume is incremented. Upon an initialization of the metadata track, the RGN associated with the metadata track is updated to be consistent in generation with the RGN associated with the volume. Upon an access of the metadata track, the RGN of the metadata track is compared against the RGN of the volume, and the metadata track is initialized if a match is not found. |
| US09483404B2 |
Write admittance policy for a memory cache
A method includes monitoring a number of read access requests to an address for data stored on a backing store. The method also includes comparing the number of read access requests to a read access threshold. The read access threshold includes a threshold number of read access requests for the address. The method also includes caching data corresponding to a write access request to the address in response to determining that the number of read access requests satisfies the read access threshold. |
| US09483403B2 |
Techniques for preserving an invalid global domain indication when installing a shared cache line in a cache
A technique for operating a memory system for a node includes interrogating, by a cache, an associated cache directory to determine whether a shared cache line to be installed in the cache is associated with an invalid global state in the cache. The invalid global state specifies that a version of the shared cache line has been intervened off-node. In response to the shared cache line being in the invalid global state the cache spawns a castout invalid global command for the shared cache line. The shared cache line is installed in the cache. A coherence state for the shared cache line is updated in the associated cache directory to indicate the shared cache line is shared. |
| US09483401B2 |
Data processing method and apparatus
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a data processing method and apparatus. The method includes: first receiving an operation command, then searching, according to a memory address, a Cache memory in a Cache controller for data to be operated, and storing the operation command in a missed command buffer area in the Cache controller when the data to be operated is not found through searching in the Cache memory; then, storing data sent by an external memory in a data buffer area of the Cache controller after sending a read command to the external memory, and finally processing, according to a missed command, the data acquired from the external memory and the data carried in the missed command. The present invention applies to the field of computer systems. |
| US09483400B2 |
Multiplexed memory for segments and pages
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for paging to a direct segment maintained by a multiplexed TLB. The multiplexed TLB defines a direct segment to directly map a virtual address range to a physical address range, which increases the reach of the multiplexed TLB. A partition code is maintained in the multiplexed TLB to indicate usage of the direct segment by an associated process. A management process, such as a system pager, uses the unused part of the direct segment for storing paged data. As the process continues to use more of the direct segment, paged data stored in the previously unused part of the direct segment can be evicted from memory or moved elsewhere in memory so that the process can continue to use the direct segment. |
| US09483398B2 |
Partitioning data for storage in a dispersed storage network
A method begins by a processing module receiving data for storage and determining whether to partition the data in accordance with a data partitioning dispersed storage scheme. When the data is to be partitioned, the method continues with the processing module partitioning the data into a local data portion and a remaining data portion in accordance with the data partitioning dispersed storage scheme, dispersed storage encoding the local data portion to produce a plurality of local encoded data elements in accordance with dispersed storage encoding parameters, sending the plurality of local encoded data elements to an associated dispersed storage network (DSN) memory for storage therein, and sending the remaining data portion to another DS module. |
| US09483392B1 |
Resource-constrained test automation
Automating testing of a software product under system resource constraints. One or more SQAs are received and, for each SQA, a confidence level and an importance are received. For one or more system resources, an amount of each system resource available for testing is received. Each amount of system resource available for testing is apportioned to the SQAs, based on the confidence level and the importance of each SQA. Each test in a set of tests is prioritized, based on the number of SQAs associated with the test and any previous results of the test. For each SQA, a subset of the set of tests is selected, based on the test priorities, an expected consumption of system resources by each test, and the apportionment of the system resources to the SQA; the selected subset of tests is executed; and the test results for the selected subset of tests is updated. |
| US09483378B2 |
Method and system for resource monitoring of large-scale, orchestrated, multi process job execution environments
A system and method for monitoring the process resource consumption of massive parallel job executions is disclosed. The system uses byte code instrumentation to place sensors in methods that receive job execution requests. Those sensors detect start and end of job executions by the process they are deployed to and extract identification data from detected job execution requests that allow the monitor to identify the job request. This job identification data is used to tag resource utilization measures, which allows the monitor to assign measured resource consumptions to specific job executions. The job identification data that identifies the job execution that triggered the transaction is also used to tag transaction tracing data. The generated job specific measures and transaction traces may be used to identify resource intensive job executions and to identify the root cause of the resource consumption. |
| US09483377B2 |
Apparatus and method for enabling a user to monitor skew of resource usage across different components of a large database system
A method and apparatus are provided for facilitating performance monitoring of a large database system. The apparatus comprises a processor and a storage device communicatively coupled with the processor. The processor is programmed to (i) retrieve resource usage data points, (ii) calculate an outlier threshold value based upon values of data points, and (iii) determine if the value of each data point is outside of the threshold value. The processor is further programmed to (iv) plot the value of the data point in histogram with a first color when the data point value is determined to be outside of the threshold value, (v) plot the data point value in histogram with a second color when the data point value is determined to be not outside of the threshold value, and (vi) display the histogram containing plotted data point values of the first color and plotted data point values of the second color to enable a user to quickly and easily identify a potential skew condition. |
| US09483373B2 |
Debug configuration tool with layered graphical user interface
A debug configuration tool for configuration of on-chip debug features comprises a database comprising predefined analysis points, each relating to a configurable chip entity, and comprising a configurable condition and a configurable action for the chip entity, a plurality of predefined analysis groups, each relating to a group of configurable chip entities, and comprising a configurable condition and a configurable action for the group of chip entities. The tool comprises a graphical user interface module arranged to display representations of at least some of the analysis points and the analysis groups on different levels of detail, and to receive input from a user to set the configurable conditions and/or actions for the displayed analysis points and the analysis groups. An application program interface module processes data received from the graphical user interface module to obtain debug settings and to communicate the debug settings to a debug target system configuration module. |
| US09483362B2 |
Use of auxiliary data protection software in failover operations
According to certain aspects, an information management cell can include at least one secondary storage computing device configured to conduct primary data generated by at least one client computing device to a secondary storage device(s) as part of secondary copy operations, wherein the secondary storage computing device normally operates to conduct primary data to the secondary storage device(s) for storage as a secondary copy in a first secondary copy file format, at the direction of a main storage manager; and can include a failover storage manager configured to activate in response to loss of connectivity between the cell and the main storage manager, and instruct a secondary copy application to perform a secondary copy operation in which the primary data generated by the at least one client computing device is stored as a secondary copy in a second secondary copy file format different than the first secondary copy file format. |
| US09483360B1 |
Guest-driven virtual machine backups
A system and methods are disclosed for performing virtual machine (VM) backups. In accordance with one embodiment, a hypervisor executed by a processing device suspends execution of a VM and initiates a backup procedure to save a current state of the VM. The hypervisor reads a value of a flag that is written to by the VM and is stored in a portion of memory accessible by the VM and the hypervisor. In response to determining that the value read by the hypervisor equals a first value, the hypervisor resumes execution of the VM prior to receiving a status message regarding the backup procedure. In response to determining that the value read by the hypervisor equals a second value, the hypervisor waits to resume execution of the VM until the hypervisor has received a status message indicating that the backup procedure was successful. |
| US09483359B2 |
Systems and methods for on-line backup and disaster recovery with local copy
Systems and methods are disclosed for rapidly restoring client data set for a computer by storing the client data and one or more pat sets required to revert to one or more version of the client data on a remote server; storing a local copy of the replicated client data on a local data storage device coupled to the computer; receiving a request to revert to a predetermined version of the client data; using the local copy as a seed, receiving a patch set corresponding to a predetermined version; and updating the local copy using the patch set to generated the predetermined version. |
| US09483354B1 |
Techniques for providing data management using a backup data bank system
Techniques for providing data management using a backup data bank system are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for providing data management using a backup data bank system comprising: storing, on the backup data bank system, a data directory associated with a user, receiving, from a computing resource system, a new entry for the data directory, wherein the new entry is associated with first data belonging to the user that is stored on the computing resource system, and applying, using the backup data bank system, a protection scheme to second data associated with the data directory. |
| US09483353B2 |
Terminal device for database operations
Provided in one embodiment of the present invention is a computer system including a database server and a terminal device for communicating with the database server; the said database server retaining a database; and the terminal device including: an interface for receiving data, which is stored in the database retained in the database server, via a communication network; a buffer for storing the data received by the interface in order to display the data in a window which is to be displayed on a display device; and a controller for starting saving the data, which is stored into the buffer, in a file at a time interval, with the window being displayed on the display device being as a trigger. |
| US09483351B2 |
Communication device and communication method
A communication device includes: a first communication section, a second communication section, a storage section, a determination section, and a control section. The first communication section communicates with a storage device based on predefined interface communication standards to perform data transfer. The second communication section communicates with an external device in a method other than the interface communication standards to perform data transmission. The storage section stores the selected error code that is previously defined to cause a bit error by noise. The determination section determines whether or not an error code indicated by the error information agrees with the selected error code. The control section, upon determination by the determination section that the error codes agrees with each other, gives the first communication section and the second communication section instructions for cancelling the data transfer and performing data re-transfer. |
| US09483348B2 |
Memory module, memory system having the same, and methods of reading therefrom and writing thereto
A method of reading from a memory module which includes a plurality of memories is provided. The method includes reading data corresponding to a plurality of burst length units from the plurality of memories; correcting an error of the read data using a storage error correction code; and outputting the error corrected data by a unit of data corresponding to one burst length unit. |
| US09483345B2 |
Data processing method and apparatus for processing a plurality of received copies of the same original data
A method for processing a plurality of received copies of the same original data, the method comprising performing maximum ratio combining on equivalent data portions of the received copies to derive at least one further equivalent data portion. The received and the constructed copies are then divided into sub-portions and combinations of divided sub-portions are assembled to provide reconstructed data portions. An error rate assessment is performed on the reconstructed data portions; and on this basis one is selected as an output. |
| US09483337B2 |
Storing data in a dispersed storage network
A method begins by creating a vault as a virtual memory block within memory of a dispersed storage network (DSN). A segment of data is encoded into a set of encoded data slices and stored in the vault. The method continues by dividing the virtual memory block into a set of vault regions. The method continues by determining, for each vault region of the set of vault regions, vault parameters to produce a set of vault parameters. Vault parameters include a decode threshold number of encoded data slices and a total number of encoded data slices for encoding the segment of data. The method continues by facilitating data access to the vault in accordance with the set of vault parameters. |
| US09483327B2 |
Mechanism for interposing on operating system calls
A method for interposing on operating system calls in a host is provided. The method includes patching an operating system kernel function, the patching comprising adding a first pointer that invokes an agent function, the patching performed by an agent. The method includes executing the agent function, responsive to a system call stub calling the operating system kernel function, which invokes the agent function via the first pointer, wherein at least one action of the method is performed by a processor of a host having an operating system. |
| US09483325B2 |
Synchronizing timestamp counters
A technique includes writing a first count value associated with a first timestamp counter to a first memory local to the first timestamp counter. The technique includes writing a second count value associated with a second timestamp counter to a second memory local to the second timestamp counter. The timestamp counters are synchronized based at least in part on the first and second count values. |
| US09483324B2 |
Program conversion device and method, process switching method, method of determining execution scheme and program storage medium therefor, processor system, and parallel execution scheme
Provided is to a program conversion device which can use processor resources of a system to the utmost and enhance performance ability. The program conversion device includes: specific process determining unit which determines a range of a partial program to perform a specific process in a target program which includes a first execution scheme specifying program which can be executed in parallel with a first ratio of being a usage ratio of a first usage quantity with respect to a first resource of a first processor and a second usage quantity with respect to a second resource of a second processor; and process converting unit which converts the partial program into a second execution scheme specifying program which can be executed in parallel with a second ratio of being the usage ratio different from the first ratio. |
| US09483320B2 |
Computing apparatus, method of controlling computing apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium having program for controlling computing apparatus stored therein to move processes to a same processor core for execution
A computing apparatus for optimizing process wait time, including a plurality of computing units, is disclosed. When there is any process having a maximum wait time, among processes that have been queued, which has the wait time exceeding a predetermined value, and when processes in a particular process type among different process types, are being executed or have been queued in all of the computing units, all processes in that particular process type, are executed on at least one of the computing units, based on a list of all of processes. A method of controlling a computing apparatus and a computer-readable storage medium are also disclosed. |
| US09483308B2 |
Performance of predicted actions
Embodiments of techniques and systems for performance of predicted actions are described. In embodiments, a predicted action performance engine (“PAE”) may receive one or probabilities of potential actions that may be performed on a computing device. The PAE may also receive a system context for the computing device describing available resources on the computing device, workload, etc. Based on these probabilities and the system context, the PAE may determine one or more predicted actions and/or resource utilizations which are likely to occur and which may be performed ahead of time. The PAE may then facilitate performance of these actions and/or resource utilizations. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. |
| US09483297B2 |
Intelligent detection of inconsistent advanced configuration and power interface (ACPI) table instances in virtualized systems
A system and methods are disclosed for detecting inconsistent instances of a system table in a virtualized computer system. In accordance with one embodiment, a processing device decompiles a first binary representing a first instance of a system table, to obtain a first string of symbols. The processing device also decompiles a second binary representing a second instance of the system table that is associated with guest firmware of a first virtual machine, to obtain a second string of symbols. When there is a difference between the first string of symbols and the second string of symbols and the difference is unrelated to a compiler version and a temporary variable name, a signal indicating an inconsistency between the first instance and the second instance is generated. |
| US09483296B2 |
Method and system for building and distributing application profiles via the internet
A method for collecting transcripts each storing an order in which portions of an application file were accessed by the file when the file was executed on one of a plurality of computing devices. The method includes receiving requests to download the file from directing processes each executing on a different one of the computing devices, and in response to those requests, downloading the file to the computing devices and instructing the directing processes to profile usage of the file. Then, transcripts created by the directing processes are received therefrom. A streaming model may be created based on the transcripts received. The file may be divided into a plurality of smaller files based on the streaming model. The streaming model may be used to download the file by downloading at least a portion of the smaller files using a conventional download protocol without using a specialized streaming protocol. |
| US09483294B2 |
Deferring the cost of virtual storage
In one embodiment, a virtual storage system 200 may represent a file data set differently based on the activity being performed. The virtual storage system 200 may execute a runtime activity on a runtime format file 214 representing a file data set 212 on a virtual execution layer 220. The virtual storage system 200 may execute an interchange activity on an interchange format file 230 representing the file data set 232. |
| US09483289B2 |
Operating system in a commodity-based computing system
Disclosed herein is a commodity infrastructure operating system that manages and implements the resources and services found in the heterogeneous components of the common infrastructure. The infrastructure operating system managing one or more services residing within an operating system image of a partition. The infrastructure operating system capable of providing a service of a first partition's operating system to a second partition's operating system when the second partition is in need of the service. |
| US09483288B2 |
Method and system for running a virtual appliance
A method, system, and/or computer program product runs a virtual appliance in a distributed computing system. One or more predefined parameters, indicative of respective operating characteristics of the virtual appliance while running, are monitored. Time dependent values of the one or more predefined parameters are collected during the monitoring time period. For each of the one or more predefined parameters, a metric value from the time-dependent values of the parameter is derived. The metric values are evaluated, based on the constraints. In response to a determination that at least one metric value is violating at least part of the constraints, a second set of resources is allocated to the virtual appliance and a second set of virtual machines are determined for deploying the virtual appliance, in order to satisfy the constraints. |
| US09483286B2 |
Distributed network services
Providing a distributed network service includes: receiving network traffic at a first physical device; and executing a service engine to participate in the distributed network service. The distributed network service is provided to at least the first target application instance executing in a first VM on the first physical device, and a second target application instance executing in a second VM on a second physical device; and a shared state of the distributed network service is maintained with respect to the first physical device and the second physical device. |
| US09483285B2 |
Systems and methods of optimizing resources for emulation
Methods and systems for providing an emulation session to emulate a computer product for a host device. A method and system involve providing a communication link between the host device and an emulation bridge module provided on an emulation server separate from the host device; providing a host resource library file including a list of the plurality of resources available on the host device to the emulation bridge module; operating the emulation bridge module to determine emulation session resources required to provide the emulation session; selecting at least one of the host device and the emulation server for providing each required emulation session resource in the emulation session resources required to provide the emulation session; and providing the emulation session using the required emulation session resources provided by at least one of the host device and the emulation server. |
| US09483284B2 |
Version compatibility determination
A version compatibility method may identify an interface provided by a first version of an operating system and identify an interface provided by a second version of the operating system. A monitoring module generates difference information between the first version and the second version of the operating system. A compatibility module on a host machine determines, using the difference information, whether a computer application program running on the host machine can resolve an interface dependency if an operating system running on the host machine is changed from the first version to the second version. |
| US09483283B1 |
Enhanced code callback
Implementations are disclosed herein for enhancing swizzling technology. In at least one implementation, functions are hooked by modifying their machine code implementations to jump to a central callback function. The central callback function may then route to other target functions that serve to replace the hooked functions. In another implementation, the machine code implementations are modified to jump to intermediate functions. The intermediate functions invoke dispatch functions that can call into a central callback function. The central callback function may return to the hooked functions. |
| US09483276B2 |
Management of shared transactional resources
Embodiments relate to management of shared transactional resources. A system includes a transactional facility configured to support transactions that effectively delay committing stores to memory or results to an architectural state until transaction completion. The system includes a processor configured to perform an allocation or arbitration of processing resources to instructions of a transaction within a thread. The processor detects that the transaction has exceeded a manageable capacity of a resource or a potential collision of a transactional instruction storage access has occurred, resulting in a transaction abort. A transaction abort reason and a current configuration are examined to determine whether the transaction abort was based on an initiating program exceeding a restricted limit on the manageable capacity of the resource or an allocation. A processor state is updated to increase a likelihood of success upon retrying the transaction. |
| US09483274B1 |
Method of splitting register live ranges
A computer program product for splitting live register ranges includes a computer readable storage medium and program instructions stored on the computer readable storage medium, the program instructions include instructions for identifying one or more H pathways comprising one or more H nodes having high register pressure using a backwards data flow in the graph, identifying an L pathway consisting of two or more L nodes using a depth first search, and inserting register splitting instructions for each symbolic register that is live in both the one or more H pathways and the L pathway. The register splitting instructions are inserted at a starting node of the one or more H pathways. Register merging instructions are inserted at an ending node of the one or more H pathways. |
| US09483270B2 |
Distributed tiled caching
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a graphics subsystem configured to implement distributed tiled caching. The graphics subsystem includes one or more world-space pipelines, one or more screen-space pipelines, one or more tiling units, and a crossbar unit. Each world-space pipeline is implemented in a different processing entity and is coupled to a different tiling unit. Each screen-space pipeline is implemented in a different processing entity and is coupled to the crossbar unit. The tiling units are configured to receive primitives from the world-space pipelines, generate cache tile batches based on the primitives, and transmit the primitives to the screen-space pipelines. One advantage of the disclosed approach is that primitives are processed in application-programming-interface order in a highly parallel tiling architecture. Another advantage is that primitives are processed in cache tile order, which reduces memory bandwidth consumption and improves cache memory utilization. |
| US09483263B2 |
Uncore microcode ROM
A microprocessor includes a plurality of processing cores each comprises a corresponding memory physically located inside the core and readable by the core but not readable by the other cores (“core memory”). The microprocessor also includes a memory physically located outside all of the cores and readable by all of the cores (“uncore memory”). For each core, the uncore memory and corresponding core memory collectively provide M words of storage for microcode instructions fetchable by the core as follows: the uncore memory provides J of the M words of microcode instruction storage, and the corresponding core memory provides K of the M words of microcode instruction storage. J, K and M are counting numbers, and M=J+K. The memories are non-architecturally-visible and accessed using a fetch address provided by a non-architectural program counter, and the microcode instructions are non-architectural instructions that implement architectural instructions. |
| US09483261B2 |
Software documentation generation with automated sample inclusion
Automated creation of augmented documentation fragments that are augmented with usage examples. A plurality of documentation fragments is stored, where each documentation fragment documents a software element and has at least one associated property. A corresponding source code software fragment that corresponds to at least one associated property of at least one software element is identified based on an automated software analysis process of source code within a source code repository and further based on a list of properties comprising each associated property of each software element within the plurality of software elements. An augmented documentation fragment that includes a selected documentation fragment and the at least one corresponding source code software fragment corresponding to at least one associated property of the selected documentation fragment is created in response to the identifying. |
| US09483258B1 |
Multi-site provisioning of resources to software offerings using infrastructure slices
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the deployment and execution of a software offering. During operation, the system obtains a set of requirements associated with a service definition of the software offering. Next, the system uses the requirements to automatically provision a set of infrastructure slices for use by the software offering without requiring manual configuration of the resources by a user, wherein each of the infrastructure slices includes a set of resources configured to support a workload associated with the software offering. |
| US09483253B1 |
Methods for customization of default applications on a mobile communication device
A method of provisioning a dynamically customized default application installation to a user equipment (UE). The method comprises detecting that a Mobile Directory Number (MDN) is being assigned to a UE, and querying, in response to the detecting, at least one data store to identify demographic data and usage data associated with a subscriber account to which the MDN has been assigned. The method further comprises identifying areas of subscriber interest based on an analysis of the demographic data and usage data, ranking at least one application according to priority of inclusion in a customized interface pack, assembling the customized interface pack, wherein assembling the customized interface pack comprises including one or more applications in the customized interface pack based on priority of inclusion, and sending the customized interface pack to the UE, wherein the customized interface pack is installed on the UE. |
| US09483246B2 |
Automated modular and secure boot firmware update
A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for an automated modular and secure boot firmware update. An updated boot firmware code module is received in a secure partition of a system, the updated boot firmware code module to replace one original boot firmware code module for the system. Only the one original boot firmware code module is automatically replaced with the updated boot firmware code module. The updated boot firmware code module is automatically executed with the plurality of boot firmware code modules for the system and without user intervention when the system is next booted. The updated boot firmware code module may be written to an update partition of a firmware volume, wherein the update partition of the firmware volume is read along with another partition of the firmware volume containing the plurality of boot firmware code modules when the system is booted. |
| US09483236B2 |
Efficiently representing complex score models
Data is received that characterizes a score model. Thereafter, the score model is normalized by transforming it into a directed acyclic graph. The directed acyclic graph is then transformed into a structured rules language program. The structured rules language program is then transformed into a program using a concurrent, class-based, object-oriented computer programming language (e.g., JAVA, C, COBOL, etc.). Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. |
| US09483235B2 |
Method and system for separate compilation of device code embedded in host code
Embodiments of the present invention provide a novel solution that supports the separate compilation of host code and device code used within a heterogeneous programming environment. Embodiments of the present invention are operable to link device code embedded within multiple host object files using a separate device linking operation. Embodiments of the present invention may extract device code from their respective host object files and then linked them together to form linked device code. This linked device code may then be embedded back into a host object generated by embodiments of the present invention which may then be passed to a host linker to form a host executable file. As such, device code may be split into multiple files and then linked together to form a final executable file by embodiments of the present invention. |
| US09483234B2 |
Requirements contradiction detection system, requirements contradiction detection method, and requirements contradiction detection program
To determine a contradiction between requirements and specifications in a specification document for system/software development without labor for preparation in advance, provided is a requirements contradiction detection system, including: a relevancy detection part for detecting, for two requirements expressed in texts, a relevancy between the two requirements based on a similarity between one requirement acquired by converting one of the texts based on a predetermined contradiction rule and another requirement that is not converted; and a contradiction detection part for detecting whether or not the two requirements contradict each other based on a detection result of the relevancy detection part, the similarity calculated by the relevancy detection part, and a similarity between the two original requirements before conversion. |
| US09483233B2 |
Methods and apparatus for matrix decompositions in programmable logic devices
A processor is adapted for performing a QR-decomposition. The processor has a program memory, a program controller, connected to the program memory to receive program instructions, and at least one processing unit. The processing unit includes a CORDIC calculation block, and has a distributed memory structure, with separate memory blocks for storing respective parameter values. |
| US09483232B2 |
Data processing apparatus and method for multiplying floating point operands
A data processing apparatus and method are provided for multiplying first and second normalized floating point operands in order to generate a result, each normalized floating point operand comprising a significand and an exponent. Exponent determination circuitry is used to compute a result exponent for a normalized version of the result, and rounding value generation circuitry then generates a rounding value by shifting a rounding constant in a first direction by a shift amount that is dependent on the result exponent. Partial product generation circuitry multiplies the significands of the first and second normalized floating point operands to generate the first and second partial products, and the first and second partial products are then added together, along with the rounding value, in order to generate a normalized result significand. Thereafter, the normalized result significand is shifted in a second direction opposite to the first direction, by the shift amount, in order to generate a rounded result significand. This provides a particularly efficient mechanism for multiplying floating point numbers, while correctly rounding the result in situations where the result is subnormal. |
| US09483231B2 |
Signal processing device and method
The present invention relates to a signal processing device and method. The device receives, from a sensor which measures a physical quantity applied thereto and outputs an accumulated or integrated value of the physical quantity as an M-bit digital value, the digital value, and, when a difference between the physical quantities at two successive data acquisition times lies within a predetermined range and an absolute value of a digital counter increment is greater than 2M-1, calculate the digital counter increment as the physical quantity measured by the sensor. |
| US09483229B2 |
Audio apparatus for portable devices
An audio apparatus for a portable device is provided. The portable device includes computing hardware coupled to associated data memory, which stores one or more audio or computer program products that include a plurality of audio libraries. The audio apparatus is operable to execute the audio products upon the computing hardware, whereby the audio products are operable to call the audio libraries to generate digital audio data. The digital audio data so generated is provided to sound-generating hardware, which is then operable to generate acoustic audio signals corresponding to the digital audio data. The audio apparatus is operable to host one or more replacement audio products, which are storable in the data memory. The audio apparatus is operable to invoke the replacement audio products as an alternative to the audio products for generating the digital audio data. The replacement audio products are operable to provide a functionality of capturing the digital audio data while substantially generating the acoustic audio signals. |
| US09483226B2 |
System and method of sharing object based on knocking input
A system and method of sharing an object based on a knocking input are provided. The method includes detecting a knocking input on sharing device, determining at least one object displayed on a screen of the sharing device based on the knocking input, and determining at least one counterpart device to share at least one object with, and sharing the at least one object with the at least one counterpart device, wherein the at least one object displayed on the screen of the sharing device is also displayed on a screen of the at least one counterpart device after being synchronized. |
| US09483222B2 |
POS system, data processing device, and control method of a POS system
A POS system comprises a printer and a network-connected data processor. The printer stores identification information and prints a receipt based on print data including transaction information. A transmission unit of the printer transmits over the network the print data and identification information to the data processor. The data processor stores relation information linking layout information for the printed receipt to the received identification information, and acquires the layout information related to the identification information based on the stored relation information, and based on the acquired layout information, analyze the print data. |
| US09483221B2 |
Information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium for on-demand printing
An information processing apparatus generates, in a case where first component data and second component data for forming a product are received, one composite job based on the first component data and the second component data, a first component job based on the first component data, and a second component job based on the second component data. |
| US09483214B2 |
Information processing apparatus, cooperation system and computer readable medium
An information processing apparatus configured to control a cooperation operation that is to be executed by a first apparatus and a second apparatus, executes: reception processing of receiving the target data from the first apparatus; first determination processing of determining whether the information processing apparatus can communicating with the second apparatus; storing control processing of storing the received target data in a storage unit when it is determined in the first determination processing that the communication unit is in a non-communicable state with the second apparatus; second determination processing of determining whether the information processing apparatus cannot communicate with the second apparatus, after executing the storing control processing; and transmission processing of wirelessly transmitting the target data stored in the storage unit to the second apparatus through the communication unit when the information processing apparatus can communicate with the second apparatus. |
| US09483210B2 |
Flash storage controller execute loop
A storage controller is provided that contains multiple processors. In some embodiments, the storage controller is coupled to a flash memory module having multiple flash memory groups, each flash memory group corresponding to a distinct flash port in the storage controller, each flash port comprising an associated processor. Each processor handles a portion of one or more host commands, including reads and writes, allowing multiple parallel pipelines to handle one or more host commands simultaneously. |
| US09483208B2 |
System and method of digital content manipulation
A data storage apparatus includes a primary storage device and a secondary storage device. The primary storage device includes a first non-volatile memory to store a content item. The secondary storage device includes a second non-volatile memory to store a command received from a first content appliance. The command indicates an operation to be performed with respect to the content item stored at the primary storage device. The secondary storage device is configured to send the command to a second content appliance for execution. |
| US09483201B2 |
Administering a shared, on-line pool of data storage resources for performing data storage operations
A data storage system according to certain aspects manages and administers the sharing of storage resources among clients in the shared storage pool. The shared storage pool according to certain aspects can provide readily available remote storage to clients in the pool. A share list for each client may be used to determine where data is stored within the storage pool. The share list may include clients that are known to each client, and therefore, a user may feel more at ease storing the data on the clients in the storage pool. Management and administration of the storage pool and backup and restore jobs can be performed by an entity other than the client, making backup and restore more streamlined and simple for the clients in the pool. |
| US09483186B1 |
Selectable policies for identifiable storage command streams
A method performed by a data storage system includes (a) receiving a set of data storage commands directed to the data storage system, (b) identifying that a subset of the set of received data storage commands satisfies a pre-defined pattern, and (c) in response to identifying, applying a policy associated with the pre-defined pattern to fulfillment of the data storage commands of the subset. The pre-defined pattern (e.g., detecting SCSI Extended Copy commands directed at logical block addresses that are close to each other as part of a single stream) and its associated policy (e.g., serializing the SCSI Extended Copy commands of the stream, and preferably executing them in order by address) may be pre-programmed into the data storage system at configuration time, or the pre-defined patterns and associated policies may be input by a user at any time. |
| US09483184B2 |
Method to improve page out mechanism with compressed memory pools
A system and method for setting a compression ratio for utilizing a compressed memory pool (which is backed by pinned memory) by a virtual memory manager (VMM). Compression of pages of corresponding segments can be tracked as part of a VMM paging algorithm that compresses pages to store in a compressed memory pool. A segment having pages with an average compression ratio below a threshold is identified. The identified segment pages are prevented from utilizing the compressed memory pool resulting in optimizing the use of the compressed memory pool. |
| US09483176B2 |
Method and apparatus to reduce display lag of soft keyboard presses
A method of indicating a selected at least one of keys on a keyboard of a display device, the keyboard having a layout including a plurality of keys, the method including identifying the selected at least one of the keys based on a location of the selected at least one of the keys on the keyboard of the display device, updating a rendered video frame with a stored image of the selected at least one of the keys to generate an updated video frame indicating the selection of the at least one of the keys for displaying by the display device, the stored image of the selected at least one of the keys corresponding to the selected at least one of the keys, and while another video frame indicating the selection of the at least one of the keys is being rendered, displaying the updated video frame by the display device. |
| US09483172B2 |
Information processing device, information processing method, and computer-readable recording medium which records program
An information processing device (100) is configured by: a controller (205); a first touch panel (103); a second touch panel (104); and a storage (213). The controller (205) includes a window controller (212) for controlling display of a plurality of windows, and stores a history of the use of the plurality of windows in a window history storage (214). When a new application is started up, a new window display layout candidate is generated and displayed according to the history. When the displayed window display layout candidate is selected, windows are displayed with the selected display layout. |
| US09483167B2 |
User interface for a touch enabled device
A graphical user interface displays a first portion of a data file. Further, a switch indicator is displayed. In addition, a first input that has a first proximity within a range of predetermined first proximities with respect to the switch indicator is received at a processor operably connected to the graphical user interface. In addition, a second portion of the data file based on the first input is displayed at the graphical user interface. Further, a second input that has a second proximity within a range of predetermined second proximities with respect to the switch indicator is received at the processor. The range of predetermined second proximities is distinct from the range of first predetermined proximities. In addition, the graphical user interface displays a subset of the second portion of the data file based on the second input. |
| US09483161B2 |
Controllable display of a collaboration framework system
A structure of an interactive collaboration session is generated. The structure is typically based on an activity defined by a leader of the interactive collaboration session. The structure of the interactive collaboration session comprises different levels. For example, the structure of the interactive collaboration session may contain hierarchical levels that include top level items to discuss, a secondary level for responses to top level items, and a tertiary level for responses to the secondary level items. The structure of the interactive collaboration session is displayed to the leader. The leader controls the participants' display of the structure of the interactive collaboration as the interactive collaboration session progresses. For example, the leader may click on a button that disables the participants' ability to make comments during one part of the interactive collaboration session. Later, the leader can click on a button to enable the participants to make comments. |
| US09483157B2 |
Interfacing with a spatial virtual communication environment
A spatial layout of zones of a virtual area in a network communication environment is displayed. A user can have a respective presence in each of one or more of the zones. Navigation controls and interaction controls are presented. The navigation controls enable the user to specify where to establish a presence in the virtual area. The interaction controls enable the user to manage interactions with one or more other communicants in the network communication environment. A respective presence of the user is established in each of one or more of the zones on response to input received via the navigation controls. Respective graphical representations of the communicants are depicted in each of the zones where the communicants respectively have presence. |
| US09483156B2 |
Selectively broadcasting audio and video content
Disclosed herein is a technique for selectively broadcasting content to a destination device. An operating system (OS) executing on a source device is configured to generate an OS user interface (UI) and execute a plurality of applications, where each application of the plurality of applications is configured to generate a respective application UI. The source device receives a selection of a broadcast profile that identifies at least one application of the plurality of applications whose respective application UI should not be displayed at the destination device. In response to receiving the selection, a configuration of the source device is updated to cause: 1) the OS UI, but not the application UI associated with the at least one application, to be broadcasted to the destination device, and 2) the OS UI, as well as the application UI associated with the at least one application, to be displayed at the source device. |
| US09483152B2 |
Method and device for dual-differential sensing
A method and device for dual-differential sensing is disclosed. The sensing information can be generated from signals provided by a sensing device with a plurality of sensors. Each value of the sensing information corresponds to signals of three sensors, respectively. The sensing device is flexible and configured on a display. The noise effect of the display on the signal of each sensor corresponds to the distance between the display and the sensor. Besides, the noise effect of the display on each value of the sensing information corresponds to the distances between the display and the three sensors, respectively. |
| US09483149B2 |
Conductive film, display device and touch panel comprising same, and conductive film pattern determination method
This conductive film has a difference of over 3 cycles/mm between a peak spatial frequency for a plurality of spectral peaks in a two dimensional Fourier spectrum for transmittance image data for a wiring pattern and a peak spatial frequency for spectral peaks up to the second term in a two dimensional Fourier spectrum for transmittance image data for a microprism array pattern for a prism sheet on the display unit side of a backlight unit, for a first moire obtained by interference between a wiring pattern for a conductive section and the microprism array pattern. As a result, this conductive film is capable of suppressing the occurrence of moire and can greatly improve visibility, even when arranged upon a display unit having a backlight unit using a prism sheet. |
| US09483147B2 |
Monolayer touch screen and method for manufacturing the same
Disclosed is a monolayer touch screen, which comprises: a transparent cover glass; a transparent emboss adhesive layer coated on a surface of the transparent cover glass, wherein the transparent emboss adhesive layer has multiple grooves that are located at non-visible region; a metallic mesh layer embedded in the transparent emboss adhesive layer, and the metallic mesh layer are located at a visible region; a hairline finishing layer deposited on the surface of the multiple grooves; and an ink layer coated on the hairline finishing layer. Hairline finishing layer of such monolayer touch screen deposits directly on the surface of multiple grooves of transparent emboss adhesive layer, compared to the traditional touch screen, such monolayer touch screen is thinner and has a hairline finishing effect. Also disclosed is a method for manufacturing the monolayer touch screen. |
| US09483145B2 |
Touch panel and a manufacturing method thereof
The present disclosure relates to a touch technology and more particularly, to a touch panel and a manufacturing method thereof. The touch panel comprises a plurality of first sensing electrode axes, a plurality of second sensing electrode axes, and a plurality of conductive wire axes. The first sensing electrode axes are disposed along a first axis. The second sensing electrode axes are disposed along a second axis and electrically insulated from the first sensing electrode axes. The plurality of conductive wire axes are disposed along the second axis and extended to the first peripheral area. Any two of the conductive wire axes are electrically connected to different first sensing electrode axes. According to the touch panel and the manufacturing method provided in the present disclosure, areas of the available touch area and a visible area on the touch panel can be effectively increased. |
| US09483143B2 |
Method and system providing viewing-angle sensitive graphics interface selection compensation
A method and system for providing viewing angle sensitive graphics on an electronic device which detects a user viewing a display of an electronic device. The display has a plurality of items displayed for selection by the user, and the display defines a sensitive area including one or more of the plurality of items. A viewing angle of the user is determined based on a facial recognition technique. The sensitive area is adjusted based on the viewing angle, which can include moving the viewing angle, or adjusting a selection by the user from a first item to a second item based on the viewing angle. |
| US09483141B2 |
Single-chip multi-stimulus sensor controller
A multi-stimulus controller for a multi-touch sensor is formed on a single integrated circuit (single-chip). The multi-stimulus controller includes a transmit oscillator, a transmit signal section that generates a plurality of drive signals based on a frequency of the transmit oscillator, a plurality of transmit channels that transmit the drive signals simultaneously to drive the multi-touch sensor, a receive channel that receives a sense signal resulting from the driving of the multi-touch sensor, a receive oscillator, and a demodulation section that demodulates the received sense signal based on a frequency of the receive oscillator to obtain sensing results, the demodulation section including a demodulator and a vector operator. |
| US09483139B2 |
Touch device
A touch device includes the following elements. A touch panel has two panel analog circuits and a panel digital circuit. Two inverting modules are assembled to two neighboring sides of the touch panel respectively, electrically coupled to the two panel analog circuits, and each electrically coupled to the panel digital circuit. A controlling module is assembled to the touch panel. The two inverting modules process analog signals transmitted from the two analog circuits into digital signals that are transmitted to the controlling module through the panel digital circuit. Therefore, the touch device may decrease a layout width that is occupied by the panel analog circuit. |
| US09483137B2 |
Touch mouse and input method thereof
A touch mouse including a pressure sensing region, a touch sensing region, and a control unit is disclosed. The pressure sensing region is disposed at a first side and a second side of the touch mouse, and the touch sensing region covers at least the pressure sensing region at the first side. The first side is opposite to the second side. When the user clicks the pressure sensing region, it generates a pressure sensing signal. When the user clicks the touch sensing region, it generates a touch sensing signal. When the pressure sensing signal and the touch sensing signal are generated, the control unit outputs a first clicking signal representing that the first side is clicked. When the pressure sensing signal is generated but the touch sensing signal is not, the control unit outputs a second clicking signal representing that the second side is clicked. |
| US09483135B2 |
Organic light emitting display integrated with touch screen panel
An organic light emitting display can be integrated with a touch screen panel, in which control lines arranged in the touch screen panel are used as driving electrodes of a mutual capacitive touch screen panel, and a signal applied to the control lines in a touch recognition operation is input in synchronization with the signal applied to a display panel without having influence on the display. The control lines used as driving electrodes of the touch screen panel can be electrically connected to auxiliary lines arranged close to sensing electrodes of the touch screen panel, thereby improving touch recognition sensitivity. |
| US09483131B2 |
Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same
An LCD device and a method of driving the same are provided. The LCD device includes a panel, one or more gate driver IC, a timing controller, and a source driver IC. The gate driver IC sequentially drives a plurality of gate lines formed in the panel. The timing controller controls the gate driver IC. The source driver IC simultaneously transfers image data from a first latch to a second latch according to a latch signal, converts the image data transferred from the second latch into data voltages, and outputs the data voltages to the panel at a falling time of a source output enable signal. |
| US09483130B2 |
Touch device
A touch device comprises a touch module and a front frame element. The touch module includes a surface having a touch display zone. The front frame element is disposed at an outer edge of the touch module and includes a covering portion located on the surface of the touch module. The thickness of an outer edge of the covering portion adjacent to the touch display zone is between 0.1 mm and 1.6 mm, and the minimum distance from the outer edge of the covering portion to the touch display zone is between 2 mm and 8 mm. |
| US09483127B2 |
Capacitor
A capacitor is provided, which allows a user to readily change or adjust its capacitance value. The capacitor includes a dielectric film, which includes first and second conductor layers disposed on opposite surfaces thereof, and which is wound into a rod shape. First and second electrodes are led out from the first and second conductor layers, respectively. At least one of the first and second conductor layers includes an area-changeable conductor pattern, which is disposed (e.g., exposed) on an outer circumference side of the capacitor wound into the rod shape to receive physical treatment (e.g., cutting, connecting) from outside to thereby change the size of a conductor area of the at least one of the first and second conductor layers. Thus, the physical treatment changes the conductor area of the conductor layers, to thereby selectively set or adjust the capacitance value of the capacitor. |
| US09483124B2 |
Operation switch and operation device
The operation device includes a display part; a partition frame member arranged on the display part, and configured to divide the display part into a plurality of display surfaces; an operation button member having transparent operation buttons arranged on the respective display surfaces, and configured to join the operation buttons by integral molding to be able to deform the operation buttons in a pressing direction at respective one sides, functioning as fulcrums, of the display surfaces; switch parts arranged under the operation button member, and pressed by pressing of the operation buttons; and an output part configured to output information indicating whether or not the switch parts are pressed. |
| US09483122B2 |
Optical shape sensing device and gesture control
The present invention relates to devices, system and method for detecting gestures. The devices, systems and methods uses optically shape sensing devices for tracking and monitoring users. This allows unhindered, robust tracking of persons in different setting. The devices, systems and methods are especially useful in health care institutions. |
| US09483116B2 |
Method, device, and system for providing sensory information and sense
Provided is a method, a device, and a system, in which a sensor of a sense-providing device senses a motion of the sense-providing device, without using a plurality of cameras, to detect an object and provide sensory information. |
| US09483113B1 |
Providing user input to a computing device with an eye closure
Various embodiments enable additional content or features to be displayed to a user in response to detecting one eye of the user being closed either as a wink or for a duration of time. In one example, the additional content is graphical overlay, such as a menu containing selectable graphical elements to perform functions related to an application, game, or content, of global navigational features of the computing device in general, or to alternate views, features, or supplemental content for an application or game currently being displayed on a computing device. In one example, the overlay may be displayed only as long as the user keeps one eye closed or, alternatively, the user could wink to display the overlay and provide some other input to remove the overlay. |
| US09483112B2 |
Eye tracking in remote desktop client
A remote desktop client application on a client device receives screen data from a remote desktop on a remote server and displays a portion of the remote desktop, a mode icon, and direction icons. In a first mode, the remote desktop client detects a direction icon being selected by the user's eye movements and locally scrolls the remote desktop to display another portion of the remote desktop. The remote desktop switches to a second mode after detecting the mode icon being selected based on the user's eye movements. In the second mode, the remote desktop client detecting a direction icon being selected by the user's eye movements and sends a scrolling command to remotely scroll in the remote desktop. The remote desktop client receives updated screen data of the remote desktop from the remote server and displays the other portion of the remote desktop based on the updated screen data. |
| US09483111B2 |
Techniques to improve viewing comfort for three-dimensional content
Techniques to improve viewing comfort for three-dimensional (3D) content are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a processor circuit and a 3D graphics management module, and the 3D graphics management module may be operable by the processor circuit to generate first 3D graphics information corresponding to a 3D warm-up sequence for presentation by a 3D display, transmit the first 3D graphics information, and transmit second 3D graphics information corresponding to 3D content for presentation by the 3D display. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US09483109B2 |
Methods and systems for displaying text using RSVP
The disclosure describes systems and methods related to moving object content that is enhanced with textual content presented using rapid serial visual presentation (“RSVP”). In one embodiment, video content is enhanced with RSPV content. Related embodiments provide systems and methods for displaying, creating, and editing such content. A particular embodiment provides for RSPV enhanced video previews. In another embodiment, augmented reality content is enhanced with RSVP content. In some embodiments, RSPV enhanced moving object content is provided on various end user electronic devices including smart phones, smart watches, and head mounted displays. These and other embodiments are disclosed further herein. |
| US09483108B2 |
Ultra-deep power-down mode for memory devices
A memory device includes a voltage regulator, whose output provides a voltage supply for various other components of the memory device, including a command user interface. The memory device is placed into an ultra-deep power-down mode by providing to the memory device a software command, which causes the output of the voltage regulator to be disabled. To bring the memory device out of the ultra-deep power-down mode, a chip select signal is provided to the memory device, which includes a wake-up circuit that remains powered on even when the memory device is in the ultra-deep power-down mode. Receipt of the chip select signal while the memory device is in the ultra-deep power-down mode causes the output of the voltage regulator to be enabled, thereby providing power to the components that were completely powered down. |
| US09483105B2 |
Communication system and electronic control unit
A communication system operating with a battery is provided. Each node of the system is operable in a sleep mode and a normal mode, outputs a transition availability notice frame indicating whether or not the node is permitted or prohibited to transition to the sleep mode. At least one node is a monitor node. Upon receipt of a transition availability notice frame indicating prohibition of transition to the sleep mode while the battery is in a low voltage state, the monitor node stores sender information in a non-volatile memory, the sender information identifying what node is a sender node sending this transition availability notice frame. |
| US09483096B2 |
Host interface of a memory device supplied with regulated or non-regulated power based on operating mode of the memory device
A data storage device includes a non-volatile memory and a host interface. A method includes supplying a first supply voltage to the host interface during a first mode of operation of the non-volatile memory. The method further includes supplying a second supply voltage to the host interface in response to a transition from the first mode of operation to a second mode of operation of the non-volatile memory. |
| US09483094B2 |
Backup power management for computing systems
Various techniques for managing power backup for computing devices are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving data representing a backup capacity of one or more backup power units and data representing a backup power profile of one or more processing units sharing the one or more backup power units. A portion of the backup capacity may then be assigned to each of the one or more processing units based at least in part on both the received data representing the backup capacity of the one or more backup power units and the received data representing the profile of the one or more processing units. |
| US09483093B2 |
Electronic device and method for controlling a setting of a maximum consumption current
An electronic device includes a communication connector, a determiner, and a setting controller. The communication connector includes a power supply terminal and a plurality of signal terminals. The determiner determines whether a device connected via the communication connector is a device capable of communicating according to a second communication standard, based on the potential of a predetermined signal terminal specified by a first communication standard but not specified by the second communication standard, among the signal terminals. The setting controller switches the setting related to a power supply signal input from the power supply terminal, according to the determination result of the determiner. |
| US09483091B2 |
System, information processing device and rack
A rack in which a single or plurality of blade servers are installed includes: a fixing portion that detachably fixes the blade server; and a pipe with which cooling fluid supplied from outside the rack is passed through inside the rack and then introduced outside the rack, the pipe being thermally connected, in a state where the blade server is fixed by the fixing portion, to a heat transfer block thermally connected to at least one heat source included in the blade server. |
| US09483084B2 |
Frictional hinge for electronic devices
A frictional hinge assembly for use with electronics devices such as computer notebooks having base and lid portions may present a higher level of frictional resistance to rotation in one direction than in the other. The hinge may comprise a base-mounted helical sleeve having loops that embrace a rotational shaft that is connected to a lid. As the lid is opened, the rotation of the shaft may cause the loops of the helical sleeve to tighten and thereby generate frictional forces, which requires a greater opening force to overcome than when the lid is being closed, in which case the loops loosen. The helical hinge may have applicability for notebook computers, electronic devices having clamshell form factors, all-in-one designs and tablets using kickstands and the like. |
| US09483082B2 |
Portable electronic module
A portable electronic module includes a portable electronic device having a back cover and a front frame, a magnet mechanism, and a support base including a support case and a third magnet. The magnet mechanism includes first and second magnets and a containing case disposed in the portable electronic device and having first and second openings. The first magnet is disposed on the containing case and protrudes from the first opening to abut against or pass through the front frame. The second magnet is disposed on the containing case, repels the first magnet, and protrudes from the second opening to abut against or pass through the back cover. The third magnet is disposed on the support case for attracting the first magnet to make the front frame absorbed onto the support case and for attracting the second magnet to make the back cover absorbed onto the support case. |
| US09483079B2 |
Frame structure for fixing panels with different sizes and panel device therewith
A frame structure includes a holding plate, a first supporting member, a first driving member, a second supporting member and a second driving member. The holding plate is for holding a first panel. The first supporting member is slidably disposed on the holding plate. The first driving member connects the holding plate and the first supporting member and drives the first supporting member to slide relative to the holding plate along a first direction, so as to clamp a first corner of the first panel. The second supporting member is slidably disposed on the holding plate and opposite to the first supporting member. The second driving member connects the holding plate and the second supporting member and drives the second supporting member to slide relative to the holding plate along a second direction, so as to clamp a second corner of the first panel. |
| US09483077B2 |
Charge and data transfer system, apparatus, and method
Charge signal simulates a stock charger to connected portable device(s) to trigger a charging cycle. Monitoring charging port(s) for overcurrent and/or electrical short charging conditions allows charge current to be modified when necessary. While attached portable device(s) continue to charge, docking station automatically switches from charger mode to data transfer mode so that other attached devices can use and/or be used by portable device(s). Once data lines, except power line, are switched portable device(s) simultaneously charges and transfers data at same time. To identify proper charge signal, vendor identification (VID) or product identification (PID) may be read from attached portable device(s) and referenced against charging standards. Updatable firmware allows new device configurations and corresponding charge signals to be added. |
| US09483074B2 |
Watch type mobile terminal and mobile terminal system having the same
Disclosed is a watch-type mobile terminal, and a watch-type mobile terminal system having the same. The watch-type mobile terminal includes: a terminal body configured to be mountable to a mounting device having a contact pin, and having a first case and a second case which form an inner space of the terminal body by being coupled to each other; a printed circuit board disposed at the inner space; and a coupling member configured to couple the first case and the second case to each other by passing through the printed circuit board, and electrically connected to the printed circuit board, wherein when the terminal body is mounted to the mounting device, the coupling member contacts the contact pin to thus electrically-connect the printed circuit board and the mounting device to each other. |
| US09483072B2 |
Modular cam system
A cam system includes a beam including a plurality of coupling features. A first handle is operable to be coupled to the beam using the coupling features. A plurality of cam elements are each operable to be coupled to the beam at different locations along the beam using the coupling features. A plurality of cam brackets are each operable to be mounted to a first member having a first connector. The coupled-together beam, first handle, and cam elements are operable to be coupled a second member having a second connector such that, with the cam brackets mounted to the first member, the engagement of the cam elements with the cam brackets mate the first connector and the second connector. |
| US09483071B2 |
Display device and method for assembling the same
A display device comprises a cover and a display module. The cover includes a bottom plate and at least one cover limit element. The cover limit element projects inwardly from an inner surface of the bottom of the cover. A space is formed between the bottom plate and the cover limit element. The display module includes a frame with at least one frame limit element disposed at an end of the frame and projecting at a position between the cover limit element and the bottom plate. The frame limit element is configured to be disposed in the space and between the cover limit element and the bottom plate to retain the display module with the cover. |
| US09483065B2 |
Power regulation with load detection
One embodiment of the present invention includes a power regulator system. The system includes a power stage configured to provide an output voltage to a load in response to an input voltage and a control signal. The system also includes a feedback system that receives the input voltage and is configured to generate the control signal based on the output voltage. The system further includes a load detector configured to determine a state of the load and to set the power to the feedback system based on determining the state of the load. |
| US09483064B2 |
Remote controllable thermostat
A remote controllable thermostat has an on-board power supply with batteries, a microcontroller having a timer, a temperature sensor, a temperature set point control controller and an RF receiver. The thermostat also has HVAC state control means for generating HVAC control signals in response to sensed temperatures being outside of control set point range and for periodically connecting and disconnecting the RF receiver from the power source to conserve battery power. Where the thermostat has user mode selector switches, the microcontroller is further programmed to read their state only periodically for additional battery power conversation. |
| US09483059B2 |
Method to gain driver's attention for autonomous vehicle
A computer-implemented method for the automated driving of a vehicle. The method may include coordinating a planned vehicle path using a path planner application. The path planner application may receive information based on inputs to sensors disposed on the vehicle. The method may include sending a command to one or more vehicle systems to control the vehicle to follow the planned vehicle path. While the vehicle follows the planned vehicle path, the method may include receiving an indication that the path planner application is not meeting a threshold performance level. After receiving the indication that the path planner application is not meeting the threshold performance level, a command is sent to one or more vehicle systems to control the vehicle to follow a temporary and irregular full vehicle movement to alert a vehicle driver. The temporary and irregular full vehicle movement may be a full vehicle side-to-side wobbling movement. |
| US09483056B2 |
Vehicle control system
A vehicle control system is provided in which, if a position requiring caution for the contact with an oncoming vehicle on a track road is found also on an ex-post facto basis, the information thereof is easily fed back to the control of each vehicle. This vehicle control system has a GPS receiver 101 for detecting the position of each vehicle, an encoder 72 and an IMU 73 mounted on each vehicle, a specific spot setting unit 87 for setting a position requiring caution for the passing with an oncoming vehicle as a specific spot on the basis of a vehicle position, a slip ratio and a curvature that are computed from the values output therefrom, and a storage device for storing the positional information on a place set as a specific spot by a specific spot detecting unit. |
| US09483050B2 |
Outsourcing processing to a self-propelled device
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for outsourcing processing operations between a mobile computing device and a self-propelled device. The self-propelled device may be in operative control by the mobile computing device via a communication connection. Due to latency in the communication connection, the mobile computing device may compile a computer code package for transmission to the self-propelled device. Execution of the computer code package by the self-propelled device may offset operations otherwise performed by the mobile computing device. |
| US09483047B2 |
System and method for operating a machine and performing quality assurance
A method for operating a numerical control machine including generating monument point data having a plurality of reference points representing a plurality of monument points on a machine bed, generating part data having plurality of reference points representing a part with respect to the plurality of monument points, generating theoretical machined part data having a plurality of reference points representing a theoretical machined part, generating control data by integrating the part data and the theoretical machined part data, generating machine control data by integrating the control data and the monument point data, and executing the machine control data for controlling operation of a numerical control machine to form a machined part. |
| US09483040B2 |
Program and device which automatically generate operation program
An automatically generating program and device are provided which can easily and accurately create an operation program with no need of providing an image data input device. The program, causes a work head to move relative to a work object and to carry out desired work, includes the steps of displaying a reference data input window which allows input of shape data of the work object or a work region (STEP 201), taking in image data of the work object or the work region (STEP 202), compensating for distortion in the taken-in image data (STEP 203), displaying a movement path input window which allows designation of a movement path with the compensated image data displayed as a background (STEP 204), and automatically generating the operation program based on the movement path that is designated on the movement path input window (STEP 205). |
| US09483039B2 |
Wireless field device having discrete input/output
A wireless field device for use in an industrial process includes input/output terminals configured to couple to a process interface element. A discrete input/output channel is configured to receive a discrete input from the process interface element through the input/output terminals when configured as a discrete input channel. The discrete input/output channel is further configured to provide a discrete output to the process interface element through the input/output terminals when the discrete input/output channel is configured as discrete output channel. Wireless communication circuitry is configured to transmit and receive information. A controller communicates information through the wireless communication circuitry and operates in accordance with configuration information to configure the input/output channel as an input channel when the input/output terminals are connected to a discrete process variable sensor, and further configure the discrete input/output channel as a discrete output channel when the input/output terminals are coupled to a discrete control element. |
| US09483029B2 |
Timepiece and electronic timepiece
An electronic timepiece includes a measured time display region, a reception state display region, and one indicating hand that indicates the measured time display region and the reception state display region. In addition, a scale indicating measured time measured by using a time measurement function is disposed in the measured time display region, and a scale indicating a reception state of a satellite signal is disposed in the reception state display region. The one indicating hand indicates the scale in the measured time display region when the time measurement function is executed, and indicates the scale in the reception state display region when the reception function is executed. |
| US09483026B2 |
Angular speed regulating device for a wheel set in a timepiece movement including a magnetic escapement mechanism
The invention concerns a device for regulating the relative angular speed between a magnetic structure and a resonator magnetically coupled to each other and forming an oscillator which defines a magnetic escapement. The magnetic structure includes at least one annular magnetic path at least partially formed of a magnetic material of which one physical parameter is correlated to the magnetic potential energy of the oscillator, the magnetic material being arranged along the annular path so that the physical parameter varies angularly in a periodic manner. The annular path includes, in each angular period, an area of accumulation of magnetic potential energy in the oscillator, radially adjacent to an impulse area. The magnetic material, in each accumulation area, is arranged so that the physical parameter of said magnetic material gradually increases angularly or gradually decreases angularly. |
| US09483025B2 |
Watch with multi-coloured components
Method for forming an assembly of elementary timepiece components, each available in different colored variants, wherein at least some of said different elementary components are the same color as each other, characterized in that a random selection of each said elementary component is made until said complete assembly is obtained, so that at least two elementary components are of different colors. |
| US09483022B1 |
Reverse clock face with moving dial
A clock face that creatively displays the current time includes an analog clock face having hour markers arranged in a counter-clockwise numerical sequence. An hour hand and a minute hand travel in a counter-clockwise direction around the dial, corresponding to the counter-clockwise hour markers. The dial moves in a clockwise direction to display an hour marker corresponding to the current month at the top of the clock face. The hour hand and the minute hand both move counter-clockwise corresponding to the hour markers while the dial moves in a clockwise direction, enabling the clock face to show the current time and current month at the same time. |
| US09483021B2 |
Methods and apparatus for holographic animation
In an illustrative implementation of this invention, an animated holographic display is created as follows: Multiple HPO holograms in the shape of horizontal strips are recorded on an H2 medium. These horizontal strips are vertically displaced from each other. An animated real image is displayed by sequentially illuminating these HPO holograms. In illustrative implementations of this invention, the vertical perspective of at least some adjacent HPO stripes are identical. |
| US09483019B2 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming method
An image forming apparatus includes a transport unit that transports a recording medium; a forming unit that forms a toner image on the recording medium, the toner image including a resin and a flat metallic pigment; a fixing unit that fixes the toner image to the recording medium by heating and pressing the toner image; and a cooling unit that cools the toner image fixed by the fixing unit, the cooling unit being disposed at a position at which the cooling is started when a temperature of the toner image is higher than or equal to a glass transition temperature. |
| US09483011B2 |
Motor control device, image forming apparatus, motor control method, method for controlling image forming apparatus
A target cycle recording portion (821) records target cycle data (Tref) into a first ring buffer (824) each time a reference pulse signal (Ps) is generated, thereby recording the target cycle data (Tref) sequentially into the first ring buffer (824). A measured cycle recording portion (822) records measured cycle data (Tenc) into a second ring buffer (825) each time an encoder pulse signal (Pe) is generated, thereby recording the measured cycle data (Tenc) sequentially into the second ring buffer (825). A phase error calculating portion (823) calculates a phase error PHE by integrating a difference between the target cycle data (Tref) and the measured cycle data (Tenc) that are sequentially recorded in data buffers respectively in correspondence with each other in the two ring buffers. |
| US09483009B1 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus (100) forms an image on a recording medium. The image forming apparatus (100) includes a substrate (161), a photosensitive drum (120), a heating element (163) that heats the photosensitive drum (120), a light emitting element (162) that performs static elimination on the photosensitive drum (120), and a metal member (167) that transfers heat from the heating element (163) to the photosensitive drum (120). The light emitting element (162) and the heating element (163) are mounted on one of main surfaces of the substrate (161). The metal member (167) is in contact with another of the main surface of the substrate (161). |
| US09483008B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes an induced voltage detection portion configured to detect an induced voltage Vk in a motor; and an engagement/disengagement completion time detection portion configured to detect an engagement completion time and a disengagement completion time based on the induced voltage Vk detected by the induced voltage detection portion. The engagement completion time is a time at which engagement of a clutch is actually completed. The disengagement completion time is a time at which disengagement of the clutch is actually completed. A control portion determines a command timing based on any one of the engagement completion time and the disengagement completion time detected by the engagement/disengagement completion time detection portion, the command timing being a time at which a command is given to the clutch to perform an engaging operation or a disengaging operation. |
| US09483007B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a transfer device, a fixing device, an introduction guide member that introduces the leading edge of a recording medium to the fixing device, and a contact guide member that causes the leading edge of the recording medium to contact the introduction guide member. The contact guide member has a first guide part and a second guide part. The first guide part causes the leading edge of a first recording medium, which includes a recording medium of a double-sheet structure, to contact the introduction guide member at a first contact angle. The second guide part causes the leading edge of a second recording medium, which has a feed width greater than the passage width of the first guide part, to contact the introduction guide member at a second contact angle. The first contact angle is greater than the second contact angle. |
| US09483006B2 |
Image forming apparatus and method for controlling image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a discharge tray; a printing unit; a stacking controlling unit that determines a front side value related to toner amount on a front side of a sheet and a back side value related to toner amount on a back side, determines an absolute value of difference between the front side value and the back side value for each sheet, determines a correction value of each sheet based on the absolute value and correction value data, adds the correction value to a predetermined value for determining a corrected count value of each sheet, integrates the corrected count value, and detects full of the discharge tray when the integrated value reaches a predetermined upper limit value; and a storage unit for storing the correction value data in which the correction value is determined corresponding to the absolute value. |
| US09483000B2 |
Fixing device and image forming apparatus including the same
In a fixing device including a cap member mounted at an end portion of a fixing belt in a rotation shaft direction via a rotation transfer member, an axis center of a support shaft supporting the cap member is made eccentric with respect to a rotation axis center of the fixing belt. |
| US09482999B2 |
Heating device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus
A heating device includes a rotating member that rotates, and plural unit circuits that are aligned in a width direction of the rotating member. The plural unit circuits each includes a heating body that heats the rotating member, a resistive element that is connected in series to the heating body and has a positive temperature coefficient, and a parallel circuit that is connected in parallel to the resistive element. The unit circuits are each configured such that, if a resistance value of the resistive element is increased with a rise of temperature of the resistive element, a current flows through the parallel circuit. |
| US09482998B2 |
Fixing device including an induction heating unit with ducting for airflow, and image forming apparatus incorporating same
A fixing device includes a rotatable fixing member, a pressing member to contact the fixing member with pressure to form a nip between the pressing member and the fixing member, an induction heating unit serving as a heating source to heat the fixing member, and a conductive wire drawn out of the induction heating unit to be disposed outside the cover member through a hole provided substantially at a center of the cover member in a longitudinal direction of the induction heating unit. The induction heating unit includes an excitation coil, a coil holder to hold the excitation coil, and a cover member provided facing the coil holder with the coil holder interposed between the cover member and the fixing member. |
| US09482997B2 |
Image forming apparatus executing a start-up process of a fixing portion, when a detecting portion detects the existence of an operator before receipt of an image formation instruction
An image forming apparatus includes: a recording material accommodating portion configured to accommodate a recording material; an image forming portion configured to form a toner image on the recording material fed from the recording material accommodating portion; a fixing portion configured to heat-fix the toner image formed on the recording material by the image forming portion; a storing portion configured to store information corresponding to the type of the recording material accommodated in the recording material accommodating portion; a detecting portion configured to detect that an operator exists in a predetermined zone in a neighborhood of the image forming apparatus; and an executing portion configured to execute a start-up process of the fixing portion, when the detecting portion detects the existence of the operator before the image forming apparatus receives an image formation instruction, over a time depending on the information stored in the storing portion. |
| US09482994B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer to bear a toner image on a surface thereof, a transfer device to contact the image bearer to form a transfer nip, and a power source to output a voltage to transfer the toner image from the image bearer onto a recording medium interposed at the transfer nip. The voltage including a first voltage in a transfer direction in which the toner image is transferred from the image bearer to the recording medium and a second voltage having a polarity opposite that of the first voltage. The first voltage and the second voltage alternate upon transfer of the toner image from the image bearer to the recording medium. The power source is configured to output the voltage that is superimposed a plurality of the alternating current voltage having a basic waveform, and a waveform of the voltage is biased in the transferring direction. |
| US09482992B2 |
Toner conveyance member, developing device, and image forming apparatus
A toner conveyance member includes a shaft, a first blade member, at least one paddle member, and a pressure relief path. The shaft extends in a first direction and rotates in a second direction. The first blade member winds around the shaft and continues to extend helically in the first direction. The paddle member is in the form of a plate protruding from a surface of the shaft and having a first principal face and a second principal face positioned opposite to and forward from the first principal face in the second direction. The pressure relief path has an opening. The opening is provided within a predetermined distance range from an intersection point of the shaft, the first blade member, and the second principal face of the paddle member. |
| US09482985B2 |
Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and recording medium storing an image forming program
An image forming apparatus includes multiple exposure units each including multiple light emitting elements, a reading unit that reads data to be used for exposure by each one of the exposure units, one at a time from the exposure unit by the time the exposure units starts exposure, a storing unit that stores the data read by the reading unit, and a transfer unit that transfers the data stored in the storing unit to the exposure unit by the time the exposure unit starts exposure. |
| US09482982B2 |
Imaging system, print head, image forming apparatus, and image scanner
An imaging system includes an incidence face having a plurality of optical faces formed along a first axis with a first pitch; a prism face having a plurality of grooves formed along the first axis with a second pitch; and an exit face having a plurality of optical faces formed along the first axis with a third pitch. A virtual plane extends from an end of the one optical face of the incidence face to an end of the one optical face of the exit face. Among light flux emitting from a spot light source and entering the one optical face of the incidence face, a light beam that passes over the virtual plane is reflected at the prism face, and passes over the virtual plane again and goes to the one optical face of the exit face. |
| US09482981B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus has: an image supporting member; a charger in proximity to the image supporting member; a power source unit configured to apply charging voltages to the charger sequentially, the charging voltages including alternating voltages having different peak-to-peak voltages, respectively; an amperometric detector configured to detect values of alternating currents flowing in the charger during application of the charging voltages; and a processor configured to carry out a first charging voltage determination process or a second charging voltage determination process requiring a shorter time than the first charging voltage determination process selectively based on a detection result of the amperometric detector. The processor carries out the first charging voltage determination process or the second charging voltage determination process selectively in accordance with a difference between an ambient temperature at a previous time of carrying out the first charging voltage determination process and a current ambient temperature. |
| US09482980B1 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a forming unit and a transfer unit. The forming unit forms a first image using a first toner including a flat pigment containing a first metal or a first metal oxide, and forms a second image using a second toner that does not include any flat pigment containing a second metal or a second metal oxide, a maximum length of the second toner being smaller than that of the first toner. The transfer unit transfers the second image and the first image to a medium in order of the second image and the first image. |
| US09482978B2 |
Liquid developer, developer cartridge, and image forming apparatus
A liquid developer includes a carrier liquid, and a toner particle which contains a resin having an unsaturated double bond, a compound represented by the formula (I) and a photopolymerization initiator and whose surface is treated by a polyamine, wherein m and n each independently represent an integer of 1 to 10,000; m+n represents an integer of 10 to 10,000; and R1, R2, and R3 each independently represent a single bond or a divalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms. |
| US09482972B2 |
Electrostatic charge image developing toner, electrostatic charge image developer, and toner cartridge
An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles including a binder resin that contains a copolymer formed by copolymerizing at least an aromatic vinyl monomer and an aliphatic unsaturated alkyl carboxylate ester, wherein a weight ratio of component M1 of the aromatic vinyl monomer and component M2 of the aliphatic unsaturated alkyl carboxylate ester in the copolymer satisfies the following expression (1), and a weight ratio of volatile component m1 of the aromatic vinyl monomer and volatile component m2 of the aliphatic unsaturated alkyl carboxylate ester, as measured by a headspace method, satisfies the following expression (2): 0.10≦MW2/(MW1+MW2)≦0.30 Expression (1) 0.70≦mw2/(mw1+mw2)≦0.98 Expression (2) wherein MW1 represents the weight of M1, MW2 represents the weight of M2, mw1 represents the weight of m1, and mw2 represents the weight of m2. |
| US09482971B2 |
White toner, and image forming method and image forming apparatus using the white toner
A white toner has a first temperature range not less than 25° C. in which 60° glossiness is 10 or less between a fixable minimum temperature and a fixable maximum temperature thereof. The white toner has a second temperature range not less than 25° C. in which 60° glossiness is from 30 to 60 therebetween. |
| US09482970B2 |
Organic photoconductors having protective coatings with nanoparticles
An organic photoconductor includes: a conductive substrate; a charge generation layer formed on the conductive substrate; a charge transport layer formed on the charge generation layer; and a protective coating formed on the charge transport layer. The protective coating comprises nanoparticles incorporated in an in-situ cross-linked polymer matrix. A process for increasing mechanical strength in an organic photoconductor is also provided. |
| US09482967B2 |
Lithographic apparatus, control system and device manufacturing method
An immersion lithographic apparatus is disclosed that has a measurement system or a prediction system for measuring and/or predicting, respectively, an effect associated with a temperature fluctuation of the immersion liquid, and a control system for controlling the or another effect associated with the temperature of the immersion liquid, on the basis of the measurement and/or prediction obtained by the measurement system and/or prediction system, respectively. An associated control system and device manufacturing method is also disclosed. |
| US09482966B2 |
Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method
A lithographic projection apparatus is disclosed in which a space between the projection system and the substrate is filled with a liquid. An edge seal member at least partly surrounds the substrate or other object on a substrate table to prevent liquid loss when edge portions of the substrate or other object are, for example, imaged or illuminated. A lithographic projection apparatus includes a support structure configured to hold a patterning device, the patterning device configured to pattern a beam of radiation according to a desired pattern; a substrate table configured to hold a substrate; a projection system configured to project the patterned beam onto a target portion of the substrate; a liquid supply system configured to provide liquid to a space between the projection system and the substrate; and a shutter configured to isolate the space from the substrate or a space to be occupied by a substrate. |
| US09482961B2 |
Microlithography projection optical system, tool and method of production
A microlithography projection optical system is disclosed. The system can include a plurality of optical elements arranged to image radiation having a wavelength λ from an object field in an object plane to an image field in an image plane. The plurality of optical elements can have an entrance pupil located more than 2.8 m from the object plane. A path of radiation through the optical system can be characterized by chief rays having an angle of 3° or more with respect to the normal to the object plane. This can allow the use of face shifting masks as objects to be imaged, in particular for EUV wavelengths. |
| US09482959B2 |
EUV microlithography illumination optical system and EUV attenuator for same
An illumination optical system for EUV microlithography is used to direct an illumination light beam from a radiation source to an object field. At least one EUV mirror has a reflective face with a nonplanar mirror topography for forming the illumination light beam. The EUV mirror has at least one EUV attenuator arranged in front of it. The attenuator face which faces the reflective face of the EUV mirror has an attenuator topography which is designed to complement the mirror topography such that at least sections of the attenuator face are arranged at a constant interval from the reflective face. The result is an illumination optical system in which it is possible to correct unwanted variations in illumination parameters, for example an illumination intensity distribution or an illumination angle distribution, over the object field with as few unwanted radiation losses as possible. |
| US09482958B2 |
Method of forming pattern and developer for use in the method
Provided is a method of forming a pattern, including (a) forming a chemically amplified resist composition into a film, (b) exposing the film to light, and (c) developing the exposed film with a developer containing an organic solvent, wherein the developer contains an alcohol compound (X) at a content of 0 to less than 500 ppm based on the total mass of the developer. |
| US09482949B2 |
Positive resist composition and patterning process
A positive resist composition is provided comprising a polymer comprising recurring units having a carboxyl or phenolic hydroxyl group substituted with an acid labile group and recurring units of isosorbide nitrate ester, and having a Mw of 1,000-500,000. The resist composition has a satisfactory effect of suppressing acid diffusion and a high resolution, and forms a pattern of good profile and minimal edge roughness after exposure. |
| US09482948B2 |
Photoresist compositions and methods of forming photolithographic patterns
Provided are photoresist compositions useful in forming photolithographic patterns by a negative tone development process. Also provided are methods of forming photolithographic patterns by a negative tone development process and substrates coated with the photoresist compositions. The compositions, methods and coated substrates find particular applicability in the manufacture of semiconductor devices. |
| US09482947B2 |
Pattern forming method, actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition, resist film, manufacturing method of electronic device and electronic device
A pattern forming method, includes: (i) a step of forming a film from an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition containing (P) a resin having (a1) a repeating unit capable of decomposing by an action of an acid to produce a carboxyl group, represented by the following formula (I) as defined in the specification and (B) a compound capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation; (ii) a step of exposing the film; and (iii) a step of performing a development by using a developer containing an organic solvent to form a negative pattern. |
| US09482939B2 |
Method for photographing panoramic image based on motion vectors between current real time input image with a previous image through a motion estimation mechanism
Disclosed is a method for photographing a panoramic image including the steps of recognizing movement of a corresponding photographing apparatus by comparing a current real-time input image with a previous image through a motion estimation mechanism with exposure compensation, determining a time to photograph each next picture by determining whether movement in a photography direction reaches a preset threshold value, and photographing each next picture by manual or automatic operation at the determined time. |
| US09482938B2 |
Laser beam projection apparatus and projector having light source module for combination
A laser beam projection apparatus includes a first light source module including a red color laser light source, a green color laser light source, and a blue color laser light source, and a light source module for combination configured to be capable of emitting a laser beam and be used in combination with the first light source module according to use. The first light source module includes a first casing, and the light source module for combination includes a second casing. The first casing and the second casing have a common casing configuration including at least light source fitting portions. |
| US09482937B2 |
Illumination system and projection apparatus
An illumination system including a plurality of light source units, at least one light concentrating unit, at least one taper tunnel and a light consolidating unit is provided. The light concentrating unit corresponds to and is disposed beside one of the light source units. The light concentrating unit has a first illuminating surface, the light source unit corresponding to the light concentrating unit has a second illuminating surface, and the other light source units not corresponding to the concentrator have a third illuminating surface, respectively. The concentrator is disposed between the taper tunnel and the light source unit, and the taper tunnel has a fourth illuminating surface. The light consolidating unit has a fifth illuminating surface. The area of the fourth illuminating surface, and each of the third illuminating surfaces corresponds to each other. A projection apparatus is also provided. |
| US09482936B2 |
Projector with tilt projection
A projector includes a light source device, a diffraction element that converts light from the light source device into 0-th order light and diffracted light, a light modulation device that modulates the diffracted light so as to form image light, and a projection optical system that emits projected light having a chief ray which is tilted with respect to an optical axis of the image light incident from the light modulation device. Defining a reference plane as a plane which is perpendicular to a plane including the optical axis and a chief ray of the projected light and includes the optical axis, a plane including an optical axis of the 0-th order light and a chief ray of the diffracted light intersects the reference plane. |
| US09482933B2 |
Projection apparatus and method for protecting projection apparatus by sensing light intensities
A projection apparatus and a method for protecting the projection apparatus are provided. The projection apparatus includes a light source module, a light source control module, and an optical engine module. The light source module includes a light source and light conversion unit. The light source emits an illumination beam, and the light conversion unit converts the illumination beam into a plurality of color beams with different colors. The light source control module includes a light sensing unit and a control unit. The light sensing unit senses light intensities of the color beams, and the control unit determines whether to turn off the light source according to at least one of a light intensity proportion of the color beams and a sum of the light intensities of the color beams. The optical engine module receives the color beams to generate an image beam. |
| US09482929B2 |
Subaquatic monopod for photographic equipment
A subaquatic monopod for photographic equipment is disclosed. The subaquatic monopod is adapted from a standard telescoping monopod. A photographer affixes anchoring weights to a base of the monopod and affixes flotation devices to an upper end of the monopod. The photographer affixes anchoring weights of sufficient mass to hold the base on a bottom surface of a body of water. The underwater photographer affixes flotation devices of sufficient buoyancy to steady the monopod in a vertical position, without lifting the monopod and attached photographic equipment from the bottom surface. The photographer places or “throws” the subaquatic monopod into position on the bottom surface. The photographer can then record photographic images without manually steadying the photographic equipment. The subaquatic monopod optionally includes a ring for attachment of a retrieval line. The retrieval line allows deployment and retrieval from a distance (including by a photographer who is not underwater). |
| US09482927B2 |
Optical sensor interrogation system
Apparatus and a method for monitoring various conditions of a vehicle structure including an optical sensor comprising an optical fiber bearing a photonic crystal mounted to one end, an interrogation system including an optical signal generator interfacing with one or more of the optical sensors located remotely from the interrogation module, and a method of monitoring the vehicle structural health using the interrogation system. |
| US09482924B2 |
Colored composition and image display structure
A colored composition includes: an azomethine pigment represented by the following Formula (1) and having a solubility in n-hexane of 1% by mass or more at 25° C. and 0.1 MPa; and a non-polar solvent: wherein, in Formula (1), Het1 represents a ring having no dissociable group and Ar represents an aromatic ring having no dissociable group or a saturated heterocycle having no dissociable group. |
| US09482920B2 |
Transparent resistive random access memory cells
Provided are resistive switching cells and methods of using such cells for controlling operation of liquid crystal display (LCD) cells in LCD devices. A resistive switching cell has two electrodes formed from transparent conductive oxides, such as indium oxide, indium tin oxide, or zinc oxide. One electrode may be connected to a LCD cell thereby forming an in series connection between the resistive switching cell and LCD cell. The other electrode may be used to power the LCD cell through the resistive switching cell. The resistive switching cell also includes a resistive switching layer disposed between the two electrodes. When the resistive switching layer is in its low resistive state, the LCD cell is subjected to an operating potential and produces light. However, when the resistive switching layer is in its high resistive state, the LCD cell is not subjected to the operating potential and does not produce light. |
| US09482919B2 |
Display device and electronic device with improved driver circuit
Transistors each include a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer over the gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor layer over the gate insulating layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode over the oxide semiconductor layer. A driver circuit portion includes first to third wirings formed in the same step as the gate electrode, fourth to sixth wirings formed in the same step as the source electrode and the drain electrode, a seventh wiring formed in the same step as a pixel electrode, a first region where the second wiring intersects with the fifth wiring, and a second region where the third wiring intersects with the sixth wiring. The first wiring is connected to the fourth wiring through the seventh wiring. A distance between the wirings in the second region is longer than that in the first region. |
| US09482918B2 |
Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof and electronic device
In a liquid crystal display device, an upper electrode and a drain electrode are reliably connected to each other electrically, with preventing or suppressing an occurrence of an aperture ratio loss, or sufficiently reducing a parasitic capacitance between the scanning line and the lower electrode. An interlayer resin film is formed on a drain electrode, with a hole being formed on the interlayer resin film, and on the drain electrode exposed to a bottom portion of the hole, an island-shaped electrode is formed separately from a lower electrode. Moreover, on the island-shaped electrode, an inter-electrode insulating film is formed, a contact hole is formed in the inter-electrode insulating film, and an upper electrode is formed on the island-shaped electrode exposed to a bottom portion of the contact hole. |
| US09482917B2 |
Display device and manufacturing method thereof
The present invention relates to a display device and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein a spoilage layer generated in a manufacturing process is removed, and a manufacturing method of a display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: forming a thin film transistor on a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas; forming a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor in the pixel area; forming a sacrificial layer on the pixel electrode; forming a barrier layer on the sacrificial layer; forming a common electrode on the barrier layer; forming a roof layer on the common electrode; patterning the barrier layer, the common electrode, and the roof layer to exposed a portion of the sacrificial layer thereby forming an injection hole; removing the sacrificial layer to form a microcavity for a plurality of pixel areas; removing the barrier layer. |
| US09482916B2 |
Liquid crystal display
A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a liquid crystal module defining an opening, the liquid crystal module including a printed circuit board having a pad portion exposed to the opening; a set printed circuit board disposed adjacent a surface of the liquid crystal module; and a connector disposed between the liquid crystal module and the set printed circuit board through the opening to electrically connect the liquid crystal module and the pad portion. |
| US09482915B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus is disclosed. In one aspect, the display apparatus includes a first display substrate including i) a first plane on which an image is displayed and ii) a second plane opposite to the first plane. The display apparatus also includes a second display substrate formed at least partially overlapping second plane, a guiding portion bent and connected to at least one of the first and second display substrates, a mold frame accommodating and supporting the second display substrate, and a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) including i) a first area attached to the second plane of the first display substrate and ii) a second area connected to and guided by the guiding portion, wherein the FPCB is bent at least partially around the mold frame. |
| US09482914B2 |
Liquid crystal display and display apparatus set having the same
Provided are a slimmer liquid crystal display (LCD) and a display apparatus set having the same. The LCD includes: a liquid crystal panel having sides; a light guide plate (LGP) which is overlapped by the liquid crystal panel; a container accommodating the LGP; a printed circuit board (PCB) which is disposed between the LGP and a sidewall of the container along one of the sides of the liquid crystal panel, and which is configured to provide an image signal to the liquid crystal panel; and a light source which is disposed between the LGP and a sidewall of the container along another one of the sides of the liquid crystal panel, and which is configured to provide light to the liquid crystal panel. |
| US09482912B2 |
Circuit board, display device, and liquid crystal display device
A circuit board includes a driver circuit for driving a pixel and an external connection terminal, on a substrate. The circuit board includes a wiring that is arranged just below the external connection terminal, and in a layer lower than the external connection terminal to overlap therewith. |
| US09482910B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes pixels, some of the pixels are disposed in a first area and some of the pixels are disposed in a second area. The second substrate is spaced apart from and coupled to the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Each pixel is associated with a viewing angle, an imaginary line extending from a center of the viewing angle, and an angle between a surface of the first substrate and the imaginary line. The angle of a pixel disposed in the first area differs from the angle of a pixel disposed in the second area. |
| US09482905B2 |
Display with column spacer structures
A display may have a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. A layer of liquid crystal material may be located between the color filter layer and the thin-film transistor layer. Column spacers may be formed on the color filter layer to maintain a desired gap between the color filter and thin-film transistor layers. Support pads may be used to support the column spacers. The column spacers and support pads may have comparable thicknesses. Different column spacers may be located at different portions of the support pads to allow the support pad size to be reduced while ensuring adequate support. |
| US09482904B2 |
Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof
A technique for attaining both improvement of edge rectilinearity of an alignment film and reduction of unevenness is provided. A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate on which a first alignment film is formed, a second substrate on which a second alignment film is formed, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first and second substrates. A material forming a frame arranged to surround the first alignment film inside a seal member with which the first and second substrates are bonded to each other is a highly water repellent organic material having a low solubility in an application liquid for forming the first alignment film. |
| US09482902B2 |
Method of forming alignment layer and fabrication method of liquid crystal display device using the same
A liquid crystal display device is fabricated by forming a first alignment layer on a first base substrate. A second alignment layer is formed on a second base substrate. A liquid crystal is disposed on one of the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer. The first base substrate and the second base substrate are combined. At least one of the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer is formed by forming an alignment solution on a corresponding base substrate. An alignment layer is formed by curing the alignment solution. The alignment layer is aligned by radiating a light onto the base substrate, first cleaning the base substrate, and baking the alignment layer. |
| US09482901B2 |
Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof
The present invention prevents the shaving of an alignment film caused by a columnar spacer in a liquid crystal display device of an IPS method using photo-alignment. A plinth higher than a pixel electrode is formed at a part where a columnar spacer formed over a counter substrate touches a TFT substrate. When an alignment film of a double-layered structure is applied over the pixel electrode and the plinth, the thickness of the alignment film over the plinth reduces by a leveling effect. When photo-alignment is applied in the state, a photodegraded upper alignment film over the plinth disappears and a lower alignment film having a high mechanical strength remains. As a result, it is possible to prevent the shaving of the alignment film. |
| US09482900B2 |
Display device
Disclosed is a display device with slimness and narrowness, wherein the display device may include a liquid crystal panel; a light source for providing light to the liquid crystal panel; a light guide formed of a glass material, wherein the light source is combined with one side of the light guide; a reflector formed on at least one of one and the other surfaces of the light guide, wherein the reflector includes an organic material and a metal compound; and an adhesive member formed on the one surface of the light guide confronting the liquid crystal panel, and configured to attach the liquid crystal panel and the light guide to each other. |
| US09482893B2 |
Liquid crystal display panel and manufacturing method thereof
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel and manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method comprises: coating a photoresist layer; exposing the photoresist layer through a first mask and a second mask such that the black matrices with different widths are formed, wherein, along a direction extended from a middle area to a two-side area of the liquid crystal display panel, transmittances of the second transparent regions of the second mask are successively increased such that the width of the black matrices are successively increased. By doing so, the present invention makes the brightness displayed by the liquid crystal display panel be uniform such that the two-side whitening occurred while displaying on the liquid crystal display panel can be reduced or eliminated. |
| US09482890B2 |
Liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus
A liquid crystal display device including a first substrate, a second substrate disposed so as to face the first substrate and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and the second substrates, the first substrate including: a display area portion in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a manner of a matrix; and a frame edge area lying outside the display area portion, the frame edge area including a peripheral circuit configured to drive the plurality of pixels of the display area portion, the peripheral circuit having at least one transistor, wherein a channel area of the transistor is covered with a conductive layer via an inorganic insulating layer, the inorganic insulating layer and the conductive layer being stacked in a direction orthogonal to a surface of the first substrate in the stated order, and a predetermined negative potential is applied to the conductive layer. |
| US09482889B2 |
Display room mirror
Provided is a display room mirror which is configured such that a display module, which includes: one or more light emitting units formed on a printed circuit board; a resin layer is formed on the light emitting units so that the light emitting units are embedded in the resin layer; a liquid crystal panel formed on the resin layer, is disposed on a rear surface the room mirror, thereby reducing an entire thickness and improving a degree of freedom in design. |
| US09482886B2 |
Integrated light source independent linewidth reduction
An integrated optical linewidth reduction system detects/estimates the phase noise of an incoming optical signal and subtracts the detected phase noise from the phase noise of the incoming signal. A first coupler/splitter of the linewidth reduction system may split the incoming signal into first and second optical signals travelling through first and second optical paths. A second coupler/splitter may split the second optical signal into third and fourth optical signals travelling through third and fourth optical paths. The third optical path has a longer propagation delay than the fourth optical path. Two different coupling ratios of the third and fourth optical signals are used to generate an electrical signal representative of the phase noise of the incoming signal. A phase detector/estimator estimates the phase noise from the electrical signal. A phase modulator subtracts the detected/estimated phase noise from the phase noise of the incoming signal. |
| US09482884B2 |
Method of determining an ophthalmic lens
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for determining an ophthalmic lens. In one implementation, three-dimensional coordinates of a center of rotation of the wearer's eye measured on the wearer in binocular vision are received. At least one direction of gaze measured in a natural posture and a determined position of the ophthalmic lens are received. Characteristics of the ophthalmic lens are calculated by using the coordinates measured for the center of rotation of the eye, the determined position of the lens, and the at least one direction of gaze measured in a natural posture. The characteristics of the ophthalmic lens are calculated by positioning a starting ophthalmic lens in the determined position and modifying the starting ophthalmic lens by wavefront analysis and/or optimizing using ray tracing dependent on the coordinates measured for the center of rotation of the eye and the determined position of the lens. |
| US09482879B2 |
Methods of manufacture and use of energized ophthalmic devices having an electrical storage mode
This invention discloses methods of manufacture and use of an energized Ophthalmic Device with an incorporated Storage Mode for a power source, the method of manufacturing said device, and a method of activation that may restore the power source to an operational mode. |
| US09482878B2 |
Elastic hinge for spectacles
An elastic hinge for spectacles includes a first hinge component having two chip elements connected together by means of being partially overlapped, and a second hinge component having two chip elements superimposed together. One chip element in the first hinge component is connected with the chip element of the second hinge component. A gap is disposed at the joint of one chip element of the first hinge component and one chip element of the second hinge component. Movable space is formed between the first hinge component and the second hinge component, so that the hinge elastically moves inwards or outwards. The elastic hinge is installed after the trim and the arm of the spectacles. Relying on the mutually smart cooperation of the components, the arm of the spectacles can have functions of bounding inwards and outwards without the help of any slingshot element, and has good durability. |
| US09482874B2 |
Energy efficient directional flat illuminators
Disclosed is an optical valve or light valve for providing large area collimated illumination from localized light sources, and system and method thereof for 2D, 3D, and/or autostereoscopic displays. An optical valve may include a stepped structure, in which the steps include separated extraction features which may be optically hidden to light propagating in a first direction. Light propagating in a second direction may be refracted, diffracted, or reflected by the features to provide illumination beams exiting from the top surface of the optical valve. Such controlled illumination may provide for efficient, multi-user autostereoscopic displays as well as improved 2D display functionality. |
| US09482873B2 |
2D and 3D image switchable display device and lenticular lens element
The display device includes an image display the screen of which includes a plurality of sub-pixels of three primary colors R, G and B for displaying a 2D image and a 3D image; and a DFD-PDLC lenticular lens array which includes a plurality of parallel DFD-PDLC lenticular lens elements, wherein the direction of the long axis of each of the DFD-PDLC lenticular lens elements is vertical or slant to the screen of an image display, the DFD-PDLC lenticular lens array is installed in front of the screen of the image display, the optical refractive index of the DFD-PDLC lenticular lens elements is variated under the drive of an external drive voltage V(f) to switch between the display of a 2D image and the display of a 3D image on the screen of the image display, wherein f is the drive frequency of the external drive voltage. |
| US09482872B2 |
Auto stereo display system for subway tunnel
An auto stereo display system for subway tunnel is disclosed. When a train is traveling through the tunnel at high speed, passengers can see stereo images outside the window by the system. The system is composed of LED light columns that vertically aligned at equal distance on the tunnel wall. Each LED light column is composed of multiple columns of LEDs and slit gratings. When the LEDs are changing with the changing instant speed of multi viewing angle image pixel array and the train, the passengers can see stereo image without glasses. The display system is specially applicable for business advertisement and nonprofit propagation in subway tunnel. |
| US09482869B2 |
Head-mounted display apparatus for retaining a portable electronic device with display
Head-mounted display systems and methods of operation that allow users to couple and decouple a portable electronic device such as a handheld portable electronic device with a separate head-mounted device (e.g., temporarily integrates the separate devices into a single unit) are disclosed. The portable electronic may be physically coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device can be worn on the user's head. The portable electronic device may be operatively coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device and head mounted device can communicate and operate with one another. Each device may be allowed to extend its features and/or services to the other device for the purpose of enhancing, increasing and/or eliminating redundant functions between the head-mounted device and the portable electronic device. |
| US09482866B2 |
Optical projection system and image projector incorporating the same
An optical projection system enlarges an image on an image display element and projects the enlarged image onto a screen. The system includes the image display element, a first optical system including lens groups arranged in order from an image display element side, a lens barrel holding the lens groups, and a free-form surface lens rotationally asymmetric and made from plastic, and a second optical system including a curved mirror disposed after the first optical system, wherein the free-form surface lens is formed to decrease in thickness from an intersection point between a surface of the free-form surface lens and an optical axis of the first optical system to an outer periphery of the lens along a line extending to the outer periphery. |
| US09482863B2 |
Production of micro-mechanical devices
A method for fabrication of a device (206) from a wafer (170) of semiconductor material includes locally thinning the wafer in an area of the device to a predefined thickness by removing the semiconductor material from at least a first side of the wafer using a wet etching process, and etching through the thinned wafer in the area of the device so as to release a moving part (202) of the device. Other methods and systems for fabrication are also described. |
| US09482858B2 |
Pixel wall configuration for directing fluid flow for fabricating electrowetting displays
An apparatus for fabricating electronic displays comprises a glass substrate that includes pixel arrays formed on the glass substrate. Individual pixels of the pixel arrays include pixel walls to retain a first fluid, such as oil. The pixel arrays may include an edge seal to retain a second fluid, such as an electrolyte solution, that overlays the pixel walls and the first fluid. A fluid dispenser includes slits that are configured to dispense the first fluid and the second fluid onto the glass substrate at a non-orthogonal angle with respect to the pixel arrays. First portions of the pixel walls extend above second portions of the pixel walls to impart a flow of the first fluid and the second fluid in a direction that the first fluid and the second fluid are dispensed by the fluid dispenser. |
| US09482853B2 |
Afocal telescope configured as three or four mirror anastigmat for back-scanned imagery
An afocal telescope configured for back-scanned imagery including a three mirror anastigmat and an optical element positioned proximate an intermediate image plane of the three mirror anastigmat and configured to adjust distortion characteristics of the afocal telescope to control image wander on a focal plane array. The optical element may be a field correcting lens or mirror, for example. |
| US09482850B2 |
Monocentric imaging
Methods and systems are provided to enable the capture of large (e.g., Gigapixel) images with high image quality using optical imaging systems that have a small form factor. The disclosed systems can be manufactured in a cost effective fashion, and can be readily assembled, aligned, tested and utilized. One such system comprises a monocentric primary optics section that includes one or more surfaces adapted to form a symmetrical arrangement around a common point of origin. The system also includes a secondary optics section that includes a plurality of secondary optics subsections, where each secondary optics subsection can intercept at least a portion of the light collected by the monocentric primary optics section. The combination of the primary optics section and the secondary optics section is adapted to form an image. |
| US09482846B2 |
Imaging lens
An imaging lens, the imaging lens including in an ordered way from an object side, a first lens having positive (+) refractive power, a second lens having negative (−) refractive power, a third lens having negative (−) refractive power, a fourth lens having positive (+) refractive power, and a fifth lens having negative (−) refractive power, wherein meeting a conditional expression of 0.5 |
| US09482843B2 |
Imaging lens
An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens having negative refractive power; and a sixth lens. The first lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the object side and a surface thereof on the image plane side have positive curvature radii. The fifth lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the image plane side has a negative curvature radius. The sixth lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the image plane side has a positive curvature radius. |
| US09482842B2 |
Optical assembly comprising a mount having thermally dependent force compensation
Thermally compensated optical assembly comprising a monolithic mount which is divided by slits into a mounting ring and at least three elastic links which are connected to an optical element. The elastic links compensate the thermal expansion differences between the mounting ring and the optical element through deformation. The temperature-dependent reaction forces brought about by the deformation are compensated. For this purpose, the quantity of compensation elements is equal to the quantity of links. The compensation elements comprise in each instance an expansion body and a spring element. |
| US09482832B2 |
Optical coupling component with metal positioning rods and optical-electrical converting module having same
An optical coupling component includes a main body, first and second converging lenses, and positioning rods. The main body includes a first optical surface and a second optical surface substantially parallel to the first optical surface, and defines positioning holes adjacent to the second optical surface. The first converging lenses are formed on the first optical surface. The second converging lenses are formed on the second optical surface and correspond to the first converging lenses one-to-one. The positioning rods are made of metal and are received in the positioning holes by interference fit. The positioning rods include connecting ends extending out of the positioning holes. |
| US09482831B2 |
Silica-on-silicon-based hybrid integrated optoelectronic chip and manufacturing method therefor
Provided are a silica-on-silicon-based hybrid integrated optoelectronic chip and a manufacturing method therefor. The hybrid integrated optoelectronic chip comprises a silicon substrate (1), wherein the surface of the silicon substrate (1) is provided with a platform (8), lug bosses (6,7) and a groove (10); a silica waveguide element (2) is arranged in the groove (10), the lug bosses (6,7) are protruded from the surface of the platform (8), and the surface of the platform (8) is provided with a discontinuous metal electrode layer (3); and the surface of the metal electrode layer (3) is provided with solder bumps (4), and an active optoelectronic chip (5) is arranged above the solder bumps (4) and the lug bosses (6, 7). In the manufacturing method, multi-step processes including material growth, hot oxygen bonding, flip-chip bonding, lithography alignment and the like are adopted, thereby guaranteeing the high-efficiency light coupling among waveguide devices of different materials, and reducing the light reflection between waveguide end faces. A high-frequency electrode composed of alternating current electrode areas (26) is manufactured between the alignment lug bosses (6, 7). Due to the fact that flip-chip bonding technology is beneficial to the transmission of high-frequency signals, integration level between devices is improved. Meanwhile, the process design not only can achieve the chip-level probe test, but also can be used for the subsequent gold ball bonding or wedge bonding process, thereby facilitating the achievement of encapsulation and mass production of hybrid integrated chips. |
| US09482829B2 |
Hardened fiber optic connector compatible with hardened and non-hardened fiber optic adapters
A fiber optic connector and cable assembly includes a cable with one or more strength members secured to a connector that is connectable to both a hardened and a non-hardened fiber optic adapter. The cable can include multiple cable types with various shapes and strength member configurations. The connector includes a connector housing having a one-piece main body and a cover piece mounted thereon. The one-piece main body defines a plug portion compatible with the adapters. A ferrule assembly is mounted in the plug portion and biased outwardly by a spring. An insert within the connector housing includes a spring stop for holding the spring and a cable retention portion for securing the strength members of the cable. The spring stop and the cable retention portion can be included on a one-piece insert or they can separately be included on separate inserts. The cable retention portion of the insert and the cover piece can take various forms suited for a particular cable of a given fiber optic connector and cable assembly. |
| US09482824B2 |
Removing unwanted light from high-power optical systems
The present disclosure is directed to removing unabsorbed cladding light in high-power optical systems. Some embodiments comprise a glass block with a refractive index that is greater than a refractive index of a fiber cladding, and a metal housing that is located external to the glass block. The glass block and the metal housing, in combination, removes excess light. |
| US09482822B2 |
Wavelength selector switch
A wavelength selective switch 1A includes a light input/output unit 10, a dispersive element 20, and a light deflection element 30 disposed side by side on a predetermined axis C. The light input/output unit 10 has a first portion 10a in which light enters and exits a light input/output port 11 by an optical axis inclined with respect to the predetermined axis C, and a second portion 10b in which light enters and exits a light input/output port 12 by an optical axis inclined with respect to the predetermined axis C. A light entry/exit angle of the light input/output port 11 with the predetermined axis C as a reference and a light entry/exit angle of the light input/output port 12 with the predetermined axis C as a reference differ from each other. |
| US09482818B2 |
Optically coupling waveguides
Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to an optical device for transferring light between a first and second waveguide. The optical device may generally include the first waveguide, a first support member and a base on which the first waveguide and first support member are disposed. The optical device may further include a second support member wherein the first support member is disposed between the second support member and the base. The second support member comprises at least one groove. The second waveguide may be disposed at least partially in the groove such that the second waveguide is between the first and second support members. The optical device may further include at least one lens disposed between the first waveguide and the second waveguide to transfer an optical signal between the first and second waveguides through the lens. |
| US09482816B2 |
Radiation coupler
Semiconductor photonics devices for coupling radiation to a semiconductor waveguide are described. An example photonics device comprises a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate comprising a semiconductor substrate, a buried oxide layer positioned on top of the semiconductor substrate, and the semiconductor waveguide on top of the buried oxide layer to which radiation is to be coupled. The example device also comprises a grating coupler positioned on top of the buried oxide layer and configured for coupling incident radiation to the semiconductor waveguide. The semiconductor substrate has a recessed portion at the backside of the semiconductor substrate for receiving incident radiation to be coupled to the semiconductor waveguide via the backside of the semiconductor substrate and the grating coupler. |
| US09482815B2 |
Printing of liquid crystal droplet laser resonators on a wet polymer solution and product made therewith
A photonic device is manufactured by: (i) providing (e.g. by inkjet printing) an aliquot of a liquid crystal (LC) material; and (ii) depositing the aliquot onto the surface of a flowable material layer to form a liquid crystal deposit, the flowable material and the LC material being substantially immiscible. The liquid crystal deposit adopts a deformed shape relative to the shape of the aliquot due to interaction with the flowable material layer. This promotes alignment of the LC material. Incorporation of a laser dye allows the photonic device to function as a laser, which can be operated above or below threshold depending on the circumstances. The photonic device can also be used as a passive device based on the photonic bandgap of the aligned LC material. |
| US09482814B2 |
Multicore optical fiber and optical module
The present invention relates to an MCF with a structure for enabling an alignment work with higher accuracy. The MCF has a plurality of cores and a cladding. An outer peripheral shape of the cladding in a cross section of the MCF is comprised of a circumferential portion forming a circumference coincident with an outer periphery of the MCF, and a cut portion. The cut portion has a bottom portion and two contact portions provided on both sides of the bottom portion and projecting more than the bottom portion. When a side face of the MCF is viewed, the two contact portions have flattened faces and the flattened faces of the two contact portions extend along a longitudinal direction of the MCF with the bottom portion in between. |
| US09482813B2 |
Lighting device, display device and television device
In a lighting unit, a first light source unit includes light sources and a first board having a first mount portion and a first empty portion, a second light source unit includes light sources and a second board having a second mount portion and a second empty portion. The first light entrance portion is on one edge portion thereof and the first fixing portion is adjacent to the first light entrance portion and on the one edge portion and fixes the first light source unit in close contact with the first empty portion. The second light entrance portion is on another edge portion and overlapped with the first fixing portion. The second fixing portion is adjacent to the second light entrance portion and overlapped with the first light entrance portion. The second fixing portion is in close contact with the second empty portion to fix the second light source unit. |
| US09482812B2 |
Backlight module and liquid crystal display device
A backlight module includes a backplane and a middle frame. The backplane includes a bottom surface and a side wall. Multiple engagement slots are disposed at the side wall, and each has an engagement part. The middle frame includes a horizontal support portion having a first end connected with multiple hooks. Each of the hooks corresponds to one engagement slot. Each hook includes two connection arms. One end of the two connection arms connects with the first end of the horizontal support portion. The other end of the two connection arms is disposed with a connection member. The two connection arms are connected through an elastic member. The hooks are mounted in the engagement slots. The connection members and the engagement parts are engaged with each other such that the middle frame is secured in the backplane. The present invention also discloses a liquid crystal display device. |
| US09482807B2 |
Optical constructions incorporating a light guide and low refractive index films
Optical constructions use a low index of refraction layer disposed between a low absorption layer and a high absorption layer to increase confinement of light to the low absorption region of the optical constructions. Low index layers can be used in optical constructions that have multi-tiered light confinement. In these constructions, a first tier of reflection is provided when light is reflected at the surface of a low index optical film which is disposed directly or indirectly on a light guide. A second tier of reflection occurs at the surface of a light redirecting film having appropriately oriented refractive structures. |
| US09482806B2 |
Backlight for liquid crystal display device having a reflector being coated with a gradation color layer composed by yellow
A backlight module includes a light source, a waveguide, a reflector, and an optical film. The waveguide includes a light inlet surface facing the light source, a light emitting surface adjacent to the light inlet surface, and a bottom surface opposite to the light emitting surface. The reflector is disposed under the bottom surface of the waveguide. The optical film is disposed above the light emitting surface of the waveguide. The reflector is coated with a gradation color layer composed by yellow graduating to blue so as to ensure projection of light from the light source is homogeneous with reduced chromatic aberration. |
| US09482805B2 |
Backlight module and display device thereof
The present invention provides a backlight module and display device thereof, including light-guiding plate, frame and a plurality of light sources disposed near incident surface of the light-guiding plate. The backlight module further includes an opaque layer, with one part attached to the frame and the other part disposed on light-emitting surface of light-guiding plate. The opaque layer shields and absorbs partial light emitted directly from the plurality of light sources and light from light-emitting surface covered by opaque layer. With such structure, the rim of the frame can be smaller, even when A/P ratio is less than 0.5, the hotspot phenomenon can be avoided. As such, the present invention improves the optical characteristics of the backlight module and the display quality of the display device, as well as simplifies the assembly and reduces assembly cost. |
| US09482803B2 |
Integrated filter and grating in an aiming sight
A holographic sight is provided having a housing that includes a plurality of holograph sight components. A laser diode mounted in the housing is configured to emit a laser light beam. The light beam is transmitted to an integrated diffraction grating and filter unit which includes a grating and a filter in a single device. The diffraction grating has a grating surface for diffracting the light beam and also diffracting unwanted ambient light transmitted into the housing. The filter is an optical filter contacting at least a portion of the grating. The optical filter is adapted to absorb at least one wavelength of the ambient light to inhibit the ambient light from diffracting into a visible spectrum that might otherwise be viewable to a user looking into the holographic sight. |
| US09482802B2 |
Method for producing long retardation film
A method for producing a long retardation film having an optical axis in an oblique direction relative to the length direction of the long retardation film is provided. |
| US09482801B2 |
Method for producing long circular polarization plate and long circular polarization plate
A production method for producing a thin circularly polarizing plate at a high productivity is provided. |
| US09482800B2 |
Durable optical interference pigment with a bimetal core
In a plurality of asymmetric color-shifting flakes, each flake has an asymmetric magnetic core with a magnetic layer visible on the first side of the core and a non-magnetic reflector layer on the magnetic layer, visible on the second side of the core. The flake has a spacer layer and an absorber layer on the first side of the core, and also a spacer layer and an absorber layer on the second side of the core, for providing color shifting effects. The material of the magnetic layer is different from the material of the reflector layer, and may be more stable when exposed to a chemical. When a coating with the asymmetric color-shifting flakes is exposed to the chemical, it may have better optical performance than a coating with symmetric color-shifting flakes. |
| US09482798B2 |
Plasmonic nano-color coating layer and method for fabricating the same
A plasmonic nano-color coating layer includes a composite layer including a plurality of metal particle layers and a plurality of matrix layers and having a periodic multilayer structure in which the metal particle layers and the matrix layers are alternately arranged, a dielectric buffer layer located below the composite layer, and a mirror layer located below the dielectric buffer layer, wherein the color of the plasmonic nano-color coating layer is determined based on a nominal thickness of the metal particle layer and a separation between the metal particle layers. |
| US09482795B2 |
Method and system for retroreflective cooling
An apparatus for inhibiting heating of an enclosure is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a covering configured to shade at least a portion of a surface of the enclosure and includes a plurality of retroreflective elements. The plurality of retroreflective elements are configured to retroreflect electromagnetic beams primarily at wavelength in a range between about 380 nm and about 780 nm or sub-range thereof. The plurality of retroreflective elements receive the electromagnetic beams along beam entry paths and reflect the electromagnetic beams along beam exit paths. The beam entry paths and the beam exit paths have substantially the same elevation angle and may also have substantially the same azimuthal angle. Further, the plurality of retroreflective elements may include retroreflective elements configured to diffusively and/or specularly scatter audible sound wavelengths, RF wavelengths, and/or thermal infrared energy. |
| US09482793B2 |
Liquid lens image capture device
An image capture module includes a liquid lens having a first and a second electrode, and a first and a second conductor element in electrical contact with the first and second electrode, respectively, the first and second conductor elements being each intended for connection with a voltage generator for driving the liquid lens. The first conductor element includes an electrically conductive body having a peripheral region for contact with the first electrode of the liquid lens with a light diaphragm aperture in a central region thereof. |
| US09482791B2 |
Slant lens interlacing with linearly arranged sets of lenses
An optical product that includes a transparent lens sheet, which has a first side with a plurality of side-by-side sets of linearly arranged lenses. Each of the sets of lenses is at a slant angle in the range of 10 to 46 degrees from a vertical or a horizontal axis of the lens sheet. The product includes an image layer that includes pixels from a number of digital images. The pixels are arranged in a pattern of pixel locations providing non-orthogonal interlacing of the digital images relative to each of the sets of the linearly arranged lenses. The pattern of pixel locations aligns a number of the pixels from each of the digital images to be parallel to a line extending through a center of the linearly arranged lenses in each set. Each of the linearly arranged lenses may have a round base, a hexagonal base, or a square base. |
| US09482790B2 |
Silica-modified-fluoride broad angle anti-reflection coatings
The disclosure is directed to a coating consisting of a binary metal fluoride coating consisting a high refractive index metal fluoride layer on top of a substrate, a low refractive index metal fluoride layer on top of the high refractive index layer and layer of SiO2 or F—SiO2 containing 0.2 wt % to 4.5 (2000 ppm to 45,000 ppm) F on top of the low refractive index layer. In one embodiment the F content of F—SiO2 is in the range of 5000 ppm to 10,000 ppm F. The high index and low index materials are each deposited to a thickness of less than or equal to 0.9 quarter wave, and the capping material is deposited to a thickness in the range of 5 nm to 25 nm. The disclosure is also directed to optical elements having the foregoing coating and a method of making the coating. |
| US09482786B2 |
Bird deterrent glass coatings
This invention pertains to UV-absorbing coatings that may optionally be covered with an anti-reflective layer and that are applied to exterior-facing surfaces such as a window or other glass surface that are transparent or translucent. Such coatings are visible to various species of birds, but are generally transparent to humans. The UV absorbing coatings have a silane- or silane-derived chromophore or a combination of a silane- or siloxane-based material and a chromophore, which chromophores absorb UV light at about 300 to about 400 nm. More particularly, the silane- or siloxane-based chromophore is 2-hydroxy-4-(3-triethoxysilylpropoxy)diphenylketone or a derivative thereof. |
| US09482784B2 |
Imaging metamaterial for projecting an object image with molecular and refractive index signal
The present invention is related to an imaging metamaterial, comprising at least one resonant unit with a controllable split structure that comprises at least one gap and at least one segment, wherein the segment is connected by a node or separated by the gap. The present invention also provides a method for preparing an imaging metamaterial. The present invention further provides an imaging apparatus. |
| US09482781B2 |
Systems, transmitter assemblies, and associated propulsion devices to explore and analyze subterranean geophysical formations
Systems and transmitter assemblies for exploring geophysical formations at great depths. In order to explore the formation, transmitter assemblies with a size less than 500 nanometers are inserted into the formation. The transmitter assemblies include propulsion devices to propel through the formation, analyzing fluids and conditions as each moves through the formation. The transmitter assemblies can communicate with a machine on the surface via a series of receivers and transmitters located in the wellbore. The machine on the surface is able to combine and analyze the data from the nanorobots to create a three dimensional map of the formation. The map shows the locations of pathways through the formation, pockets of hydrocarbons within the formation, and the boundaries of the formation. |
| US09482779B2 |
Device and methods for detecting a camera
A camera detector device for detecting the presence of an illegal camera inside a room. A camera takes multiple pictures of a room and identifies reflections in each still image. If a reflection with similar properties appears repeatedly overtime than the reflection is identified as an illegal camera positioned towards the camera detector device. |
| US09482778B2 |
Ultra-slim nuclear magnetic resonance tool for oil well logging
NMR properties of earth formations are determined using a logging device movable in a borehole. The logging device includes a magnet assembly to generate a static magnetic field and an antenna expandable from the surface of the magnet assembly into the borehole toward the borehole wall to increase the magnetic dipole moment of the antenna. The logging device can be lowered or raised through a drill pipe with the magnet assembly being configured to generate no magnetic field while the device is conveyed within the drill pipe. The logging device may also include a side-looking sensor to acquire fast relaxation component of the NMR signals. |
| US09482777B2 |
Transient electromagnetic tool mounted on reduced conductivity tubular
Systems, devices, and methods for evaluating an earth formation. Apparatus may include a carrier configured for conveyance in a borehole including a conducting tubular comprising a reduced conductivity portion made of reduced conductivity material adjacent at least one of (i) at least one transmitter antenna, and (ii) at least one receiver antenna on the carrier. The material may be a composite and may have a resistivity of between 10−4 and 102 ohm-meters. Methods and apparatus may be configured for producing time-dependent transient electromagnetic (TEM) signals using the transmitter(s) and receiver(s) and estimating a value of a resistivity property using the signals. The apparatus may be used in drilling and may include a bottom hole assembly with a drill bit, and the value may be indicative of a portion of the earth formation ahead of the bit. The value may be used to conduct further operations in a borehole, including geosteering. |
| US09482776B2 |
Interferometric processing to detect subterranean geological boundaries
A method of identifying a bed boundary in a subterranean formation by processing data measured by an induction logging tool. An interferometric method compares recorded voltages and/or phases recorded at axially spaced apart receivers on the logging tool. A transmitter is on the logging tool and set between the receivers, where the receivers are equally spaced apart from the transmitter. The transmitter emits a signal having frequencies up to around 50 kHz. |
| US09482771B2 |
Method of indicating the presence of gas hydrate and shallow gas in deepwater environment
A method for indicating the presence of free gas charged sands, and/or hydrates over free gas, and/or hydrates not over free gas, the method using well log data and a rock physics model. Velocity and density of background clays and sands are extracted from the well log data. The extracted velocities and densities are used to build a rock physics model. An AVO response is generated that is representative of free gas-charged sands. An AVO response is generated that is representative of hydrates over free gas-charged sands. An AVO response is generated that is representative of hydrates devoid of free gas. The generated AVO responses are used to construct an AVO crossplot diagram that is further used to distinguish deposits of free gas charged sands from hydrates over free gas, from hydrates not over free gas. |
| US09482764B1 |
Systems and methods for charge-sharing identification and correction using a single pixel
A radiation detector system is provided including a semiconductor detector, plural pixelated anodes, and at least one processor. At least one of the pixelated anodes is configured to generate a collected charge signal corresponding to charge collected by the pixelated anode and to generate a non-collected charge signal corresponding to charge collected by an adjacent anode. The at least one processor includes a tangible and non-transitory memory having stored thereon instructions configured to direct the at least one processor to determine a collected value for the collected charge signal, to determine a non-collected value for the non-collected charge signal, determine a calibrated value for the non-collected charge signal, determine a total charge produced by a charge sharing event using the collected value and the calibrated value, and count the charge sharing event as a single event if the total charge exceeds a predetermined value. |
| US09482763B2 |
Neutron and gamma sensitive fiber scintillators
One general embodiment according to the present disclosure may be formation evaluation tool for detecting radiation in a borehole in a volume of an earth formation. The tool may include a detector including a monolithic scintillation element comprising a coherent assemblage of joined fibers, wherein the fibers are made of an optically transparent scintillation media. The fibers may be at least one of i) gamma ray responsive; and ii) neutron responsive. The coherent assemblage of fibers may be a continuous mass, may be heat-joined. The fibers may be solid. The scintillation media may comprise at least one of i) organic crystalline scintillation materials, ii) amorphous glass, and iii) nanostructured glass ceramics. The coherent assemblage of fibers may be asymmetric. The coherent assemblage of fibers may surround a further scintillation media having different scintillation characteristics than the scintillation media. The scintillation element may be azimuthally sensitive. |
| US09482759B2 |
Apparatus and method for use in global position measurements
A receiver receiving global positioning data from one or more satellites above the Earth's surface detects a change in at least one parameter associated with the receiver and determines if the change is to be treated as erroneous. As a result of determining if the change in the at least one parameter is to be treated as erroneous, a further action may be performed. Determining if the change is to be treated as erroneous may include, for example, detecting changes in more than one parameter and determining if the changes are coincident. Detecting the change may also enable the receiver to predict the presence and magnitude of multipath components of signals, predict changes in an environment local to the receiver, predict large errors in position estimates determined by the receiver and modify an acquisition and tracking strategy used by the receiver. |
| US09482755B2 |
Measurement system having air temperature compensation between a target and a laser tracker
A target is provided having a retroreflector. A body is provided having a spherical exterior portion, the body containing a cavity. The cavity is sized to hold the retroreflector, the cavity open to the exterior of the body and having at least one surface opposite the opening, the retroreflector at least partially disposed in the cavity, wherein the retroreflector and at least one surface define a space therebetween. A transmitter is configured to emit an electromagnetic signal. A first actuator is configured to initiate emission of the electromagnetic signal, wherein the transmitter and the first actuator are affixed to the body. |
| US09482753B2 |
Split row-column addressing method for three-dimensional ultrasound imaging
The invention discloses a split row-column addressing method for three-dimensional ultrasound imaging, and the method comprises: for an N×N planar array, obtain the pulse-echo response distribution from fully connected two-dimensional planar array, parameters thereof comprising beam widths A′ and B′ at −6 dB and −20 dB respectively, average side lobe C′, highest side lobe D′ and main side-lobe energy ratio E′; set counter K=2, split two-dimensional planar array into K regions in channel direction, determine array elements amount and connect array elements in each region; calculate the time delay according to distance between the coordinates of each region and the focus point within a scanning range of the two-dimensional planar array, and analyze the two-dimensional planar array by ultrasonic sound field simulation algorithm according to the time delay of each region. The invention can solve the prior art of low resolution, and the problem that transmitted and received beam cannot be deflected. |
| US09482749B1 |
Signature detection in point images
A method and system is disclosed for tracking object clusters that reduces the complexity of isotropic scaling and conformal transformations that are used with current methods of tracking clusters. The method and system comprise obtaining a first sensor image and a second sensor image. Then, angular measurements between objects of the first sensor image are determined. Next, the second sensor image is rotated to align it with the first sensor image, and then angular measurements between objects of the second sensor image are determined. Then angular measurements from the first sensor image are compared to angular measurements of the second image, and correlated object clusters are identified. |
| US09482740B2 |
Determining location of a receiver with a multi-subcarrier signal
A data processor estimates the location of the receiver or estimated range from multicarrier signal. The data processor determines phase compensation data for each ranging subcarrier in the multipath signal. The phase compensation data comprises an adjustment to the estimated range based on a difference between an observed phase of the observed signal vector and a direct path phase of a direct path vector, where the direct path phase is estimated based on one or more prior measurements of a certain observed signal vector when an average amplitude of all (or a majority of) ranging subcarriers converge to substantially the same value. |
| US09482737B2 |
Computational systems and methods for locating a mobile device
Systems and methods are described relating to detecting an indication of a person within a specified proximity to at least one mobile device; and presenting an indication of location of the at least one mobile device at least partially based on the indication of the person within the specified proximity. Additionally, systems and methods are described relating to means for detecting an indication of a person within a specified proximity to at least one mobile device; and means for presenting an indication of location of the at least one mobile device at least partially based on the indication of the person within the specified proximity. |
| US09482731B2 |
Dynamic adjustment of gradient rise times for MR HF pulse sequences
In a method for image data acquisition using a magnetic resonance system, in order to excite nuclear spin signals, a sequence of high-frequency pulses is irradiated into an examination subject while gradients are simultaneously switched for position encoding of the excited nuclear spin signals. The rise times of the gradients used during the sequence are adjusted dynamically with each high-frequency pulse irradiation. |
| US09482724B2 |
Load detecting method and power supply device where the method is applied
A load detecting method relates to detecting connection or detachment between a power supply device and a load, and the load detecting method includes steps of determining whether a load detection operation is necessary or not, based on a detection voltage corresponding to an output voltage from the power supply device, when determining the load detection operation to be necessary, estimating a specific time point in a first period during which the output voltage of the power supply device decreases from a first level to a second level, and applying a test signal to the output voltage for a predetermined detection period with reference to the specific time point. The switching operation of a power switch of the power supply device does not occur in the first period. |
| US09482721B2 |
Electric power source circuit and abnormality diagnosis system
A control unit for a rotary electric machine includes a first current command module, a second current command module, a change module, and a return module. The first module performs a first current command on a maximum efficiency characteristic line on a d-q plane thereby to drive the machine at a maximum efficiency. The second module performs a second current command on a switching line set at a retard angle side relative to the maximum efficiency characteristic line. The change module changes a control mode from a rectangular wave voltage phase control mode to an overmodulation current control mode when an operation point of the machine reaches the switching line. The return module returns the current command from the second command to the first command after performance of the second command for a predetermined period. |
| US09482719B2 |
On-the-fly test and debug logic for ATPG failures of designs using on-chip clocking
A semiconductor chip includes an OCC that receives an ATPG test pattern and generates clock pulses in response. An OCC test circuit detects clock pulses of the OCC circuit and provides debug data to test output configurable logic that also receives results from other circuits testing different DUT flip-flops. A clipping test circuit detects ATPG failures due to clipped clock pulses from the OCC by providing pulse-width sensitive flip-flop outputs to DUT I/Os. An IR drop test circuit detects if ATPG failures are due to IR-drop problems in certain flip-flops. A pulse bit manipulating circuit varies the test pattern provided to the OCC and OCC-generated clock pulses. A debug controller connected to test output configurable logic selects between results of the different tests for supply as an output test signal to be compared on-the-fly with expected pattern data on ATE and used to isolate errors on the chip. |
| US09482714B2 |
Systems and methods for overheat detection system event location
Embodiments relate to systems for improved relative location identification for overheat, short circuit, and open circuit events. The systems accomplish the improvements by utilizing any, or a combination, of implementing a novel calculation formula, determining and implementing an external offset value, and determining and implementing an internal offset value. |
| US09482712B2 |
Method and apparatus for testing utility power devices
An apparatus for performing measurements on a utility power device that shares a common ground with the apparatus selectively sends a first high voltage signal via a first lead to a first terminal of the utility power device, measures a first corresponding signal returned via a second lead of the apparatus from a second terminal of the utility power device. While the corresponding first lead and the second lead of the apparatus remain electrically coupled to the corresponding first and the second terminal of the utility power device. The apparatus selectively sends a second high voltage signal via the second lead to the second terminal of the utility power device, and measures a second corresponding signal returned via the first lead of the apparatus from the first terminal of the utility power device. |
| US09482711B2 |
Apparatus and a method for detecting faults in the delivery of electrical power to electrical loads
A method of and apparatus for fault detection utilizing a diagnostic procedure by a diagnostic device to detect a short circuit between at least two of a plurality of load electrical connections, the diagnostic procedure comprising applying a test electrical signal to each of the load electrical connections in turn and while applying the test electrical signal to a first one of the load electrical connections, detecting whether an electrical output is present, in response, on any other of the load electrical connections, wherein the detecting by the diagnostic device includes applying the test electrical signal to the first one of the load electrical connections in an operational mode of the apparatus when an electrically controlled switch connected to the first one of the load electrical connections is in an off state. |
| US09482708B2 |
Enhanced reverberation chamber
A method and apparatus for an enhanced reverberation chamber are disclosed. In one embodiment, one or more positioners are coupled to a tuner, such that when the tuner moves, the positioner moves. A device involved with a test may be mounted to the positioner so that when the positioner moves, the device moves. |
| US09482707B2 |
Occupancy detection for automated recliner furniture
A system and method for incorporating occupancy-detecting technology into furniture is provided. More particularly, the invention relates to detecting occupancy in a recliner using a sinuous wire detection array incorporated into a seat. Further embodiments of the invention are directed to a system and method for incorporating capacitance detection technology with one or more conductive features of a recliner mechanism. In some aspects, a sensor is provided based on coupling one or more conductive features to a control component of the capacitance detector control component. A controller may determine the corresponding response based on occupancy detection and/or presence detection. A processor may receive information regarding changes in capacitance and determines when a change in voltage satisfies a threshold. Based on a determination of occupancy and/or presence, a variety of corresponding features of the adjustable recliner may be activated. |
| US09482706B2 |
Methods and circuits for measuring a high impedance element based on time constant measurements
A method of measuring impedance includes determining a first time constant based on a known impedance and a capacitor, determining a second time constant based on a target impedance and the capacitor, and determining the target impedance based on the first time constant and the second time constant. |
| US09482703B2 |
Method, sensor and system for analyzing appliances in a power line network
A method for analyzing appliances in a power line network, comprises obtaining an electrical characteristic of the power line network, using a sensor that is connected to the power line network, and detecting an appliance connected to the power line network on the basis of the electrical characteristic of the power line network and a model profile. The model profile is based on electrical characteristics of one or more candidate appliances and on a configuration of the power line network. |
| US09482702B2 |
Detection apparatus, power receiving apparatus, non-contact power transmission system and detection method
Disclosed herein is a detection apparatus including: a resonant circuit provided with a Q-factor measurement coil and one or more capacitors to serve as a circuit for receiving pulses; a response-waveform detecting section configured to detect the waveform of a response output by the resonant circuit in response to the pulses; and a Q-factor measuring section configured to measure a Q factor of the resonant circuit from the response waveform detected by the response-waveform detecting section. It is possible to increase the precision of detection of a metallic foreign substance existing between a power transmitting side and a power receiving side. |
| US09482699B2 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring high voltage bushings safely
The voltage at the test tap of a high voltage bushing is applied to a bushing coupler which includes circuitry to sense and process voltages generated at the test tap and convert the voltages into corresponding data signals. Data signals corresponding to the test tap voltages are then transmitted wirelessly to a bushing monitoring system. The wireless transmission may be, for example, via an optical coupling (e.g., fiber optics) arrangement or an electromagnetic radiation (e.g., RF transmission) arrangement. Thus, the signals from the bushing coupler are wirelessly transmitted to a monitoring system which is not conductively connected to the bushing coupler and the test tap. The bushing coupler includes a power supply which is chargeable from the test tap or wirelessly from the bushing monitoring system which is adapted to receive values of the high voltage applied to the bushing and to calculate changes in the values of selected bushing parameters. |
| US09482690B2 |
Scanning probe microscope
A scanning probe microscope to measure a sample set on a sample mount in liquid includes a scanning mechanism to scan a cantilever provided with a probe at a free end along an X-axis, a Y-axis, and a Z-axis perpendicular to each other, and a liquid contact member including an optical transmission portion to transmit detection light for detecting a displacement of the cantilever, and arranged at least partially in contact with the liquid. The liquid contact member is not scanned by the scanning mechanism. |
| US09482689B2 |
Accelerometer
The accelerometer of the present application includes: a main body; a channel positioned in the main body and forming a predetermined movement space; a conductive droplet positioned in the movement space and moving in the movement space according to inertia; a conduction section correspondingly positioned to the movement space and coming in contact with the conductive droplet; and a resistance measurement section connected to the conduction section and measuring the electric resistance of the conduction section. |
| US09482684B2 |
Centrifuge system and workflow
Systems, methods and apparatus are described for a centrifuge module of a laboratory analysis system. Specimen containers may be weighed, loaded into a centrifuge adapter, and transported to a centrifuge module by an adapter shuttle. A centrifuge adapter gripper may transport the centrifuge adapter into a centrifuge for centrifugation. The centrifuge adapter may be transported by the centrifuge adapter gripper to an adapter shuttle for unloading of the specimen containers, which may be performed by a specimen container gripper. A centrifuge drawer that allows a centrifuge to be extended from its installed position is also described. Additional embodiments pertain to a sequence for replacing, in a centrifuge, a set of centrifuge adapters that have been centrifuged with a set of centrifuge adapters that have not been centrifuged. A sequence for loading specimen containers into centrifuge adapters is also described. |
| US09482682B2 |
Reagent preparation apparatus and sample processing apparatus
The present invention is a reagent preparation apparatus, comprising: a reagent preparation unit configured to prepare a reagent for processing a sample; a measuring unit configured to measure a property of the reagent prepared by the reagent preparation unit; a waste section configured to discard the prepared reagent when a measurement result by the measuring unit does not meet a predetermined condition; and a controller configured to control a reagent preparation operation of the reagent preparation unit, wherein the controller controls the reagent preparation unit to stop the reagent preparation operation when a number of times of discarding a reagent has reached a predetermined plurality of times. |
| US09482681B2 |
Device for pipe inspection and method of using same
A device is described that includes a sensor portion and a chassis portion. The sensor portion includes a plurality of sensing devices. The chassis portion is connected to the sensor portion and includes a first track and a second track. The second track is positioned adjacent the first track. The first and second tracks cooperate to substantially cover an entire width of the chassis portion. |
| US09482679B2 |
Composition for use as an abnormal coagulation control plasma in in vitro assays
A composition, which relates to the field of the clinical analysis of blood, comprises human plasma, buffered isotonic solution and ferulic acid. The composition can be used as an abnormal coagulation control in haemostasis, coagulation and fibrinolysis assays. Ferulic acid can be used in the preparation of abnormal control plasma in haemostasis assays. |
| US09482677B2 |
Method, composition and device for sampling natriuretic peptides in a biological fluid
Disclosed is a composition that synergistically prevents proteolysis or modification of peptides in sampled biological fluids using sulfonyl fluoride family protease inhibitors at high concentrations combined with at least one additional protease inhibitor of a different type, preferably a broad spectrum protease inhibitor, and a chelator. A preferred embodiment uses AEBSF at 10 mM, Benzamidine at 20 mM and EDTA as the chelator. The disclosed composition may be combined with other protease inhibitors to further modulate its specificity, for instance to additionally target acidic proteases. Additional protease inhibitors, reducing agents, stabilizers and buffering agents may be combined with the disclosed compositions in devices for sampling or testing biological fluids for levels of peptides of interest, or methods therefore. The disclosed devices, compositions and methods are of particular use in sampling and testing for the level of natriuretic peptides. |
| US09482676B2 |
Method for screening for a therapeutic agent for idiopathic interstitial pneumonia
The present invention provides a method for detecting idiopathic interstitial pneumonia, which comprises measuring the expression level of a periostin gene or the amount of a periostin protein in a biological sample. Thereby, a method for detecting idiopathic interstitial pneumonia using a marker is provided. |
| US09482675B1 |
Methods and systems for prognosis and diagnosis of brain damage
The presently-disclosed subject matter includes methods and devices for diagnosing, prognosing, and treating brain damage in a subject, including brain damage caused by stroke or a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The methods can comprise providing a sample obtained from the subject, exposing the sample to an antibody selective for a visinin-like protein, detecting the presence of a complex that includes the antibody and the visinin-like protein, and diagnosing and/or prognosing the subject as having brain damage if there is the presence of the complex. Embodied methods can also comprise administering a treatment for brain damage if the subject includes the presence of the visinin-like protein. |
| US09482674B2 |
Serological methods and diagnostic tests for syphilis antibodies
A method of detecting antibodies to syphilis antigens includes providing a syphilis detection kit having a screening solid-phase platform with a screening portion coated with non-treponemal syphilis antigens. The screening portion is fabricated by initially dissolving cholesterol in an organic solvent and further diluting the dissolved cholesterol in an ethanol solution comprising cardiolipin and lecithin to form an antigen solution, permitting the antigen solution to evaporate at the screening portion and at least partially coating the screening portion with an antigen coating, and stabilizing the antigen coating into a syphilis antigen complex by overcoating the antigen coating with an overcoat solution comprising an inert protein. |
| US09482667B2 |
Anti-T. cruzi antibodies and methods of use
The present disclosure is directed to reagents and methods of using the reagents to detect epitopes of Trypanosoma cruzi. |
| US09482664B2 |
Detection devices and related methods of use
Disclosed are devices and methods for detecting analytes from a sample. |
| US09482661B2 |
Synthesis and use of isotopically labeled macrocyclic compounds
Disclosed herein are isotopically labeled antifungal antibiotics and related compounds. Also disclosed are methods for synthesizing these isotopically labeled molecules and using the same to study the distribution of these compounds in the biosphere as well as the products formed by the breakdown of these isotopically labeled compounds. |
| US09482660B2 |
Compositions comprising human embryonic stem cells and their derivatives, methods of use, and methods of preparation
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising of preparations of human embryonic stem (hES) cells and their derivatives and methods for their transplantation into the human body, wherein transplantation results in the clinical reversal of symptoms, cure, stabilization or arrest of degeneration of a wide variety of presently incurable and terminal medical conditions, diseases and disorders. The invention further relates to novel processes of preparing novel stem cell lines which are free of animal products, feeder cells, growth factors, leukaemia inhibitory factor, supplementary mineral combinations, amino acid supplements, vitamin supplements, fibroblast growth factor, membrane associated steel factor, soluble steel factor and conditioned media. This invention further relates to the isolation, culture, maintenance, expansion, differentiation, storage, and preservation of such stem cells. |
| US09482656B2 |
Diamine-based oil marker compositions and method of identifying oil product using the same
Provided is a method of identifying authenticity of oil by reacting oil marked by a Oil Marker Composition with a developer to develop a color and then measuring absorbance. According to the present invention, an oil maker capable of quantitatively and qualitatively measuring authenticity of oil due to a rapid reaction rate, excellent reproducibility, and distinct color development that may be observed by the naked eyes, and a method of identifying oil using the same. |
| US09482654B1 |
Use of multiple storage caverns for product impurity control
An inventory management method is also provided. This method includes removing and replacing the gas product from a first salt cavern as supply and demand dictate, analyzing the impurities in the gas product that is removed, predicting the duration until a maximum acceptable impurity limit is present, removing all the working gas from the first salt cavern when the maximum acceptable impurity limit is reached, then replacing the working gas in the first salt cavern, while concurrently, removing and replacing the gas product from a second salt cavern as supply and demand dictate, analyzing the impurities in the gas product that is removed, predicting the duration until a maximum acceptable impurity limit is present, removing all the working gas from the second salt cavern when the maximum acceptable impurity limit is reached, then replacing the working gas in the second salt cavern, while concurrently repeating steps a)-g). |
| US09482653B2 |
Gas exchange system flow configuration
Active compensation designs to offset the impact of gas diffusion sources and sinks in a photosynthesis and transpiration measurement system are disclosed. A sensor head for use in a gas exchange analysis system includes an active, piezoelectric flow splitting device for splitting a flow between a sample chamber and bypass pathway. The active flow splitting device is controlled by feedback from a downstream flow meter. A continuous measurement system for rapidly and accurately surveying large numbers of samples is described. |
| US09482649B2 |
Fitting for elastically-biasing a capillary for a fluid-tight connection to a fluidic conduit
A fitting (200) for providing a fluid connection between a capillary (202) and a fluidic conduit (204) of a fluidic component (30), the fitting (200) comprising a male piece (240) and a female piece (250) for connection with the male piece (240), wherein the male piece (240) comprises a housing (252) with a capillary reception (212) configured for receiving the capillary (202), wherein a part of the capillary (202) being received in the capillary reception (212) is circumferentially covered by a sleeve (214), an elastic biasing mechanism (206) being arranged at least partially within the housing (252), being configured for biasing the capillary (202) against the female piece (250) and being supported by the sleeve (214), and a locking mechanism (208) being arranged at least partially within the housing (252) and being configured for locking the capillary (202) to the fitting (200). |
| US09482648B2 |
Method for detecting galacto-oligosaccharide
A method for detecting and quantifying galacto-oligosaccharide in a sample containing galacto-oligosaccharide and dextrin is characterized in that the sample is caused to react with a derivatizing reagent to derivatize the dextrin and galacto-oligosaccharide in the sample, after which the galacto-oligosaccharide component in the sample is separated by high-performance liquid chromatography using a C30 reverse-phase chromatography column, thereby accurately detecting and quantifying galacto-oligosaccharide with ease and at low cost. |
| US09482647B2 |
Gear fault detection
Embodiments are directed to obtaining an impact energy signal associated with each of a plurality of teeth of a gear over a revolution of a shaft associated with the gear, generating, by a computing device comprising a processor, a profile of the impact energy signal, and declaring a fault associated with an identified tooth included in the plurality of teeth based on an analysis of the profile. |
| US09482639B2 |
Detection of volatile chemicals using an RFID sensing system
Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for monitoring volatile chemicals. A system includes an radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag composed of a patterned metal. The patterned metal is configured to absorb a volatile chemical. The RFID tag includes a non-volatile memory configured to store identification data. The RFID tag also includes a receiver that receives a signal at a frequency in a frequency range. The frequency is based upon an amount of the volatile chemical absorbed in the patterned metal. A transmitter of the RFID tag transmits the identification data in response to receiving the signal. The strength of the transmitted identification data is based upon an amount of the absorbed volatile chemical. |
| US09482632B2 |
Abnormality detection device
An estimating unit 51 estimates the upper limit of possible temperatures in a predetermined position of ICT equipment when the quantity of intake air into the ICT equipment is appropriate, based on the result of detection by an operational status detecting unit that detects the operational status of the ICT equipment and the result of detection by an intake-air temperature sensor 62 that detects the temperature of intake air of the ICT equipment. A determining unit 52 determines that an abnormality is occurring when the result of detection by a temperature sensor 63 that detects the temperature in the predetermined position is beyond the upper limit estimated by the estimating unit. |
| US09482629B2 |
X-ray CT apparatus
An X-ray CT apparatus includes: an X-ray generating unit configured to generate an X ray; an X-ray detecting unit including a plurality of X-ray detectors, each configured to detect the X ray generated from the X-ray generating unit and transmitted through an object; and an image generating unit configured to correct and reconstruct signals acquired by the X-ray detecting unit. While crosstalk correction of a plurality of the X-ray detectors is performed at the image generating unit, correction of a locally attenuating component is previously performed and correction of a whole component of the crosstalk is performed when the image is reconstructed. |
| US09482626B2 |
Waveguide probe for nondestructive material characterization
An open-ended waveguide probe including a finite flange extending outwardly and functioning as an infinite flange. A signal source provides a microwave signal to the waveguide, which in turn transmits microwave electromagnetic energy incident upon an object to be tested. The finite flange at the waveguide's aperture is shaped to reduce scattering of the electromagnetic field reflected from the object and received by the aperture. The probe is adapted for coupling to a receiver for sampling the reflected electromagnetic field received by the aperture and the receiver is adapted for coupling to a processor for determining at least one material characteristic of the object based on sampled electromagnetic field reflected from the object. |
| US09482613B2 |
Instrument and method for detecting analytes
The present disclosure provides instruments and methods for detecting an analyte which are capable of exciting a plurality of luminescence labels and detecting light emitted therefrom. The instrument includes a filter carrier adapted for carrying a plurality of filter portion pairs, each pair related to a luminescence label and comprising a first filter portion for transmitting excitation light, and a second filter portion for transmitting emitted light. The first filter portion of a pair comprises a second filter portion of another pair. Also, the filter portions are arranged such that a pair can be brought into an operative condition whereby a first filter portion is in the excitation beam path and a second filter portion is in the emission beam path. The filter carrier and beam paths may be moved with respect to each other by a moving mechanism so as to bring a pair into operative condition. |
| US09482612B2 |
Photon emitter characterization using photoluminescence quenching in nitrogen vacancy color centers
A crystal film with nitrogen vacancy centers is placed in close proximity to a photon emitter. Excitation illumination is produced to cause the nitrogen vacancy centers to produce photoluminescence. Illumination is produced by the photon emitter, which may be near field or far field and which quenches the photoluminescence intensity using an effect known as Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED). The quenching caused by the photon emitter is detected and analyzed to determine characteristics of the photon emitter. The analysis takes into account the characteristic dependence of the STED on the depletion light power, i.e. the photon source, and a spatial distribution of the light intensity. The analysis may be applied to spatially resolved measurements or an integral value of the photoluminescence quenching. The analysis may determine characteristics such as peak power, power scaling factor, and FWHM of the illumination profile of the photon emitter. |
| US09482609B2 |
Silicon oil sensor and electric power terminal assembly
A silicon oil sensor is provided and includes a transparent member and a laser source emitting a laser beam. The transparent member includes a light receiving passageway with an oil receiving section and a side surface. The laser beam is directed into the light receiving passageway such that an incident angle θ of the laser beam (L) with respect to the side surface is selected so that a total reflection of the laser beam (L) occurs on the side surface when the oil receiving section is filled with air and exits out of the transparent member along a total reflection path (L1). A refraction of the laser beam (L) occurs along a refraction path (L2) when the oil receiving section collects silicon oil. |
| US09482605B2 |
Bond testing machine and cartridge for a bond testing machine comprising a plurality of test tools
A cartridge suitable for use in a bond testing machine includes a plurality of a different test tools. A rotary mechanism is provided and each of the plurality of different test tools is mounted to the rotary mechanism angularly spaced from one another. A drive unit is coupled to the rotary mechanism and is configured to rotate the rotary mechanism to move each of the plurality of different test tools to and from a use position. An air interface receives compressed air from a corresponding air interface on a positioning assembly of the bond testing machine. |
| US09482603B2 |
Solid phase extraction device for dried sample cards
Described is a device for solid phase extraction of a dried sample of a biological fluid. The device includes a support structure such as a plate or support block that has a first side to receive a dried sample card. The support structure also has a second side that is opposite the first side and a number of apertures that extend between the first and second sides. The device also includes a plurality of wells each containing a sample preparation material and having an inlet end that communicates with a respective aperture at the second side of the support structure. Each dried sample on the dried sample card is aligned with one of the apertures. Extraction samples in each well pass through the sample preparation material, such as a chromatographic sorbent, in the well to remove one or more constituents of the extraction sample. |
| US09482602B2 |
Integrated modular unit including an analyte concentrator-microreactor device connected to a cartridge-cassette
The present invention relates to an immunoaffinity device for capturing one or more analytes present at high or low concentrations in simple or complex matrices. The device is designed as an integrated modular unit and connected to capillary electrophoresis or liquid chromatography for the isolation, enrichment, separation and identification of polymeric macromolecules, primarily protein biomarkers. The integrated modular unit includes an analyte-concentrator-microreaction device connected to a modified cartridge-cassette. |
| US09482600B2 |
Sample collection unit, system and method for microbiological air analysis
A sample collection unit for microbiological air analysis includes a housing and a sample treatment path. The housing has a sample inlet opening, an optical window, and an air outlet opening. The sample treatment path has a conjugation pad, and a test strip with a test area and an absorber section. The sample collection unit also has a device configured to receive a container for a solvent, and a device configured to release the solvent. The sample collection unit is preferably configured as a disposable component in the form of a cartridge. Integration of the container for the solvent in the sample collection unit permits simplification and automation of the corresponding sampling method. |
| US09482594B2 |
Diagnostic module
A diagnostic module may include an inspection device, a cleaning device, and in various other examples, a verification device. The inspection device may inspect an optical fiber end-face of an optical fiber. The cleaning device may clean the optical fiber end-face of the optical fiber. The diagnostic module may automatically move from an optical connector to another optical connector. |
| US09482593B2 |
Selectable multi-axis shaker table
The selectable multi-axis shaker table may be adjusted to produce reciprocating linear motion parallel to any one or more of three mutually orthogonal axes, and/or to produce rotary reciprocating motion about its longitudinal axis. The device is driven by a single linear actuator, e.g., a hydraulic or pneumatic ram, linear motor, etc. The device includes a fixed lower base, an intermediate plate adjustably linked to the base, and an upper platform adjustably linked to the intermediate plate. By adjusting one or more of the various linkages between the base, intermediate plate, and upper platform, and/or adjusting the location of the receiver link and linear actuator to the mechanism, the selectable multi-axis shaker table may produce motion of the table platform parallel to its major horizontal axis (X-axis), minor horizontal axis (Y-axis), and/or its vertical axis (Z-axis), and can further produce reciprocating rotary motion of the platform about its X-axis. |
| US09482589B2 |
Leak detector for use with flanged waste water drain pipe
Provided herein is a leak detector comprising: a flat base sheet bound by an outer perimeter and an interior aperture; a wick material barrier coupled to the base between the aperture and the outer perimeter in a continuous or substantially continuous strip around the aperture, the wick material barrier interrupted by one or more gap regions, each gap region defined by a pair of wick material projections starting at either end of the gap region and extending radially outward; a liquid sensor in fluid communication with the pair of wick material projections; and a liquid-impermeable material coupled to the base sheet and surrounding the pair of wick material projections to form a liquid-impermeable enclosure defining an interior cavity comprising the pair of wick material projections and the liquid sensor. |
| US09482588B2 |
Method and apparatus for evaluating clamp force in a bolt by means of ultra-sonic measurements
In an apparatus and a method of evaluating a clamp force (F) in a threaded joint between a bolt and a matching threaded piece during a tightening operation, a torque (T) provided to the joint is continuously measured and ultra-sonic pulses are simultaneously induced into the bolt such that a time of flight (TOF) of the pulses in the bolt is measured. In response to an increase of the measured torque (T) an increase rate (dT/dα) of the torque (T) is determined, from which an initial rotation angle (α0) where the torque (T) starts to increase due to bolt deformation is determined. An increase rate (dTOF/dα) of the time of flight (TOF) is also determined. A total increase of the time of flight (ΔTOF) during the tightening operation is then determined based on the initial rotation angle (α0) and the increase rate (dTOF/dα) of the time of flight (TOF). |
| US09482586B2 |
Heating control apparatus and control method thereof
A heating control apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The heating control apparatus includes a heating module, a temperature sensing module, a pulse width modulation circuit, and a comparator. Input terminals of the comparator are respectively coupled to the temperature sensing module and the pulse width modulation circuit, and an output terminal of the comparator is coupled to the heating module. In the control method, a heating temperature of the heating module is sensed by the temperature sensing module, so as to provide a temperature sensing signal. The comparator receives the temperature sensing signal and a pulse width modulation signal generated by the pulse width modulation circuit and compares the temperature sensing signal and the pulse width modulation signal to generate a comparing pulse width modulation signal, so as to control the heating temperature of the heating module by using the comparing pulse width modulation signal. |
| US09482584B2 |
System and method for predicting the temperature of a device
A method of predicting a temperature includes operatively coupling a temperature prediction circuit to a device including a semiconductor chip, determining a correlation between a current and voltage of the temperature prediction circuit, and predicting a temperature with respect to power applied to the device using the determined correlation. |
| US09482583B1 |
Automated heliostat reflectivity measurement system
Methods and systems for measuring heliostat reflectivity with a control processing unit configured to receive an image of a heliostat, receive an image of the Sun, process the received images, and determine a reflectivity estimate based on a comparison of the processed images. |
| US09482578B2 |
Spectral sensitive solid-state photodetector
A method for detecting photons includes subjecting a photodiode formed in a semi-conductive material, to a bias voltage such that an avalanche phenomenon can appear when a photon enters the photodiode in an avalanche layer extending into the semi-conductive material down to minimum and maximum depths so that it can be reached by photons having a wavelength between minimum and maximum wavelengths. The method also includes comparing the amplitude of a signal supplied by the photodiode with two threshold values, and deducing that the photodiode received a photon having a wavelength between two threshold wavelengths ranging between the minimum and maximum wavelengths, if the amplitude of the signal is between the two threshold values. |
| US09482576B2 |
Spectroscopic measurement device having transmissive optical member with a sloped face
A spectroscopic measurement device includes: a dividing optical system for dividing a measurement beam emitted from each of a plurality of measurement points located within a measurement area of an object to be measured, into a first measurement beam and a second measurement beam; an imaging optical system; an optical path length difference providing means; a detector including a plurality of pixels; a processor for acquiring an interferogram of a measurement point of the object to be measured; a conjugate plane imaging optical system located between the object to be measured and the dividing optical system; and a periodicity providing means located on the conjugate plane. |
| US09482575B1 |
System and method for low signal knife edge wavefront sensing in an adaptive optical system
A System and Method for Low Signal Knife Edge Wavefront Sensing in an Adaptive Optical System to provide measurement and compensation of aberrations induced by propagation through an optical system and through a turbulent medium to a target. The wavefront sensing method requires a minimum signal level for effective operation by taking advantage of the implicit gain afforded by the knife edge principle and incorporating a means for on-line calibration of the knife edge gain. This particular advantage reduces requirements on the laser utilized to generate a beacon signal for wavefront sensing and reduces requirements on the detectors utilized for wavefront sensing, ultimately reducing cost of the method relative to alternative adaptive optical systems using conventional wavefront sensing methods. The method is suitable for use with a broad range of laser sources, including continuous wave and pulsed laser sources, cooperative and non-cooperative targets. |
| US09482574B2 |
Method for determining a quality characteristic and for vibration measurement
Method for determining a characteristic for the quality of alignment of a rotating machine, by obtaining vibration data with at least one vibration sensor, and using the vibration data obtained with the vibration sensor to determine a characteristic for the quality of alignment. Furthermore, alignment data obtained from first and second optoelectronic units is used in addition to the vibration data obtained with the at least one vibration sensor to produce a combination value from which both an instantaneous vibration state and success of the alignment can be determined. |
| US09482573B2 |
Condition based monitoring system based on radar sensor
A sensing system comprising a radar-based vibration sensor and processing unit used to collect and process vibration information from a machine of interest. The radar-based vibration sensor obtains vibration data from mechanical operation of a component or series of components in the machine, and may be steered toward specific regions of interest of the machine. The processing unit analyzes the data, and may fuse data from a plurality of vibration sensors, such as radar-based vibration sensors and multiple machine-mounted sensors such as accelerometers. From this analysis, indications related to a status of the mechanical operation of the components in the machine of interest may be provided to relevant users. |
| US09482572B2 |
Foot ware and pads with vibrational sensing systems and methods for making and using same
Vibration sensing wear for soldiers or law enforcement officers include at least one sensing system having vibration sensors, at least one processing unit, and a user interface unit capable of altering the wearer of surface vibration (e.g., ground, walls, floors, ceilings, etc.), object size, and direction. |
| US09482570B2 |
Device and method for recalibrating an exhaust gas mass flow sensor
A device for recalibrating an exhaust gas mass flow sensor includes a first sensor, a second sensor, and a control unit. The first sensor comprises a heating element and a first temperature measuring element. The second sensor comprises a second temperature measuring element. The control unit controls a temperature signal produced at the heating element and comprises a first and second characteristic map. The first characteristic map plots an exhaust gas mass flow as a function of a heat dissipation of the heating element. A correction factor can be determined from the second characteristic map based on the temperature signal produced at the heating element and measured by the first temperature measuring element and based on a temperature signal measured via the heating element at the second temperature measuring element. The correction facture corrects a measured heat dissipation of the unit heating element to a corrected exhaust gas mass flow. |
| US09482567B2 |
Method of operating a Coriolis mass flowmeter and coil for use in said method
A method of operating a Coriolis mass flowmeter in which common or even great forces for oscillation excitation can be guaranteed, and at the same time, with which the risk of flashover is reduced in explosion-proof surroundings is implemented using an actuator assembly (4) that has at least a first conductor (11) with windings (12) and at least a second conductor (13) with windings (14), the windings of the conductors being arranged parallel to one another and insulated from one another at least in the area of their windings (12, 14), in which the first conductor and the second conductor are supplied with current that is at least temporarily in the same direction in the operating state, and a common magnetic field is created in which partial magnetic fields of the conductors are structurally superimposed. |
| US09482565B2 |
Magnetic-inductive flowmeter device having a plurality of flowmeter units, power supply and evaluating units provided in a common housing
A magnetic-inductive flowmeter has a plurality of functional units and a housing which is common to all of the functional units. Each functional unit has a measuring tube for an electrically conductive medium to flow through, a magnetic field-generating device having at least one field coil for generating a magnetic field which runs at least also perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the measuring tube, and two measuring electrodes. A virtual connecting line between the measuring electrodes runs at least substantially perpendicular to the direction of the magnetic field which passes through the measuring tube. A common medium-inflow connection is created in the housing for the measuring tubes of all of the functional units, a common power supply is created for the magnetic field-generating device of all of the functional units, and a common evaluation unit is created for the measuring electrodes of all of the functional units. |
| US09482556B2 |
Measuring system for registering the absolute rotation angle of a rotating, measured object
A measuring system for registering the absolute rotation angle of a rotating, measured object, wherein a first gear is associated with a shaft of the measured object, wherein the first gear directly or indirectly engages at least a second gear and a third gear and wherein tooth counts the individual gears differ from one another. There is associated with each gear a rotation angle sensor, which registers the rotation angle of the associated gear. A calculating unit is provided, which ascertains at least the difference between the rotation angle of the second gear and that of the first gear and the difference between the rotation angle of the third gear and that of the first gear and, based on a summing of the differences of the ascertained rotation angle of the gears, determines the number of whole numbered revolutions and the remainder rotation angle of the shaft of the measured object. |
| US09482552B2 |
Method of simulating a real-time aircraft system input to an avionics component
A method of simulating a real-time aircraft system input to an avionics component for an aircraft includes receiving the simulation input and providing the simulated input to the avionics component. |
| US09482550B2 |
Linear route progress interface
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for providing linear route progress. For example, a linear route progress interface, comprising a linear route representation of a route from a starting location to a destination location, may be displayed. The linear route representation may linearly represent a progress of the user along the route (e.g., as opposed to directions on a map that may otherwise visually overwhelm a user merely interested in traffic flow and/or incident information that may affect an arrival time of the user). The linear route progress interface may be populated with traffic flow indicators (e.g., traffic flow speed) and/or incident indictors (e.g., indicating accidents, construction, etc.). A user indicator, corresponding to a current position of the user, may be populated within the linear route progress interface. The user indicator and/or the linear route representation may be modified to illustrate user progress along the route. |
| US09482549B2 |
Determining location information using a location data point provided by a computing device
A system and method for determining location information using a location data point provided by a computing device is described. A location data point is received by a system from a client computing device. The system determines whether the location data point is within a predefined region from a plurality of predefined regions configured by a user of the system. If the location data point is within a predefined region, location information corresponding to the predefined region is transmitted to the client device. If the location data point is not within a predefined region, one or more third-party reverse geocoding services can be used that translates the location data point to a street address. |
| US09482544B1 |
Electric vehicle efficiency profile management
Electric vehicle efficiency profile management may include storing user-specific efficiency information associated with an electric vehicle and a current user of a portable electronic computing and communication device in response to detecting, by the portable electronic computing and communication device, a direct electronic communication link with an electric vehicle, and, in response to detecting, by the portable electronic computing and communication device, a disconnection of the direct electronic communication link, determining a current efficiency value, and storing a user-specific efficiency profile incorporating the current efficiency value. |
| US09482543B2 |
Path searching method and path search device
A computer determines to which of a plurality of levels each of a plurality of road types for which a path search is performed corresponds, according to a distance between a departure point and a destination point. Next, the computer performs a first path search for the road type associated with a first level from the departure point to the destination point, and a second path search for the road type associated with the first level from the destination point to the departure point. Then, the computer performs a third path search for the road type associated with a second level according to a point obtained in the first path search and a point obtained in the second path search, and generates path information according to a result of the first path search, the second path search, and the third path search. |
| US09482541B2 |
Navigation system
A required time calculator calculates a virtual required time period when a first movable body is assumed to travel a second route different from a first route the first movable body actually travels and arrive at a second point. The required time calculator preferentially acquires position information from a second movable body having information indicating a movement characteristic similar to information indicating the movement characteristic of the first movable body from among one or more of second movable bodies. The required time calculator calculates the virtual required time period using the acquired position information. |
| US09482540B2 |
Navigation display method and system
A light pattern is projected onto the front glass in a position where the light pattern appears to be projected onto or in close proximity to a corresponding specific real-world object when viewed by an operator in the operating position and/or a graphic pattern is superposed on a graphic or video image of the real-world objects in front of the vehicle in a position where the graphical pattern appears to be on or in close proximity to the image of the corresponding specific real-world object on a screen, wherein the light pattern and/or graphic pattern has a light wavelength that changes in accordance with the distance between the vehicle and the specific real-world object. |
| US09482539B2 |
Probabilistic map matching from a plurality of observational and contextual factors
Systems, methods, and devices are described for implementing map matching techniques relating to measured location data. Probabilistic models, including temporal Bayesian network models and Hidden Markov Models, may be used for combining multiple classes of evidence relating to potential locations of points traversed on routes over time. Multiple route segments and overall routes may be maintained under relative uncertainty as candidates. The candidate route segments and overall routes may then be reduced into a smaller number of candidates or a single most likely route as a trip progresses. As the trip progresses, route segments in proximity to each location point are identified and candidate matches are determined. A probability of an entity traversing a candidate match at a given time and a probability of an entity traversing between a first candidate match at a first time and a second candidate match at a second time are determined based on a plurality of factors. Different modalities may be used to measure and transmit the location data. |
| US09482532B2 |
Surveying instrument and surveying operation system
A surveying instrument includes a pedestal provided with a guide light irradiation unit provided with a light source to irradiate with guide light indicating a collimation direction of the surveying instrument to an operator, a tracking optical system which locks a target, a ranging optical system which ranges a distance to the target, and a control circuit which calculates surveying data by a ranging result of the ranging optical system, and a transmitting and receiving unit which receives survey setting point data regarding a survey setting operation and sends the surveying data obtained by the control circuit. |
| US09482531B2 |
Targeting device for electro-optical measuring apparatuses
Some embodiments of the invention relate to a targeting device for providing a substitution target of natural shape for the individual-point measurement of surface points with an electro-optical measuring apparatus. In some embodiments, the targeting device may include a carrier plate having at least one insertion seat, and a target panel. In some embodiments, the target panel is insertable into the insertion seat of the carrier plate. In some embodiments, the target panel may include at least one defined placement location for being placed onto the surface point to be measured, and at least one targeting marking. |
| US09482526B2 |
Method for representing the surface of an object
In an improved method for the representation of the surface of an object, the actual 3D data (7) of the surface of the object are determined. The desired 3D data of the surface of the object are modified on the basis of the actual 3D data (7) of the surface of the object. The desired 3D data (5) of the surface of the object and the modified desired 3D data (5) of the surface of the object are used as the 3D representation data (FIG. 2). |
| US09482525B2 |
Apparatus to compensate bearing runout in a three-dimensional coordinate measuring system
A device measures three-dimensional coordinates of a target by sending a beam of light to the target and measuring the distance and angles from the device to the target. It further bases the three-dimensional coordinates on bearing compensation values that depend on a number of bearing rotations and a bearing angle. |
| US09482524B2 |
Measuring system for determining 3D coordinates of an object surface
A measuring system for determining 3D coordinates of measurement points on an object surface which has a scanning apparatus for measuring the measurement points on the object surface and for determining inner measurement point coordinates in an inner scanning coordinate system. Furthermore, a referencing arrangement for producing referencing information for referencing the inner measurement point coordinates in the outer object coordinate system and an evaluation unit for determining the 3D coordinates of the measurement points in the outer object coordinate system on the basis of the inner measurement point coordinates and the referencing information are provided such that the inner measurement point coordinates are in the form of 3D coordinates in the outer object coordinate system. The scanning apparatus is in this case carried in an unmanned, controllable, automotive air vehicle. |
| US09482523B2 |
Air micrometer
The present invention relates to an air micrometer. The air micrometer includes a target object accommodation slot having a bottom surface and a ceiling surface to accommodate at least one portion of the target object between the bottom surface and the ceiling surface, and an air spray unit including a nozzle opened in the bottom surface or the ceiling surface to spray the air onto the target object that is accommodated between the bottom surface and the ceiling surface. |
| US09482522B2 |
Digital locker
Techniques are provided for generating sensor data from a locker compartment and transmitting the sensor data to a locker controller. The sensor data indicates one or more characteristics of an item present in the locker compartment. Upon receiving the sensor data, the locker controller transmits the sensor data to a locker manager, which, based on, at least in part, the sensor data indicating the one or more characteristics of the item, determines one or more dimensions of the item present in the locker compartment. The locker controller also requests one or more reference dimensions of the item, determines whether the one or more dimensions of the item match the one or more reference dimensions of the item, and if so generates and transmits a first report message indicating that the one or more dimensions of the item match the one or more reference dimensions of the item. |
| US09482518B2 |
Systems and methods for semiconductor device process determination using reflectivity measurement
Methods and systems that include receiving a plurality of reflectivity measurements on a semiconductor wafer. A reflectivity map is generated based on the received plurality of reflectivity measurements. The generated reflectivity map is used to determine a process parameter of an epitaxial growth process using the reflectivity map. In an embodiment, the process parameter is a power setting (heating) of a lamp of a CVD epitaxy tool. |
| US09482515B2 |
Stereoscopic measurement system and method
A stereoscopic measurement system captures stereo images and determines measurement information for user-designated points within stereo images. The system comprises an image capture device for capturing stereo images of an object. A processing system communicates with the capture device to receive stereo images. The processing system displays the stereo images and allows a user to select one or more points within the stereo image. The processing system processes the designated points within the stereo images to determine measurement information for the designated points. |
| US09482512B2 |
Methods for 3-dimensional interferometric microscopy
A method includes sequentially acquiring phase-shifted images of an optical source in a plurality of predetermined positions in the z plane to form a plurality of image frame sequences; determining from the plurality of image frame sequences at least one phase-related characteristic associated with each predetermined position of the optical source in the z plane; and storing the at least one phase-related characteristic and the predetermined positions of the optical source in the z plane. |
| US09482510B2 |
Noise measurement for measured displacement
An apparatus including a first plurality of electrodes and a second plurality of electrodes is disclosed. Each electrode of the first plurality of electrodes is configured to measure an electric field associated with a position of a moving object. The second plurality of electrodes is disposed further away from the moving object in comparison to the first plurality of electrodes. The second plurality of electrodes is configured to measure a signal associated with ambient noise. |
| US09482509B2 |
Ergonomic micrometer including two modes of adjustment
A micrometer provides a quick adjustment mode and a fine adjustment mode. A spline-like rotary coupling configuration constrains the micrometer thimble and a threaded element to move together with respect to rotation, but does not constrain the position of the threaded element relative to the thimble along the measurement axis. A gear in the micrometer frame includes gear teeth that mesh with the threaded element and roll thereon along the measurement direction. A locking arrangement, when unlocked, allows the meshed gear to be rotated by a user to drive the threaded element along the measuring axis in the quick adjustment mode. When locked, the locking arrangement prevents motion of the gear to provide the fine adjustment mode, wherein the user rotates the thimble to screw the threaded element through the meshed teeth of the gear, to adjust the spindle position. |
| US09482498B1 |
Resetting gun target
An example resetting gun target includes a first curved rocking member; a second curved rocking member; a connector portion joining the first rocking member and the second rocking member and maintaining a space between the first rocking member and the second rocking member; and a central target panel attached to the connector portion and situated in the space between the first curved rocking member and the second curved rocking member. The resetting gun target may further include paddle portions respectively situated at a first end and a second end of each of the first curved rocking member and the second curved rocking member. |
| US09482497B2 |
Corner-mounted target
A target for receiving projectiles is configured for mounting in a corner of a room. The target includes a front target wall including a pair of spaced apart edges having a target area located between the edges and at least one side area extending from the front wall adapted for engagement with one of the walls defining the corner. |
| US09482491B1 |
Detachable armor hold down
Methods and apparatus are provided for an armor mounting device capable of securely and detachably holding an armor panel to a floor. In one exemplary embodiment the armor mounting device consists of a base having a flat plate portion and a raised central portion, and a detachable clamp that includes a hold down plate and a spring loaded latch disposed within hold down plate. The spring loaded latch is connectable to the raised central portion of the base through a hole in the armor panel when the detachable clamp is juxtaposed with the base, to thereby trap the armor panel between the hold down plate and the flat plate portion of the base. A bonding agent secures the base to the floor. |
| US09482488B2 |
Illuminated reticle system for a riflescope or other aimed optical device
An illuminable reticle supporting multiple optical fibers includes an electroformed foil or wire reticle segment providing a primary aiming mark; a first optical fiber having a first end, the first optical fiber being adhered to and overlaying a lower portion of the segment to provide a first illuminable aiming point along the primary aiming mark when the first optical fiber emits light from its first end; and a second optical fiber having a second end, the second optical fiber being adhered to and overlaying a lower portion of the first optical fiber to provide a second illuminable aiming point parallel with and below the first illuminable aiming point when the second optical fiber emits light from its second end. |
| US09482486B2 |
Sock and sling system
A sock and sling system is presented for storing a gun within the sock in a storage state and for using as a sling connected to the gun when in a sling state. The system includes a sock extending a length from a first end to a second end and having an open interior. A pair of removable sling swivels connect the sock member to the gun. When used as a sling, the length of the sock member can be adjusted in a plurality of ways including twisting the sock member, selecting one of a number of loops to attach to or by adjusting the length of a length adjusting drawstring. In this way, a system is presented that serves the dual purpose of storing a gun in a storage state and as a sling in a sling state. |
| US09482485B2 |
Firearm having a removable hand guard
An upper receiver for a firearm is provided. The upper receiver having: a hand guard section integrally formed with the upper receiver; a rail section integrally formed with the hand guard section, wherein the rail section is formed of a first material and the hand guard section is formed of a second material, wherein the second material is molded about the first material. |
| US09482484B2 |
Firearm suppressor
A firearm suppressor can comprise a central longitudinal chamber adapted to facilitate passage of a projectile fired from a firearm through the central longitudinal chamber. The firearm suppressor can also comprise an outer chamber disposed radially outward of the central longitudinal chamber, the outer chamber being in fluid communication with the central longitudinal chamber via an opening. The firearm suppressor can further comprise a baffle disposed in the outer chamber and defining a forward portion of the outer chamber and a rearward portion of the outer chamber. The forward portion of the outer chamber can contain the opening such that discharge gases associated with the projectile enter the forward portion of the chamber and are directed backward past the baffle to the rearward portion of the outer chamber where the discharge gases are at least temporarily trapped behind the projectile to reduce or prevent alteration of a trajectory or a speed of the projectile by the discharge gases. |
| US09482483B2 |
Firearm with integrated suppressor
Firearms with integrated suppressors have a receiver having a forward portion defining an internal bore, a tubular body having sides defining an interior, a selected portion of the interior receiving a barrel, the barrel having a rear end removably received in the internal bore, a selected portion of the interior receiving a plurality of baffles, and wherein at least one side of the body can be disassembled into a panel to enable access to the baffles. Each of the baffles may define an aperture. The barrel may have a central bore that defines a bore axis, and the baffle apertures may be axially registered with the bore axis. At least one side of the body may have an attachment facility that removably connects an accessory to the rifle. The barrel, baffles, and body may be of monolithic or modular construction. |
| US09482478B2 |
Non-detachable magazine lower receiver
A non-detachable magazine lower receiver for a firearm includes a stock mount, a trigger well extending from the stock mount, and a magazine well. The trigger well is configured to receive a firing mechanism. The magazine well is configured to receive a magazine. A proximal wall of the magazine defines a retention opening that passes through a distal wall of the trigger well. The retention opening is configured to receive a magazine retention member for fixing a magazine recovered in the magazine well to the lower receiver. |
| US09482476B2 |
Plug kit for pressured components
An apparatus for plugging a bore of a tube sheet, the apparatus includes cantilevered members that project radially outward from a body on the inner surface of the tube sheet. Slots can be drilled into a tube the projects into the bore and the cantilevered members set into the slots. The cantilevered members can slide radially outward from within the body, or can be pivotingly attached on an end of the body. One end of a bolt threadingly attaches to the body, and attaches on its other end to a nut circumscribing the tube sheet bore on its outer surface. A deformable collar circumscribes the bolt between the body and nut and provides a seal within the tube sheet bore. The apparatus can also be used to plug bores that do not include tubes. |
| US09482472B2 |
Finned cooling heat exchanger module with concave circular vortex generating area
A liquid cooling heat exchanger module filled with a cooling liquid includes a casing (10) and a cooling structure (11), and the interior of the casing (10) is hollow, and the casing (10) has an inlet (100) and an outlet (101) interconnected to the interior, and the cooling structure (11) is installed in the casing (10), and the cooling structure (11) has a vortex generating area (110) concavely formed at a position opposite to the inlet (100), such that a cooling liquid is filled from the inlet (100) into the casing (10) and impacted in the vortex generating area (110) to form a vortex, so as to achieve the effects of extending the time for the cooling liquid to stay in the heat exchanger module (1), maximizing the cooling effect of the cooling liquid, and improving the heat dissipating efficiency. |
| US09482469B2 |
Vessel transfer insert and system
A system for removing molten metal from a vessel is disclosed. The system includes a pump and a refractory casing that houses the pump. As the pump operates it moves molten metal upward through an uptake section of the casing until it reaches an outlet wherein it exits the vessel. The outlet may be attached to a launder. Another system uses a wall to divide a cavity of the chamber into two portions. The wall has an opening and a pump pumps molten metal from a first portion into a second portion until the level in the second portion reaches an outlet and exits the vessel. |
| US09482465B2 |
Unidirectional multi-path lumber kilns
Embodiments provide a unidirectional multi-path kiln with two or more chambers and generally parallel flow paths extending through the kiln, on opposite sides, from charge entry portals at a first end of the kiln to charge exit portals at a second end of the kiln. Moist heated air flowing from the second heated chamber is received in the first chamber and circulated around the lumber charges with one or more fans. The lumber charges proceed in the same direction on the flow paths through the heated second chamber, which may be an existing kiln. Charge exit portals at the distal end of the kiln and/or intermediate charge portals between the second chamber and a third chamber may be provided with insulating members configured to reduce airflow from the second chamber through the charge exit portals. |
| US09482463B2 |
Refrigerator
A refrigerator may prevent an internal door from being opened together by an inertial force when an external door is opened, and may also prevent the external door from being opened together by an inertial force when the internal door is opened. The refrigerator includes a main body, a storage chamber provided in the main body so that a front surface thereof is opened, an internal door rotatably provided at a front surface of the main body so as to open and close the storage chamber and having an opening part in which a plurality of door guards are provided, an external door rotatably provided at a front surface of the internal door so as to open and close the opening part, and an internal door opening prevention device allowing or preventing opening of the internal door according to whether the external door is opened or closed. |
| US09482459B2 |
Refrigerator with sealed state maintaining device for drawer
A refrigerator includes: a refrigerator body having a cooling chamber; a case provided in the cooling chamber; a drawer having a handle, and accommodated in the case in a withdrawable manner; a sealing member provided at a contact region between the case and the drawer; a sealed state maintaining device having a locking portion provided at the case, and having a fixed arm disposed in the drawer, the fixed arm rotatable to a sealing position for sealing the drawer by compressing the sealing member by being coupled to the locking portion when the drawer is accommodated in the case, and a releasing position for releasing the sealed state by being separated from the locking portion; and a manipulation switch provided at the drawer, and configured to manipulate the fixed arm to move between the sealing position and the releasing position. |
| US09482457B2 |
Ice shaving machine
An ice shaving machine includes a base, a main body mounted on the base and having a platform provided with a shaving blade, a limit module mounted on the platform, and a rotation disk mounted in the main body. The limit module has an inner periphery provided with a receiving space. Thus, the ice block is limited by the limit module so that the ice block will not produce vibration during rotation to keep the stability and safety of the ice shaving machine during operation. In addition, the limit module has a central point the same as that of the platform so that when the ice block is received in the receiving space of the limit module and is shaved by the shaving blade, the force from the ice block is distributed evenly and smoothly on the shaving blade. |
| US09482456B2 |
Automatic turning ice block apparatus and method
An evaporator apparatus comprising at least one container configured to maintain liquid for freezing and a plurality of heat transfer compartments configured around the at least one container to allow for the flow of cold anti-freeze in order to freeze the liquid and warm anti-freeze in order to thaw frozen blocks of ice contained within the evaporator apparatus. A lever integrated into the body of the evaporator to allow for rotation of the evaporation in order to harvest the frozen blocks of ice. The evaporator further including, at least one inlet opening to allow for the inflow of anti-freeze into the plurality of heat transfer compartments and at least one outlet opening to allow for the discharge of anti-freeze from the evaporator apparatus. |
| US09482453B2 |
Air dryer assembly
A dryer operable to separate a portion of an entrained liquid from a flow of gas includes a pressure vessel to contain the flow of gas and entrained liquid within the pressure vessel. A precooler/reheater is positioned within the pressure vessel to cool the flow of gas and the entrained liquid and an evaporator is positioned within the pressure vessel to cool the flow of gas and the entrained liquid from the precooler/reheater. A separator receives the flow of gas and the entrained liquid from the evaporator and is operable to separate the flow of gas and the entrained liquid into a flow of substantially dry gas and a liquid. The liquid collects in the bottom of the pressure vessel. A drain valve is movable between an open position and a closed position in response to the quantity of liquid within the bottom of the pressure vessel. |
| US09482452B2 |
Thermoelectric module
A thermoelectric module includes an insulating substrate, plural electrodes formed on a component side of the insulating substrate, plural peltier elements each mounted on and electrically connected to the electrodes, and a mark for image recognition formed at least one of the electrodes, the mark for image recognition having lightness and/or saturation which is different from lightness and/or saturation of the electrode on an image. An entire of the electrode is usable as an electrical conduction path. |
| US09482450B2 |
Ericsson cycle device improvements
The present disclosure relates to improvements to thermodynamic devices that approximate the Ericsson cycle, Brayton cycle, or regenerated Brayton cycle. These cycles and various ways of implementing them are known in the art. They can operate as engines or refrigerators. The Ericsson cycle is attractive since it can theoretically operate at the Carnot efficiency, which is the maximum possible efficiency for a heat engine or refrigerator. |
| US09482448B2 |
Solar thermal collector, solar thermal heater and method of manufacturing the same
A solar thermal collector including a carrier, channels and a solar selective coating is provided. The channels are embedded in the carrier for a heat transfer fluid flowing therein. The solar selective coating is deposited on an outer surface of the carrier. The solar selective coating includes a damping layer, an absorbing layer and an anti-reflecting layer. The damping layer is deposited on the outer surface of the carrier. The absorbing layer is deposited on the damping layer, wherein the absorbing layer has a transition region including plural sub-layers and located adjacent to the damping layer. The anti-reflecting layer is deposited on the absorbing layer, wherein a light beam is adapted to enter the absorbing layer through the anti-reflecting layer, and irradiation energy of the light beam is transformed by the collector into thermal energy, which is then transmitted to the heat transfer fluid in the channels. |
| US09482447B2 |
Heat exchanger arrangement, especially for a fuel-operated vehicle heater
A heat exchanger arrangement, especially for a fuel-operated vehicle heater, has a pot-shaped heat exchanger housing (12) elongated in the direction of a longitudinal axis (L) with a circumferential wall area (14) and, in an end area (18), a bottom wall area (16). A flow space (30) for heat carrier medium is formed in the heat exchanger housing (12) with a circumferential flow space (32) and with a bottom flow space (34) that is in connection with the circumferential flow space. The heat exchanger housing (12) includes a first housing part (36) and a second housing part (38). The first housing part includes an outer circumferential wall (40), an inner circumferential wall (42) and an inner bottom wall (46) adjoining the inner circumferential wall. The second housing part includes an outer bottom wall (62), which is or can be connected to the outer circumferential wall (40) in one end area. |
| US09482440B2 |
Humidifier with ultraviolet disinfection
A humidifier for treating humidified air with germicidal light is provided. The humidifier includes a water reservoir, an atomizer to atomize a supply of water, and an ultraviolet light source to expose the atomized water to germicidal light. The ultraviolet light source extends vertically within a cylindrical channel to irradiate the atomized water dissipating upwardly from the atomizer. The water reservoir can include a carbon filter and a hardness-removing module for removing containments and metal oxides from the water supply. A control panel indicates the remaining useful life of the ultraviolet light source, the carbon filter and the hardness-removing module based on historical humidifier usage and water quality levels. |
| US09482438B2 |
Heating panel and method therefor
A radiant heating panel, for typical use as cover for interior walls and ceilings, is provided, that is manufactured in a continuous process involving at least one sheet material, a settable material and a heating element. A method of installing such a heating panel is also provided, along with an apparatus and method required to terminate the heating panel. |
| US09482436B1 |
Lighting system for an oven appliance
An oven appliance including a cabinet and a lighting system is provided. The cabinet defines a cooking chamber and includes a first wall and a second wall spaced along a lateral direction. The first wall defines a central plane (extending in a vertical direction and a transverse direction) and a protrusion. The protrusion extends outwardly from the central plane in a direction away from the second wall. The lighting system includes a portion positioned adjacent to a near section of the protrusion, the near section of the protrusion being closer to a cooking chamber opening than a far section of the protrusion. The lighting system may thus be obstructed from view generally along the central plane of the first wall as viewed from the cooking chamber opening. |
| US09482435B2 |
Method for light emitting device protection and performance in an appliance
An appliance and method for variably controlling a drive signal to a light emitting device of the appliance based on a temperature value indicative of a temperature within a chamber of the appliance is provided. The light emitting device can be included in a display or disposed within a chamber of the appliance to provide illumination. The light intensity level of the light emitting device can be controlled based on the temperature value indicative of a temperature within the chamber. The temperature value indicative of a temperature within the chamber can be a value detected within the chamber, a value detected on a surface of the chamber, or a value that anticipates the temperature within the chamber. The light intensity can be controlled with a driving signal to the light emitting device. For instance, the light intensity can be controlled using pulse width modulation of the driving signal. |
| US09482429B2 |
Field-ready oven
A field-ready oven has reinforced telescoped side walls that extend and hold a base, shelf, tray support and cover spaced apart. A low air intake and a semipermeable membrane deliver air and vapor fuel to catalyst pads on the shelf. Radiant heat from exothermic reaction is diffused over a bottom of a tray. Hot gas circulates around the diffuser and tray with a chimney effect before exhausting. A lid on the cover lifts for access to the tray. A fuel container in the oven forces fuel through a capillary restriction to limit fuel flow. A spring in the container is released to start fuel flow. |
| US09482428B2 |
Dual phase fuel feeder for boilers
A dual phase fuel feeder is disclosed that can be used to provide both solid fuels and liquid fuels to a boiler, such as a fluidized bed boiler. The fuel feeder includes a sloped chute which defines a solid feedpath. Gas distribution nozzles are located at the base of the fuel feeder, and secondary nozzles are located so as to be able to distribute a liquid or particulate fuel into the solid feedpath. This permits the liquid fuel to contact the solid fuel and be carried into the fluidized bed instead of becoming suspended above the bed. |
| US09482426B2 |
Illuminable wall socket plates and systems and methods thereof
The invention relates generally to an illuminable wall socket plate for replacing existing wall sockets in one simple installation step. The illuminable wall socket plate obtains electric current from a socket to power a light by connecting metal tabs on the back side of the illuminable wall socket plate to socket terminals, and transferring electric current from the socket terminals to a light in the wall socket plate through conductive material, in accordance with the invention described herein. |
| US09482423B2 |
Device for securing a source of LED light to a heat sink surface
A device for securing a source of LED light to a heat sink includes an LED light source engaging surface that is arranged and configured to engage at least a portion of the source of LED light and which is provided with an integrated force applying spring. Further, the device may include a continuous metallic path extending between the sources of LED light and the surface. |
| US09482418B2 |
Integrated LED module
An integrated LED module at least comprises: a light-transmitting plate having a heat-conducting substrate and a transparent package; an LED array sealed in the light-transmitting plate; a drive circuit electrically connected to the LED array, and used for converting an external power supply into a 12V-75V forward voltage that drives each LED in the LED array; and a heat sink clinging to the light-transmitting plate. The integrated LED module solves the problem in the prior art that an LED lamp presented after assembly has a large size and is heavy as a part of the line of a drive power supply in the LED lamp is complicated, and further reduces material costs, saves processing and assembling time, and lowers production costs due to an integrally formed structure. |
| US09482411B2 |
Light scattering and conversion plate for LEDs
The invention relates to an illumination system having a light scattering and conversion plate comprising a non-converting but scattering layer and a thinner converting layer. By separating scattering and conversion, the characteristics of the illumination system can greatly be increased. |
| US09482410B2 |
Light emitting module and surface lighting device having the same
A light emitting module is configured to provide substantially uniform lighting using a plurality of lighting sources. The light emitting module includes a diffusion plate disposed at a set distance from the light emitting module. A light source substrate has a substantially quadrilateral outer perimeter with at least one gap formed therein, and a plurality of light sources are disposed on the light source substrate according to a repeated quadrilateral pattern. A distance between adjacent light sources in the repeated quadrilateral pattern is selected based on the set distance h from the diffusion plate to the light emitting module, and on a greater of two diagonal distances x, y of the quadrilateral pattern. The diffusion plate diffuses light emitted by the light sources to provide substantially uniform light. Various other aspects of the light emitting module are additionally described. |
| US09482408B2 |
Light source for uniform illumination of an area
A light source (e.g., a linear LED array or other light-emitting devices) may be coupled with multiple reflectors for providing uniform illumination on a target surface. |
| US09482403B2 |
Automotive light and method of manufacturing
A method of manufacturing an automotive light including the steps of: providing at least one laser diode emitting a light beam with a characteristic emission spectrum; providing a container body delimited by a first perimetral profile; providing a molded lenticular body delimited by a second perimetral profile and having at least first and second overlapping integral layers with different transmittance values in relation to the laser emission spectrum; at least partially associating the perimetral profiles; and at least partially welding at the perimetral profiles with the laser, wherein the laser beam is routed towards the perimetral profiles so as to reach the first perimetral profile after passing through at least one of the layers of the lenticular body, and wherein the container body acts as an absorbing member in relation to the light beam and the lenticular body acts as a transmissive member of the light beam. |
| US09482402B2 |
Automotive lamp
An automotive lamp includes an LED, a substrate that mounts the LED, a reflector that reflects the light emitted from the LED, and an projection lens having an incident surface, which receives the light reflected by the reflector, and an emission surface that emits the light toward a front area of the automotive lamp. A fine asperity structure is formed on the incident surface of the projection lens. The fine asperity structure includes recesses or raised portions formed with the pitch less than or equal to the visible light wavelength. |
| US09482401B2 |
Vehicular illumination lamp
A vehicular illumination lamp includes a projection lens configured to output forward, as light that is parallel with an axial line extending in a lamp front-rear direction, light emitted from a prescribed point on the axial line, and a light source disposed in the rear of the projection lens. A front surface of the projection lens is a convex free surface and a perimeter of the front surface extends approximately along a plane that is perpendicular to the axial line. A rear surface of the projection lens is a curved surface which is formed so that light emitted from the prescribed point and incident on the projection lens is output from the projection lens as light that is parallel with the axial line. |
| US09482397B2 |
Light sources adapted to spectral sensitivity of diurnal avians and humans
Various apparatus and associated methods involve a light source that provides light at wavelengths that substantially correlate to local maxima in the spectral sensitivity of a diurnal avian. In an illustrative example, the light source may output light primarily in wavelength bands that are not substantially absorbed by colored oil droplets and/or visual pigment in at least one type of cone in the eye of a diurnal avian. In some embodiments, the light source may include a light-emitting diode (LED) light source. Exemplary light sources may output spectral components to illuminate diurnal avians with local maxima of intensity at wavelengths that substantially correspond to local maxima in a spectral sensitivity visual response characteristic of the diurnal avians. |
| US09482394B2 |
LED device for wide beam generation and method of making the same
A predetermined illuminated surface pattern is generated from a predetermined energy distribution pattern of an LED light source within an LED package having a light transmitting dome. An estimated optical transfer function of a lens shape of an optic is defined by the shape of an exterior and inner surface which envelopes at least in part the light transmitting dome of the LED package. An energy distribution pattern is obtained by combination of the estimated optical transfer function and the predetermined energy distribution pattern of the light source. A projection of the energy distribution pattern onto the illuminated surface is determined. The projection is compared to the predetermined illuminated surface pattern. The estimated optical transfer function is illuminated surface pattern. |
| US09482387B2 |
Rotor machine having oil slinger system
One embodiment of the present invention is a unique blower having an oil slinger system. Another embodiment is a unique rotor system having an oil slinger system. Other embodiments include apparatuses, systems, devices, hardware, methods, and combinations for rotor systems, blowers and other apparatuses that employ oil slinger systems. Further embodiments, forms, features, aspects, benefits, and advantages of the present application will become apparent from the description and figures provided herewith. |
| US09482382B2 |
Holding device for a tablet computer
A holding device for a tablet computer has a lower part spanning a setting-up surface for setting it up on a tabletop and an upper part which can be rotated with respect to the lower part about a rotation axis extending substantially perpendicularly to the setting-up surface, which upper part has a first and a second bearing surface for the tablet computer, wherein each of the bearing surfaces defines a position of the tablet computer in which it is inclined at an acute angle to the setting-up surface, and wherein the tablet computer in the position defined by the first bearing surface is inclined at a greater angle to the setting-up surface than in the position defined by the second bearing surface. |
| US09482381B1 |
Mineral wool pipe insulation
Mineral wool pipe insulation, the mineral wool thereof includes a mix of mineral wool fibers and at least a curable binder being cured. The pipe insulation includes at least two separate elongated partial sections of mineral wool that are inter-connectable to each other around a pipe or container to form an insulation layer encompassing the pipe or container. Each separate partial section being inter-connectable by being provided with interconnecting means along at least two thickness-wise edges thereof. A method of manufacturing mineral wool pipe insulation includes forming each separate partial section of mineral wool by sawing or cutting from a cured block of mineral wool, or by curing a mixture of loose mineral wool fibers and a curable binder in a mold. |
| US09482380B2 |
Articulating drill method and apparatus for cutting openings in nested strings of underwater piping and or tubing for overturned wells or platforms
A method and apparatus for angularly drilling during a tapping procedure into a pressurized multiple strings of coaxially situated tubulars for wells and/or platforms which have overturned wherein the tapping occurs underwater via a diver or remotely operated vehicle. |
| US09482379B2 |
Twist-to-connect dry break coupling
A coupling including female and male couplers configured to be coupled by first and second stage connections. In the first stage connection, a plurality of detents in the female coupler are urged into a detent recess in the male coupler to coupled the female and male couplers. To make the second stage connection after the first stage connection has been made, threads on the male coupler are mated with threads on a release sleeve, which causes valves disposed in the female and male couplers to move to an open position to allow fluid flow through the coupling. In this way, reduced force is employed to engage the female and male couplers while avoiding contact between the detents and the threads on the male coupler, thereby preventing the detents and threads on the male coupler from damaging one another. |
| US09482374B2 |
Seal having projections and coupling having pockets
A ring-shaped seal has projections on an outwardly facing surface in the form of tubes which have a longitudinal axis oriented perpendicular to a plane containing the ring. The seal is received within a channel defined by segments attached end to end forming a coupling for coupling pipe elements in end to end relation. The segments have pockets which receive the projections. The projections support the segments in spaced apart relation to allow the pipe elements to be inserted into the coupling without loosening or disassembling it. The projections deform when the segments are drawn toward one another by adjustably tightenable fasteners and allow the segments to engage and capture the pipe elements in end to end relation. |
| US09482372B2 |
Flexible unbonded pipe
The invention relates to a flexible unbonded pipe for sub sea fluid transfer. The pipe comprises an inner sealing sheath defining a bore and a center axis. Inside the inner sealing sheath the pipe comprises a carcass. The pipe further comprises a pair of reinforcement layers consisting essentially of helically wound elongate armoring elements of fiber reinforced polymer material. The elongate armoring elements of the innermost of the pair of reinforcement layers are wound in a first winding direction with an angle α to the center axis, and the elongate armoring elements of the outermost of the pair of reinforcement layers are wound in a second winding direction with an angle β to the center axis, wherein α≧βfπ/2, α is about 65° or less. The pipe preferably comprises an anti-creep layer placed between the inner sealing sheath and the innermost of the pair of reinforcement layers. |
| US09482371B2 |
Systems and methods for insulating a pipe
A pipe insulation product including a core of insulating material and a laminate. The core includes a cylindrical outer surface; a cylindrical inner surface; and a wall extending between the cylindrical outer surface and the cylindrical inner surface. The laminate includes a metallized polymeric film sheet layer forming an inner layer, a scrim, a porous media sheet layer, and a polymeric film sheet layer forming an outer exposed layer bonded together via an adhesive. The laminate is coextensive with and bonded to the cylindrical outer surface of the core and the laminate and core are flexible so that the core and laminate can be opened, placed about a pipe, and closed without degrading the laminate. |
| US09482365B2 |
Rotary valve
A rotary valve capable of high flow rates, minimal pressure drop, and rapid actuation is presented. According to one aspect, the rotary valve is characterized by a unique pressure balancing system operating on the rotary spool of the valve to reduce side force caused by pressure at the flow ports. According to another aspect, the rotary valve (700) is characterized by a internal shiftable blocking spool (790) in response to a failure condition or a modulating signal. According to another aspect, an interface is provided for sealing a port of a rotary valve to an outer surface of a rotary spool. According to another aspect, the rotary valve is characterized by an interface provided for sealing a port to an outer surface of the rotary spool. According to another aspect, a rotary valve is characterized by a three-way three-or-more-position configuration. According to another aspect, a rotary valve is characterized by a four-port three-position configuration. |
| US09482364B2 |
Butterfly valve arrangement
A butterfly valve with a housing having a bypass passage located within the housing of the valve. The passage extends from the normal flow path through the valve, either side of the butterfly valve plate so as to provide an alternative flow path. A cavity is located between distal ends of the passage. A valve head, located in the cavity is configured and arranged to be movable within the cavity between a closed position in which, the distal ends of the passage are fluidly disconnected through the passage and an open position in which the distal ends of the passage are fluidly connected through the passage. |
| US09482356B2 |
Control solenoid with improved magnetic circuit
An electromagnetic solenoid having a coil wound around a bobbin between first and second flanges for generating a magnetic force is disclosed. An armature having an armature flange at a first end is within an interior portion of the tubular center section of the bobbin and is supported for axial displacement between a first position and a second position. A permanent ring magnet is placed at the first end flange with an inner radial face spaced apart from an outer radial face of the armature flange by a radial gap, with the ring magnet supported by a retainer adjacent to the first end flange and fixed against axial displacement with respect to the bobbin. The solenoid comprises an outer case having a closed bottom at a first end and an open top at a second end and a flux washer disposed in the open top adjacent to a second end of the armature. |
| US09482352B2 |
Flow directing spool for valve
A spool valve includes a body defining a bore and a positionable spool located within the bore. The spool includes a central body portion having a diameter and a number of sealing lands separated by the central body portion. Each sealing land has a diameter larger than the central body portion diameter. A plurality of flow-shaping rings are located between first and second sealing lands, and each comprise an intermediate diameter larger than the central body portion diameter and smaller than the sealing land diameter. |
| US09482350B2 |
Radical-resistant gate valve
A gate valve that can suppress the deterioration of a seal member due to radicals is provided, and the seal member in the gate valve can be prevented from coming off a dovetail groove. A seal groove for attaching a seal member is formed by a first groove portion that has a rectangular cross-section and a second groove portion that is provided in the bottom wall of the first groove portion and that has a dovetail groove-like cross-section. The seal member is held in the second groove portion with part thereof protruded into the first groove portion. A valve seat that is inserted into and pulled out of the seal groove to be brought into and out of contact with the seal member is protruded from the inner surface of a partition wall in which a gate opening is provided. |
| US09482349B2 |
Air valve for electronics enclosures
An air valve includes a frame and a sheet of thin material. The frame may have an outlet-side member configured mounted on a fan housing and an inlet-side member rotatably coupled to the outlet-side member. The material may have top and bottom edges, and a plurality of folds perpendicular to the top and bottom side edges that divide the sheet into a plurality of sections. The material may be attached to the outlet-side member and the inlet-side member, and configurable between folded and expanded positions. An attraction between a magnetic component on the inlet-side member and a magnetic component on a rotating fan blade may cause the inlet-side member to rotate, moving the material into the folded configuration. When the fan blade is not rotating, a spring attached at a pivot point may cause the inlet-side member to rotate in an opposite direction, moving the material into the expanded position. |
| US09482348B2 |
Cycle valve for use in hydromethanation process
A cycle valve can include a valve body and a dynamic sealing spool assembly contained within the interior of the valve body. The dynamic sealing spool assembly includes a sleeve and a gate cartridge assembly which slides within the sleeve between an open and a closed position. The sleeve can include a sleeve opening while the gate cartridge assembly can include two openings, each of which includes a dynamic seat assembly. The dynamic seat assembly in one opening can be formed by upper and lower dynamic seats configured as solid blocks which seal the pathway through the valve when the gate cartridge assembly is in the closed position. The dynamic seat assembly in the other opening can be formed by upper and lower dynamic seats configured as cylinders which form the pathway through the valve when the gate cartridge assembly is in the open position. |
| US09482345B2 |
Sealing arrangement for a rotating shaft
The invention relates to a sealing system, in particular for sealing pump shafts of vertically arranged pumps for conveying liquefied natural gas (LNG) or other cryogenic fluids below −80° C. The sealing system has a mechanical seal arrangement. A barrier fluid flows through the mechanical seal arrangement at a barrier fluid pressure. The mechanical seal arrangement prevents a sealing fluid from exiting a sealing chamber. The barrier fluid pressure is higher than a sealing fluid pressure in the sealing chamber. |
| US09482341B2 |
Control device for automatic transmission
A control apparatus for automatic-transmission provided with input-clutch through which drive force generated by engine is input to automatic-transmission, released-side frictional coupling device being placed in released state to perform shifting action of automatic-transmission, and engaged-side frictional coupling device being placed in engaged state to perform shifting action, control apparatus including: first shifting mode control means including slipping means for placing input-clutch in released state, engaging means for placing input-clutch in engaged state, and releasing/engaging switching control means for controlling shifting action of automatic-transmission being performed in first shifting mode wherein released-side frictional coupling device is brought into released state, and engaged-side frictional coupling device is brought into engaged state, while input-clutch is placed in released or slipping state under control of slipping means, and input-clutch is then brought into engaged state under control of engaging means, with a change of operating speed of engine connected to input-shaft of automatic-transmission. |
| US09482338B2 |
Oil pressure control device for automatic transmission
When a user performs an operation to switch from a forward range to a reverse range, an ECU switches an oil passage (referred to hereafter as a “B2 pressure supply source oil passage”), through which oil pressure is supplied to a brake, from a first oil passage to a second oil passage while engaging the same brake. At this time, in consideration of a response delay in the oil pressure in the second oil passage, the ECU switches the B2 pressure supply source oil passage from the first oil passage to the second oil passage after a predetermined time α elapses from the point at which the user performs the forward-reverse switch operation (in other words, after waiting for the oil pressure in the second oil passage to reach a threshold pressure) rather than at the point at which the user performs the forward-reverse switch operation. |
| US09482334B2 |
Gearwheel arrangement
The invention relates to a gearwheel arrangement (1) with a main gearwheel (2) and a gearwheel (4) rotatable relative to the latter in circumferential direction (3), wherein the main gearwheel (2) comprises a hub (5) on which the rotatable gearwheel (4) is arranged, and with a spring element (7), which is arranged between the main gearwheel (2) and the rotatable gearwheel (4), and by means of which the rotatable gearwheel (4) is pretensioned in circumferential direction (3) against the main gearwheel (2), wherein the main gearwheel (2) comprises at least one first support element (22) and the rotatable gearwheel (4) comprises at least one second support element (23), and wherein the spring element (7) is arranged between the first and the second support element (22, 23) and thereby spaced apart from the first surface (19) of the main gearwheel (2) and from the second surface (21) of the rotatable gearwheel (4). |
| US09482332B2 |
Cam follower and method for producing cam follower
A cam follower is constituted by an outer ring which has an outer track surface in its inner circumference; a stud which has an inner track surface opposed to the outer track surface, a flange portion abutting on one side of the inner track surface, a side plate fitting portion and a mounting shaft portion abutting on another side of the inner track surface in this order, and a fiber flow formed continuously from the flange portion to the inner track surface along their outer circumferences; rolling elements which are arranged between the outer track surface and inner track surface; and an inner side plate which is pressed into the side plate fitting portion to work with the flange portion for limiting axial movement of the outer ring and the rolling elements. |
| US09482328B2 |
Multi-mode transmission for vehicle powertrain system
A torque transmission device for a powertrain system is described, and includes a continuously variable unit (CVU) of a continuously variable transmission (CVT) arranged in parallel with a fixed-gear-ratio transmission to transfer torque between a transmission input member and a transmission output member. The fixed-gear-ratio transmission includes first and second planetary gear sets arranged to transfer torque between the transmission input member and the transmission output member in one of a plurality of fixed-gear-ratio modes by selectively activating a plurality of transmission clutches. The transmission input member rotatably couples to one of the nodes of the first planetary gear set and one of the nodes of the second planetary gear set. The torque transmission device transfers torque in one of a continuously variable mode, a fixed underdrive input/output speed ratio, or a fixed overdrive input/output speed ratio. |
| US09482323B2 |
Friction roller reducer and drive unit for electric automobile
Construction of a friction roller reducer is achieved wherein displacement of intermediate rollers due to the change in thickness in the axial direction of loading cam apparatuses can be performed smoothly, and excellent transmission efficiency can be obtained. Long guide holes that are long in the radial direction of a sun roller and ring-shaped roller are provided in guide blocks that are fastened to a support frame for supporting the end sections of rotation shafts of intermediate rollers. The outer rings of ball bearings, of which the inner rings are fitted around and fastened to the outside of the end sections of the rotation shafts, engage with the long guide holes so as to be able to displace in the radial direction of the sun roller and the ring-shaped roller. |
| US09482322B2 |
Slide rail for tensioning and guiding an endless drive member and method for manufacturing said slide rail
In the field of a slide rail for tensioning and guiding an endless drive member, comprising at least one bore and a screw captively held in the bore, permitting the captive mounting of screws even in thin-walled slide rails is provided. A sleeve is mounted in the bore and the sleeve comprises engagement elements at its end facing the rail, said engagement elements being engaged with the wall of the bore, and a stop collar lying against a stop surface formed at the slide rail, and lock elements are embodied in the sleeve which engage the thread of the screw and lock the screw at least in an assembly position, wherein said slide rail is thin-walled. Furthermore, an assembly method is provided for manufacturing the slide rail with a captively held screw and to the loss prevention device per se. |
| US09482320B2 |
Planetary gear train of automatic transmission for vehicles
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for vehicles may include an input shaft receiving torque of an engine, an output shaft outputting changed torque, a first planetary gear set including a first sun gear, a first planetary carrier, and a first ring gear, a second planetary gear set including a second sun gear, a second planetary carrier, and a second ring gear, a third planetary gear set including a third sun gear, a third planetary carrier, and a third ring gear, a fourth planetary gear set including a fourth sun gear, a fourth planetary carrier, and a fourth ring gear, a first rotational shaft, a second rotational shaft, a third rotational shaft, a fourth rotational shaft, a fifth rotational shaft, a sixth rotational shaft, a seventh rotational shaft, an eighth rotational shaft, and six friction elements selectively connecting the rotational shafts and the transmission housing. |
| US09482318B2 |
Multi-speed gearbox
Nine-speed multi-stage transmission with four planetary gear sets, rotatable shafts and six shift elements. Sun of first set is connected to fifth shaft which is couplable, via third brake, to housing and is connectable, via first clutch, to drive shaft which is connectable, via second clutch, to seventh shaft which is connected to ring of third set and carrier of second set. Drive shaft is connectable to eighth shaft, via third clutch, connected to carrier of first set and sun of second set. Sixth shaft is connected to ring of second set and carrier of fourth set. Fourth shaft is connected to ring of first set and sun of fourth set and is couplable, via second brake, to housing. Third shaft is connected to sun of third set and is couplable, via first brake, to housing. Output shaft is connected to carrier of third set and ring of fourth set. |
| US09482310B2 |
Weight applicator for a wheel and method for utilizing the same
A weight applicator for a wheel of a tire-wheel assembly is disclosed. The weight applicator includes an arm portion and an applicator portion connected to the arm portion. The applicator includes a radially-extending flange portion. The radially-extending flange portion is connected to the arm portion. A first plunger portion is movably-connected to the radially-extending flange portion by one or more first radial arms. A method is also disclosed. |
| US09482305B2 |
Dynamic damper device
A dynamic damper device includes a planetary gear mechanism including plural differentially rotatable rotating elements, an elastic member that couples a rotating shaft rotated by being transmitted with a power with a first rotating element of the planetary gear mechanism, and a rotation control device that is coupled with a rotating element different from the first rotating element of the planetary gear mechanism and controls a rotation of the planetary gear mechanism by adjusting torque acting on the first rotating element. Accordingly, the dynamic damper device achieves an effect that vibration can be appropriately reduced. |
| US09482304B2 |
Method for producing a subassembly and subassembly
A subassembly and a method of producing a subassembly. The subassembly has a dividing body or separating body and at least one flow channel formed on the dividing body and extending along it with at least one flow path to influence a flow of a magneto-rheological fluid along the flow channel of the dividing body. The dividing body includes a magnetic field generation device for generating a magnetic field and a field closing device. At least the magnetic field generation device and the field closing device are filled with at least one solidifying medium using a placeholder which can be removed to form the three-dimensionally predefined flow channels on the dividing body. |
| US09482299B1 |
Multi-leaved core brake disks and assemblies
The present disclosure provides a multi-leaved core damping disk comprising an annular-shaped first disk half, an annular shaped second disk half, and a multi-leaved core axially aligned with, and disposed therebetween. |
| US09482298B2 |
Brake caliper piston actuation device
A brake caliper piston actuation device comprises a caliper housing (20) including a bore (22) extending through the caliper housing (20). An end cap closes the bore (22) and has an end cap extension (28) and a fluid port (32). A piston (40) is disposed in the bore (22). An actuation member (48) has an inner surface and an outer surface and is disposed in the bore (22) and extends axially over the piston (40) to slidably support and guide the piston (40). The inner surface of the actuation member (48) and the fluid end of the piston (40) and the end cap extension (28) define a fluid chamber (54) for containing a hydraulic fluid entering from the fluid port (32). A parking brake mechanism engages the actuation member (48) for causing axial movement of the actuation member (48). The piston (40) moves in response to the hydraulic fluid entering the fluid chamber (54) and by the parking brake mechanism advancing the actuation member (48) and pushing the piston (40) axially. |
| US09482292B2 |
Piston-integrated seal
A piston-integrated seal has a seal lip integrally provided in a clutch piston of a hydraulic clutch and directed to a hydraulic chamber side. In the seal lip, a main seal edge portion in a hydraulic chamber side and a sub seal edge portion in an anti-hydraulic chamber side are formed in a sliding portion in relation to the other sliding surface. In the main seal edge portion and the sub seal edge portion, an angle of an inclined surface in the hydraulic chamber side is smaller than an angle of an inclined surface in the anti-hydraulic chamber side in a un-installed state, and the angle of the inclined surface in the hydraulic chamber side in relation to the other sliding surface is approximately equal to the angle of the inclined surface in the anti-hydraulic chamber side in an installed state, thereby reducing friction difference in a sliding direction. |
| US09482290B2 |
Transmission gear engagement mechanism and method of operation
A transmission (12) for a vehicle (10) includes a gear shaft (40) having a fluid passage (106), and a gear (42) having a first bore mounted to the gear shaft (40). The gear has a first axial face (74) with a plurality of teeth (76), and a first undercut (78) at each of the first bore and the first axial face. A shift collar (64) has a second bore (88) mounted to the gear shaft (40). The second bore (88) is axially movable and rotationally fixed relative to the gear shaft (40). The shift collar (64) has a second axial face (92) with a plurality of teeth (94), and a second undercut (98) at each of the second bore (88) and the second axial face (92). The teeth (94) of the second axial face (92) are enmeshable with the teeth (76) of the first axial face (74). An annular piston (66) is slidably mounted to the gear shaft (40) and positioned within each of the first undercut (78) and the second undercut (98). The annular piston (66) is configured to move the shift collar (64) away from the gear using pressurized fluid in the fluid passage (106). |
| US09482287B2 |
Pressure plate stress-relief grooves for a friction element assembly in a transmission of a motor vehicle and associated method
Stress-relief grooves are provided in a pressure plate of a friction element assembly in a motor vehicle comprising a transmission. The friction element assembly includes a piston assembly provided for applying a force to a set of plates and friction members to cause torque to be transmitted through the friction element assembly. A pressure plate is supported by the housing and held in place by a snap ring mounted in a mounting groove. The pressure plate includes a first side facing the set of plates and friction members and a second side having at least one stress-relief groove configured to reduce stress in the housing at the mounting groove. |
| US09482284B2 |
Bearing
A bearing includes at least an inner ring, an outer ring, and rolling bodies arranged between the inner and outer rings, one of the rings being designed to turn and the fixed, and one of the rings including an inducing element is designed to generate an inducing electromagnetic field, the other of the rings including an electrical circuit in which an induced current is generated when one of the rings turns in relation to the other of the rings, and when the inducing element generates an inducing electromagnetic field, wherein the inducing element designed to generate an inducing electromagnetic field includes a module having a piezoelectric effect and/or a module having a thermoelectric effect. |
| US09482283B2 |
Bearing insulation
A bearing system for a wind turbine with a generator with an outer rotor, the bearing system including: an inner bearing ring, an outer bearing ring, a first electrical insulation element, a second electrical insulation element, a plurality of roller elements, a first metal element and a second metal element is provided. Therein, the roller elements are arranged at an inner volume between the inner bearing ring and outer bearing ring. The first electrical insulation element includes the first metal element. The second electrical insulation element includes the second metal element. The first electrical insulation element is arranged at least partially around the inner bearing ring in order to provide an electrical shielding to the inner of the bearing system and the second electrical insulation element is arranged at least partially around the outer bearing ring in order to provide an electrical shielding to the inner of the bearing system. |
| US09482282B2 |
Bearing for a rotary machine
A bearing for a rotary machine includes an inner sleeve providing a first bearing surface and an outer sleeve circumscribing the inner sleeve and providing a second bearing surface in opposing relation to the first bearing surface. The bearing includes at least one tolerance ring for retaining the inner sleeve on a rotor shaft of the rotary machine and another tolerance ring for retaining the outer sleeve on a stator of the rotary machine. |
| US09482278B2 |
Cost effective high thrust capacity turbocharger assembly
An assembly for a turbocharger and methods for creating the same are disclosed. Such assembly for a turbocharger includes a bearing housing having first and second bore ends, a housing cavity, and a bearing assembly disposed within the housing cavity. The bearing assembly includes an annular rotating journal positioned at the first bore end and first and second angular contact bearings positioned at the second bore end, where the first and second angular contact bearings resist axial loads in opposite directions. The bearing housing and bearing assembly are configured to receive a shaft and together dampen axial and radial loads in all directions from the shaft. |
| US09482275B2 |
Structured sliding surface of a bearing shell
The invention relates to a tool for machining sliding surfaces of a bearing shell (30), comprising a rotary drive for driving a drilling spindle (20) that can be rotated about a rotational axis and at least one first cutting cartridge that is mounted on the drilling spindle (20) in order to cut the bearing shell (30) to a certain wall thickness by rotating the drilling spindle (20). The tool is characterized in that the first cutting cartridge can be adjusted by an adjustment means in a direction of adjustment that has a component in the radial direction of the drilling spindle, while the drilling spindle (20) is rotated by the rotary drive. The invention further relates to a bearing shell (30) comprising a deliberately structured sliding surface (31) and to a method for producing a bearing shell (30) comprising a deliberately structured sliding surface (31). |
| US09482274B2 |
Compliant hybrid gas lubricated thrust bearing
Provided herein is a thrust bearing. The bearing includes one or more bearing pads, each with a thrust face, attached to a compliant bearing housing, a system for delivering a pressurized gas lubricant to the thrust face of the bearing pads, and a damping system that operates in parallel with the compliant bearing housing. |
| US09482271B2 |
Disengageable axial thrust bearing with internal preload
In a disengageable axial thrust bearing for a rotary machine, an outer ring has first and second outer half-rings (114A, 114B) centered in a casing (116) and clamped in the axial direction between a stationary thrust member (118) and a first pre-loading system (120) exerting a first predetermined axial force such that, so long as the axial load exerted on the axial thrust bearing via a synchronization element (106) is greater than a determined threshold value, rolling elements (110) with oblique contacts present respective single lines (130) having two points of contact (130A, 130B) with an inner ring (102) and with the first outer half-ring (114A), the second outer half-ring (114B) being spaced apart from the first by a second predetermined axial force exerted by a second pre-loading system (126) inserted in the axial direction between the first and second outer half-rings, and such that the inner ring (102) is driven in rotation by the synchronization element, whereas, when the axial load exerted on the axial thrust bearing becomes less than this determined threshold value, a second line (132) having two additional points of contact (132A, 132B) is created between each of the oblique-contact rolling elements (110) and the inner ring (102) and the second outer half-ring (103B) such that the axial thrust bearing is disengaged. |
| US09482269B2 |
System for isolating electrical current in a bearing for use in an aircraft structure
A system for isolating electrical current in an aircraft structure includes a first structure a bearing having an outer race and an inner race and a liner disposed therebetween, the outer race having a second structure coupled thereto. A dielectric seal is secured to the outer race and engages the inner race. A conditionally non-conductive gas occupies a sealed chamber that defines a gap between the inner race and the outer race. The gap has a predetermined magnitude sufficient to prevent electrical arcing or current leakage between the inner race and the outer race at a first voltage less than that voltage resulting from a lightning strike; and/or to conduct an electrical current between the inner race and the outer race at a second voltage greater than or equal to the voltage resulting from the lightning strike. |