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| US09792446B2 |
System and method for protecting data stored on a removable data storage device
A system for protecting data stored in a removable data storage device includes a personal electronic device, a removable solid state data storage device operatively coupled to the personal electronic device, and a circuit configured to protect data stored in the data storage device in response to detecting impending removal of the data storage device from the personal electronic device. |
| US09792444B2 |
Inoculator and antibody for computer security
In an embodiment of the invention, a method includes: determining, in a computer, an area where an undesired computer program will reside; and providing a data object in the area, so that the data object is an antibody that provides security to the computer and immunity against the undesired program. Another embodiment of the invention also provides an apparatus (or system) that can be configured to perform at least some of the above functionalities. |
| US09792443B1 |
Position analysis of source code vulnerabilities
Techniques for performing position analysis on a representation of an application source code are disclosed herein. An application source code is scanned to produce a representation of the application source code, start locations within the representation are determined, corresponding stop locations within the representation are determined, and a set of data impact locations within the representation are determined. The set of data impact locations are then used in a dataflow analysis to determine a position of high control of the data within the representation. |
| US09792441B2 |
Portable desktop device and method of host computer system hardware recognition and configuration
A portable desktop device and method for host computer system hardware recognition and configuration are provided. The portable desktop device causes on a first boot, the host computer system to recognize hardware devices connected thereto, and to configure hardware configuration files of the portable desktop O/S in accordance with the recognized hardware. Once the hardware configuration files have been configured, the system is rebooted. On the second boot, the host computer determines that the portable desktop has been configured for its hardware, and initiates start-up of the portable desktop. |
| US09792439B2 |
Method and system for securely updating firmware in a computing device
Embodiments of a method are disclosed. One embodiment is a method for securely updating firmware in a computing device, in which the computing device includes a host processor and a non-volatile memory. The method involves receiving a double-encrypted firmware image from an external firmware source, wherein the double-encrypted firmware image is generated from firmware that is encrypted a first time using a first crypto-key and then encrypted a second time using a second crypto-key. The method also involves receiving the second crypto-key from an external key source, decrypting the double-encrypted firmware image using the second crypto-key to produce an encrypted firmware image, storing the encrypted firmware image in the non-volatile memory of the computing device, reading the encrypted firmware image from the non-volatile memory of the computing device, decrypting the encrypted firmware image using the first crypto-key, and executing the firmware on the computing device. |
| US09792435B2 |
Anomaly detection for vehicular networks for intrusion and malfunction detection
A security monitoring system for a Controller Area Network (CAN) comprises an Electronic Control Unit (ECU) operatively connected to the CAN bus. The ECU is programmed to classify a message read from the CAN bus as either normal or anomalous using an SVM-based classifier with a Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel. The classifying includes computing a hyperplane curvature parameter γ of the RBF kernel as γ=ƒ(D) where ƒ( ) denotes a function and D denotes CAN bus message density as a function of time. In some such embodiments γ=ƒ(Var(D)) where Var(D) denotes the variance of the CAN bus message density as a function of time. The security monitoring system may be installed in a vehicle (e.g. automobile, truck, watercraft, aircraft) including a vehicle CAN bus, with the ECU operatively connected to the vehicle CAN bus to read messages communicated on the CAN bus. By not relying on any proprietary knowledge of arbitration IDs from manufacturers through their dbc files, this anomaly detector truly functions as a zero knowledge detector. |
| US09792433B2 |
Method and device for detecting malicious code in an intelligent terminal
The present invention discloses a method and device for detecting malicious code in an intelligent terminal. The method comprises: acquiring a virtual machine executable file of an application from an application layer of an intelligent terminal operating system; decompiling the virtual machine executable file to obtain a decompiled function information structure; parsing the decompiled function information structure to extract a function calling sequence in the decompiled function information structure; matching the function calling sequence using a preset malicious code feature library; if matching succeeds, determining that the virtual machine executable file of the application contains malicious code. By applying the solution of the present invention, through a virtual machine executable file of the application, it may be analyzed and determined whether the application comprises malicious code, such that a tampered application program or a malicious software may be detected and removed, thereby protecting security of the intelligent terminal. |
| US09792430B2 |
Systems and methods for virtualized malware detection
Systems and methods for virtualized malware enabled detection are described. In some embodiments, a method comprises intercepting an object provided from a first digital device, determining one or more resources the object requires, instantiating a virtual environment with the one or more resources, processing the object within the virtual environment, tainting operations of the object within the virtual environment, monitoring the operations of the object, identifying an additional resource of the object while processing that is not provided in the virtual environment, re-instantiating the virtual environment with the additional resource, monitoring the operations of the object while processing within the re-instantiated virtual environment, identifying untrusted actions from the monitored operations, and generating a report identifying the operations and the untrusted actions of the object. |
| US09792429B2 |
Detection of malicious software packages
A software repository offering a software package or a computing system downloading a software package can utilize a security tool to verify the security of the software package. The security tool can check and verify that the software package is secure utilizing a black list of components. To check the security, the security tool can compare the components (archival files) of the software package to the black list. A black list can include a list of components that are known to be insecure. |
| US09792422B1 |
Authentication and control interface of a security system
Techniques are described for providing control of a security system. A user is authorized in the security system and user identification inputs, provided through an input unit of a personal mobile device of the authorized user of the security system, are accessed. One or more signatures of the authorized user are defined and stored in a signature map. Subsequently, user identification input is received from an unauthenticated user using the personal mobile device. The user identification input received from the unauthenticated user is compared to one or more defined signatures in the signature map. The unauthenticated user is determined to be the authorized user if the received user identification input matches one of the defined signatures. The unauthenticated user is allowed to control the security system based on the determination that the unauthenticated user is the authorized user. |
| US09792421B1 |
Secure storage of fingerprint related elements
The present disclosure relates to secure storage of a detailed set of elements relating to fingerprint features for a finger and to a method for authenticating a candidate fingerprint of a finger using said detailed set of elements, allowing for improved security and user convenience. |
| US09792420B2 |
Device and method for biometric authentication
A biometric authentication device includes: a storage unit to store a first enrolled template and first information including a parameter representing an input environment of the first enrolled template; a receiving unit to receive biometric information from the terminal device, a second enrolled template stored in the terminal device, and second information including a parameter representing an input environment of the second enrolled template; an authentication unit to perform authentication by matching the received biometric information and the first enrolled template; a selecting unit to select the first enrolled template or the second enrolled template, based on the first and second information, when the biometric information is accepted; and an updating unit to update the first enrolled template stored in the storage unit to the second enrolled template when the second enrolled template is selected. |
| US09792419B2 |
Starvationless kernel-aware distributed scheduling of software licenses
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing shared-license software management are provided. Shared-license software management may be performed by generating a request for a license for running a process of a shared-license software application. The request is communicated to a license server, and the process is made available for scheduling an operation when a grant for the requested license is received from the license server, wherein the grant comprises a license quantum, which is an amount of central processing unit time for which the license has been granted to the process. |
| US09792413B2 |
Electronic dental charting
Systems, methods, electronic devices and computer-readable media for charting dental information are described. The method includes generating or retrieving a dental data set including separately-modifiable parameters defining dental information relative to a base parametric model, the parameters providing information for generating signals for displaying a three-dimensional (3D) representation of at least a portion of a dentition represented by the dental data set; receiving an input via the 3D representation; and based on the received input, adjusting at least one of the parameters. |
| US09792411B2 |
Poroelastic dynamic mechanical analyzer for determining mechanical properties of biological materials
A system for determining parameters of porous media or material, which in an embodiment is biological tissue, includes an actuator and a displacement monitor. The actuator is adapted to apply a displacement to tissue at a particular frequency selected from a range of frequencies, and the force monitor adapted to monitor a mechanical response of tissue. The system also has a processor coupled to drive the actuator and to read the mechanical response, the processor coupled to execute from memory a poroelastic model of mechanical properties of the material, and a convergence procedure for determining parameters for the poroelastic model such that the model predicts mechanical response of the tissue to within limits. |
| US09792400B2 |
Determination of flip-flop count in physical design
System and method of determining flip-flop counts of interconnects of a physical layout during integrated circuit (IC) design. The outputs of each logic block are defined as primary inputs, and the inputs of each logic block are defined as primary outputs. Each interconnect is traversed from a primary input a primary output to identify the flip-flops and determine the flip-flop count. If an interconnect has a greater flip-flop count than an RTL estimated count, measures are taken to reduce the need for flip-flops with the current routing design. If the interconnect has a smaller flip-flop count than an RTL estimated count, additional flip-flops are inserted. |
| US09792399B2 |
Integrated circuit hierarchical design tool apparatus and method of hierarchically designing an integrated circuit
An integrated circuit hierarchical design tool apparatus comprises a processor arranged to support a block coupling reconfiguration unit. The block coupling reconfiguration unit is capable of receiving block layout data comprising block placement, terminal location data and intra-block connectivity data. The block coupling reconfiguration unit is arranged to identify from the block layout data a block placement level block having a terminal respectively coupled to a plurality of other block placement level blocks by a plurality of nets, and to provide the block with an additional terminal capable of providing the same function as the terminal. The block coupling reconfiguration unit is also arranged to replace a net of the plurality of nets that is coupled to the terminal with a replacement net coupled to the additional terminal. |
| US09792397B1 |
System and method for designing system on chip (SoC) circuits through artificial intelligence and reinforcement learning
The embodiments herein discloses a system and method for designing SoC using AI and Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques. Reinforcement Learning is done either hierarchically in several steps or in a single-step comprising environment, tasks, agents and experiments, to have access to SoC (System on a Chip) related information. The AI agent is configured to learn from the interaction and plan the implementation of a SoC circuit design. Q values generated for each domain and sub domain are stored in a hierarchical SMDP structure in a form of SMDP Q table in a big data database. An optimal chip architecture corresponding to a maximum Q value of a top level in the SMDP Q table is acquired and stored in a database for learning and inference. Desired SoC configuration is optimized and generated based on the optimal chip architecture and the generated chip specific graph library. |
| US09792396B2 |
Method and apparatus for automatic relative placement generation for clock trees
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for automatic relative placement of part of a clock tree in the course of generating a placed, routed, and optimized circuit design. |
| US09792394B2 |
Accurate glitch detection
Systems and techniques for detecting design problems in a circuit design are described. A higher-level abstraction of the circuit design can be synthesized to obtain a lower-level abstraction of the circuit design, and a mapping between signals in the higher-level abstraction and the signals in the lower-level abstraction. A design problem can be detected in the circuit design in response to determining that a possible glitch in a signal in the lower-level abstraction is not blocked when an enable signal is assigned a blocking value. The enable signal and the corresponding blocking value are identified by analyzing the higher-level abstraction. |
| US09792393B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for etch profile optimization by reflectance spectra matching and surface kinetic model optimization
Disclosed are methods of optimizing a computer model which relates the etch profile of a feature on a semiconductor substrate to a set of independent input parameters (A), via the use of a plurality of model parameters (B). In some embodiments, the methods may include modifying one or more values of B so as to reduce a metric indicative of the differences between computed reflectance spectra generated from the model and corresponding experimental reflectance spectra with respect to one or more sets of values of A. In some embodiments, calculating the metric may include an operation of projecting the computed and corresponding experimental reflectance spectra onto a reduced-dimensional subspace and calculating the difference between the reflectance spectra as projected onto the subspace. Also disclosed are etch systems implementing such optimized computer models. |
| US09792391B2 |
Refining of material definitions for designed parts
Various disclosed embodiments include a method for assigning a refined material definition to a designed part, the method performed by a data processing system and including accessing the designed part through the data processing system. The method also includes assigning one or more nominal material definitions (NMDs) of one or more materials to the designed part. The method further includes selecting one or more functional material definition variations (FMDVs) associated with the assigned NMD for the designed part in order to generate a refined material definition (RMD) for the designed part. The method includes generating the refined material definition (RMD) based on the NMD and the one or more FMDVs. |
| US09792390B2 |
Metadata/content re-association system and method
Digital content, such as video, audio, multimedia, and similar files may be associated with metadata that is in some manner descriptive of the content by means of a unique identifier generated based on the content or a portion of the content. The two may be packaged in a wrapper. If the content is separated from the metadata, such as by circulation in a non-compliant environment, the content may be recognized by a regeneration of the identifier. Based upon the re-created identifier, the metadata may be re-associated with the content. Other scenarios may include generation of compilations for files that are not included in a wrapper with content and metadata, content that becomes dissociated with metadata by transcoding, and so forth. |
| US09792388B2 |
Pattern extraction apparatus and control method therefor
A pattern extraction apparatus for extracting a pattern of event occurrence from event time-series data generates an adjacent event graph by fetching adjacent events from the event time-series data, representing each of the adjacent events as a node, connecting the nodes by a directed link having a transition direction between the adjacent events and a weight, representing identical events as a single node, and, if there are a plurality of directed links between identical adjacent events, accumulating weights of the directed links into a single directed link. The pattern extraction apparatus cuts a directed link having an evaluation value smaller than or equal to a predetermined value in the generated adjacent event graph, the expected value being obtained based on the weight of the directed link. |
| US09792387B2 |
Service desk data transfer interface
A system and method for managing data transfer operations includes at least one data server including data stored in a plurality of data fields, at least one transaction server operatively coupled to the at least one data server and configured to provide at least one customizable business rule and a customer relationship application, an information server operatively coupled to the at least one transaction server, and at least one workstation operatively coupled to the information server. The least one workstation includes local memory accessible to the customer relationship application and configured to provide web communication and presentation services to a user of the at least one workstation that are deployed on the information server. The at least one customizable business rule specifies a mapping between the plurality of data fields and the local memory, the mapping having been provided by the user interacting with the web communication and presentation services. |
| US09792386B2 |
Concepts for providing an enhanced media presentation
Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for providing an enhanced media presentation. In one embodiment, an enhanced media presentation is provided. To provide the enhanced media presentation, one or more content items associated with subject matter associated with a segment of an enhanced media presentation are identified. Each content item may be associated with at least one uniform resource identifier. Then, a content object based at least in part on at least one content item is created. The content object is an abstract representation of the content item. The content object can be associated with the segment and provided for simultaneous displayed simultaneously with at least a portion of the segment. |
| US09792385B2 |
Systems and methods for improved web-based document retrieval and object manipulation
Systems and methods are provided for improving web-based document retrieval and object manipulation. In an implementation, objects within web documents (e.g., a web page) are manipulated when the objects are visible through a viewport of a user's web browser. According to a method, an object selected from a web document is manipulated when that selected object is displayed within the viewport of the user's browser. The manipulation may include downloading content associated with the stored object and additionally, or alternatively, executing a script associated with the stored object. Additionally, or independently, methods may be provided for blocking the download of an object in a retrieved web document until that object is displayed or visible in the user's browser viewport. |
| US09792381B2 |
Method and apparatus for a paged update protocol
An approach is provided for providing an update feed to clients. An update document comprising one or more update statuses of one or more resources is generated. At least one of the one or more resources is identified using a respective obfuscation identifier. The update document is divided into one or more pages. The one or more pages are archived. |
| US09792377B2 |
Sentiment trent visualization relating to an event occuring in a particular geographic region
An event occurring in a particular geographic region is identified based on disseminated information containing public commentary in the particular geographic region. Attributes that are related to the event are identified, and sentiment words relating to the identified event are extracted from the disseminated information, where the extracted sentiment words are in a local language of the particular geographic region. A sentiment trend visualization is generated that depicts a trend of sentiments of at least a particular one of the identified attributes, wherein the sentiments are based on the sentiment words for at least the particular attribute. |
| US09792371B1 |
Automatic synthesis and evaluation of content
Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a system that includes a synthesis subsystem that automatically creates components for inclusion in a creative. The synthesis subsystem includes one or more modules that receive, as input, crawled content or metadata known or identified by the content serving system, and produce, as an output, a synthesized component for inclusion in a prospective creative. The system further includes an evaluation subsystem that evaluates quality of each of the synthesized components generated by the synthesis subsystem to determine measurable quality as against a baseline quality level. The system further includes a serving subsystem that receives queries and selects relevant content items responsive to the queries including, for a given content item, identification of one or more synthesized components generated by the synthesis subsystem depending on the evaluation of the respective synthesized components by the evaluation subsystem. |
| US09792369B2 |
Method and apparatus for a search-enabled remote control device
A search-enabled remote control device to facilitate viewers' ability to search through programming and/or content options and view results. In one embodiment, a viewer is able to use a traditional remote control interface to navigate through menus or selections and to display search results on screen. In another embodiment, a viewer's watching behavior and/or searching habits are tracked by the search-enabled remote control and used to develop a viewer profile, which may in turn be used to target advertisements, information and/or future programming options. |
| US09792368B1 |
Dynamic map synchronization
Advantages of both conventional and digital maps can be obtained by utilizing a physical map as a type of input to any of various processing devices. In various embodiments, a user can capture an image of a physical map that includes at least one location of interest. The captured image can be matched with stored map information to obtain location information corresponding to the captured image. The location information can be used to provide any of a variety of types of functionality to the user, such as providing navigation directions to that location, displaying information about attractions around that location or statistics about that location, etc. The user in some embodiments can annotate the map to provide additional input, such as areas of interest, exclusion regions, and/or proposed driving routes. |
| US09792367B2 |
Providing multi-lingual searching of mono-lingual content
Approaches for translating a transliterated search query are provided. An approach includes receiving a search query containing a transliterated word. The approach also includes determining a source language corresponding to the transliterated word. The approach further includes converting the transliterated word to a word in the source language. The approach additionally includes translating the word in the source language to a word in a target language. The approach also includes performing a search using the word in the target language. |
| US09792365B2 |
Method and system for tracking and gathering multivariate testing data
A system and method for tracking and gathering data respective of multivariate testing on a plurality of webpages are provided. The method includes crawling through a plurality of servers hosting the plurality of webpages; for each uniform resource locator (URL) of a webpage of the plurality of webpages encountered during the crawling: sending a request to download the webpage identified by the URL; downloading at least one page view of the webpage; analyzing the at least one downloaded page view to identify data related to at least a multivariate test; and saving data identifying the at least a multivariate test performed in the plurality of webpages in a data store. |
| US09792360B2 |
Method and apparatus for pairing music and food selections
A system and method enable the selection of musical recordings for pairing with a food serving, possibly an appetizer, a main course, a dessert or a beverage, for the purpose of increasing the enjoyment of a given meal. A plurality of factors for specific meal components such as entree, including protein type, method of cooking, amount of spice, side dish component and type of sauce are used to determine a specific numerical value for a meal; appetizer including protein type, bread and dough content, method of cooking and spice level; dessert, including content of cacao, sweetener and content of sweetener, ambient temperature at service and dairy content; and beverage, including but not limited to alcohol content, acidity, body, dryness, lingering quality, and IBU. A specific numerical value for a musical recording is also determined based on a plurality of factors, including genre, tempo, dynamics, and primary instrument. The numerical value assigned to the meal and the numerical value assigned to the musical recording are preferably as nearly identical as possible. The musical recording enhances the perception of the flavor, texture, and overall experience of the food. The process may be facilitated through use of a dedicated mobile application, or may be performed manually by a user. |
| US09792359B2 |
Providing training information for training a categorizer
A method and system of providing training information for training a categorizer includes receiving a query relating to at least one category and identifying at least one case within a data set that matches the query. The method and system receives one of a first indication that the identified at least one case belongs to the category, and a second indication that the identified at least one case does not belong to the category. Training information is modified based on receiving one of the first indication and second indication. |
| US09792358B2 |
Generating and using socially-curated brains
A method includes determining a plurality of social objects, each social object having a link to a link object on a network. The method further includes applying a filter to the determined social objects in order to determine a plurality of filtered social objects, retrieving a copy of each of the link objects linked to by the plurality of filtered social objects, and generating, using the retrieved copies of the link objects linked to by the plurality of filtered social objects, a matrix comprising a plurality of vectors. The method further includes generating a singular value representation of the matrix by performing Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) on the matrix and storing the singular value representation of the matrix in one or more memory units. |
| US09792354B2 |
Context aware user interface parts
A model for displaying multiple user interface elements such that each control includes a container that includes standard functionality across at least a majority of the user interface elements. For instance, such standard functionality might include a part status indication, a title, a content status indication, a command invocation function, a part resizing function, and so forth. The model may also provide for standardization of resizing of user interface elements. For a given user interface element, there would be a predetermined number of possible size and shapes, each corresponding to a different projection of data. For instance, all of the user interface elements on a screen may fall within the predetermined number of possible size and shapes, thereby allowing more functional layout of the user interface on the display. |
| US09792353B2 |
Method and system for providing sponsored information on electronic devices
A system implementing a method for providing sponsored information on an electronic device determines information of interest to the user as relevant information, accesses sponsored information, and provides sponsored information based on said relevant information. |
| US09792350B2 |
Real-time classification of data into data compression domains
For real-time classification of data into data compression domains, a decision is made for which of the data compression domains write operations should be forwarded by reading randomly selected data of the write operations for computing a set of classifying heuristics thereby creating a fingerprint for each of the write operations. The write operations having a similar fingerprint are compressed together in a similar compression stream. |
| US09792345B1 |
Parallel database mirroring
In a database cluster comprising a plurality of mirrored database segments, a mirror database pair comprising a primary database and a mirror database are maintained substantially consistent by writing changes resulting from transactions to page data in parallel to the primary database and to the mirror database. Changes are sent to the mirror database over a network using network communications. Transaction logs are also written to the primary and mirrored databases in parallel, the transaction logs being sent to the mirror database using network communications. Bulk load changes resulting from transactions are written in parallel over the network to the primary database and the mirror database without writing the changes to a transaction log. In the event of a failure, resynchronization of the mirror database can be performed quickly while avoiding a lengthy ongoing redo process on the mirror database. |
| US09792344B2 |
Asynchronous namespace maintenance
Asynchronous namespace maintenance in a distributed replicated data storage system is disclosed. An access device/program serving as a front end to the distributed replicated data storage system updates a batch of updated meta data about stored data items when data items are stored in the distributed replicated data storage system. When the elapsed time since the last batch of data item meta data was stored exceeds a first threshold value or the current batch size exceeds a second threshold value, the access device/program stores the current batch of updated meta data as an object in the distributed replicated data storage system, receiving a batch object identifier for the stored batch of updated meta data, and distributes the batch object identifier to other access devices and/or access programs which retrieve the batch of updated meta data and update their namespaces. |
| US09792341B2 |
Database query processing using horizontal data record alignment of multi-column range summaries
Organizing data within a database is provided. In response to determining that a group of coarsified data records within a database table is not an aligned group of data records, a virtually replicated subgroup of coarsified data records that corresponds to the group of coarsified data records is generated from different groups of coarsified data records within the database table. The virtually replicated subgroup of coarsified data records is aligned with the corresponding group of coarsified data records. |
| US09792338B2 |
Role assignments in a cloud infrastructure
Provisioning, managing and tracking of services provided by a cloud infrastructure system are described. A subscription order request from a customer for services provided by the cloud infrastructure system is received. A separation of roles performed by different customer entities in a customer's organization when the customer subscribes to services in the cloud infrastructure system is determined. The roles relate to providing information about different portions of the subscription order by the customer entities. Upon completion of the assigned roles by the relevant customer entities, the subscription order is provisioned to the customer. |
| US09792331B2 |
Content recommendation based on efficacy models
The disclosure includes a system and method for providing recommendation items to users. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that when executed cause the system to: receive identification input data associated with a user; identify the user using the identification input data; receive sensor data; determine a current situation associated with the user from one or more predefined situations described by predefined situation data and associated parameters; receive data describing a set of candidate items; generate a set of efficacy scores for the set of candidate items; eliminate one or more candidate items from the set of candidate items to obtain one or more remaining candidate items; rank the one or more remaining candidate items based on one or more associated efficacy scores; and provide one or more recommendation items to the user from the one or more ranked remaining candidate items. |
| US09792321B2 |
Online database migration
Various arrangements for performing an online migration between server systems is presented. A transfer, from a source server system to a target server system, of a database, may be initiated. During the transfer, the database of the source server system may remain online. A timing indication of when transfer of the database was initiated may be recorded. While transferring the database, modifications to the records of the database may be received. The plurality of modifications may be stored, and, for each modification of the plurality of modifications, a timing indication of when the modification was received may be stored. After completing the transfer of the database to the target server system, the plurality of modifications to the database stored by the target server system may be applied while the source server system is online. |
| US09792319B2 |
System and method for identifying non-event profiles
A system for avoidance records comprises an interface and a processor. An interface is configured to receive an abbreviated record associated with a non-event profile identifier. A processor is configured to determine a counter value associated with the non-event profile identifier and, in the event that the counter value is greater than a predetermined threshold, create and store an avoidance record. |
| US09792315B2 |
Multi-user search system with methodology for bypassing instant indexing
Multi-user computer search system with methodology for bypassing instant indexing of documents. In some embodiments, for example, a system for bypassing instant indexing includes a token store storing a set of token for a current version of a document and a tokenizer server configured to tokenize a new version of the document and to generate a set of tokens for the new version of the document. The system further includes an instant indexer server configured to determine tokens to index the document by based on identified differences between the set of tokens for the new version of the document and the set of tokens for the current version of the document, to determine whether the new version of the document is a bypass document version or non-bypass document version, and to generate an index mutation for the new version of the document including a specification of whether the generated index mutation is a bypass index mutation or a non-bypass index mutation based on whether the new version of the document is a bypass document version or non-bypass document version. The system also includes an index mutation server configured to provide the generated index mutation to an index server, if the generated index mutation is a non-bypass index mutation, or not provide the generated index mutation to the index server, if the generated index mutation is a bypass index mutation. |
| US09792314B2 |
Method and apparatus for obtaining content in screenshot
Embodiments of the present disclosure may include a method and apparatus for obtaining the content in a screenshot. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, content organization information associated with the screenshot may be obtained, wherein the content organization information may include the structure and data of one or more data objects associated with the content in the screenshot. The content in the screenshot may be determined based on the content organization information. |
| US09792312B2 |
Row identification column authorization profiles
Tables in a database can include an internal RowID column. For each new row or new version of a row in the table, a new RowID can be assigned and stored in the RowID column. RowID values can be stored using either or both of range compression and block compression, or other compression approaches. In response to receipt of a query of the database table, at least one of a forward look up and a reverse lookup of a DocID value associated with a specific RowID value can be performed. |
| US09792304B1 |
Query by image
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing queries made up of images. In one aspect, a method includes indexing images by image descriptors. The method further includes associating descriptive n-grams with the images. In another aspect, a method includes receiving a query, identifying text describing the query, and performing a search according to the text identified for the query. |
| US09792303B2 |
Identifying data from keyword searches of color palettes and keyword trends
Systems and methods are described herein to determine data associated with keyword searches of color palettes based at least in part on keyword trends. A keyword trend may include popular colors of color palettes associated with the keyword. Color palettes may be searched by name or other data associated with the color palettes. Furthermore, color palettes associated with a keyword may be filtered by color trends and/or keyword trends. The items and/or images associated with the filtered color palettes may be identified and presented to a user. |
| US09792298B1 |
Managing metadata and data storage for a cloud controller in a distributed filesystem
The disclosed embodiments disclose techniques for managing metadata and data storage for a cloud controller in a distributed filesystem. Two or more cloud controllers collectively manage distributed filesystem data that is stored in one or more cloud storage systems. More specifically, the cloud controllers cache and ensure data consistency for the data stored in the cloud storage systems, with each cloud controller maintaining (e.g., storing) in a local storage device: (1) one or more metadata regions containing a metadata hierarchy that reflects the current state of the distributed filesystem; and (2) cached data for the distributed filesystem. During operation, the cloud controller receives an incremental metadata snapshot that references new data written to the distributed filesystem. The cloud controller stores updated metadata from this incremental metadata snapshot in one of the metadata regions on the local storage device. |
| US09792290B2 |
Object store management operations within compute-centric object stores
Object store management operations within compute-centric object stores are provided herein. An exemplary method may include transforming an object storage dump into an object store table by a table generator container, wherein the object storage dump includes at least objects within an object store that are marked for deletion, transmitting records for objects from the object store table to reducer containers, such that each reducer container receives object records for at least one object, the object records comprising all object records for the at least one object, generating a set of cleanup tasks by the reducer containers, and executing the cleanup tasks by a cleanup agents. |
| US09792289B2 |
Systems and methods for file clustering, multi-drive forensic analysis and data protection
A system and method for file clustering, multi-drive forensic analysis and protection of sensitive data. Multiple memory devices can store files. A module can extract characteristics from the stored files, identify similarities between the files based on the extracted characteristics and generate file clusters based on the identified similarities. A visual representation of the file clusters, which can be generated to show the identified similarities among the files, can be displayed by a user interface module. |
| US09792287B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing metadata search codes to multimedia
An apparatus including at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to: maintain a multimedia data item associated with metadata, the metadata including geographic location data; and perform reverse geocoding from a geocoding database, for determining first address information for the geographic location data, using a first search language. The at least one memory and the computer program code further configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to: determine country information from the first address information; retrieve a preferred language based on the country information; perform reverse geocoding from the geocoding database, for determining second address information for the geographic location data, using the preferred language; define search codes using the first address information and the second address information; and store at least one search code to the metadata as a searchable metadata element for subsequent retrieval of the multimedia data item based on the searchable metadata element. |
| US09792284B2 |
System, method and computer program product for multilingual content management
A system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions translatable by the processor. The instructions when translated by the processor cause the system to determine an exemplar reference which identifies a managed object stored in a repository residing in an enterprise computing environment. The system can determine a translation group utilizing the exemplar reference. The managed object may represent a content item. The translation group may include the content item and the content item may be multilingual enabled. The system can determine an effective locale for a request for content received from a client device communicatively connected to a web server in the enterprise computing environment, determine a language that is appropriate for the effective locale, and respond to the request for content with the content item or a translation of the content item that is in the language appropriate for the effective locale. |
| US09792283B2 |
Method and system for presenting statistical data in a natural language format
A computer-implemented method for presenting statistical analysis in a natural language textual output comprising: receiving data to be analyzed by the processor; processing the data according to at least one of a plurality of pre-established statistical analysis types, thereby providing processed data; interpreting the processed data by analyzing the processed data to provide a pre-determined natural language text, thereby providing interpreted data; and generating a natural language textual output for the interpreted data according to at least one pre-established rule for converting the interpreted data to a natural language textual output. |
| US09792279B2 |
Methods and systems for analyzing communication situation based on emotion information
Provided is a method of recommending a sticker through an emotion analysis. The method of recommending a sticker through an emotion analysis, include: by a server, performing a surface analysis on the last utterance between the first user terminal and the second user terminal; performing an emotion analysis on the last utterance using a result of the surface analysis; extracting a dialog context factor including a surface analysis result and an emotion analysis result on a certain number of continuous utterances including the last utterance between the first user terminal and the second user terminal; selecting a sticker to be recommended to the first user using the dialog context factor; and providing the selected sticker for the first user terminal. |
| US09792273B2 |
System and method for a spreadsheet application supporting diverse formulaic functions
A spreadsheet application or other application supporting formulaic cells that automatically provides support for a number of diverse formulaic functions. The automatically provided diverse formulaic functions include a function returning the value of the formula logic if the logic can be evaluated without an error. Another function finds a value in a formulaic cell that is in the same row as a particular value from the first column and the same column as a particular value in the first row. Other functions allow a selection of a set of multiple lookup rows and columns for matching the values used as variables in the function. The spreadsheet application is further configured to automatically supply other functions in addition to those described. |
| US09792271B2 |
System and method of manipulating an inputted character string to a diacritic-modified character string using a single layout for a character entry device
The present invention provides a method of manipulating an inputted character string to a diacritic-modified character string using a single layout for a character entry device, having the steps of: monitoring the character entry device for one or more sequential character entries, the sequential character entries including a first limiter character and a second limiter character, the first limiter character and a second limiter character defining the inputted character string there between; comparing the inputted character string to a database containing at least one modified character string, the at least one modified character string having at least one diacritic-modified character string that corresponds to the inputted character string; and replacing the inputted character string with one of the at least one diacritic-modified character string based on pre-defined replacement rules. |
| US09792268B2 |
Zoomable web-based wall with natural user interface
A user interface allows zooming and panning of a web-based wall that can support a wide variety of content. Various natural user interface features can be implemented to allow users to interact with content in an intuitive way. Technical infrastructure such as a zoom engine, bounding boxes, and content sharing enable implementation of a rich set of features that are instantly grasped by users. A minimap can provide a helpful overview of content. |
| US09792263B2 |
Human input to relate separate scanned objects
A method for managing a hardcopy document (HD). The method includes: obtaining an image of the HD; identifying, within the image, a plurality of linking labels and a plurality of regions corresponding to the plurality of linking labels; extracting a plurality of strings from the plurality of regions; generating a combined string by combining the plurality of strings based on the plurality of linking labels; and generating an editable electronic version of the HD specifying the combined string. |
| US09792260B2 |
Visual screen indicator
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and method for viewing electronic documents. Briefly described, one embodiment of the system, among others, includes an electronic viewer application to display contents of an electronic document; and a visual indicator logic configured to display at least one visual indicator on the electronic display, each visual indicator indicating a portion of the contents that are to be subsequently displayed on the electronic display in response to a navigation command. Other systems and methods are also provided. |
| US09792258B2 |
Methods for determining well characteristics and pore architecture utilizing conventional well logs
Provided are methods, computer readable medium, apparatus, and program code for determining well characteristics and pore architecture for a hydrocarbon well utilizing data available from conventional/standard electronic well logs. An example of a method can include determining the value of well constants from well log data to include calculating water saturation, free water level location, wettability, and pore throat heterogeneity, and calculating pore architecture at log resolution responsive thereto. This can be accomplished, for example, by accessing well log data from a conventional well log, determining a linear regression line responsive to parameters calculated from the well log data, the linear regression line having a slope and an intercept, and determining a value of each of a plurality of well constants responsive to a value of the slope and of the intercept of the linear regression line. |
| US09792253B2 |
Sensor device, sensor management system, method for controlling sensor device, and computer-readable recording medium
A sensor device has a difference calculation unit that calculates the difference between a predetermined threshold and a current measured value measured by a sensor unit that measures a measurement subject, a change amount recording unit that records the maximum amount of change of the measured value with respect to elapsed time on the basis of a plurality of measured value history records obtained by measuring the measurement subject, and a minimum time calculation unit that calculates the minimum arrival time that is the minimum time for the measurement subject to arrive at the predetermined threshold from the current measured value on the basis of the calculated difference and the recorded maximum amount of change. |
| US09792250B1 |
System on chip module configured for event-driven architecture
A system on chip (SoC) module is described herein, wherein the SoC modules comprise a processor subsystem and a hardware logic subsystem. The processor subsystem and hardware logic subsystem are in communication with one another, and transmit event messages between one another. The processor subsystem executes software actors, while the hardware logic subsystem includes hardware actors, the software actors and hardware actors conform to an event-driven architecture, such that the software actors receive and generate event messages and the hardware actors receive and generate event messages. |
| US09792248B2 |
Fast read/write between networked computers via RDMA-based RPC requests
An “RDMA-Based RPC Request System” combines the concepts of RPC and RDMA in a way that can be implemented on commodity networking communications hardware, e.g., RDMA-enabled network interface controllers (NICs) in an Ethernet-based network. In various implementations, the RDMA-Based RPC Request System enables fast lock-free and thread-safe execution of RPC requests between different computers in a network via RDMA-based messages. In other words, the RDMA-Based RPC Request System combines RDMA messaging and RPC requests to enable fast RPC requests via a sequence of RDMA messages transmitted over Ethernet using commodity NICs between networked computers in a data center or other network environment. This RDMA message process is both lock-free and thread-safe. Advantageously, being both lock-free and thread-safe improves overall performance of memory access and RPC requests between networked computers by reducing overall system latency for transmission and execution of RPC requests over commodity networking hardware. |
| US09792247B2 |
Systems and methods for chip to chip communication
Systems and methods for chip to chip communication are disclosed. In an exemplary aspect, a chip to chip link comprises a master device having a data transmitter, a clock, a clock transmitter, a phase locked loop (PLL) associated with the clock, and a receiver. The chip to chip link also comprises a slave device that has a data transmitter, a clock receiver, and a data receiver. Noticeably absent from the slave device is a clock or a PLL. By removing the clock from the slave device, the slave device does not have the power consuming element of a slave PLL. Further, because the slave device does not have a clock which would normally have to acquire a new frequency and settle, the master clock may change frequency relatively quickly and vary the frequency across many frequencies, not just one or two predefined frequencies. |
| US09792246B2 |
Lower-power scrambling with improved signal integrity
An I/O interface supports scrambling, where the scrambling can include nonlinear scrambling of the scrambling code, or dynamic bus inversion of the scrambling code, or selective switching of selected bits of the scrambling code, or a combination of these. The transmitting device includes a scrambler and the receiving device includes a descrambler. Both the scrambler and the descrambler generate a linear feedback scrambling code modified by applying one or more of the techniques mentioned above. The modified scrambling code may cause fewer than half of the scrambled output bits to be toggled with respect to a previous scrambled output. The scrambler applies the modified scrambling code to a signal to transmit. The descrambler applies the modified scrambling code to a received signal. |
| US09792242B2 |
Systems and methods for non-unicast/destination lookup fail (DLF) load balancing
Aspects of the present invention include a port extender environment using the port extenders to dynamically select a data path. In embodiments of the present invention, each port extender can communicate data traffic to another port extender or to a host receiver. The communication path is selected in the port extender using a hashing system. |
| US09792233B2 |
Techniques for escalating interrupts in a data processing system to a higher software stack level
A technique for escalating interrupts in a data processing system includes receiving, at an interrupt presentation controller (IPC), an event notification message (ENM) that specifies a level, an event target number, a number of bits to ignore, and an event priority. A group of virtual processor threads that may be potentially interrupted is determined based on the event target number, the number of bits to ignore, the level, and a process identifier (ID) when the level specified in the ENM corresponds to a user level. In response to the event priority in the ENM not being greater than an operating priority of at least one virtual processor thread in the group of virtual processor threads, an escalate message that includes an escalate event number (EEN), sourced from an interrupt context table of the IPC, is issued. The EEN is used by an interrupt source controller to generate another ENM. |
| US09792224B2 |
Reducing latency by persisting data relationships in relation to corresponding data in persistent memory
A processor or system may include a memory controller to store, in a pre-allocated portion of bit-addressable, random access persistent memory (PM), a relationship between a group of addresses being stored in the PM according to a set of instructions when executed. The memory controller is further to retrieve the relationship when accessing an address from the groups of addresses. |
| US09792221B2 |
System and method for improving performance of read/write operations from a persistent memory device
A memory unit and method are disclosed. The memory unit comprises: at least one controller interfaced with at least one corresponding persistent memory device operable to store files in accordance with a file system; and a file mapping unit operable, in response to a virtual file access request from a memory management unit of a processor, the virtual file access request having a virtual address within a virtual address space associated with one of the files identifying data to be accessed, to map the virtual address to a physical address of the data within the one of the files using pre-stored mapping information and to issue a physical access request having the physical address to access the data within the one of the files. |
| US09792214B2 |
Cache memory for particular data
According to an embodiment, a cache unit includes: a first memory configured to temporarily hold data and an address of the data, a second memory configured to temporarily hold an address of particular data set in advance, and a controller configured to, when an instruction to load the data is made for a first specified address, search for a storage destination of the first specified address, output the data of the first specified address if the storage destination is the first memory, and output the particular data if the storage destination is the second memory. |
| US09792213B2 |
Mitigating busy time in a high performance cache
Various embodiments mitigate busy time in a hierarchical store-through memory cache structure including a cache directory associated with a memory cache. The cache directory is divided into a plurality of portions each associated with a portion of memory cache. A determination is made that a first subpipe of a shared cache pipeline comprises a non-store request. The shared pipeline is communicatively coupled to the plurality of portions of the cache directory. A store command is prevented from being placed in a second subpipe of the shared cache pipeline based on determining that a first subpipe of the shared cache pipeline comprises a non-store request. Simultaneous cache lookup operations are supported between the plurality of portions of the cache directory and cache write operations. Two or more store commands simultaneously processed in a shared cache pipeline communicatively coupled to the plurality of portions of the cache directory. |
| US09792210B2 |
Region probe filter for distributed memory system
A probe filter determines whether to issue a probe to at least one other processing node in response to a memory access request, and includes a region probe filter directory, a line probe filter directory, and a controller. The region probe filter directory identifies regions of memory for which at least one cache line may be cached in a data processing system and a state of each region, wherein a size of each region corresponds to a plurality of cache lines. The line probe filter directory identifies cache lines cached in the data processing system and a state of each cache line. The controller accesses at least one of the region probe filter directory and the line probe filter directory in response to a memory access request to determine whether to issue the probe, and does not issue any probe in response to a read-only request. |
| US09792207B2 |
Data storage in a mobile device with embedded mass storage device
A mobile device (100) includes a processing device (140), a random access memory, RAM, (150) and an embedded mass storage device (160). A first interface (IF1) is provided between the processing device (140) and the RAM (150). The first interface (IF1) supports access of the processing device (140) to the RAM (150). The mass storage device (160) includes a controller (170) and a non-volatile flash memory (180). A second interface (IF2) is provided between the controller (170) and the flash memory (180). The second interface (IF2) supports access of the controller (170) to the flash memory (180). A third interface (IF3) is provided between the controller (170) and the processing device (140). The third interface (IF3) supports access of the controller (170) to the RAM (150). |
| US09792200B2 |
Assessing vulnerability impact using call graphs
Implementations are directed to enhancing assessment of one or more known vulnerabilities inside one or more third-party libraries used within an application program that interacts with the one or more third-party libraries. In some examples, actions include receiving a complete call graph that is provided by static source code analysis (SSCA) of the application program and any third-party libraries used by the application, receiving one or more stack traces that are provided based on dynamic source code analysis (DSCA) during execution of the application program, processing the complete call graph, the one or more stack traces, and vulnerable function data to provide one or more combined call graphs, the vulnerable function data identifying one or more vulnerable functions included in the one or more third-party libraries, each combined call graph being specific to a respective vulnerable function, and providing a graphical representation of each combined call graph. |
| US09792195B2 |
Terminal data logger
A method and system for server-side capturing, logging, and replaying terminal data of a terminal is described. |
| US09792194B2 |
Performance regression manager for large scale systems
System and computer program product to perform an operation comprising generating, based on a first output generated by a first execution instance of a command, a first output file specifying a value of at least one performance metric, wherein the first output file is formatted according to a predefined format, comparing the value of the at least one performance metric in the first output file to a value of the performance metric in a second output file, the second output file having been generated based on a second output generated by a second execution instance of the command, and outputting for display an indication of a result of the comparison of the value of the at least one performance metric of the first output file to the value of the at least one performance metric of the second output file. |
| US09792192B1 |
Client-side, variable drive health determination
The relative health of data storage drives may be determined based, at least in some aspects, on data access information and/or other drive operation information. In some examples, upon receiving the operation information from a computing device, a health level of a drive may be determined. The health level determination may be based at least in part on operating information received from a client entity. Additionally, a storage space allocation instruction or operation may be determined for execution. The allocation instruction or operation determined to be performed may be based at least in part on the determined health level. |
| US09792190B2 |
High performance persistent memory
Embodiments are generally directed to high capacity energy backed memory with off device storage. A memory device includes a circuit board; multiple memory chips that are installed on the circuit board; a controller to provide for backing up contents of the memory chips when a power loss condition is detected; a connection to a backup energy source; and a connection to a backup data storage that is separate from the memory device. |
| US09792186B2 |
Kernel state and user state data exchange method for disaster recovery of virtual container system
The present invention relates to a kernel state and user state data exchange method for disaster recovery of a virtual container system. In one disaster recovery backup of a virtual container, data needs to be exchanged between a kernel state and a user state. The file system operation of the kernel state needs to be transmitted to a user state program for processing firstly, and the processing result is returned to the kernel state and then transmitted to an original application program. Low recovery speed of a data block is mainly caused by the need of multiple times of switching between the kernel state and the user state, and the communication efficiency of the kernel state and the user state is low. In the present invention, all recovery operations are completed by the user state by virtue of a FUSE. A FUSE file system is realized firstly, one of files therein is mapped to the /DEV/LOOP device, then the LOOP device is used as a shadow device of a disk to be recovered, and a virtual container manager enables a virtual container with the LOOP device. The access to the original hard disk is intercepted in the FUSE file system, and then the FUSE file system communicates with the server, so that efficient on-demand recovery of data is realized. |
| US09792183B2 |
Method, apparatus, and recording medium for interworking with external terminal
A method for interworking with an external terminal is provided. The method includes, at a mobile terminal, displaying a screen for selecting whether or not to reset the mobile terminal, if a connection request is received from a second terminal while the mobile terminal interworks with a first terminal, at the mobile terminal, generating first backup data including information about one or more execution files corresponding to one or more functions linked to the first terminal, if resetting of the mobile terminal has been selected on the screen, and at the mobile terminal, transmitting the first backup data to the first terminal, and performing resetting. |
| US09792177B2 |
Data recovery circuit, semiconductor storage device, and data recovery method
According to one embodiment, a data recovery circuit includes an XOR operation unit, an erroneous bit position inferring unit, an error factor inferring unit, and an error provisionally determining unit. The XOR operation unit performs a bitwise XOR operation on M data sequences of N bits, where M and N are integers of two or greater. The erroneous bit position inferring unit infers an erroneous bit position based on the XOR operation result. The error factor inferring unit infers the inverted direction of the erroneous bit. The error provisionally determining unit performs bit inversion in the erroneous bit position, the direction of the bit inversion being opposite to the inferred inverted direction. |
| US09792176B2 |
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding data in memory system
A memory system includes a memory controller; and a memory device, the memory device including a memory cell array, the memory cell array including least a first memory page having a plurality of memory cells storing a plurality of stored bits, the memory controller being such that, the memory controller performs a first hard read operation on the first memory page to generate a plurality of read bits corresponding to the plurality of stored bits, and if the memory controller determines to change a value of one of a first group of bits, from among the plurality of read bits, the memory controller selects one of the first group of bits based on log likelihood ratio (LLR) values corresponding, respectively, to each of the first group of bits, and changes the value of the selected bit. |
| US09792175B2 |
Bad column management in nonvolatile memory
When the number of bad columns in a memory or plane is less than a threshold number then a first Error Correction Code (ECC) scheme encodes user data in first pages of a first size. If the number of bad columns is greater than the threshold number then a second ECC scheme encodes the user data in second pages of a second size that is smaller than the first size. |
| US09792172B2 |
Memory system and method of controlling nonvolatile memory
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller manages a plurality of namespaces for storing a plurality of kinds of data having different update frequencies. The controller encodes write data by using first coding for reducing wear of a memory cell to generate first encoded data, and generates second encoded data to be written to the nonvolatile memory by adding an error correction code to the first encoded data. The controller changes the ratio between the first encoded data and the error correction code based on the namespace to which the write data is to be written. |
| US09792168B2 |
System and method for cloud remediation of a client with a non-bootable storage medium
A remediation server receives a service request from a data processing device, the service request to diagnose a failure to load an operating system at the data processing device. A data storage device local to data processing device is identified, the data storage device storing the operating system. A diagnostic process is provided at the remediation server, the diagnostic process to mount the data storage device. A diagnostic service is performed based on information stored at the data storage device. |
| US09792165B2 |
Binding smart objects
A method for binding a first and second devices is disclosed. The method is implemented using the architectural principles of REST, which allows a binding initiator to directly contact the first device and instruct the device of actions to be taken. Specifically, the binding initiator may contact the first device by providing a first REST request to the device, the request specifying that the first device is to monitor a state of a particular REST resource identified by the request and is to trigger the second device to perform a specified action when the state of that REST resource satisfies a particular condition. Using REST further allows the first device to directly contact the second device and instruct the second device to perform the specified action. Since the first device is now able to directly contact the second device, these two devices may be considered to be bound. |
| US09792164B1 |
Message pattern detection and processing suspension
A transaction suspension system rapidly determines whether messages received by a centralized, anonymous data transaction processing system related to data objects correspond to a stored message pattern. Stored message patterns may include how the message impact objects within the data transaction processing system, which sources transmitted the messages, and when messages were received by the data transaction processing system. The transaction suspension system may prevent the further processing of messages, e.g., messages from a specific source, even if the message would have otherwise qualified for a completed, or processed, transaction. |
| US09792161B2 |
Maximizing concurrency bug detection in multithreaded software programs
Disclosed systems and methods incorporate a sound and maximal causal model with control flow information for maximum concurrency error detection in general multithreaded programs. The maximal causal model may be based on or integrated with the sequential consistency model, and form the basis for a formula including branch and order variables as first-order logical constraints solvable by an SMT solver for detection or prediction of concurrency errors. The disclosed systems and methods also relate to predictive trace analysis (PTA) for predicting generic concurrency properties using local traces (as opposed to a global trace) through the threads of a multithreaded program. By uniformly modeling violations of concurrency properties and the thread causality as constraints over events, and using an SMT solver, the systems and methods predict property violations allowed by the causal model. |
| US09792159B2 |
Program determining apparatus and program determining method
A disclosed program determining apparatus includes a log recording unit configured to record, in response to at least one of a use request for use of a predetermined function of the image forming apparatus from a program for use in the image forming apparatus and consumption of a predetermined resource of the image forming apparatus by the program, content of said at least one of use request and consumption as log information; and a determining unit configured to determine whether said at least one of use of the predetermined function requested by the program and consumption of the predetermined resource by the program satisfies a predetermined restriction. |
| US09792153B2 |
Computing resource inventory system
Systems and methods of managing computing resources of a computing system are described. A computing resource list and computing resource information may be stored at a data store. The computing resource list may identify a set of computing resources of a computing system, and the computing resource information may respectively describe the computing resources. The computing resource list may be updated in response to a new computing resource being added to the computing system or in response to an existing computing resource being removed from the computing system. Evaluation tasks for the computing resources may be performed, and a resource evaluation report may be generated during performance of at least one of the evaluation task. |
| US09792150B1 |
Detecting site change for migrated virtual machines
Various systems and methods for detecting a site change. For example, one method involves detecting migration of a virtual machine. The method also involves determining whether the virtual machine moved from one site to another site during the migration. The method also involves updating location information, where the location information is updated in response to determining whether the virtual machine moved from one site to another. |
| US09792149B2 |
Prioritization of transactions based on execution progress
Controlling access to at least one memory location by a transaction is provided in a multi-processor transactional execution environment. Included is: tracking execution progress of a transaction, the execution progress being a metric of work performed for the transaction which includes at least one of instructions processed or cycles elapsed; based on encountering a conflict with another process for a memory location, comparing execution process of the transaction and execution progress of the other process; and deciding whether to continue the transaction based on the comparing. For instance, based on the execution progress of the transaction being greater than the execution progress of the other process, the transaction is continued, and based on the execution progress of the transaction being less that the execution progress of the other process, then the transaction is aborted. |
| US09792143B1 |
Platform secure execution modes
The performing of virtual machine (VM)-based secure operations is enabled using a trusted co-processor that is able to operate in a secure mode to perform operations in a multi-tenant environment that are protected from other VMs and DOM-0, among other domains and components. A customer VM can contact a VM manager (VMM) to perform an operation with respect to sensitive data. The VMM can trigger secure mode operation, whereby memory pages are marked and access blocked to entities outside a trusted enclave. The trusted co-processer can measure the VMM and compare the result against an earlier result to ensure that the VMM has not been compromised. Once the operations are performed, the trusted co-processor can return the results, and the VMM can exit the secure mode such that access to the marked pages and customer data is restored. |
| US09792142B2 |
Information processing device and resource allocation method
A device includes a storage which has stored therein setting information that specifies, for each virtual machine to be created, the number of arithmetic processing unit cores that have to be allocated to a virtual machine, and group information that represents a plurality of virtual machines operating in cooperation as a group, from among the virtual machines represented by the setting information, and a virtual machine monitor, when a first virtual machine has been created, from among the virtual machines represented by the setting information, which refers to the setting information and the group information so as to allocate as many arithmetic processing unit cores as the setting information specifies to the first virtual machine, according to a rule that takes account of a decrease in operation performance of all the operable virtual machines that is associated with a failure occurring in any of the arithmetic processing units. |
| US09792135B2 |
Differential voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) switch reduction
Technologies are generally described for systems, devices and methods effective to schedule access to a core. In some examples, a first differential voltage frequency scaling (DVFS) value of a first virtual machine may be received by a virtual machine manager. A second DVFS value of a second virtual machine may be received by the virtual machine manager. A third DVFS value of a third virtual machine may be received by the virtual machine manager. The third DVFS value may be substantially the same as the first DVFS value and different from the second DVFS value. A dispatch cycle may be generated to execute the first, second and third virtual machines on the core. After execution of the first virtual machine, the dispatch cycle may require execution of the third virtual machine before execution of the second virtual machine. |
| US09792133B2 |
Interactive web-based codeset selection and development tool
A web server uses selection criteria for identifying an electronic consumer device to identify a codeset likely to be appropriate for communicating with the electronic consumer device and data indicative of at least one code of the identified codeset is provided to a remote control device whereupon the data indicative of the at least one code of the identified codeset is automatically activated by the remote control device. |
| US09792130B2 |
Rebooting to a UEFI application from a UEFI supported system
Systems and methods for rebooting a UEFI based system, for example from Microsoft Windows, to any UEFI application, include modifying boot configuration data by inserting a boot entry into the UEFI firmware boot manager to cause execution of a non-Windows UEFI application. |
| US09792129B2 |
Network range extender with multi-RF radio support for plurality of network interfaces
A networked system for managing a physical intrusion detection/alarm includes a network of end nodes, e.g., sensor nodes including one or more constrained sensor nodes for sensing physical conditions, and a gateway to provide network connections for the constrained sensor nodes. The system also includes a range extender for connecting the one or more constrained sensor nodes to the gateway, with the range extender including first and second radios and corresponding processors to wirelessly communicate with the gateway and constrained nodes. |
| US09792128B2 |
System and method for electrical boot-device-reset signals
Systems and methods for providing accelerated loading of operating system and application programs upon system boot or application launch are disclosed. In one aspect, a method for providing accelerated loading of an operating system comprises the steps of: maintaining a list of boot data used for booting a computer system; preloading the boot data upon initialization of the computer system; and servicing requests for boot data from the computer system using the preloaded boot data. In another aspect, a method for providing accelerated launching of an application program comprises the steps of: maintaining a list of application data associated with an application program; preloading the application data upon launching the application program; and servicing requests for application data from a computer system using the preloaded application data. |
| US09792127B2 |
Information processing system wherein a reboot process of a first of two devices is controlled independently of an image forming process, information processing method, and computer-readable storage medium
An information processing system includes an operating unit that receives an input in response to a user operation and that runs under a first operating system; and a main body that runs under a second operating system and operates in response to the input received by the operating unit. The main body includes a generation unit that generates a command to direct rendering of a screen corresponding to an application being executed, and a command transmission control unit that provides control to transmit the command to the operating unit. The operating unit includes a receiving unit that receives the command from the main body, a screen rendering unit that renders the screen in accordance with the command received by the receiving unit, a display unit that displays the screen rendered by the screen rendering unit, and a reboot unit that reboots the operating unit in asynchronization with the main body. |
| US09792126B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium
An information processing apparatus includes a first boot unit, a first image display, a second boot unit, a second image display, a memory, and an image processing unit. The first boot unit boots the information processing apparatus. The first image display performs image display while the first boot unit boots the information processing apparatus. The second boot unit boots the information processing apparatus. The second image display performs image display while the second boot unit boots the information processing apparatus. The memory stores image information. The image processing unit performs image processing on the image information. The first image display performs the image display based on the image information stored in the memory. The second image display performs the image display based on the image information image-processed by the image processing unit. |
| US09792122B2 |
Heuristics for improving performance in a tile based architecture
One embodiment of the present invention includes a technique for processing graphics primitives in a tile-based architecture. The technique includes storing, in a buffer, a first plurality of graphics primitives and a first plurality of state bundles received from the world-space pipeline. The technique further includes determining, based on a first condition, that the first plurality of graphics primitives should be replayed from the buffer, and, in response, replaying the first plurality of graphics primitives against a first tile included in a first plurality of tiles. Replaying the first plurality of graphics primitives includes comparing each graphics primitive against the first tile to determine whether the graphics primitive intersects the first tile, determining that one or more graphics primitives intersects the first tile, and transmitting the one or more graphics primitives and one or more associated state bundles to a screen-space pipeline for processing. |
| US09792120B2 |
Anticipated prefetching for a parent core in a multi-core chip
Embodiments relate to prefetching data on a chip having a scout core and a parent core coupled to the scout core. The method includes determining that a program executed by the parent core requires content stored in a location remote from the parent core. The method includes sending a fetch table address determined by the parent core to the scout core. The method includes accessing a fetch table that is indicated by the fetch table address by the scout core. The fetch table indicates how many of pieces of content are to be fetched by the scout core and a location of the pieces of content. The method includes based on the fetch table indicating, fetching the pieces of content by the scout core. The method includes returning the fetched pieces of content to the parent core. |
| US09792117B2 |
Loading values from a value vector into subregisters of a single instruction multiple data register
A method and apparatus for efficiently processing data in various formats in a single instruction multiple data (“SIMD”) architecture is presented. Specifically, a method to unpack a fixed-width bit values in a bit stream to a fixed width byte stream in a SIMD architecture is presented. A method to unpack variable-length byte packed values in a byte stream in a SIMD architecture is presented. A method to decompress a run length encoded compressed bit-vector in a SIMD architecture is presented. A method to return the offset of each bit set to one in a bit-vector in a SIMD architecture is presented. A method to fetch bits from a bit-vector at specified offsets relative to a base in a SIMD architecture is presented. A method to compare values stored in two SIMD registers is presented. |
| US09792109B2 |
Software updating
A novel method for updating a bundle of files from an update package that minimize the free space requirement on disk is provided. The method segments the update of the entire package and performs the update in multiple passes. The method divide the archive payload of the entire update package into pieces and expand one piece of the archive in each pass. At the end of each pass, some embodiments remove from the disk the archive piece expanded in that pass in order to free additional space for the next pass. |
| US09792108B2 |
Scheme for managing last-modified information
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing a scheme for managing Last-Modified information for resource requests are described herein. In some embodiments, a computing device may determine whether to round up or down an update time of a resource respectively based on whether a request from a client device for the resource is received within a window. In some embodiments, a computing device may receive, from a client device, a first validation request for a resource and a second validation request for the resource. In response to determining that the first validation request was received within a window, the computing device may round down an update time of the resource. In response to determining that the second validation request was received outside of the window, the computing device may determine whether to round up the update time of the resource. |
| US09792105B2 |
Method and system for booting and automatically updating software, and recovering from update error, and computer readable recording medium storing method
Provided are a booting method of updating software components installed in a system and recovering from an error that occurs in an update, a method and system for automatically updating the software and recovering from the error, and a computer readable recording medium storing the method. The master boot record and the backup boot record are used to stably update a kernel and effectively recover from an update error. The component configuration database is used to update a plurality of software components including a kernel in a transaction, and perfectly recover from an update error. |
| US09792102B2 |
Identifying issues prior to deploying software
Systems and techniques for identifying potential problems associated with deploying a software package in a computing system are described. The software package may include multiple components that are installed in various locations in the computing system. Multiple agents that perform mock activities emulating the activities of the multiple components may be deployed in the computing system. Activity data may be gathered when the multiple agents are performing the mock activities and used to identify potential problems. |
| US09792099B2 |
System and method for supporting deployment in a multitenant application server environment
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting deployment in an application server environment. A resource, for example an application or library, can be deployed to different resource groups in different partitions in a domain, to a resource group template referenced by the different resource groups, or to a domain-level resource group. One or more additional deployment operations can be performed on a deployed resource by a partition administrator or a system administrator. A deployment API can be provided to enable a plurality of deployment clients to perform the deployment operations, and can be used to derive partition information and target information for the deployment operations when the information is not provided by a partition administrator. Different deployment scopes are defined to allow a same resource to be deployed in different partitions of a domain and outside any partition in the domain. |
| US09792089B2 |
Random number generator using an incrementing function
A random number generator uses a looped circuit that produces pulses dependent on manufacturing variations and noise, and fed into a counting circuit. In certain embodiments, the technology can be merged with a Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) such that a single circuit provides both 1) bits that are unique to each chip that remain fairly similar each time they are queried on the same chip; as well as 2) bits that are random, i.e., different each time the randomness is queried, even on the same device. |
| US09792087B2 |
System and method for a floating-point format for digital signal processors
An embodiment of a system and method for performing a numerical operation on input data in a hybrid floating-point format includes representing input data as a sign bit, exponent bits, and mantissa bits. The exponent bits are represented as an unsigned integer including an exponent bias, and a signed numerical value of zero is represented as a first reserved combination of the mantissa bits and the exponent bits. Each of all other combinations of the mantissa bits and the exponent bits represents a real finite non-zero number. The mantissa bits are operated on with a “one” bit before a radix point for the all other combinations of the mantissa bits and the exponent bits. |
| US09792074B2 |
System, method, and computer program product for interfacing one or more storage devices with a plurality of bridge chips
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for interfacing one or more storage devices with a plurality of bridge chips. One or more storage devices are provided. Additionally, a plurality of bridge chips are provided. Furthermore, at least one multiplexing device is provided for interfacing the one or more storage devices with the plurality of bridge chips. |
| US09792071B2 |
End of life prediction to reduce retention triggered operations
A memory system or flash card includes a mechanism for memory cell measurement and analysis that independently measures/predicts memory wear/endurance, data retention (DR), read disturb, and/or remaining margin. These effects can be independently quantified by analyzing the state distributions of the individual voltage levels of the cells. In particular, a histogram of cell voltage distributions of the memory cells can be analyzed to identify signatures for certain effects (e.g. wear, DR, read disturb, margin, etc.). Those measurements are used for block cycling, data loss prediction, or adjustments to memory parameters. Pre-emptive action at the appropriate time based on the measurements leads to improved memory management and data management. That action includes calculating the remaining useful life of data stored in memory, cycling blocks, predicting data loss, trade-off or dynamic adjustments of memory parameters. |
| US09792068B2 |
Memory system and method of controlling nonvolatile memory
According to one embodiment, when a first command and first data are received from a host, and in a case where the number of free blocks is less than a first threshold, a controller executes a first processing. The first processing includes reading valid data included in one first block that includes the valid data and invalid data and writing the read valid data and at least a part of write data specified by the write command into the free block. |
| US09792064B2 |
Method, apparatus, and system for energy efficiency and energy conservation including autonomous hardware-based deep power down in devices
Embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for energy efficiency and energy conservation including enabling autonomous hardware-based deep power down of devices are described. In one embodiment, a system includes a device, a static memory, and a power control unit coupled with the device and the static memory. The system further includes a deep power down logic of the power control unit to monitor a status of the device, and to transfer the device to a deep power down state when the device is idle. In the system, the device consumes less power when in the deep power down state than in the idle state. |
| US09792060B2 |
Optimized write performance at block-based storage during volume snapshot operations
Write optimization for block-based storage performing snapshot operations may be implemented. Write requests for a particular data volume may be received for which a snapshot operation is in progress. A determination may be made as to whether a data chunk of the data volume modified as part of the write request has not yet been stored to a remote snapshot data store as part of the snapshot operation. For a data chunk that is to be modified and that has not yet been stored, the data chunk may be stored in a local in-memory volume snapshot buffer. Once the data chunk is stored in the in-memory volume snapshot buffer, the write request may be performed and acknowledged as complete. The data chunk may be sent to the remote snapshot data store asynchronously with regard to the acknowledgment of the write request. |
| US09792057B1 |
Data caching system and method for hypervisor-based computer systems
An embodiment of the invention provides an apparatus comprising: a hypervisor comprising a virtual caching appliance (VCA) and an intermediate multipathing module that interfaces with VCA; wherein the intermediate multipathing module is configured to pass an I/O request from a virtual machine to the VCA; and wherein the VCA is configured to determine if the I/O request is to be passed from the VCA to a solid state storage or if the I/O request is to be passed from the VCA to a hard disk storage. Another embodiment of the invention provides a method comprising: passing an I/O request from a virtual machine to a virtual caching appliance (VCA) in a hypervisor; and determining if the I/O request is to be passed from the VCA to a solid state storage or if the I/O request is to be passed from the VCA to a hard disk storage. |
| US09792048B2 |
Identifying disk drives and processing data access requests
Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying disk drives and processing data access requests. A disk drive may be identified as an Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) drive, a Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVME) drive, and/or an ATA packet interface (ATAPI) drive. Data access requests for the disk drive may be translated to NVME commands, AHCI commands, or ATAPI commands, based on whether the drive is identified as a NVME drive, an AHCI drive, and/or an ATAPI drive. |
| US09792037B2 |
Mobile terminal with a touch screen that displays a stack of pages
A mobile terminal with a touch screen includes a browsing and searching system that reproduces the sensation of leafing through a work on paper and a read mode that does not alter the structure or layout of the original page. The main benefit of this solution is that it can be used to read a digital publication in the same manner as the equivalent paper version, both in terms of leafing and reading, while taking account of the technical specifications of the read terminal. |
| US09792036B2 |
Mobile terminal and controlling method to display memo content
A mobile terminal and method may be provided. A memo application function may be quickly provided through a single user action only. A touch screen may receive first user action for executing a memo application, and may receive second user action for receiving an input for a memo while the memo application is executing. A controller may execute the memo application in accordance with the first user action, and analyze the second user action and produce memo content according to the analyzed second user action. The controller may execute the memo application in response to initiation of the first user action, the controller may end execution of the memo application when the first user action is terminated, and the controller may control the memo content to be saved in memory in response to ending execution of the memo application. |
| US09792035B2 |
System and method for payment using a mobile device
A system and method is disclosed for a contactless payment enabled smartphone in which a user can toggle between multiple payment methods, i.e. multiple different credit/debit card accounts, by predefined user actions, alone or in combination with the act of changing the physical orientation of the smartphone, and complete a payment transaction using the selected payment method via a contactless, wireless transmission. |
| US09792033B2 |
Method and apparatus for changing user interface based on information related to a probe
A method of changing a user interface (UI), which is used for diagnosis of a target object via a medical device, based on user motion information. The method including obtaining motion information regarding a user; changing the UI based on the obtained motion information regarding the user; and displaying the changed UI. |
| US09792031B2 |
Scroll speed adjustment
An apparatus comprises: a display unit for displaying a target image; an operation input unit to which a scroll operation for scrolling the target image displayed on the display unit is input; a display control unit for scrolling the target image according to the scroll operation; and a speed setting unit for changing, according to an area acceleration associated with a set area provided in the target image, a scroll speed at which the target image is scrolled. |
| US09792030B1 |
Method and mobile communication terminal for changing a configuration of a screen displaying function items
A function for configuring a screen reflecting user preference is implemented when formlets are displayed to indicate function items of a mobile communication terminal. The size, position and shape of a formlet on which an indicator is positioned are changed by user settings in a state in which multiple formlets are displayed, thereby increasing accessibility to a formlet of high preference to a user and also increasing display visibility. |
| US09792027B2 |
Managing playback of synchronized content
A computing device may provide a control interface that enables the user to manage the synchronized output of companion content (e.g., textual content and corresponding audio content). For example, the computing device may display a visual cue to identify a current location in textual content corresponding to a current output position of companion audio content. As the audio content is presented, the visual cue may be advanced to maintain synchronization between the output position within the audio content and a corresponding position in the textual content. The user may control the synchronized output by dragging her finger across the textual content displayed on the touch screen. Accordingly, the control interface may provide a highlight or other visual indication of the distance between the advancing position in the textual content and the location of a pointer to the textual content indicated by the current position of the user's finger. |
| US09792023B2 |
Resizing selection zones on a touch sensitive display responsive to likelihood of selection
An electronic device is disclosed for use with a touch-sensitive display. The electronic device includes a processor that displays indicia on the touch-sensitive display that can be touch selected by a user, and defines a size and location of a plurality of selection zones on the touch-sensitive display that are each associated with different ones of the indicia. The processor identifies a first one of the selection zones that has been selected by the user on the touch-sensitive display, and outputs a first one of the indicia that is associated with the first selection zone. The processor changes the size of a second one of the selection zones in response to it being associated with a second one of the indicia that is more likely to be selected next following selection of the first selection zone associated with the first indicia than at least another one of the selection zones. Related methods of operating an electronic device are disclosed. |
| US09792019B2 |
Method and terminal device for selecting character
The present disclosure discloses a method and a terminal device for selecting a character. The method includes: detecting a touch point of a user gesture acting on the touch screen, wherein the touch point falls into a touch point node; searching a plurality of nodes of the contents to find a nearest text node to the touch point, when the touch point node is not a text node; and selecting a nearest character to the touch point within the nearest text node. Therefore, by taking the nearest character to the touch point in the nearest text node as the character selected by the touch point, even if the touch point of a user gesture does not fall on a character, it is still possible to obtain the character selected by the user gesture, thereby repeated selecting operations may be avoided, so as to provide convenience for the user. |
| US09792014B2 |
In-place contextual menu for handling actions for a listing of items
Techniques for providing an in-place contextual menu and user interface for email and other information management system triage are provided in which a contextual menu can be overlaid or replace an item on a view screen. The contextual menu can provide action commands specific to the type and state of the items selected in the feature view of the email or other information management system. A single recognized selection input, such as a swipe gesture, selects an item and invokes an in-place contextual menu presenting actions that can be asserted on the selected item. Multiple item selection is available through the same invocation of presenting the in-place contextual menu. |
| US09792011B2 |
Reconfigurable computing device user interface
Embodiments are directed to a computing device accessory system including a memory having user interface (UI) reconfiguration information, wherein the UI reconfiguration information is selected and loaded into the memory based at least in part on a perceptual attribute of the computing device accessory. The computing device accessory system further includes a transmitter and a processor system communicatively coupled to the memory and the transmitter. The processor system and the transmitter are configured to access the memory and transmit the UI reconfiguration information to a computing device having a reconfigurable UI. The computing device is configured to utilize the UI reconfiguration information to reconfigure the reconfigurable UI. |
| US09792009B2 |
Method and system for focus management in a software application
A method for focus management in a software application, wherein at least a subset of Node objects of said software application forms a hierarchy of Node objects and wherein each Node object of said hierarchy of Node objects of said software application comprises: a first routine that when returning true denotes that the Node object is a focused one; and a second routine that when returning true denotes that the Node object is a focused, or at least one of its descendants is a focused; a routine for handling an incoming event; the method comprising the steps of: providing, for each Node object of said hierarchy of Node objects a third routine, that when returning true denotes that the Node object and all descendants of the Node object, excluding these Node objects for which the third routine returns true, forms a single monofocus area having a single focus root. |
| US09792008B2 |
User interface with analytics overlay
A method for displaying analytics data includes collecting, at an analytics database, analytics data comprising trackable events associated with operation of an application on a number of computing devices. The analytics data is received by a computing device. The analytics data is displayed on the first computing device during runtime of the application by superimposing upon a user interface of the application an analytics overlay including a graphical representation of the analytics data. |
| US09792006B2 |
Automatic lifecycle management for pages on a mobile application
User interface state (UI) information (such as UI control values) are stored and revived when the user navigates and returns to an application. When an instance of a page is created, the page registers with a tombstone list and indicates which page state information on the page is to be stored and revived when a user navigates away from the application. When the user provides an input indicating navigation away from the application, the application accesses the tombstone list and stores the UI page state information. UI page state information is stored in a page state dictionary data structure that corresponds to the current instance of the page. Then, when the user navigates back to the application, the application accesses the page state dictionary and restores the values of the UI page state information so that the user interface display is in the same state as when the user navigated away from the application. |
| US09792005B2 |
Removable modular universal telematics services engine for an audio-visual control unit
Modular auxiliary processor circuitry, capable of performing telematics services, including wireless communications, diagnostic assessment and reporting, location based services, and internetworking, couples with a vehicle head unit through an auxiliary processing module interface. When so coupled, the auxiliary processing module circuitry can perform tasks, services, functions, and aspect that a lower-capability processor of the head unit cannot perform as quickly or as efficiently, if at all. When the auxiliary processor module is coupled and active, its display output can couple to a display device either permanently fixed in the vehicle, or portable and mobile with respect to the vehicle, through conductors or a wireless link. When the auxiliary processor circuitry's output couples to the display device, software running on the head unit, or the auxiliary processor module, may decouple the head unit from the display device unless a user interface requests its services, such as tuning an AM/FM radio circuit. |
| US09792002B2 |
Multiple stakeholders for a single business process
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for providing a customized representation of a business process involving one or more organizational entities that are accessible through a network. A user interface that can display a customized representation of a business process is provided. User information, including user privileges associated with the business process, is stored in a central repository that is accessible through the network. A request to view the business process is received from a first user through the user interface. The user privileges for the first user are retrieved from the central repository. A customized representation of the business process is displayed with the user interface. The customized representation is in compliance with the retrieved user privileges for the first user. |
| US09791995B2 |
Form input/output apparatus, form input/output method, and program
In an embodiment of the present invention, region definition data, which defines a touch region, is stored such that the touch region is associated with a display region that is displayed, as an input item to which a touch input can be made, on a display unit, the touch region being a region in which it is recognized that a touch input is made to the input item, the touch region is dynamically changed in accordance with a priority of the input item, control is performed such that at least the input item is displayed on the display unit and a touch input is made to the input item via a touch input unit by a user, and, when a position to which a touch input is made is within the changed touch region, it is determined that an input is made to the input item. |
| US09791994B2 |
User interface for application interface manipulation
Selection of visualization objects, such as applications windows, is performed by determining a position of a system object. A graphical representation of a system object can be positioned over a display area of an application interface. The application interface is preeminently displayed in response to a graphical representation of system object being positioned over a corresponding display area of the application interface. |
| US09791992B2 |
Oncell single-layer touch sensor
In one embodiment, a device includes a display stack including a number of layers. The layers include a cover layer and one or more other layers. The device also includes a touch sensor disposed on a surface of a particular layer of the plurality of layers of the display stack. The touch sensor includes a number of first electrodes oriented along a first direction. Each of the first electrodes includes a plurality of first conductive regions. The touch sensor also includes a number of second electrodes oriented along a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction. Each of the second electrodes includes a second conductive region. The second conductive region of each of the second electrodes being interdigitated with a respective adjacent first conductive region of multiple first electrodes of the plurality of first electrodes. |
| US09791989B2 |
Stretchable display
A stretchable display includes: a stretchable substrate including first areas and second areas; main pixels disposed on the first areas of the stretchable substrate, the main pixels configured to display different colors; and at least one sub-pixel disposed on the second areas of the stretchable substrate, the at least one sub-pixel being configured to display one color that is the same as any one of the main pixels. |
| US09791986B2 |
Touch display device for controlling offset capacitance calibration
A touch display device configured to drive a signal line in a first plurality of steps during a line-sensing period and adjust an offset capacitance in a second plurality of steps corresponding to the first plurality of steps. |
| US09791983B2 |
Capacitive touch-sensitive device and method of making the same
A capacitive touch-sensitive device includes a transparent substrate unit and at least one patterned transparent electrically-conductive film. The patterned transparent electrically-conductive film is formed on the transparent substrate unit and has a transparent insulating layer and a plurality of mutually and electrically isolated sensor lines that are substantially disposed in the transparent insulating layer. Each of the sensor lines is substantially made of a plurality of non-transparent nano-conductors. |
| US09791982B2 |
Touch screen panel having compensation patterns
A touch screen panel includes a substrate having active and non-active areas, a plurality of first sensing electrodes in the active area, a plurality of second sensing electrodes in the active area, a plurality of row outer lines in the non-active area, a plurality of column outer lines in the non-active area, and first compensation patterns in the non-active area. The plurality of first sensing electrodes may be arranged in rows, each row line having a first end and a second end. The plurality of second sensing electrodes may be arranged in columns, each column having a first end and a second end. The plurality of row outer lines may be connected to respective first row line end. The plurality of column outer lines may be connected to respective first column line ends. The first compensation patterns may be connected respectively to the second row line ends. |
| US09791979B2 |
Managing inputs at an information handling system by adaptive infrared illumination and detection
A single camera detects user interactions with separate infrared light sources, such as structured light for three dimensional detection and an infrared curtain surface touch interactions. A touch input module monitors user interactions with a desktop surface, such as at a projected or display mat user interface presentation, and selectively illuminates the separate infrared light sources to support camera detection based upon the user interactions. For example, separate infrared light sources illumination in an interleaved manned at variable rates based upon analysis of visible light or structured light images captured by the camera. |
| US09791977B2 |
Transient deformation detection for a touch-sensitive surface
An optical touch-sensitive device detects touch events caused by objects (e.g., pens, styluses, fingers) and determines a touch type for the touch event based on analyzing a deformation wave caused by the touch event. |
| US09791973B2 |
Sensor-equipped display device and sensor device
According to one embodiment, a sensor-equipped display device includes a display panel including a sensor driving electrode, a detection electrode opposed to the sensor driving electrode, and a lead line electrically connected to the detection electrode, and a driving unit configured to supply a sensor driving signal to the sensor driving electrode, and to read out from the detection electrode a detection signal based on the sensor driving signal supplied to the sensor driving electrode. The detection electrode includes a large-width portion connected to the lead line and has a first width, and a main body portion which is continuous with the large-width portion, extends in a direction away from the lead line, and has a second width that is less than the first width. |
| US09791972B2 |
Sensor-equipped display device
According to one embodiment, a sensor-equipped display device includes a display panel, first driver, and second driver. The display panel includes a common electrode, a pixel electrode, a detection electrode, a connection line and lead line. The first driver supplies a common driving signal to the common electrode during a display drive time and supplies a sensor driving signal to the common electrode during a sensing drive time. The second driver detects a sensor output value during the sensing drive time. The lead line and the common electrode are apart from each other with a certain gap at least during the sensing drive time. |
| US09791963B2 |
Method and apparatus for detecting user input in an electronic device
A method and an electronic device for detecting a user input in the electronic device are provided. The method includes acquiring information regarding a user interface object to be displayed on a touch screen panel; setting, based on the information, a partial area that is at least a part of a touch detection area corresponding to the user interface object; and adjusting a touch detection sensitivity of the partial area to be greater than a touch detection sensitivity of the touch screen panel. |
| US09791962B2 |
Application program switching method and apparatus, and touchscreen electronic device
An application program switching method and apparatus, and a touchscreen electronic device are provided that can rapidly implement switching between different application programs. The method includes identifying, by a touchscreen driver of the touchscreen electronic device, at least one user gesture when an interface of a first application program is displayed on a touchscreen of the touchscreen electronic device; matching the at least one user gesture with a preset symbol stored in the touchscreen electronic device; and if a first preset symbol matching the at least one user gesture exists, triggering a second application program corresponding to the first preset symbol to execute an action bound to the first preset symbol. The embodiments of the present invention are applicable to, in an interface of any application program, implementation of automatic switching to another application program when a touchscreen electronic device is used. |
| US09791954B2 |
Display device and electronic apparatus
According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display section that has a first period to consume predetermined power and a second period to consume less power than in the first period, and power consumption of which periodically changes by repeating the first period and the second period; a smoothing capacitor that stabilizes power supplied to the display section; and a power consumption unit that consumes the supplied power in the second period. |
| US09791953B2 |
Touch display device and method for driving the touch display device
A touch display device and a method for driving a touch display device. The touch display device includes a touch unit and a display unit; the touch unit includes a first touch electrode layer having a plurality of first touch electrodes, each of which includes a plurality of touch sub-electrodes; the display unit includes an array substrate, a color filter substrate disposed opposite to the array substrate, a display function layer disposed between the array substrate and the color filter substrate, and a plurality of gate electrodes disposed on the array substrate; where, a projection of each of the touch sub-electrodes in a direction perpendicular to the array substrate is located between two adjacent ones of the plurality of gate electrodes. |
| US09791952B2 |
Touch display apparatus
Disclosed is a touch display apparatus including a display panel, a substrate and a touch-sensing layer thereon. The substrate is disposed above the display panel and includes a touch-sensing region and a non-touch-sensing region. The touch-sensing layer includes a first trace, and at least a part of the first trace is disposed above the non-touch-sensing region. A mesh pattern is formed on a surface of the first trace. |
| US09791950B2 |
Liquid crystal display
A liquid crystal display with a force sensitive display surface has a liquid crystal layer between a liquid crystal control layer and a window layer. A color filter layer with color filters or a 3D filter layer with 3D barrier units may be provided between the liquid crystal layer and the window layer. The control, window, color or 3D filter layer comprises an electrically conductive sensor structure comprising piezoresistive material for sensing the force applied by a user's finger on the display, and the sensor structure may, additionally, provide capacitance varying for sensing the touch position. |
| US09791948B2 |
Control device and storage medium
According to the present disclosure, there is provided a control device including a detection unit configured to detect, as a manipulation region, at least a part of a substantial object present at a position at which a user is estimated to be able to perform a manipulation, a function setting unit configured to perform setting in a manner that a predetermined function matches the manipulation region detected by the detection unit, and a control unit configured to perform the function matched with the manipulation region based on a positional relation between the manipulation region and a manipulator. |
| US09791946B2 |
Power saving circuit and electronic device having the same
A power saving circuit includes a variable resistor, a switch and a processing module. A power supply unit is connected between the switch and the variable resistor. The processing module is connected between the switch and the variable resistor. The switch connects with the variable resistor. The switch is capable of conducting the power supply unit and the processing module when the variable resistor is be pressed. The processing module is capable of transmitting a working signal to the switch for making the switch continuing conducting the power supply unit and the processing module when the variable resistor is unpressurized after the power is transmitted to the processing module. The processing module is capable of detecting the condition of the voltage of the variable resistor to change the working signal. The switch is capable of breaking the power supply of the processing module if the working signal is off state. |
| US09791945B2 |
Optical mouse and method for performing configured function thereof
An optical mouse is provided with a conversion unit, a control unit, an optical sensing unit, a light emitting unit, and a switch unit. The conversion unit is electrically connected to a working voltage source, the control unit, and the optical sensing unit. The conversion unit is configured to convert voltage to supply power to the control unit, the optical sensing unit, and the light emitting unit. The control unit is electrically connected to the optical sensing unit. The switch unit is electrically connected to the light unit. When the switch unit is in a turn-off state, the light emitting unit stops emitting light toward a trace surface. The optical sensing unit senses a darkness and transfers darkness data to the control unit. The control unit performs a configured function based on the darkness data. |
| US09791942B2 |
Dynamic collaborative adjustable keyboard
In dynamically adjusting a keyboard mapping, a collaborative session in which a participant device is involved is detected. A conversation between participants during the collaborative session is captured, and topics being discussed during the conversation are identified using textual analysis. The topics are compared with a plurality of rules, each of which associates a topic with a keyboard mapping. From the rule that has a topic matching the identified topics, the keyboard mapping associated with the topic is obtained. The keyboard is then displayed using the keyboard mapping on the participant device. In determining the rule with the matching topic, a history of rules applied in prior collaborative session where the same or similar topics were discussed, or a profile of a participant, is considered. In this manner, keyboard mappings are dynamically adjusted, allowing for easier access to relevant keys. |
| US09791941B2 |
Keyboard with user configurable granularity scales for pressure sensitive keys
Systems and methods are disclosed for user configurable pressure sensitive keys and techniques for controlling these keys for keyboards. User configuration information, including information for user configurable granularity scales for pressure levels, can be communicated from a host system to the keyboard and stored for later use by a keyboard controller to control the operation of the pressure sensitive keys. In this way, greater control of the pressure sensitive keys can be provided. This configurability is of particular use for applications such as where the keyboard is being used for gaming by a user running a gaming application on an information handling system. |
| US09791940B1 |
Gesture onset detection on multiple devices
Implementations of the disclosed subject matter provide techniques for improved identification of a gesture based on data obtained from multiple devices. A method may include receiving an indication of an onset of a gesture, from a first device, at a gesture coordinating device. Next, first subsequent data describing the gesture may be received from a second device, at the gesture coordinating device. Based on the indication and the first subsequent data, the gesture may be identified. In response to identification of the gesture, an action may be performed based on the gesture identified. In some cases, the gesture coordinating device may be a cloud-based device. |
| US09791932B2 |
Semaphore gesture for human-machine interface
An embodiment of the invention provides a gesture recognition system (GRS) that displays a graphical user interface in which symbols are grouped into “pods” on a display screen, and a user enters a desired symbol into a computer by selecting a pod containing the desired symbol, and then selecting the symbol from a display of the symbols in the selected pod using hand motions without having to contact the display screen or use a manual controller. |
| US09791930B1 |
Determination of input from force sensing input device under an unbroken exterior portion of a device
User input is accepted by a force sensing resistor (“FSR”) assembly, a force sensing capacitor (“FSC”) assembly, or both. The FSR or FSC assemblies may be located within an input device, such as behind a device exterior, display, and so forth. A force applied to the device exterior proximate to the assembly may result in a signal indicative of the force to the assembly. The signal may be processed to determine a particular touch zone was activated. A particular action associated with the touch zone may be performed. The particular action may be based at least in part on which touch zone which was activated, a magnitude of the force, or both. For example, the particular action may include a haptic output to provide feedback to a user. |
| US09791929B2 |
Tactile control system
A tactile control system includes a control member configurable between a plurality of physical configurations and configured to receive manual input from a user. The tactile control system also includes a transducer coupled to the control member and configured to generate a signal based on the manual input from the user, and an actuator coupled to the transducer and the control member and configured to change the physical configuration of the control member based on the signal. |
| US09791927B2 |
Systems and methods of eye tracking calibration
Methods and systems to facilitate eye tracking control calibration are provided. One or more objects are displayed on a display of a device, where the one or more objects are associated with a function unrelated to a calculation of one or more calibration parameters. The one or more calibration parameters relate to a calibration of a calculation of gaze information of a user of the device, where the gaze information indicates where the user is looking. While the one or more objects are displayed, eye movement information associated with the user is determined, which indicates eye movement of one or more eye features associated with at least one eye of the user. The eye movement information is associated with a first object location of the one or more objects. The one or more calibration parameters are calculated based on the first object location being associated with the eye movement information. |
| US09791925B2 |
Information acquisition method, information acquisition system, and non-transitory recording medium for user of motor vehicle
Provided is an information acquisition method in an information acquisition system including an information device possessed by a user. A detecting step detects a specific action performed by the user while driving a motor vehicle. A first saving step acquires and saves, in a storage unit, motor vehicle position information indicating a position of the motor vehicle if the specific action is detected by the detecting step. A deleting step deletes the motor vehicle position information from the storage unit in a case in which the specific action is an action other than an action of speaking a voice phrase, and when a designated time elapses in a case in which the user does not perform an action of speaking a voice phrase from a time at which the specific action was detected and before the designated time elapses. |
| US09791923B2 |
Function of touch panel determined by user gaze
The invention is directed to systems, methods and computer program products for configuring a user interface of a portable mobile communication device. An exemplary method includes determining, by at least one of the portable mobile communication device or an electronic device in communication with the portable mobile communication device, a direction associated with a user's gaze. Additionally, the method includes at least one of: in response to determining the direction associated with the user's gaze is at least partially towards a display associated with the electronic device, configuring the portable mobile communication display to function as a touch pad that enables interaction with a user interface displayed on the electronic device; or in response to determining the direction associated with the user's gaze is at least partially towards a display associated with the portable mobile communication device, configuring the portable mobile communication device display to display a user interface. |
| US09791919B2 |
Electronic device displays an image of an obstructed target
An electronic device determines information about a target and provides the information to another electronic device that has an obstructed view of the target. The other electronic device displays an image of the target with an orientation and a location of the target. |
| US09791910B1 |
Predictive power management in a wireless sensor network using presence detection
A system comprising a plurality of self-powered devices and a plurality of proximity self-powered devices. The plurality of self-powered devices may be configured to (i) perform instructions, (ii) store scheduling data and (iii) select one of a plurality of modes of operation. The proximity self-powered devices may be configured to (i) detect a presence and (ii) select one of a plurality of modes of operation. The plurality of self-powered devices may select one of the plurality of modes of operation based on (i) the stored scheduling data and (ii) the presence detected by at least one of the plurality of proximity self-powered devices. |
| US09791909B2 |
Hybrid computing module
A hybrid system-on-chip provides a plurality of memory and processor die mounted on a semiconductor carrier chip that contains a fully integrated power management system that switches DC power at speeds that match or approach processor core clock speeds, thereby allowing the efficient transfer of data between off-chip physical memory and processor die. |
| US09791901B2 |
Safety relay box system
A dual redundant computer safety relay box system includes first and second fail-safe computing systems (FSCs) individually mounted to first and second printed circuit boards. Each FSC includes two computing modules (CPUs) designated as a first CPU and a second CPU. The first and second FSC's are both connected to a safety relay box. The printed circuit boards are isolable from each other permitting maintenance on one of the printed circuit boards while operation of the FSC of the other printed circuit board is maintained. In each FSC a health signal generated from the first and second printed circuit boards of the first and second CPUs defines a multi-level dynamic pulse signal. Presence of the dynamic pulse signal produces an output identified as each of a first and a second healthy indication signal from each of the CPUs of one of the first or second FSCs. |
| US09791892B2 |
Foldable device
A foldable device includes: a flexible display including: a first part; a second part; and a third part provided between the first and second parts; a first body supporting the first part; and a second body supporting the second part, each of the first and second body are configured to move between a first and a second position, in response to each of the first and second bodies being provided in the first position, the first body and the second body form a receiving space, the third part forms a curved portion of the flexible display and the curved portion is provided within the receiving space, and wherein the first part is configured to move in a longitudinal direction of the flexible display with respect to the first body in response to the first and second bodies moving between the first and second positions. |
| US09791891B2 |
Flexible display apparatus
A flexible display apparatus includes a display panel, a case and a plurality of driving circuits. The display panel is configured to display an image. The display panel includes a first display part, a second display part and a hinge display part. The hinge display part is interposed between the first and second display parts. The hinge display part is configured to be foldable. The case is configured to cover the display panel. The case forms a hinge thickness with the hinge display part and it also forms a peripheral thickness at an end of the case facing away from the hinge display part. The peripheral thickness is greater than the hinge thickness. The driving circuits are disposed between a rear surface of the first display part and the case. Therefore, thickness of the display panel is decreased and its portability is improved. |
| US09791889B2 |
Electronic device and information processing apparatus
A device includes: a main unit that has a width smaller than a width of a display unit including a touch panel that detects a touch operation, the main unit being structured so that the display unit is provided on the main unit in a state in which the display unit includes a portion that does not overlap the main unit; a bottom portion coupled to the main unit, the bottom portion being placed on a mounting surface so as to be in contact with the mounting surface when the device is mounted on the mounting surface; and a support portion that supports the main unit, the support portion has one end of the support portion coupled to the main unit and another end of the support portion disposed in a direction away from the main unit with a space left between the another end and the main unit. |
| US09791888B2 |
Power reception device and power transmission system
A power reception device in a power transmission system including a power transmission device including a primary coil and the power reception device including a secondary coil, the power transmission device being configured to drive the primary coil and transmit AC power corresponding to a clock signal which is frequency-modulated according to a binary data signal, the primary coil and the secondary coil being electromagnetically coupled together to receive by the secondary coil in the power reception device, the AC power transmitted from the power transmission device, comprises a clock-signal extraction circuit configured to extract the clock signal from an induced voltage induced at one end of the secondary coil in receiving the AC power; and a demodulation circuit configured to generate a pulse synchronously with the clock signal extracted by the clock-signal extraction circuit, and demodulate the pulse to obtain the binary data signal. |
| US09791886B2 |
Controller
A controller includes a first body portion, adapted to be grasped by a person's middle finger, ring finger, and pinky finger, a second body portion adapted to be grasped by a person's index finger, and a third body portion that defines a first surface adapted to receive a person's thumb. A finger switch is positioned on a front surface of the second body portion. The finger switch is positioned such that it may be actuated by the person's index finger. The second body portion is disposed between the first body portion and the third body portion. The second body portion defines an offset with respect to the first body portion. The third body portion defines a second surface above the finger switch, which may receive the person's index finger. |
| US09791878B2 |
Digital voltage controller
A high-efficiency digital voltage controller capable of providing monotonically-varying stepwise voltage, said controller comprises of a plurality of two-terminal voltage modules connected in series; within each module one or more two-terminal voltage cells of identical voltage each and connected in series; within each module a plurality of switches controllable to connect any number of the voltage cells in series to the output terminals of the voltage module; the ratios of the magnitudes of voltage of any one voltage cell between the voltage modules being substantially equal to integer values uniquely defined by present invention, according to the numbers of voltage cells in each of the voltage modules; said plurality of switches being controlled by a control module implemented in any suitable logic. |
| US09791876B2 |
Current limiter
A current limiter for selectively limiting a rate of change of current in a DC electrical network may include a first electrical block including an inductive element and a second electrical block including a bidirectional switch. The first electrical block is connected in parallel with the second electrical block between first and second terminals, and the first and second terminals are connectable to the DC electrical network. The bidirectional switch is switchable to: (1) a first mode to permit current flow through the second electrical block in a first current direction and at the same time inhibit current flow through the second electrical block in a second, opposite current direction; and (2) a second mode to permit current flow through the second electrical block in the second current direction and at the same time inhibit current flow through the second electrical block in the first current direction. |
| US09791873B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit device and method of regulating output voltage thereof
A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a PMOS output element having a source electrode connected to a power supply terminal and a drain electrode connected to an output voltage terminal from which an output voltage is supplied. A voltage dividing circuit has resistors for dividing the supplied output voltage to produce a divided voltage. A reference voltage circuit generates a reference voltage and has a memory element whose threshold voltage determines the reference voltage. The reference voltage circuit has a regulating input terminal connected to the memory element to change the threshold voltage of the memory element. An error amplifier is supplied with the divided voltage and the reference voltage to generate a voltage that is applied to a gate electrode of the PMOS output element. The voltage is amplified depending on a difference between the divided voltage and the reference voltage. |
| US09791869B2 |
Environmental chamber control unit
A control unit is added to the environmental tester including a thermostat-humidistat container, an air conditioner, a first temperature and humidity sensor for measuring temperature and humidity in the thermostat-humidistat container, a controller for receiving a first signal from the first temperature and humidity sensor to control the air conditioner. The control unit includes a second temperature and humidity sensor configured to measure the temperature and humidity distribution in the thermostat-humidistat container, and an additional unit configured to receive the first signal and set values for the temperature and the humidity from the controller, and receive a second signal from the second temperature and humidity sensor, compute a correction value from the received first signal, second signal, and set values, and send the correction value to the controller. |
| US09791864B2 |
Systems and methods for driving risk index estimation
A vehicle implements driving risk estimation. The vehicle includes a processor and a program stored in memory. The vehicle calculates a first risk estimation based on first vehicle dynamics data, and second vehicle dynamics data and a second risk estimation received from a second proximate vehicle. The vehicle also, in response to the first risk estimation satisfying a risk threshold, determines a risk reduction action, and automatically instructs a vehicle control unit to implement the risk reduction action. |
| US09791862B1 |
Systems and method for unmanned undersea sensor position, orientation, and depth keeping
The methods and devices described herein provide a sensor array positioning system that may allow a user to program a series of sensor array locations, depths and orientations into a control center, which therein commands two or more unmanned surface or submarine vehicles which positions one or more sensor arrays. The devices consist of at least two unmanned vehicles, two or more tow cables, a flexible sensor array comprising one or more sensors, and one or more buoyancy engines. The unmanned vehicles may consist of a master vehicle and one or more slave vehicles, wherein the master vehicle commands the one or more slave vehicles. |
| US09791861B2 |
Autonomously servicing self-driving vehicles
A method and/or computer program product autonomously drives a self-driving vehicle (SDV) to a service facility. One or more processors receive sensor readings from an SDV equipment maintenance sensor on the SDV. The SDV equipment maintenance sensor detects a state of equipment on the SDV indicative of a need for maintenance service for the SDV. The processor(s) identify a service facility capable of providing the maintenance service, and determine an amount of time required for the SDV to travel to and from a current location of the SDV to the service facility and to receive the maintenance service. The processor(s) identify a time window in which a user of the SDV will not need the SDV, and then direct the SDV to autonomously drive to the service facility during the time window in which the user of the SDV will not need the SDV. |
| US09791859B1 |
Method and system for controlling remotely piloted aircraft
Disclosed are a method and a system for modifying flight parameters of a remotely piloted aircraft. The remotely piloted aircraft includes a clock, at least one radio receiver and at least one radio transmitter for communicating with at least one radio transmitter of a ground station, via at least one radio communication network. The method includes analyzing a communication between the remotely piloted aircraft and the ground station, such as calculating the latency of the communication. The method also includes modifying at least one flight parameter based on the calculated latency and pre-loaded instructions. |
| US09791855B2 |
Semiconductor process management system, semiconductor manufacturing system including the same, and method of manufacturing semiconductor
A semiconductor process management system is provided. The semiconductor process management system includes a communicator that receives a process recipe from one or more process apparatuses and receives a measured value for each sampling point from one or more measuring apparatus, and a first determination unit that establishes a mutual influence model between the process recipe and the measured value for each sampling point based on the process recipe and the measured value for each sampling point. |
| US09791854B2 |
Correction value computation device, correction value computation method, and computer program
A device for computing correction for control parameter in a manufacturing process executed on a manufacturing apparatus includes circuitry which acquires an index representing fluctuation in a manufacturing apparatus, acquires an apparatus model and a process model, acquires an output from a sensor in the manufacturing apparatus, transforms the output into first fluctuation for a process element, transforms the index into second fluctuation for the process element based on the apparatus model, computes fluctuation for performance indicator from the first and second fluctuation based on the process model, computes correction for the performance indicator from control range for the performance indicator and the fluctuation for the performance indicator, and converts the correction for the performance indicator into correction for each process element based on the process model such that correction for control parameter in process executed on the manufacturing apparatus is computed from the correction converted for each process element. |
| US09791849B2 |
Defect detection process in a semiconductor manufacturing environment
A process for detecting foreign particle defects and scratch defects on semiconductor products including detecting foreign particle and scratch defects on the semiconductor products; placing the semiconductor products in a first wafer carrier and docking to a first load port of a semiconductor processing tool; opening a door of the first wafer carrier; transferring the semiconductor products from the first wafer carrier through the first load port to and through an interior of the semiconductor processing tool to a second load port of the semiconductor processing tool; transferring the semiconductor products from the second load port to a second wafer carrier; closing a door of the second wafer carrier and undocking from the second load port; and detecting foreign particle and scratch defects on the semiconductor products and comparing to the foreign particle defects on the semiconductor products prior to placing the semiconductor products in the first wafer carrier. |
| US09791848B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus has a display 40, a model data storage unit 37 storing therein three-dimensional model data of a movable structure and a structure having a possibility of interfere with the movable structure, a model generation unit 33 generating a three-dimensional model in which three-dimensional models of the structures are arranged in a three-dimensional space, an interference-caution-portion specifying unit 34 specifying a portion of the movable structure having a possibility of contact with an interfering structure as an interference caution portion when an interfering structure exists and specifying a leading portion of the movable structure in a moving direction as an interference caution portion when an interfering structure does not exist, and an image display unit 35 generating an image with the interference caution portion highlighted based on the three-dimensional model generated by the model generation unit 33 and displaying the image on the display 40. |
| US09791840B2 |
Method and device for modifying a device for cleaning a submerged surface
The invention relates to a method and device for modifying a device for cleaning a submerged surface, the device including a cleaning appliance, a control unit suitable control signals to the appliance, characterized in that a modification device is inserted onto the link between the control unit and the appliance, which modification device includes an antenna for receiving wireless request signals and a signal-processing unit for transmitting signals from the control unit to the appliance and, upon receipt of wireless request signals in the receiving antenna, for ignoring signals from the control unit, and producing and transmitting priority control signals to the cleaning appliance. |
| US09791836B2 |
Television system including glare detection and remedial action system
A television system includes a housing including a television screen, a glare detector arranged in the housing and configured and disposed to detect an origination point of a glare on one of a television screen and a viewer, and a glare remediation system operatively coupled to the glare detector and one or more window covering devices. The glare remediation system is configured and disposed to close the one of the one or more window covering devices at the origination point upon detecting the glare at the one of the television screen and the viewer. |
| US09791835B2 |
PV stop potential voltage and hazard stop system
A system to interrupt the line or supply side power or charged system of any building, appliance, process, and the like, so as to render the system without charge or current output outside of the junction box/enclosure or equipment load supply connection so that emergency first responders or solar/any technician, authorized personnel in any field, system maintenance crew may avoid electrocution, chemical or machine/appliance hazard in the presence of fire, explosion, structural failure/compromise, moisture, flammables, caustics, hazmat, water stream, mist, fogging, physical damage or servicing of the system. The system can be engaged for any anticipated disaster such as fire, hurricane, tornado, earthquake, flood, and the like. |
| US09791832B2 |
Timepiece and method for manufacturing timepiece
A timepiece includes a winding stem, a calendar correction transfer wheel that rotates in synchronization with the winding stem in a state in which the winding stem is pulled to a first-step position, a calendar corrector wheel that rotates in synchronization with the calendar correction transfer wheel, a setting wheel lever that supports the calendar correction transfer wheel and the calendar corrector wheel, and a date indicator that rotates in synchronization with the calendar corrector wheel. The setting wheel lever is provided with shaft receiving holes to which the calendar corrector wheel is attachable in a rotatable manner, and the calendar corrector wheel is attached to one of the shaft receiving holes in accordance with the type of the date indicator. |
| US09791831B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes: an exhaust fan which has a pipe portion; and a duct. One of the pipe portion and the exhaust duct is inserted and fitted into the other such that they are connected to each other. A band-shaped seal member is attached to the entire outer circumference of the pipe portion. Both end portions of the seal member overlap each other in the circumferential direction of the pipe portion and are located a predetermined gap apart in an axial direction. The end portion of the seal member on the side of connection of the pipe portion has a non-fixed portion which is extended a predetermined length from a tip end in the circumferential direction and which is not fixed to the pipe portion, to reliably prevent an air leakage from a connection portion in a fan and a duct. |
| US09791828B2 |
Image forming apparatus including a blower to perform an operation based on a detection result of the a detector
An image forming apparatus includes a latent image bearer, a charger, a blower, a first detector, and a second detector. The charger charges a surface of the latent image bearer. The blower sends air to around the charger. The first detector detects a temperature of the air to be sent to around the charger. The second detector detects a temperature around the charger. The blower performs an operation based on a detection result of the first detector and a detection result of the second detector. |
| US09791827B2 |
Image forming apparatus including cartridge for protecting photosensitive drum
An image forming apparatus includes a main body and a cartridge attached to the main body. The cartridge includes: a casing extending in a longitudinal direction; a photosensitive drum extending in the longitudinal direction; and a separating member that is detachably attached to the casing. The photosensitive drum has a peripheral surface and is positioned in confrontation with the endless belt as a result of attachment of the cartridge to the main body. The separating member is attached to the casing and separates the photosensitive drum from the endless belt when the main body is packaged while the cartridge is attached to the main body. The separating member includes first and second end portions disposed on both end portions of the casing, and a connecting portion connecting the first and second end portions and is configured to cover the peripheral surface. |
| US09791826B2 |
Developing apparatus having a frame portion with varied thickness, and process cartridge thereof
A process cartridge including a first frame member molded by pouring a resin from a gate; a conductive sheet adhered integrally to a sheet adhering portion of the first frame member by molding of the resin; and a second frame member configured to define a toner storage portion by being coupled with the first frame member, wherein, the first frame member includes a bent portion at the sheet adhering portion, and a portion of the first frame member different in thickness is provided at an adjacent position to the adhering portion. |
| US09791823B2 |
Cartridge comprising an auto-destruct feature
A cartridge including a carrier storing an authenticity verification code readable by a scan device other than a host device and an auto-destruct feature to render the authenticity verification code unreadable at installation. |
| US09791822B2 |
Image forming apparatus having an opening-closing member and a lock mechanism
An image forming apparatus and a lock mechanism including a toggle mechanism capable of eliminating the problem of abnormal noise before and after a lock member passes a neutral point are provided. A lock mechanism includes a toggle spring that rotationally biases a toggle lever toward a standby position when the lever is between a standby position and a neutral point, and implements switching in a direction of the rotational biasing toward a locking position after the lever passes the neutral point. A projection and a locked portion of an engagement member are sandwiched by a toggle base and the toggle lever to maintain a contact state before and after the toggle lever passes the neutral point. |
| US09791818B2 |
Image forming apparatus and method for reducing image banding of the image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus and a method of reducing image banding of the image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes: a photoconductor unit on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; and a conveying unit configured to convey printing medium at a first conveying velocity toward the photoconductor unit, and configured to convey the printing medium at a second conveying velocity that is lower than the first conveying velocity when the printing medium approaches the photoconductor unit. |
| US09791816B2 |
Image forming apparatus and sheet accommodating device
An image forming apparatus includes an accommodation unit and a display unit. The accommodation unit accommodates a sheet having an image formed thereon. The display unit displays a selection screen that prompts a user to select information concerning a user who has given instructions to the accommodation unit to accommodate a sheet. The display unit displays a predetermined screen that represents a state or function of the image forming apparatus, and switches the predetermined screen to the selection screen on condition that the instructions have been received. |
| US09791815B2 |
Printing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and computer-readable storage medium
A method of controlling a printing apparatus, comprises printing an image on a sheet; measuring a printing speed of the printing; and storing, for each printing speed measured in the measuring, a number of sheets printed in the printing. |
| US09791811B2 |
Fixing device and image forming apparatus
A fixing device includes a belt member, a fixing member facing an outer peripheral surface of the belt member and forming a fixing nip portion between the belt member, and a separating pad portion disposed inside the belt member, including a pressing surface for pressing the fixing member at downstream of the fixing nip portion in a moving direction of the belt member and separating a recording material from the fixing member. The pressing surface of the separating pad portion curves so as to protrude toward the fixing member as approaching a central portion thereof in a rotation axis direction of the fixing member. An upstream end portion and a downstream end portion of the pressing surface curve so as to protrude toward an upstream side in the moving direction as they approach the central portion in the rotation axis direction. |
| US09791808B2 |
Intermediate transfer belt, method for producing the same, and image forming apparatus
The surface layer of an intermediate transfer belt has a concavo-convex pattern formed thereon by spherical resin particles which are independently embedded in the layer so that the embedment rate in the thickness direction of the layer is higher than 50% but lower than 100%. |
| US09791807B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a transfer body, a pair of transport members, and first and second guide members. The first and second guide members each have an upstream portion with respect to the transport direction that is cantilevered between the contact area of the transfer body and the image carrier, and the transport members. The first guide member guides the non-transfer surface of plain paper such that the plain paper contacts the image carrier upstream of the contact area with respect to the transport direction, and guides the non-transfer surface of heavy paper while being pressed by the non-transfer surface and elastically deformed to the transfer body side. The second guide member guides the transfer surface of plain paper while being elastically deformed to the image carrier side, and guides the transfer surface of heavy paper while being elastically returned to the transfer body side. |
| US09791804B2 |
Image forming apparatus and process cartridge
The image forming apparatus includes a drum cartridge having a photosensitive drum and a drum drive input member; a developing cartridge configured to be movably mounted to the drum cartridge, the developing cartridge comprising a developing roller disposed so as to face the photosensitive drum and a developing drive input member; a drum drive transmission member configured to engage with the drum drive input member and configured to transmit drum driving force to the drum drive input member while permitting a positional gap of the drum drive input member within a predetermined range; and a developing drive transmission member configured to engage with the developing drive input member and configured to transmit developing driving force to the developing drive input member while permitting a positional gap of the developing drive input member within a predetermined range. |
| US09791803B2 |
Image forming apparatus having multiple driving force transmitting drive trains
An image forming apparatus includes image forming portions for forming images on a photosensitive member with different color developers by developing rollers. Developing roller moving mechanisms include (i) a developing roller moving member for moving one of the developing roller between a first contacting position contacting an associated photosensitive member and a first separating position separated from the associated photosensitive member and (ii) a first driving force switch for switching between a first transmission state in which a driving force is transmitted to the developing roller moving member to move the developing roller of an image forming portion and a disconnected state in which the transmission of the driving force is disconnected. Driving forces transmitted to the developing roller moving members are supplied from first and second gear trains. |
| US09791800B2 |
Charging device and image forming apparatus having a rotation member with a spiral protrusion
A charging device includes: an electrode; a cleaning member that cleans the electrode; a moving body that moves along the electrode, the cleaning member that is attached to the moving body; and a rotation member that is disposed along the electrode and that includes a spiral protrusion on an outer circumferential surface thereof to move the moving body, the rotation member that is rotated in a circumferential direction. A plurality of kinds of pitch intervals of the protrusion are provided on at least a central portion of the rotation member in a longitudinal direction. |
| US09791795B2 |
Low fixing temperature sustainable toner
The disclosure relates to a resin made with no more than 6 mol % of a rosin or a rosin derivative combined with a lower molecular weight crystalline polyester resin in a toner with low fixing temperature and higher blocking temperature. |
| US09791794B2 |
Toner, developer, and image forming apparatus
A toner includes a base particle comprising a crystalline polyester resin; and an external additive which is a group of silica particles having a number-average particle diameter of from 0.01 μm to 0.11 μm on the surface of the toner. A number ratio of the silica particles having a circularity not less than 0.8 is 20% or more in the total number of the silica particles. |
| US09791793B2 |
Electrophotographic photosensitive member
A triphenylamine derivative is represented by general formula (1). In the general formula (1): R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, and R10 each represent, independently of one another, a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 6, an optionally substituted alkoxy group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 6, an optionally substituted alkenyl group having a carbon number of at least 2 and no greater than 6, or an optionally substituted aryl group having a carbon number of at least 6 and no greater than 14; m represents an integer of at least 1 and no greater than 3; and n represents an integer of at least 0 and no greater than 2. |
| US09791784B2 |
Assembly for a projection exposure apparatus for EUV projection lithography
An assembly for a projection exposure apparatus for EUV projection lithography has an illumination optical unit for guiding illumination light to an illumination field, in which a lithography mask can be arranged. The illumination optical unit comprises a first facet mirror, which comprises a plurality of mirror arrays with respectively a plurality of individual mirrors. The individual mirrors provide individual mirror illumination channels for guiding illumination light partial beams to the illumination field. The mirror arrays of the first facet mirror are arranged in an array superstructure. Gaps extend along at least one main direction (HRα) between neighboring ones of the mirror arrays. Furthermore, the illumination optical unit comprises a second facet mirror, which comprises a plurality of facets, which respectively contribute to imaging a group of the individual mirrors of the field facet mirror into the illumination field via a group mirror illumination channel. |
| US09791777B2 |
Active light sensitive or radiation sensitive resin composition, pattern forming method, method for manufacturing electronic device, and electronic device
The actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition of the present invention contains a resin (P) including a repeating unit (i) having a group which decomposes by the action of an acid represented by the following General Formula (1), a pattern forming method using the composition, a method for manufacturing an electronic device, and an electronic device. |
| US09791769B2 |
Display screen film, preparation method therefor and energy saving method
Disclosed are a display screen film and a preparation method therefor, and an energy saving method. The display screen film comprises an oriented carbon nanotube layer and a quartz glass layer, wherein the oriented carbon nanotube layer is located above the quartz glass layer, comprises an oriented growth carbon nanotube, and is configured to refract all incident light through the oriented growth carbon nanotube; the quartz glass layer is used for the carbon nanotube layer to grow orientately thereon, and is also used for absorbing the incident light so as to enable all the incident light to reach the oriented carbon nanotube layer. |
| US09791768B2 |
Projection screen
A projection screen for forming an image by converting light pixel pulses from a digital projector comprises a three-dimensional sheet matrix made of a transparent composite. Functional inclusions for light-scattering, light-absorbing and luminescence of the light from the projector are distributed through the matrix thickness to thereby enable that the conversion of the light pulses into the image for direct perception by eyesight be performed throughout the volume of the matrix. The matrix thickness between the frontal and rear surfaces of the matrix is selected for digital image sources between an inter-pixel grid width and tenfold diagonal size of a pixel of a digitized image on the screen. The object of the invention is to reproduce identifying features of informational models of real objects in a wide angle of image perception under side lighting. |
| US09791763B2 |
Device and method to standardize photography acquisition
The device and method are intended for the standardization of picture taking without contact with the subject. Two light beamers converging at a distance within the range of camera focus are enabling reproducible viewing conditions via superimposition of the spots of the beamers on the subject and the light of the beamers are extinguished during picture taking in order not to bias the image. The device is constituted of a body (1) adaptable to a camera (1) with objective (2) and is including two light beamers (4A) and (4B) whose beams (5A) and (5B) are converging at a distance (D) within the focus range of the camera as well as a mechanism to extinguish the light beamers during picture taking. It can be improved by enabling the covering of the focus ring (2) and zoom ring (8) of camera (1). |
| US09791758B2 |
Display substrate and manufacturing method thereof
The present invention provides a display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof. The display substrate of the present invention comprises a first structure and a second structure; wherein, the second structure is provided with a lap portion disposed on the first structure and a main body portion connected with the lap portion and outside the first structure; the first structure has a thinned region connected to an edge thereof, and a thickness of the first structure in the thinned region is smaller than that outside the thinned region; and at least part of the lap portion is located on the thinned region, and at least part of the main body portion outside the thinned region is in direct connection with the part of the lap portion on the thinned region. |
| US09791753B2 |
Circuit substrate structure and method for manufacturing thereof
The invention provides a circuit substrate structure and a method for manufacturing thereof. The circuit substrate structure includes a substrate, a pixel array layer, a display unit, a peripheral circuit layer, at least one integrated circuit chip, a flexible printed circuit board, at least one flattening material layer and a passivation layer. In the circuit substrate structure, the flattening material layer is positioned on the peripheral circuit layer, and possesses at least one opening corresponded to and around the integrated circuit chip. By positioning the flattening material layer, the circuit substrate structure possesses a flat surface, and prevents producing air bubbles, so as to enhance the reliability of the display device. |
| US09791747B2 |
Display panel
A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a first substrate, a blocking structure, and a seal layer. The first substrate has a display region. The blocking structure is disposed on the first substrate and located outside the display region, wherein the blocking structure includes a plurality of first blocking walls, and a distance between two adjacent first blocking walls is 7-50 μm. The seal layer is disposed on the first substrate and surrounds the first blocking walls, wherein each of the first blocking walls has a top surface, and the seal layer is in direct contact with at least one of the top surfaces. |
| US09791745B2 |
Photoalignment polyimide copolymer and liquid crystal alignment layer
Disclosed therein are a photoalignment polyimide copolymer making it easier to form a liquid crystal alignment layer with excellences in alignment properties, thermal and structural stabilities, and adhesiveness to a substrate, and a liquid crystal alignment layer using the same. The photoalignment polyimide copolymer includes all the three types of repeating units each having a defined structure. |
| US09791743B2 |
Stabilized photo-alignment layer for liquid crystal
A liquid-crystal photo-alignment layer that is composed of polymer stabilized azo dyes is provided, where a polymer network is introduced in the photo-alignment layer for stabilization. The photo-alignment layer is realized based on a two-step irradiation to first achieve molecule alignment to form the photo-alignment layer and then stabilize this layer. To realize the photo-alignment layer, a pre-determined surface of the substrate is first coated with a film of mixture. The mixture comprises an azo dye and a monomer preferably mixed in an optimal concentration of 0.67 wt/wt. The azo dye and the monomer have light-absorption peaks at different wavelengths such that photo-alignment of the azo-dye molecules and stabilization of the photo-alignment layer by polymerization of the monomer are achievable by two separate exposures of light to the film. |
| US09791742B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel which includes an array substrate including a pixel electrode, a gate line extending in a first direction and crossing the pixel electrode, and a data line extending in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, an opposing substrate including a common electrode in which a slit extending in the first direction and overlapping the gate line is defined, and a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the opposing substrate, and a light diffusion film which is disposed on the liquid crystal display panel and includes a plurality of low-refractive line members which respectively extends in the first direction and arranged in the second direction. |
| US09791738B2 |
Method and backlight module that achieve high color satuationof LCD (liquid crystal display) device
The present invention relates to a method and a backlight module that achieve high color saturation of an LCD device. The backlight module that achieves high color saturation of the LCD device includes a notch filter. Light of backlighting of the backlight module is subjected to light filtering by the notch filter and then enters a liquid crystal cell of the LCD device. The notch filter has a cut-off central wavelength of 500-640 nanometers. The half peak width of the cut-off wave band is 10-120 nanometers. The notch filter has a thickness of 0.3-15 millimeters. The present invention also provides a method for achieving high color saturation of an LCD device. The present invention proposes a novel high color saturation technique that allows the color saturation to be increased at different extents in different backlighting and that may have NTSC reach 100% when used with an RG LED. |
| US09791734B2 |
Module for liquid crystal display apparatus and liquid crystal display apparatus comprising the same
An LCD module includes an LCD panel, and a polarizing plate formed on each of the upper and lower surfaces of the LCD panel. The polarizing plate includes a polarizer and a polyester film formed on at least one surface of the polarizer. The polyester film has a difference between the index of refraction in the x-axis direction and the index of refraction in the z-axis direction (nx−nz) of about 0.1 to about 0.18, where nx and nz are the indices of refraction in the x-axis and z-axis directions, respectively, at a wavelength of 550 nm. The LCD module has a CR 45° and a CR 135° of about 1.0% or greater. |
| US09791729B2 |
Liquid crystal display unit and projection display apparatus
A liquid crystal display unit includes a liquid crystal display element for modulating light; and a holder part which has a holding portion, at least one connecting portion, an attenuation portion, and a plurality of through-holes. The holding portion holds the liquid crystal display element. The connecting portion is formed integrally with the holding portion, and may be connected to a fixing member for fixing a position of the liquid crystal display element. The attenuation portion is formed in the area from the connecting portion to the holding portion, and attenuates a force transmitting from the connecting portion to the holding portion. The through-holes are formed in the at least one connecting portion. The through-holes include at least one cut-out-through-hole having its part opened. The through-holes allow insertion of connecting members for connection to the fixing member. |
| US09791728B2 |
Fixture for preventing deformation of glass panel of display module
A fixture for preventing deformation of a glass panel of a display module, for receiving and fixing a light guide plate and a glass panel. It comprises an array cell and a color filter cell. The array cell is provided with a metal routing layer. The color filter cell is provided with a color resist layer. The fixture consists and a lower fixing end, with upper ends, the array cell and the color filter cell received in the upper fixing end, while lower ends thereof received in the lower fixing end, so the color resist layer in the color filter cell and the metal routing layer in the array cell are aligned in parallel. By a gap between the glass panel and the inner side face and bottom surface, the glass panel fine tunes properly for quick recovery by virtue of its gravity when deformation occurs. |
| US09791726B2 |
3-dimensional image display device including a patterned retarder
A stereoscopic three-dimensional image display device is disclosed which includes: a liquid crystal display panel defined into a plurality of pixel regions; a data driver to supply data voltages to the pixel regions; a patterned retarder disposed on a front surface of the liquid crystal display panel to polarize light from the liquid crystal display panel. The patterned retarder includes a first patterned retarder, to circularly polarize light from the liquid crystal display panel in a first direction and formed in a height greater than that of a pixel region of the plurality of pixel regions, and second patterned retarder to circularly polarize light from the liquid crystal display panel in a second direction opposite the first direction and formed in a height greater than that of the pixel region. |
| US09791725B2 |
Method and system for repairing defective pixel, and display panel
A method and a system for repairing a defective pixel, and a display panel are provided, the method including: positioning a center of the defective pixel to obtain a center coordinate of the defective pixel; and repairing the defective pixel according to the center coordinate. By the method, the conventional manual alignment operation is replaced with the automatic positioning of the center coordinate, which not only accelerates repairing of the defective pixel, but also improves repairing efficiency, enhances overall efficiency and productivity of the device, and meanwhile, can solve the problem of unsuccessful repairing due to error in manual operation; and the accuracy of the repairing can be improved by automatically positioning the center. |
| US09791724B2 |
Optical diode comprising components made from metamaterials
There is provided an optical diode comprising a circular polarisation splitter, a first circular polariser and a second circular polariser. The circular polarisation splitter is arranged to receive at least partially unpolarised light and output right-handed circular polarised light along a first optical path and left-handed circular polarised light along a second optical path. The first circular polariser is arranged on the first optical path and transmits right-handed circular polarised light and reflects left-handed circular polarised light. The second circular polariser is arranged on the second optical path and transmits left-handed circular polarised light and reflects right-handed circular polarised light. |
| US09791721B2 |
Ophthalmic lens, intraocular lens, and lens material
An ophthalmic lens includes a matrix and a natural yellow dye dispersed in the matrix. The natural yellow dye includes at least one of lutein and zeaxanthin. |
| US09791719B2 |
Method of determining the blocking position of an optical lens
Method for determining a position of an optical lens member placed on a lens blocking ring (22). A reference system, blocking ring data, and optical lens member surface data are provided. Position parameters are provided defining a position of a reference point of the surface of the lens member with respect to the main plane of the reference system and an orientation, about the main axis of said placed surface at said reference point. The position of the placed surface is determined according to the position parameters. During a repositioning step (S6) the placed surface is virtually translated and rotated. During an altitude determination step (S7) a difference in position between the blocking ring and the placed surface is determined. The repositioning and altitude determining steps (S6, S7) are repeated so as to minimize the difference in position between the blocking ring and the placed surface. |
| US09791716B2 |
Method for stabilizing contact lenses
A method for stabilizing contact lenses includes providing a lens design with a nominal set of stabilization zone parameters, applying a merit function to the lens design based on balancing moments of momentum, and creating a contact lens design with improved stabilization based on the application of the merit functions to the lens design with a nominal set of stabilization zone parameters. |
| US09791714B2 |
Splitter configuration for glasses
An eyewear frame assembly includes a frame having a rim for securing a lens. The frame further has a first segment and a second segment. At least one of the first segment and the second segment is movable relative to the other of the first segment and the second segment so as to allow insertion within or removal of the lens from the rim. The frame assembly also includes a projection that extends circumferentially from the first segment. The projection and the second segment are configured to be releasably secured to another, thereby securing the lens within the rim. |
| US09791712B2 |
Conductive film, display device equipped with same, and method for determining pattern of conductive film
This conductive film has a randomized wiring pattern having randomized rhomboid shapes obtained by giving irregularity in a predetermined range to rhomboid shapes of a rhomboidal wiring pattern which, with respect to frequencies of moire and intensities of moire obtained by applying a visual response characteristic of human beings to frequency information of moire and intensity information of moire calculated from peak frequencies and peak intensities in both two-dimensional Fourier spectra of transmittance image data of the wiring pattern and transmittance image data of the pixel array pattern, causes a sum of intensities of moire each corresponding to each of frequencies of moire falling within a predetermined frequency range determined depending on the visual response characteristic to be less than or equal to a predetermined value. The conductive film allows suppression of moire and significant improvement in visibility. |
| US09791699B2 |
Optical positioning aiming system
An optical positioning aiming system including an optical positioning subsystem (subsystem). The subsystem is configured to determine relative positions of a weapon and a head mounted display. The subsystem includes a processing unit, infrared (IR) emitters mounted to a weapon, IR emitters mounted to the head mounted display, IR cameras mounted to the weapon, and IR cameras mounted to the head mounted display. The IR cameras mounted to the weapon are configured to determine a relative position of the IR emitters mounted on the head mounted display and to communicate the relative position of the IR emitters mounted on the head mounted display to the processing unit. The IR cameras mounted to the head mounted display are configured to determine a relative position of the IR emitters mounted to the weapon and communicate the relative position of the IR emitters mounted to the weapon to the processing unit. |
| US09791696B2 |
Waveguide gratings to improve intensity distributions
An apparatus for use in replicating an image associated with an input-pupil to an output-pupil includes a planar optical waveguide including a bulk-substrate, and also including an input-coupler, an intermediate-component and an output-coupler. The input-coupler couples light corresponding to the image into the bulk-substrate and towards the intermediate-component. The intermediate-component performs horizontal or vertical pupil expansion and directs the light corresponding to the image towards the output-coupler. The output-coupler performs the other one of horizontal or vertical pupil expansion and couples light corresponding to the image, which travels from the input-coupler to the output-coupler, out of the waveguide. In certain embodiments, one or more of the input-coupler, the intermediate-component or the output-coupler comprises a liquid crystal polymer (LCP) based surface relief grating (SRG) or a double-side diffractive optical element (DOE), each of which can be used to improve an intensity distribution of light output by the output-coupler. |
| US09791695B2 |
Head-up display module
A head-up display module is provided. The head-up display module includes a polarized light source, an optical sheet, and a display panel. The polarized light source is capable of emitting a polarized light beam. The optical sheet is disposed on a transmission path of the polarized light beam, and the polarized light beam is reflected by the optical sheet. The display panel is disposed on the transmission path of the polarized light beam between the polarized light source and the optical sheet, and a polarization of the polarized light beam is modulated by the display panel. |
| US09791693B2 |
Sensor guard for using internal lens cleaning bulb blower on digital reflex camera, and method of use thereof
A cleaning apparatus for removing dust from lens surfaces inside a camera inner chamber, comprising: a bulb blower, a retainer is defined with a planar annular section, for fitting over a bayonet mount ring from the camera, a frusto-conical bottomless cup sized such that the blower nozzle outlet tip and main body are releasably engaged therethrough and the nozzle inlet seat releasably lockingly abuts thereagainst, and omnidirectional spring loaded connectors spacedly interconnecting the annular section to the cup, enabling the cup to move from a first position, at rest spacedly away from the plane of the retainer annular section, to a second position about the annular section plane. the nozzle outlet tip is progressively movable through the plane of the annular section against the bias of the connectors. |
| US09791692B2 |
Electrooptical device, method for manufacturing electrooptical device, and electronic apparatus
An electrooptical device includes a substrate, a mirror that is made up of a plurality of films which are arranged so as to be separated from the substrate on one plane of the substrate, and a supporting portion that is arranged between the substrate and the mirror, and has a portion which is connected to a portion of the mirror so as to support the mirror, in which the mirror includes a third mirror film which is a reflective metal film that is arranged on a side of the mirror which is opposite to the substrate, a second mirror film which is a high melting point metal film that is arranged between the reflective metal film and the substrate, and a first mirror film which is an antioxidative film that is arranged between the high melting point metal film and the substrate. |
| US09791690B2 |
Shutter assembly for a luminescence-based sample analyzer
A shutter assembly includes a first shutter blade having a first toothed arm extending therefrom and a first light transmitting aperture therein, and a second shutter blade positioned adjacent and parallel to the first shutter blade. The second shutter blade has a second toothed arm extending therefrom and a second light transmitting aperture therein. The first and second shutter blades are supported to allow parallel linear motion. A motor gear is disposed between, and meshed with, the first and second toothed arms such that rotation of the gear causes the first and second shutter blades to move linearly in opposite directions between an open position in which the first and second light transmitting apertures are in an overlapping relationship with respect to one another, and a closed position in which the first and second light transmitting apertures are in a non-overlapping relationship with respect to one another. |
| US09791688B2 |
Endoscope with two optical beam paths with switchable mirror surfaces
In an endoscope (1), two optical paths (3, 4) for stereoscopic vision are formed, wherein each optical path (3, 4) is lead from the inside to an interface (16, 19) with an optically more dense material (14) in relation to the surroundings (13) at a point of incidence (22, 25), wherein each optical path (3, 4) can be opened and interrupted by modifying the reflection behavior at the respective point of incidence (22, 25). |
| US09791687B2 |
Microscope and method for SPIM microscopy
A method for SPIM microscopy with a microscope winch includes (1) an illumination arrangement for illuminating a sample with a substantially planar light sheet, and (2) a detection arrangement for detecting light emitted by the sample with an objective. The sample is displaced through the light sheet in direction of the objective's optical axis, and the sample is illuminated under a first illumination angle and a second illumination angle. A plurality of sample planes are then detected at each illumination angle and stored as at least a first image stack and a second image stack. The image stacks are aligned relative to one another, and are combined in one image stack. A the three-dimensional image stack is projected into a two-dimensional rendering, sample features are aligned, a coordinate transformation is determined, and the coordinate transformation for alignment is applied to the combined image stack. |
| US09791686B2 |
High-resolution scanning microscopy
In a microscope for high resolution scanning microscopy of a sample, said microscope comprising—an illumination device for illuminating the sample, —an imaging device for scanning at least one point spot or line spot across the sample and for imaging the point spot or line spot into a diffraction-limited, stationary single image with magnification into a detection plane, —a detector device for detecting the single image in the detection plane for different scanning positions with a spatial resolution, which, taking into consideration the magnification, is at least twice as high as a full width at half maximum of the diffraction-limited single image, —an evaluation device for evaluating a diffraction pattern of the single image for the scanning positions from data of the detector device and for generating an image of the sample, said image having a resolution that is increased beyond the diffraction limit, provision is made for—the detector device to have a detector array, which has pixels and is larger than the single image, and—a non-imaging redistribution element, which is disposed upstream of the detector array and distributes the radiation from the detection plane in a non-imaging manner among the pixels of the detector array. |
| US09791677B2 |
Inner focus macrolens and image pickup device using the same
This disclosure is directed to an inner focus macrolens. The inner focus macrolens can include sequentially from an object side, a first lens unit, an aperture stop, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, a third lens unit having a negative refractive power and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power, wherein the first lens unit comprises a negative lens as the closest powered lens to the object side and a positive lens, the second lens unit comprises an object side negative lens as the closest powered lens to the object side and a positive lens, the third lens unit comprises a negative lens, and the fourth lens unit comprises a positive lens. |
| US09791673B2 |
Optical image capturing system
An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. At least one lens among the first to the sixth lenses has positive refractive force. The seventh lens can have negative refractive force. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the seventh lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras. |
| US09791670B2 |
Optical lens, image capturing device and electronic device
An optical lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element with positive refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and including one convex shape in an off-axial region thereof. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and including one convex shape in an off-axial region thereof. |
| US09791668B2 |
Lens system with six lenses
The present disclosure relates to a lens system comprising a first lens group and a second lens group from an object side to an image side successively; wherein, the first lens group comprises a first lens, a second lens and a third lens from the object side to the image side successively; the second lens group comprises a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens from the object side to the image side successively; the first lens has a positive focal power and the second, the fifth, and the sixth lens have a negative focal power, and the object side surface of the first and the second lens are convex, the image side surface of the fifth lens is convex, the object side surface of the fifth and the sixth lens are concave, and the image side surface of the second and the sixth lens are concave. |
| US09791667B2 |
Lens module
A lens module including may include: a first lens having negative refractive power; a second lens of which an object-side surface or an image-side surface is convex; a third lens of which an image-side surface is concave; a fourth lens having refractive power; a fifth lens having refractive power; and a sixth lens having an inflection point formed on an image-side surface or an object-side surface thereof. The first to sixth lenses are disposed in a sequential order from the first lens to the sixth lens. |
| US09791666B2 |
Imaging optical system, image capturing apparatus and electronic device
An imaging optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof; a second lens element having negative refractive power; a third lens element having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, both of the object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof being aspheric; and a fourth lens element with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof, both of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric. There are a total of four lens elements in the imaging optical system, and an air gap is arranged between every two adjacent lens elements. |
| US09791664B2 |
Large-field-of-view achromatic lens
A large filed achromatic lens is disclosed, including a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, and a sixth lens element arranged sequentially along the propagation direction of an incident ray. The first lens element is a meniscus lens element including a first curved surface and a second curved surface; the second lens element is a meniscus lens element, including a third curved surface and a fourth curved surface; the third lens element is a biconvex lens element, including a fifth curved surface and a sixth curved surface; the fourth lens element is a biconvex lens element, including a seventh curved surface and an eighth curved surface; the fifth lens element is a biconcave lens element including a ninth curved surface and a tenth curved surface; and the sixth lens element is a plane lens element adapted to play a role in protecting other lens elements. The first to the fifth lens elements are arranged around a same axis sequentially along the propagation direction of an incident ray. The first to the tenth curved surfaces are arranged sequentially along the propagation direction of the incident ray. The above large filed achromatic lens can be used as a fine photoetching lens for laser marking, or other fine processing lenses. |
| US09791662B2 |
Lightweight carrier structure, particularly for optical components, and method for its production
A carrier structure (100), particularly for optical components, includes a carrier body (10) which is formed from ceramic with hollows (11), and at least one cover layer (21, 22) which is formed from glass, arranged on at least one surface of the carrier body (10), and is connected to the carrier body (10) by means of at least one bond connection (23, 24) produced by means of anodic bonding. Methods for producing the carrier structure (100) and the use of the carrier structure as a mirror body, carrier for optical components and/or mechanical carrier for dynamically moved components are also described. |
| US09791658B2 |
Optical module and method for producing an optoelectronic sensor
An optical module (10) having at least one beam-forming element (14) and having at least two retainer brackets (20) for fastening the optical module (10) to a carrier (30) are provided. In this connection the retainer brackets (20) have a first support element (22a) at a first spacing with respect to the lens (14) and a second support element (22b) at a second spacing different from the first spacing with respect to the beam-forming element (14) in order to selectively fasten the optical module (10) to the carrier (30) at the first spacing or at the second spacing. |
| US09791651B1 |
Reduction of Faraday effect in optical ground wire (OPGW) cables
New optical ground wire (OPGW) cable structures are proposed. These OPGW cables are designed to reduce or minimize the net magnetic field B∥NET parallel to the direction {circumflex over (z)} of light propagation resulting from a lightning strike on the cable. A reduction in the net magnetic field B∥NET parallel to the direction {circumflex over (z)} of light propagation yields a reduction in the amount and speed of state of polarization (SOP) rotation resulting from a lightning strike on the cable due to the Faraday effect. OPGW cables constructed according to these new OPGW cable structures fulfill their dual function to shield the high-voltage conductors from lightning strikes and to support coherent optical communications. |
| US09791641B2 |
Inverted 45° mirror for photonic integrated circuits
Inverted 45° semiconductor mirrors as vertical optical couplers for PIC chips, particularly optical receivers and transmitters. An inverted 45° semiconductor mirror functions to couple light between a plane in the PIC chip defined by thin film layers and a direction normal to a top surface of the PIC chip where it may be generated or collected by an off-chip component, such as a wire terminal. In an exemplary embodiment, a (110) plane of a cubic crystalline semiconductor may provide a 45° facet inverted relative to a (100) surface of the semiconductor from which light is to be emitted. In further embodiments, a (110) plane may be exposed by undercutting a device layer of a semiconductor on insulator (SOI) substrate. Alternatively, a pre-etched substrate surface may be bonded to a handling wafer, thinned, and then utilized for PIC waveguide formation. |
| US09791638B2 |
Low power integrated analog mathematical engine
A method for creating on chip analog mathematical engines is provided utilizing a neural network with a switched capacitor structure to implement coefficients for weighted connections and error functions for the neural network. The neural networks are capable of any transfer function, learning, doing pattern recognition, clustering, control or many other functions. The switched capacitor charge controls allow for nodal control of charge transfer based switched capacitor circuits. The method reduces reliance on passive component programmable arrays to produce programmable switched capacitor circuit coefficients. The switched capacitor circuits are dynamically scaled without having to rely on switched in unit passives, such as unit capacitors, and the complexities of switching these capacitors into and out of circuit. The current, and thus the charge transferred is controlled at a nodal level, and the current rather than the capacitors are scaled providing a more accurate result in addition to saving silicon area. |
| US09791632B2 |
Optical assembly
There is provided an optical assembly (100) comprising an optical fiber arrangement (220, 230) and a lens arrangement (120). The lens arrangement (120) is spatially disposed relative to the fiber arrangement (220, 230) so as to be capable of providing an axial substantially collimated beam of radiation in response to receiving radiation from the optical fiber arrangement (220, 230) and capable of providing a focused beam of radiation to the optical fiber arrangement (220, 330) in response to receiving substantially collimated radiation to the lens arrangement (120). The assembly (100) further comprises a configuration of elements (110, 130, 200, 260) for spatially disposing the optical fiber arrangement (220, 230) relative to the lens arrangement (120). The configuration of elements (110, 130, 200, 260) provides for independent adjustment of relative lateral position between the optical fiber arrangement (220, 230) and the lens arrangement (120) in relation to axial position of the optical fiber arrangement (220, 230) relative to the lens arrangement (120). Such independent adjustment assists in fabrication of the assembly (100). |
| US09791631B2 |
Method and apparatus for a switch having a light pipe for combined LED display and light level sensing
An electrical wiring device includes a manually adjustable switch, a light emitting diode (LED), a light level sensor, and a microcontroller. The wiring device also optionally includes an occupancy sensor. Light level is sensed through a light pipe and light is emitted by the LED through the same light pipe. When the manually adjustable switch is positioned to energize a load, the LED is deactivated and ambient light level is sensed by light sensors through the light pipe. The ambient light level is compared to a minimum ambient light level to determine if the load will be energized. Alternatively, the LED is deactivated and the ambient light level is sensed through the light pipe when the switch is positioned to de-energize the load. This ambient light level is stored and compared to the minimum ambient light level at a time when the switch is later positioned to energize the load. |
| US09791628B2 |
Optical branching assembly, passive optical network, and optical transmission method
Embodiments of the present invention provide an optical branching assembly, a passive optical network, and an optical transmission method, which relate to the field of communications and are used to implement a functional diversity of the optical branching assembly. The optical branching assembly includes: a substrate and an optical power distribution area disposed on a surface of the substrate, where the optical power distribution area is coupled to a first optical waveguide, multiple second optical waveguides, and at least one third optical waveguide, and is used to distribute optical power of an optical signal, transmitted through the first optical waveguide, to each of the second optical waveguides and the at least one third optical waveguide; and the third optical waveguide is coupled to the first optical waveguide, where a reflective material is disposed on the third optical waveguide. |
| US09791623B2 |
Multilevel leaky-mode resonant optical devices
Multilevel leaky-mode optical elements, including reflectors, polarizers, and beamsplitters. Some of the elements have a plurality of spatially modulated periodic layers coupled to a substrate. For infrared applications, the optical elements may have a bandwidth larger than 600 nanometers. |
| US09791622B2 |
Optical semiconductor resonator, optical semiconductor device, and optical module
In order to prevent non-uniformity in emission wavelength among different sites along an optical axis direction, provided is a resonator portion including: a waveguide which includes a first area and a second area being adjacent to the first area; and diffraction gratings formed along an optical axis direction. The effective refraction index in the first area is larger than the one in the second area, and the thickness in the first area is larger than the one in the second area. A pitch at the adjacent diffraction gratings at a boundary between the first area and the second area is narrower both than pitches of the diffraction gratings that are formed in the first area and than pitches of the diffraction gratings that are formed in the second area. |
| US09791618B2 |
Waveguides incorporating novel metamaterials and associated methods of manufacture
A hollow-core waveguide structure for guiding an electromagnetic signal, comprising: a core material comprising a predetermined refractive index; and a cladding structure disposed about the core material, wherein the cladding structure has a refractive index that is less than unity; wherein the cladding structure comprises an Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) metamaterial. The core material comprises air or the like. The cladding structure comprises one of substantially planar sheets disposed about the core material and a substantially tubular structure disposed about the core material. Optionally, the ENZ metamaterial comprises a plurality of nanostructures disposed in a host medium. The plurality of nanostructures comprise a transparent conducting oxide. Alternatively, the cladding structure is manufactured via a self-assembly method. |
| US09791617B2 |
Guiding light platform
A guiding light platform includes a frame having a side plate, a top light-transmitting plate covering top of the frame, a bottom plate covering bottom of the frame, a LED strip mounted on the frame, and a separation plate mounted between the LED strip and the bottom plate. A top inner portion of the side plate is formed with a slanted surface disposed underneath and at an angle with respect to a bottom surface of the top light-transmitting plate to thereby define a space for receiving therein a waterproof adhesive. |
| US09791615B2 |
Light guide plate and manufacturing method thereof, backlight module
The present invention relates to the field of display techniques, and discloses a light guide plate and a manufacturing method thereof, as well as a backlight module; the light guide plate comprises a light guide plate body and lattice points, wherein the light guide plate body is provided with a light output surface, and a receiving groove for receiving a light source is formed in a surface of the light guide plate body facing away from the light output surface thereof, and a side surface and a bottom surface of the receiving groove form a light input surface. The lattice points are distributed inside the light guide plate body along a plane parallel with the light output surface; the further the lattice points are distanced from the light input surface, the more densely they are distributed. When the above light guide plate is in use, the light source is situated in the receiving groove, and light emitted from the light source is directed into the light guide plate through the side surface and the bottom surface of the receiving groove. Besides, since the further the lattice points are distanced from the light input surface, the more densely they are distributed, the uniformity of light emitted from the light output surface of the light guide plate body can be ensured; in addition, since the lattice points are located inside the light guide plate body, friction is avoided between the lattice points of the light guide plate and the reflecting sheet of the backlight module, which prolongs the life time of the backlight module. |
| US09791610B2 |
Backlight module and display having the same
A backlight module including a back plate, a light guide plate, a light-penetration layer, and a light source is provided. The light guide plate is disposed on the back plate and has a light incident surface and a light-emitting surface. The light-penetration layer is disposed on the light incident surface and adapted to absorb a light in a wavelength range. The light source is disposed on the back plate and faces the light incident surface, wherein the light source is adapted to provide a light. After the light passes through the light-penetration layer, the light enters the light guide plate from the light incident surface and is emitted from the light-emitting surface. In addition, a display having the backlight module is also provided. |
| US09791609B2 |
Polarization film and display device
A polarization film, including: a hydrophobic polymer resin and a dichroic dye represented by Chemical Formula 1: wherein in Chemical Formula 1, wherein, in Chemical Formula 1, Ar1 is a substituted or unsubstituted C6 to C15 arylene group, Ar2 is a C6 to C15 arylene group substituted with at least one of a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 alkoxy group, a halogen atom and a halogen-containing group, Ar3 is a C6 to C15 arylene group substituted with an amide group, R1 is a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 alkyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 alkoxy group, R2 and R3 are each independently a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 alkyl group, or R2 and R3 are linked to each other to form a ring, and n is 1 or 2. |
| US09791607B2 |
Optical element
An optical element and a use of the optical element are provided. The exemplary optical element can be useful in realizing a smart blind having excellent transmission and blocking characteristics in front and lateral surfaces thereof without using a retardation film by employing a polarizing layer whose polarization characteristics are patterned using a guest/host-type dye layer including a polymerizable liquid crystal compound and a dichroic dye. Such an optical element may be applied to various light modulating devices such as smart blinds, smart windows, window protective films, flexible display elements, active retarders for displaying a 3D image, or viewing angle adjustment films. |
| US09791603B2 |
Optical stack comprising adhesive
Presently described are optical stacks comprising a first optical film comprising a plurality of structures comprising an optically active portion designed primarily to provide optical gain and optionally an optically in-active bonding portion disposed on a first surface bonded to a second optical film with a light-transmissive adhesive layer such that a portion of the structures penetrate the adhesive layer and a separation is provided between the adhesive layer and the first surface. In one embodiment, the optical stacks exhibit a combination of high peel strength and high retained brightness, particularly after aging. The adhesive layer preferably comprises an interpenetrating network of the reaction product of a polyacrylate component and a polymerizable monomer and the adhesive layer has an elastic modulus ranging from 100 to 2000 MPa at 25° C. |
| US09791602B2 |
Nanowire bundle array, ultrahigh-performance broadband optical film, and method of manufacturing the same
Disclosed are a nanowire bundle array performing optical haze control for enhancing optical characteristics of optoelectronic device systems and optical systems, an ultrahigh-performance broadband optical film, and a method of manufacturing the same. |
| US09791600B2 |
Micro-lens capable of changing focal length, micro-lens array including the same, 3D display including micro-lens array and method of operating 3D display
Provided is a micro-lens capable of changing a focal length. The micro-lens includes a plurality of electrodes, and an electrowetting liquid layer that is separable from the electrodes and that has a focal length that is controlled by a voltage applied to the electrodes. |
| US09791599B2 |
Image processing method and imaging device
According to an embodiment, an image processing method is implemented in an imaging device that includes a microlens array including microlenses, a main lens configured to guide light from a photographic subject to the microlens array, and an image sensor configured to receive the light after passing through the main lens and the microlens array. The method includes: obtaining an image captured by the image sensor; setting, according to an image height, an arrangement of a microlens image of interest and comparison-target microlens images from among microlens images that are included in the image and that are formed by the microlenses; detecting an amount of image shift between the microlens image of interest and each of the comparison-target microlens images by comparing the microlens image of interest with the comparison-target microlens images; and calculating a distance corresponding to the microlens image of interest using the amounts of image shift. |
| US09791598B2 |
Article having coating on substrate, coating composition, and coating method
Provided is a coating technology additionally excellent in, for example, water repellency, oil repellency, and ease of dirt removal. An article having a coating on a substrate, in which the coating contains: (a) a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane; and (b) an acrylate polymer having a structural unit represented by the following general formula (II): where Ra represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, Rf represents —CH2—(CF2)q—CF3 or —CH(CF3)2, and q represents an integer of 0 to 8. |
| US09791597B2 |
Carbon nanotube-based curable coating composition providing antistatic abrasion-resistant coated articles
The present invention relates to a curable composition, providing, upon curing, an abrasion-resistant, transparent, antistatic coating, comprising carbon nanotubes and a binder comprising at least one epoxysilane compound, preferably an epoxyalkoxysilane, and optionally fillers such as nanoparticles of non electrically conductive oxides and/or additional binder components such as tetraethoxysilane. The invention further relates to optical articles comprising a substrate, and, starting from the substrate, an abrasion- and/or scratch-resistant coating, and an antistatic coating formed by depositing directly onto said abrasion- and/or scratch-resistant coating the above referred curable composition. The obtained optical articles exhibit antistatic properties, high optical transparency with about 91-92% of transmittance, low haze and improved abrasion resistance. |
| US09791594B2 |
Light grid with detection by adjacent light reception units arranged opposite light transmission units
The invention relates to a light grid having divergent light beams so that cross-beams can also be evaluated beside parallel beams, wherein not only a light beam interruption, but also the intensity of the light incidence on a light reception unit is evaluated. To provide an improved light grid with which in particular smaller objects can be detected and possibly also located, it is proposed that the light transmission units have a transmission optics in whose focus an extended light source is arranged. Furthermore, each beam contains an effective beam, with an effective beam being defined in that a part shading of this effective beam effects a measurable intensity change in the associated light receiver corresponding to the shading. Finally, the effective beams define at least one detection zone in the monitored plane, with an illumination by at least one effective beam being present in the total detection zone. |
| US09791593B2 |
Matter-wave gravimeter with microwave separation at the magic field
The general field of the invention is that of matter-wave gravimeters. The gravimeter according to the invention comprises at least: means for generating, for capturing and for cooling a cloud of ultra-cold atoms; means of transferring the atoms into a superposition, with equal weights, of a first internal electronic state called state |1>) and of a second internal electronic state called state |2> comprising the application of at least a first microwave field and of a radiofrequency field; means for separating the atoms into two wave packets for a given period of time under the effect of at least a second microwave field, the said separation leading to a phase-shift associated with the local gravitational field; calibration means allowing a “magic” magnetostatic field to be determined for which the difference in energy between the first internal electronic state and the second internal electronic state is independent, to a first order, of the fluctuations of the magnetostatic field. |
| US09791592B2 |
Radiation generator with frustoconical electrode configuration
A radiation generator may include an elongate generator housing having a proximal end and a distal end, a target electrode within the elongate generator housing at the distal end thereof, a charged particle source within the elongate generator housing at the proximal end thereof to direct charged particles at the target electrode. A plurality of accelerator electrodes may be spaced apart within the elongate generator housing between the target electrode and the charged particle source to define a charged particle accelerator section. Each accelerator electrode may include an annular portion having a first opening therein, and a frustoconical portion having a base coupled to the first opening of the annular portion and having a second opening so that charged particles from the charged particle source pass through the first and second openings to reach the target electrode. |
| US09791591B2 |
Inspection device
An inspection device is provided that is capable of counting the number of contained objects of a product in which objects each having a predetermined shape are contained in a package in an overlapping manner. An inspection device 1 includes a total-number calculator 11b that estimates a total mass of a plurality of objects based on grayscale information on a transmission image and calculates the total number of objects by dividing the total mass estimated by a mass of one object. |
| US09791590B2 |
Portable security inspection system
The present specification discloses a radiographic inspection system for screening an area. The inspection system has a container that defines an enclosed volume, a radiation source positioned within the enclosed volume, a detector array, a movable structure attached to a portion of the base of the container, and a controller programmed to move the movable structure to achieve an optimum height of the radiation source's field of view based upon a plurality of data. |
| US09791585B2 |
Constant phase
Various embodiments are described that relate to a loop with a constant phase. The loop can function as an antenna and be used in object detection. A current source can be used to power the loop such that the loop produces a magnetic field and an electric field. The magnetic field can be powerful enough to detect a dielectric while the electric field is so small that it does not interfere with nearby communication equipment. Thus, detection can occur without disruption of other important devices. |
| US09791584B2 |
Determining petrophysical properties using sodium nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) logs
The presence of hydrocarbons in a subsurface formation fluid may be inferred from a determined salt concentration. A sodium nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurement of a subsurface formation is obtained and a salt concentration of the fluid in the subsurface formation is determined from the sodium NMR measurement. Various operations may be performed using the determined salt concentration such as tracking injected water, monitoring flood fronts, improving reserves estimation, and designing enhanced oil recovery. A sodium index may be determined and used in conjunction with one or more other logs to determine a saturation of the subsurface formation. The one or more other logs may include a resistivity log, a dielectric log, a capture cross section (sigma) log, and a proton NMR log. Differentiation between bound water and free water can also be achieved using the sodium nuclear magnetic resonance measurement. |
| US09791582B2 |
Segmented-foil divertor
A segmented-foil divertor for marine towed application, such as marine seismic exploration, having a plurality of longitudinally stackable foil segments with an internal conduit extending along the span of each segment to receive a cable passing therethrough. |
| US09791581B2 |
Method and system for simultaneous acquisition of pressure and pressure derivative data with ghost diversity
A marine streamer spread for acquiring seismic data, the spread including a streamer having a first portion and a second portion; the first portion including both first pressure sensors and pressure derivative sensors for acquiring the seismic data; and the second portion including second pressure sensors. The first portion imparts ghost diversity to the seismic data by having a variable-depth profile and the pressure derivative sensors impart polarity diversity to the seismic data. |
| US09791578B2 |
Apparatus and method for seismic data acquisition with simultaneous activation of clustered vibrators
Methods for seismic exploration of a subsurface formation increase productivity by simultaneously actuating closely located vibratory sources. Individual vibrations generated by different sources actuated simultaneously are encoded to enable separation of seismic data corresponding to each of the individual vibrations. |
| US09791577B2 |
Sample measuring device
In this sample measuring device a lifting mechanism conveys a sample container from a rack to a sample measuring chamber. An inside light-shielding structure is extended over the upper surface of a base frame and the lower surface of a head, and surrounds a shaft. The inside light-shielding structure is configured from a first ring groove and a first ring protrusion. When the head is in a ground state, the upper surface of the base frame and the lower surface of the head are contacted by the action of a spring. At this time, the first ring groove and the first ring protrusion are integrated. An outside light-shielding structure is provided to the periphery of the inside light-shielding structure. A top plate contains a laminate structure which includes a lightshielding sheet and a lightreflecting plate. |
| US09791576B2 |
Scintillator panel and method for manufacturing scintillator panel
The present invention provides a scintillator panel which is provided with a narrow barrier rib with high accuracy in a large area, has a high light emission luminance, and provides sharp images. The present invention provides a scintillator panel including: a plate-like substrate; a grid-like barrier rib provided on the substrate; and a scintillator layer containing a phosphor filled in cells divided by the barrier rib, wherein the barrier rib is mainly composed of a low-melting-point glass, and the substrate is formed of a material which is mainly composed of a ceramic selected from the group consisting of alumina, aluminum nitride, mullite and steatite. |
| US09791572B2 |
Batch processing for improved georeferencing
Crowd-sourced location data from client devices is processed using enhanced filtering techniques in non-realtime by a centralized server process to improve the accuracy and reliability of georeferenced geodata. At a server computer, enhanced filtering techniques make use of future information to improve georeferencing of the geodata. In some implementations, the server computer can be configured to implement batch processing of raw GNSS data and other crowd-sourced location data (e.g., wireless scan data, inertial sensor data) using, for example, a smoothing filter or batch estimator. Augmentation data (e.g., satellite ephemeris data, clock offset and ionospheric delay) and sensor data independent of client devices can also be used by the server computer to augment the crowd-sourced location data to further improve georeferencing of geodata. |
| US09791569B2 |
Coordinate measurement system and method
A position detection system is able to detect the three dimensional position of at least one target (10). Each target (10) is configured to act as a retro-reflector for light incident from any direction. At least one light emitter illuminates the at least one target (10) and at least one detector (24) is provided for detecting and taking measurements of light retro-reflected from a target (10). There is also provided a processor for processing measurements taken by each detector (24) to determine the three dimensional position of the at least one target (10). |
| US09791562B2 |
Systems and methods for providing an ATC overlay data link
Embodiments of the present invention disclose systems and methods for providing an ATC Overlay data link. Through embodiments of the present invention, existing ATC (or other) modulated signals using existing standard frequencies may be utilized to transmit (e.g., from an aircraft transponder) additional information in a manner that does not render the transmitted signal unrecognizable by legacy ATC equipment. Legacy equipment will be able to demodulate and decode information that was encoded in the transmitted signal in accordance with preexisting standard modulation formats, and updated equipment can also extract the additional information that was overlaid on transmitted signals. |
| US09791560B2 |
Radar signal processor, radar system and method for monitoring a functional safety of a radar system
A radar signal processor includes a baseband signal generator, which generates a baseband signal based on information from a received radar signal and a Lead-Lag filter, which filters the baseband signal to generate a filtered signal. |
| US09791559B2 |
Optical distance measurement device with calibration device to take cross-talk into account
A measurement device for measuring an optical distance of an object includes an emission device configured to emit a first signal towards the object. The measurement device further includes a modulator device configured to modulate the first signal and a reception device configured to detect a second signal. The measurement device also includes an analysis device configured to receive and analyze the second signal. The measurement device further includes a calibration device configured to calibrate the measurement device with the modulator device turned on and with the emission device operated below a pre-definable power threshold value. |
| US09791558B2 |
Two-color signature simulation using mid-infrared test source semiconductor lasers
In some embodiments, the present invention provides an apparatus and process that includes control electronics that generate an electronic control signal; and a plurality of optically or electrically pumped semiconductor lasers, quantum-cascade lasers, optical parametric generators, or optical parametric oscillators, operatively coupled to the control electronics, that output an optical signal having a plurality of wavelengths, each wavelength having an output intensity that each of which is varied over time to simulate a combustion signature of a weapon. In some embodiments, the optical signal includes at least two different infrared wavelengths that are varied differently with time. |
| US09791556B2 |
Range generation using multiple analog ramps
A technology is provided for determining a range of a target using multiple analog ramps. A slow ramp voltage level can be identified that indicates an approximate arrival time for a light pulse to be received as a target reflection after propagating towards the target. A slope number associated with the slow ramp voltage level can be identified, wherein the slope number is an integer ranging from 0 to N. An adjusted slope number can be calculated using the slope number and fast ramp information. A coarse range and a fine range of the target can be determined using the adjusted slope number. The range of the target can be calculated by adding the coarse range and the fine range. |
| US09791555B2 |
High speed 360 degree scanning LIDAR head
A head for directing radiated energy from a source to a coordinate in a field of view defined by at least one of azimuth and elevation, comprises an angled element and a planar reflecting element. The angled element rotates about a first axis and redirects the beam, the redirection of the angled element differing in at least one of direction and extent as it is rotated. An axis normal to the surface extends at an angle to the second axis. The reflecting surface receives the redirected beam at a point thereon and reflects it in a direction within the FOV. A rotator may be positioned between the source and the angled element to support and independently rotate the angled element and the reflecting surface about the first and second axes without impeding the energy. |
| US09791551B1 |
Vehicular radar system with self-interference cancellation
A digital FMCW radar is described that simultaneously transmits and receives digitally frequency modulated signals using multiple transmitters and multiple receivers and associated antennas. Several sources of nearby spillover from transmitters to receivers that would otherwise degrade receiver performance are subtracted by a cancellation system in the analog radio frequency domain that adaptively synthesizes an analog subtraction signal based on residual spillover measured by a correlator operating in the receivers' digital signal processing domains and based on knowledge of the transmitted waveforms. The first adaptive cancellation system achieves a sufficient reduction of transmit-receive spillover to avoid receiver saturation or other non-linear effects, but is then added back in to the signal path in the digital domain after analog-to-digital conversion so that spillover cancellation can also operate in the digital signal processing domain to remove deleterious spillover components. |
| US09791549B2 |
Radar sensor and method for operating a radar sensor
In a method for operating a radar sensor, the unambiguousness range of the radar sensor is increased with respect to the range and/or the relative velocity by: transmitting multiple ramp sets by the radar sensor, the frequency ramps of the individual ramp sets each differing in one system parameter; adapting the sampling frequency during the detection of the radar echoes in such a way that a constant number of samples always results for each frequency ramp; and, to evaluate the radar signals, the spectra are periodically continued and compared to each other. |
| US09791548B2 |
Pulse compression radar
A pulse compression radar for performing pre-distortion is provided, which has a configuration simplified in circuit structure. A radar apparatus (pulse compression radar) includes an antenna configured to externally transmit a transmission signal transmitted by a power amplifier and receive a reflection signal caused thereby as a reception signal. The radar apparatus includes a reception circuit configured to propagate this reception signal to a radar image creating module. The radar apparatus corrects beforehand, by utilizing the transmission signal (feedback signal) transmitted from the power amplifier, a transmission signal to be inputted into the power amplifier so as to cancel distortion of the transmission signal caused by amplification effect of the power amplifier. Further, a circuit where the reception signal passes and a circuit where the feedback signal passes share a part of each other. |
| US09791547B2 |
Wireless position sensing in three dimensions using ultrasound
The present invention provides a method of position sensing between a wireless mobile component carrying a mobile ultrasonic transducer and a fixed component carrying a plurality of fixed ultrasonic transducers in a predetermined spaced-apart relationship, the method comprising turning off all the transducers to establish a period of silence, activating one or more of the fixed transducers to transmit an ultrasonic signal, starting a plurality of timers corresponding to the respective plurality of fixed transducers generally simultaneously with transmitting the signal, receiving the signal at the mobile transducer, transmitting a signal from the mobile transducer responsive to the received signal, receiving the signal transmitted by the mobile transducer at each fixed transducer and stopping the respective timer generally at the time of reception of an edge of the received signal found within the first twenty received edges and preferably within the first ten received edges and more preferably at the first received rising edge, calculating the distance between the mobile transducer and each fixed transducer based on a predetermined constant representative of the speed of sound and the time taken for transit of the signal to each fixed transducer as measured by the respective timers, and performing trigonometric calculations using the calculated distances in order to determine the 3-dimensional position of the mobile component relative to the fixed component. |
| US09791542B2 |
System and method for estimating the position and orientation of a mobile communications device in a beacon-based positioning system
An example of a lighting device including a light source, a modulator and a processor. The processor is configured to control the light source to emit light for general illumination and control the modulator to modulate the intensity of the emitted light to superimpose at least two sinusoids. Frequencies of the at least two sinusoids enable a mobile device to infer the physical location of the lighting device. |
| US09791540B2 |
Self-organizing hybrid indoor location system
Systems and methods for identifying device location are provided. The method can include providing, by a mobile computing device, at least a first ultrasonic signal to a first and a second self-organizing beacon device. The method can include receiving, by the mobile computing device, a first radio frequency signal including the location of the first beacon device and a second radio frequency signal including the location of the second beacon device. The method can further include determining a first time-of-flight associated with the first beacon device and a second time-of-flight associated with the second beacon device. The method can include determining a location of the mobile computing device based at least in part on the first time-of-flight, the second time-of-flight, the location of the first beacon device, and the location of the second beacon device. |
| US09791537B2 |
Time delay estimation apparatus and time delay estimation method therefor
The present invention relates to a time delay estimation device. The time delay estimation device of the present invention includes a sound signal detection unit configured to detect sound signals through a plurality of microphones, a frequency domain conversion unit configured to convert the detected sound signals into signals of a frequency domain, and a time delay estimation unit configured to estimate a time delay on the basis of a slope of a phase difference between the sound signals converted into the frequency domain. |
| US09791536B1 |
Mutually calibrated magnetic imaging array
A mutually calibrated magnetic imaging array system is described. The system includes a non-target magnetic source rigidly attached to a magnetometer, and an attached control unit to measure and adjust several parameters of a magnetic imaging array. A non-target magnetic field source is used to generate a well-defined and distinguishable spatial magnetic field distribution. The source is rigidly attached directly to a magnetometer, while the relative positions of the magnetometers are unknown. The magnetic imaging array is used to measure the strength of the non-target source magnetic fields and the information is used to calibrate several parameters of the array, such as, but not limited to, effective magnetometer positions and orientations with respect to each other and cross-talk between the magnetometers. The system, and method described herein eliminates the need for a separate calibration phantom. |
| US09791535B2 |
Apparatus and method for mapping and measurement of spatially and temporally distributed induced small phase deviations in magnetic resonance utilizing deconvolution
Phase variations of the transverse magnetization in magnetic resonance induced by superimposed physical phenomenae or by intrinsic deviations of the main magnetic B0 field are separated from Feature Space set by demodulation and deconvolution, either by electrical circuits or by equivalent computational methods, permitting mapping and measurement of these induced phase variations independent of Feature Space. |
| US09791531B2 |
Establishing a magnetic resonance system actuation sequence
A method for establishing a magnetic resonance system actuation sequence is described. A first number of field distribution maps are acquired for slices of the measurement region, and a radiofrequency pulse train is established on the basis thereof for the magnetic resonance system actuation sequence. This acquisition of the first number of field distribution maps may be brought about on the basis of an acquisition scheme. A reduced number of field distribution representation maps are established on the basis of the acquired field distribution maps, which field distribution representation maps represent the first number of acquired field distribution maps in accordance with a predetermined optimization criterion, and the radiofrequency pulse train is established on the basis of the field distribution representation maps. |
| US09791530B2 |
Method of MRI imaging using non-slice-selective, spatially tailored tip-up pulse
A method of acquiring image data with an MRI system from an object using a sequence of tip-down and tip-up RF pulses is described. A slice-selective first pulse α rotates the in-slice spins from the longitudinal axis (z) toward a transverse plane (x, y). Image data is acquired from the in-slice spins during a free precession interval (Tfree) in which the in-slice spins precess along the transverse plane (x, y). A spatially tailored, non-slice-selective second pulse β({right arrow over (r)}) is applied for rotating the in-slice spins from the transverse plane (x, y) to at least substantially along the longitudinal axis (z). A third pulse S may be applied to the in-slice and out-of-slice spins to eliminate (spoil) residual transverse signal from out-of-slice spins. |
| US09791524B2 |
MRI acoustic system, acoustic output device, and electro-acoustic transducer
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acoustic system includes a magnet; an electro-acoustic transducer that includes a coil through which a current flows so that an attractive force or a repulsive force is generated with respect to the magnet, and a vibrating plate that vibrates in response to the attractive force or the repulsive force; and a controller that controls an intensity of a current input to the electro-acoustic transducer according to a position of the electro-acoustic transducer in a magnetic field generated by the magnet. |
| US09791523B2 |
Magnetic sensor utilizing magnetization reset for sense axis selection
This document discusses, among other things, a first magnetic sensor configured to sense first and second components of a magnetic field in respective, orthogonal directions, using first, second, third, and fourth sense elements, each on an angled surface sloped with respect to a surface, each including respective first, second, third, and fourth longitudinal axes, each parallel to each other. Further, a second magnetic sensor on the same surface can sense second and third components of a magnetic field in respective, orthogonal directions, using first, second, third, and fourth sense elements, each on an angled surface sloped with respect to the first surface, each including respective first, second, third, and fourth longitudinal axes, each parallel to each other and orthogonal to the longitudinal axes of the first magnetic sensor. |
| US09791520B2 |
Systems and methods for testing emergency power supply systems
Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to systems and methods for managing and monitoring a plurality of emergency power supply systems (EPSS's) at a facility via an emergency power management system (EPMS). The EPMS generally comprises EPSS equipment, a management computer system for managing, monitoring, and testing the operational characteristics of the EPSS equipment, and a plurality of interface modules for providing unified communication capabilities between the management computer system and the EPSS equipment. Additional aspects relate to methods for easily and efficiently creating and installing an EPMS at a facility. Further aspects are directed to providing predictive analyzes related to the EPSS equipment. Also, aspects of the present disclosure relate to normalizing EPSS equipment information across varying vendors, makes, and models of equipment so as to provide a unified view of all equipment across a given facility. |
| US09791518B2 |
Impedance measuring device and control method for impedance measuring device
An impedance measuring device outputs an alternating current of a prescribed frequency to each of a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal of a laminated type battery and detects an alternating-current potential difference between the positive electrode terminal and an intermediate-point terminal and an alternating-current potential difference between the negative electrode terminal and the intermediate-point terminal. The impedance measuring device adjusts an amplitude of the alternating current such that the alternating-current potential difference between the positive electrode terminal and the intermediate-point terminal and the alternating-current potential difference between the negative electrode terminal and the intermediate-point terminal coincide, and computes an impedance on the basis of the adjusted alternating current and alternating-current potential differences. Then, the impedance measuring device corrects a phase difference of the alternating currents output to the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal on the basis of a phase difference between an alternating-current potential generated at the positive electrode terminal and an alternating-current potential generated at the negative electrode terminal. |
| US09791516B2 |
Inspection method of fuel battery
An inspection method of a fuel battery by using an electrical charge existing in a fuel battery stack includes a supplying step in which the electrical charge is supplied from an external power supply to the fuel battery stack. |
| US09791512B2 |
Test apparatus, test method, calibration device, and calibration method
Provided is a test apparatus including an optical test signal generating section that generates an optical test signal; an optical signal supplying section that supplies the optical test signal to a device under test that is a testing target among a plurality of the devices under test; a first optical switch section that selects, from among optical signals output by the plurality of devices under test, the optical signal output by the device under test that is the testing target; and an optical signal receiving section that receives the selected optical signal. |
| US09791506B1 |
Cross-platform device testing through low level drivers
In one example case, a cross-platform system includes a first automated test platform having a first test instrument and a first glue layer interface that exposes test functions to direct testing by the first test instrument. The system further includes a second automated test platform having a second test instrument and a second glue layer interface that exposes the same test functions to direct testing by the second test instrument. In the system, the glue layers abstract the respective and different control commands used by the different, first and second test instruments. Using the glue layers, the same higher-level test code can be executed by the control computers of both the first and second automated test platforms. |
| US09791501B2 |
Compliant thermal contact device and method
Examples of thermal contact devices and methods are shown. Compliant thermal contact devices are shown that include interleaved conducting structures to provide a high thermal conduction contact area. Selected examples include a thermal interface material located at the interleaved interface between the conducting structures. Selected examples also include designs for alternate chip orientations. |
| US09791498B2 |
Crosstalk suppression in wireless testing of semiconductor devices
An integrated circuit integrated on a semiconductor material die and adapted to be at least partly tested wirelessly, wherein circuitry for setting a selected radio communication frequencies to be used for the wireless test of the integrated circuit are integrated on the semiconductor material die. |
| US09791494B2 |
Apparatus and method for diagnostics of a capacitive sensor
In at least one embodiment, an apparatus for diagnosing a state of a capacitive sensor is provided. The apparatus includes a control unit for being operably coupled to a decoupling device that exhibits a drift condition and to the capacitive sensor. The control unit being configured to determine an impedance of the capacitive sensor and to determine a characteristic of the capacitive sensor based on at least the impedance. The control unit being further configured to determine a characteristic of the decoupling device based on the characteristic of the capacitive sensor and to provide an estimated capacitance based on the characteristic of the decoupling device, the estimated capacitance being indicative of the state of the capacitive sensor. |
| US09791491B2 |
Micropositioning device with multidegrees of freedom for piezoelectric actuators and associated method
A micropositioning device for a piezoelectric actuator includes a means for controlling an electric field applied to the piezoelectric actuator so as to deform the piezoelectric material, and means for simultaneous measurement of a variation of electric charge accumulated on the piezoelectric actuator resulting from the deformation; and means for acquiring measurements of the variation of electric charge, for processing these acquisitions and for estimating a displacement (x, y, z) of the piezoelectric actuator and/or an applied force. |
| US09791486B2 |
Apparatus for increasing resolution of resistance sensing
An apparatus is provided that increases resolution of a resistance sensor. The apparatus may include a variable current source that produces a variable current in response to a current value. The apparatus may also include a variable resistance device that generates a variable voltage associated with the variable current. The variable resistance may have a low resistance value and a high resistance value. In addition, the apparatus may include a controller that receives a voltage value associated with the variable voltage and controls the current value in order to result in an increase in resolution of a range between the low resistance value and a high resistance value. |
| US09791485B2 |
Determining electric grid topology via a zero crossing technique
A node within a wireless mesh network is configured to record a zero crossing of alternating current or alternating voltage drawn by a single-phase power consumer and a precise timestamp when the zero crossing occurred, thereby generating timestamped zero crossing data. The node receives similar zero crossing data from a neighboring node. The node then compares the timestamped zero crossing data with the received zero crossing data to determine whether the phase associated with the node is equivalent to, leads, or lags the phase associated with the neighboring node. The node then acquires a positive phase identification associated with the neighboring node. Based on the phase identification, and based on the phase difference between the two nodes, the node infers the phase associated with the single-phase power consumer. That phase indicates the specific power line within a three-phase power distribution network to which the single-phase power consumer is coupled. |
| US09791483B2 |
Electrical circuit and a method for measuring the power consumption of an LED lighting device
Embodiments consistent with the present disclosure provide an electrical circuit and a method for measuring the power and power consumption of an LED lighting device in real time. The circuit includes a controlling unit configured to process data; a display unit configured to display data received from the controlling unit and other components; a power supply and driving unit configured to supply power; an LED light source; and a RF unit configured to send data to remote terminals. The electrical circuit further includes an input power sampling unit, an output voltage sampling unit, and an output current sampling unit, which are configured to capture the real time input voltage, output voltage, and output current data respectively. Further, the controlling unit may determine the power and power consumption of the LED lighting device by using the received real time voltage and current data measurements, and referring to the stored input voltage-efficiency curves. |
| US09791482B1 |
Power integrated circuit with autonomous limit checking of ADC channel measurements
A power loss protection integrated circuit includes a current switch circuit portion (eFuse) and an autonomous limit checking circuit. The limit checking circuit includes an input analog multiplexer, an ADC, a plurality of capture registers, a state machine, and a flag output terminal. For each capture register, the limit checking circuit further includes an associated lower limit register and an associated upper limit register. The state machine controls the multiplexer and the capture registers so the ADC digitizes voltages on various nodes to the monitored, and stores the results into corresponding capture registers. In integrated circuit has circuitry that allows both a high voltage as well as a high current to be monitored. The value in a capture register is compared to upper and lower limit values. If any capture value is determined to be outside the limits, then a digital flag signal is asserted onto the flag output terminal. |
| US09791479B2 |
Slide closure current tester
A current measuring device having a probe body with an elongated portion extending outward from a rearward main body portion to a hook-shaped forward end, the hook-shaped end useful for isolating a conductor under test, a slide closure member adapted to slide longitudinally forward from a rearward open position to a forward closed position, the closed position useful to capture the conductor under test within a space encircled by the combination of the hook-shaped end, the closed slide closure member, and the rearward main body, with the space encircled including a current sensing zone, and circuitry adapted for detecting a magnetic flux generated by an electric current passing through the conductor under test positioned within the current sensing zone. A release button for moving the slide closure member serves as a switch to turn on the meter/tester/device when the jaw/slide closure member is opened. |
| US09791478B2 |
Current transducer of the Rogowksi type and arrangement for measuring a current
The invention is about a current transducer of the Rogowski type, with a primary conductor winding having a first number of loops (N1) for carrying the rated current (IR) to be measured, with a secondary conductor winding having a pair of second terminals and a helical shape and a second number of loops (N2), said secondary conductor winding encircling the primary conductor in a toroidal manner, whereby a rated current voltage signal VS is induced between the pair of second terminals of the secondary winding, said rated current voltage signal being characteristic for the derivative of the rated current (dIR/dt), with a transducer electronics (IED) configured to receive the rated current voltage signal (VS), characterized in that the current transducer comprises a third conductor winding having a pair of third terminals with a third number of loops (N3), whereby the transducer electronics (IED) is configured to feed a calibration current signal (ICal) into the third conductor winding, whereby in response to the derivative of the calibration current signal (dl-Cal/dt) an additional calibration signal (Vcal) is created between the pair of second terminals of the second winding and whereby the transducer electronics (IED) is configured to process the rated current voltage signal (VS) and the calibration signal (Vcal) to derive a corrected voltage signal (VS,corrected) with a calibrated sensitivity Scal. |
| US09791477B2 |
Plug-through energy monitor
A sensor for inductively measuring the current in a conductor flowing through a recess in a printed circuit board. Wire loops on the printed circuit board function as the inductive current sensor. Combined with a voltage measurement, the energy being dissipated in the conductor's load circuit can be determined and transmitted wirelessly. Control circuits can be integrated with the metering hardware to enable the remote modulation of the load's power. The inductive sensor(s) can be used to track differences between the load's supply and return currents. If a fault is detected, the circuit can be broken for safety, serving a ground fault circuit interruption (GFCI) purpose. |
| US09791476B2 |
Device for differential acquistion of current and method of controlling such an acquisition device
A device for the differential acquisition of current includes an acquisition circuit including a charge amplifier connected, at the input, to terminals for connection to a signal emitting component, and at the output, to an integrator. A unit for injecting a charge signal is mounted between the terminals and the charge amplifier and is connected to a control unit connected to an output of the acquisition circuit. The control unit is so arranged as to control the injection of a charge signal, to detect a resultant signal at the output of the acquisition circuit and to compare the resultant signal with the injected signal. A method includes controlling such a device. |
| US09791475B2 |
Non-contact voltage measuring apparatus
There is provided a non-contact voltage measuring sensor (1) in which a detection probe (11) is configured with a leaf spring and in which, when an external force is applied, the detection probe (11) deforms winding in a direction in which a tension of the leaf spring acts. |
| US09791474B2 |
Current sensing device, and method of manufacturing the same
A current sensing device and method of manufacturing a sensing device are disclosed. The current sensing device can include at least two current sensors, implemented in an openable ring-shaped support, and wherein the at least two current sensors can be arranged in a chain-like arrangement on the ring-shaped support, and wherein the at least two current sensors are electrically connected in series. |
| US09791471B2 |
Display panel integrated with sensor and manufacturing method thereof, and display device
Embodiments of the invention provide a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device comprising such a display panel. At least one sensor is integrated into the display panel through a semiconductor process that is at least partially synchronously performed with processes of forming the array substrate and/or color filter substrate of the display panel, such that an integration level of the sensor on the display panel is increased and the process is simplified. |
| US09791465B2 |
Automatic analyzer
The automatic analyzer includes a suction nozzle; a liquid transfer syringe; a suction channel which connects the suction nozzle and the liquid transfer syringe; a flow cell which is arranged in the middle of the suction channel; a detector for sample analysis which is arranged in the flow cell; a reaction auxiliary liquid vessel and a cleaning liquid vessel which store liquids to be sucked in by the suction nozzle; means for supplying a diluting fluid to the vessels; a cleaning tank for dumping liquid remaining in the vessels; and a controller for supplying the diluting fluid to the vessels when the remaining liquid is discharged from the vessels and thereafter having the diluted remaining liquid sucked into the flow cell via the suction nozzle and having the sucked remaining liquid discharged to the cleaning tank. |
| US09791464B2 |
Lipoprotein analysis by differential charged-particle mobility
The invention provides methods of preparation of lipoproteins from a biological sample, including HDL, LDL, Lp(a), IDL, and VLDL, for diagnostic purposes utilizing differential charged particle mobility analysis methods. Further provided are methods for analyzing the size distribution of lipoproteins by differential charged particle mobility, which lipoproteins are prepared by methods of the invention. Further provided are methods for assessing lipid-related health risk, cardiovascular condition, risk of cardiovascular disease, and responsiveness to a therapeutic intervention, which methods utilize lipoprotein size distributions determined by methods of the invention. |
| US09791462B2 |
Compositions and methods for increasing bone mineralization
A novel class or family of TGF-β binding proteins is disclosed. Also disclosed are assays for selecting molecules for increasing bone mineralization and methods for utilizing such molecules. |
| US09791460B2 |
Biomarkers useful in liver fibrosis diagnosis
Identification of urokinase-type plasminogen, matrix metalloproteinase 9, and β-2-microglobulin as novel biomarkers associated with liver fibrosis and uses thereof in diagnosing liver fibrosis. |
| US09791458B2 |
Dissolved protein arthritis markers
Methods and kits for diagnosing arthritis are provided. The methods may involve detection of 14-3-3 eta or gamma proteins in a sera or synovial fluid sample. |
| US09791457B2 |
Biomarkers for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
The application discloses new biomarkers for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and particularly preeclampsia; methods for the diagnosis, prediction, prognosis and/or monitoring said disorders based on measuring said biomarkers; and kits and devices for measuring said biomarker and/or performing said methods. |
| US09791454B2 |
Method for diagnosing a molecular phenotype of a patient suffering from an illness accompanied by chronic inflammation
Chronic inflammation is an increasing medical problem area of high socioeconomic significance. The invention relates to a method and a kit for diagnosing a molecular phenotype of a patient suffering from an illness accompanied by chronic inflammation, and to a medicament for treating such a patient. To that end, the gene expression of GATA-3 and/or Tbet in a biological isolate of the patient is measured and used for association with a molecular phenotype of the illness. |
| US09791449B2 |
Ovarian cancer stem cells and methods of isolation and uses thereof
The present invention generally relates to methods, assays, compositions and kits related to a subpopulation of ovarian cancer stem cells which are selected or enriched by chemotherapeutic agents and inhibited by MIS (Mullerian Inhibiting Substance) and MIS mimetics. In particular, the present invention relates to a population of CD44+/CD24+/EpCam+/ECad− subpopulation of ovarian cancer stem cells. The present invention also provides methods to screen a subject with ovarian cancer to identify if they have an ovarian cancer comprising CD44+/CD24+/EpCam+/ECad− ovarian cancer stem cells, and methods to identify and enrich or isolate for such ovarian cancer cell populations. |
| US09791447B2 |
Methods of identifying SENP1 inhibitors
Provided herein are methods of detecting binding of an SENP1 polypeptide to a compound and methods for screening for inhibitors of SENP1. Further provided are aqueous compositions comprising SENP1 polypeptides and NMR apparatuses comprising the compositions for NMR analysis. |
| US09791446B2 |
Signatures and determinants for distinguishing between a bacterial and viral infection and methods of use thereof
The present invention provides methods of detecting infection using biomarkers. The methods disclosed herein include measuring the expression level of one or more polypeptide determinants in which the alteration of the expression level indicates infection of the patient. The methods provided herein are for distinguishing between bacterial infection, mixed infection, and/or viral infection. The methods disclosed herein may also further comprise measuring one or more non-polypeptide determinants. The present disclosure also provides methods for selection of a treatment regimen for the subject based on whether the subject is identified as having a bacterial or mixed infection, or a viral infection. |
| US09791444B2 |
Method for differentially quantifying naturally processed HLA-restricted peptides for cancer, autoimmune and infectious diseases immunotherapy development
The invention relates to a method for quantitatively identifying relevant HLA-bound peptide antigens from primary tissue specimens on a large scale without labeling approaches. This method can not only be used for the development of peptide vaccines, but is also highly valuable for a molecularly defined immunomonitoring and the identification of new antigens for any immunotherapeutic strategy in which HLA-restricted antigenic determinants function as targets, such as a variety of subunit vaccines or adoptive T-cell transfer approaches in cancer, or infectious and autoimmune diseases. |
| US09791443B2 |
Method for differentially quantifying naturally processed HLA-restricted peptides for cancer, autoimmune and infectious diseases immunotherapy development
The invention relates to a method for quantitatively identifying relevant HLA-bound peptide antigens from primary tissue specimens on a large scale without labeling approaches. This method can not only be used for the development of peptide vaccines, but is also highly valuable for a molecularly defined immunomonitoring and the identification of new antigens for any immunotherapeutic strategy in which HLA-restricted antigenic determinants function as targets, such as a variety of subunit vaccines or adoptive T-cell transfer approaches in cancer, or infectious and autoimmune diseases. |
| US09791441B2 |
Device and method for the detection of particles
The present invention relates to devices and methods for the qualitative and/or quantitative detection of particles. In particular, the invention relates to devices for the detection of particles, comprising a reaction chamber formed within a chamber body between a first surface and a second surface, wherein the second surface is located opposite to the first surface, and one or more displacers, wherein the distance between the first surface and the second surface is variable via the one or more displacers at least in one or more parts of the surface area of the first surface and/or second surface. The invention also relates to corresponding methods for the detection of particles. |
| US09791435B2 |
Receptor binding ligands, their use in the detection of cells with biological interest
A method for the identification and quantification of the expression of membrane receptors present on the surface of target cells using at least two soluble receptor binding ligands derived from the soluble part of the glycoprotein of an enveloped virus that interacts with a cellular cognate receptor, the receptor binding ligand containing a part or the totality of one of the receptor binding domains (RBD) of the glycoprotein, and the soluble receptor binding ligand being liable to interact with the at least one membrane receptor of a target cell, for the identification and quantification of the expression of membrane receptors present on the surface of target cells, the identification and quantification taking place at a given time or during a given time interval, and allowing the determination of a physiological state of the target cell. |
| US09791434B2 |
Paper microfluidic devices for forensic serology
Paper microfluidic devices for the detection of bodily fluids are provided. Such devices can be used, for example, for detection of bodily fluids from or at crime scenes, including blood, saliva, semen, urine, feces, vaginal fluids, and perspiration. Detection can be performed using colorimetric reagents that react when placed in contact with the fluid of interest. A single device can be used to test for multiple bodily fluids at the same time. |
| US09791432B2 |
Serpentine flow channels for flowing fluids over chip sensors
A nanopore based sequencing system is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of nanopore sensors, each nanopore sensor having a top portion for receiving a fluid. The system further includes an inlet delivering the fluid into the nanopore based sequencing system and an outlet delivering the fluid out of the nanopore based sequencing system. The system includes a fluid chamber that comprises one or more fluid flow channels above top portions of the nanopore sensors; wherein the fluid chamber includes at least one divider that limits the width of the one or more fluid flow channels. In some embodiments, the at least one divider limits the width of the one or more fluid flow channel based on whether the surface tension and adhesive forces between the fluid and the fluid flow channel surfaces are sufficient to prevent the fluid from collapsing within the fluid flow channel. |
| US09791431B2 |
Cuttings-based well logging
Methods and systems for cuttings-based well logging, including a method that includes converting measurements of cuttings samples from one or more depth intervals of a wellbore to a concentration percent of one or more elements, determining a one or more minerals of the cuttings samples from the concentration percent and building a mineralogy model for the cuttings sample based at least in part on a gravimetric conversion of the concentration percent of at least some of the one or more elements to a concentration percent of the one or more minerals. The method further includes normalizing the concentration percent of the one or more minerals, computing a photo-electric absorption factor (PEF) of the cuttings samples for each of the one or more depth intervals, and presenting to a user a log of the computed PEF as a function of wellbore depth. |
| US09791429B2 |
Sensor system and method for sensing chlorine concentration
Certain embodiments include a sensor system for measuring chlorine concentration in water. The sensor system can have a manifold including one or more flow passages for receiving fluid flow. The sensor system can have a probe for measuring chlorine concentration in fluid communication with a flow passage of the one or more flow passages of the manifold. The probe can have a probe body oriented to direct incoming fluid from one or more flow passages of the manifold toward an end of the probe body. The probe can have a plurality of flutes defined on an outer surface of the probe body. The flutes can be shaped and oriented to direct fluid from the end proximal to the electrodes, back toward the one or more flow passages of the manifold. |
| US09791426B2 |
Sensor apparatus for analyzing a gas mixture in a process chamber
A sensor apparatus for analyzing a gas in a process chamber, having a housing, a gas sensor for analyzing at least a part of the gas, the gas sensor being arranged at a determined position in the housing, a gas feed for connecting the housing to the process chamber to feed the part of the gas from the process chamber into the housing and to the determined position, and a gas discharge for discharging the gas from the housing, wherein the gas feed and the gas discharge are configured as tubes lying inside one another, characterized by a closure cap at the combustion chamber-side end of the tubes lying inside one another, the closure cap including an even number of at least four openings with the same area, which are connected alternately as a gas inlet and a gas outlet to the tubes lying inside one another is provided. |
| US09791424B2 |
Use of windowed mass spectrometry data for retention time determination or confirmation
A scan of a separating sample is received by a mass spectrometer at each interval of a plurality of intervals. The spectrometer performs at each interval one or more mass spectrometry scans. The scans have one or more sequential mass window widths in order to span an entire mass range at each interval and produce a collection of spectra for the entire mass range for the plurality of intervals. One or more peaks at one or more different intervals in the collection of spectra are identified for a fragment ion. A mass spectrum of the entire mass range is retrieved for each interval of each peak. Values for one or more ion characteristics of a mass-to-charge ratio peak in the mass spectrum corresponding to each peak are compared to one or more known values for the fragment ion. Each peak is scored based on the comparison. |
| US09791421B2 |
Alignment aid system for an ultrasonic transmitter, an ultrasonic detector assembly and an alignment method
There is provided an alignment aid method of an ultrasonic transmitter implemented by means of an alignment aid system. The alignment aid system includes a receiver including a plurality of transducers each configured to receive an ultrasonic wave and convert it into a respective signal, and a processing unit configured to digitally process all the signals coming from the transducers, at least part of the transducers being arranged so as to form a first continuous row of transducers. The system also includes an alignment control device communicating with the processing unit, the alignment control device being configured to supply an indication about the transducer(s) receiving a single ultrasonic wave transmitted by said transmitter along the first row of transducers so as to enable the transmitter to be aligned in relation to the receiver. |
| US09791415B2 |
Method for monitoring usage of a physical vapor deposition (PVD) target with an ultrasonic transducer
A system for semiconductor manufacturing that uses ultrasonic waves for estimating and monitoring a remaining service lifetime of a consumable element is provided. A consumable element comprises a front side arranged inside a process chamber and a back side, opposite the front side, arranged outside the process chamber. An ultrasonic transducer is arranged on the back side of the consumable element, and directed towards the front side of the consumable element. A monitoring unit is configured to estimate and monitor a remaining service lifetime of the consumable element using the ultrasonic transducer. A method for estimating and monitoring the remaining service lifetime of the consumable element using ultrasonic waves is also provided. |
| US09791414B2 |
Method and a device for identifying material types of spatial objects
The present invention relates to a method for identifying material types of spatial objects characterized in that the method comprising obtaining an acoustic signal from each identified object by deforming the objects mechanically, recording said acoustic signal and comparing it to an acoustic model being obtained on the basis of analysis of reference objects of multiple material types. The present invention also relates to a device for identifying material types of spatial objects, comprising a deformation chamber (K), a mechanical deformation system (F), at least one electro-acoustic transducer (1), an acoustic signal recording assembly (2) and a data processing unit (3) with installed acoustic model being obtained on the basis of analysis of reference objects of multiple material types. |
| US09791408B2 |
Modified electrode buffers for stain-free protein detection in electrophoresis
Proteins that are electrophoretically separated in a gel are derivatized to produce fluorescent emissions by incorporating halo-substituted organic compounds into one or both of the electrode buffer solutions at the two ends of the gel. The halo-substituted compounds used are ones that bear an electric charge at the pH of the buffer solutions and gel, and the polarity of the charge on the compounds is such that the compounds migrate from the electrode buffer into the gel under the electrophoretic influence concurrently with the migration of the proteins into the gel. Once the proteins are separated and distributed within the gel and the gel is fully penetrated with the halo-substituted compounds, the gel is irradiated with ultraviolet light to induce a reaction between the halo-substituted compounds and the proteins through the tryptophan residues on the proteins, producing fluorescent reaction products. |
| US09791403B2 |
Nanoparticle-based gas sensors and methods of using the same
Gas sensors are provided. The gas sensors include a gas sensing element having metal oxide nanoparticles and a thin-film heating element. Systems that include the gas sensors, as well as methods of using the gas sensors, are also provided. Embodiments of the present disclosure find use in a variety of different applications, including detecting whether an analyte is present in a gaseous sample. |
| US09791402B2 |
Nanostructured microelectrodes and biosensing devices incorporating the same
Nanostructured microelectrodes and biosensing devices incorporating the same are disclosed herein. |
| US09791397B2 |
Device for detecting contact of an electrical conductor by a tool
The invention relates to a device for detecting contact of a tool (2a, 2b) with an electrical conductor (5b) encased by an electrical insulation (5a).In order to ensure a reliable, robust and simple display of the tool-conductor contact for potential-free and short cable lengths, the tool (2a, 2b) consisting of an electrically conductive material is fastened to a tool holder (1a; 1b) made of electrically conductive material. A thin electrical insulation is provided between tool (2a, 2b) and tool holder (1a, 1b) so that these components together with the coaxial cable form a capacitor (CS).An inductance (La; Lb) is connected parallel to this so that a high-Q LC resonant circuit is formed between tool and tool holder. The electronic circuit arrangement excites the resonant circuit and determines characteristic oscillation parameters of this resonant circuit.Furthermore, for the cable processing tool-conductor contacts can be weighted according to contact time and specific time within the cable processing process and thus quantitative production exclusion criteria are determined. |
| US09791393B2 |
X-ray detection signal processing device and X-ray analyzing apparatus using same
An X-ray detection signal processing device (10) and the like according to the present invention includes: a comparator (17) configured to output a High signal when a level of a signal from a continuous reset type preamplifier (13) having an CR circuit (13a) does not exceed a predetermined upper limit value, and output a Low signal when the level of the signal from the preamplifier (13) exceeds the predetermined upper limit value; and a control section (18) configured to delay shift of the signal of the comparator (17) from Low to High by a predetermined time, to perform output to a clock oscillator (15), stop oscillation by outputting a Low signal to the clock oscillator (15), and thus stop high-speed AD conversion by a high-speed AD converter (14) and maintain an output value. |
| US09791392B2 |
X-ray fluorescence analyzer and measurement position adjusting method therefore
An X-ray fluorescence analyzer is provided with: a sample stage on which a sample subjected to an analysis is mounted; an X-ray source configured to irradiate the sample with primary X-rays; a detector configured to detect fluorescent X-rays emitted from the sample irradiated with the primary X-rays; an imaging unit configured to capture an image of a predetermined field-of-view area on the sample stage; a display unit configured to display the field-of-view area of the image captured by the imaging unit; and a pointer irradiation unit configured to irradiate the sample stage with a visible light at an irradiation position within an area that is outside the field-of-view area and near the field-of-view area. |
| US09791390B2 |
Devices and systems for spatial averaging of electron backscatter diffraction patterns
A diffraction pattern is averaged with adjacent diffraction patterns to increase a signal to noise ratio thereof and improve indexing accuracy. The pixels of a diffraction pattern image are averaged with a correlated pixel from one or more adjacent diffraction patterns. Noise artifacts are reduced in intensity, while signals present in each of the patterns reinforce one another to produce an averaged diffraction pattern which is then indexed. |
| US09791389B2 |
Pre-stressed gamma densitometer window and method of fabrication
A gamma densitometer window is provided along with a method of fabrication thereof. The window comprises a plate of non-metallic, preferably gamma transparent, material having a first face and a second face opposing one another and having an outer edge defined therebetween. The window further comprises a metallic frame member fitted around the outer edge of the plate and adapted to pre-load the plate with a compressive stress that is sufficiently high such that the sum of the compressive stress, tensile stress and shear stress components generated in the plate under high-pressure conditions is always compressive. The method of fabrication shrink fitting the metallic frame member around the outer edge of the plate at a shrink-fit temperature such that the metallic frame member applies a compressive stress to the plate at any temperature below the shrink-fit temperature. |
| US09791388B2 |
Conveyor system
A conveyor system for use with a scanning apparatus for scanning of contained materials such as liquids within containers such as bottles. The system includes a transverse conveyor having a conveyor surface, a plurality of container support modules each adapted to seat on the conveyor surface. Each container support module includes a lower surface that sits upon the conveyor surface of the conveyor and upper part in which a container-receiving recessed portion is defined. |
| US09791387B2 |
Inspection system and method for controlling the same
An inspection system includes an irradiation source, an image detector, and a placement device. The placement device comprises a carrier and a rotation mechanism. With respect to connections, the placement device is configured to be disposed between the irradiation source and the image detector, and the rotation mechanism is configured to be connected to the carrier. With respect to operations, the irradiation source and the image detector are driven to be moved along a predetermined path, the carrier is configured to carry at least one object, and the rotation mechanism is configured to rotate the carrier. |
| US09791384B2 |
X-ray imaging apparatus and method for generating X-ray image
An X-ray imaging apparatus and a method for generating X-ray images are provided. The X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray source configured to irradiate X-rays to a subject, and an X-ray detector configured to detect X-rays penetrating the subject, and generate a frame image including pieces of X-ray data for energy bands. The X-ray imaging apparatus further includes an image divider configured to divide the frame image into images of substances, using the pieces of the X-ray data, and an image generator configured to restore the frame image by performing motion compensation on an image of a first substance of the frame image, among the images of the substances of the frame image, and an image of the first substance of a previous frame image. |
| US09791383B2 |
Inspection system for and method of inspecting deposits printed on workpieces
An inspection system for and method of inspecting deposits printed on workpieces through a printing screen, the system comprising: a camera unit movable relative to a printing screen, where comprising a body including a plurality of apertures, and a workpiece on which deposits are printed through the apertures of the printing screen; and a control unit operable to control the camera unit such as to capture images of at least one pair of corresponding regions of the printing screen and the workpiece, and process the images to determine, for each of a plurality of points defining the image of the printing screen, whether the point is of aperture, and, only where the point is of aperture, determine whether the corresponding point of the corresponding image of the workpiece, as defined by a corresponding plurality of points, is of deposit, thereby enabling a determination of a print characteristic of deposits printed on the workpiece from a relationship of the points determined to be of deposit to the points determined to be of aperture. |
| US09791382B2 |
Pipe inspection system with jetter push-cable
Pipe inspection systems including a push-cable, jetter, and camera assembly are disclosed. A jetter nozzle may be configured to spin and/or propel the camera head within a pipe or other cavity. A cutter line may be attached to the camera head to clean obstructions. A sonde may be coupled to a camera head to generate magnetic field signals for use with a buried utility locator to locate a pipe or other cavity into which the camera head is deployed. |
| US09791381B2 |
Door inspection system for vehicle and inspection method for the same
An inspection system for a vehicle includes a vision inspection device including a plurality of vision camera and a plurality of laser device which move along exterior and sides of a door, which will be inspected, and inspect segmented sections respectively, a hanger device clamping the hemmed door on a hanger frame, and a jig device which clamps the hanger frame of the hanger device, and moves the door toward the vision inspection device for the vision inspection device to inspect the door fixed to the hanger device. |
| US09791376B2 |
Optical sensor
An optical sensor includes an input part, a fixing part, and a determining part. The input part is provided on the upper side of the sensor. The fixing part on which a carrier is disposed is provided below the input part. The carrier has an acceptor that reacts with an analyte contained in the sample and is fixed on the carrier. The determining part includes a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and a hollow area. The first metal layer is configured to receive an electromagnetic wave. The second metal layer faces the first metal layer. The hollow area is sandwiched between the first metal layer and the second metal layer. The input part, the fixing part, and the hollow area form a part of a passage where the sample flows from the input part to the hollow area. |
| US09791372B2 |
Multiplexing and quantification in PCR with reduced hardware and requirements
Methods and algorithms for a multiplexed single detection channel amplification process and quantification of generated amplicons is presented. Various mathematical approaches for quantifying and verifying the amplicons in a reaction are presented. Usage of such methods and approaches allow upgrading of existing single and multiple channel instruments for further multiplexing capabilities. |
| US09791368B2 |
Nanosplasmonic imaging technique for the spatio-temporal mapping of single cell secretions in real time
A label-free method for the spatio-temporal mapping of protein secretions from individual cells in real time by using a chip for localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) imaging. The chip is a glass coverslip compatible for use in a standard microscope having at least one array of functionalized plasmonic nanostructures patterned onto it. After placing a cell on the chip, the secretions from the cell are spatially and temporally mapped using LSPR imaging. Transmitted light imaging and/or fluorescence imaging may be done simultaneously with the LSPR imaging. |
| US09791367B2 |
Hybrid fiber optic probe device for attenuated total reflection spectroscopic applications in UV, visible and IR ranges
A hybrid Attenuated Total Reflection fiber optic probe device having a radiation source; a detecting system; a core-only solid optical fiber probe tip having an input end and an output end; an input hollow fiber waveguide configured for association with the radiation source at a first end and interconnection with the input end of the core-only solid optical fiber probe tip at a second end; an output hollow fiber waveguide configured for interconnection with the output end of the core-only solid optical fiber probe tip at a first end and association with the detection system at a second end; an inwardly tapered solid fiber input radiation collector element configured at a tapered end for interconnection with the second end of the output hollow fiber waveguide so as to receive radiation from the radiation source; wherein an outside diameter of the core-only solid optical fiber probe tip and an inside diameter of each one of the input hollow fiber waveguide and the output hollow fiber waveguide is such that the interconnection between each one of the input hollow fiber waveguide and the output hollow fiber waveguide and the core-only solid optical fiber probe tip is by means of inserting the input end of the core-only solid optical fiber probe tip into the second end of the input hollow fiber waveguide and inserting the output end of the core-only solid optical fiber probe tip into the first end of the output hollow fiber waveguide, such that the core-only solid optical fiber probe tip is held in the input and output hollow fiber waveguides by means of friction, and wherein an outside diameter of a portion of the inwardly tapered solid fiber input radiation collector element and an inside diameter of the second end of the output hollow fiber waveguide is such that the tapered end of the inwardly tapered solid fiber input radiation collector element is held in the end of the second end of the output hollow fiber waveguide by means of friction. |
| US09791363B2 |
Sensor arrangement with multiple sensors for weathering apparatus
The sensor device (100) has a sensor housing (110), to which at least two sensors from a group consisting of a black standard sensor (120), a UV radiation sensor (130), an air temperature sensor and a humidity sensor are connected. |
| US09791361B2 |
Method and apparatus for measuring aerosol particles of exhaust gas
A particle measuring apparatus includes a distributor unit arranged to provide a first partial flow and a second partial flow by separating the second partial flow from an input flow, a particle collecting unit to collect particles from the first partial flow by using a first filter, and a particle monitoring unit to form charged particles by charging particles carried by the second partial flow, and to provide an electric current by collecting the charged particles. |
| US09791360B2 |
Method and apparatus for measuring aerosol particles suspended in gas
A particle measuring apparatus includes a distributor unit arranged to provide a first partial flow and a second partial flow by separating the second partial flow from an input flow, a particle collecting unit to collect particles from the first partial flow by using a first filter, and a particle monitoring unit to form charged particles by charging particles carried by the second partial flow, and to provide an electric current by collecting the charged particles. |
| US09791359B2 |
Process for determining the incompatibility of mixtures containing heavy and light crudes
A process for determining the incompatibility of crude mixtures (heavy, light) is based on the measurement of dynamic viscosity of crude mixtures using an electromagnetic viscometer having a mobile element (piston) move through the fluid to be measured at a constant force. |
| US09791352B2 |
Automated prognostics systems and methods
An automated prognostics system includes a sensor system configured to obtain measurement data by monitoring one or more parameters at one or more locations on each of one or more movable components of an object when the object is subjected to a first mode of operation. The system also includes a computing device having an input interface and a processor. The input interface receives input information such as spatial coordinates information associated with the one or more locations, the measurement data obtained by the sensor system, operational data associated with the first mode of operation, and structural data associated with the object. The processor processes the input information and generates a prognostics report on at least a first component of the one or more movable components, the prognostics report including at least one of a failure prognostic or a likelihood-of-failure prognostic of the first component. |
| US09791349B2 |
End play measurement apparatus
An end play measurement apparatus is provided that measures end play of a tapered roller bearing of a gear unit. The gear unit supports a large-gear shaft, with which a gear is fitted, via the tapered roller bearing. The end play measurement apparatus includes a power generation unit, which is fixed to the large-gear shaft and generates power to move the gear unit backward and forward in the axial direction, a position change unit, which is interposed between the power generation unit and the gear unit and changes the axial position of the gear unit by using the power of the power generation unit, and a booster mechanism, which has a free end that receives the power of the power generation unit to boost the power. |
| US09791347B2 |
Method and system for non-contact optical-power measurement
The present invention provides methods and systems for measuring optical power that require neither alterations to the optical fiber nor physical contact with the optical fiber, the system including an optical fiber configured to propagate an optical signal, wherein the optical fiber includes a core and at least a first cladding layer, wherein a portion of the optical signal scatters out of the optical fiber along a length of the optical fiber to form scattered fiber light; a detector system configured to receive the scattered fiber light along the length of the optical fiber and to output a detection signal based on the received scattered fiber light; and a processor configured to receive the detection signal and to determine a power value of the optical signal based on the received detection signal. |
| US09791346B1 |
Semiconductor device and wafer with reference circuit and related methods
A semiconductor device may include a semiconductor wafer, and a reference circuit carried by the semiconductor wafer. The reference circuit may include optical DUTs, a first set of photodetectors coupled to outputs of the optical DUTs, an optical splitter coupled to inputs of the optical DUTs, and a second set of photodetectors coupled to the optical splitter. The optical splitter is to be coupled to an optical source and configured to transmit a reference optical signal to the first set of photodetectors via the optical DUTs and the second set of photodetectors. |
| US09791342B2 |
Combination static and dynamic pressure transducer employing a micro-filter
A pressure transducer assembly that uses static pressure compensation to capture low-level dynamic pressures in high temperature environments. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, at a first tube, a pressure, wherein the pressure includes a static pressure component and a dynamic pressure component; receiving, at a micro-filter, the pressure; filtering, by the micro-filter, at least a portion of the dynamic pressure component of the pressure; outputting, from the micro-filter, a filtered pressure; receiving, at a first surface of a first sensing element, the pressure; receiving, at a second surface of the first sensing element, the filtered pressure; measuring, by the first sensing element, a difference between the pressure and the filtered pressure, wherein the difference is associated with the dynamic pressure component of the pressure; and outputting, from the first sensing element, a first pressure signal associated with the dynamic pressure component of the pressure. |
| US09791340B2 |
Self test for capacitive pressure sensors
During a first cycle of operation, first and second bottom electrodes of a split bottom electrode are electrically connected together. A total capacitance between the split bottom electrode and a top electrode layer is measured to determine the ambient pressure. Accordingly, pressure, e.g., tire pressure, is measured during the first cycle of operation. In a second cycle of operation, the first and second bottom electrodes are electrically disconnected. A first capacitance between the first bottom electrode and top electrode layer and a second capacitance between second bottom electrode and top electrode layer are measured. The difference between the first capacitance and the second capacitance is calculated and compared to a fault indicating capacitance variation to determine if the pressure sensor device is operating normally or malfunctioning. Accordingly, a self-test of the pressure sensor device is performed during the second cycle of operation. |
| US09791339B2 |
Method and device for measuring a vacuum pressure using a measuring cell arrangement
Arrangement with capacitive pressure-measuring cell has a diaphragm for measuring vacuum pressure and a printed circuit board acting as a temperature sensor and another electronic component designed as a microchip that contains a digital signal processor with a temperature-to-digital converter and a capacitance-to-digital converter using a time measuring method. The converters determine temperature and capacitance of the cell in comparison to a reference resistor for temperature arranged on the printed circuit board and reference capacitor for capacitance for the pressure to be measured dependent on deformation of the diaphragm. A temperature-corrected pressure signal derived from the two measured signals uses correlation, the measured signals having been determined in advance from a calibration process, and the temperature-corrected pressure signal is provided as a pressure signal at the signal output for further processing. In this manner there is quick pressure measurement with high measuring accuracy. |
| US09791334B2 |
Polymer composite wireline cables comprising optical fiber sensors
A polymer composite wireline cable comprising: a polymeric matrix material; at least one reinforced fiber embedded in the polymeric matrix material; and at least one optical fiber disposed in the polymeric matrix material, the at least one optical fiber having at least one pair of Bragg grating sensors, wherein one of the pair of Bragg grating sensors is configured to experience loading strain and the other of the pair of Bragg grating sensors is configured not to experience loading strain. |
| US09791330B2 |
Device and method for measuring a change in length of a sample and/or for measuring a deformation force on a sample
A system for measuring change in length and/or deformation force on a sample in a longitudinal direction. The system is useful in thermomechanical analysis and/or dynamic-mechanical analysis, and comprises a pushrod extending in the longitudinal direction which exerts force on the sample, and a device measuring movement of the pushrod resulting from the change in length or deformation of the sample in the longitudinal direction. The measuring device includes: a pushrod base mounted on a stationary base with a guide so as to be movable in the longitudinal direction; a controllable drive for moving the pushrod; a detector measuring the force exerted by the pushrod on the sample; and a path sensor for measuring the movement of the pushrod. |
| US09791328B2 |
Waterproof food thermometer probe and associated methods
A waterproof food temperature probe includes a penetrating portion for inserting into food during cooking; a cable for coupling the penetrating portion to a display unit separated from the penetrating portion; and, a high temperature resistant seal portion permanently covering at least part of the penetrating portion and at least part of the cable. The seal portion prevents moisture from entering the penetrating portion thereby preventing the temperature probe from malfunctioning. |
| US09791327B2 |
Temperature voltage generator
A temperature voltage generator includes a control voltage generation circuit configured to receive a reference voltage and to output a control voltage that changes according to temperature, a temperature voltage generation circuit configured to amplify the control voltage and to output a temperature voltage that changes according to temperature, and a linear compensation circuit connected to the control voltage generation circuit and configured to improve the linearity of the temperature voltage. |
| US09791321B2 |
340 GHz multipixel transceiver
A multi-pixel terahertz transceiver is constructed using a stack of semiconductor layers that communicate using vias defined within the semiconductor layers. By using a stack of semiconductor layers, the various electrical functions of each layer can be tested easily without having to assemble the entire transceiver. In addition, the design allows the production of a transceiver having pixels set 10 mm apart. |
| US09791319B2 |
Infrared thermal sensor with beams having different widths
An infrared thermal sensor for detecting infrared radiation is described. It comprises a substrate and a cap structure together forming a sealed cavity. A membrane is suspended therein by a plurality of beams, each beam comprising at least one thermocouple arranged therein or thereon for measuring a temperature difference between the membrane and the substrate. At least two beams have a different length and each of the thermocouples have a substantially same constant width to length ratio such that the thermal resistance measured between the membrane and the substrate is substantially constant for each beam, and such that the electrical resistance measured between the membrane and the substrate is substantially constant for each beam. The beams may be linear, and be oriented in a non-radial direction. |
| US09791317B2 |
Spectrally-encoded endoscopy techniques and methods
Exemplary apparatus for method for forming at least one spectral encoding endoscopy configuration. For example, it is possible to modify a spacer configuration and an lens optics configuration to have respective predetermined lengths, and also to modify a dispersive optics configuration to have a further predetermined length. Further, the modified spacer and modified lens optics configurations can be attached to one another to form a combined spacer-lens optics configuration. The modified dispersive optics configuration can be attached to a substrate to form to form a grating substrate configuration. Additionally, the combined spacer-lens optics configuration can be connected to an optical fiber, and the modified attached dispersed optics configuration can be connected to the modified attached lens optics configuration to form the spectral encoding endoscopy configuration(s) which can extends along a particular axis. The dispersive optics configuration can be modified to be at a predetermined angle with respect to the particular axis. |
| US09791316B2 |
System and method for calibrating imaging measurements taken from aerial vehicles
Systems and methods are provided for calibrating spectral measurements taken of one or more targets from an aerial vehicle. Multiple photo sensors may be configured to obtain spectral measurements of one or more ambient light sources. The obtained spectral measurements of the one or more ambient light sources may be used to calibrate the obtained spectral measurements of the target. |
| US09791315B2 |
Apparatus for enabling wide-field polarimetry
A polarimetry apparatus comprising a plurality of flexible light conduits each having first and second ends, and a respective polarization modulator associated with each light conduit, wherein each light conduit is configured to receive incident light from a different predetermined region in space via the first end, and deliver said light to a detector unit via the second end, and wherein the polarization modulator is configured to modulate the polarization of the light to enable a partial or complete polarization state of the incident light to be determined by the detector unit for each light conduit. |
| US09791312B2 |
OFDR system for localized vibration detection
A vibration detector and method of measuring vibration are described. The vibration detector includes an optical fiber comprising a reference reflector and a delay coil, and one or more sensors comprised at respective one or more locations in the optical fiber, each of the one or more sensors including a center reflector and two side reflectors on either side of the center reflector, the delay coil eliminating detection of interference among reflections from the one or more sensors. The vibration detector also includes a light source to introduce light into the optical fiber to interrogate the optical fiber, a detector to obtain interference signals, each of the interference signals being based on interference between reflections from the reference reflector and one of the one or more sensors; and a processor to process each of the interference signals to obtain vibration measurements. |
| US09791311B2 |
Rotating blade analysis
Methods are provided for: (i) measuring the position of the blade stagger angle axis for one or more blades of a row of blades attached to a rotor, (ii) measuring the blade tip stagger angle for one or more such blades, and (iii) measuring the blade tip axial displacement for one or more such blades. The methods use forward and rearward blade tip timing datasets for successive rotations of the blades from two axially spaced blade tip timing probes. The forward probe is forward of the rearward probe along the axial direction of the rotor. The blade tip timing datasets allow the times of arrival of the blades at the respective probes to be measured. The methods also use a once per revolution dataset for the successive rotations of the blades. The once per revolution dataset allows the angular velocity of the blades to be measured. |
| US09791308B2 |
Low salt alert system
A brine tank salt level detection apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing secured to a lid of a brine tank, where the housing supports an infrared emitter and an infrared sensor. The apparatus is configured to emit an infrared signal, receive an infrared signal, and determine whether a salt level in the brine tank is below a predetermined level using, at least in part, the receipt of the infrared signal. A method for determining a salt level in a brine tank is also disclosed. The method can include emitting an outgoing infrared signal, receiving an incoming infrared signal, determining whether the salt level is below a predetermined level based at least in part on the receipt of the incoming infrared signal, and when the salt level is below a predetermined level, alerting a user of the low salt level in the brine tank. |
| US09791306B2 |
Thermal type flowmeter
In order to provide a method of manufacturing a thermal type flowmeter that is capable of reducing deformation of a semiconductor chip, which is caused by molding, a method of manufacturing a thermal type flowmeter is provided that includes a circuit package of a resin-molded semiconductor chip. The method includes resin-molding the semiconductor chip in a state in which a mold is pressed against a heat transfer surface that is provided on a surface of the semiconductor chip and a pressed surface that is set on the surface of the semiconductor chip at a position separate from the heat transfer surface. |
| US09791305B2 |
Apparatus for measuring a liquid flow
An electromagnetic flowmeter for measuring a flow of liquid in a liquid-carrying line has a magnet for producing a magnetic field in the liquid-carrying line, and an electrode pair for discharging an electrical voltage when the liquid flows through the liquid-carrying line. The flowmeter enables the flow of liquid to be determined on the basis of the measured voltage. The magnet can rotate about an axis in order to produce an alternating magnetic field. |
| US09791301B2 |
Method and apparatus for wire rope distance measurement
Measuring distance along a wire rope, by steps that include moving the wire rope across a sensor head; counting rotations of a rotary encoder driven by the moving wire rope; detecting a first distance marker crossing the sensor head at a first position of the wire rope; detecting a second distance marker crossing the sensor head at a second position of the wire rope; and establishing calibration parameters for producing a calibrated distance measurement corresponding to any output of the rotary encoder, based at least on correlating a known distance between the first and second distance markers to a counted number of pulses of the rotary encoder between the first and second positions of the wire rope. |
| US09791300B2 |
Inductive position-sensing
One example includes a position sensing system. The system includes an inductive position element that is moveable and comprises a position inductor. The system also includes a plurality of inductive load elements. Each of the inductive load elements includes a load inductor. Each of the plurality of inductive load elements can be selectively controlled in response to a modulation signal to provide a corresponding mutual inductance between the position inductor and the respective load inductor, the corresponding mutual inductance depending on a position of the inductive position element relative to the respective load inductor. The system further includes a position controller configured to generate the position and modulation signals and to calculate the position of the inductive position element relative to the plurality of inductive load elements based on a difference of the position signal with respect to the mutual inductance between the position inductor and each respective load inductor. |
| US09791298B2 |
Rotation angle detector
A rotation angle detector has a rotation angle sensor and a microcomputer, where the sensor detects a change of a magnetic field of a magnet that rotates with a shaft. The microcomputer has a first corrector for correcting a pre-correction mechanical angle, based on a first correction value that corrects an error due to an assembly process for assembling the magnet and the sensor, and a second corrector for correcting the pre-correction mechanical angle based on a second correction value that corrects an error due to a spill magnetic flux that is generated by a supply of an electric current to a winding wire. In such configuration, the rotation angle detector may correct the error due to the spill magnetic flux, thereby enabling an accurate detection of a mechanical angle. |
| US09791287B2 |
Drive assist system, method, and program
Drive assist systems, methods, and programs display, on a display, an image in which a destination location icon that indicates a destination location is superimposed on a scene in front of a mobile body. The systems, methods, and programs acquire a length of a frontage of the destination location along a road on which the mobile body is present and specify a display position of the destination location icon on the basis of an estimated position of the mobile body such that the display position of the destination location icon is a position within the frontage. The systems, methods, and programs display on the display, an image in which the destination location icon is superimposed on the display position of the destination location icon in the scene in front of the mobile body. |
| US09791284B2 |
Point of interest search along a route with return
A routing module identifies POIs that can be reached from a route with a cost less than distance m. A routing engine performs a reverse exploration on nodes in the planned route to locate POIs from which the route can be reached with a cost of less than a second cost n. POIs identified as being reachable from the route with a cost of less than m, and from which the route is reachable with a cost less than n are then further filtered to identify a subset of the POIs for which the sum of the time or distance from the route to the POI and the time or distance from the POI back to the route is less than a threshold time or distance, t. |
| US09791282B2 |
Technologies for route navigation sharing in a community cloud
Technologies for sharing route navigation data in a community cloud include a mobile navigation device of a vehicle and a remote mobile navigation device of a remote vehicle. The mobile navigation device generates sensor data associated with a current route of the vehicle and determines whether a reference traffic event occurs within a segment of the current route of the vehicle. In response to a determination that a reference traffic event occurs, the mobile navigation devices transmits route update data to the remote mobile navigation device. Based on the route update data, the remote mobile navigation device updates a current route of the remote vehicle to avoid the reference traffic event within a corresponding segment of the current route of the remote vehicle. The mobile navigation device may also transmit the sensor data to a community compute device, which may transmit route update data to the remote mobile navigation device. |
| US09791279B1 |
System for and method of determining angular position of a vehicle
A system for and method of determining angular position (e.g. pitch) of a vehicle. In accordance with an embodiment, a first angular rate of rotation of the vehicle about a first axis of rotation is detected using a first angular rate sensor mounted to the vehicle. A second angular rate of rotation of the vehicle about a second axis of rotation is detected using a second angular rate sensor mounted to the vehicle. The second axis of rotation is substantially orthogonal to the first axis of rotation. The angular position of the vehicle is determined based on a ratio of the first angular rate of rotation of the vehicle and the second angular rate of rotation of the vehicle. |
| US09791278B2 |
Navigating with star tracking sensors
One embodiment is directed towards a method of navigating a body. The method includes determining a respective measured direction of each of a plurality of celestial objects with respect to the body based on an output of one or more star tracking sensors mounted to the body. Calculating an expected direction of at least one of the plurality of celestial objects with respect to the body based on a current navigation solution for the body. Calculating an updated navigation solution for the body based on the expected direction of the at least one celestial object, the measured direction of the plurality of celestial objects, and an output of one or more inertial sensors mounted to the body. |
| US09791274B2 |
MEMS mass-spring-damper systems using an out-of-plane suspension scheme
MEMS mass-spring-damper systems (including MEMS gyroscopes and accelerometers) using an out-of-plane (or vertical) suspension scheme, wherein the suspensions are normal to the proof mass, are disclosed. Such out-of-plane suspension scheme helps such MEMS mass-spring-damper systems achieve inertial grade performance. Methods of fabricating out-of-plane suspensions in MEMS mass-spring-damper systems (including MEMS gyroscopes and accelerometers) are also disclosed. |
| US09791268B2 |
Device and method for measuring the characteristic angles and dimensions of wheels, steering system and chassis of vehicles in general
A device for measuring the characteristic angles and dimensions of wheels, steering system and chassis of vehicles in general, comprising a plurality of three-dimensional optical readers which are functionally connected to a computer and can be arranged peripherally to a vehicle whose dimensions and characteristic angles of wheels, steering system and chassis are to be measured in such a manner that each one frames at least one wheel of the vehicle for the three-dimensional acquisition of an image of the wheel, each three-dimensional optical reader being provided with at least one fixed target for the setting and calibration of the measurement device, at least one camera of each three-dimensional optical reader being arranged in such a manner as to frame clearly and directly at least one fixed target of another three-dimensional optical reader for the setting and calibration of the measurement device by three-dimensional acquisitions of the fixed targets. |
| US09791264B2 |
Method of fast and robust camera location ordering
A method to estimate a set of camera locations, in clockwise or counter-clockwise order, according to the videos captured by these cameras is described herein. In some embodiments, the cameras are assumed to be fixed, with no or very mild tilting angles and no rolling angles (the horizon is horizontal in each camera image). The difference of orientation (rolling angle) between each neighboring (closest) camera pair is able to be up to 45 degrees. Each camera is assumed to have overlapped views with at least one other camera. Each camera has one right neighboring camera and one left neighboring camera, except the first and the last cameras which have only one neighboring camera at one side. The locations of the cameras then are able to be expressed as a unique list counter-clockwise. The input videos are assumed to be synchronized in time. |
| US09791263B2 |
Measuring device for reflection measurements of test objects and method for measuring radiation reflected by test objects
A measuring device for reflection measurements of test objects includes a transmitter for emitting radiation, a first collimation element for aligning the emitted radiation, a first focusing element for focusing emitted radiation in relation to the test object, and a receiver for detecting radiation reflected by the test object. There is a second collimation element for aligning the reflected radiation, and a second focusing element for focusing the reflected radiation in relation to the receiver. At least two of the first and second collimation elements and first and second focusing elements are separate from each other. Thus, a simple and flexible design of the measuring device is achieved, which can be adapted to the test object. |
| US09791261B2 |
Optical coherence tomography laser with integrated clock
A frequency swept laser source for TEFD-OCT imaging includes an integrated clock subsystem on the optical bench with the laser source. The clock subsystem generates frequency clock signals as the optical signal is tuned over the scan band. Preferably the laser source further includes a cavity extender in its optical cavity between a tunable filter and gain medium to increase an optical distance between the tunable filter and the gain medium in order to control the location of laser intensity pattern noise. The laser also includes a fiber stub that allows for control over the cavity length while also controlling birefringence in the cavity. |
| US09791255B1 |
Gutter marking template set
A gutter marking template set includes a right-handed gutter marking template and a left-handed gutter marking template, each including a template frame having a first template frame surface and a second template frame surface. The template frame may include a main frame member having a first main frame member end and a second main frame member end. A first frame member may be carried by the main frame member and may have a first frame member surface extending between and at a cut angle with respect to the first template frame surface and the second template frame surface. A second frame member may be carried by the main frame member in spaced-apart relationship to the first frame member. The second frame member may have a second frame member surface extending between and at the cut angle with respect to the first template frame surface and the second template frame surface and parallel to the first frame member surface. A first frame notch may be provided at the first main frame member end of the main frame member. A second frame notch may be provided at the second main frame member end of the main frame member. A spanning frame member may extend between the first frame member and the second frame member and in spaced-apart relationship to the main frame member. |
| US09791248B2 |
Device and method for a detonator with improved flyer layer adhesion
A chip slapper is presented, having a substrate, a conductive layer disposed above the substrate face, and an intermediate layer disposed between the substrate face and the conductive layer. The conductive layer and intermediate layer form a first land and a second land atop the substrate face, with a bridge formed of the intermediate layer spanning between the first land and the second land. A first adhesion portion is attached to the first land, and a second adhesion portion is attached to the second land, wherein at least a portion of the bridge is not overlaid by the first adhesion portion or the second adhesion portion. |
| US09791239B1 |
Firearm handguard assembly
A firearm handguard assembly system is disclosed. The system comprises a handguard including at least four apertures, a barrel nut having a first threaded end and a second smooth end, the threaded end coupled to the handguard, and an index block including at least four apertures, the index block coupled to the handguard by at least four screws, each screw having a head and a tip, the tip threaded through: one of the at least four apertures on the index block, and one of the at least four apertures on the handguard. |
| US09791238B2 |
Rifle butt stock adjustment actuator
A rifle butt stock adjustment actuator having a body with a U-channel configured to fit a base of a telescoping rifle butt stock and operably connect to a butt stock adjustment mechanism is disclosed. The actuator includes a “push” pair of ergonomically shaped finger pressure surfaces disposed on the body and a “pull” pair of ergonomically shaped finger pressure surfaces disposed on the body. When attached to the base of a telescoping rifle butt stock and operably connected to the butt stock adjustment mechanism, pressure applied to the push pair of pressure surfaces actuates the butt stock adjustment mechanism and telescopes the rifle butt stock into a shorter configuration. Pressure applied to the pull pair of pressure surfaces actuates the butt stock adjustment mechanism and telescopes the rifle butt stock into a shorter configuration. Push and pull actuation may include both a torque and translation force. |
| US09791236B2 |
Pneumatic toy gun recoil device
The invention relates to a pneumatic toy gun recoil device, which uses pneumatic means to substitute mechanical means like springs for cushioning and retracting effect, so as to resolve technical problems of conventional techniques. Said resolved technical problems, such as, the springs serve as mechanical means are easy wearing or elastic fatigue, and are also difficult to assemble and mount. Furthermore, the invention not only provides recoil simulating the recoil of a gun firing gunpowder propelled projectiles, but also has advantages of good quality control and long life for toy gun products. |
| US09791234B2 |
Locking mechanism for suppressor mount
A novel locking mechanism for a noise suppressor mount for a firearm comprising a muzzle attachment comprising a plurality of locking positions, a collar, and a locking arm comprising a locking notch wherein the collar rotates to move the locking notch in a circular direction into a locking position. |
| US09791231B1 |
Firearm with user authentication to remove or add components
A method authenticates a user before the user can remove or attach a component to a firearm. When the user is authenticated, the user can remove or attach a component to the firearm. The firearm prevents the removal or attachment of the component when the user is not authenticated. |
| US09791229B1 |
Sprung weapon pin system
In broad embodiment, the present invention is a set of sprung pins, operated by paddles, used to facilitate the assembly and disassembly of a firearm.While the foregoing written description of the invention enables one of ordinary skill to make and use what is considered presently to be the best mode thereof, those of ordinary skill will understand and appreciate the existence of variations, combinations, and equivalents of the specific embodiment, method, and examples herein. The invention should therefore not be limited by the above described embodiment, method, and examples, but by all embodiments and methods within the scope and spirit of the invention. |
| US09791227B2 |
Device for modification of ejected casings trajectories
A device for modification of ejected casings trajectories includes a top side and a bottom side. The bottom side is configured for attachment to a location on a firearm. The location is in an expected trajectory of spent casings ejected from the firearm. The top side includes a surface facing the expected trajectory of the spent casings. The surface is configured to modify a trajectory of the spent casings by accepting an impact at an angle with each spent casing at a point of impact on the surface and deflecting the spent casings at a deflection angle. The deflection angle is dependent on the point of impact. The surface may include an angled surface or a curved surface. One side of the curved or angled surface may be raised compared to another side of the curved or angled surface. |
| US09791224B1 |
Firearm bolt carrier
A bolt carrier for a firearm that includes a rolling element so as to provide improved alignment and reduced friction of the bolt carrier with the upper assembly and buffer tube as the bolt carrier executes a reciprocating motion. The bolt carrier includes a body that is generally cylindrical in shape having a first end and a second end. The body of the bolt carrier includes a first slot and a second slot. The first slot includes an upper opening and a lower opening. The second slot is proximate the second end of the body of the bolt carrier. The second slot includes an upper opening and a lower opening providing access to the interior volume of the second slot. A wheel is rotatably mounted within the second slot. The upper edge and lower edge of the wheel extends beyond the top side and bottom side of the body respectively. |
| US09791222B2 |
Rubber ball cleaning multipoint centralized ball serving system for condenser
A rubber ball cleaning multipoint centralized ball serving system for a condenser includes a condenser water chamber, a cooling water outlet pipe, a cooling water inlet pipe, a ball recovery net, a second isolating valve, a rubber ball pump, and a check valve. A water inlet end of the condenser water chamber is connected to a plurality of pulse ball serving valves. The plurality of pulse ball serving valves is connected to a ball adding chamber via a rubber ball transfer pipe. The rubber ball transfer pipe is connected to the cooling water inlet pipe via another pulse ball serving valve. The ball adding chamber is connected to the circulating cooling water outlet pipe via a hot water discharging pipe. The hot water discharging pipe is provided with a third isolating valve and a hot water discharging valve. A lower portion of the ball adding chamber is provided with a rubber ball discharge valve. The present system can reduce a quantity of the circulating cooling water that is heated during running of the rubber ball system and again enters the water inlet pipe of the circulating cooling water system, thereby improving a condenser circulating cooling effect. By oppositely and correspondingly operating a pulse ball serving valve and a hot water discharging valve to open or close, a great number of rubber balls are enabled to centrally enter the circulating cooling water inlet pipe and the condenser water chamber within a short time, thereby cleaning the condenser heat exchange pipe in full coverage. |
| US09791218B2 |
Air conditioner with grooved inner heat exchanger tubes and grooved outer heat exchanger tubes
To increase a heat exchange capacity of an indoor heat exchanger without increasing a pressure loss inside tubes of an outdoor heat exchanger. A heat exchanger is constituted by an indoor machine equipped with an indoor heat exchanger 10 constituted by a plurality of heat transfer tubes 12A, which have a spiral grooves 13A formed with a predetermined lead angle Ra on inner faces of the tubes and are made to pierce a plurality of fins 11, and an outdoor machine equipped with an outdoor heat exchanger 20 constituted by a plurality of heat transfer tubes 22A which have a lead angle Rb of spiral grooves 23A smaller than that of a heat transfer tubes 10A used for the indoor heat exchanger 10 and are made to pierce a plurality of fins 11. |
| US09791217B2 |
Energy storage arrangement having tunnels configured as an inner helix and as an outer helix
An arrangement for storing thermal energy has at least two tunnels (1a, 1b) for holding a fluid. The tunnels (1a, 1b) are connected to each other by at least one channel (2), such that fluid communication is allowed between the tunnels (1a, 1b). Each of the inner tunnel (1a) and the outer tunnel (1b) is configured as a helix, the inner tunnel (1a) forming an inner helix and the outer tunnel (1b) forming an outer helix. |
| US09791216B2 |
Heat recovery-type heating device
An object is to enable a compact and high output heat storage system to perform warm-up rapidly when a vehicle is started up, and after warm-up, to recover surplus heat that is present in a heat source in the vehicle to prepare for the next warm-up event. A heat recovery-type heating device includes: an ammonia buffer configured so as to be capable of fixing and desorbing ammonia that serves as a chemical reaction medium; and a chemical heat storage reactor provided with a chemical heat storage material that generates heat through a chemical reaction with ammonia supplied from the ammonia buffer, and that desorbs ammonia using surplus heat from a heat source and returns the ammonia to the ammonia buffer. |
| US09791213B2 |
Heat exchanger
A heat exchanger carries out heat exchange between a refrigerant that undergoes a phase change during heat exchange and another heating medium. The heat exchanger includes headers having the refrigerant flowing through interiors, a plurality of multi-hole first flat tubes, and a plurality of second flat tubes. The first flat tubes extend in a direction intersecting a lengthwise direction of the headers. The first flat tubes have a plurality of refrigerant flow channels with the refrigerant flowing through the refrigerant flow channels. The second flat tubes are stacked alternately with respect to the first flat tubes, with the other heating medium flowing through the second flat tubes. The headers are arranged to extend along a horizontal direction. |
| US09791212B2 |
Burning system
The present invention refers to an improved burning system for industrial furnace burners (16), more specifically for tunnel type furnaces for firing ceramic materials, to improve the thermal efficiency and reduce the consumption by these furnaces in the process of firing load (10) such as floor tiles, tiles, sanitary material, refractories, porcelain, insulators, grindstone, tableware ceramic, red ceramic and ceramic in general, by a using flame rotation system, providing a radiant flame surface by dividing the flame into smaller intermittent flames. |
| US09791211B2 |
Methods and compositions for drying coal
The present disclosure provides methods, compositions and systems for drying coal fines. |
| US09791208B2 |
Control method for air-conditioning equipment, program, and mobile information terminal
An air-conditioning setting screen has a coordinate space defined by a Y-axis along which temperature items are indicated in increments of one degree and an X-axis along which time-point items are indicated in increments of one hour. Operation points PT corresponding to the time-point items are arranged in the coordinate space. The air-conditioning setting screen displays time-series changes in a previous day's body-movement values such that the density of a background color is higher for times at which the body-movement value is larger and the density of a background color is lower for times at which the body-movement value is smaller. |
| US09791205B2 |
Insulating material with renewable resource component
An insulated cabinet structure includes an inner liner having a plurality of walls defining a refrigerator compartment, and an external wrapper having a plurality of walls defining a refrigerator compartment receiving area. An insulation gap is formed between the walls of the inner liner and the walls of the external wrapper. A first insulation material is positioned on a wall of the external wrapper and extends outwardly into the insulation gap to partially fill the insulation gap. The first insulation material includes a renewable resource component having a particle size in a range from about 10 microns to about 25 microns. A second insulation material is disposed in the insulation gap, such that the first insulation material and the second insulation material together substantially fill the insulation gap. |
| US09791197B2 |
Refrigerator with rear panel for accommodating water hose
A rear plate of a refrigerator includes a base section formed at the outside of the rear plate while being flat, and a formed section formed to protrude from the base section toward the inner case through a foaming process. Outer equipment is installed at the formed section, to be disposed more inside than the base section and, as such, it is possible to protect the outer equipment from external impact. In addition, it is possible to achieve an improvement in rear appearance design of the refrigerator and an enhancement in space utility of the refrigerator. |
| US09791191B2 |
Temperature control apparatus, processing apparatus, and temperature control method
A temperature control apparatus (70) includes a heat exchanger (71) configured to exchange heat with the surroundings using a phase change of a refrigerant, a rotary pump (73) configured to receive the refrigerant from the heat exchanger (71) and fuse the refrigerant with oil contained inside the rotary pump, and an oil water separator (74) configured to receive the refrigerant fused with the oil from the rotary pump (73) and separate the refrigerant from the oil. The temperature control apparatus further includes a refrigeration cycle that implements a cooling function by circulating the refrigerant separated from the oil back to the heat exchanger (71). |
| US09791190B2 |
Condenser
A condenser includes first and second header tanks provided on one side of the condenser, and a third header tank provided on another side of the condenser. A plurality of second heat exchange tubes extend in an extending direction between the second header tank and the third header tank to connect the second header tank and the third header tank. A plurality of first heat exchange tubes are provided to extend in the extending direction between the first header tank and the third header tank to connect the first header tank and the third header tank. The plurality of first heat exchange tubes are directly connected to the first header tank. The plurality of first heat exchange tubes are longer than the plurality of second heat exchange tubes and are positioned downstream of the plurality of second heat exchange tubes with respect to a flow of refrigerant. |
| US09791177B2 |
Cryogenic refrigerator and rotary joint
A cryogenic refrigerator includes a compressor for installation on a stationary component, an expander for installation on a rotating component, and a rotary joint fluidly coupling the compressor with the expander. The rotary joint includes: a rotor fixed to the rotating component and coaxial with its rotational axis; a stator disposed adjacent to the rotor to form a clearance between the rotor and the stator, and fixed to the stationary component; a first high-pressure flowpath and a second high-pressure flowpath, extending between the rotor and stator through the clearance, and a working-gas sealing area dividing the clearance into a first high-pressure section communicating with the first high-pressure flowpath, and into a second high-pressure section communicating with the second high-pressure flowpath. |
| US09791175B2 |
Intelligent compressor flooded start management
A method is provided for managing a flooded start of a compressor in a vapor compression system. Following an initial bump start, a determination is made as to whether working fluid in a liquid state remains in the sump of the compressor. If working fluid in a liquid state remains in the compressor sump, an additional bump start of the compressor is completed, followed by another determination as to whether working fluid in a liquid state still remains in the compressor sump. If working fluid in a liquid state remains in the compressor sump, another bump start of the compressor is initiated and the sequence repeated until no working fluid in the liquid state remains in the compressor sump. A normal start of the compressor may be initiated after determining no working fluid in the liquid state remains in the compressor sump. |
| US09791173B2 |
Heating device having heating transistor unit
A heating device is provided. A temperature sensing unit is configured to sense an ambient temperature and accordingly output a temperature sensing voltage. A driving unit is coupled to a heating transistor unit and the temperature sensing unit, and configured to drive the heating transistor unit for performing heating based on the temperature sensing voltage. An activating unit is coupled to the temperature sensing unit, configured to output an activating signal based on the temperature sensing voltage when a temperature of the printed circuit board has risen up to a preset temperature. The heating device as provided can assure that the activating signal can be normally outputted by the heating device under an ambient at an extremely low temperature. |
| US09791172B2 |
Dual sensor combustion system
The embodiments of the present application disclose a dual sensor combustion system. The dual sensor combustion system comprises: a combustor; a stepless speed regulating fan that supplies air for the combustor; a fuel gas conduit that is in communication with the combustor; a proportional valve provided on the fuel gas conduit; a control unit electrically connected to the stepless speed regulating fan and the proportional valve; a first pressure sensor assembly that detects a first pressure signal of the gas flow passage; a second pressure sensor assembly that detects a second pressure signal of the fuel gas conduit; a storage that stores a correspondence relationship between a first target pressure signal of the gas flow passage and a second target pressure signal of the fuel gas conduit; and the control unit controlling at least one of the stepless speed regulating fan and the proportional valve based on the first pressure signal, the second pressure signal and the correspondence relationship. |
| US09791169B2 |
Liquid heater
The invention is directed to a liquid heater for rapidly heating a liquid without overheating the liquid. The liquid heater comprises a liquid flow channel having a passage through which liquid flows, a heating part disposed outside the liquid flow channel, a heat reflecting part facing a heat radiating side of the heating part, and a cooling part through which a cooling medium flows adjacent a reverse side of a reflecting surface of the heat reflecting part for cooling the heat reflecting part. Radiant heat not absorbed in the liquid is reflected by the heat reflecting part. The heat reflecting part reflects radiant heat cooled by the cooling part so that the body of the liquid heater and peripheral members are maintained at a temperature not higher than a predetermined temperature to prevent overheating the liquid. |
| US09791159B2 |
Storage systems
A system for storing articles can have at least two operating modes. In the first mode, gases are evacuated from the system whereby the articles are stored at a pressure less than the pressure at the exterior of the system. In the second mode, gases are evacuated while the system is open to the admittance of gases from the exterior of the system whereby the articles are ventilated by the admitted gases. The system also can have a third operating mode wherein both the first and second modes are rendered inoperative. The storage system can function so that when the articles are stored in the first mode, gases are intermittently removed from the system whereby the pressure at which the articles are stored is maintained at less than the pressure at the exterior of the system. The storage system can be located in a refrigeration appliance such as a household refrigerator. |
| US09791158B2 |
Electric dust collecting device and air conditioner having the same
An electric dust collecting device and an air conditioner having the same are disclosed. The electric dust collecting device includes a first filter unit including a plurality of discharge electrode plates which are spaced apart from each other and have spaces defined therebetween, a high voltage generator electrically connected to all of the plurality of discharge electrode plates, and a second filter unit disposed downstream of the first filter unit in an air flow direction and connected to a ground to cause corona discharge between the discharge electrode plates and the second filter unit, whereby particles electrically charged by corona discharge are collected at the second filter unit. The first filter unit has a simplified structure, and cleaning effect is improved. |
| US09791157B2 |
Oven panel
A panel for an oven includes a flat portion having a first surface that can face a cooking space of an oven and a second surface that can face a fan of the oven; the flat portion also having an opening for the transit of air; a frustoconical body fixed to the second surface at the periphery of the opening and having a plurality of holes; a deflector placed at the frustoconical body opposite the flat portion. |
| US09791155B2 |
Solid fuel burning stove and door locking assembly for a solid fuel burning stove
There is provided a solid fuel burning stove comprising a housing defining a combustion chamber and a door panel pivotally mounted to the housing. The door panel is configurable between an open configuration and a closed configuration. The solid fuel burning stove is characterized by having a locking assembly comprising a lever pivotally mounted to the housing and having a hooked portion. The lever is pivotable between an engaged configuration and a disengaged configuration. The locking assembly also has a biasing member operatively connected to the housing and the lever and biasing the lever in the engaged configuration. The locking assembly further comprises a catch provided on the door panel. The hooked portion of the lever is engageable with the catch in the closed configuration of the door panel and the engaged configuration of the lever and is disengageable therefrom by configuring the lever in the disengaged configuration. |
| US09791152B2 |
Regulator/magnetic control valve combination
A control valve may include a fluid inlet, a plurality of fluid outlets, and a plurality of magnets. One of the plurality of magnets controls fluid flow for each of one of the plurality of fluid outlets. One of the plurality of magnets controls fluid flow for the remaining of the plurality of magnets. When the magnet controlling fluid flow for the remaining of the plurality of magnets is energized, fluid flow is permitted to the remaining of the plurality of magnets. When the remaining of the plurality of magnets are energized, fluid flow is permitted to the respective plurality of fluid outlets. |
| US09791149B2 |
Gas turbine combustor
Provided is a gas turbine combustor capable of reducing the size of a low-temperature air layer of pilot air formed between a pilot flame and a premixed flame and of improving the flame stability of the premixed flame. A gas turbine combustor, which is provided with a pilot burner that is provided at the center portion of a combustor main body formed in a cylindrical shape to form a pilot flame, and a plurality of main burners arranged so as to surround the outer periphery of the pilot burner to form a premixed flame, includes, as the ignition improving part, a channel blocking member that reduces the size of the low-temperature air layer of the pilot air formed between the pilot flame and the premixed flame. |
| US09791148B2 |
High efficiency radiant heater
A radiant tube heater with a burner assembly, a radiant tube assembly and a combustion air pre-heater, wherein the burner assembly comprises: a burner fuel nozzle; a plenum chamber and a pre-mixer chamber; the plenum chamber having a combustion air inlet; wherein in use: combustion air flows from said plenum chamber through an orifice to said pre-mixer where said air, is mixed with burner fuel entering said pre-mixer through said nozzle prior to being combusted at a burner head; said pre-mixer being at least partly located within said radiant tube assembly; and where in use at least part of the combustion air supplied to said plenum is preheated in said air pre-heater using residual sensible heat of the hot combustion gas products of the heater. |
| US09791147B2 |
Multi stage combustion furnace and process for the thermal expansion of mineral particles
The present document describes a multistages combustion furnace system for thermal expansion of mineral particles which comprises: a furnace having an expansion chamber for receiving the mineral particles; a burner head to be connected at a distance for an atmospheric coupling of the furnace and for operating the multistages combustion furnace system; a furnace device to be connected at a distance for an atmospheric coupling of the burner head to offset the quenching effect of ambient air normally drawn in the furnace; and a tuyere for thermal expansion of mineral particles to be connected between the expansion chamber and the furnace device; wherein the multistage combustion furnace system is to be connected with an inlet of preheated air. |
| US09791143B2 |
Doubly-sealed waterproof floodlight and method for same
A doubly-sealed waterproof floodlight includes a heat dissipating portion, a lighting portion coupled to the bottom end of the heat dissipating portion, and a cover filled and coated with a sealing material, doubly-sealed, and integrally coupled to the heat dissipating portion. The heat dissipating portion includes a sealing portion formed on a side end of the heat dissipation portion, coated with the sealing material, and coupled to the cover. The cover includes a coupling portion formed on the top end of a side surface thereof. The coupling portion includes a sealing groove into which sealing material is filled for adhering and coupling the heat dissipating portion, a protruding support potion extending from the sealing groove, and a bottom surface portion which is flatly formed at a position lower than the protruding support portion, and in which the sealing material coated on the sealing portion is filled. |
| US09791141B2 |
Light emitting diode module
The present application relates to a light emitting diode module comprising: a light source device (11), a cover (10) for said light source device (11), the cover (10) being arranged to connect to an optical device (21); wherein said cover (10) comprises a heat conducting part (24, 34) which has an at least one order of magnitude higher thermal conductivity than the remaining part of the cover (10) and which is arranged to thermally connect said light source device (11) with said optical device (21). The present application further relates to a corresponding cover for a light source device (11) in a light emitting diode module (1). |
| US09791140B2 |
Light module
An LED array is mounted on a base that is thermally coupled to a heat spreader. At least one aperture is provided between the support area and an edge of the heat spreader. The heat spreader may be coupled to a thermal pad which has sufficient thermal conductivity and is sufficiently thin to allow the thermal resistivity between the heat spreader and a corresponding heat sink to be below a predetermined value. |
| US09791139B2 |
Safe operation of an LED lamp
A lamp and an operating method for a lamp with an LED element 22 are described. An electrical circuit with the LED element 22 is covered by a cover member 12. A separation device 28 is provided to mechanically severe the electrical conductor 16a, 16b arrange to supply electrical power to the LED element 22 if the detector element 24 detects a defect of the cover member 12. |
| US09791136B2 |
Counterweight arm mechanism
A counterweight arm mechanism having an adjustable dragline tension system capable of adjusting tension; the system comprising a dragline, an extension spring, and a dragline adjustment mechanism; the dragline adjustment mechanism adjusted the overall length of the dragline as a function of the rotation angle of a counterweight arm; the dragline length adjustment mechanism being implemented according to the two legs of a right-angled ΔABC and the property of a+b=2√2R sin(A+π/4); when the counterweight arm rotates, the mechanical structure can be used to drive the vertex of the right angle of the right-angled ΔABC to rotate along with the counterweight arm, and synchronously move in line with the circumcircle of the right-angled ΔABC, thus the tension on the counterweight arm from the adjustable dragline tension system changes with the rotation angle of the counterweight arm. |
| US09791130B2 |
Artificial illumination device comprising light-emitter/collimator pair array
An artificial illumination device for generating natural light similar to that from the sun and the sky comprises a direct-light source comprising a first emitting surface and configured to produce, from primary light, direct light exiting the first emitting surface into a direct-light direction at low divergence, the direct-light source comprising a plurality of pairs of a first light-emitting device positioned upstream the first emitting surface and configured to emit the primary light and a collimator configured to collimate the primary light emitted by the first light-emitting device along the direct-light direction; and a diffused-light generator configured to cause diffused light at a second emitting surface. Both co-operate to form outer light at the outer emitting surface comprising a first light component propagating within a low divergence cone along the direct light direction and a second light component propagating along directions outside the low divergence cone wherein the first light component has a correlated color temperature lower than a CCT of the second light component so that an observer sees, when looking towards the first emitting surface, a bright spot surrounded by a bluish background which mimics the sky. |
| US09791129B2 |
Hybrid light assembly
Disclosed is a hybrid lamp assembly (44) which includes a substantially parabolic primary reflector (12) having an open end (20) and a circumferential mounting member (54) extending outwardly from the open end (20) of the primary reflector (12). A primary light source (14) is operably assembled with the parabolic reflector (12). A secondary light source (46), comprising a plurality of LED lamps (48) and a plurality of substantially parabolic reflectors (50) associated with the plurality of LED lamps (48) and configured to project secondary light beams, is positioned circumferentially around the open end (20). The LED lamps (48) each are mounted to project light directed by the secondary reflector (50) with which it is associated. Upper and lower reflectors (50a, 50b) project light beams substantially parallel to the beam of the primary light source (14) and lateral reflectors (50c-j) are angled inwardly in a horizontal plane to project light beams that cross the beam of the primary light source (14). |
| US09791127B2 |
Lighting apparatus with annular segmented reflector
The present invention is directed to an apparatus for providing a light reflector, light fixture, light fixture retrofit apparatus, lamp reflector, lamp retrofit apparatus or luminaire reflector retrofit. According to an example embodiment of the disclosed invention, a light reflector is provided that includes annular segments nested as cone-shaped layers configured for reflecting light from a light source placed in proximity to the inner cone portion. The two or more nested cone-shaped annular segments include a reflective surface. The cone-shaped annular segments are configured such that the segment layer having the smallest aperture is located farthest from the light source. |
| US09791126B2 |
Spherical lighting device
A lighting device including: a source emitting a light cone; an electronic control circuit; a wall defining an enclosure including a first area through which the light cone passes, and a second area complementary to the first area; and a diffuser directing part of the light by backscattering towards the second area. The diffuser includes a first part oriented perpendicular to the axis of revolution of the light cone and forming a first divergent lens, and a second part forming a second divergent lens having a shape of a flared truncated cone with its axis of revolution parallel to the axis of revolution of the light cone, in which a larger diameter end is closest to the light source and a smaller diameter end is adjacent to the first part and surrounds the first part. |
| US09791122B2 |
Rear lamp for vehicle
A rear lamp for a vehicle may have a light source module capable of simultaneously implementing functions of a tail lamp and a brake lamp in one lighting region, the light source module including a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) light sources for the tail lamp, a plurality of separation printed circuit boards (PCBs) for the tail lamp controlling current supply into the plurality of LED light sources, a pattern film for the tail lamp having an optic formed to implement three-dimensional emitting images with a desired pattern using light of the plurality of LED light sources, an optical resin stacked on the pattern film and uniformly transferring the light of the plurality of LED light sources across the entire section of the pattern film, and an LED light source for the brake lamp. |
| US09791119B2 |
Light emitting module and head lamp including the same
Disclosed is a light emitting module including a light emitting device package having a circuit board having a cavity, an insulation substrate arranged in the cavity, with a conductive pattern formed thereon, and at least one light emitting device disposed on the insulation substrate, with being electrically connected with the conductive pattern; and a glass cover located on the light emitting device package, with lateral surfaces, a top surface and an open bottom surface, wherein the light emitting device package and the circuit board are electrically connected with each other. |
| US09791116B2 |
Modular light engine for variable light pattern
A light fixture suitable for illuminating a remote surface. The fixture includes a post adapted to receive at least two substantially identical light engine modules. Each module includes a plurality of light emitting diodes. Each module includes an edge adapted for mounting to the post. |
| US09791115B2 |
LED ceiling lamp
An LED ceiling lamp includes a base, a lampshade, an LED component, and a power supply assembly. The base includes a main body and a receiving box having an opening, the main body defines a through hole, an opening end of the receiving box disposes on an edge of the through hole on the main body. The lampshade is shielded on the base, the receiving box is received in a cavity enclosed by the lampshade and the base. The LED component is disposed on the base and received in the cavity. The power supply assembly is received in the receiving box and located outside the cavity, the receiving box defines a wire hole, the power supply assembly has a wire, the wire extends through the wire hole, the power supply assembly is electrically connected to the LED component through the wire. |
| US09791108B2 |
Use of metal silicides in hydrocarbon production and transportation
A method of hydraulic fracturing is provided which uses metal silicides to generate significant pressure inside a wellbore. The method comprises injecting a fracturing fluid and an aqueous or reacting fluid into the wellbore to react with the fracturing fluid. The fracturing fluid comprises metal silicide, which may be uncoated or coated, and hydrocarbon fluid. The reacting fluid comprises water or a solvent. A method of removing buildup in pipelines such as subsea pipelines which uses metal silicides to generate heat and pressure inside the pipeline is also provided. The method comprises injecting an organic slug and an aqueous slug. The organic slug comprises metal silicide and hydrocarbon fluid. The aqueous slug comprises water. Alternatively, there is also provided a method for purifying flowback water produced from a hydraulic fracturing process comprising adding metal silicide to the flowback water produced from a hydraulic fracturing process. |
| US09791103B2 |
Servo controller for measuring lubrication characteristics of a machine by experimental modal analysis
A servo controller includes: a sinusoidal wave disturbance input unit for supplying a sinusoidal wave disturbance to a speed control loop including a speed command generator, a torque command generator and a speed detector; a frequency response calculator for estimating the gain and phase from the output of the speed control loop; a resonance frequency detector for detecting resonance frequencies at which the gain becomes maximum; a resonance mode characteristics analyzer for estimating resonance characteristics from the frequency response; and, a reference modal damping ratio retainer for retaining a reference modal damping ratio as a resonance characteristic corresponding to the reference lubricating condition, and the resonance mode characteristics analyzer calculates lubrication characteristics on the basis of the reference modal damping ratio and the measured modal damping ratio at the resonance frequency corresponding to the reference modal damping ratio. |
| US09791100B1 |
Temporary mounting device
A temporary mounting device for temporarily mounting an article to a mounting support structure utilizes an elongated, curved main stem member having a length and being formed from a resilient material, the curved main stem member being curved lengthwise along the length. A mounting member extends from a distal portion of v-mount legs of a pair of v-mounts that are coupled to the main stem member and has an attachment element configured to attach the article thereto. A selectively releasable tension strap releasably secures the device to a mounting support structure. |
| US09791097B2 |
Adjustable tablet arm with one-handed release mechanism
A position- and length-adjustable arm (10) for supporting a tablet computer or other electronic device that is capable of numerous adjustments as desired by the user, and that includes a magnetic tablet attachment assembly (32) that permits the user to remove the tablet computer from the tablet arm with one hand. |
| US09791096B2 |
Anti-rotation bracket
An assembly includes a mounting component having a first surface and a second surface with a hole extending between the first surface and the second surface. The assembly includes a flange extending generally perpendicularly in a first direction from a first end of the mounting component, and a first tab and a second tab extending generally perpendicularly in a second direction from a second end of the mounting component, wherein the first tab and the second tab are spaced apart from each other. The assembly includes a boss extending from a base plate, a fastener extending through the hole of the mounting component and into the boss, and an anti-rotation projection fixed to the boss and positioned between the first tab and the second tab. |
| US09791095B2 |
Supporting stand for display device
Disclosed is a supporting stand for a display device, which includes: a base; a frame body connected to the base for holding the display device and rotatable with respect to the base; an electrical function unit disposed within the base; and an electrical connection unit extending through the interior of the frame body to provide an electrical connection between the display device and the electrical function unit. The electrical connection unit includes a main cable that has a reserve section with a cable length larger than the corresponding minimal pathway distance. Accordingly, when the frame body rotates, the main cable can adjust itself to the rotation of the frame body by cable twisting at the reserve section. |
| US09791089B2 |
Method and apparatus for repairing a pipe junction
An assembly and method of sealing a junction of a pipe and a second structure are provided. The assembly includes a pipe liner having a tubular portion and a brim portion, and a mechanical anchor adapted to secure the brim portion of the pipe liner to the second structure. The assembly may further include a compression gasket for placement between the pipe liner and the pipe or second structure. The compression gasket may comprise a hydrophilic material, a hydrophobic material, or a compressible material. The methods of using the assembly include, but are not limited to, the use of a cured-in-place pipe liner. |
| US09791085B2 |
Method of joining pipes and apparatus for facilitating the same
An apparatus and method for joining pipes includes a plate for melting mating surfaces of the pipes to be joined. Additionally, the apparatus utilizes a vacuum in order to push the first and second pipes together in lieu of hand or mechanical pressure which may be inconsistent. Additionally, the vacuum allows the pipes to be joined to settle on each other in order to create a pressure about a periphery of the end of the pipe being joined to the other pipe. The consistent pressure creates a very strong joint between the first and second pipes. |
| US09791084B2 |
Pipe joint made of synthetic resin
A pipe joint made of synthetic resin includes: a joint body including a male screw portion on an outer circumferential portion; and a union nut including a female screw portion formed on an inner circumferential portion such that the female screw portion is tightened onto the male screw portion of the joint body. An outer circumferential surface of the joint body has a projection portion that is integrated therewith and projects radially outward. An inner circumferential surface of the union nut has a convex or concave engagement portion that is integrated therewith and engages with the projection portion when the union nut is tightened up to an appropriate position. |
| US09791082B2 |
Modular fluid end for a multiplex plunger pump
A modular fluid end for a multiplex plunger pump, each module machined from a single-piece steel forging with a plunger bore intersected by a linear suction/discharge bore and pumped fluid is discharged straight out through a top of the module into a discharge manifold made up using 1502 frac iron components. A compression clamp applies a crush load to opposed sides of the modules to extend service life. |
| US09791077B2 |
Pipe coupling having double-threaded tightening fastener and associated methods
A pipe coupling for coupling adjacent pipe ends of a pair of pipes includes a sleeve, a sealing gasket operatively coupled with the sleeve adjacent an open end of the sleeve, and a clamping element for compressing the sleeve or the sealing gasket into tightened engagement with one of the pipe ends. The clamping element includes two bolt flanges nominally spaced apart by a gap and a double threaded fastening bolt with two external threaded portions, which engage with two corresponding fastening nuts having right-hand thread and left-hand thread, respectively. Accordingly, when the fastening bolt is rotated, both of the fastening nuts move towards or away from one another, thereby rapidly moving the bolt flanges to shrink the gap and compress the clamping element or to expand the gap. As such, less time and labor are required to operate the pipe coupling in the field. |
| US09791075B2 |
Rotary friction welding
A method providing a first tubular workpiece having a first weld surface at an end thereof, and a second tubular workpiece having a second weld surface at an end thereof; aligning the workpieces on a common axis with the weld surfaces facing each other, rotating one workpiece about the axis relative to the other workpiece, and engaging the first and second weld surfaces such that the rotation raises the temperature at the weld surfaces to create a weld interface; and ceasing the rotation and allowing the weld interface to cool to weld the workpieces together at the interface. The first weld surface is an apex region of an annular projection at the end of the first workpiece, on a longitudinal section through the aligned workpieces the annular projection having a profile in which radially inner and outer side surfaces of the annular projection taper towards the apex region. |
| US09791074B2 |
Tube module
A tubular flow module includes at least two concentric tubes with spiral features, wherein first tube is coaxially arranged inside a second tube and each tube has a maximum diameter and a minimum diameter, wherein the maximum diameter of first tube is larger than the minimum diameter of second tube, defining a flow path for fluids between first and second tubes. A tubular flow module system and use of the tubular flow module is also disclosed. |
| US09791070B2 |
Device and method for fitting two connections at the end of two conduits, in particular in an aircraft
Device for fitting two connectors at the end of two conduits, particularly in an aircraft, with a view to subsequent mutual connection of the connectors by a connecting pipe, including a body; a first support including temporary connector retainers that define an associated connector axis; an opposite second support including temporary connector retainers that define an associated connector axis; structure for moving the first support in translation relative to the body parallel to the associated connector axis, between a retracted position and a deployed position. A method of establishing fluidic communication between two conduits in an aircraft, including fitting two connectors at the end of the two conduits by such a device. |
| US09791065B2 |
Hydraulic valve device
A hydraulic valve device, in particular an LS directional valve, includes a housing (1), with a pressure supply connection (P), at least one utility connection (A, B), and a load-reporting connection, and includes a controller (5) moveable in two directions to at least partly actuate fluid those connections. An adjustable stop device (25, 31, 47, 59) restricts the stroke length of the travel movements of the controller (5) or parts of the stroke length in either direction. The stop device (25, 31, 47, 59) has a stop surface (25) facing in one movement direction and a second stop surface (47) facing in the other movement direction on the same axial end region (19) of a slider piston (5). A counter stop (31, 59) is provided for each stop surface (25, 47). Both counter stops are on the respective same housing end region (11) of the housing (1) in a positionally adjustable manner. |
| US09791064B2 |
Quantity control valve and high-pressure pump with quantity control valve
A quantity control valve comprises a valve needle configured to move in an axial direction, a damping chamber having a wall, and a valve element delimiting the damping chamber. The valve needle is configured to move the valve element in an opening direction. A gap is defined between the wall of the damping chamber and the valve element. The gap has at least one recess and connects the damping chamber to a flow duct. |
| US09791063B2 |
Gas shut-off valve
A shut-off valve that has a closure orifice, a closure member to open and close a gas passage through the shut-off valve, an electromagnetic actuator including a movable assembly attached to the closure member, the closure member, and an electromagnetic filed generator magnetically associated with the movable assembly. The shut-off valve also includes a manual actuator for acting on the movable assembly, the manual actuator comprising an open position in which it is decoupled from the movable assembly, the electromagnetic actuator thus being able to act on the closure member to cause its closure. |
| US09791061B2 |
Valve
A valve, in particular for hydraulic circuits, includes a valve body (4) designed as a cartridge that can be fixed in a housing (6) having fluid connections (8) by a securing device (20, 26, 28). The securing device has at least one blocking element (20) in the form of a separate component between the valve body (4) and the housing (6). The blocking element has blocking surfaces that can be moved relative to the longitudinal axis (18) of the valve body (4) between an assembly position allowing the valve body (4) to be inserted into the housing (6) and a blocking position in which the blocking surfaces secure the valve body in an assembly position, preferably with zero backlash by bearing against retaining surfaces (26, 28) of the housing (6) and the valve body (4). |
| US09791060B2 |
Touch faucet
A touch faucet contains: a body, a connector, and a touch valve assembly. The body includes an inlet segment, an outlet segment, a first connecting part, a second connecting part, and an accommodation chamber. The connector is housed in the accommodation chamber and includes an inflow portion, a first coupling portion, a second coupling portion, and an outflow portion. The touch valve assembly is connected with the second connecting part and includes a positioning cylinder which has at least one through orifice, a province valve, and a driving post, such that the water flow enters into the at least one through orifice from the first coupling portion via the positioning cylinder. The touch valve assembly also includes an actuation device, at least one part of which extends out of the body so as to be operated by user and to drive the driving post to move. |
| US09791055B2 |
Three-way three-position control valve having a piezoelectric or magnetostrictive actuator, and fuel-injection system comprising the aforesaid valve
An electrically actuated control valve has three mouths and three operating positions, in which the three mouths includes a first mouth for inlet of a working fluid, and a second mouth and a third mouth for outlet of the working fluid. The three operating positions include a first operating position in which a passage of fluid from the first mouth to the second mouth and the third mouth is enabled, a second operating position in which a passage of fluid from the first mouth to only one of said second and third mouths is enabled, and a third operating position in which the passage of fluid from the first to the second mouth and the third mouth is disabled. The control valve includes an electric or electromagnetic actuator for controlling the passage of fluid from the first mouth to the second and third mouths providing the aforesaid three operating positions. |
| US09791054B2 |
Isolatable non-slam piston check valve
A valve assembly includes a valve body with a central passage, an upstream end for receiving a fluid, and a downstream end for discharging the fluid. A segment ball valve rotates between a valve open position to allow the fluid to flow through the central passage, and a valve closed position to prevent the fluid from flowing through the central passage. A check valve located within the central passage downstream from the segment ball valve is biased to prevent the fluid from traveling upstream through the central passage, and to allow the fluid to travel downstream past the check valve. A locking mechanism secures the check valve in a locked position to prevent the fluid from flowing past the check valve. A sealable cavity is located between the segment ball valve and the check valve, to contain a neutral media to achieve a double block and bleed feature. |
| US09791053B2 |
Ball valve with offset straight through flow
A ball valve with offset straight through flow is provided. The ball valve has a housing having an inlet and an outlet and an internal cavity. A non-spherical ball valve member is positioned within the internal cavity. The valve member is mechanically coupled to a valve stem extending from the internal cavity to an exterior of the housing such that rotation of the valve stem results in a like rotation of the valve member. The ball valve has a fully closed position wherein fluid flow therethrough is prevented. The ball valve member also has a fully opened position where fluid flow therethrough is allowed. The ball valve can transition from the fully closed position to the frilly opened position and vice versa with a rotation of the valve member of less than or equal to about forty-five degrees. |
| US09791052B2 |
Vacuum slide gate valve
A vacuum slide gate valve with a drive unit that is formed in such a way that a closure plate, by displacement of at least one valve rod along a longitudinal axis, is displaceable from an open position into an intermediate position, and, by displacement of said valve rod along a transverse axis running at right angles to the longitudinal axis, is displaceable from the intermediate position into a closing position. The valve rod is rigidly connected to a sliding part, which is guided between a first position and a second position parallel to the longitudinal axis, and between the second position and a third position parallel to the transverse axis. A displacement member is mechanically coupled to the sliding part via an inclined connection to displace the sliding part from the first position into the second position and from the second position into the third position. |
| US09791050B2 |
Gas shut-off device
The invention is directed to a valve for a compressed gas cylinder, comprising: a valve body with an inlet, an outlet and a passage connecting the inlet with the outlet; a shut-off device of the passage with an actuating pin extending in the passage; a check-valve between the shut-off device and the inlet, the check valve comprising a seat and a movable closing member initially held at a position distant from the seat by contact with a guiding surface and movable past the position by the pin so as to cooperate with the seat and prevent a refilling flow of gas from the outlet to the inlet. The guiding surface is on a tubular portion fixed to the valve body and comprising at least one radial aperture so as to allow the refilling flow of gas to by-pass the closing member when in the distant position. |
| US09791049B2 |
Toilet flapper valve with adjustable mounts and assembly
An improved toilet flapper valve is used to cover and seal a main flush valve orifice, which flapper valve comprises a pair of rotatable legs and leg clips having two-way adjustment capabilities and which serve to function as mounting arms. The two-way adjustment of the rotatable leg clips allows for use of the same flapper valve with a variety of makes and models of flush valves, and flush valves having pegs that may be spaced apart so as to adjust for pegs that may have different diameters or that may be separated from one another by different distances depending on the flush valve used in the toilet. The flapper valve of the present invention also includes a variably-adjustable air outlet capability. |
| US09791048B2 |
Top entry ball valve, installation assembly, and method therefor
An installation assembly for installing and/or removing a ball into and/or from a valve body of a top entry ball valve includes a valve body having at least one blind bore disposed on an opposite side of the ball chamber from the entry opening and a ball installation tool adapted to interact with the blind bore so as to compress a spring disposed inside the ball chamber substantially axially. A top entry ball valve is arranged with such a valve body. The ball installation tool may be used to install and/or remove a ball from the valve body. |
| US09791047B2 |
Magnetic seal system with internal cooling
An assembly comprises a shaft, and a support structure surrounding the shaft; and a magnetic seal system comprising an annular seal assembly including a ring sealingly mounted to a shaft to rotate therewith and slidingly axially displaceable along the shaft, and an annular seal supported by the ring. An annular magnet assembly is configured to be non-rotatingly supported adjacent to and surrounding the shaft, the annular magnet assembly configured and positioned relative to the ring to exert a sufficient attracting force on the ring to biasingly displace the ring axially along the shaft into sealing contact with the magnet. A cooling fluid feeding conduit, a cooling fluid exhaust conduit distinct from the cooling fluid feeding conduit are provided. An annular cavity is defined at least partially by or in a radially outer surface of the annular magnet, the annular cavity being in fluid communication with the cooling fluid feeding conduit, and with the cooling fluid exhaust conduit, for circulation of cooling fluid in the annular cavity. |
| US09791040B2 |
Methods and system for operating a vehicle transmission
Systems and methods for operating a transmission of a hybrid vehicle's driveline are presented. In one example, the systems and methods adjust operation of an electrically driven transmission pump that supplies transmission fluid to one or more transmission components in response to a rotational stopping position of a mechanically drive transmission pump. |
| US09791039B1 |
Apparatus and method for shift control of vehicle
An apparatus and method for a shift control of a vehicle are provided. The apparatus includes a road information obtaining unit that obtains road information of a road on which the vehicle is traveling and traffic information and a front vehicle detection unit that obtains front vehicle information including a speed of a front vehicle. A running state obtaining unit obtains an average running speed of the vehicle and determines whether the vehicle is traveling at a high constant speed based on the road information, the traffic information, and the average running speed. A shift controller adjusts a shift time of a transmission based on the front vehicle information when braking occurs during high constant speed traveling of the vehicle. |
| US09791035B2 |
Dropcase suspension assembly for a motorized vehicle
A suspension assembly for a motorized vehicle includes a rotatable drive-unit driveshaft extending outwardly from an aperture of a drive unit. A first portion of a dropcase is pivotally coupled to the drive unit. A first end portion of a dropcase driveshaft is coupled to the drive-unit driveshaft such that rotation of the drive-unit driveshaft causes a corresponding rotation of the dropcase driveshaft. A second end portion of the dropcase driveshaft extends outwardly from a second portion of the dropcase and is suitable for coupling to a wheel hub. A pivotal-coupling assembly pivotally couples the dropcase to the drive unit. The pivotal-coupling assembly provides a pivot axis between the dropcase and the drive unit along a longitudinal length of the drive-unit driveshaft. |
| US09791027B2 |
Apparatus utilizing planetary gearset coupled to a constant torsion spring
A gearbox includes a planetary gearset, an input shaft coupled to a sun gear of the planetary gearset, and an output shaft coupled to planet gears of the planetary gearset via a carrier. A constant torsion spring is coupled to a ring gear of the planetary gearset. The constant torsion spring is capable of preventing the ring gear from moving when a torque at the output shaft is below a threshold. The ring gear winds the constant torsion spring in response to the torque exceeding the threshold. |
| US09791026B2 |
Spindle drive for the motorized adjustment of an adjusting element of a motor vehicle
The invention concerns a spindle drive for the motorized adjustment of an adjusting element of a vehicle, comprising a drive motor with a motor shaft, a speed reduction gear mechanism, and a feed gear mechanism, the speed reduction gear mechanism having a planetary gear mechanism and the feed gear mechanism being designed as a spindle/spindle nut gear mechanism, the planetary gear mechanism having a rotatable sun gear and coaxially in relation thereto a rotatable planet-gear carrier and a fixed or fixable ring gear, and the planet-gear carrier carrying at least one rotatable planet gear, which is in axially parallel engagement with the sun gear on the one hand and the ring gear on the other hand, the drive motor, the speed reduction gear mechanism and the feed gear mechanism being accommodated one behind the other in a substantially elongate drive housing and aligned with a common longitudinal drive axis. |
| US09791022B2 |
Planetary gear train of automatic transmission for vehicle
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission includes an input shaft; an output shaft; a first planetary gear set having first to third rotating elements; a second planetary gear set having fourth to sixth rotating elements; a third planetary gear set having seventh to ninth rotating elements; a fourth planetary gear set having tenth to twelfth rotating elements; and seven control elements, wherein the input shaft is continuously connected with the second rotating element, the output shaft is continuously connected with the eleventh rotating element, the second rotating element is continuously connected with the fourth rotating element, the third rotating element is continuously connected with the tenth rotating element, the sixth rotating element is continuously connected with the seventh rotating element, the ninth rotating element is continuously connected with the twelfth rotating element, the third rotating element and the eighth rotating element are selectively connected. |
| US09791021B2 |
Transmission for vehicle
A transmission for a vehicle may include an input shaft, an output shaft, a first planetary gear set, a second planetary gear set, a third, planetary gear set, a fourth planetary gear set, provided to transfer a torque between the input shaft and the output shaft, and friction members, wherein each of the first, second, third, and fourth planetary gear sets includes three rotary elements and three of the friction members are each selectively connected to at least one of the at least three rotary elements of the first, second, third, and fourth planetary gear sets and control rotation of the rotary elements to achieve gear ratios of ten or more steps of forward shifting and one step of reverse shifting in a vehicle. |
| US09791020B2 |
V-ribbed belt with spaced rib flank reinforcement
V-ribbed belts with spaced rib flank reinforcement and methods of making the same are disclosed. The V-ribbed belt comprises a compression section having at least one laterally spaced, longitudinally extending V-rib having first and second longitudinally extending flanks. The V-rib includes an elastomeric material having a dry coefficient of friction encapsulating a plurality of reinforcing bodies having a dry coefficient of friction that is less than that of the elastomeric material. The plurality of reinforcing bodies are arranged generally laterally within the V-rib such that at least a portion of the reinforcing bodies forms part of one or more of the first and second longitudinally extending flanks. |
| US09791013B2 |
Anti-tilt feature for torsion spring for default-to-park lever
In a default-to-park system for a transmission, a lever member has a cylindrical hub configured to rotate about a spindle. The lever member has a transverse plate including a lever arm connected to a park release actuator and to a link to a park pawl of the transmission. Under normal operation, a transmission controller shifts the actuator to turn the lever arm and release the park pawl so the transmission can rotate. In an absence of a signal from the controller to the actuator, a bias spring restores the lever arm so that the transmission is locked. The bias spring comprises torsion coils disposed over the hub, a fixed end, and a drive end. The drive end has a heel segment bearing against a transverse surface of the transverse plate facing the torsion coils and a loading hook wrapped around an edge of the transverse plate. |
| US09791011B2 |
Brake device of transmission
A brake device of a transmission includes a first brake provided in a transmission including an outer cone and an inner cone, a second brake provided at one end of the first brake and operated at the time of a low stage or backward movement, and an elastic body provided between the first brake and the second brake to operate the first brake or the second brake depending on a spring load. |
| US09791003B2 |
Electromagnetic brake which has shaft drop prevention function, electric motor, and machine
An electromagnetic brake (10) including a plurality of elastic members (25) which are arranged between an engagement surface of a brake pad (13) and an engagement surface of a hub (12) symmetrically about a center of rotation of the shaft (11). The biasing directions of the plurality of elastic members are in a rotational direction of the shaft. |
| US09791002B2 |
Hold and releasing mechanism for holding and releasing a cable take-up device
A hold and release mechanism for holding and releasing a cable includes a toothed-disk arrangement coupled with the cable take-up device for rotating together about a first axis. The toothed-disk arrangement includes a plurality of teeth at an outer periphery of the toothed-disk arrangement. The plurality of teeth includes locking and safety teeth. The locking teeth are disposed in a first tooth plane orthogonal to the first axis. The safety teeth are disposed in a second tooth plane that is orthogonal to the first axis and offset relative to the first tooth plane. An adjustable locking pawl pivotably mounted about a second axis includes locking and safety catches. The locking catch engages with one of the locking teeth for holding the toothed-disk arrangement in a first rotational position. The safety catch engages with one of the safety teeth for holding the toothed-disk arrangement in a second rotational position. |
| US09791000B2 |
Wedge clutch with opposing thrust forces
A wedge clutch, including: first and second hubs; an outer ring; a first wedge plate radially disposed between the first hub and the outer ring; a second wedge plate radially disposed between the second hub and the outer ring; and a wedge pin including an actuation ramp axially disposed between the first and second hubs. To transition to a connect mode, in which the first and second hubs are non-rotatably connected to the outer ring, the wedge pin is arranged to rotate in a first rotational direction and the actuation ramp is arranged to displace the first and second hubs away from each other. To transition to a disconnect mode, in which the first and second hubs are rotatable with respect to the outer ring, the wedge pin is arranged to rotate in a second opposite rotational direction to reduce an axial distance between the first and second hubs. |
| US09790997B2 |
Assembly for preventing abuse of a pump mounted to a driver equipment
An assembly for preventing abuse of a pump mounted to a driver equipment is provided. The driver equipment and the pump have a mutually intermeshed driver gear and a driven gear respectively. The assembly includes a coupler splined to a shaft of the pump and configured to transmit torque from the driven gear to the shaft. The assembly also includes fasteners that are configured to releasably fasten the coupler to an end face of the driven gear. The fasteners are configured to shear, and disconnect the coupler from the driven gear when a torque on the driven gear exceeds an operational torque of the pump. |
| US09790996B2 |
Vehicle joint
A vehicle joint has a drive sleeve, a pinion shaft and a drive nut. The sleeve has a vent hole, a first set of splines and a first set of venting grooves. The pinion shaft has a second set of splines engaged with the first set of splines. A fluid gap radially outboard of the engaged spines extends the length of the engaged splines. A second set of venting grooves is engaged with the first set of venting grooves. The pinion shaft also has a first set of threads. The drive nut has a second set of threads engaged with the first set of threads. The drive nut also has a radial aperture extending through the drive nut. The first vent hole is in fluid connection with the radial aperture through some of the features described above. |
| US09790992B1 |
Bearing assemblies including integrated lubrication, bearing apparatuses, and methods of use
Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to bearing assemblies that include integrated lubrication, bearing apparatuses including such bearing assemblies, and related methods. For example, a lubricated bearing assembly may include a lubricant that may lubricate the bearing surface thereof during operation of the lubricated bearing assembly and/or bearing apparatus including the lubricated bearing assembly. |
| US09790988B1 |
Self-adjusting bushing bearing having a springy element
Self-adjusting bushing bearings having a springy element. The self-adjusting bushing bearing has a bearing subassembly that is configured to be received in a housing and also has a plurality of bearing segments that together are configured to receive a shaft therein. A springy element biases the plurality of bearing segments radially inwardly towards the shaft. The springy element is mated with at least one bearing segment in the plurality of bearing segments. |
| US09790986B2 |
Foil bearing with large radius key
A gas bearing within a cylinder includes an anti-rotation tab sitting within a key way of the cylinder and a first foil forming an inner loop and an intermediary loop. The inner loop extends in a first direction from a first end to an intermediary portion. The intermediary loop extends from the intermediary to the anti-rotation tab. |
| US09790983B2 |
Movable joint assembly
The movable joint assembly includes a housing which extends along an axis and has an outer surface and an open interior. A ball stud is partially disposed in the open interior and projects out of the housing. A flexible and elastic boot is sealed against the outer surface of the housing and against the ball stud. A metal insert is at least partially embedded within the boot adjacent an end of the boot for resisting pull out of the boot from the housing. The boot includes a lip which is at least partially spaced axially from the insert and extends radially inwardly and is in an interference fit engagement with the outer surface of the housing for establishing a fluid tight seal of the housing and for maintaining the fluid tight seal in response to injection of a lubricant into the open interior of the housing. |
| US09790982B2 |
Pivot linking device and method for linking mechanical parts
A device including a ball, cage housing the ball and a centering lug, wherein the centering lug has a generally annular form with a radially outer annular periphery and a radially inner annular periphery, the outer annular periphery is integral with the cage and the inner annular periphery is inserted in a groove in the outer periphery of the ball, and the centering lug is elastic and arranged to hold the ball along a predefined axis in a rest position. |
| US09790976B2 |
Fastener
An embodiment provides a fastener including a locking member and a pin member which are connected. The locking member has a pair of leg portions that are inserted into the mount hole and a flange portion that is brought into abutment with a portion of the mount-base member that lies on a circumference of the mount hole. The pin member has a head portion that is connected to the flange portion and an extending portion that extends from a rear side of the head portion. When the head portion of the pin member is forced into the locking member, a connection between the flange portion and the head portion is released, and the extending portion travels between the pair of leg portions to expand open the pair of leg portions or to restrict the pair of leg portions from moving towards each other. |