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US09899379B2	Semiconductor devices having fins A semiconductor device includes a first fin on a substrate, a gate electrode on the substrate to intersect the first fin, an epitaxial layer on both sides of the gate electrode to contact side surfaces of the first fin, and a metal alloy layer which contacts an upper surface of the first fin and part of the epitaxial layer, wherein a first region of the first fin has a higher doping concentration than a second region of the first fin which is located under the first region.
US09899374B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including, on a first surface, first trenches and a second trench linked to each of the first trenches. The semiconductor substrate includes: a p-type end layer extending from the first surface to a position closer to a second surface of the semiconductor substrate than an end of each of the first trenches on a second surface side and including a longitudinal end of each of the first trenches in a plan view of the first surface; a first p-type layer provided in a region between adjacent first trenches, and contacting the first electrode provided on the first surface; an n-type barrier layer; a second p-type layer. The second trench separates the p-type end layer from the first p-type layer and the second p-type layer.
US09899372B1	Forming on-chip metal-insulator-semiconductor capacitor A method is presented for forming a semiconductor structure. The method includes forming a plurality of fins on a first region of the semiconductor substrate, forming a bi-polymer structure, selectively removing the first polymer of the bi-polymer structure and forming deep trenches in the semiconductor substrate resulting in pillars in a second region of the semiconductor structure. The method further includes selectively removing the second polymer of the bi-polymer structure, doping the pillars, and depositing a high-k metal gate (HKMG) over the first and second regions to form the MIS capacitor in the second region of the semiconductor substrate.
US09899371B2	Ultrasonic transducers in complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) wafers and related apparatus and methods Micromachined ultrasonic transducers formed in complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) wafers are described, as are methods of fabricating such devices. A metallization layer of a CMOS wafer may be removed by sacrificial release to create a cavity of an ultrasonic transducer. Remaining layers may form a membrane of the ultrasonic transducer.
US09899365B1	Layout of semiconductor device A layout of a semiconductor device includes a first active area, a second active area, plural gates, a first conductive layout and plural plugs. The first and the second active areas are disposed on a substrate and surrounded by a shallow trench isolation (STI). The plural gates are parallel with one another and cross the first and the second active areas. The first conductive layer covers the plural gates, and the plural gates are electrically connected to each other through the first conductive layer. The plural plugs are disposed on the first conductive layer to electrically connect the plural gates.
US09899361B2	Semiconductor package A semiconductor package includes a logic chip mounted on a substrate, a first memory chip disposed on the logic chip, which includes a first active surface, and a second memory chip disposed on the first memory chip. The second memory chip is disposed on the first memory chip in such a way that the first memory chip and second memory chip are offset from each other. The second memory chip has a second active surface. The first active surface and the second active surface face each other and are electrically connected to each other through a first solder bump.
US09899360B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a conducting portion, and a sealing resin. The substrate has a main surface and is formed with a recessed portion in the main surface. The conducting portion is formed on the substrate. The sealing resin is disposed in the recessed portion. The conducting portion includes a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer both formed in the recessed portion. The second wiring layer is closer to the main surface than is the first wiring layer in the normal direction of the main surface.
US09899345B2	Electrode terminal, semiconductor device for electrical power, and method for manufacturing semiconductor device for electrical power An electrode terminal includes: a first drawn-out part to be bonded to a main electrode; and a second drawn-out part that is formed of a plate member in a continuous fashion from one end portion to be positioned opposite to the main electrode with a gap therebetween until another end portion to be connected to an external circuit, so that a portion in the first drawn-out part that is adjacent to a portion therein to be bonded to the main electrode, is bonded to an opposing surface to the main electrode in said one end portion; wherein the first drawn-out part is formed so that the portion to be bonded to the main electrode is away from the opposing surface; and wherein an opening portion corresponding to the main electrode is formed in the second drawn-out part.
US09899343B2	High voltage tolerant bonding pad structure for trench-based semiconductor devices Apparatus and associated methods relate to a bonding pad structure for a trench-based semiconductor device. The bonding pad structure reduces a peak magnitude of the electric field between a metal bonding pad and the underlying semiconductor. The bonding pad structure includes a plurality of trenches vertically extending from a top surface of a semiconductor. Each of the plurality of trenches has dielectric sidewalls and a dielectric bottom, the dielectric sidewalls and dielectric bottom electrically isolating a conductive core within each of the trenches from a region of semiconductor outside of and adjacent to each of the plurality of trenches. The bonding pad structure includes a metal bonding pad disposed above the plurality of trenches, the metal bonding pad electrically isolated from the region of semiconductor outside of the trenches. The conductive core can be biased to reduce the magnitude of the field between adjacent trenches.
US09899338B1	Structure and fabrication method for enhanced mechanical strength crack stop Methods for enhancing mechanical strength of back-end-of-line (BEOL) dielectrics to prevent crack propagation within interconnect stacks are provided. After forming interconnect structures in a dielectric material layer, a pore filling material is introduced into pores of a portion of the dielectric material layer that is located in a crack stop region present around a periphery of a chip region. By filling the pores of the portion of the dielectric material layer located in the crack stop region, the mechanical strength of the dielectric material layer is selectively enhanced in the crack stop region.
US09899335B2	Method for fabricating package structure A package structure includes a carrier, an electronic component disposed on the carrier, an encapsulant formed on the carrier for encapsulating the electronic component, a first shielding layer formed on the encapsulant, and a second shielding layer formed on the first shielding layer. The first and second shielding layers are made of different materials. With the multiple shielding layers formed on the encapsulating layer, the electronic component is protected from electromagnetic interferences. The present invention also provides a method for fabricating the package structure.
US09899332B2	Visual identification of semiconductor dies Systems and methods for visual identification of semiconductor dies are described. In some embodiments, a method may include: receiving a semiconductor wafer having a plurality of dies and printing a unique visual identification mark on each of the plurality of dies. In other embodiments, a method may include receiving an electronic device comprising a die and a package surrounding at least a portion of the die and reading, from the electronic device, a unique visual identification mark that encodes a Cartesian coordinate of the die relative to a reference point on a semiconductor wafer.
US09899328B2	Power semiconductor module A power semiconductor module includes: a positive arm and a negative arm that are formed by series connection of self-arc-extinguishing type semiconductor elements, the positive arm and the negative arm being connected at a series connection point between the self-arc-extinguishing type semiconductor elements; a positive-side electrode, a negative-side electrode, and an AC electrode connected to the positive arm and the negative arm; and a substrate on which a plurality of wiring patterns are formed, the wiring patterns connecting the self-arc-extinguishing type semiconductor elements of the positive arm and the negative arm to the positive-side electrode, the negative-side electrode, and the AC electrode. Respective directions of current flowing in adjacent wiring patterns are identical to each other, and one of the adjacent wiring patterns is arranged in mirror symmetry with the other of the adjacent wiring patterns.
US09899315B2	Wiring for semiconductor device and method of forming same A method for forming a wiring for a semiconductor device according to an aspect of the present invention includes: forming a predetermined pattern on a first surface of a silicon substrate by selectively etching the first surface; coating, with a metal layer, a selected area of the first surface, including an area whereat the predetermined pattern is formed; forming organic material in the first surface to fill an etched portion and cover the coated metal layer; forming a plurality of via holes in the organic material and connecting the metal wiring to the coated metal layer through the via holes; and grinding a second surface corresponding to the first surface to remove a part of the metal layer formed in the etched portion.
US09899313B2	Multi terminal capacitor within input output path of semiconductor package interconnect A semiconductor package, e.g., wafer, chip, interposer, etc., includes a multi terminal capacitor within an input output (IO) path. The multi terminal capacitor is electrically attached directly upon a first IO contact of the semiconductor package. There is no inductance between the multi terminal capacitor and an interconnect that electrically connects the first IO contact with a second IO contact of a second semiconductor package and no inductance between the multi terminal capacitor and the first IO contact. The multi terminal capacitor may serve as a power source to cycle the turning on and off of the various circuits within a semiconductor chip associated with the semiconductor package. Because the distance between the multi terminal capacitor and semiconductor chip is reduced, inductance within the system is resultantly reduced. The multi terminal capacitor may be a decoupling capacitor that decouples one part of semiconductor chip from another part of semiconductor chip.
US09899312B2	Isolating electric paths in semiconductor device packages Methods, systems, and apparatus for reducing power consumption or signal distortions in a semiconductor device package. The semiconductor device package includes a semiconductor device, a first electric path, a second electric path, and an isolation element in the first electric path. The second electric path is electrically connected to the first electric path and a functional unit of the device. The isolation element separates an isolated portion in the first electric path from the second electric path, where the isolation element is configured to reduce current in the isolated portion when a signal is passing through the second electric path.
US09899311B2	Hybrid pitch package with ultra high density interconnect capability A hybrid pitch package includes a standard package pitch zone of the package having only standard package pitch sized features that is adjacent to a smaller processor pitch sized zone of the package having smaller processor pitch sized features. The package may be formed by obtaining a package having standard package pitch sized features (such as from another location or a package processing facility), forming a protective mask over a standard package pitch zone of the package that is adjacent to a smaller processor pitch sized zone on the package, and then forming smaller processor pitch sized features (such as contacts, traces and interconnects) in the smaller processor pitch sized zone at a chip fabrication processing facility. The smaller processor pitch sized features can be directly connected to (thus reducing the package connection area needed) a chip or device having processor pitch sized features (e.g., exposed contacts).
US09899306B2	Anisotropic conductive member and multilayer wiring substrate An object of the present invention is to provide an anisotropic conductive member capable of achieving excellent conduction reliability and a multilayer wiring substrate using the same. The anisotropic conductive member of the present invention includes an insulating base which is made of an inorganic material, a plurality of conductive paths which are made of a conductive member, penetrate the insulating base in a thickness direction thereof and are provided in a mutually insulated state, and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer which is provided on a surface of the insulating base, in which each of the conductive paths has a protrusion which protrudes from the surface of the insulating base, and an end of the protrusion of each of the conductive paths is exposed or protrudes from the surface of the pressure sensitive adhesive layer.
US09899289B2	Printed circuit module having a semiconductor device with a protective layer in place of a low-resistivity handle layer A printed circuit module having a protective layer in place of a low-resistivity handle layer and methods for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The printed circuit module includes a printed circuit substrate with a thinned die attached to the printed circuit substrate. The thinned die includes at least one device layer over the printed circuit substrate and at least one deep well within the at least one device layer. A protective layer is disposed over the at least one deep well, wherein the protective layer has a thermal conductivity greater than 2 watts per meter Kelvin (W/mK) and an electrical resistivity of greater than 106 Ohm-cm.
US09899277B2	Integrated circuit substrate and method for manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a wafer. The method includes providing a wafer and testing the wafer. Based on a test result, a substance is selectively provided on the wafer to obtain an altered wafer that has at least one selected portion altered. The method includes forming a structural layer over the altered wafer.
US09899273B1	Semiconductor structure with dopants diffuse protection and method for forming the same Semiconductor structures and methods for forming the same are provided. The method for forming a semiconductor structure includes forming an N-well region in a substrate and forming a first protection layer over the N-well region. The method for forming a semiconductor structure further includes forming a P-well region in the substrate and forming a second protection layer over the P-well region. The method for forming a semiconductor structure further includes growing a first channel layer over the first protection layer and a second channel layer over the second protection layer and forming a first gate structure over the first channel layer and a second gate structure over the second channel layer.
US09899270B2	Methods for manufacturing semiconductor devices There is disclosed a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising two opposite types of MOSFETs formed on one semiconductor substrate, the method comprising: forming a portion of the MOSFET on the semiconductor substrate, said portion of said MOSFET comprising source/drains regions located in the semiconductor substrate, a dummy gate stack located between the source/drain region and above the semiconductor substrate and a gate spacer surrounding the dummy gate stack; removing the dummy gate stack of said MOSFET to form a gate opening which exposes the surface of the semiconductor substrate; forming an interfacial oxide layer on the exposed surface of the semiconductor structure; forming a high-K gate dielectric on the interfacial oxide layer within the gate opening; forming a first metal gate layer on the high-K gate dielectric; implanting doping ions in the first metal gate layer; forming a second metal gate layer on the first metal gate layer to fill up the gate opening; and annealing to diffuse and accumulate the doping ions at an upper interface between the high-K gate dielectric and the first metal gate layer and at a lower interface between the high-K gate dielectric and the interfacial oxide, and generating an electric dipole at the lower interface between the high-K gate dielectric and the interfacial oxide by interfacial reaction.
US09899265B2	Gate structures with various widths and method for forming the same Embodiments of a semiconductor device structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate and a first metal gate structure formed over the substrate. The first metal gate structure has a first width. The semiconductor device structure further includes a first contact formed adjacent to the first metal gate structure and a second metal gate structure formed over the substrate. The second metal gate structure has a second width smaller than the first width. The semiconductor device structure further includes an insulating layer formed over the second metal gate structure and a second contact self-aligned to the second metal gate structure.
US09899264B2	Integrated metal gate CMOS devices A semiconductor device comprises a first semiconductor fin arranged on a substrate, the first semiconductor fin having a first channel region, and a second semiconductor fin arranged on the substrate, the second semiconductor fin having a second channel region. A first gate stack is arranged on the first channel region. The first gate stack comprises a first metal layer arranged on the first channel region, a work function metal layer arranged on the first metal layer, and a work function metal arranged on the work function metal layer. A second gate stack is arranged on the second channel region, the second gate stack comprising a work function metal arranged on the second channel region.
US09899251B2	Use of vacuum chucks to hold a wafer or wafer sub-stack Techniques are described for holding a wafer or wafer sub-stack to facilitate further processing of the wafer of sub-stack. In some implementations, a wafer or wafer sub-stack is held by a vacuum chuck in a manner that can help reduce bending of the wafer or wafer sub-stack.
US09899250B2	Method of collective fabrication of 3D electronic modules configured to operate at more than 1 GHz A method of collective fabrication of 3D electronic modules, each 3D electronic module comprising a stack of at least two, surface transferable, ball grid electronic packages, tested at their operating temperature and frequency comprises: a step of fabricating reconstituted wafers, each reconstituted wafer being fabricated according to the following sub-steps in the following order: A1)) the electronic packages are placed on a first sticky skin, balls side, B1) molding of the electronic packages in the resin and polymerization of the resin, to obtain the intermediate wafer, C1) thinning of the intermediate wafer on the face of the intermediate wafer opposite to the balls, D1) removal of the first sticky skin and placing of the intermediate wafer on a second sticky skin, side opposite to the balls, E1) thinning of the intermediate wafer on the balls side face, F1) formation of a balls side redistribution layer, G1) removal of the second sticky skin to obtain a reconstituted wafer of smaller thickness than the original thickness of the electronic packages, several reconstituted wafers having been obtained on completion of the previous sub-steps, stacking of the reconstituted wafers, dicing of the stacked reconstituted wafers to obtain 3D modules.
US09899246B2	Gas distributor used in wafer carriers The present invention relates to gas distributors used in wafer carriers. The gas distributors comprise a body having an interior space, a separator configured at the front side of the body in the interior space, and an air inlet connected with the body. One edge of the separator and the front side of the body together form a passage. The configuration of the passage in the gas distributors enables the gas distributors to evenly distribute gases.
US09899233B2	Manufacturing method for reducing the surface roughness of a low temperaturepoly-silicon and a low temperaturepoly-silicon thereof The present invention discloses a manufacturing method to reduce the surface roughness of the low temperature poly-silicon, including: a surface pretreatment is performed to a substrate with a a-Si layer on it, to form an oxidation layer on the a-Si layer. A first excimer laser annealing is performed on the substrate to make the a-Si layer into a poly-silicon layer; an acid liquid clean is used on the poly-silicon layer to remove the protrusions on the poly-silicon layer; a second excimer laser annealing is performed to the poly-silicon layer to obtain a low temperature poly-silicon layer with lower surface roughness. The manufacturing method is easy to operation and reduce the surface roughness of the low temperature poly-silicon layer with efficiency to obtain a low temperature poly-silicon layer with low roughness, uniform surface and well crystallization. A low temperature poly-silicon layer formed according to the present invention is also provided.
US09899226B2	Semiconductor device and fabrication method thereof Provided herein is a semiconductor device including a substrate; an active layer formed on top of the substrate; a protective layer formed on top of the active layer and having a first aperture; a source electrode, driving gate electrode and drain electrode formed on top of the protective layer; and a first additional gate electrode formed on top of the first aperture, wherein an electric field is applied to the active layer, protective layer and driving gate electrode due to a voltage applied to each of the source electrode, drain electrode and driving gate electrode, and the first additional gate electrode is configured to attenuate a size of the electric field applied to at least a portion of the active layer, protective layer and driving gate electrode.
US09899224B2	Method of controlling solid phase diffusion of boron dopants to form ultra-shallow doping regions A method is provided for forming an ultra-shallow boron doping region in a semiconductor device. The method includes depositing a diffusion filter layer on a substrate, the diffusion filter containing a boron nitride layer, a boron oxynitride layer, a silicon nitride layer, or a silicon oxynitride layer, and depositing a boron dopant layer on the diffusion filter layer, the boron dopant layer containing boron oxide, boron oxynitride, or a combination thereof, with the proviso that the diffusion filter layer and the boron dopant layer do not contain the same material. The method further includes heat-treating the substrate to form the ultra-shallow boron dopant region in the substrate by controlled diffusion of boron from the boron dopant layer through the diffusion filter layer and into the substrate.
US09899220B2	Method for patterning a substrate involving directed self-assembly A method for patterning a substrate is disclosed. The method includes applying a first directed self-assembly (DSA) patterning process that defines a first patterned layer on top of the substrate. The pattern of the first patterned layer is to be transferred into the substrate. The method also includes applying a planarizing layer on top of the first patterned layer. The method further includes applying a second DSA patterning process that defines a second patterned layer on top of the planarizing layer, thereby not patterning the planarizing layer. A pattern of the second patterned layer is to be transferred into the substrate. Projections of the pattern of the second patterned layer and the pattern of the first patterned layer on the substrate have no overlap. Additionally, the method includes transferring the patterns defined by the first patterned layer and the second patterned layer into the substrate.
US09899219B2	Trimming inorganic resists with selected etchant gas mixture and modulation of operating variables Provided is a method of trimming an inorganic resist in an integration scheme, the method comprising: disposing a substrate in a process chamber, the substrate having an inorganic resist layer and an underlying layer comprising an oxide layer, a silicon nitride layer, and a base layer, the inorganic resist layer having an inorganic structure pattern; performing an inorganic resist trimming process to selectively remove a portion of the inorganic resist structure pattern on the substrate, the trimming process using a first etchant gas mixture and generating a first pattern; controlling selected two or more operating variables of the integration scheme in order to achieve target integration objectives; wherein the first etchant gas mixture comprises a fluorine-containing gas and a diluent gas; and wherein the target integration objectives include a target critical dimension (CD), a target line edge roughness (LER), a target line width roughness (LWR) and a target substrate throughput.
US09899202B2	Time of flight tubes and methods of using them Certain embodiments described herein are directed to time of flight tubes comprising a cylindrical tube comprising an inner surface and an outer surface, the cylindrical tube comprising an effective thickness and sized and arranged to couple to and support a reflectron assembly inside the cylindrical tube. In some configurations, the cylindrical tube further comprises a conductive material disposed on the inner surface of the cylindrical tube, the conductive material present in an effective amount to provide a field free region for ions when the conductive material is charged.
US09899201B1	High dynamic range ion detector for mass spectrometers The invention relates to the linear dynamic range of ion abundance measurement devices in mass spectrometers, such as time-of-flight mass spectrometers. The invention solves the problem of ion current peak saturation by producing a second ion measurement signal at an intermediate stage of amplification in a secondary electron multiplier, e.g. a signal generated between the two multichannel plates in chevron arrangement. Because saturation effects are observed only in later stages of amplification, the signal from the intermediate stage of amplification will remain linear even at high ion intensities and will remain outside saturation. In the case of a discrete dynode detector this could encompass, for example, placement of a detection grid between two dynodes near the middle of the amplification chain. The invention uses detection of the image current generated by the passing electrons.
US09899200B2	Multi-dimensional ion separation A sub-ambient gas pressure ion separation device is disclosed comprising: an ion entrance aperture having an axis therethrough that extends in a first direction, and an ion exit aperture; wherein the entrance aperture and exit aperture are spatially separated from each other in the first direction and in a second, orthogonal direction; and means for urging ions in said second direction as the ions travel in the first direction, said means for causing ions to separate in said second direction according to a physicochemical property such that ions having a first value, or first range of values, of the physicochemical property exit the device through the exit aperture and other ions having a different value, or different range of values, of said physicochemical property do not exit the device through the exit aperture.
US09899194B2	Apparatus for plasma treatment and method of operating the apparatus Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus. The semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a chamber, a support and a liner. The chamber is configured for plasma processes and includes a chamber wall. The support is configured to hold a wafer in the chamber. The liner is configured to surround the support and includes a top side and a bottom side. The top side is detachably hung on the chamber wait. The bottom side includes gas passages for plasma particles to pass through the liner.
US09899187B2	Charged particle beam writing apparatus and charged particle beam writing method A charged particle beam writing apparatus includes a processing circuitry configured to calculate a third proximity effect correction irradiation coefficient where at least one correction irradiation coefficient term up to k-th order term, in correction irradiation coefficient terms of from a first order term to a n-th order term for a first proximity effect correction irradiation coefficient which does not take account of a predetermined effect, are replaced by at least one correction irradiation coefficient term up to the k-th order term, for a second proximity effect correction irradiation coefficient which takes account of the predetermined effect; and a processing circuitry configured to calculate a dose by using the third proximity effect correction irradiation coefficient.
US09899186B1	Charged-particle beam microscope with an evaporator A charged-particle beam microscope is provided for imaging a sample. The microscope has a vacuum chamber to maintain a low-pressure environment. A stage is provided to hold a sample in the vacuum chamber. The microscope has a compact evaporator in the vacuum chamber to evaporate and deposit a coating onto a surface of the sample. The microscope also has a charged-particle beam column is provided to direct a charged-particle beam onto the coating on the surface of the sample. The charged-particle beam column includes a charged-particle beam source to generate a charged-particle beam and charged-particle beam optics to converge the charged-particle beam onto the sample. A detector is provided to detect charged-particle radiation emanating from the coating on the surface of the sample to generate an image. A controller analyzes the detected charged-particle radiation to generate an image of the sample.
US09899183B1	Structure and method to measure focus-dependent pattern shift in integrated circuit imaging Various embodiments include measurement structures and methods for measuring integrated circuit (IC) images. In some cases, a measurement structure for use in measuring an image of an IC, includes: a first section having a positive shift spacing pattern; a second section, on an opposite side of the measurement structure, having a negative shift spacing pattern; and a third section having a reference spacing pattern for calibrating a measurement from at least one of the first section or the second section.
US09899180B2	High voltage compact fuse assembly with magnetic arc deflection Fuse assemblies in the form of fuse blocks and fuse holders include embedded permanent magnet arc suppression features that facilitate higher voltage operation of fusible circuit protection without increasing the size of the fuse assemblies. The embedded magnets apply an external magnetic field upon an overcurrent protection fuse and produce an arc deflection force to enhance arc quenching capability of the fuse without increasing its form factor.
US09899178B2	Electronic control device including interrupt wire An electronic control device includes one or more substrates, a casing, a plurality of circuit blocks, a common wire, a plurality of branch wires and two interrupt wires. The circuit blocks are disposed on the substrates and the substrates are disposed in the casing. The common wire is shared by the circuit blocks. The branch wires are respectively coupled between the circuit blocks and the common wire. The two interrupt wires are respectively coupled with two of the common wire and the branch wires for overcurrent protection of the circuit blocks.
US09899171B2	Thermal safety device In order to provide a method for isolating a circuit and a thermal link, wherein the link has a very low resistance and is suitable for high currents, in particular very high short load currents, and also has a high degree of reliability, in particular under difficult conditions, such as thermal and mechanical loading which lasts for a relatively long time, for example, the invention proposes that, during the phase transition of the material of the fusible element (10) from the solid to the liquid state, the volume of the fusible element (10) increases and the pressure increases and, owing to the increase in volume and the increase in pressure, the fusible element (10) is dislodged so as to break the electrical connection.
US09899167B2	Electrical switching device An electrical switching device is filled with a dielectric insulating medium comprising an organofluorine compound, in particular a fluoroether, a fluoroarnine, a fluoroketone or a fluoroolefin, and comprises at least an arcing contact arrangement with a first arcing contact and a mating second arcing contact. At least a first intermediate volume is provided downstream from the first arcing contact, and/or at least a second intermediate volume is provided downstream from the second arcing contact. The intermediate volumes are for intermediate pressure enhancement and exhaust gas jet formation for turbulent convective heat transfer to metal walls of the exhaust system. In embodiments, the first and/or second intermediate volume is delimited by at least one moveable wall arranged transversally to the longitudinal axis and shiftable parallel to it by an actuation device.
US09899165B2	Safety test switch An interface test device for testing a circuit, the interface test device including a module configured to open and close a medium to high voltage monitoring circuit, the module having at least one pair of contacts biased towards each other that are electrically connected and in line with the medium to high voltage monitoring circuit; at least one pair of insulated jacks, wherein the at least one pair of insulated jacks is connected to the medium to high voltage monitoring circuit before or substantially simultaneously with the medium to high voltage monitoring circuit being opened; at least one disconnect plug that is insertable into the module through at least one parking opening into at least one parking position and insertable into the module through at least one disconnect opening into at least one disconnect position.
US09899162B2	Keyboard A keyboard includes a base plate, a pressure sensing layer, a first key structure and a second key structure. The pressure sensing layer includes plural pressure sensing regions. Each of the first key structure and the second key structure corresponds to a pressure sensing region. Moreover, the first key structure and the second key structure are located over the corresponding pressure sensing regions. In response to different magnitudes of the depressing force, the corresponding pressure sensing regions are pushed by the first key structure and the second key structure. Consequently, the corresponding pressure sensing regions generate different pressure sensing signals. The pressure sensing layer can replace plural pressure sensing element. Consequently, the assembling process is simplified, and the assembling cost is reduced.
US09899161B2	Method and control system for controlling a switching device A method controls a switching device having at least one phase comprising at least one couple of contacts which can be actuated for switching between a closed condition and an open condition. The method provides control means for controlling the actuation of the at least one couple of contacts, such control means being adapted to operate using time cycles; set the time cycles with a predetermined time duration; detects a difference of a value of a parameter associated to the phase with respect a preset value.
US09899157B1	Key device and multi-legged supporting balance bar structure thereof A key device includes a base plate, a key cap and at least one balance bar. The at least one balance bar is with a tabular body and is disposed between the base plate and the key cap. The at least one balance bar has an elongated rod and a plurality of supporting legs connected to the elongated rod and protruded from a lower edge of the elongated rod. The elongated rod is connected to the key cap. The plurality of supporting legs is connected to the base plate.
US09899154B2	Dense energy ultra-capacitor preform, thin film, module and fabrication methods therefor A Dense Energy Ultracapacitor DEUC preform, thin film, and module and methods of fabrication therefor, are provided. The DEUC thin film includes: a multilayer polymer thin film (2210) including a plurality of matched polymer layers (2215) having DEUC structural features resulting from drawing, by a draw process, and/or stretching, of a multilayer polymer DEUC preform (2201) having size, shape, and an arrangement of matched polymer layers (2205), where the multilayer polymer thin film (2210) having DEUC structural features in at least one dimension proportionally reduced in comparison to the same features in the Preform (2201). The multilayer polymer thin film includes negative and positive electrodes (903) made from conducting polymer and spaced apart by suspended particle high dielectric energy storage media (904) including high dielectric nano and/or micro sized particles (901, 902) suspended in a binder (904) including at least one of a polymer, a copolymer, and a terpolymer. All the layers (903, 904) are bound and unified together.
US09899152B2	Electronic component An electronic component capable of suppressing variations in dimension of plating growth of a plating film serving as an external electrode. The external electrodes include plating films formed so as to extend from each of end surfaces to side surfaces of an electronic component body by electrolytic plating. Underlying main electrodes in which the degree of plating growth is relatively high, and underlying sub-electrodes in which the degree of plating growth is relatively low, are formed as a seed electrode serving as a starting point of plating growth for forming a plating film.
US09899147B2	Transmission coil module for wireless power transmitter Embodiments provide a wireless power transfer technology, and more particularly, provide a method of mounting a transmission coil, which wirelessly transmits power, in a wireless power transmitter. The transmission coil module includes a transmission coil for wirelessly transmitting power, a coil frame including a receptacle for insertion of the transmission coil, a support unit for surrounding the receptacle, and a central fixing plate formed inside the receptacle and corresponding to an inner shape of the transmission coil, and a connector for electrically connecting the transmission coil to a control circuit board, and the support unit and the central fixing plate are integrally formed with each other.
US09899137B2	Method for producing a coil integrated in a substrate or applied to a substrate, and electronic device The subject matter of the invention relates to a method of producing a coil integrated in a substrate, using the following steps: creating the cavity in a substrate, said cavity having an open end which interrupts a surface of the substrate, introducing a paste containing ferromagnetic particles into the cavity so as to produce a coil core, closing the cavity by applying a cover layer so as to bridge the interruption in the surface of the substrate, introducing first winding portions of the coil which are vertical with respect to the surface, with a plurality or all of the first winding portions passing through the coil core contained inside the cavity, and applying second winding portions of the coil onto the surfaces of the substrate, with the second winding portions contacting the first winding portions so as to create the windings of the coil.
US09899135B2	Reactor device Provided is a device that reduces loss by means of a large-capacity, three-phase reactor device that eliminates high-frequency components arising in a power controller system used in solar power generation and the like. The present invention is provided with: a yoke core that uses an amorphous ribbon; magnetic leg cores formed into a fan shape using an amorphous ribbon; and a coil wound around the magnetic leg cores. The yoke core is disposed in an approximately hexagonal bottom fastening fixture, the magnetic leg cores are disposed stacked at three equally spaced locations on the inner peripheral surface of the yoke core, the coil is inserted and disposed at the stacked magnetic leg cores, the yoke core is disposed above the magnetic leg cores, the yoke core is covered by an approximately hexagonal top fastening fixture, studs are disposed at the center of the outer periphery of three respectively corresponding sides of the bottom fastening fixture and the top fastening fixture, studs are further disposed at the center of the bottom fastening fixture and the top fastening fixture, the bottom fastening fixture and the top fastening fixture are clamped and affixed by the studs, and furthermore the coil is affixed by a coil affixing fixture disposed at the studs of the three sides.
US09899117B2	Metallic nanomesh A transparent flexible nanomesh having at least one conductive element and sheet resistance less than 300Ω/□ when stretched to a strain of 200% in at least one direction. The nanomesh is formed by depositing a sacrificial film, depositing, etching, and oxidizing a first metal layer on the film, etching the sacrificial film, depositing a second metal layer, and removing the first metal layer to form a nanomesh on the substrate.
US09899114B2	Lead-loaded structured solid organic scintillator A scintillator for imaging using X-rays or gamma rays or charged particles, includes a network of glass capillaries with an inner diameter no greater than 500 micrometers. The capillaries are filled with a polymer material made up of at least: (i) a monomer selected from the group including vinyltoluene, styrene and vinylxylene and the isomers thereof, (ii) a cross-linking agent made up of a dimethacrylate having a central chain which includes 1 to 12 carbon atoms, and (iii) lead dimethacrylate. The cross-linking agent is provided to make up 17 wt % to 60 wt % of the mixture thereof with the monomer, and the lead dimethacrylate makes up at least 5 wt %. The cross-linking agent is provided in a ratio of 1.75 to 2.25 times the weight content of the lead dimethacrylate.
US09899113B2	Production method of scintillator dual array A method for producing a scintillator dual array comprising the steps of bonding first and second scintillator bar arrays having different sensitivity distributions of X-ray energy detection and pluralities of parallel grooves with equal gaps, via an intermediate resin layer, such that both scintillator bars are aligned in a lamination direction, cutting the integrally bonded bar array in a direction crossing the scintillator bars, and coating one cut surface of each bonded bar array piece with a resin.
US09899111B2	Method for long-term storage of waste nuclear fuel The method for the long-term storage of waste nuclear fuel of a nuclear reactor consists in that, first, prior to the waste fuel assembly of the nuclear reactor being disposed in a steel case and the latter being hermetically sealed with a cover, a material which is chemically inert in relation to the material of the casing of the fuel elements of the waste fuel assemblies, to the material of the body of the case, to air and to water, is arranged in the steel case, the steel case is mounted in a heating device, the steel case is heated along with the material arranged in said steel case until said material passes into a liquid state, and then the waste fuel assembly which has been extracted from the nuclear reactor is arranged in the steel case in such a way that the fuel part of the fuel elements of the waste fuel assemblies is lower than the level of the liquid material in the steel case, the waste fuel assembly is fixed in this position, and the case is hermetically sealed by the cover, whereupon the hermetically sealed steel case is extracted from the heating device and mounted in a storage facility which is cooled by atmospheric air. This technical solution makes it possible to ensure long-term safe storage of waste fuel assemblies of a nuclear reactor in storage facilities with cooling using atmospheric air, in particular with natural circulation of atmospheric air, and also to transport the waste fuel assemblies to a factory for processing so as to ensure an increased level of safety.
US09899108B2	Capillary connection through wall penetration A remote seal connection includes an outer sleeve, configured to be inserted through a penetration in a wall and having an outer surface. A capillary is within the outer sleeve and carries a fluid configured to communicate a pressure from a remote seal to a pressure transmitter. A space is provided about the capillary and is positioned between the capillary and the outer sleeve.
US09899102B2	Semiconductor device and operating method thereof A method of operating a semiconductor memory device includes applying a program pulse at least once to each of a plurality of pages; performing a pre-read operation on a reference page among the plurality of pages through an initial test voltage; repeating the pre-read operation by controlling the initial test voltage until a result of the pre-read operation is a pass; setting the initial test voltage of when the result of the pre-read operation is the pass as a reference test voltage; and detecting a defective page among the plurality of pages by performing read operations on the plurality of pages through the reference test voltage.
US09899083B1	Method, system and device for non-volatile memory device operation with low power high speed and high density Disclosed are methods, systems and devices for operation of non-volatile memory devices. In one aspect, a read operation or a particular write operation may be performed on a correlated electron switch (CES) device by coupling a terminal of the CES device to a particular node through any one of multiple different resistive paths.
US09899082B2	Semiconductor memory device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: a first memory cell including a first variable resistance element; a first buffer coupled to the first memory cell; a second memory cell including a second variable resistance element; and a second buffer coupled to the second memory cell. In data write, first data is stored in the first buffer and is transferred to the first memory cell, and second data is stored in the second buffer and is transferred to the second memory cell, and a start of the transferring the first data and the second data is based on a first data transfer signal.
US09899059B2	Method of management of a multimedia program, server, terminals, signal and corresponding computer programs The invention relates to a method for managing a multimedia program, played back by a terminal of a user.According to the invention, such a method comprises the following steps: playback (201) of said multimedia program, by a terminal; obtaining (205) of a marking cue relating to an instant of playback of said multimedia program, associated with a marking request generated by order of a user of said terminal; use (209) of said marking cue to play back said multimedia program later starting from said instant of playback.
US09899051B2	Information recording and playback device An information recording and playback device includes a recording and playback unit, and a controller. The controller divides a recording area of an optical disk into a first recording area which is at an inner circumference side, and a second recording area which is at an outer circumference side. The controller controls the recording and playback unit such that the unit records or plays back data in the first recording area at a first speed, and records or plays back data in the second recording area at a second speed slower than the first speed. The predetermined radius is set to a boundary between an area in which a control residual exceeds a predetermined reference value when servo control related to focusing and tracking is performed on the recording area of the optical disk, and an area in which the control residual does not exceed the predetermined reference value.
US09899042B1	Data writer with laminated front shield A data storage device data writer may arrange a write pole to be positioned uptrack from a front shield on an air bearing surface. The front shield can consist of a lamination of a first magnetic alloy material and a second magnetic alloy material. The second magnetic alloy material may be NiFe that has 80% iron by weight.
US09899041B1	Method of making a write pole A write pole of a data writer may have at least one rotational milling operation conducted on a write pole blank followed by first and second static milling operations executed at different first and second angles with respect to an air bearing surface. The combination of rotational and static milling operations can form a write pole with body and tip regions defined by a continuous pole sidewall extending perpendicularly from the air bearing surface up to a body taper portion angled at approximately 14.5° with respect to the air bearing surface.
US09899040B2	Methods and systems for managing adaptation data Computationally implemented methods and systems include managing adaptation data, wherein the adaptation data is correlated to at least one aspect of speech of a particular party, facilitating transmission of the adaptation data to a target device, in response to an indicator related to a speech-facilitated transaction of a particular party, wherein the adaptation data is correlated to at least one aspect of speech of the particular party, and determining whether to update the adaptation data, said determination at least partly based on a result of at least a portion of the speech-facilitated transaction In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.
US09899032B2	Systems and methods of performing gain adjustment A method of performing gain adjustment in an electronic device includes determining a first set of spectral frequency values and determining a second set of spectral frequency values. The first set of spectral frequency values corresponds to a high-band portion of an audio signal received at the electronic device. The second set of spectral frequency values approximates the first set of spectral frequency values in the high band portion of the audio signal. The method includes estimating a spectral distortion corresponding to a difference between the first set of spectral frequency values and the second set of spectral frequency values and adjusting, based on the spectral distortion, a gain value corresponding to at least a portion of the audio signal. The method also includes transmitting an encoded bitstream that includes information corresponding to the adjusted gain value and the second set of spectral frequency values.
US09899029B2	Coding of multichannel audio content There are provided decoding and encoding methods for encoding and decoding of multichannel audio content for playback on a speaker configuration with N channels. The decoding method comprises decoding, in a first decoding module, M input audio signals into M mid signals which are suitable for playback on a speaker configuration with M channels; and for each of the N channels in excess of M channels, receiving an additional input audio signal corresponding to one of the M mid signals and decoding the input audio signal and its corresponding mid signal so as to generate a stereo signal including a first and a second audio signal which are suitable for playback on two of the N channels of the speaker configuration.
US09899025B2	Speech recognition system adaptation based on non-acoustic attributes and face selection based on mouth motion using pixel intensities Non-acoustic data from a vicinity of speech input is obtained. A subject speaker is identified as the source of the speech input from the obtained non-acoustic data by detecting mouth motion on one or more faces segmented from the non-acoustic data by comparing a first pixel intensity associated at a first time with a second pixel intensity at a second time, and selecting a face corresponding to the subject speaker from the one or more faces in response to a determination that a number of significantly changed pixels between the first pixel intensity and the second pixel intensity exceeds a threshold. A demographic is assigned to the subject speaker based on an analysis of one or more non-acoustic attributes of the subject speaker extracted from the non-acoustic data. The speech input is processed using a speech recognition system adjusted using a model selected based on the demographic.
US09899024B1	Behavior adjustment using speech recognition system Methods, systems, and apparatus are described for inducing a user of a speech recognition system to adjust their own behavior. For example, in one implementation, a speech recognition system that allows children to control electronic devices can improve the child's speech development, by encouraging the child to speak more clearly. To do so, the speech recognition system can generate a phonetic representation of a term spoken by the child, and can determine whether the phonetic representation matches a particular canonical pronunciation of the particular term that is deemed age-appropriate for the child. Upon determining that the particular canonical pronunciation that matches the phonetic representation of the term spoken by the child is not age-appropriate, the speech recognition system can select and implement a variety of remediation strategies for inducing the child to repeat the term using a pronunciation that is considered age-appropriate.
US09899020B2	Machine learning dialect identification Technology is disclosed for creating and tuning classifiers for language dialects and for generating dialect-specific language modules. A computing device can receive an initial training data set as a current training data set. The selection process for the initial training data set can be achieved by receiving one or more initial content items, establishing dialect parameters of each of the initial content items, and sorting each of the initial content items into one or more dialect groups based on the established dialect parameters. The computing device can generate, based on the initial training data set, a dialect classifier configured to detect language dialects of content items to be classified. The computing device can augment the current training data set with additional training data by applying the dialect classifier to candidate content items. The computing device can then update the dialect classifier based on the augmented current training data set.
US09899018B2	Method, system and apparatus for addressing road noise An apparatus and system for addressing road noise are provided. The apparatus is configured to determine at least one from among a location of a vehicle and a noise feature of a road on which the vehicle is traveling, retrieve road noise cancellation information based on the determined at least one from among the location of the vehicle and the noise feature of the road on which the vehicle is traveling, and output a signal to cancel road noise based on the road noise cancellation information. The apparatus may be installed in vehicle to address road noise heard by occupants of the vehicle.
US09899016B2	Musical sound signal generation apparatus that generates sound emulating sound emitting from a rotary speaker An electronic musical instrument includes a storage unit storing waveform data WD constituted by a plurality of sample values, the waveform data expressing an acoustic waveform of a musical sound emitted from a speaker while a rotor rotates about a rotation axis by a predetermined angle, and a reproduction unit configured to sequentially read out the sample values from the storage unit and generate a musical sound signal based on the read-out sample values, the reproduction unit being configured to change a reproduction speed of the musical sound expressed by the plurality of sample values, without changing a pitch and formant of the musical sound.
US09899012B2	Thumb-mountable support for enhancing support and control of an instrument of the violin-family A thumb-mountable support is disclosed for use on a support hand of a musician while playing an instrument of the violin-family. The thumb-mountable support includes a thumb ring and a saddle. The thumb ring is configured to at least partially surround the thumb of the support hand to facilitate securement of the thumb-mountable support to the thumb of the support hand. The saddle extends from the thumb ring and includes a lower surface configured to engage a generally V-shaped region formed between a thumb and body of the support hand, and also includes an upper surface configured to support a rear portion of a neck of the instrument.
US09899002B2	Information processing methods for displaying parts of an object on multiple electronic devices The present disclosure discloses an information processing method and an electronic device, solving the technical problem that it needs to write additional special codes to enable executing an application program in two or more electronic devices simultaneously and enable displaying output content collectively on two or more display units. The method includes: acquiring data of a first part of a first object needed to be displayed on the first display unit, wherein, data of a second part in the first object different from the data of the first part is determined to be displayed on a second display unit; synchronizing, by the first electronic device, with the second electronic device; and displaying the data of the first part on the first display unit by the first electronic device synchronously executing a first application program corresponding to the first object while displaying the data of the second part on the second display unit by the second electronic device executing the first application program.
US09899001B2	Display panel, display device having the same, and controlling method thereof The present application discloses a display panel comprising a first substrate; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; and an organic light emitting structure on a side of the second substrate distal to the liquid crystal layer. The organic light emitting structure comprises a light reflective layer for reflecting ambient light.
US09898994B1	Voltage generation circuit and liquid crystal television The present invention provides a voltage generation circuit, comprising a control unit, a controlled unit and an output unit, and the control unit receives a trigger signal to generate a control signal having a preset delay, and the control unit is further coupled to the controlled unit to control the controlled unit to be in a first state in a duration of the preset delay and to be in a second state in a duration of a non-preset delay, and the output unit outputs a first drive voltage to the drive unit as the controlled unit is in the first state and to output a second drive voltage to the drive unit as the controlled unit is in the second state, and the first drive voltage is smaller than the second drive voltage to achieve decreasing the drive voltage to lower power consumption of the data drive chip.
US09898993B2	Method for controlling message signal within timing controller integrated circuit, timing controller integrated circuit and display panel The present disclosure provides method for controlling a message signal within a timing controller integrated circuit, the timing controller integrated circuit and a display panel. The method includes: receiving a low voltage differential signaling signal; decoding the low voltage differential signaling signal to obtain a transistor-transistor logic RGB data signal and a control signal, wherein the control signal comprises: a start signal, a horizontal synchronization and a vertical synchronization; processing the transistor-transistor logic RGB data signal to obtain an input RGB data; controlling a timing of the start signal before a timing of the input RGB data; and processing the input RGB data to obtain a mini-low voltage differential signaling data. Therefore, the technical scheme provided by the present disclosure has an advantage of the low cost.
US09898989B2	Gate driver on array (GOA) circuit and liquid crystal display apparatus having the GOA circuit The disclosure discloses a GOA circuit and a liquid crystal display apparatus. The GOA circuit includes a number of GOA unit in cascade connection, wherein the Nth level GOA unit includes a common signal point control module, a gate signal point control module, and a GAS signal operation module; wherein the common signal point control module is used to pull up the electrical level of the common signal point after the period of all gate on; a gate signal point control module is used to pull down the electrical level of a gate signal point after the period of all gate on; the GAS signal operation module is used to achieve the all gate on function by a first GAS signal and a second GAS signal to control the output of the Nth level gate driving signal in the touch panel scanning period.
US09898983B1	Source driving device with 3 types of gate oxide layer A source driving device for a display system includes a receiving module, for receiving display data; a register module, for sorting pixel data included in the display data to generate sorted pixel data; a latch module, for outputting sequenced display data to the level shifting module; a level shifting module, for adjusting the sequenced display data from a low voltage range to a medium voltage range; a converting module; for converting the sequenced display data to analog display voltages; a buffer module, for generating a plurality source driving signals according to the analog display voltages; and an output switching module, for outputting the plurality source driving signals to a display device of the display system operating in a high voltage range; wherein circuit components in the source driving device operating in different voltage ranges have different gate oxide thicknesses.
US09898980B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged in columns and rows in a display area, a data line extending in a first direction and connected with pixels of a k-th column (‘k’ is a natural number) and a (k+1)-th column, a gate line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and connected with ones of the pixels, a gate signal line extending in the first direction and connected with the gate line, and a gate driver in a first peripheral area adjacent to a first longer side of the display area and having a first width, and configured to apply a gate signal to the gate line.
US09898975B2	Display device A display device includes: a curved display panel; at least one light source module configured to provide light to the display panel; a bottom case configured to accommodate the light source module; and at least one signal transmission unit connected to an end portion of the light source module, the signal transmission unit including at least one driving line transmitting a driving signal to the light source module and at least one base line transmitting a base signal.
US09898971B1	System, method, and apparatus to selectively control brightness of liquid crystal display The disclosure relates to a system, a method, and an apparatus to selectively control brightness of information displayed on a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD). A graphics layer can be provided in a display area of the LCD, and a semi-transparent mask layer can be provided above the graphics layer. An information graphics layer can be provided above the semi-transparent mask layer. The information graphics layer can be controlled to selectively display predetermined information on the LCD at an intended brightness, while remaining information from the underlying graphics layer can be dimmed relative to the brightness of the display predetermined information by activation of the semi-transparent mask layer.
US09898966B2	Display device and method for driving display device A method for driving a display device includes: dividing static frames displayed by the display device into a first frame and a second frame, which comprises a first sub-frame and a second sub-frame; outputting grey-scale images during the display period of the first frame and the first sub-frame; outputting dark state images during the display period of the second sub-frame, where the length of the display period of the second sub-frame is proportional to that of the static frames. The present invention also proposes a display device using the method. The brightness of the display device can be dynamically adjusted, preventing the device from operating in high brightness for a long period of time, and prolonging its lifespan.
US09898961B2	Data processing method and apparatus for organic light emitting diode display device A data processing method and an apparatus for an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device are provided. The method includes modulating input data using a maximum degradation compensation gain, compensating degradation of the modulated data using a degradation compensation gain, accumulating the degradation-compensated data, determining a degree of degradation of each of sub-pixels, based on the accumulated data, detecting a degradation compensation gain in accordance with the determined degradation degree, storing the detected degradation compensation gain, and outputting the stored degradation compensation gain, detecting a maximum one of degradation compensation gains of respective sub-pixels, and outputting the detected maximum degradation compensation gain, analyzing the input data, thereby setting a peak luminance control (PLC) gain, and modulating the PLC gain, using the output maximum degradation compensation gain, and analyzing the degradation-compensated data, thereby detecting a peak luminance, and adjusting the detected peak luminance, using the modulated PLC gain.
US09898958B2	Shift register unit, shift register, gate driver circuit and display apparatus The present disclosure provides a shift register unit and a shift register, a gate driver circuit and a display apparatus where the shift register unit can be applied. A signal amplification module including two transistors each having a small channel width is added at an output node of the shift register unit. In this way, the output capability can be improved significantly with the same design parameters in case of a high load.
US09898935B2	Language system A language system having an image library and a text and/or audio library for enabling a user with a user device to form words, phrases and sentences by selecting by selecting images and to provide the user with text and/or audio representations thereof in a chosen language.
US09898926B2	Control device for controlling a plurality of electronic devices via a plurality of communication channels Techniques are described for controlling electronic devices via a plurality of communication channels. For example, a control device may undergo a programming process to enable communication between the control device and a particular electronic device via a first communication channel. After programming is complete, the control device is configured to transmit command(s) to the particular electronic device via the first communication channel. The control device is further configured to perform a pairing sequence with the particular electronic device via the first communication channel to enable control of the particular electronic device via the second communication channel. The control device may determine the proper pairing sequence to be performed and monitor whether the user has performed the proper pairing sequence using the control device. Upon successful completion of the pairing process, the control device is configured to transmit command(s) to the particular electronic device via the second communication channel.
US09898922B2	Systems and methods for coordinating and administering self tests of smart home devices having audible outputs Systems and methods for self-administering a sound test to verify operation of a speaker and/or alarm within a hazard detection system are described herein. The sound test can verify that the audible sources such as the alarm and speaker operate at the requisite loudness and frequencies. In addition, the sound test can be self-administered in that it does not require the presence of a person to initiate or verify that the audible sources are functioning properly.
US09898921B2	Security system installation An apparatus, method and system for installation and testing of a system at a premises is provided. The apparatus is configured to communicate with an installer interface device. The apparatus includes a communication subsystem that provides at least one communication protocol. The communication subsystem is configured to receive data from the installer interface device and communicate with a plurality of premises devices. The apparatus includes a processor in communication with the communication subsystem. The processor is configured to automatically configure at least one life safety feature of the system at a premises. The automatic configuration includes at least configuring a plurality of premises devices based at least in part on the received data. The process is configured to test the configuration of at least one of the plurality of premises devices.
US09898909B2	Method and apparatus for tamper detection An apparatus secured to a device includes a fastener, an adhesive secured to the fastener, an electric circuit configured to measure a property, a memory configured to store the property, and at least one Key to access the stored property, wherein the apparatus is configured to detect an unauthorized opening of the device.
US09898896B2	Methods of playing wagering games and related systems A card game is played against a pay table, wherein a player receives a partial hand that is preferably completed by community cards, but may be completed by cards dealt directly to a hand or a combination of cards dealt directly to a hand and at least one community card or wild card. After placement of an ante wager, each player will have an opportunity to place a game wager before receiving another card for the player's hand (whether dealt directly to the player or as a community card revealed to all players). At least some or all game wagers may be an amount within a range of multiples of the player's ante wager, such as one times, two times, three times, four times, or five times the amount of the ante wager. The range of wagers may remain the same or vary with the number of dealt cards or community cards revealed to the players.
US09898891B2	Gaming system with linked gaming machines that are configurable to have a same probability of winning a designated award A gaming system that is controlled by a central controller and includes a plurality of gaming machines. Each of the gaming machines includes a game operable upon a wager by a player, a plurality of winning symbol combinations including a designated winning symbol combination and a probability of achieving the designated winning symbol combination. At least two of the gaming machines have different probabilities of achieving the designated winning symbol combination. The gaming system includes a designated award and a triggering event. After an occurrence of the triggering event, the central controller is programmed to change the probability of achieving the designated winning symbol combination for at least one of the gaming machines such that each gaming machine has an equal probability of generating the designated winning symbol combination.
US09898885B1	Prize-dispensing apparatus A prize-dispensing apparatus includes a casing unit, a preloading unit, a pulling unit, a feed-measuring unit and a grabbing unit. The preloading unit is partially inserted in and movably connected to the casing unit. The pulling unit is inserted in and connected to the casing unit. The grabbing unit includes claws and links. Each claw incudes an upper end pivotally connected to the preloading unit and a lower end for contact with a prize. Each link includes an upper end pivotally connected to the casing unit and a lower end pivotally connected to a portion of a corresponding claw. The claws are closed to grab the prize when the pulling unit is actuated. The claws are opened by the preloading unit when the pulling unit is not actuated. The feed-measuring unit is inserted in the casing unit and used to measure feed of the pulling unit.
US09898883B1	Dual-bill passage auto-search bill acceptor A dual-passage auto-search bill acceptor includes an acceptor housing including a lower bill-inlet passage, an upper bill-outlet passage, a bill-presser and a bill-transfer mechanism mounted for transferring a bill through the bill-inlet passage to the bill-presser, a cash box mounted in a rear bottom side of the acceptor housing, and a bill dispenser mounted at a top side of the acceptor housing and including a bill-return passage in communication with the bill-inlet passage and the bill-outlet passage, a storage module with a first bill-receiving wheel, a register module with a second bill-receiving wheel and a control gate biasable to open and close a bill passage between the storage module and the register module for enabling the first bill-receiving wheel to take up bills for storage or the second bill-receiving wheel to take up bills for giving change.
US09898881B2	Short-range device communications for secured resource access Communications over short-range connections are used to facilitate whether access to resources is to be granted. For example, upon device discovery of one of an electronic user device and an electronic client device by the other device over a Bluetooth Low Energy connection, an access-enabling code associated with a user device or account can be evaluated for validity and applicability with respect to one or more particular resource specifications. User identity can be verified by comparing the user against previously obtained biometric information.
US09898876B2	Method and apparatus for vehicle usage recording A computer-implemented method of providing suggested entries for a candidate journey in a vehicle logbook, comprising selecting one or more neighbour journeys based on a location of one or more end-points of the candidate journey and the one or more neighbour journeys, determining an accuracy value indicative of a match between each neighbour journey and the candidate journey based on one or more attributes of each neighbour journey and the candidate journey, and providing at least one suggested entry for the candidate journey in the vehicle logbook based on the accuracy value associated
US09898875B2	Maintenance systems and methods for ECS elements A maintenance system is provided for an environment conditioning element of an environmental control system (ECS) of a vehicle. The system includes a data collection module configured to receive geographical areas of travel for the vehicle over respective periods of time. The data collection module is configured to determine a pollution value and a time value for each of the geographic areas of travel. The system further includes a pollution count module coupled to the data collection module and receiving the pollution values and the time values. The pollution count module is configured to determine a pollution count for the environment conditioning element based on the pollution values and the time values. The system further includes a reporting module coupled to the pollution count module and receiving the pollution count. The reporting module is configured to generate a report for a user that includes the pollution count.
US09898872B2	Mobile tele-immersive gameplay Techniques for displaying an augmented reality environment. Embodiments capture a visual scene for display. An embedded symbol associated with a garment worn by the first user within the visual scene is identified. Embodiments generate a virtual augmentation corresponding to the first user that is animated based on the captured visual scene. The virtual augmentation alters an appearance of the first user, such that the first user is depicted as wearing a virtual costume, the virtual costume determined to have a predefined relationship with the identified embedded symbol. A sequence of frames is rendered that depicts the first user augmented with the virtual augmentation in the augmented reality environment and depict at least a portion of the first user as wearing the virtual costume.
US09898855B2	Method and system for rule based display of sets of images The invention provides, in some aspects, a system for implementing a rule derived basis to display image sets. In various embodiments of the invention, the selection of the images to be displayed, the layout of the images, as well as the rendering parameters and styles can be determined using a rule derived basis. In an embodiment of the present invention, the user is presented with images displayed based on their preferences without having to first manually adjust parameters.
US09898842B2	Method and system for generating data-efficient 2D plots In one aspect, a method can include a computing system receiving data for rendering as a plurality of objects in a chart, and rendering the plurality of objects in a first order in a first graph in a virtual display. The method can include swapping a first object and a second object in the first order of the plurality of objects creating a second order of the plurality of objects, rendering the objects in a second graph in the virtual display based on the second order, determining that a number of visible objects in the first graph is less than a number of visible objects in the second graph, and outputting the second order of the plurality of objects for rendering on a display device based on determining that a number of visible objects in the first graph is less than a number of visible objects in the second graph.
US09898835B2	Method for creating face replacement database A method for creating a face replacement database includes steps of creating a face database for storing a plurality of replaced images with a face image rotation angle by using a method for estimating a 3D vector angle from a 2D face image, and defining a region to be replaced in the replaced image. The method for estimating a 3D vector angle from a 2D face image includes the steps of creating a feature vector template; detecting a corner of eye and mouth in a face image; defining a sharp point in a vertical direction of the quadrilateral plane, and converting the vertices into 3D coordinates; computing the four vectors from the sharp point to the four vertices to obtain a vector set, and matching the vector set with the feature vector model to obtain an angle which is defined as a rotation angle of the input face image.
US09898832B1	Surface metallographic method for characterizing the degree of sensitization of aluminum-magnesium alloys A non-destructive method for assessing the “degree of sensitization” of ship structures formed from aluminum-magnesium marine service alloys. Features of the method include (1) selective etching of beta phase in a sensitized aluminum-magnesium alloy (2) metallographic recording of the etched surface; (3) image enhancement to produce high-contrast binary images of etched and unetched areas; (4) image analysis of the enhanced images using line segments along grain boundaries to provide statistical information about the grain boundary beta phase percentage and (5) calibration, whereby the grain boundary beta phase percentage is converted to an expression of the degree of sensitization in the sample.
US09898831B2	Macropixel processing system, method and article Digital image processing circuitry converts a macro-pixel of an image in a color filter array (CFA) color space to a macro-pixel in a luminance-chrominance (YUV) color space. Chrominance filtering is applied to chrominance components of the converted macro-pixel in the YUV color space, generating a filtered macro-pixel in the YUV color space. The filtered macro-pixel in the YUV color space is converted into a filtered macro-pixel in the CFA color space.
US09898827B2	High-speed automatic multi-object tracking method and system with kernelized correlation filters A high-speed automatic multi-object tracking method with kernelized correlation filters is provided. The method includes obtaining an image frame from a plurality of image frames in a video, extracting a foreground object sequence from the obtained image frame, and determining similarity between each foreground object of the extracted foreground object sequence and a tracked object. The method also includes calculating HOG features of the foreground objects with a lower similarity, obtaining training samples for each of the foreground objects with the lower similarity using a circular matrix, obtaining a classifier via a kernel method accelerated by FFTW, and obtaining tracking points using a sparse optical flow. Further, the method includes detecting object matching responses using a detection response function, performing multi-scale analysis for the object based on an optical flow method, and processing a next image frame of the plurality of image frames in the video until the video ends.
US09898823B2	Disparity deriving apparatus, movable apparatus, robot, method of deriving disparity, method of producing disparity, and storage medium A disparity deriving apparatus for deriving disparity of an object includes a calculator to calculate costs between a first reference area in a reference image and each one of corresponding areas corresponding to the first reference area in the comparison image, and costs between a second reference area, surrounding the first reference area in the reference image, and each one of corresponding areas corresponding to the second reference area in a comparison image; a synthesizer to synthesize the costs of the first reference area and the second reference area as synthesis costs; a deriving unit to derive a disparity value of the object captured in the first reference area based on the synthesized synthesis costs; and a correction unit to apply a spatial filter to a local region, composed of a plurality of areas, in the first reference image to correct a disparity value of the local region.
US09898820B2	Methods and systems for analyzing biological reaction systems A method for analyzing biological reaction systems is provided. The method includes receiving an image of a substrate including a plurality of reaction sites after a biological reaction has taken place. Next, the method includes removing a noise background from the first image. The method includes determining an initial position of each reaction site based on an intensity threshold to generate a initial position set, then refining the initial position set of each reaction site based on an expected pattern of locations of the plurality of reaction sites to generate a first refined position set. The method further includes determining a presence or absence of a fluorescent emission from each reaction site based on the first refined position set and the first image.
US09898818B2	Automated measurement of changes in retinal, retinal pigment epithelial, or choroidal disease A method for automatically measuring changes in retinal, retinal pigment epithelial, or choroidal disease includes retrieving a set of images of a fundus and selecting a plurality of images from the set of images. The plurality of images are co-registered and pre-processed such that the quality, contrast, and gain of each of the plurality of images is made similar. Then, a comparison is made between the plurality of images to determine a change in retinal, retinal pigment epithelial, or choroidal disease, wherein the change in retinal, retinal pigment epithelial, or choroidal disease is determined based on various disease metrics. Finally, an indication of the change in retinal, retinal pigment epithelial, or choroidal disease is generated for display to a user on a computing device.
US09898815B2	Fault diagnostic device of robot system for judging fault by camera image A fault diagnostic device comprises an arithmetic processing device configured to judge a fault on the basis of an image captured by the camera. The arithmetic processing device includes an imaging command part configured to transmit a command for capturing the image of a diagnosis portion and a judgement part configured to judge whether or not the diagnosis portion has the fault. A storage part stores a reference image when the diagnosis portion is in a normal state. The imaging command part transmits an imaging command so as to capture the image of the diagnosis portion after changing a position and a posture of the robot. The judgement part compares the image of the diagnosis portion captured by the camera with the reference image and judges the fault in the diagnosis portion.
US09898814B2	Image inspection apparatus, image inspection method, and control program of image inspection apparatus An image inspection apparatus for inspecting an output image on a recording medium by scanning the output image as a scanned image includes an inspection reference image generator to generate an inspection reference image using data of an output-target image; an image inspection unit to determine whether the scanned image includes a defect by comparing a difference between the inspection reference image and the scanned image with a given threshold; and a threshold determiner to determine the given threshold. The threshold determiner computes a difference between the inspection reference image and the scanned image. The threshold determiner determines the given threshold based on the difference between the scanned image and the inspection reference image.
US09898811B2	Method and system for defect classification Defect classification includes acquiring one or more images of a specimen, receiving a manual classification of one or more training defects based on one or more attributes of the one or more training defects, generating an ensemble learning classifier based on the received manual classification and the attributes of the one or more training defects, generating a confidence threshold for each defect type of the one or more training defects based on a received classification purity requirement, acquiring one or more images including one or more test defects, classifying the one or more test defects with the generated ensemble learning classifier, calculating a confidence level for each of the one or more test defects with the generated ensemble learning classifier and reporting one or more test defects having a confidence level below the generated confidence threshold via the user interface device for manual classification.
US09898805B2	Method for efficient median filtering A method is disclosed for efficiently calculating a median value of a high-order array in a Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) processor. Values of the high-order array are sorted vertically in each column followed by sorts on each individual row. After the sort, selective diagonal values of the sorted high-order array are used to form a low-order array to calculate the median of the high-order array. The median calculation using selective diagonal values of the high-order array in a low-order array significantly improves SIMD processor efficiency and throughput.
US09898803B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium storing image processing program An image processing apparatus including: an image obtaining unit that obtains low-resolution (LR) images acquired in time series; a position alignment unit that aligns the LR images on the basis of a movement between the LR images to generate a high-resolution (HR) image; a correlation calculating unit that calculates correlation information between areas of the LR images, the areas corresponding to partial area in the HR image; a compositing-ratio calculating unit that calculates, for each partial area, a ratio between the HR image and an image to be composited which is generated from the LR or HR images and has a lower resolution than the HR image, such that the proportion of the HR image becomes smaller as the correlation of the area decreases; and an image compositing unit that composites the HR image and the image to be composited according to the ratio.
US09898793B2	Methods and arrangements involving substrate marking First and second patterns are formed on a substrate. A spatial offset between the patterns is determined, and stored for later use in authenticating the substrate. (One or both of the patterns may convey steganographic information. One pattern may be printed, while the other may be embossed.) A smartphone can sense these patterns, determine the spatial offset, and check whether the determined offset matches the earlier-stored offset, to judge whether the substrate is authentic. Another arrangement effects serialization of product packaging by use of paired patterns (at least one of which is typically a watermark pattern) applied in a manner causing a spatial offset between the patterns to progressively vary along a length of a printed web. Still other arrangements involve substrates conveying patterns that degrade over time, e.g., indicating freshness or pressurization condition. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US09898786B2	Semi-tractor trailer for distribution of natural gas and system and method for use of same A semi-tractor trailer for distribution of natural gas and a system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a semi-tractor trailer supported fuel receptacle has a plurality of metered fuel dispensers along the sides thereof to permit customers to park along side the semi-tractor trailer and fuel their vehicles with clean natural gas, which may be compressed natural gas or liquid natural gas, for example. The semi-tractor trailer is filled at a central filling location and transported by a tractor to a convenient retail location. A volume monitor monitors the volume of clean natural gas in the semi-tractor trailer and transmits this information to the central filling location, which may dispense a replacement semi-tractor trailer upon the volume of clean natural gas reaching a pre-determined threshold and retrieve the spent semi-tractor trailer in one trip.
US09898785B2	Apparatus and method for managing a social network A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to collect one or more user-generated comments from each of a plurality of computing devices, detect a correlation in the one or more user-generated comments collected from the plurality of computing devices, and establish a social network between the plurality of computing devices according to the detected correlation. The one or more user-generated comments can be temporally associated with media content presented at the plurality of computing devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09898782B1	Systems, methods, and program products for operating exchange traded products holding digital math-based assets Systems, methods, and program products for providing an exchange traded product holding digital math-based assets are disclosed. Shares based on digital math-based assets may be redeemed using one or more computers by determining share price information based upon quantities of digital math-based assets held by a trust, electronically receiving a request from an authorized participant user device to redeem a quantity of shares, electronically transmitting a quantity of digital math-based assets from one or more origin digital asset accounts to one or more destination digital asset accounts associated with the authorized participant, and canceling the quantity of shares from the authorized participant.
US09898781B1	System and method for issuing, circulating and trading financial instruments with smart features A system and method for issuing, circulating and trading financial instruments with smart features is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, a financial instrument having smart features may comprise a document portion and a token device attached to or embedded in the document portion. The token device may comprise a storage device and a communication interface, wherein the token device is configured to provide a unique address for the financial instrument, the unique address including a device identifier that matches at least in part the document portion and a network address that changes based on a network location of the financial instrument and to communicate securely with an external entity at least to report an identity or a status of the financial instrument.
US09898780B2	Method and system for the issuance of instant credit A method and system for the issuance of Instant Credit has an Instant Credit engine that performs instantaneous analyses. The method and system can operate along side existing “batch” processes. In addition, the method and system offer various channels of distribution for the Instant Credit products. With the present invention, Instant Credit and other Instant services (e.g., instant account balance transfers, etc.) can be obtained via, Internet, point-of-sale and other distribution channels. The present system also enables highly dynamic product offerings, which can be generated “instantaneously” based on a variety of factors, such as, for example, the channels of distribution (e.g., telephone or Internet), the product sought and/or even the particular individual and/or entity that is applying for a line of credit.
US09898772B1	Item recommendation Techniques for providing a recommendation for an item may be provided. In particular, a system can provide a recommendation for one or more items based at least in part on how easily a system can fulfill the recommended item. The ease of fulfillment may be affected by one or more items selected or selected by the user, so that when two potential items can be recommended for the user, the item that is easier to provide to the user with the selected item can receive a better recommendation by the system (e.g., through a ranked or scored recommendation list, by limiting the recommended items provided to a user).
US09898771B2	System and method for facilitating the purchase of products determined to be useful in the performance of a task A retailer computer system facilitates the purchase of products that are determined to be useful in the performance of a task by presenting to a consumer a first user interface by which the consumer may select a task from a repository of tasks, each task stored in the repository of tasks having documented instructions, such as a recipe, for performing the task, by presenting in a web page the documented instructions of the selected task, by using one or more keywords within the documented instructions of the selected task to select at least one product from an electronic product catalog, the selected at least one product being one or more of a part, such as a recipe ingredient, and a tool, such as an appliance, usable in performing the task, and by presenting to the consumer a second user interface for allowing the consumer to purchase via use of an online retail channel the selected at least one product.
US09898768B2	System and method for preventing, responding to, or discouraging predatory and uncompetitive sales practices A method and system for identifying and discouraging predatory and uncompetitive sales practices includes identifying at least one base cost for at least one product, determining at least one current cost for the at least one product from at least one retailer displaying or selling products and services through online or mobile channels, and determining if the at least one product sold by the at least one retailer displaying or selling products and services through online or mobile channels is a loss-leader based at least partially on the at least one base cost and the at least one current cost. At least one of the at least one product may be automatically purchased from the at least one retailer displaying or selling products and services through online or mobile channels if the at least one product sold by the at least one retailer is determined to be a loss-leader. A system for implementing the aforementioned method includes appropriately communicatively connected hardware components.
US09898764B2	Information processing device, video playback method, program, and video playback system A video playback system includes a video distribution server and at least one information processing device. The video distribution server includes a video distribution portion that performs streaming distribution of a video stream, an alternative video distribution portion that distributes an alternative video, and a control information distribution portion that distributes control information. The information processing device includes a receiving portion that receives the video stream, the alternative video, and the control information, a storage portion that stores the alternative video and the control information, a video stream playback portion that performs streaming playback of the video stream, an alternative video playback portion that plays back the stored alternative video, and a playback switching control portion that, based on the stored control information, controls switching between the streaming playback and the playback of the alternative video.
US09898761B2	Method of compensating a provider for advertisements displayed on a mobile phone A method and apparatus for advertising on a mobile phone. In one embodiment the method includes the steps of downloading an advertisement to the mobile phone using an advertisement server; selecting the downloaded advertisement on the mobile phone by a user of the mobile phone; providing by a server additional information in response to the user selection; and tracking the selection and additional information by the server. In another embodiment the compensation provided is in response to the display screen of said advertisement. In another embodiment the step of providing additional information includes the step of using space reserved, in the user interface of the mobile phone, for advertisements. Another aspect the invention relates to a system for displaying advertisements on a mobile phone. In one embodiment the system includes a server; and a mobile phone in communication with said server.
US09898759B2	Methods and systems for collecting driving information and classifying drivers and self-driving systems Systems and methods for efficiently addressing technical and privacy/authorization obstacles associated with tracking of individuals in a vehicle, and enabling route-based analysis to determine driving behavior, socio-demographics, future profitability, and interests of individuals or self-driving systems. Driving information is collected using a device associated with a driver and a vehicle or using data collected by systems of self-driving vehicles. The frequency and methods used for the collection of driving information can be modified based on location and movement of the device and based on previous classification of the driver or self-driving system, thereby enabling efficient use of bandwidth and battery and increasing accuracy of the classification. The driving information is encoded and transmitted to a server, where future typical route segments that the driver is likely to travel are predicted, and the driver, or the self-driving system, is classified into one or more groups based on the encoded driving information.
US09898753B2	Methods for cross-market brand advertising, content metric analysis, and placement recommendations In another embodiment, a computer-implemented method for processing and optimizing selection of placement, of advertising content related to a brand, in websites of a network is provided. The computer-implemented method is processed by a server in response to communication from a user that is connected to the server over the Internet. The method includes receiving from the user, attributes of an advertisement to be placed on a brand-centric website that relates to the brand, and also receiving selections for types of websites to place the advertisement. The types of websites do not have to be brand-centric websites, but should include content related to the brand. Then, the method includes obtaining metrics from selected websites and historical performance for similar advertisements when placed on the selected websites. The method includes processing the obtained metrics and historical performance to preliminarily define an advertising model. The advertising model defines a score correlated to effectiveness of the advertisement. Optimizing the advertising model is then performed to define a recommended advertising model, where the recommended advertising model defines optimal selections of websites for placement of the advertisement. The optimizing uses multivariable optimization to correlate the obtained metrics to a desired optimization criteria.
US09898747B2	Information processing system performing synchronization between memory devices and memory devices performing wireless communication According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a nonvolatile memory, a first controller which controls the nonvolatile memory, a wireless antenna, a memory, a second controller, and a third controller. The wireless antenna generates electric power based on a radio wave from a first external device. The memory is operable based on the generated electric power. The second controller is operable based on the generated electric power and controls communication using the wireless antenna. The third controller controls data copy or transfer between the nonvolatile memory and the memory. The third controller receives, from a second external device, identification information and stores the identification information in the memory. The second controller transmits login information and identification information stored in the memory to the first external device via the wireless antenna.
US09898739B2	System and method for ensuring safety of online transactions Online transaction security is improved by detecting a start of an online financial transaction between a user-controlled online transaction application and a remote payment service. A protected data input module, a protected environment module, and a safe data transfer module each provides a corresponding set of protection operations. A risk level of conducting the financial transaction is assessed based on a vulnerability assessment and on present condition of the local computing system. An initial degree of protection for each of the modules is set, and subsequently adjusted based on the risk level.
US09898733B1	System and method for combining disparate commercial transactions under a single identification mechanism A single swipe system is constructed that allows a person to use a single financial card to receive loyalty benefits (or conduct other non-payment operations) concurrently with a payment transaction. In one embodiment, the user simply swipes his/her financial card and the processing system then concurrently processes a non-payment transaction along with a payment transaction. In some situations, the non-payment transaction can be blended into the payment transaction to allow for discounts and other awards from one or more databases other than the payment processing database. In one embodiment, a single swipe of a financial card connects the consumer with one or more loyalty systems and the consumer can select from the ones desired during the course of payment processing. Discounts and other advantages can be applied to the payment transaction, all based upon a single entry of the consumer's ID.
US09898730B2	Credit card system and method A credit card system is provided which has the added feature of providing additional limited use credit card numbers and/or cards. These numbers and/or cards can be used for a single or limited use transaction, thereby reducing the potential for fraudulent reuse of these numbers and/or cards. The credit card system finds application to “card remote” transactions such as by phone or Internet. Additionally, when a single use or limited use credit card is used for “card present” transactions, so called “skimming” fraud is eliminated. Various other features enhance the credit card system which will allow secure trade without the use of elaborate encryption techniques. Methods for limiting, distributing and using a limited use card number, controlling the validity of a limited use credit card number, conducting a limited use credit card number transaction and providing remote access devices for accessing a limited use credit card number are also provided.
US09898728B2	System and method for one-time payment authorization in a portable communication device A system for using a dynamic temporary credential with a portable communication device for use in a transaction with an electronic control point (e.g. point of sale, NFC access point) wherein the portable communication device has a geo-location module (e.g. GPS). The system has a centralized module that receives the portable communication device's current geo-location and transmits the dynamic temporary credential to the portable communication device and provides predictive transaction information—including the dynamic temporary credential and portable communication device's geo-location—to an authorization system operably associated with the electronic control point. The dynamic temporary credential has a predetermined time to live, which allows for the recycling of the dynamic credential, such recycling may take into account the geo-location for which the credential has been recently issued. A method for using a dynamic temporary credential with a portable communication device is also disclosed.
US09898726B2	Security system A terminal for use in a retail banking system comprises an interface for receiving multiple types of personal authentication elements. An authentication request for a user is associated with one or more of these types of element. The terminal also comprises a security module for providing access to a plurality of different access spaces of the system, each space comprises a different respective function or combination of functions of the system. For each access space, the security module provides a mapping between that access space and a respective one or more of the types of personal authentication element. Based on this mapping, the security module is thus configured to grant the user with access to one of the access spaces on condition of being mapped to the one or more types of personal authentication element associated with the authentication request for the user, and on condition those elements are verified.
US09898725B2	Passenger information module A method and system utilizes an interface for the blind and low vision passengers in a touch screen passenger information module (PIM). The PIM is enabled to operate in at least two modes. A low vision mode provides different user input framework on the touch screen as well as appropriate audio prompting. The interface enables a blind or low vision person to interact with the PIM easily, including using the PIM to pay for the fare. The low vision mode can be initiated by the passenger.
US09898719B2	Systems, methods, and computer program products providing push payments In electronic financial transactions a receiver, or targeted recipient of funds, provides account information to a transmitter, or sender of funds. The transmitter initiates a push of funds from a transmitter funding source to the receiver's funding source processor. In some embodiments the receiver provides a payment card, similar to a credit card, which is read by an electronic device of the transmitter, such as a smart phone. In some embodiments, the receiver provides the account information by way of a bar code, such as a QR code, which is scanned and read by the transmitter's electronic device.
US09898717B2	Online remittance system with methodology for predicting disbursement times of online electronic funds transfers An online remittance service system with a methodology for predicting disbursement times of online electronic funds transfers is disclosed. In one embodiment, for example, a method includes storing in computer memory a model of a disbursement process performed by one or more partners of the online remittance service for disbursing funds to payees in the destination country; based on the model, scheduling one or more computer-executable jobs with a job scheduling module representing one or more steps of the disbursement process; for each job of the one or more jobs, determining a next execution time for the job, the next execution time representing a time at which the job scheduling module will next execute the job after a specified time; and based on the next execution times for the one or more jobs, determining a predicted time of disbursement of the online electronic funds transfer.
US09898708B2	Uplifting of computer resources The present disclosure improves upon existing systems and methods by providing a tool for managing processing resources. For instance, the presently described tool may be used to time replacement, plan for uplifts, budget for uplifts/decommissioning of hardware, and/or maintain a plurality of servers. This tool may lead to increased satisfaction, uptime, and a reduction of unexpected costs. The system may include initiating collection of variables to compile a prioritized list of servers, executing, a calculation application for determining a prioritized list of servers' end of life targets based on both technical and business parameters based on the entered variables, and prioritizing uplifts of the servers based on the technical and the business parameters.
US09898700B2	Method, apparatus, and artificial intelligence server for determining artificial intelligence behavior According to methods, apparatus and AI servers for determining an AI behavior, a protocol-requesting command sent by an application logic server can be received. The protocol-requesting command can contain an application identifier, a notification message, and current environment data. From a plurality of preset AI systems, an AI system corresponding to the application identifier can be found. The AI system can be formed by a preset plurality of components that include one or more classifying components. From the AI system, a classifying component corresponding to the notification message can be found. The classifying component can be mounted with at least one behavior component. From the classifying component corresponding to the notification message, a behavior component matching the current environment data can be obtained. An AI behavior can be determined based on the obtained behavior component matching the current environment data.
US09898693B2	Document background suppression performed during color space conversion An electronic image in a first color space, used by image acquisition devices, is obtained and converted into a second color space with a larger gamut, to produce a second color space image. Corrections are made to the second color space image to produce a corrected image, without performing background suppression. The corrected image is converted into a third color space, used by printing devices, to produce a third color space image, and this process of converting the corrected image into the third color space includes performing background suppression. This process of converting the corrected image into the third color space samples nodes of the second color space values, classifies the nodes as background nodes or non-background nodes, multiplies the second color space values of the background nodes by a percentage less than 100%, and after multiplying, interpolates values between the nodes.
US09898686B2	Object re-identification using self-dissimilarity A method of identifying an object in an image is disclosed. At least one feature map for each of a plurality of cells in the image is determined. A self-dissimilarity between a first feature map associated with a first one of said cells and a second feature map associated with a second cell, is determined. The self-dissimilarity is determined by determining a sum over thresholds of a difference in area between the first feature map and the second feature map. An appearance signature for the object is formed based on the determined self-dissimilarity. A distance between the appearance signature of the object in the image and appearance signatures of each of a plurality of further objects is determined. The object in the image is identified based on the determined distances.
US09898680B2	Feature image generation apparatus, classification apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable memory, and feature image generation method and classification method A feature image generation apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry generates, on the basis of a processing target image in which an object appears, a first image showing the object, and generates, as a feature image showing a feature of the object, at least a part of a rotational composite image obtained by composition of a plurality of rotated images obtained by rotating the first image.
US09898679B2	Resolving closely spaced objects A method and apparatus for resolving a set of objects in an image of an area. A partition that captures a set of objects is identified using the image. The partition is comprised of a group of contiguous object pixels. A number of local max pixels are identified from the group of contiguous object pixels in the partition. A quantitative resolution of the set of objects captured in the partition is performed based on the number of local max pixels identified.
US09898675B2	User movement tracking feedback to improve tracking Technology is presented for providing feedback to a user on an ability of an executing application to track user action for control of the executing application on a computer system. A capture system detects a user in a capture area. Factors in the capture area and the user's actions can adversely affect the ability of the application to determine if a user movement is a gesture which is a control or instruction to the application. One example of such factors is a user being out of the field of view of the capture system. Some other factor examples include lighting conditions and obstructions in the capture area. Responsive to a user tracking criteria not being satisfied, feedback is output to the user. In some embodiments, the feedback is provided within the context of an executing application.
US09898674B2	Spoof detection for facial recognition An embodiment of the invention provides a method of analyzing an image of a user to determine whether the image is authentic, where a first image of a user's face is received with a camera. Four or more two-dimensional feature points can be located that do not lie on the same two-dimensional plane. Additional images of the user's face can be received; and, the at least four two-dimensional feature points can be located on each additional image with the image processor. The image processor can identify displacements between the two-dimensional feature points on the additional image and the two-dimensional feature points on the first image for each additional image. A processor can determine whether the displacements conform to a three-dimensional surface model. The processor can determine whether to authenticate the user based on the determination of whether the displacements conform to the three-dimensional surface model.
US09898659B2	System and method for remote medical diagnosis A system for use in remote medical diagnosis of a biological subject, the system including one or more electronic processing devices that receive image data indicative of at least one image of part of the subject's eye from a client device via a communications network, review subject data indicative of at least one subject attribute, select at least one analysis process using results of the review of the subject data, use the analysis process to quantify at least one feature in the image data and generate an indicator value indicative of the quantified at least one feature, the indicator value being used in the assessment of a condition status of at least one condition.
US09898655B2	System and method for identification and extraction of data A system and method of for describing target data as a sequence of pattern elements and pattern element groups that comprise an overall target pattern is described. Pattern elements may utilize regular expression syntax along with other metadata that describe the behavior of the element. A pattern element group may be a collection of fully defined pattern elements where at least one pattern element from the group must have a match for the overall pattern to match. Patterns contain both pattern elements and pattern element groups. The general process involves first performing optical character recognition (OCR) on the document, which in turn produces a sequence of text tokens representing the lines of text on each page of the document. The search algorithm may then apply each defined pattern to the entire document capturing and/or extracting data that match each pattern's required elements and element groups.
US09898653B2	Method for determining width of lines in hand drawn table A method for image processing includes obtaining a mask of a stroke from an image; determining a plurality of cross edges for the stroke based on the mask; generating a histogram comprising a plurality of widths of the cross edges and a plurality of frequencies of the plurality of widths from the cross edges; estimating a lower bound of a width range for the stroke based on a mode width of the plurality of widths, a first subset of the plurality of widths below the mode width, and a first plurality of weights assigned to the first subset of the plurality of widths; and estimating an upper bound of the width range for the stroke based on the mode width, a second subset of the plurality of widths above the mode width, and a second plurality of weights assigned to the second subset of the widths.
US09898651B2	Upper-body skeleton extraction from depth maps A method for processing data includes receiving a depth map of a scene containing at least an upper body of a humanoid form. The depth map is processed so as to identify a head and at least one arm of the humanoid form in the depth map. Based on the identified head and at least one arm, and without reference to a lower body of the humanoid form, an upper-body pose, including at least three-dimensional (3D) coordinates of shoulder joints of the humanoid form, is extracted from the depth map.
US09898635B2	Point-of-sale (POS) code sensing apparatus Point-of sale (POS) devices and checkout devices are provided. An exemplary checkout apparatus includes a plurality of sensing elements arranged in fixed relationship with each other at the mouth of a bag. At least one of the sensing elements senses a code arranged on a product as the product is being placed into the bag.
US09898630B2	Interrogation device, system including interrogation device, and program A controller in an interrogation device performs, for each RF tag passing through an interrogation zone that is defined near an interrogation unit, an integration process of integrating a strength of a reception signal from the RF tag received by the interrogation unit. The integration process includes weighting of an integral value of the strength of the reception signal in a manner to cause an integrate value calculated for each reception signal to be larger than an integral value calculated for a preceding reception signal. When an RF tag moves to a predetermined position in the interrogation zone, the controller transmits, to a host device, an identifier of an RF tag having a maximum integral value selected from the integrated value calculated for each RF tag.
US09898628B1	Dynamic quick response code branding In an approach to managing a quick response code branding device and management of a quick response code branding device, one or more computer processors receive one or more quick response code configuration parameters. The one or more computer processors determine one or more program instructions corresponding to the one or more quick response code configuration parameters based on one or more task-specific factors. The one or more computer processors send the one or more program instructions to a quick response code branding device. The one or more computer processors receive quick response code branding device status data. The one or more computer processors determine whether the quick response code branding device status data meets the one or more quick response code configuration parameters.
US09898625B2	Method and apparatus for limiting access to an integrated circuit (IC) A method and apparatus for limiting access to an integrated circuit (IC) upon detection of abnormal conditions is provided. At least one of abnormal voltage detection, abnormal temperature detection, and abnormal clock detection are provided with low power consumption. Both abnormally low and abnormally high parameter values (e.g. abnormally low or high voltage, temperature, or clock frequency) may be detected. Abnormal clock detection may also detect a stopped clock signal, including a clock signal stopped at a low logic level or at a high logic level. Furthermore, abnormal clock detection may detect an abnormal duty cycle of a clock signal. A sampled bandgap reference may be used to provide accurate voltage and current references while consuming a minimal amount of power. Upon detection of an abnormal parameter value, one or more tamper indications may be provided to initiate tampering countermeasures, such as limiting access to the IC.
US09898619B1	System and method for concealing sensitive data on a computing device A computer-implemented method may conceal sensitive data displayed within a viewport of a display of a client computing device, such as sensitive data relating to auto, home, life, or renters insurance, banking, and/or vehicle loans. In one aspect, the method may receive a user credential authenticating a user of the computing device and determine that a sensitive data flag has been triggered. The sensitive data flag may indicate that sensitive user data is displayed within a viewport of the computing device. The method may also initiate a biometric detection service, application, and/or functionality in response to determining that the sensitive data flag has been triggered and detect a first biometric identifier belonging to the user of the computing device. The method may further detect a second biometric identifier belonging to someone other than the user, and obscure the sensitive user data displayed within the viewport of the computing device.
US09898618B1	Securing a remote database A database access system may protect a field by storing the field as one or more underlying fields within a database. The database engine may not have access to keys used to protect the underlying fields within the database, such as by encryption, while the database access system may have access to the keys. Underlying fields may be used to store protected data and aid in the querying of protected data. The database access system may modify queries to use the underlying fields, which may include encrypting query terms and/or modifying query terms to fit the use of the underlying fields. The database access system may modify query results to match the format of the original query, which may include decrypting protected results and/or removing underlying fields.
US09898615B1	Methods to impede common file/process hiding techniques A processor-based method to defeat file and process hiding techniques in a computing device is provided. The method includes generating one of a path permutation, a symlink, or an address, for a path to open or obtain status of a tool or function in a library in a mobile computing device and making an open or status call for the tool or function, using the one of the path permutation, symlink or address. The method includes avoiding a pattern match and blocking, by an injected library, of the open or status call, the avoiding being a result of making the open or status call using the path permutation, symlink or address.
US09898613B1	Crowdsourcing privacy settings The disclosed subject matter relates to a computer-implemented method including steps for aggregating privacy setting information for one or more networking associates, generating data based on the aggregated privacy setting information and providing a privacy setting recommendation for display to a user based on the data. Systems and computer-readable media are also provided.
US09898610B1	System and method for concealing sensitive data on a computing device A computer-implemented method may conceal sensitive data displayed within a viewport of a display of a client computing device, such as sensitive data relating to auto, home, life, or renters insurance, banking, and/or vehicle loans. In one aspect, the method may receive a user credential authenticating a user of the computing device and determine that a sensitive data flag has been triggered. The sensitive data flag may indicate that sensitive user data is displayed within a viewport of the computing device. The method may also initiate a biometric detection service, application, and/or functionality in response to determining that the sensitive data flag has been triggered and detect a first biometric identifier belonging to the user of the computing device. The method may further detect a second biometric identifier belonging to someone other than the user, and obscure the sensitive user data displayed within the viewport of the computing device.
US09898609B2	Trusted boot of a virtual machine A method, system and program product for performing a trusted boot of a virtual machine comprises the steps of executing, in turn, a series of components of the trusted boot, performing a function on each component prior to the execution of the respective component, storing the output of the functions in a virtual trusted platform module, detecting that the virtual trusted platform module has not responded to the storing of the output of a function in the virtual trusted platform module, and generating a request that the virtual trusted platform module be disabled.
US09898600B2	Method and apparatus for managing application data of portable terminal A method for managing application data of a portable terminal according to the present invention comprises the steps of: allocating a plurality of data areas required for a data management policy for an application program; when the application program is executed, permitting connection to a specific data area of the plurality of data areas allocated for the application program on the basis of the data management policy; and executing the application program while performing the permitted connection to the specific data area.
US09898599B2	Implementing extent granularity authorization and deauthorization processing in CAPI adapters A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing block extent granularity authorization and deauthorization processing for a Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) adapter. The Application Client, such as an Application Child Client sends a Delete Authorizations command to the CAPI Adapter via the Client CAPI Server Registers assigned to the specific Application Client. The CAPI Adapter deletes the Authorizations in all Lists in the Delete Authorizations command.
US09898596B2	System and method for eye tracking during authentication A system, apparatus, method, and machine readable medium are described for performing eye tracking during authentication. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: receiving a request to authenticate a user; presenting one or more screen layouts to the user; capturing a sequence of images which include the user's eyes as the one or more screen layouts are displayed; and (a) performing eye movement detection across the sequence of images to identify a correlation between motion of the user's eyes as the one or more screen layouts are presented and an expected motion of the user's eyes as the one or more screen layouts are presented and/or (b) measuring the eye's pupil size to identify a correlation between the effective light intensity of the screen and its effect on the user's eye pupil size.
US09898594B2	Methods and systems for data entry User identities, password, etc. represent the barrier between a user's confidential data and any other third party seeking to access this data. As multiple software applications, web applications, web services, etc. embody this confidential data it is a tradeoff between easy recollection of said identities, passwords, etc. and data security. Generally for most users the balance is too far to convenience and ease of recollection such that the probability of third party illegally accessing the confidential data increases. Accordingly, it would be beneficial for users as well as organizations providing/controlling access to systems, resources, and data to be provided with an automatic means of entering password and/or security credential information without the user, for example, selecting the password, knowing the password, having access to the password, or entering the password where the organizations providing/controlling access can establish geo-fences relating to the credential information.
US09898590B2	Digital media reproduction and licensing Systems and methods for monetizing the reproduction of digital media content for the rights-holders of the digital media content. Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to determining whether a user of a media content item has a license to reproduce the media content item. In one embodiment, the media content item may be reproduced when the user is licensed. The user is prompted to select to acquire a license to reproduce the media content item or to decline the license to reproduce the media content item when the user is not licensed. Further embodiments determine whether a user may receive a license when the user wishes to acquire a license. In an embodiment, the user is declined a license when not approved for the license.
US09898588B2	Method and apparatus for providing cloud-based digital rights management service and system thereof A method for providing a Digital Rights Management (DRM) service in a network is provided. The method includes receiving a request message for device registration, which includes DRM-related identification information, from a user device; and registering registration information of the user device, which is distinguished according to a corresponding user account and according to a corresponding DRM solution, based on the DRM-related identification information.
US09898577B2	Strategies for high throughput identification and detection of polymorphisms The invention relates to a method for identifying one or more polymorphisms in nucleic acid samples, comprising: (a) performing a reproducible complexity reduction on a plurality of nucleic acid samples to provide a plurality of libraries of the nucleic acid samples comprising amplified fragments, wherein the reproducible complexity reduction comprises amplifying fragments of the nucleic acid samples using one or more primers to obtain the amplified fragments, and wherein the amplified fragments in each library comprise a unique identifier sequence to indicate origin of each library obtained by the reproducible complexity reduction; (b) combining the plurality of libraries to obtain a combined library and sequencing at least a portion of the combined library to obtain sequences; (c) aligning the sequences to obtain an alignment; and (d) identifying one or more polymorphisms in the plurality of nucleic acid samples.
US09898576B2	Strategies for high throughput identification and detection of polymorphisms The invention relates to a method for identifying one or more polymorphisms in nucleic acid samples, comprising: (a) performing a reproducible complexity reduction on a plurality of nucleic acid samples to provide a plurality of libraries of the nucleic acid samples comprising amplified fragments, wherein the reproducible complexity reduction comprises amplifying fragments of the nucleic acid samples using one or more primers to obtain the amplified fragments, and wherein the amplified fragments in each library comprise a unique identifier sequence to indicate origin of each library obtained by the reproducible complexity reduction; (b) combining the plurality of libraries to obtain a combined library and sequencing at least a portion of the combined library to obtain sequences; (c) aligning the sequences to obtain an alignment; and (d) identifying one or more polymorphisms in the plurality of nucleic acid samples.
US09898574B2	Method for determining the presence of disease The invention provides a method for determining presence of a disease, comprising steps of; measuring the levels of expression of transcription products of genes in a biological sample obtained from a subject suspected of having a target disease, wherein the genes comprise at least one gene belonging to each of at least two disease-determining gene families related to the target disease; obtaining values representing deviations by standardizing the levels of the expression based on the levels of expression of transcription products of the corresponding genes in a plurality of healthy subjects; obtaining the average of values representing deviations with respect to the gene belonging to each of the disease-determining gene families; and determining whether or not the subject has the target disease by using the average; as well as a computer program product for determining presence of a disease.
US09898572B2	Metal line layout based on line shifting A method of Back-End-Of-Line processing of a semiconductor device is provided including providing a layout for metal lines of a metallization layer of the semiconductor device, determining a semi-isolated metal line in the provided layout and shifting at least a portion of the determined semi-isolated metal line.
US09898568B2	Reducing the load on the bitlines of a ROM bitcell array Systems, apparatuses, and methods for reducing the load on the bitlines of a ROM bitcell array are described. The connections between nets of a ROM bitcell array may be assigned based on their programmed values using a traditional approach. Then, a plurality of optimizations may be performed on the assignment of nets to reduce the load on the bitlines of the array. A first optimization may swap the connections between ground and bitline for the nets of a given column responsive to detecting that the number of connections to the corresponding bitline is greater than the number of connections to ground for the given column. A second optimization may remove the connection of a net to a bitline if three consecutive nets of a given column are connected to the bitline.
US09898567B2	Automatic layout modification tool with non-uniform grids A method (and system) of automatically legalizing a circuit layout with layout objects in a presence of a plurality of non-uniform grids is disclosed. The method comprises generating a set of layout constraints comprising design rule constraints and gridding requirements based on the plurality of non-uniform grids. In addition, the method comprises processing the set of layout constraints to a feasible form using Boolean variables by determining infeasibility of the set of layout constraints, identifying infeasible layout constraints from the set of layout constraints, and resolving the infeasibility by a constraint relaxation process. Additionally, the method comprises generating an output circuit layout, for display to a user, by solving the set of layout constraints in the feasible form with standard linear program solvers.
US09898558B1	Generating a model and estimating a cost using an autonomous inspection vehicle Disclosed systems and methods estimate a financial cost to remedy estimated damage to a building. A controllable inspection vehicle, such as an aircraft, may capture one or more images of the building. The one or more images may be utilized to generate a model of the building, which can be analyzed to estimate the damage to the building.
US09898549B1	Tenant-aware database for software as a service A system for providing a tenant-aware database includes a relational database management system comprising a query engine, a transaction manager, a buffer manager, a recovery manager and a storage manager. The storage manager includes a tenant table, a tenant/user table, a tenant/object table, a multi-tenant table structure and multi-tenant index structure. The tenant table, the tenant/user table, the tenant/object table, the multi-tenant table structure and the multi-tenant index structure cooperate to provide a mechanism that has a single schema definition with multiple data instances for tables and their associated indexes, one for each tenant. The use of multi-tenant structures and associated components in the storage manager is advantageous because it provides: good isolation among tenant's data (each tenant's data can be stored in one or multiple storage areas independent of other tenants), simple schema updates as there is only one schema to update, easy maintenance that can be done for individuals tenant's data without affecting others, good performance and good scalability. The present invention also includes a variety of methods including: a method for reading or writing using the storage manager, a method for reading or writing using the multi-tenant table structure and the multi-tenant index structure, a method for determining the tenant of a user and a method for making multi-tenant schema changes.
US09898548B1	Image conversion of text-based images Conversion of text-based images to vector graphics (VG) is disclosed. The text-based images may include images of equations, custom typefaces, or other types of text that may not be included in a font selection of an optical character recognition (OCR) device or an application stored on a viewing device. A textual image may be converted from a raster graphics (RG) image to a VG image, which may enable resizing and alignment of the VG image with body text. In some aspects, the server may determine a body size of a reference character in the VG image. The server may determine a baseline of the VG image that may be used to align the image with the body text.
US09898546B2	Pre-caching web content for a mobile device A web service for pre-caching web content on a mobile device includes receiving a request from the mobile device for first web content, fetching the first web content, determining second web content to pre-fetch based upon the first web content, fetching the second web content, and causing the second web content to be stored in a content cache on the mobile device responsive to the request for the first web content. Pre-caching web content in this manner provides web content to the mobile device that the user of the mobile device is likely to access. Pre-caching of additional web content prior to receiving an explicit request improves web browsing performance of the mobile device.
US09898539B2	Device management apparatus and device search method In a technology for allowing accurate and easy search of a device which satisfies a request of a user from among a large number of devices present at various places, an area ID capable of uniquely identifying a target area of the device is registered in a storage section as information on the device. A device search request from the user includes an area condition for identifying an area in which exertion of an operation by the device is desired by the user as a search condition. A matching process section determines the device to be extracted by comparing the target area identified by the area ID of each device with the area condition included in the device search request.
US09898538B2	Role-relative social networking A role-based social network follow request that identifies a specified user role to follow within a social network is received from a social network user. A social network role-based query, derived from the specified user role identified within the role-based social network follow request, is executed. In response to executing the social network role-based query, role-based information of social network users within the social network is retrieved. Another social network user that matches the specified user role is identified based upon the retrieved role-based information of the social network users. Role-based social network following of the matching other social network user is configured for the requesting social network user.
US09898528B2	Concept indexing among database of documents using machine learning techniques Systems and techniques for indexing and/or querying a database are described herein. Discrete sections and/or segments from documents may be determined by a concept indexing system. The segments may be indexed by concept and/or higher-level category of interest to a user. A user may query the segments by one or more concepts. The segments may be analyzed to rank the segments by statistical accuracy and/or relatedness to one or more particular concepts. The rankings may be used for presentation of search results in a user interface. Furthermore, segments and/or documents may be ranked based on recency decay functions that distinguish between segments that maintain their relevance over time in contrast with temporal segments whose relevance decays quicker over time, for example.
US09898525B2	Information processing device which carries out risk analysis and risk analysis method An information processing device includes: a unit configured to compute a service influence degree for each risk factor with respect to each service, on the basis of information which indicates a relation between components which have the risk factors and other components which are influenced by the state of the components, information which denotes characteristics of the respective risk factors, and information which denotes a correspondence between the services and these components; and a unit configured to compute, on the basis of the computed service influence degrees, similarities between specific risk factors and other risk factors, and for generating and outputting a set of component identification information on the basis of the computed similarities.
US09898521B2	Massively scalable object storage system Several different embodiments of a massively scalable object storage system are described. The object storage system is particularly useful for storage in a cloud computing installation whereby shared servers provide resources, software, and data to computers and other devices on demand. In several embodiments, the object storage system includes a ring implementation used to associate object storage commands with particular physical servers such that certain guarantees of consistency, availability, and performance can be met. In other embodiments, the object storage system includes a synchronization protocol used to order operations across a distributed system. In a third set of embodiments, the object storage system includes a metadata management system. In a fourth set of embodiments, the object storage system uses a structured information synchronization system. Features from each set of embodiments can be used to improve the performance and scalability of a cloud computing object storage system.
US09898518B2	Computer system, data allocation management method, and program A computer system comprises a plurality of computers for executing a service by using databases constructed of storage areas included in the plurality of computers. Each of the plurality of computers is configured to hold performance management information for managing respective performances of the plurality of computers. The each of the plurality of computers is allocated master data and replicated data of the master data managed by one of the plurality of computers other than the each of the plurality of computers. The computer system comprises a performance information management part configured to update the performance management information; and a cluster configuration management part configured to determine, based on the performance management information, the management range of the master data managed by a computer and a sub-computers configured to hold the replicated data of the master data managed by the computer.
US09898513B2	System, method and computer program for multi-dimensional temporal and relative data mining framework, analysis and sub-grouping The present invention relates to a system, method and computer program product that is a multi-dimensional data mining environment and that operable to apply a series of temporal and relative rules (i.e., STDMn0) and is further operable in at least one of the following ways: to incorporate a framework to support temporal abstractions and relative alignments to data (i.e., STDMn0); and to derive characteristics within the data (STDMn0). The present invention may incorporate data from multiple sources, and potentially multiple centers. The analysis and alignment of the data may involve both temporal dimensions and other dimensions (or relative aspects) of the data. The present invention may further be a data mining environment that is flexible enough to permit relatively open ended queries thereby enabling, for example, the detection of trends, including trends with new dimensions, or trends based on relatively small data sets.
US09898510B2	Semantic data generation In some examples, a computing device may be configured to simulate the deduction process of human mind by generating new data based on existing data and newly received data that is semantically relevant to the existing data.
US09898501B2	Method and system for performing transactional updates in a key-value store A method and system for performing a transactional update of a plurality of values in a key-value store that includes a first writer starting a transaction, a second writer joining the transaction, the first writer and the second writer writing changes to the plurality of values in a temporary transaction area in a storage area, and after the first writer and the second writer complete writing the changes, moving the plurality of values from the temporary transaction area to a global area in the key-value store.
US09898499B2	Multimedia scheduling for airplay with alternate category support A device and method for resolving a conflict in a chronological scheduling order for airplay while with constant order of the multimedia. A scheduling order can be designated for the delivery and playback of multimedia content (e.g., music, news, other audio, advertising, etc) with respect to particular slots within the scheduling order. Conflict resolution between multimedia content is based upon exchanging a slot position of either of one of a first set and one of a second set of a category of multimedia content identifiers with another corresponding one of either of the first set and the second set of the multimedia content identifiers based upon a predetermined number of slot value to resolve the conflict and to modify at least the portion of the chronological scheduling order while adhering to constant order for the multimedia content. Modified portions of the chronological scheduling order are produced for eventual airplay of multimedia content corresponding to the multimedia content identifiers.
US09898496B2	Dynamic code loading Described are methods, systems and computer readable media for dynamic code loading.
US09898493B2	Runtime generation of a mapping table for uploading data into structured data marts Techniques are described for mapping supplemental data from a data delivery package into data marts that are accessible to a software application. In some embodiments, new mappings can be dynamically generated for a mapping table when the data delivery package includes fields which do not have a corresponding mapping in the mapping table. The new mappings can be generated at runtime while the data delivery package is being processed. Once generated, the mapping table can be used to store the supplemental data into the data marts.
US09898492B2	Managing data with flexible schema The subject matter described herein relates to managing data with flexible schema. A method, computer storage medium, and system are provided for managing data with flexible schema. In one embodiment, the method comprises providing a logical view for logical tables of a database; and managing mappings between the logical tables and a physical table according to predefined mapping constraints, each of the logical tables mapped as a part of the physical table. The mapping constraints at least specify that (i) a logical column in the logical tables is mapped to at least one physical column in the physical table, and (ii) distinct logical columns in one of the logical tables are mapped to distinct physical columns in the physical table. As a result, schema evolution may be done with minimized data migration.
US09898485B2	Dynamic context-based data protection and distribution Systems and methods for storing data in a data storage system that allows dynamic context-based data protection and distribution are disclosed. The method includes receiving a storage request and evaluating whether a storage policy is specified in the storage request. When the storage request specifies a storage policy, the data is stored according to the specified policy. When the storage request does not specify a storage policy, meta data and/or the data item itself may be evaluated to identify a storage policy. When a storage policy has been identified, store the data is stored according to the identified policy. When a storage policy has not been specified and cannot be identified, an error is returned.
US09898476B2	Managing lock or latch in concurrent execution of queries Various disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for managing lock or latch chains in concurrent execution of database queries. A method includes receiving a plurality of transactions, each transaction associated with one or more queuing requests. The method includes, for each transaction, determining one or more partition sets. Each partition set corresponds to one or more database partitions needed for the transaction. The one or more database partitions are included within a partitioned database. The method includes, for each transaction, determining one or more queues needed for the transaction and storing a bitmap representation of the one or more queues needed for the transaction. The one or more queues needed for the transaction correspond to the one or more database partitions needed for the transaction.
US09898473B2	Security via data concealment Methods, apparatuses, and embodiments related to improving security of data that is stored at a data store distributed over a computer network. In an example, source data to be protected is partitioned into multiple files, and each file is obfuscated, such as by being encrypted, to created multiple obfuscated data files. Information as to how each obfuscated data file was obfuscated is stored in an associated trace file. The multiple obfuscated data files are moved around a computer network via a data movement process that includes sending each of the multiple obfuscated data files to a different randomly selected computer, where the computer further obfuscates the obfuscated data the trace file, and sends the further obfuscated data and trace file to a next randomly selected computer.
US09898463B2	Document management server, document management method, and non-transitory storage medium storing program A document management server includes: a generation unit configured to generate, by using a request received from a client, a character string for identifying a requested document; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not an image file of the document exists in a location represented by the character string by performing a check using the character string; a storage unit configured to, in a case that the determination unit determines that no image file of the document exists in the location, acquire an entity file of the document, generate an image file of the document by using the acquired entity file, and store, as cache data, the generated image file in the location; an acquisition unit configured to, in a case that the determination unit determines that an image file of the document exists in the location, acquire the image file of the document existing in the location.
US09898457B1	Identifying non-natural language for content analysis Examples for detecting and removing non-natural language within natural language to enhance performing content analysis on the natural language are provided herein. A plurality of terms is identified in a phrase, and a sliding window having a defined length is placed over a first sequence of terms from the plurality of terms. The first sequence of terms includes a first term, a second term, and a third term, the first term and the third term being adjacent to the second term. Based on the first term, the second term, and the third term, a determination is made as to whether the second term represents non-natural language. Upon determining that the second term is non-natural language, the second term is labeled as non-natural language and is removed from the plurality of terms based on determining the second term as non-natural language.
US09898449B1	System and method for automatically replacing information in a plurality electronic documents In a method for processing electronic documents, an indication of a plurality of electronic source documents is received with one or more computing devices that each have a processor executing at least a portion of an electronic document processing application and a memory coupled to the processor to store associated data. An indication of an electronic destination location is received. An indication of particular source document content is received. An indication of one or more processing actions to be performed with respect to the particular source document content is received. One or more occurrences of the particular source document content within the plurality of electronic source documents are detected. The one or more processing actions are performed so as to generate the electronic output content, without presenting contents of the plurality of electronic source documents to a user. The electronic output content is written to the electronic destination location.
US09898448B2	Method for text processing Method for text processing executable at a computing device, comprising appreciating a source phrase comprised of source words; appreciating a target phrase comprised of target words; associating a respective source word feature set with each one of the source words; associating a respective target word feature set with each one of the target words; analyzing source word feature sets and target word feature sets; and based on the analysis, generating one or more phrase transformation rules for transforming the source phrase into the target phrase. Also a server and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program instructions for carrying out the method.
US09898445B2	Resource prefetching via sandboxed execution The aspects include browser systems and methods of loading/rendering a webpage by preprocessing scripts within the web document (HTML page) in a sandboxed script engine to discover resources not explicitly requested in the web document so such resources can be pre-fetched and downloaded speculatively. The sandboxed execution of scripts and downloading of discovered resources may proceed in parallel with the performance of other browser operations (e.g., HTML parsing) and other resource requests. The sandboxed script engine may be isolated or separated from the other browser components. The sandboxed script engine may operate to speedup the process of identifying resources inconsistent with standard script execution processes.
US09898439B2	Optimizing remote direct memory access (RDMA) with cache aligned operations A system for optimizing remote direct memory accesses (RDMA) is provided. The system includes a first computing device and a second computing device disposed in signal communication with the first computing device. The first and second computing devices are respectively configured to exchange RDMA credentials during a setup of a communication link between the first and second computing devices. The exchanged RDMA credentials include cache line size information of the first computing device by which a cache aligned RDMA write operation is executable on a cache of the first computing device in accordance with the cache line size information by the second computing device.
US09898433B2	Continuous adaptive data capture optimization for interface circuits A data interface circuit wherein calibration adjustments for data bit capture are made without disturbing normal system operation, is described. A plurality of DLL capture and delay circuits for sampling a trained optimal sampling point as well as leading and trailing sampling points are defined. A first stream of data bits is input to the data interface circuit and using a first calibration method and a first set of values is established. A second stream of data bits is input to the data interface circuit during normal system operation. A second calibration method is performed that is different from the first, establishing a second set of values. Several fringe timing points are sampled. A drift amount is compared with a drift correction threshold value and the first optimal sampling point is shifted in time by the drift amount to revise the first optimal sampling point.
US09898431B1	Method and apparatus for memory access Aspects of the disclosure provide a circuit that includes a plurality of memory access circuits configured to access a memory to read or write data of a first width. The memory includes a plurality of memory banks that are organized in hierarchy. Further, the circuit includes a plurality of interface circuits respectively associated with the plurality of memory access circuits. Each interface circuit is configured to receive memory access requests to first level memory banks from an associated memory access circuit, segment the memory access requests into sub-requests to corresponding second level memory banks, buffer the sub-requests into buffers associated with the second level memory banks. In addition, the circuit includes arbitration circuitry configured to control multiplexing paths from the buffers to the second level memory banks to enable, in a same memory access clock, memory accesses by the memory access circuits.
US09898423B2	Memory swapping method, and host device, storage device, and data processing system using the same A memory swapping method and a data processing system using the same, the memory swapping method including receiving queue information for a memory swapping task from a host device; performing part of the memory swapping task in a storage device based on the queue information; receiving a command corresponding to the queue information from the host device after performing of the part of the memory swapping task is completed; and performing a remaining part of the memory swapping task according to the command by using a result of the part of the memory swapping task that had been previously performed.
US09898421B2	Memory access processing method, memory chip, and system based on memory chip interconnection A memory access processing method is based on memory chip interconnection, a memory chip, and a system, which relate to the field of electronic devices, and can shorten a time delay in processing a memory access request and improve a utilization rate of system bandwidth. The method of the present disclosure includes receiving, by a first memory chip, a memory access request; and if the first memory chip is not a target memory chip corresponding to the memory access request, sending, according to a preconfigured routing rule, the memory access request to a next memory chip connected with the first memory chip, until the target memory chip corresponding to the memory access request is determined. Embodiments of the present disclosure are mainly used in a process of processing a memory access request.
US09898409B2	Issue control for multithreaded processing A multithreaded data processing system performs processing using resource circuitry which is a finite resource. A saturation signal is generated to indicate when the resource circuitry is no longer able to perform processing operations issued to it. This saturations signal may be used to select a scheduling algorithm to be used for further scheduling, such as switching to scheduling from a single thread as opposed to round-robin scheduling from all of the threads. Re-execution queue circuitry is used to queue processing operations which have been enabled to be issued so as to permit other processing operations which may not be blocked by the lack of use of circuitry to attempt issue.
US09898406B2	Caching of data in data storage systems by managing the size of read and write cache based on a measurement of cache reliability A disk drive is disclosed that varies its caching policy for caching data in non-volatile solid-state memory as the memory degrades. As the non-volatile memory degrades, the caching policy can be varied such that the non-volatile memory is used more as a read cache and less as a write cache. Performance improvements and slower degradation of the non-volatile memory can thereby be attained.
US09898401B2	Service associated with persistent storage Examples are disclosed for allocating a block of persistent storage or accessing a block of persistent storage based on a storage service string that includes a universally unique identifier and associated metadata.
US09898398B2	Re-use of invalidated data in buffers Reusing data in a memory buffer. A method includes reading data into a first portion of memory of a buffer implemented in the memory. The method further includes invalidating the data and marking the first portion of memory as free such that the first portion of memory is marked as being usable for storing other data, but where the data is not yet overwritten. The method further includes reusing the data in the first portion of memory after the data has been invalidated and the first portion of the memory is marked as free.
US09898397B2	Deployment pattern monitoring A computer system can detect a request for status information relating to a particular deployment pattern; query, in response to the request, a deployment pattern registry for deployment configuration information about the particular deployment pattern; test deployment capabilities for the particular deployment pattern by: verifying installation files for the particular deployment pattern are accessible; identifying one or more candidate deployment components for a hypothetical deployment of the particular deployment pattern; installing, on the one or more candidate deployment components, a virtual machine that is configured to test computing resources of the one or more candidate deployment components; and receiving test results regarding the resources of the one or more candidate deployment components. The system can generate a notification in response to detecting a failure in the testing.
US09898383B2	Techniques and mechanisms for managing and analyzing database query activities Techniques and mechanisms for analyzing a plurality of database queries within a database environment. A first statistical evaluation of a first query plan is determined for a first database query with at least one computing device within the database environment. A second statistical evaluation for a second query plan is determined for a second database query. The first statistical evaluation and the second statistical evaluation are compared to determine whether the first query plan matches the second query plan with at least one computing device within the database environment. An indication is stored in a repository of the database environment that the first query matches the second query if the first hash value matches the second hash value. A function that provides the first query plan is determined. If the second query plan is provided by the function that provides the first query plan, data objects referenced by the first query plan and the second query plan if the function provides both the first query plan and the second query plan to determine if the first query plan and the second query plan are syntactically different versions of equivalent database queries. Query statistics are stored in the statistical repository if the first query plan and the second query plan are syntactically different versions of equivalent database queries.
US09898381B2	Signal detection card and signal detection system A signal detection system includes a motherboard and a signal detection card. The signal detection card includes a connecting plate, a first interface, and a detection module. The first interface is mounted in the connecting plate. The connecting plate includes a first signal detection terminal. The first interface is coupled to the first signal detection terminal of the connecting plate. The first interface is coupled to the motherboard to receive a signal from the motherboard. The detection module is configured to couple to the first signal detection terminal of the connecting plate and detect the signal via the first interface. A signal detection card is also provided.
US09898373B2	Prioritizing rebuilding of stored data in a dispersed storage network A method begins by a dispersed storage (DS) processing module of a dispersed storage network (DSN), when in a rebuilding mode, determining a level of rebuilding urgency, where the level of rebuilding urgency is based on an inversely proportional function of a level of error encoded redundancy for error encoded data giving rise to the rebuilding mode. When the level of rebuilding urgency is at or above a critical level, the method continues with the DS processing module placing a set of storage units of the DSN in a critical rebuilding mode, where, when in the critical rebuilding mode, the set of storage units prioritize rebuilding of the error encoded data giving rise to the rebuilding mode over other error encoded data operations.
US09898366B2	Energy conscious mobile device redundancy and recovery A tool for redundancy and recovery for a mobile device. The tool probes for one or more available resources on the mobile device, wherein probing for the one or more available resources includes gathering diagnostic information related to the one or more available resources. The tool determines a device functionality for the mobile device, wherein the device functionality is an energy conscious recovery plan including one or more features available on the mobile device. The tool scavenges for at least one resource to support the device functionality for the mobile device. The tool restores the device functionality for the mobile device, wherein restoring the device functionality includes utilizing the at least one resource and one or more energy conscious techniques.
US09898361B2	Multi-tier detection and decoding in flash memories Methods and apparatus are provided for multi-tier detection and decoding in flash memory devices. Data from a flash memory device is processed by obtaining one or more read values for at least one bit in a given page of the flash memory device; converting the one or more read values for the at least one bit to a reliability value; performing an initial decoding of the at least one bit in a given page using the reliability value; and performing an additional decoding of the at least one bit in the given page if the initial decoding is not successful, wherein the additional decoding uses one or more of additional information for the given page and at least one value for at least one bit from at least one additional page.
US09898359B2	Predictive disaster recovery system Environmental data, associated with a first computer, is received. Social media data, associated with the first computer, is also received. A first severity value, based on the environmental data, is determined. A second severity value, based on the social media data, is determined. A first weighted severity score is determined. The first weighted severity score is a combination of the first and second severity values. One or more actions is determined. The determined action is one of a recovery point objective action or a recovery time objective action. Each action has a threshold. Whether the first weighted severity score is equal to or greater than any threshold associated with any action is determined. In response to determining that the first weighted severity score is equal to or greater than one or more thresholds, each action associated with each threshold is implemented.
US09898354B2	Operating system layering Techniques for implementing operating system layering are described herein. In one example, a method includes managing one or more container temporary storage spaces and one or more container runtime environments. Furthermore, the method includes loading, one or more drivers to provide compatibility between a container operating system and a host operating system, the one or more drivers comprising application program interface (API) compatibility libraries to enable API compatibility between the container operating system and the host operating system; metadata arbitration logic to enable compatibility between the container operating system and the host operating system by modifying container operating system references; and file arbitration logic to modify operating system file locations accessed by the container operating system and the host operating system.
US09898352B2	Interface call system and method Provided is a system and method for interface call, relating to the enterprise management technology field. The system includes: an interface management component which is configured to generate a description file and a call process indication of an interface according to an interface modification requirement of a user, and deploy the description file and the call process indication to an interface execution component, wherein the description file includes configuration replacement information of the interface; and the interface execution component, which is configured to configure the interface according to the description file, and call the interface according to the call process indication.
US09898347B1	Scaling computing resources in a cluster Systems and methods are provided for receiving a request for an allocation of a task in a cluster comprising a plurality of client nodes, determining a node type for the task, based on mapping the task to a list of categories, wherein at least two of categories in the list of categories overlap in range. The systems and methods further providing for searching for available client nodes based on the node type for the task to select a client node to allocate the task, determining a zone of the selected client node, wherein the zone is mapped to the list of categories, determining a wait algorithm associated with the zone of the selected node, and contacting the selected client node and passing the task and the wait algorithm to the selected client node.
US09898346B2	Resource substitution and reallocation in a virtual computing environment A host system reallocates resources in a virtual computing environment by first receiving a request to reallocate a first quantity of a first resource type. Next, potential trade-off groups are evaluated and a trade-off group is selected based on the evaluation. The selected trade-off group includes a set of applications running in the virtual computing environment that can use one or more alternate resource types as a substitute for the first quantity of the first resource type. After the selection, the host system reallocates the first quantity of the first resource type from the trade-off group. This reallocation may be made from the trade-off group to either a first application running in the virtual computing environment or the host system itself. If the reallocation is to the host system, then the total quantity of the first resource type allocated to applications running in the virtual computing environment is thereby reduced.
US09898344B2	System and method for providing configuration modularity in an application server, cloud platform, or other environment In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing configuration modularity in an application server, cloud platform, or other environment. For example, in a cloud computing environment, application server modules, e.g., WebLogic Server or GlassFish modules, can be embedded within the environment to provide various cloud platform functionalities. In accordance with an embodiment, the system comprises a configuration modularity logic for use in determining, for a particular application or service deployment, a configuration of application, module or service components, including determining if a configuration is provided by a global or domain configuration, determining if annotations are provided by the particular application or service deployment for use in configuring the application, module or service components, and/or determining if a default configuration is provided for use with the particular application or service deployment.
US09898339B2	Meter reading data validation A meter data management (MDM) system processes imported blocks of utility data collected from a plurality of utility meters, sensors, and/or control devices by using independent parallel pipelines associated with differing processing requirements of the data blocks. The MDM system determines processing requirements for each of the imported data blocks, selects one of the pipelines that matches the determined processing requirements for each of the imported data blocks, and directs the data blocks to the selected one of the pipelines for processing. The pipelines may include a validation pipeline for validation processing, an estimation pipeline for estimation processing and a work item pipeline for work item processing.
US09898338B2	Network computer system and method for dynamically changing execution sequence of application programs A computer system and operating method thereof are provided. The computer system comprises a central processing unit (21) and a random access memory (22). The random access memory (22) is provided with a resource allocating management storage region (32) for storing execution sequence of the central processing unit executing an application program, and a resource allocating management unit (31) for dynamically changing the execution sequence according to request amount of resource occupied by a plurality of application programs, wherein the execution sequence is such that the execution priority level of an application program with a small request amount of resource is higher than the execution priority level of an application program with a large request amount of resource. The method comprises the following steps: the resource allocating management unit (31) receives information on request amount of resource sent from a plurality of application programs; writes an execution sequence of the plurality of application programs into the resource allocating management storage region (32); the resource allocating management unit (31) dynamically changes the execution sequence according to request amount of resource occupied by the application programs; and the central processing unit (21) executes the application programs according to the execution sequence.
US09898326B2	Securing code loading in a virtual environment Methods, systems, and computer program products are included for loading a code module. A method includes providing, by a hypervisor, a virtual machine that includes a guest operating system. The code module and a signature corresponding to the code module are sent by the guest operating system to the hypervisor. One or more relocations are applied to the code module. The hypervisor verifies the signature corresponding to the code module. After verifying the signature, the hypervisor allows the guest operating system to execute the code module.
US09898322B2	Steganographic message passing between a virtual machine and a hypervisor A computer-implemented method may include identifying a plurality of selected bits of usage data of a virtual machine. A desired message may be encoded, by a computer processor, as a steganographic message stored in the plurality of selected bits in the usage data. Encoding the desired message may include manipulating one or more resources of the virtual machine to cause a change in the plurality of selected bits in the usage data. The usage data may be provided to the hypervisor, and the steganographic message may be observable in the usage data.
US09898318B2	Multi-line/multi-state virtualized OAM transponder Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing applications management, based at least in part on operations, administration, and management (“OAM”) information. A host computing system might comprise a dedicated OAM management agent. While normal application frame flow might be sent or received by VMs running on the host computing system, OAM frame flow might be sent or received by the OAM management agent, which might also serve as an OAM frame generator. Alternatively, or additionally, based on a determination that at least one OAM frame has changed (in response to a change in address of far-end and/or near-end OAM server functions), the OAM management agent might update a list associating the at least one OAM frame that has changed with corresponding at least one VM of the one or more VMs, without restarting any of the at least one VM, the OAM management agent, and/or the host computing system.
US09898313B2	Parallel processing of data for an untrusted application An untrusted application is received at a data center including one or more processing modules and providing a native processing environment. The untrusted application includes a data parallel pipeline. Secured processing environments are used to execute the untrusted application.
US09898312B2	Intelligent data storage and processing using FPGA devices Methods and systems are disclosed where a plurality of precompiled hardware templates are stored in memory, each of the hardware templates being configured for loading onto a re-configurable logic device such as a FPGA to define a data processing operation to be performed by the re-configurable logic device, each of the data processing operations defined by the precompiled hardware templates having an associated performance characteristic. A processor selects a precompiled hardware template from a plurality of the precompiled hardware templates in the memory for loading onto the re-configurable logic device based at least in part on the associated performance characteristics of the data processing operations defined by the precompiled hardware templates.
US09898302B2	Control device and access system utilizing the same A control device coupled between a first memory and a second memory and including an execution unit, a first storage unit, a second storage unit, a selection unit and a processing unit is disclosed. The execution unit executes a specific instruction set to access the first and the second memories. The first storage unit is configured to store a first instruction set. The second storage unit is configured to store a second instruction set. The selection unit outputs one of the first and the second instruction sets to serve as the specific instruction set according to a control signal. The processing unit generates the control signal according to an execution state of the execution unit.
US09898300B2	Instruction for fast ZUC algorithm processing Vector instructions for performing ZUC stream cipher operations are received and executed by the execution circuitry of a processor. The execution circuitry receives a first vector instruction to perform an update to a liner feedback shift register (LFSR), and receives a second vector instruction to perform an update to a state of a finite state machine (FSM), where the FSM receives inputs from re-ordered bits of the LFSR. The execution circuitry executes the first vector instruction and the second vector instruction in a single-instruction multiple data (SIMD) pipeline.
US09898287B2	Dynamic wavefront creation for processing units using a hybrid compactor A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a processor for repacking dynamic wavefronts during program code execution on a processing unit, each dynamic wavefront including multiple threads are presented. If a branch instruction is detected, a determination is made whether all wavefronts following a same control path in the program code have reached a compaction point, which is the branch instruction. If no branch instruction is detected in executing the program code, a determination is made whether all wavefronts following the same control path have reached a reconvergence point, which is a beginning of a program code segment to be executed by both a taken branch and a not taken branch from a previous branch instruction. The dynamic wavefronts are repacked with all threads that follow the same control path, if all wavefronts following the same control path have reached the branch instruction or the reconvergence point.
US09898284B2	Apparatus and method for an instruction that determines whether a value is within a range A method is described that includes performing the following with a single instruction: receiving a first input operand V; receiving a second input operand S; calculating V−S; determining if V−S is positive or negative; and, providing as a resultant: V if V−S is negative; V−S if V−S is positive.
US09898282B2	Automatic comment creation for computer files Embodiments of the present invention include a method, computer program product, and system for inserting text content into a computer file as a comment in a determined comment convention. In an embodiment, a comment convention is determined in a file. The file includes at least one file line. A text content is received. A comment is inserted into the file. The comment includes the comment convention and the text content.
US09898279B2	Optimizing ABAP development as a service A development account is provisioned, the provisioning including a request for a backing service. The backing service includes: generating a developer schema in a database, generating a table link in the developer schema to shared tables required for the new development environment, generating a delta table, and generating a union view with a defined instead-of-trigger used to write, update, or delete from the delta table upon a write, update, or delete operation on the union view. A runtime application server is obtained and a repository is configured in a version control system. The runtime application server is configured to connect to the generated developer schema of the provisioned development account, and an identifier is provided to the provisioned development account.
US09898276B2	Entity wide software tracking and maintenance reporting tool Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for providing an entity wide software tracking and maintenance tool for monitoring maintenance and software updates across an entity. As such, the invention provides a uniform and stable method of monitoring software updates and software installation across an entity's information technology infrastructure. The invention receives software updates or new programs for installation across the entity. The invention then creates a tracking module to link to the maintenance update. The tracking module is a self-contained, self-describing module that contains static information related to the maintenance. Subsequently, the tracking module allows users to monitor the progress of maintenance levels. In some embodiments, the user may query the system to determine the progress of a specific maintenance. In some embodiments, the system may automatically notify a user of the success or failure of maintenance at one or more stages.
US09898275B2	Connector and manufacturing method and updating method of the same A connector includes a metal connecting element, a solder pad, and a control chip. Multiple contacts are disposed on the metal connecting element, and the metal connecting element is configured to connect with an electronically marked cable. The solder pad is disposed on a surface of the metal connecting element. The control chip is affixed to the solder pad and configured to store data and process transmission of data and power via the electronically marked cable according the stored data. Multiple chip pins of the control chip are electrically connected with the contacts via the solder pad, and the control chip is configured to update the stored data upon receipt of a signal.
US09898266B2	Loop vectorization methods and apparatus Loop vectorization methods and apparatus are disclosed. An example method includes prior to executing an original loop having iterations, analyzing, via a processor, the iterations of the original loop, identifying a dependency between a first one of the iterations of the original loop and a second one of the iterations of the original loop, after identifying the dependency, vectorizing a first group of the iterations of the original loop based on the identified dependency to form a vectorization loop, and setting a dynamic adjustment value of the vectorization loop based on the identified dependency.
US09898264B2	Automatic componentization engine Disclosed herein are technologies for automatically updating object model and associated code for software applications, such as web pages, by invoking an automatic componentization engine client to determine changes in the component code of web pages, receiving the changes in the component code, and compiling and verifying the code. Generated or revised and updated code may then be provided to a user.
US09898258B2	Versioning of build environment information A method includes collecting information corresponding to a build environment in which a build result of a source code is generated, the collected information including one or more predefined build environment factors, and storing, in a repository, the collected information as a version of the build environment.
US09898253B2	Division operations on variable length elements in memory Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods for performing variable bit-length division operations in a memory. An example method comprises performing a variable length division operation on a first vector comprising variable length elements representing a number of dividends and stored in a group of memory cells coupled to a first access line and a number of sense lines of a memory array and a second vector comprising variable length elements representing a number of divisors stored in a group of memory cells coupled to a second access line and the number of sense lines of the memory array. The method can include dividing the first vector by the second vector by performing a number of operations. The method can include performing at least one of the number of operations without transferring data via an input/output (I/O) line.
US09898247B2	Method for controlling electronic device using earphone and electronic device for the same An electronic device is provided which includes a housing, a connecting member having a first conductive pattern formed on an inner surface thereof, and a processor configured to control a function of the electronic device according to a rotation of a plug corresponding to an alignment between the first conductive pattern and a second conductive pattern formed on the plug when the plug is inserted into a hole of the connecting member.
US09898244B2	Portable playback device state variable Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to facilitate playback of multimedia content are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a network interface configured to receive audio content over a playback network. A processor comprising instructions which when executed, cause the processor to detect that a portable playback device has joined the playback network. The processor is to update a state variable to indicate that the portable playback device has joined the playback network. The processor is to play audio content received over the playback network based on the state variable. The processor is to detect that the portable playback device is not joined to the playback network. The processor is to, after detecting that the portable playback device is not joined to the playback network, update the state variable to indicate that the portable playback device is not joined to the playback network.
US09898239B2	Print control device and control method for print control device for communicating with host devices by multiple communication standards A print control device includes: a first communication unit which communicates with a host device via a first communication standard; a second communication unit which communicates with a host device via a second communication standard that is different from the first communication standard; and a control unit which carries out communication control with the host device and print control, wherein the control unit turns a connection with the host device through the first communication unit into a disconnected state when data is received via the first communication standard during print control based on a print job received via the second communication standard.
US09898237B1	System and method of printing using mixed paper sizes A system and method of printing involves the use of mixed paper sizes in which the orientation of printing media can be selected to avoid a mixture of paper sheet orientations in the output document when auto tray selection has been selected by a user.
US09898236B2	Image processing apparatus and program for printing template images using keyword data An image processing apparatus includes a processor, and memory storing computer readable instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the apparatus to operate as: a template image data generating unit configured to generate template image data representing a template image including a body area for writing information therein, and also including a keyword area for writing information therein for specifying a keyword to be associated with target image data representing a target image including the body area having information written therein, from among plural keywords; and a template image data providing unit configured to provide the template image data to a printing unit.
US09898235B2	Marking agent credit adjustments In one example of the disclosure, account data that is indicative of marking agent credits attributed to a printer is stored. The printer is a printer connected to a supply of marking agent. A marking agent credit is to authorize consumption of a credit amount of marking agent from the supply according to a subscription. A print job is received from a sponsor computing device. The account data is adjusted to add credits in an adjustment amount that is a function of marking agent consumption to print the job. The job is sent to the printer for printing.
US09898231B2	System and method of mobile printing using near field communication A method of mobile printing using near field communication (NFC) includes executing a mobile printing application installed in a mobile device; setting a wireless connection for data transmission between the mobile device and an image forming apparatus by performing NFC tagging on the image forming apparatus with the mobile device; and automatically performing a function corresponding to a status of the mobile printing application when NFC tagging is performed.
US09898229B1	Systems and methods of memory reads A data storage device includes a non-volatile memory and a controller coupled to the non-volatile memory. The controller is configured to initiate a read operation to retrieve data from the non-volatile memory. The controller is also configured to suspend the read operation and to determine context information associated with the suspended read operation. The controller is further configured, in response to detecting a condition indicating that the read operation is to resume, to resume the suspended read operation using the context information.
US09898223B2	Small storage volume management An aggregation volume includes a plurality of sub-volumes. Advanced storage functions or operations are carried out at the aggregation volume granularity and therefore are carried out on all sub-volumes allocated in a single aggregation volume at the same time. Such organization results in a de facto consistency group for all sub-volumes associated with a single aggregation volume. To create a sub-volume the aggregation volume is logically divided into pre-defined size chunks. Each chuck can subsequently be allocated to the sub-volume. When a sub-volume is created it is allocated to a number of chunks according to a requested sub-volume size.
US09898210B2	Implementing synchronization for remote disk mirroring A method, and system for implementing enhanced fast full synchronization for remote disk mirroring in a computer system. A source backup copy is made locally available to a target for remote disk mirroring. Sectors are identified that are different between the source and target. A hash function is used over a block to be compared, with an adaptive number of tracking sectors per block, starting with a minimum block size.
US09898209B2	Framework for balancing robustness and latency during collection of statistics from soft reads An apparatus includes a memory and a controller. The memory includes a plurality of memory devices. The controller may be coupled to the memory and configured to process a plurality of read/write operations to/from the memory, store data in the plurality of memory devices using units of super-blocks, and generate a number of unique weight statistics in a single read operation by reading a number of dies within a super-block with dissimilar read reference voltages. Each super-block generally includes a block from a die of each of the plurality of memory devices. The controller may be further configured to split the number of dies in each super-block into two sets and collect page weights for upper pages from one of the two sets and page weights for lower pages from the other of the two sets.
US09898204B2	Magnetic random access memory with dynamic random access memory (DRAM)-like interface A memory device configured to emulate DRAM comprising a memory array that includes a plurality of memory cells organized into rows and columns with at least one row of memory cells comprising one or more pages that store data during a burst write operation; a control circuit; an encoder operable to encode the data to be written to the memory array; and a decoder coupled to the memory array and operable to check and correct the data previously encoded by the encoder and saved in the memory array. The control circuit is operable to initiate the burst write operation that writes the data to the memory array while spanning multiple clock cycles; and after receiving one or more data units of the data by the memory array, allow a subsequent burst write or read command to begin before completion of the burst write operation in progress.
US09898197B1	Lock-free memory management Described are techniques for memory management. An N-level bitmap is received, N>2. A memory pool is partitioned into slots each slot having a corresponding bit in level-1 of the N-level bitmap that indicates whether the slot is used or free. The slots are grouped into a hierarchy including N levels. A first thread receives a first request to allocate a first slot of the memory pool. Responsive to receiving the first request, the first thread performs first processing to allocate the first slot using the N-level bitmap. Allocation requests each to allocate slots from the memory pool are only processed by the first thread. A second thread receives a second request to free a second slot of the memory pool. Responsive to receiving the second request, the second thread performs second processing using the N-level bitmap to free the second slot. Requests to free slots are processed by multiple threads.
US09898189B2	User trial feedback method, electronic device and computer-readable medium A user trial feedback method, an electronic device, and a computer-readable medium are provided. The user trial feedback method includes the following steps. A launch signal is received to record an image of current frame of the touch screen and launch the user trial feedback tool. An information is inputted by the user in the user trail feedback tool, and logs related to the inputted information are collected and upload to a server along with the recorded image of the current frame.
US09898186B2	Portable terminal using touch pen and handwriting input method using the same An apparatus and method for a portable terminal using a touch pen and a handwriting input method using the same are provided. In the apparatus, upon receipt of a handwriting image in an input field provided by an executed application through the touch pen, the received handwriting image is converted to text, the text is inserted in the input field, and the input field with the text is displayed.
US09898171B2	Information processing apparatus, method of controlling a lock screen displayed while the information processing apparatus is locked, and recording medium An information processing apparatus includes: a touch-enabled display; a lock portion that locks the information processing apparatus; a display controller that displays a lock screen on the display, the lock screen having a first icon for unlock and one or more second icons each representing a function, and that refreshes the lock screen, when a user moves the first icon, such that the first icon is present at a different position; an unlock portion that unlocks the information processing apparatus; a recognition portion that recognizes a function as being selected, the function being represented by the one second icon or one of the second icons being present at the position where the user releases the first icon; a user information obtaining portion that obtains user information; and an authentication portion that conducts user authentication with the obtained user information while the user is moving the first icon.
US09898162B2	Swiping functions for messaging applications This application relates to performing organizational tasks using a variety of physical operations in a message application. The physical operations can include swiping actions performed by the user of the message application. By performing certain types of swipes on a user interface of the message application, the user can more readily organize messages stored by the message application. The types of swipes can include full swipes, which can execute one or more functions on a message, and partial swipes, which can open up a menu that includes multiple buttons for executing various operations on the message being swiped. Additionally, the direction of the swipe can also determine the functions and operations to be performed on the message being swiped.
US09898144B2	Touch control display panel with touch control dual-gate thin film transistors and touch display device The invention discloses a touch control display panel and a touch control display apparatus, where the touch control display panel includes a TFT array substrate and a color film substrate arranged in opposition; the TFT array substrate includes a pixel array and a touch control dual-gate TFT array; and when there is a touch control occurring, an electrically conductive post at a press location approaches the touch control dual-gate TFT along with a press, and a channel current of the touch control dual-gate TFT can be modulated by a current generated by the electrically conductive post. There will be no interference with a display per se in operation of the touch control, and no adverse influence imposed on the arrangement of liquid crystals in the liquid crystal display panel. The process of preparing the pixel array can be compatible with that of the touch control dual-gate TFTs, greatly lowering cost.
US09898140B2	User interface device having transparent electrodes The invention relates to an interface device including an array of pixels and an insulating, transparent substrate, the pixels being connected to the substrate by linking elements, the contact surface between the linking elements and the pixels being strictly smaller than the surface of the pixels facing the substrate.
US09898139B2	Electronic device for providing hovering input effects and method for controlling the same An electronic device for hovering input effects and a method for controlling the same are provided. The method includes displaying an input area on a display of the electronic device, sensing at least one of a position of an input means on the display and a height of the input means above the display, and displaying a hovering input effect, corresponding to a hovering input using the input means, in the input area.
US09898126B2	User defined active zones for touch screen displays on hand held device An application program installed in a hand held computing device such as a tablet computer presents a graphical user interface (GUI) on a touch screen display and receives touch input signals from the touch screen display. When an unintentional touch event is detected, the application switches from an active mode to a configuration mode. In the configuration mode, graphical tools are displayed on the touch screen display to enable a user to define or adjust the active zone of the touch screen display so as to exclude the area of the touch screen display touched by the hand that is grasping the hand held device. Interactive elements in the GUI are then rearranged so that the interactive elements are within the newly defined active zone.
US09898122B2	Touch-screen device and method for detecting and ignoring false touch inputs near an edge of the touch-screen device A touch-screen device and method for operating a touch-screen device are provided herein. The touch device comprises sensors around the edge and/or on the back of the device that will determine where a user is holding the device. Based on this information certain areas of the touch screen will be ignored or inactivated. This allows the device to selectively ignore the touch of the thumb and or palm.
US09898117B2	Sensors and systems for the capture of scenes and events in space and time Various embodiments comprise apparatuses and methods including a light sensor. The light sensor includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, and a light-absorbing semiconductor in electrical communication with each of the first electrode, the second electrode, and the third electrode. A light-obscuring material to substantially attenuate an incidence of light onto a portion of the light-absorbing semiconductor is disposed between the second electrode and the third electrode. An electrical bias is to be applied between the second electrode, and the first and the third electrodes and a current flowing through the second electrode is related to the light incident on the light sensor. Additional methods and apparatuses are described.
US09898113B2	Touch control module Touch control module (13) with haptic feedback destined to be mounted on a control panel (5) of a motor vehicle via at least two fixing lugs (11) and fixation means wherein the fixation means comprise screws (1, 29) fastened to the control panel (5) perpendicular to the outer surface (7) of the control panel (5) for holding the touch control module (13) characterized in that silent blocks (9) are disposed between the fixing lugs (11) and the fixation means in that the fixation means comprise:—spacers (15) for pre-loading longitudinally the silent blocks (9) and,—retention means (17) for holding the spacers (15) in position on the screws (1, 29).
US09898086B2	Systems and methods for visual processing of spectrograms to generate haptic effects Systems and methods for visual processing of spectrograms to generate haptic effects are disclosed. In one embodiment, a signal comprising at least an audio signal is received. One or more spectrograms may be generated based at least in part on the received signal. One or more haptic effects may be determined based at least in part on the spectrogram. For example, a generated spectrogram may be a two-dimensional image and this image can be analyzed to determine one or more haptic effects. Once a haptic effect has been determined, one or more haptic output signals can be generated. A generated haptic output signal may be output to one or more haptic output devices.
US09898083B2	Method for operating a motor vehicle having a touch screen In a method for operating a motor vehicle having a display for displaying variable information, and a touch screen, situated above the display, for inputting commands by touching the touch screen, an operating element for operating a function of the motor vehicle is shown by the display, by touching the touch screen in the region of the operating element, and the function of the motor vehicle is executed based on a gesture of a hand executed in the vicinity of the touch screen, without touching the touch screen.
US09898080B2	Method and apparatus for eye tracking A method and apparatus for eye tracking are disclosed. The method may include obtaining feature points corresponding to at least one portion of a face area of the user in an image, determining an inner area of an eye area of a first eye of the user based on the feature points, determining a pupil area of the user based on a pixel value of at least one pixel of the inner area, and determining an eye position of the user based on a position value of each pixel of the pupil area.
US09898076B1	Adjusting electronic displays based on user viewing position The disclosure pertains to aligning an electronic display or light reflected from the electronic display relative to a position of a user (i.e., viewer), and thus enhancing an overall perceived brightness, contrast ratio, and viewing angle performance of an electronic display (e.g., a specular reflective display) irrespective of illumination conditions (e.g., sunlight, airplane lighting, and overhead lamps). In some embodiments, an electronic device may determine user position data for a position of a user with respect to the electronic display. For example, the electronic device may capture images of the user using one or more image sensors. The user position data may then be processed by the electronic device to generate signals which may modify display characteristics of the electronic display to align an electronic display or light reflected from the electronic display relative to the position of the user.
US09898070B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit and power supply control method therefor A semiconductor integrated circuit (100) comprising: a plurality of processing circuits (11, 12, 13) each including a notification units for outputting a notification signal according to the processing state of the own processing circuit; a plurality of power supply switch units (SW1, SW2, SW3) for switching the connection states between the respective processing circuits and a power supply source; a power supply switch control circuit which is connected with the notification means (111, 121, 131), stores power supply control information (101) including a plurality of connection statuses, and controls the connection states on the basis of the notification signals and the power supply control information; and a data bus (BS) and the like connecting each of the processing circuits and the power supply switch control circuit, wherein: at least two or more of the plurality of processing circuits update the power supply control information via the data bus and the like before outputting a notification signal; and the power supply switch control circuit accepts a notification signal outputted from any one of the plurality of processing circuits after the update, and accordingly controls the connection states of respective ones of the plurality of power supply switch units on the basis of the updated power supply control information.
US09898068B2	Semiconductor device, electronic device, and method for controlling semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a CPU core, a frequency regulating circuit, and a frequency control circuit. The frequency regulating circuit includes a table. The frequency control circuit provides a clock to the CPU core. The CPU core outputs an operating state signal indicating an operating state of the CPU core. The frequency regulating circuit controls a frequency of the clock based on the table and the operating state signal. Thus it is possible to provide a semiconductor device that allows performance to follow a dynamically changing load.
US09898066B2	Method and apparatus to configure thermal design power in a microprocessor A technique to change a thermal design power (TDP) value. In one embodiment, one or more environmental or user-driven changes may cause a processor's TDP value to be changed. Furthermore, in some embodiments a change in TDP may alter a turbo mode target frequency.
US09898058B2	Method for CPU/heatsink anti-tip and socket damage prevention An information handling system (IHS) includes a heatsink retention apparatus. A processor mounted on a board receives a heatsink base having peripheral, spaced apertures. At least two latching mechanisms include a mounting portion received respectively in peripheral, spaced apertures on opposites sides of the heatsink base. A latching surface is mounted to one of (i) the heatsink base and (ii) a terminal portion of the mounting portion to engage respectively with either the mounting portion or an upper edge of the corresponding peripheral, spaced aperture of the heatsink base. At least two peripheral, spaced loading screws are sized to be engageable by loading nuts when the heatsink base is positioned not higher than the engagement height. The engaged, at least two, latching mechanisms prevent tipping of the heatsink base during loading of the at least two peripheral, spaced loading screws with the at least two spaced apart loading nuts.
US09898044B2	Docking station and mobile terminal with the same The disclosure provides a docking station and a mobile terminal with the docking station. The docking station includes a docking main body, a shelter, a first link mechanism, a second link mechanism and a moveable locking bar. The shelter shields the connector and the moveable locking bar is stayed in an unlocked position when the docking station is free. When the mobile terminal is coupled with the docking station, the first link mechanism is driven by the mobile terminal, the shelter is forced to rotate to a predetermined storage position, and the second link mechanism drives the moveable locking bar to a locked position to lock the mobile terminal. The docking station is easy to use with simple process of assembly and adjustment.
US09898041B2	Modular docking station The present invention relates to a docking station module for a computer docking station. The docking station module comprises a latching mechanism, the latching mechanism comprising a latch moveable between an unlatched position and a latched position, and a retainer moveable between a blocking position and an unblocked position. In the blocking position the retainer prevents movement of the latch to the unlatched position and in the unblocked position movement of the latch to the unlatched position is permitted. An actuator moves the retainer between the blocking and unblocked position. A connection surface is configured to enable the docking station module to be connected to a docking station cradle.
US09898034B2	Data processing device and method for determining a clock relationship A data processing device is described comprising a first clock generator configured to generate a first clock signal with a first frequency; a second clock generator configured to generate a second clock signal with a second frequency, wherein the second frequency is higher than the first frequency; and a processing circuit configured to sample a clock cycle number of the second clock signal at a plurality of sample times given by the first clock signal and determine a relationship between the first frequency and the second frequency based on a minimization of a measure of a deviation of the sampled clock cycle numbers from the clock cycle numbers of the second clock signal at the plurality of sample times expected according to the determined relationship.
US09898032B2	Fluid haptic interface with improved haptic rendering using a torque or load sensor A haptic interface, including: a button which can be rotated by a user; an interaction element interacting with a magnetorheological fluid, secured to the button; a mechanism measuring a current position of the button; a brake including a magnetorheological fluid and a generation system to generate a magnetic field in the fluid; a controller configured to generate orders for the system to generate a magnetic fluid to modify a value of the magnetic field; and a mechanism to detect torque exerted by a user on the button to know direction of the torque and whether the torque is greater than a given value for a given direction, the controller controlling generation of a magnetic field based on obtained information about the torque at least when the button indicates zero or low speed.
US09898023B2	Power management method, power management server, and office machine for managing electric power According to one embodiment, there is provided a power management method for connecting a server to office machines to control electric power of the office machines. The office machines respectively store machine side power plans, which are operation states with respect to transition times. The server stores server side power plans of the office machines and subjects electric powers of the office machines to management control. The power management method includes comparing the server side power plan stored in the server and the machine side power plan stored in the office machines, comparing, when an operation state based on the server side power plan and an operation state based on the machine side power plan are different, power consumptions in the operation state based on the server side power plan and an operation state based on the machine side power plan, and changing an operation state of the office machine to be an operation state with small power consumption.
US09898010B2	Systems, methods, and mobile client devices for supervising industrial vehicles The embodiments described herein relate to systems and methods for presenting information from a management server on a mobile client device to facilitate the management of industrial vehicles. Embodiments of the system can include a plurality of industrial vehicles communicatively coupled to the management server, and a mobile client device communicatively coupled to the management server. The mobile client device can include a display, a wireless communication circuit, and one or more client processors. Encoded objects, vehicular objects, or combinations thereof can be presented upon the display of the mobile client device to present information from the management server.
US09898006B2	Drive assist device An automatic drive control unit implements automatic drive of a vehicle along a pre-set path without operation by a passenger while making decisions about the peripheral situation on the basis of vehicle peripheral environment information recognized by a peripheral environment information detection unit and a peripheral environment recognition unit. When the passenger's intention to make a right or left turn for changing to another path from the pre-set path is detected by a right or left turn intention input unit and a right or left turn intention detection unit, the automatic drive control unit continues the automatic drive while changing the path in a direction indicated by the right or left turn intention.
US09897993B2	Control device for machining apparatus, machining apparatus, and correction method of machining data A machining apparatus includes a multi-joint arm provided with a machining tool for machining a workpiece. A control device of the machining apparatus includes: a storage section for storing NC data indicating a machining region of a workpiece by the machining apparatus; a distance measurement sensor placed on the arm and for measuring a distance between the workpiece and the machining apparatus for each machining surface of the workpiece; and a correction section for correcting the NC data for each of the machining surfaces based on a measurement result by the distance measurement sensor. As a result of this, the machining apparatus can perform the correction of machining data in correspondence to deviation of a machining object with higher accuracy.
US09897991B2	Machine tool A machine tool includes a movable structure 3, a numerical control unit 22, an external input unit 39 having a dedicated operation key for inputting an operation signal associated with at least a movement end point to which the movable structure 3 is moved, a display unit 39 displaying an image, a display control unit 25 controlling the display on the display unit 39, an input control unit 24 processing a signal input from the external input unit 39, and a movement path setting unit 32 receiving the operation signal input from the external input unit 39 and setting a movement path for moving the movable structure 3 corresponding to the operation signal to the movement end point according to a predetermined setting condition. The display control unit 25 displays an image relating to the movement path set by the movement path setting unit 32 on the display unit 39.
US09897990B2	Safety controller with rapid backup and configuration A safety controller and system of safety controllers and a removable memory module for rapid configuration and/or backup of safety controllers are provided. The safety controller comprises a non-volatile memory and one or more slots configured to host modules. A predetermined slot of the one or more slots is configured to communicatively couple the safety controller with a memory module. The safety controller is configured to transfer a backup of a configuration on the safety controller to a memory module hosted in the predetermined slot and configured to load a configuration from a memory module hosted in the predetermined slot. A method of distributing software to a plurality of industrial safety controller comprises utilizing a memory module.
US09897985B2	Energy exchange systems having actuators with multi-parametric control A dynamic energy exchange platform is described that provides real time control of various system components by using regular sensors as well as sensorless actuators, resulting in an overall balance of energy for the entire system. A sensorless multi-parametric control solution may provide regular operation control, support control, and improvement control. The regular operation control comprises system control during normal operation. The support control comprises abnormal operation recovery control, and the improvement control allows potential system growth and/or controlling aging degradation. Embodiments of the disclosure encompass man-machine and machine-machine (or machine/material) interfaces with active points where energy exchange takes place.
US09897982B2	PID controller and data collecting method A PID controller includes: a manipulated variable calculating portion that calculates a manipulated variable MV based on a set point SP and a process variable PV through a PID control calculation; a manipulated variable outputting portion that outputs a manipulated variable MV to outside of the controller; an alarm notifying portion that generates an alarm when a problem has been detected; a data recording portion that temporarily records time series data for the process variable PV; and a data storing portion that reads out and storing data recorded by the data recording portion 15 before and after the alarm event.
US09897960B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus including a toner container, a toner amount detection unit, a driving unit, a toner accommodating unit, a remaining toner amount detection unit, and a control unit is provided. The toner container supplies the toner to the toner accommodating unit by being rotated in a first direction. The toner amount detection unit detects a value related to an amount of the toner in the toner container. The control unit controls the driving unit so as to rotate the toner container in a second direction in a case where the remaining-toner amount detection unit has detected that the amount of the toner accommodated by the toner accommodating unit is smaller than a first set amount and the amount of the toner contained in the toner container detected by the toner amount detection unit reaches a second set amount.
US09897959B2	Image forming apparatus with forced consumption mode for toner An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member, a developing device, and a controller configured to execute an operation in a forced consumption mode. The controller includes a difference calculating portion, an integrating portion, and a flag. In a case where the flag is set when a predetermined time is elapsed after the integrated value exceeds the predetermined threshold, the image formation on the predetermined number of the recording materials is effected and then the controller executes the operation in the forced consumption mode, and in a case where the flag is reset when the predetermined time is elapsed after the integrated value exceeds the predetermined threshold, the image formation on the predetermined number of the recording materials is effected and then the controller continues an image forming operation without executing the operation in the forced consumption mode.
US09897954B2	Base for fixing belt, fixing belt, fixing device, and image forming apparatus A base for a fixing belt comprising at least: a nickel layer; and a copper layer, both laminated each other, wherein an orientation ratio I(200)/I(111) calculated based on a ratio between a peak strength of (200) crystal face and a peak strength of (111) crystal face by X-ray diffraction analysis of the copper layer is 0.1 or less. The base for the fixing belt further includes a protective layer, disposed on a surface of the copper layer opposite a surface on which the nickel layer is laminated, and the protective layer is formed of nickel.
US09897953B2	Fixing device having hardness adjusting unit for adjusting a nip load, and image forming apparatus A fixing device includes a hardness adjusting unit to adjust hardness of an outer circumferential surface of a fixing belt at a nip. When a sheet to be passed through the nip is an envelope, and the envelope is passed through the nip by side-flap sheet passing for feeding the sheet so that a fold line between an envelope body and a flap extends in a sheet passing direction through the nip, the hardness adjusting unit brings the outer circumferential surface of the fixing belt at the nip during passage of the sheet into a softer state than when the sheet is a plain sheet.
US09897951B2	Image forming apparatus and control method for the same An image forming apparatus and a control method are provided. The image forming apparatus includes fusing rollers that fuse a developer at a printing medium, and a transporting guide that guides the printing medium being transported toward the fusing rollers. The transporting guide is movably installed to move between a first position to guide the printing medium, and a second position spaced apart from the first position. Thus, a friction between the transporting guide and the printing medium as well as the subsequent generation of static electricity may be reduced.
US09897931B2	Electroconductive member for electrophotography, process cartridge, and electrophotographic image-forming apparatus Provided is an electroconductive member for electrophotography having a stable charging ability. The electroconductive member includes, in this order, an electroconductive substrate, an electroconductive elastic layer, and a surface layer. The surface layer contains a polymer having a urethane linkage. The polymer has, in the molecule, structures included in at least two groups selected from: Group A of structures each represented by a specific structural formula (1); Group B of at least one of structures each represented by a specific structural formula (2) or structures each represented by a structural formula (3); and Group C of structures each represented by a specific structural formula (4). The surface layer has a volume resistivity of 1.0×1010 Ω·cm or more and 1.0×1016 Ω·cm or less, and the surface layer has a universal hardness at a depth 1 μm from the surface thereof of 1.0 N/mm2 or more and 7.0 N/mm2 or less.
US09897929B2	Homogeneous thermal equalization with active device A system and method is provided for providing a thermal distribution on a workpiece during a lithographic process. The system provides a source of lithographic energy to workpiece, such as a workpiece having a lithographic film formed thereover. A workpiece support having a plurality of thermal devices embedded therein is configured to support the workpiece concurrent to an exposure of the workpiece to the lithographic energy. A controller individually controls a temperature of each of the plurality of thermal devices, therein controlling a specified temperature distribution across the workpiece associated with the exposure of the workpiece to the lithographic energy. Controlling the temperature of the thermal devices can be based on a model, a measured temperature of the workpiece, and/or a prediction of a temperature at one or more locations on the workpiece.
US09897928B2	Lithographic apparatus, support table for a lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method A support table configured to support a substrate, the support table having a support section to support a substrate and a conditioning system to supply heat energy to and/or remove heat energy from the support section, wherein the conditioning system comprises a plurality of conditioning units that are independently controllable.
US09897917B2	Conductive polymer composition, coated article, and patterning process The present invention provides a conductive polymer composition including: (A) a π-conjugated conductive polymer having at least one repeating unit shown by the following general formulae (1-1), (1-2), and (1-3); and (B) a dopant polymer which contains a repeating unit “a” shown by the following general formula (2) and has a weight-average molecular weight in a range of 1,000 to 500,000. The inventive conductive polymer composition has excellent antistatic performance in electron beam-resist drawing as well as good applicability onto a resist and peelability with H2O and an alkaline solution, thereby being suitably used for electron beam lithography.
US09897914B2	Resist composition and patterning process A resist composition comprising a base polymer and a 2,5,8,9-tetraaza-1-phosphabicyclo[3.3.3]undecane salt compound offers a high dissolution contrast, minimal LWR, and dimensional stability on PPD.
US09897912B2	Color filter film manufacturing method and color filter film The present invention provides a color filter film manufacturing method and a color filer film. The color filter film manufacturing method of the present invention includes forming transparent photoresist layers in blue sub-pixel zones and forming first and second recesses respectively in red and green sub-pixel zones and subjecting bottoms thereof to a treatment for hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity. The difference of hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity between the bottoms of the first and second recesses and a surface of the photoresist layer, in combination with altitude differences, makes the red and green quantum dot materials to respectively form red and green quantum dot layers in the first and second recesses through autonomous flowing. The red and green quantum dot layers are excited by blue backlight source to respectively emit red light and green light, while the blue backlight source directly transmits through the transparent photoresist layers to give off blue light thereby providing three primary colors of red, green, and blue to achieve color displaying, increasing utilization of quantum dots, the effect of autonomous flowing of the quantum dot paste being made better for higher resolution and denser arrangement of pixels, and thus, making it better suitable for manufacture of high-resolution panels than ink-jet printing techniques.
US09897902B2	Discharge lamp driving device, projector, and discharge lamp driving method A discharge lamp driving device includes a discharge lamp driving section configured to supply a driving current to a discharge lamp including a first electrode and a second electrode and a control section configured to control the discharge lamp driving section. The control section is configured to repeat a unit period. The unit period includes a direct current period including a first direct current period in which a direct current having a first polarity is supplied to the discharge lamp and a second direct current period in which a direct current having a second polarity is supplied to the discharge lamp, and an alternating current period provided between the first direct current period and the second direct current period, an alternating current being supplied to the discharge lamp in the alternating current period. The control section is configured to temporally change length of the direct current period.
US09897900B2	Light source system and related projection system A light source system comprises: a light-emitting device for emitting a first light and a second light in sequence; a beam splitting system with which the first light is divided into one beam in a first range of wavelength and the other beam in a second range of wavelength, respectively emitted along a first optical path and a second optical path, and also with which at least a part of the second light is emitted along the first optical path; a first spatial light modulator for modulating the beam emitted from the beam splitting system along the first optical path; a second spatial light modulator for modulating the beam emitted from the beam splitting system along the second optical path. The light source system has the advantages of high light-emitting efficiency and low cost. A projection system comprising the aforementioned light source system is also provided.
US09897890B2	Reflective image display with threshold Reflective image display architecture embodiments are disclosed comprising a perforated continuous reflective sheet. The perforated continuous sheet comprises a coating that provides a threshold to particle movement. The coating may be designed to provide a passive or electro-active physical barrier. The coating improves bistability of the display.
US09897889B2	Electro-optic mirror element and process of making same A process for filling an electro-optic rearview mirror reflective element assembly includes providing an unfilled mirror cell and providing a filling element having a fluid reservoir, a mirror cell receiving portion, and a channel that provides fluid communication between the fluid reservoir and the mirror element receiving portion. The unfilled mirror cell and the filling element and compressible sealing element are positioned in a vacuum chamber such that the mirror cell receiving portion receives an upper portion of the unfilled mirror cell. Negative pressure is established in the vacuum chamber and electro-optic fluid is provided at the fluid reservoir of the filling element, with the fluid flowing through the channel and passageway and fill port to fill an interpane cavity of the mirror cell with electro-optic fluid. After filling the interpane cavity, the filling element and sealing element are removed and the fill port is plugged.
US09897886B2	Lens for displaying a virtual image A lens for projecting a virtual image comprising first and second body sections coupled along first and second surfaces to form an internal interface within the lens, and a reflective coating on at least a portion of either the first surface or the second surface configured to redirect light projected into the second body section toward an eye of a wearer. Another lens comprising first and second body sections having different indices of refraction, and an interface configured to redirect light toward an eye of a wearer for display as a virtual image. A method for manufacturing a lens comprising providing a first body section, casting on a first surface of the first body section a material for forming a second body section, and curing the material to form the second body section and bond it to the first body section to form a unitary lens.
US09897878B2	Thin film transistor array substrate, liquid crystal display panel and repair method of liquid crystal display panel A TFT array substrate includes parallel data lines parallel extend along a first direction, parallel scan lines crossing the data lines and extending along a second direction perpendicular to the second direction, pixels defined by the data lines and the scan lines, and a common electrode having a main line and growth lines. The main line is parallel to the scan lines. The growth lines extend from the main line. Each pixel includes a pixel electrode, a TFT, partial of the main line, and two growth lines. The TFT is electrically connected to the pixel electrode, a corresponding data line, and a corresponding scan line. The projections of the two growth lines in the pixel overlap with the pixel electrode. Each pixel includes common areas. The common areas overlapping with the two growth lines.
US09897873B2	Blue phase liquid crystal display device and display module of the same The present invention provides a blue phase liquid crystal display device and a display module of the same. The blue phase liquid crystal display module includes: an upper substrate, a lower substrate and blue phase liquid crystals. The upper substrate having multiple upper sawtooth-shaped electrodes. The lower substrate is provided with multiple lower sawtooth-shaped electrodes which are alternately disposed with the multiple upper sawtooth-shaped electrodes. Convex portions of the multiple upper sawtooth-shaped electrodes are corresponding to concave portions of the multiple lower sawtooth-shaped electrodes. The multiple upper sawtooth-shaped electrodes are connected with a portion of the multiple upper sawtooth-shaped electrodes in order to form a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode which are separated from each other. Pixel electrode signals having opposite polarities are respectively applied on the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode.
US09897872B2	Liquid crystal display panel with switchable viewing angle and driving method thereof Disclosed is a liquid crystal display panel with a switchable viewing angle and a driving method thereof. A pixel unit located in a display area of the liquid crystal display panel comprises: a main pixel region, which is horizontally aligned, wherein pixel electrodes and common electrodes are alternately arranged on the lower substrate and spaced from one another; and a sub-pixel region, which is perpendicularly aligned, wherein upper substrate electrodes and corresponding pixel electrodes are arranged below the upper substrate and on the lower substrate, respectively. When no bias voltage is applied to the upper substrate electrodes in the sub-pixel region, liquid crystal molecules corresponding to the sub-pixel region do not deflect, such that large viewing angle light leakage occurs in the sub-pixel region, thereby achieving narrow viewing angle display. When a bias voltage is applied to the upper substrate electrodes in the sub-pixel region, the liquid crystal molecules corresponding to the sub-pixel region deflect to a flat state, such that large viewing angle light leakage ceases in the sub-pixel region, thereby achieving wide viewing angle display.
US09897868B2	LCD and method of manufacturing the same A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate, on which pixel regions are defined; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates; gate and data lines on the first substrate and intersecting each other; pixel electrodes on the first substrate in the pixel regions, respectively; and green, blue and red color filters on the second substrate, where the pixel electrodes include first, second and third pixel electrodes, which correspond to the green, blue and red color filters, respectively, each of the first, second and third pixel electrodes includes a stem portion, which is near one of the data lines and extends in an extending direction of the data lines, and branch portions, which are branched off from the stem portion, and the stem portion of the first pixel electrode is near a side of the second pixel electrode.
US09897846B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a display panel having an active area and a non-active area; a first black matrix in the active area; a second black matrix on at least a peripheral portion of the display panel and the second black matrix spaced apart from the first black matrix, and the second black matrix positioned in the active area and a portion of the non-active area; and an opaque layer corresponding to a gap between the first black matrix and the second black matrix.
US09897844B2	Color filter substrate and a liquid crystal panel The present invention provides a color filter substrate and a liquid crystal panel. The color filter substrate according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a base substrate, a color filter layer and an optical layer which is provided on the color filter layer and comprises an ultraviolet absorption material. The ultraviolet absorption material in the color filter substrate or the liquid crystal panel according to the present invention can absorb ultraviolet and prevent the color resin in the color filter layer from being damaged by ultraviolet transmitting through the optical layer.
US09897842B2	Display device and manufacturing method thereof Provided is a display device including: an insulation substrate; a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate; a pixel electrode disposed on the thin film transistor; a roof layer formed to be spaced apart from the pixel electrode with a microcavity therebetween and including a support member; and a liquid crystal layer filling the microcavity, in which the microcavity includes a plurality of microcavities having a semicircular cross section arranged along an extending direction of the gate line and extending in the extending direction of the data line.
US09897839B2	Manufacturing method for liquid crystal display A manufacturing method for a liquid crystal display panel includes slitting a first optical film having an elongate shape, to have a width corresponding to a pair of opposing sides of a liquid crystal cell, and by rolling the slit first optical film in its width direction to have a length corresponding to another pair of opposing sides of the liquid crystal cell; slitting a second optical film having an elongate shape, to have a width corresponding to a pair of opposing sides of the liquid crystal cell, and by rolling the slit second optical film in its width direction to have a length corresponding to another pair of opposing sides of the liquid crystal cell; bonding the cut first optical film onto one surface of the liquid crystal cell; and bonding the cut second optical film onto another surface of the liquid crystal cell.
US09897825B2	Optical modulator An optical modulator includes a substrate having an electro-optic effect, an optical waveguide that is formed in the substrate, and a modulation electrode (not illustrated) for modulating a light wave that propagates through the optical waveguide. In the optical modulator, a light-receiving element is disposed on the substrate, and the light-receiving element includes a light-receiving section that receives a light wave that propagates through the optical waveguide, and the light-receiving section is located on the downstream side of a center of the light-receiving element in a light wave propagating direction.
US09897821B2	Protective eyewear Protective eyewear including a primary frame is joined with first and second separate and independent protective elements that can move relative to one another. The frame can be constructed from polymeric material, and can include a central portion and opposing left and right side portions that extend rearward to attachment elements and subsequently a strap. The protective elements can be in the form of metal cages, each including a perimeter element that generally surrounds a user's eye and a transverse element that reinforces the perimeter element. The protective elements are primarily only connected via the frame and can move relative to one another, optionally about a flex element defined by the frame. This can enable the eyewear to readily conform to a variety of different facial contours thereby meeting the demand of different players having different facial structure.
US09897819B2	System and method for vibrating screens to reduce speckle The present disclosure includes systems and methods for solving speckle problems by exciting the screen with a more complex vibration spectrum. A range of frequencies provides, in effect, a collection of overlapping patterns of high and low displacement, so that all regions of the screen have enough motion to reduce visible speckle. As previously discussed acceptable speckle may be approximately 15% contrast or less, preferably approximately 5% contrast or less at approximately 15 feet from the screen.
US09897817B2	System and method for inspecting misalignment between display panel and film patterned retarder A system and a method for inspecting misalign between a display panel and a film patterned retarder (FPR) in the stereoscopic image display separating polarized lights of a left-eye image and a right-eye image using the FPR. The system for inspecting misalign between a display panel and a film patterned retarder includes: an inspection target panel including the display panel to which the film patterned retarder adheres; a misalign inspector for imaging edge images of both sides of the inspection target panel or imaging a central image of a pixel array of the inspection target panel; and a controller for analyzing an image received from the misalign inspector to measure a misalign degree between the film patterned retarder and the display panel.
US09897812B2	Strap system for virtual reality head-mounted display A strap system and a method for wearing the strap system are disclosed. The strap system includes a first flexible segment comprising a first stretchable band; a first semi-rigid segment to conform to a portion of the user's head and comprising a first arc portion to extend from above a user's first ear to below the user's occipital lobe; and a first rigid guide segment connected to the first flexible segment and the first semi-rigid segment. The first flexible segment extends beyond a first end of the first rigid guide segment and the first semi-rigid segment extends from a second end of the first rigid guide segment, the first and second ends of the first rigid guide segment being opposite to each other in a lateral dimension. The first flexible segment is stretchable within the first rigid guide segment along the lateral dimension.
US09897811B2	Curved eyepiece with color correction for head wearable display An apparatus for use with a head wearable display includes a curved eyepiece for guiding display light to a viewing region offset from a peripheral location and emitting the display light along an eye-ward direction in the viewing region. The curved eyepiece includes a curved lightguide to guide the display light, an eye-ward facing surface that is concave, a world facing surface that is convex and opposite the eye-ward facing surface, and an optical combiner disposed at the viewing region to redirect the display light towards the eye-ward direction for output from the curved lightguide. The optical combiner is partially transmissive to ambient light incident through the world facing surface such that the viewing region is see-through. In some embodiments, a prism is disposed proximate to the input surface to pre-compensate the display light for lateral chromatic aberrations resulting the curved lightguide.
US09897810B2	Spectacle-type electronic device and assisting method According to one embodiment, a spectacle-type electronic device includes a signal processor, a screen and a communication module. The signal processor which modulates the illumination light from the light source to form a signal including individual identification information. The screen positioned at a particular location within an extension of a wearer's line of sight to display the image produced by the image display and illuminated by the light source. The communication processor which communicates with a corresponding electronic device to enable information of a target represented by the image displayed on the screen to be shared by the communication processor and the corresponding electronic device.
US09897803B2	Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus including the same Provided is a zoom lens having a wide angle of field, a high zoom ratio, and high optical performance over the entire zoom range, and being small in size and lightweight. The zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a first positive lens unit; a second negative lens unit; a third positive lens unit; a fourth positive lens unit; and at least one rear lens unit, in which: the first lens unit is configured not to move for zooming; the second lens unit, the third lens unit, and the fourth lens unit are configured to move while changing an interval between each pair of adjacent lens units during zooming; and the third lens unit (U3) is configured to move from the object side toward the image side during focusing from an object at infinity to an object at close distance.
US09897796B2	Encapsulated spacers for electromechanical systems display apparatus This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for displaying images. A display apparatus includes display elements formed on a transparent substrate. An elevated aperture layer (EAL) is fabricated over the display elements. An opposing substrate is coupled to the transparent substrate, with the display elements and the EAL positioned between the two substrates. To prevent the opposing substrate from coming into contact with the EAL and potentially damaging the EAL or the display elements, a spacer is built from the same materials used to form the display elements and the EAL. The spacer extends to a distance above the transparent substrate beyond upper surface of the EAL and encapsulates layers of polymer material used in creating a mold for the EAL.
US09897779B2	Camera lens system with three lens components An optical imaging lens assembly that may have three lens components. All lens components may have positive refractive power. The first object side lens component has a plano object side surface. The remaining refracting surfaces may be aspheric. The second and third lens components may have a meniscus form. All three lens components may have the same index of refraction and Abbe number.
US09897762B2	Multiple environment fiber optic cable A fiber optic cable is presented having a pressure fitting at an end of the cable. The pressure fitting can create a pressure and/or chemical seal to prevent migration of environmental elements into or out of the cable. The fiber optic cable can advantageously be configured for use in varied environments including, for example, one or more of caustic, high-pressure, or low-pressure environments.
US09897760B2	Optical device, optical modulator, and method for manufacturing optical device To provide an optical device which enables both (i) suppression of an increase in production cost and (ii) suppression of an increase in optical loss which increase is caused in accordance with a change in temperature of an external environment. In the optical device, a holding member and an optical fiber are bonded and fixed to each other via a first resin layer which is provided between a holding surface of the holding member and a surface of the optical fiber, and the substrate waveguide and the holding member are bonded and fixed to each other via a second resin layer which is provided between an upper surface of the substrate waveguide and a region (bonding surface 31) of a lower surface of the holding member which region is outside the holding surface.
US09897755B2	Optical waveguide device and method for manufacturing an optical waveguide device An optical waveguide device includes first and second branching devices and first to fourth distribution optical waveguides that are formed on an optical waveguide substrate including a latticed dummy pattern of a predetermined pitch and that are arranged, in a region where the dummy pattern is removed, so as to be separated from the dummy pattern, and an interval between the first and second distribution optical waveguides at an output point of the first branching device is equal to an interval between the third and fourth distribution optical waveguides at an output point of the second branching device, and a distance between light propagation centers of the first and second branching devices is an integer multiple of the pitch, and at a point where a distance between neighboring distribution optical waveguides becomes maximum, the distance between the neighboring distribution optical waveguides is an integer multiple of the pitch.
US09897750B2	LED light fitting having a light-guiding panel A light fitting has an LED light source for generating light, and a light-guiding panel, the LED light source being arranged in such a way that the light is coupled into the light-guiding panel. In addition, a support element for supporting the light-guiding panel and an LED light source carrier element are provided, the LED light source carrier element being mounted such that it is displaceable relative to the support element.
US09897749B2	Display device and backlight module thereof A backlight module includes a back board, an illumination assembly, a supporting component and a frame. The illumination assembly is disposed on the back board. The supporting component includes a base, a first extending plate and a second extending plate. The base is disposed on the back board. Both of the first extending plate and the second extending plate stand on the base and extend along an axial direction of the base so that the first extending plate and the second extending plate are at a first angle and a second angle relative to the base, respectively. The first extending plate is located between the second extending plate and the illumination assembly. The frame is disposed on the supporting component, and the illumination assembly is located between the frame and the back board.
US09897746B2	Liquid crystal display device The present invention includes a liquid crystal panel, a light guide member, at least one laser diode (LD), and a heat sink. The light guide member is arranged on a back surface of the liquid crystal panel. The LD is arranged on at least one side surface of the light guide member. The heat sink is arranged to extend along a back surface of the light guide member and the side surface of the light guide member integrally and at least partially. The heat sink is arranged such that a part of the heat sink corresponding to the side surface of the light guide member houses at least a light-emitting surface of the LD.
US09897743B2	Illumination device including cores and clad and display device comprising the illumination device According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a light source, clad, and a plurality of cores. The clad includes a first edge at a light source side, a second edge opposite to the first edge, and a plurality of grooves formed by a plurality of partitions extending in parallel to each other from the first edge to the second edge. The cores are accommodated in the grooves, and each core includes an incident surface on which light from the light source is incident and an exit surface exposed from the groove to emit the light incident on the incident surface.
US09897738B2	Backlight unit and a display apparatus including the same A display apparatus includes a display panel which receives light to display an image. A light guide plate guides the light toward the display panel. A light source unit is disposed at a first side of the light guide plate to provide the light to the light guide plate. The light source unit includes a printed circuit board which includes a first area and a second area. A first light source is disposed on the first area and generates the light. A first stepped part is disposed on the second area and faces the first light source. A first adhesive part is disposed on the second area. The first stepped part reflects the light which is generated from the first light source toward the light guide plate, and the first adhesive part attaches the printed circuit board to the light guide plate.
US09897725B2	Dual view field display panel and dual view field display apparatus Embodiments of the present application provide a dual view field display panel and a dual view field display apparatus. The dual view field display panel includes first display regions and second display regions alternatively arranged in a row direction and/or a column direction. The dual view field display panel further includes a first substrate; a second substrate arranged opposite to the first substrate; a grating structure between the first substrate and the second substrate. The grating structure includes a first grating layer made of metal and located within the first substrate, and the first grating layer is provided at one side of the first substrate facing the second substrate.
US09897716B2	Vehicle-mounted inspection system A vehicle-mounted inspection system comprises: a chassis; a rotation mechanism disposed on the chassis; a first ray emission device connected to the rotation mechanism and configured to emit a ray; a first detection device connected to the rotation mechanism and configured to receive the ray emitted by the first ray emission device; and a second ray emission device connected to the rotation mechanism and configured to emit a ray. The rotation mechanism is configured to rotate the first ray emission device, the first detection device and the second ray emission device substantially around an upright axis between a retracted position and an operating position.
US09897715B2	Multi-axial induction borehole imager Various systems and methods are disclosed for implementing and using a multi-axial induction borehole imaging tool that includes emitters that induce, at azimuthally-spaced positions on a borehole wall, a plurality of fields having components in three non-coplanar directions within a formation. The tool also includes directionally sensitive inductive sensors that sense the components caused by each of the one or more inductive emitters, and a downhole controller that processes signals received from the directionally sensitive inductive sensors to provide a set of measurements representative of an impedance tensor at each position.
US09897712B2	Method of acquiring ghost-free signatures for broadband source calibration Embodiments described herein provide a method for acquiring de-ghosted data that can be utilized for calibration of a seismic source (air gun) model. Positions of a plurality of seismic receivers can be determined to enable efficient removal of an interference effect of ghost signals originating from mirrored versions of at least one seismic source that are received at the plurality of seismic receivers (hydrophones). Data (de-ghosted or near de-ghosted) can be acquired from the plurality of seismic receivers located at the determined positions by operating the at least one seismic source. A calibrated model of the at least one seismic source can be prepared based on the acquired (de-ghosted) data.
US09897711B2	Method for determining aggregate fracture properties for evaluation of fracture procedures A method for imaging microseismic events includes determining a hypocenter of microseismic events generated by at least one stage of a hydraulic fracturing procedure from recorded signals detected by seismic sensors disposed above a wellbore in the subsurface. Spatial position of the microseismic events occurring sequentially in the fracturing procedure is determined with reference to a center of fracturing procedure. Each microseismic event is assigned to one of a plurality of selected size bins defined positionally with reference to the center of the fracturing procedure. A property of each microseismic event assigned to each bin is aggregated and an image of the aggregated property is generated with respect to position referenced to the center of the fracturing procedure.
US09897706B2	Materials, method, and apparatus for detecting neutrons and ionizing radiation Embodiments include a scintillator material, a scintillator system, and/or a method of detecting incident radiation using a scintillator material, or scintillator system, comprising a polymer material that comprises chromophores. Additional embodiments provide a scintillator material, scintillator system, and/or a method of detecting incident radiation using a sctintillator material, or scintillator system, comprising a polymer material having one, two, three, or more, organic dyes dissolved therein wherein the polymer material having the one, two, three, or more dyes dissolved therein comprises chromophores. At least one of the dyes, termed the base dye, has a concentration in the range 0.5 to 3.5 mol/L. In an embodiment, the base dye has a concentration in the range 1.0 to 3.0 mol/L. This base dye concentration is high enough to achieve a substantial triplet-triplet state annihilation rate despite the negligible diffusion of the dye in the rigid polymer matrix.
US09897703B2	Radiometric detector for detecting a measurement variable A radiometric detector is provided for detecting a measurement variable. The detector is particularly failsafe with, simultaneously, a simple, space-saving and cost-effective design, without having losses in the signal-to-noise ratio.
US09897702B2	Generation of linear feedback shift register based pseudo random noise (PRN) spreading code sequence for global navigation satellite system Technology to generation of linear feedback shift register based PRN spreading code sequence using a processor device in a computing system is disclosed. A system is provided for generating a GNSS code sequence in a computer system, the system comprising one or more logic circuits configured to at least: receive a plurality of waveform generation parameters; select between a short pseudo-random noise (PRN) cycle and a long PRN cycle according to at least one of the plurality of waveform generation parameters; and emulate a plurality of linear feedback shift registers (LFSR) for generating a block of PRN code chips.
US09897695B2	Digital active array radar A frequency-modulation, continuous-wave (FMCW) radar system may include a transmit array including a number of transmit antenna elements in a first dimension that is greater than a number of transmit antenna elements in a second dimension. The transmit array may output an FMCW transmit beam that illuminates an area with a greater extent in a first illumination dimension than in a second illumination dimension. The radar system may include a transmit electronics module that electronically scans the transmit beam in the second illumination dimension, and a receive array comprising receive antenna elements. The radar system may include a receive electronics module that generates, using a plurality of receive signals, a plurality of receive beams within the area illuminated by the transmit beam and electronically scans each receive beam in the second illumination dimension such that scanning of each receive beam is coordinated with scanning of the transmit beam.
US09897691B2	Device and method for measuring distance values and distance images A distance camera includes at least one photo element, a trigger generator activating the photo element during a temporal integration gate, a light source illuminating an object with light pulses having a predetermined temporal intensity profile with a duration Tp, and an intensity sensor determining the intensity Ip of the light pulses arriving on the photo element. The integration gate has a predetermined delay to the light pulse emission start point in order to capture the light pulses back reflected from the object. The photo element outputs a signal value U at an integration end point in time T1e and in accordance with an intensity Ip and a duration of the light pulse arriving on the photo element during its activation.
US09897689B2	Method and system for ladar transmission with interline skipping for dynamic scan patterns Various embodiments are disclosed for improved scanning ladar transmission, including but not limited to an example embodiment where a dynamic scan pattern for a scanning ladar transmission system includes interline skipping and detouring.
US09897686B2	Active IQ and quadrature generator for high frequency applications An active I/Q generator circuit comprises an input node for receiving a reference oscillation signal. The circuit has an I-output and a Q-output for respectively outputting an I-signal and a Q-signal. A first active component is electrically coupled to the input node and arranged to amplify the reference oscillation signal and to output an amplified reference oscillation signal. A second active component is electrically coupled to the first active component to receive the amplified reference oscillation signal. The second active component is arranged to generate, based on the amplified reference oscillation signal, an in-phase signal and a, with respect to the in-phase signal, phase shifted signal, the second active component electrically coupled to the in-phase signal output for providing the in-phase signal and electrically coupled to the quadrature-phase output for providing the phase-shifted signal.
US09897685B2	Method for detecting interference in a received signal of a radar sensor, driver assistance device and motor vehicle A method for detecting interference in a received signal received by a radar sensor of a motor vehicle is disclosed. For detecting a target object in an environment of the motor vehicle, a transmit signal is emitted by the radar sensor, which includes a sequence of consecutive frequency-modulated chirp signals. The radar sensor then receives an echo signal reflected on the target object as the received signal with the superimposed interference. After receiving the received signal, the interference in the chirp signals of the received signal is detected.
US09897671B2	Detuning apparatus for a receive coil for a magnetic resonance device including a number of coil elements A detuning apparatus for a receive coil for a magnetic resonance device includes a number of coil elements. The coil elements may be selectively connected to a receive channel of a data processing apparatus by way of a switching apparatus. Each of the coil elements includes at least one detuning assembly such as, for example, a PIN diode that may be switched between a detuning state and a receive state by way of a continuous switching signal. A controller is provided to switch the switching apparatus and to generate the switching signals. The detuning apparatus has first diplexers connected upstream of the switching apparatus for injecting switching signals for switching the detuning assembly for coil elements to be detuned dynamically. The detuning apparatus also includes detuning modules for each of the coil elements to switch the detuning assembly to the detuning state if there is no switching signal present.
US09897666B2	Chip-scale optomechanical magnetometer An optomechanical oscillator for measuring a magnetic field may include a fixed substrate, a moveable mass separated from the fixed substrate by a slot, a photonic crystal comprising an optomechanical cavity formed at the slot, and a current source operably coupled to provide current to the photonic crystal. The moveable mass may be moveable responsive to placement of the optomechanical oscillator in a magnetic field based on interaction of the magnetic field and the current. The magnetic field may be measureable based on displacement of the moveable mass.
US09897664B2	Method and apparatus for estimating state of battery A battery state estimation apparatus includes a sensing data acquirer configured to acquire sensing data of a battery. The apparatus further includes a state of health (SOH) information estimator configured to divide the sensing data based on a predetermined time interval, extract a segment comprising a predetermined number of items of the divided sensing data, and estimate SOH information of the battery based on the segments.
US09897662B2	Battery system A battery system includes a battery module having a plurality of assembled batteries. Battery monitoring circuits are provided to correspond to each of the assembled batteries of the battery module. A control circuit controls operation of the battery monitoring circuits. A first signal transmission path transmits signals that are input and output between the battery monitoring circuits and the control circuit. A first isolation element is connected to the control circuit, and a second isolation element is connected to the battery monitoring circuit. The first signal transmission path is isolated from the control circuit by the first isolation element and is isolated from the battery monitoring circuit by the second isolation element. The electrical potential of the first signal transmission path is a floating potential in relation to the electrical potentials of the control circuit and battery monitoring circuits.
US09897659B2	Secondary battery charge status estimation device and secondary battery charge status estimation method Charge state estimation device includes: current/voltage acquiring unit for acquiring a charge/discharge current value and inter-terminal voltage value of secondary battery; combined current calculating unit for calculating a combined current value from the charge/discharge current value acquired at a time t; estimation time setting unit for setting, as an estimation time for charge state estimation, the time at which the combined current value exists within a predetermined threshold range; internal resistance estimating unit for estimating the internal resistance value of secondary battery on the basis of the inter-terminal voltage values and charge/discharge current values of secondary battery at the estimation time T and at sampling time before the estimation time; and charge state estimating unit for estimating the open circuit voltage value and charge state value of the secondary battery on the basis of the inter-terminal voltage value of secondary battery at the estimation time and the internal resistance value.
US09897648B2	On-chip built-in test and operational qualification Operational and functional testing of the optical Physical Media Dependent Integrated Circuits (“PMD ICs”) is achieved by constructing a switchable on-chip load with similar or equivalent electrical characteristics of a targeted photonic device.
US09897646B2	System and methods for memory installation in functional test fixture A system and a method for testing information handling systems is provided. The system includes a top cover having a memory circuit and a bottom platform for receiving a test printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) including a slot. The system includes a sensor determining the relative position of the memory circuit and the slot; and a host controller coupled to the test PCBA and the sensor through a port. A computer program product including a non-transitory computer readable medium having computer readable and executable code is also provided. The code instructs a processor in a host controller in a test fixture to load a memory circuit on a crane; engage a sub-module carrying the memory circuit; load a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA); place a memory device on a slot in the PCBA; perform a system test on the PCBA; disengage the sub-module and the test fixture.
US09897639B2	Method for implementing electromagnetic anti-interference filter impedance match and measuring system thereof A measuring system for implementing impedance matching of an electromagnetic immunity filter comprises an impedance measuring chip, an impedance reading device, and a power supply module and a load circuit in a circuit to be applied by the electromagnetic immunity filter; wherein, the impedance measuring chip, connected between the power supply module and the load circuit, is configured to output an excitation voltage to the load circuit, receive a current returned by the load circuit, calculate an impedance of the load circuit based on the excitation voltage and the current returned by the load circuit, and output the impedance to the impedance reading device; and the impedance reading device is configured to read the impedance calculated by the impedance measuring chip. Accordingly, the present invention further provides a method for implementing impedance matching of an electromagnetic immunity filter.
US09897636B2	Single wound current transformer impedance measurement circuit A single wound single current transformer impedance measurement circuit for determining a circuit element parameter in a ground fault circuit interrupter circuit. The circuit includes a transconductance amplifier having first and second input terminals and first and second output terminals. In an embodiment, a first detector has input terminal coupled to the first output terminal of the transconductance amplifier and another input terminal coupled for receiving a first electrical signal. A second detector has a terminal coupled to the second output terminal of the transconductance amplifier and an input terminal coupled for receiving the first electrical signal. Alternatively, the second detector has an input terminal coupled to the first output terminal of the transconductance amplifier and another input terminal coupled for receiving the first electrical signal.
US09897629B2	Bioelectric signal detecting circuits, lead wire detecting circuits and medical devices This disclosure relates to bioelectric signal detecting circuits, lead wire detecting circuits and medical devices. The lead wire detecting circuit may include a reference voltage generator, at least one comparator, and a logic control module, wherein input ends of the comparator are connected to an output end of the reference voltage generator and an signal output end of a lead wire, respectively, for inputting a reference voltage and a lead signal, and the comparator compares the lead signal with the reference voltage and changes an output voltage at an output end of the comparator according to a comparison result; wherein an input end of the logic control module is connected to the output end of the comparator, and the logic control module determines whether the lead wire is in a connected state or disconnected state by the output voltage at the output end of the comparator.
US09897627B2	Test probe substrate A test probe structure having a planar surface and contact locations matched to test hardware is provided. The fabrication of the test probe structure addresses problems related to the possible deformation of base substrates during manufacture. Positional accuracy of contact locations and planarity of base substrates is achieved using dielectric layers, laser ablation, injection molded solder or redistribution layer wiring, and planarization techniques.
US09897621B2	Sample preparation workstation The present invention relates to laboratory instruments, in particular to instruments for automated preparation of liquid samples like Solid Phase Extraction (SPE), Supported Liquid Extraction (SLE) or liquid-liquid extraction (LLE). The instrument reduces the risk of cross-contamination between sample collection containers by lifting the sample collection containers to the level of the outlet of the sample processing containers, or slightly above. The instrument further comprises a movable table positioning the liquid collection containers directly beneath said sample processing containers and a waste collection container directly beneath the sample processing containers, wherein said waste collection container is vertically movable from a position below the movable table to a position above the movable table.
US09897618B2	Blood testing system Some embodiments of a blood coagulation testing system include an analyzer console device and a single-use cartridge component configured to releasably install into the console device. In some embodiments, the blood coagulation testing system can operate as an automated thromboelastometry system that is particularly useful, for example, at a point-of-care site.
US09897616B2	Monoclonal antibody against D-dimer and methods of use therefor Disclosed are a monoclonal antibody against human D-dimer produced in a mouse and high molecular weight cross-linked fibrin including a corresponding epitope, a cell line secreting the monoclonal antibody, and methods for producing the same. The anti-D-dimer monoclonal antibody of the present invention may be effectively used as a diagnosis agent for screening and detecting in-vivo D-dimer, and high molecular weight cross-linked fibrin and its derivatives containing the D-dimer since the monoclonal antibody specifically reacts with D-dimer, and cross-linked fibrin and its derivatives containing the D-dimer, which do not bind to human fibrinogen or fibrin.
US09897610B2	Calibration material delivery devices and methods A device includes: a first portion configured to be grasped by the hand of the user, and a second portion defining a reservoir containing a control material, wherein the control material contains a target analyte in a known or predetermined concentration. Methods for verifying the accuracy of an analyte monitoring device include receiving control information from a test cartridge, transporting control material to an analysis site, determining the presence of the control material, analyzing the control material, and providing a pass or fail signal.
US09897607B2	Methods, kits, and systems for treatment of metastatic papillary thyroid cancer Provided herein are methods for identifying a subject with an increased likelihood of developing or having metastatic papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), or a subject with an increased likelihood of developing or having recurrent PTC, and the treatment of such a subject.
US09897599B2	Specimen measurement apparatus and specimen measurement method According to one embodiment, a specimen measurement apparatus includes a detector and a control circuit, and is configured to perform a plurality of steps to measure the properties of a test substance retained in a reaction container. The detector outputs electromagnetic waves to the reaction container and detects the electromagnetic waves that vary according to the state in the reaction container. The control circuit controls transition timing between steps of the plurality of steps based on the detection result of the electromagnetic waves obtained by the detector.
US09897598B2	Tamm structures for enhanced fluorescence based sensing, imaging and assays Techniques for enhanced fluorescence include a Tamm substrate for a target optical frequency comprising a metal nanoscale layer deposited on a Bragg grating. The Bragg grating includes multiple dielectric layers including multiple high index of refraction layers alternating with multiple low index of refraction layers. The dielectric layers are parallel to the metal nanoscale layer; and, the thickness of each dielectric layer is about a fourth of a wavelength of the target optical frequency in the layer. The metal nanoscale layer is configured to host a fluorophore such that an S polarized emission from the fluorophore at the target optical frequency propagates out of the substrate perpendicular to the plurality of dielectric layers.
US09897596B2	Microfluidic disc for use in with bead-based immunoassays The invention relates to a microfluidic system for processing biological samples comprising a rotary motor; a means for controlling said motor; a platform coupled to the rotary motor and adapted to provide at least one particle-washing structure and one particle receiving structure for receiving washed particles; and a detection zone for detection of particles of the sample in the particle receiving structure while the platform rotates. The invention provides a sample processing system that is both automated and prone to fewer errors than manual processing. This is accomplished using a centrifugal microfluidic platform that can process raw biological samples (e.g., blood, sputum, urine,) in order to perform high-quality bead-based immunofluorescent assays. The invention uses a simple rotary motor and custom-designed plastic disc to perform the sample preparation steps outlined above.
US09897590B2	Breath capture and sampling system A device for capturing a breath sample has a mouthpiece with a chamber that receives a breath sample through a breath inlet aperture. The device further includes a pump assembly with a pump that draws a portion of the breath sample from the chamber and discharges the portion of the breath sample to the sensor.
US09897584B2	Short-wave infrared super-continuum lasers for natural gas leak detection, exploration, and other active remote sensing applications A measurement system performs non-destructive quality control or constitutive analysis using a light source generating an output optical beam using semiconductor sources that generate an input optical beam, a multiplexer configured to receive the input beam and to form an intermediate optical beam, and fibers configured to receive the intermediate beam and to form the output beam. The fibers include a fused silica fiber having a core diameter less than 400 microns. The output beam includes wavelengths between 700 and 2500 nanometers and has a bandwidth of at least 10 nanometers. The system includes a measurement apparatus that receives the output beam and delivers the beam to a sample to generate a spectroscopy beam. A receiver is configured to receive the spectroscopy beam and process the beam to generate an output signal. The light source and receiver are remote from the sample, which includes plastics or food industry goods.
US09897579B2	Method for correcting evolved gas analyzer and evolved gas analyzer Disclosed herein is a method for correcting an evolved gas analyzer and the evolved gas analyzer. The method includes: correcting a mass spectrum position to be located at a reference spectrum position, the mass spectrum position corresponding to a mass-to-charge ratio m/z of a mass spectrum of a gas component of a reference sample; calculating a sensitivity correction factor Cs=Ss/S by using an area S and a reference area Ss of a chromatogram, the sensitivity correction factor being used to measure an area of a chromatogram of the gas component of a test sample; and calculating a heating correction factor H=t/ts by using a time t and a reference time is indicating a maximum peak of the chromatogram about the reference sample, the heating correction factor being used to correct a heating rate of the test sample when measuring the gas component of the test sample.
US09897576B2	Gas chromatography device A gas chromatography device includes a sample injection part, a detector, a separation column, and a transfer line connecting between the sample injection part and the separation column and between the sample injection part and the detector. Furthermore, a column temperature adjustment part for adjusting the temperature of the separation column, and a line temperature adjustment part for adjusting the temperature of the transfer line are provided. The line temperature adjustment part is structured to include a heat block which includes a heating element and which is in contact with the transfer line from one side, and a holding member which presses the transfer line toward the heat block side by being in contact from the other side, and to sandwich the transfer line by the heat block and the holding member.
US09897575B2	Diagnostic testing sensors for resonant detectors Biosensor apparatus and associated method for detecting a target material using a vibrating resonator having a surface that operably interacts with the target material. A detector is in electrical communication with a sensor, the sensor comprising a first paddle assembly connected to a second paddle assembly, the first paddle assembly having at least one microbalance sensing resonator proximate a proximal end and at least one sensing electrical contact proximate a distal end in electrical communication with the sensing resonator. The at least one sensing resonator has a target coating for operably interacting with the target material, and the second paddle assembly has a microbalance reference resonator proximate the proximal end and at least one reference electrical contact proximate the distal end in electrical communication with the reference resonator.
US09897550B2	Probe for gas sensor with gas split sample gas flow A probe for an IR or UV sensor comprising a light emitter and detector is described comprising a lens. The detector detects the spectrums of the emitted light after it has passed a gas to be measured. The sensor of the present invention is especially suitable for such as harsh or aggressive environments measuring the exhaust gasses, for example in ships, vehicles, chimneys etc., and comprises purge gas protections for delicate optical parts to prevent particles etc. from the exhaust gas depositing on the optics. The sensor further has a flow of sample gas from the gas to be measured being adapted to prevent the purge gas from inferring with the measurements where the sample gas are split into at least two flows where one is adapted for preventing the purge gas from influencing the measurement in a measuring region.
US09897549B2	Analytical device for automated determination of a measured variable of a liquid sample An analytical device, including: a processing system for treating a liquid sample and for supplying the treated liquid sample to a measuring cell, to the liquid sample; a measuring transducer for registering a measured value of the treated liquid sample variable; a control unit to control the processing system; and an evaluating unit for determining the measured variable based on the measured value registered by the measuring transducer. The analytical device includes at least one first supply container containing a first reagent component, at least one second supply container containing a second reagent component and a mixing apparatus, for mixing a predetermined amount of the first reagent component contained in the first supply container with a predetermined amount of the second reagent component to form a predetermined amount of the reagent.
US09897548B2	Method and apparatus for detection of contaminants in air by laser-induced filamentation A method using a laser to propagate a laser beam through an optically-transparent medium, wherein the laser has a power level beyond a critical value Pcr, and wherein the laser beam interacts with the optically transparent medium to generate a laser-induced plasma filament (LIPF); and adjusting the power level to qualitatively detect chemical components within the optically-transparent medium.
US09897536B2	Differential infra red nanoscopy system and method The invention provides a method and system to record the absorption of a sample, said method comprising the steps of providing first and second pulsed beam of light on said sample using one or more light beams, said first and second pulsed beam having different spatial definition; measuring the difference in intensity transmitted through and/or reflected by a sample; and generating an image by scanning the sample while making such measurements. The system and method of the invention can work down to resolution of several 100 of nm, affording thus a large improvement in comparison to synchrotron IR imaging that is the closest technique existing today. The advantage versus scanning probe approach is the absence of physical probe, thus suppressing confinement to surface information and removing uncertainty regarding the working behavior of the probe.
US09897526B2	Vacuum apparatus and method of monitoring particles A vacuum apparatus includes a vacuum chamber, first sensor units disposed in the vacuum chamber facing a deposition direction of particles, and second sensor units disposed in the vacuum chamber, each disposed on a corresponding first sensor of the first sensor units facing the deposition direction, wherein the first sensor units are configured to sense a pressure in the vacuum chamber and an absorption amount of the particles adsorbed to the first sensor units, and the second sensor units are configured to sense the pressure in the vacuum chamber.
US09897525B2	Relating to particle characterisation A particle characterization apparatus is disclosed comprising: a first light source; a second light source, a sample cell; a first detector and a second detector. The first light source is operable to illuminate a first region of a sample comprising dispersed particles within the sample cell with a first light beam along a first light beam axis so as to produce scattered light by interactions of the first light beam with the sample. The first detector is configured to detect the scattered light. The second light source is operable to illuminate a second region of the sample with a second light beam along a second light beam axis. The second detector is an imaging detector, configured to image the particles along an imaging axis using the second light beam. The first light beam axis is at an angle of at least 5 degrees to the second light beam axis.
US09897524B1	Method and apparatus for measurement of particle characteristics using light scattering and optical imaging The present invention comprises methods and apparatus for measuring light scattering from particles and images of particles in the same sample cell utilizing two light sources.
US09897512B2	Laminate variables measured electrically Embodiments of methods of non-destructively testing whether a laminated substrate satisfies structural requirements are disclosed herein. Additionally, laminated substrates that can be non-destructively tested are also disclosed along with methods of manufacturing the same. To non-destructively test whether the laminated substrates satisfies the structural requirement, an electrical characteristic of the laminated substrate may be detected. Since the detected electrical characteristic is related to a structural characteristic being tested, whether the structural characteristic complies with the structural requirement can be determined based on the electrical characteristic.
US09897509B2	Fuel dispensing environment component health monitoring Methods and systems for monitoring the health and operational status of components in a fuel dispensing environment. In one aspect, a method includes providing a control system having a memory in which is stored information representative of a first vibration characteristic of a component, providing a sensor in electronic communication with the control system, the sensor operative to sense vibration characteristics of the component, and coupling the sensor with the component. The method also includes sensing a second vibration characteristic of the component using the sensor, transmitting information representative of the second vibration characteristic to the control system, and comparing the information representative of the second vibration characteristic to the information representative of the first vibration characteristic.
US09897504B2	System and method for a MEMS sensor A measurement method includes generating, by a sensor, a response signal in response to an excitation signal. The method also includes generating a sampling clock signal in accordance with a pseudo-random jitter, and sampling the response signal in accordance with the sampling clock signal to determine a plurality of digital samples. The method also includes combining the plurality of digital samples to form a measurement sample.
US09897496B2	Stress measuring method, stress measuring member, and stress measuring set The present invention provides a stress measuring method including: irradiating a photoelastic product including a measurement subject with light penetrating a linear polarizing film and a phase difference film in this order, and detecting reflected light from the product which is derived from the light via the phase difference film and the linear polarizing film in this order, in which in-plane retardation Re (550) of the phase difference film with light having a wavelength of 550 nm satisfies 100 nm≦Re (550 nm)≦700 nm, and in-plane retardation Re (450) of the phase difference film with light having a wavelength of 450 nm satisfies Re (450)/Re (550)≧0.9, a stress measuring member including the linear polarizing film and the phase difference film, and a stress measuring set including the stress measuring member and a stress displaying member including a photoelastic layer.
US09897495B2	Roberval-type load cell A load cell includes a flexural element in which a Roberval mechanism is formed by a pair of top and bottom parallel beams each including two thin sections at a back and a front in a longitudinal direction, which are integrated with a fixed portion and a movable portion, and strain gauges bonded to the thin sections. Strain gauges are bonded to one of the thin sections of pulling side and to one of the thin sections of compressing side, and circular apertures are formed through the remaining two thin sections. The performances of the load cell such as the reduction of the measurement error and of the period of time before the start of the measurement are achieved.
US09897492B2	Method for manufacturing temperature measure units of thermometers A method for manufacturing a temperature measure unit of a thermometer to measure an object temperature and convert to an electric signal through the temperature measure unit that is sent to a central processing unit located in the thermometer to be processed and converted to an information obtainable by users through an output unit located in the thermometer, the method includes: providing a substrate with surfaces attached a first transmission circuit and a second transmission circuit in a spaced manner; providing a thermistor chip positioned against the substrate such that one side of the thermistor chip forms electric connection with the first transmission circuit and an opposite side forms electric connection with the second transmission circuit; and providing a transmission plate with desired electric conductivity and thermal conductivity to achieve thermal transfer and electric connection between the thermistor chip and the second transmission circuit.
US09897489B2	Processing apparatus and method of measuring temperature of workpiece in processing apparatus A processing apparatus and a method capable of accurately measuring a real temperature of a workpiece contained and heated in a chamber. The processing apparatus includes a chamber containing a workpiece, a measurement piece installed in the chamber, and a measuring unit. The measurement piece is capable of thermal expansion and contraction in response to an internal temperature of the chamber. The measuring unit measures a thermal expansion and contraction amount of the measurement piece to thereby measure the real temperature of the workpiece.
US09897488B2	Vibration based mechanical IR detector and an IR imaging method using the same The invention relates to a vibration based mechanical IR detector having one or more than one resonating pixel structure and an IR imaging method for measuring incoming IR radiation by means of mechanical resonance of the resonating pixels.
US09897485B2	Absorption spectrometer In order to reduce a variation in the light amount of light detected in every reference measurement cycle in an absorption spectrometer 1, it is adapted to tilt at least one surface selected from among incident surfaces and emitting surfaces of all translucent members constituting a reference cell with respect to the light axis of light traveling along a light path.
US09897482B2	Photoelectric conversion apparatus and image pickup system having photoelectric conversion apparatus A photoelectric conversion apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention includes a first substrate including a photoelectric conversion region and a surrounding region, and a second substrate including a circuit for processing a signal from the photoelectric conversion region, and overlapping the first substrate. In this case, the circuit for processing a signal from the photoelectric conversion region includes a first circuit and a second circuit with a higher drive frequency than that of the first circuit. In an orthogonal projection, the second circuit is only provided in the photoelectric conversion region.
US09897475B2	Dispensing device with indicator member A dispensing device has a cylinder, and a piston disposed in the cylinder and moveable in priming and dispensing directions, including a first spring device biasing the piston to move in the priming direction. An operating plunger is moveable between an engaged position where it is operatively connected to the piston and movement of the operating plunger is transmitted to the piston, and a disengaged position where it is operatively disconnected from the piston, in which the operating plunger is movable between an outer and an inner point. A second spring device biases the operating plunger to move from the inner to the outer point independently of the piston. The piston has an indicator member. The operating plunger having an end wall with an aperture. When the operating plunger is at the outer point and the piston is at the cylinder's top, the indicator member is disposed in the aperture.
US09897471B2	Coupling element, ultrasonic transducer and ultrasonic flow meter A coupling element for an ultrasonic transducer, which comprises a first recess provided for the arrangement of a piezoelectric element and comprising a terminal base surface in which an ultrasound signal generated by the piezoelectric element can be fed into the coupling element. The coupling element comprising inside the first recess one or a plurality of stops, each of which comprises at least one stop surface which extends along a plane, the plane extending parallel to the base surface of the first recess, and there being defined between this plane and the base surface a space for accommodating material for an acoustic adaptation layer. The invention further concerns an ultrasonic transducer and an ultrasonic flow meter.
US09897464B2	Magnetic field sensor to detect a magnitude of a magnetic field in any direction In one aspect, a magnetic field sensor includes first and second magnetic field sensing elements having respective first and second maximum response axes. The first and second maximum response axes point along respective first and second different coordinate axes. In response to a magnetic field, the first and second magnetic field sensing elements are operable to generate first and second magnetic field signals. The magnetic field sensor includes an electronic circuit coupled to receive the first and the second magnetic field signals. The electronic circuit is configured to determine a magnitude of a vector sum of the first and the second magnetic field signals and provide one or more signals in response to the magnitude of the vector sum determined.
US09897462B2	Flap angle measurement system and method A system for monitoring movements of rotor blades attached by flapping hinges to a central head or hub of a helicopter. At least one sensor is arranged to continuously measure vertical angular movement of a rotor blade and/or the flapping hinge. Also a method for monitoring movements of rotor blades attached by flapping hinges to a central head or hub of a helicopter.
US09897461B2	Intelligent electronic device with expandable functionality An intelligent electronic device (IED) is provided. The IED includes a metering sub-assembly and an input base module sub-assembly. The metering sub-assembly is hinged to the input base module sub-assembly, where when in an open position, various cables, connectors, and input/output cards/modules are accessible. Various input/output cards/modules are interchangeable to add/change functionality and/or communication capabilities to the IED.
US09897421B2	Enhanced linear shaped charge including spinal charge element An enhanced linear shaped charge (X-Jet) includes a sheath and a spinal charge element. The sheath extends along an axis between a first end and a second end to define a sheath length. The sheath has a first hollowed chevron-shaped cross-section that defines a main charge cavity, an upper apex, and a lower apex. The spinal charge element is disposed within the main charge cavity and abuts the upper apex. The spinal charge element further includes a spinal casing that extends along the sheath length to define a spinal length. The spinal casing has a hollowed cross-section defining a spinal charge cavity.
US09897408B2	Power saving action module for toy gun The action module includes an action member, a switch element, and an activation element. The action member includes a power provision device. The switch element is on the action member electrically connected to the power provision device, and includes a switch trigger. The activation element is rotatably configured on the action member adjacent to the switch element, and includes a magazine contact part to be pressed or released when a magazine is mounted to or removed from the action module, and a switch engaging part for engaging the switch trigger. As such, by the interaction between the switch element and the activation element, the toy gun does not function as long as the magazine is not mounted, and therefore electrical power will not be wasted. The action module may work with any type of magazines.
US09897396B2	Heat exchanger A heat exchanger for an exchange of heat between a first fluid and a second fluid includes a block including: a plurality of flow ducts configured to be traversed by the first fluid, and a housing that holds the flow ducts and is configured to be traversed by the second fluid; a base connected to the block, the base including one or more passage openings for the flow ducts, the base comprising a first base part and a second base part; and at least one casing cover that is in fluid-communication with the flow ducts and that is attached to the base.
US09897383B2	Heat exchanger An exemplary heat exchanger is configured for removing heat energy from a heat generator. The heat exchanger including at least one conduit for a working fluid, which is arranged in an upright position of at least 45°, each conduit having an exterior wall and at least one interior wall for forming at least one evaporator channel and at least one condenser channel within the conduit. Furthermore, the heat exchanger includes a first heat transfer element for transferring heat into the evaporator channel and a second heat transfer element for transferring heat out of the condenser channel.
US09897378B2	Cosmetic makeup sponge/blender container A cosmetic sponge drying and storage container has a plurality of components, including at least a first component and a second component, the first component being moveable with respect to the second component to position the container in at least an open condition and a closed condition. At least one of the first component or said second component is perforated with perforations. A cosmetic sponge may be placed within the container when in the open condition and the perforations provide at least 10% ventilation when the container is in the closed condition. Preferably, both the first and second components are perforated to provide for cross-ventilation. In addition, a base may be provided to support the first and second components, and most preferably the base may be perforated.
US09897372B2	Integrated lighting system for the interior liner of an appliance An integrated lighting system for a kitchen appliance includes a refrigerated appliance having an appliance door that includes an inner door liner, an outer door wrapper and an insulation layer disposed within a cavity defined between the inner door liner and the outer door wrapper. The inner door liner defines a bin receptacle. A bin is selectively received by the bin receptacle. The bin receptacle includes a bin divider defined by the inner door liner and extends away from the outer door wrapper. The bin divider cooperates with the bin to define sub compartments of the bin. A lighting assembly is coupled to the bin divider, wherein the lighting assembly is configured to illuminate the bin and at least a portion of the interior compartment.
US09897360B2	Refrigeration apparatus A refrigeration apparatus includes a compressor and a controller. The compressor has a casing and a compression element. Compressed refrigerant is sent out of the casing after being discharged into an internal space of the casing. An oil sump formed in the casing collects refrigerator oil. A heater heats the refrigerator oil collected. The controller controls the heater while the refrigeration apparatus is stopped so that a temperature of the refrigerator oil collected in the oil sump reaches a first oil temperature target value. The first oil temperature target value is set in order to keep a refrigerant condensation amount of the refrigerant equal to or less than an allowable condensation amount at which the concentration or viscosity of the refrigerator oil needed to lubricate the compressor can be maintained. The refrigerant condensation amount is caused by in-dome condensation at the start of operation of the refrigeration apparatus.
US09897353B2	Hybrid condenser The invention is a hybrid condenser having a direct contact condenser segment (9) and a surface condenser segment (10) arranged in a common condensation space. The hybrid condenser includes a surface condenser segment (10) arranged downstream the direct contact condenser segment (9) in the direction of steam flow or below the direct contact condenser segment (9), and a water guiding element (17) ensuring that the cooling water and condensate mixture generated in the direct contact condenser segment (9) flows downward avoiding the surface condenser segment (10).
US09897352B2	Hierarchy condensation third-type absorption heat pump The hierarchy condensation third-type absorption heat pump provided by the invention belongs to the absorption heat pump technology field. A solution cycle is formed by a first generator, an absorption-generator, a first absorber, a first solution pump, a second solution pump, a first solution heat exchanger and a steam distributing chamber. A solution cycle is formed by a second generator, a second absorber, a third solution pump and a second solution heat exchanger. The refrigerant vapor of the first generator is provided for the first condenser. The refrigerant vapor of the second generator is provided for the second condenser. The refrigerant vapor of the steam distributing chamber is provided for the second absorber. The refrigerant liquid of the first condenser enters evaporator via the throttle valve. The refrigerant liquid of the second condenser enters evaporator via the refrigerant liquid pump. The refrigerant vapor of evaporator is provided for the absorption-generator and the first absorber. The high temperature heat is used in the first generator. The waste heat is used in the second generator. The heat load is mainly provided by the first absorber and the first condenser. The low temperature heat is released in the second absorber and the second condenser. The hierarchy condensation second-type absorption heat pump is thereby formed.
US09897345B2	Mounting support for at least one solar thermal collector A mounting support (100) for at least one solar thermal collector (110a) includes a vertical support part (120) having a bottom end (122) and a top end (124). The bottom end is configured to be mounted into a ground or a mounting base. The support further including a horizontal support part (140) configured to support the at least one collector and to enable to slide the supported at least one collector along the horizontal support part for mounting the at least one collector.
US09897335B2	Indoor unit of air conditioning apparatus An indoor unit of an air conditioning apparatus is fixed with respect to a ceiling, and includes an indoor unit casing having an air inlet and plural air outlets, plural airflow direction adjusting plates disposed in the air outlets, and an airflow direction adjusting control unit to independently adjust rotational states of the adjusting plates in order to adjust the airflow direction of conditioned air blown out from the air outlets. The control unit causes an entire body of at least one of the adjusting plates to be positioned inside a corresponding one of the air outlets in an air volume reducing state to reduce volume through the air outlet or a suppressing state to suppress flow from the air outlet toward an opposite side relative to an air inlet side.
US09897334B2	Water heater controller or system A method of measuring the amount of energy consumed from a water heater having a tank with two or more temperature sensors located a predetermined heights on or in the tank, the method including the step of; for each sensor, determining a corresponding volume of a segment of the tank, measuring the change of temperature at each temperature sensor, calculating the energy for the corresponding volume for each sensor, and summing the energy changes for all the sensors to determine the amount of energy consumed. The energy usage can be recorded with chronological information to construct a usage pattern which can be used for controlling the heater and for providing the user with details of energy usage. The system does not require the use of data derived from a flow meter.
US09897317B2	Thermally free liner retention mechanism The present invention discloses a novel and improved device and method for securing a combustion liner within a gas turbine combustor. The improved configuration comprises a plurality of equally spaced support tab assemblies secured about the combustion liner and positioned radially outward of the combustion zone. The support tab assemblies comprise parallel liner tabs which provide increased flexibility, greater structural support, and lower operating stresses.
US09897314B2	Gas turbine damper with inner neck extending into separate cavities The invention relates to a damper for reducing pulsations in a gas turbine, which includes an enclosure, a main neck extending from the enclosure, a spacer plate disposed in the enclosure to separate the enclosure into a first cavity and a second cavity and an inner neck with a first end and a second end, extending through the spacer plate to interconnect the first cavity and the second cavity. The first end of the inner neck remains in the first cavity and the second end remains in the second cavity. A flow deflecting member is disposed proximate the second end of the inner neck to deflect a flow passing through the inner neck. With the solution of the present invention, as a damper according to embodiments of the present invention operates, flow field hence damping characteristic in the second cavity constant regardless the adjustment of the spacer plate in the enclosure.
US09897300B2	Lighting device A lighting device may include a light irradiation portion, a light control portion, a sensing portion and a main control module. The light irradiation portion to generate and irradiate light. The light control portion to control a power applied to the light irradiation portion. The sensing portion to sense an environment of a space to which the light irradiation portion irradiates light. The main control module communicate with an external device by a wireless communication and control the light control portion according to a control signal from the external device. The main control module may include a first connector that connects the main control module and the sensing portion by a wired communication. The second connector may connects the light control portion and the main control module by the wired communication. The lighting device may be capable of being installed in an environment desired by the user.
US09897298B2	Light emitting module and light unit having the same Disclosed is a light emitting module including a circuit board and a light source unit disposed on the circuit board. The light source unit includes a plurality of first, second and third light emitting devices emitting light of different colors, the plurality of first light emitting devices are disposed in an outer circumference of the second and third light emitting devices, the plurality of second light emitting devices are disposed in both sides of the plurality of the third light emitting devices, the plurality of first light emitting devices emits light having a wavelength longer than that of light emitted from the second and third light emitting devices. The plurality of second light emitting devices emits light having a wavelength longer than that of light emitted from the third light emitting devices, and the numbers of the first to third light emitting devices are different from one another.
US09897280B2	Path light and unitary gasket-reflector The present application discloses a unitary gasket-reflector for use in light sources having at least one reflector and at least one gasket to seal the inside of the light sources against the elements.
US09897277B2	Sun light fixture Implementations of the present invention relate to systems, methods, and apparatus for illuminating and/or providing an aesthetically pleasing lighted structure. In particular, implementations of the present invention provide a light fixture, which can incorporate resin elements surrounding a lighted core. Additionally, one or more implementations also include methods of manufacturing the lighted fixture to achieve a desirable aesthetic thereof. Furthermore, in one or more implementations, the light fixture can resemble or imitate a sun, which can appeal to a viewer thereof.
US09897274B2	Vehicle lamp A vehicle lamp includes a first light source, a first reflector which reflects light emitted from the first light source to form a low beam light distribution pattern, a second light source, a second reflector which reflects light emitted from the second light source to form a high beam additional light distribution pattern and includes a short distance reflection surface provided at a closer position and a long distance reflection surface provided at a farther position with respect to the second light source at a predetermined interval therebetween, a third light source, and a third reflector which is arranged at the back side of the second reflector and reflects light emitted from the third light source through a gap between the short distance reflection surface and the long distance reflection surface. The third light source is configured to be lit in a low beam irradiation mode.
US09897269B2	LED light fixture An LED light fixture is provided and includes a housing having a main body portion with a rear wall. A plurality of fins integrally extends from an outer surface of the rear wall of the main body portion. A spindle with an internal bore integrally extends from the outer surface of the rear wall of the main body portion wherein the spindle is positioned among the fins. A light engine assembly is positioned within the main body portion and includes a plurality of LED light modules mounted to a printed circuit board. Each module comprises a LED and a lens extending from the printed circuit board, wherein the printed circuit board resides against an inner surface of the rear wall. A separate enclosure configured to enclose power management components is connected to a rear portion of the housing proximate the fins. The enclosure includes a housing wall arrangement and leads that extend through both an opening in the housing wall and the internal bore of the spindle, past the rear wall of the main body portion and to the printed circuit board.
US09897266B2	Light source module and lighting apparatus including the same A light source module includes a light source, a light guide plate on the light source and including at least one recess portion in an upper surface thereof, and a filter sheet on an upper surface of the light guide plate and having a pattern. The pattern may be configured to partially reflect and partially transmit light emitted from the light source through the light guide plate.
US09897265B2	LED tube lamp having LED light strip An LED tube lamp, comprising a lamp tube, which includes a light transmissive portion, a reinforcing portion and an end cap; an LED module, which includes an LED light source and an LED light strip; and a power supply module, which includes a set of N electronic components operably interconnected to drive the LED light source, wherein: the light transmissive portion is fixedly connected to the reinforcing portion; the reinforcing portion includes a platform and a bracing structure; the bracing structure is fixedly connected to the platform and holds the platform in place; the LED light source is thermally and electrically connected to the LED light strip, which is in turn thermally connected to the reinforcing portion; and the end cap is attached to an end of the lamp tube.
US09897264B1	Negative connecting terminal and negative connector for LED bulb drive board and lamp cap A negative connecting terminal for an LED bulb drive board and a lamp cap is provided. A side of a base plate is formed with an elastic sheet to be electrically connected with a lamp cap negative pole. The elastic sheet is bent from the side of the base plate to form a small curved portion having an opening facing rearward and then bent again to form a big curved portion having an opening facing forward, and obliquely extends forward to form an oblique extension portion, and finally is bent to form a head portion. The side of the base plate extends outward to form an insertion pin to be electrically connected with a drive board. The negative connecting terminal is simple in structure and more flexible and has a greater working stroke and can be processed more easily.
US09897252B2	Object securing device The disclosure presented herein relates to a clamp, vice, clasp or similar structure with an upper and lower jaw capable of gripping a surface. In use the jaws are separated and placed around the surface before being closed and tightened such that the clamp, vice, clasp reversibly grips the surface. A cord, strap, leash or similar structure is attached to the clamp. A spring loaded plastic toggle is attached to the end of the cord, strap, leash or similar structure. In use the cord, strap, leash or similar structure is secured around an item with the spring loaded plastic toggle. As the cord, strap, leash or similar structure is secured to the clamp the item is also secured to the clamp and the surface.
US09897245B2	Polymeric foam insulation system for pipes A pipe insulation system that serves as insulation for a length of pipe contains section of thermoplastic polymer foam that fit circumferentially around a length of pipe, rings of melt barrier material that fit circumferentially around the length of pipe and abut adjacent sections of thermoplastic foam, mesh around the sections of thermoplastic polymer foam and rings of melt barrier material, a metallic covering enclosing the thermoplastic polymer foam, melt barrier material and mesh, and a support band that fits circumferentially around the metallic covering and that holds the pipe insulation system against a length of pipe around which the pipe insulation resides. A ring of melt barrier material is present at the top and bottom of non-horizontal length of pipe and within any 250 centimeter distance along the length of pipe.
US09897243B2	Method and system for the remote detection of the position of a pig device inside a pressurized pipeline A method and a system remotely detect the position of a pig device inside a pipeline for transporting pressurized fluids, like for example long distance oil and gas pipelines having a strategic international value. The method foresees equipping the pipeline with pressure sensors in contact with the fluid, located at at least one of the two terminals of the pipeline, and the sending and processing of signals by a control unit. The operation of the system is that of identifying and locating, in real time and continuously, a pig device that moves intermittently inside the pipeline, for example during cleaning, monitoring, measurement and non-destructive control operations.
US09897242B2	Tubular liner for sewer rehabilitation A tubular liner for sewer rehabilitation an inner tubular film; a resin-carrier layer surrounding the inner tubular film; and a mechanically protective outer film system surrounding the resin-carrier layer. The outer film system has an outer film extending in the longitudinal direction of the tubular liner. Longitudinal edges of the outer film are connected to each other in an overlapping manner in the circumferential direction of the tubular liner with connecting points. Upon the elongation in the radial direction during the insertion of the tubular liner, the connection points are elongated and may break in a sewer to be rehabilitated. The outer film features at least one layer made of a material that is mechanically very stable and is essentially not able to elongate, and at least one layer that is essentially impermeable for UV radiation and visible light.
US09897226B2	Control valve with pressure wave attenuator A control valve in which a PWM (pulse width modulated) control pressure signal acts on a membrane to which a control rod is connected tends to wear, and the device to which the control rod is attached likewise tends to wear, due to the transmission of undesired PWM control pressure pulsations. A third chamber is provided in the control valve housing. Control pressure pulsations enter the third chamber via a pressure medium connection. By providing at least one throttle aperture in a partition wall between the third chamber and the membrane acted upon by the pressure medium, it is possible to attenuate the pressure waves, thereby damping the vibration of the control rod, thus avoiding wear.
US09897216B1	Stop valve A ball valve includes an inner valve unit having a ball valve unit and a valve seat in which the ball valve unit is received. A shaft extends from the ball valve which is clamped between two retainers. The valve seat has a tubular shank and a lateral hole is defined radially through the shank. The shaft extends through the valve seat. The housing is made of metal and has a chamber for receiving the inner valve unit. The housing has an inlet and an outlet which is located corresponding to the lateral hole of the valve seat and the central holes of the retainers. The shaft extends through the installation hole of the housing and is connected with a switch which is operated to rotate the ball valve between open and sealed positions. The water does not contact the metallic parts and the structure is simple and easily assembled.
US09897215B2	Multi-valve seat seal assembly for a gate valve A gate valve for use in oil field applications and including a seat seal assembly. The seat seal assembly includes primary, secondary, and tertiary seals for sealing the space between the seat rings and the valve body. The provision of multiple seals in the seat seal assembly provides redundancy that allows for maintenance of the seal between the components even if one or two of the individual seals fail.
US09897214B2	Off-set and sine-wave shaped butterfly plate to reduce aero-torque and reduce actuator size A butterfly valve plate has a base that includes an outlet facing surface, an inlet facing surface that is opposed to the outlet facing surface, and an axis of rotation about which the plate rotates. The inlet facing surface has an asymmetric sinusoidal configuration between a first end and a second end of the inlet facing surface. A sinusoidal length defines a distance between the first and second ends. The axis of rotation is disposed off a midpoint of the sinusoidal length. In addition, or alternatively, the axis of rotation is disposed off a centerline between the inlet facing surface and outlet facing surface.
US09897211B2	Device and method for extending the lifespan of a shaft seal for an open-drive compressor A device and method for extending the lifespan of a shaft seal for an open-drive compressor is provided. The device and method can also reduce and/or prevent deterioration of the shaft seal regardless of the operation condition of the open-drive compressor. The device and method can further reduce and/or prevent leakage of a lubricant and/or refrigerant that can cause deterioration of components within a transport refrigeration unit (TRU).
US09897210B2	Knife edge seal tree What is described is a tree seal for use on a rotating element. The tree seal includes a trunk configured to be coupled to the rotating element. The tree seal also includes a first branch coupled to the trunk and having a first edge configured to form a first mini seal with a housing. The tree seal also includes a second branch coupled to the trunk and having a second edge configured to form a second mini seal with the housing.
US09897200B2	Optimization of switching operations A method of optimizing shifting of a shifting element which fixes a shaft to another component of the drive-train. Three shifting processes are influenced by respective characteristic forms of a control parameter. The first and second characteristic forms are different from one another. Each shifting process has a distinct start and end time (tBeginn, tEnde). The rotational speed of the shaft is a function n(t) of time t. An idealized rotational speed nideal(t):=G{n(t)} is determined by a filter G. First and second evaluation indexes I:=I(t−Δt,t)/I (tBeginn−t, tBeginn) are calculated, in which tBeginn
US09897190B2	Belt-driven starter-generator A belt-driven starter-generator includes a rotary shaft, and a pulley belt coupled on an outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft. A key is press-fitted into a pocket formed between the rotary shaft and the pulley belt so as to fix the rotary shaft to the pulley belt. A coupling member is coupled to a thread formed on the outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft so as to support one side of the pulley belt. Operational reliability and assembly convenience may be improved by the belt-driven starter-generator of the present disclosure.
US09897184B2	Stator cone clutch A stator for a torque converter includes a body portion with a first frusto-conical surface, a flange including a second frusto-conical surface, a stator clutch including the first and second frusto-conical surfaces, and at least one clutch plate disposed therebetween. In some example embodiments, the at least one clutch plate comprises a pair of frusto-conical surfaces. In an example embodiment, at least one of the at least one clutch plate frusto-conical surfaces includes a friction material bonded thereto. In an example embodiment, the body portion or the flange includes a first drive tab and the at least one clutch plate includes a second drive tab drivingly engaged with the first drive tab.
US09897181B1	External circulation ball screw An external circulation ball screw includes an elongate shaft having has an outer circumferential surface formed with a helical rolling groove; a nut having a through hole formed therein for receiving extension of the elongate shaft therethrough, the through hole having an inner circumferential surface formed with a rolling channel corresponding to the rolling groove, the rolling groove and the rolling channel collectively defining a loading passage, the nut having an outer surface, which includes, formed therein, two through apertures that are spaced from each other and in communication with the through hole and a cavity in communication with the two through apertures; rolling elements arranged in the loading passage and having a diameter between 0.3-1 mm; and a circulator having a U-shape and is arranged in the cavity and the through apertures and formed with a return passage connected to the loading passage to collectively define a circulation channel.
US09897172B2	Planetary gear train of automatic transmission for vehicle A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle may include an input shaft receiving torque of an engine, an output shaft outputting torque of the engine, a first planetary gear set, a second planetary gear set, a third planetary gear set, a fourth planetary gear set, a first shaft selectively connectable to the input shaft, a second shaft, a third shaft selectively connectable to the input shaft, a fourth shaft, a fifth shaft, a sixth shaft directly connected to the output shaft, and a seventh shaft selectively connectable to the input shaft.
US09897161B2	Hingeless, large-throw negative stiffness structure A negative stiffness structure for vibration isolation, shock mitigation, and/or signal processing includes a flexible tensile member and a curved compressive member. A first end of the tensile member is attached to a first structure. A first end of the curved compressive member is coupled to a first structure and a second end of the curved compressive member is coupled to a second end of the flexible tensile member. A length of the tensile member is greater than a length of the compressive member. A tip of the negative stiffness structure is configured to exhibit a negative stiffness mechanical response to a load applied to the tip. The negative stiffness mechanical response acts in a direction orthogonal to the length of the tensile member.
US09897155B2	Brake disk The present invention is to provide a brake disk capable of enhancing the turning performance of a motorcycle by reducing the inertia, and preventing deposition on a braking portion by reducing a temperature variation of the braking portion. A brake disk 1 is provided with a sliding disk 10, a hub disk 20, and a connection pin 31 for connecting the disks 10 and 20 to each other at plural positions in the circumferential direction of the brake disk 1. An engaging convex portion 12 projecting inwardly of the sliding disk 10 is formed on the sliding disk 10 at circumferential positions corresponding to the connection pins 31. An engaging concave portion 24 for receiving the engaging convex portion 12 is formed in the outer periphery of the hub disk 20. An insertion hole 12c for the connection pin 31 is formed in the engaging convex portion 12.
US09897153B2	Low radial profile brake disk insert retainer System and methods for retaining a clip to a rotor are provided. A retainer for retaining a clip to a rotor may have a first end and a second end defining a length between the first end and the second end, the retainer being partially positionable within an opening in the rotor such that at least one of the first end and the second end protrudes axially from the opening at a greater radial location of the rotor than a flange of the clip, the retainer being configured to radially retain the clip to the rotor, the length of the retainer being between 105% and 200% of a width of the rotor at the opening.
US09897147B2	Bearing seal and use thereof A bearing seal is provided having inner and outer frames capable of forming a tight fit with a bearing inner ring and with a bearing outer ring respectively. The frames adjacent to each other, at least one of the two formed with an axial lip abutting an inner surface of the other in an axial direction and a radial lip abutting an inner surface of the other in a radial direction, for sealing an axial gap and a radial gap. A flexible convolute structure formed on the radial lip, and the convolute structure is initially formed with at least two hinge points. The hinge points are points of connection and intersection between adjacent bend surfaces in the convolute structure, being the locations of the principal regions where the material actually deforms by bending between adjacent bend surfaces. Predetermined bend angles are formed at the hinge points between adjacent bend surfaces.
US09897144B1	Flexible bearing comprising spacers A flexible bearing including spacers is provided. The flexible bearing includes: an outer race including a rolling groove; an inner race arranged in the outer race and including a rolling trough corresponding the rolling groove to collectively define a loading passage; rolling elements arranged in the loading passage; and spacers each including a retention section for receiving and retaining the rolling elements. Two adjacent ones of the spacers are in contact engagement with each other with end faces thereof and the two end faces are respectively a concave surface and a convex surface. The concave surface and the convex surface of the spacers are allowed to undergo relative sliding so as to allow the spacers to adjust, with respect to each other, an angular position thereof during an operation of the flexible bearing in order to prevent the spacers from interfering with the outer race or the inner race.
US09897143B2	Bush bearing and a scroll compressor including a bush bearing A bush bearing and a scroll compressor including a bush bearing are provided. A boss of an orbiting scroll may be inserted into and coupled to a boss coupling groove of a rotational shaft, and thus, an outer circumferential surface of a bush bearing may wholly contact an inner circumferential surface of the boss coupling groove, thereby decreasing wear of the bush bearing. Further, friction loss in the bush bearing may be reduced, and thus, compression efficiency and reliability may be enhanced, noise may be reduced, and material costs may be reduced. Furthermore, despite that the bush bearing is formed in a ring shape and press-fitted to the boss, as the bush bearing may be formed of a plastic material having an ether ketone bonding in consideration of a thermal expansion rate, an elongation, and a press-fit range, the bush bearing may be effectively prevented from being detached from the boss, thereby enhancing a reliability of a compressor.
US09897139B2	Tapered roller bearing and power transmission apparatus A tapered roller bearing includes inner ring, outer ring, plurality of tapered rollers placed between inner and outer rings, and retainer having pockets receiving tapered rollers. Small diameter annular portion of retainer closes a small diameter side opening portion so that lubricating oil more than needed for lubrication can be limited from flowing into a bearing internal space. The small diameter side opening portion is constituted by a small collar portion provided on one axial end side of inner ring and one axial end portion of outer ring. A sliding contact face and recess portion are provided in radially outer side surface of each columnar portion. The sliding contact face is in sliding contact with outer ring raceway surface so that the retainer can be positioned radially by an outer ring raceway surface. Recess portion is recessed radially so that adjacent ones of the pockets can communicate with each other.
US09897130B2	Telescoping cap assembly for encapsulating a fastener disposed within a confined space This disclosure provides a cap assembly for encapsulating a fastener or portion of a fastener that protrudes from a surface and into a confined space. The cap assembly includes a plurality of nested sections that telescope a collapsed configuration to an extended configuration. The plurality of nested sections includes a base section that includes a base rim that engages the surface in the extended configuration. The plurality of nested sections also includes an end section that has an end wall. The end wall and the base rim define a length of the cap assembly in the extended configuration that is sufficient to encapsulate the fastener within the cap assembly with the base rim engaging the surface and the end wall spaced apart from a distal end of the fastener.
US09897114B2	Electro-hydraulic actuator This present invention relates to a remote electro-hydraulic actuator for actuating of mechanical devices, such as a valve in an internal combustion exhaust pipe. The actuator includes a multi-vane rotational assembly that flows the working fluid through strategically sized flow channels within the structure of the rotational assembly. The size of the holes are sized to help the stability of the valve and can also be provided with pressure check valves or reed valves to dampen the rotation of the valve and reduce any instabilities due to pulsations driven back via the output shaft.
US09897107B2	Compressor wheel and unbalance detection device for compressor assembly A compressor wheel that can more effectively and accurately detect its rotational unbalance than before is provided. The compressor wheel is disposed in a compressor assembly, the compressor wheel including a boss portion mounted on a rotation shaft, a rear plate portion disposed on an opposite side of a tip end portion disposed on one end side of the boss portion, the rear plate portion extending perpendicular to an axial direction of the rotation shaft, and a sensor detection surface formed on a circumferential surface of the tip end portion of the boss portion or on a circumferential surface of the rear plate portion, the sensor detection surface being inclined to the circumferential surface of the end portion or the circumferential surface of the rear plate portion, the sensor detection surface being detectable by an optical sensor that irradiates the sensor detection surface with light and detects light reflected therefrom.
US09897105B2	Compressor A compressor that includes a rotor assembly, a stator assembly and a heat sink assembly. The rotor assembly includes a shaft to which a bearing assembly and a rotor core are secured. The heat sink assembly is then secured to the bearing assembly and to the stator assembly.
US09897098B2	Gas turbine engine axial drum-style compressor rotor assembly A gas turbine engine includes an axial compressor which includes a rotor assembly including a first rotor segment with a first inner rim, a first sealing surface, and a first aft engagement feature, and a second rotor segment positioned aft of the first rotor segment and having a second inner rim, a second sealing surface, and a second inner rim with a second fore engagement feature that is complementary to the first aft engagement feature. The first and second sealing surfaces are complementary to each other, and are bonded together via a transient liquid phase diffusion process. The first and second sealing surfaces are disposed on the outer rim. The first aft engagement member may be a notch that is complementary to the second fore engagement feature, which may be a shelf.
US09897096B2	Bearing unit A bearing unit (2), designed for attachment on a shaft of a pump assembly, has an inner sleeve (6) for receiving the shaft and a bearing sleeve (4) fixed on the outer periphery of the inner sleeve (6). At a first axial end (7) the inner sleeve (6) includes an engagement element (8), designed for positive, rotationally fixed engagement with the shaft or with a component (42) connected to the shaft. At a second opposite axial end the inner sleeve (6) includes a second contact shoulder (10), which fixes the bearing sleeve (4) in an axial direction (X). A pump assembly having such a bearing unit is also provided.
US09897086B2	Vane pump A vane pump used as a fluid pressure source includes: a rotor that is rotationally driven; a plurality of vanes that are inserted into the rotor in a freely slidable manner; a cam ring at which tip-end portions of the vanes slides as the rotor rotates; a pump chamber that is defined between the adjacent vanes; a suction port that guides working fluid to the pump chamber; a discharge port through which the working fluid discharged from the pump chamber is guided; a groove-like notch that extends from an opening edge of the discharge port in an opposite direction from rotation direction of the rotor, and the notch has a gradient-changing portion at which a rate of change of opening area is decreased in the rotation direction of the rotor.
US09897085B2	Pump control device An improved pump control device includes a control device that controls power supplied to a pump, a working device that is connected to the pump to control fluid to flow, and a detection device for detecting the working device. The detection device, when detecting the working device is making a specific operation, transmits operation information to the control device to change the operation condition of the pump so as to achieve advantages of easy use, power saving, and cost reduction.
US09897080B2	Rotary control valve for reverse osmosis feed water pump with energy recovery A liquid pumping system includes at least two water cylinders that are each controlled by a hydraulic piston. A rotary valve controls the hydraulic pistons. The rotary valve has an inner unit that rotates within an outer unit. Slots provided between the inner and outer units control the duration, rate and direction of hydraulic fluid supply to the hydraulic piston. A liquid pumping process comprises distributing an initial flow of pressurized hydraulic fluid between the hydraulic cylinders. The hydraulic cylinders move through a cycle in a phased relationship to provide a constant sum of flow rates from the liquid pumps. In a water treating process, feed water is pumped through the membrane unit. Brine from the membrane unit is returned to each liquid pump while that liquid pump is feeding water to the membrane unit.
US09897079B2	External discharge hall thruster The invention is a Hall thruster that does not have any discharge channel, and magnetic pole piece. The Hall thruster utilizes permanent magnets to produce magnetic field with strong radial component in front of an annular anode, and expands propellant directly into vacuum through the anode acting also as a gas distributor. The invention reduces mass and complexity of conventional Hall thrusters, and offers a radical solution to discharge channel and magnetic pole piece erosion problem.
US09897074B2	Wind turbine system including parallel converters for active current production within over-current margins A wind turbine is arranged to operate in a fully-functional converter mode and a faulty-converter mode. A plurality of converters are arranged to share electric current in the fully-functional converter mode. The converters are dimensioned not only to operate at nominal active current but to provide an over-current margin to enable reactive current to be produced on top of the nominal active current in the fully-functional converter mode. In the fully-functional converter mode the converters are caused to produce reactive current on top of the nominal active current. In response to a fault of one or more of the converters, operation is changed from the fully-functional converter mode to the faulty-converter mode. In the faulty-converter mode, one or more other converters of the converter system are caused to produce additional active current by using their over-current margin to compensate at least partly for a reduction of active-current production due to the fault of one of the converters, and to reduce the reactive-current production by the other converter correspondingly.
US09897073B2	Method for damping torsional vibrations in a power generation plant A method for damping torsional vibrations in a power generation plant that includes a drive train, a rotor fitted at a rotor-side end of the drive train, and a generator driven via the drive train and fitted at a generator-side end of the drive train includes determining an angular difference between a first point and a second point on the drive train over time. The method further includes damping torsional vibrations in the drive train on the basis of the time profile of the determined angular difference by correspondingly presetting a load torque of the generator and a drive torque of the rotor.
US09897071B2	Wind and water power generation system with multi-stage linear generators A power generation assembly for use in generating electrical power from air or water currents includes a rail system including at least one rail and a vane assembly, drivable by the air or water currents. A car assembly is slidably mounted to the rail and coupled to the vane assembly: wherein movement of vanes of the vane assembly generates linear movement of the car assembly. An electrical energy generating system includes two or more independent sets of stator windings carried by the rail system, and a piston, carried by the car assembly, wherein linear movement of the piston relative to the stator windings generates electrical energy. A switching system is operable to controllably and individually activate each of the two or more independent sets of stator windings.
US09897069B2	Root airfoil of wind turbine blade A root airfoil of a wind turbine blade has a suction surface and a pressure surface formed at the upper portion and at the lower portion of a chord line which connects the leading edge and the trailing edge. The operating Reynolds number is 30,000 to 1,000,000, and the angle of attack of the airfoil is 0 to 21 degrees. The maximum lift coefficient is 0.8 to 1.1, and the minimum drag coefficient is 0.02 to 0.07.
US09897052B2	Hose assembly for an engine air intake system A hose assembly 20 for engine intake air comprises a hose 22 having connection regions 22a, 22b at first and second ends of the hose and an axially compressible and extendable bellows region 22c disposed between the two connection regions. In the invention, an inextensible inner tube 24 is disposed within the hose 22 which has a gas-impermeable wall. The inner tube 24 has first and second ends 24a, 24b that seal, respectively, against the first and second connection regions 22a, 22b of the hose when the bellows region is compressed. At least one of the first and second ends of the inner tube 24a separates from the adjacent connection region 22a of the hose 22 when the bellows region 22c is extended.
US09897051B2	Variable intake system A variable intake system includes first runners, each including a first inlet formed at one side thereof to introduce air from a surge tank thereinto, a first valve formed at the first inlet, and a first outlet formed at the other side thereof to discharge the introduced air, and second runners, each including a second inlet formed at one side thereof to introduce air from the surge tank thereinto, a second valve formed at the second inlet, and a second outlet formed at the other side thereof, wherein an extension part branched from the second runner is formed at the second runner, a third inlet is formed at the end of the extension part, and the total length of the second runner provided with the extension part is longer than the total length of the first runner.
US09897050B2	Air filtration system for an engine An air filtration system (100) for an engine. The air filtration system (100) includes a main filter assembly (102) configured to filter air from a first dirty air inlet (110), the main filter assembly (102) defining a dirty air side (112) of the main filter assembly (102) and a clean air side (114) of the main filter assembly (102). The air filtration system further includes an auxiliary filter assembly (104) configured to filter air from a second dirty air inlet (116), wherein the auxiliary filter assembly (104) is selectively attachable to the main filter assembly (102) such that when the auxiliary filter assembly (104) is attached air is filtered from the second dirty air inlet (116) to the clean air side (114) of the main filter assembly (102).
US09897044B2	Control system of engine A control system of an engine is provided. The control system includes an exhaust emission control catalyst provided in an exhaust passage, a deceleration fuel cutoff module for performing a deceleration fuel cutoff when a deceleration fuel cutoff condition is satisfied in an engine decelerating state, a purging unit for performing a purge to supply a purge gas to an intake passage during the deceleration fuel cutoff, an evaporated fuel supply amount estimating module for estimating a supply amount of evaporated fuel to the intake passage when the purge is performed, and a catalyst temperature estimating module for estimating a temperature of the exhaust emission control catalyst when the purge is performed, based on the supply amount of the evaporated fuel. The purging unit controls a supply flow rate of the purge gas to the intake passage when the purge is performed, based on the exhaust emission control catalyst temperature.
US09897037B2	Fuel control system of engine A fuel control system of an engine is provided which controls, by using a tumble flow, a behavior of fuel directly injected into a combustion chamber formed inside a cylinder of the engine. The fuel control system includes a fuel injector for directly injecting the fuel into the combustion chamber, a tumble flow generator for generating the tumble flow within the combustion chamber, and a fuel injector controlling module for causing the fuel injector to inject the fuel at a first injection timing and then inject a smaller amount of fuel than an amount injected at the first injection timing, in a direction opposing a positive direction of the tumble flow at a second injection timing, the first injection timing designed to be in an intake stroke of the cylinder, the second injection timing designed to be in a latter half of the compression stroke of the cylinder.
US09897034B2	Control device of an engine Provided is a control device of an engine that can certainly suppress and avoid pre-ignition. A control device of an engine is an engine control device for controlling the behavior of fuel that is directly injected into a combustion chamber of a cylinder by a tumble flow, and it has an injector that directly injects the fuel into the combustion chamber, an intake port that generates the tumble flow in the combustion chamber, and an ECU that injects the fuel from the injector at a plurality of injection timings including an intake-stroke-early-half injection timing that is set at an early half of the intake stroke of the cylinder, when an operating state of the engine is in a high-load, low-rotation range.
US09897033B2	High pressure, high speed regulating switch valve The present disclosure provides a fuel injector for an internal combustion engine with a fuel injector body having a valve chamber, a first conduit in fluid communication with the valve chamber for a first flow of fuel having a first pressure, and a second conduit in fluid communication with the valve chamber for a second flow of fuel having a second pressure. The fuel injector further includes a valve member configured to move between the first conduit and the second conduit. Additionally, an actuator of the fuel injector is configured to move the valve member during a fuel injection cycle. The fuel injector is configured to operate in at least three modes.
US09897029B2	Control apparatus for internal combustion engine A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine including a plurality of cylinders, and the control apparatus including: an electronic control unit configured to: a) determine whether or not acceleration of a crank shaft at compression top dead center is equal to or greater than a threshold value; b) determine that a compression loss has occurred in the cylinder, when the acceleration of the crank shaft is equal to or greater than the threshold value; and c) prohibit the determination of compression loss, when acceleration of rotation of the crank shaft at compression top dead center has occurred a first specific number of times consecutively in the plurality of cylinders.
US09897026B2	In-engine heating mode by increasing load An operating method for a device that has an internal combustion engine having a crankshaft and a plurality of cylinders and an exhaust gas aftertreatment system. The operating method is distinguished, in particular, by the fact that fuel injection into at least one of the cylinders is shut down when required and the at least one shut-down cylinder is put into a braking mode, with the result that the temperature of the exhaust gas for the exhaust gas aftertreatment system can be increased.
US09897023B2	System and method for operating a transmission power take off Methods and systems for operating a vehicle powertrain that includes an engine and a transmission including a power take off output are presented. In one non-limiting example, engine speed may be adjusted responsive to a level of a signal input to a controller. The controller may select an operating mode responsive to the level of the signal input to the controller.
US09897020B2	Method and system for engine control Methods and systems are provided for reducing a spark plug soot load and a combustion chamber soot load by controlling spark plug timing while injecting water or washer fluid. In one example, water or washer fluid is injected during a torque reduction while advancing spark timing so as to provide at least a portion of the torque reduction while opportunistically cleaning soot from the spark plug and combustion chamber. By reducing spark plug soot load, misfire occurrence is reduced, while pre-ignition occurrence is reduced by decarbonizing the combustion chamber.
US09897019B2	Device and method for controlling the operation of an exhaust gas recirculation valve using an ignition advance management device An engine includes at least one spark plug, an ignition advance management device to determine and to apply an optimum ignition advance of the spark plug, and an exhaust gas recirculation device equipped with a gas recirculation control valve. A control device for the internal combustion engine includes a first actuator to force opening and closing of the control valve, a map in which are stored theoretical ignition advance values as a function of engine speed and engine load, a first calculator to calculate a diagnostic criterion as a function of the theoretical ignition advance determined from the map and the optimum ignition advance, and a comparator to compare the diagnostic criterion to a control valve failure threshold.
US09897014B2	Variable rate push/pull twist throttle A variable rate throttle for controlling a vehicle carburetor having control cables. The variable rate throttle includes a housing surrounding a cavity, a plurality of interchangeable throttle reels, each throttle reel having a different track radius, where a particular one of the throttle reels is positioned at a time in the cavity of the housing and which engages the control cables. A throttle handle engages the interchangeable throttle reel so that rotation of the handle causes rotation of the throttle reel and thus moves the control cables of the vehicle carburetor.
US09897013B2	Systems and methods for determining gas turbine operating space A system is provided. The system includes a gas turbine, the gas turbine having an operating space during operation and a current operating point during operation, a computing device communicatively coupled to the gas turbine and configured to calculate, based on the current operating point of the gas turbine, the operating space for the gas turbine by solving for a plurality of corner points that define the operating space, and display, to a user, a graph that includes the calculated operating space and the current operating point.
US09897011B2	Gas turbine engine comprising an exhaust cone attached to the exhaust casing An assembly including an exhaust casing and an exhaust cone for a gas turbine engine, each including an axial annular flange, the two flanges being inserted into one another, one being radially external and the other radially internal, and held together by a mechanical attachment, and the assembly further including a guide by which, during operation of assembling the annular flanges to each other, the exhaust cone is in a predetermined angular position relative to the exhaust casing.
US09897001B2	Compressor areas for high overall pressure ratio gas turbine engine A gas turbine engine comprises a high pressure turbine rotor, an intermediate pressure turbine rotor and a fan drive turbine rotor. The fan drive turbine rotor drives a fan rotor through a gear reduction. The intermediate pressure rotor drives a low pressure compressor rotor and the high pressure turbine rotor drives a high pressure compressor rotor. A first flow cross-sectional area is between an outer periphery of a hub in the low pressure compressor rotor, and an outer tip of an upstream most blade row of the low pressure compressor rotor. A second flow cross-sectional area is between an outer periphery of a hub in the high pressure compressor rotor, and an outer tip of an upstream most blade row of the high pressure compressor rotor. A ratio of the first and second flow cross-sectional areas is greater than or equal to about 0.12 and less than or equal to about 0.33.
US09896997B2	Control apparatus for internal combustion engine A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine executes shaft heating control that controls the energization of an electric motor so that a driving torque and a braking torque are alternately imparted from the electric motor to a rotary shaft when the temperature of a lubricating oil (lubricant) is less than or equal to a predetermined value. According to the shaft heating control, in a case where a target intake air pressure Pt is higher than an actual intake air pressure P, a proportion that a driving torque impartation period τD occupies in a cycle T is increased relative to a case where Pt and P are equal or substantially equal, and in a case where Pt is lower than P, the proportion τD that the driving torque impartation period occupies in the cycle T is decreased relative to a case where Pt and P are equal or substantially equal.
US09896992B2	Pressure-charged combustion engine having a double-flow turbine and grouped cylinders Methods and systems are provided for a pressure-charged combustion engine having at least one cylinder head comprising at least two cylinders. In one example, a system may include each cylinder having at least one outlet port, at least two cylinders configured to form two groups each comprising at least one cylinder, exhaust lines joined together to form an overall exhaust line which provides an exhaust manifold, the exhaust lines connected to an exhaust turbocharger and equipped with rotor blades wherein each rotor blade comprises a first inlet edge facing the flows and a second inlet edge facing the flows connected to one another at a connection point forming an inflection.
US09896990B2	Internal combustion engine with port communication An internal combustion engine including internal cavities slidingly receiving a respective piston to define a respective combustion chamber, at least one inlet port for each internal cavity in fluid communication with the combustion chamber at least during the intake phase and a beginning of the compression phase, at least one exhaust port for each of the internal cavities and in fluid communication with the combustion chamber during the exhaust phase, a plenum for receiving pressurized air, and conduits in fluid communication with the plenum. Each conduit defines a fluid communication between a first respective internal cavity and a second respective internal cavity through the inlet ports. The combustion chamber of the first respective internal cavity undergoes the beginning of the compression phase simultaneously with the combustion chamber of the second respective internal cavity undergoing the beginning of the intake phase.
US09896989B2	Deterioration diagnosis device for oxidation catalyst A deterioration diagnosis device for an oxidation catalyst includes: a multi-gas sensor disposed in an exhaust passage downstream of an oxidation catalyst, the multi-gas sensor including a NO2 sensor unit and a NOX sensor unit, the NO2 sensor unit directly detecting a NO2 concentration in exhaust gas after passing through the oxidation catalyst, and the NOX sensor unit directly detecting a NOX concentration in the exhaust gas; an NO concentration calculation unit configured to calculate an NO concentration in the exhaust gas after passing through the oxidation catalyst based on the NO2 concentration and the NOX concentration; and a deterioration judgment unit configured to determine a deterioration degree of the oxidation catalyst from an evaluation value based on the NO concentration calculated by the NO concentration calculation unit.
US09896986B2	Method and apparatus for operating an internal combustion engine A method and apparatus for operating an internal combustion engine, in particular for commercial vehicles, having a fuel/air feed device and a downstream exhaust system, wherein, to achieve improved efficiency, the exhaust gas enthalpy in the exhaust gas flow of the internal combustion engine is used to operate a heat engine, in particular a Stirling engine, which produces mechanical energy.
US09896977B2	Valve timing control apparatus and manufacturing method thereof A sprocket plate, which is rotated synchronously with a crankshaft, includes a tapered hole portion. A shoe housing, which stops rotation of an inner rotor, includes a press fitting hole portion, which extends straight and into which a positioning member is press fitted. The positioning member includes: a contacting distal end portion that is inserted into the tapered hole portion in an axial direction and contacts an inner peripheral surface of the tapered hole portion at a specific side; a main shaft portion that extends straight in the axial direction and is press fitted into the press fitting hole portion in the axial direction; and a loosely inserting shaft portion that is formed between the contacting distal end portion and the main shaft portion and is loosely inserted into the press fitting hole portion in the axial direction.
US09896976B2	Variable camshaft phaser with a linear actuator for absolute positioning A variable camshaft phaser having a stator arranged to receive torque from an engine; a rotor arranged to be non-rotatably connected to a camshaft; a first wedge plate and a second wedge plate radially disposed between the stator and the rotor; a spinner, operatively arranged about a central hub; a paddle arranged about the spinner including an annular ring having an engagement projection extending outwardly therefrom, the engagement projection having a proximate section and a distal section; the proximate section operatively arranged to engage a twisting groove of the spinner, and the distal section operatively arranged to engage either the first or second wedge plates; wherein the spinner, paddle, central hub, and engagement projection are operatively arranged to displace the first or the second wedge plate in either an advance mode or in a retard mode.
US09896969B2	Zero or low leakage oil transfer bearing A transfer bearing assembly is configured to allow a flow of a fluid from an inlet tube to a channel defined by a rotating shaft. The transfer bearing assembly includes a body having an axially forward side and an axially aft side and a first wing having an axially aft end coupled to the axially forward side and an axially forward end. The transfer bearing assembly also includes a first side plate having a radially outward end coupled to the axially forward end of the first wing and a radially inward end.
US09896968B2	Forward compartment baffle arrangement for a geared turbofan engine A baffle within a gas turbine engine includes a cylindrical flange with a multiple of holes at least partially therearound.
US09896965B2	Thrust bearing assembly with flow path restriction A bearing assembly includes a shaft and a thrust runner attached to the shaft. The shaft runner protrudes radially outward from the shaft. A thrust bearing is positioned axially adjacent to the thrust runner. A first flow passage is between the thrust runner and a first face of the thrust bearing. A second flow passage is between a second face of the thrust bearing and a housing. A restriction feature restricts a flow of fluid through the second flow passage.
US09896963B2	Coupling part structure for vane and jet engine including the same A coupling support member including a pair of divided pieces is placed in a coupling part between a vane proximal end portion of a guide vane and an attachment flange, and the pair of divided pieces are joined to the vane proximal end portion from both the sides in the vane thickness direction. A groove is formed in one end portion joint surface of the coupling support member, a linear protrusion is formed on the other end portion joint surface, the vane proximal end portion is formed into a concavo-convex shape, a linear protrusion that is engaged with the groove which is formed in the end portion joint surface is formed on a joint surface to the one end portion joint surface, a groove that is engaged with the linear protrusion formed on the end portion joint surface is formed in the joint surface to the other end portion joint surface. The vane proximal end portion is held between the pair of divided pieces of the coupling support member, by the fastening force that is applied to the coupling support member from both the sides in the vane thickness direction. It is possible to obtain a high structural strength while contributing to a reduction in weight of a jet engine.
US09896961B2	Use of ss data trends in fault resolution process An automated method for resolving fault in an engine is disclosed. The method may include providing a reasoner module for recommending a set of maintenance actions to resolve fault in the engine, inputting steady state performance data from the engine into the reasoner module, and using the reasoner module to recommend a set of maintenance actions based at least in part on the steady state performance data. A fault resolution system for a gas turbine engine is also disclosed. The fault resolution system may include at least one computer processor operatively configured to receive steady state performance data from the gas turbine engine, and recommend a set of maintenance actions to resolve fault in the gas turbine engine based at least in part on the steady state performance data.
US09896933B1	Continuously variable displacement engine A variable-displacement engine comprises an engine block, power shaft and rotating cylinder block. Pistons and connecting rods mounted in the cylinder block connect to a wobble plate having a rotating ring portion and non-rotating ring portion connected to allow relative rotation therebetween while constraining the portions to remain parallel. The wobble plate defines an inclination plane, pivot axis and wobble plate angle θ. A piston control mechanism includes axial lift, control lever supported by the lift and by an anchor bearing, and links connecting the control lever to the wobble plate. Axial movement of the lift changes the axial position of the control lever pivot and changes the control lever angle, in turn changing, via the connecting links, the wobble plate angle θ and the axial position of the wobble plate pivot axis. This changes the piston displacement of the engine while maintaining substantially constant compression ratio.
US09896932B2	Cutting tool holding device A cutting tool holding device includes a base, a cutting tool holder, a screw element, a fitting positioning element and a pulling element. The base includes an accommodating groove, a receiving hole and a fitting positioning hole. The cutting tool holder includes a holder and a cutting tool receiving component. The holder includes an engaging portion detachably engaged in the accommodating groove, and a concave portion communicated with the fitting positioning hole is formed on the engaging portion. The fitting positioning element is driven by the pulling element to move in the fitting positioning hole for pressing against the concave portion tightly.
US09896910B2	Ferrofluid tool for isolation of objects in a wellbore A tool for isolating objects in a wellbore using ferrofluids in a downhole system is provided. The downhole system can include a tool body, a source of ferrofluid, and a magnet. The magnet can magnetically couple with the ferrofluid from the source for arranging the ferrofluid adjacent to the tool body for isolating an object positioned in a wellbore from effects of fluids present in the wellbore.
US09896902B2	Injecting a hydrate slurry into a reservoir A method and systems are provided for injecting a hydrate slurry into a reservoir. The method includes combining gas and water within a subsea simultaneous water and gas (SWAG) injection system. The method also includes forming a hydrate slurry from the gas and the water, and injecting the hydrate slurry into a reservoir.
US09896894B2	Drilling and grouting method and apparatus A drilling and grouting device comprises a drill string including a hollow elongate outer rod having a central axis and a hollow elongate inner rod located coaxially within said outer rod, wherein a first outer flow path is defined between said inner and outer rod, and a first central flow path is defined inside said inner rod, a drill bit aligned with said inner rod along said central axis and including a second central flow path, and a crossover part interposed between said inner rod and said drill bit along said central axis, which is configured to connect the first central flow path with a second outer flow path surrounding the drill bit to form a main path and to connect said first outer flow path with said second central flow path to form a secondary path. Also disclosed are systems and methods that include and use the device.
US09896893B2	Pipe drive sealing system and method Present embodiments are directed to a gripping device configured to couple with a pipe element. A housing of the gripping device is configured to extend over and at least partially around a distal end of the pipe element. Torsional clamp devices are configured to engage an outer circumferential surface of the pipe element with frictional engagement features that extend radially inward from the housing. A sealing mechanism is configured to shift a pipe seal relative to the housing and into engagement with the distal end of the pipe element and to facilitate fluid flow through the gripping device into the pipe element.
US09896891B2	Top drive operated casing running tool Spring loaded dogs are attached to the housing to engage the casing internally or externally to facilitate extension or retraction of the slips that selectively grab the topmost of a string of casing. When the tool is suspended from the top drive, its components are rotationally locked to facilitate insertion into the casing stand on top of a string being run in the hole. Some set down weight allows top drive rotation to move a multi-ramped mandrel axially because that mandrel is rotationally locked to the housing that is held fast by the spring loaded dogs bearing on the casing. Once the slips are extended with a specified torque applied from the top drive, further setting down weight locks the components and the housing so that applied rotation with setting down weight will turn the casing string but will not torque up the slips beyond their set position.
US09896881B2	Fixing assembly for a shading body A fixing assembly for a shading body includes a fixing rail, an elastic fastener and an extendable rod. A slit is arranged at a top side of the fixing rail. The elastic fastener includes a rod-retaining section and two engaging sections. The rod-retaining section is arranged between the two engaging sections. The elastic fastener is engaged with the fixing rail by the two engaging sections. The rod-retaining section is received in the fixing rail and has two positioning portions. The extendable rod is inserted in the rod-retaining section of the elastic fastener through the slit. The two positioning portions abut against an outer periphery of the extendable rod.
US09896877B2	Barrier operator feature enhancement A barrier operator feature enhancement device is designed to provide one or more features found in modern barrier operator devices and to incorporate those features into a previously installed barrier operator system. To facilitate ease of use, the barrier operator feature enhancement device can communicate with a large variety of barrier operators. Such communication may be wireless or wired, depending on the communication protocol implemented by a particular previously installed barrier operator. To facilitate the ease of installation, the device is designed to configure itself to operate with the communication protocol of the previously installed barrier operator. Once configured to be able to communicate with the previously installed barrier operator, the feature enhancement device works with the barrier operator to provide one or more additional features to enhance the capabilities of the previously installed barrier operator.
US09896876B2	Device and method for determining the closing state of a house door or of a house window A method for ascertaining a closing state of a house door or of a house window, having the following method steps: acquisition of a rate of rotation of the house door or of the house window using a first acquisition device, and calculation of an opening angle of the house door or of the house window on the basis of the acquired rate of rotation, and ascertaining whether the calculated opening angle falls below a prespecified angular threshold value; acquisition of a rate of vibration of the house door or of the house window using a second acquisition device, and ascertaining whether the acquired rate of vibration exceeds a prespecified rate of vibration threshold value within a prespecified first time span; and ascertaining whether the acquired rate of rotation exceeds a prespecified rate of rotation threshold value within a prespecified second time span since the exceeding of the vibration rate threshold value.
US09896871B2	Method of extending opening ranges of vehicle sliding doors An extended range sliding door hinge may include a track bracket assembly and an intermediate bracket. The track bracket assembly is sized to be operatively received by a vehicle door track assembly. A first end of the intermediate bracket is movably mounted to the track bracket assembly so that the intermediate bracket may be moved with respect to the track bracket assembly between a retracted position and an extended position. A second end of the intermediate bracket is sized to operatively engage a vehicle sliding door. The extended range sliding door hinge allows the vehicle sliding door to be moved between a standard position when the intermediate bracket is in the retracted position and an extended position when the intermediate bracket is in the extended position.
US09896863B2	Method of setting up a portable barrier A method of setting up a portable barrier includes (a) moving a first leg and a second leg away from each other to an arrangement in which a first extension portion of the first leg and a second extension portion of the second leg are each supported on a substantially horizontal surface, (b) moving a flooring from a collapsed flooring configuration to an expanded flooring configuration in response to step (a), (c) moving a first arm and a second arm away from each other, (d) moving a covering from a collapsed covering configuration to an expanded covering configuration in response to step (c), and (e) securing a supplemental component in fixed relation to the second leg after step (d). When the flooring is in the expanded flooring configuration and the covering is in the expanded covering configuration, an occupant space is defined between the flooring and the covering.
US09896858B1	Hydrocyclonic pool cleaner Exemplary embodiments are directed to pool cleaners that remove debris from water using a plurality of cyclonic flows, or that include a removable impeller subassembly, a check valve for a debris canister, a particle separator assembly having a handle that locks to the pool cleaner, a modular roller drive gear box, or a roller latch that secures a roller to the pool cleaner. Exemplary embodiments are also directed to the check valve and the roller latch themselves. Exemplary embodiments are directed to a filter medium for pool cleaners that includes embossments providing flow channels for water, and to roller assemblies for pool cleaners. Exemplary embodiments are directed to pool cleaners including alternative pump motor engagements. Exemplary embodiments are directed to pool cleaners power supplies that include a potted and contoured power board assembly, and to kickstands therefor. Exemplary embodiments are directed to a pool cleaner caddy, and removable wheels therefor.
US09896843B2	Recycling constant-temperature ceramic floor integrated system Various embodiments may relate to a recycling constant-temperature ceramic floor integrated system, including a floor tile. A plurality of grooves is formed in a bottom surface of the floor tile. The bottom surface of the floor tile is connected to a base plate. A support assembly is laid between each groove and the base plate. The support assembly includes a heat conducting piece and a locating support mounted in up-and-down lapping mode. A reflecting film is disposed between the heat conducting piece and the locating support. The base plate uses a net-structure plate piece, and buckle grooves and buckle blocks are disposed at the periphery of the base plate.
US09896841B2	Prefabricated building product structure made of sintered expanded polystyrene and method for the relative production A prefabricated building product structure made of sintered expanded polystyrene includes a composite assembly formed by aggregating steel to the sintered expanded polymeric mass, preferably of high density, and by embedding therein rod-like steel elements, preferably pre-assembled and forming a cage of electrowelded elements. A method of related production includes positioning the rod-like steel elements, preferably pre-assembled forming a cage of electrowelded elements, in the mold for the expansion of the polystyrene, pouring in the mold incoherent granules or pearls obtained from the polymerization of the styrene, with grain size and volume appropriate for the attainment of a high density finished product, expanding and sintering or amassing the incoherent polystyrene through contact with water vapor at a temperature higher than ninety degrees centigrade, and trapping the armor in the monolithic mass thus obtained to attain a solid geometry, according to the mold, of armored sintered expanded polystyrene.
US09896837B2	Fail-soft, graceful degradation, structural fuse apparatus and method A retrofitting structure includes a column fixed in the ground. A structural fuse is pivotally mounted to the retrofitting structure at two vertically offset locations. The structural fuse is further pivotally mounted at a third location above the column to a superstructure of a building. The structural fuse is designed to yield for loads for which the column only deforms elastically. The structural fuse may be a planar member captured between the column and a retention plate to prevent buckling of the structural fuse. The retention plate may include a channel beam in order to provide sufficient stiffness to prevent buckling. Desired yield properties are obtained by increasing width of the structural fuse with distance from the bottom of the column. The width is augmented with distance from the bottom of the column to account for friction with the column and retention plate.
US09896836B1	Apparatus, method, and system for high capacity band brake type variable friction damping of movement of structures Implementation of high performance controllable damping devices can ameliorate cost-effectiveness of structural systems for mitigation of natural hazards relative to structures such as building, wind turbines, and off-shore structures. However, the applications of these damping systems are limited due to a lack of 1) mechanical robustness; 2) electrical reliability; and 3) large resisting force capability. To broaden the implementation of modern damping systems, a semi-active damping device is proposed. The device, in one form termed Banded Rotary Friction Device (BRFD), has enhanced applicability compared to other proposed damping systems due to its cost-effectiveness, high damping performance, mechanical robustness, and technological simplicity. Its mechanical principle is based on a band brake, which results in a high amplification of the input force while enabling a variable control force.
US09896833B2	Flow control system An application for a flow control system includes a vertically oriented expanding conduit, positioned within the interior of a container which is fluidly interfaced to a downstream drainage system. The lower end of the expanding conduit is in fluid communication with an upstream reservoir through a closed conduit. A means to restrain the expanding conduit from lateral movement is provided and the means is in fluid communication with the interior of the container. The distal, upper end of the expanding conduit is capped and at least one fluid passageway opens through the cap from the interior of the expanding conduit. As the fluid pressure rises in the expanding conduit in response to an increase in the fluid level in the upstream reservoir, the fluid passageway through the capped, upper end of the expanding conduit rises to prescribed level and the release rate of fluid into the downstream drainage system is maintained at a prescribed rate or range of rates as the fluid level continues to rise.
US09896831B2	Toilet overflow prevention system and method A system for preventing overflow of a toilet includes a sensor, a processor and an actuator. The sensor senses a parameter caused by fluid dynamics within the toilet during a flush cycle. The parameter may involve vibration, sound, pressure, fluid flow rate or other detectible characteristics of the toilet. The processor uses information regarding the parameter that is gathered by the sensor to evaluate the condition of the flush cycle to determine if an impeded flush condition exists. In the event of an impeded flush condition, the processor directs the actuator to close a valve, which may be the toilet flapper valve in some embodiments. Also disclosed are methods for preventing toilet overflow, detecting an impeded flush condition and calibrating the system.
US09896828B2	Drain valve device, wash water tank device and flush toilet A drain valve device includes a valve body and a lift part. The valve body plugs a drain outlet arranged on a bottom surface of a tank. The lift part is configured to lift the valve body. The lift part includes an engagement part. The engagement part engages with the valve body at a first height and releases engagement of the engagement part with the valve body at a second height. The second height is greater than the first height.
US09896815B2	Method and apparatus for collecting surface layer of liquid A method for collecting a surface layer of a liquid into confined area, method including forming confined area by means of wall structure and moving some of surface layer of liquid into confined area by means of a flow of air directed into confined area through an opening made into wall structure of confined area so that amount of substance in surface layer of the liquid increases in confined area in comparison with surroundings. The bottom edge of opening made into wall structure of confined area is arranged to be below surface level of liquid outside confined area whereas its top edge is substantially above surface level of liquid outside confined area. The surface level of liquid inside confined area is arranged to be kept substantially on same level with surface level of liquid outside by providing a continuous liquid flow connection through lower portion of confined area into surroundings.
US09896809B2	Artificial turf systems and applications thereof In one aspect, artificial turf systems are described herein. In some embodiments, an artificial turf system comprises an artificial turf mat and artificial turf fibers disposed on a surface of the artificial turf mat, the artificial turf mat comprising at least one energy management material. An energy management material, in some embodiments, is disposed in a backing of the artificial turf mat, a binding agent of the artificial turf mat, and/or an infill material of the artificial turf mat. In addition, in some embodiments, the artificial turf fibers also comprise at least one energy management material.
US09896807B2	Acoustical ceiling tile An acoustical tile including: 8 to 25 wt % mineral wool, 9 to 15 wt % starch binder, 9 to 15 wt % cellulosic fiber, wherein preferably the cellulosic fiber is newsprint, and 40 to 65 wt % perlite, wherein the weight ratio of the starch to the cellulosic fiber is 0.6 to 1.3:1; and a process for making the acoustical tile.
US09896803B2	Fibrous sheet that disintegrates in water, process for manufacturing said fibrous sheet, core consisting of strips of said fibrous sheet A fibrous sheet having a basis weight of between 20 and 1000 g/m2 that disintegrates in water, has 10% to 70% starch on the basis of the total weight of the dry fibrous sheet. The disintegration time in water, measured in accordance with standard NF Q34-020 applied to a specimen of the sheet of 9×8 cm2, is less than 50 seconds. A loss of strength of the sheet measured in accordance with a defined table test corresponds to a loss of strength of a specimen of said sheet forming an angle of at least 85° after having being wetted with water for a duration of 6 seconds, and/or a residual wet strength of the sheet relative to its dry strength, as measured according to a defined ring crush test, is less than 1%. The fibrous sheet may be used for the manufacture of a water disintegrable core in a roll of tissue paper.
US09896802B2	Creping blade and method for its manufacturing The invention relates to a creping blade for the detachment of a travelling paper web from a dryer cylinder, said blade having a working edge to be placed against the cylinder, wherein the creping blade has a tensile strength of 1800-2500 N/mm2 and a hardness of 57-66 HRC in the hardened and tempered condition and wherein the blade is made from a steel, which comprises the following main components (in wt. %): C: 1.2-1.5; Si: 0.1-0.8; Mn: 0.1-0.7; Cr: 4.2-5.2; Mo: 3.0-4.0; V: 3.2-4.2; N: 0.01-0.15; balance Fe and impurities.
US09896799B2	Cable and method for monitoring a cable A cable 1 comprises a first thimble 2 and a second thimble 4, at least one yarn 6, and at least a first conductive fiber 8 for monitoring the cable 1. The yarn 6 extends from the first thimble 2 to the second thimble 4, turns around the second thimble 4, extends from the second thimble 4 to the first thimble 2, and turns around the first thimble 2. Each thimble holds a stack 9 of layers 10 of turns of the yarn 6. The first conductive fiber 8 is designed to signal the wear of the yarn 6 by breaking after a predetermined portion of the turns of the yarn 6 breaks. The first conductive fiber 8 is positioned at the first thimble 2 between the turns of the yarn 6 at less than 50% of the stack height h.
US09896794B2	Driving apparatus for direct-drive type washing machine A driving apparatus for a direct-drive type washing machine includes a support member that is fixed to the lower side of a washing tub; a dehydrating tub rotating shaft that is rotatably supported on the support member and that is connected to a dehydrating tub to rotate the dehydrating tub; a pulsator rotating shaft that is rotatably arranged in the inside of the dehydrating tub rotating shaft and that is connected to a pulsator to rotate the pulsator; a drive motor comprising a double rotor including an outer rotor that is connected to the pulsator rotating shaft and an inner rotor that is connected to the dehydrating tub rotating shaft, and a double stator including a first stator coil for rotating the outer rotor and a second stator coil for rotating the inner rotor; and a motor drive unit that generates alternating-current (AC) power according to a washing control signal.
US09896793B2	Stabilizer and laundry processing device including same A stabilizer according to an embodiment of the present invention includes one or plurality of fixing members which are mounted on an outer circumferential surface of a tub which is upright so that an opening portion for inputting laundry faces an upper surface of a laundry processing device, a connecting member which is connected to the fixing member and is elastically deformed by force in a horizontal direction which allows the tub to be vibrated in the horizontal direction, and a damping member which absorbs or offsets the force in the horizontal direction by being connected to the connecting member.
US09896792B2	Laundry treating appliance with a static tub and a water trap vapor seal A washing machine may include a static wash tub, a rotatable vertical axis wash basket in the static wash tub, and a drive motor for rotating the wash basket. A closure may direct wash liquid from the wash basket to a catch basin. A flange may be attached to the closure so that an unattached edge ends within the catch basin. The unattached edge may end below the surface of a first volume of wash liquid to minimize migration of wash liquid and/or vapor from the washing machine. The unattached edge may end above the surface of a second volume of wash liquid less than the first volume to minimize agitation of wash liquid in the catch basin.
US09896777B2	Methods of manufacturing structures having concealed components The disclosed embodiments include a method of integrating metal elements separated by gaps with a structure that conceals the metal elements and gaps. The method includes treating a metal substrate to a plasma electrolytic oxidation process to form a ceramic layer from a portion of the metal substrate, thereby providing the ceramic layer and an underlying metal portion of the metal substrate. The method further includes etching gap(s) in the underlying metal portion of the metal substrate to form metal elements separated by the gap(s), and backfilling the gap(s) with a non-conductive substance. As such, the metal elements, the non-conductive substance filling the gap(s), and the ceramic layer collectively form a structure whereby the ceramic layer at least partially conceals the metal elements and the gap(s).
US09896771B2	Dehydrogenation device An exemplary dehydrogenation device for generating a hydrogen gas through dehydrogenation according to the present disclosure comprises an anode containing a dehydrogenation catalyst, a cathode containing catalyst capable of reducing protons, and a proton conductor disposed between the anode and the cathode. The proton conductor has a perovskite crystal structure expressed by the compositional formula AaB1-xB′xO3-δ. The A element is an alkaline-earth metal and is contained in a range of 0.4
US09896768B2	Sealing member and method of manufacturing the same The present invention is mainly intended to provide a sealing member which can be easily manufactured and which is capable of sealing with high accuracy and a method of manufacturing the sealing member, wherein the sealing member is a metallic sealing member that is arranged so as to be interposed between a first surface and a second surface which are facing each other. The sealing member is provided with a first protrusion protruded toward the first surface and a pair of second protrusions protruded toward the second surface, wherein the first protrusion is arranged between the paired second protrusions and distal end portions of the first protrusion and second protrusions are mutually parallel flat surfaces.
US09896758B2	Method to produce highly transparent hydrogenated carbon protective coating for transparent substrates A physical vapor deposition (PVD) chamber for depositing a transparent and clear hydrogenated carbon, e.g., hydrogenated diamond-like carbon, film. A chamber body is configured for maintaining vacuum condition therein, the chamber body having an aperture on its sidewall. A plasma cage having an orifice is attached to the sidewall, such that the orifice overlaps the aperture. Two sputtering targets are situated on cathodes inside the plasma cage and are oriented opposite each other and configured to sustain plasma there-between and confined inside the plasma cage. The plasma inside the cage sputters material from the targets, which then passes through the orifice and aperture and lands on the substrate. The substrate is moved continuously in a pass-by fashion during the process.
US09896756B2	Abradable seal and method of producing a seal An air seal for use in a gas turbine engine. The seal includes a thermally sprayed abradable seal layer. The abradable material is composed of aluminum powder forming a metal matrix, and co-deposited methyl methacrylate particles and/or hexagonal boron nitride particles embedded as filler in the metal matrix.
US09896751B2	High strength steel sheet and high strength galvanized steel sheet excellent in shapeability and methods of production of same High strength steel sheet and high strength galvanized steel sheet which are excellent in shapeability which secure a tensile maximum strength 900 MPa or more high strength while obtaining excellent ductility and stretch flangeability, which sheets have predetermined compositions of ingredients, have steel sheet structures which contain volume fraction 1 to 20% of residual austenite phases, and which have martensite transformation points of the residual austenite phases of −60° C. or less.

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