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US09991934B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting or receiving signals in a transportation system Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for transmitting first electromagnetic waves that propagate on a surface of a component of a transit system, and receiving second electromagnetic waves that propagate on the surface of the component of the transit system. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09991923B2	Bracket-type wireless charger A bracket-type wireless charger, including a box body having a charging circuit and a transmitting plate having a transmitting coil. An adapter plate is arranged between the transmitting plate and the box body. An upper end of the adapter plate is hinged through interference fit to a lower part of a back surface of the transmitting plate. A lower end is hinged through interference fit to a middle part of a top surface of the box body. The box body has a groove for accommodating the adapter plate. The two ends of the adapter plate are hinged through interference fit to the box body and the transmitting plate respectively, and the position and an inclination angle of the transmitting plate relative to the box body can be adjusted through rotation of the adapter plate, so as to adapt to the positions of wireless charging receiving coils of different electronic equipment.
US09991918B2	Front end architecture with intermittent signaling mode In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a first transmit path, a second transmit path, and a switch element. The first transmit path can provide a first radio frequency (RF) signal in accordance with a nominal specification. The second transmit path can provide a second RF signal in accordance with an intermittent specification, in which the first and second RF signals are within the same transmit band. The switch element can provide the first RF signal as a transmit mode output in a first state and provide the second RF signal as the transmit mode output in a second state.
US09991900B1	Digital to analog (DAC) converter with current calibration A digital to analog converter convert digital data in binary format to thermometer bit vectors. A first set of the thermometer bit vectors corresponds to most significant bits of the digital data and a second set of the thermometer bit vectors corresponds to least significant bits of the digital data. Connections of first current sources corresponding to the first set of the thermometer bit vectors and second current sources corresponding to the second set of the thermometer bit vectors are dynamically and randomly alternated to a first output line and a second output line. Calibration current is applied to the second current sources so a total current of the second current sources and the calibration current is within a predetermined range of an average current of the first current sources.
US09991894B2	Resistive random access memory cells A layout arrangement for a resistive random access memory cell includes an active area, a polysilicon row address line over the active region, a metal column address line running orthogonal to the row address line and having an active region contact portion extending over the active region and having a contact to the active region. A metal output line runs parallel to the column address line over the active region. A first cell contact region intersects with the output line and has a contact to the active region. A first metal cell contact region forms an intersection with the first cell contact region. A first resistive random access memory device is formed at the intersection of the first cell contact region and the output line. A second resistive random access memory device is formed at the intersection of the first cell contact region and the first cell contact region.
US09991887B2	Semiconductor device and electronic device To reduce power consumption, a semiconductor device includes a power source circuit for generating a power source potential, and a power supply control switch for controlling supply of the power source potential from the power source circuit to a back gate of a transistor, and the power supply control switch includes a control transistor for controlling conduction between the power source circuit and the back gate of the transistor by being turned on or off in accordance with a pulse signal that is input into a control terminal of the control transistor. The power source potential is intermittently supplied from the power source circuit to the back gate of the transistor, using the power supply control switch.
US09991881B2	Switching circuit A switching circuit includes a wiring into which a parallel circuit of a first IGBT and a second IGBT is inserted, and a gate control circuit. The gate control circuit has a first switching element configured to control a gate potential of the first IGBT according to a potential of a second principal electrode, and a second switching element configured to control a gate potential of the second IGBT according to a potential of a fourth principal electrode. An output terminal of the control device is connected to the first switching element through a first switch and is connected to the second switching element through a second switch. The control device applies a control signal to the output terminal in a state where the first switch and the second switch are turned on when switching both of the first IGBT and the second IGBT.
US09991877B2	Current break circuit, semiconductor device having the same and operating method thereof A current break circuit includes a current break control circuit suitable for sequentially outputting a first enable signal and a second enable signal with a time difference in response to at least one control signal, and a current break switch circuit suitable for outputting or blocking a second voltage in response to a first voltage, wherein the current break switch circuit forms a first current path in response to the first enable signal and a second current path in response to the second enable signal when blocking the second voltage.
US09991866B2	Common mode filter, signal passing module and method of manufacturing common mode filter Disclosed herein is a common mode filter including: at least four coil layers, each layer having a primary coil and a secondary coil; and discontinuous parts made of an insulating material each extending between starting points of each of the primary coil and the secondary coil positioned on the lowest layer among the coil layers to ending points of each of the primary coil and the secondary coil positioned on the highest layer among the coil layers. The primary coils are connected in series from the lowest layer to the highest layer, and the secondary coils are connected in series from the lowest layer to the highest layer. The common mode filter is able to be miniaturized and has improved impedance characteristics.
US09991864B2	Superconducting logic compatible phase shifter A phase shifter, including two superconducting circuits, is provided. Each of the superconducting circuits includes at least one capacitor coupled in parallel to at least a Josephson junction and at least one inductor, where a respective inductance of each of the Josephson junctions (e.g., a first Josephson junction and a second Josephson junction) is a function of at least a current flow through each of the respective inductors. An effect of any or both of: (1) at least the inductance of the at least the first Josephson junction and (2) at least the inductance of the at least the second Josephson junction causes a phase change of a radio frequency signal received at a first terminal of the phase shifter to generate a phase-shifted radio frequency signal at a second terminal of the phase shifter.
US09991863B1	Rounded and curved integrated tethers for quartz resonators A piezoelectric quartz shear-mode resonator includes plasma etched quartz tethers, each including a mount. The tethers are for mounting the resonator to a semiconductor substrate for the purpose of isolating the thermally-induced stress from the mounts from the active resonating region, wherein the quartz tethers have rounded corners.
US09991859B2	Power amplification module Provided is a power amplification module that supports a plurality of communication systems. The power amplification module includes: two power amplifiers that can be selectively connected in parallel with each other; a switch that, in accordance with one communication system selected from among the plurality of communication systems, selects one power amplifier that is to operate by itself from among the two power amplifiers or selects the two power amplifiers and connects the two power amplifiers in parallel with each other; and a phase correction circuit that, when the two power amplifiers are both selected, corrects a phase difference by being selectively connected between the outputs of the two selected power amplifiers such that a phase difference is not generated between the output signals of the two selected power amplifiers.
US09991853B2	Dual operation mode power amplifier A dual operation mode power amplifier is disclosed. In the power amplifier in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a bias circuit part can be converted to decrease power consumption. Different from the prior art, performance of the present invention is not reduced in a high power mode, and no additional passive components like inductors or transformers with a large area are necessary to be further added. Furthermore, a tunable impedance matching circuit provides impedances respectively matching impedances of a fully differential amplifier and a single-ended amplifier, thereby improving the performance of the power amplifier.
US09991839B2	Motor controller A maximum spectrum peak reduction unit sets a PWM count generated by a PWM duty ratio calculation unit for a specific current control period as PWM counts for respective PWM periods within the current control period, and changes the set PWM counts for the respective PWM periods within the current control period so that a frequency component having a frequency obtained by dividing a carrier frequency in half or less is included in a PWM signal waveform within the current control period without changing a total value of the PWM counts for the respective PWM periods.
US09991836B2	Systems and methods for identifying end stops in a linear motor Systems and methods for operating linear motors, and for determining whether a linear motor has reached the end of its power and return strokes. In one embodiment, an electric drive controller of an ESP system monitors position signals received from the system's linear motor and determines transition time differentials, transition counts from the beginning of a stroke, elapsed stroke times and related parameters. If predetermined conditions relating to these parameters are met, the controller determines that the linear motor's mover has reached the end of its stroke. The controller therefore reverses the phase order of the drive's output power and thereby reverses the direction of the mover.
US09991832B2	Detecting brushfire in power systems In some examples, a detection circuit is configured to detect a brushfire in a power system based on an electrical signal from the power system. The detection circuit is further configured to set a bit in response to detecting the brushfire.
US09991831B2	DC motor control device and game machine A DC motor control device includes a communication circuit configured to receive a control command specifying a target rotation amount for a DC motor, a sensor interface configured to receive a detection signal from a rotational angle sensor that outputs the detection signal every time the DC motor rotates by a certain rotational angle, a step counter that outputs a count signal every time the detection signal has been received a certain number of times, a controller that, based on the number of times the count signal received, determines a step count representing the total amount of rotation, and generates a control signal that controls the DC motor in accordance with the step count and the target rotation amount, and a drive signal generation circuit that generates a drive signal that rotates the DC motor in accordance with the control signal.
US09991827B1	Methods and apparatus for automatic lead angle adjustment using fly-back voltage for brushless DC control A method includes: outputting high side driver gate signals to a plurality of high side driver devices and outputting low side driver gate signals to a plurality of low side driver devices configured to control current supplied to a motor having coils coupled to receive the current at a plurality of phase nodes; at a time approximately prior to an expected zero crossing of a voltage at a selected one of the plurality of phase nodes, disabling the high side driver gate signal and the low side driver gate signal; measuring a back electromotive force (BEMF) voltage and observing a zero crossing time; estimating a next zero crossing time; prior to the next zero crossing time, disabling the high side driver gate signal and the low side driver gate signal and observing the selected one of the phase nodes to form a first sample; and following the next zero crossing time, observing a second voltage at the selected one of the phase nodes to form a second sample.
US09991825B1	Outdoor power equipment system with modular motor and modular battery A power equipment system with a plurality of power equipment units each including a working tool. Each of the power equipment units may include provisions permitting independent connection with both a battery and an electric motor, wherein the battery and electric motor may be moved between different power equipment units as needed. In some embodiments, a first power equipment unit may provide an identity information signal of the associated working tool to a controller of either or both of the motor and the battery. The identity information may limit or control one or more operating parameters of the motor when the motor is installed on the first power equipment unit.
US09991822B2	MEMS component and method for the production thereof The invention proposes a MEMS component having a crystalline base body (GK), a recess (AN) and a structured assembly (A) which closes said recess, in which an opening (OG) is structured in a first functional layer (MN), the effective opening cross section thereof varying as a function of the pressure difference on the two sides of the first functional layer (MN).
US09991802B2	Systems and methods for regulating output currents of power conversion systems Systems and methods are provided for regulating a power conversion system. An example system controller includes a first controller terminal and a second controller terminal. The first controller terminal is configured to receive a first signal associated with an input signal for a primary winding of a power conversation system. The second controller terminal is configured to output a drive signal to a switch to affect a first current flowing through the primary winding of the power conversion system, the drive signal being associated with an on-time period, the switch being closed during the on-time period. The system controller is configured to adjust a duration of the on-time period based on at least information associated with the first signal.
US09991794B2	Hybrid capacitive-inductive voltage converter An inverting buck voltage converter constructed of a switched-mode hybrid topology, with a capacitive input stage and an inductive output stage. The input stage operates as a charge pump to charge a flying capacitor connected in series with an inductor in the output stage. Clock circuitry generates first and second non-overlapping clock phases. In the second clock phase, the flying capacitor is charged to the input voltage, with a flying node between the flying capacitor and the output inductor connected at ground through a rectifier, while in the first clock phase, the flying capacitor supports the inductor current. The arrangement of the flying capacitor and inductor is such that the voltage appearing at the output terminal is inverted from the input voltage. Continuous output current is provided. Current limiting techniques protect the flying capacitor from overcurrent conditions.
US09991791B2	System and method for a switched-mode power supply In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a switched-mode power converter includes measuring an input voltage of the switched-mode power converter; determining an on-time of a switch of the switched-mode power converter; determining an off-time of the switch of the switched-mode power converter; and determining an output voltage of the switched-mode power converter based on the measured input voltage, the determined on-time and the determined off-time. The output voltage includes a voltage at a first node having a DC path to a load path of the switch.
US09991785B2	Electric power converting device The objective of the present invention is to provide an electric power converting device with which can executes a ground fault detection in a short time with its inexpensive configuration. In one step, the electric power converting device performs level comparison of a difference between output values of low pass filters, with a threshold value −E. If a W-phase is shorted to ground at a time when the U-phase and V-phase lower arm IGBTs are ON and W-phase upper IGBT is ON, the difference between the output values of the low pass filters and becomes small. In another step, a level comparison is made between the absolute value of a difference between the U-phase current value iu and U-phase current command value iu′, and a threshold value F. If the absolute value is lower than the threshold value, the result is determined to be normal, and if the absolute value is greater than the threshold value, the result is determined to be abnormal, because the U-phase is shorted to ground. In another step, a level comparison is made between the absolute value of a difference between the V-phase current iv and the V-phase current command value iv′, and a threshold value F. If the absolute value is lower than the threshold value, the result is determined to be normal, and if the absolute value is greater than the threshold value, the result is determined to be abnormal, because the V-phase is shorted to ground.
US09991779B2	Harmonic reduction apparatus for wireless power transfer systems A device comprises a switch network coupled to a power source, wherein the switch network comprises a plurality of power switches, a transmitter resonant tank coupled to the plurality of power switches, wherein the transmitter resonant tank comprises a primary resonant capacitor, a transmitter coil coupled to the transmitter resonant tank and a harmonic reduction apparatus coupled between the switch network and the transmitter coil, wherein the harmonic reduction apparatus is configured to attenuate at least one undesired frequency component.
US09991773B2	Low cost limited rotation rotary actuator A limited rotation electromechanical rotary actuator includes a stator having an aperture sized to accept a rotor assembly and a rectangular coil. A rotor assembly is bidirectionally operable with the stator over a limited range of rotation. The rotor assembly includes an output shaft and a two-pole magnet and a position sensor shaft, wherein the output shaft and position sensor shaft are each rigidly attached to only a portion of the magnet. The rotor assembly includes apertures for allowing an electrical coil to pass through. The electrical coil extends around the magnet on four sides and is excitable for providing bidirectional torque to the rotor.
US09991772B2	Low axial force permanent magnet machine and magnet assembly for permanent magnet machine A rotor or stator hub for an electric machine includes a plurality of magnets arranged in a predetermined same pattern on a plurality of uniformly sized carrier plates. A plurality of permanent magnets are uniformly mounted on each of the carrier plates proximate a first edge of the carrier plate and spaced away from a second edge of the carrier plate. The carrier plates may be mounted on a rotor or stator hub in a predetermined configuration to create a plurality of axial array groups.
US09991769B2	Motor The motor according to the present disclosure comprises a rotary unit, a stationary unit disposed around the rotary unit, and a bearing mechanism which rotatably supports the rotary unit relative to the stationary unit. The rotary unit comprises a plurality of magnets. The stationary unit comprises a stator disposed around the rotary unit, and a cover which is electrically conductive and covers a top surface of the stator, and the stator comprises a stator core which includes a plurality of teeth and a core back, and a coil which is wound around the stator core via an insulator. The cover has openings on at least one area of a circumferential interval between neighboring teeth when seen in a top view, and the cover is connected to a ground potential.
US09991762B2	Electric motor connections for power tools In at least one illustrative embodiment, a power tool may comprise an electric motor comprising a rotor configured to rotate about an axis, a stator assembly including at least three windings arranged around the rotor, and at least three lugs affixed to the stator assembly, where each of the lugs is electrically coupled to one or more of the windings. The lugs may all be arranged to one side of a plane that passes through the axis. The power tool may further comprise at least three electrical wires, where each of the electrical wires is removably coupled to one of the lugs, and a control circuit configured to supply electrical power to the windings, via the electrical wires and the lugs, to drive rotation of the rotor about the axis.
US09991755B2	Motor unit having insulation member A motor unit having an insulation member is provided. The motor unit includes rotor cores formed in a radial direction on an exterior circumference of a motor shaft and a slot formed therebetween. Shoes are formed in a rotation direction and an opposite rotation direction of the motor shaft at an outer end portion of each rotor core, and an exposure passage is formed therebetween. A bottom surface is formed proximate to the motor shaft within the slot. Further first and second interior surfaces are connected to the bottom surface and are formed at the rotation direction side and the opposite rotation direction side of the motor shaft within the slot. An insulation member contacts the first and second interior circumferences of the shoes adjacent to the bottom surface and is disposed proximate to at least one portion of the exposure passage.
US09991754B2	Embedded permanent magnet rotary electric machine A permanent magnet 21 is housed in a magnet housing aperture 20, an adhesive is disposed only between an outside wall surface 20a that is positioned on a radially outer side of an inner wall surface of the magnet housing aperture 20 and an outside surface 21a that is positioned on a radially outer side of a surface of the permanent magnet 21 such that the permanent magnet 21 is fixed so as to be closer to the outside wall surface 20a, and a cooling flow channel 23 through which a coolant is made to flow is formed by an inside surface 21b that is positioned on a radially inner side of the surface of the permanent magnet 21 and an inside wall surface 20b that is positioned on a radially inner side of the inner wall surface of the magnet housing aperture 20.
US09991751B2	Short range wireless communication An apparatus can have a power supply circuit configured to receive, from an antenna, a first signal at a frequency exceeding a GHz, and including a rectifier circuit that is impedance matched to the antenna at the first frequency and that is configured to generate a supply voltage by rectifying the first signal at the first frequency. A signal generation circuit can be configured to use the supply voltage to generate a second signal at as higher frequency and to operate in two different power modes in response to a data signal. A transmitter circuit can be configured to use the supply voltage to create pulse at the higher frequency of the signal and in response to the data signal, and that includes an amplifier circuit configured to receive the data signal and provide an amplification of the data signal to the antenna.
US09991748B2	Wireless power transmission system and power transmission device A power transmission device includes: an oscillator including first through fourth switching devices, and converting DC power into AC power by pulses supplied thereto; a power transmission antenna delivering the AC power to a load of a power receiving device; memory holding a predetermined value indicating at least one of required voltage, current, and power; a receiving circuit receiving information of at least one of voltage, current, and power, supplied to the load; and a control circuitry changing a phase difference Δθ between pulses supplied to the first and fourth switching devices, and between pulses supplied to the second and third switching devices, thereby changing voltage of the AC power, deciding frequency of AC power where efficiency is greatest, converging the at least one of voltage, current, and power, of which information has been received, to the predetermined value range, and outputting AC power where the efficiency is the greatest.
US09991746B2	Vehicular system, communication apparatus, power-feeding device, and non-transitory tangible computer-readable storage medium A vehicular system mounted to a vehicle includes: a power-feeding device that wirelessly feeds power to a power-feeding object device; a communication device that performs wireless communication with a predetermined portable device; and a control device that controls to stop a power-feeding operation of the power-feeding device when the communication device performs wireless communication with the portable device.
US09991736B2	Charge control for external manual battery chargers An apparatus for operating an external manual battery charger having a first AC power input and a DC charging output. The apparatus includes an AC controller configured to adjust at least one power parameter supplied to the AC power input of the external manual battery charger. The power parameter(s) may be any one or more of AC current, AC voltage and AC power. The apparatus further includes a feedback converter configured to monitor at least one charging parameter and to control the AC controller to adjust the one or more power parameters in accordance with the monitored charging parameter or parameters.
US09991726B2	Rapid battery charging A method and battery charger for charging two or more batteries includes a pulse generator, a detector and a processor communicably coupled to the pulse generator and the detector. A charging series time period, a charging time period and a rest time period are determined based on one or more battery parameters using the processor and the detector. The charging time period is approximately equal to the charging series time period divided by the number of batteries and the rest time period is approximately equal to the charging series time period minus the charging time period. A charging pulse group having a positive pulse for the charging time period and a rest period for the rest time period is generated using the pulse generator, and sequentially applied to each of the batteries. The battery parameters are monitored and the charging pulse group may be adjusted.
US09991721B2	System and method for inductive wireless signaling A transformer includes first and second semiconductor substrates. The first semiconductor substrate includes a first circuit, a first coil providing a first impedance, and a first capacitor coupled in parallel with the first coil. The second semiconductor substrate includes a second circuit, a second coil providing a second impedance and inductively coupled with the first coil, and a second capacitor coupled in parallel with the second coil.
US09991701B2	Direct current power distribution and conversion system A direct current (DC) power distribution system is provided. The system includes a plurality of DC power sources, a ring bus, and a plurality of power converters. Each DC power source of the plurality of DC power sources is coupled to the ring bus by a respective power converter of the plurality of power converters.
US09991699B2	Enablement of device power-on with proper assembly An electronic device is configured with sub-assemblies including a main logic board, flexible printed circuit, and dual battery packs that are assembled together with electrical connectors to enable power from the battery packs to flow over a power bus that is distributed along the flexible printed circuit and main logic board. A protection circuit module (PCM) in each battery pack is configured to determine a state of each of the connections among the sub-assemblies (i.e., whether or not properly assembled to provide electrical continuity through the connector) so that power from the battery packs is switched on to the power bus only when electrical continuity is verified at each of the connectors. In the event that any connection is faulty, for example due to a misalignment of a connector during assembly that prevents electrical continuity to be established through a connector, neither PCM will switch power on to the power bus.
US09991698B2	Electrostatic protection circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit apparatus This electrostatic protection circuit makes it possible for a discharge operation to be started only in the case where a rise in an applied voltage is steep, and for static electricity to be sufficiently released. This electrostatic protection circuit includes a discharge circuit that is connected between a first node and a second node and discharges charge produced by static electricity, a latch circuit that is connected between the first node and the second node and outputs a signal that controls operation of the discharge circuit to the discharge circuit, a switch circuit that is connected to the latch circuit and changes the signal that controls operation of the discharge circuit, and a control circuit that is connected between the first node and the second node and outputs a signal that controls operation of the switch circuit to the switch circuit.
US09991696B2	Crashworthy memory module having a thermal wiring disconnect system A memory module is disclosed. The memory module may have an enclosure and a device disposed within the enclosure. The memory module may also have an orifice in a wall of the enclosure and a wire passing through the orifice. One end of the wire may be attached to the device. The memory module may further have a stopper attached to the wire. The stopper may be located abutting an outer surface of the enclosure. The memory module may also have a filler disposed within the enclosure. The filler may be configured to expand and be ejected out of the orifice when subjected to a threshold temperature. The filler may also be configured to push the stopper away from the outer surface and disconnect the wire from the device.
US09991692B2	Method and apparatus for sealing motor terminals A wire insulator apparatus includes an insulator/separator member, a cap portion, a tube and potting material. The insulator/separator member has apertures formed therein for receiving a plurality of wires. By threading the wires through the insulator/separator member, the wires are spaced apart so that a potting material can be molded to provide a complete seal from the environment, particularly conductive liquids such as ammonia, which may cause short-circuiting between the wires. Individual wires are terminated in the cap portion, and the cap portion, the insulator/separator member and the wire ends are positioned within a tube or a mold portion depending on the application, and a potting epoxy is fluidly inserted within the tube. The epoxy surrounds or encases the wire ends within the tube or mold to insulate the wire ends in an airtight seal.
US09991690B2	Accessory for high voltage direct current energy cables The present invention relates to an accessory for high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) energy cables comprising: at least one element made from a crosslinked elastomeric polymer material, and at least one scavenging layer comprising zeolite particles. The zeolite particles are able to scavenge, very efficiently and irreversibly, the by-products deriving from the cross-linking reaction, so as to avoid space charge accumulation in the element during the accessory lifespan. Moreover, the zeolite particles can prevent the crosslinking by-products present in the element of a non-degassed accessory from migrating towards the insulating layer of the energy cable on which the accessory is mounted.
US09991688B2	Opening aid An opening aid for an energy guide chain with chain links. At least some of the chain links at their top side have a respective transverse leg which is arranged pivotably on a side plate and which can be fixed to the other side plate. The opening aid for guidance of the transverse legs upon opening thereof has a body extending in a working direction and a lateral extension having an inclined sliding deflection surface for the transverse legs. To simplify handling and structure of the opening aid it is proposed that the extension is mounted to the body movably relative thereto and is reciprocatingly movable between a working position in which the extension is arranged extending laterally from the body in operative guiding relationship for the transverse legs and a rest position in which the extension is arranged in inoperative guiding relationship of being moved away from the working position.
US09991682B2	Hot-swappable system for and method of distributing electrical power and/or data to at least one electrical device Electrical power and/or data are distributed to one or more electrical devices, preferably mounted on a structure. A first source module is electrically connected to an electrical power and/or data source. Additional source modules are connected in a daisy chain to the first source module. A plurality of system modules is mounted on the source modules. Each system module is electrically connectable to, and disconnectable from, a module connector of a respective source module. Each system module is removable from the respective source module for replacement without powering down the power and/or data source, and without affecting the data distribution.
US09991681B2	Relay-mod method to drive corona ignition system A corona ignition system for maintaining a drive frequency approximately equal to the resonant frequency of a corona igniter is provided. The system includes a current sensor, at least two cascaded timers which are electrically independent of a controller, and at least two switches. During operation, the current sensor measures the current at an input of the corona igniter. A conditioned current signal including information related to the zero crossings of the current ultimately activates a pair of the timers which in turn control and drive one of the switches. The conditioned current signal is not processed by the controller before driving the switch.
US09991680B2	Ignition plug and plasma generation device To provide an ignition plug having low power loss even though iron is a main component of a center electrode thereof, to which a high frequency power such as a microwave is electrically supplied. A low impedance layer 6 composed of a material having magnetic permeability lower than iron is provided between an outer peripheral surface of a center electrode 2 and an inner peripheral surface of an axial hole 30 of an insulator 3. The low impedance layer 6 is in contact with at least the outer peripheral surface (surface) of the center electrode 2, thereby reducing power loss of an electromagnetic wave flowing on the surface of the center electrode 2. More particularly, the low impedance layer 6 is made of silver, copper, gold, aluminum, tungsten, molybdenum, titanium, zirconium, niobium, tantalum, bismuth, palladium, lead, tin, an alloy composed mainly of these metals, or a composite material of these metals.
US09991679B2	Spark plug including a ground electrode having a small cross section A spark plug, including a housing, an insulator situated in the housing, a center electrode situated in the insulator and a ground electrode situated on the housing, the ground electrode and the center electrode being situated relative to one another in such a way that the ground electrode and the center electrode form a spark gap, and the ground electrode including a core and a sheath surrounding the core, the core being made of a material which has a higher thermal conductivity than the material of the sheath, and a cross sectional area of the ground electrode being not greater than 2.76 mm2, the sheath having a wall thickness c of not greater than 0.4 mm in a first region of the ground electrode.
US09991674B2	Optical transmitter with a heat dissipation structure An optical transmitter with a heat dissipation structure is provided. The heat dissipation structure comprises a substrate and an optical transmitter unit. The substrate comprises a base body, a heat dissipation well disposed on the base body, and a thermal conductive block inserted into and fixed to the heat dissipation well. The thermal conductive block has on one side thereof a heat guiding plane. The optical transmitter unit comprises a heat dissipating substrate directly disposed on the heat guiding plane, and a laser diode directly disposed on the heat dissipating substrate. The laser diode features an active region whose height is lowered to shorten a heat conduction path wherein heat is transferred from the active region through the heat dissipating substrate to the heat guiding plane. The heat already transferred to the heat guiding plane is transferred horizontally by the thermal conductive block to the base body which encloses the heat dissipation well.
US09991668B2	Light emitting device A laser diode device includes a semiconductor laser element, a transmissive member, and phosphor-containing members. The transmissive member is disposed separately from the semiconductor laser element and includes a plurality of recessed portions on a side opposite to a side in which light from the semiconductor laser element enters and within a region that is irradiated with the light from the semiconductor laser element. The phosphor-containing members are disposed in the plurality of recessed portions. A portion of light enters and passes through the transmissive member between the phosphor-containing members and exits the transmissive member without passing through the phosphor-containing members.
US09991665B2	Laser system The laser system may include a delay circuit unit, first and second trigger-correction units, and a clock generator. The delay circuit unit may receive a trigger signal, output a first delay signal obtained by delaying the trigger signal by a first delay time, and output a second delay signal obtained by delaying the trigger signal by a second delay time. The first trigger-correction unit may receive the first delay signal and output a first switch signal obtained by delaying the first delay signal by a first correction time. The second trigger-correction unit may receive the second delay signal and output a second switch signal obtained by delaying the second delay signal by a second correction time. The clock generator may generate a clock signal that is common to the delay circuit unit and the first and second trigger-correction units.
US09991659B2	Hand-operated tool, ground contact mounting set and method for mounting a terminal onto a ground stud contact, in particular for a car body A tool for mounting a terminal onto a stud contact is disclosed. The tool has a receptacle, a stud detector, and an indicator. The receptacle is open in a mounting direction and receives the terminal. The stud detector detects a final installation position of the stud contact within the receptacle. The indicator is visible from an exterior of the tool and is connected to the stud detector. The indicator has a first visual appearance and a second visual appearance different from the first visual appearance, and automatically switches between the first visual appearance and the second visual appearance based on whether the stud contact is in the final installation position.
US09991645B2	Cell contact-making system for an electrochemical device In order to provide a cell contact-making system for an electrochemical device which includes a plurality of electrochemical cells, wherein the cell contact-making system includes a current conductor system having one or more cell connectors, for electrically conductively connecting cell terminals of different electrochemical cells, a signal conductor system having one or more signal conductors for electrically conductively connecting a respective signal source to a signal conductor terminal connector of the cell contact-making system, and a monitoring unit for monitoring signals from the signal sources, which is of compact construction and is assemblable from a relatively small number of parts, it is proposed that the monitoring unit should include a plug contact terminal connector which is directly connectable by a plug connection to the signal conductor terminal connector of the signal conductor system.
US09991642B1	Filter wafer assembly for electrical connector A wafer assembly for an electrical connector that has a first and second wafers configured to interlock with one another. Each of the wafers has at least one contact that has a body portion with a mating end for coupling to a mating contact and a tail end opposite the mating end for engaging a printed circuit board and an overmold covering the body portion such that the mating and tail ends extend from opposite sides of the overmold. A conductive elongated spring member is sandwiched between the first and second wafers. The wafer assembly can include one or more filter components.
US09991640B2	Durable connector receptacles Connector receptacles that are able to withstand insertion and other forces, are reliable, and are easy to manufacture. In various examples, the connector receptacle tongue or other portions may be reinforced such that they may withstand the insertion forces exerted through a connector insert.
US09991636B2	Electrical box, electrical switch and electrical plug-in mechanism An electrical box, switch and plug-in device, that facilitates the prompt and safe installation and maintenance of the components within an electrical box. The box includes a wiring connector, molded or affixed to an internal wall of the electrical box, for receiving external incoming power, and connects with a movable male electrical wiring connector, that can be plugged into the back of an installed electrical switch or electrical plug-in device. The mail electrical wiring connector, mounted upon its wiring, can be shifted within the box, to align it for plug-in with the identified electrical devices. The wiring connector incorporates a series of slots, such that when the various electrical wiring is connected therewith, the bare wires are concealed and secured therein, to assure safety.
US09991634B2	Connector A wire cover (70) is arranged to cover a rear surface of a housing (10) and includes a back plate (73) in a rear part. A pull-out port (77) for wires (30) is provided in an end part of the back plate (73) and an opening (74) is provided separately from the pull-out port (77). A U-shaped lever (90) is arranged to straddle the back plate (73) and connects the housing (10) and a mating housing at a connection position by being rotated with an operating portion (91) gripped. The operating portion (91) of the lever (90) enters the opening (74) at the connection position and is arranged in contact with or in proximity to an edge of the opening (74).
US09991632B2	Lock mechanism, connector and wire harness A lock mechanism used for a connector mechanism of a wire harness includes a flange portion projecting from a connector housing in an intersection direction intersecting with an axial direction, an arm portion supported by the connector housing at a base end, extended from the connector housing to the flange portion side along the axial direction, having a free front end, and being bendable along the intersection direction, and a lock beak portion projecting from the arm portion to a side opposite to the connector housing side along the intersection direction and being lockable to a mounting panel disposed between the lock beak portion and the flange portion in the axial direction. The lock beak portion includes a plurality of lock beak portions provided along the axial direction at certain intervals.
US09991626B2	Connector having integrated housing and shield shell A connector includes a female terminal; a female housing; a shield shell which is formed in a tubular conductive material in which both ends are opened, the shield shell being integrated with the female housing in a state in which at least one of an outer circumferential side and an inner circumferential side of an end portion on an insertion direction side to the male connector is exposed as an annular exposed surface, and the female terminal and/or the electric wire being disposed inside the shield shell; and a sealing member which has a tubular sealing portion interposed between the male housing of the fitted male connector or the shield shell and the exposed surface as a seal side exposed surface opposed to the male housing or the shield shell, and suppresses entry of liquid therebetween by the sealing member.
US09991620B1	Electrical cable connector An electrical connector assembly is presented herein. The electrical connector includes a pair of connector blocks each defining a groove in an end surface that is configured to have an electrical conductor of an electrical cable partially disposed within it, e.g. a carbon nanotube conductor. The electrical connector also includes a housing configured to receive connector blocks, align the groove of one connector block with the groove of the other connector block, and hold the connector blocks together such that the electrical conductors within the grooves are in direct physical and electrical contact with the one another and are compressed. An electrical cable assembly incorporating such as connector and an method of manufacturing a cable assembly using such a connector is also presented.
US09991618B2	Contact element for an electrical connection The present invention relates to a contact element for an electrical connection, and to a circuit arrangement having at least one said contact element. A contact element for an electrical connection may include a first contact region of a first copper material for electrically connecting to a first circuit component and a second contact region of a second copper material for electrically connecting to a second circuit component. The first contact region and the second contact region each have a different material hardness, and the two contact regions are interconnected by a materially bonded connection.
US09991616B2	SMT connection of rigid and flexible printed circuit boards The described embodiments relate generally to methods and apparatus for securely and efficiently joining components together. In some embodiments, a flexible printed circuit board and a rigid printed circuit board can be electrically coupled together by soldering electrical contacts distributed on the flexible printed circuit board to electrical contacts distributed on the rigid printed circuit board. The electrical contacts can be arranged and sized as desired to provide a desired amount of data and power transfer bandwidth.
US09991607B1	Circular array of ridged waveguide horns An antenna horn includes an upper waveguide ridge and a lower waveguide ridge shaped to provide impedance matching. The antenna horn operates unimodally within a 6:1 instantaneous bandwidth. A circular array of antenna horns produces an enhanced radiation pattern in a horizontal plane with reduced radiating in the direction orthogonal to the horizontal plane. Furthermore, two circular arrays of half-height antenna horns may be arranged on a collinear axis, offset by one half of a sector width as defined by each horn aperture to reduce coupling.
US09991603B2	Device, intended to be fixed on a wall, for absorbing electromagnetic waves A device, intended to be fixed on a wall, for absorbing electromagnetic waves. The absorption device comprises a metal plate intended to be fixed on the wall, a dielectric panel at a distance from the metal plate and delimiting, with the metal plate, a volume between the metal plate and the dielectric panel, an array of resistive dipoles, all the resistive dipoles being fixed on the same face of the dielectric panel, and each comprising two metal platelets at a distance from one another and a resistor arranged between the opposing edges of two neighboring metal platelets.
US09991602B2	Frequency reflecting unit A frequency reflecting unit is provided. The frequency reflecting unit is used as a portion of a frequency reflector. The frequency reflecting unit with a three-dimensional structure includes a metal pattern and at least one via. The metal pattern is disposed on a metal layout layer defined on one side of the frequency reflecting unit. One end of the via is disposed corresponding to the metal pattern. The via forms a non-zero angle with the metal layout layer. The other end of the via is an open circuit.
US09991598B2	Wireless communication device and electronic apparatus A wireless communication device includes an antenna unit including an antenna pattern; a magnetic member arranged over the antenna unit; and a device that acts as a non-contact type integrated circuit, wherein a ratio of an area of the magnetic member to an area of a region including an outermost periphery of the antenna pattern is 90% or more, and wherein a resonant frequency of the wireless communication device has a deviation from a target resonant frequency falls within a range of −1.720% to +4.334%.
US09991590B2	Short-range antenna structure and methods Antenna apparatus and methods of use and tuning. In one exemplary embodiment, the solution of the present disclosure is particularly adapted for small form-factor, metal-encased applications such as smartphones or tablets (and “phablets”) utilizing near field communication (NFC) interfaces. The solution increases the effective size of the antenna without requiring any significant additional space or other structural modifications to the host device (such as changes to the device's metal case or size), while still maintaining a high degree of electrical performance (including a high Q factor).
US09991589B2	Antenna and method of forming the antenna The invention discloses an antenna comprising a plurality of laminated layers of radiating elements, wherein each layer of radiating elements is arranged in a zigzag pattern; a feed point connected to one of the plurality laminated layers of the radiating elements and is configured to receive a radio frequency signal; and a plated via configured to couple the plurality of laminated layers of radiating elements; wherein the radiating elements are configured to radiate the radio frequency signal.
US09991588B2	Highly conductive fiber reinforced antennas A highly conductive fiber reinforced tubular antenna is composed of metal coated reinforcing fibers in a composite structure. The conductive fibers may be disposed in a tubular or cylindrical fashion unidirectionally parallel to or at an angle to the axis of the tube or cylinder, thus providing multifunctional properties of strength and conductivity. Alternatively, the conductive fibers may be non-woven in configuration and disposed on one or more wrapped layers to form the antenna. The fiber reinforced composites disclosed are both lighter and stronger than their metal counterparts, while the highly increased conductive surface area in the composite creates enhanced electrical or electromagnetic performance than tubular or cylindrical antennas made of metal or nonmetal composite structures.
US09991585B2	Antenna apparatus and terminal An antenna apparatus and a terminal. The antenna apparatus includes an antenna body and at least one stub. The antenna body includes a first branch used to radiate a high-frequency signal and a second branch used to radiate a low-frequency signal. One end of the stub is connected to a connection point of the second branch, and the other end of the stub is a free end. The connection point is a position with a maximum value of current distribution on the second branch of an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength. The wavelength corresponds to a specified high frequency at which the antenna apparatus works. The length of the stub is determined according to the wavelength corresponding to the specified high frequency.
US09991581B2	Ball joint mounts An improved antenna ball joint mount is provided that includes a hollow socket mechanically coupled to a spherical member with a locking part. The hollow socket and the spherical member are fully detachable to simplify the installation of an antenna. A user is able to set a position of the antenna to any point on a spherical sector surface within a range of motion allowed by a shape of joint components and rotate the antenna around own axis to adjust a polarization plane and then lock the mount in a predetermined position.
US09991575B2	Power storage unit and solar power generation unit Disclosed is a power storage unit which can safely operate over a wide temperature range. The power storage unit includes: a power storage device; a heater for heating the power storage device; a temperature sensor for sensing the temperature of the power storage device; and a control circuit configured to inhibit charge of the power storage device when its temperature is lower than a first temperature or higher than a second temperature. The first temperature is exemplified by a temperature which allows the formation of a dendrite over a negative electrode of the power storage device, whereas the second temperature is exemplified by a temperature which causes decomposition of a passivating film formed over a surface of a negative electrode active material.
US09991574B2	Onboard battery for vehicle An onboard battery for a vehicle includes battery modules each including battery cells, an auxiliary device for charging, and a housing case housing the battery modules and auxiliary device. Cooling air is taken from air intake holes into the battery modules to cool the battery cells. A middle of a transversal direction of the battery modules is shifted to either left or right of a center of a transversal direction of a vehicle. The auxiliary device is disposed at an other end portion in the transversal direction. Each air intake hole is between a left and right end of each battery module and in a back of each battery module. A side opposite to a side of the auxiliary device has an air introducing port 55a that takes cooling air into the housing case.
US09991569B2	Battery module Provided is a battery module, wherein heat-radiating plates are coupled to a plurality of battery cells stacked and arranged in the battery module so as to be closely adhered to both surfaces of each of the battery cells, curved parts are formed on both sides of each of the heat-radiating plates, adjacent heat-radiating plates are formed to be spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance, such that a volume change caused by expansion of the battery cell and a dimensional tolerance of the battery cell itself may be absorbed, and cooling performance may be improved.
US09991566B2	Cathode active material for overcharge protection in secondary lithium batteries Provided herein is an electrode active material comprising a lithium metal oxide and an overcharge protection additive having an operating voltage higher than the operating voltage of the lithium metal oxide.
US09991558B2	Rechargeable electrochemical metal ion cell and accumulator containing said cell A rechargeable electrochemical metal ion cell includes negative and positive electrodes, and an electrolyte system between them. The negative electrode includes a metal capable of releasing and accepting metal ions. The positive electrode includes at least one compound capable of releasing and accepting metal ions different from those of the negative electrode. The electrolyte system includes: a glycol-based electrolyte solution containing a salt of a metal included in the negative electrode and a salt of a metal included in the positive electrode; a matrix adapted to retain the electrolyte solution, where two reversible reactions take place simultaneously in the cell: a reversible deposition and dissolution process of ions of a metal included in the negative electrode takes place in the negative electrode and a reversible ion exchange process of a metal included in the positive electrode takes place in the positive electrode. The metals are different from one another.
US09991555B2	Solid electrolyte for a microbattery A solid electrolyte including a layer of LixPOy, free from nitrogen, with 3.6≤x≤6.3 and 1.5≤y≤4, and the ionic conductivity of which is greater than or equal to 10−5 S/cm. A microbattery including a layer of solid electrolyte.
US09991554B2	Sulfide glass, and method for producing sulfide glass ceramic A method for producing sulfide-based glass ceramics including crystallizing a glass solid electrolyte, wherein the glass solid electrolyte includes: sulfide-based glass comprising at least a sulfur element and a lithium element; and a nitrile compound incorporated into the sulfide-based glass.
US09991549B2	Anode for cable-type secondary battery and cable-type secondary battery comprising the same The present invention relates to an anode for a cable-type secondary battery, more specifically an anode for a cable-type secondary battery, comprising a spiral electrode consisting of at least two wire-type electrodes which are spirally twisted with each other, each of the wire-type electrodes comprising a wire-type current collector, an anode active material layer formed by coating on the outer surface of the wire-type current collector, and a polymer resin layer formed by coating on the outer surface of the anode active material layer; and a cable-type secondary battery comprising the anode. The anode for a cable-type secondary battery according to the present invention comprises a polymer resin layer formed by coating on the outer surface of an anode active material layer, thereby preventing the release of the anode active material layer from a wire-type current collector and eventually preventing the deterioration of battery performances.
US09991546B2	Fuel cell stack assembly device and control method A fuel cell stack assembly device is provided. The assembly device includes a stack guide apparatus that arranges and stacks fuel cells using a plurality of guide bars and a press unit that repeatedly moves vertically based on the stack guide apparatus and presses the fuel cells stacked on the stack guide apparatus. A roller structure includes a roller in rolling contact with the guide bar and is installed at the press unit. A weight detection portion detects weight that is applied to the roller by the guide bar. Additionally, a controller determines whether the guide bar is at the home position based on a detection signal of the weight detection portion and operates the press unit.
US09991539B2	Polymer electrolyte membrane, membrane electrode assembly comprising polymer electrolyte membrane and fuel cell comprising membrane electrode assembly The present specification provides a polymer electrolyte membrane, a membrane electrode assembly including the polymer electrolyte membrane, and a fuel cell including the membrane electrode assembly.
US09991522B2	Catalyst particles for fuel cells and method for producing same A catalyst particle (1) for a fuel cell according to the present invention includes: a metal particle (2) composed of either one of metal other than noble metal and an alloy of the metal other than the noble metal and the noble metal; and a noble metal layer (3) that is provided on a surface of the metal particle and has a thickness of 1 nm to 3.2 nm. By the fact that the catalyst particle for a fuel cell has such a configuration, the catalyst particle can enhance catalytic activity while reducing an amount of the noble metal. The catalyst particle (1) for a fuel cell according to the present invention can enhance the catalytic activity while reducing the amount of the noble metal.
US09991517B2	Carbonaceous material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery anode, non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery anode, non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and vehicle Provided is a carbonaceous material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery anode having high discharge capacity per unit volume and excellent storage characteristics.The carbonaceous material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery anode of the present invention has a true density (ρBt) determined by a pycnometer method using butanol of not less than 1.55 g/cm3 and less than 1.75 g/cm3 and a discharge capacity of an anode at 0.05 V to 1.5 V in terms of a lithium reference electrode standard of not less than 180 mAh/g. Furthermore, the slope 0.9/X (Vg/Ah) of a discharge curve calculated from a discharge capacity X (Ah/g) and a potential difference of 0.9 (V) corresponding to 0.2 V to 1.1 V in terms of a lithium reference electrode standard is not greater than 0.75 (Vg/Ah), and an absorbed moisture quantity after storage for 100 hours in a 25° C. 50% RH air atmosphere is not greater than 1.5 wt %.
US09991511B2	Composite cathode active material, lithium battery including the same, and method of preparing the same A composite cathode active material includes: a core including a material capable of intercalation and deintercalation of lithium; and a first coating layer on at least one portion of the core, where the first coating layer includes zirconium oxide. A lithium battery includes a cathode including the composite cathode active material. Methods of preparing the composite cathode active material are also disclosed.
US09991509B2	Anode active material including porous silicon oxide-carbon material composite and method of preparing the same Provided are an anode active material including a porous silicon oxide-carbon material composite which includes a porous silicon oxide including pores and a line-type carbon material coated on a surface, in the pores, or on the surface and in the pores of the porous silicon oxide, and a method of preparing the anode active material.Since the silicon oxide of the anode active material according to an embodiment of the present invention may include the plurality of pores, resistance to the mechanical stress due to a volume change may be improved. Also, since the line-type carbon material is bonded to the inside of the pores, conductivity may not be decreased even in the case in which internal cracks occur in the porous silicon oxide and lifetime characteristics may be improved.
US09991506B2	Electrode binder for lithium secondary batteries, negative electrode for lithium secondary batteries using same, lithium secondary battery, automobile, method for producing electrode binder for lithium secondary batteries, and method for manufacturing lithium secondary battery Provided are an electrode binder for lithium secondary batteries, which is suppressed in deterioration in adhesive power, strength and stretchability caused by decomposition of imide groups by hydrolysis, said imide groups being contained in a polyamide-imide that is used as a binder for an electrode active material, and which is capable of prolonging the service life of a lithium secondary battery by suppressing deterioration of an electrode even in cases where water is generated due to repeated charging and discharging; a negative electrode for lithium secondary batteries; a lithium secondary battery; a method for manufacturing a lithium secondary battery having long service life, said lithium secondary battery being suppressed in deterioration of an electrode even in cases where water is generated due to repeated charging and discharging; a method for producing an electrode binder for lithium secondary batteries; and an automobile. This electrode binder for lithium secondary batteries contains a polyamideimide and a carbodiimide. A lithium secondary battery is manufactured by forming an electrode layer using a coating liquid that contains an electrode active material, a polyamideimide, a carbodiimide and a solvent.
US09991505B2	Positive-electrode material for nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery, method for manufacturing the same, and nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery using said positive-electrode material Provided is a positive-electrode material for nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary batteries, the positive-electrode material being capable of achieving both high capacity and high output when used for a positive electrode for nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary batteries. Also, provided is a method for manufacturing the positive-electrode material for nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary batteries, wherein a lithium metal composite oxide powder is mixed with lithium tungstate, the lithium metal composite oxide powder being represented by a general formula LizNi1-x-yCoxMyO2 (wherein 0.10≤x≤0.35, 0≤y≤0.35, 0.97≤z≤1.20, and M is an addition element and at least one element selected from Mn, V, Mg, Mo, Nb, Ti, and Al) and comprising primary particles and secondary particles composed of aggregation of the primary particles.
US09991494B2	Nano microporous diaphragm of post-crosslinked rubber and polyolefin composite, and manufacturing method thereof The present invention relates to a composite nano microporous diaphragm for use in lithium ion cells using polyolefin modified with post-crosslinked rubber and manufacturing method thereof. The microporous diaphragm at least comprises a nano microporous diaphragm A layer with a chemical gel content of more than 20%, the microscopic structure thereof is designed to be the rubber material that has been evenly dispersed and has subjected to a post-crosslinking treatment in polyolefin nano microfiber matrix, forming a nano microporous diaphragm of rubber-plastic composite. The nano microporous diaphragm with high strength, thermal cutoff, high temperature resistance, as well as good liquid absorption and swelling and compression elasticity can be applied to lithium ion power cells with high safety and long cycling life.
US09991492B2	Separator enclosures for electrodes and electrochemical cells The disclosure provides electrochemical cells including a separator enclosure which encloses at least a portion of a positive or negative electrode. In an embodiment, the separator generates a contact force or pressure on at least a portion of the electrode which can improve the performance of the cell. The disclosure also provides methods for charging an electrochemical cell.
US09991488B2	Polyolefin-based porous film and method for producing the same A method for producing a polyolefin-based porous film includes an (A) step: a raw fabric forming step for forming a non-porous raw fabric from a polyolefin-based resin composition, a (B) step: an MD cold stretching step for cold stretching the non-porous raw fabric obtained in the (A) step at a temperature of −20° C. to (Tm−30)° C. (Tm is a melting point (° C.) of the non-porous raw fabric) in an extruding direction (MD) of the raw fabric to make the raw fabric porous; a (D) step: a TD cold stretching step for cold stretching a film processed in the (B) step in a direction (TD) perpendicular to the MD, and an (H) step: a thermal fixing step, in the above order. A thermal fixing temperature T2 (° C.) in the (H) step satisfies expressions (1) and (2) below; T2>T1 (1), (Tm−3)≥T2≥(Tm−40) (2) (in the expressions, T1 represents a stretching temperature (° C.) in the (D) step, and Tm represents the melting point (° C.) of the non-porous raw fabric). A polyolefin-based porous film made of a polyolefin-based resin composition has a pore surface area of 35.0 to 42.0 m2/g and birefringence of 2.0×10−2 to 4.0×10−2.
US09991483B2	Battery pack A battery pack including a plurality of battery cells; a protective circuit module electrically connected to the plurality of battery cells, the protective circuit module being for establishing an electrical connection with an external electronic device; a case accommodating the plurality of battery cells and the protective circuit module, the case including a first case and a second case coupled to the first case; an adhesive sheet attached to at least a portion of an outer surface of the case, the adhesive sheet including a base sheet and a bubble prevention part on the base sheet; and a protective cover interposed between the protective circuit module and the adhesive sheet.
US09991479B2	Sealed battery A sealed battery 10 is provided, which has a seam 45 between a case main body 21 and a lid 22 on an outer surface 22A side of the lid 22, and in which this seam 25 is laser welded. A terminal 40 connected to an electrode assembly in the battery 10 is led to the outside from a through hole in the lid 22 and is separated from the lid outer surface 22A by an outside resin member 60. The outside resin member 60 is constituted of a resin matrix 62, which is formed of a nonaromatic resin composition, and inorganic fibers 64 present dispersed in the resin matrix 62. At least 50% by mass of the inorganic fibers 64 in the outside resin member 60 is disposed such that the fiber axial direction of the inorganic fibers 64 is parallel to the outer surface of the lid 22.
US09991477B2	Mask frame assembly, a method of manufacturing the same, and a method of manufacturing a display apparatus A mask frame assembly including a frame and a mask having a first surface that contacts the frame. The mask includes an active area and pattern holes formed in the active area, the pattern holes being configured to allow a deposition material to pass through the mask. The mask also includes a rib portion disposed outside the active area and configured to block the deposition material from passing through the mask and a non-magnetic reinforcing member disposed on a part of the rib portion.
US09991473B2	Organic light emitting display device An organic light display device includes a first substrate, light emitting structures, a second substrate and a reflective member. The first substrate includes a plurality of pixel regions, each pixel region including a plurality of sub-pixel regions, and a reflective region which surrounds the sub-pixel regions. The reflective region excludes the sub-pixel regions. The light emitting structures are respectively disposed in the sub-pixel regions on the first substrate. The second substrate is opposite to the first substrate. The reflective member is disposed in the reflective region on the lower surface of the second substrate. First openings exposing the sub-pixel regions and a second opening exposing at least a portion the reflective region are located in the reflective member.
US09991460B2	Organic light emitting diode device Disclosed is an organic light emitting diode device including an anode and a cathode facing each other, an emission layer interposed between the anode and the cathode, and a first hole auxiliary layer interposed between the anode and the emission layer. The first hole auxiliary layer has a higher triplet energy (T1) than the emission layer.
US09991458B2	Nanoshell, method of fabricating same and uses thereof A method of fabricating a nanoshell is disclosed. The method comprises coating a nanometric core made of a first material by a second material, to form a core-shell nanostructure and applying non-chemical treatment to the core-shell nanostructure so as to at least partially remove the nanometric core, thereby fabricating a nanoshell. The disclosed nanoshell can be used in the fabrication of transistors, optical devices (such as CCD and CMOS sensors), memory devices and energy storage devices.
US09991450B2	Spiro[cyclopenta[def]triphenylene-4,9′-fluorene] compound and organic light-emitting device having the same A spiro[cyclopenta[def]triphenylene-4,9′-fluorene] compound having a high triplet energy level and a high glass transition temperature further providing an excellent organic light-emitting device including the compound to achieve a high luminous efficiency and a low driving voltage.
US09991446B2	Organic light emitting device and display device having the same An organic light emitting device including a first electrode, a hole transport region on the first electrode, a light emission layer on the hole transport region, a buffer layer on the light emission layer, an electron transport region on the buffer layer, and a second electrode on the electron transport region. The buffer layer includes at least one selected from the group consisting of a carbazole derivative, a phenanthroline derivative, a triazole derivative, and a quinolinolato-based metal complex.
US09991445B2	Heterocyclic compound, material for organic electroluminescence device including the same, and organic electroluminescence device and electronic equipment employing the same A heterocyclic compound wherein three five-membered rings are fused to one benzene ring and a saturated or unsaturated ring is fused to each five-membered ring. An organic electroluminescence device includes one or more organic thin film layers between an anode and a cathode. The one or more organic thin film layers include a light emitting layer. At least one layer of the one or more organic thin film layers includes the heterocyclic compound.
US09991438B2	Magnetostrictive member and manufacturing method thereof The present invention provides a magnetostrictive member with high performance, high reliability and high versatility. The magnetostrictive member is used in the vibration power generation as a power source for extracting electric energy from various vibrations. The member made of the single crystal is manufactured cheaper than the conventional manufacturing method. The magnetostrictive member is formed by cutting a single crystal of Fe—Ga alloy by using electric discharge machining in a state that <100> orientation of the crystal of the Fe—Ga alloy is aligned in a direction in which magnetostriction of the magnetostrictive member is required.
US09991437B2	Method for forming a superconducting connection structure and superconducting connection structure A method for forming superconducting connection structure between at least two superconducting wires is disclosed, where each wire includes at least one superconducting filament. An end piece of each superconducting wire may be positioned inside a cavity of a pressing tool. A contacting material including MgB2 and/or a precursor material for MgB2 may also be positioned inside the cavity. Pressure may be applied to the contacting material through the pressing tool, and the contacting material may be heated inside the cavity. Pressure and heat may be applied simultaneously, at least during part of the process. A superconducting connection structure including at least two superconducting wires, each wire including at least one superconducting filament, and a superconducting connection between the end pieces of the two wires is also disclosed. The connection may be formed of heated and compressed contacting material including MgB2.
US09991436B2	Thermoelectric converter element, method of manufacturing thermoelectric converter element, and thermoelectric conversion method An object of the present invention is to provide a low-cost thermoelectric converter element having high productivity and excellent conversion efficiency. A thermoelectric converter element according to the present invention includes a substrate 4, a magnetic film 2 provided on the substrate 4 with a certain magnetization direction A and formed of a polycrystalline magnetically insulating material, and an electrode 3 provided on the magnetic film 2 with a material exhibiting a spin-orbit interaction. When a temperature gradient is applied to the magnetic film 2, a spin current is generated so as to flow from the magnetic film 2 toward the electrode 3. A current I is generated in a direction perpendicular to the magnetization direction A of the magnetic film 2 by the inverse spin Hall effect in the electrode 3.
US09991426B2	Light-emitting device package A light-emitting device package includes a supporting substrate, a light-emitting device on the supporting substrate, an adhesive layer on at least a portion of a side surface or lower surface of the light-emitting device, the adhesive layer connecting the light-emitting device to the supporting substrate, and an air layer in a space defined by the supporting substrate, the light-emitting device, and the adhesive layer.
US09991421B2	Method for manufacturing light emitting diode device According to one embodiment, a method for manufacturing an LED device includes forming a laminated semiconductor layer including a GaN layer of a first conductivity type, a GaN-based luminous layer, and a GaN layer of a second conductivity type stacked in this order on a surface of a substrate, forming a resist pattern on the laminated semiconductor layer, subjecting the laminated semiconductor layer to reactive ion etching using the resist pattern as a mask to selectively remove the laminated semiconductor layer to form an LED element structure part and an electrode connection region, removing the resist pattern, and treating the substrate including the LED element structure part and the electrode connection region with a first etching residue removing aqueous solution.
US09991418B2	Semiconductor light emitting element According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light emitting element includes a light emitting layer, a current spreading layer of a first conductivity type, and a pad electrode. The light emitting layer is capable of emitting light. The current spreading layer has a first surface and a second surface. The light emitting layer is disposed on a side of the first surface. A light extraction surface having convex structures of triangle cross-sectional shape and a flat surface which is a crystal growth plane are included in the second surface. The pad electrode is provided on the flat surface. One base angle of the convex structure is 90 degrees or more.
US09991413B2	Systems and methods for preparing GaN and related materials for micro assembly The disclosed technology relates generally to a method and system for micro assembling GaN materials and devices to form displays and lighting components that use arrays of small LEDs and high-power, high-voltage, and or high frequency transistors and diodes. GaN materials and devices can be formed from epitaxy on sapphire, silicon carbide, gallium nitride, aluminum nitride, or silicon substrates. The disclosed technology provides systems and methods for preparing GaN materials and devices at least partially formed on several of those native substrates for micro assembly.
US09991406B2	Curable polyorganosiloxane composition for use as an encapsulant for a solar cell module The invention relates to curable polyorganosiloxane compositions for the use as an encapsulant for a solar cell module, in particular, for the encapsulation of photovoltaic modules, cured polyorganosiloxane composition made therefrom and photovoltaic modules comprising the same as encapsulant.
US09991401B2	Solar cell and method for manufacturing the same A solar cell is discussed. A solar cell includes a semiconductor substrate, a conductive type region on one surface of the semiconductor substrate, and an electrode connected to the conductive type region. The electrode includes an electrode layer on the conductive type region and a printed electrode layer on the electrode layer.
US09991395B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof When an oxide semiconductor film is microfabricated, with the use of a hard mask, unevenness of a side surface of the oxide semiconductor film can be suppressed. Specifically, a semiconductor device comprises an oxide semiconductor film over an insulating surface; a first hard mask and a second hard mask over the oxide semiconductor film; a source electrode over the oxide semiconductor film and the first hard mask; a drain electrode over the oxide semiconductor film and the second hard mask; a gate insulating film over the source electrode and the drain electrode; and a gate electrode overlapping with the gate insulating film and the oxide semiconductor film, and the first and second hard masks have conductivity.
US09991391B2	Pristine and functionalized graphene materials Disclosed are dispersed graphene sheets, ribbons, graphene molecules and the like which are pristine in the plane, i.e., free of significant defects and chemical modifications such as oxidation. The materials could be functionalized at the edges. These materials are dispersed in solutions rather than in aggregated or insoluble forms as their parent starting materials. Also disclosed is a method comprising the steps of intercalating an insoluble graphitic material. The method may comprise exfoliating graphite and re-intercalating the resultant material with an acid composition, such as oleum, and a strong organic base such as tetrabutylammonium hydroxide in a solvent solution to form a homogenous suspension, which is then agitated to form dispersed graphene materials. The materials may be solubilized with a hydrophilic polymer and can be further manipulated by transfer into different solvents, formation of films, application to optical and electronic devices, and other applications. The materials are solubilized by functional groups mostly at the edges.
US09991382B1	Vertical field effect transistor with abrupt extensions at a bottom source/drain structure A semiconductor structure is provided that includes a vertical transport field effect transistor located on sidewall surfaces of a semiconductor fin. The semiconductor structure further includes an abrupt junction that is located between a bottom source/drain extension region and a sidewall surface of a lower portion of the semiconductor fin. The bottom source/drain extension region is present in a gap that is located adjacent the lower portion of the semiconductor fin and atop a mesa portion of a base semiconductor substrate.
US09991372B2	Device with channel having varying carrier concentration A semiconductor device including a device channel with a gate-drain region having a carrier concentration that varies laterally along a direction from the gate contact to the drain contact is provided. Lateral variation of the carrier concentration can be implemented by laterally varying one or more attributes of one or more layers located in the gate-drain region of the device.
US09991364B2	Transistor strain-inducing scheme A transistor device includes a gate structure disposed over a channel region of a semiconductor substrate. A source/drain recess is arranged in the semiconductor substrate alongside the gate structure. A doped silicon-germanium (SiGe) region is disposed within the source/drain recess and has a doping type which is opposite to that of the channel. An un-doped SiGe region is also disposed within the source/drain recess. The un-doped SiGe region underlies the doped SiGe region and comprises different germanium concentrations at different locations within the source/drain recess.
US09991359B1	Vertical transistor gated diode After forming a trench extending through a sacrificial gate layer to expose a surface of a doped bottom semiconductor layer, a diode including a first doped semiconductor segment and a second doped semiconductor segment having a different conductivity type than the first doped semiconductor segment is formed within the trench. The sacrificial gate layer that laterally surrounds the first doped semiconductor segment and the second doped semiconductor segment is subsequently replaced with a gate structure to form a gated diode.
US09991354B2	Metal nitride alloy contact for semiconductor Systems and methods are provided that enable the production of semiconductor devices having a metal nitride layer in direct contact with a semiconductor layer to form a Schottky diode, such as a TiN gate on an AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT). Metal nitrides offer exceptional thermal stability and a lower diffusion coefficient. Technology enabled by embodiments of the present disclosure improves the reliability of GaN-based microwave power transistors.
US09991342B2	Electronic device containing nanowire(s), equipped with a transition metal buffer layer, process for growing at least one nanowire, and process for manufacturing a device The electronic device comprises a substrate (1), at least one semiconductor nanowire (2) and a buffer layer (3) interposed between the substrate (1) and said nanowire (2). The buffer layer (3) is at least partly formed by a transition metal nitride layer (9) from which extends the nanowire (2), said transition metal nitride being chosen from: vanadium nitride, chromium nitride, zirconium nitride, niobium nitride, molybdenum nitride, hafnium nitride or tantalum nitride.
US09991330B1	Resistors with controlled resistivity The present application provides planar and stacked resistor structures that are embedded within an interconnect dielectric material in which the resistivity of an electrical conducting resistive material or electrical conducting resistive materials of the resistor structure can be tuned to a desired resistivity during the manufacturing of the resistor structure. Notably, a doped metallic insulator layer is formed atop a substrate. A controlled surface treatment process is then performed to an upper portion of the doped metallic insulator layer to convert the upper portion of the doped metallic insulator layer into an electrical conducting resistive material layer. The remaining doped metallic insulator layer and the electrical conducting resistive material layer are then patterned to provide the resistor structure.
US09991329B2	Method and structure for dual sheet resistance trimmable thin film resistors at same level An integrated circuit includes a higher sheet resistance resistor and a lower sheet resistance resistor, disposed in a same level of dielectric layers of the integrated circuit. The higher sheet resistor has a body region and head regions in a higher sheet resistance layer. The lower sheet resistor has a body region and head regions in a lower sheet resistance layer, which is thicker than the higher sheet layer. The higher sheet resistor has an upper head layer contacting the higher sheet layer at each head region of the higher sheet layer. Each upper head layer has a same composition and thickness as the lower sheet layer of the lower sheet resistor. The lower sheet resistor is free of head layers over the lower sheet resistance layer.
US09991317B2	Organic light emitting display device and manufacturing method thereof An organic light emitting display device includes: a display panel configured to display an image; and a window panel on the display panel, the window panel having a display area for transmitting an image displayed on the display panel and a non-display area surrounding the display area. The window panel may include: a window substrate; a light absorption layer on the window substrate; a touch sensor in the display area; and an edge layer in the non-display area.
US09991316B2	Phase-change memory cell, and method for manufacturing the phase-change memory cell A phase-change memory cell, comprising: a substrate housing a transistor, for selection of the memory cell, that includes a first conduction electrode; a first electrical-insulation layer on the selection transistor; a first conductive through via through the electrical-insulation layer electrically coupled to the first conduction electrode; a heater element including a first portion in electrical contact with the first conductive through via and a second portion that extends in electrical continuity with, and orthogonal to, the first portion; a first protection element extending on the first and second portions of the heater element; a second protection element extending in direct lateral contact with the first portion of the heater element and with the first protection element; and a phase-change region extending over the heater element in electrical and thermal contact therewith.
US09991313B2	Magnetic memory and manufacturing method of the same According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, a non-magnetic intermediate layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer and an underlying layer provided on an opposite side of the first magnetic layer with respect to the intermediate layer, and the underlying layer contains AlN of a hcp structure.
US09991308B2	Image sensor An image sensor includes a first semiconductor layer having a first semiconductor region and a first insulating region, and a second semiconductor layer under the first semiconductor layer including a second semiconductor region and a second insulating region. The first semiconductor layer includes a first transistor having first source or drain regions in the first semiconductor region and a first gate electrode in the first insulating region, a contact wiring, a first wiring layer electrically connecting the contact wiring and the first transistor, and a first junction region electrically connected to the first wiring layer. The second semiconductor layer includes a second transistor having second source or drain regions in the second semiconductor region and a second gate electrode in the second insulating region, a second wiring layer electrically connecting the contact wiring and the second transistor, and a second junction region electrically connected to the second wiring layer.
US09991300B2	Buried channel deeply depleted channel transistor Semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating such devices are provided. The devices include source and drain regions on one conductivity type separated by a channel length and a gate structure. The devices also include a channel region of the one conductivity type formed in the device region between the source and drain regions and a screening region of another conductivity type formed below the channel region and between the source and drain regions. In operation, the channel region forms, in response to a bias voltage at the gate structure, a surface depletion region below the gate structure, a buried depletion region at an interface of the channel region and the screening region, and a buried channel region between the surface depletion region and the buried depletion region, where the buried depletion region is substantially located in channel region.
US09991290B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for preventing a breaking and poor contact, without increasing the number of steps, thereby forming an integrated circuit with high driving performance and reliability. The present invention applies a photo mask or a reticle each of which is provided with a diffraction grating pattern or with an auxiliary pattern formed of a semi-translucent film having a light intensity reducing function to a photolithography step for forming wires in an overlapping portion of wires. And a conductive film to serve as a lower wire of a two-layer structure is formed, and then, a resist pattern is formed so that a first layer of the lower wire and a second layer narrower than the first layer are formed for relieving a steep step.
US09991286B2	Display device and electronic device including the same One embodiment of the present invention provides a highly reliably display device in which a high mobility is achieved in an oxide semiconductor. A first oxide component is formed over a base component. Crystal growth proceeds from a surface toward an inside of the first oxide component by a first heat treatment, so that a first oxide crystal component is formed in contact with at least part of the base component. A second oxide component is formed over the first oxide crystal component. Crystal growth is performed by a second heat treatment using the first oxide crystal component as a seed, so that a second oxide crystal component is formed. Thus, a stacked oxide material is formed. A transistor with a high mobility is formed using the stacked oxide material and a driver circuit is formed using the transistor.
US09991284B2	Display device Layers on a resin substrate in a peripheral area include wires extending in a wiring direction, and an inorganic insulating layer. The inorganic insulating layer is formed on first regions under the plurality of respective wires and on second regions each positioned between the adjacent first regions. The inorganic insulating layer includes a first portion on each first region. The inorganic insulating layer includes a second portion on each second region. The first portion is continuous in the wiring direction. The second portion is formed in at least either one of the manners such that the second portion is formed while avoiding a part of the second region on which the second portion is disposed or that the second portion is formed thinner than the first portion, and is continuous to the first portion adjacent to the second portion.
US09991271B2	Integrated circuit device including vertical memory device and method of manufacturing the same In one embodiment, the semiconductor device includes a stack of alternating interlayer insulating layers and conductive layers on a substrate. Each of the conductive layers extends in a first direction less than a previous one of the conductive layers to define a landing portion of the previous one of the conductive layers. An insulating plug is in one of the conductive layers under one of the landing portions, and a contact plug extends from an upper surface of the one of the landing portions.
US09991266B2	Semiconductor memory device and semiconductor memory array comprising the same A semiconductor array, the semiconductor memory array includes bit lines, word lines and memory cells. The bit lines are arranged in parallel in a first direction, and the word lines are arranged in parallel in a second direction which is different from the first direction. The memory cells are arranged in an array and electrically connected to corresponding bit lines and word lines respectively, and any two memory cells adjacent to each other share a same oxide semiconductor layer as a channel layer. The present invention also relates to a semiconductor memory device including two memory cells sharing a same oxide semiconductor layer as a channel layer.
US09991265B2	Semiconductor device An object of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device with a novel structure in which stored data can be stored even when power is not supplied in a data storing time and there is no limitation on the number of times of writing. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor which includes a first channel formation region using a semiconductor material other than an oxide semiconductor, a second transistor which includes a second channel formation region using an oxide semiconductor material, and a capacitor. One of a second source electrode and a second drain electrode of the second transistor is electrically connected to one electrode of the capacitor.
US09991257B2	Semiconductor device having fin active regions and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor device may include fin active regions extending parallel to each other on a substrate, an isolation region between the fin active regions, gate patterns intersecting the fin active regions and extending parallel to each other, source/drain areas on the fin active regions between the gate patterns and fin active region spacers contacting side surfaces of the fin active regions and formed over a surface of the isolation region between the fin active regions. Uppermost levels of the fin active region spacers may be higher than interfaces between the fin active regions and the source/drain areas. The upper surface of the isolation region may be lower than bottom surfaces of the source/drain areas.
US09991256B2	Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes forming a plurality of dummy semiconductor fins on a substrate. The dummy semiconductor fins are adjacent to each other and are grouped into a plurality of fin groups. The dummy semiconductor fins of the fin groups are recessed one group at a time.
US09991255B2	FinFETs with non-merged epitaxial S/D extensions on a seed layer and having flat top surfaces Semiconductor devices having non-merged fin extensions. A semiconductor device includes fins formed in trenches in an insulator layer, each of the fins having a uniform crystal orientation and a fin cap in a source and drain region that extends vertically and laterally beyond the trench. The fin caps of the respective fins are separate from one another.
US09991254B1	Forming horizontal bipolar junction transistor compatible with nanosheets A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a field effect transistor (FET) arranged on the substrate. The FET includes a gate positioned on the substrate. The gate includes a nanosheet extending through a channel region of the gate. The FET includes a pair of source/drains arranged on opposing sides of the gate. The semiconductor device further includes a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) arranged adjacent to the FET on the substrate. The BJT includes an emitter and a collector. The BJT includes a nanosheet including a semiconductor material extending from the emitter to the collector, with a doped semiconductor material arranged above and below the nanosheet.
US09991251B2	Semiconductor device A variable capacitance device that includes a semiconductor substrate, a redistribution layer disposed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of terminal electrodes including first and second input/output terminals, a ground terminal and a control voltage application terminal. Moreover, a variable capacitance element section is formed in the redistribution layer from a pair of capacitor electrodes connected to the first and second input/output terminals, respectively, and a ferroelectric thin film disposed between the capacitor electrodes. Further, an ESD protection element is connected between the one of the input/output terminals and the ground terminal is formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US09991248B2	Method and device of pop stacking for preventing bridging of interposer solder balls A first semiconductor package of a POP structure has a first body and a plurality of first solder balls. A second semiconductor package of the POP structure has a second body and a plurality of second solder balls. A stand-off mechanism is utilized to maintain a minimum gap between the first body and the second body while a reflow soldering process is performed. By performing the reflow soldering process, the first solder balls and the second solder balls are heated and engaging with one another so as to solder the first solder balls and the second solder balls to form a plurality of interposer solder balls. Each interposer solder ball has a height substantially equal to the minimum gap and a cross sectional width less than a pitch between two adjacent interposer solder balls. Thereby, the POP structure would be a fine pitch package.
US09991245B2	Semiconductor packages with heat dissipation layers and pillars and methods for fabricating the same A semiconductor package comprising: a semiconductor chip; a connection pillar that is disposed adjacent to the semiconductor chip; a first heat dissipation layer disposed on the semiconductor chip; and a second heat dissipation layer disposed on the first heat dissipation layer, the second heat dissipation layer including a first protrusion extending beyond a perimeter of the semiconductor chip and extending towards the connection pillar.
US09991243B2	Integrated circuit assembly that includes stacked dice An integrated circuit assembly that includes a substrate; a member formed on the substrate; a first die mounted to the substrate within an opening in the member such that there is space between the first die and the member and the member surrounds the first die, and wherein the first die does not extend above an upper surface of the member; an underfill between the first the die and the substrate, wherein the underfill at least partially fills the space between the die and member; and a second die mounted to the first die and the member, wherein the second die is mounted to the member on all sides of the opening.
US09991235B2	Package on-package devices with upper RDL of WLPS and methods therefor Package-on-package (“PoP”) devices with upper RDLs of WLP (“WLP”) components and methods therefor are disclosed. In a PoP device, a first IC die is surface mount coupled to an upper surface of the package substrate. Conductive lines are coupled to the upper surface of the package substrate in a fan-out region with reference to the first IC. A molding layer is formed over the upper surface of the package substrate. A first and a second WLP microelectronic component is located at a same level above an upper surface of the molding layer respectively surface mount coupled to sets of upper portions of the conductive lines. Each of the first and the second WLP microelectronic components have a second IC die located below a first RDL respectively thereof. A third and a fourth IC die are respectively surface mount coupled over the first and the second WLP microelectronic components.
US09991223B2	Semiconductor package alignment frame for local reflow Embodiments of the present disclosure describe package alignment frames for a local reflow process to attach a semiconductor package to an interposer. The frame may comprise a two frame system. The interposer may be on a mounting table or on a circuit board. The frame may include a body with a rectangular opening dimensioned to receive a semiconductor package to be coupled to the interposer. The frame may be to align a ball grid array of the semiconductor package with pads of the interposer. A second frame may be to receive the first frame and may be to align a ball grid array of the interposer with pads of the circuit board. A single frame may be used to couple a semiconductor package to an interposer and to couple the interposer to a circuit board. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09991218B2	Connector structures of integrated circuits A die includes a substrate, a metal pad over the substrate, and a passivation layer covering edge portions of the metal pad. A metal pillar is formed over the metal pad. A portion of the metal pillar overlaps a portion of the metal pad. A center of the metal pillar is misaligned with a center of the metal pad.
US09991211B2	Semiconductor package having an EMI shielding layer Semiconductor packages and methods of forming semiconductor packages are described. In an example, a semiconductor package includes a shielding layer containing metal particles, e.g., conductive particles or magnetic particles, in a resin matrix to attenuate electromagnetic interference. In an example, the shielding layer is transferred from a molding chase to the semiconductor package during a polymer molding operation.
US09991207B2	Test key strcutures, integrated circuit packages and methods of forming the same Test key structures, integrated circuit packages and methods of forming the same are disclosed. One of the test key structures includes a first pattern over a polymer layer, and at least one second pattern covering the first pattern. Besides, the second pattern and the first pattern have substantially the same outer profile, one of the first pattern and the second pattern includes a dielectric material and the other of the first pattern and the second pattern includes a metal material.
US09991204B2	Through via structure for step coverage improvement A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a dielectric structure, a barrier layer, a glue layer, a copper seed layer and a copper layer. The dielectric structure is disposed over the substrate. The dielectric structure has a through via hole passing through the dielectric structure, and a sidewall of the through via hole includes at least one indentation. The barrier layer conformally covers the sidewall and a bottom of the through via hole. The glue layer conformally covers the barrier layer. The copper seed layer conformally covers the glue layer. The copper layer covers the copper seed layer and fills the through via hole.
US09991202B2	Method to reduce resistance for a copper (CU) interconnect landing on multilayered metal contacts, and semiconductor structures formed therefrom A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a first insulating layer containing a first metal layer embedded therein and on a surface of a semiconductor substrate. The method further includes forming an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer on the first insulating layer, and forming at least one via trench structure including a first metallization trench and a via in the ILD layer. In addition, the method also includes depositing a metal material to form a first metallization layer in the first metallization trench, a via contact in the via, and a second metal layer on top of at least a portion of the first metal layer in the opening of the first insulating layer. The first metal layer and the second metal layer constitute a multilayer metal contact located in the opening of the first insulating layer.
US09991200B2	Air gap structure and method A device comprises a first protection layer over sidewalls and a bottom of a first trench in a first dielectric layer, a first barrier layer over the first protection layer, a first metal line in the first trench, a second protection layer over sidewalls and a bottom of a second trench in the first dielectric layer, a second barrier layer over the second protection layer, a second metal line in the first trench, an air gap between the first trench and the second trench and a third protection layer over sidewalls of a third trench in the first dielectric layer, wherein the first protection layer, the second protection layer and the third protection are formed of a same material.
US09991198B2	Layout method for compound semiconductor integrated circuits A layout method for compound semiconductor integrated circuits, comprising following steps of: forming a first metal layer within a first circuit layout area which intersects with a second circuit layout area at an intersection area on a compound semiconductor substrate; defining an adjacent crossover area including said intersection area and a peripheral adjacent area thereof; a first dielectric area located within said adjacent crossover area and intersected with at least part of said intersection area; forming a first dielectric block within said first dielectric area or forming said first dielectric block within said first dielectric area and a second dielectric block outside said first dielectric area, the thickness of said second dielectric block is no greater than and the thickness of at least part of said second dielectric block is smaller than the thickness of said first dielectric block; forming a second metal layer within said second circuit layout area.
US09991193B2	Semiconductor device package A semiconductor device package includes a first conductive base, a first semiconductor die, a dielectric layer, a first patterned conductive layer, and a second patterned conductive layer. The first conductive base defines a first cavity. The first semiconductor die is on a bottom surface of the first cavity. The dielectric layer covers the first semiconductor die, the first surface and the second surface of the first conductive base and fills the first cavity. The first patterned conductive layer is on a first surface of the dielectric layer. The second patterned conductive layer is on a second surface of the dielectric layer.
US09991190B2	Packaging with interposer frame The mechanisms of using an interposer frame to package a semiconductor die enables fan-out structures and reduces form factor for the packaged semiconductor die. The mechanisms involve using a molding compound to attach the semiconductor die to the interposer frame and forming a redistribution layer on one or both sides of the semiconductor die. The redistribution layer(s) in the package enables fan-out connections and formation of external connection structures. Conductive columns in the interposer frame assist in thermal management.
US09991186B2	Method of manufacture for a semiconductor device A method of manufacture for a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes providing a semiconductor stack structure that includes a device terminal of a semiconductor device, and having a first surface and a buried oxide (BOX) layer attached to a wafer handle. Another step includes disposing a polymeric layer that includes a polymer and an admixture that increases thermal conductivity of the polymer onto the first surface of the semiconductor stack structure. Another step involves removing the wafer handle from the BOX layer to expose a second surface of the semiconductor stack structure, and yet another step involves removing a portion of the semiconductor stack structure to expose the device terminal.
US09991184B2	Electronic module and method of manufacturing the same An electronic module 1 includes an electronic module 10 that includes a substrate 11 and an electronic element 12, an electronic module 20 that includes a substrate 21 arranged such that the principal surface 21a faces the principal surface 11a, an electronic element 22 electrically connected to the electronic element 12 with a connecting member 18 therebetween, and an electronic element 23 electrically connected to the electronic element 12 with a connecting member 19 therebetween passing through the substrate 21 in a thickness direction, the electronic module 20 thermally connected to the electronic module 10 by the connecting members 18 and 19, and a heat sink 30 that includes a housing part 31a therein and houses the electronic modules 10 and 20 in the housing part 31a such that the principal surface 11b is in contact with an inner wall surface of the housing part 31a.
US09991169B2	Semiconductor device and formation thereof A semiconductor device and methods of formation are provided. The semiconductor device includes a first active region having a first active region height and an active channel region having an active channel region height over a fin. The first active region height is greater than the active channel region height. The active channel region having the active channel region height has increased strain, such as increased tensile strain, as compared to an active channel region that has a height greater than the active channel region height. The increased strain increases or enhances at least one of hole mobility or electron mobility in at least one of the first active region or the active channel region. The active channel region having the active channel region height has decreased source drain leakage, as compared to an active channel region that has a height greater than the active channel region height.
US09991155B2	Local trap-rich isolation A trap-rich polysilicon layer is interposed between the active (SOI) layer and the underlying handle portion of a semiconductor substrate to prevent or minimize parasitic surface conduction effects within the active layer and promote device linearity. In various embodiments, the trap-rich layer extends vertically through a portion of an isolation layer and laterally therefrom between the isolation layer and the handle portion of the substrate to underlie a portion of the device active area.
US09991151B2	Chip spacing maintaining apparatus A chip spacing maintaining apparatus for maintaining the spacing between any adjacent ones of a plurality of chips obtained by dividing a workpiece attached to an expand sheet, the expand sheet being supported at its peripheral portion to an annular frame is provided. The chip spacing maintaining apparatus includes a far-infrared radiation applying unit for applying far-infrared radiation toward the expand sheet expanded in a target area between the outer circumference of the workpiece and the inner circumference of the annular frame, thereby shrinking the expand sheet in the target area, and an air layer forming unit provided adjacent to the far-infrared radiation applying unit, the air layer forming unit having a nozzle hole for discharging a gas toward the workpiece in applying the far-infrared radiation from the far-infrared radiation applying unit toward the expand sheet, thereby forming an air layer above the workpiece.
US09991149B2	Semiconductor bonding with compliant resin and utilizing hydrogen implantation for transfer-wafer removal A transfer substrate with a compliant resin is used to bond one or more chips to a target wafer. An implant region is formed in a transfer substrate. A portion of the transfer substrate is etched to form a riser. Compliant material is applied to the transfer substrate. A chip is secured to the compliant material, wherein the chip is secured to the compliant material above the riser. The chip is bonded to a target wafer while the chip is secured to the compliant material. The transfer substrate and compliant material are removed from the chip. The transfer substrate is opaque to UV light.
US09991140B2	Substrate heating device, substrate heating method and computer-readable storage medium A substrate heating device includes: heating modules each having a processing vessel within which a heating plate is disposed, an gas inlet port for introducing a purge gas into a processing atmosphere, and an exhaust port for exhausting the processing atmosphere; individual exhaust paths each connected to the exhaust port of the heating modules; a common exhaust path connected to downstream ends of the individual exhaust paths of the heating modules; a branch path branched from the individual exhaust paths and opened to the outside of the processing vessel; and an exhaust flow rate adjusting unit configured to adjust a flow rate ratio of an exhaust flow rate of a gas exhausted from the exhaust port into the common exhaust path and an introduction flow rate of a gas introduced from the outside of the processing vessel into the common exhaust path through the branch path.
US09991138B2	Etching method and etching apparatus An etching method includes a step of etching a cobalt film formed on a surface of a target object by supplying an etching gas containing β-diketone and an oxidizing gas for oxidizing the cobalt film to the target object. The supply of the etching gas and the oxidizing gas is carried out such that a flow rate ratio of the oxidizing gas to the etching gas is ranging from 0.5% to 50% while heating the target object to a temperature lower than or equal to 250° C.
US09991136B2	Leadframe and the method to fabricate thereof The present invention discloses a leadframe in which two conductive pillars with a high aspect ratio and the corresponding two leads of the leadframe form a 3D space for accommodating at least one device. A first lead and a second lead are spaced apart from each other. A first conductive pillar is formed on the first lead by disposing a first via on the first lead, wherein at least one first conductive material is filled inside the first via to form the first conductive pillar. A second conductive pillar is formed on the second lead by disposing a second via on the second lead, wherein at least one second conductive material is filled inside the second via to form the second conductive pillar. The first lead, the second lead, the first conductive pillar, and the second conductive pillar form a 3D space for accommodating at least one device, wherein the at least one device is electrically connected to the first conductive pillar and the second conductive pillar.
US09991129B1	Selective etching of amorphous silicon over epitaxial silicon Systems and methods of etching a semiconductor substrate may include concurrent exposure of the semiconductor substrate to a chlorine-containing precursor and ultraviolet (UV) light. The semiconductor substrate may include exposed amorphous silicon. The semiconductor substrate may further include exposed crystalline silicon or underlying crystalline silicon. The methods may further include removing amorphous silicon faster than crystalline silicon.
US09991105B2	Active stabilization of ion trap radiofrequency potentials Disclosed are improved methods and structures for actively stabilizing the oscillation frequency of a trapped ion by noninvasively sampling and rectifying the high voltage RF potential at circuit locations between a step-up transformer and a vacuum feedthrough leading to the ion trap electrodes. We use this sampled/rectified signal in a feedback loop to regulate the RF input amplitude to the circuit. By employing techniques and structures according to the present disclosure we are advantageously able to stabilize a 1 MHz trapped ion oscillation frequency to <10 Hz after 200 s of integration, representing a 34 dB reduction in the level of trap frequency noise and drift, over a locking bandwidth of up to 30 kHz.
US09991102B2	Sputtering apparatus, film deposition method, and control device A sputtering apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a substrate holder, a cathode unit arranged at a position diagonally opposite to the substrate holder, a position sensor for detecting a rotational position of the substrate, and a holder rotation controller for adjusting a rotation speed of the substrate according to the detected rotational position. The holder rotation controller controls the rotation speed so that the rotation speed of the substrate when the cathode unit is located on a side in a first direction as an extending direction of a process target surface of the relief structure is lower than the rotation speed of the substrate when the cathode unit is located on a side in a second direction which is perpendicular to the first direction along the rotation of the substrate.
US09991100B2	Plasma processing apparatus and control method The plasma processing apparatus includes a first electrode to which high frequency power is applied, a second electrode that functions as a counter electrode with respect to the first electrode, and a controller configured to control distribution of plasma generated between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode is, for example, an upper electrode. The second electrode includes a lower electrode, and a peripheral portion disposed around the lower electrode. The peripheral portion includes a plurality of split electrodes divided in a peripheral direction. For each split electrode, the controller controls an impedance between the plasma and a ground via the split electrode.
US09991099B2	Filament holder for hot cathode PECVD source A chemical vapor deposition source that includes at least one plate to which first and second electrical connection posts are coupled. The chemical vapor deposition source also includes a filament having a first end and a second end. The first end of the filament is electrically connected to the first electrical connection post and the second end of the filament is electrically connected to the second electrical connection post. The chemical vapor deposition source further includes at least one filament holder electrically insulated from the at least one plate. The at least one filament holder holds a portion of the filament between the first end and the second end.
US09991092B2	Scanning electron microscope and sample observation method A scanning electron microscope of the present invention performs scanning by changing a scanning line density in accordance with a sample when an image of a scanned region is formed by scanning a two-dimensional region on the sample with an electron beam or is provided with a GUI having sample information input means which inputs information relating to the sample and display means which displays a recommended scanning conditioHn according to the input and performs scanning with a scanning line density according to the sample by selecting the recommended scanning condition. As a result, in observation using a scanning electron microscope, a suitable scanning device which can improve contrast of a profile of a two-dimensional pattern and suppress shading by suppressing the influence of charging caused by primary charged particle radiation and by improving a detection rate of secondary electrons and a scanning method are provided.
US09991090B2	Dual laser beam system used with an electron microscope and FIB The present invention discloses an electron microscope and FIB system for processing and imaging of a variety of materials using two separate laser beams of different characteristics. The first laser beam is used for large bulk material removal and deep trench etching of a workpiece. The second laser beam is used for finer precision work, such as micromachining of the workpiece, small spot processing, or the production of small heat affected zones. The first laser beam and the second laser beam can come from the same laser source or come from separate laser sources. Having one laser source has the additional benefits of making the system cheaper and being able to create separate external and internal station such that the debris generated from bulk material removal from the first laser beam will not interfere with vacuum or components inside the particle beam chamber.
US09991088B2	Charged particle beam device and aberration corrector An aberration corrector includes a mirror that corrects an aberration of a charged particle beam, a beam separator, and a bypass optical system in the beam separator. The beam separator includes an entrance of the charged particle beam and an exit from which the charged particle beam is emitted to an objective lens, and separates an incident trajectory from the entrance to the mirror and a reflection trajectory from the mirror to the exit from each other by deflecting the charged particle beam in an ON state. The bypass optical system is disposed at a position at which the trajectory of the charged particle beam bypasses when the beam separator is in the ON state, and the trajectory of the charged particle beam passes when the beam separator is in an OFF state, and controls the charged particle beam so that objective lens optical conditions in a trajectory via the mirror and a trajectory passing through the bypass optical system coincide with each other.
US09991086B2	Multi charged particle beam writing method and multi charged particle beam writing apparatus In one embodiment, a multi charged particle beam writing method includes performing blanking deflection on each of multiple beams using a plurality of individual blankers, and collectively performing blanking deflection on the multiple beams using a common blanker. The beams controlled in the beam ON state by the individual blankers and the common blanker pass through a hole at central part of a liming aperture member. The beams deflected in the beam OFF state by the individual blankers or the common blanker are deviated from the hole and are interrupted by the limiting aperture member. When one of the common blanker and the individual blanker deflects one of the beams to the beam OFF state while the other of them deflects the beam in the beam OFF state, the beam moves on the limiting aperture member such that the beam is away from the hole.
US09991084B2	Continuous contact x-ray source An x-ray device utilizes a band of material to exchange charge through tribocharging within a chamber maintained at low fluid pressure. The charge is utilized to generate x-rays within the housing, which may pass through a window of the housing. Various contact rods may be used as part of the tribocharging process.
US09991055B2	Solid electrolytic capacitor assembly for use at high temperatures A capacitor assembly that is capable of exhibiting good properties under hot conditions. The ability to perform under such conditions is due in part to the use of an intrinsically conductive polymer in the solid electrolyte that contains repeating units having the following formula (I): wherein, R is (CH2)a—O—(CH2)b; a is from 0 to 10; b is from 1 to 18; Z is an anion; and X is a cation. The resulting capacitor assembly may exhibit excellent electrical properties even when exposed to high temperatures.
US09991052B2	Biaxially stretched polypropylene film for capacitor, metallized film, and film capacitor Provided is a biaxially stretched polypropylene film for capacitors which has high withstand voltage characteristics when used as a dielectric for capacitors and which has highly suitable processability into elements. The biaxially stretched polypropylene film for capacitors has projections on both surfaces and has a thickness (t1, μm) of 4-20 μm. When one of the surfaces is expressed by surface A and the other by surface B, all of the following relationships are satisfied. 800≤SRzB≤1,300 (nm) 0.1≤SRzA/SRzB≤0.8 PBmin≥100 (nm) PBmax≤1,500 (nm) 0.4≤PB450-750/PB≤0.7.
US09991044B2	Electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus includes a base and an electronic module. The base includes first and second base walls, a separating wall connected between the first and second base walls, and two receiving spaces disposed at opposite sides of the separating wall. The electronic module includes a terminal unit, and two electronic units respectively received in the receiving spaces and connected to the terminal unit. The terminal unit includes two pairs of first terminals, each of which has a connecting section protruding from one of two opposite side surfaces of the second base wall, and two second terminals, each of which has two connecting sections respectively protruding from two opposite side surfaces of the first base wall.
US09991043B2	Integrated magnetic assemblies and methods of assembling same An integrated magnetic assembly includes a magnetic core, an input winding inductively coupled to the magnetic core, a first output winding inductively coupled to the magnetic core, and a second output winding inductively coupled to the magnetic core. The magnetic core includes first and second non-winding legs, and first and second winding legs. The first and second non-winding legs are spaced apart from one another, and the magnetic core defines an opening between the first and second non-winding legs. The input winding extends through the opening between the first and second non-winding legs, and is wound around each of the first and second winding legs. The first output winding is wound around the first winding leg. The second output winding is wound around the second winding leg.
US09991041B2	Variable coupled inductor A variable coupled inductor includes a first core, two conducting wires, a second core and a magnetic structure. The first core includes two first protruding portions, a second protruding portion and two grooves, wherein the second protruding portion is located between the two first protruding portions and each of the grooves is located between one of the first protruding portions and the second protruding portion. Each of the conducting wires is disposed in one of the grooves. The second core is disposed on the first core. A first gap is formed between each of the first protruding portions and the second core and a second gap is formed between the second protruding portion and the second core. The magnetic structure is disposed between the second protruding portion and the second core and distributed symmetrically with respect to a centerline of the second protruding portion.
US09991040B2	Apparatus and methods for magnetic core inductors with biased permeability Inductive elements comprising anisotropic media and biasing coils for magnetically biasing thereof and methods of manufacture and operation for use in applications such as microelectronics. Application of an electrical current through the bias coils generates a magnetic field that biases the magnetic material such that a desirable orientation of anisotropy is achieved throughout the magnetic core and enables modulation of the inductive response of the device. Electrical conductors coupled to interconnects are magnetically coupled to magnetic core layers to produce self and/or mutual inductors.
US09991039B2	Linear actuators A linear actuator (20, 20′, 20″) comprises a plunger receptacle (22); a coil (24); a magnetic plunger (26); a magnetic base (28); a return spring (30); and a lock spring (32, 32′). The coil (24) is wound about at least a portion of an exterior surface of the plunger receptacle (22). The magnetic plunger (26) is at least partially disposed within a cavity at least partially formed by an interior surface of the plunger receptacle (22) for linear motion along a plunger axis (34). The magnetic base (28) is radially disposed relative to the plunger (26). The return spring (30) is disposed to bias the plunger (26) to a plunger extended position. The lock spring (32, 32′) is configured and oriented to lock the plunger (26) in the plunger extended position when power is not applied to the coil (24) but to be attracted to the magnetic base (28) and thereby permit movement of the plunger (26) to a plunger retracted position when the power is applied to the coil (24).
US09991033B2	Rare-earth permanent magnet and method for manufacturing rare-earth permanent magnet There are provided a rare-earth permanent magnet and a manufacturing method thereof capable of preventing deterioration of magnet properties. In the method, magnet material is milled into magnet powder. Next, a mixture is prepared by mixing the magnet powder and a binder made of long-chain hydrocarbon and/or of a polymer or a copolymer consisting of monomers having no oxygen atoms. Next, the mixture is formed into a sheet-like shape so as to obtain a green sheet. After that, the green sheet is held for a predetermined length of time at binder decomposition temperature in a non-oxidizing atmosphere so as to remove the binder by causing depolymerization reaction or the like to the binder, which turns into monomer. The green sheet from which the binder has been removed is sintered by raising temperature up to sintering temperature. Thereby a permanent magnet 1 is obtained.
US09991021B2	Laser-weldable electrostatically dissipative polyoxymethylene based on stainless steel fibers Polymer compositions containing a polyoxymethylene base polymer that is compounded with a conductive filler and pigment carbon black are disclosed that exhibit electrostatic dissipative (ESD) capabilities while also being laser weldable. The polymer composition can be formed into shaped or molded articles such as filters, flanges, connectors, etc. for use in fuel systems where conductivity, ductility, weldability, and resistance to aggressive fuels are required. The compositions can be compounded into a pellet product which can then be formed into a shaped article that complies with the ESD capabilities required by SAE J1645. At the same time, parts produced from the compositions can absorb laser energy sufficiently to form a high quality welded interface with parts produced from other compositions that are transparent to laser radiation and cannot absorb laser energy sufficiently.
US09991019B2	Conductive polymer composite and substrate A conductive polymer composite includes: a π-conjugated polymer, and a dopant polymer which contains a repeating unit of general formula (1) and having a weight-average molecular weight of 1,000-500,000. The conductive polymer composite which has excellent filterability and film-formability by spin coating, and can form a conductive film having high transparency and excellent flatness. R1 represents a hydrogen atom or methyl group; R2 represents any of a single bond, ester group, and linear, branched, or cyclic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, the hydrocarbon group optionally containing any one or more of an ether group, ester group, and amide group; “Z” represents any of a single bond, phenylene group, naphthylene group, ether group, and ester group; R3 represents a hydrogen atom or alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and may be bonded to R2 to form a ring; and “a” is a number satisfying 0
US09991017B2	Method of forming amorphous carbon monolayer and electronic device including amorphous carbon monolayer A method of forming an amorphous carbon monolayer (ACM) and an electronic device including the ACM are provided. The method includes forming the ACM on a surface of a germanium (Ge) substrate via a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process. The CVD process includes injecting a reaction gas including carbon-containing gas and hydrogen (H2) gas in to a reaction chamber containing the Ge substrate, wherein a partial pressure of the H2 gas in the reaction chamber may range from 1 Torr to 30 Torr.
US09990995B2	Systems having a resistive memory device Systems having a resistive memory device having control circuitry configured to build a data word from remapped data bits from a received data word such that pairs of data bits are mapped to adjacent locations in the built data word, the control circuitry further configured to program the built data word to memory cells coupled to a selected data line such that, during a same program operation, pairs of adjacent memory cells along the selected data line are programmed with the pairs of data.
US09990993B2	Three-transistor resistive random access memory cells A ReRAM cell array has having at least one row and one column includes first and second complementary bit lines for each row, a word line, a p-word line, and an n-word line for each column. A ReRAM cell at each row and column of the array includes a first ReRAM device, its first end connected to the first complementary bit line of its row, a p-channel transistor, its source connected to a second end of the first ReRAM device, its drain connected to a switch node, its gate connected to the p-channel word line of its column, a second ReRAM device, its first end connected to the second complementary bit line of its row, an n-channel transistor, its source connected to a second end of the second ReRAM device, its drain connected to the switch node, its gate connected to the n-channel word line of its column.
US09990991B2	Resistive memory device and method relating to a read voltage in accordance with variable situations A resistive memory device and a method may be provided. The resistive memory device may include a reset voltage-detecting circuit, a set voltage-detecting circuit, a control circuit and a read voltage-generating circuit. The reset voltage-detecting circuit may receive a variable preliminary reset current to detect reference reset voltage information. The set voltage-detecting circuit may receive a variable preliminary set current to detect reference set voltage information. The control circuit may receive the reference reset voltage information and the reference set voltage information to determine middle voltage information of the reference reset voltage information and the reference set voltage information. The read voltage-generating circuit may receive the middle voltage information to generate a read voltage.
US09990983B2	Memory control circuit unit, memory storage device and signal receiving method A memory control circuit unit, a memory storage device and a signal receiving method. In one exemplary embodiment, a memory interface circuit of the memory control circuit unit receives a first signal from a volatile memory and adjusts a voltage value of the first signal to a voltage range in response to an internal impedance of the memory interface circuit, where a central value of the voltage range is not equal to a default voltage value, and the default voltage value is one half a sum of a voltage value of a supply voltage of the memory interface circuit and a voltage value of a reference ground voltage. In addition, the memory interface circuit further generates an input signal according to a voltage correspondence between the first signal and an internal reference voltage.
US09990979B2	Semiconductor memory device capable of reducing peak current with respect to external power in multi-memory die structures A semiconductor memory device is disclosed that can differentially control a driving ability and current consumption of the charge pump circuit according to operation state information of other memory die. The semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of charge pump circuits installed on a plurality of memory dies, and a pump managing circuit installed on each of the memory dies to control the charge pump circuits and receive operation state information with respect to other memory die to generate control signals for controlling the charge pump circuits on its own memory die.
US09990975B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory includes a semiconductor substrate, a first substrate area in the semiconductor substrate, a first cell unit in the first substrate area, the first cell unit including a first memory cell and a first transistor, and the first transistor having a control terminal connected to a first word line, using the first substrate area as a channel and supplying a read current or a write current to the first memory cell, and a substrate potential setting circuit setting the first substrate area to a first substrate potential when the read current is supplied to the first memory cell, and setting the first substrate area to a second substrate potential different from the first substrate potential when the write current is supplied to the first memory cell.
US09990968B2	Control circuit and memory device having the same In an embodiment, a control circuit may include a command interface, a clock selection signal output circuit, and a clock generating circuit. The command interface may output a selection enable signal in response to a command. The clock selection signal output circuit may output, in response to the selection enable signal, a clock selection signal according to various sub-operations performed in a selected operation. The clock generating circuit may generate main clocks having different periods according the clock selection signal.
US09990967B2	Apparatuses and methods for performing corner turn operations using sensing circuitry The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to performing corner turn operations using sensing circuitry. An example apparatus comprises a first group of memory cells coupled to an access line and a plurality of sense lines and a second group of memory cells coupled to a plurality of access lines and a sense line. The example apparatus comprises a controller configured to cause a corner turn operation using sensing circuitry on an element stored in the first group of memory cells resulting in the element being stored in the second group of memory cells.
US09990965B2	Storage device Noise attributed to signals of a word line, in first and second bit lines which are overlapped with the same word line in memory cells stacked in a three-dimensional manner is reduced in a storage device with a folded bit-line architecture. The storage device includes a driver circuit including a sense amplifier, and first and second memory cell arrays which are stacked each other. The first memory cell array includes a first memory cell electrically connected to the first bit line and a first word line, and the second memory cell array includes a second memory cell electrically connected to the second bit line and a second word line. The first and second bit lines are electrically connected to the sense amplifier in the folded bit-line architecture. The first word line, first bit line, second bit line, and second word line are disposed in this manner over the driver circuit.
US09990964B1	Storage device operating differently according to temperature of memory A storage device includes memories and a controller. The controller controls first and second program operations on the memory. When a temperature of the memory is lower than a reference value, the controller controls execution of the first program operation. When the temperature of the memory is equal to or higher than the reference value, the controller controls execution of the second program operation which consumes a smaller amount of power than the first program operation. The controller adjusts an operational condition of the memory such that bandwidth on the memory remains equivalent during the first and second program operations.
US09990962B2	Data sense amplifier and a memory device with open or folded bit line structure A data sense amplifier may include: first and second external nodes, wherein a potential difference occurs between the first and second external nodes when a memory cell is selected; an amplification unit suitable for generating and amplifying a potential difference between first and second nodes in response to the potential difference between the first and second external nodes; and a switching unit suitable for electrically coupling the first and second external nodes to the first and second nodes, respectively, after a predetermined time elapses from when the memory cell is selected.
US09990956B2	Recording apparatus In a recording system comprising a plurality of recording apparatuses connected in cascade to increase the number of audio channels, a desired audio signal can be monitored. In the recording apparatus, when a digital audio signal is input from a digital input terminal and an analog audio signal is input from an analog audio input terminal, the analog audio signal is converted to a digital signal, which is further embedded in the digital audio signal and output from an output terminal. When an operation unit designates a channel to be used for monitor output, among the digital audio signal input from a digital input terminal and a digital audio signal obtained by converting the analog audio signal to the digital signal, an audio signal of the channel which is designated is output for monitoring.
US09990952B2	Optical medium reproducing device and optical medium reproducing method There is provided an optical medium reproducing device configured to optically reproduce an optical medium including a plurality of tracks formed, the optical medium reproducing device including: an optical filter configured to receive an incident returned light beam from the optical medium, and to spatially and optically form a plurality of signals having different bands in a tangential direction and a radial direction; an arithmetic unit configured to operate the plurality of first signals formed by the optical filter so as to form a plurality of channels of second signals; and an electrical filter configured to individually receive the second signals, and to perform processing to the second signals so as to acquire a reproduced signal.
US09990948B1	Disk device with stopper for movable member According to one embodiment, a stopper of a disk device includes a fixing member to be fixed to a supporter of the disk device, and a cushioning member formed of a fluorine rubber and attached to the fixing member. The cushioning member includes a contact surface which contacts the fixing member, a first contact surface which can contact the supporter of the disk device, and a second contact surface which can contact a movable member in the disk device, the first contact surface has a first surface adhesive force based on adhesion of the fluorine rubber, and the second contact surface is subjected to a non-adhesive surface treatment and has a second surface adhesive force which is less than or equal to 1/20 the first surface adhesive force.
US09990946B2	Head assembly and magnetic disk device To control the resonance generated in the head assembly and improve property on the head location controlling. A head assembly includes: a slider having a head element; a slider supporting plate for holding the slider; a load beam for holding the slider supporting plate; a support projection which is arranged on the front end part of the load beam and on which the slider supporting plate is supported rotatably; a drive unit that rotates the slider supporting plate around the support projection; a dynamic vibration absorber arranged on the slider supporting plate, wherein the dynamic vibration absorber is disposed closer to the rear end side of the load beam than the support projection and has vibration freedom in the rotating direction of the slide supporting plate.
US09990944B1	Tunnel valve magnetic tape head for multichannel tape recording An apparatus, according to one embodiment, includes: a tape head having: a write module, a read module, and a plurality of tunnel valve read transducers arranged in an array extending along the read module. Each of the tunnel valve read transducers includes: a sensor structure, an upper and lower magnetic shield, an upper conducting spacer layer between the sensor structure and the upper magnetic shield, a lower conducting spacer layer between the sensor structure and the lower magnetic shield, and electrically insulating layers opposite the sensor structure. The sensor structure includes a cap layer, a free layer, a tunnel barrier layer, a reference layer and antiferromagnetic layer. A height of the free layer measured in a direction perpendicular to a media bearing surface of the read module is less than a width of the free layer measured in a cross-track direction perpendicular to an intended direction of media travel.
US09990937B1	Device and method for synchronizing speakers A first speaker, comprising: a receiver configured to receive, from a second speaker, a second runtime and a second number of audio samples when the first speaker plays an audio file synchronized with the second speaker; a calculator configured to calculate a time interval value based on the second runtime; a generator configured to generate a revised second number of audio samples based on the time interval value; a comparator configured to compare a difference between the revised second number of audio samples and a first number of audio samples of the first speaker so as to determine the amount of latency of the first speaker; an adjustor configured to adjust a playing speed of the first speaker; and an output configured to output the audio file according to the adjusted playing speed.
US09990932B2	Processing in the encoded domain of an audio signal encoded by ADPCM coding A method for processing an encoded audio signal in a binary stream by MICDA predictive coding. The method includes the following steps: determining a signal assessed from quantification indices of the binary stream; determining unencoded parameters representative of the audio signal from the assessed signal; and processing the encoded audio signal using the determined parameters. Also provided is a device implementing the method.
US09990929B2	Method for reduction of aliasing introduced by spectral envelope adjustment in real-valued filterbanks The present invention proposes a new method for improving the performance of a real-valued filterbank based spectral envelope adjuster. By adaptively locking the gain values for adjacent channels dependent on the sign of the channels, as defined in the application, reduced aliasing is achieved. Furthermore, the grouping of the channels during gain-calculation, gives an improved energy estimate of the real valued subband signals in the filterbank.
US09990927B2	Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding 3-dimensional audio signal A method of encoding a multi-channel 3-dimensional (3D) audio signal mixed with a multi-channel 3D object signal is provided. The method includes: obtaining a location parameter indicating a virtual location of the multi-channel 3D object signal on a multi-channel speaker layout based on a gain value of the multi-channel 3D object signal for each channel; and encoding the multi-channel 3D audio signal and the location parameter.
US09990926B1	Passive enrollment method for speaker identification systems Techniques for passive enrollment of a user in a speaker identification (ID) device are provided. One technique includes: parsing, by a processor of the speaker ID device, a speech sample, spoken by the user, into a keyword phrase sample and a command phrase sample; identifying, by a text-dependent speaker ID circuit of the speaker ID device, the user as the speaker of the keyword phrase sample; associating the command phrase sample with the identified user; determining if the command phrase sample in conjunction with one or more earlier command phrase samples associated with the user is sufficient command phrase sampling to enroll the user in a text-independent speaker ID circuit of the speaker ID device; and enrolling the user in the text-independent speaker ID circuit using the command phrase samples associated with the user after determining there is sufficient command phrase sampling to enroll the user.
US09990919B2	Methods and apparatus for joint stochastic and deterministic dictation formatting Methods and apparatus for speech recognition on user dictated words to generate a dictation and using a discriminative statistical model derived from a deterministic formatting grammar module and user formatted documents to extract features and estimate scores from the formatting graph. The processed dictation can be output as formatted text based on a formatting selection to provide an integrated stochastic and deterministic formatting of the dictation.
US09990910B2	Locking strap mechanism An automatically actuating strap lock mechanism for use on instruments is disclosed. The multiple embodiments disclosed herein use an automatically actuating retaining mechanism to allow a user to attach the end of a strap to a strap button on an instrument without having to manipulate a lever or knob. The retaining mechanism is capable of being moved into the open position using the head of a strap button, allowing a user to slide the mechanism over a strap button. Once a strap button is seated in the strap lock mechanism, the retaining mechanism is automatically released, locking the strap button in place.
US09990896B2	6bit/8bit gamma common driving circuit and method for driving the same The present invention relates to a 6 bit/8 bit gamma common driving circuit and a method for driving the same, in which a gamma voltage is changed selectively according to a number of received bits by using an R-string for using gamma in common. The 6 bit/8 bit gamma common driving circuit includes a gamma selection unit having an 8 bit receiving terminal for receiving a 6 bit or 8 bit digital data, and the gamma selection unit by passing the 8 bit data received at the receiving terminal, or adding “00” to least significant two bits of the 6 bit data received at the receiving terminal to change the 6 bit data to an 8 bit data and forwarding the 8 bit data, according to an external bit selection BSEL signal; a summing unit for summing most significant 6 bit data of the 8 bit data from the gamma selection unit and forwarding a carry signal “0 or 1”, or summing the 8 bit data from the gamma selection unit and forwarding a carry signal “0 or 1”, according to the bit selection BSEL signal; and a digital-to-analog converter for forwarding an analog signal corresponding to a R-string relevant to the data from the gamma selection unit if the carry signal from the summing unit is “0”, or forwarding an analog signal corresponding to R225 of the R-string if the carry signal from the summing unit is “1”.
US09990893B2	Pixel circuit A pixel circuit includes a first capacitor whose two terminals are coupled to a first node and a ground end respectively, a first switch whose two terminals are coupled to a second node and a fourth node respectively, a liquid crystal, a second switch, a pull-up circuit, a pull-down circuit, a second capacitor and a third switch. The first switch is coupled to the first node and a first data input end. The liquid crystal is coupled to the second and a third node. The second switch is coupled to the second node and a second data input end. The pull-up circuit is coupled to the first node and the second node and a node of a high voltage. The pull-down circuit is coupled to the second node, the fourth node and the ground end. The third switch is coupled to the fourth node and the ground end.
US09990891B2	Control device, display device, and method of controlling display device A control device that controls the driving of a display device which changes display states by a writing operation of applying a driving voltage several times, wherein the control device includes a determining portion that determines whether or not the writing operation is performed for each pixel; and a control portion that starts the writing operation in the pixel in which the writing operation is determined to be performed by the determining portion, the writing operation including applying, wherein, in a case where a previous writing operation is not performed on the pixel in which the writing operation is determined to be performed by the determining portion, the control portion starts the writing operation, and in a case where the previous writing operation is performed on the pixel, the control portion starts the next writing operation after the previous writing operation is finished.
US09990882B2	Compensation accuracy A system uses image data, representing images to be displayed in successive frames, to drive a display having pixels that include a drive transistor and an organic light emitting device by dividing each frame into at least first and second sub-frames, supplying the image data during one of the sub-frames, supplying compensation data during the other of the sub-frames, compensating image data based on the compensation data, and supplying each pixel with a drive current that is based on the compensated image data during each frame. The compensated image data may be supplied from a driver having a preselected data resolution, and the system determines whether the compensated image data is greater than the data resolution of the driver, and if the compensated image data is greater than the data resolution of the driver, transfers the excess compensated image data to a different sub-frame.
US09990875B2	Display panel, method and device for measuring screen flickering, and display device The present disclosure provides a display panel, a method and a device for measuring screen flickering, and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate, data lines and gate lines arranged on the substrate and crossing each other, and subpixel units defined by the data lines and the gate lines. Each subpixel unit includes a TFT, a pixel electrode, a first common electrode and a second common electrode. The second common electrode is connected to an input end capable of providing an alternating voltage at a first frequency. An orthogonal projection of the second common electrode onto the substrate at least partially overlaps an orthogonal projection of the pixel electrode onto the substrate.
US09990872B1	System and method for providing views of virtual content in an augmented reality environment A system configured for providing views of virtual content in an augmented reality environment may comprise one or more of a first display, a second display, an optical element, one or more processors, and/or other components. The first display and second display may be separated by a separation distance. The first display and second display may be arranged such that rays of light emitted from pixels of the first display may travel through the second display, then reflect off the optical element and into a user's eyes. A three-dimensional light field perceived with a user's field-of-view may be generated. Distances of the first display and/or second display to the optical element may impact a perceived range of the three-dimensional light field. The separation distance may impact a perceived depth of the three-dimensional light field and/or a resolution of virtual content perceived with the three-dimensional light field.
US09990862B2	Active colonoscopy training model and method of using the same An active colonoscopy training model (10) and method of using the same with a colonoscope (60) includes an abdominal model (12), a colorectal tube (16) configured to replicate a human colon, and at least one sensor operably coupled to the colorectal tube (16). The abdominal model (12) comprises an outer body (14) having a hollow interior portion (22), and the colorectal tube (16) is operably coupled to the abdominal model (12) within the interior portion (22). The colorectal tube (16) is configured to receive the colonoscope (60), and the at least one sensor measures one or more of a tension, a force, a pressure, a light, and a position of the colonoscope (60) when the colonoscope (60) is positioned and advanced through the colorectal tube (16).
US09990861B2	Smart prosthesis for facilitating artificial vision using scene abstraction A method of providing artificial vision to a visually-impaired user implanted with a visual prosthesis. The method includes configuring, in response to selection information received from the user, a smart prosthesis to perform at least one function of a plurality of functions in order to facilitate performance of a visual task. The method further includes extracting, from an input image signal generated in response to optical input representative of a scene, item information relating to at least one item within the scene relevant to the visual task. The smart prosthesis then generates image data corresponding to an abstract representation of the scene wherein the abstract representation includes a representation of the at least one item. Pixel information based upon the image data is then provided to the visual prosthesis.
US09990856B2	Systems and methods for providing vibration feedback in robotic systems Systems and methods for training an operator of a robotic surgery system are disclosed. One such method includes enabling the operator to perform a test procedure, recording vibrations of a surgical tool of the robotic surgery system during the test procedure, and generating a score for the operator based at least in part on the recorded vibrations of the surgical tool.
US09990854B1	Unmanned aerial system mission flight representation conversion techniques and traffic management scheme A system and method are provided for implementing unmanned aircraft system (UAS) deconfliction schemes by accepting representations of UAS flight plans in disparate native forms, and to converting them into a common format in support of evaluating potential conflicts, and providing flight plan approval/disapproval, and/or flight plan execution restrictions or warnings regarding potentially conflicting manned and unmanned aerial vehicle operations. The disclosed UAS Traffic Management (UTM) scheme may validate a UAS flight plan based on the provided flight plan representation, approving or disapproving the flight plan, and may provide suggestions for modification of a submitted UAS flight plan to enhance operational deconfliction without completely rejecting, through disapproval, the flight plan. Different levels of alerts and/or warnings may be provided to alert the UAS platform operators and National Airspace System operators/controllers to potential conflicts and conflict avoidance.
US09990849B2	Method and device for ascertaining a parking position for a vehicle A method for ascertaining a parking position for a vehicle, including the following: ascertaining a vehicle geometry and a maneuverability parameter of the vehicle, and selecting a parking position for the vehicle from a plurality of parking positions of a parking lot as a function of the vehicle geometry and the maneuverability parameter. Also described is a corresponding device, a parking system, and a computer program.
US09990847B2	Traffic accident occurrence notification system using LED display lamps The present invention relates to a traffic accident occurrence notification system using LED display lamps, comprising: an emergency message generating unit provided in a mobile means so as to generate a wireless signal in an emergency situation; a plurality of LED display lamps provided together with street lamps provided on a road so as to receive the wireless signal from the emergency message generating unit and display a turned-on or flickering state from a position at which the wireless signal is received to a position at which a distance is set at a rear; and a street lamp control server for controlling the street lamps and the LED display lamps and determining the position at which the wireless signal is received so as to transmit information thereof to a rescue server. The present invention provides the emergency message generating unit in a vehicle so as to detect an accident or enable a driver to recognize an emergency situation and select propagation of the emergency situation, and enables a nearby street lamp to receive the wireless signal when the emergency message generating unit transmits the wireless signal so as to turn on or flicker the LED display lamps such that the LED display lamps located at the rear of a distance set at a corresponding position are turned on or flicker so as to make a driver in a rearward vehicle recognize the occurrence of the emergency situation ahead, thereby preventing the occurrence of a secondary collision accident.
US09990846B1	Device, system and method for traffic management Devices, systems and methods for adaptive traffic signaling, including at least one signal output unit, at least one processor to receive a first input from a traffic signaling control system, and to receive at least one second input from at least one external source, and a wireless communication module to allow communication between the at least one external source and the processor, wherein the processor is to control operation of the signal output unit based on the first input and second input.
US09990829B2	System and method for adapting alarms in a wearable medical device According to another example, a wearable medical device controller is provided. The device controller includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to determine a correlation between a phenomenon identifiable by the wearable medical device controller and at least one response pattern associated with a patient and store, responsive to detecting the correlation, an adaptation path to address the at least one response pattern, the adaptation path specifying an adaptation of at least one characteristic of an alarm. The at least one response pattern may include a plurality of response patterns and the adaptation path may reflect adaptations made to address at least some of the plurality of response patterns.
US09990822B2	Intruder detection using a wireless service mesh network The disclosed teachings relate to intruder detection. Some of the subject matter described herein includes a computer-implemented method for detecting physical movement using a wireless mesh network that provides wireless data communication, the wireless mesh network having a plurality of mesh points, each mesh point having a wireless coverage, the method including compiling a database of known devices based on monitoring unique identifiers of known devices that have previously conducted communication with the wireless mesh network through the plurality of mesh points; upon detecting a physical presence of a subject device within a physical space of the wireless mesh network, determining, based on the database of known devices, whether the physical presence of the subject device belongs to an anomaly; and when the physical presence of the subject device is determined to be an anomaly, causing a security action to be performed.
US09990821B2	Method of restoring camera position for playing video scenario An apparatus is provided that includes a plurality of pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras, each of the plurality of PTZ cameras having a respective field of view that covers a respective portion of a secured geographic area, a memory that saves a plurality of surveillance scenarios, each of the plurality of surveillance scenarios including a respective pan, tilt, and a zoom position for each of the plurality of PTZ cameras, and a user interface that receives a selection of one of the plurality of surveillance scenarios from a human user and, in response, simultaneously displays respective real time video images from each of the plurality of PTZ cameras using the respective pan, tilt, and zoom positions of the one of the plurality of surveillance scenarios.
US09990820B2	Museum showcase, having detection sensors, adjustment actuators, alarms and a processing unit connected together This museum showcase comprises a display space visible to the public for receiving objects, at least a detection sensor of a parameter of the showcase and at least one of an alarm and an actuator for adjusting a parameter of the showcase. The museum showcase further comprises a processing unit and a showcase interface; the showcase interface is operatively connected between the sensor, the adjusting actuator and/or the alarm and the processing unit, in order to transmit information from the sensor to the processing unit and to transmit commands from the processing unit to the adjusting actuator and/or the alarm. The museum showcase is therefore completely controllable by means of the processing unit, which receives information from one or more dedicated sensors that is considered necessary for the specific showcase and which manages actuators and alarms so as to maintain the desired conditions and/or signal abnormal situations, according to the information received.
US09990818B2	Enhanced emergency detection system A method includes reading a digital signal from a sensing device in an area of a structure, where the digital signal is configured to be present periodically. A trailing edge of the digital signal is determined. An analog signal from the sensing device is read, where the analog signal includes an output from a sensor included in the sensing device, and where the sensor is configured to detect an aspect of an environment. The analog signal is read after the trailing edge of the digital signal.
US09990809B2	Method and apparatus for electronic gaming A system and method for providing a card game is provided. Players are provided an option to enter one or more tournaments (for real monies or play monies). In an embodiment, a tournament lasts for a predetermined number of hands for a predetermined duration. As an example, a tournament duration may be defined by the number of players who bust out or complete a requisite number of hands by a predetermined date and time, or is defined by a specified number of players who bust out or complete the requisite number of hands. A tournament payout pool is determined based on the number of players who busted out or played in the tournament for a predetermined number of hands and duration.
US09990806B2	Method and apparatus for settlement of processor based tournament competition A method of providing or receiving value from or to a participant value in a game tournament wherein a plurality of participants play a casino-style game, includes calculating an expected value for the position of each participant in the tournament, the expected value based upon the number of wagering units held by the participant at the point in time, the number of wagering units held by each other participant in the tournament at the point in time and a payout table for the tournament.
US09990792B2	Methods and apparatus for receiving and sorting disks An apparatus for receiving and sorting disks includes a wheel having at least one well for receiving a disk, a motor coupled to the wheel, a collecting device positioned relative to the wheel, a disk sensor, an ejector, and a controller. The collecting device has at least a first collector and a second collector configured for receiving disks. The disk sensor is configured to detect a value of a parameter of a disk received in the well and generate a parameter value signal. The ejector is coupled to the wheel proximate the well and configured to eject a disk from the well in a plane parallel to a bottom surface of the wheel in response to an eject signal. The controller is operably coupled with the disk sensor and the ejector.
US09990788B2	Systems and methods for anticipatory locking and unlocking of a smart-sensor door lock An electronic device associated with a lock device detects a trigger event related to security of a smart home environment, determines a target state of the lock device based on the trigger event, and determines a current state of the lock device. A notification is sent to a user device including an indication of the trigger event and a prompt for an override input, and instructions to operate the lock device are either provided or not provided to the lock device based on a result of a comparison of the target state with the current state, and further based on a received override input or lack of a received override input.
US09990787B2	Secure door entry system and method A method for controlling access to a secure area via an electronic door entry system includes the steps of: displaying a bar code associated with the door entry system which can be read by a smartphone, the bar code encoding instructions for establishing a communications channel between the smartphone and a remote authentication system where a passcode for the door entry system can be obtained by an authorized person; receiving authentication data for a person over the communications channel from the smartphone; authenticating a person based on the authentication data; communicating a passcode to the smartphone; receiving a passcode input at the door entry system; verifying the passcode; and, generating a door lock release signal for the door entry system if the passcode is verified.
US09990762B2	Image processing apparatus and method An image processing apparatus includes a calculator configured to calculate a first difference value between frames in terms of either one or both of a position and a direction of a direct light by comparing a current frame to at least one previous frame, and a determiner configured to determine that an indirect light of the current frame is to be sampled in response to the first difference value being greater than or equal to a threshold.
US09990759B2	Offloading augmented reality processing A system and method for offloading augmented reality processing is described. A first sensor of a server generates a first set of sensor data corresponding to a location and an orientation of a display device. The server receives a request from the display device to offload a combination of at least one of a tracking process and a rendering process from the display device. The server generates offloaded processed data based on a combination of at least one of the first set of sensor data and a second set of sensor data. The second set of sensor data is generated by a second sensor at the display device. The server streams the offloaded processed data to the display device.
US09990758B2	Bounding volume hierarchy generation using a heterogeneous architecture A system rapidly builds bounding volume hierarchies for ray tracing using both the CPU cores and an integrated graphics processor. The hierarchy is built directly into shared memory (between the CPU and GPU). The method starts by sorting the triangles along a space-filling curve, and then quickly sets up a number of mini-trees with a small number of triangles in them, which includes computing the bounding boxes of the mini-trees. This makes it possible to build the mini-trees using a surface-area heuristic in parallel on the graphics processor, while at the same time, the trees above the mini-trees are built in a top-down fashion using the CPU cores.
US09990752B2	Image processing device, imaging device, microscope system, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium An image processing device includes: an image acquiring unit that acquires first and second image groups, each image sharing a common part of a subject with the other image in different first and second directions; a calculating unit that calculates, as a shading component, a ratio of luminance of an area in one or more images, the area sharing a common subject with another area including a flat area whose shading component is constant in a single image other than the one or more images, to luminance of the another area, for each of the first and second image groups; and a correcting unit that performs a shading correction on shading areas in the images using the shading component. The shading component includes a normalized shading component based on luminance of the flat area, and a non-normalized shading component based on luminance of an area other than the flat area.
US09990748B2	Corner texel addressing mode The adverse affects of using out-of-bounds texels for bilateral interpolation may be reduced by redefining the valid texel domain as having four corners defined at the centers of four corner texels. As a result, the texels around the periphery of the valid texture domain are partial texels, with the corner texels being one quarter of a texel and the edges being half of a texel.
US09990747B1	System and method for selecting and highlighting elements of a graphical representation of data with respect to one or more variables A system and method for selecting and highlighting elements of a graphical representation of data. A disclosed video display system is capable of providing, as part of a displayed image, i) a collection of data points in a first display area of a display and ii) a first graphical representation in a second display area, wherein the graphical elements in the first graphical representation are dependent on the collection of data points. The video display system can provide, for example, a scatter plot as the collection of data points and a pie chart as the first graphical representation, and can superimpose a selection window on the scatter plot, in order to enable a user to specify or select a subset of the data points. The pie chart graphically represents, for example, a breakdown of members by organization, wherein each slice in the pie chart corresponds to a different organization.
US09990743B2	Suppression of vascular structures in images Image processing techniques may include a methodology for normalizing medical image and/or voxel data captured under different acquisition protocols and a methodology for suppressing selected anatomical structures from medical image and/or voxel data, which may result in improved detection and/or improved rendering of other anatomical structures. The technology presented here may be used, e.g., for improved nodule detection within computed tomography (CT) scans. While presented here in the context of nodules within the lungs, these techniques may be applicable in other contexts with little modification, for example, the detection of masses and/or microcalcifications in full field mammography or breast tomosynthesis based on the suppression of glandular structures, parenchymal and vascular structures in the breast.
US09990735B2	Image generation device that acquires images based on a periodic variation of an anatomical structure An image generating apparatus includes: a diagnosis image generating section that generates, as a diagnosis image for every first time interval, at least one of a moving image in which a predetermined part of a human body or an animal is photographed and temporally continuous images based on the moving image; an image target setting section that acquires, for the diagnosis image, a first image at a predetermined time and a second image for every second time interval longer than the first time interval from the predetermined time; a pixel color converting portion that converts, of pixels of the first image and the second image, colors of pixels satisfying a predetermined condition to be distinguishable; and a display image generating section that generates an image for display using the first image and the second image whose colors of the pixels have been converted by the pixel color converting portion.
US09990734B2	Locating and augmenting object features in images A computer-implemented method and system are described for augmenting image data of an object in an image, the method comprising receiving captured image data from a camera, storing a plurality of augmentation image data defining a respective plurality of augmentation values to be applied to the captured image data, storing a plurality of augmentation representations, each representation identifying a respective portion of augmentation image data, selecting one of said augmentation image data and one of said augmentation representations based on at least one colorization parameter, determining a portion of the augmentation image data to be applied based on the selected augmentation representation, augmenting the captured image data by applying said determined portion of the augmentation image data to the corresponding portion of the captured image data, and outputting the augmented captured image data.
US09990729B2	Methods of and apparatuses for modeling structures of coronary arteries from three-dimensional (3D) computed tomography angiography (CTA) images A method of modeling a structure of a coronary artery of a subject may include: forming a learning-based shape model of the structure of the artery, based on positions of landmarks acquired from three-dimensional images; receiving a target image; and/or modeling the artery structure included in the target image, using the model. An apparatus for modeling a structure of a coronary artery may include: a memory configured to store a learning-based shape model of the artery, the learning-based shape model being formed based on positions of a plurality of landmarks acquired from three-dimensional images, the plurality of the landmarks corresponding to the artery; a communication circuit configured to receive a target image; and/or a processing circuit configured to model the artery structure included in the target image, using the model.
US09990725B2	Medical image processing apparatus and medical image registration method using virtual reference point for registering images A medical image registration method includes determining whether a reference point of registration is present in a first medical image and a second medical image of an object; in response to determining that the reference point is not present in one of the first medical image and the second medical image, estimating a virtual reference point corresponding to the reference point in one of the first medical image and the second medical image, in which the reference point is not present, by using anatomical information of the object; and registering the first medical image and the second medical image by using the estimated virtual reference point.
US09990708B2	Pattern-measuring apparatus and semiconductor-measuring system An object of the present invention is to provide a pattern-measuring apparatus and a semiconductor-measuring system which are able to obtain an evaluation result for suitably selecting processing with respect to a semiconductor device. In the present invention for attaining the object described above, there is proposed a pattern-measuring apparatus including an arithmetic device which compares a circuit pattern of an electronic device with a reference pattern, in which the arithmetic device classifies the circuit pattern in processing unit of the circuit pattern on the basis of a comparison of a measurement result between the circuit pattern and the reference pattern with at least two threshold values.
US09990698B2	Control apparatus, lens apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that determine data as coefficient data corresponding to an order less than a predetermined order of an approximation function A control apparatus includes a storage circuit that stores first data containing a plurality of coefficient data obtained by approximating an optical transfer function of an optical system to an approximation function having a predetermined order. An input circuit inputs information of an image processing apparatus that is different from the control apparatus and performs image processing on an image captured by using the optical system. A determination circuit determines second data, that are coefficient data corresponding to an order lesser than the predetermined order of the approximation function, from the first data, based on the information of the image processing apparatus. An output circuit outputs the second data to the image processing apparatus.
US09990694B2	Methods and devices for outputting a zoom sequence Certain embodiments of this disclosure include methods and devices for outputting a zoom sequence. According to one embodiment, a method is provided. The method may include: (i) determining first location information from first metadata associated with one or more images, wherein the first location information identifies a first location; and (ii) outputting, for display, a first zoom sequence based on the first location information, wherein the first zoom sequence may include a first plurality of mapped images of the first location from a first plurality of zoom levels and the plurality of mapped images are sequentially ordered by a magnitude of the zoom level.
US09990685B2	Automated guidance system and method for a coordinated movement machine An automated guidance system for a coordinated movement machine includes a camera and a processor. The camera is mounted to a movable component of the coordinated movement machine. The processor is configured to visually recognize individual workpieces among a plurality of similarly shaped workpieces using a program running on the processor. The processor is further configured to determine x, y and z and Rx, Ry and Rz of the movable component with respect to each recognized workpiece among the plurality of recognized workpieces, and to move the movable component of the coordinated movement machine after determining x, y and z and Rx, Ry and Rz of the movable component.
US09990678B1	Systems methods and articles of manufacture for assessing trustworthiness of electronic tax return data Computer-implemented methods, systems and articles of manufacture for assessing trustworthiness of electronic tax return data. Systems may include modular components including a confidence module that determines at least one attribute of a source of the electronic tax return data, determines a confidence score for the electronic tax return data based at least in part upon at least one source attribute, compares the confidence score and pre-determined criteria, and generates an output indicating whether the confidence score for the electronic tax return data satisfies the pre-determined criteria. When the confidence score does not satisfy the pre-determined criteria, the user can be presented with an alert or message. Confidence scores can be generated and may also be displayed for specific electronic tax return data or fields, a tax form or worksheet, an interview screen, a tax topic, or the tax return as a whole, e.g., for purposes of determining audit risk.
US09990677B1	System, method, and computer-readable medium for facilitating treatment of a vehicle damaged in a crash A system, method, and computer-readable medium for facilitating treatment of a vehicle damaged in a crash utilizes near real-time monitoring of the market value of a vehicle type that includes the damaged vehicle, its vehicle parts, and/or one or more arranged vehicle treatments to approximate an extent of damage to the damaged vehicle and determine a prospective vehicle treatment facility for treating the damaged vehicle. In particular, the system continually monitors the market value of a vehicle, its vehicle parts, and/or a prescribed vehicle treatment to calculate a treatment complexity level, e.g., vehicle repair, total loss; for treating the damaged vehicle.
US09990669B2	Leveraging a social network to search for local inventory In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for leveraging a social network to search for local inventory includes communicating with a first mobile communication device over a network, the first mobile communication device associated with a user, and communicating with a second mobile communication device over the network, the second mobile communication device associated with a social network contact. The method further includes obtaining a geo-location of the second mobile communication device, processing a search request from the first mobile communication device, obtaining a radius of coverage for a merchant, determining whether the geo-location of the second mobile communication device is within the radius of coverage of the merchant, and providing a listing to the first mobile communication device of one or more items for sale by the merchant when the second mobile communication device is within the radius of coverage of the merchant.
US09990667B2	Method and apparatus for providing a gift using a mobile communication network and system including the apparatus The present disclosure provides a system for providing a gift using a communication network. The system includes: a gift icon provision unit configured to provide a product list to at least one of an order terminal device and a reception terminal device, and transmit a gift icon to the reception terminal device; a product information provision unit configured to provide information about products to at least one of the order terminal device and the reception terminal device; a customer management unit configured to manage customer information; a payment processing unit configured to provide a webpage to the order terminal device, and identify a completion of a payment; a gift management unit linked with the customer management unit, and configured to provide information about a validity of the gift icon; and a control unit configured to control operations of the units included in the system.
US09990665B1	Interfaces for item search Searching for items, such as apparel items, can be performed using a set of category-specific outlines or contours from which a user can select. The outlines enable a user to quickly specify a relevant category, and provide guidance as to how to orient the camera in order to enable an item to be identified in an image without the need for an expensive object identification and segmentation process. The outline can specify a “swatch” region, indicating where the user should position a view of a pattern, texture, or color of the item in which the user is interested. The category selection and swatch region data can be used to determine matching items. If the user wants a different set of search results, the user can select a different outline, causing a new query to be executed with updated category information and swatch data to obtain new search results.
US09990659B2	In-store self-serve and zoning using geo-fencing A geo-fencing system includes a plurality of beacons defining zones within a venue. The system receives a first beacon identifier from a mobile device and registers the mobile device in a first zone corresponding to the first beacon. The system causes a first menu to be displayed on the mobile device, indicating options for the first zone. In response to selection of one of the options, the system registers the mobile device as being active in the first zone. The system then receives a second beacon identifier and registers the mobile device as being in the second zone. The system also suspends the activity of the mobile device in the first zone and causes options to be displayed to continue or terminate the activity in the first zone.
US09990655B2	Live media stream including personalized notifications A live media broadcast includes core content streamed to multiple users. While all consumers can be presented with the same core content, each individual consumer can be provided with individually customized content from various notification services during commercial breaks. For example, while one consumer can be provided with customized banking updates from her bank account during part of a commercial break, during that same commercial break another user might be provided with social media notifications or reminders from his calendar. Notifications or updates can be received in a text format and converted to an audio or other suitable format at an ad server, and delivered to a media automation system for insertion into a media stream in a way that integrates notifications into the listening or viewing experience without interrupting presentation of the core content.
US09990654B2	System and method for dynamically retrieving and monitoring geofence activity Systems, device and techniques are disclosed for dynamically retrieving and monitoring geo-fence activity. A meta geo-fence may be identified based on a user device geolocation. The meta geo-fence having a radius that is dynamically generated to include previously defined geo-fences within or touching the meta geo-fence. User device geolocation may be monitored in relation to the defined geo-fences included in the radius of the meta geo-fence. A communication may be sent to the user device when the user device reports that the user device has entered or exited one of the previously defined geo-fences within or touching the radius of the meta geo-fence.
US09990640B2	Method for detecting a disconnection of the main connector of an electronic payment terminal, corresponding computer program product, storage means and payment terminal A method is proposed for detecting a disconnection of a main connector of an electronic payment terminal. The method includes detecting a break in a connection control loop between a central control unit, housed in the terminal, and the main connector. In the event of a positive detection of a break, configuring the terminal in a blocked state.
US09990636B1	Enterprise fulfillment system with dynamic prefetching, secured data access, system monitoring, and performance optimization capabilities Systems and methods for providing services to customers in response to customer requests received through one or more channels are disclosed. The present invention provides for a central fulfillment hub in which all requests from banking customers may be processed by applying a library of policies to systematically resolve the customer requests or engage resources necessary to resolve such requests. In addition, the system may provide security mechanisms to secure access to resources, including applications and data, based on applications, assigned user roles or user, activities, and access control configurations. Further, the system may dynamically allocate employees across teams based on system demand and provide secured access to the resources accordingly. In addition, the system includes an analytics engine that can dynamically modify the workflows, rules and other parameters of the system during operations in order to optimize system performance.
US09990630B2	Platform and method for analyzing the performance of message oriented middleware A computer server platform application for analyzing a capability of a message oriented transaction system. The platform application includes a first server having a performance driver utility for sending a plurality of transactions through a queue manager as messages having a payload and a correlation identification. The performance driver utility calculates and records a completion time for each transaction sent. A backend utility within the first server is for receiving each transaction sent, converting each payload into a reply message, and sending the reply message to a reply queue destination. A graphing utility contained within the first server is for displaying the completion time for each transaction and an average number of transactions per unit of time for a total number of transactions tested. The performance driver utility is further for displaying categories of possible transaction delays and resolutions of the delays.
US09990623B2	Systems and methods to provide information Systems and methods are to provide information to facilitate online transactions via mobile communications. In one aspect, a system includes a data storage facility to store and associate personal information of a user with a telephone number of the user, and an interchange coupled with the data storage facility. The interchange includes a common format processor and a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of different controllers of mobile communications. The converters are configured to communicate with the common format processor in a common format and to communicate with the controllers in different formats. The interchange uses the converters to communicate with the mobile phone of a user to approve the providing of the personal information from the data storage facility to a website.
US09990610B2	Systems and methods for providing suggested reminders A method for annotating a message executes at a computing device having one or more processors and memory. The memory stores one or more programs configured for execution by the one or more processors. A plurality of messages for a user is analyzed to determine whether a task reminder is derivable for any of the messages. In this way, task reminders are derived for at least a subset of the messages. A user interface for an electronic messaging application is provided. The interface includes a list of objects, one or more of which represents a collapsed state of a message in the message subset and comprises a summary, task reminder, and a dismissal affordance. Responsive dismissal affordance selection, the task reminder and the dismissal affordances are removed from the object.
US09990603B2	Product inventory system Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for identifying, inventorying and managing physical possessions. Image data is captured including one or more images or video of physical possessions of a person that occupy a space. The captured image data is automatically analyzed to recognize physical products included in the image data and to determine a position of each recognized physical product in the space. The recognized physical products are automatically inventoried including preparing a list of products. Each entry in the list includes a product name or identifying information and location information for where the product is located in the space. A representation of the space is generated including respective physical products. A user interface is provided for presenting the inventory including providing the representation of the space and displaying a representation of respective physical products in the space.
US09990597B2	System and method for forecast driven replenishment of merchandise Systems, methods, and other embodiments are disclosed that are configured to generate replenishment parameters for use by an external replenishment system. In one embodiment, sales statistics are generated for an item based at least in part on historical sales data for the item. A determination is made as to if demand forecast data is available for the item. If demand forecast data is not available, an order-point value for the item is generated based at least in part on the sales statistics. If demand forecast data is available, demand forecast statistics are generated and the order-point value is generated based at least in part on the sales statistics and the demand forecast statistics. An order-up-to-level is generated based at least in part on the order-point value.
US09990593B2	Systems and methods for event admissions based on fingerprint recognition Systems and methods for fingerprint recognition-based event admission are provided. A user may use a user device to purchase a ticket for an event and provide a fingerprint scanned on the user device to a fingerprint validation system. The fingerprint validation system may associate the purchased ticket with the user and store the fingerprint template associated with the user as a reference template. When the user arrives at an entrance of the event, the user may scan a fingerprint at a fingerprint scan device at the entrance. Fingerprint validation system may compare the received fingerprint template with stored fingerprint reference templates, validate that the user is associated with a purchased ticket, and grant access to the event.
US09990582B2	System for refining cognitive insights using cognitive graph vectors A method, system and computer-usable medium for using cognitive graph vectors to refine cognitive insights comprising storing data from a plurality of data sources within a cognitive graph via a cognitive inference and learning system; associating a first set of the data within the cognitive graph with a first cognitive graph vector of a plurality of cognitive graph vectors via the cognitive inference and learning system; associating a second set of the data within the cognitive graph with a second cognitive graph vector of the plurality of cognitive graph vectors via the cognitive inference and learning system; processing the data from the plurality of data sources to provide cognitive insights via the cognitive inference and learning system; and refining the cognitive insights based upon a limitation relating to one of the plurality of cognitive graph vectors via the cognitive inference and learning system.
US09990580B2	Neuromorphic synapses Neuromorphic synapse apparatus 11 comprises a memelement 20 for storing a synaptic weight, and programming logic 21. The memelement 20 is adapted to exhibit a desired programming characteristic. The programming logic 21 is responsive to a stimulus prompting update of the synaptic weight for generating a programming signal for programming the memelement 20 to update said weight. The programming logic 21 may be responsive to an input signal indicating an input weight-change value ΔWi, and may be adapted to generate a programming signal dependent on the input weight-change value ΔWi. The programming logic 21 is adapted such that the programming signals exploit the programming characteristic of the memelement 20 to provide a desired weight-dependent synaptic update efficacy.
US09990577B2	Card with built-in electronic component Provided is a card with a built-in electronic component, which has a superior button click sensation. A card of the present invention into which is built-in a module substrate upon which an electronic component has been disposed is provided with: a front cover sheet stacked upon a side above the module substrate; an adhesion layer adhering between the module substrate and the front cover sheet; and a dome switch which is disposed upon the module substrate, and by way of the card upper surface being pressed, the switch's movable portion deforms to the module substrate side so that the electrical contact comes into tactile contact with the module substrate in order to operate the card; wherein the switch's movable portion is such that the upper surface does not adhere to the adhesion layer and the deformation to the module substrate side is unrestrained with respect to the adhesion layer.
US09990576B2	Component with internal sensor and method of additive manufacture A component may be self-monitoring having a sensor assembly located on a surface of a substrate and covered by an encapsulating layer additively manufactured over the sensor assembly and thereby bonded to the substrate. The sensor may be wireless, self-powered, and embedded into the substrate such that it is unobtrusive and may not limit the performance or function of the component.
US09990573B2	Information processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium for performing operations based on whether an externally-attached device is connected An information processing apparatus, and a method of controlling the same, determine whether or not a second reader for authentication is connected, and, in a case where it is determined that the second reader for authentication is connected, control the information processing apparatus to use the second reader for authentication rather than a first reader for authentication.
US09990567B2	Method and apparatus for spawning specialist belief propagation networks for adjusting exposure settings A method and apparatus for processing image data is provided. The method includes the steps of employing a main processing network for classifying one or more features of the image data, employing a monitor processing network for determining one or more confusing classifications of the image data, and spawning a specialist processing network to process image data associated with the one or more confusing classifications.
US09990563B2	Image processing device, image processing method, program, and recording medium for detection of epidermis pattern An epidermis pattern detection unit detects epidermis patterns in an epidermis image captured from the epidermis of skin by an epidermis image capturing unit. An acquired element analysis unit analyzes uniformity of shapes of the epidermis patterns in the epidermis image. A texture evaluation unit evaluates a texture state of the skin based on the uniformity of shapes of the epidermis patterns. The present technology, for example, may be applied to systems that evaluate the texture state of the skin.
US09990562B2	Image processing device and method There is provided an image processing device including a motion vector detection portion that performs comparison of a substantially spherical photographic subject such that, among a plurality of captured images including the photographic subject, an image as a processing target and another image as a comparison target are compared using each of the plurality of captured images as the processing target, and which detects a motion vector of a whole three-dimensional spherical model with respect to the processing target, a motion compensation portion that performs motion compensation on the processing target, based on the motion vector of each of the plurality of captured images that is detected by the motion vector detection portion, and a synthesis portion that synthesizes each of the captured images that are obtained as a result of the motion compensation performed by the motion compensation portion.
US09990561B2	Identifying consumer products in images Systems and methods identify consumer products in images. Known consumer products are captured as grayscale or color images. They are converted to binary at varying thresholds. Connected components in the binary images identify image features according to pixels of a predetermined size, shape, solidity, aspect ratio, and the like. The image features are stored and searched for amongst image features similarly extracted from unknown images of consumer products. Identifying correspondence between the features of the images lends itself to identifying or not known consumer products.
US09990558B2	Generating image features based on robust feature-learning Techniques for increasing robustness of a convolutional neural network based on training that uses multiple datasets and multiple tasks are described. For example, a computer system trains the convolutional neural network across multiple datasets and multiple tasks. The convolutional neural network is configured for learning features from images and accordingly generating feature vectors. By using multiple datasets and multiple tasks, the robustness of the convolutional neural network is increased. A feature vector of an image is used to apply an image-related operation to the image. For example, the image is classified, indexed, or objects in the image are tagged based on the feature vector. Because the robustness is increased, the accuracy of the generating feature vectors is also increased. Hence, the overall quality of an image service is enhanced, where the image service relies on the image-related operation.
US09990553B1	Apparatuses, systems, and methods for determining degrees of risk associated with a vehicle operator Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for determining vehicle operator risk. More particularly, apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for determining degrees of vehicle operator risk. A degree of vehicle operator risk may be based on digital image data.
US09990552B2	Operator fatigue monitoring system A fatigue monitoring system is disclosed for use with a machine. The fatigue monitoring system may have an input device configured to generate a first signal indicative of an activity performed by a machine operator, a scanning device configured to generate a second signal indicative of a recognized characteristic of the machine operator, and a warning device. The fatigue monitoring system may also have a controller in communication with the input device, the scanning device, and the warning device. The controller may be configured to determine a time between generations of the first signal, to make a comparison of the recognized characteristic with a threshold characteristic, and to selectively activate the warning device based on the time or the comparison.
US09990551B2	Driver assistance system and method for a motor vehicle A driver assistance system (10) for a motor vehicle comprises an imaging means (11) for acquiring images from a surrounding of the motor vehicle, and a processing means (14) adapted to perform image processing of images (30) recorded by the imaging means (11) and to detect an oncoming vehicle (33) by identifying its head lights (34) as a result of the image processing. The processing means (14) is adapted to detect, in the recorded images (30), a light aura (37) originating from at least one light source (34) hidden to the imaging means (11), and to use the light aura detection in the oncoming vehicle detection.
US09990546B2	Method and apparatus for determining target region in video frame for target acquisition An example target acquisition method includes obtaining, according to a global feature of each video frame of a plurality of video frames, a target pre-estimated position of each scale in the video frame; clustering the target pre-estimated position in each video frame to obtain a corresponding target candidate region; and determining a target actual region in the video frame according to all the target candidate regions in each video frame in combination with confidence levels of the target candidate regions and corresponding scale processing. The techniques of the present disclosure quickly and effectively acquire one or multiple targets, and, more particularly, achieve accurately distinguishing and acquiring the multiple targets.
US09990540B2	Operation estimation apparatus, robot, and operation estimation method An operation estimation apparatus includes a distance measurement unit configured to measure a distance for a predetermined range, a human-body processing unit configured to detect a person on the basis of a distribution of measured distances, a tracking unit configured to assign an identifier to each detected person, and a situation estimation unit configured to estimate reaction of the person on the basis of a human data height which is a value of a height direction included in the measured distance in a first period set by prompting the person to start and end hand raising, wherein the situation estimation unit measures the human data height for each person to which the identifier is assigned a plurality of times in the first period, extracts an identifier for which human data heights are in the predetermined range, and estimates the reaction of the person corresponding to the extracted identifier.
US09990539B2	Method and device for recognizing image An image recognition method and device are disclosed. The disclosed device may include: a reference image storage unit configured to convert reference images into 1-dimensional vectors and store the converted 1-dimensional vectors; an image acquisition unit configured to obtain an input image; an image converter unit configured to convert the input image into a 1-dimensional vector, apply dimension reduction, and calculate coefficients for expressing the input image as a linear sum of vectors forming a reference image for each of the reference images; and a determiner unit configured to determine a reference image corresponding to the input image by performing a subtraction computation of subtracting a value obtained by applying the coefficients calculated for each reference image to a relevant reference image from the converted input image. The invention makes it possible to perform image recognition at a fast speed and lower the likelihood of the users' privacy being invaded.
US09990527B2	System and method for document processing Embodiments of the present invention are directed to document processing, and more particularly to systems and methods that can utilize relative positions between the content of the document and a decodable indicia affixed to the document. In one embodiment, indicia reading terminals are provided that include an imaging module for capturing a frame of image data of a document. The document can include one or more decodable indicia such as a form barcode and various content fields, which delineate particular content of the document. The form barcode can include information respecting the form design and form design data. This information can be used to process the content of the document such as by providing coordinates or similar location and positioning metrics for use in processing the content of the document. In one example, the frame of image data is analyzed to identify the form barcode, from which the relative location of the content fields can be discerned without extensive processing of the frame of image data.
US09990519B2	RFID reader-based apparatus and method A control circuit receives location information from a handheld RFID-tag reader that pertains to a scan of a location marker that correlates to a particular modular within a retail shopping facility. The control circuit also receives from that reader RFID-tag information gleaned from read RFID tags that are proximal to that location marker. The control circuit uses the location information to select specification information for a particular modular of interest and also compares the RFID-tag information with specification information for modulars other than the particular modular of interest to thereby remove some of the RFID-tag information and thereby provide filtered RFID-tag information. The control circuit then compares that filtered RFID-tag information with the specification information for the particular modular of interest to assess modular compliance.
US09990517B2	Contemporaneous gesture and keyboard entry authentication A restricted access device such as a cellphone, a tablet or a personal computer, analyzes contemporaneous keyboard inputs of a password and gestures to authenticate the user and enable further access to applications and processes of the restricted access device. The gestures may be facial gestures detected by a camera or may be gestures made by an avatar rendered on a display of the device. The password may be shorted based upon the context of the authentication as well as any gestures occurring during password entry. The gestures may be learned by the restricted access device during the password entry process.
US09990509B2	Systems and methods for error detection and diagnostics visualization A human machine interface (HMI) configured to provide visualizations of one or more device elements that correspond to one or more components in an industrial automation system on an HMI screen. The HMI includes computer-executable instructions stored on a tangible machine-readable medium configured to determine whether at least one of the device elements is associated with an error and modify at least one graphic that corresponds to the at least one of the device elements when the one of the device elements is associated with the error.
US09990500B2	Determining application vulnerabilities Disclosed herein are techniques for determining vulnerabilities in applications under testing. It is determined whether a first database instruction of an application enters information into a database and whether a second database instruction thereof obtains said information from the database. If the first database instruction enters the information in the database and the second database instruction obtains the information therefrom, it is determined whether the application is vulnerable to entry of malicious code via the database.
US09990497B2	Method to scan a forensic image of a computer system with multiple malicious code detection engines simultaneously from a master control point A multi-engine malicious code scanning method for scanning data sets from a storage device is provided. The method includes, among other steps obtaining at least one data set from a storage device and generating a single forensic image of the data set and also applying a recover data application to the data set to generate a single recovered data set. A scanning is initiated of the single forensic image and the single recovered data set using the selected plurality of malware engines, where each of the malware engines, installed on the independent operating systems of the virtual operating system may be run concurrently on the single forensic image and the single recovered data set. A report is generated combining each of the malware engines reporting the results of the scans.
US09990486B2	IC card, IC module, and IC card system Provided are an IC card, an IC module and an IC card system that can improve the security. An IC card of embodiments has a generation unit and an authentication unit. The generation unit generates a second password that is a password for authenticating a card user based on a first password stored in a storage unit in advance, a predetermined parameter and a predetermined algorithm. The authentication unit compares a third password acquired from an external apparatus and provide second password, and determines the validity of the card user based on the comparison result.
US09990485B2	Anti-passback algorithm for reading a public or secure object An anti-passback algorithm for an access control system is described. The anti-passback algorithm prevents the use of valid credentials to gain access to an access-controlled area by more than one person within a given period of time. The algorithm is capable of distinguishing between credentials intentionally presented to the access control system and credentials that are unintentionally read by the access control system. Certain variables may be set by the access control system manufacturer or a trusted individual to adapt the algorithm for applications.
US09990481B2	Behavior-based identity system Disclosed are various embodiments for a behavior-based identity system that recognizes and/or authenticates users based at least in part on determining stored behavioral events. For example, stored behavioral events may have been observed previously at a client or have been predefined by an authenticated user. Multiple behavioral events expressed by the client relative to a network site are recorded. The behavioral events may correspond to data that a user has elected to share, and the user may opt-in or opt-out of the behavior-based identity system. A comparison is performed between the multiple observed behavioral events and the stored behavioral events associated with a user identity. An inverse identity confidence score as to whether the user identity does not belong to a user at the client is generated based at least in part on the comparison.
US09990478B2	Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to encode auxiliary data into relational database keys and methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to obtain encoded data from relational database keys Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to encode auxiliary data into relational database keys and methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to obtain encoded data from relational database keys are disclosed. An example method to encode auxiliary data into relational data includes generating a code comprising a plurality of groups and representative of auxiliary data, determining incremental values for the plurality of groups, generating a first key based on the code, and generating a subsequent key by modifying the first key based on the value of the first key and the incremental values.
US09990468B2	Medical instrument with remaining visits indicator A medical instrument includes a remaining visits indicator. The remaining visits indicator visually identifies a number of patient visits that can be completed before recharging the medical instrument.
US09990466B2	Automated system for medical item dispensing, billing, and inventory management An inventory management system provided by an inventory management service provider senses removal of medical items from inventory to be dispensed to a patient. The system processes billing information to identify the patient's medical insurance provider, to identify a medical item supplier that is the preferred biller for the patient's medical insurance provider, and to determine whether the inventory management service provider is the identified preferred biller. If the inventory management service provider is the preferred biller, the system generates an invoice from the inventory management service provider to bill the patient's medical insurance provider. If the inventory management service provider is not the preferred biller, the system sends the billing information to the medical item supplier identified as the preferred biller, and generates a billing-only invoice directed to the medical item supplier identified as the preferred biller, which invoice is remit to the inventory management service provider.
US09990459B2	Checking wafer-level integrated designs for antenna rule compliance Methods and systems for checking a wafer-level design for compliance with a rule include identifying nets that cross chip boundaries for each of a plurality of chip layouts. Net properties are determined for each of the identified nets. Interconnected identified nets are combined into one or more virtual ensembles having properties defined by a sum of the properties of the respective interconnected nets. Each virtual ensemble is evaluated for compliance with a design rule. The chip layouts related to virtual ensembles that do not comply with the design rule are modified to bring non-compliant virtual ensembles into compliance.
US09990451B2	Process window optimizer Disclosed herein is a computer-implemented defect prediction method for a device manufacturing process involving processing a pattern onto a substrate, the method comprising: identifying a processing window limiting pattern (PWLP) from the pattern; determining a processing parameter under which the PWLP is processed; and determining or predicting, using the processing parameter, existence, probability of existence, a characteristic, or a combination thereof, of a defect produced from the PWLP with the device manufacturing process.
US09990447B2	Device array locks and keys This invention relates to a system, method, and computer program product for managing a plurality of devices with associated lock mechanisms. According to one embodiment, a method is provided comprising: detecting, by one or more computer processors, a status of a device corresponding to a lock mechanism; recommending, by one or more computer processors, a service action on the device requiring performance by an operator; and providing, by one or more computer processors, a printable key pattern for printing a key that allows the operator to lock and unlock the lock mechanism in order to perform the service action.
US09990433B2	Method for searching and device thereof Provided are a method and an apparatus for searching for and acquiring information under a computing environment. The apparatus includes: at least one input device configured to receive a first query input of a first query type and a second query input of a second query type; and a controller configured to output a query input window including a first display item corresponding to the first query input and a second display item corresponding to the second query input, to automatically switch, in response to receiving the first query input, the apparatus from a first state to receive the first query input of the first query type to a second state to receive the second query input of the second query type, and to obtain a search result according to a query based on the first query input and the second query input.
US09990432B1	Generic folksonomy for concept-based domain name searches Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: receive a domain name search string; tokenize the domain name search string; identify, based on at least one token in the domain name search string, one or more concepts comprising a collection of data records comprising a common concept id and/or one or more languages; and recommend at least one available domain name comprising the one or more concepts and in the one or more languages.
US09990428B2	Computerized identification of app search functionality for search engine access A search system includes a device controller that provisions a device to execute a copy of a selected mobile application. A crawler extracts content and metadata from states of the selected mobile application. A search input state classifier identifies search input states within the states based on a first set of heuristics, including recognition of user-visible search indicia and recognition of metadata that correlates with search functionality. A parameter identifier identifies, for each of the search input states, necessary input parameters. A search function data store stores a record for each identified search function. Each record includes a path to reach a corresponding search input state, an indication of required input parameters, and a mapping of the input parameters to user interface widgets. A query processing system uses the stored search functions to scrape content from the selected mobile application in response to a query.
US09990427B2	Information processing apparatus and recording medium There is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquisition section which acquires a plurality of sub-contents included in each of one or more contents, and a management section which associates the acquired plurality of sub-contents with at least any one process from among a plurality of processes for executing processing related to an output of one or more of the sub-contents.
US09990423B2	Hybrid cluster-based data intake and query Various embodiments describe multi-site cluster-based data intake and query systems, including cloud-based data intake and query systems. Using a hybrid search system that includes cloud-based data intake and query systems working in concert with so-called “on-premises” data intake and query systems can promote the scalability of search functionality. In addition, the hybrid search system can enable data isolation in a manner in which sensitive data is maintained “on premises” and information or data that is not sensitive can be moved to the cloud-based system. Further, the cloud-based system can enable efficient leveraging of data that may already exist in the cloud.
US09990421B2	Phrase-based searching in an information retrieval system An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are identified that predict the presence of other phrases in documents. Documents are the indexed according to their included phrases. Related phrases and phrase extensions are also identified. Phrases in a query are identified and used to retrieve and rank documents. Phrases are also used to cluster documents in the search results, create document descriptions, and eliminate duplicate documents from the search results, and from the index.
US09990412B2	Data driven parallel sorting system and method A data driven parallel sorting method includes distributing input data records to n partitions one by one in a circular manner. Each partition corresponds to a parallel sorting process with an allocated memory chunk sized to store m data records. The method also includes sorting, in parallel, current data records in respective memory chunks in respective partitions. The method also includes in response to distribution of data records of └m/n┘ rounds, circularly controlling one of the n partitions, and writing data records that have been sorted in the memory chunk of the partition into a mass storage as an ordered data chunk, and emptying the memory chunk. The method also includes in response to all data records being distributed, writing data chunks that have been sorted in respective memory chunks into the mass storage, and performing a merge sort on all ordered data chunks in the mass storage.
US09990411B2	Platform for visually configuring a process flow across multiple discrete processes Embodiments described herein relate to an improved system and method for defining and reconfiguring process flows for one or more processes within an organization visually in a graphical display at a client system using a process flow diagram comprising activity elements and decision elements representing the activities and decisions to be performed during execution of a process flow. Modifications to the process flow diagram at the client display can be saved and used to update the process flow. The process flow definitions and/or reconfigurations can be supplied to a server for storage in a database, and can be later accessed during execution of the process flow. During execution of the sequence of activities of a particular process flow, the server can access one or more services from a plurality of different service modules in communication with the server to provide those services.
US09990409B2	Interactive format manipulation and replication Selectively applying format attributes of a source to the content of a destination. The format attributes defining the format of one or more source objects are captured, and from among the captured attributes, format attributes are selected. A destination object is formatted such that selected format attributes are copied to the content of the destination, and the copied format attributes are applied to the destination object as a destination format.
US09990407B2	Stand-alone database browsing system and method A computer-implemented system and method for creating a user-defined database interface. An Orbit Form module processes a call comprising an identifier for the database, a target data object (database table), approach filters (table fields), and results lines (table fields). Approach filters may support comparable data types, and results lines may support both comparable and non-comparable data types. The call may optionally include parameters that the Orbit Form module uses to govern retrieval of data from the target database, presentation of filter values, and/or formatting of results pages. After testing the call constructs, the Orbit Form module generates Approach boxes (corresponding to the approach filters) that a user employs to enter target input values to compare to records in the database. Record matches result in retrieval and user-specified display of data corresponding to the results lines (DaPs). A selectable view image field in a DaP extracts and displays image file data.
US09990403B2	System and a method for reasoning and running continuous queries over data streams Disclosed is a method and a system for stream reasoning a plurality of data streams. The system comprises a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The processor is capable of executing a plurality of modules embodied on the memory. The plurality of modules comprises an event module and a application managed window module. The event module is configured to receive a data stream associated with an event from a stream reasoner application. The data stream provides factual information about the event. Further, the data stream comprises a request. The request may be an add request or a delete request. The application managed window module is configured to insert the request associated with the event or delete a prior request associated with the event from the memory based upon a type of the request.
US09990395B2	Tape drive system server A tape drive system server includes a non-volatile memory used as a cache memory for storing data files, at least part of the cache memory comprising a first region managed using a First In First Out policy management and a second region managed using a Least Recently Used policy management; a file system interface for interacting with data files stored on a tape drive system; an interface for allowing one or more remote systems reading and writing data stored on the cache memory; the server configured to: receive from the one or more remote systems one or more write requests for writing one or more data files; interpret attributes associated to data files instructed to be written by the one or more remote systems; and store data files instructed to be written by the remote systems according to the interpreted attributes.
US09990387B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method and non-transitory computer readable medium There is provided an information processing apparatus. For each of pieces of data each of which belongs to any of data groups constituting a tree structure, a meta-information storage unit stores an identification data string of pieces of identification data of data groups included in a path to a data group to which the piece of data belongs, as a piece of meta-information of the piece of data. A display unit displays an image representing a tree structure composed of virtual data groups corresponding to the data groups, in accordance with pieces of meta-information of the pieces of data. An update unit updates, in a case where at least one of the pieces of identification data has been specified by a user, a piece of meta-information including the specified piece of identification data among the pieces of meta-information.
US09990383B2	Constructing a data adaptor in an enterprise server data ingestion environment The present disclosure involves a method of ingesting data in an enterprise server environment. A configuration file is accessed. The configuration file specifies a blueprint for constructing a data adaptor that includes a data adaptor source, a data adaptor sink, and a data adaptor channel coupled between the data adaptor source and the data adaptor sink. The data adaptor is constructed based on the configuration file. Via the data adaptor, data is retrieved from a first entity. Also via the data adaptor, the retrieved data is written to a second entity different from the first entity. The accessing, the constructing, the retrieving, and the writing are performed by one or more electronic processors.
US09990382B1	Secure erasure and repair of non-mechanical storage media Repair and secure erasure of non-mechanical storage devices may be performed. In at least some embodiments, a non-mechanical storage device may be detected and device information may be obtained for the non-mechanical storage device. Based, at least in part, on the device information, it may be determined whether the non-mechanical storage device is eligible for secure erasure. For an eligible device, a secure erase procedure may be initiated and success or failure of the secure erasure procedure may be reported. In at least some embodiments, firmware bugs may be detected and repaired when performing the secure erasure procedure.
US09990380B2	Proximity search and navigation for functional information systems The invention includes an algorithmic method for dynamically computing complex relationships among objects of an underlying functional system. The invention includes a method to algorithmically determine a set of functional locations in n-dimensional functional space of a set of elements of a functional system by electronically representing a set of data entities in a database system, the database system comprising a logical data model for structuring data sets from which functional information can be derived, using the logical data model to associate a set of characteristics with a reference point in the functional information system, selecting a functional positioning algorithm, and wherein the functional positioning algorithm executes a set of steps that takes as input a set of characteristics and returns as output a set of locations in n-dimensional functional space.
US09990370B1	System and method for local file management and editing utilizing remote applications A method for editing a non-native file on a mobile device using a remote application, including establishing a connection between a local-side component and a remote-side component on a remote computer; wherein the local-side component identifies an editor on the remote computer based on parameters of the file; on the remote computer, activating an editor for a file located on the mobile device; upon selection of the editor, using the local-side component to transmit the file to the remote-side component; storing the file in a storage on the remote computer; opening the file using the editor and giving the editor control over the file using a protocol for remote connection; editing the file on the mobile device as if the editor on the remote computer were native; saving the file on the remote storage and transmitting the file to the mobile device; and replacing the file on the mobile device with the transmitted file.
US09990343B2	System and method for in-browser editing The present invention relates to an in-browser editor. Specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method of editing content in a browser without having to rely on the particular in-browser editing technology, such as “contentEditable” and “innerHTML.” The system includes a parser that converts an input string representing content edits in the browser into a data structure known as an Intermediary DOM (document object model). The Intermediary DOM provides a completely accurate representation of editor content in real time and operates in tandem with the Browser DOM to render the edited content in the Intermediary DOM back into displayable content.
US09990328B2	Increased data flow in universal serial bus (USB) cables Two super-speed lanes may be enabled on a single USB cable. In an exemplary, non-limiting aspect, the USB cable is a Type-C cable. In further non-limiting aspects, the super-speed lanes may be present even if there is no USB 2.0 lane present on the D+/D− pins of the USB cable. Use of the second super-speed lane increases data throughput. Eliminating the requirement that the D+/D− pins be used for USB 2.0 data allows greater flexibility in the use of the USB connection because audio or video data may be sent over the D+/D− pins instead of USB 2.0 data. Further, the use of the two super-speed lanes allows a single computing element to operate as a host on one lane and a device on a second lane.
US09990323B2	Configuring a communication interconnect for electronic devices Logic determines a connection arrangement for communication between electronic devices over a communication interconnect. A first group of signals of the communication interconnect is enabled in response to determining that a first connection arrangement is to be used. A second, different group of signals of the communication interconnect is enabled in response to determining that a second, different connection arrangement is to be used.
US09990319B2	Placement of input / output adapter cards in a server Tracking data transfers in an input/output adapter card system to determine whether the adapter cards are well-placed with respect to the components (for example dynamic random access memories) with which the adapter cards respectively are observed to communicate data. Some embodiments use a heuristic value for each adapter card in the system based on inter node transfers and intra node transfers, which are separately weighted and summed over some predetermined time interval in order to obtain the heuristic value.
US09990314B2	Instructions and logic to interrupt and resume paging in a secure enclave page cache Instructions and logic interrupt and resume paging in secure enclaves. Embodiments include instructions, specify page addresses allocated to a secure enclave, the instructions are decoded for execution by a processor. The processor includes an enclave page cache to store secure data in a first cache line and in a last cache line for a page corresponding to the page address. A page state is read from the first or last cache line for the page when an entry in an enclave page cache mapping for the page indicates only a partial page is stored in the enclave page cache. The entry for a partial page may be set, and a new page state may be recorded in the first cache line when writing-back, or in the last cache line when loading the page when the instruction's execution is being interrupted. Thus the writing-back, or loading can be resumed.
US09990310B2	Self-enabled bus conflict detection circuit A bus contention detection circuit includes a delay unit having an input terminal for receiving an output signal of an I/O driver, a duty cycle adjustment unit connected to the delay unit, and a comparison unit having a first input terminal for receiving the output signal, a second terminal for receiving a reference voltage, and an enable terminal for receiving an enable signal of the duty cycle adjustment unit. The enable signal has a rising edge that is delayed relative to a rising edge of the output signal and a falling edge that is aligned with a falling edge of the output signal. The comparison unit compares a voltage level of the output signal with the reference voltage when the enable signal is in a stable voltage state and determine a bus condition in response to a comparison result.
US09990295B2	Method for increasing cache size A method for increasing storage space in a system containing a block data storage device, a memory, and a processor is provided. Generally, the processor is configured by the memory to tag metadata of a data block of the block storage device indicating the block as free, used, or semifree. The free tag indicates the data block is available to the system for storing data when needed, the used tag indicates the data block contains application data, and the semifree tag indicates the data block contains cache data and is available to the system for storing application data type if no blocks marked with the free tag are available to the system.
US09990293B2	Energy-efficient dynamic dram cache sizing via selective refresh of a cache in a dram Techniques described herein generally include methods and systems related to improving energy efficiency in a chip multiprocessor by reducing the energy consumption of a DRAM cache for such a multi-chip processor. Methods of varying refresh interval may be used to improve the energy efficiency of such a DRAM cache. Specifically, a per-set refresh interval based on retention time of memory blocks in the set may be determined, and, starting from the leakiest memory block, memory blocks stored in the DRAM cache that are associated with data also stored in a lower level of cache are not refreshed.
US09990290B2	Cache coherency verification using ordered lists Embodiments relate to cache coherency verification using ordered lists. An aspect includes maintaining a plurality of ordered lists, each ordered list corresponding to a respective thread that is executed by a processor, wherein each ordered list comprises a plurality of atoms, each atom corresponding to a respective operation performed in a cache by the respective thread that corresponds to the ordered list in which the atom is located, wherein the plurality of atoms in an ordered list are ordered based on program order. Another aspect includes determining a state of an atom in an ordered list of the plurality of ordered lists. Another aspect includes comparing the state of the atom in an ordered list to a state of an operation corresponding to the atom in the cache. Yet another aspect includes, based on the comparing, determining that there is a coherency violation in the cache.
US09990284B2	Storage control device A storage control device includes a first processor, a second processor, and transfer units for transferring data from the first processor to the second processor. The first processor receives a write request for writing first data from a first device and sequentially transmits the first data, additional data, and pieces of dummy data. A number of the pieces is same as a number of the transfer units. The first processor notifies the first device of completion of the writing upon receiving an acknowledgement for a last transmitted piece of dummy data. Each transfer unit includes a third processor. The third processor receives the additional data from a preceding processor, and transmits an acknowledgement to the preceding processor upon storing the received additional data. The third processor receives one piece of dummy data from the preceding processor, and transmits an acknowledgement to the preceding processor upon storing the one piece.
US09990280B2	Methods for reading data from a storage unit of a flash memory and apparatuses using the same A method for reading data from a storage unit of a flash memory, performed by a processing unit, including at least the following steps: A first read command is received from a master device via a first access interface. It is determined whether data requested by the first read command has been cached in a first buffer, which caches continuous data obtained from a storage unit. A second access interface is directed to read the data requested by the first read command from the storage unit and store the read data in a second buffer and the first access interface is directed to read the data requested by the first read command from the second buffer and clock the read data out to the master device when data requested by the first read command has not been cached in the first buffer.
US09990279B2	Page-level health equalization According to one embodiment, a method includes assigning a subset of physical pages within a block of non-volatile memory to a pseudo-physical block, wherein a number of pages in the pseudo-physical block is less than a number of physical pages within the non-volatile memory block, and reassigning physical pages within the block of non-volatile memory to the pseudo-physical block upon occurrence of an event. The assigning includes: determining a health metric for each of the physical pages within the block of non-volatile memory, and selecting a subset of the physical pages for assignment to the pseudo-physical block based on the health metric. Moreover, the subset of pages has a fixed size for at least a number of reassignments.
US09990276B2	Read-write control method for memory, and corresponding memory and server Described are a read-write control method for memory, and a corresponding memory and server. The method comprises: dividing a storage resource of the memory by taking a block as a unit; to write data, combining the data to be written into a data block, writing the data block in a free segment of the memory, and recording an identifier and a corresponding index of the data, the index of the written data is an offset indicating a memory location of the data in the memory; to read data, reading the data from the offset of the memory according to an identifier and a index of the data to be read. When read-write control is performed on the memory, the number of the times that the I/O operation is performed on the memory is reduced during data writing, thereby improving the efficiency of the write operation on the memory.
US09990275B2	Regression testing of SQL execution plans for SQL statements A first execution plan for a first version of a structured query language statement can be requested from a database management system. The first execution plan for the first version of the structured query language statement can be loaded into a first directed graph tree structure comprising a plurality of nodes. The first directed graph tree structure can be scanned to determine whether a full table scan for accessing requested data is represented by at least a one of the plurality of nodes of the directed graph tree structure. Responsive to determining that the full table scan for accessing the requested data is represented by the at least one of the plurality of nodes of the directed graph tree structure, a first indicator that indicates a fault condition can be output.
US09990273B2	Methods and systems for anomaly detection This disclosure relates generally to anomaly detection, and more particularly to system and method for detecting anomalies. In one embodiment, the method includes executing at least one thread associated with the application. Executing the at least one thread results in invoking one or more methods associated with the at least one thread. During the execution metrics associated with the one or more methods are captured. The metrics are systematically arranged in a data structure to represent a plurality of thread-method pairs and the metrics corresponding to each of the plurality of thread-method pairs. One or more anomalies associated with the one or more methods are identified from the data structure based on a detection of at least one predetermined condition in the data structure. An anomaly of the one or more anomalies includes one of un-exited anomaly, an exception anomaly and a user-defined anomaly.
US09990272B2	Test case generation for uncovered code paths Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems to increase code coverage. Embodiments of the present invention can receive a copy of source code and data associated with a sample execution of a set of instructions specified by the copy of the source code. Embodiments of the present invention can insert, into the set of instructions specified by the copy of the source code, an instruction that corresponds to a code statement that precedes an untraversed code path within the received copy of the source code. Embodiments of the present invention can execute the set of instructions that include the inserted instruction and provide an option to redirect execution of the set of instructions at the inserted instruction. Embodiments of the present invention can generate a test case that increases code coverage based on the redirected execution of the set of instructions.
US09990270B2	Systems and methods to improve decision management project testing A coverage monitor subsystem receives an electronic message from a project data object over a communication network. The project data object includes decision code modules that have rules with a corresponding test status variable. The test status variable indicates whether the rule has been tested. The coverage monitor subsystem generates a test status identifier. The test status identifier indicates the decision code modules as tested decision code modules when all of the rules for the corresponding decision code modules have been tested. The coverage monitor subsystem transmits test status data to a reporting subsystem. The test status data includes a first identifier identifying the tested decision code modules and a second identifier identifying the decision code modules that are not tested. The reporting subsystem displays, at a computer display, a graphical representation based on the first identifier and the second identifier.
US09990266B2	Data recorder for full event capture Embodiments are directed to capturing data associated with an occurrence of an event via a battery-powered recorder, comprising: storing analog data in a delay circuit while a recording circuit is powered off, detecting, by a trigger circuit, the occurrence of the event while the recording circuit is powered off, powering-on the recording circuit based on the detection of the event, converting samples of analog data associated with the event provided by the delay circuit to a digital format while the recording circuit powers on, and storing the converted digital samples after the recording circuit has powered on, wherein a time delay associated with the delay circuit is greater than a time it takes for the recording circuit to power-on.
US09990260B2	Cross-platform replication One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for cross-platform replication. For example, a replication relationship may be established between a first storage endpoint and a second storage endpoint, where at least one of the storage endpoints, such as the first storage endpoint, lacks or has incompatible functionality to perform and manage replication because the storage endpoints have different storage platforms that store data differently, use different control operations and interfaces, etc. Accordingly, replication destination workflow, replication source workflow, and/or a proxy representing the first storage endpoint may be implemented at the second storage endpoint comprising the replication functionality. In this way, replication, such as snapshot replication, may be implemented between the storage endpoints by the second storage endpoint using the replication destination workflow, the replication source workflow, and/or the proxy that either locally executes tasks or routes tasks to the first storage endpoint such as for data access.
US09990251B2	Semiconductor system with a column control circuit A semiconductor system may include a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device. The first semiconductor device may be configured to output command/address signals. The second semiconductor device may be configured to output data in a read operation during a refresh operation according to a combination of the command/address signals. The second semiconductor device may be configured to extract error information from the data. The second semiconductor device may be configured to corrects errors of the data using the error information in a write operation during the refresh operation to store the corrected data in the second semiconductor device and to store the error information in the second semiconductor device.
US09990250B2	Single-IC LDPC encoding and decoding implementations Techniques are disclosed relating to implementation of LDPC encoding circuitry on a single integrated circuit (IC). In some embodiments, circuitry on a single IC includes message circuitry configured to receive or generate a message to be encoded, encode circuitry configured to perform low density parity check (LDPC) encoding on the message, noise circuitry configured to apply noise to the encoded message, and decode circuitry configured to perform LDPC decoding of the message. In some embodiments, the disclosed techniques may reduce production costs (e.g., by reducing overall chip area), facilitate LDPC testing, and/or provide multiple different functions relating to message transmission on a single chip.
US09990248B2	Display driver integrated circuit and display device having the same A display driver integrated circuit including a logic circuit configured to receive image data from a host and an image cyclic redundancy check (CRC) unit configured to perform a CRC operation on output data of the logic circuit and transmit the performed result to the host may be provided. Additionally, a timing controller including a logic circuit configured to receive image data from a host and an image CRC unit configured to perform a CRC operation on output data associated with the logic circuit and configured to transmit the performed result to the host may also be provided. Further, a display device including a display panel, a display driver integrated circuit configured to drive the display panel and an image CRC unit configured to perform a CRC operation on output data of the logic circuit and transmit the performed result may be provided.
US09990222B2	Enforcing compliance rules against hypervisor and virtual machine using host management component A system can include a host device that includes a virtual machine execution environment. The host device can execute a host management component in the host device and determine whether a hypervisor or a virtual machine in the virtual machine execution environment violates at least one compliance rule. The host device can also cause the host management component to perform an action in response to determining that the hypervisor the virtual machine violates the at least one compliance rule.
US09990220B2	Hypervisor remedial action for a virtual machine in response to an error message from the virtual machine Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include a hypervisor receiving an error message from an agent within a first virtual machine run by the hypervisor. In response to the error message, the hypervisor determines and initiates a corrective action for the hypervisor to take in response to the error message. An exemplary corrective action includes initiating a reset of the first virtual machine or a reset of a second virtual machine.
US09990209B2	Digital assistance device for facilitating multi-stage setup A digital assistance device that at least partially automatically sets up a device so as to operate within a system of one or more other devices. The digital assistance device at least partially automates the setup process that would usually come in a quick start guide. This is made possible by digitalizing the quick start guide so as to be interpretable by the digital assistance device. The digital assistance device can thereby determine, for each step, what it can do based on its information and capability, but also how the instructions can be simplified based on what it knows, and for what it cannot do, it passes all or a portion of the quick start guide for that step to the user via an interactive interface. Accordingly, potential manual setup tasks are offloaded to automation, thereby simplifying the setup of a device through technical automation.
US09990203B2	Hardware accuracy counters for application precision and quality feedback Methods, devices, and systems for capturing an accuracy of an instruction executing on a processor. An instruction may be executed on the processor, and the accuracy of the instruction may be captured using a hardware counter circuit. The accuracy of the instruction may be captured by analyzing bits of at least one value of the instruction to determine a minimum or maximum precision datatype for representing the field, and determining whether to adjust a value of the hardware counter circuit accordingly. The representation may be output to a debugger or logfile for use by a developer, or may be output to a runtime or virtual machine to automatically adjust instruction precision or gating of portions of the processor datapath.
US09990202B2	Packed data element predication processors, methods, systems, and instructions A processor includes a first mode where the processor is not to use packed data operation masking, and a second mode where the processor is to use packed data operation masking. A decode unit to decode an unmasked packed data instruction for a given packed data operation in the first mode, and to decode a masked packed data instruction for a masked version of the given packed data operation in the second mode. The instructions have a same instruction length. The masked instruction has bit(s) to specify a mask. Execution unit(s) are coupled with the decode unit. The execution unit(s), in response to the decode unit decoding the unmasked instruction in the first mode, to perform the given packed data operation. The execution unit(s), in response to the decode unit decoding the masked instruction in the second mode, to perform the masked version of the given packed data operation.
US09990199B2	Conditional flow with hardware acceleration A method and system are disclosed. The method may include receiving instructions in a hardware accelerator coupled to a computing device. The instructions may describe operations and data dependencies between the operations. The operations and the data dependencies may be predetermined. The method may include performing a splitter operation in the hardware accelerator, performing an operation in each of a plurality of branches, and performing a combiner operation in the hardware accelerator.
US09990188B2	Mechanisms for declarative expression of data types for data storage Computer implemented techniques for storage management include transforming file instances using a modeling language platform that includes a language grammar and a set of language processing rules to transform instances of an entity written in the language grammar into a platform independent code and artifact files and auto-generating by the modeling language platform code to recognize and process input in a given language to deconstruct file instances into pieces that allow further discrete operations to be performed on the file instances.
US09990174B2	System and method for creating and navigating a linear hypermedia resource program A method and system for creating and navigating linear hypermedia resource programs are disclosed. The system includes a distributed hypermedia resource network having a plurality of hypermedia resources residing on one or more remote information nodes. A common remote information node is in communication with a subscriber station and the remote information nodes in the distributed network. The common remote information node contains at least one linear hypermedia resource program consisting of pre-selected media elements from one or more hypermedia resources linked with exclusive linear links, each media element in the linear program having only one forward link to the next media element. The method includes the steps of downloading and displaying a media element in the linear program and responding to user commands to download and display the next media element in the linear program.
US09990169B2	Print controller, print control method and non-transitory computer readable recording medium for executing test print Provided is a print controller connectable to each of a cut paper printer and a continuous paper printer, the print controller including a receiving unit that receives a print job in a job ticket format from a print work flow system, a test print instruction unit that generates a print job of a new test print based on the print job and instructs the cut paper printer to execute a print process to execute a test print using print data included in the print job, a holding notification unit that notifies the print work flow system of an effect that the print job is held, and a real print job instruction unit that sends the print data included in the print job and a print parameter to the continuous paper printer and instructs the continuous paper printer to execute a real print job.
US09990160B2	Methods and apparatus for smart memory interface One embodiment relates to a memory structure that includes a bank group and a port emulation circuit module. The bank group includes a plurality of memory banks, each memory bank having one read port and one write port. The port emulation circuit module provides a group read/write port and a group read port for the bank group. Another embodiment relates to a port emulation circuit module. The port emulation circuit module includes a port emulation control circuit that receives control signals including a first address for a group read/write port and a second address for a group read port, a first data path circuit for the group read/write port, and a second data path circuit for the group read port, wherein the second data path circuit outputs a second read data. Other embodiments and features are also disclosed.
US09990155B2	Storage control device, storage system and method of controlling a storage device A storage control device configured to be coupled to a storage device including a first portion and a second portion, the storage control device includes a memory, and a processor configured to control an operation mode of the first portion of the storage device to be in a first mode and a second mode, a first power consumed by the first portion in the first mode being less than a second power consumed by the first portion in the second mode, set the operation mode of the first portion in the first mode, receive a first request, determine whether the received first request is a polling access request, and when the received first request is the polling access request, keep the operation mode of the first portion in the first mode, and read first data from the second portion.
US09990154B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device in which unwanted change in the secondary data which must be reliable is suppressed and the need for a considerable increase in the capacity of a memory unit can be avoided. Also it ensures efficient data processing by asymmetric access to the memory unit. It includes a memory unit having a first memory without an error correcting function, a second memory with an error correcting function, and a plurality of access nodes for the memories. A plurality of buses is coupled to the access nodes and a plurality of data processing modules can asymmetrically access the memory unit through the buses. The first memory stores primary data before data processing by the data processing modules, and the second memory stores secondary data after data processing by the data processing modules.
US09990147B2	Methods and apparatus for optimizing resource utilization in distributed storage systems Methods and apparatus for optimizing resource utilization in distributed storage systems. A data migration technique is described that may operate in the background in a distributed storage data center to migrate data among a fleet of storage units to achieve a substantially even and randomized data storage distribution among all storage units in the fleet. When new storage units are added to the fleet and coupled to the data center network, the new storage units are detected. Instead of processing and storing new data to the newly added storage units, as in conventional distributed storage systems, the new units are blocked from general client I/O to allow the data migration technique to migrate data from other, previously installed storage hardware in the data center onto the new storage hardware. Once the storage load on the new storage units is balanced with the rest of the fleet, the new storage units are released for general client I/O.
US09990141B1	Storage control device, storage system and method A storage control device configured to control a storage device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to receive a request of writing of data from an information processing device, assign a unit memory area in the storage device in response to the request of writing, determine whether a sequential format processing is to be executed on the unit memory area based on continuity of logical addresses designated by the request of writing, and determine a timing to execute the sequential format processing on the unit memory area based on a number of commands per unit time to the storage device when the sequential format processing is determined to be executed on the unit memory area.
US09990139B2	Scalable and area optimized method to implement command queues in SRIOV based NVM devices Provided are method for dynamically allocating resources to command queues and response queues by a non-volatile memory (NVM) controller. The method includes creating command queues and response queues for at least one operating system among a plurality of operating systems running on a host system and mapping the created command queues and response queues to a plurality of internal shared queue registers. The plurality of operating systems running on the host system communicate with at least one NVM controller independently.
US09990131B2	Managing memory in a multiprocessor system In an example, a circuit to manage memory between a first and second microprocessors each of which is coupled to a control circuit, includes: first and second memory circuits; and a switch circuit coupled to the first and second memory circuits, and memory interfaces of the first and second microprocessors, the switch circuit having a mode signal as input. The switch is configured to selectively operate in one of a first mode or a second mode based on the mode signal such that, in the first mode, the switch circuit couples the first memory circuit to the memory interface of the first microprocessor and the second memory circuit to the memory interface of the second microprocessor and, in the second mode, the switch circuit selectively couples the first or second memory circuits to the memory interface of either the first or second microprocessor.
US09990128B2	Messaging application interacting with one or more extension applications A messaging system in one embodiment includes a messaging app and one or more extension apps configured to create content that is displayed in a view hosted by the messaging app. The messaging app can launch the one or more extension apps, and content can be communicated between each extension app and the messaging app through an interprocess communication.
US09990125B2	Mobile terminal and method of controlling the same The present disclosure may provide a mobile terminal including a body having a front surface, a rear surface and a lateral surface thereof, a display unit disposed on the front surface to display first screen information, a lateral touch sensing unit formed on the lateral surface adjacent to both edges of the display unit to receive a user's consecutive touch input, and a controller configured to control the display unit to display second screen information in one region on the display unit corresponding to a touch range of the consecutive touch input.
US09990124B2	Mobile terminal and method for controlling the same The present invention relates to a mobile terminal for efficiently sharing many images and a method of controlling therefor. In particular, the present invention relates to a mobile terminal including a touch screen, a memory configured to store a plurality of images, a wireless communication unit configured to transceive data with a counterpart terminal and a controller configured to control the touch screen to output a chat window including a history of messages transceived with the counterpart terminal, the controller, if a part of a plurality of the stored images is selected via the chat window, configured to control the wireless communication unit to transmit thumbnail images for the selected part of a plurality of the stored images to the counterpart terminal.
US09990114B1	Customizable publication via multiple outlets Customizing publication via multiple outlets includes presenting a user interface for publishing a communication on a plurality of outlets; receiving an initial version of a communication; displaying the initial version of the communication in each of a plurality of editing windows simultaneously, wherein each of the plurality of editing windows corresponds to one of the plurality of outlets or a platform associated with one or more of the plurality outlets; receiving a customization to at least one of the displayed initial versions of the communication; and publishing the communication on each of the plurality of outlets, including the customization to at least one of the displayed initial versions of the communication.
US09990109B2	Information display terminal An information display terminal achieves a suitable display of types of electronic content such as electronic books with a display unit, an operation unit for receiving an operation instruction directed to the information display terminal, and a scroll control unit for controlling the operation for automatic scroll processing of the electronic content displayed on the display unit. An operation instruction instructing initiation of the automatic scroll processing is input to the operation unit, the scroll control unit performs control to initiate automatic scroll processing by which the electronic content displayed on the display unit is displayed in such a manner that the electronic content is moved a predetermined distance per predetermined time period; and when an operation instruction instructing interruption of the automatic scroll processing is input to the operation unit, the scroll control unit performs control to interrupt the automatic scroll processing.
US09990107B2	Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for displaying and using menus An electronic device displays a user interface that includes one or more user interface elements; detects a user input on a touch-sensitive surface that includes detecting a contact at a location that corresponds to a respective user interface element; and, in response: if the user input satisfies menu-display criteria, including a criterion that is satisfied when the contact has an intensity above a first intensity threshold, displays a first menu overlaid on the user interface; and, if the user input satisfies action criteria, wherein the action criteria are capable of being satisfied when the intensity of the contact is below the first intensity threshold, initiates performance of an action associated with the respective user interface element without displaying the first menu.
US09990102B2	Creating and editing digital content works Icons representing a library of predefined media objects for insertion in a digital content work open for editing within a content creation and editing tool may be displayed in a graphical user interface of the content creation and editing tool. Thus, the content creation and editing tool may include an interface which displays, simultaneously, a presentation view and a code view of content comprising the digital content work along with icons representing the library of predefined media objects. Computer-readable code corresponding to a selected one of the library of predefined media objects may be inserted within the digital content work at a user-specified location, e.g., responsive to user action specifying a desire to insert code. Also, an explanation of a selected one of the media objects of the library may be displayed responsive to a user action.
US09990097B2	Touch screen panel including multilayer connection wire and method of manufacturing the same A touch screen panel includes a substrate, a sensing electrode, a connection wire, and a passivation layer. The substrate includes a first area and a second area disposed outside the first area. The sensing electrode is disposed in the first area. The connection wire is electrically connected to the sensing electrode, the connection wire being disposed in the second area. The passivation layer covers portions of the sensing electrode and the connection wire. The sensing electrode includes a first conductive layer disposed on the substrate. The connection wire includes a second conductive layer disposed on the substrate, a metal wiring layer disposed on the second conductive layer, and a capping layer disposed on the second conductive layer.
US09990087B2	Compensation for nonlinear variation of gap capacitance with displacement A capacitive force sensor characterization system for calibrating a capacitive force sensor included in a personal electronic device. The capacitive force sensor includes a first capacitor plate coupled to a flexible element of the personal electronic device, which is coupled to the device housing, and a second capacitor plate coupled to an internal structural member of the personal electronic device. The internal structural member is not coupled to the housing during the characterization. The capacitive force sensor characterization system includes: a housing fixture adapted to hold the housing of the personal electronic device; a member fixture adapted to hold the internal structural member of the personal electronic device; a positioner coupled to at least one of the housing fixture or the member fixture; a position sensor; control circuitry electrically coupled to the positioner to provide a drive signal to the positioner; and a processor coupled to the first and second capacitor plates and the position sensor. The positioner is adapted to vary the gap width between the first and second capacitor plates in response to the drive signal. The position sensor is adapted to measure differences in the gap width between the capacitor plates relative to an initial gap width. The control circuitry is adapted to generate the drive signal following a test procedure such that, in response to the drive signal, the positioner varies the gap width between the capacitor plates from the initial gap width to at least two test gap widths. The processor adapted to determine: a capacitive sensor gain; a capacitive sensor offset; and an initial effective separation between the capacitor plates.
US09990080B2	Touch input sensing method for reducing influence of parasitic capacitance and device therefor Disclosed is a touch input sensing device comprising: a touch input sensing electrode; a touch sensing unit connected to one point of the touch input sensing electrode to measure a change in a touch capacitance formed by the touch input sensing electrode according to a touch input; a second node included in the touch input sensing device to form a capacitance between the one point and the second node; and a potential control unit for providing a potential value following the potential of the one point to the second node to decrease a potential difference between the one point and the second node.
US09990076B2	Touch screen apparatus Disclosed herein is a touch screen apparatus including a touch screen having a geomagnetic sensing function and a near-field communication (NFC) function and configured to calculate touched coordinates using a touch input signal when the touch input signal is generated as a location on a touch panel is touched by a touch screen electronic pen after the touch screen is powered on; the touch screen electronic pen having an NFC function, and configured to take notes on the touch panel according to a user's manipulation and transmit the touched coordinates calculated by the touch screen to a main central processor; and the main central processor having an NFC function, and configured to receive the touched coordinates from the touch screen electronic pen and output characters corresponding to the touched coordinates onto the touch panel.
US09990070B2	Virtual keyboard interaction using touch input force Providing a virtual keyboard interaction is disclosed. An indicator identifying a force intensity of a touch input provided on a touch input surface is received. It is determined that the touch input is associated with a virtual keyboard. A virtual keyboard interaction is provided based at least in part on the indicator identifying the force intensity of the touch input.
US09990068B2	Color filter substrate, fabricating method of color filter substrate, touch screen and display device The invention discloses a color filter substrate, a method for fabricating the color filter substrate, a touch screen and a display device. The color filter substrate comprises: a transparent substrate; a color filter layer provided on one side of the transparent substrate; a first touch electrode provided on the side of the transparent substrate where the color filter layer is located, the first touch electrode being made of metal or ashed metal; and a second touch electrode provided on one side of the transparent substrate. The embodiments of the invention solve the problems that a touch screen with touch electrodes made of ITO has high impedance, large thickness and high cost, thus lowering the impedance of the touch screen, reducing the thickness of the touch screen and lowering the cost.
US09990065B2	Color filter substrate, liquid crystal module and touch display device A color filter substrate (2), a liquid crystal module and a display device are disclosed. The color filter substrate includes a touch flexible printed circuit binding area (3) for binding a touch flexible printed circuit; and a black matrix area (4) light shielding; the touch flexible printed circuit binding area (3) and the black matrix area (4) are two areas separate from each other and have no overlapping or partially overlapping parts therebetween; and a bottom of the touch flexible printed circuit binding area (3) is transparent. The color filter substrate (2), the liquid crystal module and the display device enable the binding conditions and the state of conducting particles to be monitored from backside, so that product yield is improved and accident rate is reduced.
US09990057B2	Mouse for computer The present invention relates to a mouse for a computer, which is a computer input device. The mouse has an upper case with a vertical cushioning function against force imposed on the mouse, and thus can operate smoothly. The present invention provides a cushioning function to a mouse, thereby eliminating fatigue and muscle pain of the wrist and fingers even when a user uses the mouse for a long time. The mouse is manufactured by assembling an upper case and a lower case, and is configured such that a protrusion box which protrudes upwards is formed on the lower case, a boss is fixed on the lower side of the upper case and penetrates the protrusion box, thereby being joined with the same, and a spring which is supported by the protrusion box is inserted into the boss from the outside while the lower side of the boss can be prevented from being separated from the protrusion box.
US09990051B2	Portable keyboard A portable keyboard includes a plurality of key assemblies including a plurality of key tops, a main body of a pillar shape of n angles, which is located in the vicinity of a first key assembly among a plurality of the key assemblies and includes a plurality of sides, a flexible connection member configured to connect a plurality of the key assemblies with the main body, and a main board configured to be embedded in the inside of the main body and process input signals inputted from a plurality of the key assemblies. In this case, the main body includes a first side of which one edge of the first side is connected with the flexible connection member, a second side adjacent to another edge of the first side and the second side of which an angle with the first side is equal to or greater than 90 degrees, and a cradle configured to combine one end of the cradle with the second side using a hinge to make the cradle to be rotated and the cradle configured to be contacted with the second side.
US09990049B2	Information presentation apparatus and information processing system There is provided an information presentation apparatus. A detection unit detects whether another information presentation apparatus is within a predetermined range from an own apparatus. A specification unit specifies a theme in which a first user corresponding to the own apparatus is interested. An execution unit, in a case where it is found by communication with the other information presentation apparatus which is detected as being in the predetermined range from the own apparatus by the detection unit that there is a common theme between a theme in which a second user corresponding to the other information presentation apparatus is interested and the first user's interest theme which is specified by the specification unit, executes a notification operation to notify that the first user and the second user are interested in the common theme to the first user and the second user.
US09990041B2	Systems and methods for object manipulation with haptic feedback One illustrative computing device disclosed herein includes a sensor configured to detect a user interaction with a physical object and transmit a sensor signal associated with the user interaction. The illustrative computing device also includes a processor in communication with the sensor, the processor configured to: receive the sensor signal; determine a characteristic of the physical object based on the sensor signal; determine a haptic effect associated with the characteristic; and transmit a haptic signal associated with the haptic effect. The illustrative computing device further includes a haptic output device in communication with the processor, the haptic output device configured to receive the haptic signal and output the haptic effect.
US09990036B2	Head mounted display and method for controlling the same A head mounted display (HMD) including a display unit configured to display an augmented reality image; a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device; a gaze detection unit configured to detect a gaze of a user; and a processor configured to execute a function corresponding to the augmented reality image when the augmented reality image and the external device are aligned in a first mode. Further, the first mode is a mode in which a display position of the augmented reality image remains fixed even when a position of the external device is changed, and transmit control information for displaying an execution image of the function to the external device.
US09990033B2	Detection of improper viewing posture Embodiments of the present invention provide efficient and automatic systems and methods for regulating the viewing posture of a user. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to regulate the viewing posture of both juveniles and adults, by providing real-time data analysis of a viewing distance and viewing angle of a device, and generating feedback to a user related to their current viewing posture, while also providing increased supervision of the viewing posture of juvenile device users.
US09990022B2	Adaptive power multiplexing with a power distribution network An integrated circuit (IC) is disclosed herein for adaptive power multiplexing with a power distribution network. In an example aspect, the integrated circuit includes a first power rail, a second power rail, and a load power rail. The integrated circuit also includes multiple power-multiplexer tiles and power-multiplexer control circuitry. The multiple power-multiplexer tiles are coupled in series in a chained arrangement and configured to jointly perform a power-multiplexing operation. Each power-multiplexer tile is configured to switch between coupling the load power rail to the first power rail and coupling the load power rail to the second power rail. The power-multiplexer control circuitry is configured to control a direction of current flow to prevent cross-conduction between the first power rail and the second power rail during the power-multiplexing operation.
US09990014B2	Fan assembly for a computer system as well as holding device for a fan assembly A fan assembly for a computer system that includes a fan, which has a flange having at least three fastening openings; and a holding device with at least two spring-loaded first fastening elements and a second fastening element. The fastening elements are arranged relative to one another such that in a relaxed state of the first fastening elements, the fan can be placed on the holding device in a first manner such that only the first fastening elements engage into respective two fastening openings, and in a second manner against a spring force of the first fastening elements.
US09990013B2	System and method for facilitating optimization of cooling efficiency of a data center Disclosed is a system and method for facilitating optimizing cooling efficiency of a data center. The method may comprise receiving a layout of the data center. The method may comprise computing co-ordinates of each equipment of a plurality of equipments associated with the data center. Further, the method may comprise segregating the layout into a plurality of cells. The method may comprise capturing preliminary data associated with the data center. Further, the method may comprise determining a state value of the data center based upon the preliminary data. The method may comprise capturing CFD data and, selectively, thermal assessment data. Further, the method may comprise facilitating the optimization of the cooling efficiency of the data center by using an external analysis tool capable of performing Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis or thermal assessment followed by the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis using the CFD data and the thermal assessment data.
US09990009B2	Output control using gesture input An apparatus, including: at least one processor; and at least one memory storing computer program instructions, the at least one processor being configured to execute the computer program instructions to cause the apparatus at least to perform: detecting user input; selecting, in dependence upon the detected user input, at least a portion of an output of a user output device; determining, while the at least a portion of the output of the user output device is selected, whether a user makes a gesture input by moving the apparatus; and altering, in response to determining that the gesture input has been made by the user, the selected at least a portion of the output of the user output device.
US09990001B2	Electronic device display structures An electronic device may have a housing in which a display is mounted. A gasket may be mounted in a groove between the display and housing. The gasket may contain an embedded stiffener. Corner brackets may be installed in the corners of the housing. The housing may have inner and outer concentric ribs. Recesses in the housing may be configured to receive the corner brackets. The recesses may be formed between the inner and outer concentric ribs. Gap filling structures such as a foam layer may be interposed between a rear housing wall and a display backlight unit. Display color variations may be corrected by using a backlight unit having an array of light-emitting diodes of different colors. An electrostatic discharge protection layer may be grounded to a housing using conductive tape. Black edge coatings and adhesive-based structures may block stray light. Camera window regions may be supported using adhesive.
US09989991B1	Work surface expansion with emmissive displays Emissive display apparatuses include an emissive display and a display support to moveably support the emissive display relative to an avionics instrument panel. The moveable support includes folding movement, rotating movement, sliding movement, and retractable movement between deployed and stowed positions.
US09989984B2	Reference voltage circuit A reference voltage circuit is provided, which includes bandgap reference circuit, bias current generator, first capacitor, second capacitor, comparator and control logic circuit. In the active mode of the control logic circuit, the control logic circuit controls the bandgap reference circuit to deliver bandgap reference voltage. The comparator transmits first comparison signal to control logic circuit when the first and second capacitors are charged to the bandgap reference voltage. The control logic circuit enters low power mode and controls the bandgap reference circuit to stop delivering the bandgap reference voltage. If the comparator detects the potential difference between the first capacitor and second capacitor exceeds the threshold value, the control logic circuit returns to active mode according to the second comparison signal transmitted form the comparator.
US09989981B1	Cascaded LDO voltage regulator A voltage regulator is disclosed. The voltage regulator is cascaded, including first and second stages. The first stage may be a capacitor-less first stage that includes a source follower implemented with a first PMOS transistor, with the first PMOS transistor receiving a first reference voltage on its respective gate terminal. The first stage is coupled to receive a first voltage from an external voltage supply, and to provide a second voltage to the second stage. The second stage may be directly and exclusively coupled to the first stage, with no capacitor or connection for one coupled to the first stage output. The second stage may provide an output voltage, on an output node, with the output voltage being less than the second voltage.
US09989978B2	Natural gas pressure regulator having adjustable valve seat A gas pressure regulator includes a body having respective inlet and outlet ports and an interior chamber defining a gas flow path. A hollow piston is moved in relation to a valve seat to create a junction through which gas is directed along the flow path to the outlet port. The piston engages a valve seat, thereby defining relative open and closed positions based on the position of the piston and the pressure of the gas, the piston being axially biased by a spring. The valve seat is attached to an adjustment member having at least one externally accessible feature to enable the axial position of the valve seat to be varied relative to the spring biased piston. In one version, the gas pressure regulator can include a heater assembly extending into the flow path adjacent the outlet port, enabling ported gas to be heated before introduction, e.g., into an engine.
US09989975B2	Flow isolation for blowout preventer hydraulic control systems Methods and systems for accurately measuring and monitoring accumulated volume of hydraulic fluid in a blowout preventer (BOP) system, specifically for a function of interest, are disclosed. One method includes initializing a state machine algorithm, the state machine algorithm responsive to a BOP function of interest being activated; measuring an initial hydraulic flow rate baseline and an initial pressure baseline to create a hydraulic impedance variable for use in the state machine algorithm; monitoring an aggregate hydraulic flow rate and pressure of the BOP system over time; applying the hydraulic impedance variable to negate BOP system hydraulic flows not related to the BOP function of interest; and applying the state machine algorithm to determine when the BOP function of interest has been completed responsive to a total accumulated volume of hydraulic fluid.
US09989973B2	Measurement control system for multi-shaft supported air floatation platform A measurement control system for a multi-shaft supported air floatation platform, the system comprising a load feedback unit (5), an execution unit (6), a position measurement unit (7), a safety protection unit (8), a controller (9), a rotating motor (10), and a linear light source 11; the load feedback unit comprises M pressure sensors (5-1) and four differential sensors (5-2); the execution unit comprises M servo voice coil motors (6-1) and M servo voice coil motor drivers (6-2); the position measurement unit comprises a plane grating (7-1), M linear gratings (7-2) a linear array CCD (7-3), a tilt sensor (7-4), M electronic levels (7-5), and an indoor GPS (7-6); the safety protection unit comprises 2M proximity sensors (8-1) and M temperature sensors (8-2); and the linear array CCD consists of no few then six CCDs. The system solves the problems of leveling limitations and narrow application range of existing supporting platforms.
US09989972B2	Systems and methods to prevent an aircraft from tail contact with the ground Systems and methods according to one or more embodiments are provided for limiting elevator deflection commands to avoid the aft body of an aircraft from contacting the ground during a landing maneuver. In one example, a system includes a memory configured to store a plurality of executable instructions and a processor. The processor is configured to determine a descent profile and a current pitch profile. A pre-determined maximum pitch profile associated with the descent profile is used to compare to the current pitch profile. The comparison is used to compute an elevator deflection value that limits an elevator command signal in order to avoid a tail strike. Additional systems and methods are also provided.
US09989951B2	Generation and publication of shared tagsets Systems and methods are provided to facilitate receipt of tag requests from one or more interfaces, based upon which a single tagset is compiled at a controller comprising all the requested tags for a given update rate, whereupon the single compiled tagset is subsequently forwarded to the one or more interfaces. A controller generates a superset of tags associated with an industrial process. Each interface can request a copy of the superset, from which the required tags are selected. The controller receives the requested tags from all of the interfaces and combines the requested tags into a single tagset, for a given update rate, comprising the various parameters associated with the tags. At the selected update rate, the tagset is forwarded to the interfaces. A masterset can be utilized to identify the sequence of tags in a tagset and check code can ensure continuity of the tags in the tagset.
US09989946B2	Laboratory machine and method for the automatic treatment of laboratory samples The invention relates to a program-controlled laboratory machine and to a method for the automatic program-controlled treatment of laboratory samples. The laboratory machine has a display having a first display area, via which program parameters that are required by the user are input, and has a second display area in which these input program parameters are shown. The performance of the treatment is effected automatically using the program parameters that are required by the user.
US09989938B2	Communication device, control system, and communication method A communication device includes a determining unit and a sending unit. The determining unit determines, when setting information related to a predetermined item is received from a predetermined apparatus, whether another piece of setting information related to the predetermined item is newly received from the predetermined apparatus before a predetermined time period elapses after the setting information is received. The sending unit sends, when the determining unit determines that the another piece of setting information is not newly received from the predetermined apparatus before the predetermined time period elapses, the setting information to a server device.
US09989934B2	Method for controlling the rotational speed of a motor A method a speed controller includes reading in an actual angular acceleration value of a motor, comparing the actual angular acceleration value to a setpoint angular acceleration value, determining a controller output torque of an integrating I-component of the speed controller based on the comparison, and controlling the rotational speed of the motor based on the determined controller output torque.
US09989929B2	User interface for a multi-purpose band A method and apparatus to provide a user interface for a multi-purpose band is described. The user interface includes two shapes, in one embodiment, each shape made up of a plurality of LEDs or other light sources. Multiple types of information may be provided to the user through the lights, including activity statistics, sleep statistics, and current time.
US09989928B2	Time-to-digital converter A time-to-digital converter includes: an input for receiving a time-domain input signal; an output for providing a digital output signal; a time register coupled to the input and to a first node; a time quantizer coupled to the time register for providing the digital output signal at the output; and a digital-to-time converter coupled to the output for providing a feed-back signal at the first node.
US09989924B2	Smart watch and motion gaming system A smart watch and motion gaming system are disclosed. The smart watch interacts with the motion-controlled game apparatus, and includes a controller, and a geomagnetic field sensor, a gravity sensor, a gyroscope, and a data transmission circuit, which are electrically connected to the controller. The geomagnetic field sensor detects an orientation of the smart watch and acquires the orientation data. The gravity sensor detects an inclination condition of the smart watch and acquires the inclination data. The gyroscope detects a rate of rotation of the smart watch to acquire the rotation rate data. The controller runs at least one of the geomagnetic field sensor, the gravity sensor, and the gyroscope in response to the user's selection, and accordingly collect the sensing data. The data transmission circuit transmits the collected sensing data to the motion-controlled game apparatus.
US09989923B2	Electronic timepiece An electronic timepiece includes an outer case, a back cover, and an antenna for receiving radio waves disposed in the outer case, wherein at least one of the outer case and the back cover is formed from a titanium alloy composed of aluminum in an amount of 3.50 mass % or more and 4.50 mass % or less and vanadium in an amount of 20.00 mass % or more and 23.00 mass % or less, with the remainder including titanium and impurities.
US09989910B2	Image forming apparatus The present invention is directed to downsize the main body and achieve a good image quality at a low cost. A rotation shaft of a first discharge roller is tilted with respect to that of a second discharge roller. The center of oscillation C of a first discharge roller holding member is provided more upstream in the direction in which a sheet is discharged than a straight line made by the rotation center of the first discharge roller and the rotation center of the second discharge roller.
US09989901B2	Image fixing device having a controller that maintains a temperature of the heater A fixing device includes a cylindrical film, and a heater including a substrate, a first heat generating resistor, and a second heat generating resistor. A controller controls supply of electric power to the heater using one of PID control and PD control on the basis of a deviation between a target temperature and a detected temperature detected by a temperature detecting member, such that the temperature of the heater is maintained at the target temperature. A proportional gain of the PID control or the PD control when the first heat generating resistor is supplied with the electric power and the second heat generating resistor is not supplied with the electric power is less than a proportional gain of the PID control or the PD control when the first heat generating resistor is not supplied with the electric power and the second heat generating resistor is supplied with the electric power.
US09989896B2	Fixing device, image forming apparatus, and method for adjusting length of interposing and pressurizing region by fixing device In general, a fixing device according to an embodiment includes an endless belt, a pressure element, a heating member, an adjustment mechanism, and a controller. The pressure element conveys a sheet while interposing the sheet under pressure between the same and the endless belt. The heating member is provided on the inner side of the endless belt and has a heat generating element for heating the endless belt. The adjustment mechanism moves at least one of the heating member and the pressure element in such a direction as to bring the one closer to or away from the other, to adjust the nip width which is the length of an interposing and pressurizing region in a sheet conveyance direction, the interposing and pressurizing region being formed by the heating member and the pressure element to interpose the endless belt under pressure. The controller controls the adjustment mechanism so that A>B≥N is satisfied, where A is the nip width during a fixing process in which the sheet is heated to fix a color material onto the sheet, B is the nip width during temperature raising of the heating member to be conducted before the fixing process, and N is the length of the heat generating element in the sheet conveyance direction.
US09989887B2	Apparatus and method for preventing an information storage device from falling from a removable device An information storage device installed in a removable device configured to be removably installed in an image forming apparatus body, includes: an information storage unit that stores information communicated between the image forming apparatus body and the removable device; a terminal that comes in contact with a body side terminal; and a substrate that holds the information storage unit and the terminal and includes a hole configured to be engaged with a protruding section installed in the image forming apparatus body. The terminal includes a plurality of terminals each including one of a plurality of metallic plates arranged in a transverse direction thereof. An earth terminal, which comes in contact with a body side earth terminal formed in the protruding section, is formed in the hole. The hole is disposed at a position sandwiched between two metallic plates among the plurality of metallic plates.
US09989880B2	Image forming apparatus and cartridge An image forming apparatus includes a charging member, a light source, and a light quantity lowering member. The light quantity lowering member is provided so that a lowering amount of a quantity of a part of light reflected by a surface of a member at each of end portions of a charging region where the surface of the image bearing member is charged by the charging member is larger than that at a portion inside an associated end portion with respect to a rotational axis direction of the image bearing member.
US09989870B2	Image formation apparatus, transparent developer and developer cartridge An image formation apparatus includes a first development device configured to form a color developer image with a color developer, and a second development device configured to form a transparent developer image with a transparent developer. The ratio of the viscosity of the transparent developer to the viscosity of the color developer is not greater than a certain amount.
US09989866B2	Wafer-based light source parameter control A photolithography method includes producing, from an optical source, a pulsed light beam; and scanning the pulsed light beam across a substrate of a lithography exposure apparatus to expose the substrate with the pulsed light beam including exposing each sub-area of the substrate with the pulsed light beam. A sub-area is a portion of a total area of the substrate. For each sub-area of the substrate, a lithography performance parameter associated with the sub-area of the substrate is received; the received lithography performance parameter is analyzed, and, based on the analysis, a first spectral feature of the pulsed light beam is modified and a second spectral feature of the pulsed light beam is maintained.
US09989859B2	Measuring apparatus and method, processing apparatus and method, pattern forming apparatus and method, exposure apparatus and method, and device manufacturing method Position information of a movable body within an XY plane is measured with high accuracy by an encoder system whose measurement values have favorable short-term stability, without being affected by air fluctuations, and also position information of the movable body in a Z-axis direction orthogonal to the XY plane is measured with high accuracy by a surface position measuring system, without being affected by air fluctuations. In this case, since both of the encoder system and the surface position measuring system directly measure the upper surface of the movable body, simple and direct position control of the movable body can be performed.
US09989854B2	Photosensitive resin composition for projection exposure, photosensitive element, method for forming resist pattern, process for producing printed wiring board and process for producing lead frame An object of the present invention is to provide a photosensitive resin composition for projection exposure capable of forming a resist pattern that is excellent in adhesion, resolution, and inhibitory properties against the occurrence of resist footing, and the present invention provides a photosensitive resin composition for projection exposure comprising (A) a binder polymer; (B) a photopolymerizable compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond; (C) a photopolymerization initiator; and (D) a sensitizing dye, wherein the (B) photopolymerizable compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond comprises a (meth)acrylate compound having a skeleton derived from dipentaerythritol and a compound represented by the following formula (III): wherein R8, R9, R10, and R11 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, X and Y each independently represent an ethylene group or a propylene group, p1, p2, q1, and q2 each independently represent a numerical value of 0 to 9, both p1+q1 and p2+q2 are 1 or more, and p1+q1+p2+q2 is 2 to 9.
US09989852B2	Positive photosensitive resin composition, cured film formed by curing same, and optical device equipped with same A positive photosensitive resin composition including: a polysiloxane synthesized by hydrolyzing and partially condensing a specific organosilane and an organosilane that has a carboxyl group and/or a dicarboxylic acid anhydride structure; particles of one or more metal compounds selected from an aluminum compound, a tin compound, a titanium compound, and a zirconium compound, or composite particles of a silicon compound and one or more metal compounds selected from an aluminum compound, a tin compound, a titanium compound, and a zirconium compound; a naphthoquinone diazide compound; and a solvent.
US09989849B2	Chemically amplified resist material and resist pattern-forming method A chemically amplified resist material comprises a polymer component that is capable of being made soluble or insoluble in a developer solution by an action of an acid, and a generative component that is capable of generating a radiation-sensitive sensitizer and an acid upon an exposure. The radiation-sensitive acid generating agent included in the generative component comprises a compound represented by the formula (B). RB3 and RB4 each independently represent a monovalent organic group, or taken together represent a cyclic structure together with the O—C—O. At least one of RB3 and RB4 comprises a halogen atom, a nitro group, a cyano group, a formyl group, a carbonyl group, a carboxy group, a sulfo group, a sulfonyl group or a combination thereof, or the cyclic structure having 4 to 30 ring atoms is a spiro cyclic structure, a fused cyclic structure or a bridged cyclic structure.
US09989848B2	Photosensitive resin composition for optical waveguide, photocurable film for formation of optical waveguide core layer, optical waveguide produced by using the resin composition or the photocurable film, and hybrid flexible printed wiring board for optical/electrical transmission The present invention provides an optical waveguide photosensitive resin composition containing a resin component and a photoacid generator, wherein the photoacid generator has a characteristic property (x) such that an absorption limit (O—O transition energy) calculated based on the shape of an ultraviolet spectrum obtained by spectrometrically analyzing a 0.1 wt % propylene carbonate solution of the photoacid generator by means of an ultraviolet/visible spectrophotometer is 3.5 to 4.1 eV. Where an optical waveguide core layer is formed by using the inventive optical waveguide photosensitive resin composition, for example, the optical waveguide core layer has a lower loss, and is excellent in patternability and reflow resistance.
US09989843B2	Test pattern layout for test photomask and method for evaluating critical dimension changes Aspects of the present invention relate to a test photomask and a method for evaluating critical dimension changes in the test photomask. Various embodiments include a test photomask. The test photomask includes a plurality of cells having a varied density pattern. The plurality of cells include a first group of cells arranged along a first line, the first group of cells having a first combined density ratio. The plurality of cells also include a second group of cells arranged along a second line, the second group of cells having a second combined density ratio. In the plurality of cells, the second combined density ratio for the second group of cells is equal to the first combined density ratio of the first group of cells. The varied density pattern is configured to substantially neutralize fogging effects.
US09989836B1	Optical mounting device An optical mounting device is disclosed that enables an optical device to be pointed in the desired orientation with minimal effort between a horizontal and a vertical position. The device includes a yoke, a saddle, and a payload platform assembly. The device can lock the position of the optical device into a desired orientation. The payload platform assembly has a lower base that is coupled to the saddle and an extendable upper section attached to a rotation pivot guide that allows the upper section to rotate up to 90 degrees from horizontal landscape orientation to a vertical portrait orientation.
US09989835B1	System and method for mounting a camera on a work vehicle A camera mounting assembly includes a first bezel configured to be positioned on a first side of a panel of a work vehicle and to support a camera. The camera mounting assembly also includes a second bezel configured to be positioned on a second side of the panel and to couple to the first bezel to support the camera between the first bezel and the second bezel, and to couple the camera mounting assembly to the panel.
US09989830B2	Optical modulator element, optical modulation module including optical modulator element, and method for manufacturing optical modulator element An optical modulator element includes first and second optical modulators, an optical input terminal, and a branch coupler. Each of the first and second optical modulators includes a pair of Mach-Zehnder waveguides, a first optical coupler to split rays from the branch coupler into the pair of Mach-Zehnder waveguides, and a second optical coupler to combine rays transmitted through the pair of Mach-Zehnder waveguides. The first and second optical modulators are disposed in such a manner that a traveling direction of rays propagating through the pair of Mach-Zehnder waveguides of the first optical modulator and a traveling direction of rays propagating through the pair of Mach-Zehnder waveguides of the second optical modulator are angled toward each other.
US09989818B2	Liquid crystal display device Provided are display device. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a display device comprising a first substrate, a gate wiring which is formed on the first substrate and extends in a first direction, a data wiring which is insulated from the gate wiring, intersects the gate wiring, and extends in a second direction, and a pixel electrode which comprises a first subpixel electrode to which a first data voltage is applied from the data wiring and a second subpixel electrode to which a second data voltage lower than the first data voltage is applied from the data wiring, wherein the first subpixel electrode is surrounded by the second subpixel electrode, and the second subpixel electrode does not overlap the data wiring.
US09989804B2	Display device A display device includes a display panel curved in a first direction, a light source comprising driving circuit boards and light emitting elements disposed on the driving circuit boards, a reflective sheet disposed on the driving circuit boards and including a first edge area, a second edge area spaced apart from the first edge area in the first direction, and a center area disposed between the first and second edge areas, where holes are defined in the center area to expose the light emitting elements, a cover member including a bottom portion on which the driving circuit boards are disposed and sidewalls bent from the bottom portion, a first correction tape disposed on the first edge area, and a second correction tape disposed on the second edge area.
US09989799B2	Coating device, method of manufacturing display substrate using the same and display substrate manufactured using the same A coating device includes an upper stage, a lower stage and a spraying part. The upper stage masks an upper surface of a display panel. The lower stage masks a lower surface of the display panel. The spraying part sprays ink to a side surface of the display panel. The side surface of the display panel is exposed between the upper stage and the lower stage. The coating device includes the upper stage and the lower stage, so that the coating device may form a coating layer of uniform thickness by precisely spraying ink. In addition, a cross-section of the coating layer may be precisely formed having specific shape such as an L or C shape. A display apparatus having high light usage efficiency and reduced light leakage may be provided by using the coating device.
US09989785B2	In-situ ring-resonator-modulator calibration In an optical device, a ring-resonator modulator, having an adjustable resonance (center) wavelength, receives an optical signal that includes a carrier wavelength from an input-output optical waveguide. Then, a monitoring mechanism monitors a performance metric (such as an average power or a signal swing) of a monitor optical signal from the ring-resonator modulator. Moreover, control logic in the optical device adjusts the resonance wavelength based on the monitored performance metric so that the resonance wavelength is locked to the carrier wavelength. In particular, the control logic may apply a change to an adjustment signal that is provided to the ring-resonator modulator. If the change increases the performance metric, the control logic may continue to modify the resonance wavelength. Otherwise, the control logic may modify the resonance wavelength by applying one or more changes, having an opposite sign to the change, to the adjustment signal.
US09989779B2	Lens driving device The present invention is a lens driving device comprising first driving coils 30a which relatively moves a lens holder 40 against a base part 10 along X axis perpendicular to an optical axis of a lens 100, and second driving coils 30b which relatively moves a lens holder 40 against a base part 10 along Y axis perpendicular to an optical axis. At the base part 10, an opening part 12 is formed where a part of the lens 100 is to be inserted in a movable manner along the driving plane. The oblique diameter Dxy1 and Dxy2 of the opening part 12 along the oblique direction positioned at the middle of X axis and Y axis, is larger than the first inner diameter Dx along X axis direction of the opening part 12, and also larger than the second inner diameter Dy along Y axis direction of the opening part 12. At the base part 10, the cylinder shape projection part 14 is formed along the periphery of the opening part 12.
US09989768B2	Spectacle lens for a display device that can be fitted on the head of a user and generates an image A spectacle lens for a display device can be fitted on the head of a user and generate an image. The spectacle lens includes a front side and a rear side, a coupling-in section and a coupling-out section spaced apart from the coupling-in section, as well as a light guiding channel which is suitable for guiding light bundles of pixels of the generated image, which are coupled into the spectacle lens via the coupling-in section of the spectacle lens, in the spectacle lens to the coupling-out section, by which they are coupled out of the spectacle lens. The light guiding channel includes a first reflecting layer, which extends from the coupling-in section to the coupling-out section and on which the light bundles are reflected for guiding to the coupling-out section. The first reflecting layer includes at least one transparent gap.
US09989763B2	Imaging using multiple different narrow bands of light having respective different emission peaks A near eye or heads up display system includes at least one light source, an imaging device, and an optical structure. The at least one light source can be, e.g., a red light source that produces light within a red wavelength range that has at least two different narrow bands of light having respective different emission peaks. The imaging device produces an image using light produced by the light source(s). The optical structure is configured to transfer light corresponding to the image from an input-pupil to an output-pupil where the image is viewable. By producing at least two different narrow bands of light having respective different emission peaks within a color (e.g., red) wavelength range, and taking advantage of chromatic dispersion, a more uniform intensity distribution is provided in the viewable image compared to if only one narrow band of light within the color wavelength range were produced.
US09989760B2	Headup display device Provided is a headup display apparatus that is capable of accurately outputting stable display light, a collimator lens, collimates image light, as parallel light, said image light having been outputted from a display means. A parallel light guide has a first surface, which has the parallel light from the collimator lens inputted thereto, and which reflects a part of the parallel light and transmits a part of the parallel light as transmitted light beams, and a second surface that reflects the parallel light to the first surface, said first surface and second surface being provided in parallel to each other. The parallel light guide outputs the transmitted light beams from the first surface, and the parallel light is inputted to the first surface at a predetermined angle.
US09989759B2	Camera lens and field-depth calibration method therefor The present disclosure discloses a camera lens and a calibration method of field-depth for the camera lens. The camera lens includes a lens module, a central processing unit and a thermal expansion compensation module. The lens module includes a first lens and a second lens with a baseline length b2 to the first lens. The first lens includes a first lens unit formed on same glass substrate and a second lens unit with a baseline length b1 to the first lens unit. The baseline length change value between the second lens and the first lens can be calculated. Therefore the thermal expansion of the camera lens can be calibrated.
US09989751B2	Sight A sight includes a cylinder, a first lens, a first lens seat, and at least one first elastic member. The first lens is disposed in the cylinder. The first lens seat carrying the first lens is disposed in the cylinder. The first elastic member is disposed between an outer surface of the first lens seat and an inner periphery of the cylinder, wherein the first lens seat is tightly fitted with the cylinder and light enters the cylinder through the first lens.
US09989742B2	Optical system, imaging device, and method for manufacturing the optical system In an optical system (ZL) capable of imaging in a plurality of object side media (for instance, air and water) whose refractive indexes are different from each other, the optical system is composed of, in order from an object, a front lens group (G1) whose position in an optical axis fixed, and a rear lens group (for instance, G2 to G4), and the rear lens group comprises at least two moving lens groups (for instance, G2 and G3), and at least two moving lens groups in the rear lens group are moved along the optical axis upon changing between object side media.
US09989738B2	Optical image capturing system An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. At least one lens among the first to the sixth lenses has positive refractive force. The seventh lens have negative refractive force, wherein both surfaces thereof can be aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the seventh lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
US09989735B2	Optical image capturing system A four-piece optical lens for capturing image and a five-piece optical module for capturing image are provided. In the order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis includes a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; and a fourth lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the four lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
US09989733B2	Camera lens A camera lens includes an open aperture; and a falcate first lens having a positive refractive power with a convex surface toward an imaging surface side. The camera lens satisfies specific conditions.
US09989732B1	Lens assembly A lens assembly includes sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a stop, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens and an eighth lens. The first lens is a meniscus lens with refractive power. The second lens is a meniscus lens with refractive power. The third lens is a biconcave lens with negative refractive power. The fourth lens is a biconvex lens with positive refractive power. The fifth lens is a biconvex lens with positive refractive power. The sixth lens is with positive refractive power. The seventh lens is with negative refractive power. The eighth lens is with positive refractive power. The sixth lens and the seventh lens are cemented together.
US09989726B2	Electromagnetic driving module and camera device using the same An electromagnetic driving device is provided, which includes a movable member, a stationary member, a driving magnet, a driving coil, a conductive layer, and an external terminal. The movable member and the stationary member are arranged separate from each other along a main axis. The driving magnet is positioned on the movable member. The driving coils are arranged corresponding to the driving magnet and are disposed in the stationary member. The conductive layer is electrically connected to the driving coils and is disposed in the stationary member. The external terminal is exposed by the fixed member and electrically connected to the conductive layer. The thickness of the external terminal is different from the thickness of the conductive layer.
US09989723B2	Loose tube-type optical fiber unit An optical fiber ribbon comprises a plurality of optical fiber strands that are arranged side-by-side in one direction and integrated. The optical fiber ribbon comprises a plurality of optical fiber strands that are bonded in parallel. In the optical fiber ribbon, the adjacent optical fiber strands are bonded using a bonding section in which the same are continuously bonded along the entire length thereof and a bonding section in which the same are intermittently bonded at prescribed intervals. In other words, either of the bonding sections is formed between the adjacent optical fiber strands.
US09989722B2	Fiber optic cables and assemblies for fiber toward the subscriber applications A fiber optic cable includes an optical fiber, strength components disposed on opposite sides of the optical fiber, and a polymeric cable jacket. The optical fiber includes a glass core, a glass cladding, and a polymer coating. The cable jacket surrounds the optical fiber and the strength components. Further, the cable jacket is tightly drawn onto the optical fiber, where excess fiber length of the optical fiber is such that positive strain is present in the optical fiber at room temperature (25° C.).
US09989702B2	Polarization rotator for silicon photonics A photonic waveguide structure for performing polarization rotation includes a first waveguide layer including input and output waveguides. The input and output waveguides are separate and discontinuous structures. The input and output waveguides are configured in the first waveguide layer to have a lateral offset therebetween. The photonic waveguide structure further includes a second waveguide layer including a waveguide structure disposed under or over the first waveguide layer. The waveguide structure includes a polarization conversion region configured within the second waveguide layer to overlap the input or output waveguides in the first waveguide layer.
US09989701B2	Adiabatic planar waveguide coupler transformer Methods of depositing materials to provide for efficient coupling of light from a first device to a second device are disclosed. In general, these methods include mounting one or more wafers on a rotating table that is continuously rotated under one or more source targets. A process gas can be provided and one or more of the source targets powered while the wafers are biased to deposit optical dielectric films on the one or more wafers. In some embodiments, a shadow mask can be laterally translated across the one or more wafers during deposition. In some embodiments, deposited films can have lateral and/or horizontal variation in index of refraction and/or lateral variation in thickness.
US09989700B1	Optical coupler for optical communications transceiver A planar lightwave circuit may include a set of components. The set of components may include an input waveguide to couple to an optical communications transceiver. The set of components may include an output waveguide to couple to the optical communications transceiver. The set of components may include a common port to couple to an optical fiber. The set of components may include a first polarization beam splitter. The set of components may include a second polarization beam splitter. The set of components may include a third polarization beam splitter. The set of components may include a rotator assembly including a Faraday rotator and a quarter-wave plate.
US09989692B2	Methods and apparatus for providing improved display components Methods and apparatus for providing one or more components for a display system, particularly for producing diffused light.
US09989689B2	Backlight unit capable of local dimming A backlight unit may be provided which is capable of local dimming. The backlight unit includes: one or a plurality of light emitting devices; and a light guide plate including a top surface and a bottom surface, one or a plurality of grooves which are formed in the bottom surface and in which the light emitting device is disposed, a reflective layer which is disposed within the one or the plurality of grooves and reflects light emitted from the light emitting device, and a plurality of inverse prism patterns disposed in the top surface.
US09989688B2	Polarizing plate, image display apparatus, and method for improving bright-place contrast in image display apparatus There is provided a polarizing plate including: a polarizer; and a light transmissive film with a birefringent property in a plane, disposed on one surface of the polarizer, wherein the light transmissive film satisfies a relationship of the following expression (1): nx>N>ny (1) where a refractive index in a slow-axis direction which is a direction with a greatest refractive index in a plane of the light transmissive film is nx, a refractive index in a fast-axis direction which is a direction orthogonal to the slow-axis direction in the plane is ny, and an average refractive index of the light transmissive film is N; and wherein the polarizer and the light transmissive film are placed so that both fast-axis direction of the light transmissive film and absorption-axis direction of the polarizer are along a horizontal direction.
US09989686B2	Tinted polarizing optical element and method for manufacturing such an element The invention relates to a tinted polarizing optical element (1), including a polarizing assembly (5) consisting of at least a first layer (7) and a second layer (9) made of a thermoplastic or thermosetting material and sandwiching a polarizing film (11) therebetween, and to a method for manufacturing said optical element. The latter further comprises a third layer (13) made of a tinted thermoplastic material adhering, by means of injection, to the second layer (9), characterized in that the element includes a fourth layer (15) which is made of a crystal thermoplastic material adhering, by means of injection, to the third layer (13), and which is to be surfaced so as to achieve a corrective effect.
US09989684B2	Near infrared optical interference filters with improved transmission An interference filter includes a layers stack comprising a plurality of layers of at least: layers of amorphous hydrogenated silicon with added nitrogen (a-Si:H,N) and layers of one or more dielectric materials, such as SiO2, SiOx, SiOxNy, a dielectric material with a higher refractive index in the range 1.9 to 2.7 inclusive, or so forth. The interference filter is designed to have a passband center wavelength in the range 750-1000 nm inclusive. Layers of a dielectric material with a higher refractive index in the range 1.9 to 2.7 inclusive provide a smaller angle shift compared with a similar interference filter using SiO2 as the low index layers.
US09989678B2	Anisotropic optical film In an anisotropic optical film including two or more anisotropic light diffusion layers where a linear transmittance varies depending on an incident light angle, each of the anisotropic light diffusion layers has a matrix region and a plurality of pillar regions that differ in refractive index from the matrix region, at least two types of anisotropic light diffusion layers (a) and (b) that differ in aspect ratio between a short diameter and a long diameter at a cross section perpendicular to an orientation direction of the pillar regions are used as the anisotropic light diffusion layers, the aspect ratio between the short diameter and the long diameter in the pillar regions is made less than 2 in the anisotropic light diffusion layer (a), and the aspect ratio between the short diameter and the long diameter in the pillar regions is made 2 or more and 20 or less in the anisotropic light diffusion layer (b).
US09989661B2	Methods for evaluating rock properties while drilling using drilling rig-mounted acoustic sensors Methods for identifying rock properties in real-time during drilling, are provided. An example of an embodiment of such a method includes positioning one or more acoustic sensors to detect drill sounds emanating from the drill bit and the rock encountered during drilling operations, connecting the sensors to select components of a drilling rig to maximally pick up the drill sounds of the drill bit engaging rock during drilling operations. The method also includes providing and deploying an inductive telemetry, wireless telemetry, or wired transmitting system. The method also includes providing and configuring a computer to analyze the “raw” acoustic signals received from the acoustic sensors through the respective transmitting system.
US09989655B2	On-die electric cosmic ray detector Described is a chip comprising: a substrate; a logic unit forming an active circuit on the substrate; and a cosmic ray detector embedded in the substrate, the cosmic ray detector to detect a cosmic ray and to generate a signal indicating detection of the cosmic ray, the signal for reducing error in the logic unit.
US09989637B2	Portable collision warning apparatus A collision warning apparatus, mountable in a vehicle to detect collision threat levels between the host vehicle and an object or target detected forward of the host vehicle. All processing and signal generation takes place in a controller in the housing without reliance on external signals, except for input power, from the host vehicle. The controller activates visible and/or audible indicators on the housing to alert the driver of the collision threat level.
US09989630B2	Structured-light based multipath cancellation in ToF imaging Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide multipath interference cancelling for imaging devices and systems. In various implementations, structured light is used to diminish, if not cancel interference. For example, the light may be structured with respect to amplitude or phase, based on an emission angle of the light.
US09989627B2	Vehicular radar system with self-interference cancellation A radar system is described that comprises a transmitter, a receiver, a spillover cancellation unit, and a combiner. The transmitter transmits radio signals. The receiver receives interfering signals due to local signal coupling of transmitted signals. The local signal coupling comprises at least one interfering path or mechanism. The spillover cancellation unit is configured to output a replica of each of the interfering signals. Each replica is configured to replicate a particular interfering signal received through a particular interfering path or mechanism. The combiner is configured to combine into a signal path of the receiver, a replica of an interfering signal to subtract the interfering signal from the receiver's signal path. The receiver receives the transmitted radio signals reflected from objects in the environment without saturating the signal path of the receiver due to the subtraction of the interfering signal from the receiver's signal path.
US09989622B1	Controlling radio states for motion detection In a general aspect, the radio state of a wireless communication device is controlled. In some aspects, a first set of motion detection signals is processed by operation of a radio subsystem of a wireless communication device in a first radio state. An amount of variation in the first set of motion detection signals is determined based on values of a parameter of the motion detection signals. A counter is updated in response to a determination that the variation is greater than a first threshold, and the radio subsystem is changed to a second radio state based on comparing the value of the counter with a second threshold. A motion detection process is executed to detect motion of an object in the space based on a second set of motion detection signals processed by operation of the radio subsystem in the second radio state.
US09989616B2	Memory arrays Some embodiments include memory arrays. The memory arrays can have global bitlines extending along a first horizontal direction, vertical local bitlines extending perpendicularly from the global bitlines, and wordlines extending along a second horizontal direction which is perpendicular to the first horizontal direction. The global bitlines may be subdivided into a first series at a first elevational level, and a second series at a second elevational level which is different from the first elevational level. The global bitlines of the first series can alternate with the global bitlines of the second series. There can be memory cell material directly between the wordlines and the vertical local bitlines. The memory cell material may form a plurality of memory cells uniquely addressed by wordline/global bitline combinations. Some embodiments include cross-point memory cell units that have areas of about 2F2.
US09989615B2	System and method for image warp correction for magnetic resonance imaging A method of correcting warping of an acquired image in an MRI system, caused by non-linearities in gradient field profiles of gradient coils is set forth, comprising a) constructing a computer model representing conducting pathways for each gradient coil in said MRI system; b) calculating a predicted magnetic field at each point in space for each said gradient coil in said model; c) measuring actual magnetic field at each point in space for each said gradient coil in said MRI system; d) verifying accuracy of said model by comparing said predicted magnetic field to said actual magnetic field at each said point in space and in the event said model is not accurate then repeating a)-d), and in the event said model is accurate then; constructing a distortion map for mapping coordinates in real space to coordinates in warped space of said acquired image based on deviations of said predicted magnetic field from linearity; and unwarping said warping of the acquired image using said distortion map.
US09989607B2	Method and magnetic resonance apparatus to acquire MR data and to reconstruct an MR image In a method to operate a magnetic resonance (MR) system to acquire MR data, an RF excitation pulse is radiated followed by repeated, chronologically sequential implementation of the following steps in order to respectively acquire the MR data of an echo train. A refocusing pulse is radiated, a phase coding gradient is activated, and an additional magnetic field gradient for spatial coding is activated in a direction that is orthogonal to the direction of the phase coding gradient in order to read out the MR data of a k-space line. A k-space line in the k-space center is acquired at a predetermined echo time. A first half of k-space is acquired by entering data into k-space lines of the respective echo train, the data being acquired before the echo time. A second half of k-space is acquired by entering data into k-space lines of the respective echo train, this data having been acquired after the echo time. The k-space lines in the first half of k-space have a first density while the k-space lines in the second half of k-space have a second density that differs from the first density.
US09989597B2	Correlated double sampling for noise reduction in magnetoresistive sensors and sensor arrays Correlated double sampling (CDS) for magnetoresistive (MR) sensors is provided. Here the MR sensor output is sampled at two closely spaced times. The first sample is MR signal+baseline+noise and is sampled when the modulated magnetic field is non-zero. The second sample is baseline+noise only because it is sampled when the modulated magnetic field is zero. The difference between the first and second samples will have significantly reduced low frequency noise and baseline cancellation. Modulation of the electrical bias provided to the MR sensor can be used to provide a baseline signal for temperature compensation. In a second aspect, we provide MR sensor arrays having input and output multiplexing and demultiplexing for row and column line selection, in combination with a per-sensor switch to prevent noise accumulation and bandwidth reduction from idle MR sensors.
US09989589B2	Computer system for automatic test equipment (ATE) using one or more dedicated processing cores for ATE functions A system and method for testing electronic circuit devices. The system has a central processing unit with a plurality of separate core processing units. The utility service program is initiated at the startup of the computer program which acts as an intermediary between user applications and the computer operating system. The utility service is responsive to an ATE execution engine to set an affinity for one or more processing cores for exclusive use for the ATE execution engine. The ATE execution engine communicates with the utility service to reserve one or more processing cores for execution of the program for testing electronic devices.
US09989580B2	Fault analysis in electric networks having a plurality of multi-phase buses Fault analysis for an electric network having a plurality of multi-phase buses is performed by computing equivalent circuits for the multi-phase buses of interest. Each equivalent circuit includes an N×N impedance matrix, N corresponding to the number of phases of the multi-phase bus for which that equivalent circuit is computed. Elements of the impedance matrices are determined based on voltages resulting from a plurality of experimental current injection vectors and a factorized pre-fault admittance matrix. The pre-fault admittance matrix represents nodal admittance of the multi-phase buses without faults. A fault current injection vector for each multi-phase bus and fault type of interest is determined based on the equivalent circuit determined for that multi-phase bus. A fault voltage vector for each multi-phase bus and fault type of interest is determined based on the factorized pre-fault admittance matrix and the fault current injection vector determined for that multi-phase bus and fault type.
US09989579B2	Monitoring systems and methods for detecting thermal-mechanical strain fatigue in an electrical fuse Systems and methods for detecting thermal-mechanical strain fatigue in an electrical fuse include a controller configured to monitor at least one fuse fatigue parameter over a period of time while the fuse is connected to an energized electrical power system, and based on the monitored at least one fuse fatigue parameter, the controller is further configured to determine at least one of a consumed service life of the fuse element or a service life remaining of the fuse element.
US09989578B2	Self-warning system for unlocked connectors A sealing gasket for an electrical connector system includes a resilient element configured to seal an interface between a header surface and a connector surface. The sealing gasket further includes thin-film sensing elements in contact with the resilient element that are configured to define a resistance of an electrical network based on a force applied to the sealing gasket. In some configurations, the sensing elements are arranged in a series electrical network and establish a conductive path when the force is greater than a predetermined force at each of the sensing elements. The thin-film sensing elements may be coupled to a controller that is configured to output a diagnostic based on a state of the electrical network.
US09989570B2	Method for evaluating device including plurality of electric circuits A method for evaluating a device including a plurality of electric circuits has: a step of finding a first malfunction frequency property for individual electric circuits included in the device, the first malfunction frequency property representing the magnitude of a critical noise signal at which each electric circuit causes a malfunction; and a step of finding a second malfunction frequency property based on the first malfunction frequency property found for each of the electric circuits, an equivalent circuit of the entire device, and an equivalent circuit of each of the electric circuits, the second malfunction frequency property representing the magnitude of a critical noise signal at which the entire device causes a malfunction.
US09989554B2	Acceleration sensor, especially duplex acceleration sensor, arrangement and method for detecting a loss of adhesion of a vehicle tire The invention relates to an acceleration sensor, especially a duplex acceleration sensor, an arrangement and a method for detecting a loss of road grip of a vehicle wheel (3). The acceleration sensor comprises a tube (5) having a longitudinal axis forming a circular arc segment, and two closed ends. A mass (15; 315) is arranged inside the tube (5) such that is able to move inside the tube (5) in the longitudinal direction thereof. A magnet arrangement (17; 203; 205; 317) is designed to counteract, by way of a magnetic force exerted on the mass (15; 315), a movement of said mass (15; 315) from an idle position (25), and a read-out unit (608) is designed to detect a movement of said mass (15) from the idle position (25).
US09989550B2	Automated analyzing apparatus In an automated analyzing apparatus, problems arise when a reagent container is carried in during analysis, since it is necessary to stop all accesses of mechanisms etc. to a location of the apparatus where the reagent container is placed and, in a situation in which measurements have been already started, it is impossible to carry the reagent container after waiting about several minutes. To address the problems, when a remaining amount of a reagent corresponding to a predetermined item becomes equal to or less than a first threshold value, a pause cycle of reagent suction is generated in which the reagent dispensing mechanism does not suction the reagent from inside of a reagent container of a reagent disc at regular intervals, and a reagent container containing the same kind of reagent in the reagent disc by the reagent container carrying mechanism is automatically carried in the pause cycle.
US09989548B2	Automatic analyzer and method The present disclosure relates to an automatic analyzer for determining a parameter of a sample fluid, including a dosing device comprising at least one dosing chamber, a first fluid flow path connecting a sample receiving vessel to the dosing chamber via a first pump, a tank containing a dilution medium, a second fluid flow path connecting the tank to the dosing chamber via a second pump, a measuring cell in communication with the dosing chamber via a third fluid flow path via a third pump, and a measuring and control system connected to and configured to control the pumps, wherein the first, second, and third fluid flow paths can selectively be blocked or unblocked by at least one valve unit and the measuring and control system is configured to control the at least one valve unit to block or unblock the first, second, and third flow paths.
US09989547B2	Laboratory sample distribution system and laboratory automation system A laboratory sample distribution system is presented. The system comprises sample container carriers carrying a sample container and comprising a magnetically active device. The system also comprises a transport plane supporting the sample container carriers and comprises drive modules comprising first line shaped conductors extending in a first direction and arranged parallel to each other and second line shaped conductors extending in a second direction and arranged parallel to each other. The system comprises a driver electrically connected to each of the first and second conductors of the drive modules. The driver selectively applies a drive current and/or voltage to the first and second conductors such that a conductor current results in the conductors driven by the drive current and/or voltage. The conductor current selectively causes a drive force to the sample container carriers such that the sample container carriers move along individual transport paths on the transport plane.
US09989545B2	Apparatus for the storage and retrieval of large volumes of test tubes There is described an apparatus for depositing and retrieving large volumes of test tubes in/from a warehouse, comprising an input/output module of a first and a second container with a plurality of test tubes, a multiple pick up device of test tubes, a single pick up device of test tubes, a first and second station for the provisional allocation of said containers and a motorized traveling lift able to carry said first and second container simultaneously on two distinct coplanar locations.
US09989538B2	Monoclonal IgE antibody that binds to sweat allergy antigen protein Provided include a human IgE antibody that binds to a sweat allergy antigen protein and a human high-affinity IgE receptor but does not induce degranulation in a reaction with the sweat allergy antigen protein, and a composition for treatment or diagnosis of sweat allergy comprising the same.
US09989534B2	Systems and methods for high throughput analysis of conformation in biological entities Methods, devices, and systems are disclosed for performing high throughput analysis of conformational change in biological molecules or other biological entities using surface-selective nonlinear optical detection techniques.
US09989533B2	Anti-TNF induced apoptosis (ATIA) diagnostic markers and therapies The invention features diagnostic and therapeutic methods and compositions featuring Anti-TNF Induced Apoptosis (ATIA). ATIA is useful as a diagnostic marker for cancer, in particular for glioblastoma. ATIA is also a therapeutic target in diseases such as cancer. The invention encompasses combination therapies where knockdown of ATIA is used in combination with other treatment. The invention also features kits for use in the diagnostic and therapeutic methods.
US09989532B2	Methods and compositions for detecting coagulation inhibitors The present invention provides a method of identifying a coagulation inhibitor in a sample, comprising: a) contacting a first portion of the sample with a substrate and thrombin; b) contacting a second portion of the sample with a substrate and a2M-thrombin (thrombin caged in alpha-2-macroglobulin); c) contacting a third portion of the sample with a substrate and coagulation factor Xa; d) contacting a fourth portion of the sample with a substrate and a2M-Xa (factor Xa caged in alpha-2-macroglobulin); and e) assaying for cleavage of the substrate in (a), (b), (c) and (d) above, wherein cleavage of the substrate in (b) and (d) and no cleavage in (a) and (c) identifies heparin in the sample; cleavage of the substrate in (a), (b) and (d) and no cleavage in (c) identifies low molecular weight heparin in the sample; cleavage of the substrate in (a) and (b) and no cleavage in (c) and (d) identifies rivaroxaban in the sample, and cleavage of the substrate in (c) and (d) and no cleavage in (a) and (b) identifies dabigatran in the sample.
US09989526B2	Method and device for bioassays A method and device for multiplexing and calibrating rapid quantification of biomolecules present in a nanofluidic biosensor composed by a nanoslit. A novel concept defining multiple different local structured areas containing biomarkers. Local structured areas can also be structured to decrease the biomarkers density in the nanoslit. Such enables the multiplexed quantification biomolecular interactions of interest in the same nanofluidic biosensor.
US09989517B2	Methods and compositions for marking urine samples to identify source The present invention is generally related to methods and compositions for uniquely marking individual urine samples to be identifiable to a particular subject either individually or from among a group of subjects.
US09989513B2	Oil content measurement device An oil content measurement device includes a fluid device which mixes water to be treated containing oil content with a solvent and extracts the oil content into the solvent, a sensor unit which has a casing storing a quartz crystal oscillator therein with a ring-like spacer in between, a dispensing nozzle which is disposed above the oscillator at a predetermined gap there between and feeds a predetermined amount of the solvent after the oil content has been extracted on the oscillator, a sensor circuit which measures a resonance frequency of the oscillator, and controller which controls at least the fluid device and the sensor circuit. Provided is a arithmetic logical unit, based on a change amount of the received resonance frequency of the oscillator in the sensor unit to which the solvent after the oil content has been extracted has been fed, measures the oil content remaining on the oscillator.
US09989508B2	Scanning system for trace detection A scanning system is for trace detection. The scanning system includes a main body enclosing a scanning chamber, the main body including a chamber inlet; a transport system configured to move an article through the scanning chamber along a scanning path; and a door mechanism provided along the scanning path. The door mechanism includes: a door frame mounted about the scanning path; at least one door panel movable relative to the door frame and being made of a radiation-shielding material; and a trace detector integrated into the at least one door panel. A method for trace involves using trace detectors integrated into the door mechanism for trace detection while the object is moving along a scanning path passing through a scanning chamber of a scanning system.
US09989503B2	Apparatus for quantitatively analyzing gas components with automatic feed control function of gas Provided is an apparatus for quantitatively analyzing one or more gas components contained in a gas sample. More particularly, an apparatus for quantitatively analyzing gas components with an automatic feed control function of a gas, includes a multi-position valve, a pump, and a control part controlling the multi-position valve and the pump, such that the apparatus for quantitatively analyzing gas components may allow a professional worker performing analysis to secure an efficient research time while ensuring accuracy at the level equivalent to analysis results by a highly skilled professional worker regardless of proficiency of a newly employed person being in charge of quantitative analysis of the gas components of the gas sample in a sample bag.
US09989501B2	Method and apparatus for acoustic emissions testing A method and apparatus for analyzing an object using acoustic emissions. Load data is received for the object. Acoustic waveform data is received for the object from an acoustic sensing system. The acoustic waveform data represents acoustic emissions emanating from the object and is detected using the acoustic sensing system. A plurality of bins is created for the load data. A plurality of frequency distribution functions is generated for the plurality of bins using the acoustic waveform data. A set of learning algorithms is applied to the plurality of frequency distribution functions and the acoustic waveform data to generate an output that allows an operator to more easily and quickly assess a structural integrity of the object.
US09989498B2	Nonlinear ultrasonic testing for non-destructive measurement of longitudinal thermal stresses in solids Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for nonlinear ultrasonic testing. In one aspect there is provided a method, which may include generating at least one ultrasonic wave to enable the at least one ultrasonic wave to propagate through a solid; detecting the at least one ultrasonic wave propagating through the solid; and determining a stress of the solid based on at least one of an imaginary component of a wavenumber, a wave amplitude, a wave strength, a statistical moment in a time domain, or a statistical moment in a frequency domain of the at least one ultrasonic wave.
US09989497B2	Front end circuitry with analog sampling and decoding for ultrasound imaging systems and methods of use Pulse-echo imaging systems and methods are provided, including a transmit code sequencer and a pulse generation circuit, The transmit code sequencer is configured to input a transmit code sequence to the pulse generation circuit. A transducer is configured to receive electrical signals provided as pulses using coded excitation according to the transmit code sequence, and to transduce the electrical signals to pulses of energy other than electrical signals. The transducer is further configured to receive echoes of the pulses of energy other than electrical signals and convert the echoes to received electrical signals generate using coded excitation. A receive circuit is configured to receive the received electrical signals generate using coded excitation, perform analog sampling of the received electrical signals generate using coded excitation, and provide a weighted, summed digital signal by processing the analog samples. At least one example of a pulse imaging system described is configured for ultrasonic pulse-echoes. At least one example of a pulse imaging system described is a medical diagnostic imaging system.
US09989494B2	Method for manufacturing chip comprising microchannel and chip A method for manufacturing a chip that includes a microchannel is described, wherein the method includes the steps of: fixing a cationic polymer having a quaternary onium group to at least one surface of each of a pair of resin substrates; and joining the resin substrates together on the surfaces on which the cationic polymer has been fixed.
US09989490B2	Application of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy in sensor systems, devices, and related methods A diagnostic Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) procedure is applied to measure values of impedance-related parameters for one or more sensing electrodes. The parameters may include real impedance, imaginary impedance, impedance magnitude, and/or phase angle. The measured values of the impedance-related parameters are then used in performing sensor diagnostics, calculating a highly-reliable fused sensor glucose value based on signals from a plurality of redundant sensing electrodes, calibrating sensors, detecting interferents within close proximity of one or more sensing electrodes, and testing surface area characteristics of electroplated electrodes. Advantageously, impedance-related parameters can be defined that are substantially glucose-independent over specific ranges of frequencies. An Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) enables implementation of the EIS-based diagnostics, fusion algorithms, and other processes based on measurement of EIS-based parameters.
US09989483B2	Systems and methods for performing backscatter three dimensional imaging from one side of a structure An imaging system for generating three dimensional image data using X-ray backscattering from one side of a structure is provided. The imaging system includes at least one X-ray source, at least one rotating collimator coupled to the at least one X-ray source, an X-ray detector, and a controller coupled to the at least one X-ray source, the at least one rotating collimator and the X-ray detector. The controller is configured to emit X-rays from the at least one X-ray source through the at least one rotating collimator towards the one side of the structure. Additionally, the controller is configured to detect backscattered X-rays from the one side of the structure, using the X-ray detector, at a plurality of depths within the structure. Additionally, the controller is configured to generate three dimensional image data of the structure based on the detected backscattered X-rays.
US09989482B2	Methods for radiographic and CT inspection of additively manufactured workpieces The present disclosure generally relates to methods for radiographic and computed tomography (CT) inspection of workpieces having increasingly complicated internal geometry. The disclosed methods are capable of distributing a contrast agent within the detailed internal geometry of, for example, an AM workpiece or precision cast turbine blade, followed by complete removal of the contrast agent and all residues thereof after inspection.
US09989478B2	Method and device for inspecting packaging welds A method of inspecting packaging welds comprises the steps of creating a light beam that produces at least one light transition (t) and acquiring a raw matrix image (B(N)) covering the light transition. For each image (B(N)) obtained, a measurement of the diffusion of the light transition is stored. For each of N successive scanning increments, the raw matrix image (B(N)) is used to create an image line in which each pixel receives as its value the measurement in the raw matrix image (B(N)) of the diffusion of at least the light transition. The at least N image lines are stored in succession to obtain a matrix image and the matrix image is analyzed to determine that the weld along said fraction is in conformity when its transverse width remains, at all points, greater than a given minimum.
US09989468B2	Fluorescence detecting apparatus A fluorescence detecting apparatus includes an excitation light applying section that applies excitation light to a protective film containing an absorbing agent. A photomultiplier tube detects fluorescence emitted from the absorbing agent due to absorption of the excitation light. A fluorescence passing filter removes light having wavelengths other than the wavelength of the fluorescence emitted from the absorbing agent, and a reflecting mirror having a reflecting surface reflects the fluorescence emitted from the protective film toward the photomultiplier tube. This reflecting surface is formed by a part of a curved surface forming a spheroid having first and second foci. The first focus is positioned at a target area of the protective film where the excitation light is applied, and the second focus is positioned at a light detecting element included in the photomultiplier tube.
US09989466B2	Method for reducing analyzer variability using a normalization target Disclosed herein is a method for improving the precision of a test result from an instrument with an optical system that detects a signal. The method comprises including in the instrument a normalization target disposed directly or indirectly in the optical path of the optical system. Also disclosed are instruments comprising a normalization target, and systems comprising such an instrument and a test device that receives a sample suspected of containing an analyte.
US09989464B2	Non-destructive detection method of charged particles without mass limitation A non-destructive method for detecting charged particles, includes measuring a reference value of at least one physical parameter of an ion cloud confined in an ion trap; performing an injection of a sample in the ion cloud confined in the ion trap, the sample crossing the ion cloud and getting out the ion cloud without being trapped inside the ion trap; measuring a first experimental value of the at least one physical parameter of the ion cloud; and comparing the first experimental value with the reference value in order to determine the presence of at least one charged particle in the sample, or the absence of any charged particle in the sample.
US09989463B2	Material classification Material classification of an object is provided. Parameters for classification are accessed. The parameters include a selection to select a subset of angles for classification, a selection to select a subset of spectral bands for classification, a selection to capture texture features, and a selection to compute image-level features. The object is illuminated and a feature vector is computed based on the parameters. The material from which the object is fabricated is classified using the feature vector.
US09989456B2	System for the determination of retroreflectivity of road signs and other reflective objects A system for the determination of retroreflectivity values for reflective surfaces disposed along a roadway repeatedly illuminates an area along the roadway that includes at least one reflective surface using a light source. Multiple light intensity values are measured over a field of view which includes at least a portion of the area illuminated by the light source. A computer processing system is used to identifying a portion of the light intensity values associated with a reflective surface and analyze the portion of the light intensity values to determine at least one retroreflectivity value for that reflective surface.
US09989454B2	Method and apparatus for measuring parameters of optical anisotropy Methods and systems are provided to measure the optical anisotropy properties of a film on glass or other substrates. This technique is suitable for production environments, and is not strongly affected by the TFT or CF active area on LCD panels, even for very high pixel density displays. A method is provided for measuring a magnitude and orientation of optical anisotropy. These methods and systems include an optical anisotropy measurement apparatus for measuring anisotropic materials in a reflection or transmission configuration. The methods and systems may measure a Mueller matrix, diattentuation orientation, or retardance of a sample at one or more rotation angles to calculate anisotropic magnitude and orientation.
US09989440B2	Tire sidewall for a heavy civil engineering vehicle Method for indicating attacks on a tire (1) for a heavy vehicle of the civil engineering type. This method comprises a first step of applying a retroreflective covering material (7) to at least part of at least one tire lateral face (6) allowing visual detection in an environment of darkness of that part of at least one tire lateral face (6), a second step of using the tire (1) in a mechanically aggressive environment, a third step of identifying, in an environment of darkness, the attacked zones (8) of the part of at least one tire lateral face (6) initially covered with the retroreflective covering material (7) and now devoid of the said retroreflective covering material (7) as a result of the mechanical attack experienced by the tire (1) in use.
US09989431B2	Multilevel pressure sensor A pressure sensor comprises a deformable measuring diaphragm, and a mating body connected in a pressure-tight manner and forms a measuring chamber in which a reference pressure is present. A pressure can be applied to an outside of the measuring diaphragm. The pressure sensor has a capacitive transducer having at least one mating body electrode and at least one diaphragm electrode. Above a pressure limit value for the pressure, at least one central surface section of the measuring diaphragm rests against the mating body with a contact surface area, the size of which is dependent on the pressure. The pressure sensor also has a resistive transducer for converting a pressure-dependent deformation of the measuring diaphragm, when pressed in a range of values above the pressure limit value, into an electrical signal using an electrical resistance which is dependent on the contact surface area of the measuring diaphragm on the mating body.
US09989430B2	Test bench with a cooling gas inflow device The invention relates to a test bench (10) for testing a test specimen (14), comprising a load device for generating a load for the test specimen, a test specimen holder (16) for holding the test specimen and for introducing the load onto the test specimen, and a cooling gas inflow device (32) for cooling the test specimen by means of a cooling gas stream exiting an outlet opening (48) of the cooling gas inflow device. In this case, the cooling gas inflow device is designed such that the cooling gas flow inside the cooling gas inflow device is divided into at least two part cooling gas streams in at least one section of the cooling gas inflow device.
US09989429B2	Arrangement for measuring a force or a torque on a machine element The present invention relates to an arrangement for measuring a force and/or a torque on a machine element extending in an axis, using the inverse magnetostrictive effect. The machine element has at least one permanent magnetization. The permanent magnetization extends along a closed magnetization path. The magnetization path runs preferably at least partially along the surface of the machine element. The arrangement further includes at least one magnetic field sensor which is arranged opposite the machine element. The magnetic field sensor serves to determine a magnetic field and is designed to measure at least one vector component of a magnetic field coming from the machine element, which field is produced on the one hand by the permanent magnetization and on the other hand by the force and/or by the torque. According to the invention, the orientation of the permanent magnetization relative to the axis changes along the magnetization path.
US09989422B2	System, method and computer accessible medium for determining tissue thermal property An exemplary system, method and computer-accessible medium for constructing information regarding a distribution of thermal properties of an object(s), can be provided. For example, data related to a temperature of the object(s) can be received at multiple points in time and space at which a portion(s) of the object(s) is heated or cooled. The information can be constructed using the data based on a bio-heat equation.
US09989416B2	Portable color measurement device and system and dye determination system A portable color measurement device 10 is described. The device 10 has a body 20 including a light source 30 and a sensor 40. The body 20 includes a measurement zone 21 to accommodate, within the body 20, an element 100 to be measured for color. The light source 30 is configured to emit light along a path within the body 20 to the sensor 40. The measurement zone 21 is substantially in the path. The portable color measurement device is configured to measure properties of an accommodated element 100 in dependence on one or more outputs of the sensor 40.
US09989414B2	Noise reduction for pulsed lasers using clustering An optical measurement method in which a series of light pulses are generated using a pulsed laser having a set of different mode hop sequences (e.g., an external-cavity quantum cascade laser (EC-QCL)), the light pulses are detected with the detector to generate a respective pulse data set for each of the light pulses, and the pulse data sets are sorted into classes based on correlation coefficients. Sorting the pulse data sets into classes allows the pulse data sets originating from each of the mode hop sequences of the pulsed laser to be treated independently of the pulse data sets originating from others of the mode hop sequences in subsequent processing.
US09989410B2	Tunable photo-detector device A photo-detector device may include a substrate having a bottom surface. The photo-detector device may further include a photocell secured to the bottom surface of the substrate. The photo-detector device may further include a metallic block having a top portion secured to a bottom surface of the substrate to enclose the photocell, wherein an opening is formed within the metallic block that extends from the top portion of the metallic block to a bottom portion of the metallic block to form an aperture for light to travel through the metallic block to the photocell. The photo-detector device may further include a member insertable into the metallic block to vary an open area of the aperture.
US09989408B2	Photodetector and electronic apparatus A photodetector includes a semiconductor substrate; a light receiving part for signal detection and an infrared light receiving part which are formed in the semiconductor substrate and are covered at least by first color filters having a common color; and second color filters which overlap with the first color filters on the infrared light receiving part and are configured to block light in a wavelength range transmitting through the first color filters.
US09989407B2	Optical receiver and control method thereof (Object) To provide an optical receiver and a control method thereof that enable equalization of both the quantum efficiencies and the dark count probabilities of multiple photon detectors.(Solving Means) An optical receiver includes multiple photon detectors, a first equalizing means that equalizes either dark count probabilities or quantum efficiencies of the multiple photon detectors, and a second equalizing means that equalizes the other ones without affecting the equalization by the first equalizing means.
US09989404B2	Portable terminal, portable-terminal condition determining system, storage medium, and portable-terminal condition determining method A portable terminal includes: an acceleration measuring unit that measures acceleration of the portable terminal; a calculating unit that calculates a first feature value for in-plane directions in which the portable terminal is in contact with an object and a second feature value for an out-of-plane direction on the basis on the acceleration measured by the acceleration measuring unit in a state in which the portable terminal is put on the object, when the portable terminal is vibrated; and a specifying unit that specifies a material of the object on the basis of the first feature value and the second feature value.
US09989403B2	Weighing device providing contactless power to at least one secondary unit A weighing device (101) has a weighing unit (102), a control unit and at least one application unit (110). The application unit is positioned within a secondary unit (104) that also has a receiving unit. The control unit has a unit for transmitting data. The weighing unit comprises load receivers (106) and a power transmitting unit. The secondary unit is placed on the load receivers, leaving a gap between the top side of the weighing unit and the bottom side of the secondary unit. The weighing unit transmits a power signal from the power transmitting unit to the receiving unit of the secondary unit through the gap and a control signal is transmitted from the data transmitting unit to the receiving unit of the secondary unit through the gap. The secondary unit, and in turn the application unit, is powered and controlled in a contactless manner.
US09989401B2	Method and apparatus for orienting a measuring device A measuring device featuring ascertaining and monitoring optimized orientation of the measuring device. Thus, the invention provides a measuring device for determining and/or monitoring limit level or fill level of a medium in a container, comprising at least one sensor unit and a measurement transmitter unit, wherein at least one inclination sensor is integrated in the measuring device for ascertaining orientation of the measuring device and/or the sensor unit on the container.
US09989397B1	Water management sensing In some implementations, a system obtains activity data for a sump pump associated with a property where the obtained activity data indicates a present operational status of the sump pump. The system obtains water level data associated with the property where the water level data indicates a level of water within the property, determines that the activity data indicates that the sump pump is operating and that the water level within the property satisfies a water level risk threshold, and, in response to the determination that the activity data indicates that the sump pump is operating and that the water level within the property satisfies a water level risk threshold, provides a notification that the property is at risk of suffering water damage.
US09989396B2	Gas flow characterization in additive manufacturing A method of characterizing gas flow within a housing includes: positioning one or more gas flow sensors in the housing; introducing a gas flow into the housing; using the one or more gas flow sensors to generate two or more gas flow measurements at spaced-apart locations within the housing; and recording the two or more measurements to create a gas flow map.
US09989386B2	Mounting structure of a position detecting sensor A position detecting sensor is mounted in a sensor attachment groove of a cylinder device. The sensor attachment groove includes a wide portion on the side of a groove bottom surface, and a narrow portion on the side of a side surface of the cylinder device. The position detecting sensor includes a mounting member having a width dimension larger than a groove width of the narrow portion. The mounting member includes a first engagement part and a second engagement part, which are flexible and are arranged in confronting relation, opening with a gap mutually therebetween in a widthwise direction of the sensor attachment groove.
US09989381B2	Angle sensor with magnetic patterns An angle sensor is disclosed. The angle sensor has a disc, a first magnetic pattern disposed on a side of the disc and including a number N1 of first portions of spirals regularly distributed in a first ring, and a second magnetic pattern disposed on a side of the disc and including a number N2 of second portions of spirals regularly distributed in a second ring. The numbers N1 and N2 are coprime and N1 is different from N2, N2−1, and N2+1.
US09989379B2	Techniques for counting resource usage Disclosed are various systems and methods related to improving the accuracy of resource usage counting of a metered resource by a computing device. The computing device disables interrupts used by the processor to count pulses received from a utility meter on respective first and second wires of a cable. A data level for the first wire attached to the one or more sensors of the computing device is detected and recorded. The data level indicating whether a pulse is presently being received on the first wire. The computing device then disconnects a common ground in the cable between the computing device and the utility meter, and initiates performance of a test of the cable. The computing device then restores the individual interrupts and the common ground in a defined sequence based upon detection of a pulse in one of the two wires.
US09989377B2	Method and system for displaying information A display system for an aircraft includes a controller in communication with a display. The controller receives a category associated with a phase of flight of the aircraft. Information related to operation of the aircraft and associated with the received category is displayed on the display.
US09989370B2	Real-time multimodal travel estimation and routing system A real-time multimodal travel estimation and routing system having a first mode for air-based travel and a second mode for ground-based travel, and a method for estimating a time of arrival to a ground-based destination having a first mode for air-based travel and a second mode for ground-based travel is disclosed. The real-time multimodal travel estimation and routing system is configured to receive an input designating a ground-based destination, a request for an available ground-based travel option, and display an estimated time of arrival to the ground-based destination based on first data stored on-board the aircraft for the second mode and real-time flight information for the aircraft for the first mode. The system is further configured to receive an update of real-time information for the available ground-based travel option and update the first data stored on-board the aircraft.
US09989367B2	Technique for providing travel information A technique is described for providing travel information for route segments repeatedly covered by a vehicle, wherein the travel information is indicative of map data changes extractable from map data update information. A method aspect comprises the steps of determining whether the vehicle is likely to travel along repeatedly covered route segments; selecting map data changes that are associated with the repeatedly covered route segments the vehicle is likely to travel; and generating travel information on basis of the selected map data changes and providing the travel information to a driver. Provided are also a computer program product and a device implementing the described method.
US09989359B2	Nondestructive, absolute determination of thickness of or depth in dielectric materials Enhanced measurement of thickness in bulk dielectric materials is disclosed. Microwave radiation is partially reflected at interfaces where the dielectric constant changes (e.g., the back wall of a part). The reflected microwaves are combined with a portion of the outgoing beam at each of at least two separate detectors. A pair of sinusoidal or quasi-sinusoidal waves results. Thickness or depth measurement is enhanced by exploiting the phase and amplitude relationships between multiple sinusoidal or quasi-sinusoidal standing waves at detectors sharing a common microwave source. These relationships are used to determine an unambiguous relationship between the signal and the thickness or depth.
US09989355B1	Method and apparatus for conducting real-time process control of particle and fiber generation A linear stage moves a laser along the collection plate of an electrospinning device. The stage supports the laser that is moved through the electrospinning/electrospraying deposition field by a continuous rotation servo motor. Stage movement is controlled by a control unit. Signal voltages collected are sectioned into concentric layers so that the extinction coefficient for each layer can be calculated without including the extinction coefficient from the previous layer. The extinction coefficients were used in the Beer-Lambert law to determine the diameter of fibers being deposited on the collection plate as well as the concentration of fibers deposited indicating deposition speed.
US09989352B2	Playing surface collision detection system A collision detection system configured to determine when a ball or other object impacts against a playing surface, record the location of the object's impact, and compare the object's impact location against one or more preset virtual target areas to determine whether or not the object was successfully hit into a desired area of the playing surface and immediately reward the player with various types of audible and/or visual responses for hitting the target.
US09989348B2	Systems and methods for control and calibration of a CMM A method of operating an articulated arm CMM is provided. Instructions for the CMM can be inputted to the CMM arm by an action chosen from the group consisting of placing the arm in a predefined position and moving the arm in a predefined manner.
US09989345B2	Linear displacement measuring apparatus There is provided a linear displacement measuring apparatus which notifies a user when being installed defectively. A slider includes a traveling body which travels along a main scale on the main scale, a carriage part mounted on an object, and coupling means which couples the traveling body with the carriage part. The coupling means allows relative displacement between the traveling body and the carriage part and biases the traveling body towards the main scale. The coupling means has a connecting rod arranged so as to couple the traveling body with the carriage part via a ball joint. The slider further has misalignment detecting means which detects that the relative displacement between the traveling body and the carriage part exceeds a prescribed allowable range. The misalignment detecting means is a pair of projecting pieces arranged in a vicinity of the connecting rod so that the displacement of the connecting rod is regulated within a predetermined range.
US09989340B2	Low-weight small-form-factor stun grenade A stun grenade includes a cartridge having an explosive charge in communication with a fuse and a housing including a closed end, an open end, a longitudinal axis and including an internal cavity which accommodates the cartridge. An end cap is attachable to the open end of the housing, the end cap including an end wall and a side wall. A plurality of spaced first vents are defined in the end wall of the end cap. A plurality of spaced second vents is defined in an end wall of the housing. The output from an explosive charge is optimized by vents having a straight flow path. The vents have a first end in fluid communication with the cavity and a second end in fluid communication with an exterior periphery of the housing.
US09989333B2	Armor and vehicle To parry a blast caused by an explosive object, absorb explosive energy, and improve durability. An armor to be installed on a bottom surface of a vehicle, including: a bottom plate formed to have a shape in which a central portion protrudes downward, and a porous metal member-disposed on the upper side of the bottom plate.
US09989320B2	Tube and baffle arrangement in a once-through horizontal evaporator Disclosed herein is a once-through evaporator comprising an inlet manifold; one or more inlet headers in fluid communication with the inlet manifold; one or more tube stacks, where each tube stack comprises one or more inclined evaporator tubes; the one or more tube stacks being in fluid communication with the one or more inlet headers; where the inclined tubes are inclined at an angle of less than 90 degrees or greater than 90 degrees to a vertical; one or more outlet headers in fluid communication with one or more tube stacks; and an outlet manifold in fluid communication with the one or more outlet headers; and a baffle system comprising a plurality of baffles; the baffle system being disposed adjacent to a tube stack so that the baffle system contacts a tube.
US09989315B2	Cold storage heat exchanger A cold storage heat exchanger has refrigerant pipes fins, and cold-storage-medium containers. The cold-storage-medium container is arranged next to the refrigerant pipe. A cold storage medium is accommodated in the cold-storage-medium container in order to leave an air cell, and to provide a filling ratio of less than 90%. The cold-storage-medium container has a plurality of depressions at an inside of the cold-storage-medium container. The depression is a dimple. The plurality of depressions are joined each other at top parts and provide high rigidity. The cold-storage-medium container is positioned on the refrigerant pipe by an engaging projection. An open end of an open depression is covered by the refrigerant pipe. The cold storage medium can flow into the open depression. Therefore, the cold storage medium may directly contact the refrigerant pipe, and is directly cooled with the refrigerant.
US09989314B2	Heat exchanger assembly A heat exchanger assembly, by means of which compressed charge air for an internal combustion engine is cooled by way of a liquid, includes a housing with a heat exchanger that has a stack of pairs of plates and fins which are arranged between the pairs, and has two longitudinal sides and two transverse sides. Flow plates are arranged in the plate pairs and, toward the longitudinal sides, expose in each case one edge channel within the plate pairs. An inlet and an outlet are connected to the edge channels, and a liquid flows through the flow plates between the edge channels, the liquid flowing in counterflow with respect to the charge air which flows in on one side of the housing, through the fins, and leaves the housing again on an opposite other side.
US09989311B2	Multi-chamber furnace for vacuum carburizing and quenching of gears, shafts, rings and similar workpieces Multi-chamber furnace for vacuum carburizing and quenching of gears, shafts, rings and similar components has at least two process chambers connected in parallel, with a continuous feeding mechanism for individual workpieces. Those chambers—the first one being a heating chamber, the second being a carburizing chamber and the third one diffusion chamber—are configured in a vertical arrangement, placed in a shared vacuum space with gas-tight division, whereas at the ends of each chamber there are incorporated heating chambers with thermal insulation, with a graphite heating system and stepping feeding mechanism incorporated in the core for the purpose of continuous feeding of individual workpieces. At the ends of those chambers the construction incorporates transport chambers featuring loading and unloading systems X-Y enabling cooperation with individual process chambers through thermal and gas-tight doors installed in chamber ends, while external access to the transport chambers is ensured through loading and unloading locks.
US09989306B2	Method and device for recovering high-pressure oxygen and high-pressure nitrogen The method and device according to the invention provide for recovery of high-pressure oxygen and high-pressure nitrogen by low-temperature separation of air in a distillation-column system. This system comprises a high-pressure column, a low-pressure column, and a main condenser. A first air feed stream is cooled at a first subcritical pressure in a main heat exchanger to approximately dew point and introduced at least partially into the high-pressure column. A second air feed stream is brought to a second, supercritical, pressure, cooled, depressurized, and introduced at least partially into the distillation-column system. A first partial stream of the second air feed stream is cooled in the main heat exchanger, and a second partial stream is cooled in a high-pressure heat-exchanger system. The first and second partial streams are then merged and work-expanded in a liquid turbine.

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