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US09111145B2	Parking lot information system using image technology for identifying available parking spaces A parking lot information system comprising a digital camera for obtaining an image of parking spaces in the parking lot where each parking space is marked with a visual identifier, a computer coupled to the digital camera for identifying available parking spaces by recognizing the identifiers marking the available parking spaces, and a display coupled to the computer for displaying information on the available parking spaces.
US09111143B2	Method and apparatus for image collection and analysis A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a processor that can detect an event, access location information for a group of mobile communication devices that are each automatically capturing images, and identify a subset of the group of mobile communication devices that are in proximity to the event based on the location information. The processor can provide first image analysis criteria to the subset of the group of mobile communication devices without providing the first image analysis criteria to remaining devices of the group of mobile communication devices where the first image analysis criteria includes first characteristics associated with an object. The processor can receive a first target image that includes the object from a first mobile communication device of the subset of the group of mobile communication devices, where the first target image is selected by the first mobile communication device from among a plurality of images captured by the first mobile communication device based on first image pattern recognition performed by the first mobile communication device utilizing the first image analysis criteria. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09111138B2	System and method for gesture interface control A method is provided in one example and includes generating a histogram associated with at least one object; receiving image data; comparing the image data to the histogram in order to determine if at least a portion of the image data corresponds to the histogram; identifying a pose associated with the object; and triggering an electronic command associated with the pose. In more particular embodiments, the image data is evaluated in order to analyze sequences of poses associated with a gesture that signals the electronic command to be performed.
US09111130B2	Facilitating face detection with user input One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for improving face detection in an image. A user may select a first eye location while viewing the image (e.g., per red-eye reduction) and a first indication of user input, comprising the location selected by the user, can be received. The first eye location in the image can then be used to determine a face location in the image (and a second user indicated eye location can be used as well). The location of the face can be identified in the image, and the image with the identified face location can be provided to a face detection and/or recognition operation, for example.
US09111128B2	Three-dimensional data processing and recognizing method A three-dimensional data processing and recognizing method including scanning and re-constructing objects to be detected so as to obtain three-dimensional data for recognition of the objects to be detected; extracting data matching to features from the three-dimensional data, so that the extracted data constitutes an interested target; with respect to the data matching to features, merging and classifying adjacent data points as one group, to form an image of the merged interested target; recognizing a cross section of the interested target; cutting the interested targets by a perpendicular plane which passes through a central point of the cross section and is perpendicular to it, in order to obtain a graph; and recognizing shape of the interested targets based on a property of the graph.
US09111125B2	Fingerprint imaging and quality characterization A fingerprint processing system comprises a fingerprint sensor configured to generate an image of a fingerprint, and a processor configured to process the fingerprint image. The processor is operable to generate a ridge flow map comprising ridge flow vectors characterizing the fingerprint, and a multi-layer decomposition based on the ridge flow vectors. The decomposition includes at least first and second-order residuals, based on the ridge flow vectors, and the processor is operable to characterize a quality of the fingerprint image, based on the residuals.
US09111124B2	Key verification of replaceable fuel cartridges Verifying authenticity of a hydrogen fuel canister by utilizing at least one unique identifier element (UIE) associated with a fuel canister; inputting the UIE into a communication device; querying a database with said communication device to determine a value for the UIE; placing a hole matrix on a canister into a matrix interface reader; measuring a value associated with the position of one or more movable fixtures in the matrix interface reader; comparing the value obtain via the matrix interface reader with the value associated with the UIE and, using the comparison to authenticate or not authenticate if the hydrogen in said canister may be used, is disclosed.
US09111123B2	Firmware for protecting data from software threats In a method for protecting data, an electronic card device receives encrypted data, the data encrypted using a valid encryption key. The electronic card device stores the encrypted data in a first memory. The electronic card device decrypts the encrypted data using a decryption key. The electronic card device stores the decrypted data in a second memory.
US09111122B2	Asymmetric cryptographic device with local private key generation and method therefor An asymmetric cryptographic integrated circuit 20 and a data processing device 10 in which the integrated circuit 20 is used are disclosed. A security boundary 44 is confined to the interior of integrated circuit 20. A random number generator 50 with a hardware entropy source 54 and an arithmetic unit 62 programmed through microcode 38″ to perform a variety of cryptographically useful functions are included within security boundary 44. One of these functions is a primality tester 72. A controller 36 for integrated circuit 20 may cause cryptographically sensitive data, such as large random prime numbers and a clear private key to be generated within the confines of security boundary 44. A symmetric key encryption engine 56 is included within security boundary 44 and used to encrypt the clear private key so that a resulting encrypted private key may be stored outside security boundary 44 in a non-volatile memory 12.
US09111120B2	Method for creating a secure dataset and method for evaluating the same A method is provided for creating a secure dataset using a software application running on a data processing system, wherein the method comprises the following steps: receiving digital image data (1) that represents one or more images, receiving at least one item of additional information (2) relating to the image data (1), creating a data object (3) that comprises the image data (1) and the at least one item of additional information (2), receiving a qualified timestamp (4) that is assigned to the data object (3), and storing the data object (3) in a data-base together with the assigned timestamp (4).
US09111116B2	Collision avoidance in a distributed tokenization environment A client receives sensitive data to be tokenized. The client queries a token table with a portion of the sensitive data to determine if the token table includes a token mapped to the value of the portion of the sensitive data. If the mapping table does not include a token mapped to the value of the portion of the sensitive data, a candidate token is generated. The client queries a central token management system to determine if the candidate token collides with a token generated by or stored at another client. In some embodiments, the candidate token includes a value from a unique set of values assigned by the central token management system to the client, guaranteeing that the candidate token does not cause a collision. The client then tokenizes the sensitive data with the candidate token and stores the candidate token in the token table.
US09111113B2	Trusted online advertising Online advertisements are delivered to one or more users. An authorization to access one or more data streams for a given user is received. The authorization is explicitly granted by the user. The data streams are stored within a user data repository. Upon the user conducting an online action that initiates a dynamic advertisement (DA) request, the authorized data streams for the user are used to generate a customized DA that is optimally relevant to the user. The customized DA is then delivered to the user. The customized DA is also monetized.
US09111112B2	Computer apparatus and control method for optical disk drive thereof A computer apparatus and a control method for the ODD are disclosed. The control method includes: providing a user setting interface by the computer apparatus when the computer apparatus is in a user mode; receiving a user instruction through the user setting interface so as to start or close an ODD safety protection mode; and deciding whether or not a position state of a tray of the ODD can be changed according to that whether or not the ODD safety protection mode is started and whether or not the computer apparatus is in the user mode.
US09111109B2	Using different secure erase algorithms to erase chunks from a file associated with different security levels Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for using different secure erase algorithms to erase chunks from a file associated with different security levels. A request is received to secure erase a file having a plurality of chunks stored in at least one storage device. A determination is made of a first secure erase algorithm to apply to a first chunk in the file in response to the request and of a second secure erase algorithm to apply to a second chunk in the file in response to the request. The first secure erase algorithm is applied to erase the first chunk and the second secure erase algorithm is applied to erase the second chunk. The first and second secure erase algorithms use different processes to erase the chunks to which they are applied.
US09111098B2	System and method for managing electronic assets An asset management system is provided which comprises one or more controllers, which operate as main servers and can be located at the headquarters of an electronic device manufacturer to remotely control their operations at any global location. The controller can communicate remotely over the Internet or other network to control one or more secondary or remote servers, herein referred to as appliances. The appliances can be situated at different manufacturing, testing or distribution sites. The controller and appliances comprise hardware security modules (HSMs) to perform sensitive and high trust computations, store sensitive information such as private keys, perform other cryptographic operations, and establish secure connections between components. The HSMs are used to create secure end-points between the controller and the appliance and between the appliance and the secure point of trust in an asset control core embedded in a device.
US09111097B2	Secure execution architecture The present invention relates to circuitry and a method for providing data security, which circuitry contains at least one processor and at least one storage circuit. The invention is based on the idea that circuitry is provided in which a processor is operable in at least two different modes, one first secure operating mode and one second unsecure operating mode. In the secure mode, the processor has access to security related data located in various memories located within the circuitry. The access to these security data and the processing of them need to be restricted, since an intruder with access to security data could manipulate the circuitry. When testing and/or debugging the circuitry, access to security information is not allowed. For this reason, the processor is placed in the unsecure operating mode, in which mode it is no longer given access to the protected data.
US09111091B2	Automatic extraction, modeling, and code mapping of application user interface display screens and components Managing user applications is provided. A visual model of user interface display screens of a user application is generated by mapping components displayed within the user interface display screens to screen position coordinates and by mapping the screen position coordinates corresponding to the components to original source code of the user application. A runtime policy for each component in a selected set of components within the user interface display screens of the user application is generated based on user interaction with the generated visual model of the user interface display screens. The generated runtime policy for each component in the selected set of components is sent to a client device via a network. Activity of each component in the selected set of components in the client device is tracked using data that is tracked and logged on the client device based the generated runtime policy for each selected component.
US09111090B2	Detection of phishing attempts A method for alerting a service provider and/or a user of a web browser of a phishing attempt comprises providing on a page that it is desired to protect against phishing, a Javascript that when caused by a phishing page to run not in the context of the original page generates an indication that a phishing attempt may exist.
US09111088B2	Policy-based physical security system for restricting access to computer resources and data flow through network equipment Embodiments are directed to systems and methods for integration and normalization of physical security data, states and events to and from disparate physical security systems to maintain in real-time rules based policy state information to enforce physical security policies uniformly across network and information technology (IT) systems. Moreover it pertains specifically to such apparatus for providing an integration platform, methods and processes for normalizing data from physical security systems, to maintain physical security states, mapping to network access and either directly affecting the network equipment through standard programming commands or providing interfaces for network equipment and IT applications to query and determine physical security access states thus enforcing rules in real-time based on security systems data and events.
US09111085B1	Computer-implemented system and method for electronic personal identity verification A system and method for electronic personal identity verification is provided. A user is registered with an authentication service, which includes providing to the service a biometric signature associated with the user and information personally known to the user. Identification data that includes the biometric signature is sent from an identification device worn by the user to a user device associated with the user. An input personally known to the user is received into the user device. Encrypted credentials are sent from the user device to the authentication service. The received encrypted credentials are compared to the biometric signature and the information provided to the authentication service. A claims token is sent from the authentication service to the user device upon the encrypted credentials matching the biometric signature and the information provided to the authentication service. An application is accessed via a third party provider using the claims token.
US09111079B2	Trustworthy device claims as a service Embodiments of the invention make the issuance of trustworthy device claims available to client devices as a service, so that a client device to which device claims are issued may use the device claims in relation to an attempt to access a network application. The service may conduct an assessment of the device's characteristics and/or state, characterize the results of this assessment in device claims, and issue the device claims to the device. The service may be accessible to a client device from outside administrative boundaries of an entity that makes a network application accessible, and thus may be useful to entities making network applications accessible in business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) topologies, such as over the publicly accessible Internet.
US09111077B2	Method and device for realizing remote login The present disclosure provides a method and a device for realizing remote login. The method includes: a terminal server responding to a login request to an internal system from an end user, and recording and saving login information of the end user for logging in to the internal system; and the terminal server judging and analyzing the way the end user logs in to the internal system according to the login information and pre-configured rule, and allowing the end user to log in to and access the internal system if the analyzed result matches the pre-configured rule. The method and device allows for implementations of the SSO authentication and user bind authentication on the aspect of the data flow in the terminal server, simplifies the process of logging in to and accessing the internal system, and improves the information security of the system.
US09111076B2	Mobile terminal and control method thereof A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication; a touch screen display unit configured to switch between an inactivated state in which illumination is not applied to the display unit and an activated state in which illumination is applied to the display unit; and a controller configured to: sense a plurality of touch inputs on the display unit when the display unit is in the deactivated state and no illumination is applied to the display unit, and release a locked state of the mobile terminal and switch the display unit to the activated state in which illumination is applied to the display unit, when the plurality of touch inputs match a predetermined pattern.
US09111072B1	Anti-reverse engineering unified process Computer-implemented systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating and executing anti-reverse engineering software include receiving at least one of a set of input instructions and a set of input values; creating a deterministic environment; executing one or more functions corresponding to at least one of the set of input instructions and the set of input values while simultaneously generating a set of output values corresponding to the executed one or more functions, wherein the set of output values is generated based on a deterministic function of the computing device executing the one or more functions; and outputting the set of output values.
US09111070B2	Method and apparatus for remotely assessing software with automatic maintenance of a software audit file A method and apparatus are disclosed for remotely identifying software and software versions using a maintained software audit file. The disclosed system management tool identifies software installed on each network node by comparing the name and size of installed files to a software audit file. The system management tool performs an inventory scan of the software on each network node and obtains a list of each file and the corresponding file size. The software audit file provides identifying information, such as the file name and corresponding size, for each known file. Known files can be quickly identified using a match criteria based, for example, on the file name and size. The software audit file is maintained by investigating any unknown files with a sample of the user population having the unknown file. In one implementation, a targeted query is automatically transmitted to a sample of the user population having the unknown file requesting header information for the unknown file. In this manner, previously unknown files, once identified, can be added to the software audit file. A technique is disclosed for quickly identifying a network node, in order to retrieve a list of instructions to be executed by the network node.
US09111066B2	Clock tree design A clock tree design tool is described which receives input from a user via a graphical user interface (GUI) through a first window, the input including an indication of an output clock frequency. The tool also detects selection by the user of a soft control and, as a result of detecting selection of the soft control, generates a plurality of clock tree solutions. The tool further causes a graphical form of a highlighted one of the clock tree solutions to be displayed in a second window of the GUI. An algorithm for generating the various clock tree solutions is also disclosed.
US09111062B2	Fast freeform source and mask co-optimization method The present disclosure relates to lithographic apparatuses and processes, and more particularly to tools for optimizing illumination sources and masks for use in lithographic apparatuses and processes. According to certain aspects, the present disclosure significantly speeds up the convergence of the optimization by allowing direct computation of gradient of the cost function. According to other aspects, the present disclosure allows for simultaneous optimization of both source and mask, thereby significantly speeding the overall convergence. According to still further aspects, the present disclosure allows for free-form optimization, without the constraints required by conventional optimization techniques.
US09111053B2	Operations on shapes divided in portions It is provided a computer-implemented method for designing a CAD modeled object. The method comprises displaying several three-dimensional parametric shapes on a screen, wherein each of the several three-dimensional parametric shapes is divided in several portions, a different design operation being assigned to each portion; user-interacting with the screen; determining one portion upon a location of the user-interacting on a support, the determining being performed among all the portions; and performing, on the shape to which the determined portion belongs, the operation assigned to this portion. Such a method makes the design of a CAD modeled object easier.
US09111045B2	Intelligent controller system and method for smart card memory modules A storage device contains a smart-card device and a memory device, both of which are accessed though a controller. The storage device may be used in the same manner as a conventional smart-card device, or it may be used to store a relatively large amount of data in various partitions corresponding to the protection level of the data stored therein. The smart-card device stores critical security parameters that are provided to the controller to protect access to some or all of the partitions of the memory device. A host connected to the controller issues commands, and the controller analyzes the commands and responds to them in various ways depending upon the nature of the command. In particular, depending upon the nature of the command, the controller may either pass the command to the smart-card device, or ignore the command either indefinitely or until a predetermined event has occurred.
US09111038B2	Integrated debugger and code coverage tool An information processing system integrates a code coverage tool with a debugger. A debugging process is performed on a set of source code for an application program. A set of code coverage information associated with the set of source code is analyzed with respect to a set of debugging information. The set of code coverage information at least identifies a set of instructions that has been executed. A set of source code lines in the set of source code that correspond to the set of instructions that has been executed is identified based on the analyzing. A user is notified through a user interface that the set of instructions associated with the identified set of source code have been executed.
US09111035B2	Methods, systems, and computer program products for analyzing an occurrence of an error in a computer program by restricting access to data identified as being sensitive information A method of analyzing an occurrence of an error in a computer program executing on a data processing system includes receiving data that are associated with an execution leg of the computer program at the time of the error and restricting access to at least a portion of the data associated with the execution leg of the computer program based on an identification of the portion of the data associated with the execution leg of the computer program as being sensitive information.
US09111031B2	Method and system for simulating and analyzing code execution in an on-demand service environment In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for simulating and analyzing code execution in a multi-tenant environment. These mechanisms and methods for simulating and analyzing code execution in a multi-tenant environment can enable embodiments to provide an improved interface for analyzing the performance of application on the multi-tenant database. The ability of embodiments to provide better analysis of simulated execution can enable higher quality application developed in less time.
US09111027B2	Similar case search apparatus and similar case search method A similar case search apparatus includes: a keyword extracting unit which extracts a keyword from an image interpretation report; a diagnosis tree analyzing unit which extracts, based on the keyword, one or more target diagnosis flows corresponding to the image interpretation report, by referring to a diagnosis tree storage unit storing diagnosis trees; a similar diagnosis flow extracting unit which extracts one or more diagnosis flows similar to the one or more target diagnosis flows from among the plurality of diagnosis flows included in the diagnosis trees stored in the diagnosis tree storage unit, based on the degree of difficulty regarding a diagnosis item or the degree of difficulty regarding a disease name; and a similar case searching unit which searches out one or more case data sets corresponding to the similar diagnosis flows from among a plurality of case data sets stored in a case data storage unit.
US09111025B2	Providing automated performance test execution A mechanism for automated performance test execution is disclosed. A method includes generating, by a computing device at periodic intervals, actual values of a performance test of a tested system. The method also includes computing a current value based on the generated actual values and computing a difference between the current value and another current value associated with a prior time. The another current value associated with the prior time is computed based on the generated actual values of the performance test at the prior time. When the computed difference is greater than a pre-determined threshold, the method further includes detecting a beginning of a warm-up period of the tested system.
US09111021B2	Bio-medical unit and system with electromagnetic power harvesting and communication A medical system includes a transmitter unit, a bio-medical unit, and a receiver unit. The transmitter unit generates a magnetic resonance imaging signal and a downstream electromagnetic communication signal. The transmitter unit then modulates the downstream electromagnetic communication signal on the magnetic resonance imaging signal. The bio-medical unit receives the modulated magnetic resonance imaging signal and recovers, therefrom, the downstream electromagnetic communication signal. The bio-medical unit converts the downstream electromagnetic communications signal into downstream information. The bio-medical also converts upstream information into an upstream electromagnetic communication signal. The receiver unit receives the modulated magnetic resonance imaging signal and the upstream electromagnetic communication signal. The receiver unit then recovers the magnetic resonance imaging signal from the modulated magnetic resonance imaging signal and the upstream information from the upstream electromagnetic communication signal.
US09111006B2	System, method and computer program product for communicating data between a database and a cache In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for communicating data between a database and a cache. These mechanisms and methods for communicating data between a database and a cache can enable improved application quality and performance, enhanced client application interaction, increased system performance, etc.
US09111003B2	Scalable derivative services An efficient method for parsing HTML pages identifies pages containing a mix of static and dynamic content. The pages are parsed to form abstract syntax trees (ASTs), which are then cached along with the pages. When a later version of a page is retrieved, it is compared against the cached version, and only those portions of the AST that contain different content are reparsed.
US09110994B2	Perturbation of a shared, distributed cube A method of performing a query on a cube of data is provided. A cube of data is distributed onto a plurality of computing devices with each computing device of the plurality of computing devices storing a different portion of the cube of data. A perturbation rule configured for application to the cube of data and associated with a user is received. A process space associated with the user is created. The received perturbation rule is compiled in association with the created process space. A query on the portion of the cube of data stored at the computing device is received. The received query is associated with the created process space. The query is processed while applying the compiled perturbation rule to data extracted from the portion of the cube of data stored at the computing device. A result of the processed query is sent to a requesting computing device.
US09110993B1	Search query reformulation using result term occurrence count Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing voice commands. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining an occurrence count for terms that occur in resources that a search engine has identified as being responsive to an original search query, identifying a term that occurs in the resources, based on the occurrence count, providing the term and a control for display on a client device, the control being associated with the term and with promotion or demotion criteria, receiving a signal indicating that the user has selected the control, and automatically reformulating the original search query based on the term and the promotion or demotion criteria.
US09110989B2	Methods, systems, and products for recalling and retrieving documentary evidence Methods, systems, and products help users recall memories and search for content of those memories. When a user cannot recall a memory, the user is prompted with questions to help recall the memory. As the user answers the questions, a virtual recollection of the memory is synthesized from the answers to the questions. When the user is satisfied with the virtual recollection of the memory, a database of content may be searched for the virtual recollection of the memory. Video data, for example, may be retrieved that matches the virtual recollection of the memory. The video data is thus historical data documenting past events.
US09110985B2	Generating a conceptual association graph from large-scale loosely-grouped content A method for generating a conceptual association graph from structured content includes grouping content nodes into one or more topically biased clusters, the content nodes comprising structured digital content and unstructured digital content, the grouping based at least in part on the connectedness of each content node member to other content node members in the same cluster. The method also includes, responsive to the grouping, tagging the content nodes with one or more descriptive concepts. The method also includes, responsive to the tagging, establishing one or more associations between the one or more concepts, the one or more associations indicating a relevance of the one or more associations, the indicating based at least in part on patterns of co-occurrence of concepts in the tagged content nodes.
US09110982B1	Method, system, and computer program product for obtaining crowd-sourced location information Systems, methods, computer programs, and user interfaces are provided to receive location tags from a plurality of user devices (a location tag including a location category and a location corresponding to a geographic location of a user device from which the location tag is received), identify a first set of location tags comprising a given location category, determine whether a cluster location exists for locations of the set of location tags, generate a moderation request for a location tag of the set of location tags in response to determining that a cluster location does not exists for locations of the set of location tags, receive moderator approval of the location tag, and store a geographic location corresponding to the location tag as a point of interest associated with the given location category in response to receiving moderator approval of the location tag.
US09110971B2	Method and system for ranking intellectual property documents using claim analysis The present invention provides a method and system for re-ranking search results in a patent retrieval system where the query text is derived in whole or in part from a patent claim, which may be from an existing patent or a prospective claim. The re-ranking is based on several features of the candidate patent, such as the text similarity to the claim, international patent code or other classification or subject matter relatedness or overlap, and internal citation structure of the candidates. One alternative aspect provides a re-ranker that is trained on automatically generated training data, thus obviating the expensive and time-intensive step of expert annotation.
US09110968B2	Removal of invisible data packages in data warehouses In accordance with one embodiment of the disclosed technology, inconsistencies are detected between various records relating to data that has been associated with an identification tag. Data packages associated with the inconsistencies may then be removed. In accordance with another aspect of the disclosed technology, requests relating to data packages associated with inconsistencies in the various stored records are identified and removed. The disclosed technology may be implemented in data warehouses.
US09110965B1	Systems and methods for disaster recovery from binary large objects A computer-implemented method for disaster recovery from binary large objects may include (1) identifying a volume of data to be protected, (2) identifying a binary large object storage system, (3) replicating the volume to the binary large object storage system by writing to a binary large object file on the binary large object storage system to be readable as a consumable virtual disk that may represent the volume and (4) mounting the consumable virtual disk directly from the binary large object file. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09110964B1	Metadata optimization for network replication using differential encoding According to one embodiment, in response to a list of fingerprints representing data chunks of a first batch for replication, a second batch previously transmitted to the target storage system is identified based on at least a portion of the fingerprints of the first batch. Differential encoding information is generated representing a difference between fingerprints of the first batch and the second batch. The differential encoding information is transmitted to the target storage system, without transmitting all full fingerprints of the first batch, to allow the target storage system to determine which of the data chunks are missing at the target storage system. In response to information received from the target storage system indicating one or more data chunks that are missing at the target storage system, the missing data chunks are then transmitted to the target storage system.
US09110948B2	Relative performance prediction of a replacement database management system (DBMS) Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for pre-migration performance prediction of a database management system (DBMS). In an embodiment of the invention, a method for pre-migration performance prediction of a DBMS can include executing a calibration workload in a target DBMS to produce a conversion factor of cost of executing the calibration workload to temporal performance of executing the calibration workload. The method also can include subsequently submitting a sample workload from a database of a source DBMS for evaluation of cost of execution on an empty replica of the database in the target DBMS. Finally, the method can include predicting a temporal performance of the sample workload in the target DBMS as a product of the conversion factor and the cost of execution of the sample workload on the empty replica of the database in the target DBMS.
US09110947B1	Column-oriented task execution in a row-partitioned database system A database system may process multiple column-oriented tasks in parallel for a database being stored according to a row-partitioning protocol. The database system may determine when the query should process the column-oriented task serially or in parallel. For parallel processing, the database system may generate processing tasks for each unique column-oriented task contained in the query used to retrieve column data and to process the column data according to the column-oriented tasks requested. A method of operating the database system may determine that multiple column-oriented tasks included in a query are to be processed in parallel. The method may further include generating a processing task for each unique column-oriented task included in the query. The method may further include performing the column-oriented tasks in parallel based on the processing threads. The method may implement various considerations in determining to process to the column-oriented tasks in parallel.
US09110943B2	Identifying an image for an entity Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying an image for an entity. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a set of resources. Each resource can include at least one image and reference at least one entity. Each image is assigned to a particular entity based on an overall entity scores for the image relative to the entities. The overall entity score for an image and an entity can specify a measure of topical relatedness between the image and the entity. For each individual entity referenced by at least one of the resources, a group of images that have been assigned to the individual entity is identified. An image evocative of each individual entity is selected from the group based on image rank scores. The image rank score for an image can be determined based on visual characteristics of the image.
US09110938B2	Parallelizing I/O processing of index insertions during insertion of data into a database Database elements are inserted into a database object by processing each of a plurality of operations in a sequential order within a first processing round to insert the database elements into the database objects, where processing for at least one operation in the order becomes suspended due to a resource request, and where at least one successive operation is initiated in response to suspension of one or more prior operations to enable prefetching of information for processing the operations. Each suspended operation is re-processed with the prefetched information in one or more additional processing rounds until processing of the operations is completed.
US09110936B2	Using index partitioning and reconciliation for data deduplication The subject disclosure is directed towards a data deduplication technology in which a hash index service's index is partitioned into subspace indexes, with less than the entire hash index service's index cached to save memory. The subspace index is accessed to determine whether a data chunk already exists or needs to be indexed and stored. The index may be divided into subspaces based on criteria associated with the data to index, such as file type, data type, time of last usage, and so on. Also described is subspace reconciliation, in which duplicate entries in subspaces are detected so as to remove entries and chunks from the deduplication system. Subspace reconciliation may be performed at off-peak time, when more system resources are available, and may be interrupted if resources are needed. Subspaces to reconcile may be based on similarity, including via similarity of signatures that each compactly represents the subspace's hashes.
US09110929B2	Sharing television and video programming through social networking In particular embodiments, one or more computer systems of a social-networking system determine a first media device of a first user of a social-networking system and determine a second media device of a second user of the social-networking system. The one or more computer systems access a social graph of the social-networking system, update the social graph based on the determined first and second media devices, and stream media from the first media device to the second media device using the updated social graph. The social graph includes nodes and edges connecting the nodes, the nodes including user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system and concept nodes that are each associated with a particular media device.
US09110927B2	Method and apparatus for organizing digital photographs A method and system for organizing digital photographs is disclosed. A plurality of digital photographs are obtained. Each digital photograph in the plurality is analyzed to obtain metadata related to the digital photograph and/or photograph content information related to the digital photograph. The metadata and/or the photograph content information is then analyzed. The plurality of digital photographs are automatically organized into clusters. Each cluster is associated with one or more predetermined cluster parameter. Each cluster parameter is associated with a metadata item. The digital photographs are then displayed (e.g., in a web page) on a computing device in accordance with the cluster parameter(s). One or more of the digital photographs are reorganized into a different cluster each time additional metadata related to the one or more digital photographs is received.
US09110922B2	Joint embedding for item association Methods and systems to associate semantically-related items of a plurality of item types using a joint embedding space are disclosed. The disclosed methods and systems are scalable to large, web-scale training data sets. According to an embodiment, a method for associating semantically-related items of a plurality of item types includes embedding training items of a plurality of item types in a joint embedding space configured in a memory coupled to at least one processor, learning one or more mappings into the joint embedding space for each of the item types to create a trained joint embedding space and one or more learned mappings, and associating one or more embedded training items with a first item based upon a distance in the trained joint embedding space from the first item to each said associated embedded training items. Exemplary item types that may be embedded in the joint embedding space include images, annotations, audio and video.
US09110919B2	Method for quickly identifying data residing on a volume in a multivolume file system A method for quickly identifying data residing on a volume in a multivolume file system. The method includes generating a file location map, the file location map containing a list of the locations of files that occupy space on each of a plurality of volumes of the file system. The file system comprises least a first volume and a second volume. The file location map is updated in accordance with changes in a file change log for the file system. Data residing on the first volume of the file system is identified by scanning the file location map.
US09110911B2	System and method for the synchronization of a file in a cache The present invention provides a system and method for file synchronization. One embodiment of the system of this invention includes a software program stored on a computer readable medium. The software program can be executed by a computer processor to receive a file from a server; store the file as a cached file in a cache; determine if the cached file has been modified; and if the cached file has been modified, communicate the cached file directly to the database.
US09110909B2	File level hierarchical storage management system, method, and apparatus Time required for a file server to determine files to be migrated from a first storage region to a second storage region is reduced. A file service system coupled to the storage system for providing a first storage region and a second storage region stores identifiers of files that have been accessed by a client, in accessed file identifier information and determines the files to be migrated from the first storage region to the second storage region based on metadata of the files stored in the first storage region and the accessed file identifier information.
US09110898B1	Method and apparatus for automatically detecting replication performance degradation Techniques for automatically detecting data replication performance degradation are described. According to one embodiment, a method starts with receiving periodically data replication characteristics from a source storage and a target storage, the data replication characteristics being extracted from a replication process of the source storage replicating data to the target storage. The received data replication characteristics are analyzed at a replication management server communicatively coupled with the source storage, and the target storage and data replication performance degradation is detected based on analyzing the received data replication characteristics and applying one or more rules of data replication performance degradation. When the one or more applied rules indicating that a data replication performance degradation has been detected, a notification is sent out.
US09110894B2	Systems and methods for determining related places Techniques for providing location-based recommendations are described. Some embodiments provide a Location-Based Recommendation System (“LRBS”) that provides recommendations regarding physical places based on content items, such as Web pages, user reviews, directory listings, or the like, that describe or otherwise reference those places. In one embodiment, the LBRS is configured to, in response to an indication of a first place, determine one or more other places that are similar to the first place, and then provide indications of the determined places as recommendations to a user or other entity. In another embodiment, the LBRS is configured to, in response to an indication of a user, determine one or more places that may be of interest to the user, and then provide indications of the determined places as recommendations. In some embodiments, the LBRS may determine recommendations based on content vectors associated with places and/or users.
US09110893B2	Combining problem and solution artifacts An approach is provided in which a resolution manager stores a machine-readable problem, which includes a problem signature, and a human-readable solution in a document. The resolution manager receives an output file from a computer system and matches an output entry included in the output file to the problem signature. In turn, the resolution manager identifies the human-readable solution corresponding to the matched problem signature and provides the identified human-readable solution to the computer system.
US09110891B2	Auto-translation for multi user audio and video The disclosed subject matter provides a system, computer readable storage medium, and a method providing an audio and textual transcript of a communication. A conferencing services may receive audio or audio visual signals from a plurality of different devices that receive voice communications from participants in a communication, such as a chat or teleconference. The audio signals representing voice (speech) communications input into respective different devices by the participants. A translation services server may receive over a separate communication channel the audio signals for translation into a second language. As managed by the translation services server, the audio signals may be converted into textual data. The textual data may be translated into text of different languages based the language preferences of the end user devices in the teleconference. The translated text may be further translated into audio signals.
US09110886B2	Data transfer control apparatus, data transfer control method, and computer product A data transfer control apparatus includes a transferring unit that transfers data from a transfer source memory to a transfer destination memory, according to an instruction from a first processor; and a first processor configured to detect a process execute by the first processor, determine whether transfer of the data is urgent, based on the type of the detected process, and control the transferring unit or the first processor to transfer the data, based on a determination result.
US09110885B2	Techniques for cache injection in a processor system A technique for performing cache injection includes monitoring addresses on a bus. Ownership of input/output data on the bus is acquired by a cache when an address on the bus (that is associated with the input/output data) corresponds to an address of a data block stored in the cache.
US09110883B2	System for natural language understanding A general-purpose apparatus for analyzing natural language text that allows for the implementation of a broad range of natural language understanding applications. The apparatus for natural language understanding analyzes a source text and transforms the source text into a semantically-interpretable syntactic representation (SISR), comprising a syntax template and semantic clause annotations. The general-purpose apparatus for natural language understanding is adaptable to various source text natural languages and is adaptable to various natural language understanding applications, such as query answering, translation, summarization, information extraction, disambiguation, and parsing. A natural language query answering apparatus for answering questions about a source text, whereby the query answering apparatus utilizes the general-purpose apparatus for transforming the natural language query into SISR format.
US09110880B1	Acoustically informed pruning for language modeling Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for pruning a language model are disclosed. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of selecting a candidate portion of the language model to evaluate for pruning, obtaining an entropy score representing information loss that would result from pruning the candidate portion of the language model, obtaining an acoustic score representing acoustic confusability of one or more words modeled by the candidate portion of the language model, and evaluating whether to prune the candidate portion of the language model using the entropy score and the acoustic score.
US09110877B2	Method and apparatus for utilizing an extensible markup language schema for managing specific types of content in an electronic document An extensible markup language (“XML”) schema is provided for defining a content region which displays specific types of content in an electronic document created in a word processing application program. The schema includes structural elements for defining the content region in the electronic document. The structural elements include a properties element for defining properties associated with the content to be displayed in the content region and a content element for receiving the content to be displayed according to the defined properties. The properties element and the content element define the content region in the electronic document.
US09110876B2	Monitoring operation of communication protocol procedure This document discloses a method, apparatus, and computer program for automatically detecting unallowed continuation of a communication protocol procedure in a communication device. The method comprises in a test tool: marking an invalid input applied to the communication device in a sequence of operations of the communication protocol procedure; marking, with a sequence marker, a location that should not be reached in the sequence of operations of the communication protocol procedure as a result of the invalid input; and upon detecting that the communication protocol procedure has reached the location marked with the sequence marker, outputting an indication that the communication device operates in an unallowed manner.
US09110867B2	Providing application based monitoring and recovery for a hypervisor of an HA cluster An embodiment of the invention is directed to a method associated with a node comprising a hypervisor and guest VMs, each guest VM being managed by the hypervisor and disposed to run applications, the node being joined with other nodes to form an HA cluster. The method includes establishing an internal bidirectional communication channel between each guest VM and the hypervisor, and further includes sending commands and responses thereto through the channel, wherein respective commands manage a specified application running on the given guest VM. The messages are selectively monitored, to detect a failure condition associated with the specified application running on the given guest VM. Responsive to detecting a failure condition, action is taken to correct the failure condition, wherein the action includes sending at least one command through the internal channel from the hypervisor to the given guest VM.
US09110859B2	Signal processing device and signal processing method A signal processing device includes an operation control unit configured to control a timing of an operation process executed by an operation unit; and a transfer control unit configured to control a timing of transferring data that is a target of the operation process, such that the data that is the target of the operation process is loaded by the operation unit according to the timing of the operation process controlled by the operation control unit.
US09110856B2	Interface control apparatus, data storage apparatus and method for interface control According to one embodiment, an interface control apparatus includes an interface, and a controller. The interface is configured to transmit information between a host and a data storage apparatus. The controller is configured to fetch request information making a processing request for the data storage apparatus, from an element being a storage unit of a queue provided on the host through the interface. The controller is configured to execute read request processing of fetching first request information divided into a plurality of elements and stored, with priority over second request information which is different from the first request information, when the request information is fetched.
US09110836B1	Integrated biosensor and simulation system for diagnosis and therapy BioMEMS/NEMS appliance biologically monitors an individual, using biosensors to detect cellular components. Data is simulated or analyzed using systems-biology software, which provides diagnostic or therapeutic guidance.
US09110833B2	Non-temporarily storing temporarily stored data in a dispersed storage network A method begins by a dispersed storage (DS) processing module receiving data from a plurality of sources and queuing the data for storage in a dispersed storage network (DSN). The method continues with the DS processing module utilizing temporary dispersed storage error encoding parameters for efficient and reliable error encoded temporary storage of the data in the DSN. For a data object of the data temporarily stored in the DSN, the method continues with the DS processing module determining non-temporary storage parameters for the data object, retrieving first encoded data slices regarding the data object from the DSN, reconstructing the data object from the first encoded data slices in accordance with the temporary dispersed storage error encoding parameters, encoding the reconstructed data object in accordance with the non-temporary storage parameters for the data object to produce second encoded data slices, and storing the second encoded data slices in the DSN.
US09110821B2	Systems and methods for improved short media defect detection Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for media defect detection. As an example, a method is discusses that includes: receiving a decoded output including a first multi-bit symbol; receiving a detected output including a second multi-bit bit symbol; calculating values based upon respective combinations of the first multi-bit symbol and the second multi-bit symbols; calculating a first product and the second product based upon some of the aforementioned values; and asserting a suspect symbol indicator indicating a probability that the symbol is incorrect when at least one of the first product and the second product is negative.
US09110819B2	Adjusting data dispersal in a dispersed storage network A method begins with a processing module determining that storage of data requires updating, wherein the data is stored as a plurality of sets of encoded data slices in DSN memory. For a first type of updating, the processing module increases the total number while maintaining the decode threshold number. The processing module then, for each set of encoded data slices, creates another encoded data slice in accordance with the dispersed storage error encoding function and the increased total number and sends the new encoded data slices to the DSN memory. For a second type of updating, the processing module increases the total number and the decode threshold number. The processing module then recovers the data and encodes it in accordance with the dispersed storage error encoding function using the increased total number and the increased decode threshold number to produce an updated plurality of sets of encoded data slices.
US09110818B2	Memory switching protocol when switching optically-connected memory Data is collected by an active node from passive nodes and arranges and stores the collected data on receiving nodes. A source node extracts the data format, and a remote memory blade identification (ID), a remote memory blade address, and ranges of the RMMA space, and composes and sends metadata to the receiving nodes and receiving racks. The RMMA space is unmapped by the source node thereby removing all entries in page tables that map a linear address to a remote RMMA space. The system memory address (SMA) space that is associated with alternative RMMA space is free.
US09110817B2	Method for creating a markov process that generates sequences The present invention relates to a method for creating a Markov process that generates sequences. Each sequence has a finite length L, comprises items from a set of a specific number n of items, and satisfies one or more control constraints specifying one or more requirements on the sequence. The method comprises the steps of receiving data defining an initial Markov process of a specific order d and having an initial probability distribution and of receiving data defining one or more control constraints. The method further comprises the step of generating data defining intermediary matrices, each matrix being of dimension nd by n, by zeroing out transitions in the initial Markov process data that are forbidden by the one or more control constraints.
US09110815B2	Enhancing data processing performance by cache management of fingerprint index Various embodiments for improving hash index key lookup caching performance in a computing environment are provided. In one embodiment, for a cached fingerprint map having a plurality of entries corresponding to a plurality of data fingerprints, reference count information is used to determine a length of time to retain the plurality of entries in cache. Those of the plurality of entries having a higher reference counts are retained longer than those having lower reference counts.
US09110809B2	Reducing memory traffic in DRAM ECC mode A method for managing memory traffic includes causing first data to be written to a data cache memory, where a first write request comprises a partial write and writes the first data to a first portion of the data cache memory, and further includes tracking the number of partial writes in the data cache memory. The method further includes issuing a fill request for one or more partial writes in the data cache memory if the number of partial writes in the data cache memory is greater than a predetermined first threshold.
US09110806B2	Opportunistic page caching for virtualized servers A system described herein includes a receiver component that receives an indication that at least one page in virtual memory is free and the at least one page in virtual memory is classified as short-lived memory, wherein the virtual memory is accessible to at least one virtual machine executing on a computing device. The system also includes a cache updater component that dynamically updates a cache to include the at least one page, wherein the cache is accessible to the at least one virtual machine.
US09110805B1	Preventing device power on after unrecoverable error In some implementations, a system controller of a computing device can be configured to receive a power-on signal and prevent the computing device from providing power to components of the computing device. In some implementations, upon receiving a power-on signal, the system controller can retrieve fault data from a power supply unit. The fault data can be analyzed to determine whether the power supply unit detected an unrecoverable failure. When an unrecoverable failure is detected, the system controller can prevent the power supply unit from providing power to other components of the computing device. In some implementations, an unrecoverable failure can be detected when the fault data indicates that an overcurrent, an overvoltage, or an over-temperature fault has occurred.
US09110804B2	On-die electric cosmic ray detector Described is a chip comprising: a substrate; a logic unit forming an active circuit on the substrate; and a cosmic ray detector embedded in the substrate, the cosmic ray detector to detect a cosmic ray and to generate a signal indicating detection of the cosmic ray, the signal for reducing error in the logic unit.
US09110793B2	Inner process Methods, systems, and products for computer processing. In one general embodiment, the method comprises running an inner process in the context of an executing thread wherein the thread has an original address space in memory and hiding at least a portion of the memory from the inner process. The inner process may run on the same credentials as the thread. Running the inner process may include creating a new address space for the inner process in the memory and assigning the new address space to the thread, so that the inner process comprises its own address space. The inner process may he allowed to access only the new address space. The kernel may maintain the thread's original address space along with the new address space, so that multiple address spaces exist for a particular thread. The kernel may pass selected data from the thread to the inner process.
US09110787B2	Initiating memory wear leveling Systems and processes may use a host and an external host. The host may be a portable device that includes a memory, a memory controller, and a communication interface for communication with the external host. The portable device may receive a command signal from the external host and initiate a predetermined amount of wear leveling in response to the command signal.
US09110775B2	In-vehicle infotainment device and data processing method using the same An in-vehicle infotainment device includes a first processor for executing a web application, and a second processor for outputting vehicle data to the first processor. The first processor includes a first-processor-side inter-node communication (INC) interface module for transmitting and receiving information to and from the second processor, the second processor includes a second-processor-side INC interface module for transmitting and receiving information to and from the first processor, and the first processor provides the vehicle data received from the second processor to the web application if a request for vehicle data is received from the web application.
US09110773B2	Automated collating conveyor system A method of moving and boxing packages, including positioning a conveyor belt assembly having distal and proximal ends to receive a package at the distal end, sending a signal when a first package is placed upon the distal end, generating an air pulse to reorient the first package into a predetermined orientation, moving the first package to a loading area, and removing the first package into a shipping container. Next, the first package is moved far enough to make room for a second package, a second package is placed onto the distal end, a signal is sent when the second package is placed upon the distal end, and an air pulse is generated to reorient the second package into a predetermined orientation.
US09110772B2	Mobile device-activated vehicle functions Mobile device-activated vehicle functions are implemented by authenticating a vehicle with a device via wireless signals transmitted between a low frequency antenna of the device and a low frequency antenna of the vehicle when the vehicle is in communicative range of the device. The mobile device-activated vehicle functions are further implemented by receiving, via computer processor embedded in the device, a selection from one of a plurality of input components embedded in the device, the selection associated with a vehicle function, and transmitting a request to implement the vehicle function via the low frequency antenna coupled to the computer processor and the low frequency antenna of the vehicle.
US09110766B2	Dynamically recommending changes to an association between an operating system image and an update group Dynamically recommending changes to an association between an operating system image and an update group includes monitoring a configuration of a deployed copy of a first master operating system (OS) image; detecting a modification in the configuration of the deployed copy; determining that the configuration of the deployed copy with the modification more closely matches a configuration of a second master OS image than a configuration of the first master OS image; in response to determining that the configuration of the deployed copy with the modification more closely matches the configuration of the second master OS image, generating an association recommendation that recommends associating the deployed copy with a second update group of the second master OS image; and associating the deployed copy with the second update group of the second master OS image instead of the first update group of the first master OS image.
US09110764B2	User feedback method and system for business suite customization A computer-implemented user feedback method, system and program product for customizing business suite software is executable on a computer system. The method includes: acquiring a business logic software function associated with a feedback mechanism in a business suite software user interface for the business suite software; acquiring an existing customization requirement related to the business logic software function and the relationship between the existing customization requirement related to the business logic software function and another existing customization requirement related to the business logic software function; and presenting the acquired existing customization requirement and the relationship between the existing customization requirement related to the business logic software function and the other existing customization requirement related to the business logic software function. The system includes: a business logic software function collector; a customization requirement manager; and a customization requirement presenter.
US09110763B2	Highlighting changes on computer diagrams A diagram having initial visual design elements can be displayed on a computer display. For example, the diagram may be a computer software architectural diagram. Changes can be made to the diagram to produce modified visual design elements. The changes can be tracked as they are made, to produce change tracking information. The change tracking information can be processed to automatically highlight at least a portion of the modified visual design elements in a display of the diagram. Processing the change tracking information can include filtering the change tracking information to provide different highlighting treatment to some of the modified visual design elements corresponding to information that is filtered out.
US09110762B2	Virtual machine-preserving host updates Techniques are described for updating a host operating system on a server while maintaining virtual machines running on the server. An updated host operating system is copied to the server. The currently active host operating system freezes the virtual machines but leaves them resident in RAM. The allocations and state for each virtual machine is copied to RAM or local storage. The active host operating system is shut down. Instead of issuing a command to reboot the server after it finishes shutting down, the active host operating system transfers execution to a loader. The loader reads the kernel of the updated host operating system into RAM along with an allocation map for the virtual machines and instructions to resume the virtual machines. The loader transfers execution to the updated host operating system entry point, and the updated host operating system loads the states of the virtual machines and resumes them.
US09110761B2	Resource data structures for firmware updates A firmware update system is described that collectively handles firmware updates for hardware resources of a computing device. The firmware update system may be configured to handle firmware updates in a consistent manner across different computing platforms/architectures. A data structure is defined to associate each updateable resource with a corresponding identifier to enumerate the updateable resources to the firmware update system. The firmware update system may reference the data structure to produce representations of the each individual resource that provide an operating system level abstraction through which detection, analysis, acquisition, deployment, installation, and tracking of firmware updates is managed. Using the representations, the firmware update system operates to discover available firmware updates collectively for the enumerated resources, match the updates to appropriate resources, and initiate installation of the updates.
US09110760B2	Image forming apparatus, control method for image forming apparatus, and storage medium An image forming apparatus reduces downtime of the apparatus caused by firmware updates. When a function relating to an option unit not connected to the image forming apparatus is the update target, firmware of the image forming apparatus is not updated.
US09110758B2	Cross-platform software framework for embedded systems on data storage device The embodiments of present invention relates to methods and systems for a cross-platform framework for embedded systems. One embodiment provides a framework for a network attached storage or other storage devices. The framework provides a standardized structure for modules of software, such as plugins, to implement various features on the embedded system. In addition, the framework supports interoperability between software modules written in either native code, such as C, C++, and interpreted code, such as JAVA™.
US09110743B2	Extensible system action for sharing while remaining in context An operating system provides an extensible share action to broker content sharing between applications executing on a computing platform such as a personal computer, tablet computer, or smartphone. The share action enables a consistent user experience for content sharing to be implemented across all applications and eliminates users having to switch from the current application they are using to some other functionality in order to share content. Applications can participate with the operating system share action as source applications and/or target applications. Source applications may describe what content is shareable given the current state of their application when the user chooses to invoke the share action. Target applications can be configured to receive the shared content from the source application according to content type, and will expose a companion view of their application to the user that is specifically tailored to facilitate sharing.
US09110738B2	Method and apparatus for calling back a program A method and an apparatus for calling back a program. A receiving module receives calling information delivered by a first program. The calling information includes a target parameter of a second program to be called and a parameter indicating an application identity (APPID) of the first program. A processing module calls the second program by using the target parameter, and establishes an icon for quickly calling back the first program. The icon is corresponding to the APPID. A returning module returns to the first program by using the APPID after receiving an instruction triggered by an operation on the icon.
US09110734B2	Power-constrained compiler code generation and scheduling of work in a heterogeneous processing system A heterogeneous processing system includes a compiler for performing power-constrained code generation and scheduling of work in the heterogeneous processing system. The compiler produces source code that is executable by a computer. The compiler performs a method. The method includes dividing a power budget for the heterogeneous processing system into a discrete number of power tokens. Each of the power tokens has an equal value of units of power. The method also includes determining a power requirement for executing a code segment on a processing element of the heterogeneous processing system. The determining is based on characteristics of the processing element and the code segment. The method further includes allocating, to the processing element at runtime, at least one of the power tokens to satisfy the power requirement.
US09110727B2	Automatic replication of virtual machines Systems and methods are disclosed herein to automatically replicate virtual machine image (VM) files on secondary VM computing devices, from a primary VM computing device. The secondary VM computing devices are automatically selected by constantly reviewing the operating parameter values (e.g., cost of resources, power consumption, etc.) of a number of secondary VM computing devices available of storing VM image replicas. The replica of the primary VM image is stored in the secondary VM computing devices in geographically disparate cloud locations. The primary VM image is automatically broken into constituent data blocks stored in an active index, which is compared against a stale index of data blocks. When an update is detected in the primary VM image, the comparison of indices will indicate that there is new data. Only the new data is used to update the secondary VM images, thereby reducing network traffic and latency issues.
US09110724B2	Selecting computing nodes in cloud service using replication topologies A cloud statistics server generates statistics for a cloud service based on an identified data item and an identified operation. The cloud service may include various computing nodes and storage nodes. The cloud statistics may include expected completion times for the identified operation and the identified data item with respect to each of the computing nodes. A computing node may be selected to execute the identified operation based on the expected completion times. The generated statistics may be generated by the cloud statistics server using a network topology associated with the data item that is based on the latencies or expected transfer times between the various storage nodes and computing nodes, and a replication strategy used by the cloud service. The topology may be implemented as a directed graph with edge weights corresponding to expected transfer times between each node.
US09110702B2	Virtual machine migration techniques Techniques for migrating a virtual machine from a source computer system to a target computer system are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a group of pages can be mapped writable in response to determining that the guest operating system attempted to change a specific page. In the same, or other embodiments, pages can be compressed prior to sending such that throughput of a communication channel is maximized. In the same, or other embodiments, storage IO jobs can be canceled on a source computer system and reissued by a target computer system.
US09110694B2	Data flow affinity for heterogenous virtual machines According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method and technique for data flow affinity for heterogeneous virtual machines is disclosed. The method includes: connecting first and second logical partitions to a shared virtual adapter, the first logical partition having a maximum receive unit (MRU) different than a MRU of the second logical partition; and responsive to receiving data by the shared virtual adapter destined for the first or second logical partitions, performing transmission control protocol (TCP) segmentation offload processing of the data by the shared virtual adapter utilizing the MRU of the first logical partition as the transmission unit for data destined for the first logical partition and utilizing the MRU of the second logical partition as the transmission unit for data destined for the second logical partition.
US09110693B1	VM mobility over distance Migrating an active VM from a first data center to a second data center having a passive counterpart of the active VM includes freezing the active VM at the first data center, creating an active VM at the second data center that corresponds to the passive counterpart, and restarting the active VM at the second data center. Migrating an active VM from a first data center to a second data center may also include waiting for the passive counterpart to be synchronized with the active VM at the first data center prior to converting the passive counterpart. Creating the active VM at the second data center may include providing a snapshot of a volume containing the passive VM.
US09110685B2	Apparatus and methods for managing widgets in a wireless communication environment Apparatus and methods relating to mobile widgets. In particular, apparatus and methods for integrating network services and/or network resources with widget capabilities, managing mobile widgets, providing portability to mobile widgets, and generating content with respect to a mobile widget. In one aspect, a method for integration of network services and/or resources with widget capabilities is provided. The method may include providing for an interface between a widget management component and at least one of a network resource or a network service. The method may also include accessing, at the widget management component via the interface, at least one of a network resource or network service. Further, the method may include integrating the network resource or the network service with a widget functionality.
US09110676B2	Method and system for syntax error repair in programming languages The described embodiments present techniques for recovering from syntax errors. These techniques correct potential errors while preserving the shape of the parse tree, and the specific implementation of the techniques can be automatically generated from the grammar. These techniques may operate by looking back at states associated with previously-received tokens to determine pair matching status, when a synchronizing symbol is received. The techniques can respond to the pair matching status determination by potentially adding a synthesized token or by deleting a token that has already been received. The techniques may use a structure referred to herein as a tuple to assist with the evaluation of the pair matching status. Some of the techniques utilize indentation information to evaluate the pair matching status, while other techniques ignore such information. The described embodiments also include a technique for automatically generating the tuples from a set of grammar rules associated with the parser.
US09110666B2	Throttling integrated link Methods and apparatus for throttling an interface that is integrated on the same die as a processor are described. In one embodiment, a signal from an Integrated Input/Output hub (e.g., integrated on the same die as a processor) causes throttling of a link coupled between the IIO and an Input/Output (IO) device. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US09110663B2	Initialize a computing device to perform an action A method uses a computing device that includes a first processor in a first, inactive state operatively coupled to a second processor in an active state. While the first processor is in the first state (301) the second processor uses sensors to determine (303) that a first condition occurred. In response to determining that the first condition has occurred, the first processor initializes (305) to a second, active state. If the first or second processor determines (311) that a second condition has occurred within a given time period (307 and 309) after the first condition occurred, the first processor performs (315) a first action such as launching a software application, capturing a digital photograph, or placing a phone call.
US09110651B2	Electronic device for detecting consumption of power An electronic device includes a current detection module, two path switches, a processing unit, and two control circuits. Two terminals of the current detection module are connected to an external power port and a battery. The two path switches are connected to the two terminals. A first control circuit is connected to the processing unit and to one path switch. A second control circuit is connected to the processing unit and to another path switch. When the electronic device is powered on, whether using power from the battery or from the external power port, the device can analyze the power consumed by the functioning parts of the device, including (when power is taken from the external power port) the amount of current taken in charging the battery.
US09110650B2	Electronic device having USB interface and method for starting USB communication with such device The present disclosure provides an electronic device having a USB interface and a method for starting USB communication with such an electronic device, so as to solve the problem of a risk of damaging a mobile phone terminal device arising from sharing of an interface by a charger and a USB communication cable in the related art. In the electronic device, a port GPIO of a baseband chip is connected to a pin USB_VBUS of a USB interface of the baseband chip; based on this circuit, a power management chip detects a state of plugging-in-or-pulling-out of the charger and generates a corresponding interrupt request; and the baseband chip controls the GPIO to output a corresponding level according to the interrupt request. By connecting the port GPIO and the pin USB_VBUS and controlling an output level of GPIO with a software, a high level or a low level (as a triggering signal for starting or terminating the USB communication) is input to the pin USB_VBUS, thus avoiding damage to the device.
US09110645B2	Apparatus and method for providing power to main controller based upon power-on/off state signal and reset signal for resetting the main controller An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit to form an image, a user switch unit to output a user operation signal to switch between a power-on state and a power-off state of the image forming apparatus, a main controller to control the image forming unit and to output a power control signal based on the user operation signal, a power switching unit to selectively supply operation power to the main controller based on the user operation signal and the power control signal, and an auxiliary controller to control the power switching unit such that the operation power is not supplied to the main controller when the power control signal is changed in a power-off state.
US09110640B2	Memory combination and computer system using the same A memory combination includes a first riser board, a second riser board, a pivotal plate, a first engaging member, and a second engaging member. The first riser board has a first edge and a second edge parallel to each other. The second riser board has a third edge and a fourth edge parallel to each other. The pivotal plate are pivotally connected to the first riser board to be adjacent to the first edge and to the second riser board to be adjacent to the third edge. The first and second engaging members are respectively disposed on the first and second riser boards to be respectively adjacent to the second and fourth edges. When the first and second riser boards rotate to be perpendicular to the pivotal plate, the first engaging member is engaged with the second engaging member.
US09110638B2	Pointing device A pointing device includes an enclosure, a touch panel, and a securing panel. The enclosure includes an enclosure body, a first resisting portion and a second resisting portion extending from the enclosure body, and an elastic element mounted to the enclosure body. The touch panel is placed between the first resisting portion and the second resisting portion. The securing panel includes a panel body and a first resisting tab and a second resisting tab extending from the panel body. The first resisting tab is received in the first resisting portion, and the second resisting tab is received in the second resisting portion, thereby enabling the touch panel to be secured between the panel body and the enclosure body.
US09110636B2	Portable electronic device with a supporting structure for supporting a display module A portable electronic device includes a host module, a display module, a pivoting structure connected to the host module and the display module and a supporting structure connected to the display module for supporting the display module on a supporting surface. The supporting structure includes a supporting portion for contacting against the supporting surface and two supporting rods. Two ends of the two supporting rods are connected to two ends of the supporting portion respectively, and the other ends of each rod are rotatably connected to two side portions of the display module respectively, so that the supporting structure rotates relative to the display module. A sliding slot is formed on the other end of each supporting rod, and parts of the two side portions of the display module are installed inside the two sliding slots, so that the two supporting rods move relative to the display module.
US09110634B2	Electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus includes a first body, a second body and a keyboard. The first body has a display surface and an appearance surface opposite to each other. The second body is pivoted to the first body and has an accommodating opening and a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, in which when the first body is closed to the second body, the first surface faces the display surface. The keyboard is pivoted at the accommodating opening through at least one rotation-shaft, in which when the first body is turned over relatively to the second body, the keyboard is able to be turned over relatively to the second body, so that when the second surface faces the appearance surface, the first body covers a plurality of keys of the keyboard.
US09110622B2	Internet-pads that include a digital camera, a touch sensitive screen interface, and support for voice activated commands New Internet-Pad specifications that include voice activated command functions are disclosed and enabled. The Internet-Pad may include a touch sensitive screen, a digital camera, a wireless communication unit, an operating system, a graphical user interface, an e-mail application, an Internet browsing application, and an application for playing audio or video content. The Internet-Pad operating system supports an application programming interface (API). A user can install additional applications. The Internet-Pad may further include a microphone and a speaker for interacting via voice commands with the user. In some examples, the user may take a picture with the digital camera included in the Internet-Pad and transfer or synchronize the picture to a wireless output device. In other examples, the Internet-Pad may transmit an e-mail upon receiving voice commands, and the Internet-Pad also may stream or mirror digital content over the air to an output device via voice commands.
US09110617B2	Cooperative image processing system, cooperative image processing method, portable information apparatus, image processing apparatus, and recording medium A cooperative image processing system comprises an image processing apparatus and a portable information apparatus; the image processing apparatus comprises: a file creator that creates a file; a transmitter that transmits the file to the portable information apparatus; and a log information generator that generates log information of the image processing apparatus which includes a transmission history; the portable information apparatus comprises: a display; one or more processors; a cooperation portion that shows on the display an operation screen; transmits user instructions entered through the operation screen, to the image processing apparatus; receives the file in exchange for the user instructions; and transfers the file to any one of the one or more processors; a log information obtaining portion that obtains: the log information of the image processing apparatus and that of the portable information apparatus; and a log information manager that consolidates the log information of both of them.
US09110615B2	Point of sale control device, control method, and storage medium storing a program for a point of sale device The effort required to develop a device object is reduced. A host computer 10 has objects including a printer CO 21 that provides a POS application program 11 with an interface for each type of device, and a printer SO 22 that provides the printer CO 21 with an interface to each device type and executes a process by device unit. A wrapper SO 30 executes the process instead of the printer SO 22 when at least one of the methods called by the printer CO 21 is called, and then calls a method of the printer SO 22 based on the result of the executed process. When the printer CO 21 calls other methods, the wrapper SO 30 calls the printer SO 22 method.
US09110610B2	Output system, output method, and output apparatus An output system includes a terminal apparatus, an output apparatus, and an information processing apparatus that are interconnected via a network. The output system includes a unit that registers an output request for output data received from the terminal apparatus that is operated by a registering user, a unit that displays information on the registering user that has designated an outputting user operating the output apparatus as a delegate user and receives a selection of the registering user from the outputting user, a unit that receives from the output apparatus an acquisition request for the output request of the selected registering user and provides the requested output request to the output apparatus, and a unit that receives a selection of the output request from the outputting user, acquires the output data of the selected output request, and outputs the acquired output data at the output apparatus.
US09110601B2	Backup lifecycle management A system includes determination of a plurality of backup jobs based on a backup catalog, the backup catalog comprising a plurality of records, each of the plurality of records associated with one of the plurality of backup jobs, reception of a first instruction to delete a first backup job of the plurality of backup jobs, and, in response to the first instruction, addition of a first record associated with the first backup job to the backup catalog, wherein the first record indicates that the first instruction to delete the first backup job was received.
US09110597B2	Data processing method and system A method of retrieving data blocks in a storage area network, the method comprising selecting a first one of a plurality of paths to a storage device; retrieving a first number of sequential data blocks from the storage device along the first path; and selecting a second one of the plurality of paths for retrieving subsequent sequential data blocks from the storage device. One or both of the selected paths may be the path with the lowest average turnaround time of all of the available paths.
US09110596B2	Fast-wake memory A memory device is transitioned to a low-power mode in which an active-mode resource required to receive memory access commands from a memory controller at a first command-signaling frequency of the memory device is disabled. A first memory access command, transmitted by the memory controller, is received within the memory device using an alternative signaling resource during a transitional interval in which the active-mode resource is re-enabled.
US09110595B2	Systems and methods for enhancing performance of software applications A system for enhancing performance of a software application obtains a list of files to be processed by the software application, and sorts that list in the order of the physical position of files in the list on a hard drive. The files are loaded in the sorted order which can decrease or minimize the total file seeking time, thereby increasing the speed of execution of the software.
US09110591B2	Memory resource provisioning using SAS zoning An example method for memory resource provisioning using SAS zoning can include a serial attached Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) (SAS) switch and a provisioning manager (PM) executing on the SAS switch. A plurality of servers are communicatively coupled to the SAS switch, each server executing an operating system (OS) having access to one or more OS volumes. A host provisioning agent (HPA) executes on the OS of each of the plurality of servers. A plurality of memory resources are communicatively coupled to the SAS switch. Each memory resource can have a number of physical hard drives. A first portion of the memory resources is associated with zone groups corresponding to the plurality of servers. A second portion of the memory resources is associated with a provisioning zone group (PZG) hidden from the plurality of servers but available to the PM.
US09110589B1	Tab bar control for mobile devices Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing tab bar controls on a mobile computing device are described. In one aspect, a method includes displaying a first tab graphic in a first tab bar control, the first tab bar control being displayed at a first default position on a first edge of a touchscreen display, detecting a user selection in a first region of the touchscreen display, the first region associated with the first tab graphic, detecting user motion, animating the first tab bar control to extend from the first edge of the touch-screen display in response to detecting user motion, determining a measure of user motion, comparing the measure of user motion to a threshold measure, and performing one or more functions on the mobile device in response to the measure of user motion exceeding the threshold measure.
US09110580B2	Apparatus comprising a display and a method and computer program An apparatus including: a display including a central portion and a curved side portion; a memory storing pages of content; and a display controller configured to control simultaneously the central portion of the display to display at least a portion of a first page of content and the curved side portion of the display to display additional information not forming part of the first page of content.
US09110574B2	Augmented I/O for limited form factor user-interfaces The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can enhance and/or simplify tactile-based I/O transactions in connection with a user-interface (UI) of limited form factor. In particular, the architecture can monitor a position of a selector object such as an operator's finger relative to a UI display as the selector object hovers or moves above the UI display. Based upon this position, an analogous coordinate in the UI display can be determined, and a portion of the UI display substantially centered at the coordinate can be modified. As one example, the UI display can be modified to increase the magnification scale (e.g., a virtual magnifying glass) of the portion of the display indicated by the selector object.
US09110571B2	Operation input system An operation input system and method are provided. The system includes a display device including a display screen, an input device that provides an input into the display device and a control device that includes a protrusion control section that controls a protrusion state of each of the plurality of protrusion members in accordance with a display content in the windows displayed on the display screen. The system is controlled such that when a first window and a second window are displayed so as to partially overlap each other, the protrusion control section makes the protrusion state of the protrusion members protruded in accordance with the display content of a hidden region of the second window different from the protrusion state of the protrusion members protruded in accordance with the display content of an entire region of the first window.
US09110556B2	Method and apparatus for increasing the functionality of an electronic device in a locked state An approach is provided for increasing the functionality of an electronic device when the device is in a locked state. The approach involves determining one or more applications for presentation at a device. The approach also involves determining that the device is in a locked state. The approach further involves processing and/or facilitating a processing of the one or more applications to cause, at least in part, presentation of the one or more applications in a user interface of the device associated with the locked state.
US09110554B2	Representing a graphical user interface using a topic tree structure A method, computer program product, and system for a quality-of-service history database is described. A first input associated with a change to a component of a graphical user interface is received, wherein a portion of the component is represented as a first node of a tree structure representing a portion of the graphical user interface. A first characteristic of the change is determined. The first characteristic of the change is associated with a second node of the topic tree structure. The associated first characteristic is transmitted to a first computing device, wherein transmission of the associated first characteristic allows one or more of the first computing device and a second computing device to determine a first aspect of the change based upon, at least in part, the topic tree structure.
US09110553B2	Health forecaster Methods, computer systems, and computer-readable storage media are provided for utilizing health-related variables to generate a current health state of a user along with a most-likely future health state of the user and an ideal future health state of the user. Graphical representations of these health states are generated and presented on a graphical user interface. The user is able to interact with the graphical representations to see the impact of the user's choices on the user's future health.
US09110550B2	Method for restructuring distorted capacitive touch data In one embodiment, a method for restructuring distorted capacitive touch data includes receiving an array of touch amplitude data associated with an electrode line of a capacitive touch sensor in response to a touch on a touch sensitive display. The method also includes detecting a distortion in the array of touch amplitude data and calculating, in response to detecting the distortion, a corrected array of touch amplitude data such that the corrected array of touch amplitude data represents the touch on the touch sensitive display.
US09110548B2	Touch module A touch module includes a transparent substrate, a shield layer, a touch electrode layer, a transparent insulation layer and a lead layer. The shield layer is coated on the transparent substrate. The touch electrode layer is coated on both the transparent substrate and the shield layer. The transparent insulation layer is disposed on the touch electrode layer and formed with at least one through hole. The lead layer is disposed on the transparent insulation layer and formed with a conduction section positioned in the through hole in electrical connection with the touch electrode layer. Therefore, the lead layer can directly electrically connect with the touch electrode layer through the through hole of the transparent insulation layer. Accordingly, the cost for the optical mask design and the lithographic and etching processes can be saved and the problem that the transparent substrates often fail to fully attach is eliminated.
US09110540B2	Touch-sensitive device and method for detection of touch The present invention relates to a method and a device for detection of position of touch. The device comprises a waveguide, at least one light source, and at least one detector device. The waveguide has a touch-surface with a surface structure defining a pattern that defines active surface areas and passive surface areas. The pattern is distributed such that an object that contacts a first area will cause a different disturbance of light than an object that contacts a second area, and such that correct positions of a plurality of concurrent touches may be detected.
US09110539B2	Photo sensor of a photo type touch panel and control method thereof The present invention provides a photo sensor of a photo type touch panel, which includes a transistor with a control terminal receiving a first control signal, a first capacitor electrically connected to a first terminal of the transistor, a first photo transistor with a first terminal electrically connected to the first capacitor, and a second photo transistor with a control terminal receiving a second control signal, a first terminal electrically connected to a second terminal of the first photo transistor, and a second terminal receiving a third control signal.
US09110528B2	Touch-sensitive display apparatus Disclosure herein is related to a touch-sensitive display apparatus that is constituted of a display panel and a touch-sensitive panel. A plurality of pixels are employed to render a frame generated by the display panel. The single pixel is composed of a red subpixel, a green subpixel, and a blue subpixel. In one embodiment of the present invention, the touch-sensitive panel adopts the transparent substrate, on which a plurality of electrode lines are formed. In particular, the each electrode line is approximately paved along a diagonal line of at least one pixel.
US09110524B1	High throughput finite state machine In an FSM circuit, look-ahead-cascade modules are coupled to receive possible states and corresponding subsets of data inputs. Merge modules are coupled to a second-to-the-lowest to highest order of the look-ahead-cascade modules. The second-to-the-lowest to highest order of disambiguation modules are coupled to at least a portion of the merge modules. The lowest order of the disambiguation modules is coupled to the lowest order of the look-ahead-cascade modules. The lowest-to-highest order of the disambiguation modules are coupled to receive respective sets of interim states of rN states each to select respective sets of next states of r states each. A state register is coupled to receive a portion of the highest order of the sets of next states to provide a select signal. Each of the disambiguation modules is coupled to receive the select signal for selection of the sets of next states of the r states each.
US09110523B2	Stylus and stylus circuitry for capacitive touch screens A stylus for a capacitive touch screen includes an inverting charge integrator circuit is connected to a conductive tip for providing an output signal proportional to a charge induced at the conductive tip. An inverting amplifier generates an amplified signal proportional to the signal output from the inverting charge integrator. A conductive contact provides electrical or capacitive coupling between the amplified signal and an exterior of the stylus which may provide electrical or capacitive coupling with a person holding the stylus. In other embodiments, the order of the inverting charge integrator and the inverting amplifier may be reversed. A power supply circuit powers the inverting charge integrator and the inverting amplifier. Shielding may be implemented to isolate the stylus circuitry and prevent oscillation. The provided circuitry may enable a ball point or other fine point stylus tip configurations.
US09110511B2	Method for capturing and transmitting motion data In a method for capturing and transmitting motion data (s1) from a transmitter (103, 203) to a receiver (104, 204), motion data is captured by a capturing device (102, 202) at the transmitter end, said capturing device (102, 202) registering the motion of an object (106, 206) by means of at least one sensor (101, 201) and converting the registered motion into a digital signal (i2). Said digital signal is fed to the receiver, which embeds the data of the digital signal (i2) in a series (i3) of data and transmits said series of data to a receiver. In addition to or instead of the data of the digital signal, the series of data transmitted by the transmitter contains context data which the receiver uses to interpret and process the originally captured motion data within a defined context.
US09110505B2	Wearable motion sensing computing interface An apparatus comprises a sensor configured to detect movement and generate movement data related to at least part of a detected movement; a messaging unit configured to create a message that is configured to include movement information based at least in part upon the movement data; a transmitter in data communication with the messaging unit and configured to transmit the message; and a housing configured to at least partially enclose at least one of the sensor, the messaging unit, and the transmitter, and including a finger grip configured to secure the housing to a human finger. Methods of using the apparatus are also provided.
US09110504B2	Gaze detection in a see-through, near-eye, mixed reality display The technology provides various embodiments for gaze determination within a see-through, near-eye, mixed reality display device. In some embodiments, the boundaries of a gaze detection coordinate system can be determined from a spatial relationship between a user eye and gaze detection elements such as illuminators and at least one light sensor positioned on a support structure such as an eyeglasses frame. The gaze detection coordinate system allows for determination of a gaze vector from each eye based on data representing glints on the user eye, or a combination of image and glint data. A point of gaze may be determined in a three-dimensional user field of view including real and virtual objects. The spatial relationship between the gaze detection elements and the eye may be checked and may trigger a re-calibration of training data sets if the boundaries of the gaze detection coordinate system have changed.
US09110500B2	Method and system for interfacing with an electronic device via respiratory and/or tactual input Aspects of a method and system for interfacing with an electronic device via respiratory and/or tactual input are provided. In this regard, respiratory and tactual input may be utilized to interact with an electronic device via a user interface. The user interface may comprise a control region that may enable navigating and selecting objects, a fixed region that may enable display of information that may be independent of a state of, or activity in, the control region, and a content region that may enable display of information that may depend on a state of, or activity in, the control region. Accordingly, objects and/or information displayed on the electronic device may be affected and/or manipulated via tactual and respiratory input. Additionally, each region of the user interface may comprise one or more zones and a size, shape, and/or location of each region may be customized by a user.
US09110498B2	Molded wristband case A biometric monitoring device and multiple carrying cases for same are provided. In some implementations, the case may be made from a flexible viscoelastic material and the biometric monitoring device may be slipped into a receptacle in the case through an opening in the case; the opening may become distended during the insertion of the biometric monitoring device. In some implementations, the case may feature a display window that, in combination with materials of the biometric monitoring device, may mask a display of the biometric monitoring device from view when the display is off and may allow the display to be seen when the display is displaying content.
US09110492B2	Assembly having a soft-touch user interface for controlling the operative position of a device which controls the flow of air into the passenger compartment of a vehicle An assembly having a soft-touch user interface for controlling the operative position of a device which controls the flow of air into the passenger compartment of a vehicle is provided. An occupant of the vehicle operates a first member of the assembly at its outer soft-touch, surface layer to cause the first member to rotate about an axis. A second member of the assembly rotatably supports the first member. A portion of a structural substrate of the first member is configured to couple the first member to the device. The substrate and the second member have a pair of annular faces that oppose each other and are oriented to face axially along the axis. A portion of a biasing member projects outwardly from at least one pocket in one of the faces to frictionally engage the other face and prevent undesired rotational movement of the first member.
US09110477B2	Over-temperature protection for flowing fluid systems The present invention keeps fluid temperature at a point in a flowing fluid system below a preset limit by providing automatic self-adjusting over-temperature protection that cools the fluid when needed and without requiring a separate cold fluid source. The present invention keeps the temperature of the fluid at a point in the system clipped at a cutoff temperature and prevents overcooling the fluid. When the fluid temperature is below the cutoff temperature, the temperature of the fluid is unchanged as it passes through the apparatus of the present invention. The present invention can operate without electrical power or any power source, can function in any orientation, and works for both unpressurized and pressurized systems. The present invention has application in the areas of solar thermal energy systems, fluid storage tanks, engine oil and coolant systems, transmission oil systems, hydraulic systems, and cutting oil systems, among others.
US09110465B1	Methods for providing asymmetric run to run control of process parameters Methods for providing asymmetric control of process parameters are described. One such method includes receiving a data point for the process parameter relative to the wafer, selecting a first value for a process weighting factor when the data point is consistent with a first criteria, selecting a second value for the process weighting factor when the data point is consistent with a second criteria, where the second value is not equal to the first value, calculating an exponential weighted moving average of the process parameter based on the data point and the process weighting factor, updating the process parameter with the exponential weighted moving average, and using the updated process parameter to control the process and thereby treat the wafer. The methods can use one or more weighting factor switch limits to define different areas of risk associated with a target for the process parameter.
US09110464B2	Route builder Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments enable graph based routing of containers and adjustments of container routing based on one or more current material handling system state. The various embodiments enable examination and evaluation of the material handling systems using graphs to find an optimal route from a starting node in the material handling system to an ending node in the material handling system. In an embodiment, the graph may be a directed graph of edges and nodes of a material handling system. In an embodiment, the directed graph may include edge weights and the edge weights may be used to determine the optimal route for the container. In an embodiment, the edge weights may be updated as events occur in the material handling system which may result in dynamic routing of containers through the material handling system.
US09110449B1	Lighting control device with demand response indicator An occupancy sensing and energy indicating load control device includes an occupancy sensor, an energy savings feedback indicator, and a manual controller. The occupancy sensor detects occupancy within a monitored area. The device is electrically coupled to at least one load positioned within the monitored area and controls the energy consumption of the load. The energy savings feedback indicator provides awareness to an end user regarding energy savings and provides the end user with opportunities for additional energy savings. The device optionally includes a demand response indicator for providing awareness to the end user regarding when a demand response condition exists, its severity, and opportunities for additional energy savings.
US09110435B2	Device capable of extracting output control information, control method thereof, and storage medium To change a detection target region of output control information for each function to be used in an MFP having multiple functions. A device that outputs document data has a detection unit configured to detect, from document data, information to control output of the document data and a control unit configured to control the output of the document data according to the detected information, and the device includes a setting unit configured to set a detection target region by the detection unit either to the entire surface or to a specific region of the document data.
US09110432B2	Image forming apparatus including a cleaning roller with a resistance layer An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit and a cleaning unit. The fixing unit includes multiple local heaters configured to separately heat multiple portions of a recording medium carrying toner to fix the toner on the recording medium. The cleaning unit removes unfixed toner adhering to the recording medium after the fixing of the toner performed by the fixing unit.
US09110423B1	Method and apparatus for determining an amount of toner within a toner cartridge based on acoustic properties of the toner cartridge Various techniques are described for acoustically exciting a toner cartridge and acoustically measuring an amount of ink or toner in a toner cartridge by using known resonant shaping structures built into the toner cartridge. As ink or toner is consumed, a resonant shaping structure covered by the ink or toner is partially revealed, changing an acoustic signature received from the toner cartridge. A current level of ink or toner is determined by analyzing the acoustic signature. The current level is used to calibrate a relationship function used to estimate a remaining number of pages that can be printed based on the level of ink or toner remaining in the toner cartridge.
US09110415B2	Fuser member The present teachings provide a fuser member. The fuser member comprises a release layer comprising microcrystalline cellulose particles dispersed in a fluoropolymer.
US09110409B2	Intermediate transferrer, transfer device, and image forming apparatus A volume resistivity RA of an elastic layer of an intermediate transferrer is larger than a volume resistivity RB of a base layer of the intermediate transferrer under a HT/HH environment, and is smaller than RB under a LT/LH environment. A transfer device includes the intermediate transferrer. A volume resistivity RC of a transfer member of the transfer device is smaller than RA and RB under any temperature or humidity environment. An image forming apparatus includes the transfer device. The apparatus can suppress the occurrence of a transfer failure due to a change in temperature or humidity.
US09110407B2	Belt controller, image forming apparatus, image forming method, and recording medium storing image forming control program A belt controller, an image forming apparatus, a belt controlling method, and a recording medium storing an image forming control program adjust a position of a belt. Each of the belt controller, the image forming apparatus, the belt controlling method, and the recording medium storing an image forming control program detects a position of the belt and transmits a position detection signal, determines whether a degree of misalignment of the belt is equal to or greater than a specified threshold before the belt starts moving based on the position detection signal, presses the belt to reduce the degree of misalignment of the belt when the degree of misalignment of the belt is equal to or greater than the specified threshold, and performs feedback control to adjust the position of the belt according to the degree of misalignment of the belt after pressing the belt.
US09110405B2	Image forming apparatus having a developer install mode An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a charging device which charges the image bearing member, an exposure device which exposes the charged image bearing member to light, a developing device having a developer carrying member, and developing the electrostatic latent image by supplying the developer from the developer carrying member, and an instructing portion which generates an instruction signal for instructing to perform a developer install mode for installing developer in the developing device at a time of non-image formation. In the developer install mode a control portion sets an absolute value of a potential on the image bearing member charged by the charging device to a value which is smaller than an absolute value of a potential of the developer carrying member caused by a direct current component of the bias to be applied to the developing device and larger than an absolute value of an image dark section potential on the image bearing member at the time of image formation.
US09110396B2	Mechanism for electrifying, method of electrifying, and conductive member A mechanism for electrifying a rotator that is used in an image forming apparatus includes a cloth-like or sheet-like conductive member, wherein part of the conductive member comes into contact with an object to be electrified and the other part of the conductive member comes into surface contact with any one contact member of the rotator, a rotating shaft that rotates together with the rotator, and a shaft where the rotator is rotatably supported, so that the object to be electrified and the contact member are electrically connected to each other through the conductive member.
US09110394B2	Image forming apparatus and control method for the same An image forming apparatus, which achieves reduced color registration time and real-time calibration of color position shift, and a control method for the same, is provided. The image forming apparatus includes plural photoconductors corresponding to plural colors, an exposure unit to form an electrostatic latent image by emitting light to the photoconductors, a developing unit to form a toner image by feeding toner to the photoconductors, an intermediate transfer body to which the toner image, formed on each photoconductor, is transferred, a sensing unit to sense the toner image formed on the intermediate transfer body, and a controller which forms images in respective image forming sections of the intermediate transfer body and test-pattern sets for color registration in respective blanks between the neighboring image forming sections, the controller implementing color registration calibration using color registration calibration values acquired from four test pattern sets among the formed test pattern sets.
US09110388B2	Projection exposure apparatus with multiple sets of piezoelectric elements moveable in different directions and related method The disclosure relates to a projection exposure apparatus and an optical system, such as a projection objective or an illumination system in a projection exposure apparatus for microlithography, that includes at least one optical element and at least one manipulator having a drive device for the optical element. The drive device can have at least one movable partial element and at least one stationary partial element movable relative to one another in at least one direction of movement.
US09110387B2	Lithographic apparatus comprising a substrate table and a surface substrate actuator A lithographic apparatus includes an illumination system configured to condition a radiation beam and a support constructed to support a patterning device, the patterning device being capable of imparting the radiation beam with a pattern in its cross-section to form a patterned radiation beam. The lithographic apparatus further includes a substrate table constructed to hold a substrate; a positioner constructed to position the substrate table; a projection system configured to project the patterned radiation beam onto a target portion of the substrate; a substrate surface actuator arranged to engage a part of a surface of the substrate facing the projection system, and a position controller configured to control a position of the substrate table, the position controller being arranged to drive the positioner and the substrate surface actuator.
US09110384B2	Scanning electron microscope Disclosed is a scanning electron microscope provided with a calculation device (403) for measuring the dimension of a pattern on a sample (413), characterized in that the amount of change of a pattern shape, caused by electron beam irradiation, is calculated and stored, and a pattern shape contour (614; 815; 1512) before the sample is irradiated with an electron beam is restored from a pattern shape contour (613; 814; 1511) in a scanning electron microscope image (612; 813; 1510) after the sample is irradiated with an electron beam using the calculated amount and, then, the pattern shape contour (614; 815; 1512) is displayed. Thus, the shrinking of a resist and/or the effect of electrostatic charge caused when a sample is irradiated with an electron beam are eliminated, so that the shape contour of a two-dimensional pattern before irradiating an electron beam can be restored with a high degree of accuracy, and the dimension of a pattern can be measured with a high degree of accuracy, using the restored image.
US09110381B2	Substrate conveyance device and substrate conveyance method, exposure apparatus and exposure method, device manufacturing method A lithographic projection apparatus includes a substrate table configured to hold a substrate, a projection system arranged to project a patterned beam of radiation onto the substrate, a liquid supply system configured to supply liquid to a space between the projection system and the substrate, and a residual liquid detector configured to detect liquid remaining on the substrate and/or the substrate table after an exposure is completed. A device manufacturing method includes projecting, using a projection system of a lithographic apparatus, a patterned beam of radiation through a liquid onto a substrate, the substrate being held by a substrate table, and, after the projecting is complete, detecting residual liquid on the substrate and/or the substrate table.
US09110366B2	Audiovisual apparatus An audiovisual apparatus includes a video projection section, a focal length adjustment section, an acoustic processing section, and an audio output section. The video projection section projects video corresponding to a video signal. The focal length adjustment section adjusts a focal length of the projected video. The acoustic processing section performs acoustic processing corresponding to the adjusted focal length, on an audio signal corresponding to the video signal. The audio output section outputs the audio signal on which the acoustic processing is performed.
US09110364B1	Passive projection screen for presenting projected images in 3D A directive projection screen is configured to present images projected from a remote projector in three dimensions (3D) to a viewer. The screen includes a plurality of passive optical elements arranged on a structural substrate. The optical elements are configured to receive incident light projected from the projector and reflect the light such that first portions of the image are directed in a first direction to be viewed by a first eye of the viewer and second portions of the image are directed in a second direction to be viewed by a second eye of the viewer.
US09110359B2	Display device A display device having a liquid crystal lens arranged on a display panel, wherein the display panel includes pixels arranged in a first direction and arranged in a second direction intersecting with the first direction. Each of the pixels includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a first direction and having a first width in the first direction and a second width in the second direction, and the liquid crystal lens is formed by interposing a liquid crystal between a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a plurality of first electrodes in stripes, extending in the first direction, and arranged in the second direction, and the second substrate includes a plurality of second electrodes in stripes and a plurality of third electrodes in stripes, extending in the second direction, and arranged in the first direction at predetermined intervals.
US09110354B2	Steerable illumination source for a compact camera A subsystem is disclosed providing a steerable-beam light source. An array of micromechanical reflectors may be disposed to selectively direct portions of light from a light source to selected targets in a scene, such as for providing composed illumination for still or video photography. The array of reflectors may be continuously steerable, thereby achieving more than the mere inefficient patterning of illumination light available from prior art projection approaches, but instead efficiently redirecting light to the desired regions of the scene. The subsystem may be sufficiently compact so as to permit integration with a compact camera into a cellular telephone, a tablet computer, a laptop computer, a digital still-image camera, a digital video-image camera, and so on. The array may be operated in conjunction with a camera controller to selectively illuminate one or more targets of focus or zoom, omit illumination of undesirable image regions, etc.
US09110351B2	Non-linear fiber resistant to perturbations Embodiments of the present invention relate to a fiber design that achieves high nonlinearity, an effective index providing phase matching for an illustrative wavelength conversion process, and a low sensitivity to perturbations in fiber scaling. In one embodiment, a fiber comprises an inner core having an inner core radius and an inner core index, an outer core having an outer core radius and an outer core index, the outer core index being lower than the inner core index, an inner cladding, having an inner cladding radius and an inner cladding index, the inner cladding index being less than the outer core index, and an effective index of the fiber, the effective index being greater than the inner cladding index and less than the outer core index, wherein the fiber has a low perturbation sensitivity factor of dispersion to scaling less than about 20 ps/nm/km along the length of the fiber.
US09110349B2	Waveguide lens with modulating electrode and ground electrodes A waveguide lens includes a substrate, a planar waveguide, a media grating, a modulating electrode, and two ground electrodes. The planar waveguide is formed on the substrate and is coupled to a laser light source which emits a laser beam into the planar waveguide. The media grating is formed on the planar waveguide and arranged along a direction that is substantially parallel with an optical axis of the laser beam. The modulating electrode is positioned on and covers the media grating. The ground electrodes are positioned on two sides of the planar waveguide and opposite to each other. The modulating electrode and the ground electrodes cooperatively change an effective refractive index of the planar waveguide to change an effective focal length of the diffractive waveguide lens, utilizing an electro-optical effect, when an electric field is applied thereto.
US09110348B2	Optical element and Mach-Zehnder optical waveguide element Provided is an optical element including an optical waveguide including a core formed from: a rib part; and a first and second slab parts sandwiching the rib part. The first slab part includes a P-type region, the second slab part includes an N-type region, the rib part includes a P-type region which is in contact with the P-type region provided in the first slab part, and an N-type region which is in contact with the N-type region provided in the second slab part. The rib part includes a top portion which is located above the first and second slab parts and includes an undoped region formed from at least one of an intrinsic region and a low-concentration doping region which is doped at a dopant concentration 1/10 or less of a dopant concentration in at least one of the adjacent P-type region and the adjacent N-type region.
US09110339B2	Pixel structure, vertical alignment mode liquid crystal display device and pixel driving method of liquid crystal display device A pixel structure adapted to a vertical alignment (VA) mode liquid crystal display (LCD) device is provided. The pixel structure includes a plurality of comb-shaped electrodes and a plurality of pixel transistors. The comb-shaped electrodes are interdigitated in a pairwise manner and thereby constitute at least one comb-shaped electrode pair. The pixel transistors respectively are electrically coupled to the comb-shaped electrodes. The comb-shaped electrodes respectively are electrically coupled to receive a plurality of data voltages through the respective pixel transistors and whereby at least a part of the data voltages are different, and the data voltages received by the two comb-shaped electrodes of each comb-shaped electrode pair are different from each other. Moreover, a VA mode LCD device using the pixel structure and a pixel driving method adapted thereto are also provided.
US09110324B2	Liquid crystal display module, display device set including the same, and method of assembling liquid crystal display module A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) module includes a liquid crystal panel, a mold frame provided below the liquid crystal panel and supporting the liquid crystal panel, a light guide plate provided below the mold frame, and a light source assembly coupled to an outside of the mold frame to accommodate the light guide plate therein, the light source assembly partially inserted into the mold frame, and supplying light to the light guide plate.
US09110322B2	LCD module and assembling method thereof A liquid crystal display (LCD) module includes a backplane, and the backplane is configured with fixed beams to vertically fix the backplane.
US09110304B2	Two-dimensional and three-dimensional switchable liquid crystal display device and displaying method thereof An LCD device operably switchable between 2D and 3D display modes includes an active retardation panel having a plurality of retardation pixels arranged in at least MN retardation pixel matrix with a first liquid crystal (LC) layer, and an LCD panel positioned having a plurality of display pixels arranged in at least MN display pixel matrix with a second LC layer. Each retardation pixel has a first retardation A(i, j), and each display pixel has a second retardation B(i, j). The active retardation panel and LCD panel are arranged such that the retardation pixel matrix is positioned corresponding to the display pixel matrix, and an image displayed from each display pixel and passed through corresponding retardation pixel is simultaneously viewable by left and right eyes of a viewer and satisfies with: L(i,j)=f[A(i+1,j)+B(i,j)], and R(i,j)=f[A(i,j)+B(i,j)]. L(i, j) and R(i, j) are respectively left-eye and right-eye viewed gray levels of the image.
US09110301B2	Microscope with a sheet of light A family of microscopes with illumination systems directing a sheet of light having an approximately planar extension in an illumination axis of an illumination beam path and in a transverse axis orthogonally oriented to the illumination axis. The microscopes have detection devices used to detect light that is emitted by a sample region. The detection devices including a detection lens system disposed in the detection beam path and an optical detection element spaced from a front lens of the detection lens system and independently adjustable thereof. The optical detection element continuously varies the size of a detection image field and/or continuously displaces a focal plane of detection in the P-region.
US09110292B1	Multiple filter photon conversion assembly A photon conversion assembly. A first filter assembly is configured to transmit photons in at least one received band in a downstream direction of an optical pathway and to reflect photons in at least one converted band that are moving in an upstream direction of the optical pathway. A photon conversion material has a first side and a second side. The first side is downstream of the first filter assembly, and the second side is upstream of a second filter assembly. The photon conversion material is configured to convert photons in at least one received band to photons in at least one converted band. A second filter assembly is configured to transmit photons in the at least one converted band in a downstream direction of the optical pathway and to reflect photons in the at least one received band that are moving in the downstream direction of the optical pathway.
US09110283B2	Super-resolution observation apparatus that changes process contents according to intensity level of noise in digital image data Super-resolution observation apparatus includes excitation light irradiation unit for irradiating excitation light intended to excite a sample on the sample, excitation light modulation unit for modulating a spatial intensity distribution of the excitation light on the sample, enlarged image forming unit for forming an enlarged image of the sample at an image position from observation light generated by irradiating the excitation light on the sample, image capturing unit for converting a spatial intensity distribution of the enlarged image into digital image data, and super-resolution processing unit for generating a super-resolution image where a super-resolution frequency component higher than a cutoff frequency of the enlarged image forming unit is made visible from one or a plurality of pieces of the digital image data. The super-resolution processing unit includes spatial frequency intensity modulation unit that change process contents according to an intensity level of a noise included in the digital image data.
US09110279B2	Optical imaging system for pickup An optical imaging system for pickup, sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side, comprising: the first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, the second lens element with refractive power, the third lens element with refractive power, the fourth lens element with refractive power, the fifth lens element with refractive power; the sixth lens element made of plastic, the sixth lens with refractive power having a concave image-side surface with both being aspheric, and the image-side surface having at least one inflection point.
US09110267B2	Strain relief device for cables and fiber optic distribution device A strain relief device having a first U-like shaped basic body having first and second opposite lateral walls connected to a second U-like shaped basic body having first and second opposite lateral walls by a film hinge integral with the first and second basic bodies. Wherein the second lateral wall of the second U-like shaped basic body has a recess, wherein the protrusion is insertable into the recess by a film hinge. The first and second basic bodies pivot with respect to each other to transfer the strain relief device between an opened installation state and a closed operation state. The first and second U-like shaped basic bodies releasably lock in the closed state and define in the closed operation state a feed-through channel for a cable to be strain relieved.
US09110266B2	Fiber optic cables seal and/or strain relief members, and related assemblies and methods Fiber optic cables seal and/or strain relief members and related assemblies and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, an elongated member is provided that facilitates providing sealing and/or strain relief of a portion of multiple fiber optic cables not enclosed within a common outer cable jacket or sheath when disposed through the opening of the fiber optic terminal. In one embodiment, the elongated member includes a sealing portion configured to facilitate sealing of a fiber optic terminal opening when the multiple fiber optic cables are received in the sealing portion and the elongated member is disposed through the opening of the fiber optic terminal. In another embodiment, the elongated member includes a strain relief portion on a second end configured to receive and provide strain relief to the multiple fiber optic cables disposed inside the fiber optic terminal, when the elongated member is disposed through the fiber optic terminal opening.
US09110262B2	Single-fiber subassembly A single-fiber subassembly includes a first photodiode for receiving incident light, a laser diode for transmitting emergent light, and a same-wavelength optical splitter having a positive direction. The splitter includes a first birefringent plate, a half-wave plate, a 45° Faraday rotator, and a second birefringent plate arranged in sequence along and vertical to the positive direction. An included angle between an optical axis of the first plate and the positive direction is α, where 0°<α<90°; an angle between an e-axis of the half-wave plate and a principal section of the first plate is β, where β=22.5° or 67.5°. The incident light passes through the splitter along the positive direction; the emergent light passes through the splitter along a direction opposite to the positive direction; and the emergent light is linearly polarized light whose polarization direction is vertical to the principal section of the first plate.
US09110261B2	Optical module and optical transmission module An optical module is provided in which at least one of a surface light emitting device and a surface light receiving device is mounted on a positioning component on which optical fibers are positioned and mounted. The positioning component is made of an insulating resin and a plurality of lead frames that provide electrical connection are molded integrally with the positioning component. Each of the lead frames is flat plate and the plate surface of each of the lead frames serves as a first electrical connection surface and an edge face of each of the lead frames serves as a second electrical connection surface. The interconnection structure is simple and linear and is advantageous in high-frequency signal transmission.
US09110257B2	Optical receptacle and optical module provided with same A surface (3a′) having light of a light emitting element (10) inputted thereto and monitor light outputted therefrom is formed as a part of an optical plate (3), and an output surface (12) having coupling light outputted therefrom is formed as a part of an optical block (4), thereby simply and highly accurately forming the optical surfaces (3a′, 12). Then, the optical plate (3) and the optical block (4) are simply and highly accurately combined by being fitted together by means of fitting sections (21, 25).
US09110256B2	Lens array and manufacturing method thereof A lens array is provided with a prism adhered within a prism placement recessing section by an adhesive, wherein retention of air-bubbles in the adhesive on an optical path of light of each light-emitting element between the prism placement recessing section and the prism is prevented by a first air-bubble retention prevention recessing section and a second air-bubble retention prevention recessing section that communicate with the prism placement recessing section in a lens array direction, and flowing of the adhesive onto a total reflection surface is prevented by an adhesive flow prevention recessing edge section.
US09110249B2	In-line fiber optic monitors responsive to optical intensity Apparatus and methods to monitor optical intensity within optical fibers in a substantially non-invasive fashion are disclosed. Optical monitors are comprised of thin, conductive coatings applied to transparent substrates and patterned to form pairs of resistive elements, one of which intersects an optical beam propagating through optical fiber cables. Systems of distributed optical monitors interconnecting optical fiber links enable automated monitoring of the optical status across a communications networks.
US09110248B2	Connector assembly A connector assembly capable of efficiently dissipating heat is provided. The connector assembly includes: an optical cable; and a connector module, and the optical cable includes an optical fiber core wire, an outer cover provided around the optical fiber core wire, and a metallic braid provided between the optical fiber core wire and the outer cover, and the connector module includes a housing defining a space, and a circuit board received in the space of the housing and mounted with a photoelectric conversion unit connected with the optical fiber core wire, and the metallic braid of the optical cable and the circuit board of the connector module are thermally connected to each other.
US09110244B2	Polyester-based primer composition, optical film and polarizing plate comprising There is provided a polyester-based primer composition including 100 parts by weight of a polyester resin, 1 to 20 parts by weight of water-dispersible particles, and water as a remainder. Since a polyester-based primer composition of the present disclosure is excellent in water resistance and solvent resistance differently from a urethane primer composition, the polyester-based primer composition may obtain sufficient adhesive strength between a protection film and a functional coating layer even without assistance from additives such as a cross-linking agent, and may retain stable adhesive strength for a long period of time.
US09110243B2	Laminate film, optically compensatory film, polarizing plate, and liquid crystal display device Disclosed is a laminate film comprising an inner layer formed of a composition comprising a polymer material as a main component and an outer layer formed of a composition comprising a polymer material as a main component and laminated on at least one surface of the inner layer, wherein a film thickness of the outer layer differs depending upon a position in the width direction of the laminate film.
US09110241B2	Planar polarization rotator An optical polarization rotator includes first and second optical waveguide ribs located along a planar surface of a substrate. The second optical waveguide rib is located farther from the surface than the first optical waveguide rib. First segments of the optical waveguide ribs form a vertical stack over the substrate, and second segments of the optical waveguide ribs are offset laterally in a direction along the planar surface. The first and second optical waveguide ribs are formed of materials with different bulk refractive indexes.
US09110234B2	Optical module and optical wiring board An optical module includes: a wiring substrate having an electrode pad on a main surface thereof; an optical waveguide disposed on the main surface of the wiring substrate; an optical semiconductor device mounted on a main surface of the optical waveguide, and having a connection pad disposed on a main surface on an optical waveguide side of the optical semiconductor device; and an electrically conductive member for providing electrical connection between the electrode pad and the connection pad. The optical waveguide has a hole passing therethrough in its thickness direction to leave the electrode pad exposed. The connection pad includes a projection which is at least partly inserted in the hole. The conductive member is disposed inside the hole, and makes connection with the projection and the electrode pad.
US09110233B2	Semiconductor devices A semiconductor device includes a single crystalline substrate, an electrical element and an optical element. The electrical element is disposed on the single crystalline substrate. The electrical element includes a gate electrode extending in a crystal orientation <110> and source and drain regions adjacent to the gate electrode. The source region and the drain region are arranged in a direction substantially perpendicular to a direction in which the gate electrode extends. The optical element is disposed on the single crystalline substrate. The optical element includes an optical waveguide extending in a crystal orientation <010>.
US09110223B2	Method for treating the surface of a substrate based on sulphur polymer, intended to be covered with a coating The invention relates to a method for treating at least one surface of a substrate based on sulphur polymer intended to be covered with a coating, said method comprising, prior to depositing the coating onto the surface of the substrate, a step of bringing the surface of the substrate into contact with a treating composition comprising at least one reducing agent.
US09110209B2	Edgelit LED blade fixture A lighting fixture that includes a frame, a heat sink assembly, an LED assembly, and a reflector. The frame includes a first end plate and a second end plate, each end plate including a slot formed therein. The slot extends from a top edge of the end plates towards a bottom edge of the end plates. The heat sink assembly includes one or more LEDs and a lightguide having a first longitudinal edge that receives light emitted from the LEDs. A first edge and a second edge of the lightguide are slidably inserted respective slots. The heat sink assembly includes a heat sink base and a heat sink cap coupled thereto which forms a first cavity for housing the LEDs and a second cavity adjacent the first cavity for housing a portion of the lightguide. The reflector is coupled to the end plates.
US09110207B2	Optical diffusing film and a liquid crystal display backlight using the same An optical diffusing film and a LCD backlight using the same are provided. The optical diffusing film comprises a transparent substrate made of an optically transparent material with a refractive index of 1.4 to 1.8, and a diffusing coating with a refractive index of 1.4 to 1.7 disposed on an upper surface of the transparent substrate, wherein diffusing particles with a refractive index of 1.4 to 1.7 are distributed in the diffusing coating, and the diffusing particles are in close contact with each other, the diffusing coating has a thickness of ½ to ⅔ of the largest particle size of the diffusing particles, and the coating density of the diffusing particles is 103 to 106 particles per square millimeter.
US09110204B2	Light emitting device, display unit, and illumination unit A light emitting device includes: a light source; an optical component including a light incident surface, the light incident surface facing the light source; and a wavelength conversion member provided between the light source and the light incident surface, the wavelength conversion member crossing a first region and extending to a second region outside the first region, the first region being surrounded by the light incident surface and light paths of light that is emitted from the light source and enters edges of the light incident surface.
US09110202B2	Optical member, display device including the same, and method of fabricating the same Provided are an optical member, a display device including the same, and a method of fabricating the same. The optical member includes: a matrix; a plurality of wavelength conversion particles in the matrix; and a protective layer surrounding the matrix.
US09110196B2	Detecting road weather conditions Aspects of the disclosure relate generally to detecting road weather conditions. Vehicle sensors including a laser, precipitation sensors, and/or camera may be used to detect information such as the brightness of the road, variations in the brightness of the road, brightness of the world, current precipitation, as well as the detected height of the road. Information received from other sources such as networked based weather information (forecasts, radar, precipitation reports, etc.) may also be considered. The combination of the received and detected information may be used to estimate the probability of precipitation such as water, snow or ice in the roadway. This information may then be used to maneuver an autonomous vehicle (for steering, accelerating, or braking) or identify dangerous situations.
US09110195B2	Electromagnetic and its combined surveying apparatus and method An electromagnetic and its combined surveying apparatus and method, utilizing small-sized one or three-dimensional magnetic field sensors with high dynamic range and high sensitivity, which can be used together with highly populated receivers for the electromagnetic exploration. The electrical field could be derived from the vertical component of the magnetic field of the highly populated receivers and the magneto-telluric data could be derived by measuring the three components of the magnetic data. Moreover, by means of connecting the same populated receivers with geophones or MEMS accelerometers, and moving the seismic sources together with the mobile electromagnetic source, seismic survey could be carried out. It is therefore able to undertake the interpretation of the seismic, electromagnetic and magneto-telluric data and perform a combined field exploration.
US09110185B2	Polarized beam, matched coincident beam path, interferometric gradiometer apparatus and method A gravity gradient is measured interferometrically from two polarized light beams having mutually different polarization planes which reflect from opposite surfaces of two freefalling test masses. The two polarized light beams project along matched coincident beam paths and divert from the coincident paths to interact with the freefalling test masses. An enhanced level of common mode rejection of adverse influences arises from traversing the coincident beam paths.
US09110177B1	Generation and use of seismic survey designs violating Freznel zone constraints A seismic survey design generation method is disclosed for generating seismic survey design data for performing a seismic survey. The survey design data purposefully violates Freznel zone constraints related to source and/or receiver bin sizes by providing exceptionally small bin sizes. In particular, the seismic survey design generation method and apparatus therefor generates seismic survey design data where the Freznel zone constraints are violated in order to obtain enhanced resolution seismic images not possible in the prior art.
US09110174B2	Pixellated detector device A pixellated detector with an enhanced structure enables easy pixel identification even with high light output at crystal edges. A half-pixel shift between scintillator crystals (50) and detector pixels (12) enables the identification of a crystal (50) from four detector pixels (12) instead of nine pixels in case of optical crosstalk. Glass plates without any mechanical structuring may be used as a common substrate (60) for detectors and scintillators.
US09110167B2	Correction of spatially variant phase error for synthetic aperture radar A method, apparatus, and computer program product is present for focusing an image. A spatial model for spatial variation in phase error is identified for the image. The image is divided into a number of subpatches based on the spatial model. Phase correction is applied to each of the number of subpatches to form a number of focused subpatches. The number of focused subpatches is merged to form a focused image.
US09110166B2	Acoustic imaging In various embodiments, apparatus and methods are provided to perform acoustic imaging. An acoustic wave can be acquired at a detector, where the acoustic wave propagates from a target to the detector. The target may be acoustically illuminated to provide the acoustic wave. A signal from the detector in response to acquiring the acoustic wave can be processed in a model such that the processing implements a synthetic acoustic lens to generate an image of the target. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US09110159B2	Determining indoor location or position of a mobile computer using building information A mobile computer may use building information to determine its indoor location or position. The mobile computer determines the dimensions of a room in a building using range determination or a range finder in the mobile computer. The determined dimensions of the room may be compared to the building information to locate, position, or track the mobile computer in the building.
US09110155B2	Ultrasonic apparatus An ultrasonic apparatus is provided with an adaptive signal processing block (007) and a fixed signal processing block (006). The adaptive signal processing block generates a first intermediate signal by calculating a correlation matrix of a plurality of received electrical signals, extracting a plurality of sub-matrices from the correlation matrix, calculating a sub-correlation matrix by averaging the plurality of sub-matrices, determining a weighting coefficient from the sub-correlation matrix, and synthesizing the plurality of received electrical signals by using the weighting coefficient. The fixed signal processing block generates a second intermediate signal by synthesizing the plurality of received electrical signals with the use of a predetermined weighting coefficient. Then, a comparison and synthesis processing block (008) generate an output signal by comparing and synthesizing the first and second intermediate signals with each other.
US09110154B1	Portable programmable ladar test target A method of testing a Laser Detection and Ranging (LADAR) or LIght Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) system includes receiving an input signal from the LADAR/LiDAR and triggering light/laser sources to output pulses. The method includes transmitting the light/laser pulses into a first end of two or more fiber optical delay lines. The method includes transmitting the pulses throughout a length of two or more fiber optical delay lines. The method includes after a delay time corresponding to the length of the fiber optical delay lines, transmitting the pulses out through a second end of the fiber optical delay lines arranged within a target plane. The pulses output yield a return signals transmission from the target plane to the LADAR/LiDAR. The return signal transmission is delayed by times for the light/laser pulses to traverse the length of the fiber optical delay lines.
US09110151B2	Method and device for improving the localization and mobility control of persons or things A method for improving the localization and mobility control of persons or things applicable to a mobile radio terminal associated with a telephone network, having a plurality of base radio stations is disclosed. The method includes a first step in which the mobile radio terminal receives first service signals associated with each base radio station within radio visibility, a second step in which, by means of processing means, the mobile radio terminal detects the relative temporal delays, calculated with respect to a predetermined time reference, with which are received the service signals of each base radio station from which the mobile radio terminal received a corresponding first service signal, and in which second step, by means of position detection means, associated with the mobile radio terminal, the absolute geographical position occupied by the mobile radio terminal is supplied to the mobile radio terminal. In the second step, by means of the processing means, the mobile radio terminal calculates the absolute geographical position of each of the base radio stations, from which the mobile radio terminal has received a first service signal, according to the relative temporal delays, wherein the relative temporal delays are correlated with the absolute geographical position of the mobile radio terminal as supplied by the position detection means.
US09110148B1	Method and apparatus for detection of multiple pulses in a radio frequency spectrum A method and apparatus for detection of multiple pulses present in a radio frequency (RF) environment comprises receiving the RF signal, sampling the RF signal and converting the samples from analog to digital. In-phase and quadrature components of the samples are converted to magnitude and phase. Magnitude and phase information is processed in parallel paths, each path tuned to detect pulses of a specific pulse width of interest. Filtered magnitude and phase data is processed to detect pulses. Multiple detected pulses from different processing paths are analyzed to characterize each detected pulse as to its originating source. Pulse width and time of incidence are compared to determine if multiple detected pulses represent a single pulse or unique and separate pulses. Pulse descriptor words are generated for each uniquely identified pulse.
US09110144B2	Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance method According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes an imaging condition setting unit, a verification image generating unit and an imaging unit. The imaging condition setting unit is configured to set an imaging condition for applying radio frequency pre-pulses to adjust a contrast. The radio frequency pre-pulses includes a region selective radio frequency pulse. The verification image generating unit is configured to generate and display an image for verifying the contrast based on application conditions including an application region and an application number of the radio frequency pre-pulses. The imaging unit is configured to perform magnetic resonance imaging according to the imaging condition.
US09110143B2	Discharge curve calibration system and calibration method for initial discharging curve of battery A calibration method for an initial discharging curve of a battery is provided. The method includes: measuring a first open circuit voltage at a first time point, a corresponding first discharge capacity, a second open circuit voltage at a second time point, and a corresponding second discharge capacity according to an initial discharging curve; calculating an ideal discharge capacity according to the first discharge capacity and the second discharge capacity; measuring an real discharge capacity between the first time point and the second time point; determining a total discharge capacity difference according to the ideal discharge capacity and the real discharge capacity to calibrate the initial discharging curve to generate a current discharging curve.
US09110141B2	Flip-flop circuit having a reduced hold time requirement for a scan input A scan flip-flop circuit comprises a scan input sub-circuit and a selection sub-circuit. The scan input sub-circuit is configured to receive a scan input signal and a scan enable signal and, when the scan enable signal is activated, generate complementary scan input signals representing the scan input signal that are delayed relative to a transition of a clock input signal between two different logic levels. The selection sub-circuit is coupled to the scan input sub-circuit and configured to receive the complementary scan input signals and, based on the scan enable signal, output an inverted version of either the scan input signal or a data signal as a first selected input signal.
US09110138B2	Fault dictionary based scan chain failure diagnosis A dictionary-based scan chain fault detector includes a dictionary with fault signatures computed for scan cells in the scan chain. Entries in the fault dictionary are compared with failures in the failure log to identify a faulty scan cell. In one embodiment a single fault in a scan chain is identified. In another embodiment, a last fault and a first fault in a scan chain are identified.
US09110135B2	Chip testing with exclusive OR First and second scan channels each comprise a plurality of scannable latches that apply input to and receive output from logic circuits on a chip under test. First input is scanned into the first scan channel and second input is scanned into the second scan channel. Output from the first scan channel is hashed using a first XOR on the first scan channel and output from the second scan channel is hashed using a first XOR on the second scan channel. Output from the first XOR on the first scan channel is hashed using a second XOR on the first scan channel. A rotator creates adjustment data from the output from the second XOR on the first scan channel. The adjustment data and output from the first XOR on the second scan channel are hashed using a second XOR on the second scan channel.
US09110133B2	Reconfigurable circuit and decoder therefor A digital decoder, used in a reconfigurable circuit, for decoding digital pulses includes a phase indicator module having inputs coupled to a reference pulse input and a data pulse input. The phase indicator module has timing information outputs that provide logic values indicative of rising and falling edges of pulses occurring on the reference pulse input and the data pulse input. A phase decoder module has inputs coupled to the timing information outputs, and outputs decoded binary data values. In operation, the phase decoder module compares at least two of the logic values at the timing information outputs with a signal representative leading and trailing edges of a pulse applied to one of the phase inputs to determine a pulse arrival order sequence on the phase inputs and thereby provide the decoded binary data values.
US09110116B2	Electric charge flow circuit for a time measurement A charge flow circuit for a time measurement, including a plurality of elementary capacitive elements electrically in series, each elementary capacitive element leaking through its dielectric space.
US09110115B2	Modular stretchable and flexible capacitance sensors for use with electrical capacitance volume tomography and capacitance sensing applications A flexible capacitance sensor having multiple layers for communicating signals to a data acquisition system for reconstructing an image of an area or object located in a subject being sensed, the flexible capacitance sensor having a flexible layer of capacitance plates; a flexible shielding ground layer next to the layer of capacitance plates; a flexible layer of signal traces next to the shielding ground layer, where the layer of signal traces has a plurality of trace lines; and where the capacitance sensor is flexible and adapted to be wrapped around the subject being sensed. The sensor is adapted to communicate signals via the plurality of trace lines to a data acquisition system for providing an image of the area or object between the capacitance plates.
US09110113B2	Method of measuring a physical parameter and electronic interface circuit for a capacitive sensor for implementing the same A physical parameter is measured via an electronic circuit connected to a two capacitor sensor. The circuit includes an amplifier connected to the common capacitor electrode, a logic unit for digital processing amplifier data and supplying a digital measuring signal, a digital-analog converter for supplying a measuring voltage based on the digital measuring signal, a switching unit for alternately supplying the measuring voltage to the first and second fixed capacitor electrodes, and a regulated voltage for negative biasing or a low voltage for positive biasing from a voltage supply source. A first phase consists in biasing the first fixed electrode with the measuring voltage from first binary word and reference voltage, and the second fixed electrode with low voltage, and a second phase consists in biasing the second fixed electrode with measuring voltage from second binary word, which is reverse of the first binary word, and the reference voltage.
US09110094B2	Measurement of surface energy components and wettability of reservoir rock utilizing atomic force microscopy An instrument (and corresponding method) performs AFM techniques to characterize properties of a sample of reservoir rock. The AFM instrument is configured to have a probe with a tip realized from reservoir rock that corresponds to the reservoir rock of the sample. The AFM instrument is operated to derive and store data representing adhesion forces between the tip and the sample at one or more scan locations in the presence of a number of different fluids disposed between the tip and the sample. The AFM instrument is further configured to perform computational operations that process the data representing the adhesion forces for a given scan location in order to characterize at least one property of the rock sample at the given scan location. The properties can include total surface energy of the rock sample as well as wettability of the rock sample.
US09110090B2	Piezoresistive micromechanical sensor component and corresponding measuring method A piezoresistive micromechanical sensor component includes a substrate, a seismic mass, at least one piezoresistive bar, and a measuring device. The seismic mass is suspended from the substrate such that it can be deflected. The at least one piezoresistive bar is provided between the substrate and the seismic mass and is subject to a change in resistance when the seismic mass is deflected. The at least one piezoresistive bar has a lateral and/or upper and/or lower conductor track which at least partially covers the piezoresistive bar and extends into the region of the substrate. The measuring device is electrically connected to the substrate and to the conductor track and is configured to measure the change in resistance over a circuit path which runs from the substrate through the piezoresistive bar and from the piezoresistive bar through the lateral and/or upper and/or lower conductor track.
US09110087B2	Polymer for filler for preprocessing column The present invention provides a polymer of the compound represented by formula [1]: and the compound represented by formula [2]: to a glycidyl group of which an anion exchanging group is introduced; a filler for measuring an acidic group binding to a perfluoro compound at a terminal, which comprises the polymer; a column filled with the filler; a method for measuring said perfluoro compound having an acidic group at a terminal by using the column; a filler or a column filled with the filler comprising the polymer for measuring a drug; and a method for measuring a drug by using the column.
US09110086B2	Lipid biomarkers for stable and unstable heart disease The present invention relates generally to the field of diagnostic and prognostic assays for heart disease. More particular, the present invention provides an assay for diagnosing the presence or extent of development of heart disease or its classification or state thereof. The assay of the present invention is also useful in the stratification of a subject with respect to a risk of developing heart disease. The assay of the present invention is also capable of integration into pathology architecture to provide a diagnostic and reporting system.
US09110075B2	Compositions for analyzing proteins Methods, compositions and kits are disclosed for determining one or more target polypeptides in a sample where the target polypeptides have undergone a post-translational modification.
US09110074B2	Mass spectrometry assay for eIF4E and eIF4E regulon activity Provided is a highly sensitive high throughput mass spectrometry-based quantitative assay for 4E/4E regulon pathway proteins has been developed which provides for single sample multiplexed analysis, as well as the analysis of protein phosphorylation states. It may be adapted for use as the first single sample analytical method of the 4E/4E regulon biological pathway.
US09110060B2	Automated packing system and method for chromatography columns A column packing system comprises a control unit provided with software for monitoring the column interior pressure and/or flow through the column for use in calculating the breakpoint where a movable adapter comes into contact with a consolidated bed of bed media. The calculated breakpoint is used by the control unit to determine how much further the movable adapter has to move into the column in order to achieve a desired amount of bed compression.
US09110053B2	Dried blood spotting paper device and method A dried blood-spotting device includes a carrier card having a window therethrough along with a punchable glass fiber paper disposed in the window for a uniform absorption of a blood droplet sample into a homogeneous circular sport. The glass fiber paper is configured for enabling improved analysis for small molecules by liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry of punched specimens of the sample absorbed glass fiber paper.
US09110046B2	Mobile tip waste rack and methods thereof A method of wasting tips in an automated processing module is disclosed, which includes at least three positions for holding sample racks. One of the positions is a tip waste rack position holding a tip waste rack, which includes tip receiving openings. Furthermore, it includes a SWAP rack holding mechanism for temporarily holding a sample rack. The method includes transferring the tip waste rack from the tip waste rack position to an adjacent sample rack position. Once the tip waste rack is placed in the adjacent sample rack position, the error pipette tip is discarded into one of the tip receiving openings of the tip waste rack. Following this, the tip waste rack is transferred back to the tip waste rack position. The sample rack temporarily placed in the SWAP rack holding mechanism is transferred from the SWAP rack holding mechanism to the adjacent sample rack position.
US09110029B2	Kits and methods for cyanide detection Provided herein are compositions, kits, methods and devices for cyanide detection, particularly for cyanide detection in biological samples such as whole blood. The method comprises (1) contacting a sample with a cobinamide conjugate comprising a cobinamide moiety and a carrier; and (2) measuring the absorbance of light by the cobinamide conjugate. The present disclosure provides field-deployable cyanide detection methods, compositions, kits and devices, which provide rapid, accurate readout at the point of contact. Further provided herein is a method for determining exposure of a subject to cyanide.
US09110026B2	Microfluidic devices and methods based on massively parallel picoreactors for cell and molecular diagnostics Microfluidic devices and methods of forming cell reactors for performing cell analysis in a microfluidic chip. A microfluidic chip, in one implementation, includes a plurality of trapping sites, each of the plurality of trapping sites having a plurality of micropillars configured to trap one or more cells in an interior space formed by the plurality of micropillars. The plurality of micropillars in each trapping site form a picoreactor for cell and molecular diagnostics, such as characterizing, isolation, processing, and amplification of different cells, cells containing different substances, different particles, different biochemical compositions, proteins, and enzymes.
US09110017B2	Apparatuses and methods for manipulating droplets Apparatuses and methods for manipulating droplets are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus for manipulating droplets is provided, the apparatus including a substrate, multiple arrays of electrodes disposed on the substrate, wherein corresponding electrodes in each array are connected to a common electrical signal, and a dielectric layer disposed on the substrate first side surface and patterned to cover the electrodes.
US09110014B2	Field effect transistor-based bio-sensor An apparatus comprises: a sensing element formed on a buried oxide layer of a substrate and providing communication between a source region and a drain region; a gate dielectric layer on the sensing element, the gate dielectric layer defining a sensing surface on the sensing element; a passive surface surrounding the sensing surface; and a compound bound to the sensing surface and not bound to the passive surface, the compound having a ligand specifically configured to preferentially bind a target molecule to be sensed. An electrolyte solution in contact with the sensing surface and the passive surface forms a top gate of the apparatus.
US09110004B2	Laboratory x-ray micro-tomography system with crystallographic grain orientation mapping capabilities A method and system for three dimensional crystallographic grain orientation mapping illuminates a polycrystalline sample with a broadband x-ray beam derived from a laboratory x-ray source, detects, on one or more x-ray detectors, diffracted beams from the sample, and processes data from said diffracted beams with the sample in different rotation positions to generate three dimensional reconstructions of grain orientation, position, and/or 3-D volume. A specific, cone beam, geometry leverages the fact that for a point x-ray source with a divergent beam on reflection of an extended crystal grain diffracts x-rays such that they are focused in the diffraction plane direction.
US09109998B2	Method and system for stitching multiple images into a panoramic image Disclosed is a method for generating a panoramic image of a region of interest (ROI) which is larger than a field of a view of a radiation based imaging device, comprising, positioning markers along the ROI, acquiring a set of images along the ROI, wherein the acquired images have at least partially overlapping portions, aligning at least two separate images by aligning a common marker found in both images and compensating for a difference between a distance from a radiation source to the marker element and the distance from the radiation source to a plane of interest.
US09109995B2	Method and apparatus for determining the water concentration in a fluid mixture A measurement device for measuring water concentration in an oil water mixture has a transmitter that is used to transmit a designated spectrum of microwave frequencies to a transmitting antenna and then through the oil water mixture. A separate receiving antenna is used to detect the amplitude of each frequency of the transmitted spectrum after it has interacted with the oil water mixture. The detected signal from each microwave frequency that has interacted with the fluid mixture is digitized and sent to a processing unit. The processing unit receives the digitized frequencies and identifies the microwave frequency having the lowest amplitude, or amplitudinal nadir. The microwave frequency having the lowest amplitude is then used to calculate the percentage of water in the oil water mixture.
US09109991B2	Electrochemical probe with coated, fingered electrodes for corrosion monitoring in oil-water mixtures and gas systems containing hydrogen sulfide Electrochemical probes for corrosion monitoring in an environment that may cause the formation of electron conducting deposits and the method for making such probes were disclosed. The probes have exposed fingered electrodes. Except for the sensing areas at the tip sections, all surfaces of the exposed electrodes are coated with an inner electrically insulating coating or tubing and one or more additional coating(s) or tube(s). One of the additional coatings is ion conducting. The electrodes are spaced such that there are gaps between the outer surfaces of the neighboring electrodes to prevent the formation of a continuously distributed electron conducting deposits between the sensing surface of one electrode and the sensing surfaces of the other electrodes. These probes are especially suitable for applications in gas systems and oil-water mixtures containing hydrogen sulphide (H2S).
US09109985B2	Malfunction detecting device and malfunction detecting method for cooling device An ECU executes a program including the steps of: obtaining a first temperature Ta of a first semiconductor element; obtaining a second temperature Tb of a third semiconductor element; determining that it is in a normal state in which clogging has not occurred, when a rotating speed Nm2 of a second MG is more than a threshold value Nm2 and the magnitude of a difference between the first temperature Ta and the second temperature Tb is less than a threshold value ΔT; and determining that the clogging of a foreign matter has occurred in a predetermined site when the magnitude of the difference between the first temperature Ta and the second temperature Tb is equal to or more than the threshold value ΔT.
US09109982B2	Sliced specimen preparing apparatus A sliced specimen preparing apparatus prepares a sliced specimen by slicing a surface of a specimen block in which a specimen is embedded in an embedding-substance. The apparatus includes: a cutter configured to slice the surface of the specimen block; a surface exposure determination unit configured to determine whether or not the area of a specimen portion on the surface of the specimen block is sufficient for the preparation of the sliced specimen; and a specimen block transporting unit configured to transport the specimen block between the surface exposure determination unit and the cutter. The surface exposure determination unit includes a humidifying unit configured to humidify the surface of the specimen block; an irradiating unit configured to irradiate the surface of the specimen block with light; an imaging unit configured to receive reflected light from the humidified surface of the specimen block which is irradiated from the irradiating unit to acquire image data; an image data processing unit configured to discriminate the specimen portion on the surface of the specimen block from the embedding-substance portion based on the image data acquired by the imaging unit; and a controller configured to control the imaging unit, the irradiating unit, and the image data processing unit, and to determine whether or not the area of the specimen portion on the surface of the specimen block, the specimen portion being acquired by the image data processing unit, is sufficient for the preparation of the sliced specimen.
US09109975B2	Apparatus for measuring backlash in specimen gear An apparatus for measuring a backlash in a specimen gear is provided. The apparatus includes a test gear mounted on a forward portion of a spindle, the test gear is configured to mesh with the specimen gear and form an electrical circuit upon contact with the specimen gear. An encoder is rotatably connected to the spindle and configured to output a rotation angle of the spindle. An interrupt unit is configured to detect an opening and closing of the electrical circuit and generate one or more interrupt signals based on the opening and the closing of the electrical circuit. A measuring unit is operatively coupled to the encoder and the interrupt unit, the measuring unit is configured to start measurement, and stop measurement of backlash based on the interrupt signal.
US09109974B2	Tire shape inspection method and tire shape inspection apparatus A tire shape inspection method executes the following steps: first, as a teaching operation step, boundary lines of the bulge and dent marks are detected in a sample source image of a sample tire, a mask image is generated which denotes the boundary lines, regions are removed from the sample source image which correspond to the boundary lines which are denoted in the mask image, and a height offset image is generated which represents the heights of the remaining regions with one or more offset values. Next, as an inspection operation step, the height offset image is subtracted from an inspection image of the inspection tire, the boundary regions which the mask image represents are removed, and, on the basis of the obtained bulge/dent removal image, shape defects of the sidewall surfaces of the inspection tire are inspected.
US09109967B2	Irreversible hydrostatic pressure indicator An irreversible pressure indicator, comprising a sealed vessel forming a fluid chamber and at least one indicating chamber; an indicating material contained within the fluid chamber, said material capable of being acted upon by a pressure force; and a gas contained within the indicating chamber, said gas capable of being displaced or compressed by said indicating material, and a method for using the same.
US09109958B2	Multi-chamber heat treatment device and temperature control method The multi-chamber heat treatment device includes a temperature sensor (31) attached to an object to be treated (X), a signal transmission unit (30) which transmits a detected signal from the temperature sensor to the outside of a heating chamber and a cooling chamber, and a temperature measuring unit (40) which is arranged outside the heating chamber and the cooling chamber to measure the temperature of the object from the detected signal of the temperature sensor transmitted from the signal transmission unit (30).
US09109956B2	Temperature measurement circuit and temperature measurement method A temperature measurement circuit includes a sensing unit and a temperature translation unit. The sensing unit is arranged for generating a positive temperature coefficient characteristic and a negative temperature coefficient characteristic according to a temperature. The temperature translation unit is coupled to the sensing unit, and is arranged for generating a measured temperature according to the positive temperature coefficient characteristic and the negative temperature coefficient characteristic.
US09109953B2	Photodetector and computed tomography apparatus A photodetector according to an embodiment includes: a photodetector element unit including a first cell array including a plurality of first cells arranged in an array and a second cell array including a plurality of second cells arranged in an array, each of the first and second cells including a photoelectric conversion element, the second cell array being arranged to be adjacent to the first cell array; a first pulse height analyzer unit analyzing a pulse height of an electrical signal outputted from the first cell array; a second pulse height analyzer unit analyzing a pulse height of an electrical signal outputted from the second cell array; and a signal processing unit determining non-uniformity of a distribution of photons entering the first and second cell arrays using an output signal of the first pulse height analyzer unit and an output signal of the second pulse height analyzer unit.
US09109946B2	Infrared thermometer One aspect of the present invention is an infrared thermometer with an infrared sensor. The infrared thermometer is adapted for determining a temperature on at least one predetermined spot on or in a human or animal body and further comprises recognition means for recognizing if the sensor is properly positioned on said at least one predetermined spot. Further shown is a method of operating an infrared thermometer.
US09109943B2	Weight-sensing surfaces with wireless communication for inventory tracking Methods, systems, and devices are described for identifying and determining quantity data for consumable items from a plurality of weight sensing devices. A consumption metric for the consumable items is determined based on the identification and quantity data. Consumption-related information is provided based on the consumption metric. Consumption-related information may be used for a number of purposes, including for providing aggregate consumption information to suppliers, and health advice and recipes to users, for example.
US09109941B2	Microwave emitter and level measuring device A microwave transmitting device for a level measuring device (1) having an electronic device, a microwave emitter and a waveguide (3). The inside of the waveguide is filled with a casting compound. A microwave transmitting device that is particularly compact and cost-effective is implemented by the microwave emitter and the electronic device being enclosed by a casting formed of a casting/potting compound.
US09109934B2	Solution processing apparatus, solution processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, an apparatus is configured to perform a solution process by supplying a processing solution from a processing solution supply source to the substrate held on a substrate holder via a flow path member and a nozzle at a flow rate equal to or less than 1 mL/sec. The apparatus includes a solution transfer unit configured to transfer the processing solution to the nozzle, and mounted to the flow path member, and an ultrasonic flowmeter mounted to the flow path member at a downstream side from the solution transfer unit. In this embodiment, a lower limit of a flow rate range which is measured by the ultrasonic flowmeter is equal to or less than 1 mL/sec.
US09109932B2	Pipeline or measuring tube having at least one layer which insulates at least in certain regions, and method for the manufacture thereof A pipeline or measuring tube having at least one insulating layer, at least in certain regions, and comprising, manufactured in a primary shaping method, a tubular element, which has an otherwise closed structure and which has at least one region with an open-pored, cellular structure, wherein the material of the insulating layer, in the applying of the insulating layer, can penetrate into the pores of the open-pored, cellular structure of the tubular element and the insulating layer has on the side to be insulated a closed, homogeneous structure.
US09109928B2	Methods and apparatus for efficient and adaptive transmission of data in data collection networks Methods and apparatus of adaptively transmitting data are provided. Data for transmission from one or more incoming data streams is determined in accordance with at least one characteristic of a respective one of the one or more data streams and at least one context external of the data stream. A compression technique for the data and a transmission strategy for the data are modified in accordance with the data determined for transmission.
US09109916B2	Method and system for using routine driving information A method and an apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes a controller to process a criterion for selecting a point-of-interest (POI). The criterion can be based on historical trip data. Data related to a POI, including a community-of-interest rating, for example, can be accessed through a satellite and terrestrial mobile communication network. Multiple POIs can be graphically represented for user selection based on the criterion and/or other data. Once a POI is selected, data related to the selected POI, including navigation data, can be displayed. In another embodiment, the controller can access navigation data to a specified destination. The navigation data can be based on historical trip data such as route segments and destination areas. The navigation data can be accessed from an in-vehicle system or from a navigation service provider and can be displayed to assist a user in reaching the specified destination.
US09109908B2	Physical disability probes for geographic information Systems, devices, features, and methods for obtaining, enhancing, or using data for or with a geographic database, such as a navigation database, are disclosed. For example, one method includes receiving input to enable a probe sensor that is associated with a device used by a being with a physical disability. Geographic data is collected via the probe sensor when the device is in use by the being with the physical disability. The collected geographic data is provided to a data collection facility to develop data corresponding to a geographic and/or navigation database.
US09109904B2	Integration of map services and user applications in a mobile device A location is specified, e.g., a current location of a mobile device or a user-specified location. A representation of the location is represented on a map displayed by the mobile device. A set of contacts having a corresponding address in proximity to the location is determined. A graphical representation of the set of contacts is provided on the map proximate to the one or more corresponding addresses. If the location is a current location of a mobile device, the map can be updated in response to the current location changing with a representation of an updated current location and a representation of an updated set of contacts.
US09109901B2	System and method for monitoring a gyroscope Systems and methods are provided for monitoring operation of MEMS gyroscopes (110). A test signal generator (124) is configured to generate and apply a test signal to the rate feedback loop (112) of a MEMS gyroscope (110). A test signal detector (126) is coupled to the quadrature feedback loop (114) of the MEMS gyroscope (110) and is configured to receive a quadrature output signal from the quadrature feedback loop (114). The test signal detector (126) demodulates the quadrature output signal to detect effects of the test signal. Finally, the test signal detector (126) is configured to generate a monitor output indicative of the operation of the sensing device based at least in part on the detected effects of the test signal in the quadrature output signal. Thus, the system is able to provide for the continuous monitoring of the operation of the MEMS gyroscope (110).
US09109893B2	Micro-gyroscope and method for operating a micro-gyroscope A micro-gyroscope for determining a rate of rotation about a Z-axis includes a substrate and two sensor devices each of which comprises at least one drive mass, at least one anchor, drive elements, at least one sensor mass and sensor elements. The drive mass is mounted linearly displaceably in the direction of an X-axis, and can be driven in an oscillatory manner with respect to the X-axis. The sensor mass is coupled to the drive mass by means of springs. The sensor mass is displaceable in the Y-direction, and sensor elements detects a deflection of the sensor mass in the Y-axis. The two sensor devices are disposed parallel to each other and one above the other in the direction of the Z-axis, and the drive mass in these two sensor devices are coupled to each other by means of a coupling spring.
US09109891B2	Stereo camera The present invention relates to a stereo camera which includes: a main camera which photographs a first image; a sub-camera which has camera parameters different from those of the main camera and photographs a second image; a distance information acquiring part which associates each pixel in the first and second images and acquires distance information including parallax information; and a right/left image generating part which generates a stereo view image based on one of the first and second images and the distance information.
US09109889B2	Determining tilt angle and tilt direction using image processing A survey instrument includes a surveying device configured to perform survey measurements and an imaging device coupled to the surveying device and having a known spatial relationship with the surveying device. The imaging device may be configured to obtain image information. The survey instrument also includes a processor in electrical communication with the imaging device. The processor may be configured to receive the image information from the imaging device, process the image information to determine a pose of the imaging device, and determine a tilt angle of the survey instrument and a tilt direction of the survey instrument in a reference frame. Tilt angle and the tilt direction of the survey instrument may be determined using the pose of the imaging device.
US09109883B2	High resolution large displacement/crack sensor A structural displacement sensor that includes an arched member having two ends, where each end is attached to a fastening member. In an embodiment of the invention, the fastening members are configured to be attached to a structure. Further, a strain gauge is attached to the arched member, and the strain gauge is operatively connected to a signal processing device. In an embodiment, the arched member and strain gauge are configured to measure a displacement of the structure based on the amount of strain detected on the strain gauge.
US09109871B2	Vertical leap measuring device A vertical leap measuring device is provided. The device comprises rotatable blades mounted to a support mechanism mounted to a mount, which can be mounted to a support structure. The support mechanism is configured to rotate with respect to the mount between an operable position and a stored position. In the operating position, the blades are configured to rotate about the support mechanism in response to user-applied force. Once displaced, the blades can be automatically reset to an original position by operation of a remote-controlled transmitter that commands positioning members to return displaced blades back to their original position. The blades are made of a combination of flexible and non-flexible members.
US09109841B2	Air to refrigerant heat exchanger with phase change material A thermal energy heat exchanger for an air conditioning system includes a row of first tubes, a row of second tubes, and a row of third tubes. Inside, heat is exchanged between air, refrigerant, and phase change material, also known as PCM, cool storage material, cold storage material, and latent heat storage material. The first row of tubes carries refrigerant. A portion of the second row of tubes and a portion of the third row of tubes carry refrigerant. The remainder of the second and third rows of tubes carry phase change material. The phase change material can be associated with a phase change material manifold. Advantageously, the melting point of phase change material in the second tubes can be different from the melting point of the phase change material in the third tubes.
US09109835B2	Method and control system for controlling supply of heat energy from a furnace to mulitple dryers A method for controlling supply of heat energy from a furnace to multiple dryers includes: determining a preset temperature, a preset humidity and a drying time for each of the dryers; calculating heat energy demand of each of the dryers according to the preset temperature, the preset humidity and the drying time of a respective one of the dryers, and calculating a fuel amount to be supplied to the furnace, and a volume of hot air to be supplied to each of the dryers; detecting a drying temperature in each of the dryers; and for each of the dryers, comparing the drying temperature and the preset temperature of the dryer, increasing the volume of hot air when the drying temperature is lower than the preset temperature, and decreasing the volume of hot air when the drying temperature is higher than the preset temperature.
US09109832B2	Grain bin aeration An aeration duct apparatus has a plurality of aeration tubes connected together by hollow connectors, each hollow connector defining at least three connection ports. Each aeration tube is connected at each tube end thereof to one of the connection ports, and each connection port is connected to a tube end such that the connected aeration tubes and hollow connectors form a substantially rigid structure. A transition duct is connected to one of the aeration tubes at an inside end thereof and is adapted at an outside end thereof for attachment to a fan. The aeration tubes and transition duct are configured such that air can flow from the fan through the transition duct into each aeration tube and out through a perforated area of walls of the aeration tubes.
US09109828B2	Convertible and compact refrigeration system A refrigeration system comprises a fan and motor unit 575 having a plurality of cross-flow blower wheels 530 or air blower turbines place upon either side of a motor or unique cross flow motor. The fan and motor unit 575 may be attached to either a top plate 550 to create a side discharge or to a back plate 570 to create a top discharge. The top plate 550 comprises a plurality of top discharge vents and a front discharge plate cover 545 comprises a plurality of side discharge vents 546. A technician in the field may configure a disclosed refrigeration system either a side or top discharge by rotating the position of the fan and motor unit.
US09109820B2	Heat exchange device and communication tube used in the same A heat exchange device includes a heat exchanger having a plurality of heat transfer tubes through which a refrigerant is circulated and functioning as an evaporator, a plurality of communication tubes connected to ends of the heat transfer tubes on the refrigerant discharge side, and a header connected to ends of the plurality of communication tubes on the refrigerant discharge side, the header for joining the refrigerant discharged from the communication tubes. At least a part of the plurality of communication tubes includes a flow passage enlargement communication tube formed in such a manner that a flow passage sectional area on the side of the header is larger than a flow passage sectional area on the side of the heat transfer tubes.
US09109811B2	Heat pump water heater assembly A heat pump water heater assembly is provided. The heat pump water heater assembly comprises a water tank, a cover having opposing first and second surfaces, a compressor, a connector configured to connect the compressor to the first surface of the cover, and at least one bracket comprising a first section mounted to the second surface of the cover by the connector and a second section extending outward from the first section and into a space between the water tank and the cover.
US09109805B2	Range hood with temperature detection and notification A range hood with features for monitoring the temperature of a cook top located below it is provided. In one example, the range hood includes one or more temperature sensors positioned over the cook top for measuring temperature of the heating elements below. If the measured temperatures(s) exceeds one or more predetermined temperature levels, either with or without a time delay, a notification and/or other remedial response is provided to a user of the appliance. The notification can be, for example, a visual warning projected onto the cook top and/or an audible alarm. Different warnings can be provided based on different temperature levels as measured by the temperature sensors.
US09109804B2	Appliance with vertically adjustable rack An appliance is provided having one or more racks or shelves the position of which may be adjusted vertically. Multiple different positions along the vertical direction can be made available for selection by a user of the appliance. The rack can also be supported from multiple locations to increase its load capacity.
US09109803B2	Cooktop appliance with features for improving illumination A cooktop appliance is provided with features for directing light from a light source through a cooking surface of the appliance. The light source may be positioned below the cooking surface, and the features may be positioned adjacent the cooking surface such that the features direct light from the light source through the cooking surface. As a result, the visibility of light to a user of the appliance can be improved.
US09109799B1	Method for initiating flow of fluid blocked by frozen fluid A method for automatically initiating the flow of fluid in a pipe that may be blocked by frozen fluid in a portion of the pipe includes urging the flow of fluid through the pipe and energizing a heater disposed in and extending the pipe portion if no flow is detected in the pipe.
US09109798B2	Premix burner A premix burner which comprises a combustion head comprising, in turn, a perforated covering element provided with a plurality of openings. The premix burner is characterised in that it is provided with a device for generating and delivering a minimum granted thermal power completely arranged inside the combustion head. Moreover, the device comprises a concave element, whose concavity faces the internal wall of the perforated covering element.
US09109784B2	LED-based lighting apparatus with heat pipe cooling structure A lighting apparatus includes a housing, a light emitting module disposed on an open region at one side of the housing, and a heat sink unit placed within the housing to absorb and discharge heat from the light emitting module. The light emitting module includes a heat sink base on which a semiconductor optical device is mounted. The heat sink unit includes at least one main heat pipe having one side adjoining the heat sink base and a heat sink block adjoining the other side of the main heat pipe to cooperate with the main heat pipe.
US09109772B2	Optical element for a vehicle lighting assembly A vehicle light assembly includes an array of light sources mounted in a generally planar base. An optical element includes a first surface having a first optical design and a second surface having second optical design. The second optical design includes a wedge having a first wedge wall and a second wedge wall that converges with the first wedge wall. The second wedge wall extends at an angle to the first wedge wall. A bezel surrounds the base and the optical element, and an outer lens is positioned adjacent the outside surface of the optical element. The optical element is between the base and the outer lens, and the outer lens has an inner surface including an optical design.
US09109771B2	Light projecting device and vehicular headlamp A light projecting device of the present invention includes: a light source unit including (i) a laser element for emitting light, (ii) a light converging lens for converging the light emitted from the laser element, and (iii) a light emitting section for emitting light upon receipt of the light converged by the light converging lens; and a reflector for projecting light emitted from the light source unit. The light source unit is provided so as to be attached to or detached from a fixed part to which the light source unit is to be fixed.
US09109769B2	Portable cordless multipurpose lighting system Systems and methods for lighting body panels of automobiles to facilitate repair of the body panels, where one embodiment is a portable lighting apparatus that includes a light board, a base and an extension member that connects the light board to the base. The light board is supported by the extension member, which is supported by the base. A battery in the base provides power through conductors in the extension member to light sources in the light board. A slip ring in the extension member couples the conductors together so that they can rotate, thereby allowing the light board to rotate with respect to the base, without twisting the conductors. A suction cup mount on the base enables the base to be secured to an automobile body panel, and the extension member allows the light board to be positioned as desired.
US09109767B2	Mechanical bypass light unit A light unit includes a bulb having a light source with lead wires and a separator, a switch member that includes a support member and a pair of spring terminals, and a socket having two or more conductive terminals and adapted to receive the bulb and the switch member. The switch member is adapted to cause the pair of spring terminals to contact one another to form an electrical short circuit across the pair of conductive terminals and the light source when the bulb is completely or partially removed from the socket. The lead wires form an electrical connection across the conductive terminals and the separator breaks contact between the pair of spring terminals when the bulb is seated in the socket.
US09109761B2	Lamp mounting base and light emitting diode lamp incorporating the same An LED lamp includes a supporting base and a reflector having a plurality of reflecting tabs mounted thereon. The reflector includes many circumferentially arranged tabs around a central axis of the supporting base. Many LED light sources are mounted in the supporting base and divided into an outer array and an inner array. Each reflecting tab has a fixed end connected to the supporting base and a free end distant from the supporting base. Each reflecting tab extends upwardly and outwardly from a central portion of the supporting base toward an outer periphery thereof. The inner array of the LED light sources is surrounded by the reflector. A hole is defined in a free end of each reflecting tab and aligned with one of the LED light sources of the outer array. A lamp mounting base is also provided.
US09109760B2	Accessories for LED lamps Accessories for LED lamps and methods of attaching accessories to illumination sources (e.g., LED lamps) are disclosed. A beam shaping accessories mechanically affixed to the LED lamp. The lens is designed to adapt to a first fixture that is mechanically attached to the lens. Accessories are designed to have a second fixture for mating to the first fixture such that the first fixture and the second fixture are configured to produce a retaining force between the first accessory and the lens. In some embodiments, the retaining force is a mechanical force that is accomplished by mechanical mating of mechanical fixtures. In other embodiments, the retaining force is a magnetic force and is accomplished by magnetic fixtures configured to have attracting magnetic forces. In some embodiments, the accessory is treated to modulate an emanated light pattern (e.g., a rectangular, or square, or oval, or circular or diffused emanated light pattern).
US09109754B2	Apparatus and method for providing uniform flow of gas Provided are gas distribution apparatus with a delivery channel having an inlet end, an outlet end and a plurality of apertures spaced along the length. The inlet end is connectable to an inlet gas source and the outlet end is connectable with a vacuum source. Also provided are gas distribution apparatus with spiral delivery channels, intertwined spiral delivery channels, splitting delivery channels, merging delivery channels and shaped delivery channels in which an inlet end and outlet end are configured for rapid exchange of gas within the delivery channels.
US09109753B2	Gas pressure regulator having energy absorbing features A gas pressure regulator adapted for being mounted to a gas cylinder is provided. The gas pressure regulator includes a body defining a front portion and opposed side portion and a plurality of gas pressure indicators mounted to the front portion of the body. A bonnet is mounted to an exterior portion of the body, and a pressure adjustment knob is mounted to one of the side portions of the body, proximate the bonnet, and horizontally relative to a longitudinal axis of the pressurized gas cylinder. An energy absorbing device is operatively engaged with the pressure adjustment knob and the bonnet, the energy absorbing device being capable of absorbing energy from impact loads imposed on the pressure adjustment knob.
US09109739B2	Pipe coating repair system An assembly for repairing a damaged portion of a fusion bonded epoxy coating on a steel body of a pipe at least partially surrounded by an undamaged portion of the coating. The assembly includes a housing defining a cavity therein and having an opening in communication with the cavity, the housing being attachable to the pipe to locate the cavity in communication with an epoxy patch positioned on the steel body to replace at least the damaged portion. The assembly also includes a heat source positioned for directing heated air heated thereby into the cavity, for curing the epoxy patch. The opening is at least partially defined by a perimeter, and the assembly includes an insulation strip positioned on the perimeter for impeding heat transfer from the housing to the undamaged portion of the coating when the housing is attached to the pipe.
US09109738B2	Sealing plug for quick closing coupling system A sealing plug adapted to seal a nut and valve assembly including a threaded end having external threading adapted to threadably engage internal threading of the nut, the threaded end of the sealing plug being open so as to receive a portion of the valve assembly therein, and a hose clip opposite the threaded end including spaced arms defining an opening therebetween for receiving a hose therein.
US09109736B2	Fluid resistance device In order to provide a fluid resistance device that is easily manufactured, compact, accurate, and uniform in performance, the fluid resistance device comprises two members that have facing surfaces that face each other and a downstream end of the upstream side flow channel and an upstream end of the downstream side flow channel open at positions displaced from each other on the facing surfaces, and a ring body that is arranged to surround the downstream end opening and the upstream end opening and that forms the fluid resistance channel between the downstream end opening and the upstream end opening by being sandwiched by the facing surfaces, and is so configured that the ring body is made of a material harder than that of each member, and the ring body breaks into the facing surfaces by fastening two members so as to make the facing surfaces approach each other.
US09109734B2	Grip ring for fitting Grip rings for pipe push-fit fitting devices, having an annular structure with an external surface which has a conical and curved like structure. On the inner surface of the grip ring two types of annular gripping teeth are placed. The annular grip ring is radially deformable and is a split type.
US09109728B2	Resinous pipe joint A resin pipe joint has: a synthetic resin-made joint body including an inner cylinder portion and an external thread portion; and a synthetic resin-made union nut including: an internal thread portion; a seal peripheral edge which is actable on a tip-end portion of a tube flared portion; a slipping-off prevention peripheral edge which is actable on a large-diameter portion of the flaring changing region; and a pressing inner peripheral portion which is externally fittable to a flared straight portion that is fitted to a straight barrel cylinder portion.
US09109725B2	Conductor bend restrictor An offshore system for drilling or production includes a buoyant hull. In addition, the offshore system includes a topside mounted to the hull and positioned above the surface of the water. Further, the offshore system includes a conductor having a lower end disposed in the sea bed below the sea floor and an upper end coupled to the topside. Still further, the offshore system includes a bend restrictor disposed about the conductor. The bend restrictor has a lower end positioned in the sea bed below the sea floor and an upper end positioned above the sea floor.
US09109720B2	Press device for valve maintenance A press device for valve leakage abatement while piping system maintenance is being performed is disclosed herein. Essentially, the device comprises a frame that can clamp down and provide pressure (and therefore seal) to the valve. The design further includes a vent or a test port to assist in determining if a pipe freezing apparatus is working. Also disclosed is a system for providing pipe maintenance to a water supply line wherein one or more pipe freezing apparatuses are employed in addition to the press device.
US09109717B2	Electronically controlled pressure relief valve A pressure relief valve comprises a valve body which includes an inlet bore that is connectable to a flow line, an outlet bore that is connectable to a vent line and a valve bore that extends to between the inlet and outlet bores. A valve member is axially movable in the valve bore between a closed position in which fluid in the flow line is prevented from flowing between the inlet and outlet bores and an open position in which the fluid in the flow line is permitted to flow between the inlet and outlet bores. A fluid chamber is located in the valve bore adjacent the valve member, a source of hydraulic fluid is connected to the fluid chamber, and a solenoid operated pilot valve is connected between the fluid chamber and the source of hydraulic fluid. During operation of the pressure relief valve, the pilot valve is opened to fill the fluid chamber with hydraulic fluid, then is closed to trap the hydraulic fluid in the fluid chamber and thereby maintain the valve member in its closed position against pressure in the flow line, and then, when the pressure in the flow line reaches a predetermined level, is opened to release the hydraulic fluid from the fluid chamber and thereby allow the valve member to move from its closed position to its open position.
US09109716B2	Composite valve A composite valve has a communication path, a second valve port and a pilot passage. First and second valve bodies are arranged to be moved up and down in the same direction, and are away from each other only at a predetermined distance. In the case that a lift amount of the second valve body for a small flow rate control is equal to or less than a predetermined amount, said pilot passage and a first valve port are respectively closed by a pilot valve body and the first valve body, thereby taking a small flow rate control state. In the case that the lift amount of said second valve body goes beyond said predetermined amount, said pilot valve body is moved up by the upward movement of a valve shaft to open said pilot passage, thereby taking a large flow rate control state.
US09109701B1	Pipe joint gasket and method of making same A gasket for preventing separation of interconnected pipes including a compressible body having a plurality of metal segments partially embedded therein. Each of the metal segments includes an inner surface having at least one tooth configured for engaging a spigot end of a pipe and an outer surface having an arm with a substantially flat portion arranged adjacent to a forward section of a retainer groove of the gasket, the substantially flat portion being configured for displacing the segment radially and axially upon insertion of the spigot end into a bell end of the other pipe thereby decreasing the spigot insertion force required to seat the spigot end within the bell end and the gasket.
US09109692B2	Oil pump controlling system of hybrid vehicle and method thereof An oil pump control apparatus of a hybrid vehicle is provided that controls an oil pump according to a demand of an output torque and oil temperature. In particular, hydraulic line pressure is controlled by operating an oil pump at maximum power if a starting demand for a hybrid vehicle is detected. Viscosity is calculated as well to correspond to an oil temperature in an engine stop mode and a rotation speed of the oil pump is controlled at a low power. Additionally, viscosity is also calculated according to a variation of a line pressure in a driving mode and the rotation speed of the electric oil pump is controlled in either a low power, a middle power, and a high power state as well.
US09109690B2	Pivot pin with internal oil passage A system for an engine comprising an engine drive system and an oil delivery system is provided. According to one embodiment, the engine drive system includes a chain that engages a plurality of drive sprockets and a chain guide that pivots about a pin. Further, the pin may include an internal oil passage that is in fluidic communication with the oil delivery system. In this way, improved oil lubrication can be provided with simplified structure and manufacturing.
US09109687B1	Differential system with a differential rate governed by an auxiliary electric motor and its associated method of operation A system and method for selectively altering the rotational speed of one of the axles joined to a differential in order to keep that axle at optimal speed for a given set of conditions. In the system, a differential is attached to a driveshaft. A first axle is coupled to the differential, wherein the differential transfers rotational energy from the driveshaft to the first axle. This causes the first axle to rotate at a second rotational speed when the driveshaft turns at a first rotational speed. An electric motor is provided that is mechanically coupled to the first axle for selectively altering the second rotational speed. The electric motor is variable, therein enabling the second rotational speed to be altered as needed. Changes in the rotational speed of the first axle are imparted to a second axle through the gearing of the differential.
US09109686B2	Hydraulic control device A hydraulic control device includes a lock-up control valve that regulates a line pressure to generate a control pressure, and a lock-up relay valve that switches between paths through which a hydraulic pressure is supplied to and discharged from a torque converter. The lock-up relay valve is formed to be capable of switching between a path that connects between a control pressure oil passage to which the control pressure is output and a lock-up oil passage communicated with a lock-up oil chamber and that connects between a control pressure oil passage to which the control pressure is output and a circulation input oil passage communicated with a converter oil chamber, and a path that blocks connection between the control pressure oil passage and the lock-up oil passage and that blocks connection between the control pressure oil passage and the circulation input oil passage.
US09109684B1	Drive device A clutch for driving a pair of output axles for a drive mechanism includes a driven clutch bevel gear mounted on a clutch shaft. A pair of clutch rings is disposed on opposite sides of the bevel gear and slidable along a clutch shaft, to selectively engage a pair of driven gears. A pair of clutch arms engages the clutch rings for moving each clutch ring between its engaged and disengaged positions, and a plurality of springs disposed along the clutch shaft biases the clutch rings to their respective engaged positions. The drive mechanism may include a mounting member having a running surface for a hydraulic motor, a pair of arms on opposite sides and extending away from the running surface, wherein the clutch shaft extends between and is supported by the pair of arms.
US09109675B2	Hybrid power train for vehicle A hybrid power train for a vehicle may include a gear module having a plurality of shift stages of a synchromesh type on a first input shaft and an output shaft arranged in parallel, a second input shaft driven by a motor and disposed coaxially with the first input shaft, a clutch means for connecting or disconnecting the second input shaft and the first input shaft, and variable shift ratio providing means for transmitting the torque of the second input shaft to the output shaft through an external engaged-gear pair selectively in two different shift ratios.
US09109668B2	Multi-speed transmission A family of transmission gearing arrangements produces up to nine forward and one reverse speed ratios by selective engagement of three shift elements in various combinations. Each disclosed transmission includes four planetary gear sets and six elements. Two of the arrangements feature planetary gear sets that are separated radially and are particularly suited to applications that require reduced axial length.
US09109667B2	Contra-rotating mechanism A contra-rotating mechanism includes master and slave shafts coaxially arranged to rotate in first and second directions, the first direction being opposite to the second, a master driving member fixed around and to the master shaft to rotate therewith; a plurality of drive-transfer units symmetrically and radially arranged around the master driving member and receiving a driving force from the master to rotate in the second direction; a plurality of rotation reversing units symmetrically and radially arranged around the slave shaft, each rotation-reversing unit disposed between corresponding neighboring drive-transfer units of the drive-transfer units and configured to receive rotation-force from the corresponding drive-transfer units to rotate in the first direction, a slave driven member fixed around the slave shaft to rotate therewith in the second direction, the slave driven member to mesh with the plurality of rotation-reversing units to rotate in the second direction; and first and second panels.
US09109666B1	Dual ratio constant mesh gearbox A dual ratio constant-mesh gearbox is provided that is suitable for use with an automobile, and particularly well-suited for an electric vehicle. The gearbox, which may be configured either as a manual or automatic gearbox, utilizes a planetary gear set and a pair of clutches to shift between under drive and direct drive modes.
US09109664B2	Range shift system for transfer case Disclosed is a range shift mechanism in the form of a floating planetary gear assembly for a transfer case. The range shift mechanical according to the present invention can improve power efficiency and generate low noises by suppressing gear rotation in a high range mode of the range shift system.
US09109657B2	Link chain with inclined plate backs A link chain has alternating inner and outer chain links connected by a chain articulation, having a direction of motion, wherein each inner chain link has at least one inner plate, and each outer chain link has at least two outer plates and two chain link pins connecting these plates, each pin being rotationally fixed in a pin opening of the associated outer plate and extending through a link opening of the associated inner chain link to form a chain articulation. The inner and/or outer chain links have plate backs contactable with a tensioning rail or guide rail. A forward region of the plate backs in the direction of motion of a part of the inner and/or outer plates extends at an angle to a plane projected between the center lines of the pin openings or link openings. The vertex of the angle points away from the direction of motion.
US09109653B2	Damper Damper including a housing enclosing a working chamber and a compensating chamber, a damping fluid located at least partially in the working chamber, a guide and sealing unit, which terminates the housing at a first housing end, a piston rod sealed by the guide and sealing unit, and guided out of the housing, and a piston fastened to the piston rod and guided in the housing along the center longitudinal axis of the damper. The piston divides the working chamber into first and second part working chambers. Arranged at the end of the first and second working chambers, respectively, is a first and second closing element, with respective compensating channels, which form a through-flow connection between the respective working chamber and the compensating chamber. The piston device has at least one through-flow channel connecting the two part working chambers and having an adjustable effective flow cross-section.
US09109648B2	Control device for vehicle A hybrid vehicle includes a clutch on a power transmission path between a motor generator and a driving wheel. If the vehicle moves backward when the vehicle starts forward acceleration from standstill on an ascending slope, the charging level of the battery that is attributable to power generation by the motor generator due to the backward travel is compared with a current maximum charging power of the battery. If the charging level of the battery is greater, the quantity of slippage of the clutch is controlled according to the excess to lower the rotational speed of the motor generator, hence to lower the power generation. That enables an increase in the torque of the motor generator within the range in which the battery may be charged. Performance is thus improved during acceleration from standstill.
US09109646B1	Transfer case with lever applied solenoid clutch actuator A number of variations may include a transfer case comprising: a clutch pack, wherein the clutch pack includes a first plurality of clutch plates rotatably coupled with an output member, a second plurality of clutch plates interleaved with the first plurality of clutch plates and rotatably coupled with an input member, and an apply plate; a solenoid operably associated with the friction clutch pack, wherein the solenoid includes a coil and an armature; at least one lever mechanism, wherein a first end of the at least one lever mechanism is stationary and a second end is attached to and moves with the armature; and wherein when the solenoid is deenergized there is an air gap between the armature and the coil and when the solenoid is energized the armature moves toward the coil causing the first end of the lever component to engage the clutch pack.
US09109645B2	Method and apparatus for prefill of wet clutches A method and an apparatus for controlling a wet clutch are provided. The clutch comprises a pump, a piston, and a fluid conduit. The pump provides a housing with a hydraulic fluid. The piston is movably disposed in the housing and is movable into an extended position by a preloaded spring and into a retracted position by applying an engagement pressure on the piston by the hydraulic fluid. In the retracted position torque is transmittable through the clutch. The fluid conduit connects the pump and the housing. The method comprises the steps of prefilling the clutch by applying a prefill pressure on the piston, prefilling the fluid conduit line and the housing with the hydraulic fluid. The prefill pressure is lower than the engagement pressure required to move the piston into the retracted position.
US09109636B2	Electromechanically actuated coupling and control assembly An electromechanically actuated coupling and control assembly is provided. In one embodiment, an overrunning clutch and control assembly having first and second operating modes is provided. The clutch and control assembly includes first and second clutch members supported for rotation relative to one another about a common rotational axis. The first and second clutch members have respective coupling faces that oppose each other. The coupling face of one of the clutch members has a pocket. The coupling face of the other clutch member has a locking formation. The assembly further includes a strut received within the pocket in the coupling face of the one clutch member and has an end that is pivotally movable outwardly of the pocket. The assembly still further includes a biasing spring. The assembly further includes an electromechanical apparatus including an actuator mounted for controlled linear reciprocating motion and in communication with the pocket. The assembly still further includes communication apparatus for wirelessly communicating electrical power from a source of electrical power to the electromechanical apparatus to cause the actuator to linearly move and pivot the strut end against the bias of the spring from a first position which corresponds to the first operating mode to a second position which corresponds to the second operating mode.
US09109635B2	Axle assembly having a moveable clutch collar An axle assembly having a clutch collar. The clutch collar is moveable between a first position in which the clutch collar couples the spider housing to the hub and a second position in which the clutch collar decouples the spider housing from the hub.
US09109633B2	Driving force transmission mechanism and image forming apparatus A driving force transmission mechanism includes a connection for integrally rotating a driving shaft on the driving source side and a driven shaft of a rotary member. The connection includes a tubular boss portion; and a fitting shaft portion fitted into the tubular boss portion. An inner shaft portion is provided in a projecting manner from bottom center of the tubular boss portion toward inside the tubular boss portion. An inner recessed portion into which the inner shaft portion fits is provided in center of a leading edge plane for fitting of the fitting shaft portion. Micro gaps are provided between an inner surface of the tubular boss portion and an outer surface of the fitting shaft portion and between an inner surface of the inner recessed portion and an outer surface of the inner shaft portion.
US09109628B2	Journal bearing A journal bearing is provided for mounting a gear component thereon and for reducing vibrations from operation of the gear component. The journal bearing includes a cylindrical body having two recessed portions defined thereon. The journal bearing further includes a primary passage extending longitudinally through the cylindrical body, and two secondary passages radially extending from the primary passage to the recessed portions. An angle of the two secondary passages with respect to a horizontal plane of the journal bearing is based on at least one of a magnitude and direction of a pre-determined bearing load, a rotational speed of the gear component, a clearance between the journal bearing and the gear component, oil properties, wherein the oil is introduced between the journal bearing and the gear component, and one or more system stability parameters.
US09109616B1	Clamp A clamp is for clamping a first member to a second member. The clamp comprises a lever that is rotatably coupled to the first member and a plunger. The lever comprises a handle and a cam that rotate together about a rotational axis. Rotation of the lever about the axis in a first direction cams the plunger towards the second member to couple the first and second members together and wherein rotation of the lever about the axis in a second, opposite direction cams the plunger away from the second member to uncouple the first and second members from each other.
US09109608B2	Compressor airfoil tip clearance optimization system A compressor airfoil tip clearance optimization system for reducing a gap between a tip of a compressor airfoil and a radially adjacent component of a turbine engine is disclosed. The turbine engine may include ID and OD flowpath boundaries configured to minimize compressor airfoil tip clearances during turbine engine operation in cooperation with one or more clearance reduction systems that are configured to move the rotor assembly axially to reduce tip clearance. The configurations of the ID and OD flowpath boundaries enhance the effectiveness of the axial movement of the rotor assembly, which includes movement of the ID flowpath boundary. During operation of the turbine engine, the rotor assembly may be moved axially to increase the efficiency of the turbine engine.
US09109607B2	Blower fan A motor arranged to rotate an impeller includes a rotor magnet fixed to a shaft, and a stator arranged opposite to the rotor magnet. The motor is arranged on an axially lower side of an impeller cup. The stator is fixed to an inner circumferential surface of a stator support portion. An opening-side end portion of the impeller cup is arranged opposite to an upper surface of the stator support portion. The upper surface of the stator support portion includes an expanded portion defined in a portion thereof which is opposed to the opening-side end portion of the impeller cup. The expanded portion is preferably located a greater distance from the opening-side end portion of the impeller cup than a distance between the opening-side end portion and a remaining portion of the upper surface of the stator support portion.
US09109602B2	Diffuser bump vane profile An electric submersible pump (ESP) assembly increases pump efficiency and pump head with a diffuser that includes a diffuser vane having a low pressure surface with a length greater than a length of a high pressure surface of the vane. The diffuser vane includes a leading edge at a downstream end of the vane and a trailing edge at an upstream end of the vane. The curved high pressure surface extends between the leading edge and the trailing edge. The curved low pressure surface extends between the leading edge and the trailing edge opposite the high pressure surface. The low pressure surface has a bump formed thereon to increase the length of the low pressure surface so that fluid flowing along the low pressure surface is substantially laminar, thereby increasing pump efficiency and pump head.
US09109600B2	Two-stage medium-pressure screw-type air compressor set A two-stage medium-pressure screw air compressor includes a primary screw compressor (21) and a secondary screw compressor (22) communicating with the gas-liquid separator (6) via the first gas-liquid inlet (61). A first oil outlet (63) is connected to a mid section of a gas-liquid separator (6). The oil is injected into the lubricating components of the compressor is the first oil outlet (63), a first filter (64). A secondary oil-water separator (9) is connected to the first oil outlet (63) of the gas-liquid separator (6), the second oil-water separator (6) has an upper separating tank (91) and a lower separating tank. The water and the impurities contained in the lubricating oil can be eliminated at a largest extent, so as to create essential condition thr ensuring the screw compressor to operate continuously, stably and safely and provide high operational reliability, safety and long service life.
US09109593B2	High pressure pump A high-pressure pump has: a plunger; a pump body; a cover member for covering the pump body and forming a fuel chamber; a pulsation damper body constructed of upper and lower diaphragms with their peripheral edge portions joined and for reducing pressure pulsation in the chamber, the upper and lower diaphragms trapping gas having a given pressure between them; an upper support member having an upper ring-shaped part and an upper support body, the upper ring-shaped part being joined to the peripheral edge portion of the upper diaphragm, the upper support body extending from the upper ring-shaped part and abutting on the cover member; and a lower support member having a lower ring-shaped part and a lower support body, the lower ring-shaped part being joined to the peripheral edge portion of the lower diaphragm, the lower support body extending from the lower ring-shaped part and abutting on the pump body.
US09109587B2	Multistage piston compressor A multistage piston compressor for a gaseous or cryogenically liquefied medium with at least two compressor stages, which operatively interact with a shared drive train for purposes of joint powering, wherein each compressor stage exhibits a piston that is mechanically connected with the drive train, and arranged in a compressor cylinder so that it can longitudinally shift.
US09109584B2	Thermal ratchet system A thermal ratchet system includes a ratchet housing, a ratchet mandrel, a first ratchet, and a second ratchet. The first ratchet is disposed at a position generally fixed with respect to the ratchet housing and is urgeable with respect to the ratchet mandrel in an axial direction by a change in environmental temperature in a first direction. The second ratchet is disposed at a position generally fixed with respect to the ratchet housing and is urgeable with respect to the ratchet mandrel in the axial direction by a change in environmental temperature in a second direction opposite to the first direction. At least one of the first ratchet and the second ratchet is engaged with the ratchet mandrel.
US09109577B2	Method and system for operating a wind turbine A method for operating a wind turbine includes receiving a value of a sensor and comparing the value with a reference, determining depending on the comparison between the value with the reference whether a malfunction of the wind turbine is present; determining the cause of the malfunction of the wind turbine depending on at least one of: the sensor type or the measured value, wherein the cause determination includes: automatically creating a first list including at least one possible cause of the malfunction depending on the sensor type or the measured value; and automatically creating a second list including a sequence of at least two steps, wherein a first step of the second list is based on the a cause selected from the first list and a second step of the second list is automatically determined based on a result of the first step.
US09109573B2	Bluff body turbine and method A passive bluff body is disposed in flowing fluid for generating power. The shape of the bluff body supports a predetermined oscillatory clockwise and counter clockwise movement about a pivot absent the influence of electrical or mechanical devices for biasing the bluff body's motion for a given velocity, or range of velocities, of the fluid flow.
US09109566B2	Method of smoothing non-driver-commanded restarts of a hybrid vehicle A hybrid engine control system comprises a hybrid engine control module and a torque mitigation module. The hybrid engine control module selectively stops an internal combustion engine (ICE). The hybrid engine control module selectively starts the ICE based upon driver inputs and non-driver inputs. The torque mitigation module reduces torque transfer from the ICE to a driveline while the ICE is started based upon the non-driver inputs and maintains torque transfer from the ICE to the driveline while the ICE is started based upon the driver inputs. A method comprises selectively stopping an internal combustion engine (ICE); selectively starting the ICE based upon driver inputs and non-driver inputs; reducing torque transfer from the ICE to a driveline while the ICE is started based upon the non-driver inputs; and maintaining torque transfer from the ICE to the driveline while the ICE is started based upon the driver inputs.
US09109562B2	Fuel supply device for internal combustion engine A fuel supply device supplies fuel from a fuel tank to an injector by driving a diaphragm pump by use of pressure variation within a crankcase. The diaphragm pump includes: a pump casing; a diaphragm partitioning the interior of the pump casing into a negative pressure chamber and a pump chamber; and a plunger connected to the diaphragm and reciprocatively movable to and from the pump chamber. A pressure receiving area over which the plunger receives, at its end surface in a plunger advancing/retracting direction, pressure from the pump chamber is set smaller than a pressure receiving area over which the diaphragm receives pressure from the negative pressure chamber in the advancing/retracting direction.
US09109559B2	Fuel injection apparatus A resin-bonded body of a fuel injection apparatus includes a first resin material and a second resin material, which are bonded together and have different properties, respectively. The resin-bonded body has a fuel seal portion to limit leakage of fuel from a boundary surface between the first resin material and the second resin material to an outside. The fuel seal portion is formed in a portion of the boundary surface and is surface-modified to increase hydrophilicity of the fuel seal portion.
US09109557B2	Connector arrangement for a fluid system A connector arrangement for a fluid system includes a fuel injector that defines a first fluid passage having a connector, a pipe that is engageable with the connector of the first fluid passage, preferably to form a high pressure seal, and a nut arranged to connect the pipe to the connector of the first fluid passage. A chamber is defined between the nut and the fuel injector, such chamber serving to collect leaked fluid from the first fluid passage. The fuel injector is provided with a second fluid passage having a first end in communication with the chamber and a second end in communication with a low pressure drain such that leaked fuel is provided with a drain path.
US09109551B2	Liquid trap for fuel vapor valve An insert for a fuel vapor valve traps liquid fuel and prevent the fuel from leaking out of the valve. The insert includes a tube and a skirt disposed around the tube. The skirt seals against a portion of the fuel vapor valve, such as against an inner wall of a valve port or on a top portion of the valve to act as a valve cap. The tube and the skirt cooperate with the fuel vapor valve to form a reservoir that traps fuel.
US09109548B2	Internal orifice characterization in leak check module Systems and methods for internal orifice characterization in an evaporative leak check module are disclosed. In one example approach, a method comprises operating a pump to draw air from an emission control system through an orifice to obtain a reference pressure, and indicating a leak in response to pressure in the emission control system remaining above a threshold pressure while operating the pump to decrease pressure in the emission control system, where the threshold pressure is based on a coded indication and the reference pressure.
US09109537B2	Tip turbine single plane mount A tip turbine engine assembly (8) includes a fan (32) rotatable in a fan plane (22) about an engine centerline (112). The fan (32) includes a fan blade (34) that defines a core airflow passage therethrough. An engine case (10) surrounds and supports the fan and engine. A plurality of engine mounts (20) for mounting the engine to an aircraft are positioned circumferentially about the outside of the engine case in a single mounting plane (22) that is perpendicular to the engine centerline.
US09109535B2	Propulsion system and method A rotating engine produces a torque created by exhaust products routed through angled nozzles exiting the nacelle. In one instance, a hollow drive shaft includes a plurality of fuel injector nozzles through which pressurized fuel is fed into an ignition chamber and ignited. Exiting exhaust is directed to cause the nacelle to spin. This spinning motion of the nacelle is harnessed to perform electrical or mechanical work.
US09109533B2	Stirling machine This Stirling machine comprises a transfer piston (6, 6a) and a moving part (14) of a generator or of an electric motor, the transfer piston (6, 6a) periodically displacing a working gas between an expansion chamber (VE) and a compression chamber (Vc) which chambers are respectively associated with two working faces of the transfer piston (6, 6a) of which the cross-sectional area ratio ac/aE is >0.35 so that its displacement along an axis X oriented towards the expansion volume (VE) generates an in-phase working gas pressure component Px that opposes the displacement of the piston (6, 6a), so that all of the mechanical energy produced is transmitted to the moving part (14). This machine comprises a resonant second piston (10) coupled to the transfer piston (6, 6a) by a quantity of energy that is proportional to the pressure component Px.
US09109529B2	Fuel supplying controller A fuel supplying controller detecting a clogging of a fuel filter includes a period setting portion setting a non-detection period where a clogging detection is prohibited, an ambient-temperature detection portion detecting an ambient temperature of an exterior of a vehicle, and a residual-fuel detection portion detecting a residual-fuel quantity in a fuel tank. The period setting portion sets the non-detection period, based on the ambient temperature detected by the ambient-temperature detection portion and the residual-fuel quantity detected by the residual-fuel detection portion.
US09109525B2	Laser heating system A method for vaporizing fuel is provided. The method comprises heating the fuel in a cylinder of an engine via radiation to vaporize the fuel without ignition. In this way, the fuel may be heated to increase vaporization efficiency prior to ignition.
US09109524B2	Controller for internal combustion engine A controller for internal combustion engine includes a rotation number detecting section to detect engine rotation number and an air-fuel ratio detecting section to detect an air-fuel ratio (A/F) of air-fuel mixture and is configured to perform leaning control of the A/F. The controller further includes a rotation number difference calculating section to calculate a difference between a rotation number variation value of a worst cylinder specified as having largest rotation number variation based on the detected rotation number detected and an average value of rotation number variation values of remaining cylinders other than the worst cylinder; an estimated imbalance rate calculating section to calculate an estimated imbalance rate based on the A/F detected by the air-fuel ratio detecting section; and a lean abnormality detecting section to detect lean imbalance abnormality in a specific cylinder based on the calculated rotation number difference and the calculated estimated imbalance rate.
US09109521B2	Engine speed control According to one embodiment, an apparatus for controlling operation of an internal combustion engine includes a conditions module that is configured to determine an out-of-gear condition of the internal combustion engine. The apparatus also includes a permission module that is configured to allow a speed of the internal combustion engine to exceed a maximum engine speed limit if the determined out-of-gear condition meets a threshold, and prevent the speed of the internal combustion engine from exceeding the maximum engine speed limit if the determined out-of-gear condition does not meet the threshold.
US09109516B2	Method for operating an internal combustion engine, control unit, computer program product, computer program, and signal sequence A method is provided for operating an internal combustion engine that includes, but is not limited to ascertaining a possible instant of a stoppage of the internal combustion engine and injecting fuel to fill a cylinder of the internal combustion engine. The injection performed shortly before the instant of the stoppage of the internal combustion engine.
US09109513B2	Combined cycle electric power generation plant and heat exchanger A loss of heat that can be recovered in a heat recovery steam generator is eliminated, whereby a combined cycle electric power generation plant with high heat recovery efficiency is provided. A combined cycle electric power generation plant is adopted that includes a heat recovery steam generator 30 that generates steam for driving a steam turbine 20 using heat of exhaust gas of a gas turbine 10, a cooling air cooler 71 that causes high-pressure feed water supplied from a low-pressure economizer 37 of the heat recovery steam generator 30 and compressed air for turbine cooling extracted from a compressor 11 of the gas turbine 10 to perform heat exchange to heat the high-pressure feed water to thereby cool the compressed air, and a fuel gas heater 72 that causes the compressed air cooled in the cooling air cooler 71 and a fuel gas of the gas turbine 10 to perform heat exchange to further cool the compressed air to thereby heat the fuel gas.
US09109512B2	Compensated compressed gas storage systems Systems, devices and methods for the compression, expansion, and/or storage of a gas are described herein. An apparatus suitable for use in a compressed gas-based energy storage and recovery system includes a pneumatic cylinder having a working piston disposed therein for reciprocating movement in the pneumatic cylinder, a hydraulic actuator coupled to the working piston, and a hydraulic controller fluidically coupleable to the hydraulic actuator. The apparatus is fluidically coupleable to a compressed gas storage chamber which includes a first storage chamber fluidically coupleable to the pneumatic chamber, and a second storage chamber is fluidically coupleable to the first storage chamber. The first storage chamber is disposed at a first elevation and is configured to contain a liquid and a gas. The second storage chamber is disposed at a second elevation greater than the first elevation, and is configured to contain a volume of liquid.
US09109511B2	System and methods for optimizing efficiency of a hydraulically actuated system Systems and methods for efficiently operating a hydraulically actuated device/system are described herein. For example, systems and methods for efficiently operating a gas compression and expansion energy storage system are disclosed herein. Systems and methods are provided for controlling and operating the hydraulic actuators used within a hydraulically actuated device/system, such as, for example, a gas compression and/or expansion energy system, within a desired efficiency range of the hydraulic pump(s)/motor(s) used to supply or receive pressurized hydraulic fluid to or from the hydraulic actuators. In such a system, a variety of different operating regimes can be used depending on the desired output gas pressure and the desired stored pressure of the compressed gas. Hydraulic cylinders used to drive working pistons within the system can be selectively actuated to achieve varying force outputs to incrementally increase the gas pressure within the system for a given cycle.
US09109507B2	Engine assembly with variable valve displacement on one cylinder bank and method of controlling same An engine assembly includes an engine block having a first bank of cylinders and a second bank of cylinders. A crankshaft is supported by the engine block and is configured to be driven by torque due to combustion energy in the first and second banks of cylinders. A first set of valves is operable to control air flow into and out of the first bank of cylinders. Camshafts driven by the crankshaft are operatively connected to the first set of valves to control opening and closing of the first set of valves. A second set of valves is operable to control air flow into and out of the second bank of cylinders. A controller is operatively connected to the second set of valves and is configured to vary at least one of lift, duration, and timing of the second set of valves based on commanded torque at the crankshaft.
US09109505B2	Methods and systems for condensation control Methods and systems are provided for reducing condensate accumulation at a charge air cooler (CAC) during cold ambient conditions. A wastegate may be held closed while a compressor recirculation valve is held open during an engine cold start so as to use compressor heating and increased compressor recirculation to expedite CAC heating. EGR delivery is delayed until the CAC is sufficiently warm to reduce the propensity for condensation.
US09109486B2	System and method for reductant injection A mixing chamber for an exhaust system is disclosed. The mixing chamber includes a tapering cross sectional area perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the mixing chamber. The mixing chamber includes a first end having a first cross sectional area and a second end having a second cross sectional area. The second cross sectional area is less than the first cross sectional area. The second end is configured to receive an injector. The mixing chamber includes a first exhaust conduit fluidly connected to the first end of the mixing chamber and defining a first exhaust gas flow path into the mixing chamber substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The mixing chamber also includes a second exhaust conduit fluidly connected to the first end of the mixing chamber and defining a second exhaust gas flow path out of the mixing chamber substantially in the direction of the longitudinal axis.
US09109478B2	Method and apparatus for a parallel bypass filtration system for internal combustion engines and similar systems The present invention teaches a method and apparatus to quickly and inexpensively implement advanced filtration to engines and systems using spin-on oil filter by using a system adapter sandwiched between the spin-on oil filter and the engine block affixed by a nipple adapter. The adapter makes quick hydraulic connection to the inlet and outlet of a bypass grade or advanced filter, without modifications to the engine, as is the paradigm by traditional bypass filtration systems and without removing lubricant from the engine or system as is the paradigm of traditional bypass filtering systems. A differential pressure between said inlet and outlet side of the spin-on filter is complemented by a Venturi effect and fluid kinetic energy made possible by the special architecture of the nipple adapter and adapter.
US09109477B2	Oil pump drive An engine is provided herein. The engine includes a crankshaft, an engine casing, an oil pump, and an accessory drive, the oil pump having an input member which is driven from the crankshaft at a location on the opposite side of the accessory drive to the engine casing.
US09109472B2	Apparatus and method for controlling variable valve mechanism An control apparatus for a variable valve mechanism, is capable of executing fail safe control in a case in which locking occurs in either one of a cam shaft of a double shaft structure. The control apparatus for a variable valve mechanism has a cam shaft of a double shaft structure including an outer cam shaft and an inner cam shaft, such that it is possible to adjust the phase of a sub cam of inner cam shaft with respect to an main cam of outer cam shaft, and by means these cams, at least one of an intake valve and an exhaust valve of an internal combustion engine is operated. When an abnormality is detected in one of the cam shafts, the control apparatus controls the phase of the cam of the other cam shaft, in accordance with the determined current phase of the cam.
US09109468B2	Lost-motion variable valve actuation system Valve actuation systems are disclosed herein that allow valve opening timing to be varied using a cam phaser and that allow valve closing timing to be varied using a lost-motion system. In one embodiment, an actuation system is provided that has a locked configuration in which a bearing element is held in place between a cam and a rocker to transmit cam motion to an engine valve. The actuation system also has an unlocked configuration in which the bearing element is permitted to be at least partially ejected from between the cam and rocker, such that cam motion is not transmitted to the engine valve. The actuation system is switched to the unlocked configuration by draining fluid therefrom through a main valve which is piloted by a trigger valve. The actuation system also includes integrated autolash and seating control functionality.
US09109463B2	Load supporting structure of electric booster type brake apparatus A load supporting structure of an electric booster type brake apparatus, includes: a housing including a rear housing member and a front housing member so as to define a receiving space therein; a ball screw shaft rotatably installed in the receiving space of the housing; a rotor installed at one side of the ball screw shaft so as to transmit torque; a first bearing installed between the rear housing member and one side of the rotor and configured to support a radial direction load due to a hydraulic reaction force; and a second bearing installed between the front housing member and the other side of the rotor and configured to support an axial direction load due to a hydraulic reaction force. Therefore, the number of components and the thickness of the housing are reduced, and therefore weight reduction of the electric booster type brake apparatus may be implemented.
US09109456B2	System for coupling a segment to a rotor of a turbomachine Embodiments of the present disclosure include a system having a turbine blade segment having a blade and a mounting segment coupled to the blade. The mounting segment is configured to couple to a slot in a rotor, and the mounting segment has a cavity extending radially into the mounting segment.
US09109450B2	Rotor assembly with interlocking tabs A rotor assembly includes a first rotor having first tabs and a second rotor that is arranged coaxial with the first rotor and that includes second tabs that are interlocked with the first tabs. A retainer locks the first tabs and the second tabs together.
US09109447B2	Combustion system including a transition piece and method of forming using a cast superalloy A combustion system including a transition piece and method of forming the transition piece using a cast nickel-based superalloy is provided. The transition piece includes a body defining a flowpath and enclosure, the body having a circular inlet section for receiving combustion product from the combustor and an outlet end for flowing the combustor products into a first stage nozzle of a gas turbine. The transition piece comprises a one-piece single casting construction of the circular inlet section, the body, and the outlet end. The transition piece is formed from a nickel-based superalloy. The transition piece has a thick-to-thin ratio of wall thickness of thick transition to wall thickness of thin transition of about 1.1 to about 2.5.
US09109444B2	Tool A tool for mounting a chisel on a chisel holder, having an actuating member, which has a push-off section, wherein the actuating member can be displaced along a displacement direction. It is possible to simplify changing the chisel if the actuating member can be shifted by an actuating unit. The actuating unit has a draw-in section, which is spaced apart from the push-off section and is arranged transversely with respect to the displacement direction of the actuating member. The actuating member can be power-operated bidirectionally in the displacement direction by the actuating unit.
US09109440B2	Estimating diffusion coefficient for a reservoir stimulation fluid The subject disclosure relates to matrix acidizing. More specifically, systems and methods are described for estimating a diffusion coefficient for an acid fluid used to stimulate a subterranean reservoir wherein a spent acid is formulated that includes one or more by-products of the reaction between the fluid and rock. A rock sample, such as in the form of a rotating disk is exposed to spent acid under elevated pressure and temperature conditions while the fluid is sampled and analyzed. A diffusion coefficient for the spend acid is estimated.
US09109433B2	Early kick detection in an oil and gas well An apparatus, method and computer-readable medium for detecting a gas influx event in a borehole fluid during a drilling operation is disclosed. A measurement of an acoustic velocity of the borehole fluid is obtained at an acoustic sensor disposed in a borehole. A measurement of temperature of the borehole fluid is obtained at a temperature sensor disposed in the borehole. A process compares the measurement of the acoustic velocity of the borehole fluid to the measurement of the temperature of the borehole fluid to detect the gas influx event.
US09109432B2	Hydraulic screen table apparatus A hydraulic screen table having a base, an upper work surface, an opening in the screen table for allowing pipe to travel, upper support plates, emergency actuation plates, first and second set of powered cylinders wherein upon sensing an emergency, the cylinders pull the support plates and allow the sand screen to fall into the well bore.
US09109431B2	Reducing differential sticking during sampling A method includes lowering a downhole tool via a pipe into a wellbore drilled through a formation via the pipe and establishing a fluid communication between the downhole tool and the formation at a location in the wellbore. The method also includes extracting from the formation a first fluid stream through the fluid communication and passing the first fluid stream through the downhole tool for a first duration. The method further includes breaking the fluid communication between the downhole tool and the formation, moving the pipe in the wellbore, and reestablishing the fluid communication between the downhole tool and the formation essentially at the location in the wellbore subsequent to moving the pipe in the wellbore.
US09109427B2	Apparatus and method for plugging blowouts A system for plugging an oil well after a blowout comprises a hollow drill string. A connecting device is loosely situated around the string. The connecting device has an upper surface, a side surface and a lower surface having a recess. An inflatable bladder comprises an impermeable material. A skirt has a plurality of rods, each of which are pivotally connected to the lower surface. The first fastening ring is configured to selectively allow the bladder to transition from an unfilled state to a filled state. A second fastening ring is configured to selectively allow the skirt to transition from a closed position to an open position. A stop having a beveled edge is secured to the drill string. The recess is configured to allow the connecting device to mate with the stop beveled edge.
US09109408B2	Drill members for mine roofs A drilling system for drilling vertical holes in a mine roof includes a chuck configured to be driven in rotation by a motorized drill head. The chuck is cylindrical has a bore having a first polygonal inside perimeter. A drill member has an elongated hollow body with a cross section defining a circular outside perimeter over most of its length and a constant, second polygonal inside perimeter along substantially the entire length of the drill member. The drill member has at least one end region having a first polygonal outside perimeter that is sized to fit into the first polygonal inside perimeter to rotationally engage the drill member with the chuck. Drill bits having a bit fixture having a cross section with a second polygonal outside perimeter are sized and configured to fit snugly inside the second polygonal inside perimeter to be mounted to the drill member opposite the chuck.
US09109406B2	Method for removing a hydrocarbon production platform from sea A method for removing a hydrocarbon production platform at sea, the production platform being connected to a hydrocarbon well, and including a support structure and an upper part being supported by the support structure, where the method includes the steps of; temporarily closing the well, removing at least part of the upper part from the support structure, positioning a well abandonment module on the support structure, which well abandonment module is constructed and arranged to perform well abandonment operations, performing abandonment operations from the well abandonment module to abandon the well, removing the well abandonment module from the support structure after the well abandonment operations are completed.
US09109405B2	Gas handler, riser assembly, and method Method, riser assembly and gas handler for diverting gas from a riser. The riser assembly includes a riser having a first end and a second end and a conduit extending from the first end to the second end; a gas handler connected to the riser and provided between the first end and the second end, the gas handler having an external casing; plural pipes attached to an outside of the riser such that at least one pipe of the plural pipes enters through the external casing; and a gas vent pipe configured to start at the gas handler and extend towards the second end of the riser and the gas vent pipe is further configured to divert a gas from the gas handler through the outside of the riser.
US09109404B2	Riser string hang-off assembly A hang-off assembly for supporting a riser string from an off-shore drilling rig. The hang-off assembly includes a housing with a passage through the housing and an open section allowing access to the entire length of the passage from outside the housing. The assembly also includes a gate member movable relative to the housing from an open position to a closed position, the gate member preventing access to the passage through the open section when in the closed position. A motor moves the gate member between the open and closed positions. An adapter attachable to the riser string includes a profile landable in the housing to support the riser string when connected to the adapter.
US09109399B2	Drilling station In accordance with the invention, a drilling station or drilling rig, respectively, is provided for use on a drilling platform with a drilling mast, characterized in that the drilling mast and/or the energy supply and/or the generating device for hydraulic energy is/are composed of individual elements, the respective masses of which do not exceed a mass limit value of less than or equal to 25 t. A joining process requiring no welding, preferably by means of quick connectors, is preferred.
US09109392B1	Method of construction of an overhead door An overhead door frame apparatus having a plurality of elongated structural C-channel members. At least one of the members has a tube secured within and perpendicular to the first member and having a flat plate attached to an outside of the tube. At least an adjacent C-channel member of the plurality of members having a closed end. At least one fastener passes through the flat plate and through the tube of the first member and through the adjacent member.
US09109390B1	Screen and method of use A screen includes a sheet having a first side and an opposite second side. The sheet includes a plurality of holes which pass through the sheet from the first side to the second side. Each hole includes a first opening on the first side and a second opening on the second side. In and embodiment, when the sheet is vertically oriented with its bottom edge down, the first opening is disposed below the second opening. In an embodiment, a layer of conventional screen material is connected to the screen. In other embodiments, the holes are tapered, the holes are configured so as to block vision, the holes have the shape of an inverted V, and a second hole connects spaced apart holes.
US09109388B2	Door coordinator accessory mounting bracket An accessory mounting bracket for securing door accessories to a door coordinator. The accessory mounting bracket has stepped portions that define a channel that is sized to receive a door coordinator. A recess is disposed below the channel and provides an offset for fasteners that mount the door coordinator to a door frame and may protrude from the door coordinator. A set of bores are used to attach the accessory mounting bracket to the door coordinator and a soffit of the door, while a second bores, which are threaded, allows for attachment of a door accessory to the accessory mounting bracket. The second bores are formed in the accessory mounting bracket so as to be spaced apart from the door coordinator.
US09109382B2	Door locking device A door locking device which is reduced in size relative to a conventional device includes a key operation transmission link, which transmits a key operation force relative to a key cylinder to a relay lever corresponding to “a lock switch member”, and which is arranged to rotate about a common rotation axis shared with the relay lever. In addition, a rotation space for first and second movable contact portions fits within a circular-shaped area around the common rotation axis because a first fan-shaped protruding portion including the first movable contact portion for transmitting a force to the key operation transmission link and the relay lever and a second fan-shaped protruding portion including the second movable contact portion for transmitting the force to the key operation transmission link and the relay lever are arranged around the common rotation axis.
US09109381B2	Door latch apparatus for vehicle A door latch apparatus for a vehicle may include an open lever and a release lever rotatably coupled to a base plate, an interlocking lever rotatably coupled to the base plate and having a pushing protrusion, an operating lever provided on the base plate wherein the operating lever includes a second slot formed in a medial portion of the operating lever, and a locking protrusion formed on a lower end of the operating lever and being engaged in a first slot of the release lever, wherein when the release lever rotates, the locking protrusion pushes and rotates the open lever, thus releasing the door, and an inertia lever rotatably coupled to the base plate by a rotating shaft and including an insert protrusion formed on an end of the inertia lever and being engaged to the second slot.
US09109371B2	Foothold system on sloped roof Foothold system on a sloped roof includes first flashing block with hole, second flashing block with hole, moveable foothold with hook portion removably inserted into first flashing block hole and lower portion comprising a step portion extending down-roof from hook portion, the moveable foothold moveable from first flashing block to second flashing block via unhooking hook portion from first flashing block and hooking hook portion to second flashing block; flashing blocks may include mounting portion to receive mounting foot for photovoltaic array, and/or step portion sized to receive and support weight of foot of human working on sloped roof.
US09109369B2	Building insulation and siding kit A building side kit is provided where the siding board is attached to an insulation board from their upper edges and a one step installation of the kit is provided with attachment clips. The insulation boards may have interlocking male extension and female deeps on their upper and lower edges. Attachment clips fitting with siding board/insulation board assemblies with male extensions on the upper edge of the insulation board are also provided. The system may also include a reflective backing and/or drainage grooves on the back of the insulation board.
US09109367B2	Thermal insulation composite system, building comprising such a system and method for producing a thermal insulation composite system The invention relates to a thermal insulation composite system, comprising a plurality of panel-shaped thermal insulating bodies and a plurality of fixing devices for fixing the thermal insulating bodies to an external wall of a building, wherein each of the fixing devices contains a fixing plate for fixing the fixing device to the outer wall, a connecting bridge mounted on the surface side of the fixing plate, and an insert plate that is fixed to the fixing plate via the connecting bridge in a plane substantially parallel to the fixing plate. At least a first portion of the insert plate is designed for relative engagement in the first slot of at least a first of the thermal insulation bodies. The connecting bridge is designed for complete relative engagement in a second slot of the at least one first thermal insulation body, said second slot corresponding to the thickness of the connecting bridge.
US09109366B2	Covering made from mechanically interconnectable panels The invention relates to a covering comprising mechanically interconnectable panels having the following characteristics: —adjacent first and second panels (1, 2) each have a groove (12, 17) on their mutually complementary sides, —in one of the grooves (12) a tongue (16) is arranged which is displaceable relative to the panel (1) and which is configured to engage in the groove (17) of the adjacent panel (2) when connecting the adjacent panels (1, 2), —the panel (1) which holds the tongue (16) has a lower locking rail (3) which engages the adjacent panel (2) underneath which is configured to secure adjacent panels (1, 2) against tensile loading in the plane of installation, —the panel (2) engaged underneath by the locking rail (3) is supported on the locking rail (3) as well as on the support rail (11) which is arranged at a greater distance to the locking rail (3) than the groove (12), —the support rail (11) engages in the same groove (17) into which the tongue (16) is displaceable.
US09109352B1	Metal building system A metal building system has frame elements covered and connected together by cladding panels. The frame elements have tapered, roll formed wall and roof beams that connect at the wide ends. The cladding panels have large corrugations across most of each panel for rigidity and small corrugations along the edges to allow for roll forming of flanges and for rain drainage. Purlins fastened to the inside of the wall and roof beams connect the frame elements and support insulation panels on the inside of the building system.
US09109344B2	Working machine In the working machine, first and second pilot flow paths are directly or indirectly connected to a tank flow path (52). A first restrictor is disposed between the first pilot flow path and the tank flow path. A second restrictor is disposed between the second pilot flow path and the tank flow path. An actuator control unit is configured to control an actuator based on a hydraulic pressure detected by a first hydraulic pressure detector unit and that detected by a second hydraulic pressure detector unit sensor.
US09109335B1	Retractable dock A retractable dock having a ramp, with first forward and aft sides, extending from a bulkhead toward water. The first aft side joins the bulkhead via a locking mechanism. All locking mechanisms allow rotation. The dock has an aft floating assembly with an aft bridge and second aft and forward sides. The second aft side joins the first forward side of the ramp via a second locking mechanism. The aft float assembly has an aft floating unit floating on water supporting the aft bridge. The aft floating unit joins the aft bridge by another locking mechanism. The second locking mechanism joins to the ramp and either the second aft side or aft floating unit. The dock has a forward floating assembly with a forward bridge joined to the aft bridge configured for extension and retraction. The forward floating assembly has a forward floating unit floating under the forward bridge supporting it.
US09109334B1	Backer rod installation tool A tool for installing a length of backer rod, the backer rod being sized for insertion into a contraction joint within a concrete slab, the tool including a first carriage; a plurality of wheels mounted upon the carriage, the wheels being arranged for facilitating rolling motion of the first carriage along the contraction joint; a second carriage sized for suspension beneath the first carriage; a plurality of backer rod depressing disks including a frontmost disk, each disk being mounted rotatably upon the second carriage; jack screw disk positioners interconnecting the carriages and being adapted for, upon the rolling motion along the contraction joint, downwardly extending the disks into the contraction joint; a backer rod guide tube connected to the first carriage and being adapted for continuously positioning the length of backer rod beneath the disks; and a handle connected operatively to the first carriage.
US09109333B2	Hopper insert for asphalt paving machine A hopper insert for the hopper of a paving machine is installed above a hopper conveyor that conveys asphalt material in a hopper conveying direction. The hopper insert has a front end and a rear end and a plurality of walls that together define an opening adjacent to the hopper conveyor. The opening to the hopper conveyor increases in width from front end of the hopper insert to the rear end.
US09109330B2	Apparatus and method for measuring properties of unstabilized moving sheets A method includes receiving multiple biased measurements associated with a property of a sheet of material, where the biased measurements correspond to multiple known sheet geometries. The method also includes determining an unbiased measurement associated with the property of the sheet using the biased measurements, where the unbiased measurement corresponds to a nominal sheet geometry. The method further includes storing and/or outputting the unbiased measurement. Determining the unbiased measurement could include performing regression using the biased measurements and their corresponding sheet geometries to identify an estimated value of the property of the sheet at the nominal sheet geometry. The biased measurements can be generated using one or more sensors, and the sheet may not be stabilized during the biased measurement generation. Additional sheet geometries can also be created, such as by varying a tilt angle, a curvature, and/or a position of the sheet.
US09109326B2	Antibacterial artificial hair and antibacterial coating agent for artificial hair An antibacterial artificial hair of the present invention includes an artificial hair and organic resin particles adhering to the artificial hair. The organic resin particles are powdered fine particles including an organic resin and an aluminum salt that is chemically bonded to the organic resin. An antibacterial coating agent for artificial hair of the present invention is used for an artificial hair and obtained by dispersing the organic resin particles in an aqueous medium. The presence of the organic resin particles including the aluminum salt not only provides the luster and texture similar to those of human hair, but also imparts the antibacterial properties.
US09109321B2	Device and method for rinsing objects in an appliance An appliance for washing objects that employs a spray device for delivering a washing fluid, e.g., water, to a wash tub in the appliance. The spray device is configured to reduce consumption of the washing fluid such as during a rinse portion of a washing cycle. In one example, the spray device comprises a plurality of apertures that are arranged in one or more arrays. The apertures are configured to disperse the washing fluid as a plurality of spray streams that form a pair of wetted areas on either side the wash tub. The wetted areas provide wetting of the objects along the sides and extending from a front portion to a back portion of the wash tub.
US09109309B2	Fabric system Bedding material including a first fabric section manufactured from performance fabric and having a first and second side; and, a second fabric section attached to the first side of the first fabric section. Additionally, a third fabric section can be attached to the second side of the first fabric section. The first fabric section can be attached to the second fabric section through a flatlock stitch. The first fabric section can include a first zone and a second zone wherein the first zone contains different performance properties from the second zone and the first zone can have thermal or moisture wicking properties.
US09109308B2	Loom and method for creating an article A device having a housing structure, a plurality of pegs in communication with the housing and the plurality of pegs extending at an angle relative to a plane so that the plane extends between at least a plurality of pegs and wherein the angle of plurality of pegs are in different directions so that the at least a portion of plurality of pegs are movable from a first side of the plane to the second side of the plane.
US09109302B2	Method for producing silicon wafers, and silicon solar cell In order to produce silicon wafers, liquid ultra-pure silicon is solidified on a silicon monocrystalline seed arranged in the bottom area of a crucible and having a seed surface comprising a {110}-crystal orientation and an edge surface having a {100}-crystal orientation starting from the bottom of the crucible, thus forming a silicon block on the seed surface of the silicon monocrystalline seed which largely takes over the {110}-crystal orientation. Subsequently, the silicon block is divided into wafers with a wafer surface having a {100}-crystal orientation.
US09109298B2	Crystal growing ornament Provided is a new-concept crystal growing ornament that may change in size due to a recrystallization phenomenon by supplying a growth liquid, thereby reducing repugnance or an artificial impression and arousing curiosity or interest. The crystal growing ornament includes a basic material made of a porous material and formed in a predetermined shape; a growth liquid formed to be absorbed into the basic material and evaporating after being absorbed into the basic material to generate a recrystallization phenomenon; a growth liquid supply unit connected to the basic material and formed to supply the growth liquid to the basic material after receiving the growth liquid; and a crystal growing body integrally formed outside the basic material due to the recrystallization phenomenon of the growth liquid.
US09109285B2	Film-forming apparatus An apparatus includes a plurality of target electrodes having attachment surfaces, a substrate holder, a first shutter member provided between the plurality of target electrodes and the substrate holder and having a plurality of openings, a first separating portion disposed between the openings of the first shutter member on its surface of the target electrode side, and a second separating portion disposed between the first shutter member and the target electrodes. The first shutter member is driven so as to bring the first separating portion and the second separating portion toward each other so that an indirect path can be formed between the first separating portion and the second separating portion, and driven so as to bring the first separating portion and the second separating portion away from each other so that the first shutter plate can be rotated.
US09109281B2	Metal heterocyclic compounds for deposition of thin films Methods and compositions for depositing a metal containing film on a substrate are disclosed. A reactor and at least one substrate disposed in the reactor are provided. A metal containing precursor is provided and introduced into the reactor, which is maintained at a temperature of at least 100° C. A metal is deposited on to the substrate through a deposition process to form a thin film on the substrate.
US09109270B2	Methods for production of silver nanostructures Methods for producing silver nanostructures with improved dimensional control, yield, purity, monodispersity, and scale of synthesis.
US09109255B2	Methods and compositions for determining responsiveness to antibody therapy Methods and compositions are provided for determining whether a subject suffering from a neoplastic condition is responsive to an antineoplastic therapy, such as antibody therapy, e.g., Rituximab. In practicing the subject methods, the subject is genotyped to determine whether the subject has a least one favorable FcγR polymorphism, e.g., the 131 H/H genotype or the 158 V/V genotype. In addition, reagents, devices and kits thereof, that find use in practicing the subject methods are provided.
US09109249B2	Microbe detection via hybridizing magnetic relaxation nanosensors Disclosed herein are methods and materials for facilitating the detection of nucleic acid analytes of interest. Specifically exemplified herein are methods for detecting mycobacterial microorganisms, namely Mycobacterium avium spp. paratuberculosis. Also disclosed is new hybridizing magnetic relaxation nanosensor (hMRS) particularly adapted to detect a target nucleic acid analyte of interest.
US09109248B2	Method for the synthesis of a bifunctional complex Disclosed is a method for obtaining a bifunctional complex comprising a display molecule part and a coding part, wherein a nascent bifuntional complex comprising a chemical reaction site and a priming site for enzymatic addition of a tag is reacted at the chemical reaction site with one or more reactants, and provided with respective tag(s) identifying the reactant(s) at the priming site is using one or more enzymes.
US09109247B2	In vitro method for the determination of glycemic index of food products The present invention provides an in vitro method for determining the glycemic index values for various food products. The present invention provides an accurate and inexpensive in vitro method for determining the glycemic index of a wide variety of both food ingredients and finished food products.
US09109241B2	Processing biomass Biomass (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) is processed to produce useful products, such as fuels. For example, systems can use feedstock materials, such as cellulosic and/or lignocellulosic materials, to proceed ethanol and/or butanol, e.g., by fermentation.
US09109238B2	Synthesis of diester-based lubricants from enzymatically-directed epoxides The present invention is generally directed to methods of making diester-based lubricant compositions, wherein formation of diester species proceeds via esterification of epoxide intermediates, and wherein the epoxide intermediates are generated via an enzymatically-driven mechanism. In some embodiments, the methods for making such diester-based lubricants utilize a biomass precursor and/or low value (e.g., Fischer-Tropsch (FT) olefins and/or alcohols) so as to produce high value diester-based lubricants. In some embodiments, such diester-based lubricants are derived from FT olefins and fatty acids. The fatty acids can be from a bio-based source (i.e., biomass, renewable source) or can be derived from FT alcohols via oxidation.
US09109233B2	Recombinant poxvirus expressing homologous genes inserted The present invention relates to a recombinant poxvirus vector capable of expressing two or more homologous, foreign sequences, which derive from different variants of a microorganism, and which have a homology of 50% or above. The invention further relates to a method for preparing such recombinant poxvirus and the use of such recombinant poxvirus as medicament or vaccine. Additionally, a method for affecting preferably inducing, an immune response in a living animal, including a human, is provided.
US09109220B2	Environmental remediation material An environmental remediation material and method for making the same which include processing an organic material to increase the internal surface and surface pore area thereof through pyrolysis, coating the pyrolyzed material with a non-polar substance to enhance the material's oleophilicity, and applying secondary processing treatments designed to optimize the material for preselected chemical remediation applications. The remediation material is insoluble in aqueous environments, free of environmentally hazardous chemicals or compounds and readily transportable and disposable following use.
US09109215B2	Polypeptides having xylanase activity and polynucleotides encoding same The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having xylanase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
US09109209B2	Biocatalysts and methods for the synthesis of substituted lactams The present disclosure relates to transaminase polypeptides capable of aminating a dicarbonyl substrate, and polynucleotides, vectors, host cells, and methods of making and using the transaminase polypeptides.
US09109208B2	Gene, protein, protein complex and method for improving aroma production in a plant The invention relates to a nucleic acid molecule that improves aroma production in a plant, and a cell and a transgenic plant comprising the nucleic acid molecule. A protein and a protein complex for catalyzing the synthesis of a monoterpene and a precursor thereof and uses for improving the production of aroma in a plant are also provided.
US09109205B2	Method of constructing masses of myocardial cells and use of the myocardial cell mass The object of the present invention is to improve the post-transplantation engraftment rate of cardiomyocytes that have been purified to such an extent that they are free from non-cardiomyocytes and any components derived from other species.To solve this problem, the present inventors studied the possibility of constructing cell masses from the purified cardiomyocytes. As a result, they revealed that the stated problem could be solved by providing a method of preparing cell masses of cardiomyocytes derived from pluripotent stem cells, characterized in that cell masses of aggregated cells containing cardiomyocytes that had been differentiated and induced from pluripotent stem cells were dispersed to single cells to thereby obtain purified cardiomyocytes, which were then cultured in a culture medium under serum-free conditions so that they were reaggregated.
US09109204B2	Methods for compact aggregation of dermal cells The invention provides for a method for aggregating dermal papilla cells or dermal sheath cells or a combination thereof, the method comprising: growing dermal papilla cells or dermal sheath cells or a combination thereof in suspension culture; and contacting the culture with an effective amount of an enzyme, wherein a substrate of the enzyme is an extracellular matrix molecule in the suspension culture, so as to aggregate dermal papilla cells or dermal sheath cells. The culture may be a hanging drop culture and the enzyme may be a hyaluronidase.
US09109199B2	Methods to produce bunyavirus replicon particles The invention relates to methods of producing infectious bunyavirus replicon particles. These bunyavirus replicon particles are safe and can be used outside a biosafety containment. The invention further relates to recombinant bunyavirus replicon particles and uses of these recombinant bunyavirus replicon particles.
US09109192B1	Automated beer brewing system with vessel for brewing and fermenting A beer making system may use a detachable vessel to contain liquid during the mashing and boiling steps, and may also be used during the fermentation steps of beer making. The beer making system may recirculate liquid through the vessel, then select between several flow paths during the beer making process. A removable reservoir system having a grain reservoir and several hops or adjunct reservoirs may be selected as a flow path, as well as a bypass flow path. A programmable controller may cause liquid to recirculate through a heater and one of the various flow paths, the sequence, timing, and temperature profile of which are defined in a recipe for a particular beer.
US09109177B2	Systems and methods for renewable fuel The present application generally relates to the introduction of a renewable fuel oil as a feedstock into refinery systems or field upgrading equipment. For example, the present application is directed to methods of introducing a liquid thermally produced from biomass into a petroleum conversion unit; for example, a refinery fluid catalytic cracker (FCC), a coker, a field upgrader system, a hydrocracker, and/or hydrotreating unit; for co-processing with petroleum fractions, petroleum fraction reactants, and/or petroleum fraction feedstocks and the products, e.g., fuels, and uses and value of the products resulting therefrom.
US09109175B2	Isoprenoid based alternative diesel fuel Fuel compositions are provided comprising a hydrogenation product of a monocyclic sesquiterpene (e.g., hydrogenated bisabolene) and a fuel additive. Methods of making and using the fuel compositions are also disclosed.
US09109167B2	Integrated process for treatment and gasification of bituminous feedstocks by chemical looping combustion The object of the invention is a process for treating bituminous feedstocks wherein the energy required to separate the organic and mineral fractions of said bituminous feedstocks in a treatment unit powered by hot water is provided by chemical looping combustion (CLC).
US09109166B2	Treating a crude and natural gas stream A process for treating a crude and natural gas stream, which at least comprises the steps of: (a) passing a crude and natural gas stream (10) through an inlet (12) into a stabilization unit (14) to provide a stabilizer content (20); (b) passing an overhead gaseous stream (30) separated from the stabilizer content (20) through a first outlet (16); and (c) passing a bottom stream (40) comprising crude liquid hydrocarbons separated from the stabilizer content (20) and free water through a second outlet (18).
US09109163B2	Lighting devices with prescribed colour emission Optical conversion layers based on semiconductor nanoparticles for use in lighting devices, and lighting devices including same. In various embodiments, spherical core/shell seeded nanoparticles (SNPs) or nanorod seeded nanoparticles (RSNPs) are used to form conversion layers with superior combinations of high optical density (OD), low re-absorbance and small FRET. In some embodiments, the SNPs or RSNPs form conversion layers without a host matrix. In some embodiments, the SNPs or RSNPs are embedded in a host matrix such as polymers or silicone. The conversion layers can be made extremely thin, while exhibiting the superior combinations of optical properties. Lighting devices including SNP or RSNP-based conversion layers exhibit energetically efficient superior prescribed color emission.
US09109158B2	Selenium-containing compounds A novel selenium-containing compound, a method of producing the selenium-containing compound, an analysis method using the selenium-containing compound, and use of the selenium-containing compound as an antioxidant, are disclosed. A novel selenium-containing compound shown by any of chemical formulas 1 to 4 is obtained by extracting a selenium-containing compound from a sample using an organic solvent or water, and purifying the selenium-containing compound. The novel selenium-containing compound may be used for a novel analysis method, or may be used as an antioxidant.
US09109150B2	Fast recovery of thixotropy by organogels with low molecular weight gelators Low molecular weight gelators, methods of making such gelators, organogels comprising such gelators and methods of using such organogels are described. In exemplary methods, the gelators can be used in a variety of applications including the delivery of pharmaceutical active pharmaceutical ingredients, in food, cosmetics and consumer products, and in containing the unexpected release of chemical that occur for example in spills.
US09109148B2	Method for producing a binder composition, a binder composition, an adhesive composition, a layered composite structure, and uses of the binder composition and the adhesive composition The invention relates to a method for producing a binder composition, wherein the method comprises the following steps: (i) forming an aqueous composition comprising reactant components including lignin, a polymerizable substance and a crosslinking agent in the presence of a catalyst; (ii) cooking the formed composition until the composition has a viscosity, which corresponds to 45-95% of a predetermined viscosity value of the final binder composition; (iii) adding tannin as a reactant component to the composition; and (iv) cooking the composition at a temperature of 60-95° C. for polymerizing the reactant components until a binder composition with a predetermined viscosity value is formed.
US09109144B2	Fluid activatable adhesives for glue-free, liner-free, labels for glass and plastic substrates and methods of use thereof Methods for applying a liner-free, or liner-less label, to a substrate, particularly glass or plastic (e.g., PET) substrates are described herein. The method includes applying an adhesive composition, such as a polymeric coating, to a label face sheet, activating the adhesive composition with an activating fluid, and contacting the label to the substrate. The activating fluid is preferably a mixture of water and one or more organic solvents, such as low molecular weight alcohols. In some embodiments, the labels exhibit a percent fiber tear greater than about 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, or 95% after one, two, three, four, or five minutes. In particular embodiments, the labels exhibits a percent fiber tear greater than 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, or 95% after two minutes.
US09109140B2	Mixed organosiloxane networks for tunable surface properties for blanket substrates for indirect printing methods A crosslinked siloxane composition contains the polymerization product of a mixture containing from about 2 to about 12 alkoxysilane precursor materials, where at least one of the alkoxysilane precursor materials is a hydrophilic alkoxysilane precursor material, and at least one of the alkoxysilane precursor materials is a hydrophobic alkoxysilane precursor material. A method of printing an image to a substrate involves applying an inkjet ink to an intermediate transfer member using an inkjet printhead, spreading the ink onto the transfer member, inducing a property change of the ink, and transferring the ink to a substrate, where the intermediate transfer member comprises a crosslinked siloxane composition containing the polymerization product of a mixture comprising from about 2 to about 12 alkoxysilane precursor materials, where at least one of the precursor materials is hydrophilic and at least one is hydrophobic.
US09109135B2	Composition for coating of a surface, and a coating A composition for coating of a surface intended to be exposed to a metal melt consists of 8-18 wt-% of a refractory component, 50-75 wt-% of solvent, preferably water, 10-20 wt-% of an inorganic binder, 0-10 wt-%, preferably 2-10 wt-%, of an organic binder, 0.3-7 wt-%, preferably 2-6 wt-%, more preferably, 3-5 wt-% of pyrite; and optionally up to 10 wt-%, preferably up to 5 wt-%, of additional additive or additives. The composition results in a coating on a surface, which coating is able to reduce the dissolved elemental magnesium content in a metal melt to which the surface is exposed.
US09109122B2	Easy-clean cooking surface and culinary article or domestic electrical appliance comprising such a cooking surface Provided is a food-cooking surface for a culinary article or domestic electrical cooking appliance, consisting in depositing Zr and/or Nb and/or Ti on a substrate, the production process including a step of carburizing and/or nitriding at least one of the aforementioned elements, characterized in that the cooking surface also includes depositing Si so as to produce (Zr/Nb/Ti)—Si—(N/C) coatings. Also provided is a culinary article or domestic electrical or gas cooking appliance comprising such a cooking surface.
US09109117B2	Process for making composite polymer In the process of forming a wood pulp fiber and thermoplastic polymer composition the step of adding mineral oil to the composition during mixing.
US09109113B2	Method and apparatus for identifying and characterizing material solvents and composited matrices and methods of using same Solvents for macromolecules generally believed to be insoluble in their pristine form are identified by generation of a ‘solvent resonance’ in the relationship between solvent quality (deduced by Rayleigh scattering) and an intrinsic property of solvents. A local extreme of the solvent resonance identifies the ideal intrinsic property of an ideal solvent which may then be used to select a particular solvent or solvent combination. A solvent for graphene is used in the production of transparent conductive electrodes.
US09109110B2	Method for the preparation of modified poly(alkylene terephthalate) employing in situ titanium-containing catalyst A process of preparing a modified polyalkylene terephthalate by melt polycondensation comprising reacting an alkylene diol and polyethylene terephthalate, wherein polymerization occurs in the presence of a catalyst complex formed by reaction of tetra(alkyl) titanate and a compound selected from phosphorus-containing compounds, nitrogen-containing compounds, boron-containing compounds, and combinations thereof.
US09109108B1	LVT flooring and underlayment including extruded sheet material with expanded microspheres A hybrid underlayment, includes a thermoplastic making up between 92.0% by volume to 95.5% by volume of the hybrid underlayment. A plurality of expanded microspheres is dispersed through the thermoplastic. The microspheres are expanded to a volume in a range of between 180 square micrometers and 1450 square micrometers. The microspheres makeup between 1.0% by volume to 7.5% by volume of the hybrid underlayment. The hybrid underlayment is extruded into a flat sheet having a thickness of between 1.0 mm and 2.0 mm and a density from 7 pcf to 25 pcf.
US09109101B2	Process for making reinforcing elastomer-clay nanocomposites A process for producing a natural rubber nanocomposite containing exfoliated organically modified montmorillonite and maleic anhydride grafted elastomer in a dispersion of natural rubber and reinforcing filler/inert filler wherein the cured nanocomposite has improved mechanical properties compared to conventional rubber compound containing a mixture of the reinforcing filler, carbon black and the inert filler, CaCO3.
US09109100B2	Composition for preparing artificial graphite element, powdery material, and method for fabricating the element A composition for producing an artificial graphite element and a method for producing the same are provided. The composition includes a carbon-containing raw material such as fly ash, an adhesive, and a dispersant. The method for producing the artificial graphite element of the present invention includes the steps of mixing the above composition; baking the mixed composition to obtain powder having a plurality of particles; screening the powder to select particles having suitable particle diameters; molding the plurality of screened particles into an article; heating the article at 500 to 1000° C.; and graphitizing the heated article to obtain the artificial graphite element. The method of the present invention is simple and cost-effective. The artificial graphite element produced has a considerably large specific surface area due to its porous property, such that it is suitable for use as a heat-dissipating substrate.
US09109099B2	Polyethylene additive A new additive for plastics (for example, polyethylene) is prepared by reacting a fatty acid ester of glycerol (such as glycerol monostearate) with a source of a reactive divalent metal selected from zinc, calcium, and magnesium. In an embodiment, Zinc oxide is the reactive divalent metal and the reaction is conducted in the presence of an acid such as zinc acetate. In one embodiment, a molar excess of zinc oxide (compared to the fatty acid ester) is used. The additive is suitable for use in the preparation of injection molded parts, rotomolded parts, and films.
US09109095B2	Organosol composition of fluorine-containing polymer The present invention provides an organosol composition that is stable even in the case that the PTFE particle content is high. The present invention relates to an organosol composition of PTFE particles, comprising PTFE particles (A), a polymer (B), and an organic solvent (S), wherein (1) the polymer (B) is soluble in the organic solvent (S), (2) the amount of the PTFE particles (A) is not lower than 50% by mass of the total amount of the PTFE particles (A) and the polymer (B), and (3) the precipitation ratio of the PTFE particles after 48 hours is not higher than 60% when the total solids concentration of the PTFE particles (A) and the polymer (B) is 5% by mass.
US09109094B2	Highly adhesive polyester film and packaging material using the same Disclosed is a highly adhesive polyester film having a highly adhesive primer layer disposed on at least one side of a substrate polyester film. The substrate polyester film is a stretched film having linear tearability and formed of a mixed polyester resin containing polyethylene terephthalate and a modified polybutylene terephthalate, and the highly adhesive primer layer contains a polyester resin (A) having an acid number of 20 to 60 mg KOH/g and a hydroxyl number of 30 to 150 mg KOH/g, and having an oligomer content of 2.0% by mass or less, and substantially contains no crosslinking agent component.
US09109082B2	Method for increasing the recyclability of a polyamide used in sintering The present invention relates to a method for increasing the recyclability of a polyamide in a sintering process, wherein at least 4000 ppm of at least one acid is incorporated in the polyamide, said acid being selected from: the acids of general formula HxPyOz in which x, y and z are integers selected in the range from 1 to 7, boric acid, the salts of these acids, their esters, their anhydrides and mixtures thereof.
US09109080B2	Cross-linked organic polymer compositions and methods for controlling cross-linking reaction rate and of modifying same to enhance processability The invention includes a cross-linking composition comprising a cross-linking compound and a cross-linking reaction additive selected from an organic acid and/or an acetate compound, wherein the cross-linking compound has the structure according to formula (IV): wherein the cross-linking reaction additive is capable of reacting with the cross-linking compound to form a reactive oligomer intermediate, which is capable of cross-linking an organic polymer. Also included is an organic polymer composition for use in forming a cross-linked organic polymer, comprising a cross-linking compound of Formula (IV), a cross-linking reaction additive and at least one organic polymer. In one embodiment, the at least one organic polymer has at least one halogen-containing reactive group and is dehalogenated by reacting with an alkali metal compound. Methods for making such compositions as well as articles of manufacture formed from such methods and organic polymer compositions, wherein the compositions and methods control the cross-linking reaction rate of a crosslinking compound for use in cross-linking an organic polymer are also included.
US09109079B2	Eco-friendly solderable wire enamel Described is a polyurethane wire enamel composed of at least one blocked polyisocyanate adduct, blocked with alkylphenols, at least one hydroxy polyester comprising ester and/or imide and/or amide groups, at least one hydrocarbon-based organic solvent, and further auxiliaries and additives.
US09109075B2	Cross-linked organic polymers for use as elastomers in high temperature applications Methods are disclosed to prepare elastomeric materials by providing aromatic polymer(s) which is/are non-elastomeric at room temperature; cross-linking the aromatic polymer using a cross-linking compound to form a cross-linked aromatic polymer which is substantially cured; and heating the cross-linked aromatic polymer to a temperature at or above a glass transition temperature of the cross-linked aromatic polymer. Materials formed thereby and end products are also described which may be formed using the aromatic polymer cross-linking techniques to develop strong elastomeric materials for high temperature and/or harsh condition end applications.
US09109073B1	Bifunctionalized polymer The present invention is directed to a bifunctionalized elastomer comprising the reaction product of (1) a living anionic elastomeric polymer initiated with a functional initiator and (2) a functional polymerization terminator.
US09109072B2	Curable composition and uses thereof A curable composition includes (A) silica fine particles surface-modified with at least one silane compound including at least (A1) a polymerizable silane compound of the general formula (1), (B) a (meth)acrylate compound, and (C) a polymerization initiator, SiR1aR2bR3c(OR4)4-a-b-c (1) wherein R1 is a C11-20 hydrocarbon group having an ethylenic unsaturated group, or a substituted C11-20 hydrocarbon group having an ethylenic unsaturated group and having an ether bond and/or an ester bond; R2 is a hydrogen atom or a C1-4 hydrocarbon group; R3 is a halogen atom; R4 is a hydrogen atom or a C1-10 hydrocarbon group; a is an integer of 1 to 3; b is an integer of 0 to 2; c is an integer of 0 to 3; the sum of a and b is 1 to 3; the sum of a, b and c is 1 to 4.
US09109068B2	Hybrid copolymer compositions Hybrid copolymer compositions include a hybrid copolymer including at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer and a naturally derived hydroxyl containing chain transfer agent as an end group; and a hybrid synthetic copolymer including one or more synthetic polymers derived from the at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer with at least one initiator fragment as an end group. The hybrid copolymer composition may be prepared as a scale inhibiting composition. Methods of preparing a hybrid copolymer are also included.
US09109065B2	Ethylene copolymer, composition including the copolymer, and shaped article and film or sheet formed from the ethylene copolymer or the composition Objects of the invention are to obtain ethylene copolymers which have excellent rubber elasticity even without being crosslinked and maintain sufficient shaping processability even when filled with significantly large amounts of additives, and to provide methods for producing with good productivity films or sheets having flexibility and high stretchability. The invention is directed to an ethylene copolymer (X) including structural units derived from a component [A], a component [B] and a component [C] which are ethylene [A], an α-olefin of 3 to 20 carbon atoms [B] and a polyene and/or a cyclic olefin [C]. In the ethylene copolymer, (1) the content of structural units derived from the ethylene [A] is in the range of 50 to 90 mol % in 100 mol % of all the structural units in the copolymer (X); (2) the content of structural units derived from at least one polyene and/or the cyclic olefin [C] is in the range of 1.0 to 5.0 mol % in 100 mol % of all the structural units in the copolymer (X); and (3) the intrinsic viscosity [η] of the ethylene copolymer (X) as measured at 135° C. in a decalin solution is in the range of 7.8 to 13.0 dl/g. The invention also concerns with a composition including the ethylene copolymer (X), and uses.
US09109059B2	Superabsorbent polymers A superabsorbent polymer network formed of two monomers and two crosslinkers. The monomers and the crosslinkers are described herein. Further, a method for preparing this superabsorbent polymer network is disclosed. Also disclosed is a method of determining a ratio between two monomeric moieties in a superabsorbent polymer network formed of two monomers.
US09109057B2	Methods and materials for hydrocarbon recovery Crosslinked polyolefins for use in recovering or containing hydrocarbons such as hydrocarbons contained in oil, are disclosed. Advantageously, the crosslinked polyolefins absorb the hydrocarbon to form a gel that can be collected and processed by heat to release the collected hydrocarbons.
US09109052B2	Method of preparation of an oxidized derivative of hyaluronic acid and a method of modification thereof The invention relates to a new method of preparation of a hyaluronan derivative with an aldehydic group in the position (6) of the polysaccharide glucosamine part. The hyaluronic acid oxidation can be performed by means of TEMPO/NaCIO or TEMPO/TCC systems in a protic environment with or without the presence of anorganic salts. Thus prepared aldehyde can be used for binding amines, diamines, amino acids, peptides and other compounds containing an amino group, e.g. by means of the reductive amination with NaBH3CN in water or in a water-organic solvent system. When a diamine or compounds containing three or more amino groups are used, cross-linked hyaluronan derivatives can be prepared. Cross-linked derivatives can be also prepared by a reaction of the aldehyde with a hyaluronan substituted by an amino-alkyl group HA-alkyl-NH2.
US09109040B2	Treatment and prevention of malaria The present invention relates to polypeptides from Plasmodium and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention further relates to compositions comprising the polypeptides and their use in the treatment and prevention of malaria.
US09109036B2	Immunogenic composition comprising alpha-hemolysin oligopeptides The present invention provides immunogenic compositions useful in prevention and treatment of Staphylococcus aureus infection. In particular, the present invention provides methods of inducing an immune response against an alpha-hemolysin-expressing S. aureus, methods of preventing or treating S. aureus infections, and composition for preventing or treating S. aureus infections.
US09109035B2	Anti-TAT226 antibodies and immunoconjugates Anti-TAT226 antibodies and immunoconjugates thereof are provided. Methods of using anti-TAT226 antibodies and immunoconjugates thereof are provided.
US09109032B2	Methods of treating hematological proliferative disorders by targeting EphA3 expressed on aberrant vasculature in bone marrow The invention provides diagnostic and therapeutic methods for the treatment of hematological proliferative disorders.
US09109028B2	Compositions produced using enteric pathogens and methods of use The present invention provides compositions including polypeptides having the characteristics of polypeptides expressed by a reference microbe such E coli or Salmonella. Examples of Salmonella strains that can be used include, for instance, S. enterica serovar Newport, S. enterica serovar Enteritidis, S. enterica serovar Typhimurium, and S. enterica serovar Dublin. Also provided are compositions including polypeptides having a particular molecular weight and a mass fingerprint that includes polypeptide fragments having a particular set of masses, or polypeptides having an amino acid sequence with at least about 95% identity with an amino acid sequence, wherein the polypeptide has seroreactive activity. The present invention also provides methods of making and methods of using such compositions.
US09109021B2	Pyro-glutamate Aβ targeting agents A method of inhibiting amyloid beta aggregation in a mammal includes administering an amount of a pyro-Glu-(3-40/42)-Aβ targeting agent and/or fragment thereof that specifically binds to an epitope of the N terminus end of a pyro-Glu-(3-40/42)-Aβ effective to inhibit amyloid beta aggregation in the subject.
US09109019B2	Anti-inflammatory agents This invention is in the field of treating or preventing inflammation in humans and animals and relates to pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating or preventing various inflammatory conditions. In particular, the invention relates to compositions and methods for treating or preventing inflammatory conditions such as citrulline-related inflammatory diseases. The invention provides specific binding molecules directed against citrulline-containing epitopes for use in the therapy and prevention of inflammatory conditions.
US09109018B2	Yersinia spp. polypeptides and methods of use The present invention provides isolated polypeptides isolatable from a Yersinia spp. Also provided by the present invention are compositions that include one or more of the polypeptides, and methods for making and methods for using the polypeptides.
US09108996B2	Ruthenium-based metathesis catalysts and precursors for their preparation The invention is directed to ruthenium-based metathesis catalysts of the Hoveyda-Grubbs type. The new N-chelating diarylamino-based ruthenium catalysts described herein are stable in solid state and in solution and reveal rapid initiation behavior. Further, the corresponding N-substituted styrene precursor compounds are disclosed. The catalysts are prepared in a cross-metathesis reaction starting from N-substituted styrene precursors. The new Hoveyda-Grubbs type catalysts are suitable to catalyze ring-closing metathesis (RCM), cross metathesis (CM) and ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP). Low catalyst loadings are sufficient to convert a wide range of substrates via metathesis reactions.
US09108994B2	(Triorganosilyl)alkynes and their derivatives and a new catalytic method for obtaining new and conventional substituted (triorganosilyl)alkynes and their derivatives The present invention relates to new (triorganosilyl)alkynes and their derivatives having general formula 1 R1—C≡C—Z (I) In its second aspect, this invention relates to a new selective method for the preparation of new and conventional (triorganosilyl)alkynes and their derivatives having the general formula 1, by the silylative coupling of terminal alkynes with halogenotriorganosilanes in the presence of an iridium catalyst and a tertiary amine.
US09108990B2	Cyclopropyl MIDA boronate This disclosure concerns a protected cyclopropylboronic acid comprising a substituted cyclopropyl group and a boronic ester group having a protecting group. The protecting group is an N-methyliminodiacetic acid (MIDA) group or MIDA-based group.
US09108988B2	Method of purifying organic diphosphite compounds A method of purifying an organic diphosphite of general formula (I) The method comprises providing a crude organic diphosphite of general formula (I) that is at least partly dissolved in a first solvent (L1), wherein (L1) is selected from the group consisting of alkylbenzenes, aryl alkyl ethers, chlorobenzene, and mixtures thereof, and precipitating by admixing with a second solvent (L2) selected from the group consisting of linear C1-C4-alkanols, ethylene glycol di(C1-C4-alkyl) ethers, and mixtures thereof, and separating off the precipitated organic diphosphite from the solvents.
US09108987B2	Silver/polydiguanide complex, preparation method thereof, and antibacterial composition containing the same as an active ingredient The present invention relates to a silver/polydiguanide complex and derivatives thereof including silver and polydiguanide having at least two biguanide moieties, wherein the silver is stabilized in an oxidation state of an integer of 0 to 4, a mole ratio between the silver and the polydiguanide is 1:1-4, an average particle diameter of the complex is micrometer or nanometer, and zeta potential of the complex is greater than or equal to zero, a preparation method thereof, and an antibacterial composition for burns or wounds treatment including the same as an active ingredient. A silver/polydiguanide complex according to the present invention is different from conventional silver/polydiguanide complexes in carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen contents as well as in structure of silver and polydiguanide, and solubility, is a material that exhibits a very good antibacterial activity due to a much lower minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) value by 10 to 100 folds or more compared to silver sulfadiazine which is a conventional therapeutic agent for burns, and may be usefully used as an antibacterial composition for burns or wounds treatment.
US09108980B2	Pyrimidinyl and 1,3,5-triazinyl benzimidazole sulfonamides and their use in cancer therapy Provided herein are pyrimidinyl and 1,3,5-triazinyl benzimidazole sulfonamides, e.g., compounds of Formulae IA, IB, and IC, and their pharmaceutical compositions, preparation, and use as agents or drugs for cancer therapy, either alone or in combination with radiation and/or other anticancer drugs.
US09108979B2	Diels-Alder reactions catalyzed by Lewis acid containing solids: renewable production of bio-plastics The present disclosure is related to silica-based Lewis acid catalysts, being essentially devoid of strong Brønsted acid character, and their ability to effect the [4+2] cycloaddition and dehydrative aromatization of dienes and dienophiles containing oxygenated substituents to form substituted benzene products. In some embodiments, the processes comprise contacting biomass-derived substrates with ethylene to form terephthalic acid and its derivatives.
US09108973B2	3,5-disubstituted alkynylbenzene compound and salt thereof The present invention provides a compound represented by Formula (I) (wherein R1, X1, X2, Y, and Z are as defined in the specification), or a salt thereof.
US09108968B2	Methods for producing 1,5,7-triazabicyclo[4.4.0]dec-5-ene by reaction of a disubstituted carbodiimide and dipropylene triamine Methods for producing 1,5,7-triazabicyclo[4.4.0]dec-5-ene using a disubstituted carbodiimide, dipropylene triamine and optionally an ethereal solvent and/or an alcohol are disclosed. Use of 1,5,7-triazabicyclo[4.4.0]dec-5-ene produced by this method in an electrodepositable coating composition, and electrophoretic deposition of such coating onto a substrate to form a coated substrate, are also disclosed.
US09108965B2	Malonic acid di-salts and a method for preparing malonyl dihalides A compound of Formula 2 is disclosed wherein R1, MA and MB are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed is a method for preparing a compound of Formula 1 wherein R1 and X are as defined in the disclosure comprising contacting a compound of Formula 2 with a halogenating agent. Also disclosed is a method for preparing a compound of Formula 4 wherein R1, R3 and R4 are as defined in the disclosure, comprising reacting a compound of Formula 5 wherein R3 and R4 are as defined in the disclosure with a compound of Formula 1, with a compound of Formula 1, the process of preparing the compound of Formula 4 includes the step of preparing the compound of Formula 1 from the compound of Formula 2 by the method disclosed above. Also disclosed is compound that is methyl 3,5-dichlorobenzeneethanimidate methyl 3,5-dichlorobenzeneethanimidate or ethyl 3,5-dichlorobenzeneethanimidate or salts thereof.
US09108963B2	Pyrazolopyridine, pyrazolopyrazine, pyrazolopyrimidine, pyrazolothiophene and pyrazolothiazole compounds as MGLUR4 allosteric potentiators, compositions, and methods of treating neurological dysfunction Pyrazolopyridine, pyrazolopyrazine, pyrazolopyrimidine, pyrazolothiophene and pyrazolothiazole compounds which are useful as allosteric potentiators/positive allosteric modulators of the metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 4 (mGluR4); synthetic methods for making the compounds; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of using the compounds, for example, in treating neurological and psychiatric disorders or other disease state associated with glutamate dysfunction.
US09108943B2	Photoreactive benzamide probes for histone deacetylase 2 The design, modeling, synthesis, biological evaluation, and photoaffinity labeling studies of a series of photoreactive potent and selective HDACs 1 and 2 benzamide based probes are disclosed herein.
US09108941B2	Griseofulvin analogues for the treatment of cancer by inhibition of centrosomal clustering The invention relates to compounds of the formula (I), where the symbols have the meaning given in the specification, for use in a method for treating cancer, to use of these compounds for the manufacture of a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of cancer, and to methods of treatment for said diseases employing a compound of formula (I).
US09108940B2	Conversion of 5-(chloromethyl)-2-furaldehyde into 5-methyl-2-furoic acid and derivatives thereof The present invention concerns the synthesis of 5-methyl-2-furoic acid, including ester, amide, and thioester derivatives of such from 5-(chloromethyl)-2-furaldehyde (CMF). The molecules so prepared are useful as intermediates for pharmaceutical, food, and fragrance molecules; as well as fuel or fuel additives.
US09108933B2	Method for treating proliferative disorders associated with mutations in c-Met The present invention relates to methods of inhibiting the activity of Hsp90 in a subject in need thereof and methods for treating c-Met associated cancers, in a subject in need thereof.
US09108928B2	Crystal of 5-hydroxy-1H-imidazole-4-carboxamide 3/4 hydrate, method for producing the same and crystal of 5-hydroxy-1H-imidazole-4-carboxamide hydrate Provided is a method for producing 5-hydroxy-1H-imidazole-4-carboxamide.3/4 hydrate, including: reacting 2-aminomalonamide with a compound represented by the following formula [1] in the presence of a carboxylic acid to obtain 5-hydroxy-1H-imidazole-4-carboxamide: wherein, in formula [1], each R independently represents a C1-3 alkyl group; reacting the resulting 5-hydroxy-1H-imidazole-4-carboxamide with an acidic compound to obtain a 5-hydroxy-1H-imidazole-4-carboxamide acid salt or a hydrate thereof; and reacting the resulting 5-hydroxy-1H-imidazole-4-carboxamide acid salt or hydrate thereof with a salt in the presence of an acidic solvent to obtain the 5-hydroxy-1H-imidazole-4-carboxamide.3/4 hydrate.
US09108926B2	Disubstituted 5-fluoro-pyrimidines The present invention relates to disubstituted 5-fluoro-pyrimidines of general formula (I) as described and defined herein, and methods for their preparation, their use for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of disorders, in particular of hyper-proliferative disorders and/or virally induced infectious diseases and/or of cardiovascular diseases. The invention further relates to intermediate compounds useful in the preparation of said compounds of general formula (I).
US09108913B2	Catalyst system for the preparation of an ester and processes employing this ester The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of an ester in a reactor, wherein at least one of at least two different catalysts is an electron donor and a further catalyst is a sulphur-containing proton donor; a device, a process for the preparation of a thermoplastic composition comprising the ester prepared according to the invention, a process for the production of a shaped article comprising the ester according to the invention or the thermoplastic composition according to the invention, a process for the production of a packed product, a process for the production of an at least partly coated object, and uses of the esters according to the invention as an additive in various compositions.
US09108912B2	Hydroformylation process The present invention relates to a process for producing 4-hydroxybutyraldehyde, characterized in that allyl alcohol dissolved in polar solvents is reacted with CO and H2 in the presence of a catalytic system which is formed from a rhodium complex and a cyclobutane ligand which contains at least two trans-coordinated 3 5-dialkylphenylphosphinomethyl groups, with the exclusion of catalysts which contain an aliphatic, araliphatic or cycloaliphatic phosphine as ligand.
US09108905B2	TRPA1 antagonists Compounds of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, m, and Y are defined in the specification are TRPA1 antagonists. Compositions comprising such compounds and methods for treating conditions and disorders using such compounds and compositions are also disclosed.
US09108902B2	Deuterated 2-amino-3-hydroxypropanoic acid derivatives This invention relates to novel 2-amino-3-hydroxypropanoic acid derivatives and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. This invention also provides compositions comprising a compound of this invention and the use of such compositions in methods of treating diseases and conditions that are beneficially treated by administering an NMDA glycine-site antagonist.
US09108899B2	Sulfide scavengers, methods for making and methods for using Methods for making sulfide scavenging compositions are provided. The method comprises reacting at least one secondary amine with at least one aldehyde and solvent in the presence of a catalyst to form a reaction composition, wherein a reaction temperature is less than or equal to 90° C. Sulfide scavengers using the above method are also disclosed. Methods for removing sulfides from fluid streams are also provided. The methods include adding the above sulfide scavengers to fluid streams.
US09108897B2	Method for desorbing and regenerating butanol-adsorbing hydrophobic macroporous polymer adsorbent The present invention provides a method for desorbing and regenerating a butanol-adsorbing hydrophobic macroporous polymer adsorbent, comprising: successively eluting the hydrophobic macroporous polymer adsorbent with butanol adsorbed therein using a water soluble low-boiling-point polar solvent and water. The method provided in the present invention has a simple process, a short separation time, easy, fast and complete desorption and regeneration, low equipment investment and pollution, and reduced energy consumption, and therefore production is easy on a large scale.
US09108896B2	Method of making alcohols A method of making one or more alcohols with a single hydroxy group, such as methanol and ethanol, the method comprising contacting a polyol and water with a basic catalyst. The polyol may be glycerol, for example. The catalyst may be magnesium oxide.
US09108892B2	Process for the preparation of olefins Process for the preparation of olefins comprising reacting an oxygenate and/or olefinic feed in a reactor in the presence of a molecular sieve catalyst to form a mixture which comprises olefins and at least partially coked catalyst; separating olefins and at least partially coked catalyst as obtained; passing the at least partially coked catalyst to a regenerator; introducing into the regenerator an oxygen-containing gas to regenerate the at least partially coked catalyst, thereby producing a gaseous mixture and at least partially regenerated catalyst; analyzing the at least partially regenerated catalyst to control the burning rate of the coke present on the at least partially coked catalyst in the regenerator by adjusting one or more conditions of the regeneration of the at least partially coked catalyst on the basis of the analysis of the at least partially regenerated catalyst; and passing the at least partially regenerated catalyst to the reactor.
US09108889B2	Agricultural blend and process of forming an agricultural blend The present disclosure describes an agricultural blend and a process of forming an agricultural blend. The agricultural blend includes a slag by-product from a process having a slag other than stainless steel slag or includes 11 atomic % silicon from a soluble compound and total silicon of less than about 30 atomic % silicon or greater than about 39 atomic % silicon. The process includes producing a slag by-product and blending the slag by-product with a liquid binder system to form the agricultural blend, the slag not being stainless steel slag.
US09108879B2	Non-alkali glass, and process for production of non-alkali glass The present invention relates to an alkali-free glass having a strain point of 735° C. or higher, an average thermal expansion coefficient at from 50 to 350° C. of from 30×10−7 to 40×10−7/° C., a temperature T2 at which a glass viscosity is 102 dPa·s of 1,710° C. or lower, a temperature T4 at which a glass viscosity is 104 dPa·s of 1,340° C. or lower, and a devitrification temperature of 1,330° C. or lower, the alkali-free glass including, in terms of mol % on the basis of oxides: SiO2 66 to 69, Al2O3 12 to 15, B2O3 0 to 1.5, MgO 6 to 9.5, CaO 7 to 9, SrO 0.5 to 3, BaO 0 to 1, and ZrO2 0 to 2, in which MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO is from 16 to 18.2, MgO/(MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO) is 0.35 or more, MgO/(MgO+CaO) is 0.40 or more and less than 0.52, and MgO/(MgO+SrO) is 0.45 or more.
US09108875B2	Heating and shaping system using microwave focused beam heating A furnace for shaping glass sheets for aircraft transparencies using the cut-to-size method includes a preheat and cooling furnace defined as a first furnace, and a shaping furnace. A conveyor geared for reciprocating movement moves a bending iron supporting a glass sheet through the first furnace set to a preheat temperature. The glass sheet supported on the bending iron is heated in the shaping furnace by microwave beams from a gyrotron to heat portions of the glass sheet to be shaped to a complex shape. After the sheet is shaped, the conveyor moves the bending iron supporting the shaped glass sheet from the shaping furnace through the first furnace set to a cooling cycle.
US09108866B2	Method of scale inhibition A method is disclosed to inhibit scale formation in aqueous systems whereby a threshold amount of a scale inhibiting agent, represented by an aminoacid alkylphosphonic acid, is added to the aqueous system. The aminoacid moiety can be represented by α-species or by species having, at least, two or more carbon atoms between the carboxylic moiety and the amine group. These aminoacid based inhibitors exhibit unusually superior performance and system acceptability compared to leading state-of-the-art inhibitors.
US09108834B2	Hot filling system for bottles A filling valve (1) for hot filling plastic bottles, which allows to meet all the requirements determined by the typical particularities of hot filling applications in the most effective manner possible, while allowing to maintain the same basic configuration also for cold processing plain liquids without needing recirculation, e.g. plain water. The filing valve (1) comprises:—a valve body (2) defining therein a space for the passage of a filing liquid and provided with a hole for introducing said liquid in one of said containers,—a first shutter (4) of said hole, sliding within the valve body (2), a siphon (5) between said space and said hole, and a liquid deflection element (6) accommodated in said hole, configured so as to confer a rotational component to the liquid which crosses it, which permits the liquid itself to adhere to the walls of the container during the step of filing, said deflection element (6) being integrally fixed to and directly in contact with said first end of the first shutter (4).
US09108824B2	Remote access of an elevator control system with multiple subsystems A method and system for remote access to multiple subsystems (102) of an elevator control system (104) are provided. The method includes receiving a request to establish a remote connection at an elevator control subsystem (112) from a remote user system (110). The method also includes determining whether a local connection is established between the elevator control subsystem (112) and service equipment (120). The method further includes establishing the remote connection in response to determining that the local connection is not established between the elevator control subsystem (112) and the service equipment (120). The method additionally includes sending a time since the service equipment (120) was last active and providing an option to complete the remote connection in response to determining that the local connection is established, the elevator control subsystem (112) is operating in a first mode of operation, and a configurable local activity timeout period has not expired.
US09108823B2	Elevator safety control device An elevator safety control device realizing suppression in increase in cost and labor hour of installation and maintenance without deteriorating safety of normal safety control functions even when a plurality of safety control functions are provided. The elevator safety control device includes an independence assurance unit assuring independence of a safety control function. The independence assurance unit assures independence of each of the safety control functions by monitoring whether or not the safety control function accesses a memory other than a permitted region. When the independence assurance unit detects an access to the memory other than the permitted region by a predetermined safety control function, the elevator safety control device stops a car.
US09108816B2	Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus includes a printer section configured to print image data to a paper according to a print job, a control panel configured to receive instructions regarding the print job, a first discharging tray configured to receive the printed paper, and an second discharging tray configured to be opened and closed, to receive the printed paper when opened, and guide the printed paper to the first discharging tray when closed. The image forming apparatus further includes a detection section configured to detect whether the second discharging tray is open or closed, and a control section configured to control execution of the print job including controlling the printer section based on the instructions received in the control panel and the detection result of the detection section.
US09108808B2	Lock hopper The present invention relates toA lock hopper (11) provided with air-tight hoppers (A3, B3) arranged side by side with entrance valves (A1, B1) arranged above the air-tight hoppers (A3, B3) and exit valves (A4, B4) arranged below the air-tight hoppers (A3, B3).The lock hopper (11) performs control which alternately repeats the following states: a state in which granular substances in an upper system are placed in one of the hoppers and gas is supplied into the other hopper to discharge granular substances from the inside of the other hopper to a lower system and a state in which the granular substances in the upper system are placed in the other hopper and gas is supplied to said hopper to discharge granular substances from the inside of said hopper to the lower system.Also provided is a method of transferring granular substances in an upper system to a lower system by using above-described lock hopper, wherein gas having a volume corresponding to the volume of at least the granular substances to be discharged to the lower system is supplied to a hopper in a state in which the granular substances are being discharged from the hopper to the lower system.
US09108804B2	Screw conveyor intermediate support An intermediate support for a screw conveyor, which has a first shaft rotating about an axis of rotation and defined by a number of segments; and a casing. The intermediate support has a movable assembly, which is coaxial with and rotates about the axis of rotation, is integral with the first shaft, and has a second shaft for connecting two segments, and a bushing fitted onto the second shaft; and a fixed assembly, which is coaxial with the axis of rotation, and has a supporting body fitted to the bushing and connected rigidly to the casing, and a number of annular shields coaxial with the axis of rotation and interposed between the supporting body and the bushing.
US09108791B2	Memorabilia storage device A memorabilia storage device for storing a plurality of items. The storage device may include a housing that has at least one sidewall that generally defines a cavity and a lid. The storage device may also include an sleeve that is configured for placement within the cavity. The sleeve is configured to receive a plurality of content holders. The plurality of content holders may have a variety of different shapes, sizes, and configurations so as to be capable of storing a variety of different types of memorabilia. Additionally, various different combinations of the different sized content holders may be stored in the storage device.
US09108782B2	Dispensing systems with improved sensing capabilities A dispensing system includes a dispenser, at least one sensor, and a shroud including at least one aperture. A virtual shield is provided between the sensor and the shroud to reduce background noise.
US09108778B2	Cover structure for an airtight container An airtight container includes a cover, a container and two airtight members. The cover is assembled with the container. The cover has an exhaust part and a releasing part defined therein. The two airtight members are mounted in the exhaust part and the releasing part of the cover respectively. Each airtight member having an inlet and an air gap defined at two ends thereof respectively. The air gap communicates with the inlet. The inlet of one airtight member opened toward an inside of the container and the air gap opened toward an outside of the container, the inlet of another airtight member opened toward the outside of the container and the air gap opened toward the inside of the container. Therefore, the container could be sealed or unsealed by pressing the cover to the container or detaching the cover from the container.
US09108776B2	Lid, and container system and lid In one embodiment, a lid structure with latches is configured for sealing use with container vessels of different materials having differing manufacturing dimensional tolerances, such plastic vessels and glass vessels. Another feature of a lid and vessel combination is the provision of a lid receptacle feature, configured to capture the base of a vessel in a stacking arrangement, without utilization of special features on the vessel base. Another feature of an embodiment of a lid is the capability of lid nesting of multiple lids with interference fit between adjacent lids to lock the lids together.
US09108775B2	Spacer separation for coated glass sheets such as first surface mirrors Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to an apparatus, system and/or method for holding coated glass sheets (e.g., mirrors) during transport, storage and/or the like. In certain example, embodiments, spacers are used between adjacent glass sheets so as to reduce the amount of contact between the spacers and the glass sheets when such glass sheets are stored and/or transported.
US09108774B2	Stopper for packaging container A cap for a bottle or container. The cap includes bridges for checking whether a screw-coupling type cap is opened or not. A hinge portion where an inner concave groove is formed enabling a stable connection of a cap body and a fixing ring, thereby maintaining a set opening angle of the cap body in case of opening, to prevent the cap body from drooping and being shaken.
US09108769B2	Articles dispenser A dispenser includes a housing; and an adapter within the housing and configured to be removably coupled to a container, the adapter having a base having a substantially planar surface and an arm extending from the surface; a collar on the arm and movable with respect to the arm; and a sleeve on the arm and contacting the collar, wherein the adapter can be moved between an insertion orientation in which the sleeve has a first outer diameter and a coupling orientation in which the sleeve has a second outer diameter that is greater than the first outer diameter.
US09108768B2	Hand-held cleaning apparatus The invention concerns a pair of handles of a cleaning bucket configured and/or shaped in such a way as to make the bucket extremely practical and handy, allowing it to contain/retain in the space between them the protruding handle of a cleaning implement housed in the underlying container.
US09108765B1	Fuel and oil carrier apparatus A carrier for a standard fuel container and a standard oil container, where the carrier secures the oil container to the fuel container for easy transport. The carrier may further comprise a tool holder for securing a tool, such as a scrench, to the fuel container and oil container as well.
US09108764B2	System of compactable package usable an assembly block, and a mounted assembly A package system is provided for compactable package that can be reused as an assembly block, which system has a compressible package (10) and two structural pieces (12, 13) for compacting and housing the package. Each of the structural pieces comprise: mutual engagement elements couplable to; an inner cavity for housing the package; external engagement elements arranged on its outer surface, engageable with at least one external piece provided with compatible engagement elements, wherein at least one of the structural pieces (12, 13) has a retention element arranged in the inner cavity for retaining the package inside said two structural pieces, and when the package is in the compressed state the structural pieces (12, 13) are engaged and locked with each other by the mutual engagement elements, forming an assembly block (14) for reusing the packages (1) and avoiding disposal and accumulation of garbage.
US09108760B2	Retail sealed folding box with handle A hanging display box with a carrying handle is made from a folding cardboard sheet. The cardboard sheet includes a display panel with a window, a substantially transparent plastic material covering the window and having flaps extending substantially beyond the display panel. A top wall attached to the display panel is connected to a hanger panel with an opening, and a bottom wall attached to the display panel is connected to a rear panel also having an opening, so that when the rear panel is folded adjacent the hanger panel, the openings align to form the carrying handle. Side walls attached to the display panel releasably fix the plastic material against the window such that, when the box is opened, the plastic material and cardboard are easily separated and recycled.
US09108757B2	Container with pour spout A container includes a body including a base and a sidewall extending from the base, and a neck finish extending from the body and including a pour spout. The neck finish may include a lower portion adjacent to the body with a cylindrical outer surface and at least one closure engagement feature, and a non-cylindrical portion remote from the body with laterally opposed indents forming the pour spout. The container also may include at least one thickened wall portion extending radially inwardly to form an internal trough to direct flow of product toward the pour spout. The sidewall may include a spout indicator circumferentially corresponding to the pour spout.
US09108756B2	Unit for picking-up a tubular blank in a flattened configuration and for opening out the tubular blank A unit for picking-up a flattened tubular blank and for opening out the blank has gripping devices borne by a pick-up member, a frame, and a first arm hinged to the frame and to the pick-up member. A second arm is hinged to the frame, at a hinge axis being arranged at a lower height than the first arm hinge axis. A third arm is hinged to the second arm and which to the pick-up member. The first arm and the second arm are activatable in phase relation with one another. The unit is configured such that the pick-up member picks up the flattened tubular blank from the pick-up position (P), rests the tubular blank on a rest plane, and opening-out the tubular blank. The unit then moves the pick-up member towards the pick-up position (P), passing over the opened-out tubular blank.
US09108751B2	Method of manufacturing a liquid container An object is to provide a technology capable of decreasing the possibility that bubbles may reach a first member. A method of manufacturing a liquid container includes (a) a process of preparing a liquid container, (b) a process of storing liquid in a first storage chamber by injecting the liquid from the downstream side of the first storage chamber based on a flow direction of a fluid from an atmosphere opening port to a supply port.
US09108748B2	Satellite orbit raising using electric propulsion Apparatus and methods for raising the orbit of a satellite having electric propulsion thrusters, an Earth sensor and an inertial reference sensor such as a gyro. A satellite positioning system generates orbital data and a profile generator generates an ideal electric orbit raising profile of the satellite. The ideal profile is one that the satellite must follow so that the perigee, apogee and inclination of the satellite can be adjusted simultaneously in a mass-efficient manner. A state machine processes the ideal profile and a true anomaly to generate a desired electric orbit raising profile. Steering apparatus generates signals that are used to control the attitude of the satellite to follow the desired profile. The desired profile places the satellite in an Earth-pointed attitude when the satellite is at a predefined point in the orbit, slews the satellite from the Earth-pointed attitude to an ideal orbit raising attitude, steers the satellite according to the ideal profile during orbit raising, and steers the satellite from the desired attitude to the Earth-pointed attitude.
US09108741B2	Helicopter system and method for integrating collective flight director cues A system and method are provided for integrating and displaying the collective cue and the pitch and roll cue of a helicopter display with a flight path marker providing a moving reference showing the aircraft flight path.
US09108734B2	Aircraft class divider Disclosed herein is a divider utilized to provide part of a visual separation between sections of a passenger cabin of a commercial aircraft, the divider comprising several components. One component is a support arm fixedly connected to the frame of an aircraft above a passenger seat. Another component may be a curtain attached to a lower edge of the support arm and projecting vertically below the support arm. Yet another component may be a rigid view block adjacent the face of the luggage stowage compartment and configured to move therewith such that the view block is adjacent the face of the luggage stowage compartment while the luggage stowage compartment is in a closed position, and repositions with the face of the luggage stowage compartment when the compartment is opened.
US09108732B2	Carrying system for receiving of containers in a vehicle and use of a carrying system in an aircraft A carrying system for receiving containers in a vehicle includes at least one container, at least one electrical consumer arranged in the container, at least one primary winding in a first core and at least one secondary winding in a second core. The secondary winding is arranged in the container, and the primary winding can be attached on the vehicle side in such a manner that movement of the container to a receiving position results in alignment of the primary winding and the secondary winding. The primary winding and the secondary winding are adapted for inducing in the secondary winding an alternating voltage that is applied to the electrical consumer.
US09108728B2	Modular flying vehicle The invention is a modular vehicle having an air vehicle that can be coupled to cargo containers, land vehicles, sea vehicles, medical transport modules, etc. In one embodiment the air vehicle has a plurality of propellers positioned around a main airframe, which can provide vertical thrust and/or horizontal thrust. One or more of the propellers may be configured to tilt forward, backward, and/or side-to-side with respect to the airframe.
US09108727B2	Blade fold system monitoring A rotor blade fold system for an aircraft includes one or more actuators operably connected to one or more blade components of one or more rotor blades of the aircraft. One or more sensors are located at the one or more rotor blades and are configured to sense operation of the one or more blade components. A fold control system is configured to monitor output from the one or more sensors and is capable of stopping operation of the blade fold system, via communication with the one or more actuators, if the one or more blade components are not operating within predetermined limits.
US09108723B2	Flap panel shuttle system and method therefor An aircraft control system is presented. The system includes a wing including a flap track, and a shuttle connected to the flap track and configured to slide along a length of the flap track. The system includes a flap panel pivotally attached to the shuttle at a flap pivot. The flap panel is configured to rotate about the flap pivot. When the shuttle is deployed along a length of the flap track, the shuttle is configured to prevent rotation of the flap panel about the flap pivot, and when the shuttle is withdrawn into a stowed position, the shuttle is configured to allow the flap panel to rotate about the flap pivot.
US09108721B2	Trailing edge of an aircraft aerodynamic surface The invention discloses a trailing edge (2) of an aircraft aerodynamic surface, which comprises an upper skin (6) and a lower skin (7), being the upper and lower skins (6, 7) made of composite material. In the trailing edge (2) a lightweight part (1) is assembled at an end section (13) of the upper and lower skins (6, 7). The lightweight part (1) is covered by a metallic sheet (8), and has a “V”-shaped cross section with arms and peak, where the peak of the “V”-shaped cross section has a rounded shape and is located opposite the end section (13) of the upper and lower skins (6, 7).
US09108715B2	Rotary actuated high lift gapped aileron A rotary actuated high lift gapped aileron system and method are presented. A high lift gapped aileron couples to an airfoil at a hinge line and changes a camber of the airfoil. A rotary actuator coupled to the high lift gapped aileron produces a rotary motion of the high lift gapped aileron in response to an actuation command. A droop panel positioned over the hinge line enhances lift of the high lift gapped aileron. A cove lip door positioned under the hinge line provides an airflow over the high lift gapped aileron. A deployment linkage mechanism coupled to the high lift gapped aileron positions the droop panel and the cove lip door in response to the rotary motion.
US09108703B2	Intelligent draft gauge for ships A draft gauge, including: four balancing float tanks, a central control room, a first and second connection beam, a pump-valve chamber, a longitudinal connection beam, flexible centering brackets, a lateral connection beam, a scanning sensor, and a side scanner. The four balancing float tanks are arranged at two sides of a hull with every two balancing float tanks arranged at each side of the hull. The flexible centering brackets are fixed on an inner side of the first connection beam and on an inner side of the second connection beam, respectively. Every two balancing float tanks at opposite sides of the hull are connected via the lateral connection beam. The scanning sensors are evenly arranged on the lateral connection beam. The side scanner is arranged on one side of the balancing float tank in a close proximity to the hull.
US09108696B2	Frame unit for bicycle and method of manufacturing the same A frame unit for a bicycle includes: a left frame body in which a part of a head tube, a part of a seat tube, a part of a frame, and a left stay are integrally formed; and a right frame body in which a part of the head tube, a part of the seat tube, a part of the frame, and a right stay are integrally formed, in which the left frame body and the right frame body are coupled so as to integrally form the head tube, the seat tube, and the frame, flanges are formed to be inclined along edges of the left frame body and the right frame body, respectively, and the left frame body and the right frame body are coupled through the flanges.
US09108689B1	Provisions for third party attachments A cab and method for assembling such for a machine are described. The cab may define an operator compartment. The cab may comprise a cab frame, a plurality of inner surfaces disposed inside the cab frame, a wiring harness, and a plurality of interfaces accessible through the apertures of the inner surfaces. A portion of the inner surfaces may include a plurality of apertures. The plurality of interfaces may be disposed in Interactive Locations and in Hidden Locations. The plurality of interfaces may include mounting interfaces and connection interfaces. The interfaces may be pre-located. The plurality of mounting interfaces may be configured to receive and position a plurality of Customized Equipment on the inner surfaces. The plurality of connection interfaces may be configured to matingly receive electrical connectors from the Customized Equipment and to operably connect the Customized Equipment to the wiring harness.
US09108688B2	Truck tractor A truck tractor (1) having, in addition to the driver and passenger seats (27, 29) in the driver cabin, a kitchenette (39) with a sink (43) and a stove (41) as well as a refrigerator (45) in an upper level. A bench (23) serves for dining, which is arranged behind a table (38). The living area is accessed via stairs (26) from a lower level, in which a half bath and a shower stall as well as a sleeping area with a bed and the appropriate infrastructure are located for the living area and the engine (1).
US09108687B2	Truck bed extension An apparatus and method for extending a bed of a truck is provided. The apparatus can include a load platform extending substantially outwards from a bed of the truck when the load platform is in position, the load platform having a proximal end and a distal end; and a hitch assembly having a connection arm for insertion into a hitch receiver on the truck and a support arm extending upwards to support at least some of the weight of the load platform. To install the bed extender, a tailgate of the truck can be removed, the hitch assembly inserted into a hitch receiver on the truck the load platform connected to the hitch assembly and positioned to extend from the bed of the truck.
US09108683B2	Pivoting mud flap assembly A mud flap assembly for a vehicle includes a mud flap and a mud flap bracket. The mud flap is attached to the mud flap bracket. The mud flap bracket is in turn attached to the vehicle by an attachment means so that when the mud flap is pinched between a tire of the vehicle and a fixed object resting on the ground, the mud flap bracket and the mud flap are moved and/or deflected substantially uniformly downwardly toward the ground in order to prevent damage to the mud flap, the mud flap bracket and the vehicle.
US09108676B2	Subframe for a motor vehicle The invention relates to a subframe (10) for a motor vehicle, having a base frame which forms a cavity and which is connected to a vehicle body via a plurality of fastening points, wherein the base frame has at least one force-introduction point (20) for receiving and/or supporting further motor vehicle components. The invention is characterized in that the cavity is locally filled with rigid foam (24) in the vicinity of the force-introduction point (20).
US09108675B2	Single pedal propulsion system for straight travel of work vehicle A work vehicle is disclosed with a propulsion system that is selectively operable in a first, turning mode or a second, straight mode. The vehicle includes a first traction device, a second traction device, a first steering input, and a second steering input. In the first, turning mode, an operator is able to steer the vehicle left, right, or straight by independently operating the first and second traction devices via the first and second steering inputs. In the second, straight mode, the operator is able to steer the vehicle straight by operating both the first and second fraction devices together via one of the first and second steering inputs.
US09108673B2	Crash release mechanism for automotive steering column An adjustable steering column for a vehicle is provided. The adjustable steering column includes a mounting bracket configured to be secured to an adjacent vehicle component, a compression bracket movably positioned relative to the mounting bracket, and a column jacket extending along a first axis and having an upper jacket and a lower jacket telescopically coupled to one another. The adjustable steering column further includes a locking mechanism movable between a locked position and an unlocked position configured to selectively restrict adjustment of the upper jacket in a telescope direction, and at least one release mechanism configured to allow telescoping movement of the upper jacket with the locking mechanism in the locked position in response to an excessive axial force applied to the column jacket. At least one energy absorbing mechanism is configured to absorb energy during telescoping movement of the upper jacket with the locking mechanism in the locked position.
US09108672B2	Steering column apparatus Construction is achieved in which a held bracket section 30 is integrally formed with the end section of an outer column by a hydroforming method, so as to be able to substantially ensure the strength and rigidity of the held bracket section 30. A spacer 37 that is made of a material that is softer than the metal plate of the outer column 20a is assembled in the inside of the held bracket section 30 and between a pair of left and right held plate sections 31. Holes for inserting a rod for fastening the position of the steering wheel are provided in portions of the spacer 37 and held plate sections 31 that are aligned with each other.
US09108671B2	Seal assembly An apparatus is configured for sealing a hole in a panel having a first surface on one side of the panel and a second surface on the other side of the panel. The apparatus includes a boot and a seal member. The boot includes a first portion having a first bellows, a second portion having a second bellows, and a third portion that interconnects the first portion and the second portion. The seal member is operatively connected to the third portion of the boot and is configured such that, when the third portion of the boot is within the hole, the seal member contacts the panel to form at least one seal around the hole.
US09108664B2	Control apparatus of vehicle for changing lane and control method of the same A control apparatus of a vehicle for changing a lane is provided that includes a target lane generator configured to generate a target lane; a target distance generator configured to generate a target distance; a circular trace generator configured to generate a circular trace passing a current point of a vehicle and a point on a center line of the target lane spaced by the target distance based on the vehicle, and having a driving direction of the vehicle as a tangential direction in real time; and a steering controller configured to calculate a target rate and a target steering angle so as for the vehicle to follow the generated circular trace. The control apparatus prevents a sense of steering difference and a pulling phenomenon of the vehicle when changing a lane. Also, a control method of a vehicle for changing a lane is provided.
US09108656B1	Collapsible wagon A collapsible wagon includes a base and one or more upstanding walls forming a container for cargo. The upstanding walls are pivotally mounted to the base for pivoting between an unfolded position for use and a folded position for storage and transport. In some embodiments, the wagon includes a pinchless internal mechanical stop that eliminates pinch points where a user's fingers can be pinched during folding and unfolding of the walls. In some embodiments, the wagon includes a gang-operated latch system for releasably securing the endwalls to the sidewalls that is quick, easy, and reliable to use for folding and unfolding. And in some embodiments, the wagon includes a latch system that eliminates slack or play when in the unfolded use position for structural integrity.

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