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US09548588B1	Low noise optical pre-amplifier for ultra-low-light detectors and FPAs An optical pre-amplifier is described. The optical pre-amplifier has an optical amplifier region that has a semiconductor active region having a direct electronic band gap with a conduction band edge. The semiconductor active region is embedded within a photonic crystal having an electromagnetic band gap having photon energies overlapping the energy of the conduction band edge of the electronic band gap such that spontaneous emission of photons in the semiconductor active region is suppressed.
US09548586B2	Energy integrating device for split semiconductor laser diodes An energy integrating device for split semiconductor laser diodes includes: an installing holder, wherein the installing holder has a disc structure with a positioning hole at a center thereof, four module bases for mounting laser modules are symmetrically provided at one side of the disc structure, and the laser modules are embedded inside the module bases; a printed circuit board, connected to the laser modules through sleeves, is mounted at one side of the module bases, and a wire and a plug are mounted on the printed circuit board for connecting a power source; the laser modules are adjusted and positioned through fastening screws, and laser beams thereof are emitted through surface holes of the installing holder with the disc structure; the laser beams from the laser modules are focused onto one laser spot through a positive lens.
US09548582B2	Pulse width stretcher and chirped pulse amplifier including the same Provided are a pulse width stretcher and a chirped pulse amplifier including the same. The pulse width stretcher includes first and second multiple reflection mirrors, and a pulse group-delay dispersion block disposed between the first and second multiple reflection mirrors and configured to refract a pulse laser beam to stretch a pulse width of the pulse laser beam.
US09548580B2	Terminal crimping system with wire alignment aid A terminal crimping system for a crimping machine includes an anvil, a movable ram, an image acquisition device, and a display device. The anvil is located in a crimping zone and configured to receive a terminal thereon. The terminal has a wire crimp barrel configured to receive a wire therein. The ram has crimp tooling configured to crimp the wire crimp barrel of the terminal to the wire during a crimp stroke of the ram. The image acquisition device is configured to be mounted on the crimping machine above the crimping zone. The image acquisition device is positioned to acquire an image of the wire within the wire crimp barrel of the terminal in the crimping zone. The display device is configured to display the image.
US09548579B2	Method for assembling cables A method for assembling cables includes sliding a housing and a sleeve accommodated in the housing onto a cable in such a manner that the sleeve surrounds at least a portion of the cable. The housing is made of an electrically non-conductive material, the sleeve is made of an electrically conductive material and includes a cutting edge pointing radially inward, and the cable includes a conducting element and an insulation surrounding the conducting element. The method further includes magnetically forming the sleeve by applying a magnetic field to the sleeve through the housing, such that the sleeve is pressed against the insulation and the cutting edge penetrates the insulation completely and contacts the conducting element.
US09548576B2	Connector assembly for an electronic device An electronic device includes an audio jack assembly that is to receive an audio input, wherein the audio jack assembly is provided concentrically with a circular recess of the electronic device, wherein the circular recess is within a hinge assembly of the electronic device, and wherein the audio jack assembly is in engagement with the hinge assembly.
US09548562B1	Mid-plane connector configuration An apparatus with a specific connector configuration is disclosed. A system that includes the connector configuration of the apparatus is also disclosed. The apparatus includes a first connector having a first guide pin insertable into a first guide socket of a first mating connector. The first guide pin is blocked from being inserted into a second guide socket of a second mating connector. The second guide socket has a different shape than the first guide socket. The apparatus includes a second connector having a second guide pin with a different shape than the first guide pin. The second guide pin is insertable into the first guide socket of the first mating connector and insertable into the second guide socket of the second mating connector.
US09548556B2	Connector A connector (C) has a terminal fitting (10) including a terminal connecting portion (11) to be connected to a mating terminal and barrels to be crimped to a wire (W). A housing (50) has a terminal accommodating chamber (57) that is configured to accommodate the terminal fitting (10). A sleeve (20) has an accommodation space (21) configured to accommodate the barrels crimped to the wire (W). A rubber plug (45) includes a center hole (46) and is configured so that the wire (W) extending back from a rear wall (24B) of the accommodation space (21) penetrates therethrough in a sealed state. A rear holder (60) obstructs rearward movement of the terminal fitting (10) via the sleeve (20). A center position (P2) of the center hole (46) is displaced toward a rear bottom plate (19B) from a center position (P1) of the terminal connecting portion (11).
US09548546B2	Systems and methods for electrically connecting circuit devices for power distribution enclosures A system is provided for a power distribution enclosure that includes an electronic circuit component. The system includes a conductive adapter having a head, and a circuit breaker base adapted for mounting to the power distribution enclosure. The circuit breaker base has an aperture adapted to receive the head of the conductive adapter. The head of the conductive adapter has a shape that substantially prevents rotation of the conductive adapter when the conductive adapter is inserted into the aperture. The conductive adapter is configured to draw away or absorb heat from the electronic circuit component and move the absorbed heat out of the power distribution enclosure. The circuit breaker base is adapted to substantially prevent heat from escaping from the conductive adapter into the power distribution enclosure. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US09548526B2	Small-size antenna system with adjustable polarization An antenna system includes a ground plane, a microstrip-line coupler, a metal cover, and a main antenna. The microstrip-line coupler has a first input port, a second input port, a first output port, and a second output port. The metal cover is disposed above the microstrip-line coupler and coupled to the ground plane. The main antenna is coupled to the first output port and the second output port of the microstrip-line coupler. The metal cover is configured to reduce the interference from the microstrip-line coupler and to enhance the gain of the main antenna.
US09548519B2	Clamp-on easy-install wireless battery data sensor and associated use thereof A new data sensor for industrial lead-acid batteries monitors current, voltage, and battery temperature. It comes in a compact, easy-to-install, lost-cost mechanical clamping package with minimal firmware and low cost of ownership. It includes a cable guide configured to restrict the movement of a cable positioned within the cable guide, an electrical power pin configured to pierce the cable positioned within the cable guide to provide an electrical connection to the cable, a tri-axis Hall Effect sensor configured to sense a current flowing through the cable positioned within the cable guide, and a clamping structure configured to clamp the cable positioned within the cable guide and prevent movement of the cable relative to the tri-axis Hall Effect sensor.
US09548512B2	High conducting oxide—sulfide composite lithium superionic conductor A solid electrolyte for a lithium-sulfur battery includes particles of a lithium ion conducting oxide composition embedded within a lithium ion conducting sulfide composition. The lithium ion conducting oxide composition can be Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZO). The lithium ion conducting sulfide composition can be β-Li3PS4 (LPS). A lithium ion battery and a method of making a solid electrolyte for a lithium ion battery are also disclosed.
US09548499B2	Carbon catalyst, method for manufacturing the carbon catalyst, and electrode and battery using the carbon catalyst A method of manufacturing a carbon catalyst according to the present invention includes: a first step S2 involving heating a raw material containing a resin and a metal to carbonize the resin so that a carbon catalyst is obtained; a second step S3 involving subjecting the carbon catalyst to a treatment for removing the metal; and a third step S4 involving subjecting the carbon catalyst that has been subjected to the treatment to a heat treatment to improve an activity of the carbon catalyst.
US09548498B2	Electrocatalyst for fuel cells and method for producing said electrocatalyst The invention relates to a carbon-free electrocatalyst for fuel cells, containing an electrically conductive substrate and a catalytically active species, wherein the conductive substrate is an inorganic, multi-component substrate material of the composition 0X1-0X2, in which 0X1 means an electrically non-conductive inorganic oxide having a specific surface area (BET) in the range of 50 to 400 mVg and 0X2 means a conductive oxide. The non-conductive inorganic oxide 0X1 is coated with the conductive oxide 0X2. The multi-component substrate preferably has a core/shell structure. The multi-component substrate material 0X1-0X2 has an electrical conductivity in the range>0.01 S/cm and is coated with catalytically active particles containing noble metal. The electrocatalysts produced therewith are used in electrochemical devices such as PEM fuel cells and exhibit high corrosion stability.
US09548495B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte battery According to one embodiment, there is provided a nonaqueous electrolyte battery. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a positive current collector and a positive electrode material layer formed on the positive electrode current collector. The positive electrode material layer includes a positive electrode active material and a first conductive agent. In a mapping image for the positive electrode material layer, a ratio of an occupancy area of the first conductive agent to an occupancy area of the positive electrode active material is from 1.5 to 5.
US09548494B2	Stable dispersions of single and multiple graphene layers in solution A method for producing colloidal graphene dispersions comprises the steps of: (i) stirring graphite oxide in an aqueous dispersion medium to form a dispersion; (ii) determining if the dispersion is optically clear in a light microscope at 1000 fold magnification after 1 to 5 hours of stirring, and, if not clear, removing any undissolved impurities in the dispersion, in order to form a colloidal graphene oxide dispersion, or a multi-graphene oxide dispersion, that is optically clear in a light microscope at 1000 fold magnification; and (iii) thermally reducing the graphene oxide, or multi-graphene oxide, in dispersion in the aqueous dispersion medium at a temperature between 120° C. and 170° C. under pressure in order to ensure that the dispersion medium is not evaporated to form a stable colloidal graphene dispersion or a stable multi-graphene dispersion. Using the method used for the preparation of the starting dispersion a graphene or a multi-graphene dispersion is obtained that can be further processed to multi-graphene with larger inter-planar distances than graphite. Such dispersions and multi-graphenes are suitable materials in the manufacturing of rechargeable lithium ion batteries.
US09548490B2	Anode active material, lithium battery comprising the same, and method of preparing the anode active material An anode active material includes: a core including a metal or a metalloid that can incorporate and deincorporate lithium ions; and a plurality of coating layers on a surface of the core, each coating layer including a metal oxide, an amorphous carbonaceous material, or combination thereof. Also, a lithium battery including the anode active material, and a method of preparing the anode active material.
US09548489B2	Composition of SI/C electro active material A composition comprising at least 50 weight % of a first particulate electroactive material and 3-15 weight % of a carbon additives mixture comprising elongate carbon nanostructures and carbon black, wherein: the elongate carbon nanostructures comprise at least a first elongate carbon nanostructure material and a different second elongate carbon nanostructure material; and the elongate carbon nanostructures: carbon black weight ratio is in the range 3:1 to 20:1.
US09548488B2	Method for manufacturing electrode An electrode for a biplate assembly includes an active material made from a compressed powder 11, and a non-metal carrier 10. A biplate assembly 20 includes electrodes 27, 28 each having a non-metal carrier 10. A method is disclosed for manufacturing an electrode 13 having a non-metal carrier 10. An apparatus 30 is disclosed for manufacturing such an electrode 13. A bipolar battery includes at least one such an electrode 13. The non-metal carrier 10 is preferably a non-conductive carrier.
US09548485B2	Valve regulated lead-acid battery A valve regulated lead-acid battery includes a positive electrode plate, a retainer mat and a negative electrode plate housed in a container and holding an electrolyte solution respectively. The electrolyte solution contains colloidal silica and lithium ions.
US09548468B2	Light-emitting element, light-emitting device, electronic device, and lighting device Emission efficiency of a light-emitting element is improved. The light-emitting element has a pair of electrodes and an EL layer between the pair of electrodes. The EL layer includes a first light-emitting layer and a second light-emitting layer. The first light-emitting layer includes a fluorescent material and a host material. The second light-emitting layer includes a phosphorescent material, a first organic compound, and a second organic compound. An emission spectrum of the second light-emitting layer has a peak in a yellow wavelength region. The first organic compound and the second organic compound form an exciplex.
US09548447B2	Integrated memory and methods of forming repeating structures Some embodiments include integrated memory having an array of repeating plates across a plurality of nodes. The array includes rows and columns. The plates along individual columns and individual rows alternate between two orientations which are substantially orthogonal to one another. Some embodiments include methods of forming repeating structures. A pattern is formed which includes a lattice of intersecting wavy lines and a box surrounding the lattice. The pattern has a plurality of openings extending therethrough. A liner material is along sidewalls of the openings. The liner material and the pattern are sliced along a row direction and a column direction substantially orthogonal to the row direction. Such slicing subdivides the liner material into a plurality of plates. The plates are within an array comprising columns and rows. The plates along individual columns and individual rows alternate between two orientations which are substantially orthogonal to one another.
US09548439B2	Porosity control in piezoelectric films A piezoelectric film having a porosity between 20 and 40%, a thickness ranging from tens of microns to less than a few millimeters can be used to form an ultrasonic transducer UT for operation in elevated temperature ranges, that emit pulses having a high bandwidth. Such piezoelectric films exhibit greater flexibility allowing for conformation of the UT to a surface, and obviate the need for couplings or backings. Furthermore, a method of fabricating an UT having these advantages as well as better bonding between the piezoelectric film and electrodes involves controlling porosity within the piezoelectric film.
US09548437B2	Acoustic wave device and electronic component An acoustic wave device and an electronic component are disclosed. The acoustic wave device includes a substrate, excitation electrodes on the substrate and a cover. The cover comprises a frame member on the substrate, and a lid member. The frame member surrounds the excitation electrodes and includes an inner wall, top surface and an outer wall. The lid member is disposed on the top surface, and includes first and second surfaces opposite to each other, and a descending part on the second surface. The second surface faces the substrate. The descending part extends downward from the second surface, and covers at least a part of the inner wall or at least a part of the outer wall. The electronic component includes the acoustic wave device on a mounting substrate via an electrically conductive bonding member, and molding resin covering the device.
US09548431B2	Ultraviolet light-emitting devices and methods In various embodiments, an illumination device features an ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting device at least partially surrounded by an encapsulant and having a rigid lens. Downward forces is applied while the encapsulant is at least partially cured to substantially prevent partial or full detachment of the rigid lens from the light-emitting device, and/or substantially suppress formation of bubbles between the light-emitting device and the rigid lens.
US09548423B2	Light-emitting device A light-emitting device is disclosed that includes a light-emitting stack comprising a first surface; a patterned dielectric layer formed on the first surface, comprising a first portion and a second portion substantially surrounding the first portion and having substantially the same thickness with that of the first portion; a first reflective electrode covering the first portion of the patterned dielectric layer; and a barrier layer covering the first reflective electrode and the second portion of the patterned dielectric layer.
US09548420B2	Light-emitting device and manufacturing method thereof A light-emitting device comprises a substrate comprising a top surface; a light-emitting stack formed on a portion of the top surface of the substrate; and a plurality of pores formed in an area of the substrate, wherein the area is under another portion of the top surface where the light-emitting stack is not formed thereon.
US09548417B2	Epitaxial structure with pattern mask layers for multi-layer epitaxial buffer layer growth An epitaxial structure including an epitaxial substrate, a first buffer layer, a first pattern mask layer, a second buffer layer and a second pattern mask layer. The first buffer layer is disposed on the epitaxial substrate. The first pattern mask layer is disposed on the first buffer layer. The second buffer layer is disposed on the first pattern mask layer and a part of the first buffer layer. The second pattern mask layer is disposed on the second buffer layer. A projection of the first pattern mask layer projected on the first buffer layer and a projection of the second pattern mask layer projected on the first buffer layer cover at least 70% of the total area of the first buffer layer.
US09548414B2	Optical device based on bismuth-containing III-V compound multilayer semiconductors Optical devices based on bismuth-containing III-V compound semiconductor materials are disclosed. The optical device includes an optically active pseudomorphic superlattice formed on a substrate. The superlattice includes alternating InAsSby layers (where y is greater than or equal to zero) and InAsBi layers.
US09548413B2	Microwave signal switching device, particularly of nanometric size, and electronic component incorporating such a device A device for switching an electrical signal, controlled by an optical wave and having an on state and an off state, which can be inserted into a microwave transmission line, comprises a semiconductor substrate on which two conductive tracks are formed, these tracks being separated by a gap providing electrical insulation between the two tracks and each being connected to an input port and an output port, in the on state the electrical contact between the two tracks being established by illuminating the substrate in the region of the gap by means of the optical wave, the input impedance and the output impedance of said switching device being mismatched to the impedance of the transmission line in the off state and are matched to the impedance of the transmission line in the on state.
US09548412B2	Solar cell module and method of fabricating the same Disclosed are a solar cell module and a method of fabricating the same. The solar cell module includes a support substrate, solar cells at an upper portion of the support substrate, bus bars electrically connected to the solar cells, a junction box connected to the bus bars, and an upper substrate at an upper portion of the solar cells. The junction box is formed therein with pad electrodes connected to the bus bars.
US09548410B2	Photovoltaic window An apparatus for collecting solar energy, including a first panel, wherein the first panel allows at least 50% of incident light having a wavelength in the range of 1 nm to 1,500 nm to pass through said panel and a second panel, wherein the second panel allows at least 50% of incident light having a wavelength in the range of 410 nm to 650 nm to pass through said panel. A photovoltaic cell is disposed between the first panel and second panel, which includes a first electrode disposed adjacent to the first panel, a second electrode disposed adjacent to the second panel, a photovoltaic component contacting the first and second electrodes. The photovoltaic component absorbs at least 50% of light having a wavelength in one of the following ranges: greater than 650 nm, less than 410 nm and combinations thereof.
US09548407B2	Solar cell and method for fabricating the same Disclosed are a solar cell and a method for fabricating the same. The solar cell according to the embodiment includes a back electrode layer on a support substrate; a light absorbing layer including a glass frit having sodium on the back electrode layer; and a front electrode layer on the light absorbing layer.
US09548398B2	NAND type variable resistance random access memory and methods A high density NAND-type nonvolatile resistance random access storage circuit and its operations are shown herein . A unit memory cell of the circuit includes a field effect transistor (FET) with a resistance changeable component connected to its gate electrode. The field effect transistor is an n-channel field effect transistor or a p-channel field effect transistor. By applying the voltage or current between the top electrode of the resistive random access component and the FET drain or source electrode, more than two stable states can be maintained such that these states can be drawn from the FET drain or source terminal. The NAND circuit includes the above unit cell as a center to form a multi-bit memory. The circuit consists of multi-bit memories connected in series, has a NAND logic gate function, and forms output of this NAND circuit which can be drawn in a form of series output.
US09548394B2	All 2D, high mobility, flexible, transparent thin film transistor A two-dimensional thin film transistor and a method for manufacturing a two-dimensional thin film transistor includes layering a semiconducting channel material on a substrate, providing a first electrode material on top of the semiconducting channel material, patterning a source metal electrode and a drain metal electrode at opposite ends of the semiconducting channel material from the first electrode material, opening a window between the source metal electrode and the drain metal electrode, removing the first electrode material from the window located above the semiconducting channel material providing a gate dielectric above the semiconducting channel material, and providing a top gate above the gate dielectric, the top gate formed from a second electrode material. The semiconducting channel material is made of tungsten diselenide, the first electrode material and the second electrode material are made of graphene, and the gate dielectric is made of hexagonal boron nitride.
US09548389B2	Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same According to embodiments of the inventive concept, a gate electrode is formed on a substrate, and a first spacer, a second spacer, and a third spacer are sequentially formed on a sidewall of the gate electrode. The substrate is etched to form a recess region. A compressive stress pattern is formed in the recess region. A protective spacer is formed on a sidewall of the third spacer. When the recess region is formed, a lower portion of the second spacer is removed to form a gap region between the first and third spacers. The protective spacer fills the gap region.
US09548381B1	Method and structure for III-V nanowire tunnel FETs A heterojunction tunnel field effect transistor (TFET) has a channel region that includes a first portion of a nanowire, a source region and a drain region that respectively include a second portion and a third portion of a nanowire, and a gate that surrounds the channel region, where the first portion of the nanowire comprises an intrinsic, epitaxial III-V semiconductor. The TFET can be made by selectively etching the epitaxial underlayer to define a tethered (suspended) nanowire that forms a channel region of the device. Source and drain regions can be formed from regrown p-type and n-type epitaxial layers.
US09548378B2	Epitaxial channel formation methods and structures A method for forming field effect transistors (FETs) in a multiple wafers per batch epi-reactor includes, providing substrates having therein at least one semiconductor (SC) region with a substantially flat outer surface, modifying such substantially flat outer surface to form a convex-outward curved surface, forming an epitaxial semiconductor layer on the curved surface, and incorporating the epitaxial layer in a field effect transistor formed on the substrate. Where the SC region is of silicon, the epitaxial layer can include silicon-germanium. In a preferred embodiment, the epi-layer forms part of the FET channel. Because of the convex-outward curved surface, the epi-layer grown thereon has much more uniform thickness even when formed in a high volume reactor holding as many as 100 or more substrates per batch. FETs with much more uniform properties are obtained, thereby greatly increasing the manufacturing yield and reducing the cost.
US09548376B2	Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including a barrier structure A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a barrier structure over a substrate. The method further includes forming a channel layer over the barrier structure. The method further includes depositing an active layer over the channel layer. The method further includes forming source/drain electrodes over the channel layer. The method further includes annealing the source/drain electrodes to form ohmic contacts in the active layer under the source/drain electrodes.
US09548367B2	Method of reducing the heights of source-drain sidewall spacers of FinFETs through etching and the FinFETs thereof An integrated circuit device includes a semiconductor substrate, insulation regions extending into the semiconductor substrate, and a semiconductor fin protruding above the insulation regions. The insulation regions have a first portion and a second portion, with the first portion and the second portion on opposite sides of the semiconductor fin. The semiconductor fin has a first height. The integrated circuit device further includes a gate stack over a middle portion of the semiconductor fin, and a fin spacer on a sidewall of an end portion of the semiconductor fin. The fin spacer has a second height. The first height is greater than about two times the second height.
US09548361B1	Method of using a sacrificial gate structure to make a metal gate FinFET transistor A self-aligned SiGe FinFET device features a relaxed channel region having a high germanium concentration. Instead of first introducing germanium into the channel and then attempting to relax the resulting strained film, a relaxed channel is formed initially to accept the germanium. In this way, a presence of germanium can be established without straining or damaging the lattice. Gate structures are patterned relative to intrinsic silicon fins, to ensure that the gates are properly aligned, prior to introducing germanium into the fin lattice structure. After aligning the gate structures, the silicon fins are segmented to elastically relax the silicon lattice. Then, germanium is introduced into the relaxed silicon lattice, to produce a SiGe channel that is substantially stress-free and also defect-free. Using the method described, concentration of germanium achieved in a structurally stable film can be increased to a level greater than 85%.
US09548355B1	Compound finFET device including oxidized III-V fin isolator A semiconductor device includes a wafer having a bulk layer and a III-V buffer layer on an upper surface of the bulk layer. The semiconductor device further includes at least one semiconductor fin on the III-V buffer layer. The semiconductor fin includes a III-V channel portion. Either the wafer or the semiconductor fin includes an oxidized III-V portion interposed between the III-V channel portion and the III-V buffer layer to prevent current leakage to the bulk layer.
US09548354B1	Semiconductor devices and methods for fabricating the same A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first conductivity type. An epitaxial layer having the first conductivity type is disposed on the substrate, and a trench is formed in the epitaxial layer. A polysilicon layer having the first conductivity type fills the trench, and a first doping region having a second conductivity type that is different from the first conductivity type is disposed in the epitaxial layer and on sidewalls of the trench. A method for forming the semiconductor device is also provided.
US09548352B2	Semiconductor device with field threshold MOSFET for high voltage termination This invention discloses a semiconductor power device disposed in a semiconductor substrate comprising a lightly doped layer formed on a heavily doped layer and having an active cell area and an edge termination area. The edge termination area comprises a plurality P-channel MOSFETs. By connecting the gate to the drain electrode, the P-channel MOSFET transistors formed on the edge termination are sequentially turned on when the applied voltage is equal to or greater than the threshold voltage Vt of the P-channel MOSFET transistors, thereby optimizing the voltage blocked by each region.
US09548349B2	Semiconductor device with metal extrusion formation Embodiments disclose a method of fabrication and a semiconductor structure comprising a Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor. The method of fabrication includes depositing a first conductive material on a semiconductor substrate. A first dielectric material is deposited on the first conductive material. A second conductive material is deposited on the first dielectric material. The top plate is formed by etching the second conductive material. The bottom plate is formed by etching a portion of the first conductive material. At least one opening is formed in the first dielectric layer down to the first conductive material.
US09548344B2	Organic light-emitting display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same An organic light-emitting display apparatus including a substrate; a thin-film transistor (TFT) arranged on the substrate; a black matrix located between the substrate and the TFT; a pixel electrode, which is located between the substrate and the TFT and having edge portions covered by the black matrix; an insulation layer, which covers the TFT and opens the top surface of the pixel electrode; an organic emission layer, which is arranged on the pixel electrode; and a counter electrode, which is arranged on the organic emission layer.
US09548342B2	Organic white light emitting display apparatus Disclosed is an organic white light emitting display apparatus. The organic white light emitting device includes a first substrate including a first sub-pixel area, a second sub-pixel area, a third sub-pixel area, and an organic light emitting device (OLED) that includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic white light emitting layer interposed between the first and second electrodes, and emits whit light for respective sub-pixel areas, a second substrate including first, second, and third color filters of different colors formed on positions corresponding to the respective sub-pixel areas, the second substrate being arranged to face the first substrate, and a partition wall that is extended to an area between neighboring color filters among the color filters and partitions the sub-pixel areas, the partition wall being formed on the first substrate.
US09548330B2	Method for producing semiconductor light receiving device and semiconductor light receiving device A method for producing a semiconductor light receiving device includes the steps of growing a stacked semiconductor layer on a principal surface of a substrate, the stacked semiconductor layer including a light-receiving layer having a super-lattice structure, the super-lattice structure including a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer that are stacked alternately; forming a mask on the stacked semiconductor layer; forming a mesa structure on the substrate by etching the stacked semiconductor layer using the mask so as to form a substrate product, the mesa structure having a side surface exposed in an atmosphere; forming a fluorinated amorphous layer on the side surface of the mesa structure by exposing the substrate product in fluorine plasma; and after the step of forming the fluorinated amorphous layer, forming a passivation film containing an oxide on the side surface of the mesa structure.
US09548328B2	Solid-state image sensor and camera A solid-state image sensor is provided. The sensor includes a substrate having a light-receiving surface. The substrate includes a charge accumulation portion that forms part of a photoelectric conversion element, a charge holding portion arranged at a position deeper than the charge accumulation portion from the light-receiving surface, and a first transfer portion configured to transfer charges generated by the photoelectric conversion element to the charge holding portion along a depth direction of the substrate. A distance between the charge holding portion and the light-receiving surface is not less than 4 μm.
US09548327B2	Imaging device having a selenium containing photoelectric conversion layer To provide an imaging device capable of obtaining high-quality imaging data. The imaging device includes a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit includes a photoelectric conversion element, a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a fifth transistor, a sixth transistor, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a third capacitor. The second circuit includes a seventh transistor. The imaging device can compensate variation in electrical characteristics of an amplifier transistor included in the first circuit.
US09548325B2	Method for manufacturing a thin film transistor array panel A thin film transistor array panel includes a substrate, an insulation layer, a first semiconductor, and a second semiconductor. The insulation layer is disposed on the substrate and includes a stepped portion. The first semiconductor is disposed on the insulation layer. The second semiconductor is disposed on the insulation layer and includes a semiconductor material different than the first semiconductor. The stepped portion is spaced apart from an edge of the first semiconductor.
US09548302B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a substrate, a multi-gate transistor device formed on the substrate, and an n-well resistor formed in the substrate. The substrate includes a plurality of first isolation structures and at least a second isolation structure formed therein. A depth of the first isolation structures is smaller than a depth of the second isolation structure. The multi-gate transistor device includes a plurality of fin structures, and the fin structures are parallel with each other and spaced apart from each other by the first isolation structures. The n-well resistor includes at least one first isolation structure. The n-well resistor and the multi-gate transistor device are electrically isolated from each other by the second isolation structure.
US09548301B2	Semiconductor devices including a stressor in a recess and methods of forming the same Semiconductor devices including a stressor in a recess and methods of forming the semiconductor devices are provided. The methods may include forming a trench in an active region and the trench may include a notched portion of the active region. The methods may also include forming an embedded stressor in the trench. The embedded stressor may include a lower semiconductor layer and an upper semiconductor layer, which has a width narrower than a width of the lower semiconductor layer. A side of the upper semiconductor layer may not be aligned with a side of the lower semiconductor layer and an uppermost surface of the upper semiconductor layer may be higher than an uppermost surface of the active region.
US09548300B2	Semiconductor device including capacitor and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first region and a second region; a first planar type capacitor including a gate electrode which is positioned in any one region of the first region and the second region; a non-planar type capacitor including a plurality of non-planar type electrodes which are positioned in the other region of the first region and the second region; a second planar type capacitor including a planar type electrode which is positioned over the first planar type capacitor to overlap with the first planar type capacitor; and a common node under the non-planar type capacitor.
US09548297B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing same Provided are a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device includes a substrate and a PIP capacitor located. The PIP capacitor includes a first polysilicon layer, a metallic silicide layer, a protective layer, a dielectric layer, and a second polysilicon layer, which have a lower conductive plate pattern and are successively arranged. The method includes: providing a substrate; successively forming a first polysilicon layer, a metallic silicide, and a protective layer on the substrate; transferring a lower conductive plate pattern into the first polysilicon layer, the metallic silicide layer, and the protective layer, thus forming the first polysilicon layer, the metallic silicide layer, and the protective layer having the lower conductive plate pattern; successively forming a dielectric layer and a second polysilicon layer having a lower conductive plate pattern on the protective layer. The capacitance and reliability of the PIP capacitor are improved.
US09548295B2	System and method for an integrated circuit having transistor segments In accordance with an embodiment, an integrated circuit has a first transistor made of a plurality of first transistor segments disposed in a well area, and a second transistor made of at least one second transistor segment. Drain regions of the plurality of first transistor segments and the at least one second transistor segment are coupled to a common output node. The at least one second transistor segment is disposed in the well area such that an electrostatic discharge pulse applied to a common output node homogenously triggers parasitic bipolar devices coupled to each drain region of the plurality of first transistor segments and the drain region of the at least one second transistor segment.
US09548283B2	Package redistribution layer structure and method of forming same A package-on-package (PoP) device comprises a bottom package on a substrate and a first set of conductive elements coupling the bottom package and the substrate. The PoP device further comprises a top package over the bottom package and a redistribution layer coupling the top package to the substrate. A method of forming a PoP device comprises coupling a first package to a substrate; and forming a redistribution layer over the first package and a top surface of the substrate. The method further comprises coupling a second package to the redistribution layer, wherein the redistribution layer couples the second package to the substrate.
US09548281B2	Electrical connection for chip scale packaging A system and method for providing a post-passivation opening and undercontact metallization is provided. An embodiment comprises an opening through the post-passivation which has a first dimension longer than a second dimension, wherein the first dimension is aligned perpendicular to a chip's direction of coefficient of thermal expansion mismatch. By shaping and aligning the opening through the post-passivation layer in this fashion, the post-passivation layer helps to shield the underlying layers from stresses generated from mismatches of the materials' coefficient of thermal expansion.
US09548276B2	Structure of backside copper metallization for semiconductor devices and a fabrication method thereof An improved structure of backside copper metallization for semiconductor devices and a fabrication method thereof, wherein the improved structure comprises sequentially from top to bottom an active layer, a substrate, a backside metal seed layer, a high-temperature sustaining buffer layer, a backside metal layer and at least one oxidation resistant layer, wherein the backside metal seed layer contains Pd and P, the high-temperature sustaining buffer layer is made of Ni, Ag or Ni alloys, and the backside metal layer is made of Cu. The semiconductor chip using the structure provided by the present invention can sustain high-temperature operations.
US09548268B2	Semiconductor device having bilayer metal layer A semiconductor device includes an opening, a metal nitride layer, a bilayer metal layer and a conductive bulk layer. The opening is disposed in a first dielectric layer. The metal nitride layer is disposed in the opening. The bilayer metal layer is disposed on the metal nitride layer in the opening, where the bilayer metal layer includes a first metal layer and a second metal layer which is disposed on the first metal layer and has a greater metal concentration than that of the first metal layer. The conductive bulk layer is filled in the opening.
US09548263B2	Semiconductor device package for debugging and related fabrication methods Electronic device packages and related fabrication methods are provided. An exemplary electronic device includes a semiconductor die having debug circuitry fabricated thereon, a framing structure including an interior portion having the semiconductor die mounted thereto, and a conductive element providing an electrical connection between the interior portion and a contact pad on the semiconductor die that corresponds or is otherwise coupled to an interface of the debug circuitry.
US09548262B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor package and semiconductor package In a semiconductor package, surfaces of a die pad, a semiconductor element, a connecting member, and a lead are subjected to a surface treatment with a silane coupling agent. A first surface of a plurality of surfaces of the semiconductor device includes a first region where an organic substance is exposed, and a second region where an inorganic substance is exposed, the first surface being bonded with the connecting member. A bonding strength between the first region and the sealing resin is weaker than a bonding strength between the second region and the sealing resin.
US09548261B2	Lead frame and semiconductor device A lead frame of high quality which can endure direct bonding to a semiconductor element, and a semiconductor device of high reliability which utilizing the lead frame. A lead frame includes a plurality of connected units, each unit including a pair of lead portions arranged spaced apart and opposite from each other, for mounting a semiconductor element and electrically connecting to a pair of electrodes of the semiconductor element respectively. The lead portions respectively include an element mounting region arranged on a surface thereof to mount the semiconductor element, and a groove extending from opposing end surfaces of each of the pair of lead portions, in a direction away from the end surfaces and bending in a surrounding manner along outer periphery of the element mounting region.
US09548251B2	Semiconductor interposer having a cavity for intra-interposer die A semiconductor package may include a substrate, and a semiconductor interposer having a cavity and a plurality of through semiconductor vias. The semiconductor interposer is situated over the substrate. An intra-interposer die is disposed within the cavity of the semiconductor interposer. A thermally conductive adhesive is disposed within the cavity and contacts the intra-interposer die. Additionally, a top die is situated over the semiconductor interposer. In one implementation, the semiconductor interposer is a silicon interposer. In another implementation, the semiconductor interposer is flip-chip mounted to the substrate such that the intra-interposer die disposed within the cavity faces the substrate. In yet another implementation, the cavity in the semiconductor interposer may extend from a top surface of the semiconductor interposer to a bottom surface of the semiconductor interposer and a thermal interface material may be disposed between the intra-interposer die and the substrate.
US09548248B2	Method of processing a substrate and a method of processing a wafer According to various embodiments, a method of processing a substrate may include: forming a plurality of trenches into a substrate between two chip structures in the substrate, the trenches defining at least one pillar between the two chip structures and a sidewall on each of said two chip structures; disposing an auxiliary carrier on the substrate to hold the chip structures and the at least one pillar; at least partially filling the trenches with encapsulation material to cover the at least one pillar and the sidewalls, thereby at least partially encapsulating the chip structures; removing a portion of the encapsulation material to expose at least a portion of the at least one pillar; and at least partially removing the at least one pillar.
US09548246B2	Substrate dividing method A substrate dividing method which can thin and divide a substrate while preventing chipping, and cracking from occurring. This substrate dividing method comprises the steps of irradiating a semiconductor substrate 1 having a front face 3 formed with functional devices 19 with laser light while positioning a light-converging point within the substrate, so as to form a modified region including a molten processed region due to multiphoton absorption within the semiconductor substrate 1, and causing the modified region including the molten processed region to form a starting point region for cutting; and grinding a rear face 21 of the semiconductor substrate 1 after the step of forming the starting point region for cutting such that the semiconductor substrate 1 attains a predetermined thickness.
US09548238B2	Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device using a self-aligned OPL replacement contact and patterned HSQ and a semiconductor device formed by same A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprises forming an organic planarization layer on a plurality of gates on a substrate, wherein the plurality of gates each include a spacer layer thereon, forming an oxide layer on the organic planarization layer, removing a portion of the oxide layer to expose the organic planarization layer, stripping the organic planarization layer to form a cavity, patterning a direct lithographically-patternable gap dielectric on at least one of the gates in the cavity, and depositing a conductive contact in a remaining portion of the cavity.
US09548235B1	Methods to reduce debonding forces on flexible semiconductor films disposed on vapor-releasing adhesives A method comprises providing a handle substrate having a front surface and a back surface; providing a layer of flexible semiconductor material having a front surface and a back surface and an at least partially sacrificial backing layer stack on the back surface of the layer of flexible semiconductor material; bonding the front surface of the layer of flexible semiconductor material to the front surface of the handle substrate; removing at least a portion of the at least partially sacrificial backing layer stack from the back surface of the layer of flexible semiconductor material; opening outgassing paths through the layer of flexible semiconductor material; and processing the layer of flexible semiconductor material.
US09548233B2	Micro device transfer head array A micro device transfer head array and method of forming a micro device transfer array from an SOI substrate are described. In an embodiment, the micro device transfer head array includes a base substrate and a patterned silicon layer over the base substrate. The patterned silicon layer may include a silicon interconnect and an array of silicon electrodes electrically connected with the silicon interconnect. Each silicon electrode includes a mesa structure protruding above the silicon interconnect. A dielectric layer covers a top surface of each mesa structure.
US09548225B2	Edge bead removal apparatus and methods An edge bead removal apparatus is provided. The edge bead removal apparatus includes a clamping unit configured to clamp a cylindrical reticle and cause the cylindrical reticle to incline with a pre-determined angle and to rotate around a central axis. The edge bead removal apparatus also includes an edge bead removal solvent nozzle configured to spray an edge bead removal solvent to remove edge beads on both edges of the cylindrical reticle.
US09548218B2	Thermal surface treatment for reuse of wafers after epitaxial lift off There is disclosed a method of preserving the integrity of a growth substrate in a epitaxial lift-off method, the method comprising providing a structure comprising a growth substrate, one or more protective layers, a sacrificial layer, and at least one epilayer, wherein the sacrificial layer and the one or more protective layers are positioned between the growth substrate and the at least one epilayer; releasing the at least one epilayer by etching the sacrificial layer with an etchant; and heat treating the growth substrate and/or at least one of the protective layers.
US09548210B2	Fabrication method of a transistor with improved field effect Fabrication of a field-effect transistor is performed on a substrate comprising a film made from first semiconductor material, a gate dielectric covered by a gate electrode, source and drain areas separated by the gate electrode, a protection layer covering gate electrode and source and drain areas, and an access hole to the source area and/or to drain area. Metallic material is deposited in the access hole in contact with the first semiconductor material of the source and/or drain area. An electrically conducting barrier layer that is non-reactive with the first semiconductor material and with the metallic material is deposited before reaction of metallic material with first semiconductor material. Transformation heat treatment of the metallic material with the semiconductor material is performed to form a metallic material having a base formed by the semiconductor material generating a set of stresses on a conduction channel arranged between the source and drain areas.
US09548206B2	Ohmic contact structure for group III nitride semiconductor device having improved surface morphology and well-defined edge features Embodiments of an ohmic contact structure for a Group III nitride semiconductor device and methods of fabrication thereof are disclosed. In general, the ohmic contact structure has a root-mean-squared (RMS) surface roughness of less than 10 nanometers, and more preferably less than or equal to 7.5 nanometers, and more preferably less than or equal to 5 nanometers, and more preferably less than or equal to 2 nanometers, and even more preferably less than or equal to 1.5 nanometers.
US09548202B2	Method for bonding by means of molecular adhesion The disclosure relates to a method of bonding by molecular adhesion comprising the positioning of a first wafer and of a second wafer within a hermetically sealed vessel, the evacuation of the vessel to a first pressure lower than or equal to 400 hPa, the adjustment of the pressure in the vessel to a second pressure higher than the first pressure by introduction of a dry gas, and bringing the first and second wafers into contact, followed by the initiation of the propagation of a bonding wave between the two wafers, while maintaining the vessel at the second pressure.
US09548200B2	Variable frequency microwave (VFM) processes and applications in semiconductor thin film fabrications Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate are described herein. A vacuum multi-chamber deposition tool can include a degas chamber with both a heating mechanism and a variable frequency microwave source. The methods described herein use variable frequency microwave radiation to increased quality and speed of the degas process without damaging the various components.
US09548195B2	Ion ejection from a quadrupole ion trap A method of ejecting ions to be analyzed from a quadrupole ion trap in which a trapping field is created by one or more RF voltages applied to one or more electrodes of the trap, the method comprising the steps of cooling the ions to be analyzed within the quadrupole ion trap until the ions are thermalized, reducing the amplitude of one or more RF voltages applied to the quadrupole ion trap and applying the reduced amplitude RF voltages for one half cycle after the one or more RF voltages have reached a zero crossing point, turning off the RF voltages applied to the quadrupole ion trap, and ejecting the ions to be analyzed from the quadrupole ion trap.
US09548192B2	Ion focusing The invention generally relates to apparatuses for focusing ions at or above ambient pressure and methods of use thereof. In certain embodiments, the invention provides an apparatus for focusing ions that includes an electrode having a cavity, at least one inlet within the electrode configured to operatively couple with an ionization source, such that discharge generated by the ionization source is injected into the cavity of the electrode, and an outlet. The cavity in the electrode is shaped such that upon application of voltage to the electrode, ions within the cavity are focused and directed to the outlet, which is positioned such that a proximal end of the outlet receives the focused ions and a distal end of the outlet is open to ambient pressure.
US09548186B2	Methods and apparatus for dual confinement and ultra-high pressure in an adjustable gap plasma chamber A plasma processing system having a plasma processing chamber configured for processing a substrate is provided. The plasma processing system includes at least an upper electrode and a lower electrode for processing the substrate. The substrate is disposed on the lower electrode during plasma processing, where the upper electrode and the substrate forms a first gap. The plasma processing system also includes an upper electrode peripheral extension (UE-PE). The UE-PE is mechanically coupled to a periphery of the upper electrode, where the UE-PE is configured to be non-coplanar with the upper electrode. The plasma processing system further includes a cover ring. The cover ring is configured to concentrically surround the lower electrode, where the UE-PE and the cover ring forms a second gap.
US09548178B2	Fuse structure and monitoring method thereof A fuse structure includes a substrate, a fuse element, and an auxiliary device. The fuse element is disposed on the substrate. The auxiliary device includes a source region and a drain region respectively disposed at two opposite sides of the fuse element. The auxiliary device is configured to monitor and diagnose the fuse element. The source region and the drain region are electrically isolated from the fuse element. A monitoring method of the fuse structure includes following steps. A drain voltage signal is applied to the drain region of the auxiliary device, a gate voltage signal is applied to the fuse element, and a signal from the source region is analyzed to diagnose a condition of the fuse element.
US09548174B2	Contractor assembly which counteracts electromagnetic repulsion of contacts A switch assembly adapted and a method for switching power to a circuit having a power source. The switch assembly includes current carrying contacts and a coupling member. The coupling member has conductive pads for engaging the current carrying contacts and a contact bridge extending between the conductive pads. An actuator assembly moves the coupling member between a closed position in which the conductive pads of the coupling member engage the current carrying contacts and an open position in which the conductive pads of the coupling member are disengaged from the current carrying contacts. Opposing electromagnetic forces are generated between the contact bridge and the conductive pads to resist electromagnetic repulsion forces generated between the current carrying contacts and the conductive pads as the actuator assembly approaches or is in the closed position.
US09548172B2	Control device, in particular for a domestic appliance The present invention relates to a control device having at least one front panel, at least one button panel arranged behind the front panel, and at least one switch responsive to a user's touch of a switchable area on a front side of the front panel in front of said switch. The switch includes at least one light source element arranged at a rear side of the button panel illuminating the rear side of the front panel, and at least one reflector element arranged behind the button panel and the light source element to reflect the light to the rear side of the button panel. The button panel includes at least one cut out that corresponds with the switchable area of the switch or more switchable areas of neighbored switches, so that the light can pass through the cut-out and the front panel to be out of the control device.
US09548171B2	Switchboard Disclosed is a switchboard. The switchboard includes a switchboard case with a built-in circuit breaker, a door mounted on the switchboard case in a hinge structure to be opened or closed and configured to include a door hook including an inclined surface at a front end, an external manipulation handle provided at an outer side of the switchboard case and configured to manually, externally manipulate a switch-on or off operation of the circuit breaker, and a catching member disposed in the switchboard case to be contactable with the inclined surface of the door hook. The catching member rotates by contacting the inclined surface of the door hook according to a closing operation of the door, and a locked state of the door is maintained by catching the door hook on one side corner of the catching member.
US09548163B2	Solid electrolytic capacitor with improved performance at high voltages A solid electrolytic capacitor that comprises a sintered porous anode, a dielectric layer that overlies the anode body, and a solid electrolyte overlying the dielectric layer is provided. The anode is formed from a finely divided powder (e.g., nodular or angular) having a relatively high specific charge. Despite the use of such high specific charge powders, high voltages can be achieved through a combination of features relating to the formation of the anode and solid electrolyte. For example, relatively high press densities and sintering temperatures may be employed to achieve “sinter necks” between adjacent agglomerated particles that are relatively large in size, which render the dielectric layer in the vicinity of the neck less susceptible to failure at high forming voltages.
US09548161B2	Dielectric thin film element, antifuse element, and method of producing dielectric thin film element A dielectric thin film element having a high humidity resistance is provided. A dielectric thin film element includes a capacitance section having a dielectric layer and a pair of electrode layers formed on the respective upper and lower surfaces of the dielectric layer. Furthermore, a protection layer is provided on the capacitance section, a pair of interconnect layers are drawn out to an upper surface of the protection layer, and external electrodes are formed to be electrically connected to the interconnect layers. Further, first surface metal layers cover a portion of the interconnect layers that extends along the inner surface of the openings and second surface metal layers are formed at end of the first surface metal layers.
US09548159B2	Electronic component A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes flat-shaped inner electrodes that are laminated. An interposer includes an insulating substrate that is larger than contours of the multilayer ceramic capacitor. A first mounting electrode that mounts the multilayer ceramic capacitor is located on a first principal surface of the insulating substrate, and a first external connection electrode for connection to an external circuit board located on a second principal surface. The multilayer ceramic capacitor is mounted onto the interposer in such a way that the principal surfaces of the inner electrodes are parallel or substantially parallel to the principal surface of the interposer, that is, the first and second principal surfaces of the insulating substrate.
US09548150B2	Cerium-iron-based magnetic compounds New magnetic materials containing cerium, iron, and small additions of a third element are disclosed. These materials comprise compounds Ce(Fe12−xMx) where x=1-4, having the ThMn12 tetragonal crystal structure (space group I4/mmm, #139). Compounds with M=B, Al, Si, P, S, Sc, Co, Ni, Zn, Ga, Ge, Zr, Nb, Hf, Ta, and W are identified theoretically, and one class of compounds based on M=Si has been synthesized. The Si cognates are characterized by large magnetic moments (4πMs greater than 1.27 Tesla) and high Curie temperatures (264≦Tc≦305° C.). The Ce(Fe12−xMx) compound may contain one or more of Ti, V, Cr, and Mo in combination with an M element. Further enhancement in Tc is obtained by nitriding the Ce compounds through heat treatment in N2 gas while retaining the ThMn12 tetragonal crystal structure; for example CeFe10Si2N1.29 has Tc=426° C.
US09548147B2	Metal or metal oxide comprising a surface-bonded organic shell, and a method for preparing the same An organically surface-bonded metal or metal oxide material including an inorganic metal or metal oxide and an organic material. The organic material is coated on the surface of the inorganic metal or metal oxide. The inorganic metal or metal oxide and the organic material are linked through a strong chemical bond. The strong chemical bond includes a covalent bond between a metal in the inorganic metal or metal oxide and a nitrogen in the organic material.
US09548146B2	Cover sheath, fastening arrangement and method of fastening a conducting cable to a carrier component A cover sheath includes a main body being adapted to define a channel for accommodating at least one conducting cable extending there through, and a hook and loop arrangement disposed on at least a portion of an outer surface of the main body. The main body is made of an electrically conducting material.
US09548139B2	Multilayer tube in ceramic matrix composite material, resulting nuclear fuel cladding and associated manufacturing processes The invention relates to a multilayer tubular part (1) comprising a metal layer forming a metal tubular body (3) and two layers in ceramic matrix composite material covering the metal tubular body, wherein one of the two layers in ceramic matrix composite material covers the inner surface of the metal tubular body to form an inner tubular body (4), whilst the other of the two layers in ceramic matrix composite material covers the outer surface of the metal tubular body to form an outer tubular body (2), the metal tubular body therefore being sandwiched between the inner and outer tubular bodies. The metal tubular body is in metal or metal alloy. Finally, the metal tubular body has a mean thickness smaller than the mean thicknesses of the inner and outer tubular bodies. A said part is useful in particular for producing nuclear fuel claddings.
US09548133B2	Shift register circuit A shift register circuit including a logic circuit capable of controlling the threshold voltage of a transistor and outputting a signal corresponding to an input signal by changing only the potential of a back gate without changing the potential of a gate is provided. In a shift register circuit including a logic circuit with a first transistor and a second transistor having the same conductivity type, a first gate electrode of the first transistor is connected to a source electrode or a drain electrode of the first transistor, an input signal is supplied to a second gate electrode of the first transistor, a clock signal is supplied to a gate electrode of the second transistor, and the first gate electrode and the gate electrode are formed from the same layer.
US09548127B1	Memory system According to one embodiment, a memory system includes: a semiconductor memory device and a controller. The semiconductor memory device reads data a plurality of times from a first area, performs a majority operation on the read results, and transmits data based on the majority operation result to the controller as read data.
US09548126B1	Multi-chip non-volatile semiconductor memory package including heater and sensor elements A method of healing a plurality of non-volatile semiconductor memory devices on a multi-chip package is disclosed. The multi-chip package can be heated to a temperature range having a temperature range upper limit value and a temperature range lower limit value. The temperature of the multi-chip package can be kept essentially within the temperature range for a predetermined time period by monitoring a thermal sensing element with a sensing circuit outside of the multi-chip package. The thermal sensing element may be located near the components with the lowest failure temperature to ensure the multi-chip package is not damaged during the healing process.
US09548125B2	Semiconductor device having multi-level cell and method of reading the same A semiconductor device and a method of operating the same are provided. The method includes determining whether a read operation on a selected page is a beginning read operation on the selected page; performing a least significant bit (LSB) read operation on the selected page when the read operation is the beginning read operation on the selected page according to a determination result, and performing a first sub-read operation on the selected page according to a result of the LSB read operation; and performing a second sub-read operation including the LSB read operation or a most significant bit (MSB) read operation on the selected page according to stored program state data when the read operation is not the beginning read operation on the selected page according to the determination result.
US09548121B2	Memory device having only the top poly cut Methods and apparatuses are contemplated herein for enhancing the efficiency of nonvolatile memory devices. In an example embodiment, a nonvolatile memory device comprises a substrate and 3D array of nonvolatile memory cells, the 3D array including a plurality of conductive layers, separated from each other by insulating layers, the plurality of conductive layers comprising a top layer, the top layer comprising n string select lines (SSLs) and one or more bottom layers, the top layer further comprises n−1 cuts, each cut electrically separating two SSLs, wherein each cut is cut to a depth of the top layer and not extending into the bottom layers and a plurality of vertical channels arranged orthogonal to the plurality of layers, each of the plurality of channels comprising a string of memory cells, each of plurality of strings coupled to a bit line, an SSL and one or more word lines.
US09548117B2	Non-volatile SRAM with multiple storage states Technologies are generally described herein for a non-volatile static random access memory device with multiple storage states. In some examples, the multi-storage state non-volatile random access memory device has two or more memory cells. Each memory cell may include a pair of programmable resistive devices that may be dynamically programmed to configure the memory cell in a particular logic state.
US09548114B2	Resistive semiconductor memory capable of performing incremental step pulse programming (ISPP) based on digital code values of memory cells Disclosed are a semiconductor memory apparatus, a program method, and a program system. The semiconductor memory apparatus includes a memory cell array including a plurality of resistive memory cells and a control block configured to variably control, based on digital code values reflecting resistance states of the resistive memory cells, at least one of a initial voltage magnitude and an initial voltage applying time in an incremental step pulse programming (ISPP) mode for the plurality of memory cells. Therefore, even in the case of the worst cell, the incremental step of the ISPP may be minimized, and the writing time may be reduced, limiting unnecessary current consumption.
US09548109B2	Circuit and system of using FinFET for building programmable resistive devices Junction diodes or MOS devices fabricated in standard FinFET technologies can be used as program selectors or One-Time Programmable (OTP) element in a programmable resistive device, such as interconnect fuse, contact/via fuse, anti-fuse, or emerging nonvolatile memory such as MRAM, PCRAM, CBRAM, or RRAM. The MOS or diode can be built on at least one fin structure or at least one active region that has at least one first active region and a second active region. The first and the second active regions can be isolated by a dummy MOS gate or silicide block layer (SBL)to construct a diode.
US09548105B1	Enhanced post-write read for 3-D memory Apparatus and method for performing a post-write read in a memory device are disclosed. A memory device may include 3-dimensional memory, with the wordlines in a memory block each having multiple strings. Periodically, the memory device may analyze the wordlines for defects by performing a post-write read on a respective wordline and analyzing the read data to determine whether the respective wordline is defective. Rather than reading all of the strings for the respective wordline, less than all of the strings (such as only one of the strings) for the respective wordline are read. In this way, determining whether the respective wordline in 3-dimensional memory may be performed more quickly.
US09548102B2	Multi-die DRAM banks arrangement and wiring The various embodiments described herein include memory dies and methods for memory die communications. In one aspect, a method is performed at a first memory die with a plurality of memory banks and a plurality of contacts. The method includes: (1) coupling a first memory bank of the plurality of memory banks to a second memory die via the plurality of contacts; (2) transmitting data between the first memory bank and the second memory die via the plurality of contacts; and (3) receiving a control signal to couple a second memory bank of the plurality of memory banks to the second memory die. The method further includes, in response to receiving the control signal, coupling the second memory bank to the second memory die via the plurality of contacts; and transmitting data between the second memory bank and the second memory die via the plurality of contacts.
US09548101B2	Retention optimized memory device using predictive data inversion A method for storing data. The method includes providing an addressable memory including a memory space, wherein the memory space includes a plurality of memory cells. The method includes configuring the addressable memory such that a majority of the plurality of memory cells in the memory space stores internal data values in a preferred bias condition when a first external data state of one or more external data states is written to the memory space, wherein the first external data state is opposite the preferred bias condition.
US09548092B2	Voltage controlled spin transport channel A spin transport channel includes a dielectric layer contacting a conductive layer. The dielectric layer includes at least one of a tantalum oxide, hafnium oxide, titanium oxide, and nickel oxide. An intermediate spin layer contacts the dielectric layer. The intermediate spin layer includes at least one of copper and silver. The conductive layer is more electrochemically inert than the intermediate spin layer. A polarizer layer contacts the intermediate spin layer. The polarizer layer includes one of a nickel-iron based material, iron, and cobalt based material. The conductive layer and intermediate layer are disposed on opposite sides of the dielectric layer. The dielectric layer and the polarizer layer are disposed on opposite sides of the intermediate spin layer. The intermediate spin layer is arranged to form a conducting path through the dielectric layer configured to transport a plurality of electrons. Each of the plurality of electrons maintains a polarized electron spin.
US09548089B2	Pipelining an asynchronous memory reusing a sense amp and an output latch An asynchronous memory includes a memory array, a sense amplifier, an output latch, and a controller. In response to a clock signal from an external circuit requesting a read operation, the controller provides the clock signal to the memory array to read data, and controls the sense amplifier and the output latch to provide the functionality of a flip-flop master and slave so that the read operation delay through the output latch to the external circuit is removed from a first read cycle of two sequential read cycles.
US09548088B2	Semiconductor memory asynchronous pipeline An asynchronously pipelined SDRAM has separate pipeline stages that are controlled by asynchronous signals. Rather than using a clock signal to synchronize data at each stage, an asynchronous signal is used to latch data at every stage. The asynchronous control signals are generated within the chip and are optimized to the different latency stages. Longer latency stages require larger delays elements, while shorter latency states require shorter delay elements. The data is synchronized to the clock at the end of the read data path before being read out of the chip. Because the data has been latched at each pipeline stage, it suffers from less skew than would be seen in a conventional wave pipeline architecture. Furthermore, since the stages are independent of the system clock, the read data path can be run at any CAS latency as long as the re-synchronizing output is built to support it.
US09548086B2	Integrated circuit device body bias circuits and methods A system having an integrated circuit (IC) device can include a die formed on a semiconductor substrate and having a plurality of first wells formed therein, the first wells being doped to at least a first conductivity type; a global network configured to supply a first global body bias voltage to the first wells; and a first bias circuit corresponding to each first well and configured to generate a first local body bias for its well having a smaller setting voltage than the first global body bias voltage; wherein at least one of the first wells is coupled to a transistor having a strong body coefficient formed therein, which transistor may be a transistor having a highly doped region formed below a substantially undoped channel, the highly doped region having a dopant concentration greater than that the corresponding well.
US09548082B1	System and method for processing ancillary data associated with a video stream Method and system for capturing and playing back ancillary data associated with a video stream. At capture, a first video stream and its associated non-audio ancillary data are received. The non-audio ancillary data associated with the first video stream is encoded into a first audio stream on a basis of a predefined encoding scheme. The captured non-audio ancillary data can then be transmitted and processed with the first video stream in the form of the first audio stream. At playback, a second video stream and a second audio stream containing encoded non-audio ancillary data associated with the second video stream are received. The second audio stream is decoded on a basis of a predefined decoding scheme in order to extract therefrom the non-audio ancillary data associated with the second video stream. The second video stream and its associated non-audio ancillary data are then both output for playback. This method of capture and playback enables a non-linear editing application that supports only video and audio data to receive, preserve, display to a user for editing purposes, and transmit unsupported non-audio ancillary data, since the latter is in the form of an audio stream.
US09548075B2	Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording/reproduction apparatus According to one embodiment, a perpendicular magnetic recording medium has an arrangement obtained by sequentially stacking a nonmagnetic substrate, a soft magnetic underlayer, a nonmagnetic seed layer containing silver grains having an fcc structure and an amorphous germanium grain boundary formed between the silver grains, a reaction barrier layer containing 90 at % or more of silver or aluminum and having a thickness of 2 nm or less, a nonmagnetic interlayer formed on the reaction barrier layer and made of ruthenium or a ruthenium alloy, and a perpendicular magnetic recording layer.
US09548073B1	Systems and methods for providing high performance soft magnetic underlayers for magnetic recording media Systems and methods for providing high performance soft magnetic underlayers for magnetic recording media are described. One such magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, an amorphous soft magnetic underlayer including CoFeMoNb on the substrate, where an atomic percent of the Mo is greater than about 8 and an atomic percent of the Nb is greater than about 9, and a magnetic recording layer on the soft magnetic underlayer.
US09548064B2	Noise estimation apparatus of obtaining suitable estimated value about sub-band noise power and noise estimating method A noise estimation apparatus of estimating a noise in an input signal includes a sub-band noise estimator estimating a noise in a sub-band input signal, obtained by dividing the input signal by sub-bands. The sub-band noise estimator includes a power calculator calculating a sub-band input power of the sub-band input signal; a probability model holder holding information on probability model; and an a posteriori probability maximizer calculating an instantaneous estimated value of a sub-band noise power based on the sub-band input power, an estimated value of the sub-band noise power and the information on the probability model, so as to maximize a posteriori probability of the sub-band noise power. The information on the probability model includes a likelihood function regarding a posteriori signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in dependence upon predictive a posteriori SNR; and a priori probability of the a posteriori SNR under a condition establishing averaged a posteriori SNR.
US09548062B2	Information processing apparatus, auxiliary device therefor, information processing system, control method therefor, and control program Disclosed is a noise suppression technology for suppressing various types of noise including unknown noise without storing a large number of noise information in advance.Specifically disclosed is an auxiliary device connectable to an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus is provided with: means for suppressing noise in a noisy signal, generating the noise information, and suppressing the noise in the noisy signal by using the generated noise information; and noise information generation means for updating the noise information on the basis of the result of suppression of the noise in the noisy signal. The auxiliary device is provided with a mechanism unit for generating noise to be suppressed by the noise suppression means and a mechanism control unit for controlling the mechanism unit so that the noise occurs at a timing at which the noise suppression means performs a noise suppression process.
US09548054B2	Speaker authentication methods and related methods of electronic devices using calendar data An embodiment of the invention provides a method of preparing for speaker authentication. The method includes: receiving speech data that represents an utterance made by a user; extracting side information; examining the side information to determine whether to allow speaker model training using the speech data; and generating a feedback message for the user based on the side information if speaker model training using the speech data is not allowed; wherein the feedback message contains a message indicating at least a condition of the side information comprising calendar data to the user.
US09548045B2	Anti-noise headset device and sound processing method thereof An anti-noise headset device and a sound processing method thereof are provided. The anti-noise headset device includes an audio receiving module and a control module. The audio receiving module is configured to receive several audio signals in several periods. The control module is electrically coupled to the audio receiving module. The control module is configured to store the audio signals received from a first period to an Nth period as sound data. The control module compares the audio signal received in an (N+1)th period with the sound data so as to generate a relevance value, N is an integer larger than zero. When the relevance value is smaller than a threshold value, the control module filters out a portion of the audio signal received in the (N+1)th period, in which the portion of the audio signal received in the (N+1)th period is relevant to the sound data.
US09548016B2	Method of driving display panel and display apparatus for performing the same A method of driving a display panel includes determining whether an input data signal represents a video image or a static image, determining whether the input data signal has a color difference generating pattern and outputting an output data signal. The output data signal has a first frequency if the input data signal represents a video image. The output data signal has the first frequency if the input data signal represents a static image and the input data signal includes the color difference generating pattern. The output data signal has a second frequency lower than the first frequency if the input data signal represents a static image and the input data signal does not include the color difference generating pattern.
US09548011B1	Multi-media warning sign attachable to a floor sign A multi-media warning sign attachable to a floor sign including a body having a pair of feet, each foot having a lower wall and a first magnet on the lower wall. Each first magnet has an inner wall within the foot and an outer wall coplanar with the lower wall and is engageable either directly to a ferromagnetic mounting surface or to a second magnet on an upper side of a spring-loaded clamp to secure the body to the front and rear panels of a foldable floor-standing sign in an upright position. The body can also be positioned atop a non-ferromagnetic surface. The battery-operated device also includes a lighting assembly with front and rear lights on the body, a sound system for audible warning messages, front and rear motion sensors to activate the lighting assembly and the sound system when nearby pedestrian motion is detected, and a microprocessor.
US09547994B2	Progressive reference system, method and apparatus A written document (hereinafter referred to as a “work,” on electronic format which includes, stories, novels, education texts, biographies, compilations, collections, anthologies, tracts, and any other traditional format for relatively extensive texts) provides access to reference, bibliography and/or definition material through an electronic software capability associated with the work. Depending upon reader access information or characteristics (e.g., age, grade, proficiency, or position within the work or any other identifiable reader characteristic or access limitation), any request for reference material, definitions, explanations, translations, or other material provided in the associated software capability is automatically limited by system acknowledgement of the reader access information or characteristics. As the reader's access information or characteristics change, the quality and/or quantity and/or format of requested information with respect to a work changes.
US09547992B2	Apparatus and method for playing video based on real-time data Provided are an apparatus and method for playing a video based on real-time data. The apparatus includes a ground control unit which receives flight data including position information, speed information, and attitude information of an aircraft from at least one aircraft and a video playing unit which receives the flight data from the ground control unit and displays the flight data on a map screen.
US09547991B2	Aircraft precision approach and shipboard landing control system and method A system and method of generating a landing trajectory for use in landing an aircraft onto a deck of a waterborne ship includes sensing motion of the ship, and sensing wind speed and wind direction. The sensed motion of the ship is processed to generate estimates of ship attitude and vertical speed, and the sensed wind speed and wind direction are processed to generate estimates of air-wake disturbances ahead of the aircraft. The landing trajectory is generated based on the estimates of ship attitude and vertical speed and the estimates of air-wake disturbances. The system and method implement model predictive control to calculate the control maneuvers multiple steps ahead, which provides the capability to smoothly control the timing of the aircraft touchdown phase.
US09547990B2	Rotary-wing aircraft emergency landing control An emergency landing control system for an aircraft includes a landing site data source, a performance margin data source, an engine health data source, an aircraft health data source, and a processor. The landing site data source determines, continuously and in real-time, available landing sites. The performance margin data source conducts, continuously and in real-time, continuous performance analysis of an engine. The engine health data source determines, continuously and in real-time, available engine power as a function of time. The aircraft health data source determines, continuously and in real-time, available aircraft life as a function of time. The processor receives data from these data sources and, based on these data, continuously generates landing paths to one or more of the available landing sites, and selectively and continuously adjusts maximum available engine power up to emergency power limits, as needed, during execution of a landing maneuver to a landing site.
US09547988B2	Personal navigation assistance systems and methods An exemplary method includes a personal navigation assistance system detecting an upcoming trip of a user to a destination, accessing data associated with the upcoming trip from a plurality of disparate information sources, aggregating the accessed data associated with the upcoming trip, generating, based on the aggregated data, navigational assistance content for the upcoming trip, and providing the navigational assistance content for the upcoming trip to a computing device for presentation to the user. In certain examples, aggregated data includes real-time parking space availability information, and the navigational assistance content includes parking assistance content generated based on the real-time parking space availability information. Corresponding systems and methods are also described.
US09547979B2	System and method for adaptively controlling the recording of program material using a program guide A system and method for displaying an electronic program guide (“EPG”), the EPG allowing for the controlling of recording functionality of an appliance and/or playing of media. The displayable EPG includes a listing of playable media from which the user may select a program of interest for recording or playing. The EPG may also include a display of prior recorded media for playing. Options may be presented to allow for a selection of a rendering device on which selected media is to be played.
US09547978B2	Emergency alert warning system and method An emergency alert system, method and device are disclosed. The invention employs an emergency alert message, which directs end users to take some particular action like evacuating an identified geographic area. The invention further employs a geographic area message, which is based on a particular geographic area within which all persons should receive the emergency alert message. The invention utilizes an emergency alert enabled device that receives both the emergency alert message and the geographic area message. The emergency alert enabled device determines whether it is located within the geographic area of concern, and if so, presents the emergency alert message to the end user.
US09547962B2	Selecting best-fit digital lockers for packages Techniques are provided for receiving a request to store an item at a locker facility; determining a first plurality of locker compartments that are available for storing items at a first locker facility; receiving data that indicates item-physical-dimensions of the item; determining whether, based at least in part on the item-physical dimension of the item and locker-physical-dimensions of each locker compartment from the first plurality of locker compartments that are available for storing items, one or more first locker compartments from the first plurality of locker compartments are available; and if so, selecting a first locker compartment from the one or more first locker compartments; determining a first locker identifier of the first locker compartment from the one or more first locker compartments; and generating and transmitting a first response message, which includes the first locker identifier of the first locker compartment.
US09547954B2	Associating mobile device with electronic gaming machine A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In some embodiments, the operations can include communicably connecting a mobile device to a wagering game server on a wagering game network. The operations can further include associating, by the wagering game server, the mobile device with a selected wagering game machine among a plurality of wagering game machine. The operations can further include providing content to present on the mobile device, the content including a play initiation button of a wagering game played via the selected wagering game machine. The operations can further include in response to the play initiation button being actuated, receiving, at the wagering game server, a command from the mobile device to initiate play of the wagering game. The operations can further include in response to the command, presenting a result of the wagering game on the selected wagering game machine.
US09547952B2	Presenting lighting content in wagering game systems Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter include operations for presenting a lighting show in a wagering game system. The operations can include receiving, over a first network, a playlist identifier that identifies a playlist, where the playlist is associated with a first group of lighting commands for presenting lighting effects on lighting devices in the wagering game system. The operations can also include generating the first group of lighting commands, and receiving, over the first network, a second group of lighting commands for presenting the lighting effects on the lighting devices in the wagering game system. The operations can also include generating, based on the first and second groups of lighting commands, instructions specific to the lighting devices, and transmitting, over a second network, the instructions for execution by one or more lighting controllers connected to the lighting devices, wherein the execution causes the lighting effects.
US09547947B2	Intelligent entrance guard unlocking system and unlocking method thereof An intelligent entrance guard unlocking method includes: transmitting electric energy of a power unit of a intelligent entrance guard in a wireless electromagnetic radiation via a transmit coil; receiving the electric energy via a receiver coil of a powerless smart key; capturing a palm print image and storing the palm print image in a second storage unit of the powerless smart key; controlling a wireless transmit unit of the powerless smart key to transmit a wireless signal containing the palm print image to the intelligent entrance guard; obtaining a predefined palm print image from a first storage unit and comparing the palm print image with the predefined palm print image; unlocking the intelligent entrance guard when the palm print image matches with the predefined palm print image and not unlocking the intelligent entrance guard when the palm print image does not match with the predefined palm print image.
US09547944B2	Health monitoring system for diagnosing and reporting anomalies A health monitoring system for monitoring a vehicle and a method for operating the same are provided. The system, for example, may include, but is not limited to, at least one sensor configured to collect data corresponding to the vehicle, an interface system, a memory, and a processor communicatively coupled to the at least one sensor, the interface system and the memory, the processor configured to: determine when the vehicle is experiencing an anomaly, collect, from the interface system, data corresponding to the anomaly from a user of the vehicle, and associate, the data collected from the interface system and the data collected from the at least one sensor.
US09547943B2	Framework and method for creating virtual model of three-dimensional space A framework for creating a virtual model of a three-dimensional space includes a server, a terminal device in communication with the server, at least one object supplier in communication with the server, and at least one social networking site in communication with the server. The server generates a three-dimensional space in response to receiving login information from the terminal device, generates at least one room located in a predefined coordinate space of the three-dimensional space, generates at least one object located in a predefined coordinate space of the at least one room, and creates the virtual model including the three-dimensional space, the at least one room in the three-dimensional space, and the at least one object in the at least one room, and displays the virtual model on the terminal device. The at least one object is purchasable from the at least one object supplier.
US09547942B2	Automated detection of area at risk using quantitative T1 mapping A medical imaging system (5) includes a data store (12), a clustering module (22), and a display device (32). The data store (12) includes a first imaging data set and a second imaging data set, each data set created with the same imaging device (10) and the same measured value. The measured value of a first and a second tissue type overlap in the first imaging data set. The measured value of the second and a third tissue type overlap in the second data set. The data sets are co-registered, and an external event changes the measured value of the second data set. The clustering module (22) classifies the tissue type based on a fuzzy clustering of the measured value of the first data set and the measured value of the second data set for each location. The display device (32) displays a medical image which contrasts each classified tissue type.
US09547936B2	Efficient geometric tessellation and displacement Methods and computer-storage media are provided for rendering three-dimensional (3D) graphics by tessellating objects using novel structures and algorithms. Rendering utilizing “patches,” configurable functions that include a specified number of control points, allows for computation on a per-patch or per-control-point basis, in addition to traditional per-vertex, per-primitive, and per-pixel methods. This produces a number of advantages over previous tessellation methods, including the reuse of computations across existing vertices and the ability to process at a lower frequency. The operations to compute points are simplified in order to optimize system resources used in the process. Transitions from un-tessellated to tessellated objects are smoother utilizing the present invention, while developers have more flexibility in the level of detail present at different edges of the same patch. Detail within a displacement map also can be increased without negative effects associated with previous systems and methods.
US09547931B2	System, method, and computer program product for pre-filtered anti-aliasing with deferred shading A system, method, and computer program product are provided for generating anti-aliased images. The method includes the steps of assigning one or more samples to a plurality of clusters, each cluster in the plurality of clusters corresponding to an aggregate stored in an aggregate geometry buffer, where each of the one or more samples is covered by a visible fragment and rasterizing three-dimensional geometry to generate material parameters for each sample of the one or more samples. For each cluster in the plurality of clusters, the material parameters for each sample assigned to the cluster are combined to produce the aggregate. The combined material parameters for each cluster are stored in an aggregate geometry buffer. An anti-aliased image may then be generated by shading the combined material parameters.
US09547917B2	Using augmented reality to determine information Methods and systems according to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure are provided for using augmented reality to determine information. In an embodiment, an augmented reality (AR) system comprises one or more processors, and one or more memories in communication with the one or more processors and adapted to store a plurality of machine-readable instructions which when executed by the one or more processors cause the system to: capture an image view via a viewer; deconstruct the image view into one or more objects; identify at least one object of interest based on specific relevancy information; determine real time information about the object(s) of interest; and present the real time information on a user interface.
US09547916B2	Segment-based encoding system including segment-specific metadata An encoder segments frames of video data and associates metadata with segments. The metadata elements can be associated with the segments that include areas of the frame associated with the metadata elements. A motion matcher can match segments of a reference frame to pixels of a current nonkey frame being encoded when a metadata associator associates elements of metadata with segments of the segmentation of the reference frame and associates a matched segment's metadata elements with matched areas of the current frame. The metadata elements might represent actions to be taken when a user of the video data indicates a selection of an area of an image that has that metadata element associated therewith. The metadata associations can be included in the encoded video data or deduced by a decoder. The metadata associations can be independent of segment indices or other segment changes.
US09547912B2	Method for measuring the height profile of a vehicle passing on a road A method for measuring a height profile of a vehicle passing on a road, said method comprising the following steps: directing a monocular camera from a point above the road onto the road with an angle of aperture that captures a section of the road from above, recording at least a first image of the passing vehicle by the camera at a first moment in time, recording at least a second image of the passing vehicle by the camera at a second moment in time, generating a movement vector image of the vehicle from an analysis of the optical flow between the first and the second image, and creating the height profile of the vehicle from the movement vector image.
US09547911B2	Velocity estimation from imagery using symmetric displaced frame difference equation A method and apparatus for processing an image sequence described herein that provides a symmetric displaced frame difference equation. Next, an input image sequence can be received that includes a pair of image frames individually including multidimensional image data corresponding to a plurality of pixel locations at different times. Finally, using at least one processor, the symmetric displaced frame difference equation can be solved using an iteration equation and the image data of the pair of image frames to determine a displacement field describing displacement vectors at half of the total displacement vector.
US09547906B2	System and method for data driven editing of rib unfolding A method and apparatus for data driven editing of rib centerlines is disclosed. A user input location indicating an inaccuracy in a rib centerline extracted from a medical image volume is received. A local correction of the rib centerline is performed. A portion of the rib surrounding a current centerline point to be corrected is segmented based on image data of the medical image volume. A corrected centerline point for the current centerline point is generated based on the segmented portion of the rib. The centerline correction is then extended to subsequent points along the rib centerline.
US09547905B2	Monitoring system with a position-dependent protected area, method for monitoring a monitoring area and computer program A monitoring system for monitoring a monitoring area, having an input interface for accepting monitoring images of the monitoring area, having a localization module for locating at least one moving monitoring object in the monitoring area, wherein the localization module is designed to locate a position of the monitoring object, having a definition module for defining a position-dependent protected area in the monitoring area, and having a monitoring module for monitoring the protected area, wherein the definition module is designed to define the position-dependent protected area on the basis of the position of the moving monitoring object.
US09547891B2	Image processing method, system using the same, and recording medium for performing the same An image processing system includes an a noise detection unit that extracts a local statistical characteristic of a predicted original image according to a local statistical characteristic of an observed image and a local statistical characteristic of a predicted noise image, sets a flag level indicating a distortion state for each of pixels of the observed image according to the local statistical characteristic of the predicted original image, zones the observed image through a filter window, determines distortion states of adjacent pixels, corrects the flag level, and detects noise, and a noise removal unit that adaptively sets a filter size according to the corrected flag level and removes the noise, when the corrected flag level is determined through the noise detection unit, and therefore it is possible to implement adaptive noise detection and removal techniques of a distorted image damaged by noise, and detect a contour to the corresponding pixels into undistorted pixels.
US09547887B2	Visual-experience-optimized super-resolution frame generator An image processor generates a Super-Resolution (SR) frame by upscaling. A Human Visual Preference Model (HVPM) helps detect random texture regions, where visual artifacts and errors are tolerated to allow for more image details, and immaculate regions having flat areas, corners, or regular structures, where details may be sacrificed to prevent annoying visual artifacts that seem to stand out more. A regularity or isotropic measurement is generated for each input pixel. More regular and less anisotropic regions are mapped as immaculate regions. Higher weights for blurring, smoothing, or blending from a single frame source are assigned for immaculate regions to reduce the likelihood of generated artifacts. In the random texture regions, multiple frames are used as sources for blending, and sharpening is increased to enhance details, but more artifacts are likely. These artifacts are more easily tolerated by humans in the random texture regions than in the regular-structure immaculate regions.
US09547885B2	Image repairing method and device Provided are an image restoration method and device. The method comprises: processing image blocks, which are initially registered, to acquire connection curves among the image blocks; constructing an ambient field of images to be restored by means of the connection curve; by minimizing energy of the connection curve in the ambient field, registering the image blocks; and performing image filling on the registered image blocks to acquire a restored image. The device comprises: a processing unit used for processing the image blocks, which are initially registered, to acquire the connection curve among the image blocks; an ambient field construction unit used for constructing the ambient field of the image to be restored by means of the connection curve; a registering unit used for registering the image blocks by minimizing the energy of the connection curve in the ambient field; and a filling unit used for performing image filling on the registered image blocks to acquire the restored image. The present invention can be applied to restore any damaged image and improve the accuracy.
US09547881B2	Systems and methods for calculating a feature descriptor A method for calculating a feature descriptor on a single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) processor is described. The method includes generating histogram bin indexes in a first register. The method also includes generating weights in a second register. The method further includes updating an entire histogram table in a register file based on the histogram bin indexes and the weights without storing any histogram bin to memory. Histogram bins are updated in parallel with a single instruction.
US09547879B1	Digitally signing electronic documents using a digital signature Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for providing an electronic document processing system, an electronic document generation mechanism, an encrypted digital certificate generator, a tool for coordinating the processing of electronic documents, a packaging mechanism for finalizing and authenticating electronic documents, a tracking log for recording relevant electronic document information, and a transferring protocol for transferring the ownership of electronic documents. The present disclosure also is directed to an electronic authentication system including an electronic document authentication watermark seal or signature line for confirming a document's signing within the view. The present disclosure also is directed to a system, software program, and method for generating electronic documents, coordinating the signing of electronic documents, digitally authenticating and certifying electronic documents, and organizing electronic documents for retrieval and transfer in a mortgage closing and/or other financial services application.
US09547864B2	Methods and systems for updating expiry information of an account A method for updating expiry information of an account is provided. Additionally, a prediction computing device for updating expiry information of an account is provided. Further, a computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for updating expiry information of an account is provided.
US09547861B2	System and method for wireless communication with an IC chip for submission of pin data A system and method for coordinating processing of a cardholder present financial transaction between the cardholder and a merchant system. The system collects a transaction amount of the financial transaction associated with merchant identification information of the merchant system. The system sends an authentication request using a wireless communication protocol configured for proximity communication between a communication interface of a computer device and a wireless communication enabled integrated circuit (IC) chip of a payment card, the authorization request including an IC command expected by computer hardware of the IC chip. The system receives an authentication response from the computer hardware of the IC chip by the wireless communication protocol, the authentication response including an encrypted value generated by the computer hardware of the IC chip.
US09547860B2	System for processing feedback entries received from software A system for processing feedback entries received from software provided by a vendor to an end user machine. The end user machine includes the software, a feedback module, and a database. The feedback module: establishes a secret key k(0) and a secret key n(0; generates an identification tag FE(0); generates a secret key s(0); generates an encryption Ek0 of the identification tag FE(0) using the secret key k(0) where Ek0=E(k(0),FE(0)); generates a parameter Hn0 using the secret key n(0) where Hn0=Hash(n(0)∥Ek0); generates a parameter Hs0 using the secret key s(0) where Hs0=Hash(s(0)∥Ek0); sends Ek0, Hn0, and Hs0 to the database; and sends Ek0 and Hn0 to the vendor.
US09547843B2	Method and apparatus for locating a mobile terminal using received messages A method and apparatus for locating a mobile terminal by use of messages received to the mobile terminal are provided. The mobile terminal locating method may include creating at least one location related candidate for the mobile terminal by use of a message that is received to the mobile terminal, and determining a location of the mobile terminal by matching the created location related candidate to stored place information. The current location of the mobile terminal may be recognized by simply analyzing the received messages without the need for installation of additional device on the mobile terminal.
US09547838B2	Automated generation of a three-dimensional space representation and planogram verification The present disclosure provides an automated scheme for generating and verifying a three-dimensional (3D) representation of a target space. In one embodiment, the automatic generation of a 3D representation of a target space includes receiving target space data from one or more mobile data capture devices and generating a local point cloud from the target space data. In one embodiment, the local point cloud is incorporated into a master point cloud. In one embodiment, a polygon mesh is generated using the master point cloud and the polygon mesh is rendered, using a plurality of visual images captured from the target space, which generates the 3D representation. In one embodiment, the automatic verification includes comparing a portion of the 3D representation with a portion of an approved layout, and identifying one or more discrepancies between the portion of the 3D representation and the portion of the approved layout.
US09547837B2	Migration of process instances For migrating process instances, first input information describing changes between a first process template and a second process template is received. Second input information describing grouping of said changes is also received. A set of combinations of the first process template and the second process template is determined by applying the changes to the first process template in complete groups as defined by the second input information.
US09547836B2	Method and apparatus for scheduling media processing jobs on multiple processors to maximize processor utilization An approach is provided for scheduling work order tasks based on an optimization of available resources and an assessment of cost penalty functions for missing work order deadlines, including determining an estimated work order completion time for processing a plurality of tasks associated with a work order on one or more resources, scheduling the plurality of tasks in a processing queue based on the estimated work order completion time, and determining a value of a penalty function for violating a work order deadline.
US09547835B2	Modularly managed service platform A service method and associated system is provided. The method includes generating event types for events and services associated with the events. Virtual or physical machines associated with the services are provisioned and a message associated with a first event is published. The message is routed to a queue of a second service and the second service is notified of the message. The services are enabled and a selection for a sub-set of the services is received. The selection is enabled.
US09547833B2	Consistent interface for financial instrument impairment calculation A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a financial instrument impairment calculation business object.
US09547830B2	Scalable, memory-efficient machine learning and prediction for ensembles of decision trees for homogeneous and heterogeneous datasets Optimization of machine intelligence utilizes a systemic process through a plurality of computer architecture manipulation techniques that take unique advantage of efficiencies therein to minimize clock cycles and memory usage. The present invention is an application of machine intelligence which overcomes speed and memory issues in learning ensembles of decision trees in a single-machine environment. Such an application of machine intelligence includes inlining relevant statements by integrating function code into a caller's code, ensuring a contiguous buffering arrangement for necessary information to be compiled, and defining and enforcing type constraints on programming interfaces that access and manipulate machine learning data sets.
US09547829B2	Two-model recommender A method for recommending choices to a user comprises receiving data. A first set of recommendation choices based on the data is derived using a first model that models a user's subconscious reactions (i.e., intuition) to the data, and a second set of recommendation choices based on the data is derived using a second model that models the user's consciousness. The first and second sets of recommendation choices are blended using a blending function based on characteristics of a domain of the data to create a third set of recommendation choices that are arranged in an order, which is presented to the user. A conscious decision of the user and subconscious reactions of the user are monitored, and data representing the subconscious reactions of the user and data representing the conscious decisions of the user are appended to a first and second memory space, respectively.
US09547821B1	Deep learning for algorithm portfolios Automated feature construction for algorithm portfolios in machine learning is provided. A gray scale image is generated from a text representing a problem instance. The gray scale image is rescaled or reshaped to a predefined size that is smaller than an initial size of the gray scale image. The rescaled gray scale image represents features of the problem instance. The rescaled gray scale image is input as features to a machine learning-based convolutional neural network. Based on the rescaled gray scale image, the machine learning-based convolutional neural network is automatically trained to learn to automatically determine one or more problem solvers from a portfolio of problem solvers suited for solving the problem instance.
US09547820B2	Method of classifying input pattern and pattern classification apparatus A method of classifying an input pattern and a pattern classification apparatus are provided. The method includes enabling an artificial neural network to learn based on learning input data received by an input layer of the artificial neural network, determining classification of an input pattern received by the input layer of the enabled artificial neural network according to an output value obtained from an output layer of the artificial neural network, the obtained output value being based on the input pattern, updating connection intensities of a plurality of connection lines of the enabled artificial neural network to output a result value indicating the determined classification from the output layer when the input pattern, and determining updated classification of the input pattern according to an updated output value obtained from an output layer of the updated artificial neural network, the obtained updated output value being based on the input pattern.
US09547818B2	Apparatus and method for learning a model corresponding to time-series moving image/video input data A dynamic time-evolution Boltzmann machine capable of learning is provided. Aspects include acquiring a time-series input data and supplying a plurality of input values of input data of the time-series input data at one time point to a plurality of nodes of the mode. Aspects also include computing, based on an input data sequence before the one time point in the time-series input data and a weight parameter between each of a plurality of input values of input data of the input data sequence and a corresponding one of the plurality of nodes of the model, a conditional probability of the input value at the one time point given that the input data sequence has occurred. Aspects further include adjusting the weight parameter so as to increase a conditional probability of occurrence of the input data at the one time point given that the input data sequence has occurred.
US09547816B2	Cards and devices with multifunction magnetic emulators and methods for using same A payment card (e.g., credit and/or debit card) is provided with a magnetic emulator operable of communicating information to a magnetic stripe reader. Information used in validating a financial transaction is encrypted based on time such that a validating server requires receipt of the appropriate encrypted information for a period of time to validate a transaction for that period of time. Such dynamic information may be communicated using such an emulator such that a card may be swiped through a magnetic stripe reader—yet communicate different information based on time. An emulator may receive information as well as communicate information to a variety of receivers (e.g., an RFID receiver).
US09547812B2	Printing apparatus, method of controlling the same and storage medium A printing apparatus, when a sheet is fed from a sheet feeding unit in a state where size information indicating the size of sheets stacked in the sheet feeding unit is not stored in a storage unit, detects and stores the size of the sheet during conveyance. The printing apparatus controls the execution of the print processing, without using size information in a case where a print instruction is received in a state where the size information is not stored, and using the size information in a case where the print instruction is received in a state where the size information is stored. Furthermore, the printing apparatus clears the size information stored in the storage unit when a particular key is operated in a state where the size information is stored while print processing is not being executed.
US09547810B2	Rendering and outputting non-standard colorant A system for rendering and outputting a non-standard colorant comprises a print driver for accepting identification of a document for output via a print operation, accepting identification of overlay data for use in the print operation, converting the overlay data into grayscale data, and generating a page description language document including data from the document divided into standard colorspace channels and an overlay colorspace channel, the overlay channels made up of the grayscale data and identified by a colorspace keyword; and a multifunction peripheral device for rendering the standard channels in standard buffers as directed by the page description language document, identifying the overlay channels using the color name keyword within the page description language document, rendering the overlay channel in an overlay buffer, and completing the print operation by outputting the contents of the standard buffers using standard colorants and the overlay buffer using an overlay colorant.
US09547805B1	Systems and methods for identifying roads in images Methods and systems described herein enable self-supervised road detection in images. The method includes receiving an image, segmenting the image into at least one fragment based at least in part on at least one pixel feature, determining, using a processor, a road likeness score for the at least one fragment based at least in part on a medial radius, and identifying roads based at least in part on the road likeness score.
US09547790B2	Method and apparatus for processing images A method and apparatus for processing an image is disclosed, wherein the apparatus for processing the image may set blocks in an input image, perform an orthogonal transform on pixel values in the blocks, obtain orthogonal transform coefficients, and generate a resulting image by normalizing the obtained orthogonal transform coefficients.
US09547789B2	Mobile terminal and method for controlling the same A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication; a display unit including a touch sensor and a fingerprint recognition sensor overlapped with the touch sensor; and a controller configured to deactivate the fingerprint recognition sensor, receive a finger touch input on the display unit, extract, from the touch sensor, touch information related to a touch region where the finger touch input has been applied on the display unit, activate the fingerprint recognition sensor when the extracted touch information indicates a sufficient finger touch input has been received, sense fingerprint information of the finger using the activated fingerprint recognition sensor, and perform fingerprint authentication with respect to the sensed fingerprint information based on the extracted touch information.
US09547782B2	Identification of biological samples A method for coding and identification of biological samples for in vitro fertilization comprises the steps of applying to receptacles intended for unfertilized eggs and sperm, respectively, an identification code characteristic of the patient; placing unfertilized eggs and sperm, respectively, in the receptacles; storing, transporting and admixing the respective samples in receptacles which each carry the same code; and implanting the resulting embryo in the patient. The identification code may based on RFID technology, in which sample vessels (12) are codified by the application of an RFID tag (13).
US09547778B1	Secure public key acceleration In an embodiment, a system is provided in which the private key is managed in hardware and is not visible to software. The system may provide hardware support for public key generation, digital signature generation, encryption/decryption, and large random prime number generation without revealing the private key to software. The private key may thus be more secure than software-based versions. In an embodiment, the private key and the hardware that has access to the private key may be integrated onto the same semiconductor substrate as an integrated circuit (e.g. a system on a chip (SOC)). The private key may not be available outside of the integrated circuit, and thus a nefarious third party faces high hurdles in attempting to obtain the private key.
US09547775B2	Device and method for data privacy management A method for data privacy management is disclosed. The method includes: predefining, at an electronic device, an action for visualizing hidden data, wherein the hidden data is stored in the electronic device; selecting, at the electronic device, at least one data to be hidden; hiding, at the electronic device, the at least one selected data; detecting, at the electronic device, whether the action is being performed; and visualizing, at the electronic device, the hidden data if the action is detected.
US09547763B1	Authentication using facial recognition A method includes (a) receiving an authentication request from a user seeking access to a protected resource, (b) in response, generating a set of one or more face images, each face image having a facial expression score for a particular emotion associated with that face image, the facial expression scores being specific to the user, (c) displaying each face image of the set to the user together with a request for the user to score that face image for the particular emotion associated with that face image, (d) in response, receiving a user score for that face image, (e) comparing the received user score for each face image of the set to the respective facial expression score for the particular emotion associated with that face image, yielding a set of results, and (f) selectively providing access to the protected resource in response to each of the results being affirmative.
US09547753B2	Coordinated watermarking Methods, devices and computer program products enable embedding and extraction of multiple watermark messages in a coordinated fashion to improve watermark transparency, robustness against impairments, security, and computational complexity of embedding and extraction of watermarks. Coordinated watermark embedding and extraction operations take advantage of a pre-defined relationship between the symbols of two watermark messages. The improved aspects of the watermarking system provide significant value to content owners, content distributors, and consumers at a small incremental cost.
US09547744B2	Method for reusing and verifying electronic circuits The present invention provides a method for reusing and verifying electronic circuits, including the following steps of comparing company part numbers of new circuit design with company part numbers of previous circuit design; determining whether the company part numbers of the new circuit design are identical to the company part numbers of the previous circuit design; reporting the same company part numbers between the new circuit design and the previous circuit if the company part numbers of the new circuit design are identical to the company part numbers of the previous circuit design; determining whether the circuit fingerprints of the new circuit design match the circuit fingerprints of the previous circuit design; and verifying and reporting that the previous circuit design is reused in the new circuit design if the circuit fingerprints of the new circuit design match the circuit fingerprints of the previous circuit design.
US09547743B2	Manufacturing method for a semiconductor device, pattern generating method and nontransitory computer readable medium storing a pattern generating program According to one embodiment, stepped structure is formed on a semiconductor substrate, a processing film is formed to cover the stepped structure, a resist film is formed on the processing film in such a manner as to be thinner at a higher portion of the stepped structure than at a lower portion of the same, and the resist film and the processing film are etched to flatten the processing film.
US09547738B1	Invariant code optimization in high-level FPGA synthesis A method of programming or configuring an integrated circuit device using a high-level language includes parsing a logic flow to be embodied in the integrated circuit device to identify invariant logic flow, converting the invariant logic flow into separate instruction blocks, incorporating the separate instruction blocks into a high-level language representation of a configuration of resources of the integrated circuit device, and compiling the high-level language representation to configure said integrated circuit device. The high-level language representation can be executed to generate a configuration bitstream for the programmable integrated circuit device, or can be run on a processor on the programmable integrated circuit device to instantiate the configuration.
US09547735B2	System and method for viewing and modifying configurable RTL modules A configurable module editor and viewer (CMVE) reads the RTL description of a configurable module keeping track of all possible configuration options. Configuration options include pre-processor macros that are normally removed by RTL parsers. The CMVE allows users to view multiple configurations simultaneously. The CMVE assists users in editing the configurable module by presenting a simplified view of interest, while automatically propagating changes and maintaining consistency in the configurable module. The CMVE outputs updated RTL that maintains all configuration options.
US09547728B2	Graph traversal operator and extensible framework inside a column store A system, computer-implemented method, and a computer-readable storage medium for a traversal of a property graph, are provided. The edge table of the property graph is divided into a plurality of fragments. A first fragment is selected for traversal using a set of selected vertices, where the traversal identifies a set of edges. Based on the set of edges, a set of adjacent vertices is determined during the traversal. A set of discovered vertices in the property graph is determined based on the set of selected vertices and the set of adjacent vertices.
US09547722B2	System and method for providing a temporally or geographically relevant item A system and method for providing at least one of a geographically relevant item or a temporally relevant item are provided. A geographical location or temporal information of a device that is configured to access items associated with an electronic messaging account is determined. First items associated with the electronic messaging account are filtered to obtain an item relevant to the determined geographical location or temporal information. Second items associated with the electronic messaging account are filtered to obtain one or more items contextually relevant to the relevant item. The relevant item and one or more items contextually relevant to the relevant item are provided for display, wherein the display is differentiated from other items of the electronic messaging account.
US09547718B2	High precision set expansion for large concepts A set expansion system is described herein that improves precision, recall, and performance of prior set expansion methods for large sets of data. The system maintains high precision and recall by 1) identifying the qualify of particular lists and applying that quality through a weight, 2) allowing for the specification or negative examples in a set of seeds to reduce the introduction of bad entities into the set, and 3) applying a cutoff to eliminate lists that include a low number of positive matches. The system may perform multiple passes to first generate a good candidate result set and then refine the set to find a set with highest quality. The system may also apply Map Reduce or other distributed processing techniques to allow calculation in parallel. Thus, the system efficiently expands large concept sets from a potentially small set of initial seeds from readily available web data.
US09547709B2	File upload based on hash value comparison A server determines whether a the stored on a computing device matches a file stored on the server by comparing hash values for a first portion of the files. Based on the comparing, the server determines whether to upload the first portion of the file. The server uploads second portion of the file. The server generates the file for download by appending the first portion of the file stored on the server to the second portion of the file uploaded from the computing device.
US09547695B2	Industrial asset event chronology Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for developing a timeline chronicling events pertaining to an industrial asset. Data is received from a plurality of assets, processed (e.g., to reduce duplicative and/or redundant data), and organized chronologically for presentation in a timeline. The data is further grouped and/or prioritized to display some portions of the data more prominently relative to other portions of the data in the timeline (e.g., which may be hidden). Grouping rules and/or prioritization rules for grouping and/or prioritizing the data may be a function of user interaction with the timeline and/or a function of a machine learning algorithm which may be configured to identify patterns in how users interact with the timeline based upon, among other things, a role the user plays relative to the industrial asset and/or an operating state of the industrial asset.
US09547680B2	Method and apparatus for performing similarity searching A system and method for performing similarity searching is disclosed wherein programmable logic devices such as field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) can be used to implement Bloom filters for identifying possible matches between a query and data. The Bloom filters can be implemented in a parallel architecture where the different parallel Bloom filters share access to the same memory units.
US09547677B2	Scalable index build techniques for column stores Architecture that includes an index creation algorithm that utilizes available resources and dynamically adjusts to successfully scale with increased resources and be able to do so for any data distribution. The resources can be processing resources, memory, and/or input/output, for example. A finer level of granularity, called a segment, is utilized to process tuples in a partition while creating an index. The segment also aligns with compression techniques for the index. By choosing an appropriate size for a segment and using load balancing the overall time for index creation can be reduced. Each segment can then be processed by a single thread thereby limiting segment skew. Skew is further limited by breaking down the work done by a thread into parallelizable stages.
US09547669B2	Performing a visual search using a rectified image Disclosed is a server that can perform a visual search using at least one rectified image. A method implemented at a server includes storing a plurality of images with the server, receiving at least one rectified image having at least one potential object of interest from a computing device for a visual search, and extracting descriptors representing features of the at least one rectified image. The extracted descriptors of the at least one rectified image are designed to be invariant to rotation, scale, and lighting without needing to be invariant to perspective or affine distortion.
US09547660B2	Source-to-processing file conversion in an electronic discovery enterprise system Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for improved electronic discovery. Embodiments herein disclosed provide for an enterprise-wide e-discovery system that provides for source-to-processing file conversion of electronic communications and, in some embodiments, decryption of encrypted electronic communication entries for the purpose of efficiently processing data and supplying the electronic data to third party data analysis providers.
US09547658B2	File path modification based management A method for synchronizing file paths associated with computer files based on file path modifications is provided. The method may include detecting a file path modification to a referenced file path associated with a computer file. The method may also include identifying a type of the file path modification. The method may further include identifying a generated file path based on the type of the file path modification. Additionally, the method may include synchronizing the referenced file path to the generated file path. The method may also include modifying the file path information associated with the computer file. The method may further include generating association information in a file properties window associated with the referenced file path and the at least one generated file path. The method may also include validating and extracting the file path information associated with the computer file for use by at least one application.
US09547656B2	Method and system for implementing a multilevel file system in a virtualized environment A global zone executing on a host OS that includes a multilevel filesystem (MLFS) associated with a label range, where the MLFS includes files and directories, where each of the files is associated with its own label and where each of the directories is associated with its own label. The global zone further includes a first non-global zone, where the MLFS is mounted in the first non-global zone as a first loopback file system. The host OS is configured to receive, from a process executing on the host OS, a request to access a first file in the MLFS, make a first determination that a process label dominates a first file label, based on the first determination, make a second determination that the first file label is equal to the process label, and in response to the second determination, provide read and write access to the first file.
US09547654B2	Technology for managing cloud storage Described herein is technology for managing cloud storage. In particular, systems, devices and methods for managing cloud storage are described. In some embodiments, management of cloud storage may result in the designation of storage allocated to a first storage pool as obsolete, and the reallocation and/or reclamation of such storage to a second storage pool and/or a general cloud storage pool. Management may occur in accordance with one or more policies.
US09547648B2	Electronic document information extraction Methods and apparatus for extracting information from an electronic document, such as, for example, a webpage. An outline, such as, for example, the document object model, of a web page is analyzed for objects of interest, such as, photos, dates, email addresses, etc. The instructions defining which objects are objects of interests can be predetermined by the user and/or the network content provider. The user can be given the option to save objects of interest to their network account and the webpage and/or browser can be augmented with additional content related to identified objects. Objects transmitted to the network content provider are saved with an appropriate network service, for example, photos are saved in an online photo album.
US09547646B2	User-created members positioning for OLAP databases The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for positioning user-created data in an Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) database. A method may comprise receiving, at a server and from a client computing device, a query specifying one or more anchor members in a first hierarchy of the database and one or more user-created members to be positioned in the first hierarchy in relation to the anchor members according to a user-specified order, the first hierarchy of the database including members arranged in positions specified by the server; positioning, by the server, the user-created members in the first hierarchy of the database in relation to the anchor members according to the user-specified order, wherein the positioning comprises: determining a rank position for each of the anchor members; creating, for each of the user-created members, an auxiliary calculated member on an ancillary hierarchy, the auxiliary calculated member indicating the respective user-created member and the rank position of the associated anchor member.
US09547637B2	Segmenting forms for multiple user completion The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates completing multiple electronic document applications. An interface component can receive two or more electronic documents, wherein each electronic document includes at least two or more questions with respective fill-in fields to be completed by a user input. A master field component can create a master field list that includes a first subset of questions and a second subset of questions and the first subset of questions is targeted toward a first user to answer and the second subset of questions are targeted toward second user to answer. A user segregation manager component can ensure an independent and secure log in to the master field list for each user to provide information. A form aggregation component can leverage the master field list to populate or update the electronic document.
US09547616B2	High bandwidth symmetrical storage controller Provided herein are systems, apparatuses and methods (i.e., utilities) that allow for increasing the bandwidth of a processing complex of a storage controller. The utilities utilize a symmetrical approach where PCIe switches overcome limitations of prior art processor complexes. The symmetrical approach provided by the disclosed utilities as incorporated into a storage controller provides equal access from any host path/channel to any drive path/channel (i.e., storage element). More specifically, a first or a first set of PCIe switches connect front-end PCIe host bus adaptors, which are connectable to host systems, to front-end data paths of a plurality of PCIe memory controllers. A second or second set of PCIe switches connect backend host bus adapters, which are connectable to storage elements, to back-end data paths of the plurality of PCIe memory controllers. The symmetrical architecture provides at least twice the bandwidth of prior art architectures.
US09547611B2	Computer system with groups of processor boards A computer system includes a plurality of printed circuit boards, each printed circuit board having one or more processor chips attached to the printed circuit board, wherein the number of printed circuit boards is an even number greater than or equal to 4, wherein the printed circuit boards are arranged in two groups, each group being arranged in a different stacking direction, and wherein the one or more processor chips which are attached to each one of the printed circuit boards of one of the groups are connected for communication to the processor chips of each printed circuit board of the other group.
US09547608B2	Resource sharing in a telecommunications environment A transceiver is designed to share memory and processing power amongst a plurality of transmitter and/or receiver latency paths, in a communications transceiver that carries or supports multiple applications. For example, the transmitter and/or receiver latency paths of the transceiver can share an interleaver/deinterleaver memory. This allocation can be done based on the data rate, latency, BER, impulse noise protection requirements of the application, data or information being transported over each latency path, or in general any parameter associated with the communications system.
US09547605B2	Method for data backup, device and system A method for backing up data in a data center, device and system are provided. The data in all the VMs of one data center can be backed up simultaneously, and the associations between the VMs are also backed up during the backup, so it is unnecessary to concern the recovery orders of the VMs when the data of the data center is recovered. Meanwhile, when the stored data is exported from the hypervisor node, it is unnecessary to notify the upper layer OS for a backup, thereby improving the data backup efficiency and reducing the system logical complexity.
US09547599B2	System and method for predicting false sharing In one embodiment, a method for predicting false sharing includes running code on a plurality of cores and tracking potential false sharing in the code while running the code to produce tracked potential false sharing, where tracking the potential false sharing includes determining whether there is potential false sharing between a first cache line and a second cache line, and where the first cache line is adjacent to the second cache line. The method also includes reporting potential false sharing in accordance with the tracked potential false sharing to produce a false sharing report.
US09547596B2	Handling of a wait for event operation within a data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus forms a portion of a coherent cache system and has a master device for performing data processing operations including a wait for event operation causing the master device to enter a power saving mode. A cache stores data values for access by the master device when performing the data processing operations. Coherency handling circuitry is responsive to a coherency request from another portion of the coherent cache system, to detect whether a data value identified by the coherency request is present in the cache, and if so, to cause a coherency action to be taken in respect of that data value stored in the cache. Wake event circuitry issues a wake event to the master device if the coherency action is taken, and the master device exits the power saving mode.
US09547594B2	Instructions to mark beginning and end of non transactional code region requiring write back to persistent storage A processor in described having an interface to non-volatile random access memory and logic circuitry. The logic circuitry is to identify cache lines modified by a transaction which views the non-volatile random access memory as the transaction's persistence storage. The logic circuitry is also to identify cache lines modified by a software process other than a transaction that also views said non-volatile random access memory as persistence storage.
US09547589B2	Endurance translation layer (ETL) and diversion of temp files for reduced flash wear of a super-endurance solid-state drive A flash drive has increased endurance and longevity by reducing writes to flash. An Endurance Translation Layer (ETL) is created in a DRAM buffer and provides temporary storage to reduce flash wear. A Smart Storage Switch (SSS) controller assigns data-type bits when categorizing host accesses as paging files used by memory management, temporary files, File Allocation Table (FAT) and File Descriptor Block (FDB) entries, and user data files, using address ranges and file extensions read from FAT. Paging files and temporary files are never written to flash. Partial-page data is packed and sector mapped by sub-sector mapping tables that are pointed to by a unified mapping table that stores the data-type bits and pointers to data or tables in DRAM. Partial sectors are packed together to reduce DRAM usage and flash wear. A spare/swap area in DRAM reduces flash wear. Reference voltages are adjusted when error correction fails.
US09547580B1	Providing intermediate results of evaluating program code that includes a compound statement A device may receive an indication to evaluate a portion of program code. The device may cause the portion of program code to be evaluated based on receiving the indication to evaluate the portion of program code. The device may determine an intermediate result used to generate an overall result of evaluating the portion of program code based on causing the portion of program code to be evaluated. The intermediate result may be determined by evaluating a sub-portion of program code included in the portion of program code. The device may receive information that identifies a granularity level for displaying the intermediate result. The granularity level may indicate whether the intermediate result is to be provided for display. The device may selectively provide the intermediate result for display based on the granularity level.
US09547578B2	Reducing resource overhead in verbose trace using recursive object pruning prior to string serialization Embodiments describe techniques for reducing resource overhead in verbose trace operations by recursively pruning object data prior to string serialization. According to one embodiment, a trace operation is initiated. The trace operation generates a string and specifies one or more objects to serialize and append to the string. At least one object is a nested object. The trace operation recursively parses the nested object while generating the string. Data associated with one or more of the objects to prune from the serialization is determined based on a current prioritization level. The one or more objects is serialized into the string.
US09547575B2	Managing host computing devices Systems and methods are disclosed which facilitate the management of host computing devices through the utilization of a host computing device control component. The host computing device control component includes a state monitoring component that monitors operating states of the control component. Based on monitoring the operating of the control component, the state monitoring component causes the generation of one or more visual indicator indicative of the operating state of the control component.
US09547573B2	Serial communication over communication control pin Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for serial communications over a communications control pin. The method may include detecting, by a first device including a data interface, a current flow at a first communication control pin at the data interface; and assigning, by the first device based on the detection of the current flow at the first communication control pin, serial data communication circuitry to a second communication control pin at the data interface to carry serial data communications to another device. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
US09547570B2	Devices, systems and methods for debugging network connectivity The devices, systems, and methods test network connectivity, where the physical network is used to provide one or more service chains connecting service appliances, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, load balancers, network address translators, web servers, and so on. A service chain may involve multiple routing paths. The devices, systems, and methods test network connectivity test network connectivity by injecting customized echo request packets on each routing path and collecting customized echo reply packets in response. The customized echo reply packets are processed and aggregated to isolate network connectivity problems.
US09547560B1	Amortized snapshots A system and method for generating and storing at least one snapshot update. The system and method comprising determining a first set of blocks including blocks that have changed since a time of a previous snapshot, determining a second set of blocks based at least in part on a predetermined amount, generating at least one snapshot update of a volume based at least in part on a combination of the first set of blocks and the second set of blocks, and storing the at least one snapshot update.
US09547557B2	Peripheral bus error containment and recovery A peripheral bus error containment and recovery system enables a bus device to experience a fatal bus error and recover without stopping execution of an operating system. When a fatal bus error is detected at the bus device, a bus controller may deactivate a data link layer for a downstream port populated by the bus device, causing an operating system device driver to be uninstalled for the bus device. Then, the operating system device driver may be reinstalled without physically removing the bus device.
US09547556B1	Restart operation with logical blocks in queued commands Methods and systems associated with re-transferring data that was unsuccessfully transmitted to a host are described. According to one embodiment a method includes transferring data from a buffer to a host; receiving an unsuccessful status from the host indicating a transmission error; identifying a block of data being transferred when the transmission error occurred; and re-transferring data in the identified block from the buffer to the host without re-transferring successfully transferred blocks.
US09547553B1	Data resiliency in a shared memory pool Various systems to achieve data resiliency in a shared memory pool are presented. Multiple memory modules are associated with multiple data interfaces, one or multiple erasure-coding interfaces are communicatively connected with the multiple data interfaces, and multiple compute elements are communicatively connected with one or multiple erasure-coding interfaces. Data sets are erasure-coded, and the resulting fragments are stored in random access memory modules distributed throughout the system. Storage in RAM allows real-time fetching of fragments using random-access read cycles and streaming of fragments using random-access write cycles, in which read operations include reconstruction of data sets from fetched data fragments, and write operations allow conversion of data sets into fragments which are then streamed and distributively stored. Distributed memory creates data resiliency to reconstruct original data sets in cases such as data corruption, failure of a memory module, failure of a data interface, or failure of a compute element.
US09547551B2	Memory system having an encoding processing circuit for redundant encoding process A memory system includes an encoding processing circuit configured to perform redundant encoding process on target data for generating data and a memory for writing the generated data by the encoding processing circuit, where a number of bits having a predetermined value are half or less than a total number of bits of the generated data.
US09547547B2	Systems and/or methods for handling erroneous events in complex event processing (CEP) applications Certain example embodiments address issues associated with erroneous events produced in Complex Event Processing (CEP) applications. An error handler is controlled to at least: receive, via an event bus, events from external input event sources; receive, via the event bus, error events from an application configured to process events received from the event bus, and to provide to the event bus results obtained from processing received events, and error events corresponding to errors detected at its input and/or processing layer(s); generate, for a given error, an error analysis event and an error impact event by executing a CEP query on at least a corresponding received error event; and provide to the event bus generated error analysis events and generated error impact events. Error analysis events describe for administrators detailed information analyzing corresponding errors. Error impact events describe for business users impacts corresponding errors have for their business user applications.
US09547545B2	Apparatus and program for detecting abnormality of a system A message determination apparatus includes a storage unit that stores messages generated in a system, an extracting unit that extracts a message whose occurrence interval is in a certain range from the messages stored on the storage unit, and a determining unit that determines whether the occurrence interval of the message extracted at the extracting unit is out of a certain range in the messages generated in the system. Accordingly, a fault on the system can be detected when the occurrence interval is out of a certain range.
US09547540B1	Distributed operating system functions for nodes in a rack A computer-implemented method includes managing function calls between a plurality of nodes and a super node of a rack system having a distributed operating system (OS). The OS includes a plurality of functions divided into first class and a second class, and each of the plurality of nodes excludes functions in the second class. Managing the function calls includes detecting a call to a first function on a first node of the plurality of nodes. It is determined that the first function belongs to the second class of functions and is not available on the first node. The call to the first function is routed to the super node, responsive to determining that the first function belongs to the second class, where the super node includes code for the functions in the second class.
US09547539B1	Reserving space in a mail queue A mail handler is provided. The mail handler manages a source queue for incoming messages. The source queue has a first count of slots in memory and is associated with a source read pointer and a source write pointer. The mail handler manages the source write pointer and the source read pointer. The mail handler also manages a destination queue for outgoing messages. The destination queue has a second count of slots in memory and is associated with a destination read pointer and a destination write pointer. The mail handler advances the destination write pointer in response to at least one of (i) transferring one or more messages form the source queue to the destination queue and (ii) reserving one or more slots in the destination queue. The at least one processor advances the destination read pointer in response to reading at least one message from the destination queue.
US09547531B2	Live partition mobility with shared persistent reservations According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided. The method may include a computer registering a first instance of a logical partition on a source server with a logical unit and placing a first persistent reservation on the logical unit, wherein the first persistent reservation indicates that only the first instance of the logical partition can hold a reservation on the logical unit. The method may further include the computer registering a second instance of the logical partition on a destination server with the logical unit and downgrading the first persistent reservation, such that the first and second instances of the logical partition can hold persistent reservations on the logical unit. The method may further include the computer placing, by one or more computer processors, a second persistent reservation on the logical unit.
US09547526B2	Dispatching function calls across accelerator devices In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for dispatching a function call includes receiving, at a supervisor processing element (PE) and from an origin PE, an identifier of a target device, a stack frame of the origin PE, and an address of a function called from the origin PE. The supervisor PE allocates a target PE of the target device. The supervisor PE copies the stack frame of the origin PE to a new stack frame on a call stack of the target PE. The supervisor PE instructs the target PE to execute the function. The supervisor PE receives a notification that execution of the function is complete. The supervisor PE copies the stack frame of the target PE to the stack frame of the origin PE. The supervisor PE releases the target PE of the target device. The supervisor PE instructs the origin PE to resume execution of the program.
US09547524B2	Methods and systems for enhancing hardware transactions using hardware transactions in software slow-path Hybrid transaction memory systems and accompanying methods. A transaction to be executed is received, and an initial attempt is made to execute the transaction in a hardware path. Upon a failure to successfully execute the transaction in the hardware path, an attempt is made to execute the transaction in a hardware-software path. The hardware-software path includes a software path and at least one hardware transaction.
US09547523B2	Conditional instruction end operation A conditional instruction end facility is provided that allows completion of an instruction to be delayed. In executing the machine instruction, an operand is obtained, and a determination is made as to whether the operand has a predetermined relationship with respect to a value. Based on determining that the operand does not have the predetermined relationship with respect to the value, the obtaining and the determining are repeated. Based on determining that the operand has the predetermined relationship with respect to the value, execution of the instruction is completed. The obtaining the operand, the determining whether the operand has the predetermined relationship, the based on determining that the operand does not have the predetermined relationship with respect to the value, repeating the obtaining and the determining, and the based on determining that the operand has the predetermined relationship with respect to the value, completing execution of the instruction are performed as part of a single instruction having one operation code.
US09547522B2	Method and system for reconfigurable virtual single processor programming model A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a set of instructions that are executable by a processor. The set of instructions, when executed by one or more processors of a multi-processor computing system, causes the one or more processors to perform operations including initiating a first processor of the multi-processor computing system with an operating system image of an operating system, the operating system image including a predetermined object map, initiating a second processor of the multi-processor computing system with the operating system image, placing a plurality of system objects with corresponding processors according to the predetermined object map, receiving a triggering event causing a change to the predetermined object map and relocating one of the system objects to a different one of the processors based on the change to the predetermined object map.
US09547518B2	Capture point determination method and capture point determination system A physical machine calculates, for each virtual switch, an increment of a usage of a processor in accordance with the number of packets to be collected, by using a usage of the processor by a virtual switch and a number of packets passing through each port when mirroring is executed and when mirroring is not executed, respectively. For each of candidates for capture point, the physical machine calculates, for each physical machine, a usage of the processor by a hypervisor when mirroring is executed, by using an increment of a usage of the processor by the virtual switch and a usage of the processor by the hypervisor when mirroring is not executed. The physical machine determines a combination of ports used for collection of packets from among the candidates for capture point, in accordance with a deviation of the calculated usage of the processor by each hypervisor.
US09547517B2	Application-specific data in-flight services along a communication path selected based on a DIF services policy associated with a VM Embodiments provide data in-flight (DIF) services to software applications such as virtual machines (VMs) at an application level without requiring modification to established storage protocols. In exemplary embodiments, a software application is associated with a DIF services policy indicating one or more DIF services to apply to the software application. Data transmitted by the software application to a destination is tagged based on the DIF services policy associated with the software application and transmitted to the destination.
US09547509B2	System and method for information acquisition of wireless sensor network data as cloud based service A system and a method for information acquisition of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) data as a cloud based service are provided. An apparatus in the system including a WSN, a service cloud, and a device, includes a virtual sensor configured to receive data from a physical sensor in the WSN. The apparatus further includes a virtual sensor controller configured to receive a request for the data from the service cloud or the device, and spawn a virtual machine (VM) based on the request. The apparatus further includes the VM configured to transmit the data to the service cloud or the device.
US09547508B2	Universal database driver Methods, systems, and computer program products are included to provide a universal database driver, into which one or more driver implementations may be loaded. The universal database driver communicates with one or more databases using the appropriate driver implementation for each database. A driver manager is provided that requests driver implementations corresponding to the databases, and loads the driver implementations into the universal database driver.
US09547507B2	Program startup method, apparatus and terminal A program startup method, apparatus and terminal are provided. The method includes: determining at least one target program from programs according to history startup information of the plurality of programs in a prefetch database, where the history startup information comprises startup moments of the plurality of programs; loading prefetch data corresponding to the target program into internal memory and locking the prefetch data in startup of an automatic startup item of an operating system; unlocking the prefetch data corresponding to the target program in the case where a startup event of the target program is detected; accessing the prefetch data corresponding to the target program in the internal memory; and running code of the target program according to the prefetch data corresponding to the target program to start up the target program.
US09547506B2	Synthetic device for installation source media In one embodiment, a computer system provides a process for executing software that cannot be executed in a first configuration. The computer system determines source media for the software stored in a first data store, the source media being in the first configuration. The computer system retrieves metadata relating to executing the software from the source media. The computer system next transforms the retrieved metadata to generate a second configuration of the source media according to a transformation rule set, where the software can be executed in the second configuration, and stores the transformed metadata in a second data store. Next, the computer system presents the second configuration of the source media based on the transformed metadata. Thereafter, the computer system satisfies a request relating to executing the software using the transformed metadata in the second data store, wherein the request is satisfied based on the second configuration.
US09547505B2	Adaptive contextual graphical representation of development entities In some example implementations, there is provided a method. The method may include receiving, at an interface, a selection of one of a plurality of elements of a tool bar, the plurality of elements including an application structure element and a where-used element; obtaining, in response to the selected element, at least one view providing a graphical representation of context information for a component of a system; and providing to a user interface the at least one view as a stream to allow presentation at the user interface. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also provided.
US09547504B2	Image forming apparatus, method of connecting with external device thereof, and computer-readable recording medium An image forming apparatus that includes a first storage where a first program to communicate with an external interface is stored when the image forming apparatus is in a normal mode, a second storage where a second program which is smaller than the first program in size is stored in order to perform communication with a pre-defined external device through the external interface when the image forming apparatus is in a power saving mode, and a controller which performs communication with the external interface using the first program stored in the first storage or the second program stored in the second storage according to an operation mode of the image forming apparatus.
US09547503B2	Switching between network interface controllers during binding and redirection In one embodiment, a network boot program is received from a server via a first network interface controller associated with a first network identifier. The network boot program is executed. An operating system loader comprising an operating system driver is received from the server via the first network interface controller. The operating system driver identifies a second network interface controller associated with a second network identifier. The operating system driver associates the first network interface controller with the second network identifier and associates the second network interface controller with the first network identifier.
US09547502B2	Rebooting InfiniBand clusters Methods, systems, and physical computer-readable storage media are now provided that reduce latency and improve efficiency of a system after reboot of an Infiniband (IB) cluster. A method of rebooting an Infiniband cluster includes rebooted endpoints, which set a locally corresponding local identifier (LID). The rebooted endpoints then activate a corresponding local logical link.
US09547498B2	Method and chip card for transmitting information A card including a data transmission mechanism using annex transmission channels. A method is described for the transmission of data by a chip card at an end of its life using hidden communication channels different from standard communication channels of the card. The data are transmitted by modulating a binary signal that results from a modification of a hardware parameter of the card.
US09547484B1	Automated compiler operation verification Techniques relate to automated compiler operation verification. In response to performing an optimization to a compiler configured to execute on a processor of a computer system, a determination is made of whether a fingerprint is present in software that is currently executing on the processor of the computer system. The software is compiled by the compiler, and the fingerprint comprises a representation of a sequence of behavior that occurs on the processor while the software is executing. The fingerprint is configured to correspond to the optimization of the compiler. In response to determining that the fingerprint is not present in the software currently executing on the processor, a determination is made that optimization to the compiler has not occurred. In response to determining that the fingerprint is present in the software executing on the processor, a verification is made that the optimization of the compiler has occurred.
US09547478B1	Hierarchical dependency analysis enhancements using disjoint-or trees Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing hierarchical dependency analysis using disjoint-or trees. One of the methods includes receiving, from a user, a request to remove a node from a hierarchy, wherein the hierarchy is a directed graph having nodes and links, wherein each node in the hierarchy represents a software element in the project and each directed link in the hierarchy connects a corresponding pair of nodes and represents containment of a child software element represented by a first node of the pair by a parent software element represented by a second node of the pair. If a parent element of a disjoint-or tree corresponds to a parent node of the removed node, a union of dependencies for the removed node is determined. The union of dependencies is then subtracted from the parent element and from every ancestor element of the parent element.
US09547477B2	Autoeconometrics modeling method A method and system allowing the ability to automatically and systematically run thousands and even millions of combinations and permutations of regression, forecasting and econometric trials to determine the best-fitting predictive model.
US09547471B2	Generating computer responses to social conversational inputs Conversational interactions between humans and computer systems can be provided by a computer system that classifies an input by conversation type, and provides human authored responses for conversation types. The input classification can be performed using trained binary classifiers. Training can be performed by labeling inputs as either positive or negative examples of a conversation type. Conversational responses can be authored by the same individuals that label the inputs used in training the classifiers. In some cases, the process of training classifiers can result in a suggestion of a new conversation type, for which human authors can label inputs for a new classifier and write content for responses for that new conversation type.
US09547470B2	Speaker calibration user interface An example implementation may involve a control device displaying a prompt to initiate a calibration sequence that involves calibration of a playback device for a given environment in which the playback device is located. The example implementation may also involve the control device displaying (i) a prompt to prepare a playback device for calibration within a given environment, (ii) a prompt to prepare the given environment for calibration of the playback device, and/or (iii) a prompt to prepare the control device for calibration of the playback device. The example implementation may also involve a control device displaying a selectable control, that, when selected, initiates calibration of the playback device. The example implementation may further involve a control device initiating calibration of the playback device.
US09547464B2	Collaborative method of creating, printing, distributing information tags A fully collaborative software management method allows creating, printing, delivering and hanging-in-stores a sequential arrangement of information tags. Customer and printer computers are operably connected to communicate during a design and assembly stage of developing the tags. Customer decision-makers and printer decision-makers collaborate on template authoring, content and template management, printing-event construction, staging and proofing, including integration of various elements such as stored data, timing, customer-driven controls, and event-driven controls. The method allows printer decision-makers to operate a publishing engine that permits viewing the customized information tags as a display prior to viewing as a printed product. The system includes a file transfer protocol (FTP) server connected to an information processing and printing system comprising designer workstation computers, a staging server, a load balancer, production distiller workstation computers, a database server, an SQL server, multiple print servers, and digital presses.
US09547460B2	Method and system for improving cache performance of a redundant disk array controller An information handling system includes a method, information handling system, and redundant array of independent disks (RAID) controller. When a write request is received, data are written to a non-volatile memory write cache. When a read request is received, it is determined whether the data are available from a volatile memory read cache. When the data are available from the volatile memory read cache, the data are obtained from the volatile memory read cache and provided in response to the read request. When the data are not available from the volatile memory read cache, the data are obtained from a RAID virtual disk coupled to the RAID controller, the data are stored in the volatile memory read cache, and the data are provided in response to the read request.
US09547446B2	Fine-grained control of data placement Methods, apparatus and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include defining, in a storage system including multiple storage devices, multiple redundant array of independent disks (RAID) configurations for data stored on the storage devices. A first one of the multiple RAID configurations is assigned to a first entry in a partition table having multiple entries. Assigning the first one of the multiple RAID configurations to the first entry in the partition table comprises modifying an existing RAID configuration for the first entry. Data referenced by the existing RAID configuration is migrated to the modified RAID configuration.
US09547434B2	Image pickup device and image pickup method An image pickup device includes: a camera; a display that displays an image captured by the camera; and a touch panel that overlaps the display. While the display is displaying the image, when a predetermined single operation is detected on the touch panel, a brightness of the display is changed from a first brightness to a second brightness brighter than the first brightness. The display displays, over the image, an indication that the brightness has increased.
US09547431B2	Consuming data on a touchscreen device System and computer program product to consume data on a mobile device. Data records are outputted according to a columnar or row orientation in a first panel of an application. Four other panels, each initially hidden from view, are defined to receive data from the user via a predefined touchscreen gesture. If an orientation of the gesture matches the orientation of the data records, the set of data records is either archived or deleted to a respective panel, of the four other panels, according to a direction of the gesture and a predefined action associated with that direction. If the orientation of the gesture is transverse to the orientation of the data records, individual data records are archived or deleted to a respective panel, of the four other panels, according to a direction of the gesture and a predefined action associated with that direction.
US09547425B2	Context-specific user interfaces Context-specific user interfaces for use with a portable multifunction device are disclosed. The methods described herein for context-specific user interfaces provide indications of time and, optionally, a variety of additional information. Further disclosed are non-transitory computer-readable storage media, systems, and devices configured to perform the methods described herein.
US09547420B1	Spatial approaches to text suggestion A user wanting to enter text via a computing device can start entering characters for that text. A text suggestion algorithm can be used to attempt to predict the text the user is typing, and provide options for completing the text entry. Information such as the type of suggestion and common roots for those suggestions can be used to group at least some of the suggestions. An interface element with a spatial layout can be provided to display at least a portion of the suggestions, where the suggestions are arranged according to their relative confidence values and the determined groupings. The font values for each of the displayed suggestions can also be set using the confidence values, such that more likely terms can be displayed with a larger and/or more prominent font in order to allow the user to more easily locate the correct suggestion.
US09547414B2	Operating device for operating at least one electric device The invention relates to an operating device (1) for operating at least one electric device (2) that has one, two, or more functional parameter(s) (3), said operating device (1) comprising a touchscreen (4) and a mechanical operating element (5). The operating device (1) is designed to assign control over the functional parameter(s) (3) to the mechanical operating element (5) by means of a selection on the touchscreen (4).
US09547408B2	Quantifying frustration via a user interface Described herein are methods, apparatuses, systems, programs, etc., to modify a user interface implemented in a communication network associated with a plurality of mobile devices. In one embodiment, a mobile device may sense a user's mood data that indicates a quantified frustration parameter based at least in part on interaction of a user with a user interface. The user interface may be updated accordingly.
US09547404B2	Touch panel An analog resistive-film touch panel comprises: a plurality of transparent conductive film regions arranged along a given direction on a first member, wherein the transparent conductive film regions are formed on a surface facing a second member, and adjacent transparent conductive film regions are electrically insulated from each other; driving electrode pairs respectively provided in the transparent conductive film regions; a detection electrode pair formed on the second member whose surface facing the first member is coated with a transparent conductive film, wherein electrodes forming the detection electrode pair are arranged so as to face each other in a direction orthogonal to the direction in which electrodes forming each of the driving electrode pairs face each other; and discriminating means for discriminating, based on a voltage value detected via the detection electrode pair, which of the plurality of transparent conductive film regions has been caused to touch the transparent conductive film on the second member.
US09547400B2	Interference detection using frequency modulation This disclosure generally provides embodiments to reduce the likelihood that an input device fails to detect an interfering signal when performing interference detection using interference bursts that are phase offset from sensor bursts used to perform capacitive sensing. In one embodiment, the input device adjusts the frequency of the interference bursts instead of using interference bursts with the same frequency. Doing so adjusts the phases of the interference bursts relative to each other such that even if one of the interference bursts is aligned with the interfering signal in a manner that the signal is not detected, an interference burst with a different frequency has a different alignment relative to the interfering signal. The measurements acquired by the differently aligned interference burst can be used to detect the presence of the interfering signal.
US09547390B2	Touch screen display device with in-set signal controller A touch screen display device is discussed. The device uses common electrodes, which are formed for display images, as touch electrodes. In a display interval, the common electrodes receive a common voltage and allow images to be displayed. In a touch sensing interval corresponding to a non-display interval of a single frame of plural frames, the common electrodes are driven as the touch electrodes and allow a touch position to be sensed. When the touch sensing interval is terminated, the data voltages which had been applied to the data lines before the touch sensing interval are re-applied to the data lines. As such, when a succeeding display interval starts after the touch sensing interval, the reduction of charging voltage in a pixel can be prevented or reduced. Therefore, a picture fault or an image fault can be prevented.
US09547377B2	Trackball module, ultrasonic image processing apparatus using trackball module and method of controlling ultrasonic image processing apparatus using trackball module An ultrasonic image processing apparatus includes a trackball module configured to receive a control command from a user, and a controller configured to generate a control command for the trackball module and transfers the generated control signal to the trackball module. The trackball module includes a trackball configured to receive a control command from a user, and a lighting device. The lighting device includes a light source, an optical passage bent at least once to provide an optical path through which light emitted from the light source passes while being reflected at least once, and a light exit opening defined at one end of the optical passage from which light passing through the optical passage is emitted to an outside of the lighting device. The light exit opening is defined around the trackball.
US09547374B2	User interface interaction for transparent head-mounted displays Embodiments of the present invention are directed toward enabling a user to quickly interact with a graphical user interface (GUI) displayed by the HMD. Utilizing techniques provided herein, a hand or other object can be used to select visual elements displayed by the HMD. The visual elements can be located within larger active regions, allowing the user to more easily select a visual element by selecting the active region in which the visual element is disposed.
US09547369B1	Dynamic sorting and inference using gesture based machine learning The technology disclosed relates to identification of future activity options. In particular, it relates to identifying future activity options that are similar to a selected future activity, similar to past activities, that meet descriptive language criteria, that form compatible sequences of activities, or that form compatible multi-day sequences of activities. The technology disclosed also relates to rapid and convenient sorting through activity options.
US09547364B2	Method and apparatuses for determining a user attention level using facial orientation detection Various methods are provided for facilitating the determination of a user attention level using facial orientation detection. One example method may include receiving an image of a user after an expiration of an inactivity timer on the user terminal. The current attention level of the user is determined based on the received image. The computing device lock condition is then set based on the determined current attention level of the user. Similar and related example apparatuses and example computer program products are also provided.
US09547362B2	Image forming apparatus and power control method thereof for determining whether power switch is turned on during power-off status An image forming apparatus and a power control method thereof are provided. The image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit which forms an image; a power supply which supplies operating power for the image forming apparatus; a switching circuit unit which switches to selectively supply the operating power; a memory unit which stores information about power status of the switching circuit unit; and a controller which outputs a power control signal for controlling a switching operation of the switching circuit unit in accordance with the information about the power status stored in the memory unit if power is abnormally shut off and then supplied again from the power supply to the switching circuit unit. With this, the image forming apparatus operates in a last power status, so that power can be prevented from being wastefully consumed or data can be prevented from being lost.
US09547355B2	Voltage regulator control for improved computing power efficiency A controller for voltage regulators providing power to computer processors may control the number of active phases of each voltage regulator according to a determined electrical current demand from the processor. By relying on electrical current demand rather than a P-state, the latter generally indicating a power conservation status, improved regulator efficiencies may be had, in particular responding to situations where low current demand occurs under heavy processor demand because of C-state variations.
US09547344B2	Support frame with integrated thermal management features This invention describes a novel solution to providing heat redistribution and cooling to electronic devices. According to various embodiments, heat produced during the operation of the processing components in the computing device is absorbed by heat management features integrated within a supporting mid-frame. Liquid (e.g., coolants) contained in the portion of the heat management features most proximate to the processing components evaporates due to the absorbed heat, and is conducted (via convection) towards the other end of the heat management features, where the temperature is cooler. Once sufficiently cooled, the evaporated coolant condenses back into liquid form and flows back towards the other end of the heat management features.
US09547342B2	Segmental rotation type dual-shaft hinge A segmental rotation type dual-shaft hinge includes an axle housing defining a first pivot shaft chamber and a second pivot shaft chamber, a first pivot shaft including a first shaft body pivotally coupled to the first pivot shaft chamber, a second pivot shaft including a second shaft body pivotally coupled to the second pivot shaft chamber, and an angle control plate having a first position-limit hole and a second position-limit hole respectively pivotally coupled to the first shaft body and the second shaft body and so configured that the distance from the center of the first position-limit hole to the center of the second position-limit hole is smaller than the distance from the axis of the first shaft body to the axis of the second shaft body, allowing rotation of the first pivot shaft and the second pivot shaft separately and stably.
US09547341B2	Information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus includes a first case and a second case. A connection assembly connects the first case to the second case such that the cases are rotatable about a shaft member disposed in the connection assembly. The connection assembly includes a first link member attached at one end to the first case and at another end to a second link member included in the second case, and a spring assembly attached at one end to the second link member and at another end to the second case. A torque is generated by the connection assembly relative to the shaft member in a direction corresponding to one or more of a closed state and an open state. The torque is generated in the direction corresponding to the closed state when respective front surfaces of the cases are separated by less than a predetermined polar angle.
US09547338B2	Electronic device with injection molded display trim An electronic device may be provided with a display. The electronic device may include a housing. A display trim may be formed from injection molded plastic that is molded directly onto the housing. The molded plastic trim may form a rectangular ring around the periphery of the housing. The housing may have angled or curved interior surfaces that are covered by the molded plastic trim. Computer-controlled positioners may be used to center the housing within an injection molding tool. Independently controlled positioners may also be used in capturing the housing between the lower die and the upper die in the injection molding tool. The injection molding tool may inject thermoplastic elastomer material into a channel in the upper die to form the plastic display trim.
US09547337B2	Portable device and peripheral extension dock An electronic device including a housing, a connector port and a switching device is provided. The connector port is embedded in the housing for a peripheral device inserted therein to electrically connect thereto. The processor is electrically connected to the connector port and comprises a detection pin and a 1-wire pin. The switching device is coupled between the connector port and the processor to selectively connect the connector port to one of the detection pin or the 1-wire pin. When the peripheral device is inserted into the connector port, the processor controls the switching device to connect the connector port to the detection pin to determine whether the connected peripheral device is a 1-wire device. When the processor determines that the connected peripheral device is a 1-wire device, the processor controls the switching device to connect the connector port to the 1-wire pin and the processor executes 1-wire communication with the peripheral device via the 1-wire pin.
US09547328B2	Methods and apparatuses for reducing common mode failures of nuclear safety-related software control systems A computing system includes at least a first division and a second division. The first division has a first clock rate and the second division has a second clock rate. The computing system includes a first processor configured to execute a task on the first division and a second processor configured to execute the task of the second division. The task executed on the first division operates according to the first clock rate, and the task executed on the second division operates according to the second clock rate. A method of executing a task in order to reduce common mode failures in a computing system includes varying a program speed of each of the plurality of divisions such that the task, when executed on a corresponding one of the plurality of divisions, operates at a clock rate according to the corresponding one of the plurality of divisions.
US09547325B2	Low power bandgap circuit device with zero temperature coefficient current generation A low power bandgap circuit device that generates temperature independent reference voltages and/or zero temperature coefficient currents is disclosed. The circuit comprises a first pair of transistors, an amplifier, a star connected resistive network, and a second pair of transistors, wherein zero temperature coefficient currents are generated through mirroring and reuse of current from the star connected resistive network.
US09547323B2	Current sink stage for LDO An LDO circuit with a current sink stage reduces significantly overshooting of the output voltage due to sudden changes of output current. The activation of the current sink stage is independent of the overshoot percentage of the regulated output voltage. The disclosure doesn't require large output capacitors to avoid the possibility of brownouts of chips supplied by the LDO.
US09547322B1	Configuration modes for optimum efficiency across load current A voltage regulator circuit and a method to control the voltage regulator circuit. The voltage regulator circuit comprising an AC switching regulator, a DC switching regulator, a linear voltage regulator and switches to configure the voltage regulator circuit for improved efficiency across a wide load range.
US09547315B2	Solenoid valve control device and solenoid valve control method An internal pressure sensor detects an internal pressure of the fuel tank, which stores fuel. A solenoid valve is configured to close to seal the fuel tank and is configured to open to open the fuel tank. An internal pressure acquisition unit is configured to acquire an internal pressure of the fuel tank from the internal pressure sensor. A drive control unit is configured to control the solenoid valve to open when the internal pressure of the fuel tank is greater than or equal to a first predetermined value, which is a negative value, and is less than a second predetermined value, which is 0 or a positive value.
US09547311B2	Planning and monitoring of autonomous-mission The presently disclosed subject matter includes a method and system of planning autonomous mission, the mission being executed by one or more autonomous agents. A generic mission template is obtained, the generic mission template being constructed from a plurality of mission-objects and defines logical connections between the plurality of mission-objects, wherein each mission-object is configured to logically represent a respective type of mission-element; one or more mission-object in the generic mission template are associated with a respective real world mission-element, thereby generating a specific mission plan; with the help of a processor an agent-specific mission plan is generated for the one or more agents, based on the generic mission template and the specific mission plan, wherein an agent specific mission plan comprises tasks assigned to a respective designated agent and is compatible with the technical requirement of the respective designated agent.
US09547310B2	Mobile object control system, mobile object control method and non-transitory recording medium A mobile object control system includes a mobile object body, a distance measurement unit provided in the mobile object body to measure a distance between the mobile object body and an object present in front of the mobile object body with infrared rays, a movement control unit controlling the movement of the mobile object body based on a measurement result obtained by the distance measurement unit and moving path information, a moving direction limit information storage unit storing moving direction limit information as information on limiting a moving direction of the mobile object body, and a moving path information generation unit generating the moving path information based on the moving direction limit information. The moving direction limit information is information on limiting the moving direction in which a predetermined amount or more of infrared rays emitted from an external light source are radiated onto the mobile object body.
US09547303B2	Managing the manufacturing lifecycle of fasteners of a product A system is provided that is configured to receive a manufacturing process plan for a product including a plurality of component parts joined by fasteners, with the manufacturing process plan including process definitions that describe process operations in which component parts are worked to manufacture of the product. The system is configured to generate graphical views for respective process operations of the manufacturing process plan in which fastener locations are worked for installation of respective fasteners to join component parts of the product, and output the graphical views. The graphical view of a process operation may graphically depict one or more component parts and only those of the fastener locations on the one or more component parts worked during the process operation, with any others of the fastener locations on the same or other component parts being hidden from the graphical view.
US09547297B2	Field device and field device software update system therewith There is provided a field device for downloading a new software through a field bus from a host system and replacing a current software which is currently executed with the new software. The field device includes: a history information generation and management section which generates and stores history information of the current software when the new software is downloaded from the host system.
US09547296B2	Method for operating an industrial controller and industrial controller Regarding a method for operating an industrial controller, a control program executable in a processor that is arranged in the industrial controller is subdivided into a main block and several program blocks. The program blocks are processed under event control that takes a processing priority into consideration. The processor includes a multi-core processor having a plurality of independent sub-processors. The method includes assigning the main block to a first sub-processor, and executing a part program associated with the main block in the first sub-processor. The method also includes assigning each of the several program blocks to the additional sub-processors, and executing the part programs associated with the program blocks in the respective sub-processors. The method further includes operating a control device to evaluate as input variables the processing priority and an event assigned to the respective program block, and switching the sub-processors into active or inactive state using the evaluation.
US09547286B2	Power transmission apparatus The power transmission apparatus may include a battery, a motor generator that is switchable between a driving state and a power generation state, at least a load, an inverter to switch the motor generator to any of the driving state and the power generation state, a charging state detecting means to detect a charged amount C of the battery, an absorbing horsepower detecting means to detect the absorbing horsepower Lp of the load, and a control device to switch the motor generator to any of the power generation state and the driving state by means of the inverter, based on the absorbing horsepower Lp detected by the absorbing horsepower detecting means and the charged amount C of the battery that is detected by the charging state detecting means.
US09547277B2	Timepiece pallet fork for mechanical oscillator and timepiece time-delay release mechanism A timepiece pallet fork for a mechanical oscillator including an arbor allowing the timepiece pallet fork to oscillate about a pivot axis, first and second pallets configured to alternatively engage with an escapement wheel when the timepiece pallet fork oscillates, the first pallet being displaceable with respect to the arbor by absorption of energy, the first pallet being displaceable from a first upstream waiting position to a first downstream stopping end position which is offset compared to the first upstream waiting position, and a first arm having an intermediate section including an elastic bend, one end of the arm being fixed with respect to the arbor to form a first fixed end, the intermediate section of the first arm being located between the first fixed end and the first pallet and returning the first pallet towards the first upstream waiting position by the intermediate section being elastically deformable from a first configuration into a second configuration.
US09547267B2	Image forming apparatus, operation device, and human detecting device An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section that forms an image on a recording material; an operating section that is operated by a person; a first detecting portion that detects a person in a predetermined first area; a second detecting portion that detects the person in a second area that is smaller than the first area, the second area being separated from the first area or a portion of the second area overlapping the first area when viewed from above; and a switching unit that switches between a first condition in which the image forming apparatus consumes a first amount of electric power and a second condition in which the image forming apparatus consumes a second amount of electric power.
US09547255B2	Process cartridge detachably attached to a main body of an electrophotographic apparatus There is provided a developing unit capable of suppressing a memory to leave on a developing roller even when held under high-temperature and high-humidity conditions for a long period of time before the start of use.The developing unit has a developing roller and a toner regulating member in contact with each other with resin particles therebetween. The resin particles have a toluene absorbency of 20 g or more and 50 g or less per 40 g of the resin particles and a Martens hardness of 1.0 N/mm2 or more and 50.0 N/mm2 or less.
US09547254B2	Semiconductive roller A semiconductive roller (1) is provided, which is formed from a rubber composition containing a rubber component including: (1) an epichlorohydrin rubber; (2) at least one solid rubber selected from the group consisting of a solid BR and a solid SBR; and (3) at least one liquid rubber selected from the group consisting of a liquid BR and a liquid SBR.
US09547252B2	Organic light emitting device Provided is an organic light emitting device, including: a lower electrode; an upper electrode and a substrate having an electrode pad portion, in which when an angle formed by a slant in section of a film end in a region between the lower electrode and the electrode pad portion and a surface of the substrate is given as θ1, Formula (1) and Formula (2) are satisfied; and when an angle formed by a slant in section of a film end in at least a part of other regions than the region between the lower electrode and the electrode pad portion and the surface of the substrate is given as θ3, Formula (3) and Formula (4) are satisfied. tan(θ1)=d1/d2 (1) tan(θ1)<0.2 (2) tan(θ3)=d3/d4 (3) tan(θ3)≧0.2 (4)
US09547248B2	Inks for liquid electrophotography A method of manufacturing a liquid electrophotographic ink includes: mixing a pigment with a resin powder; and microfluidizing the mixture together with a carrier fluid in a microfluidizer in a number of passes to form a concentrated ink containing composite particles.
US09547241B2	Alignment sensor, lithographic apparatus and alignment method An alignment sensor including an illumination source, such as a white light source, having an illumination grating operable to diffract higher order radiation at an angle dependent on wavelength; and illumination optics to deliver the diffracted radiation onto an alignment grating from at least two opposite directions. For every component wavelength incident on the alignment grating, and for each direction, the zeroth diffraction order of radiation incident from one of the two opposite directions overlaps a higher diffraction order of radiation incident from the other direction. This optically amplifies the higher diffraction orders with the overlapping zeroth orders.
US09547236B2	Patterning apparatus and patterning methods thereof A patterning apparatus is provided. The patterning apparatus includes a plurality of liquid jet units arranged in one or more groups and configured to jet an anti-etching liquid onto a surface of a substrate. The patterning apparatus also includes a plurality of exposure units configured to expose light on the anti-etching liquid jetted on the surface of the substrate to heat and cure the jetted anti-etching liquid to form anti-etching patterns on the surface of the substrate. Further, the patterning apparatus includes a control unit configured to control motion status and jetting status of the plurality of liquid jet units and motion status and exposure status of the plurality of exposure units, so as to form the anti-etching patterns at a predetermined line width and thickness.
US09547227B1	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes multiple display modules. Each of the display modules includes a display surface, a projecting device, and first, second, and third reflectors. The display surface has long and short edges perpendicular to each other. The projecting device projects a first image having a first optical axis parallel to the short edge. The first reflector reflects the first image to form a first reflected image having a first reflection optical axis perpendicular to the short edge. The second reflector reflects the first reflected image to form a second reflected image having a second reflection optical axis perpendicular to the short edge. The third reflector is parallel to the second reflector and reflects the second reflected image to form a third reflected image having a third reflection optical axis perpendicular to the long and short edges. The third reflected image is projected on the display surface.
US09547216B2	Lens moving unit and camera module having the same One embodiment of a lens moving unit includes a bobbin mounted with at least one sheet of lens and arranged at a periphery with a coil unit, a cover member mounted with a magnet at a position corresponding to that of the coil unit, upper and bottom elastic members respectively coupled at one distal end to upper and bottom surfaces of the bobbin to support movement of the bobbin to an optical axis direction, and a detection unit to detect a movement parallel to an optical axis of the bobbin, wherein the detection unit includes a sensing magnet mounted at a periphery of the bobbin, and a position detection sensor arranged at a lateral wall of the cover member and formed at an inner lateral surface opposite to the sensing magnet, wherein the bobbin includes a correction magnet mounted at a side opposite to that of the sensing magnet.
US09547214B2	Device for transmitting and/or modulating optical signals with passive phase shifters A device for transmitting and/or modulating in-phase and quadrature optical signals generated by an optical source. This device includes modulators each arranged for modulating intensity of optical signals depending on commands, and at least three main multi-mode interferometers set in series and arranged for transforming in combination a received optical signal with an initial phase state into a final optical signal with a final phase state differing from this initial phase state by an accumulated phase shift chosen from a group including 0, π/2, π and 3π/2 and depending from the intensity modulations carried out by the modulators.
US09547206B2	Multiple glazing with variable diffusion by liquid crystals A liquid-crystal multiple glazing can have a first glass sheet and a second glass sheet held by a gasket referred to as the contact gasket. In some examples, the multiple glazing includes first and second electrodes with first and second electricity supply zones and a liquid-crystal layer with spacers having a thickness of between 5 and 15 μm. Additionally, the first glass sheet may protrude by a first protruding side and include the first electricity supply zone. Further, the glazing may have electrical cabling with a first cabling input with a first electrically insulating polymer material.
US09547205B2	Display device According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first line extending in a first direction, an insulating layer covering the first line, a second line disposed on the insulating layer and extending in a second direction, and a drive circuit including an output line extending in the first direction and connected to the first line through a contact portion. The contact portion includes a first portion to which the first line is connected at a first position, and a second portion to which the output line is connected at a second position which is apart from the first position in the second direction, the second portion facing the first portion with the insulating layer interposed therebetween while being electrically connected to the first portion.
US09547204B2	Pixel matrix and display using the same A pixel matrix includes pixel units. The pixel units are arranged in a repeating pattern, in which each of the pixel units includes transparent pixels, reflective pixels, and switch components. Each of the transparent pixels includes a transparent electrode and a transparent color resist layer disposed on the transparent electrode. Each of the reflective pixels includes a reflective electrode. The switch components are connected to the transparent electrodes of the transparent pixels and the reflective electrodes of the reflective pixels respectively for driving the transparent pixels and the reflective pixels individually.
US09547194B2	Liquid crystal display apparatus A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a display panel and a backlight module. The display panel includes a color filter layer having a blue filter portion. The backlight module emits light to the display panel. A peak wavelength of a blue light portion of the spectrum of the light is greater than or equal to 440 nm and smaller than or equal to 450 nm. The blue filter portion has a transmission spectrum having a first wavelength λ1 and a second wavelength λ2, and the first wavelength λ1 and the second wavelength λ2 conform to the following equation: 514 ≤ λ 1 2 + λ 2 2 + 0.71862 ⁢ ⁢ λ 2 - 0.71862 ⁢ ⁢ λ 1 ≤ 541 The first wavelength λ1 and the second wavelength λ2 are corresponding to a half level of a peak value of the transmission spectrum, and the unit thereof is nm.
US09547187B2	Electro-optical device comprising a ridge waveguide and a PN junction and method of manufacturing said device An electro-optic device, comprising an insulating layer and a layer light-carrying material adjacent the insulating layer. The layer of light-carrying material, such as silicon, comprises a first doped region of a first type and a second doped region of a second, different type abutting the first doped region to form a pn junction. The first doped region has a first thickness at the junction, and the second doped region has a second thickness at the junction, the first thickness being greater than the second thickness, defining a waveguide rib in the first doped region for propagating optical signals. Since the position of the junction coincides with the sidewall of the waveguide rib a self-aligned process can be used in order to simplify the fabrication process and increase yield.
US09547185B2	Spatial light modulator based on metamaterial structure and preparation method thereof A spatial light modulator based on a metamaterial structure and a preparation method thereof. The spatial light modulator includes an array of optical function elements and a control circuit. The optical function element includes a metamaterial structure formed by a metal nanostructure layer and a metal reflector layer, with a medium layer and nonmetal conducting material layer being provided between the metal nanostructure layer and the metal reflector layer. The spatial light modulator is simple in structure, high in integration, easy in manufacture and low in cost. Furthermore, the spatial light modulator is capable of high-speed modulation, the depth of modulation is controlled easily, and a low drive voltage may be obtained.
US09547182B2	Of myopia control ophthalmic lenses Lenses are designed using wavefront measurements amenable to correction factors for near and far vision as well as pupil size to slow or stop myopia progression.
US09547180B2	Liquid crystal lens device and display device having the same A liquid crystal lens device includes a first substrate including a display area, a first non-display area, and a second non-display area with the display area interposed between the first and second non-display areas. First bus lines are disposed over the first non-display area. Second bus lines are disposed over the second non-display area and are insulated from the first bus lines. First electrode groups are disposed over the display area and the first non-display area and are connected to the first bus lines. Second electrode groups are disposed over the display area and the second non-display area and are connected to the second bus lines.
US09547179B2	Method and system for shaped glasses and viewing 3D images Shaped glasses have curved surface lenses and spectrally complementary filters disposed on the curved surface lenses configured to compensate for wavelength shifts occurring due to viewing angles and other sources. The spectrally complementary filters include guard bands to prevent crosstalk between spectrally complementary portions of a 3D image viewed through the shaped glasses. In one embodiment, the spectrally complementary filters are disposed on the curved lenses with increasing layer thickness towards edges of the lenses. The projected complementary images may also be pre-shifted to compensate for subsequent wavelength shifts occurring while viewing the images.
US09547175B2	Adaptive piezoelectric array for bone conduction receiver in wearable computers Example embodiments may relate to methods and systems for adapting an array of piezoelectric transducers, placed on a head-mounted device (HMD), to different head sizes. For example, an HMD (e.g., a wearable computer) may include an array of transducers that are configured to operate as bone conduction transducers (BCTs), and alternatively as pressure sensors. In particular, methods and systems may be implemented to determine a respective power level for each vibration transducer in the array based at least in part on a determined mechanical load on each transducer in the array. Once the respective power level for each vibration transducer is determined, the system may cause each vibration transducer in the array to operate at the determined respective power level.
US09547174B2	Apparatus for optical see-through head mounted display with mutual occlusion and opaqueness control capability The present invention comprises a compact optical see-through head-mounted display capable of combining, a see-through image path with a virtual image path such that the opaqueness of the see-through image path can be modulated and the virtual image occludes parts of the see-through image and vice versa.
US09547169B2	Electro-optical device, method of manufacturing electro-optical device, electro-optical unit, and electronic apparatus In an electro-optical device, light is incident on a mirror by penetrating a cover, and the light reflected by the mirror is emitted by penetrating the cover. Here, the cover includes a first light-transmitting plate and a second light-transmitting plate facing the first light-transmitting plate, and a gap which is open toward both sides in a first direction is provided between the first light-transmitting plate and the second light-transmitting plate due to a spacer.
US09547164B2	Digital microscope system A digital microscope system, having one or several objectives, a tube lens system, a digital image recording device, a stand, a holder for a specimen and an illuminating apparatus, and optionally at least one magnification changer. One or several objectives, the tube lens system, the digital image recording device and the illuminating apparatus are integrated into a compact optical assembly, and the optical assembly is joinable to the stand in several versions that differ with regard to the spatial position and orientation of the optical assembly relative to the stand and to the specimen. The spatial position and orientation of the optical assembly relative to the stand and to the specimen may correspond, in a first version of the joining, to an upright microscope configuration and, in a second version of the joining, to an inverted microscope configuration.
US09547162B2	Interactive projection system An interactive projection system for outputting illuminated indicia upon a projection surface. A detection system is operable to detect both stationary and movable features. A control system is operable to determine the position of the stationary and movable features. A reflective device reflects light from a light source (natural and/or artificial) upon the projection surface as the illuminated indicia. A drive system moves the reflective device, thereby moving the illuminated indicia across the projection surface in response to control system thereby simulating the stationary feature on the projection surface as a physical boundary to the illuminated indicia and simulating the movable feature contacting the illuminated indicia.
US09547158B2	Imaging lens and imaging apparatus equipped with the imaging lens An imaging lens consists of five lenses, including: a first lens having a positive refractive power with a convex surface toward the object side, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power and a meniscus shape with a convex surface toward the object side, a fourth lens having a negative refractive power and a meniscus shape with a convex surface toward the image side, and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power with a concave surface toward the image side, the image-side surface thereof having at least one inflection point, and the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, and the fifth lens being disposed in this order from the object side; wherein, the imaging lens satisfies a predetermined conditional formula.
US09547154B2	Optical image capturing system An optical image capturing system, sequentially including a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element from an object side to an image side, is provided. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second through third lens elements have refractive power. The fourth lens element has negative refractive power. At least one of the image side surface and the object side surface of each of the four lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens elements can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
US09547153B2	Camera module comprising lens, image pickup element, and translucent member In a camera module (51), a lid glass (15) protrudes from a sensor cover (14) toward an image pickup lens (1), and a base section (9) includes an overhanging part (9b) overhanging in such a manner as to cover part of the lid glass (15).
US09547137B2	Optical coupler integrated on a substrate and comprising three elements An optical coupler integrated on a substrate, that will optically couple a laser and a waveguide and including an external element, including two arms separated by a notch, this notch being delimited laterally by two first walls at a spacing that reduces towards the bottom of the notch; a central element, located in the notch delimited laterally by two second walls and with a first region in which the two second walls are in direct contact with two first walls as far as the bottom of the notch; and an intermediate element, extending between the external element and the central element. The optical index of the central element is greater than the optical index of the intermediate element, itself greater than the optical index of the arms of the external element. Such an optical coupler provides efficient coupling between a laser emitting in the mid-infrared and a waveguide integrated on a substrate.
US09547136B2	Optical fiber holding device and optical fiber coupling connector An optical fiber holding device for holding optical fibers includes an assembling member and a base. The assembling member includes a top surface, a bottom surface opposite to the top surface, a front surface, and a rear surface opposite to the front surface. The front surface and the rear surface are interconnected between the top surface and the bottom surface. The front surface defines a number of receiving holes for receiving front portions of the optical fibers. The base includes an assembly portion and a support portion connecting the assembly portion. The assembly member is detachably mounted on the assembly portion. The support portion supports main portions of the optical fibers.
US09547135B2	Connector and electronic device using the connector A transmission connector includes a transmission optical module having a signal electrode inputting/outputting an electric signal and a transmission receptacle having a contact to be electrically connected to the signal electrode when fitted to the transmission optical module. The transmission modules includes a second cutout for preventing erroneous fitting to a reception receptacle. The transmission receptacle includes a first projection for preventing erroneous fitting to a reception optical module.
US09547133B2	LED illuminator for side-emitting optical fibers An optical device comprising a sealed waterproof housing comprising at least one LED disposed within the housing; a transparent window to allow light from the LED to be emitted from the housing; a non-imaging light element for coupling light from the LED into a plurality of side emitting optical fibers connected to the housing; and a fixing portion for securing the plurality of side-emitting optical fibers into a coupling position adjacent to the window to allow light to pass between the housing and the plurality of optical fibers, via the transparent window. The fixing portion is adapted to allow connection and/or disconnection of the plurality of optical fibers without opening or breaking a seal of the sealed waterproof housing.
US09547128B2	Optical waveguide directional coupler and method for making same An optical waveguide directional coupler includes a base having a planar member and a ridge member and an optical waveguide in the base. The ridge member extends from the planar member and has an upper surface where the optical waveguide exposed. The optical waveguide includes a first flat side surface, a second flat side surface parallel to the first flat side surface, a third flat side surface, a fourth flat side surface parallel to the third flat side surface, and a first flat connection side surface. An included angle θ1 between the first and third flat side surfaces is an obtuse angle, an included acute angle α1 is formed between the first flat connection side surface and the second flat side surface, and θ1 and α1 satisfy α1<(180°−θ1).
US09547125B2	Buried waveguide photodetector A method of forming an integrated photonic semiconductor structure having a photodetector and a CMOS device may include forming the CMOS device on a first silicon-on-insulator region, forming a silicon optical waveguide on a second silicon-on-insulator region, and forming a shallow trench isolation (STI) region surrounding the silicon optical waveguide such that the shallow trench isolation electrically isolating the first and second silicon-on-insulator region. Within a first region of the STI region, a first germanium material is deposited adjacent a first side wall of the semiconductor optical waveguide. Within a second region of the STI region, a second germanium material is deposited adjacent a second side wall of the semiconductor optical waveguide, whereby the second side wall opposes the first side wall. The first and second germanium material form an active region that evanescently receives propagating optical signals from the first and second side wall of the semiconductor optical waveguide.
US09547118B2	Light guide panel with an improved light guide structure A light guide panel includes a panel body having incident edges extending around the periphery thereof and a strong light region defined in a front surface thereof, and a light guide structure including a plurality of transversely extended first light-guiding grooves located in the front surface of the panel body and longitudinally spaced from one another at a predetermined interval, each first light-guiding groove having a first peak value area facing toward said strong light region and two first valley value areas located at two opposite ends of the first peak value area, each first peak value area curved in direction from the incident edges of the panel body toward the strong light region, the gap between the first peak value areas of each two adjacent first light-guiding grooves being gradually reduced in direction from the incident edges toward the strong light region.
US09547117B2	Light guide plate A light guide plate includes a light entry surface with first elongated elements, and a light exit surface with second elongated elements. Each of the first and second elongated elements serves to guide light, and has a cross-section in a shape of a circular segment.
US09547110B2	Color filter substrate and method of manufacturing the same, display apparatus The present invention discloses a color filter substrate comprising a substrate; and a color filter layer disposed on the substrate. The color filter layer comprises at least two color regions, and at least two alignment marks, corresponding to the at least two color regions respectively, disposed on a perimeter zone of the substrate. Each of the alignment marks is configured to have a block structure, and at least one of the alignment marks is provided with a recess in a top thereof.
US09547108B2	Optical diffusion blend materials for LED lighting The invention relates to blend materials useful in LED lighting applications. The diffusing particle blend is a synergistic mixture of selected organic particles and selected inorganic particles of specific composition, loading, and a refractive index difference with the matrix polymer, that provide excellent light diffusion, high hiding properties and good light transmission. Articles made of this blend are useful in commercial and residential lighting, motor vehicle illumination (lights, panels), street lighting, displays and signs.
US09547107B2	Dye and pigment-free structural colors and angle-insensitive spectrum filters Optical spectrum filtering devices displaying minimal angle dependence or angle insensitivity are provided. The filter comprises a localized plasmonic nanoresonator assembly having a metal material layer defining at least one nanogroove and a dielectric material disposed adjacent to the metal material layer. The dielectric material is disposed within the nanogroove(s). The localized plasmonic nanoresonator assembly is configured to funnel and absorb a portion of an electromagnetic spectrum in the at least one nanogroove via localized plasmonic resonance to generate a filtered output having a predetermined range of wavelengths that displays angle insensitivity. Thus, flexible, high efficiency angle independent color filters having very small diffraction limits are provided that are particularly suitable for use as pixels for various display devices or for use in anti-counterfeiting and cryptography applications. The structures can also be used for colored print applications and the elements can be rendered as pigment-like particles.
US09547102B2	Resistivity logging systems and methods employing ratio signal set for inversion Electromagnetic resistivity logging systems and methods yielding formation anisotropy and dip from a signal set that closely approximates the response of a idealized tool. One illustrative method embodiment derives from an azimuthally-sensitive tool's measurements a full set of orthogonal direct couplings (Vxx, Vyy, Vzz) and a cross-coupling sum (Vxz+Vzx) or (Vyz+Vzy). These values are converted into a signal set as a function of borehole position, the set including: a first signal representing a ratio between Vzz coupling components at different spacing distances, a second signal representing a ratio between Vxx and Vzz coupling components, a third signal representing a ratio between Vyy and Vzz coupling components, a fourth signal representing a ratio between Vxx and Vyy coupling components, and a fifth signal representing a ratio between a cross-coupling sum and a sum of the direct couplings. From this signal set, formation parameters can be accurately determined by inversion.
US09547098B2	Compressional velocity correction apparatus, methods, and systems In some embodiments, an apparatus and a system, as well as a method and an article, may operate to measure compressional wave velocities in a geological formation surrounding a first well, to provide measured compressional wave velocity data, and to subsequently determine corrected compressional wave velocities for the first well. These corrected compressional wave velocities for the first well may be determined using a combination of the measured compressional wave velocity data and corrected compressional wave velocity data associated with one or more second wells. Predicted pore pressure data for the first well may be subsequently generated, using the corrected compressional wave velocities for the first well. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are described.
US09547088B2	Crane boom pointing angle determination Methods and systems are disclosed for determining a working arm point angle of the crane. A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver antenna is disposed on a point along a boom assembly of the crane configured to pivot about a pivot point. A location of the pivot point is received. A working arm of the crane is rotated about the pivot point to point in a current direction. A current location of the GNSS receiver antenna is determined. A current working arm pointing angle relative to a reference direction for the current direction of the working arm is determined based on the current location of the GNSS receiver antenna and the location of the pivot point.
US09547086B2	Selected aspects of advanced receiver autonomous integrity monitoring application to kalman filter based navigation filter A method of advanced receiver autonomous integrity monitoring of a navigation system is discussed and two modifications facilitating its implementation in a hybrid navigation system are disclosed. In the first approach, relations describing the effect of unmodeled biases in pseudo-measurement on the Kalman filter state estimate are analytically derived and their incorporation into the integrity monitoring algorithm is described. The method comprises receiving a plurality of signals transmitted from space-based satellites, determining a position full-solution and sub-solutions, specifying a pseudorange bias, computing a transformation matrix for the full-solution and all sub-solutions using a Kalman filter, computing a bias effect on an error of filtered state vectors of all sub-solutions, and adding the effect to computed vertical and horizontal protection levels. In the second approach, a modification for computationally effective calculation of the protection levels of hybrid navigation systems based on both integrity and non-integrity assured pseudorange error descriptions is disclosed.
US09547071B2	Radar transceiver A radar transceiver is disclosed. The radar transceiver includes a computing unit, a sweep control unit, a set of transmitters for transmitting radar chirps to targets, a set of receivers for receiving reflected chirps from the targets, and a timing engine processor coupled to the set of transmitters and to the set of receivers and configured to transmit a first set of control signals. The timing engine processor receives a second set of control signals generated by the computing unit. The sweep control unit receives a first control signal and a second control signal from the timing engine processor. The first control signal indicating a start time of a chirp and the second control signal indicating a reset time for resetting the chirp. A controlled phased lock loop (PLL) generates a local oscillator signal which is inputted to transmitters and receivers.
US09547043B2	Test control point insertion and X-bounding for logic built-in self-test (LBIST) using observation circuitry Test control point insertion and x-bounding for Logic Built-In Self-Test (LBIST) using observation circuitry. In some embodiments, LBIST circuitry may include a plurality of test control circuits coupled to a scan chain of a Circuit Under Test (CUT), and a plurality of observation circuits coupled to the test control circuits, each of the plurality of observation circuits including one or more latch devices configured to drive a respective one of the plurality of test control circuits. In other embodiments, a method of testing an integrated circuit may include issuing an instruction that a plurality of observation circuits and a plurality of input/output (I/O) control circuits within the integrated circuit enter a test mode, and providing, one or more test patterns to a selected one or more of a plurality of scan chains within the integrated circuit and to each of the plurality of observation circuits.
US09547040B2	Efficient event detection Embodiments relate to the emulation of circuits, and detecting an event in a plurality of signals in an emulated circuit. A host system incorporates global event detection logic into a design under test (DUT). An emulator emulates the DUT along with the incorporated global event detection logic. The global event detection logic divides one clock cycle of the DUT into multiple time periods. During each time period of the clock cycle, the emulator selects a different subset of signals from the plurality of signals of the DUT. The emulator determines whether an event occurred for a signal from the subset during the clock cycle. If an event is detected, the emulator generates an output indicating an event was detected among the plurality of signals.
US09547031B2	Flipped cell sensor pattern Embodiments of a capacitive sensor array may comprise a plurality of large sensor electrodes and, for each of the large sensor electrodes, a first plurality of small sensor electrodes each capacitively coupled with the large sensor electrode, and each conductively coupled by one of a first set of routing traces to one of a first set of conductors located in a first edge region, and a second plurality of small sensor electrodes capacitively coupled with the large sensor electrode and conductively coupled by a second set of routing traces to a second set of conductors in a second edge region. The first set of routing traces is located in a first routing channel and the second set of routing traces is located in a second routing channel, where the first and second routing channels are located along different sides of the large sensor electrode.
US09547025B2	Apparatus and method for automatic power metering An apparatus for automatic power metering within a device is provided. The apparatus includes a metering element and communication elements. The metering element is coupled to a power factor correction circuit at one or more nodes within the device, and is configured to measure and process values on the nodes to generate one or more metering metrics for the device. The metering data includes input power consumed by the device, output power transferred to a load of the device, and power factor corresponding to the device. The communication elements are configured to receive the one or more metering metrics, and are configured to transmit the one or more metering metrics over a communications channel.
US09547015B2	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.
US09546998B2	Gamma 9 delta 2 T cell receptors The current invention provides methods to identify γ9δ2T-cell receptors (γ9δ2TCR) that mediate anti-tumor responses. Surprisingly, it was now found that the CDR3 regions of the γ9-T-cell receptor chain and the δ2-T-Cell receptor chain (δ2TCR chain) are of importance. Based on these findings, combinatorial-γδTCR-chain-exchange (CTE) is proposed as an efficient method for identifying γ9δ2TCRs that mediate anti-tumor responses. Using the method of the invention, specific sequences of the respective γ9TCR and δ2TCR chains were identified that mediate anti-tumor responses. Hence, the invention further provides for specific γ9δ2TCRs, or fragments thereof, that may be used e.g. in diagnostics or treatment of cancer. The invention further provides for nucleic acid sequences, genetic constructs and retroviral vectors that can be used to express the γ9δ2TCRs according to the invention.
US09546994B2	Biomarkers for type 2 diabetes The present invention relates to a method of identifying a predisposition for developing type 2 diabetes mellitus in a subject, said method comprising the step of assessing in a sample obtained from said subject the amount of one or more metabolite(s) selected from (a) a first group comprising the metabolites glycine, lysoPhosphatidylcholine acyl C18:2, lysoPhosphatidylcholine acyl C17:0, lysoPhosphatidylcholine acyl C18:0, lysoPhosphatidylcholine acyl C18:1, phosphatidylcholine acyl-alkyl C34:2, phosphatidylcholine acyl-alkyl C36:2, phosphatidylcholine acyl-alkyl C36:3 and isobaric metabolites having the same molecular mass as glycine, lysoPhosphatidylcholine acyl C18:2, lysoPhosphatidylcholine acyl C17:0, lysoPhosphatidylcholine acyl C18:0, lysoPhosphatidylcholine acyl C18:1, phosphatidylcholine acyl-alkyl C34:2, phosphatidylcholine acyl-alkyl C36:2 or phosphatidylcholine acyl-alkyl C36:3 but different chemical formula; and/or (b) a second group comprising the metabolite acetylcarnitine C2 and an isobaric metabolite having the same molecular weight as acetylcarnitine C2 but different chemical formula; wherein a decrease in the amount of a metabolite selected from said first group or an increase in the amount of a metabolite selected from said second group as compared to the amount of the corresponding metabolite(s) of a control is indicative of a predisposition to develop type 2 diabetes mellitus. Further, the invention relates to a method of identifying a compound capable of preventing type 2 diabetes mellitus and diseases associated therewith or serving as a lead compound for developing a compound capable of preventing type 2 diabetes mellitus and diseases associated therewith and a method of selecting a therapy to prevent type 2 diabetes mellitus. Also, the invention relates to a kit.
US09546985B2	Connection assembly for ultra high pressure liquid chromatography A fitting assembly having a nut, a ferrule, and a ferrule tip that may be assembled by an operator. The fitting assembly includes a nut with first and second ends, with the second end adapted to receive the first end of a ferrule, and a ferrule tip with a first end having an externally tapered portion adapted to abut the second end of the ferrule and a second end adapted to be received in a component or fitting of a liquid chromatography system. The nut, ferrule and ferrule tip of the fitting assembly have passageways therethrough for receiving and removably holding tubing.
US09546984B2	System and method for cleaning a couplant during ultrasonic testing Methods and systems for cleaning an acoustical couplant and test article before and during ultrasonic testing using components which are used for precleaning the test article as well as cleaning the acoustical couplant during the ultrasonic testing is provided. The invention also provides additional functionality such as preserving the acoustical couplant before, during, and after the ultrasonic testing from loss such as, e.g., evaporation.
US09546982B2	Method and apparatus for determining the health and remaining service life of austenitic steel reformer tubes and the like Testing methods and apparatus for testing the health of steel tubes used in reformers and other tubes and pipes used in other high temperature applications. The method includes the steps of transmitting two sinusoidal electromagnetic signals, each having a different frequency F1 and F2, into the reformer tube, receiving a response signal, and analyzing the received response signal's intermodulation frequencies to determine the state of the steel reformer tube.
US09546968B2	Meat assessment device A method for assessing the quality of a piece of meat may be described. The method may include creating a plurality of cross-sectional images through a piece of meat. The method may additionally include performing image analysis on at least one of the images to determine the arrangement of fat and lean meat within the piece of meat. The arrangement may be indicative of the quality of the piece of meat.
US09546962B2	Multi-spot scanning collection optics Disclosed are apparatus and methods for inspecting or measuring a specimen. A system comprises an illumination channel for generating and deflecting a plurality of incident beams to form a plurality of spots that scan across a segmented line comprised of a plurality of scan portions of the specimen. The system also includes one or more detection channels for sensing light emanating from a specimen in response to the incident beams directed towards such specimen and collecting a detected image for each scan portion as each incident beam's spot is scanned over its scan portion. The one or more detection channels include at least one longitudinal side channel for longitudinally collecting a detected image for each scan portion as each incident beam's spot is scanned over its scan portion.
US09546961B1	Method of rapid identification of natural and synthetic diamonds using third-order Raman spectra The method of rapid identification of natural and synthetic diamonds using a third-order Raman spectra is to make a diamond third order under large-scale comparative studies with synthetic diamond (CVD & HPHT) to distinguish natural and synthetic diamonds with their differences in Raman peaks. This analysis of the differences in characteristic peak phenomenon can form the basis of a rapid identification and analytical technique.
US09546957B2	Near-infrared dyes as surface enhanced raman scattering reporters Nanoparticles comprising surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) reporter molecules of the formula A-Y and methods of their use are disclosed, wherein A is: wherein X1 is CR4 or N; and Y is selected from the group consisting of:
US09546953B2	Method and apparatus for real-time analysis of chemical, biological and explosive substances in the air A device for real-time analysis of airborne chemical, biological and explosive substances has at least a gas analysis sensor, a fluorescence/luminescence sensor and a sensor for determining the particle size and number of particles. Each of the sensors is connected to a multireflection cell (multipass laser cell) as an open measurement path. In addition, the device also includes an evaluation unit for the real-time analysis of chemical, biological and explosive substances.
US09546951B2	Reducing power analysis method and reducing power analysis reagent A reducing power analysis method for minimizing peak wavelength shift in a sample, comprising a reduction step of reducing a dye reagent containing a ferric compound and a cyanide at pH conditions of 2.4 or lower in the presence of a sample; and an optical measurement step of optically measuring a peak wavelength of a reduced form of the dye reagent obtained in the reduction step.
US09546928B2	Methods for producing strain sensors on turbine components Methods for manufacturing strain sensors on turbine components include providing a turbine component comprising an exterior surface, and, depositing a ceramic material onto a portion of the exterior surface to form a strain sensor comprising at least two reference points.
US09546922B2	Absolute pressure sensor with improved cap bonding boundary A pressure sensor includes a top cap with a recess formed in an end of the top cap and a cavity formed in the end of the top cap to communicate with the recess. The cavity extends further axially into the top cap than the recess thereby having depth greater than a depth of the recess. Outer edges of the recess extend laterally outward beyond outer edges of the cavity thereby defining a bonding boundary. A silicon substrate has a sensing circuit on a top side thereof. The top cap is bonded to the top side of the silicon substrate in a range from the outer edges of the top cap to the bonding boundary. The recess and the cavity of the top cap face the top side of the silicon substrate and form a reference vacuum cavity. When pressure is exerted on a backside of the substrate, a portion of the substrate is constructed and arranged to deflect.
US09546908B1	Glassware mold pyrometry An apparatus to sense temperature in a glassware forming machine. A mold body includes an exterior surface, a mold cavity having an interior mold surface, and a blind hole having a closed end including a closed end surface adjacent to and spaced outwardly from the interior mold surface, wherein the blind hole extends outwardly from the closed end surface toward the exterior surface. The mold body is removably carried on a mold hanger, and a light collector is carried by the mold hanger to collect infrared light emitted within the blind hole.
US09546907B2	Dynamic differential thermal measurement systems and methods Dynamic Digital Modulation obtains thermal image data on active semiconductor devices with sufficient sensitivity to be used in situ with packaged devices. These techniques can be applied to dynamic failures, but can also produce quantitative data of actual power dissipation as the device is placed into different operational modes. The thermal image results can be analyzed to assist in thermal management and assessing reliability and failure analysis issues in semiconductor devices.
US09546904B2	Apparatus and method for optimizing data capture and data correction for spectroscopic analysis A method and an apparatus for increasing the accuracy of a spectrometer system corrects for light source quality, exposure time, distortion in y direction, distortion in x direction, temperature dependence, pixel alignment variability, dark pixels, bad pixels, pixel read noise, and pixel dark current noise. The method and apparatus produces an algorithm for optimizing spectral data and for measuring a sample within the spectrometer system using the optimization algorithm. The spectrometer apparatus comprises a composite external light source, a source light collector, an illumination light structuring component, a sample, a sample light collector, a spectrometer light structuring component, a light dispersing engine, photo detectors, an electrical signal converter, a data preprocessing unit, and a data analyzer. The method and apparatus can include a corrected photo detector algorithm, sample illumination correction algorithm, LDE-PD alignment procedure, SLSC-LDE alignment procedure, distortion correction matrix, and an algorithm for optimizing of spectral data.
US09546901B2	Minimizing grazing incidence reflections for reliable EUV power measurements having a light source comprising plural tubes with centerlines disposed between a radiation region and corresponding photodetector modules A light source includes a light generating chamber and a collector disposed in the light generating chamber. A target material generator configured to propel a quantity of target material toward an irradiation region is disposed in front of a reflective surface of the collector. A plurality of photodetector modules is disposed external to the light generating chamber, with each of the photodetector modules being directed toward the irradiation region. A plurality of tubes is disposed between a corresponding photodetector module and the irradiation region. Each tube has a centerline directed toward the irradiation region, and each tube has a roughened inner surface. The surface roughness of the roughened inner surface is sufficient to cause grazing incidences of light to be eliminated rather than to be reflected off the roughened inner surface. A method of generating light and a method of measuring light energy also are described.
US09546897B1	Modular and reversible manifold assembly for a pump settling gauge A modular and reversible manifold assembly for a pump calibration gauge. The assembly includes a tubular body having a first end and an opposed second end. A first inlet connection extends substantially perpendicular to the tubular body. A gauge connection on the first end of the tubular body is provided for connection to a pump calibration gauge. A pump connection on the second end of the tubular body is provided for connection to a metering pump. A second inlet connection extends substantially perpendicular to the tubular body opposed to the first inlet connection wherein either the first or second inlet connection is connected to a liquid storage tank or another modular and reversible manifold assembly.
US09546890B2	Measuring transducer of vibration-type as well as measuring system formed therewith A measuring transducer comprises a measuring tube having an inlet-side tube end and an outlet-side tube end, a tube wall having a predetermined wall thickness and a lumen surrounded by the tube wall and extending between the first and second tube end, a support element, which with a support end is mechanically connected with the tube end and with a support end is mechanically connected with the tube end, as well as, laterally spaced from the measuring tube, a support element, which with a support end is mechanically coupled with the support end and with a support end is mechanically coupled with the support end. The measuring tube is adapted to guide a flowing medium in its lumen and caused to oscillate about a static resting position for producing Coriolis forces. An oscillation exciter as well as at least one oscillation sensor. The measuring transducer has a wanted mode having a resonant frequency, in which the measuring tube can execute wanted oscillations around its static resting position suitable for producing Coriolis forces and having a wanted frequency corresponding to the resonant frequency of the wanted mode. The oscillation exciter is placed externally on the measuring tube and one exciter component is placed on the support element, is, furthermore, adapted to excite the wanted oscillations of the measuring tube, and the oscillation sensor, of which one sensor component is placed externally on the measuring tube and one sensor component is placed on the support element, is adapted to register movements of the measuring tube relative to the support element and to convert such into an oscillatory signal representing oscillations of the measuring tube.
US09546885B2	Encoder aligning apparatus An encoder aligning apparatus includes: a first support member connected to a moveable unit moved along a base; a second support member connected to the first support member through a resilient member, the second support member being provided with an encoder facing a linear scale attached to said base; and an adjustment member penetrating the first support member to contact the second support member for adjusting the distance and the angle between the first support member and the second support member so as to properly align the encoder with the linear scale.
US09546872B1	Hybrid road network and grid based spatial-temporal indexing under missing road links Embodiments of the present invention provide efficient and dynamic systems and methods for building a hybrid road network and grid based spatial temporal index to handle big trajectory data. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to satisfy the issue of low indexing and compression rate of big trajectory data, and to improve the efficiency of index queries, while also providing a mechanism to account for missing road links in a map.
US09546859B2	Composite material An electrically responsive composite material (1110) specially adapted for touch screen, comprising a carrier layer (1301) having a length and a width and a thickness (1303) that is relatively small compared to said length and said width. The composite material also comprises a plurality of electrically conductive or semi-conductive particles (201). The particles (201) are agglomerated to form a plurality of agglomerates (104, 1403) dispersed within the carrier layer such that each said agglomerate comprises a plurality of the particles (201). The agglomerates are arranged to provide electrical conduction across the thickness of the carrier layer in response to applied pressure such that the electrically responsive composite material has a resistance that reduces in response to applied pressure.
US09546854B2	Ground-projectile guidance system A guidance unit system is configured to be used for a ground-launched projectile. The system includes a housing configured to be attached to a ground-launched projectile. The housing is coupled to an attachment region that attaches to the projectile, wherein the housing is configure to rotate relative to the attachment region. A motor is contained within the housing and a bearing surrounding the motor. The bearing is rigidly attached to the housing such that the motor rotates with the housing and shields the motor from inertial loads experienced by the housing.
US09546850B2	Small diameter crossbow bolt A small diameter crossbow bolt includes a small diameter shaft having a leading end with an insert to receive a point. The trailing end of shaft has a nock and adjacent fletching. The insert receives a point, such as a target point, broad head, or other point known in the industry. A circumferential spacer is positioned along the shaft between the insert and nock and moved along the shaft as needed to locate the insert for a particular weight distribution, center of gravity positioning, or to separate the spacer from nock. The insert, nock, and spacer each have a diameter substantially equal to the diameter of a prior art bolt. When the diameters of the nock and spacer are equal to the diameter of a prior art bolt, the small diameter crossbow bolt of the present invention can be used interchangeably with prior art bolts without modification to the crossbow.
US09546823B2	Heat exchanger, method of manufacturing same, and refrigeration cycle apparatus A heat exchanger includes a plurality of plate-shaped fins arranged at intervals such that air flows between adjacent fins, each of the fins having insertion holes and a plurality of flat tubes extending through the fins such that a refrigerant flows through the tubes in a stacking direction of the fins, each flat tube having a cross-section having straight long sides and half-round short sides, each flat tube having long-side outer circumferential surface parts and a short-side outer circumferential surface part in contact with the fin and covered with the brazing filler metal. The fins and the flat tubes are joined with the brazing filler metal covering the outer circumferential surfaces of the flat tubes such that top part of each fin collar of each fin is in contact with the flat tube and base part of the fin collar is spaced apart from the flat tube.
US09546808B2	Refrigeration appliance In a refrigeration appliance, particularly a household refrigeration appliance, having a storage space for cooled material, at least one passage for the flow of air into and out of the storage space is formed in a wall delimiting the storage space. A fan drives an air flow. A moveable closure element between the fan and the storage space is arranged at the passage, which closure element in the open position allows a flow of air driven by said fan to circulate in the storage space and in the closed position guides the flow of air driven by the fan through a duct running along one outer side of a wall of the storage space.
US09546800B2	Pressure vessel based tower structure A tower structure with storing capacity for at least one medium is described. The tower structure comprising at least two substantially vertically oriented support structures for forming the tower structure, wherein at least one of the support structures comprises at least one constructive pressure vessel for forming the support structure. A method for building the tower structure also is disclosed. The pressure vessel based tower structure may have applications e.g. in wind mills and solar thermal towers.
US09546798B2	Combined gas-water tube hybrid heat exchanger A heat exchanger having a cylindrical body comprising an upper section, a lower section, a side water jacket surrounding the upper and lower sections, a top water jacket disposed atop the upper section and a gas exhaust disposed below the lower section. A water cavity is disposed substantially in the lower section while a gas cavity having a burner is disposed substantially centrally within the gas cavity. A plurality of water tubes disposed in a ring formation, connect the water cavity through the gas cavity to the top water jacket and a plurality of gas tubes also disposed in ring formations, connect the gas cavity through the water cavity to the gas exhaust. At least one of the gas tubes ring has a diameter that is greater than that of the water tubes ring.
US09546794B1	Hybrid air conditioning control process The present invention is a process of controlling a hybrid central air conditioning system that incorporates multiple air treatment devices operated by a process controller reacting to an input of either a comfort or an energy saving program and which uses temperature and humidity sensors that matches specific air treatment machines to varying air treatment needs, such as humidity control to maximize air conditioning performance while minimizing energy use. A timed test cycle is used to make corrections to the selected program based on a timed reading of the temperature and humidity sensors.
US09546793B2	Radiant heater and combustion chamber An improved radiant heater and combustion chamber for use with radiant heating are described. The combustion chamber is made up of two different materials in different regions, an insulating portion and a conductive portion. Heat transfer is maximized through the conductive portion, whose shape can be altered to modify the radiant energy being emitted. The improved radiant heater radiates substantial amounts of heat in useful directions over large distances without the use of reflectors.
US09546791B2	Cooking appliance Provided is a cooking appliance. The cooking appliance includes a cavity assembly having a cooking chamber and a door that selectively opens or closes the cooking chamber. The cavity assembly includes a cavity including a plurality of plates defining a top surface, a bottom surface, and both side surfaces of the cooking chamber, wherein a first flange part is disposed on each of front end of the plurality of plates, and a front plate having an entrance opening through which food enters into the cooking chamber, the front plate including a second flange part. The first flange part and the second flange part line-contact each other.
US09546790B2	System for gas oven control An improved system for control of a gas oven appliance is provided. A valve provides for control of the flow of gas to the burner. After preheating the oven, the valve is cycled between high and low (or zero) gas flow rates at frequency that provides the overall desired heating rate of the cooking chamber during cooking operations. A variety of valve types may be used including proportional types and predetermined set point types (e.g., high-low, high-medium-low, or on-off). During cooking operations, between periods of cycling, the valve is at least partially closed (e.g., set to a lower gas flow rate or an off state).
US09546787B2	Device for stabilizing dilute combustion in a cold-wall combustion chamber A device for stabilizing dilute combustion for use in a cold-walls type combustion chamber comprises a burner. The burner comprises at least one oxidant inlet and at least one fuel inlet. The oxidant and fuel inlets opening separately into the chamber at a distance suitable for establishing combustion which is highly diluted by internal re-circulations of combustion products toward a burner zone. The device comprises a heating element configured to heat, during steady operating conditions, the combustion products to sustain self-ignition conditions. The heating element is positioned in a dilution zone and surrounds a set of oxidant and fuel jets.
US09546786B2	Self-powered damper system A system for operating a damper comprises a flue pipe assembly, and a damper movable between an open position and a closed position within the flue pipe assembly. At least one thermoelectric generator is coupled to a surface of the flue pipe assembly. Operation of the damper is achieved by the thermoelectric generator harvesting thermal energy from the flue pipe assembly and converting it into usable electrical energy for actuation of the damper.
US09546777B2	Ultraviolet gemstone display box A display box displays the fluorescence of a gemstone having naturally occurring phosphors. The box has a top portion hinged with a bottom portion. A compact ultraviolet LED assembly is mounted at a mounting angle in the insert in a cavity of the top portion. The LED assembly has: an LED circuit; a 3 watt 365 nm ultraviolet LED diode disposed on the LED circuit; and an optical collimator having a parabolic lens to focus the emitted LED radiation to a less than 15° spread. A compact battery for powering the LED assembly is provided in a recess of the bottom portion. A central holder/deck holds the gemstone in a direct path of the emitted collimated LED radiation of the LED assembly. In operation, the gemstone seated in the central holder/deck emits a corona of strong visible fluorescence while the ultraviolet radiation and the LED assembly are not seen.
US09546775B1	Decorative lighting apparatus having two laser light sources A laser light decorative lighting apparatus. The laser light decorative lighting apparatus including a laser light source generating a light and a motion assembly. The motion assembly including an articulating optical element disposed in a path of the light being generated by the laser light source and a motor coupled to the articulating element such that a movement generated by the motor drives the articulating optical element. The motion assembly being configured such that the movement driving the articulating optical element by the motor causes the light to move across a surface onto which the light is being projected in a pattern.
US09546770B2	Shade structure A shade structure comprises a frame and a shading cover. The frame is constructed by an upper and lower frame parallel to each other, and two outer lateral surfaces of the upper and lower frame have two first buckling modules respectively. The shading cover comprises a decorating layer and a support layer. The decorating layer is disposed at the outer lateral surface of the support layer. The shade structure features that the two upper and lower edges of an outer lateral surface of the decorating layer are fastened with a second buckling module via a suture, and the two upper and lower edges are bent reversely from an outer lateral surface to an inner lateral surface of the support layer, so as to hide the suture in the inner lateral surface of the support layer, and the second buckling module is integrated with the two first buckling modules as one body.
US09546767B2	Lamp unit and projector lens A lamp unit 10 is one for use in a vehicle lamp. The lamp unit 10 includes a light source mounting portion on which a light source is mounted, and a projector lens 100 that is disposed on a vehicle front side of the light source. The projector lens includes an incident surface 100a on which light emitted from the light source is incident, a convex emission surface 100b from which the light incident on the incident surface is emitted forwardly of the lamp, a connection surface 100c that connects an edge part of the incident surface 100a and an edge part of the emission surface 100b. The connection surface 100c includes, at least in a partial area thereof, a convex surface that is convex, in section including an optical axis, outward in a diameter direction.
US09546765B2	Diffuser component having scattering particles A diffuser component for a solid-state (LED) light emitting device comprises a light scattering material, wherein the light scattering material has an average particle size that is selected such that the light scattering material will scatter excitation light from a solid-state excitation source relatively more than the light scattering material will scatter light generated by at least one photoluminescence material (phosphor) in a wavelength conversion component. The diffuser component is separately manufactured from the wavelength conversion component.
US09546757B2	Support structure for an article, method of mounting the support structure, and support bracket The invention relates to a support structure for an article. In particular, the invention relates to a support structure for mounting modular articles such as display units and the like upon a wall. The support structure comprises a support bracket (1), the support bracket having at least one opening (15), the opening being sized to accommodate a fixing (4) by which the support bracket may be secured to a wall (3), the opening being larger than the fixing whereby the position of the support bracket (1) may be adjusted relative to the fixing (4). The support structure also comprises a support element (2), the support element having a dimension (d) which is larger than the opening (15), the support element having a fixing hole (14) therethrough, the distance between the fixing hole (14) and the periphery of the support element (2) being non-uniform. The support bracket (1) has a support surface (12) adapted for engagement by the periphery of the support element (2). The invention also provides a method of mounting the support structure, and a support bracket for use in the structure and method.
US09546753B2	Drive apparatus for installing flexible pipe through in-situ pipe Pusher apparatus and a method of using the apparatus inserts a flexible liner into an in-situ pipe. At least a pair of contra-rotating resilient drive assemblies, having a nip therebetween, drive the liner into the pipe. A guide tube can extend between the drive assemblies and the pipe. A pull head can be affixed to a leading end of the liner and adapted for sealing within a bore of the pipe and pressured fluid can be applied to pull a leading end of the liner into the pipe while the pusher pushes. The contra-rotating resilient drive assemblies can be one or more pair of opposing wheels or opposing tracks. Track assemblies can be mounted to a frame which is movable on rails and restrained with a load cell for measuring reactive forces while pushing. The rails can be angled for aligning the nip with the pipe.
US09546746B2	Tubular support structure with variable wall thickness A support structure may include a metallic tube having two opposing ends. The first end may have a first length, a first wall thickness, and a first outer diameter. The second end may have a second length, a second wall thickness, and a second outer diameter. A transition area may be disposed between the first length and the second length. The first wall thickness may be greater than the second wall thickness thereby providing variable thickness.
US09546731B2	Bicycle gear changing control apparatus, electrically assisted system, and bicycle gear changing control method A bicycle gear changing control apparatus includes a controller that is programmed to control a gear changing state of a bicycle transmission according to an operation of a gear changing operating device upon determining a bicycle traveling speed is greater than a first speed. The controller controls the transmission automatically to be in a first prescribed gear changing state upon determining the bicycle traveling speed becomes less than or equal to the first speed and upon determining a gear ratio of a current gear changing state of the transmission is larger than a preset gear ratio of the first prescribed gear changing state. The controller controls the transmission automatically, after controlling the transmission to be in the first prescribed gear changing state, to a larger gear ratio than the gear ratio of the first prescribed gear changing state, upon determining the bicycle traveling speed becomes greater than a second speed.
US09546727B2	Carrier oil feed channel lubricating system An oil feed channel lubricating system including a first upstanding wall, a floor and a portion of an interior wall of a carrier. The channel has a first portion angled at a first angle and a second portion angled at a second angle. The first portion preferably has a shallower angle than the second portion. A gap is located between a top of the first upstanding wall and the interior wall of the carrier.
US09546722B2	Clutch system A clutch system selectably connects a vehicle rear axle to a motor. The clutch system includes an intermediate shaft to fixably attach to a side gear of a differential for rotation therewith. A case of the differential is connected to the motor via a gear train. Another side gear of the differential is affixed to an output shaft, and the output shaft extends through a center of rotation of an armature of the motor to connect to a road wheel of a vehicle. A clutch is to selectably connect the intermediate shaft to another output shaft connected to another road wheel of the vehicle. An actuator is to actuate the clutch to an engaged state and thereby selectably connect the intermediate shaft to the other output shaft. The output shaft, the other output shaft, and the motor rotate independently when the clutch is not in the engaged state.
US09546720B2	Torque split continually variable transmission A transmission includes a first drive secured to an input, producing a fixed drive ratio; a second drive secured to an input, producing a variable drive ratio; a planetary gearset including a member connected to the second drive, and a second member; a brake releasably holding the second member rotatably fixed; a first clutch releasably connecting the first member and an output; and a second clutch releasably connecting the second member and the first drive.
US09546707B2	Hydraulic suspension damper with a position dependent damping assembly Provided is a hydraulic damper with a position dependent valve assembly (3) to prevent abrupt stop of a piston at the end of the compression stroke. The position dependent valve assembly (3) comprises a supporting member (31) partitioning damper (2) internal tube (22) and provided with an axial opening (312), an axial member (32) disposed slidably within said axial opening (312) of said supporting member (31), a rigid body (33) fixed on said axial member (32), a compression stroke disc assembly (35) and a rebound stroke disc assembly (34) fixed on said axial member (32).
US09546700B2	Spring brake actuator and method for making a spring brake actuator A brake actuator is provided, in which a diaphragm, used in conjunction with a piston which compresses a parking brake-actuating spring, is arranged such that its outer peripheral region is captured between opposing housing flange portions such that a seal between the interior and exterior of the brake actuator housing is provided in a radially-oriented region of the diaphragm and the housing flange portions away from housing portion jointing components such as a clamp ring or individual fasteners. The diaphragm may also be provided with a wedge-shaped portion at its outer periphery which is axially oriented and configured to reside in a corresponding annular gap between the opposing housing flange portions.
US09546687B2	Sealing arrangement for wheel bearings having a prestressed splash plate A bearing seal (2) of a rolling bearing configured as a wheel bearing (1) that is connected between a first rotationally rigid bearing part (5) and a second bearing part (7) that is integral with a wheel bearing flange (8), between which rolling bodies (6) are guided. The bearing seal (2) includes a splash plate (3) configured as a preseal, which is supported on an axially and radially oriented contour (12) of the second bearing part (7), and together with the wheel bearing flange (8), axially defines a catch channel (24). A seal fitting (4) is fixed to the first bearing part (5) by a reinforcement (22), wherein the reinforcement (22) is enclosed by an elastic sealing material (21), at least in some areas, from which sealing lips (20, 28, 29) are formed, which are grindingly or non-grindingly associated with the splash plate (3). Between the splash plate (3), which abuts, in a line or surface contact, the radially oriented wheel bearing flange (8) via a support zone (10), and the sealing fitting (4), a sealing labyrinth (16) is provided. By way of a resiliently flexible fastening section (11), the splash plate (3) is pressed onto the cylindrical contour (12) of the second bearing part (7) and is pre-stressed in an end position.
US09546685B2	Bearing with magnetic fluid seal Provided is a bearing with a magnetic fluid seal reliably maintaining sealing of a rolling element section in the bearing and having a structure ensuring high productivity. In a bearing with a magnetic fluid seal according to the present invention, a plurality of rolling elements 7 are disposed between an inner ring and an outer ring, and a ring-shaped magnet is arranged at an opening side of the inner and outer rings so as to retain magnetic fluid, so that the plurality of rolling elements are sealed. The magnet is magnetized so that magnetic poles are oriented in an axial direction. A ring-shaped pole plate is arranged to be in contact with an outer side surface of the magnet in the axial direction. Outer-ring-side magnetic fluid is retained between the outer ring and the magnet, and inner-ring-side magnetic fluid is retained between the inner ring and the pole plate.
US09546682B2	Cage of a rolling bearing, rolling bearing comprising such a cage and apparatus comprising such a rolling bearing A cage of a rolling bearing, the cage comprising: an annular heel centered on a central axis and having a constant radial thickness measured radially to the central axis; an axial portion extending from the heel substantially parallel to the central axis; and pockets delimited by the heel and the axial portion for receiving rolling elements. The axial portion has an axial length being greater than half the inner diameter of the pockets and an outside diameter being lesser than the outside diameter of the heel and which comprises between a first value equal to the pitch circle diameter of the cage minus half the radial thickness of the heel and a second value equal to the pitch circle diameter of the cage plus half the radial thickness of the heel. The pockets are spaced around the central axis having angular spacings being at least partly different from one another.
US09546681B2	Crown shaped retainer Provided is a crown-shaped retainer (20), including: an annular base (22); a plurality of pockets (24) each penetrating the crown-shaped retainer in a radial direction thereof and having an opening (a) on one side of the crown-shaped retainer in an axial direction thereof; and a pair of prongs (26) positioned on both sides of the opening (a) of each of the plurality of pockets (24) in a circumferential direction of the crown-shaped retainer, the each of the plurality of pockets (24) having an inner circumferential surface including: a spherical portion (28) positioned on a radially inner side of the crown-shaped retainer; and a cylindrical portion (30) positioned on a radially outer side of the crown-shaped retainer, the cylindrical portion (30) having an inner diameter (φ D2) larger than a ball diameter (dw).
US09546676B2	Thread connection for connecting components conducting high pressure medium A thread connection, in particular for connecting components of an injection device for internal combustion engines which conduct a high pressure medium, includes a first component and a second component. The first component has an inside thread, and the second component has an outside thread configured to be screwed into the inside thread. The second component is configured such that a face of the second component is tensioned against a contact surface of the first component upon tightening the thread connection. The first component has an axial region between the contact surface and a first convolution of the inside thread wherefrom material has been removed up to a diameter that exceeds an outside diameter of the inside thread.
US09546674B1	Interlocking device for a tray in a supporting structure The interlocking device for a tray in a supporting structure while enabling the tray to be removed from the supporting structure. The tray can include a device that engages with at least one engaging device in the supporting structure. The tray is inserted into the supporting structure using the guide or other engaging device. When the tray is fully inserted into the supporting structure, the tray can be secured to the supporting structure by the interlocking device. The interlocking device secures the tray to the supporting structure by a locking mechanism that selectively engages a first recess and a handle that selectively engages a second recess in the supporting structure. When the tray is to be removed from the supporting structure, the interlocking device disengages from the first and second recesses and enables the tray to be removed without interference of the tray and the supporting structure.
US09546659B2	Rotary compressor A rotary compressor (100) includes a compression mechanism (3), a motor (2), a suction path (14), a back-pressure chamber (18), a return path (16), an inverter (42), and a controller (44). A check valve (73) of a reed valve type for opening and closing a return port (3c) of the compression mechanism (3) is disposed in the back-pressure chamber (18). The return path (16) functions to return a working fluid to the suction path (14) from the back-pressure chamber (18). A volume-varying valve (17) is provided in the return path (16). The volume-varying valve (17) allows the working fluid to flow through the return path (16) when the suction volume of the compression mechanism (3) should be set relatively small, and precludes the working fluid from flowing through the return path (16) to increase the pressure in the back-pressure chamber (18) when the suction volume of the compression mechanism (3) should be set relatively large.
US09546640B2	Pressurized solar power system with sealed bubble pressurizer and control system Systems and methods for generating electrical power using a solar power system comprising pressurized pipes for transporting liquid water. The pressurized pipes flow through solar collectors which concentrate sunlight on the water flowing through the pipes. The pressurization in the pipes allows the water flowing through the pipes to absorb large quantities of energy. The pressurized and heated water is then pumped to a heat exchanger coil where the thermal energy is released to produce steam for powering a steam turbine electrical generator. Thereafter, the water is returned to the solar collectors in a closed loop to repeat the process.
US09546639B2	Hydraulic device of reversible type for the conversion of energy The present invention relates to a hydraulic device of reversible type adapted to be used both as a water turbine and a hydraulic pump. Said device has characteristics of simplicity of construction and use. In the case of use as a water turbine it does not require distributors of a particular shape and does not require drops of great heights being adapted to take advantage of the pressure of the fluid and not only of the speed thereof.
US09546635B2	Remote start control for vehicles Methods and systems are provided for controlling a remote start feature of an engine of a vehicle. A receiver is configured to receive a signal to initiate a remote start of the engine. A processor is coupled to the receiver, and is configured to initiate the remote start after receiving the signal; set a timer that measures an amount of time after which the remote start has been initiated, for a duration of the remote start; extend the remote start upon detection of an action by an individual proximate the vehicle before the amount of time exceeds a first predetermined threshold; and terminate the remote start after the amount of time exceeds the first predetermined threshold if no action has been detected during the duration of the remote start.
US09546628B2	Identifying fuel system degradation Various methods are thus provided for identifying degradation in a fuel system. In one embodiment, a method of operating a fuel system comprises applying a pulse to a fuel pump responsive to detecting that lift pump pressure corresponds to a fuel vapor pressure, ceasing application of the pulse responsive to detecting that the lift pump pressure corresponds to a relief setpoint pressure, and indicating degradation in the fuel system if the detected lift pump pressure deviates from an expected fuel rail pressure, including distinguishing among degradation in the fuel pump, a lower pressure fuel pressure sensor, a fuel rail pressure sensor, and a pressure relief valve.
US09546626B2	Depth coalescing filter with barrier media patch A filter including a ring of filter media circumscribing a central cavity, an exit passageway downstream of the central cavity and that has an inlet opening disposed within the central cavity, and a hydrophobic foraminous membrane disk that spans the inlet opening for separating water from fuel passing through the hydrophobic foraminous membrane disk.
US09546624B2	Fuel supply system A fuel supply system for a vehicle having an internal combustion engine and a fuel tank, has a reservoir, a fuel pump, a suction filter, a fuel transfer and a pressure accumulator. The reservoir is located in the fuel tank and is hermetically sealed. The fuel pump is configured to suck fuel from the reservoir and to supply the fuel to the internal combustion engine. The suction filter is configured to filter the fuel sucked by the fuel pump. The fuel transfer is configured to transfer the fuel from the fuel tank into the reservoir and to pressurize the fuel in the reservoir. The pressure accumulator is connected to the reservoir in order to control a pressure of the fuel in the reservoir.
US09546618B2	Methods and apparatus for passive thrust vectoring and plume deflection A flow vectoring turbofan engine employs a fixed geometry fan sleeve and core cowl forming a nozzle incorporating an asymmetric convergent/divergent (con-di) and/or curvature section which varies angularly from a midplane for reduced pressure in a first operating condition to induce flow turning and axially symmetric equal pressure in a second operating condition for substantially axial flow.
US09546611B2	M index determination systems and methods for Wiebe functions A parameter determination system includes first and second difference modules, a ratio module, and an M index module. The first difference module determines a first crankshaft angle of a combustion event of an engine, determines a second crankshaft angle of the combustion event of the engine, and determines a first difference between the first and second crankshaft angles. The second difference module determines a third crankshaft angle of the combustion event of the engine, determines a fourth crankshaft angle of the combustion event of the engine, and determines a second difference between the third and fourth crankshaft angles. The ratio module determines a ratio of the first difference to the second difference. The M index module determines an M index value for the Wiebe function based on the ratio and displays the M index value on a display.
US09546607B2	Variable valve device of internal combustion engine A variable valve device for an internal combustion engine is equipped with a variable valve mechanism capable of changing the working angle of an intake valve while holding the maximum lift amount of the intake valve constant. The variable valve device retards the timing for closing the intake valve as the load of the internal combustion engine rises, and enlarges the working angle, while holding the timing for opening the intake valve constant. Operating characteristics of the intake valve are provided in accordance with the load of the internal combustion engine.
US09546593B2	Method for regulating stable operation of an exhaust-gas turbocharger of an internal combustion engine, and a corresponding apparatus A method and apparatus is provided for regulating stable operation of an exhaust-gas turbocharger of an internal combustion engine having a fresh-gas supply device, a switchover valve, a control device, a compressor for generating compressed air and an air-processing unit with a discharge valve. The compressor is operated in a suction intake mode in which the compressor is connected to an air inlet, and based on monitored operating parameters, the switchover valve switches the compressor from the suction intake mode into a pressure-charged in which the compressor is connected to an exhaust-gas turbocharger compressor. Based on monitored operating parameters when in the pressure-charged mode, the switchover valve switches the compressor from the pressure-charged mode into the suction intake mode.
US09546592B2	Controlling a compression release brake A method and a system are described for a compression release brake in an engine comprising an exhaust manifold connected to a turbine provided with a variable turbine geometry wherein said turbine is further connected to a back pressure valve for controlling the pressure drop over said turbine wherein the method comprises the steps of: controlling said back pressure valve on the basis of a measured engine speed and a desired braking power; calculating a desired exhaust manifold gas pressure on the basis of said measured engine speed and said desired braking power; and, controlling said variable turbine geometry such that the difference between a measured exhaust manifold gas pressure and said calculated desired exhaust manifold gas pressure is minimized.
US09546590B2	Charge air cooler condensate reservoir A condensate reservoir for a charge air cooler of an engine has one or more inlets for receiving condensate from the charge air cooler, and a chamber for collecting the condensate from the charge air cooler. The condensate reservoir is configured to be in thermal communication with an exhaust gas recirculation duct of the engine such that thermal energy from the exhaust gas recirculation duct may be transferred to the condensate reservoir to vaporize the condensate collected in the chamber.
US09546589B2	Integrated cooling system and method for engine-powered unit The present invention relates to an integrated cooling system for a vehicle. The system includes an engine cooling loop having a first fluid configured for circulation through an engine of the vehicle and a power electronics cooling loop having a second fluid configured for circulation through at least one power electronics component of the vehicle. The engine cooling loop is fluidly isolated from, and in thermal communication with, the power electronics cooling loop.
US09546584B2	Multi-stage SCR system A multi-stage SCR system including a front reductant injecting device, a front mixer, a front SCR catalyst, a back reductant injecting device, a back mixer, a back SCR catalyst, and a DCU. The front and back reductant injecting devices receives reductant from an air-driven pump, which includes a liquid supply tank, a pressure tank, and solenoids control valves. Under pressure provided by a compress air source, reductant is pressed into the front and back reductant injecting devices from the air-driven pump. The front and back reductant devices also have flow-back paths fluidly connected to a reductant tank. And in purging or maintenance heating, the flow-back paths can be energized open. In the multi-stage SCR system, a DOC can be further positioned in between the two SCR devices for increasing the deNOx efficiency in the back SCR catalyst, so that the system is less sensitive to catalyst aging.
US09546583B2	Octane separation system and operating method An engine method, comprising delivering high octane fuel to a high octane fuel tank and delivering low octane fuel to a low octane fuel tank and injecting atmospheric air into an exhaust system for secondary air injection in response to delivering low octane fuel to an engine.
US09546582B1	Silencer panel having sections and related silencer duct A silencer panel section may include an acoustic absorbing material, a first enclosure surrounding the acoustic absorbing material, and a first coupler configured to couple the first enclosure to a second enclosure of an adjacent silencer panel section. A silencer panel may employ a plurality of the sections coupled together to form a single silencer panel. A silencer duct may include a frame forming a working fluid flow path, and a plurality of silencer panel mounts positioned within the frame, each silencer panel mount configured to slidingly receive a silencer panel, such as the silencer panel described herein.
US09546581B2	Muffler for an exhaust system A muffler (1) for an exhaust system of a motor vehicle internal combustion engine has a housing (2), with an exhaust gas inlet (4) and an exhaust gas outlet (5), including a circumferentially extending jacket (16) and end panels (14, 15) each axial ends. A chamber (18) in the housing interior (3), through which exhaust gas flows during operation, is axially limited by intermediate panels (20, 21) at axial ends. The thermal load on the jacket (16) is reduced with an insulating shell (29), arranged in the housing interior, extending in the circumferential direction (17) along the jacket (16). The two intermediate panels (20, 21) are supported on the insulating shell (29), each with an outer panel edge (30, 31). The insulating shell (29) is supported radially on the jacket (16) with a shell edge (33). An insulating gap (35) is formed radially between the jacket and the insulating shell.
US09546579B2	Engine and straddle-type vehicle including the same An engine 40 includes a breather device 20 and an oil passage defining member 30 disposed in the breather device 20. The breather device 20 includes a breather main body 22 integral with a crankcase 50, and a breather cover 24. The breather main body 22 and the breather cover 24 define an enclosed space 26 in communication with an inner space of the crankcase 50. The oil passage defining member 30 includes a first member 32 integral with the crankcase 50, and a second member 34. The first and second members 32 and 34 define an oil passage 38. The crankcase 50 includes a transmission chamber 60 in which a main shaft 72 and a drive shaft 74 are disposed, and oil feed holes 82A to 82C through which the oil passage 38 and the transmission chamber 60 are in communication with each other.
US09546571B2	Mounting lug for connecting a vane to a turbine engine case A turbine engine includes a vane and a case with a flange ring. The flange ring defines a channel that extends axially into a side of the flange ring to a channel end surface. The vane has a mounting lug that projects into the channel. The mounting lug includes a lug end surface that extends radially between substantially parallel lug side surfaces, where the lug end surface is engaged with the channel end surface.
US09546564B2	Rotor tip clearance A method of characterizing mechanical and thermal growth of a rotor tip clearance arrangement and a method of controlling such an arrangement. The characterization method comprising constructing a finite element model and calibration cases; run the model for the calibration cases to obtain displacements; and calculating component growth therefrom. The growth is characterized and scaled for the operating conditions. The clearance is calculated in a time step from the growths and input to a control arrangement for subsequent time steps.
US09546555B2	Tapered part-span shroud A rotatable blade for use in a turbomachine includes an airfoil portion having a leading edge, a trailing edge a radially-inner end and a radially-outer end; a root section at to the radially-inner end of the airfoil portion, and a part-span shroud located on the airfoil portion between the root section and the radially-outer end. The part-span shroud decreases in width and thickness from decreasing in width and thickness from the airfoil portion to a contact surface adapted to engage a mating contact surface on a part-span shroud of an adjacent blade.
US09546547B2	Monitoring of wells to detect the composition of matter in boreholes and propped fractures There is provided a system and method for monitoring of fractured wells and conventional wells to detect leaks. The method comprises interrogating a plurality of resonant tags using a modulated RF signal transmitted from an interrogator, wherein the plurality of resonant tags are dispersed within a channel.
US09546544B2	Apparatus for driving and maneuvering wireline logging tools in high-angled wells A data logging apparatus for use in a wellbore of a fluid production well includes a forward portion for guiding the data logging tool through the wellbore. An elongated body having a first end and a second end includes electronic circuitry for receiving data from at least one sensor provided on the data logging tool. An elongated shaft having a first end is connected to the forward portion, and a second end of the elongated shaft is connected to the first end of the elongated body. A propulsion assembly is connected to the second end of the elongated body for self-propelling the data logging tool through the fluid production well. The self-propelled data logging tool can transverse though the wellbore having inclinations of at least fifty degrees. An outwardly extending support arm assembly is rotatably attached about the elongated shaft to prevent the logging tool from uncontrollably spinning.
US09546543B2	Remote controlled drilling rig A remote controlled drilling rig that is fully functional includes a drilling rig, an electrical assembly, and a remote. The drilling rig includes a truck for towing a semi-trailer on which is positioned a derrick and a drilling assembly. The electrical assembly is positioned within the drilling rig and includes a battery for powering components of the drilling rig, in addition to a receiver and circuit board for receiving and processing command signals respectively. The receiver is communicably coupled to a transmitter housed within a casing of the remote. A plurality of controls is used to send input commands to the transmitter, which are in turn transmitted to the receiver in order to control functions of the drilling rig, such as raising and lowering the derrick. A draw-works assembly allows for raising and lowering a traveling block within the derrick by winding and unwinding a drilling cable connected between.
US09546530B2	Convertible downhole devices A convertible downhole device comprises at least one sacrificial material to provide two or more configurations so that two or more different operations or functions are performable by the downhole device, one in which the sacrificial material is fully intact and another in which the sacrificial material is at least partially removed or disappeared. The sacrificial material may be removable through any suitable method or device, such as by contacting with a fluid, by temperature, by pressure, or by combustion, ignition, or activation of a fusible or energetic material, or crushing or breaking up of a frangible material. Upon removal of the sacrificial material, the downhole device has at least one additional configuration so that at least a second operation can be performed by the downhole device.
US09546525B2	Apparatus and methods for setting slips on a tubular member Systems, apparatus and methods are usable for automatically engaging and setting slips of an automatic slip setting apparatus about a tubular, when the automatic slip setting apparatus is properly positioned relative to a desired section of the tubular for gripping, lifting and/or holding, and installing and/or removing the tubular, in or out from a wellbore, while preventing slippage and/or dropping of the tubular. The automatic slip setting apparatus is usable with an elevator or spider assembly, each comprising a main body having a central opening extending therethrough, a plurality of slips, and a yoke. An arm assembly, connected to the elevator or spider assembly, moves when contacted by a tubular moving through the central opening, and a latching member, which is connected to the yoke, can be moved by the arm assembly, thereby causing the plurality of slips to move to a closed position for gripping the tubular.
US09546522B2	Lead supporting device of drilling machine The present invention relates to a lead supporting device of a drilling machine. The lead supporting device of the drilling machine includes: a frame of the drilling machine; a lead coupled to the frame of the drilling machine by a hinge shaft, the lead being rotated in a predetermined angle; main cylinders disposed on the frame of the drilling machine and the lead to rotate the lead with respect to the frame; a head part elevatably disposed on the lead to perform a drilling process; a rotatable guide body coupled to the frame of the drilling machine by the hinge shaft; a guide rod rotatably hinge-coupled to the lead, the guide rod being slidable along the guide body; and a lead position fixing unit including a grasping part disposed on the guide body to fix the guide rod to the guide body, thereby fixing the position of the lead.
US09546514B2	Method for the production of fire resistant glazings Fire resistant glazings having improved properties comprising a silicate based interlayer which contains from 35% to 43% by weight of water may be produced using a cast in place process. The amount of water in the interlayer is reduced by concentrating the silicate solution or by introducing silica in the form of a silica sol. Preferably a mixture of an aqueous sol and an organosol is used. Polyhydroxy compounds and saccharides may be incorporated into the interlayer to improve the properties thereof and to reduce the water content. The silicate based formulations are pourable and can be used in a cast in place production process and subsequently cured to form an optically clear interlayer.
US09546513B2	Edge seal assemblies for hermetic insulating glass units and vacuum insulating glass units A method of manufacturing VIGUs and IGUs comprises providing a first lite; providing a second lite spaced apart from the first lite to form a cavity therebetween; and encircling the lites with a one piece band. Spacers of a metal solder alloy or other reflowable material are inserted between the band and the perimeter edges of the lites. The assembly is heated in an evacuated environment, causing the spacers to melt and hermetically bond to the lites, but not until the cavity has been substantially evacuated.
US09546509B2	Hinge In the case of a hinge having a body hinge part which can be preassembled on a body and a door hinge part which can be preassembled on a door leaf, wherein the hinge parts are connected to each other in an articulated manner, provision is made for the body and door hinge parts to have respective flange parts fastenable onto a surface, and a height- and depth-adjusting device is arranged in the body flange part and has at least one first fastening element which can be used to fix the set height and depth position of the door leaf in relation to the body.
US09546507B2	Safety bolt device and system A safety bolt device comprising: a drop down bolt, the drop down bolt comprising: a cross-member; a first vertical pin attached to a first end of the cross-member; a second vertical pin attached to a second end of the cross-member; a door receiver configured to receive the first vertical pin, the door receiver comprising: a bolt; a jamb receiver configured to receive the second vertical pin, the jamb receiver comprising: a pin; where the door receiver is configured to attach to a door, and the jamb receiver is configured to attach to the door jamb of the door, and where the safety bolt device is configured to prevent the door from being opened when the drop down bolt has been dropped into the door receiver and the jamb receiver.
US09546505B1	Adjustable position blocking device for sliding closures An adjustable position blocking device for sliding closures that firmly attaches to a glass pane of a closure and limits the sliding translation of the sliding panels of the closure. One embodiment comprises an elongated track (30) which adheres to a glass pane with very high bonding double-sided tape (40). The one embodiment also comprises a blocking slider (10) that adjustably attaches to track (30) at a plurality of track positions and is substantially tall to block the sliding translation of the sliding panels. Slider (10) comprises a modular attachment means that permits the slider (10) to be customized with blocking modules (22, 86, 96) of different form and function. In addition, one embodiment comprises a blocking module (96) which integrates an electronic device to detect the opening of a sliding closure and alert a user, a remote device or a remote system.
US09546495B2	Method for constructing cylindrical tank A method for constructing a cylindrical tank which has a metallic inner tank and a concrete outer tank includes a step of building up a PC wall in an outer circumferential edge portion of a base plate, a step of assembling an outer tank roof on the base plate other than the outer circumferential edge portion of the base plate, a step of lifting the outer tank roof which is on the base plate using a jack-up unit while the PC wall is being built up and then holding the outer tank roof on the PC wall, and a step of assembling the inner tank independently of the outer tank roof in a space under the outer tank roof which is created due to the lifting.
US09546485B2	Roof curb A curb assembly is provided for mounting on a sloped, standing seam metallic roof, in order to provide support for a roof fixture, such as an exhaust fan or skylight. The curb assembly includes a box-like structure mounted atop the roof in surrounding relationship to a roof opening. The curb assembly further includes an underlying, below-roof frame assembly. Specialized upper and lower end connection structure serves to securely mount the curb assembly to the metal roof.
US09546484B2	Concrete panel, panel kit, and concrete panel connector structure for forming reinforced concrete building components A concrete panel system includes first, second, and third rectangular precast concrete panels, each defining a respective top edge, bottom edge, and first and second lateral edges. A first type connector is formed in the concrete material at least along the top edge of the first panel and along the first lateral edge of the first panel. A second type connector is formed in the concrete material at least along the second lateral edge of the second panel, and along the bottom edge of the third panel. The first type connector and the second type connector are configured to connect together, and a cavity is formed between the respective panel edges. This cavity extends along both the top edge of the first panel and the first lateral edge of the first panel to facilitate positioning reinforcing bar traversing a corner of the first or second panel.
US09546482B2	Methods of fastening a wall panel to a wall, kits, and wall assemblies A method of fastening a wall panel to a wall, according to one illustrative embodiment, comprises coupling a retaining body to a mounting body mounted on an outer surface of the wall adjacent a side edge of the wall panel. Coupling the retaining body to the mounting body may comprise coupling a first connector on an inner surface of the retaining body to a second connector on the mounting body, and positioning a retainer on the retaining body against a retaining surface on the wall panel to fasten the wall panel to the wall. Kits and wall assemblies according to other illustrative embodiments are also disclosed.
US09546471B2	Implement tooth assembly with tip and adapter A ground engaging tooth assembly for a cutting edge of a ground engaging implement may include an adapter and a ground engaging tip. The adapter may have a forward extending adapter nose having an inverted or reverse keystone-shaped contour, with the ground engaging tip having a nose cavity for receiving the adapter nose and exterior surfaces having complementary shapes to the adapter nose. The adapter nose and an adapter cavity of the tip may also be configured with complimentary surfaces that increase retention between the adapter nose and the tip when downward forces are applied to the tip. In other embodiments, the surfaces of the tip may include reliefs extending inwardly into the body of the tip to reduce weight and facilitate penetration of the tip into work material as wear material wears away from a front edge of the tip.
US09546461B2	Snow thrower including reverse shut-off mechanism A snow thrower having a reverse shut-off mechanism configured to deactivate voltage supplied from a power source to a motor that rotates an auger assembly. The reverse shut-off mechanism deactivates the voltage supplied in response to the snow thrower being moved or rolled in a reverse direction. Upon movement of the snow thrower in a forwards direction to clear snow or other debris, the shut-off mechanism reactivates voltage supplied from the power source to the motor that rotates the auger assembly. This allows the snow thrower to conserve power and/or fuel when the snow thrower is not being used to clear snow or other debris.
US09546460B1	Dog feces collection device The dog feces collector is a hand held device adapted for use in picking animal feces up off the ground. The dog feces collector comprises a first leg and a second leg that are joined by a hinge. The end of the first leg and the end of the second leg that is distal from the hinge are both fitted with elements that when combined form a cage that is used to capture and collect the animal feces. The dog feces collector further comprises a first leg, a second leg, a hinge, a first leg extension and a second leg extension.
US09546457B2	Plant for manufacturing half warm mix asphalts The invention relates a plant (1) for manufacturing half warm mix asphalts which comprises: a first moveable platform (10) for feeding in a controlled manner some or all of the aggregates of the half warm mix asphalt to a second moveable platform (30), wherein said aggregates are heated; a second moveable platform (30), wherein some or all of the aggregates coming from the first moveable platform (10) are heated in a drying drum (33); a third moveable platform (40), which extracts and filters powder from the aggregates coming from the second mobile platform (30), subsequently feeding it to the fourth moveable platform of the plant; a fourth moveable platform (20), wherein the material coming from the exit of the second moveable platform (30) or arriving directly from the first moveable platform (10) is mixed with a binder, with a filler and with any other materials, the mixed materials being different according to the desired end product, the temperature of the mixed materials being comprised between 70° C. and 100° C.; and the binder being an emulsion.
US09546455B2	Rig mat with replaceable deck inserts A rig mat frame has at least two longitudinal frame members and at least two lateral frame members defining a deck insert opening therebetween. Each longitudinal frame member has a C-shaped channel facing the deck insert opening and extending along the length of the longitudinal frame member. At least one C-shaped channel has a longitudinally extending flange with a channel opening providing access into the C-shaped channel. A flange panel is removably fastened to the frame and closes the channel opening when the flange panel is fastened to the frame. A plurality of deck inserts are disposed within the frame and extend across the deck insert opening with the ends of each deck insert disposed in the C-shaped channels. And each of the plurality of deck inserts is removable from the C-shaped channels when the deck insert is positioned in alignment with the channel opening and the flange panel is disconnected from the frame.
US09546453B2	Method for tamping a track by means of asynchronously moved tamping units For tamping two adjacent sleepers (9) of a track (3), the joint lowering of two adjoining tamping units (2) takes place with a time delay. As a result, the immersion in particular of immediately adjacent inner tamping tines (20) plunging into a common sleeper crib (18) is facilitated.
US09546452B2	Process for manufacturing paperboard A method of producing a paper board comprising: a pulping step of disintegrating and beating fibers from a pulp raw material containing waste paper as a main raw material to obtain pulping process water; a stock preparation step of adding an additive containing a paper strength additive to the obtained pulping process water to obtain a prepared pulp raw material; and a paper-making step of making the obtained prepared pulp raw material into a paper board, wherein the paper board is produced by adding (a) an aqueous solution of hypochlorite and (b) an aqueous solution of water-soluble inorganic ammonium salt or ammonia water to the pulping process water to reduce the amount of the paper strength additive added in the stock preparation step.
US09546446B2	Highly functional polyethylene fibers, woven or knit fabric, and cut-resistant glove A polyethylene fiber characterized by having an intrinsic viscosity [η] of 0.8 dL/g or more and less than 5 dL/g; being composed of a repeating unit substantially derived from ethylene; having pores formed inside of the fiber; having an average diameter of the pores of ranging from 3 nm to 1 μm when the diameter is measured, by each pore being approximated by a column, at a contact angle of 140 degrees, in a mercury intrusion method; a porosity of the pores of ranging from 1.5% to 20%; and having a tensile strength greater than or equal to 8 cN/dtex.
US09546445B2	Motor and washing machine having the same Disclosed herein is a washing machine having an improved structure that maintains efficiency over a certain level both in washing and dehydration. The washing machine includes a body, a tub disposed within the body, a drum rotatably disposed within the tub, and a motor coupled to a rear surface of the tub to drive the drum. The motor includes a stator including a plurality of stator cores and a plurality of magnets arranged between the stator cores, and a rotor rotatably disposed at an inner side or outer side of the stator.
US09546437B2	Ingot, silicon carbide substrate, and method for producing ingot An ingot in which generation of crack is sufficiently suppressed is obtained. The ingot includes: a seed substrate formed of silicon carbide; and a silicon carbide layer grown on the seed substrate and containing nitrogen atoms. The silicon carbide layer has a thickness of 15 mm or more in a growth direction. In the silicon carbide layer, a concentration gradient of the nitrogen atoms in the growth direction is 5×1017 atoms/cm4 or less.
US09546435B2	Vapor phase growth apparatus and vapor phase growth method A vapor phase growth apparatus of an embodiment includes: a reaction chamber; a gas supply path connected to an organic metal supply source at a first connection, the gas supply path being connected to a carrier gas supply source, the gas supply path supplies a process gas including organic metal and a carrier gas into the reaction chamber; a gas discharge path connected to the organic metal supply source at a second connection, the gas discharge path discharges the process gas to the outside of the apparatus; a first mass flow controller and a first adjustment device provided at the gas supply path; a second adjustment device provided at the gas discharge path; and a shortcut path connecting the gas supply path to the gas discharge path. One of the first and the second adjustment device is a back pressure regulator, and the other is a mass flow controller.
US09546432B2	Dense oxide coated component of a plasma processing chamber and method of manufacture thereof A method of forming a dense oxide coating on an aluminum component of semiconductor processing equipment comprises cold spraying a layer of pure aluminum on a surface of the aluminum component to a predetermined thickness. A dense oxide coating is then formed on the layer of pure aluminum using a plasma electrolytic oxidation process, wherein the plasma electrolytic oxidation process causes the layer of pure aluminum to undergo microplasmic discharges, thus forming the dense oxide coating on the layer of pure aluminum on the surface of the aluminum component.
US09546426B2	Methods for hydrogen gas production According to aspects described herein, methods and systems provided by the present invention for hydrogen gas production include a RED stack including one or more RED subunits, and use of a saline material including a heat regenerable salt. The salinity driven energy, provided by the one or more RED subunits, completely eliminates the need for an external power source to produce hydrogen gas.
US09546412B2	Powdered metal alloy composition for wear and temperature resistance applications and method of producing same A powder metal steel alloy composition for high wear and temperature applications is made by water atomizing a molten steel alloy composition containing C in an amount of at least 3.0 wt %; at least one carbide-forming alloy element selected from the group consisting of: Cr, V, Mo or W; an O content less than about 0.5 wt %, and the balance comprising essentially Fe apart from incidental impurities. The high carbon content reduces the solubility of oxygen in the melt and thus lowers the oxygen content to a level below which would cause the carbide-forming element(s) to oxidixe during water atomization. The alloy elements are thus not tied up as oxides and are available to rapidly and readily form carbides in a subsequent sintering stage. The carbon, present in excess, is also available for diffusing into one or more other admixed powders that may be added to the prealloyed powder during sintering to control microstructure and properties of the final part.
US09546407B2	Mixture to increase the effectiveness of antiseptics and/or disinfectants, an agent containing the mixture, and the use of this mixture The invention relates to the increase (improvement) of the effectiveness of antiseptics and/or disinfectants administered in a mixture with hydrolytic or proteolytic enzymes to a mucous membrane, a skin of a mammal or inanimate surfaces in the form of a solution, gel, paste, capsules or other as an agent. The use of the mixture is also stated.
US09546406B2	Microorganisms capable of fixing carbon oxides and performing fermentation and the preparation method and use of the same A microorganism capable of fixing a carbon oxide and performing fermentation and its preparation method and use are provided, wherein the preparation method comprises: (a) providing a first parental strain which is able to fix a carbon oxide; (b) providing a second parental strain which is able to perform fermentation; (c) preparing a first protoplast and a second protoplast from the first parental strain and the second parental strain, respectively; (d) subjecting the first protoplast and the second protoplast to fuse to provide a fusant; and (e) incubating and selecting the fusant to obtain a target strain. The target strain is useful in the production of an organic compound such as an organic acid and an alcohol, and one embodiment of the target strain is Clostridium tyrobutyricum ITRI02001, deposited at German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen and Zellkulturen GmbH, DSMZ) under the accession number DSM 32077.
US09546394B2	Rapid, low-sample-volume cholesterol and triglyceride assays Reagents, assays, methods, kits, devices, and systems for rapid measurement of cholesterol and cholesterol sub-fractions from a blood sample are provided. Total cholesterol, low density lipoprotein cholesterol, and high density lipoprotein cholesterol can be measured in a single assay using kinetic measurements, under conditions in which cholesterol sub-species are converted to a detectable product at distinct rates. The detectable product is measured at different times after assay initiation. A lipase, cholesterol esterase, cholesterol oxidase and a peroxidase may be used together to produce colored product in amounts directly proportional to the quantity of cholesterol converted. Methods for calculating very-low density lipoprotein cholesterol levels by further including triglyceride measurements are disclosed. Assays may be performed in a single reaction mixture, allowing more accurate and precise cholesterol determinations, including ratios of cholesterol sub-fractions to total cholesterol, at less expense, than would be expected by performing several different assays in different reaction mixtures.
US09546384B2	Methods and compositions for the targeted modification of a mouse genome Compositions and methods are provided for modifying a genomic locus of interest in a eukaryotic cell, a mammalian cell, a human cell or a non-human mammalian cell using a large targeting vector (LTVEC) comprising various endogenous or exogenous nucleic acid sequences as described herein. Further methods combine the use of the LTVEC with a CRISPR/Cas system. Compositions and methods for generating a genetically modified non-human animal comprising one or more targeted genetic modifications in their germline are also provided.
US09546378B2	Hemipteran-and coleopteran active toxin proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis A novel Bacillus thuringiensis crystal protein exhibiting insect inhibitory activity is disclosed. Growth of Lygus insects is significantly inhibited by providing the novel crystal protein in Lygus insect diet. Polynucleotides encoding the crystal protein, transgenic plants and microorganisms that contain the polynucleotides, isolated peptides derived from the crystal protein, and antibodies directed against the crystal protein are also provided. Methods of using the crystal protein and polynucleotides encoding the crystal protein to control Hemipteran insects are also disclosed.
US09546370B2	QSOX1 as an anti-neoplastic drug target The present invention provides methods for tumor treatment by administering an inhibitor of quiescin sulfhydryl oxidase 1 (QSOX1), compositions comprising such inhibitors, and methods for identifying such inhibitors.
US09546369B2	Multicistronic expression constructs Some aspects of this invention provide nucleic acid constructs for transgene expression. Some aspects of this invention provide multicistronic nucleic acid constructs, for example, comprising an expression cassette encoding a hairpin RNA and a reporter expression cassette. Some aspects of this invention provide nucleic acid constructs comprising two or more self-complementary nucleic acid sequences, for example, hairpin RNA encoding nucleic acid sequences and AAV inverse terminal repeats. Methods for the use of the constructs in therapy and research are also provided.
US09546367B2	siRNA compositions and methods for inhibiting gene expression in tumor initiating cells of breast cancer Disclosed are methods and compositions for siRNA-mediated therapy of mammalian diseases. In particular, compositions and methods are disclosed for treatment of therapy-resistant human breast cancers. In exemplary embodiments, siRNA molecules are presented that effectively knock down gene expression of one or more polynucleotides in breast cancer tumor initiating cells.
US09546365B2	MicroRNA-198 as a tumor suppressor in ovarian cancer A novel network of tumorigenic prognostic factors is identified that plays a critical role in advanced pancreatic cancer (PC) pathogenesis. This interactome is interconnected through a central tumor suppressive microRNA, miR-198, which is able to both directly and indirectly modulate expression of the various members of this network to alter the molecular makeup of pancreatic tumors, with important clinical implications. When this tumor signature network is intact, miR-198 expression is reduced and patient survival is dismal; patients with higher miR-198 present an altered tumor signature network, better prognosis and increased survival. Further, according to the present disclosure, MiR-198 replacement reverses tumorigenicity in vitro and in vivo. As such, an embodiment of the disclosure is a method of treating cancer in an individual, comprising the step of increasing the level of active microRNA-198 molecules in the pancreatic cancer tumor cells of the individual by an amount sufficient to cause an improvement in the pancreatic cancer in the individual.
US09546360B2	Gain-of-function ADAMTS13 variants resistant to auto antibody inhibition and methods of use thereof Compositions and methods for the treatment of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura are disclosed.
US09546354B2	Z cells activated by zinc finger-like protein and uses thereof in cancer treatment Immune cells (Z cells) activated by zinc finger-like protein that regulates apoptosis (Zfra) and uses thereof in cancer treatment.
US09546353B2	Optimized and defined method for isolation and preservation of precursor cells from human umbilical cord The present invention refers to an optimized and defined method for isolation and preservation of precursor cells from human umbilical cord. Besides being reproducible and 100% reliable, in terms of the number of samples processed, the method results in a high and defined number of precursor cells, being the majority obtained after a single adhesion and expansion/multiplication phase ex vivo (thus granting cell phenotype), in a shorter time frame than what was previously described in the state-of-the-art. With this method, it is possible to obtain, in 9 days, after direct freezing of a cell fraction, and after one expansion/multiplication phase ex vivo (end of P0) of the majority of the cells, about 8.6(±0.1)×105 cells/gram of processed umbilical cord. In turn, the characteristics of the cells allow, for example, after 35 days, obtaining an average of 7.7×1015 cells, with precursor phenotype, from 100% of processed umbilical cord samples. The method, because it is simple, robust and 100% reliable, can be performed under good manufacturing practices (GMP) in laboratories dedicated to cell therapy in humans. Furthermore, the method has applications in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and biotechnology areas.
US09546350B2	Methods and devices related to a regulated flow electroporation chamber The electroporation chamber and its related devices combine the features of an electroporation chamber that acts as a manifold for regulation of sample flow with those of a flow electroporation device to form a regulated flow electroporation device. The invention further comprises a novel regulated flow electroporation chamber that enables conditions in which a sample is uniformly processed in individual fractions or volumes in a fully closed (sterile) system.
US09546349B2	Supports for cell culture and cell sheet detachment and methods for cell sheet detachment The invention creates a support for cell culture and cell sheet detachment which has a substrate, whose surface is coated with a conjugate having a disulfide bond-containing amino acid as a spacer and a biopolymer enhancing cell attachment, migration or differentation. Unexpectedly, after being seeded on the support, the cells grow to form one or more layers of cell sheets and the cell sheets can be easily detached from the support by adding a reductant to cleave the disulfide bond. Accordingly, the invention provides a simple and non-toxic method for detachment of cell sheets.
US09546348B2	Conical brewing device with nesting supporting member Brewing assemblies and kits are generally disclosed herein. In particular, a brewing assembly comprising an upper member having a generally conical lower portion and a base member having a funnel shaped portion wherein the lower portion of the upper member is arranged to nest with the funnel shaped portion of the base member is disclosed. The present disclosure also describes brewing kits comprising a fermenter, a lid arranged to close a top opening of the fermenter, a tap connectable to a tap opening of the fermenter, and a base member having a substantially continuous and generally conical portion arranged to mate with a generally conical lower portion of the fermenter. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09546337B2	Lubricant composition The present invention provides a lubricating oil composition comprising a lubricating base oil, and at least one ester additive selected from a first ester that is a fatty acid 3,4-epoxycyclohexyl alkyl ester and a second ester that is a 3,4-epoxycyclohexyl carboxylic acid alkyl ester, wherein a content of the ester additive is 0.01 to 5.0% by mass based on the total mass of the lubricating oil composition.
US09546335B2	Engine lubricant composition Lubricant compositions include: (a) one or more polyalkylene glycol base oils obtained by polymerization or copolymerization of alkylene oxides comprising from 3 to 8 carbon atoms, include at least one butylene oxide and (b) at least one detergent chosen from salicylates or phenates. The present disclosure also relates to: 1) use of a lubricant composition as engine oil, preferably as oil for the engines of petrol or diesel motor vehicles; 2) use of a group of additives for an engine lubricant comprising polyalkylene glycol bases obtained by polymerization or copolymerization of alkylene oxides comprising from 3 to 8 carbon atoms; and 3) use of at least one additive chosen from salicylates, phenates, dithiocarbamates, amine-based or phenol-based antioxidants, preferably from salicylates or phenates, for reducing the Noack volatility of the base oils of polyalkylene glycol type, obtained from alkylene oxides comprising from 3 to 8 carbon atoms.
US09546334B2	Refrigerating machine oil, and working fluid composition for refrigerating machine which is produced using same Provided is a refrigerating machine oil which comprises an ester between a polyol consisting of at least one of pentaerythritol and dipentaerythritol represented by formula (I) and 2-propylheptanoic acid, and is characterized in that the refrigerating machine oil can be used in combination with a refrigerant consisting of 1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (HFO-1234ze). When the refrigerating machine oil is used in combination with a refrigerant consisting of HFO-1234ze, excellent miscibility with the refrigerant, lubricity, thermal and chemical stability and the like can be achieved.
US09546330B2	Integrated ebullated-bed process for whole crude oil upgrading A system and process for upgrading a whole crude oil feed in an integrated ebullated-bed and hydrotreater is provided in which the whole crude oil is flashed into a flashed straight run distillates fraction and an atmospheric residue fraction. The atmospheric residue fraction is hydroprocessed in an ebullated-bed reaction zone, while the flashed straight run distillates fraction and the products fraction produced from the ebullated-bed reaction zone are hydrotreated in a fixed-bed reaction zone. Distillates from the hydrotreater and the unconverted residue fraction from the ebullated-bed reaction zone can be combined to produce an upgraded synthetic crude oil.
US09546326B2	Fluid emulsion purification processes using microporous materials having filtration and adsorption properties The present invention is directed to methods of separating a fluid emulsion stream into a hydrocarbon stream and an aqueous stream, by contacting the stream with a microporous membrane to yield a hydrocarbon product stream and an aqueous product stream. The membrane comprises a substantially hydrophobic, polymeric matrix, and substantially hydrophilic, finely divided, particulate, substantially water-insoluble filler distributed throughout the matrix. The polymeric matrix has a mean pore size less than 1.0 micron, and the purities of the product streams are independent of the flux rate of the aqueous product stream and the pore size of the membrane.
US09546319B2	Phosphors, such as new narrow-band red emitting phosphors for solid state lighting The invention provides, amongst others for application in a lighting unit, a phosphor having the formula M1−x−y−zZzAaBbCcDdEeN4−nOn:ESxREy (I), with M=selected from the group consisting of Ca, Sr, and Ba; Z=selected from the group consisting of monovalent Na, K, and Rb; A=selected from the group consisting of divalent Mg, Mn, Zn, and Cd; B=selected from the group consisting of trivalent B, Al and Ga; C=selected from the group consisting of tetravalent Si, Ge, Ti, and Hf; D=selected from the group consisting of monovalent Li, and Cu; E=selected for the group consisting of P, V, Nb, and Ta; ES=selected from the group consisting of divalent Eu, Sm and Yb; RE=selected from the group consisting of trivalent Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, and Tm; 0≦x≦0.2; 0≦y≦0.2; 0
US09546315B2	Compositions, methods, apparatus, and systems for incorporating bio-derived materials in drilling and hydraulic fracturing The present invention provides compositions, methods, apparatus, and systems to minimize environmental impact, water use, and overall cost of drilling and hydraulic fracturing for crude oil and natural gas. Some variations of the invention provide a fracturing-fluid additive composition comprising a water-soluble portion of a biomass-pyrolysis liquid. In some embodiments, the fracturing-fluid additive composition is substantially biodegradable and is not toxic. Some variations provide improved proppants for oil or gas well fracturing. Other variations of this invention relate to drilling-fluid additive compositions, and methods of using these compositions. This invention can significantly improve the environmental, economic, and social sustainability associated with drilling and fracturing for production of oil and gas.
US09546313B2	Compositions and methods for controlling wellsite fluid and gas flow Magnesium oxysulfate cement compositions and methods for controlling and preventing fluid and gas flow through a wellbore are described. The compositions and methods may be implemented to provide a barrier to fluid and gas flow between casings or in other operations such as squeeze operations. Magnesium oxysulfate cement compositions may include an admixture of magnesium oxide, magnesium sulfate trihydrate and water. When admixed with water, the compositions rapidly transition from a flowable state to a solid state with formation of little or no gel strength before the transition and further have a near-linear relationship between the time required for the transition to occur and the composition temperature at which the transition occurs enabling the user to determine the time within which the transition will occur. Additives, such as accelerators and inhibitors can be added to modify the time in which the compositions make the transition from flowable state to solid state. Other agents can be added to modify the specific gravity and viscosity of the compositions.
US09546306B2	Cationically curable resin composition for assembling hard disk devices The present invention provides a cationically curable resin composition for assembling hard disk devices which comprises a resin having a cationically polymerizable functional group (a component A) and a cationic polymerization initiator (a component B), the component B being at least one selected from the group consisting of X+(SbF6)−(B1), X+(B(C6F5)4)−(B2) and X+((Rf)nPF6-n)−(B3) (in the formulae, X+ is iodonium or sulfonium, Rf is a fluorinated alkyl having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, and n is an integer of 1 to 6). The invention also provides a hard disk device manufacturing method using the composition, and a hard disk device assembled with the composition.
US09546304B2	Low application temperature amorphous poly-a-olefin adhesive It has been discovered that amorphous polybutene copolymers that have a softening point of from about 70 to about 105° C. and viscosity of less than about 1,900 cP at 190° C. possesses desirable properties and may be used to make a low application temperature hot melt adhesive for disposable absorbent articles.
US09546299B2	Superhydrophobic and oleophobic coatings with low VOC binder systems Coating compositions for the preparation of superhydrophobic (SH) and/or oleophobic (OP) surfaces that employ low amounts of volatile organic compounds are described. Also described are the resulting coatings/coated surfaces and methods of their preparation. Such coatings/surfaces have a variety of uses, including their ability to prevent or resist water, dirt and/or ice from attaching to a surface.
US09546296B2	Coating compositions, coatings and methods for sound and vibration damping and water resistance A coating composition having a measured solids content of at least 95% according to test method ASTM D2369 is disclosed. The composition includes a mixture of (a) a polymer prepared from one or more functional monomers comprising a (meth)acrylic monomer, an allyl monomer, or combinations thereof each having an ethylenically unsaturated double bond and an additional reactive functional group, and (b) a reactive diluent. At least some of the additional reactive functional group of the functional monomer remains unreacted during formation of the polymer. The reactive diluent has a boiling point of greater than 100° C. and a reactive functional group that reacts with the reactive functional group on the polymer at a temperature that is lower than the boiling point of the reactive diluent. Also disclosed are substrates having a cured coating thereon, the coating formed from the cured coating composition, and methods for providing sound and vibration damping.
US09546285B2	Polyurethane coating composition, multilayer surface coatings having a matt surface produced therefrom and processes for producing the multilayer surface coatings The invention relates to coating compositions based on organic solvents and comprising at least one hydroxyl-containing compound (A), at least one crosslinking agent (B) having groups reactive toward hydroxyl groups, and at least one silica gel based matting agent (M), wherein (i) the matting agent (M) is surface-modified with one or more waxes, and (ii) the coating composition further comprises at least one hydrophobic silica based rheological assistant (R). The present invention further provides multistage coating methods using these coating compositions, and also the use of the coating compositions as clearcoat or application of the coating method for automotive OEM finishing, for the finishing of parts for installation in or on automobiles, and for automotive refinishing.
US09546282B2	Electronically conductive enamel composition A description is given of an electronically conductive enamel composition, more particularly for anti-corrosion coatings.
US09546274B2	Automotive protectant compositions with improved vertical cling The present invention relates generally to compositions, methods of use and kits for use as an automotive protectant composition and/or automotive cleaning composition. The protectant composition and/or cleaning composition comprises at least one surfactant and at least one rheology modifier, at least one silicone component, and water. The composition also optionally comprise, pH adjusters, builders, alkalinity sources, wetting agents, spreading agents, UV absorbers. The protectant composition has a viscosity of about 4000 to 6000 cps and exhibits a Vertical Cling parameter of between 1 and about 7 at a temperature of about 25° C. on automotive surfaces to which the compositions are applied.
US09546273B2	Polyamide mixture A composition, containing at least 50% by weight of a polyamide fraction which comprises: a) from 50 to 95 parts by weight of a polyamide having as copolymerized units bis(4-aminocyclohexyl)methane (PACM) and a linear dicarboxylic acid having from 8 to 18 C atoms; and b) from 50 to 5 parts by weight of a linear aliphatic polyamide having an average of from 8 to 12 C atoms in the monomer units, where the sum of the parts by weight of a) and b) is 100 is provided. The composition can be processed to give a moulded article having high transparency, high toughness and high resistance to chemicals, to solvents and to stress cracking.
US09546253B2	Polyolefin porous film, method for producing the same and apparatus for producing the same The present invention relates to a method for producing a polyolefin porous film, the method including the steps of: (a) melt-kneading a solution containing a polyolefin having a weight average molecular weight of 500,000 or more and a solvent to obtain a kneaded product; (b) extruding and cooling the kneaded product to obtain a gel-like molded product; (c) drawing the gel-like molded product to obtain a drawn sheet; (d) removing the solvent from the drawn sheet, followed by drying to obtain a film in which fine pores are formed; (e) conducting heat treatment, while fixing the film in both directions of a MD and a TD thereof and drawing the film at a draw ratio of exceeding 0% to less than 0.1% in at least one direction of the MD and the TD thereof; and (f) conducting heat treatment while decreasing a width of the film in at least one direction of the MD and the TD of the film.
US09546250B2	Process for preparing dynamically vulcanized alloys This invention relates to the preparation of a dynamically vulcanized alloy comprising at least one elastomer and at least one thermoplastic resin. More specifically, the process produces dynamically vulcanized alloys with unique morphological features which have good impermeability and low temperature flexibility. In the process, the thermoplastic resin is added into the extruder in two stages with an intermediate addition of a compatibilizer. Also during the final addition of thermoplastic resin, the elastomeric curatives are added to the extruder.
US09546245B2	Chlorinated poly(propylene carbonate) and preparation method thereof This invention provides a chlorinated poly(propylene carbonate) and the preparation method thereof, the chlorinated poly(propylene carbonate) is as represented by formula (I). Compared to the prior poly(propylene carbonate)s, the chlorinated poly(propylene carbonate) has relatively stronger electronegativity due to the presence of chlorine atoms and the interaction of the chlorinated poly(propylene carbonate) with other polar materials can be enhanced, so that it can be widely used as a compatilizer, a binder, a paint, an ink, and the like. After the introduction of chlorine atoms, hydrogen bond interaction is generated within the chlorinated poly(propylene carbonate), so that its processability and mechanical properties are both improved. Furthermore, the chlorine atom may improve the flame retardancy of chlorinated poly(propylene carbonate) materials.
US09546241B2	Method for producing polyacetal copolymer A high-quality polyacetal copolymer produced by a simple process in an economical manner. The process includes supplying a raw material including trioxane and the like to a reaction device; setting the polymerization environmental temperature to no more than 100° C. until the reaction device conversion rate becomes 0.5, and then carrying out further polymerization; vaporizing and separating unreacted monomers from the reaction mixture at an environmental temperature of at least 115° C. and less than 140° C.; supplying the separated monomers to the raw material supply; and recovering the polyacetal copolymer from the reaction mixture.
US09546240B2	Method for producing polymer The present invention is related to a method for producing a polymer to efficiently remove metal residues of at least lithium and/or titanium from a polymer solution comprising the at least lithium and/or titanium to thereby obtain a refined polymer solution having little metal residue.
US09546237B2	Stabilization of polymers that contain a hydrolyzable functionality A process for treating a polymer having a hydrolyzable functionality, the process comprising: (i.) providing a polymer having hydrolyzable functionality; (ii.) introducing an alkoxysilane to the polymer, where the alkoxysilane is defined by the formula I where R2 is a hydrocarbyl group, R3, R4, and R5 are each independently a hydrocarbyl group or a hydrocarbyloxy group; and (iii.) introducing a silane having a hydrolyzable functionality, where the silane is defined by the formula II where χ is a hydrolyzable group that forms an acidic species upon hydrolysis, where R6, R7, and R8 are each independently a halogen atom, a hydrocarbyl group, a hydrocarboxylate group, or a hydrocarbyloxy group.
US09546231B2	Catalytic oligomerization of octenes In accordance with the present disclosure there is provided a process for preparing a hydrogenated olefin polymer by hydrogenation of a polyoctene; said polyoctene being prepared by reacting a C8-olefin feed comprising an isomeric mixture of an alpha-olefin and a non-alpha olefin monomer in a controlled manner with the help of an ionic catalyst, while controlling at least one condition of the reaction selected from the group of condition consisting of exotherm, contact time of the olefin feed with ionic catalyst and molar ratio of the ionic catalyst to the olefin feed within predetermined ranges to obtain an oligomerized mixture comprising at least one polyoctene and unreacted ionic catalyst.
US09546223B2	Dewatering biomass material comprising polysaccharide, method for extracting polysaccharide from biomass material, and dewatered biomass material A process for dewatering biomass material comprising polysaccharide and water. The process comprises wetting the biomass material with a wetting composition comprising an alcohol to form a biomass slurry comprising wetted biomass material and a liquid component, mechanically separating a portion of the liquid component from the biomass slurry, and mechanically separating at least a portion of the water from the wetted biomass material. A process for extracting polysaccharide from the biomass material and a dewatered biomass material are also disclosed.
US09546219B2	Treatment of allergic diseases with recombinant antibodies Recombinant antibodies (including binding fragments thereof) that bind IgE are described, along with compositions and methods of using the same in the treatment of subjects in need thereof, including subjects afflicted with atopic dermatitis, allergic rhinitis, allergic conjunctivitis, urticaria, gastro-intestinal inflammation, or oral-pharyngeal inflammation. In some embodiments, the antibody is a single chain variable fragment (scFv) or a disulfide linked variable fragment (sdFv). In some embodiments, the subject is a dog, cat, or horse.
US09546212B2	Methods of administering anti-TNFα antibodies Methods of treating disorders in which TNFα activity is detrimental via biweekly, subcutaneous administration of human antibodies, preferably recombinant human antibodies, that specifically bind to human tumor necrosis factor α (hTNFα) are disclosed. The antibody may be administered with or without methotrexate. These antibodies have high affinity for hTNFα (e.g., Kd=10−8 M or less), a slow off rate for hTNFα dissociation (e.g., Koff=10−3 sec−1 or less) and neutralize hTNFα activity in vitro and in vivo. An antibody of the invention can be a full-length antibody or an antigen-binding portion thereof. Kits containing a pharmaceutical composition and instructions for dosing, and preloaded syringes containing pharmaceutical compositions are also encompassed by the invention.
US09546208B2	Removal of impurities from protein A eluates Modified Protein A, Protein G, Protein L, or Protein A/G that lacks antibody binding activity, and methods of the modified protein's use for purifying antibodies is provided.
US09546204B2	Recombinant FSH including alpha 2,3- and alpha 2,6-sialylation Preparations including recombinant FSH (rFSH).
US09546202B2	Expression of IL-12 family heterodimers The present invention provides methods of improving the levels and stability of expression of interleukin-12 family cytokine polypeptides by expressing the alpha and beta subunits of the polypeptides at their determined relative molar ratios that increase the levels and stability of expression of the heterodimer, e.g., in comparison to heterodimer expressed at an equimolar ratio.
US09546197B2	Method for preparing cyclic lipopeptide compound Provided is a method for preparing a compound represented by Formula I or a salt thereof, wherein Coleophoma empetri F-11899 (FERM BP2635) and/or a mutant strain thereof is cultured in a medium containing amino acid or a salt thereof, an insoluble organic source, and a sugar alcohol, to produce the compound of Formula I or a salt thereof.
US09546195B2	Hydrophobic ceragenin compounds and devices incorporating same A hydrophobic cationic steroidal anti-microbial (ceragenin) compound forms an amphiphilic compound having a hydrophobic sterol face and a hydrophilic cationic face. The hydrophobic CSA also includes a hydrophobic substituent that gives the ceragenin compound a C Log P value of at least 6.0, 6.25, 6.5, 7.5, 8.5, or 10.
US09546184B2	Alkyloxy substituted thiazoloquinolines and thiazolonaphthyridines Thiazoloquinolines and thiazolonaphthyridines with an alkoxy substituent at the 6, 7, 8, or 9-position, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, intermediates, methods of making and methods of use of these compounds as immunomodulators, for inducing cytokine biosynthesis in animals and in the treatment of diseases including viral and neoplastic diseases are disclosed.
US09546173B2	Substituted pyrrolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines as kinase inhibitors The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; as further described herein. The present invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, and combinations comprising these compounds combined with or used with a therapeutic co-agent, as well as therapeutic uses of these compounds and compositions. These are useful in the treatment of diseases such as cancer that are associated with activation of ERK1 and/or ERK2, and especially for MAPK pathway dependent cancers showing resistance to Raf and/or MEK inhibitory cancer therapeutics.
US09546171B2	Preparation of ertapenem intermediates The present invention relates to the preparation of compounds, in particular to the preparation of compounds which may be used as intermediates for the preparation of antibiotics, preferably carbapenem antibiotics, more preferably ertapenem, and salts thereof.
US09546163B2	3,5-diaminopyrazole kinase inhibitors Provided herein are 3,5-diaminopyrazoles, for example, compounds of Formula I, that are useful for modulating regulated-in-COPD kinase activity, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Also provided herein are methods of their use for treating, preventing, or ameliorating one or more symptoms of a RC kinase-mediated disorder, disease, or condition.
US09546155B2	Aromatic heterocyclic compound The compound represented by the general formula: wherein ring A is benzene which may be substituted and the like; ring B is benzene which may be substituted and the like; X is a single bond and the like; Y is alkyl which may be substituted and the like; Z is CR1 or nitrogen atom; R1 is hydrogen and the like; R2 is alkyl which may be substituted and the like or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is useful as a prevention/treatment agent of obesity, diabetes, and the like.
US09546152B2	2-pyridyloxy-3-substituted-4-nitrile orexin receptor antagonists The present invention is directed to 2-pyridyloxy-3-substituted-4-nitrile compounds which are antagonists of orexin receptors. The present invention is also directed to uses of the 2-pyridyloxy-3-substituted-4-nitrile compounds described herein in the treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders and diseases in which orexin receptors are involved. The present invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds. The present invention is also directed to uses of these pharmaceutical compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which orexin receptors are involved.
US09546151B2	VMAT inhibitory compounds Disclosed herein are compounds that bind to the vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2), pharmaceutical compositions comprising those compounds, and methods of treatment using said compounds and pharmaceutical compositions.
US09546147B2	Method for producing cyclic carbonates Linear or cyclic carbonates as potential monomers for isocyanate-free polyurethanes and polycarbonates were prepared from polyols and dialkyl carbonates or diphenyl carbonates. This invention was developed to produce linear or cyclic carbonates with or without using catalysts. Polyol compounds were reacted with carbonates such as dimethyl carbonate and diethyl carbonate to produce the corresponding linear and/or cyclic carbonate.
US09546144B2	Bifunctional compounds A compound having the formula: wherein X is S, SO or SO2; one of R1, R2, and R3 is O and the others of R1, R2 and R3 are independently, the same or different, CH2, or CR13 wherein, R13 is an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, a trialkylsilyl group, or —(CH2)mOR15, wherein R15 is an alkyl group or an aryl group and m is an integer in the range of 1 to 10, and one of R5, R6, and R7 is O and the others of R5, R6 and R7 are independently, the same or different, CH2, or CR14 wherein, R14 is an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, a trialkylsilyl group, or —(CH2)nOR16, wherein R16 is an alkyl group or an aryl group and n is an integer in the range of 1 to 10; R4 and R8 are independently, the same or different, H, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aryl group, a heteroaryl group, a C1-C3 alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, or —(CH2)qOR17, wherein R17 is an alkyl group or an aryl group and q is an integer in the range of 1 to 10, provided that R4 is not a C1-C3 alkoxy group or an aryloxy group when R1 or R3 is O and R8 is not a C1-C3 alkoxy group or an aryloxy group when R5 or R7 is O; R9, R10, R11 and R12 are independently, the same or different, H, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, or an aryl group.
US09546143B2	Method for preparing high-quality epoxidized fatty acid ester with micro-reaction device A method for preparing a high-quality epoxidized fatty acid ester with a micro-reaction device, including: respectively pumping an aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution and a carboxylic acid at the same time into a first micro-mixer; after the reaction in the first micro-reactor, respectively pumping the output material and an unsaturated fatty acid ester into a second micro-mixer;completely mixing them and then introducing the mixture into a second micro-reactor; and after a complete reaction, water-rinsing the organic phase part of the resultant reaction liquid and drying the same to obtain the epoxidized fatty acid ester.
US09546141B2	Salts The present invention relates to new crystalline salt forms of flibanserine which have valuable pharmacological properties, to a process for their manufacture, to pharmaceutical formulations containing them and to their use as medicament.
US09546131B2	Substituted biaryl alkyl amides Disclosed herein are substituted biaryl alkyl amide compounds, methods of synthesizing substituted biaryl alkyl amide compounds and methods of treating diseases and/or conditions with substituted biaryl alkyl amide compounds.
US09546130B2	Process for manufacturing haloacetamides The present invention relates to a process for manufacturing haloacetamides of formula (I), comprising sub-step (a): reacting halones of formula (II) with oleum; followed by sub-step (b): reacting the reaction mixture obtained in sub-step (a) with an amine of formula (IV) optionally in the presence of a base; wherein the variables are defined according to the description.
US09546125B2	Continuous process for extraction of unsaturated triglycerides from fish oil Disclosed is a process for the direct extraction of an omega-3 fatty acid enriched triglyceride product comprising unsaturated triglycerides with a fatty acid strand of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) or eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) from a crude fish oil comprising unsaturated triglycerides and saturated triglycerides having strands comprising fatty acids of at least one stearic acid, palmitic and oleic acid. Each triglyceride in the crude fish oil can be characterized by a Partition Number (PN) according to the formula: PN=TC−2DB wherein TC is a total number of carbon atoms in the fatty acid strand, and DB is the number of double bonds in the fatty acid strand. Crude fish oil diluted in non-polar solvent directly passed to an SMB zone, comprising a normal phase separation with a hydrophilic stationary phase agent and a non-polar/organic polar mobile phase desorbent to provide an omega-3 fatty acid enriched triglyceride product.
US09546113B2	High porosity/low permeability graphite bodies and process for the production thereof A method of forming a graphitic carbon body employs compression and resistance heating of a stock blend of a carbon material and a binder material. During molding of the body, resistance heating is accompanied by application of mechanical pressure to increase the density and carbonization of the resulting preform body. The preform can then be subjected to a graphitization temperature to form a graphite article.
US09546105B2	Near-infrared light absorbing glass, element and filter Provided is a near-infrared light absorbing glass with a near-infrared light absorbing element and a near-infrared light absorbing filter. When the length of the near-infrared light absorbing glass is 1 mm, transmissivity is more than 80% at the wavelength of 400 nm, and more than 85% at the wavelength of 500 nm. The near-infrared light absorbing glass contains P5+, Al3+, Li+, R2+ and Cu2+ represented by positive ions, wherein R2+ represents Mg2+, Ca2+, Sr2+ and Ba2+. Meanwhile, the near-infrared light absorbing glass contains O2− and F− represented by negative ions. Water durability (DW) of the near-infrared light absorbing glass reaches Class 1 and acid durability (DA) reaches above Class 4. In this invention, fluorphosphate glass is used as the matrix glass and the components are designed specially, so that the melting temperature of glass can be effectively lowered and the chemical stability of the glass can be excellent.
US09546102B2	Method for pretreatment of wastewater and recreational water with nanocomposites A single step pretreatment of wastewater or recreational water is provided comprising treatment with nanocomposites consisting of an anchoring particle such as a clay mineral and one or more polymers.
US09546096B2	Method for producing MAZ-type zeolite Provided is a method for producing a MAZ-type zeolite, the method having an environmental impact which has been reduced as much as possible while not using a structure-directing agent as far as possible. In the method for producing a MAZ-type zeolite according to the present invention: (1) a silica source, an alumina source, an alkali source and water are mixed so as to form a reaction mixture that has a composition represented by a specific molar ratio; (2) a MAZ-type zeolite, which has a SiO2/Al2O3 ratio of 5-10, has an average particle diameter of at least 0.1 μm and does not contain an organic compound, is added, as a seed crystal, into the reaction mixture in an amount of 0.1-30 weight % relative to the silica components in the reaction mixture; and (3) the reaction mixture, into which the seed crystal has been added, is heated at 80-200° C. in a closed system.
US09546090B1	Integrated MEMS-CMOS devices and methods for fabricating MEMS devices and CMOS devices Integrated MEMS-CMOS devices and methods for fabricating MEMS devices and CMOS devices are provided. An exemplary method for fabricating a MEMS device and a CMOS device includes forming the CMOS device in and/or over a first side of a semiconductor substrate. Further, the method includes forming the MEMS device in and/or under a second side of the semiconductor substrate. The second side of the semiconductor substrate is opposite the first side of the semiconductor substrate.
US09546087B1	Apparatuses and methods for connecting to objects of different sizes According to one embodiment, an apparatus, connectable to objects of different sizes, comprises: a first connection body comprising a first plurality of spaced-apart connectors and a second plurality of spaced-apart connectors; and a second connection body comprising a first connector and a second connector, the first connector connectable to and disconnectable from a first one of the first plurality of spaced-apart connectors, and the second connector connectable to and disconnectable from a first one of the second plurality of spaced-apart connectors. When the first connector is connected to the first one of the first plurality of spaced-apart connectors and when the second connector is connected to the first one of the second plurality of spaced-apart connectors, the first connection body and the second connection body define a region having a first size between the first connection body and the second connection body. Methods are also disclosed.
US09546081B2	Power-assisted winch A power-assisted winch includes a rotatable drum for receiving a line thereabout. The power-assisted winch further includes a trigger mechanism configured to be releasably engaged upon a force exerted on the line. The trigger mechanism selectively activates a power source providing power to the winch to assist with hauling the line when engaged.
US09546080B2	Lifter and method for handling a rotor blade, rotor blade for a wind generator and method for marking a rotor blade, system comprising a lifter and a rotor blade A lifter and a method for handling of a rotor blade of a wind turbine are provided. Furthermore, a rotor blade for a wind generator and a method for marking the rotor blade and a system comprising a rotor blade and a lifter are provided. The lifter comprises at least one grabbing jaw having a pair of arms carrying pads for contacting an outer surface of the rotor blade in predetermined grabbing areas. Furthermore, the lifter comprises a detector for visual inspection of an invisible mark on a surface of the rotor blade. The at least one mark indicates a position of the at least one grabbing area.
US09546076B2	Suspension arrangement and guide shoe arrangement for an elevator A suspension arrangement and guide shoe arrangement of an elevator, which arrangement comprises at least an elevator car and at least two compensating weights, which are for their part connected to support the elevator car by the aid of at least two suspension members, such as by the aid of ropes or belts, and also by the aid of diverting pulleys, and a hoisting machine provided with at least one traction sheave or corresponding, as well as at least two traction members, such as belts, ropes or chains, separate from the suspension members, which traction members are configured to transmit the rotational movement of the traction sheave into movement of the elevator car and of the compensating weights. There are at least four guide rails of the elevator car and they are fitted into an elevator hoistway symmetrically to each other in relation to the elevator car.
US09546072B2	Energy use in elevator installations An elevator installation with an elevator unit, which is connected with a power supply mains, is controllable by an elevator control with consideration of first control information based on local requirements of users. The elevator control receives from the power supply mains second control information containing status data for the power supply mains. The first and second control information is evaluated by the elevator control. The elevator control influences operation, which is determined by the first control information, of the elevator installation in dependence on the second control information so as to enable desired operation in terms of energy. A monitoring unit, which determines status data for the power supply mains and provides information for the consumers, is connectible with the power supply mains. The monitoring unit creates second control information for the elevator control in dependence on loading of the power supply mains.
US09546071B1	Sheet transport device, image reading device, and image forming apparatus A sheet transport device includes a transport unit that transports a sheet to a reading position by a first transport roller, a driving unit that switches a rotating direction, a rotating unit that rotates the first transport roller in one direction, the rotating unit including a one-direction gear that directly meshes with a first planet gear when the driving unit rotates in a first direction and meshes with a second planet gear when the driving unit rotates in a second direction, a switch unit that switches between states in which rotation of the one-direction gear is or is not transmitted to the first transport roller, and a displacement-force applying part that applies a force for displacing the first planet gear to mesh with the one-direction gear when the first planet gear touches the switch unit.
US09546068B2	Guided tape applicator A tape applicator system that employs an extendable arm to carry and control the movement of a tape applicator mounted at its moveable or free end. The tape is dispensed from a essentially fixed location remote from the applicator which permits the use of larger roll (Machine rolls) without the necessitating moving the roll as is required in a normal hand operated device. The movement of the tape applicator mounted on the arm is restricted to straight line movement by the linkage of the extendable arm. If desired a parallel linkage mechanism may be used in the arm to maintain the angular orientation of the applicator which is particularly important when the tape applicator is a common tape head normally use in taping machines. Using a constant height system the height of the tape applicator can be maintained constant when in operation.
US09546059B2	Sheet conveying apparatus A sheet conveying apparatus, including: a base body having a conveyor surface; a separating roller configured to rotate about a first rotation axis parallel to a width direction of the conveyor surface and to convey a sheet downstream in a conveyance direction orthogonal to the width direction; a separating piece opposed to the separating roller and configured to cooperate with the separating roller to separate sheets being conveyed one by one; an attachment member removably attached to the base body at a position at which the attachment member is opposed to the separating roller, so as to form a part of the conveyor surface; a holder holding the separating piece and supported by the attachment member so as to be movable toward and away from the separating roller; and a first urging member provided between the attachment member and the holder for urging the separating piece toward the separating roller.
US09546055B2	Extendable bin sweep A bin sweep comprising a first auger section configured to be movably mounted to a central support framework of a storage bin, and a second auger section operably engaged with the first auger frame such that the second auger section is moveable relative to the first section frame substantially along an axis.
US09546042B2	Rack storage system and method for controlling the movement path of a storage and retrieval device in a rack storage system A rack storage system 1 and a method for controlling the movement path of a storage and retrieval device in a rack storage system, including at least one storage and retrieval device with at least two movement axes x, y which can be controlled independently of one another and are operated by electric motors, to carry out a movement from a starting point to a target point 4 to transfer stored goods within the rack storage system and/or into or out of the rack storage system, having a control unit for controlling the motors of the movement axes x, y and an electric intermediate circuit for exchanging fed-back electrical energy between the motors. The control unit pre-calculates the movement sequences, necessary for a movement from the starting point to the target point, of the individual movement axes x, y and coordinates them with one another, and actuates the motors of the movement axes x, y so the storage and retrieval device carries out the movement on a pre-calculated movement path which is based on a set of movement sequences, coordinated with one another, of the individual movement axes x, y. The control unit calculates a quantity with a plurality of sets of movement sequences which are coordinated with one another, which contains at least a first set with movement sequences which are optimized with respect to the speed of the movement, for a high-speed operating mode, and a second set with movement sequences which are optimized with respect to the consumption of electrical energy, for an economical operating mode. The control unit selects a set with movement sequences from the calculated quantity on the basis of operation parameters of the rack storage system in order to actuate the motors of the movement axes in order to carry out a movement path.
US09546039B1	Container liner with rigid discharge structure A liner discharge structure, and associated liner and container system are disclosed. The liner discharge structure includes: a collar fabricated from a liner material, wherein the collar encapsulates an O-ring in the liner material; a substantially rigid section having an opening, wherein the substantially rigid section is fabricated from the liner material; and a neck fabricated from the liner material, wherein the neck provides a passageway extending between the opening in the substantially rigid section and the collar; wherein the liner material used to fabricate the substantially rigid section has a cross-sectional thickness greater than the liner material used to fabricate the neck.
US09546038B2	Disposable whole bean coffee filter A pre-packaged, sealed container enclosing whole coffee beans is sized to correspond to a single serving of coffee, or multiple servings. The container is used with a machine that selectively lowers a grinding blade into the container for grinding the whole beans. The freshly made grounds remain in the same container and heated water is introduced into the container. Freshly brewed coffee is produced and drips out of one or more openings in the bottom of the container after passing through the filter. The container is sealed for storage and shipping with an airtight membrane or cover such as plastic, foil etc.
US09546037B1	Modular foam dispensing gun A modular foam spray gun is illustrated in which a third hose is attached to the gun for the application of either a liquid or a gas, the spray gun having a transverse channel positioned at a rear of the housing of the gun for securedly affixing the separable module to the housing of the spray gun.
US09546036B2	Method and system to whiten a golf hole An apparatus includes a container holding a whitening material, and a dispenser to release the whitening material from the container, wherein the dispenser is configured to simultaneously dispense the whitening material in a spray pattern 360 degrees around the dispenser.
US09546035B2	Slide card for selective insertion and withdrawal from a sleeve The slide card includes a base panel and a locking panel. The base panel includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has at least one first embossment integrally formed therewith and projecting therefrom. The locking panel is integrally formed with the base panel. The locking panel is hingedly connected directly to one of the end edges of the base panel along a hinge. The locking panel is folded about the hinge to take a folded position where the locking panel is disposed over the first portion of the base panel. The locking panel has at least one second embossment integrally formed therewith and projecting therefrom. The at least one the first embossment and the at least one second embossment are disposed next to each other with the hinge disposed therebetween.
US09546028B2	Mouthpiece structure for pressure vessel A mouthpiece structure for a pressure vessel includes a liner constituting a vessel body and a cylindrical part, a cylindrical mouthpiece mounted closely to an inner periphery of the cylindrical part, a housing part having a housing recess formed by recessing at least one of the inner periphery of cylindrical part and an outer periphery of mouthpiece, a sealing member housed in the housing recess while adhering closely to the inner periphery of cylindrical part and the outer periphery of mouthpiece, the sealing member defining a sealed space facing an interface between the inner periphery of the cylindrical part and the outer periphery of the mouthpiece in the housing recess, and a retainer located opposite the sealed space with the sealing member being interposed between them and preventing the sealing member from being displaced in a direction such that the sealing member increases a capacity of the sealed space.
US09546025B2	Lid construction for breathing apparatus A breathing assistance apparatus has a lid and latch assembly configured for one-handed operation. The apparatus also includes a hinge assembly that separates when over-rotated but that reengages upon closing of the lid onto the main body of the apparatus.
US09546018B1	Enhanced tamper-evident container A tamper-evident container has a lid (14) that can be opened only by lifting and pulling a tab (18). Pulling of the tab breaks a breakable joint (41, 43, 70, FIG. 4) that connects the tab (18) to a hold-down (24) that is fixed to the lid, so when the tab is released from the hold-down the tab springs up (FIG. 2) to an upward incline J to indicate that the container was opened.
US09546013B2	Converted intermodal container for use as a water processing tank An intermodal container converted to a tank for processing wastewater has a process wall detachable from a hatchway in a wall of the container. The process wall is bolted to an interior facing flange in the container wall and is installed so as to sandwich a gasket and a lip between the process wall and the flange. When the process wall is at a container end wall, first components for interface with water to be treated are sealingly fixed into one part of the process wall designed to be below the level of contained water. Second process components such as those associated with communication cabling, power cabling or piping to be run through the converted container are sealingly fixed into an upper part of the process wall above a design level of contained water to be treated.
US09546004B1	Water and ice detection and quantitative assessment system for ingression prone areas in an aircraft A water and ice detection and quantitative assessment system (“WIDQAS”) for moisture detection and assessment of water accumulation on an aircraft having an airframe that has at least one enclosed space within the airframe is described. The WIDQAS may include a plurality of sensors and a data measurement device. The plurality of sensors may be arranged in the at least one enclosed space within the airframe and each sensor of the plurality of sensors may be configured to detect a presence of moisture in the at least one enclosed space and generate a data measurement that is responsive to the detection of moisture in the at least one enclosed space. The data measurement device is in signal communication with the plurality of sensors and may be configured to record the data measurement for each sensor and record identifying information about the measurement during a flight of the aircraft.

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