US09366172B2
A particulate filter device monitoring system for an internal combustion engine includes a particulate accumulation register configured to store an amount of particulate in a particulate filter. The particulate accumulation register includes a particulate accumulation trigger zone having a power limiting mode trigger. A power limiting mode trigger module is configured to limit output power of the internal combustion engine when the amount of particulate accumulation reaches the power limiting mode trigger. A particulate accumulation model module includes a particulate accumulation model configured to calculate changes in particulate accumulation in the particulate accumulation register at a first sampling rate when particulate accumulation is outside the particulate accumulation trigger zone, and at a second sampling rate when particulate accumulation is within the particulate accumulation trigger zone.
US09366163B2
In a valve timing control apparatus configured to enable rotary motion of a vane rotor relative to a sprocket in a phase-retard direction or in a phase-advance direction by controlling hydraulic-pressure supply-and-exhaust for each of phase-advance hydraulic chambers and hydraulic-pressure supply-and-exhaust for each of phase-retard hydraulic chambers, first and second lock pins are located in a large-diameter rotor portion rather than a small-diameter rotor portion. The rotary motion of the vane rotor relative to the sprocket from an intermediate lock position between a maximum phase-advance position and a maximum phase-retard position is restricted by engagement of the first lock pin with a first lock hole and by engagement of the second lock pin with a second lock hole. The vane rotor is held at the maximum phase-retard position by engagement of the first lock pin with the second lock hole.
US09366157B2
A lube oil supply system of a turbine system and method of regulating lube oil temperatures. In one embodiment, the system includes a first valve positioned on a lube oil bypass conduit in fluid communication with a lube oil supply line to a heat exchanger. The first valve may be positioned in parallel with the heat exchanger. The system may also include a second valve positioned on a cooling fluid supply line in fluid communication with the heat exchanger, and a lube oil control system operably connected to the first valve and the second valve. The lube oil control system may be configured to modify a position of at least one of the first valve, or the second valve in response to determining a temperature of a lube oil of the lube oil supply line differs from a predetermined lube oil temperature threshold.
US09366150B2
The present disclosure aims at achieving a mounting of a turbomachine stator blading while avoiding a delicate machining process of the engine casing. It also aims at simplifying the mounting as well as at reducing the costs, and at decreasing the number of item references for the engine. To achieve these objects, the turbomachine uses an extension of the engine casing. A turbomachine comprises at least one stator blading for air or gas stream flowing on the internal engine casing. The stator blading comprises a rim which is assembled on a radial extension of engine casing with an axial fastener. In a preferred embodiment of the turbomachine, the engine casing presents an annular wall provided with fingers originating axially from this wall and extending according to a curvature so that they present a radial extension tip against the rim of the stator blading.
US09366147B2
A device controlling shifting of a propeller turbine engine into reverse mode, by acting on a shaft for controlling pitch of propellers. The device includes: at least one centrifugal weight arranged to drive the propellers into a flag position thereof under action of the centrifugal force; and an actuator that can rotate the control shaft to shift the pitch of the propellers from a traction mode to a reverse mode, passing through a zero pitch position. The centrifugal weight is in an unstable equilibrium position in relation to action of the centrifugal force when the control shaft shifts the pitch of the propellers through the zero pitch position. Further, an actuation mechanism exerts a torque on the control shaft when the centrifugal weight is in the unstable equilibrium position, to prevent it from staying in this position.
US09366133B2
A system, apparatus and method for determining an acoustic property of a fluid in a wellbore is disclosed. A faceplate is placed in the wellbore with a stepped surface of the faceplate in contact with the fluid. The stepped surface includes a non-stepped face and a stepped face. A first portion of an acoustic pulse passes from the faceplate into the fluid via the non-stepped face and a second portion of the acoustic pulse passes from the faceplate into the fluid via the stepped face. A first reflected acoustic pulse related to the first portion of the acoustic pulse is received. A second reflected acoustic pulse related to the second portion of the acoustic pulse is received. A measurement of the first reflected acoustic pulse and a measurement of the second reflected pulse are used to determine the acoustic property of the fluid in the wellbore.
US09366129B2
Systems and methods are provided for expert systems for well completion using Bayesian decision networks to determine well completion recommendations. The well completion expert system includes a well completion Bayesian decision network (BDN) model that receives inputs and outputs recommendations based on Bayesian probability determinations. The well completion BDN model includes a treatment fluids section, a packer section, a junction classification section, a perforation section, a lateral completion section, and an open hole gravel packing section.
US09366126B2
Apparatus for solution mining and gas storage in a salt cavern formed by solution mining comprises a flow diverting conduit string that is provided in fluid communication with two or more concentric conduits within the single main bore, with at least one lateral opening from an internal passageway with an outer annular passageway communicating with the surface under a single valve tree. Flow control devices, flow diverters and/or isolation conduits can be inserted into the flow diverting conduit string, enabling a dissolution zone in the salt cavern to be varied to control the shape of the cavern. Furthermore the flow diverting conduit string used to form the cavern can also be used for dewatering and gas storage.
US09366125B2
A method of using a slurry-like fracturing fluid for hydraulic fracturing in an unconventional reservoir: injecting the slurry-like fracturing fluid into the unconventional reservoir, the slurry-like fracturing fluid comprises a particulate portion and a slurry water, the particulate portion comprises a solid acid component, injecting the slurry-like fracturing fluid is operable to generate a network of fractures, the slurry-like fracturing fluid is operable to reduce a reservoir temperature from a resting reservoir temperature, permitting the slurry-like fracturing fluid to cure into a permeable bed, allowing the reservoir temperature to return to the resting reservoir temperature to trigger the hydrolysis of the solid acid, hydrolyzing the solid acid to produce a liquid acid, and stimulating the network of fractures with the liquid acid to increase permeability of the permeable bed in the network of fractures in the unconventional reservoir, the increased permeability operable to create a sweet spot.
US09366118B2
Systems and processes are provided for removing fluid from a subterranean well and enhancing the production of oil and/or gas are herein disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes an injection conduit, an injection valve, a relief valve, a container, a container valve, a return conduit valve, and a return conduit, all arranged within a subterranean well for removing at least one fluid from the well. The removal of at least one fluid from the well is controlled by the flow of gas into the injection conduit.
US09366111B2
A method of and apparatus for cooling equipment including exposing a fluid to a tool comprising electronic components at a temperature T and pressure P, compressing the fluid to a temperature T1 and pressure P1, exposing the fluid to a surface in communication with liquid or gas or both external to the tool wherein the fluid after exposure to the surface is at a temperature T2 and pressure P2, and allowing the fluid to expand to a temperature T3 and pressure P3 wherein the equipment is a tool in a subterranean formation and T is less than T2 and P is less than P2. Apparatus and methods for cooling oil field services tools including a fluid that conducts heat from the tool to the fluid, a compressor that, a heat exchanger that accepts fluid from the compressor and that rejects heat from the fluid, and a valve or orifice.
US09366091B2
Method and structures perform decommissioning of offshore oil and gas platforms with associated wells. By installing on a platform (1) a movable decommissioning rig tower (2) but stripping away most of the other structures and equipment on the platform (1), and specifically not providing supporting resources such as drilling mud and power, accommodation, etc. on the platform, it is possible for both the rig tower (2) and a further rig tower (28) installed on a jack up rig (20) located alongside the platform (1) to access the well bay (5) of the platform. Thereby, two wells may be accessed simultaneously through the same well bay (5) and respective decommissioning operations carried out simultaneously and independently.
US09366090B2
A drill bit for drilling a borehole in earth formations may include a bit body having a bit axis and a bit face; a plurality of blades extending radially along the bit face; and a plurality of cutting elements disposed on the plurality of blades. The plurality of cutting elements may include: at least one cutter including a substrate and a diamond table having a substantially planar cutting face; and at least two conical cutting elements including a substrate and a diamond layer having a conical cutting end. In a rotated view of the plurality of cutting elements into a single plane, the at least one cutter may be located a radial position from the bit axis that is intermediate the radial positions of the at least two conical cutting elements.
US09366085B2
A downhole drilling apparatus includes an assembly having a longitudinal axis, wherein an output shaft of the assembly extends axially through a housing. A bearing assembly has first and second races, wherein a first set of bearing elements are disposed at a first angle relative to a top surface of the first race and a second set of bearing elements are disposed at a second angle relative to a top surface of the second race. The output shaft extends from an outlet of the housing at the angle defined by the bore.
US09366082B2
A control system (700) is disclosed that includes a room controller (704) transmitting signals to both a shade control network (716) and a light control network (718), directing that motorized roller shades (106) and dimmable lights (714) be set to desired intensity levels. The control system further includes an intelligent hub (710) that provides a trickle-charge re-charge current via power-over-Ethernet cables to batteries associated with each of the motorized roller shades for re-charging the batteries, thereby eliminating power supplies being installed within walls. The intelligent hub provides for communication with the room controller based on streaming protocol and with the shade control network based on event-based protocol. A computer (414) running user interface software may be connected to the system to facilitate programing.
US09366081B2
An adjustable window covering system for substantially or partially covering a window to block light, provide privacy, reduce heating/air conditioning costs, reduce installation costs, or change the aesthetic appeal of the window or the area around the window is disclosed. A user can dynamically adjust the configuration, location, position, and material layer of the adjustable window covering system without the use of tools and without damage done to the walls of a window.
US09366080B2
A roller blind is disclosed which provides horizontal slats for directional shading, enabling the application of a screen fabric which allows a greater portion of visible light to pass therethrough. The disclosed slatted roller blind is free from the usage of ladder cords and is simplistic in design. The disclosed slatted roller blind maintains a compact formation of a roller shade when retracted and has greater resistance to skewing along the longitudinal axis of the roller while being retracted. Furthermore, the disclosed slatted roller blind design is capable of being utilized as an outdoor or indoor blind.
US09366079B1
An elastic cord device for use in cooperation with a window covering device of the type having a plurality of pulleys, a plurality of housings, a plurality of lift cords extending from a head rail, the lift cords used to raise and lower a window covering material. The elastic cord device has a spiral helical shape. The elastic cord device has a first end and a second end. The first end of the elastic cord device attaching to the lift cords of the window covering device. The second end of the elastic cord device is exposed and is accessible so that the elastic cord device can be pulled to raise and lower the window covering material.A window covering device of the type having an elastic cord device, the elastic cord device attaching to the free ends of the lift cords of the window covering device.
US09366078B2
Disclosed is a protection device for a blind string. The protection device includes a bellows tube provided in a tubular structure, allowing the blind string to pass through an inner part thereof, and having a length increased or reduced in a longitudinal direction of the blind string, a first module coupled with a lower end portion of the bellows tube and having an inner part to which an end portion of the blind string is locked, and a second module decoupled from the first module at an upper portion of the first module while the bellows tube is interposed between the first module and the second module, such that the bellows tube is folded. The bellows tube has a difference in the thickness of the skin thereof such that the bellows tube is automatically spread due to elasticity thereof when the second module is moved up from the first module.
US09366076B2
A cord winding structure for window blind includes a cord winding assembly composed of a first and a second plate member, a guide rod, a first and a second shaft, a first and a second guiding wheel, and a spiral spring. The first plate member has a guide rod support bracket unit upward projected from one side thereof for supporting the guide rod thereon. The second plate member has a plurality of pulley sets provided thereon. The first and second guiding wheels are rotatably connected to between the first and the second plate member via the first and the second shaft, respectively. The spiral spring is fitted to one side of the second guiding wheel with an end extended to fasten to the first guiding wheel. A first cord is wound around the guide rod, the pulley sets and a first cord receiving groove of the first guiding wheel.
US09366071B1
An insulated glazing unit including a first glass element and a second glass element having congruent shapes. The insulated glazing unit also includes a plurality of elongated spacers disposed between the first glass element and the second glass element to space the first glass element from the second glass element. The spacers are in rolling, line contact with a surface of one or both of the first glass element and the second glass element, and each spacer is elongated along an axis. The spacers are oriented on the surface such that the axis of each of the spacers is tangent to one or more imaginary circular lines superimposed on the surface and having a common center.
US09366069B2
In an embodiment, an interchangeable corner hanger to ornament framing protruding corner structures is provided. The interchangeable corner hanger includes a horizontal portion and a vertical portion. The horizontal portion is designed to rest on an exposed edge of a corner structure, and the vertical portion is designed to hang over the corner of the corner structure and rest against a wall upon which the trim is attached. The vertical portion has a length sufficient to stabilize the corner hanger without the use of other adhesives or attachments. In an embodiment, the vertical portion is configured to allow one or more interlocking elements to be suspended from the vertical portion. For example, the vertical portion may include an interlocking pattern configured to accept a complimentary interlocking pattern on an interlocking element. Further interlocking elements may be attached to the interlocking element.
US09366063B2
The invention is directed to a lock for a door arrangement, wherein a catch and a pawl are provided. The catch can be brought into an opening position and into a closed position. The catch may be brought into holding engagement with a lock striker. The pawl may be brought into an engagement position. The pawl may be deflected into a release position. A pawl actuation lever is provided for deflecting the pawl. An engagement arrangement is provided. The engagement arrangement comprises a deflection lever on the side of the pawl actuation lever and a counter contour on the side of the pawl. The deflection lever is configured to engage the counter contour. An actuation movement of the pawl actuation lever can deflect the pawl into the release position. An inertial characteristic of the deflection lever causes a deflection movement along a free-wheeling path.
US09366053B2
A method includes assembling a telescoping substructure box having first and second substructure boxes in a collapsed configuration by nesting at least a portion of the first substructure box inside of a substantially open interior space defined by a plurality of structural elements that comprise the second substructure box. The assembled telescoping substructure box is transported to a drilling site and telescopically raised from the collapsed transportation configuration to a raised operating configuration for performing drilling operations on a wellbore location of the drilling site by telescopically raising one of the first and second substructure boxes relative to the other one of the first and second substructure boxes. A drilling mast is coupled to and raised above the telescoping substructure box, and drilling operations are performed on the wellbore location with the raised drilling mast.
US09366046B1
An apparatus and method for cooling water in a swimming pool includes a heat exchanger coupled to a return conduit of the pool filtering system. The heat exchanger is buried in the ground at a depth at which the ground temperature is substantially constant year-round thereby providing a passive heat sink for the heat exchanger. Water from the swimming pool is passed to a three-way valve for directing pool water either directly back to the swimming pool or through the heat exchanger for cooling pool water by heat transfer to the ground heat sink before being returned to the pool. A temperature sensor may be disposed within the pool water to control the operation of the valve at a predetermined pool temperature above which pool water is directed through the heat exchanger for cooling.
US09366043B2
A safety tether is able to secure a wide variety of different hand-held articles directly to a user, particularly for overhead work. A resilient bag holds the article and is formed by joining portions of a wire at nodes such that the bag is biased to a collapsed state to form a mesh. Mouth loops of the mesh are circumferentially spaced around a mouth of the bag. A hook fastener includes a hook onto which the mouth loops are inserted to draw the mouth closed and a gate for closing the hook to retain the mouth loops. The hook fastener is connected to one end of a retractable leash, the opposing end of which is attached to the user's apparel. The bag may also have a clip by which it may be hung from a user's apparel.
US09366039B2
A floorboard includes a floorboard main body and a plastic edge frame. The plastic edge frame is configured to wrap the periphery of the floorboard main body. The back of the plastic edge frame is provided with a guide rail. The guide rail is provided with plastic slide blocks. The plastic slide blocks are matched with the guide rail of the plastic edge frame of another corresponding adjacent floorboard. A length defined between two adjacent plastic slide blocks on the same guide rail is greater than the length of each plastic slide block. The floorboard main body includes a wear-resisting layer, a decoration layer, a particleboard layer, and a balanced layer which are arranged from up to bottom. A top surface of the plastic edge frame is hidden under the decoration layer.
US09366036B2
Floor panels provided with a mechanical locking system comprising a separate material in order to reduce snapping resistance during vertical displacement. For example, a separate flexible tongue, the flexible tongue including an inner part, which is connected to a holding groove at a second edge, and an outer flexible snap tab that extends upwardly and in the connected state into a cavity under a protruding tongue for locking a first and a second floor panel to each other in a vertical direction.
US09366034B2
Floor panel of the type substantially consisting of a substrate and a top layer provided-thereon based on synthetic material. The top layer includes a printed decor and one or more material sheets provided with synthetic material. The floor panel also includes a balancing layer at the underside of the substrate, the balancing layer containing a synthetic material layer which is free from material sheets. Methods used to make the panels are disclosed.
US09366033B2
An improved lath is disclosed having a water drainage layer provided in association with the lath. The water drainage layer serves to remove water that might otherwise build up between the lath and wall structure.
US09366031B2
Eccentrically loaded structural members and methods of forming the same. The structural members have their compressive loading axes offset from their load central longitudinal axes.
US09366024B2
The invention relates to a flexible insulating material based on a high temperature resistant rubber mixture. The insulation material for use at temperatures of more than 130° C., which is easy to apply to complex components to be insulated and also fills in undercuts, is an insulation material in which at least a portion of the rubber mixture is not crosslinked and can be plastically deformed, wherein the Mooney viscosity ML(1+4) of the mixture, determined at 23° C. according to DIN 53523 Part 3, is 5 to 20 MU.
US09366013B2
A water dispenser includes a decontamination device. The dispenser has a plurality of channels that communicate with a water supply. The channels are intermittently exposed to pathogen killing radiation during operation of the water dispenser.
US09366011B2
A work machine management device includes: a receiving unit that receives, from a work machine, sensor data indicating states of various sections of the work machine, and alarm data indicating that the work machine has determined that an abnormality has occurred in the work machine; and an operating level classifying unit that, based on the sensor data received by the receiving unit, classifies an operating state of the work machine as being any one of a plurality of predetermined operating levels.
US09366007B2
A first accommodating case (13) which is located more forward than a fuel tank (12) and is small in height dimension (H1) of an upper surface (13E) is provided on the right side of a revolving frame (5). A second accommodating case (16) the position of an upper surface (16E) of which is higher than the upper surface (13E) of the first accommodating case (13) and is lower than an upper surface plate (12E) of the fuel tank (12) is provided on the rear side of the upper surface (13E) of this first accommodating case (13). Moreover, a reducing agent tank (20) is provided in a tank accommodating space (15) in the first accommodating case (13) and articles such as a tool box (23) and the like are accommodated in an article accommodating space (17) in the second accommodating case (16).
US09366004B2
An industrial machine and a method of controlling an industrial machine, the industrial machine including a dipper supported by a dipper handle. The method may include determining an operating phase of the industrial machine, in a first operating phase of the industrial machine, limiting, with at least one controller, a reach of the dipper handle, and in a second operating phase of the industrial machine, enabling, with the at least one controller, an extended reach of the dipper handle greater than the reach in the first operating phase. The industrial machine may include at least one controller configured to determine an operating phase of the industrial machine, in a first operating phase of the industrial machine, limit a reach of the dipper handle, and, in a second operating phase of the industrial machine, enable an extended reach of the dipper handle greater than the reach in the first operating phase.
US09365993B1
A substantially cylindrical drainage unit for use when buried in soil as part of a wastewater leach field comprises a first plastic aggregate mass that is contained within netting, with an optional central perforated pipe. A segmented quilt comprises the exterior surface of the drainage unit which is in contact with soil. Pebble aggregate that is smaller in particle size than the first aggregate is contained with the cavities of the quilt segments. Quilts having different segment shapes and sizes are manufactured by specialized apparatus which creates rectilinear or serpentine seams.
US09365991B2
A revetment panel construction including a geotextile fabric positioned atop the ground, a synthetic turf positioned atop the geotextile fabric and affixed thereto to form an elongate bladder, and a filling placed within the elongate bladder. Optionally, the revetment panel construction includes a geotextile fabric positioned atop the ground, an elongate filled bladder positioned atop the geotextile fabric, and a synthetic turf positioned atop the filled bladder.
US09365987B2
A movable robotic-like assembly which includes an upper body portion, a base portion and a wheel assembly for supporting the base portion and for moving the movable assembly. Signage is provided in the upper body portion, featuring instructions in a first portion for vehicles, including a stop indication, and signage in a second portion approximately 90° from the previous portion for pedestrians waiting to cross the street in which vehicles are traveling. A motor assembly drives the wheel assembly. A controller separate from the moving assembly remotely controls the movement and the operation of the movable assembly.
US09365980B2
An article in the form of recyclable packaging material having a water vapor transportation rate of about 500 g/m2/day or less. The packaging material has a paper substrate of recyclable paper fibers and a print-receptive layer which is positioned over the outer surface of the paper substrate and has a Parker Print Smoothness value of about 1.5 or less. The packaging material also has a moisture barrier layer positioned over the print-receptive layer. The moisture barrier layer is formed from one or more energy-cured polymers. Also, methods for preparing these packaging materials, including printed packaging materials.
US09365978B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing a dispersion comprising microfibrillated cellulose and nanoparticles wherein the process comprises the steps; providing a slurry comprising pre-treated cellulose fibers, adding nanoparticles to the slurry and treating the slurry by mechanical disintegration so that a dispersion comprising microfibrillated cellulose is formed in which the nanoparticles are being adsorbed to the surface of the microfibrillated cellulose and/or being adsorbed into the microfibrillated cellulose. The invention further relates to a dispersion produced according to the process, a paper or board product being coated with a coating comprising said dispersion and a paper or board product being produced from said dispersion as well as a composite comprising said dispersion.
US09365968B2
A steam iron (1) comprising: a housing (2) defining a water vaporization chamber (22); a heating element (12), accommodated by the housing (2) and configured to heat the vaporization chamber (22); a sole plate (8), connected to the housing and defining at least one steam outlet opening (10); a steam-permeable screen (24), disposed within the water vaporization chamber (22) and dividing the water vaporization chamber into a vaporization zone (28) and a steam zone (30); a liquid water supply channel (16) having an outlet (16b) that discharges into the vaporization zone (28); and a steam discharge channel (20) having a steam inlet (20a) that originates from the steam zone (30) and a steam outlet (20b) that discharges into the at least one steam outlet opening (10) in the sole plate (8).
US09365965B2
A high efficiency steam box, particularly for the processing of fabrics. The box housing is subdivided into a plurality of steam chambers isolated from each other but communicating with a perforated steam tube which extends throughout the housing. Steam is delivered to the center portions of the steam tube and flows toward the ends. Valve pistons are movably positioned in the opposite end portions of the steam tube to confine the steam. The valve pistons are axially adjustable by a screw shaft extending through the steam tube and can be positioned to isolate outer chambers when processing narrow fabrics to prevent or minimize the discharge of steam from steam discharge slots extending beyond the edges of the fabric. Steam flow control can be integrated with positioning of the valve pistons to provide uniform steam flow per unit length of the discharge slots for optimum efficiency in processing and steam utilization.
US09365957B2
An ultralight flat-weave fabric including more than one wefts and their directions that intersect with one another to form a particular angle in relation to the warp, and a warp. The weft and warp are supplied with fibers or fabrics having a cross-section in the form of a flat tape. In this way, it is possible to product a woven fabric in which two weft tapes having different directions are combined with the warp tape, such that stresses in six different directions are absorbed in a single fabric layer without multiple fabrics having to be overlapped. The woven fabric is completely covered, has a weight-to-surface area ratio of 2, and, as a result, is very light.
US09365956B2
A reinforcing fiber structure for a composite material part is woven as a single piece by multilayer weaving between plural layers of weft yarns and plural layers of warp yarns arranged in adjacent manner between two faces of the structure. The fiber structure includes at least one arcuate portion extending over one of the faces of the fiber structure, the arcuate portion including at least some of the warp yarns continuous with at least two adjacent warp yarn layers present on one of the faces of the structure. The warp yarns of the arcuate portion are of a length that is longer than the warp yarns of at least two underlying warp yarn layers of the structure. In addition, the warp yarns of the arcuate portion are not interlinked with other warp yarns of the fiber structure.
US09365955B2
The present invention is a solution comprising poly(α(1→3) glucan) and an ionic liquid. The solution can further contain a non-solvent that is water or an ionic liquid. The solution is suitable for use as a spinning solution for the preparation of fibers of poly(α(1→3) glucan) without the requirement of first derivatizing the poly(α(1→3) glucan).
US09365952B2
The present invention concerns yarns comprising copolymer derived from the copolymerization of para-phenylenediamine, 5(6)-amino-2-(p-aminophenyl)benzimidazole; and terephthaloyl dichloride wherein the ratio of moles of 5(6)-amino-2-(p-aminophenyl)benzimidazole to the moles of para-phenylenediamine is 30/70 to 85/15. The yarns have a sulfur content greater than 0.1%; and have an effective polymer cation to sulfur content molar ratio of at least 0.3. Additional aspects of the invention concern methods of producing such yarns.
US09365950B2
To provide a crystallizer to generate pseudo non-gravity environment by three-dimensional high speed rotation and to minimize influence of gravity in crystallization process for crystallizing a substance from a solution. The crystallizer has turning gear, container 9, and container supporting unit 30. The turning gear includes horizontal shafts 3,6, first rotation frame 1 coupled to first shafts, motor 4 rotating frame 1 about X-X line, vertical shafts 7,8 provided on frame 1, and driving force transmission system 10. System 10 includes first disc 11 and second disc 12. First disc 11 rotates relative to frame 1 about axis of shafts 6. Second disc 12 is coupled to shaft 7. Contact between disc 11 and disc 12 transmits a turning force of frame 1 rotated by motor 4 to cause frame 2 to rotate about Y-Y line.
US09365929B2
Mechanically fluidized systems and processes allow for efficient, cost-effective production of silicon. Particulate may be provided to a heated tray or pan, which is oscillated or vibrated to provide a reaction surface. The particulate migrates downward in the tray or pan and the reactant product migrates upward in the tray or pan as the reactant product reaches a desired state. Exhausted gases may be recycled.
US09365926B2
Methods are provided herein for forming transition metal oxide thin films, preferably Group IVB metal oxide thin films, by atomic layer deposition. The metal oxide thin films can be deposited at high temperatures using metalorganic reactants. Metalorganic reactants comprising two ligands, at least one of which is a cycloheptatriene or cycloheptatrienyl (CHT) ligand are used in some embodiments. The metal oxide thin films can be used, for example, as dielectric oxides in transistors, flash devices, capacitors, integrated circuits, and other semiconductor applications.
US09365922B2
A formed article comprising a gas barrier layer that is formed of a material including at least an oxygen atom, a carbon atom, and a silicon atom, the gas barrier layer including an area (A) where an oxygen atom content rate gradually decreases, and a carbon atom content rate gradually increases in a depth direction from a surface, the area (A) including a partial area (A1) and a partial area (A2), the (A1) having a specific oxygen, carbon and silicon content, and the (A2) having a specific oxygen, carbon and silicon content; a method of producing the same; an electronic device member; an electronic device. The formed article exhibits an excellent gas barrier capability, excellent bendability, excellent adhesion, and excellent surface flatness.
US09365911B2
Processes, systems, and methods for selectively regenerating an ion exchange resin generally comprises washing the ion exchange resin with an elution agent that encourages only selected contaminants, and especially selected radioactive isotopes, to disengage or decouple from the resin and enter solution in the elution agent, which thereafter is identified as the elution agent solution. The elution agent solution is then passed through a column of isotope-specific media (ISM). When the selected radioactive isotopes within the elution agent solution come into contact with the constituent media isotopes of the ISM, the selected radioactive isotopes are retained on the reactive surface areas of the ISM or within the interstitial spaces of the porous structures of the constituent media isotopes of the ISM. In some embodiments, the constituent media isotopes of the ISM are embedded, impregnated, or coated with the specific radioactive isotope that the particular ISM are adapted to separate.
US09365905B2
A process for forming lactose suitable for use in a pharmaceutical formulation comprises providing a plurality of lactose particles containing no more than 10% w/w of lactose particles having a volume average particle size of about 70 microns or less; milling the plurality of lactose particles to yield a plurality of milled lactose particles with an average particle size, (D50), ranging from about 50 microns to about 100 microns; and classifying the plurality of milled lactose particles into at least two fractions comprising a fine fraction and a coarse fraction wherein the fine fraction has an average particle size, (D50), ranging from about 3 microns to about 50 microns, and the coarse fraction has an average particle size, (D50), ranging from about 40 microns to about 250 microns.
US09365900B2
The present invention relates to a kit and nucleic acid chip for diagnosing bladder cancer using a bladder cancer-specific marker gene. More particularly, the invention relates to a kit and nucleic acid chip for diagnosing bladder cancer, which can detect the promoter methylation of a bladder cancer-specific gene, the promoter or exon region of which is methylated specifically in transformed cells of bladder cancer. The use of the diagnostic kit or nucleic acid chip of the invention enables diagnosis of bladder cancer at an early stage of transformation, thus enabling early diagnosis of bladder cancer, and can diagnose bladder cancer in a more accurate and rapid manner compared to a conventional method.
US09365898B2
A system and method for imaging biological samples on multiple surfaces of a support structure are disclosed. The support structure may be a flow cell through which a reagent fluid is allowed to flow and interact with the biological samples. Excitation radiation from at least one radiation source may be used to excite the biological samples on multiple surfaces. In this manner, fluorescent emission radiation may be generated from the biological samples and subsequently captured and detected by detection optics and at least one detector. The detected fluorescent emission radiation may then be used to generate image data. This imaging of multiple surfaces may be accomplished either sequentially or simultaneously. In addition, the techniques of the present invention may be used with any type of imaging system. For instance, both epifluorescent and total internal reflection methods may benefit from the techniques of the present invention.
US09365893B2
Described are methods for the high-throughput discovery and genotyping of nucleotide polymorphisms in DNA, including single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) and short deletions and insertions. These methods take advantage of the fact that differences in DNA sequence result in the differential presence of restriction endonuclease digestion sites. Approaches involve isolation of short DNA fragments (“tags”) near restriction endonuclease sites. The presence of one (or two) of these tags indicates that a site was present. Regions of DNA with a restriction site in only one individual create an opportunity for primer extension to produce labeled material, which can be assayed on a platform that employs a collection of nucleic acids. Efficient variant detection microarrays and bead libraries are provided that contain genomic tags with different representations between two populations, so that most elements in the collection of nucleic acids contain a SNP between populations of interest.
US09365888B2
Methods for characterizing the near term risk of experiencing a major adverse cardiac event in a patient presenting to an Emergency Department with chest pain are provided. In one embodiment the method comprises determining the level of myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity and/or mass in a bodily sample obtained from the patient. Levels of MPO activity or MPO mass in bodily samples from the test subject are then compared to a control value in comparable bodily samples obtained from a control population. Such comparison can also be used to determine the near term treatment of the patient.
US09365883B2
A spectroscopic method for spectroscopic detection and identification of bacteria in culture is disclosed. The method incorporates construction of at least one data set, which may be a spectrum, interference pattern, or scattering pattern, from a cultured sample suspected of containing said bacteria. The data set is corrected for the presence of water in the sample, spectral features are extracted using a principal components analysis, and the features are classified using a learning algorithm. In some embodiments of the invention, for example, to differentiate MRSA from MSSA, a multimodal analysis is performed in which identification of the bacteria is made based on a spectrum of the sample, an interference pattern used to determine cell wall thickness, and a scattering pattern used to determine cell wall roughness. An apparatus for performing the method is also disclosed, one embodiment of which incorporates a multiple sample analyzer.
US09365881B2
The current invention comprises a method for producing an immunoglobulin or immunoglobulin fragment or immunoglobulin fusion with G1 glycostructure comprising incubating with a galactosyltransferase, a sialyltransferase, a beta-1,4-galactosidase and a sialidase, whereby the galactosyltransferase is added in more than one aliquot during the incubating.
US09365869B2
A process for increasing a production of alcohol by fermenting sugars may include applying a direct current electrical field to a fermentation broth, which occurs before the fermentation broth inoculates with a concentration of yeasts; and controlling a pH value of said fermentation broth to maintain the pH value with a specific range.
US09365864B2
The invention relates to a set of genetic constructs which allow the efficient and reproducible introduction of a specific nucleotide sequence at a fixed position in the genome by generating a double strand break at a specific position in the genome using a meganuclease and so stimulating a homologous recombination event at this locus between the genomic site and a transfected donor sequence. The present invention also relates to methods using these constructs and to these materials in the form of a kit.
US09365862B1
This disclosure provides for four different sorghum mutants that exhibit resistance to ALS-inhibiting herbicides. This disclosure also provides for methods of using such sorghum mutants that exhibit resistance to ALS-inhibiting herbicides in breeding methods to make sorghum hybrids, varieties, or lines. The sorghum hybrids, varieties, and lines provided in this disclosure can be used in methods of controlling weeds.
US09365857B2
Disclosed herein is a newly discovered problem and solution for engineering S. cerevisiae to ferment xylose to make ethanol utilizing xylose isomerase to convert xylose to xylulose for entry, via xylulokinase, into the pentose phosphate pathway. The problem is that when grown on a media containing xylose xylitol tends to accumulate in the cell despite the absence of xylose reductase activity in S. cerevisiae. Xylitol inhibits the activity of xylose isomerases. One solution described is to simultaneously express an exogenous xylitol dehydrogenase along with the exogenous xylose isomerase while optionally also overexpressing xylulokinase in the absence of expression of a xylose reductase. Another solution is a xylose isomerase from Bacteroides fragilis which is less inhibited by xylitol than other xylose isomerases, exemplified by E. coli xylose isomerase. Expression of the Bacteroides fragilis xylose isomerase may be used alone, or in combination with expression of a xylitol dehydrogenase and optionally over expression of xylulokinase to improve ethanol production from xylose.
US09365851B2
Described are methods of treating a solid tumor which expresses Spalt-Like Transcription Factor 4 (SALL4) and Phosphatase and Tensin Homolog (PTEN) in an individual in need thereof, comprising administering to the individual an effective amount of a composition that inhibits SALL4. In addition, the invention is directed to methods of detecting an aggressive cancer in an individual in need thereof as well as methods of detecting a poor prognosis of a patient with cancer in an individual in need thereof.
US09365850B2
This invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods useful for reducing MYC target RNA and protein levels via use of dsRNAs, e.g., Dicer substrate siRNA (DsiRNA) agents.
US09365838B2
Disclosed herein are conjugates comprising a biomolecule linked to a label that have biological activity and are useful in a wide variety of biological applications. For example, provided herein are polymerase-nanoparticle conjugates including a polymerase linked to a nanoparticle, wherein the conjugate has polymerase activity. Such conjugates can exhibit reduced aggregation and improved stochiometries wherein the average biomolecule:nanoparticle ratio approaches or equals 1:1. Also disclosed herein are improved methods for preparing such conjugates, and methods and systems for using such conjugates in biological applications such as nucleotide incorporation, primer extension and single molecule sequencing.
US09365829B2
The present invention relates generally to a population of cells genetically modified to produce insulin in a glucose responsive manner and uses thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to a population of cells genetically modified to produce insulin in response to physiologically relevant levels of glucose and uses thereof. The cells of the present invention are useful in a wide variety of applications, in particular in the context of therapeutic and prophylactic regimes directed to the treatment of diabetes and/or the amelioration of symptoms associated with diabetes, based on the transplantation of the cells of the present invention into mammals requiring treatment. Also facilitated is the design of in vitro based screening systems for testing the therapeutic effectiveness and/or toxicity of potential adjunctive treatment regimes.
US09365821B2
The present disclosure provides transformed human pluripotent stem cell (t-hPSC). t-hPSCs are not dependent on Oct4 for renewal and survival, however exhibit a sensitivity to reduced levels of the transcription factor Nanog. Also provided are methods of culturing cells for use in a cell-based screening assay comprising placing one or more transformed human pluripotent stem cells into a receptacle and culturing said stem cells in the receptacle to form a monolayer of stem cells without cell overlap. Methods of screening compounds using t-hPSCs are also described.
US09365820B2
The present invention relates generally to the fields of reproductive medicine. More specifically, the present invention relates to a novel human embryo co-culture system to improve human embryo growth in vitro and, consequently, increase pregnancy rates in infertile women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method of growing an embryo to a blastocyst stage of development comprising the step of coculturing said embryo in the presence of a population of cumulus cells.
US09365807B2
The application describes the use of porous polyamide particles which have a volume-weighted median particle size of 1 to 50 μm, an oil absorption capacity of at least 60 g/100 g, and a specific BET surface area (as specified in DIN 66131) of 1 to 20 m2/g, for removing greasy stains from textile surfaces in a laundry detergent or cleaning agent which is used in a laundry or cleaning process.
US09365783B2
The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for producing synthesis gas (5) by steam reforming, in which nitrogen is separated off from a starting material (1) containing hydrocarbons and nitrogen in order to produce a low-nitrogen feed (4) for a burner-fired steam reformer (D), with formation of a hydrocarbon-containing residual gas (2) which subsequently serves as fuel (6). Nitrogen is separated off adsorptively (N) from the starting material and the hydrocarbon-containing residual gas (2) is used for firing the steam reformer (D).
US09365770B2
The present invention relates to an etching solution being capable of selectively etching a copper/molybdenum-based multilayer thin film with respect to a semiconductor device having an oxide semiconductor layer and a copper/molybdenum-based multilayer thin film, wherein the etching solution comprises (A) hydrogen peroxide, (B) an inorganic acid containing no fluorine atom, (C) an organic acid, (D) an amine compound having 2 to 10 carbon atoms, and having an amino group and at least one group selected from an amino group and a hydroxyl group, (E) an azole, and (F) a hydrogen peroxide stabilizer, and has a pH of 2.5 to 5, as well as an etching method using the etching solution for selectively etching a copper/molybdenum-based multilayer thin film from a semiconductor device having an oxide semiconductor layer and a copper/molybdenum-based multilayer thin film.
US09365768B2
A white light emitting diode comprising a substrate layer, two conductive frames, a light emitting unit, two conductive wires, and a packaging element is provided. The substrate layer is made from a curing reaction of first mixture, and the first mixture includes a curable resin, a curing agent, a phosphor material, and a modified thermal conductive nano-material, wherein the modified thermal conductive nano-material is made from a thermal conductive nano-material and a silane compound. The packaging element is made from a curing reaction of second mixture, and the second mixture includes a curable resin, a curing agent, a phosphor material, and a modified thermal conductive nano-material, wherein the modified thermal conductive nano-material is made from a thermal conductive nano-material and a silane compound. The chip-type white light emitting diode has a good heat-dissipating effect and a good luminous efficiency without additional heat dissipation fins. In addition, the manufacturing method of the chip-type white light emitting diode is a relatively simple process for mass production.
US09365766B2
Disclosed are improved wavelength conversion components having photo-luminescent materials embedded into a hermetic material. Phosphor materials are embedded into a layer of glass, which is then utilized in a remote phosphor LED lighting apparatus. Methods for manufacturing these advanced wavelength conversion components are also described.
US09365764B2
Described is a slickwater fracturing fluid containing base water having up to 300,000 ppm total dissolved solids; a viscosifier; a scale inhibitor; and a surfactant composition. The surfactant composition contains at least one dibasic ester, at least one non-ionic surfactant, at least one terpene or terpene derivative and optionally at least one polyalkylene glycol.
US09365760B2
The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil comprising: a base oil; a sulfide compound; and a gallate, wherein a content of the sulfide compound is 0.01 to 2.0% by mass and a content of the gallate is 10 to 500 ppm by mass based on a total amount of the refrigerating machine oil, and the refrigerating machine oil having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 3 to 500 mm2/s.
US09365757B2
A UV-curable adhesive organopolysiloxane composition is provided comprising (A) (A-1) an alkenyl-containing linear organopolysiloxane and (A-2) a three-dimensionai network alkenyl-containing organopolysiloxane resin comprising R12R2SiO3/2, R13SiO1/2 and SiO2 units, wherein R1 is a monovalent hydrocarbon group exclusive of alkenyl and R2 is alkenyl, (B) (B-1) an alkoxy-free organohydrogenpolysiloxane and (B-2) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane containing at least one trialkoxysilyl group bonded to silicon via alkylene, (C) a photoactive platinum complex catalyst, and (D) a branched organopolysiloxane oligomer comprising R12R2SiO1/2 and/or R13SiO1/2 units and R1SiO3/2 units, but not SiO2 units.
US09365738B2
Described is a high solids coating composition having exceptional rheological properties and appearances comprising (a) a thermosetting binder, (b) from about 0.1 to about 10 wt. % based on binder solids of solid polyurea particles prepared by the reaction of a mixture of a polyisocyanate and an amino reactant comprising a primary or secondary monoamine that optionally has a hydroxyl or ether group or both, and (c) from about 2 to about 25 wt. % on resin solids of an acrylic polymer having a number average molecular weight of from about 2000 to about 8000 and a glass transition temperature of from about 50 to about 120° C.
US09365735B2
In a non-aqueous pigment ink that includes pigment, a non-aqueous solvent, and a non-aqueous resin that functions to disperse pigment dissolved in the non-aqueous solvent, the non-aqueous solvent includes a hydrocarbon based non polar solvent at 50% by mass or more with respect to the total amount of solvent. The non-aqueous resin is an acrylic polymer having a comb shaped structure, in which alkyl groups having carbon numbers from 8 to 18 and urethane groups form side chains on a (meth)acrylate main chain. The acrylic polymer is a copolymer of an alkyl(meth)acrylate (A) having alkyl groups with a carbon number from 8 to 18, a reactive (meth)acrylate (B) having functional groups that react with amino groups, and a monomer (C) having β-diketone groups or β-keto acid ester groups, into which the urethane groups are introduced by reactions between the functional groups that react with amino groups, amino alcohol, and a multivalent isocyanate compound. The mass ratio between the copolymer moiety and the urethane group moiety in the acrylic polymer is from 80:20 to 99:1.
US09365733B2
An ink jet ink including water, a pigment and a polymer. The pigment has a secondary amino group. The polymer contains a unit derived from a monomer having a ring structure containing a tertiary amino group.
US09365731B2
A water-based coating composition including a continuous phase comprising water and a carboxylic acid-functional support polymer, a polycarbodiimide, an ketofunctionalized latex polymer, and a dihydrazide, and wherein the water-based coating composition undergoes a less than 25% increase in viscosity after 5 days of storage in a closed container under ambient conditions.
US09365719B2
A marine vehicle component wherein the component is a partition or a light cover, and wherein the marine vehicle component is molded or formed from a thermoplastic polymer composition comprising a siloxane-containing copolymer in an amount effective to provide a total of 0.2 to 6.5 wt % of siloxane units based on the total weight of the polymers in the thermoplastic polymer composition, a bromine-containing polymer in an amount effective to provide 9 to 13 wt % of bromine, based on the total weight of the polymers in the thermoplastic polymer composition, and optionally a third polymer, wherein the wt % of the siloxane-containing copolymer, the bromine-containing polymer, and the optional third polymer, sum to 100 wt %, and 0.05 to 10 wt % of a light diffuser additive, based on the total weight of polymers in the thermoplastic polymer composition.
US09365705B2
A dedicated material for manufacturing a special safety tire rubber for wheeled combat vehicles and aircraft in the army is disclosed, fabricated with, by weight, 28-40 parts of polyisoprene, 19-30 parts of silicone rubber, 15-25 parts of thermoplastic elastomer, 10-18 parts of magnetic powder, 10-15 parts of paraffin oil, 0.8-2 parts of flexibilizer, 5-10 parts of silicone oil, and 0.5-2 parts of antioxidant. The material has properties of ordinary tire rubber at a normal temperature, and resists high temperature, burning, flame, and aging in an extremely hot environment. The material resists bullets, pricking and explosion. The material can withstand attack of shells of light-weighted explosives.
US09365700B2
Amino alkoxy-modified silsesquioxanes (amino AMS), and/or amino co-AMS compounds that also comprise a mercaptosilane or a blocked mercaptosilane, are excellent adhesives for coating plated or unplated metal wire for adherence of the wire to a rubber stock. The amino AMS and/or the amino/mercaptan co-AMS adhesives can be used with all types of rubber and there is no requirement for the use of special adhesive additives to the rubber vulcanizates, such as, but not limited to, cobalt, resins and high sulfur levels. In particular, the use of amino AMS and/or amino/mercaptan co-AMS compounds as adhesives for bonding wire to rubber also improves the adherence performance of the reinforcements to obtain sufficient bonding that is resistant to degradation over the course of time, especially resistance to thermal aging and/or thermo-oxidizing aging, in particular corrosion in the presence of water.
US09365681B2
A wafer processing laminate is provided comprising a support, a temporary adhesive layer on the support, and a wafer laid on the temporary adhesive layer. The temporary adhesive layer has a trilayer structure consisting of a first bond layer (A) of thermoplastic organosiloxane polymer which is releasably bonded to the circuit-forming front surface of the wafer, a second bond layer (B) of thermosetting modified siloxane polymer which is laid on the first bond layer, and a third bond layer (A′) of thermoplastic organosiloxane polymer which is laid on the second bond layer and releasably bonded to the support.
US09365680B2
The present invention relates to a process for the production of low-chlorine-content polybiphenyl sulfone polymers, to the polybiphenyl sulfone polymers obtainable in this way, to polybiphenyl sulfone polymers with less than 800 ppm content of organically bonded chlorine, to thermoplastic molding compositions and moldings, fibers, films, membranes, or foams comprising the polybiphenyl sulfone polymers mentioned, and also to their use for the production of moldings, of fibers, of films, of membranes, or of foams.
US09365678B2
The use of Michael addition curing chemistries in compositions comprising sulfur-containing polymers such as polythioethers and polysulfides useful in aerospace sealant applications are disclosed. Sulfur-containing adducts comprising terminal Michael acceptor groups are also disclosed.
US09365677B2
Disclosed are sulfur-containing polymers containing copolymerizable adhesion promoters and compositions including sealant compositions useful in aerospace applications comprising sulfur-containing polymers containing copolymerizable adhesion promoters. In particular, polythioethers and polysulfides incorporating copolymerizable adhesion promoters are disclosed.
US09365675B2
Poly(carbonate-urethane) or poly(ester-urethane) may be characterized in that of carbonate soft segments have molecular weights Mn ranging between 10,000 and 250,000 g/mol. The segments' length may be monitored by the ring-opening polymerization condition. The process of preparing the poly(carbonate-urethane) or poly(ester-urethane) may include immortal ring-opening polymerization of a cyclic carbonate or of a cyclic ester or diester monomers in the presence of a first catalyst system and diols or polyols. The process may include chemical modification of the hydroxyl chain-end groups into carboxylic groups in the presence of a second catalyst system. The process may include a coupling reaction with at least 2 equivalents of a second cyclic carbonate, enabling coupling with the carboxylic moiety in the presence of a third catalyst system. The process may include polyaddition of a diamine or a polyamine via ring-opening of the second cyclic carbonate, and obtention of poly(carbonate-urethane) or poly(ester-urethane).
US09365670B2
A copolymer includes structural units having the following formulae (1) and (2): wherein each of R1 and R2 independently represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; X represents a hydrogen atom or a cationic ion; and L represents a single bond or —(CH2)n—O—, the oxygen atom of which is bonded with the biphenyl; and n represents an integer of from 2 to 18.
US09365666B2
A polymerization catalyst composition that, without accompanying excessive gelation, allows efficient synthesis of high molecular weight polyisoprene under industrial conditions is provided. The polymerization catalyst composition contains: a rare earth element compound (component (A)) represented by the following general formula (i): M-(NQ1)(NQ2)(NQ3) (i); at least one (component (B)) selected from an ionic compound and a halogen compound; and a compound (component (C)) represented by the following general formula (X): YR1aR2bR3c (X).
US09365665B2
The invention relates to a process for the production of high density polyethylene by polymerization of ethylene in the presence of a silylchromate based catalyst and a reducing agent is characterized in that the reducing agent comprises the reaction mixture of an alkyl aluminum compound and/or boron compound and a nitrogen containing compound. The alkyl aluminum compound is an organo aluminum compound having the formula AlR3, in which R is a hydrocarbon radical containing 1-10 carbon atom and the nitrogen containing compound comprises —NH2, —NHR, —NR2, wherein R may be alkyl or a substituted alkyl having from 1 to 40 carbon atoms.
US09365659B2
An improved system for energy transfer photopolymerization which optimizes the transfer efficiency of energy from a low energy light source to a higher energy donor and then to a polymerization initiator for the polymerization of a monomer material. The energy transfer efficiency is optimized by introducing stably miscible surface treated upconverting nanocrystal donors into a monomer matrix for near infrared to blue and ultraviolet upconversion and resonantly coupling the energy stored in the donor to the initiator via Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET).
US09365658B2
Acrylate-containing compositions are photocured by mixing at least one N-oxyazinium salt photoinitiator, a photosensitizer for the N-oxyazinium salt, an N-oxyazinium salt efficiency amplifier, an aromatic heterocyclic, nitrogen-containing base, and one or more photocurable acrylates to form a photocurable composition. This photocurable composition is then irradiated to effect polymerization of the one or more acrylates. This method can be carried out in oxygen-containing environments.
US09365657B2
The present invention provides compositions comprising particles or agglomerates of one or more telomer or cotelomer ((co)telomer) of one or more methacrylic acids or anhydrides having a mean average particle size of from 2 μm to 1 mm, preferably from 5 to 500 μm. In addition, the present invention provides methods comprising aqueous solution addition polymerizing a monomer mixture of one or more methacrylic acid in the presence of a heteroatom containing compound, drying the resulting copolymer at a temperature of from 120 to 230° C. and reducing its particle size to make a (co)telomer particle or agglomerate; the methods may further comprise reacting the (co)telomer particle or agglomerate with one or more polyether polyol, alkyl polyether polyol, polyether amine or alkyl polyether amine, with heating, to form a comb polymer useful, e.g. as a superplasticizer or dispersant.
US09365650B2
The present invention provides an anticoagulant agent including a first element capable of inhibiting coagulation and a second element capable of targeting an activated platelet wherein upon administration of the agent to a subject the second element directs the first element to the activated platelet. Also provided is a probe for detecting a blood vessel abnormality including (a) a binding element capable of targeting an activated platelet and (b) a label. Applicant has shown that agents and probes directed to activated platelets are useful in the diagnosis and therapy of coagulation disorders.
US09365646B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the inhibition of EPO. The invention provides antibodies and antigen binding fragments thereof that bind to EPO and are able to inhibit EPO-dependent cell proliferation and/or EPO-dependent cell signaling.
US09365644B2
An antibody that binds TNF α and neutralizes its activity is provided. In certain cases, the antibody comprises: a) a heavy chain variable domain comprising an amino acid sequence that is at least 95% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 1, and b) a light chain variable domain comprising an amino acid sequence that is at least 95% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 2.
US09365642B2
Anti-K63-linked polyubiquitin monoclonal antibodies, and methods for using the antibodies, are provided.
US09365637B2
The present invention provides: a novel antiviral agent containing a human antibody κ light chain, a novel human abzyme containing a human antibody κ light chain; a polynucleotide, a vector, and a transformant, encoding a human antibody κ light chain of the above; a primer set for effectively obtaining a human antibody κ light chain having a function as an antiviral agent or abzyme; and a method for producing a polynucleotide and a method for producing a polypeptide, each of which method utilizes the primer set.
US09365634B2
Based on our identification of a polypeptide (Angiopep-7) that is efficiently transported to cells such as liver, lung, kidney, spleen, and muscle, the invention provides polypeptides, conjugates including the polypeptides, and methods for treating diseases associated with these cell types. Unlike other aprotinin related polypeptides identified herein (including Angiopep-3, Angiopep-4a Angiopep-4b Angiopep-5, and Angiopep-6) which efficiently cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB), Angiopep-7 is not efficiently transported across the BBB.
US09365632B2
The present invention relates to exendin-4 derivatives and their medical use, for example in the treatment of disorders of the metabolic syndrome, including diabetes and obesity, as well as reduction of excess food intake.
US09365630B2
The present invention relates to a therapeutic polypeptide and methods for its creation and use for modulating an immune response in a host organism in need thereof. In particular, the invention relates to the administration to an organism in need thereof, of an effective amount of a pre-coupled polypeptide complex comprising a lymphokine polypeptide portion, for example IL-15 (SEQ ID NO: 5, 6), IL-2 (SEQ ID NO: 10, 12) or combinations of both, and an interleukin receptor polypeptide portion, for example IL-15Ra (SEQ ID NO: 7, 8), IL-2Ra (SEQ ID NO: 9, 11) or combinations of both, for augmenting the immune system in, for example, cancer, SCID, AIDS, or vaccination; or inhibiting the immune system in, for example, rheumatoid arthritis, or Lupus. The therapeutic complex of the invention surprisingly demonstrates increased half-life, and efficacy in vivo.
US09365627B2
The invention provides compositions and methods for utilizing endomucin as an anti-inflammatory agent.
US09365625B1
A substantially purified substance having the properties of a bacterial microcin methionine analog, methionine synthesis inhibitor, tRNA-methionine synthase inhibitors or methionine competitive inhibitor capable of inhibiting tumor cell growth without inhibiting the growth of normal cells or treating neoplastic diseases, and may be used alone or in combination with other anti-cancer agents. The purified substance may also have anti-hyperhomocysteineuria and/or anti-infective properties, such as antifungal activity. The purified substance can be safely administered to animals including humans for the treatment of neoplastic, hyperhomocysteinemia and/or infectious diseases for the treatment of those diseases.
US09365624B2
Compositions and methods for the treatment or prevention of Gram-negative bacterial strain infection are provided herein. Methods for the manufacture of said compositions are also provided herein.
US09365623B2
Genetically-engineered cyanochrome fluorophore molecules (fluorophores) with increased fluorescence and with absorbing fluorescence in the blue and green (blue/green) portion of the light spectrum are provided. These fluorophores are derived from the domains of phytochromes, and in particular cyanobacterial phytochromes. Methods for generating these fluorophores and various applications of these fluorophores are also provided.
US09365620B2
The invention provides agents useful for treating pain. An exemplary agent comprises or consists of the a portion of a retroviral Tat protein. One such agent is the peptide Tat-NR2B9c. This peptide has previously been described as an agent for inhibiting damaging effects of stroke and similar conditions via inhibition of PSD95 interactions with NMDA receptors and/or NOS. The present application provides data showing that the Tat-NR2B9c peptides is effective in alleviation of pain. The alleviation of pain can be obtained at a dose of the peptide below the dose required to inhibit PSD-95 interactions with NMDAR or NOS.
US09365605B2
Disclosed herein are cyclic nucleotide analogs, methods of synthesizing cyclic nucleotide analogs and methods of treating diseases and/or conditions such as viral infections, cancer, and/or parasitic diseases with cyclic nucleotide analogs.
US09365604B2
The invention provides small molecule drugs that are chemically modified by covalent attachment of a water soluble, non-peptidic oligomer. The conjugates of the invention, when administered by any of a number administration routes, exhibits advantages over previously administered compounds.
US09365595B1
The conversion method of T8 type Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes (POSS) into T10 type compounds, includes treating octasilsesquioxane of the general formula (RSiO1.5)8 (wherein R is hydride, ethyl, vinyl, 3-chloropropyl, 3-hydroxypropyl, phenyl, octyl, 3-decanaminepropyl, 3-benzamideamidepropyl group and 3-aminepropyl hydrochloride group) with at least 10-fold excess of organic acid giving decasilsesquioxane (RSiO1.5)10. The reaction is conducted in air.
US09365593B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula I: along with compositions comprising the same and methods of using the same, such as for photodynamic therapy in the treatment of cancer.
US09365592B2
To provide a bonding composition where high joint strength can be obtained due to joining at a comparatively low temperature and under a pressureless condition, and, that is also equipped with thermal resistance that is difficult to cause a reduction of joint strength due to decomposition, deterioration and/or the like of a resin component at the time of an increase of an operating temperature, and to provide a bonding composition particularly containing metallic particles. A bonding composition containing inorganic metallic particles and organic components including unsaturated hydrocarbon and amine with 4 to 7 of carbon number
US09365583B2
The present invention provides for compounds of formula 0 and various embodiments thereof, and compositions comprising compounds of formula 0 and various embodiments thereof. In compounds of formula 0, the groups R1A, R1B, R1C, R1D, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 have the meaning as described herein. The present invention also provides for methods of using compounds of formula 0 and compositions comprising compounds of formula 0 as DLK inhibitors and for treating neurodegeneration diseases and disorders.
US09365581B2
Provided herein is technology relating to deuterated amiexanox and particularly, but not exclusively, to compositions comprising deuterated amiexanox, methods of producing deuterated amiexanox, and uses of deuterated amiexanox. Provided herein are deuteratecl amiexanox compounds for the treatment of obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, and steatosis. In addition, the deuterated compounds are anti-inflammatory antiallergic immunomodulators. e.g., for the treatment of diseases associated with inflammation. The deuterium kinetic isotope effect associated with placing deuterium at the site of metabolic derivatization slows metabolic derivatization and thus increases the lifetime of the active drug in vivo.
US09365580B2
This invention relates to the discovery of novel polymorphic forms of naltrexone, including solvates, hydrates, anhydrous and other crystalline forms and combinations thereof These novel forms of naltrexone impart advantages in pharmaceutical formulations incorporating them, including sustained release, or long acting, formulations.
US09365574B2
A compound of Formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, are capable of modulating the body's production of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (“cGMP”) and are generally suitable for the therapy and prophylaxis of diseases which are associated with a disturbed cGMP balance. The invention furthermore relates to processes for preparing compounds of Formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, for their use in the therapy and prophylaxis of the abovementioned diseases and for preparing pharmaceuticals for this purpose, and to pharmaceutical preparations which comprise compounds of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US09365566B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are defined in the specification. The compounds are inhibitors of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK). This disclosure also relates to materials and methods for preparing compounds of Formula 1, to pharmaceutical compositions which contain them, and to their use for treating diseases, disorders or conditions associated with BTK.
US09365565B2
The present invention relates to salts of (R)-3-(6-(4-methylphenyl)-pyridin-3-yloxy)-1-aza-bicyclo[2.2.2]octane, to methods for making them or their precursors, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and to their use as medicaments.
US09365559B2
The invention relates to Crystal Hydrate Form VI of Dabrafenib and preparation method thereof, wherein Crystal Hydrate Form VI of Dabrafenib has the advantage of being more stable at room temperature or in aqueous systems, and has low hygroscopicity, and thus is more suitable for a wet granulation process or being prepared into a suspension; and the present invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition and formulations comprising Crystal Hydrate Form VI of Dabrafenib, and their use in the treatment of Raf family kinase-related diseases.
US09365556B2
Provided herein are 3,5-diaminopyrazoles, for example, compounds of Formula IA, that are useful for modulating regulated-in-COPD kinase activity, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Also provided herein are methods of their use for treating, preventing, or ameliorating one or more symptoms of a RC kinase-mediated disorder, disease, or condition.
US09365554B2
The present invention relates to viral polymerase inhibitors of formula (I) or salts, N-oxides, solvates, hydrates, racemates, enantiomers or isomers thereof, processes for their preparation and their use in the treatment of Flaviviridae viral infections such as Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections.
US09365547B2
The present disclosure provides pyridinone-pyridinyl compounds useful in the treatment of p38 kinase mediated diseases, such as lymphoma and auto-inflammatory disease, having the structure of Formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, X and Y are as defined in the detailed description; pharmaceutical compositions comprising at least one of the compounds; and methods for treating p38 kinase mediated diseases using the compound.
US09365545B2
Compounds of general formula I: and compositions comprising compounds of general formula I that modulate pyruvate kinase are described herein. Also described herein are methods of using the compounds that modulate pyruvate kinase in the treatment of diseases.
US09365544B2
The present invention relates to new processes for the preparation of synthesis intermediate products useful in the preparation of Dabigatran Etexilate on an industrial scale. The invention also relates to new crystalline forms of intermediate products thus obtained.
US09365540B2
The present invention provides an aromatic ring compound having a melanin-concentrating hormone receptor antagonistic action and useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of obesity and the like. The present invention relates to a compound represented by the formula wherein each symbol as defined in the specification, or a salt thereof.
US09365534B2
The present invention relates to arylated camphenes, processes for their preparation and uses thereof for the manufacture of medicaments for the treatment of diseases, disorders or conditions associated with, or benefiting from stimulation of CB2 receptors.
US09365533B2
A novel coumarin derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and also to provide a pharmaceutical agent containing such a compound as an active ingredient is provided. The coumarin derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof exhibits an excellent suppressive action to the destruction of cartilage and suppressive action to the proliferation of synovial cells in a pharmacological test where the release of sulfated glycosaminoglycans (sGAG) and the proliferation of synovial cells are used as indicators whereby it is very useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition such as a preventive or therapeutic agent for arthropathy such as osteoarthritis or chronic rheumatoid arthritis.
US09365532B1
The present invention relates to the synthesis, composition and use of novel moieties formed by reacting a transimination nucleophilic catalyst, molecular or polymeric, with carbonyl-containing therapeutic or cosmetic moieties. The resultant Schiff base product is highly reactive towards transimination with a biological amine. The catalyst and carbonyl-containing moiety can be molecular or polymeric, and the resultant chemical and physical properties of the Schiff base products can be engineered by appropriate selection of said catalyst. The present invention also relates to the synthesis, composition and use of novel moieties that are used as actives in sunless tanning preparations. The present invention also relates to the use of transimination nucleophilic catalysts to increase the rate at which a carbonyl-containing moiety reacts with a biological amine. The present invention also relates to the use of transimination nucleophilic catalysts to increase the rate and efficacy of commercial sunless tanning preparations. Improvements on stability and efficacy of said preparations are disclosed. While the invention has been described in terms of its preferred embodiments, those skilled in the art will recognize that the invention can be practiced with modification within the spirit and scope of the appended claims. Accordingly, the present invention should not be limited to the embodiments as described above, but should further include all modifications and equivalents thereof within the spirit and scope of the description provided herein.
US09365522B2
The present invention relates to a novel compound having a function of inhibiting RORγ activity. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound, a use of the compound in treating or preventing autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, metabolic diseases, or cancer diseases.
US09365520B2
The present invention provides a heterocyclic compound having a RORγt inhibitory action.The present invention relates to a compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification. or a salt thereof.
US09365517B2
The present invention concerns the compounds of formula the N-oxide forms, the pharmaceutically acceptable addition salts and the stereochemically isomeric forms thereof, wherein Z represents NH; Y represents —C3-9alkyl-, —C1-5alkyl-NR12—C1-5alkyl-, —C1-6alkyl-NH—CO— or —CO—NH—C1-6alkyl-; X1 represents —O—; X2 represents a direct bond, —NR11—C1-2alkyl-, —NR11—CH2—, —C1-2alkyl-, —O—C1-2alkyl, —O— or —O—CH2—; R1 represents hydrogen or halo; R2 represents hydrogen, cyano, halo, hydroxycarbonyl-, C1-4alkyloxycarbonyl-, Het16-carbonyl- or Ar5; R3 represents hydrogen, hydroxy, C1-4alkyloxy-, Ar4—C1-4alkyloxy or R3 represents C1-4alkyloxy substituted with one or where possible two or more substituents selected from C1-4alkyloxy- or Het2-; R10 represents hydrogen; R11 represents hydrogen, C1-4alkyl- or C1-4alkyl-oxy-carbonyl-; R12 represents Het14-C1-4alkyl, in particular morpholinyl-C1-4alkyl; Het2 represents a heterocycle selected from morpholinyl or piperidinyl optionally substituted with C1-4alkyl-, preferably methyl; Het14 represents morpholinyl; Het16 represents a heterocycle selected from morpholinyl or pyrrolidinyl; Ar4 represents phenyl; Ar5 represents phenyl optionally substituted with cyano.
US09365508B2
The invention provides compounds according to formula (I): (wherein X, Y, Z1 R1, R2, R3, Ar and Ar′ are as defined herein), and physiologically acceptable salts, solvates, esters or amides thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the compounds for use in medicine, for example for the treatment or prophylaxis of diseases involving cell proliferation, such as cancer, and for the treatment or prophylaxis of other diseases.
US09365501B2
A polymerizable UV-absorbing colorant monomer is provided, which is excellent in stability under alkaline conditions and which is available for a useful material polymer for an intraocular lens. A compound, which is represented by the following general formula (1), is used as a polymerizable UV-absorbing monomer available for a material polymer for an intraocular lens: (in the general formula (1), R1 is a hydrogen atom, a hydroxy group, a carboxy group, an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, a sulfonic acid group, or a benzyloxy group, R2 is a hydrogen atom, a hydroxy group, or an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and R3 is represented by the following formula (2)): (in the general formula (2), R4 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R5 is a single bond or an alkylene group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms which may have a substituent or substituents.)
US09365496B2
Disclosed herein are α-galactosylceramide (α-GalCer) analogs and compositions thereof, methods of activating invariant Natural Killer T (iNKT) cells using said analogs, methods of treating diseases by activating iNKT cells using said analogs, and combination therapy of said analogs.
US09365489B2
The present invention relates to a method for reducing the production of methane emanating from the digestive activities of a ruminant and or for improving ruminant animal performance by using, as active compound at least one nitrooxy alkanoic acid and/or derivative thereof, which is administrated to the animal together with the feed. The invention also relates to the use of these compounds in feed and feed additives such as premix, concentrates and total mixed ration (TMR) or in the form of a bolus.
US09365484B2
Provided is hexaester of bispentaerythritol monoformal, which comprises the bispentaerythritol monoformal represented by the following formula (I), and any one of carboxylic acids selected from C8 and C9 branched aliphatic monocarboxylic acids: The hexaester has well-balanced excellent characteristics, such as low temperature properties and oxidation stability, and is used for industrial lubricating oil, such as a refrigerant oil composition.
US09365483B2
Process for producing acetic acid and dimethyl ether by contacting a mixture of methanol and methyl acetate with a zeolite catalyst. The zeolite has a 2-dimensional channel system having at least one channel with a 10-membered ring and containing at least 5% of its cation exchange capacity occupied by one or more alkali metal cations.
US09365480B2
A process for the manufacture of an alkenone comprising the steps of: (a) providing a halogenated precursor of the alkenone and (b) subjecting at least a fraction of the halogenated precursor of step (a) to a thermolysis reaction to form a reaction mixture comprising the alkenone and a hydrogen halide wherein the hydrogen halide is removed from the reaction mixture by cyclonic separation is described.
US09365479B1
Disclosed is a process for the reductive carbonylation of a low molecular weight alcohol to produce the homologous aldehyde and/or alcohol. The process includes conducting the reaction to produce the aldehyde in the presence of a single component catalyst complex composed of cobalt, an onium cation and iodide in a ratio of 1:2:4 without additional promoters. A ruthenium co-catalyst is used in the production of the homologous alcohol. The reductive carbonylation reaction does not require an additional iodide promoter and produces a crude reductive carbonylation product substantially free of methyl iodide.
US09365466B2
A system and method for producing a liquid hydrocarbon product from a Fischer-Tropsch process using a synthesis gas feed produced in an oxygen transport membrane based reforming reactor. The system and method involve reforming a mixed feed stream comprising natural gas, hydrogen and the Fischer-Tropsch tail gas, in a reforming reactor in the presence of steam, radiant heat from oxygen transport membrane elements and a reforming catalyst to produce a reformed synthesis gas stream comprising hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and unreformed hydrocarbon gas. The reformed synthesis gas stream is further reformed in an oxygen transport membrane based reforming reactor and conditioned to produce a synthesis gas product stream preferably having a H2/CO ratio of from about 1.7 to about 2.2. The synthesis gas product stream is then synthesized using a Fischer Tropsch process to produce the liquid hydrocarbon product and a Fischer-Tropsch tail gas.
US09365463B1
A breaching device for cutting through a substrate. There are several embodiments of the breaching device. In one embodiment, the device includes a hub assembly with a rotatable ring and a plurality of RM feed assemblies attached to the ring. In another embodiment, the device includes a disc, wherein the disc is rotatable and includes a plurality of slots, a shaft joined to the disc about which the disc rotates and a plurality of RM feed assemblies attached to the disc and arranged in the slots thereof. In another embodiment, the device includes a plurality of carts linked together, wherein each of the carts includes a cart body to which is coupled to an idler wheel, a wheel with an in-wheel motor and a platform and for each cart, a RM feed assembly retained on the platform. The RM feed assemblies include ejecta nozzles that may be positioned at selectable angles.
US09365460B2
The invention relates to a method of producing a substantially aqueous pigment dispersion substantially free from an organic binder comprising mixing at least one water-soluble or water-dispersible silane compound and colloidal silica particles to form silanized colloidal silica particles in an aqueous dispersion whereby said at least one silane compound is mixed with colloidal silica particles in a weight ratio of silane to silica of from about 0.2 to about 1.5, mixing said silanized colloidal silica particles with an organic and/or inorganic pigment, wherein the weight ratio of silica to pigment is from about 0.001 to about 0.8 to form said substantially aqueous pigment dispersion. The invention also relates to an aqueous pigment dispersion obtained from the method defined herein.
US09365456B2
A composite cement material is prepared from cement material and carbon nanotubes, wherein the carbon nanotubes are present from about 0.02 wt % to about 0.10 wt % based on weight of cement material. The process for preparing such cement compositions includes sonicating a mixture of a surfactant, water, and carbon nanotubes; and blending the dispersion and the cement material to form a cementitious paste. The process may also include curing the cementitious paste. The composite cement materials are useful in a variety of cement applications where a reduction in nanoscale flaws and fractures is desired.
US09365454B2
A comb polymer that is a dispersant in a binder composition includes an alkaline activating agent, wherein the activating agent is intended for activation of a latently hydraulic and/or puzzolanic binder, and wherein the comb polymer has a polymer backbone formed from a plurality of backbone monomers and a plurality of polymeric side chains each formed from a plurality of side chain monomers and bonded thereto, and wherein at least some of the backbone monomers have one or more ionizable groups, and features a structure constant K of the comb polymer, defined as K=[(N−1)z]2/nP915N3/5×105, at least equal to 70, where n is the average number of side chains per comb polymer molecule, N is the average number of backbone monomers per side chain, P is the average number of side chain monomers per side chain, and z is the average number of ionizable groups per side chain-free backbone monomer.
US09365453B2
A freeze-thaw damage resistance and scaling damage resistance admixture for a cementitious composition including an aqueous slurry comprising a water insoluble superabsorbent polymer and expandable polymeric microspheres. A method for preparing a freeze-thaw damage resistant and scaling damage resistant cementitious composition including forming a mixture of a hydraulic cement and an admixture including an aqueous slurry of a water insoluble superabsorbent polymer and expanded polymeric microspheres.
US09365446B2
Methods for processing glass using select wavelength radiation in a convective environment, broadly referred to as “Local Temporary Annealing”, “LASER Edge Strengthening” and “LASER Enhanced Thermal Strengthening.” Local Temporary Annealing allows strengthened glass to be brought to a neutral stress state so daughter units can be cut from strengthened glass and other processes usually only performed on annealed glass. LASER Edge Strengthening allows surface compression to be thermally imparted to the edges of a whole sheet or daughter units cut from annealed glass, or modification of residual edge stress profiles in strengthened glass to produce stable, strengthened edges. LASER Enhanced Thermal Strengthening allows surface compression to be imparted to a sheet of annealed glass whilst maintaining reduced surface temperatures so the glass has superior geometric stability and surface compression can be imparted at levels not conventionally possible.
US09365439B1
An improved method and apparatus for the removal of both suspended and dissolved contaminants be they heavy metals, organics, inorganics, hydrocarbons and others from various types of waste stream, wash water, ground water, leach waters, process waters and etc. is illustrated. The method combines passing the aqueous waste stream through an electromagnetic field, an ozone/oxygen venturi injector for oxidation and then through a horizontal flow and vertical fall with a horizontal plate maze unit of alternately electrically charged plates, anode and cathode. The plates will be charged, selectively: by either DC or AC Voltage and Current. There will be provisions for installation of a framework to mount and support a polar/bi-polar membrane, divider or separator as may be required to enhance special treatment of particular aqueous waste streams.
US09365430B2
This disclosure relates to a novel method of making and recovering M41S family molecular sieve materials using synthesis mixtures having high solids-content and without a purification step. The solids-content, for example, is in a range from about 20 wt. % to 50 wt. %. The method also includes the step of mixing at least a portion of the M41S made with another material to form a composition, wherein the amount of said material to be mixed with said M41S product is such that said composition having less than 10 wt. % free fluid. The material mixed with the M41S made includes metal oxides, metal nitrides, metal carbides and mixtures thereof, as well as absorptive material capable of absorbing mother liquor and selected from the group consisting of carbon silica, alumina, titania, zirconia and mixtures thereof. The amount of the wastewater generated by this novel method is reduced by at least 50% to as much as 100% as comparing with conventional method of making M41S materials. By reducing and/or eliminating at least a portion of the wastewater generated in the synthesis product, the new method reduces cost of making of M41S materials and provides a more environmentally-friendly synthesis product.
US09365425B2
Dissolved oxygen may be generated by adding a peroxide to a fluid stream and then catalytically decomposing the peroxide to generate oxygen. As the peroxide is catalytically decomposed, the oxygen may solubilize in a surrounding fluid so as to provide dissolved oxygen. In some examples, the amount of peroxide added to the fluid stream is controlled such that substantially all of the hydrogen peroxide added to the fluid stream catalytically decomposes and yet the dissolved oxygen concentration of the fluid stream does not exceed a dissolved oxygen saturation limit for the fluid stream.
US09365424B2
A chlorite salt-absorbent particle is prepared by absorbing a water soluble chlorite salt or a concentrated chlorite salt solution in an absorbent particle. The absorbent can be a silica gel particle or other particulate absorbent that can release the chlorite salt as an aqueous solution over time by simply contacting the chlorite salt-absorbent particle with water. The chlorine salt is extracted from the chlorite salt-absorbent particle over a period of minutes while being flushed with water. A chlorine dioxide generator in the form of a cartridge includes the chlorite salt-absorbent particles and an acid resin or a redox resin. Water can be introduced into an inlet of the cartridge and passes sequentially through the chlorite salt-absorbent particles and the acid resin or the redox resin with the discharge of a chlorine dioxide solution from the outlet of the cartridge.
US09365422B2
A method and system for producing a synthesis gas in an oxygen transport membrane based reforming system that utilizes a combined feed stream having a steam to carbon ratio between about 1.6 and 3.0 and a temperature between about 500° C. and 750° C. The combined feed stream is comprised a pre-reformed hydrocarbon feed, superheated steam, and a reaction product stream created by the reaction of a hydrogen containing stream reacted with the permeated oxygen at the permeate side of the oxygen transport membrane elements and wherein the hydrogen containing stream is a recycled portion of the synthesis gas.
US09365416B2
The present disclosure provides one embodiment of a motion sensor structure. The motion sensor structure includes a first substrate having an integrated circuit formed thereon; a second substrate bonded to the first substrate from a first surface, wherein the second substrate includes a motion sensor formed thereon; and a third substrate bonded to a second surface of the second substrate, wherein the third substrate includes a recessed region aligned with the motion sensor.
US09365413B2
Embodiments of packaged transducer-including devices and methods for their calibration are disclosed. Each device includes one or more transducers, an interface configured to facilitate communications with an external calibration controller, a memory, and a processing component. The external calibration controller sends calibration commands to the transducer-including devices through a communication structure. The processing component of each device executes code in response to receiving the calibration commands. Execution of the code includes generating transducer data from the one or more transducers, calculating calibration coefficients using the transducer data, and storing the calibration coefficients within the memory of the device.
US09365410B2
A method for producing a micromechanical component, and a micromechanical component, includes providing a substrate having first and second outer surfaces, the second surface facing away from the first surface; forming a through-hole through the substrate from the first outer surface up to the second outer surface; attaching an optical functional layer, on the second outer surface, to cover the through-hole; removing a first segment of the substrate on the first surface of the substrate so that there arises a third outer surface inclined relative to the second surface, the third surface facing away from the second surface, the inclined surface enclosing the through-hole; and separating the micromechanical component by separating a first part of the substrate, having the through-hole, and a second part, attached to the first part, of the optical functional layer from a remaining part of the substrate and a remaining part of the optical functional layer.
US09365396B2
A method and apparatus for lowering a display object in synchronization with a particular timing or event. The display object is lowered by a lifting apparatus. In particular, the display object is a guitar and the lifting apparatus is a crane.
US09365392B2
An elevator system which utilizes a plurality of independently moving cabs in each elevator shaft. The lower cabs are connected to spatially separated counterweights in order to prevent interference between cables, pulleys and counterweights. The top cab may be connected to one or two counterweights by connection points on the roof of the cab. The cabs are mounted on tracks, to guide each cab through the elevator shaft. The system includes a motor attached to each of the cabs by lift cables to facilitate the independent movement of all cabs. Existing buildings can be retrofit for compatibility with the present invention. A system and method for controlling the motions of all cabs comprising determining and selecting an optimal cab and a best hoistway range to service passenger requests.
US09365390B2
In one implementation, a cable assistance apparatus includes a cable including a segment having a helical shape about an axis and an assist mechanism operatively connected to the cable. The assist mechanism may apply a force to adjust the segment from a first configuration to a second configuration. The first configuration may have a first span measured along the axis from a first end of the segment to a second end of the segment, and the second configuration may have a second span measured along the axis from the first end of the segment to the second end of the segment.
US09365385B2
A fiberboard sheet is provided comprising a surface protector with a plurality of embedded creases wherein each of the creases can be folded in order to position a portion of the fiberboard sheet horizontally and another portion of the fiberboard sheet vertically. The fiberboard surface protector provides for quick and easy folding of the fiberboard sheet, along a multitude of crease lines, to allow for simultaneous horizontal and vertical protection within a single product. The fiberboard surface protector eliminates the need for two or more separate products and extra steps in the protection process. The fiberboard surface protector creates a seamless barrier between a horizontal and a vertical junction of orthogonally adjacent surfaces.
US09365384B2
A hand held dispenser for dispensing sheet material from a roll. The dispenser includes a handle assembly, an elongated blade, and a support assembly. The handle assembly includes a hub rotatably mounted to a frame. The blade extends from the frame. The support assembly includes a bracket, a brace and a support hub. The bracket is attached to the blade apart from the frame and includes a guide track. The guide track provides first and second segments that combine to define a guide axis. A leading side of the brace is slidably mounted to the guide track along the guide axis. The support hub is rotatably mounted to a trailing side of the brace. In a locked state, the leading side is slidably disposed over the track first segment and cannot rotate. In an unlocked state, the leading side is over the track second segment and is allowed to rotate.
US09365383B2
A pick roller as a feed roller of a conveying device includes an inner core portion rotatably disposed on a rotational shaft, a rubber in contact with a sheet, and an outer core portion on which the rubber is mounted and that is removably mounted on the outside of the inner core portion. This enables replacement of the rubber and the outer core portion as one body, making replacement of the rubber easy without improper mounting.
US09365380B2
An image formation apparatus includes: an image formation unit that forms an image on continuous paper; a paper conveyance unit that conveys the paper through a conveyance path; a deviation correction unit that corrects deviation of the continuous paper by moving the paper on the conveyance path in a paper feed intersecting direction; a paper position measurement unit that measures a paper position in the paper feed intersecting direction of the paper on the conveyance path; and a control unit that controls the image formation unit and the deviation correction unit, wherein during stop of a conveyance operation, the control unit moves the paper to a predetermined position in the paper feed intersecting direction by deviation correction by the deviation correction unit, and during the conveyance operation, the control unit decides an image formation position in a main scanning direction in the image formation.
US09365379B2
The machine includes a first winding roller and a concave plate extending around the first winding roller. The first winding roller and the concave plate define a feed channel of the web material. Upstream of the concave plate there is arranged a moving member including a pinching surface cooperating with the first winding roller to pinch the web material against the first winding roller. The moving member is arranged and controlled to pinch the web material against the surface of the first winding roller and decelerate the web material between the moving member and the surface of the first winding roller, causing a leading edge to wind around itself to form a winding nucleus of a log.
US09365377B2
A splicing tape and a method of using such tape to equip a wound roll for flying splice. The tape includes a first and second carrier and two strips of laminating composition disposed between them, each strip joining the first carrier to the second carrier. The carriers have a first and a second layer of pressure-sensitive, laminating composition and a first and a second layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive. The strips of laminating composition are disposed such that they are not in direct contact with one another. They form a predetermined breakage point. The splicing tape is adhered to the roll such that part of the first layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive forms a first bonding area, the end region of the uppermost ply of the wound roll, and the second layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive forms a second bonding area to the roll, which is located partly below the first bonding area.
US09365360B2
An apparatus and method of transporting food products to a loading station having a cooling conveyor that selectively drops food product into a distributor. The distributor separates product into at least two lanes and drops product onto a conveyor. A balancing and diverting conveyor monitors and counts product in each lane and diverts product selectively based upon the sensed product. An orienter transfers product from a loading conveyor to a buffer conveyor. The buffer conveyor transfers product to a main conveyor which transfers product to a loading head.
US09365352B2
A conveyor comprises a frame, an endless conveyor belt supported by the frame in a conveying direction along a helical path, a non-helical path and a transfer path. The helical path has an upright center line. The belt includes a plurality of plates movably coupled to each other. The frame comprises at least at the helical path a radial guide, wherein the radial guide supports a plate at a radial guide contact location thereof in radial direction with respect to the center line of the helical path, a bearing guide for upwardly supporting the plates, wherein the bearing guide supports a plate at a bearing guide contact location thereof, and an auxiliary guide for compensating a torque on a plate at the bearing guide contact location about an axis directed in the conveying direction. The auxiliary guide contacts a plate at an auxiliary guide contact location thereof.
US09365346B2
A roll-out waste bin includes a retention bar that is held in place on the bin by a pair of retention bar housings. A rib in one of the retention bar housings engages one end of the retention bar and a protrusion on the other end of the retention bar and exterior to both of the retention bars housings positions the retention bar. In another embodiment, protrusions on both ends of the retention bar allow elimination of the rib. In yet another embodiment, multiple protrusions on one end of the retention bar allow positioning of the retention bar.
US09365337B2
Reusable, foldable ornamental packaging for enclosing and decorating a gift. A generally rigid foldable structural member is prescored to fold into a cuboid and to hold the shape of the cuboid against slumping due to gravity. The structural member has an interior surface and an external surface each covered by thin, flexible ornamental wrapping. The wrapping may have a perimetric configuration similar to that of the structural member. The wrapping may be formed as an envelope into which the structural member is received. The packaging may include ribbons or bows or both fixed thereto. The structural member may include magnetic members which releasably engage one another to hold the packaging in the cuboid configuration.
US09365332B2
Dispensing apparatuses (10) for administering particulate materials are presented. In an embodiment, the present disclosure provides a dispensing apparatus (10) including an overcap (30) having a lid (32) having an attachment mechanism (50) connected to a portion of a surface of the lid and rim (34) hingedly attached to the lid and comprising a gripper (60) constructed and arranged to hold a scoop (20). The scoop can be releasably attached to the lid and the rim of the overcap in a variety of ways.
US09365331B2
A tamper evident and resistant container includes a tray, a cover and a hinge extending from the cover and tray defining a hinge axis about which the tray and cover relatively rotate between a closed position and an opened position. The container further includes a first tab provided on one of the cover or the tray and a second tab provided on the other of the cover or the tray. When the cover is in the closed position, the first and second tabs are spaced relative to each other such that a user may grasp the first tab with one hand and the second tab with another hand and relatively pull the first tab and the second tab away from each other to tear the hinge and separate the cover from the tray.
US09365328B1
A toothpaste tube rolling device including a single-piece clamp having a top and a bottom lever portion. A tongue extends from the front side of the bottom lever, and a tapered extension is disposed on each of the right and left sides of the top lever portion. A circular opening is disposed on each tapered extension proximal the front edge. A substantially cylindrical tube having a top and bottom wall is configured to fit within the circular opening of the tapered extension. A clamping ring having a C-shaped forward and rearward portion is disposed around the tube. A spring clamping tab with a top extension, a bottom extension, and a V-shaped central portion is centrally disposed between the forward and rearward portions. The spring clamping tab has an open position and an alternate closed position and is disposed within the space between the top and bottom wall of the tube.
US09365319B2
A container for containing a liquid or pasty material which is combined with a system for collecting and dispensing without taking in air. The container is rigid and includes a flexible bag which contains the material to be dispensed and which is combined with the collecting system. The bag is produced separately from the rigid container and has an overall cylindrical reservoir which is open at the top portion thereof and which is divided into four areas defined by a rigid upper sidewall, a flexible deformable lower sidewall, and a fillet connecting the flexible side wall to a base.
US09365318B2
The present invention enclosure a packing box, which is used to package a display panel; the packing box comprises a box, at least one first spacer and at least one second spacer, the step of the first spacer extends from the top to bottom of the box, the step of the second spacer extends from the bottom to top of the box, and each of steps of the first spacer is corresponded to each of steps of the second spacer, in order to crossly stack the display panel; through the above way, the present invention can increase the amount of the display panels packaged in the packing box, saving the packaging costs.
US09365317B2
A packaging device for a windscreen wiper blade includes a curved blade and an integrated flexible structure. The packaging device includes a housing, which is intended to receive the blade. The blade is immobilized inside the housing in a position more or less straightened out in relation to its resting position. A first support surface cooperates by contact with a portion of the upper part of the blade, a second support surface cooperates by contact with a first portion of the lower part of the blade, and a third support surface cooperates by contact with a second portion of the lower part of the blade. The first support surface extends opposite an area situated between the second support surface and the third support surface.
US09365313B2
A box is positioned and fastened in the interspace (40) between four cups of a food pack (P), the four cups (4) being arranged in two adjacent rows (R1, R2). The box body (1) is provided with two ends respectively having an end cover (2a), wherein at least one said end cover (2a) is provided with protruding parts (3) at its edges. The box, which is positioned in a staggered manner with respect to the cups, can be fastened to the multi-joint packing cups without the help of external means and is used for loading small articles, such as spoons and little gifts for promotion. The box is adapted to various kinds of multi-joint packing cups.
US09365312B2
Packaging (1) is provided with a frangible seal (180), together with a method of producing such packaging. The packaging comprises an outer packet part (100) and multiple inner packet parts (150) disposed within the outer packet part. The inner packet parts can move relative to the outer packet part between a closed position and an open position. The seal (180) comprises a body portion coupled to the outer packet part, and separable portions each coupled to one of the inner packet parts. When an inner packet part (150) is moved from the closed position to the open position, this causes the seal (180) to break.
US09365311B1
A holder for receiving, storing and carrying photographic items such as cameras, printers, film packs or photographic prints. The holder has a front/distal case that is removably connected to a back/proximal case so that the two cases can be used together or separately. A pair of side members extend rearward from the front case to engage the side walls of the back case or the side members extend forward from the back case to engage the side walls of the front case. The cases are configured be used with various carrying devices that allow the user to carry the holder or one of the cases thereof. In one embodiment, the front case has a back section with a divider that defines separate areas for a film pack and prints and a front section that pivots to open or close the front case and allow access to the items.
US09365310B2
The present invention is a label system and method for label alignment and placement on a container. The label system includes a first label or a container whereby the first label includes alignment symbology and a second label having an alignment area corresponding to the alignment symbology of the first label. The second label is positioned on the container whereby the alignment area of the second label is aligned with the alignment symbology of the first label. The method for label alignment and placement comprises the steps of (i) providing a container with identification information and a label bearing area; (ii) scanning the identification information; (iii) processing the identification information; (iv) printing indicia on a label at a position defined by the identification information; and (v) placing the label on the container with the indicia positioned at the desired predetermined location.
US09365291B2
A personal service unit pod assembly configured to be positioned in the interior of an aircraft. The personal service unit pod assembly includes a personal service unit pod and a panel positioned directly above and affixed to the personal service unit pod. The pod includes a housing with a lens assembly and a pod interior, a first reading light positioned within the pod interior and configured to shine light below the bottom of the housing, and cabin lighting positioned in the housing and configured to shine light through the lens assembly and above the housing. The panel includes connectors that are configured to secure the personal service unit pod assembly to a component within the aircraft.
US09365282B2
A method of repairing a composite material is provided in which a frustum-shaped portion of a composite material is removed, and the composite material and a repair material are bonded with each other while evacuating. The repair method includes step S2 of removing a damaged part 11 from the front side so as to pass through in the thickness direction while leaving a support wall protruding inward in the radial direction from the periphery of the top face of the frustum-shaped portion; step S3 of sealing the back side by placing a sealing plate, which is inserted from the front side into a through hole formed by the removing step, on the support wall; step S5 of placing the repair material through an adhesive on the composite material where the frustum-shaped portion has been removed; and step S6 of evacuating in a state in which the front side is sealed.
US09365281B2
An aircraft window mounting assembly having a pressure pane in abutting contact with an inner surface of an exterior pressure pane frame. A bezel is proximate a periphery of the pressure pane and defines an inner opening. The bezel includes an inner wall, an outer wall, an exterior wall, and an interior wall. A dust cover is proximate the interior wall of the foam bezel. An electro-optic element is disposed in the opening and is configured for reception by the inner wall. The pressure pane, the foam bezel, and the electro-optic element define an exterior cavity. The bezel, the electro-optic element, and the dust cover define an interior cavity. A first relief passage is in fluid communication with the exterior cavity and the interior cavity. A second relief passage is in fluid communication with the interior cavity and one of an aircraft interior cabin and an aircraft wall.
US09365270B2
An inflator used for inflation of an object such as life jackets, life boats, etc is revealed. A needle-shaped shaft is driven by a transmission arm to pierce a seal of a gas cylinder on the inflator. Thus compressed gas in the gas cylinder is released and flowing through the inflator to inflate the object. The needle-shaped shaft is arranged with two color areas for representing state of the inflator. The color area is displayed through windows of the inflator to show the state now. The inflator features on simple structure, convenience in use, reduced cost and precise movement.
US09365269B2
An improved personal flotation device is disclosed. The personal flotation device comprises a shirt with sleeves, a torso flotation pad attached to the shirt and positioned around a user's torso, and two flotation sleeves attached to the shirt's sleeves on a user's arms. The torso flotation pad comprises a front flotation pad which is raised above the midriff area of the user and two graduated side pads which are wrapped around a user's torso. The raised position of the front flotation pad keeps a user's center of buoyancy above the user's center of gravity, raising the user higher up out of the water and preventing the user from flipping over into the water. The flotation sleeves are positioned high on a user's arms to further increase a user's freeboard while permitting freedom of movement.
US09365268B1
A fender for a watercraft which has an outwardly extending flange and a hole extending at least partially through the flange. The fender comprises a flexible fender body adapted to extend at least partially around the flange, and a pin extending from the fender body. The pin is adapted to be received in the hole for removably mounting the fender to the watercraft. Watercraft having fenders installed thereon and methods of installing fenders on a watercraft are also disclosed.
US09365262B1
A Wiggle Hull design for a water vessel, the hull design including a planing hull segment. The planing hull segment has a longitudinal camber that is a combination of concave and convex undersurfaces for improving performance characteristics, including lift and lift to drag ratios. The Wiggle Hull design may also have end plates at the chines to optimize performance characteristics.
US09365258B2
A bicycle brake and shift operating device is provided with a bracket, a brake operating member, a shift operating unit and a pawl releasing member. The brake lever is pivotally attached to the bracket at a pivot axis. The shift operating unit includes a takeup member pivotally mounted relative to the bracket and a locking pawl pivotally mounted relative to the bracket. The locking pawl moves between a locking position and a release position. The pawl releasing member pivots relative to the bracket to pivot. The pawl releasing member selectively locates the locking pawl from the locking position to the release position by pivoting around the third pivot axis. The pivot axis of the pawl releasing member is offset from both of the pivot axes of the takeup member and the locking pawl.
US09365243B2
The present disclosure relates to a front mounting of a motor vehicle body, having a lock cross member extending in the transverse vehicle direction (y), which is connected to a left and a right side member, each of which extends in the lengthwise direction of the vehicle (x), and having an elongated plastic component carrier constructed as a single part, and which is directly or indirectly connected or fastened by a left and a right fastening section to the side members, and which further comprises an elongated connecting section positioned between the fastening sections and constructed integrally therewith, which connection section is located ahead of the lock cross member with reference to the direction of travel of the motor vehicle.
US09365231B1
A wheeled baby carriage with an activity tray including a collapsible wheeled carriage having a handle, a foldable support frame, a plurality of wheels, a rearward facing storage compartment attached to the support frame, a forward facing beverage tray hingedly attached to the handle, and a sunshade hingedly attached to the support frame. A baby seat is rotatably attached to the support frame, and a circular tray is continuously disposed atop the baby seat. The tray has a first half and a removable second half selectively engaged with the first half. An adjustable foot stand is attached to the support frame underneath the baby seat. A removable storage tray is slidably disposed within the support frame underneath the foot stand.
US09365224B1
A collapsible and expandable carrying device for pulling, carrying, or otherwise transporting luggage, cargo, or any other items. The carrying device comprises a frame comprised of and combined with additional telescopic rods for adjustment of parameters for ease of use. The frame is pivotally attached to a handle, support straps, shoulder straps, and/or a belt to be attached to a user's waist. The device is meant for both short and long travel, and it allows for a user to vary angles and lengths of the constituent parts in order to minimize gravitational load on the user and optimize the force of the center of gravity from the load being carried.
US09365219B2
A method and system for controlling the start of a vehicle are provided. The method includes determining whether a high voltage battery of a vehicle is submerged and outputting a warning regarding the submersion when the high voltage battery is submerged. In addition, power is cut off and the vehicle ignition or the start of the vehicle is turned off after the warning signal is output.
US09365208B2
A method for controlling a vehicle employing a powertrain system and a braking system coupled to vehicle wheels includes interrupting vehicle creep operation upon detect absence of a qualified operator in a driver's seat when the vehicle is in a propulsion state.
US09365205B2
A hydraulic pressure control device for a transmission, which operates a hydraulic apparatus by hydraulic pressure generated by an pump driven during operation of a driving force source, for which automatic stop control is performed, accumulates the hydraulic pressure in a pressure accumulator, and supplies the hydraulic pressure accumulated in the pressure accumulator to the hydraulic apparatus when the driving force source is automatically stopped is provided. The automatic stop control includes control to stop the driving force source when the vehicle speed is equal to or higher than a prescribed vehicle speed; and the hydraulic pressure control device performs a control to control an accumulated oil amount in the pressure accumulator and the automatic stop control in a manner to increase the accumulated oil amount of the pressure accumulator when the driving force source is automatically stopped.
US09365201B2
A device, system, and method for controlling transmission torque to provide hill ascent and/or descent assistance to a vehicle includes applying a clutch hold pressure to one or more clutches of a transmission to lock an output shaft of the transmission to resist roll-back of the vehicle. The clutch hold pressure is determined as a function of the tractive effort of the vehicle and is applied based on one or more of a transmission output speed signal, an engine throttle signal, and a vehicle brake signal.
US09365191B2
An inflator 300 for pumping compressed air supplied from a compressor 200 provided in a motor vehicle into a tire mounted to the motor vehicle, the inflator may include: an inflator port L6 to which compressed air supplied from the compressor 200 is entered; a control unit 320 provided with a pressure switch 321 which is actuated according to an internal pressure of the inflator port L6; and a supplying unit 310 coupled detachably with the inflator port L6 for pumping compressed air into the tire, wherein the control unit 320 is equipped with an ON/OFF switch 322 transmitting a signal to electronic control unit E according to an operation of the pressure switch 321.
US09365170B2
A grommet assembly that has a retainer and a grommet that is coupled to the retainer. The retainer includes first and second body portions that are connected via a hinge that permits the first and second body portions to be spread apart into an open condition to receive a wire harness. The retainer also includes a latch that permits the first and second body portions to be held in a closed position. The grommet is coupled to the retainer and is configured to form a seal about the retainer. The grommet can have seal members that sealingly engage one another when the retainer is latched in the closed position. Additionally or alternatively, the retainer can have a channel that is configured to support a wire harness and the grommet can have a resilient tubular portion that can be stretched over the channel and the wire harness.
US09365168B2
A collapsible support structure for flexible hoses has a plurality of X-frames, each X-frame consisting of two opposing pairs of stringers, each pair of stringers is hingedly connected together at an axis point in the center region of each stringer, the pairs are connected at the distal ends of the stringers by bridge members (24), and adjacent X-frames are hingedly connected together at the distal ends of their stringers.
US09365167B1
A seat device with an integral toilet permits a person to use a toilet while seated in a vehicle. The device includes a seat having a top side, a bottom side, and a perimeter wall attached to and extending between the top side and the bottom side. A slot extends into the top side of the seat. The slot has a bottom wall and an outer wall attached to and extending upwardly from the bottom wall. The bottom wall and the outer wall define an interior space of the slot. A liner is removably positioned within the slot.
US09365165B2
An onboard equipment fixing structure for an onboard equipment which is mounted in a vehicle includes a bracket which fixes the onboard equipment to a vehicle body part of the vehicle. The bracket includes a vehicle body attaching portion which is attached to the vehicle body part, an equipment attaching portion which is attached to a side surface of the onboard equipment which extends in a vertical direction of a vehicle body, a connecting portion which connects the vehicle body attaching portion and the equipment attaching portion, and an opening portion which is formed in an area surrounded by the vehicle body attaching portion, the equipment attaching portion and the connecting portion. The vehicle body attaching portion is fixed to the vehicle body part so as to be disposed closer to the outside of the vehicle body than the equipment attaching portion.
US09365159B2
A gauge assembly for a motor vehicle includes a gauge surface with graphics representing a vehicle operating parameter and a pointer supported for movement about an axis to indicate a current condition of the vehicle operating parameter by pointing to a specific location on the gauge surface. The pointer includes a pointer arm extending away from a hub and a bottom surface with a negative slope angled away from a plane normal to the axis toward the gauge surface.
US09365157B2
A vehicle having a light in an exterior and a cluster and a center fascia in an interior includes a first lighting unit provided in the cluster, a second lighting unit provided in the center fascia, a recognizer configured to recognize ON and OFF operations of the light, a detector configured to detect illuminance, and a controller configured to adjust luminance of the first and second lighting units based on operation information of the light and the illuminance. A structure of the lighting unit within the center fascia may be simplified by adjusting brightness of the lighting unit within the center fascia in the controller configured to control the lighting unit of the cluster and therefore manufacturing cost may be reduced.
US09365154B2
A method is provided for actuating a brake light of a hydraulic driven working machine that includes equipment to detect the condition of travel including a travel speed sensor, a gear selector switch, a travel direction switch and a travel pedal pressure sensor. The equipment automatically activates a brake light via a control circuit depending on the selected gear if the machine decelerates without the brake pedal being pushed.
US09365132B2
A method and apparatus for managing power in a hybrid vehicle is disclosed. The vehicle includes an engine, an electric motor, and an energy storage element coupled to the motor. The method involves receiving a request to supply operating power to drive the vehicle and responding to the request by selecting an apportionment of operating power between the engine and the motor from among a plurality of apportionments having respective operating costs such that the selected apportionment is associated with a minimum operating cost, the operating cost including at least an engine fuel consumption cost and a storage element lifetime cost. The method further involves causing power to be supplied by at least one of the engine and the motor in accordance with the selected apportionment.
US09365129B2
A motor generates a kinetic energy for use in running of a vehicle. An electric storage apparatus is charged and discharged and outputs a driving electric power for the motor through the discharge. A display displays a cruising distance over which the vehicle can be run with the motor. A controller calculates the cruising distance based on a full charge capacity of the electric storage apparatus and displays the cruising distance on the display. When the full charge capacity at a present time is smaller than the full charge capacity at a past time and the electric storage apparatus is not discharged, or when the full charge capacity at the present time is larger than the full charge capacity at the past time and the electric storage apparatus is not charged, the controller displays the cruising distance based on the full charge capacity at the past time on the display.
US09365122B2
A power line quality conditioning system for a vehicle includes an onboard rechargeable direct current (DC) energy storage system and an onboard electrical system coupled to the energy storage system. The energy storage system provides DC energy to drive an electric traction motor of the vehicle. The electrical system operates in a charging mode such that alternating current (AC) energy from a power grid external to the vehicle is converted to DC energy to charge the DC energy storage system. The electrical system also operates in a vehicle-to-grid power conditioning mode such that DC energy from the DC energy storage system is converted to AC energy to condition an AC voltage of the power grid.
US09365119B2
A method for calculating an amount of regenerative braking for an environmentally-friendly vehicle includes: determining a presence of regenerative braking; determining whether charging is limited due to a high voltage component including a battery and a drive motor of the environmentally-friendly vehicle at the time of the regenerative braking for the environmentally-friendly vehicle; calculating a base speed (base rpm) of a driving motor depending on a charging limit in the charging limit state at the time of the regenerative braking for the environmentally-friendly vehicle and dividing a steady torque area and a steady power area based on the calculated base speed; and determining whether an operating mode of the driving motor is a steady power mode, a steady torque mode, or a conversion mode depending on the divided steady torque area or steady torque area and calculating the amount of regenerative braking based on the determined result.
US09365091B2
A thermal management system for an electric vehicle is provided. The thermal management system includes a thermal circuit for regulating a battery temperature. A filter is located upstream of the battery for filtering liquid coolant. The thermal management system also includes a second thermal circuit in fluid communication with the battery thermal circuit. The second thermal circuit provides thermal control to a vehicle system other than the battery. The battery thermal circuit includes a plurality of battery cells. Pluralities of heat exchanger fins are located between each of the battery cells to provide the coolant to regulate the battery temperature. The filter has a filtration transfer function based on a filter characteristic of the fins.
US09365083B2
The present invention discloses a built-in tire pressure monitoring and alarming device. A housing is provided therein with a reference chamber and an inlet pipe extended from the reference chamber to a valve stem, and a reference chamber valve capable of sealing and opening the inlet pipe is mounted within the inlet pipe. A throttle core of the reference chamber valve is directly resisted against a core bar of a throttle core. During the tire is inflated, the throttle core is pushed open, the core bar of the throttle core is pushed against the valve core, and then the reference chamber valve is opened so that the reference chamber is inflated. After the inflation is accomplished, the throttle core is restored and the reference chamber valve is closed so that the reference chamber is sealed.
US09365076B2
Provided is an omni-directional wheel including a substantially cylindrical hub provided so as to be rotatable around an axle; a plurality of rollers which have axes extending in a direction intersecting a radial direction of the hub and of each of which an outline has a curvature equal to a curvature of a circle centered at the axle; a support part which allows the rollers to be mounted so as to be rotatable around the respective axes, which supports the rollers such that the outlines are arranged on a single circumference; and rubber tubes which are held between and in contact between the outer circumferential surface of a cylindrical part of the hub and the inner circumferential surface of the support part in the radial direction.
US09365073B2
A vehicle wheel includes a wheel body and a plurality of rim blades. The plurality of rim blades is coupled to at least one side surface of the wheel body. Each of the rim blades is provided with at least one airflow guide section and at least one airflow-assisting section. The airflow guide section and the airflow-assisting section are arranged in the form of front and rear series on the rim blade. When the vehicle wheel is coupled with a tire, the airflow guide section is located at the side of the rim blade facing a forwarding direction of rotation of the wheel and the airflow-assisting section is located at the side of the rim blade opposite to the forwarding rotation of the wheels. As such, airflow is increased, wind resistance is reduced, and noise is reduced.
US09365071B2
A page-turning device turning a page of a book includes a sticking part, an arm part and a drive unit. The sticking part sticks to the page of the book being opened. The arm part is provided with the sticking part on a top end and swings such that the sticking part sticks to the page at a departure position of the page and separates from the page at a destination position of the page while the sticking part goes to and fro between the departure position and the destination position over the page of the book. The drive unit swings the arm part around a drive shaft of the drive unit. The drive shaft is inclined with respect to a seam of the opened book and/or a plane on which the book is disposed.
US09365069B2
The present invention includes a first post-processor equipped with a paper turn-over unit for paper and a paper surface processing unit adapted to process a paper surface of the paper; a second post-processor configured to be different from the first post-processor and located downstream of the first post-processor in a paper transport direction; and a controller adapted to control the first post-processor and the second post-processor, wherein the controller determines whether to use the paper turn-over unit, according to a combination of a post-processing mode which uses the first post-processor and a post-processing mode which uses the second post-processor.
US09365066B2
A recording medium includes, in this order, a substrate, a first ink receiving layer containing inorganic particles, polyvinyl alcohol and a boric acid compound, and a resin layer containing a resin. In the first ink receiving layer, hydrated alumina accounts for 70% by mass or more of the inorganic particles. In the recording medium, the ratio of the boric acid compound content to the polyvinyl alcohol content is 30% by mass or more.
US09365065B2
A printing process and a printing auxiliary agent used therein are disclosed. The printing process comprises mounting a plate, applying ink, conveying an object to be printed, and impressing. The printing auxiliary agent is applied to the object to be printed before an impressing point in an optional printing station. The printing auxiliary agent includes water and/or an organic substance which is in liquid state under normal temperature and normal pressure. The use of the printing auxiliary agent is also disclosed. The printing process and the printing auxiliary agent can be used in printing of all kinds of objects to be printed, thus improving printing quality.
US09365057B1
A printer unit including: a platen roller including a driven gear; a drive source configured to rotate the platen roller about a predetermined axis; a frame, which is configured to rotatably support the platen roller and to which the drive source is assembled; a reduction gear configured to transmit a driving force of the drive source to the driven gear in a decelerated manner; a thermal head to be held in press contact with an outer peripheral surface of the platen roller; a gearbox portion, which is formed on the frame and to which the driven gear and the reduction gear are assembled, the gearbox portion having an opening for assembling the reduction gear; and a gear cover configured to close at least a part of the opening of the gearbox portion, the gearbox portion having a recessed portion recessed in a direction intersecting an axial direction of the predetermined axis, the gear cover including: a hook portion to be engaged with the gearbox portion; and a projecting portion to be fitted to the recessed portion of the gearbox portion.
US09365054B2
An ink jet printer includes a cleaning blade that cleans the surface of a transport belt that attracts a sheet of recording paper by electrostatic adsorption and transports the attracted recording paper, and a pressing roller. The width of the cleaning blade is smaller than the width of the pressing roller that is located downstream of the cleaning blade, and thus, ink, paper dust, and the like that have escapes from both ends of the cleaning blade to the outside and have not been wiped off are caught by the pressing roller.
US09365051B2
In an embodiment, an ink erasing system includes an erase fluid dispenser to apply erase fluid to a surface of a print medium. The system includes a plurality of nonadjacent pairs of electrodes positioned across a width of the print medium. The system also includes a controller to direct the erase fluid dispenser to apply the erase fluid in an erase region on the print medium, and to alternately electrify the nonadjacent pairs of electrodes to generate a moving electric field through the erase region.
US09365035B2
A printing apparatus capable of continuously printing images on a recording medium, each of the images including a variable image of which an aspect is variable for each of the images to be continuously printed and a fixed image of which an aspect is the same for each of the images to be continuously printed, the printing apparatus includes a storage unit that associates and stores therein image data of the fixed image and a template having at least information about a position of printing an image, and a printing control unit that, when a control command which includes information for designating the template and instructs a printing of the variable image is input, superimposes the variable image and the fixed image associated with the designated template, on the basis of the template and print the superimposed image.
US09365031B2
A base frame, which supports head modules, is provided with a first storage device that stores information about the positions of support reference points of the head modules. The head module is provided with a second storage device that stores information about the positions of nozzles of the head module. An inkjet recording device is provided with a third storage device that stores information about the positions of the nozzles of the respective head modules provided on the base frame. When the head module is replaced, information about the correction of a position, which is required to mount the replaced head module at a normal position, is generated based on the information stored in the first storage device, the information stored in the second storage device, and the information stored in the third storage device. The mounting position of the replaced head module is corrected based on the generated information.
US09365027B2
A silk-screen printing plate is woven by at least two woven fibers, each of which is a polymer fiber or an inorganic fiber. The at least one of the woven fibers is soluble, for example in an organic solvent. The silk-screen printing plate has a varied mesh as the dissolution of the woven fiber(s).
US09365023B2
An absorbent sheet manufacturing apparatus is provided with a cylinder part (21) having a plurality of through-holes (212) arranged in a circumferential direction. The cylinder part (21) is rotated, and therefore particles of high-absorbent resin are sequentially filled into the through-holes (212) from a particle storage space (217) in the cylinder part (21). In a particle supply region (210) of a lower portion of the cylinder part (21), the inner side surface (215) of the cylinder part (21) is covered with an isolation part (25) so that each through-hole (212) filled with particles is isolated from the particle storage space (217). And in this state, particles are ejected from the through-hole (212). As above, only particles filled in each through-hole (212) are ejected, and therefore a desired amount of particles can be easily supplied from the through-hole (212).
US09365012B2
Provided is a label production method capable of significantly reducing production costs by producing many single labels using one member. A label substrate that an adhesive and a release agent are applied to is passed through a laminating device twice, first label substrate passed for the first time and second label substrate passed for the second time are pseudo-adhered by joining the release agent of the first label substrate passed for the first time to the adhesive of the second label substrate passed for the second time, and single labels are punched out from the second label substrate by a cutting tooth of a punching device at a position on the downstream side after the label substrate is passed through the laminating device for the second time. The first label substrate passed for the first time is used as a seat for the cutting tooth of the punching device.
US09365009B2
Systems and processes for extracting liquids and solids from waste include separately extracting liquids via spaced plates and solid waste out an exit port with an operably counter-pressured pressure cone. The system and process use a cylinder for accepting waste and a piston for providing pressure and pushing waste through the cylinder. Spaced plates with internal apertures are aligned with the cylinder, and pressure from the piston on waste in the apertures forces liquids to pass between the spaced plates. Solid waste egresses via an exit port aligned with the apertures when pressure on a pressure cone operably connected with the exit port exceeds the force keeping the pressure cone closed on the exit port.
US09365008B1
An actuating device comprising, in combination, a actuating body. There is an internal guide configured to be slidably received within the actuating body. The internal guide has a centrally located central push rod hole. There is a central push rod assembly located within the central push rod hole of the internal guide. There is a beveled slide collar within the interior surface of the actuating body, and the beveled slide collar contains a beveled slide. The beveled slide as having four like-configured components. There is at least one push rod contained within the internal guide.
US09365002B2
An exemplary backlight module includes a light guide film and a light bar. The light guide film includes a top surface, a bottom surface, and a light incident surface connected between the top surface and the bottom surface. The light bar includes a light-emitting surface. The light-emitting surface is attached to the light incident surface. A method for manufacturing the backlight module is also provided.
US09365000B2
The invention allows the relaxation of the precision of fitting the inner lid to the cap body while making removal of the inner lid more reliable. In the bottle unit of the tire puncture repair kit that has an extraction cap attached to the mouth portion of the bottle container, the extraction cap is provided with: a first flow channel for taking in compressed air from a compressor into the bottle container; a second flow channel for successively taking out the puncture repair liquid and compressed air from the bottle container; and first and second closing means for closing the first and second flow channels in the pre-coupling state. The extraction cap is provided with a release means for releasing the second closing means and opening the second flow channel when connection occurs.
US09364998B2
A method of fabricating a formed structure with expandable polymeric shell microspheres. A first plurality of polymeric shell microspheres are heated from an unexpanded state to an expanded state to form a plurality of expanded microspheres. The plurality of expanded microspheres are mixed with an epoxy resin and a second plurality of unexpanded polymeric shell microspheres. The mixture is formed in a shape to create a preform. The preform is wrapped with fiber tape to create a wrapped preform. The wrapped preform is placed in a mold. The mold is heated and the second plurality of unexpanded microspheres expand from an unexpanded state to an expanded state. The mold is cooled and the formed structure is removed from the mold.
US09364997B2
A method and a device for producing fiber preforms which are, for example, a precursor in the production of fiber reinforced plastic components, are disclosed. The method includes the steps of tensioning the threads or rovings, draping the threads or rovings over a molding tool and attaching the threads or rovings to a fiber preform. A plurality of separate grips grip individual or a plurality of threads or rovings at a plurality of thread transfer points allocated respectively to the individual grippers. The grippers are then moved in substantially parallel paths relative to each other and the threads or rovings are thereby tensioned side by side.
US09364991B2
A nozzle (10) for forming containers made of a thermoplastic material by injecting a pressurized fluid into a neck (14) of a preform (12), includes: a mounting (24) which is provided with an inlet pipe (36) for a pressurized fluid along a vertical axis (A); a nozzle tip (26) which axially extends the inlet pipe (36), and which can be sealingly coupled to the neck (14) of the preform (12) via at least one element (42, 44) matching the format of the neck (14); an element for removably attaching the nozzle tip (26) onto the mounting (24); and a stabilizing tube (106) resiliently biased toward the lower stop position thereof via a resilient member (116) that is permanently accommodated in the mounting.
US09364985B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing free-flowing, agglomeration resistant amorphous poly-alpha-olefin based adhesive pellets. The process includes (a) extruding the adhesive through an orifice of a die plate immersed in a cooling fluid; (b) cutting the adhesive into a plurality of pellets in the cooling fluid; (c) solidifying the pellets at a temperature range of about 25° C. to about 40° C. for at least 30 minutes; and (d) separating the pellets from the recrystallization fluid and drying the pellets. The pellets harden at least three folds faster than conventionally formed pellets.
US09364984B2
A method for simultaneously producing several injection-molded parts. A mold is provided comprising a plurality of molding plates fluidically connected to each other and which combine form a plurality of mold cavities defining the contour of a finished injection-molded product. A material such as a plastic material is injected via an injection nozzle into one of the mold cavities such that the material flows successively through the mold cavities from one mold cavity to an adjacent mold cavity.
US09364980B2
The present disclosure relates to a molding apparatus for fixing a magnet in a rotor core of a permanent magnet synchronous motor. The present disclosure provides a molding process for a rotor of a motor which can reduce manufacturing costs through alleviation of a tolerance of an introduced product and reduction of an error rate of a finished injection-molding product, by applying a lift core which may variably move in a mold during an insert injection molding process for molding a rotor and accordingly a new type of rotor molding method for a permanent magnet synchronous motor which prevents generation of a flash in an injection molding process even when the size and tolerance of the introduced product deteriorate as compared with a mold.
US09364969B2
The invention relates to a mixing apparatus for the metered addition of an additive to a pumpable mixture, in particular a pumpable hydraulically setting mixture, in particular a liquid shotcrete composition, wherein the mixing apparatus includes a delivery line for delivering the mixture through the mixing apparatus, and a metering device communicating with the deliver line for introducing the additive into the mixture is provided, wherein the mixing apparatus is including in that the metering device has a device for dispersing the additive in a carrier method such that the additive can be introduced into the mixture in a state in which the additive is finely distributed in the carrier medium.
US09364968B2
To provide a chain tension adjustment device for a chain saw. When a first mechanism is rotated around an axis, a bevel gear of a second mechanism is engaged with a bevel gear of the first mechanism and rotated, and a bevel gear of a third mechanism is engaged with the other bevel gear of the second mechanism, so that a shaft portion is rotated. A plate portion integrated with a nut portion of a fourth mechanism screwed on a screw formed on the shaft portion moves in an axial direction, and a guide bar engaged with an engagement portion of the plate portion via an engagement hole moves in a longitudinal direction, to adjust tension of the chain saw by adjusting the movement amount. Thus, fine adjustment can be performed while reducing an operating force, and reducing the weight and the cost.
US09364966B2
A cutting plotter includes a conveying mechanism, a guide shaft, a cutting head, a cutter moving mechanism, and a slidable contact. The conveying mechanism is configured to convey a sheet-like object in a first direction and includes one roller shaft and a driving roller. The roller shaft includes two rollers located at different positions. The conveying mechanism is configured to convey the object held between the rollers and the driving roller. The cutting head is slidably supported by the guide shaft and configured to be mounted with a cutter. The slidable contact is located in the cutting head and contacts the roller shaft between the rollers of the roller shaft so as to be slidable, maintaining a position of the cutting head. The slidable contact has a U-shaped cross section, and the roller shaft is disposed at an open side of the U-shape.
US09364952B2
An end effector base and a finger unit are formed as separate members, and are disposed with a space therebetween. A force sensor is fixed to a finger base of the finger unit, and is disposed with a space between it and the end effector base. Three supporting members are supported by the end effector base, and are configured to be able to be moved by the driving of a driving unit to a position where they support the force sensor and a position where they are separated from the force sensor and support the finger unit.
US09364951B1
Described is a system for controlling motion and constraint forces in a robotic system, the system infers constraints, at each time step, from a sensed state of robot/environment interactions. The inferred constraints are appended to known internal robot constraints to generate constrained dynamics. Properties associated with the constrained dynamics are determined provided to a controller. Inequality conditions associated with maintaining desired robot/environment interactions are also determined. A set of equality conditions based on the inequality conditions are then specified. The set of equality conditions are aggregated with any internal robot constraints to generate aggregated conditions that are provided to the controller. Joint torque commands are then generated for the robot based on the aggregated conditions and a specified task and null space motion command. Finally, the robot is actuated based on the joint torque commands.
US09364948B1
An adjustable holder assembly for removably holding, articulating, and rotating painting tools may include a handle assembly. An articulating arm may be pivotally coupled to a proximal end of the handle assembly and may be configured to allow both the articulating arm and a tool handle housing to be simultaneously angularly adjusted from a longitudinal axis of the holder assembly to any position from 0 degrees to 90 degrees. The tool handle housing may be configured to removably secure a handle of a painting tool at least partially therein. The tool handle housing may be removably coupled to the articulating arm such that the tool handle housing can be rotationally adjusted around a longitudinal axis of the holder assembly to any position from 0 degrees to 90 degrees; and a receiver end defining a channel.
US09364940B2
A multi-mode one-way wrench includes a handle, a toothed wheel, two pawls and a switch. The handle is formed with a head and two grooves. The toothed wheel is rotationally placed in the head and formed with teeth. The first pawl is movably placed in the first groove for engagement with the toothed wheel. The second pawl is movably placed in the second groove for engagement with the toothed wheel when the first pawl is disengaged from the first pawl. The switch is operable for moving the second pawl between a first mode for engagement with the toothed wheel and a second mode kept from engagement with the toothed wheel. The first groove is biased from the second groove by an angle of 360°×(M+½)÷N, wherein N is an integer that represents the number of the teeth and M is any proper integer.
US09364934B2
An apparatus for clamping a work piece is provided. The apparatus includes a base plate to support the work piece; at least one clamp body fixed to the base plate, each clamp body having a hole that receives a corresponding screw, wherein the hole passes through the clamp body such that as the clamp screw is inserted through the clamp body an end of a body of the screw moves horizontally towards the work piece supported by the base plate at a downward angle; fastener fixing the at least one clamp body to the base plate; and the at least one corresponding screw, each screw having a hollow point tip where outer and inner lateral surfaces of the hollow point tip join to define a sharp circular edge at an end of a body of the screw.
US09364927B2
A drill bit 1 has a drill head 3 and a shank 4. The shank 4 has a body 20, an add-on part 40 and an internal channel 50. The drill head 3 is attached to the body 20. The add-on part 40 is attached to a lateral surface 21 of the body 20 and arranged completely within a cylindrical envelope 29 that circumscribes the body 20. The internal channel is configured within the add-on part and/or between the add-on part 40 and the lateral surface 21.
US09364924B2
An apparatus and method are presented for repairing damage to the boundary wall between an engine coolant passage and a fuel injector bore in a cylinder head. The method involves removing the fuel injector from the fuel injector bore adjoining the damaged boundary wall and inserting a purpose-built sealant injector tool into the fuel injector bore. The sealant injector tool is dimensionally equivalent to the fuel injector in critical regions so that it conforms to the interior surface of the fuel injector bore. Sealant is injected into the sealant injector tool at high pressure until the sealant flows into the crack between the fuel injector bore and the coolant passage after which the sealant injector tool is removed and the fuel injector reinstalled.
US09364917B2
A friction stir processing tool having a shoulder, which is implemented on a body, and which has a friction surface for pressing against at least one workpiece at least partially provided with a surface coating, and a friction reducing unit for reducing the friction resistance between the surface coating and the friction surface.
US09364911B2
A working fluid supply device of an electric discharge machine draws up a cleaned fluid from a cleaned-fluid tank by means of a pump and supplies it to a working tank. The pump is connected with a first fluid circuit configured to supply the drawn cleaned fluid to the working tank and a second fluid circuit configured to supply the drawn cleaned fluid to an ion-exchange resin and a refrigerator. In supplying the cleaned fluid to the working tank, the first and second fluid circuits are opened and closed, respectively. In supplying the cleaned fluid to the ion-exchange resin and the refrigerator, the first and second fluid circuits are closed and opened, respectively.
US09364907B2
A jigsaw blade has an elongated body with a first and second end, a cutting edge and an opposing back edge. A plurality of teeth is formed on the cutting edge. The first tooth of the plurality of teeth is immediately adjacent the second end of the blade. The first tooth is raker tooth and has a rake face and a clearance face. The rake face and clearance face intersect to form a cutting edge of the first tooth. The second end defines a plunging nose. The second end includes a nose end surface that extends between the cutting edge and the back edge. The nose end surface is on an angle of about 35° with respect to a line defined by tips of the plurality of teeth. The nose end surface intersects the first tooth relief surface to form an angled cutting edge with a leading sharp point.
US09364905B2
Various resistivity logging tools, systems, and methods are disclosed. At least some system embodiments include a logging tool and at least one processor. The logging tool provides transmitter-receiver coupling measurements that include at least direct coupling along the longitudinal tool axis (Czz), direct coupling along the perpendicular axis (Cxx or Cyy), and cross coupling along the longitudinal and perpendicular axes (Cxz, Cyz, Czx, or Czy). The processor performs a multi-step inversion of said transmitter-receiver coupling measurements to obtain values for model parameters. Based at least in part on the model parameters, the processor determines borehole corrections for the transmitter-receiver coupling measurements and may further provide one or more logs derived from the borehole corrected transmitter-receiver coupling measurements. In at least some embodiments the logging tool assembly further collects borehole size measurements and measurements of borehole fluid resistivity for use in performing the inversion and determining the borehole corrections.
US09364902B1
A Drill Press Circular Pattern tool comprises a Table Mount which is attached to the drill press table; a Left Alignment Plate and a Right Alignment Plate; a Slide Plate with Centering Pin; a Lock Down Bolt; mounted on top of the Slide Plate is the Rotation Plate with a Degree Gear. A Router Circle Cutter tool comprises an Alignment Plate with an Alignment Pin and a Slide Plate with one or two Centering Pins; the Slide Plate with measuring surface is mechanically coupled to the Alignment Plate with two Slide Plate Brackets; the Alignment Plate is mechanically coupled to the Router Table with Alignment Plate Mounting Bolts/Nut Knobs; the Slide Plate with Centering Pin(s) attached slides on the Router Table top while attached to the Alignment Plate with the two Slide Plate Brackets.
US09364899B2
A tool holder on which a nonrotational tool is mounted is mounted on a spindle of a machining center. A tool holder body of the tool holder includes a positioning pin that is inserted into the machining center and a locking mechanism. When the positioning pin is not inserted into the machining center, the locking mechanism locks the rotation of the tool holder body relative to a drive shaft. When the positioning pin is inserted into the machining center, the locking mechanism allows the rotation of the tool holder body relative to the drive shaft.
US09364898B2
The present invention relates to the cutting insert having a cutting edge which has a corner section that forms a convex arc shape when seen in a planar view from direction facing the rake face and a linear section that is in contact with the corner section at least at one end of the corner section and extends linearly. The cutting edge is provided with a first region along the corner section when seen in a planar a second region along the linear section and a third region between the first region and the second region. A rake angle of the cutting edge in the third region is made greater than rake angles of the cutting edges in the first region and the second region.
US09364896B2
Fabrication of hybrid solid-porous medical implantable devices with electron beam melting technology
Systems and methods for fabrication of implantable medical devices using an Electron Beam Melting (EBM) manufacturing process are provided. According to one embodiment, an EBM manufacturing system is caused to perform a fabrication process that results in an implantable medical device of unitary construction having a solid volume and a porous volume. A layer of metal powder is spread across a build platform of the EBM manufacturing system. Portions of the layer of metal powder are selectively heated in accordance each portion's association with the solid volume or the porous volume by scanning the layer of metal powder with an electron beam of the EBM manufacturing system and adjusting a power of the electron beam and a speed of said scanning. The build platform is lowered based on a predetermined layer thickness and the process of continues on a layer-by-layer basis until the implantable medical device is completed.
US09364894B2
Disclosed is a method of processing the surface of a cavity a casting die wherein the fluidity is good even if the shape of the surface of the cavity (castings) has a complex shape, mold releasability are excellent, reprocessing is possible, and the life of the die can be prolonged. A step (A) for forming hemispherical first dimples (12) by the particles to be sprayed on the surface of the cavity (11), and a step (B) for forming second dimples (13) by the particles to be sprayed, which second dimples are smaller than the first dimples (12), are provided. A treating method (a) and a treating method (b) where either step (A) or step (B) is carried out depending on the requirements, and a method (c), where only the first dimples (12) are formed by carrying out only step (A) are also provided.
US09364889B2
Various techniques are provided for creating fugitive foam patterns for use in investment casting operations. In certain illustrative embodiments, a fugitive foam pattern is assembled from independently formed portions. A first section is formed in a mold. Once cured, a mating surface of the first section is exposed to the cavity of a second mold and the section is formed. The second section integrally adheres to the first section. The process is repeated as necessary. In alternative embodiments, a channel is created in a foam pattern using a temporary core that is removed without chemical leaching. The core material comprises water-soluble materials, acid-soluble materials, low-melting point materials, or a combination thereof. A pattern may also be created by inserting foam around a core that remains with the foam pattern.
US09364886B2
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a dog ring gear, each dog being made up of a front portion and a rear portion, the method including the following steps: forming, by means of compression and sintering, a ring gear with dog preforms extending on all or part of the periphery thereof; and calibrating the sintered ring gear in a die including a front die half and a rear die half intended for engaging at the junction between the front and rear portions of the dogs, the thickness (A) of a rear portion (BP) of each preform, in the original plane of the dogs, being greater than the narrowest section (S1) of a groove formed in the rear die half and smaller than the thickest section (S2) of the groove, in the plane.
US09364885B2
A method for forming a joint in at least one high strength sheet steel having a UTS in the range 200 to 1400 MPa using a self-piercing rivet includes the steps of: positioning the sheet material over a die and providing a rivet having a substantially cylindrical shank and a head, the shank having a central blind bore and an annular piercing end spaced from said head. The ratio of the difference between the outside and inside diameters of the shank in the region around the bore to the outside diameter of the shank is in the range 0.47 to 0.52. The method also includes positioning a rivet over the sheet material at a position opposite the die and using a punch to set the rivet and force it into the sheet material such that it pierces the upper surface thereof and such that the shank deforms outwardly to interlock with the material but without penetration to the die side of the material.
US09364875B2
Systems and methods for determining the area of a sash opening in a fume hood formed by at least one movable sash panel. Fume hoods have sash panels mounted over a hood opening to an enclosure structure of the fume hood. The sash panels are moved to open or close the fume hood at the sash opening for access to a work surface. A camera is mounted in a fume hood enclosure space to capture an image of the sash opening. An area determining function is configured to receive a digital representation of the image. The image is analyzed by detecting edges in the image. The image edges corresponding to edges of the sash opening are identified. The area of the sash opening is determined by applying a scaling value to the area formed by the image edges corresponding to the area of the sash opening.
US09364870B2
Ultrasonic cleaning apparatuses and methods of cleaning substantially planar articles. An apparatus comprises (i) a substantially circular tank; (ii) a plurality of cleaning fluid inlets for delivering a cleaning fluid to the tank; (iii) an intermediate support for receiving an article to be cleaned; and (iv) an ultrasonic generator coupled to the tank for generating ultrasonic waves in the tank and cleaning fluid received therein. The apparatus is configured to remove particles from a substantially planar article and have them carried by flow of cleaning fluid away from the article and out of the tank. Using such an apparatus, a cleaning method comprises introducing a substantially planar article to be cleaned into the tank; introducing a cleaning fluid into the tank through the plurality of cleaning fluid inlets; and exciting the cleaning fluid with ultrasonic waves.
US09364864B2
An improved trommel assembly (1) for screening different particles, comprising a plurality of modular units (2) detachably attached to one another, each modular unit having a flange (3) adapted to firmly attach with one or more corresponding flanges (3) of one or more corresponding modular units (2).
US09364862B2
A sensor assembly including one or more capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) microarray modules which are provided with a number of individual transducers. The microarray modules are arranged to simulate or orient individual transducers in a hyperbolic paraboloid geometry. The transducers/sensor are arranged in a rectangular or square matrix and are activatable individually, selectively or collectively to emit and received reflected beam signals at a frequency of between about 100 to 170 kHz.
US09364858B2
Disclosed is a method for producing a multicoat color and/or effect paint system, comprising (1) applying a pigmented aqueous basecoat to a substrate, (2) forming a polymer film from the basecoat applied in stage (1), (3) applying a clearcoat to the polymer film, and then (4) curing the polymer film together with the applied clearcoat to form a clearcoat film. The pigmented aqueous basecoat comprises at least one ester characterized by the following structure: where R1 is selected from the group of ethyl and isopropyl and R2 is a C2 to C8 radical. The at least one ester is used here in an amount of 0.1% to 5% by weight, based on the total weight of the aqueous basecoat applied in stage (1). The invention further provides the corresponding coating materials and the use of the esters in pigmented aqueous coating materials.
US09364857B1
The present invention is directed to a method of preparing a surface to accept paint or coating finish, including the surface of a cured polymer or polymer composite, without the need for additional treatment. The method may be used on flat or curved surfaces, including external and internal surfaces such as those used in the construction of aircraft surfaces.
US09364850B1
An adjustable stop device for use with a paint roller frame to prevent unwanted contact of a paint roller cover with a surface adjacent to a surface being painted includes a clamp adapted to engage a horizontal support of the paint roller frame, and a support member attached to the clamp in a substantially orthogonal manner. A securing mechanism is fitted to the support member to releasably secure the support member to a vertical support of the paint roller frame in a first working position. The support member is released, and pivoted away, from the vertical support while in a second non-working position. An adjustable arm extending from the distal end of the support member prevents roller cover contact of the adjacent surface by engaging the same.
US09364849B2
An applicator for cosmetics (in particular, eyeliner) and writing implements. The applicator includes an extrusion device that extrudes the content liquid to an applicator part. The applicator part has a conical part formed in an approximate conical shape. The conical part 31 has a plurality of thin disks arranged concentrically. The outside diameters of thin disks define a conical shape from a front end to a rear, and the thin disks is connected at their approximate center by an approximate cone or approximate cylinder. A plurality of grooves are formed in a front-to-rear direction of the applicator part. A liquid flow passage connected to a flow path is formed inside the approximate cone or approximate cylinder. Also, slits connecting the liquid flow passage and the grooves are formed on an outer side of the approximate cone or approximate cylinder.
US09364848B2
A three dimensional object creation system that prints objects layer by layer, the system including a plurality of printheads, the system printing at least part of each of multiple layers simultaneously, wherein the printheads are configured to enable printing of at least two different materials in at least one layer.
US09364847B2
A liquid coating device includes a container to store a liquid; a liquid reservoir having a greater air-tightness than that of the container; a liquid coating applicator to apply a liquid stored in the container to a target object; a liquid conveyer to convey the liquid stored in the container to the liquid reservoir; and a controller to control operation of the liquid coating device. When the liquid coating applicator is disabled, the controller conveys the liquid stored in the container to the liquid reservoir.
US09364845B2
In order to provide a painting installation for painting workpieces, which is compact in configuration and allows a reliable separation of paint overspray from a raw gas flow, the painting installation includes the following: a painting booth, in which the workpieces are paintable with paint; a conveying device, by means of which the workpieces to be painted are conveyable in a conveying direction through the painting booth; a separation and/or filter system for cleaning a raw gas flow, which is leaving the painting booth and has absorbed paint overspray in the painting booth, wherein the separation and/or filter system includes at least one filter device for separating the paint overspray from the raw gas flow; and at least one clean gas line for a clean gas flow, which is obtainable by cleaning the raw gas flow by means of the at least one filter device.
US09364838B2
A fluid dispenser device comprising a pre-compression pump (6) and a dispenser head (T); the pump including an actuator rod (65) that is movable downwards and upwards, and a pre-compression spring (69) for increasing the pressure in a pump chamber (60); the head (T) including an inlet well (14) for connecting to the actuator rod (65), and a nozzle (4) for forming a spray through a dispenser orifice (43), the nozzle being mounted in an assembly housing (2); the dispenser device being characterized in that: the pre-compression spring (69) presents stiffness that is less than about 3 N/mm, e.g. of about 1 N/mm to 3 N/mm; and at least two feed ducts (15), each connecting the inlet well (14) to the assembly housing (2).
US09364829B2
The invention relates to methods, reagents and devices for detection and characterization of nucleic acids, cells, and other biological samples. Assay method are provided in which a sample is partitioned into sub-samples, and analysis of the contents of the sub-samples carried out. The invention also provides microfluidic devices for conducting the assay. The invention also provides an analysis method using a universal primers and probes for amplification and detection.
US09364825B2
A functionalized block copolymer polymerized using vinylbenzylamino derivative monomers for use in such applications as anionic exchange membranes.
US09364816B2
This invention provides processes for forming solution compositions, which processes comprises bringing together, in an aqueous medium, i) at least one phosphorus compound; ii) at least one Group VI metal compound; and iii) at least one Group VIII metal compound, such that a solution having a Group VI metal concentration of more than about 5.6 mol/L is formed. Also provided are compositions formed by such processes, processes for forming catalyst compositions from these compositions, and catalyst compositions formed by these processes.
US09364814B2
A method of making a fluidic device is provided. The method includes locating a meltable sheet material on a face of an extruded body including extended cells therein. At least some of the cells are interconnected by melting the sheet material such that the melted sheet material flows into the at least some of the cells to form a fluidic passage through the body defined within the at least some of the cells. The fluidic passageway may have a longitudinally serpentine path back and forth along the at least some of the cells.
US09364810B2
In a chemical reactor for heterogeneously catalyzed reaction of a fluid, comprising a holding device for catalyst particles and/or inert particles (80, 100) through which the fluid flows, the side of the holding device lying upstream when viewed in the direction of flow of the fluid comprises knitted wire mesh fabric (50), and the average clear mesh width of the knitted wire fabric (50) is smaller than the average particle size x50.3 of the particles (80, 100). The invention furthermore relates to a process for reaction of a fluid, wherein the reaction is carried out in a reactor according to the invention in the presence of heterogeneous catalyst particles (80) and the catalyst particles (80) are arranged in the holding device for catalyst particles (80). The invention also provides the use of knitted wire mesh fabric (50) as a holding device for catalyst particles and/or inert particles (80, 100) in chemical reactors.
US09364787B2
A device for removing ammonia from a gas stream has a plurality of conduits that divide the gas steam into a plurality of separate gas streams. Spray nozzles located in each of said conduits spray a dilute acid solution into the streams. The acid solution is aqueous sulfuric acid and ammonium sulfate is produced. The conduits are substantially unobstructed enabling the device to create less than 10 Pa back pressure to the gas stream.
US09364786B2
A vacuum pump has a discharge port coupled to an abatement chamber for treating an exhaust gas discharged from a chamber of a manufacturing apparatus to make the exhaust gas harmless. The vacuum pump is coupled to a heat exchanger configured to heat an inert gas by using heat generated when the exhaust gas is treated to be made harmless in the abatement part. The inert gas heated by the heat exchanger is introduced into the vacuum pump.
US09364780B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for separating gas and liquid. The apparatus for separating gas and liquid includes a housing, a rotating shaft provided inside the housing, a drive unit configured to rotate the rotating shaft, a rotating cone mounted at the rotating shaft to rotate about the rotating shaft and having a diameter decreasing from an upper end to a lower end thereof, and a fixed cone formed by coupling at least two first unit members in a circumferential direction of the rotating shaft, disposed in the housing to be spaced apart from the rotating cone and having a diameter decreasing an upper end to a lower end thereof.
US09364778B2
The invention relates to a filtering device for highly viscous fluids, having at least two parallel screen plungers which are arranged in a displaceable fashion in screen plunger bores of a housing and which have in each case at least one screen cavity in which at least one filter element is arranged, wherein the housing has an inflow opening from which, on the untreated side, at least one flow duct leads to each screen plunger bore, and the housing has at least one flow duct which, on the clean side, leads from each screen plunger bore to an outflow opening. On the untreated side and/or on the clean side, in each case one common flow duct leads rectilinearly along both screen plunger bores and, in a production position, tangentially intersects the screen cavities.
US09364777B2
An apparatus for separating solids from solids laden drilling fluid, the apparatus comprising a skid and a basket resiliently suspended thereto and a vibratory mechanism to vibrate the basket, the basket having at least one screen deck for receiving at least one screen, the basket having a feed end at which solids laden drilling fluid is introduced and a discharge end at which solids are discharged through a solids discharge opening, the apparatus further comprising a hood encompassing at least a discharge end of the basket and at least one extraction outlet arranged at the discharge end to remove fume laden air from the basket.
US09364772B2
Process for regenerating a chromatographic stationary phase.
US09364768B2
A flying disk toy includes an annular inner ring centered on the axis and connected with an outer ring, and a flexible material secured to the inner ring and creating a trampoline surface. The inner ring is detachably received in a groove in the outer ring. The groove has an undercut, and the inner ring has a portion including relatively movable flanges that engage in the undercut in the groove to resist removal of the inner ring from the groove.
US09364764B2
A portable toddler swing is provided. The swing includes a compliant shell, an upper adjustable strap, a fastener coupled to the upper adjustable strap, a lower adjustable strap, a pair of support straps and a pair of safety fasteners. The shell defines an inner cavity, including an upper portion defining a top opening, a circumferential passage and a strap opening connected to the circumferential passage, a bottom portion, a front portion defining a pair of leg openings, a back portion, and a pair of side portions. The upper adjustable strap is disposed within the circumferential passage, and adjusts the size of the top opening of the shell. The lower adjustable strap is connected to the bottom portion of the shell, and secures the shell to a playground swing seat. The pair of safety fasteners are coupled to upper portions of the support straps, and secure the support straps to the playground swing chains.
US09364763B2
Technology is described for user assembly of lightweight user interfaces for games, e.g., massively multiplayer online games. The technology can include a set of pre-selectable action modules; an interface element, a messaging element, and a display element for each pre-selectable action module; and a component configured to enable a user to select a subset from the set of pre-selectable action modules. A first subset of the pre-selectable action modules can provide a different user interface than a second subset of the pre-selectable action modules when at least one pre-selectable action module is in the first subset but not the second subset. Action modules may be capable of communicating using a messaging platform with at least one server computing device and relates to a massively multiplayer online gaming system operating at a server computing device.
US09364757B2
A game system is composed of a TV, a hand-held game machine, and a game apparatus, for example. A hand-held game machine and a plurality of controllers are connected to the game apparatus, for example. The hand-held game machine displays a first game screen which indicates the positions of first to fourth characters in a game space. The TV displays second game screens which respectively correspond to second to fourth characters, each of the second game screens displaying only a limited extent of the game space. When a predetermined condition is satisfied, an operable character for a player is switched from a first character to a second character. Since different extents of game space are displayed for different characters, an interesting game can be provided.
US09364756B2
An exemplary game system includes a monitor for displaying a game image or a television program, and a terminal device having a camera, a microphone, and a loudspeaker. When a user is playing a game or viewing a television program by using the monitor, another user can have chat by using the terminal device.
US09364747B2
This document generally describes techniques, methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a three-dimensional (“3D”) sports playbook. Such a playbook may permit someone like a football, basketball, or soccer coach to see a play executed in a classic X's and O's overhead two-dimensional (“2D”) view, and also in a 3D view.
US09364743B2
A method for generating a playable limited version of a video game is provided. A user's gameplay of a full version of the video game is recorded. A plurality of user-defined portions of the user's recorded gameplay is determined. For each user-defined portion, boundaries within a gameplay context of the video game based on the user-defined portion, and a playable portion of the video game is generated based on the defined boundaries. Each of the playable portions of the video game is arranged in a series to define the limited version of the video game; wherein the method is executed by a processor.
US09364742B2
A game apparatus includes a CPU, and the CPU sets a weapon to be transmittable according to an instruction by a player. More specifically, a seed is generated from a weapon, and transmittable seed data corresponding to the generated seed is stored in a memory for saved data. When a game apparatus is carried in a sleep state by a player, it makes a communication with another game apparatus to thereby transmit and receive the transmittable seed data with the other game apparatus. Accordingly, the transmittable and receivable seed data, that is, the seeds are exchanged. During the game, the received two seeds are fused to thereby generate a weapon.
US09364739B2
The present invention relates to a fastening system for a sliding board comprising, respectively, a base delimiting a housing in which a shoe is designed to be immobilized, means for adjusting the position of said base on the board, and a vertical locking pivot cooperating on the one hand with an anchoring element secured to the board, and on the other hand bearing rotational blocking elements supported by a calibrating disc, characterized in that said pivot is made up of an assembly secured to the base comprising a central slug whereof the lower end is designed to be retractably housed in said anchor element and the upper end is connected to at least one rotating maneuvering member ensuring the rotation of said lower end in the anchor element.The invention also relates to a sliding board equipped with said fastening system.
US09364724B2
A golf club includes a golf club head provided with a first hole and a second hole on its bottom side, a shaft, a first fastener detachably attached to the first hole to detachably fix the shaft to the golf club head, and a second fastener detachably attached to the second hole to provide weight on the golf club, the second fastener having weight different from that of the first fastener. The first fastener and the second fastener are configured as mutually replaceable fasteners so that the first fastener is detachably attached to the second hole and the second fastener is detachably attached to the first hole to detachably fix the shaft to the golf club head.
US09364721B2
The invention provides a golf ball having a core and a cover of at least one layer. The core has a cross-sectional hardness which, letting (H−14) be a JIS-C hardness at a position 14 mm in from a surface toward a center of the core, (H−8) be a JIS-C hardness at a position 8 mm in from the surface toward the center of the core, (H−6) be a JIS-C hardness at a position 6 mm in from the surface toward the center of the core, and (H−4) be a JIS-C hardness at a position 4 mm in from the surface toward the center of the core, satisfies the formulas (1) H−14<70, (2) H−8<72, (3) H−6<75, and (3) H−4−H−8>8.
US09364708B2
An exercise device having (—) a frame, (—) left and right leg linkages, each including (i) an upper leg member pivotally coupled to the frame for pivoting about an upper pivot point, (ii) a lower leg member directly pivotally coupled to the upper leg member distal to the upper pivot point for pivoting about a lower pivot point, and (—) a foot support attached to each lower leg member distal to each respective lower pivot point. The invention characterized by a biased damping means in communication with each lower leg member via an interconnect member that defines an influence line segment, and an ergonomically synergistic spatial relationship between the influence line segment and a leg line segment defined by the upper pivot point and the lower pivot on each leg linkage.
US09364696B2
A pressurized vessel including a pressurized vessel cylinder and dispersal unit. The pressurized vessel cylinder includes a non-circular cylindrical body and at least one truss structure connecting the first side of the body to the second side of the body, wherein the truss structure includes one or more voids such that fluid communication is maintained throughout the interior of the cylinder.
US09364686B2
A method and an apparatus for planning a treatment beam aimed at at least one target region are provided. Planning parameters having associated predetermined parameter values are for performing a treatment that is to be applied with the treatment beam. The method includes defining a first predetermined parameter value of the planning parameters that is suitable for the irradiation of a treatment region that includes at least one target region. The method also includes ascertaining, based on the first predetermined parameter value, a first probability distribution in relation to an optimizable variable that is prespecified based on deviations to be expected when carrying out the irradiation.
US09364678B2
An implantable device includes at least one electrode comprising a conductive base and polyoxometalate anions disposed on or within the conductive base; and at least one conductor attached to the at least one electrode for conducting electrical energy to the at least one electrode.
US09364674B2
A system for trigeminal nerve stimulation includes a storage medium, a pulse generator in communication with the storage medium, a power source coupled to the pulse generator, and at least one electrode communicatively coupled to the pulse generator. The pulse generator includes a microcontroller which executes instructions from the storage medium and the microcontroller is configured to perform at least one of the following operations: produce electrical pulses having defined characteristics, record a log of use and anomalous events, restrict use to a specified individual, interface with electrodes, provide a signal to the specified individual indicating operational conditions and trouble conditions, and provide a signal to the specified individual indicating an end of a treatment period.
US09364673B2
An implantable medical device (IMD) is disclosed having measurement circuitry for measuring one or more currents in the IMD, such as the currents drawn from various power supply voltages. Such currents are measured without disrupting normal IMD operation, and can be telemetered from the IMD for review. Switching circuitry in line with the current being measured is temporarily opened for a time period to disconnect the power supply voltage from the circuitry being powered. A voltage across a capacitance in parallel with the circuitry is measured when the switching circuitry is opened and again closed at the end of the time period, with the circuitry drawing power from the charged capacitance during this time period. The average current drawn by the power supply voltage is determined using the difference in the measured voltages, the known capacitance, and the time period between the measurements.
US09364668B2
One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a method for treating body organ aging in a mammal. One step of the method includes identifying at least one target organ in need of a therapy signal. Next, a therapy delivery device is placed into electrical communication with an autonomic nervous system (ANS) nerve target and/or a central nervous system (CNS) nerve target associated with the at least one target organ. The therapy delivery device is then activated to deliver the therapy signal to the ANS nerve target and/or the CNS nerve target in an amount and for a time sufficient to effect a change in sympathetic and/or parasympathetic activity associated with the at least one target organ.
US09364662B2
An implantable lead includes a lead body having a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. The lead body includes an insulative member having a lumen extending longitudinally between the proximal end portion and the distal end portion. The lead body also includes a generally tubular liner disposed coaxially with the lumen within the insulative member. The implantable lead also includes an electrode disposed along the lead body in the distal end portion thereof, and a conductor disposed within the lumen and electrically coupled to the electrode. A terminal connector is coupled to the proximal end portion of the lead body and to the conductor.
US09364656B2
A switch operated therapeutic agent delivery device is described. The device comprises two parts, which are assembled by a user prior to use. A first part contains a power supply and circuitry for the device; and a second part comprises electrodes and reservoirs containing the therapeutic agent to be delivered. The action of combining the two parts of the device causes the two parts to be irreversibly coupled together, completes an electrical connection between the two parts, and closes one or more switches, thereby connecting a power source, such as a battery, into the device's circuitry, thereby powering the device on so that it is ready for use. The device can then be attached to a patient, who can operate the device by pressing a button in a proper sequence.
US09364653B2
An aseptic coupling arrangement includes a first coupling device and a second aseptic coupling device. In one example, the first and second coupling devices are substantially similar, each having a main body having a front face and a fluid passageway therethrough. A first connecting feature on the main body of each coupling device may be provided for aligning and coupling the aseptic devices together. Each coupling device may also include a sealing member received in the main body and a membrane removably coupled to the main body front face to cover the sealing member. The first aseptic coupling device may also include a rotatable protective cover that is removably attached to the main body and connected to the membrane. In one example, the removal of the protective covers away from two coupled main bodies, in a direction parallel to the front faces, causes removal of the membranes.
US09364648B2
Systems and methods are provided for sealing an ear canal for retaining a solution in the ear canal. Adhesive earplugs are provided through which the solution can be delivered, and which, following delivery, retain the fluid in the ear canal. The systems and methods may also be useful for delivering an anesthetizing solution to the ear canal of a human patient and for maintaining the solution therein for use with an iontophoresis system for anesthetizing the tympanic membrane.
US09364647B1
A shunt catheter system and method of use thereof. The system generally includes an open-ended ventricular catheter with drainage apertures and safety flap valves, a reservoir with inline filter, and a peritoneal catheter. After insertion, for example into the ventricles of the brain, cerebrospinal fluid would pass into the ventricular catheter, through the inline filter in the reservoir, and into the peritoneal catheter, subsequently exiting the shunt catheter system. During insertion of the ventricular catheter, a catheter stylet or wire/string and plug stylet can be positioned therein to occlude the open end. The ventricular catheter may be positioned perpendicular to the peritoneal catheter and can be coupled to one another through the reservoir and inline filter or valve.
US09364639B2
Embodiments of the disclosed positioning systems can include a catheter assembly having a catheter with an external surface and an outer diameter, and a movable cuff assembly engaged around the circumference of the catheter. An exemplary movable cuff assembly includes a sleeve, a tissue ingrowth cuff affixed to the sleeve, and a clamp affixed to the sleeve, where when the first clamp is engaged, the movable cuff assembly is substantially fixed in position on the external surface of the catheter and wherein when the first clamp is disengaged, the movable cuff assembly is slidably movable over the external surface of the catheter.
US09364636B2
A steerable intraluminal medical device is described for use in navigating small diameter and curving arteries. The device includes a control handle that adjusts the direction of deflection of the tip throughout a 360° range of motion around the axis on the distal end. An optional locking mechanism is provided to maintain the desired angle of deflection during an intravascular procedure.
US09364632B2
An interface system for use in providing a flow of pressurized gas to a patient. The interface system comprises a mask (18) structured to engage a nasal and/or oral orifice of a patient, a conduit (16) coupled to the mask, and a valve mechanism (20) operatively coupled to the mask or the conduit. The conduit is structured to communicate the flow of pressurized gas to the mask. The valve mechanism is structured to selectively impede the flow of pressurized gas to the patient and is actuated by the patient, thus allowing the patient to speak without interference from the flow of pressurized gas.
US09364630B2
The embodiments of the present tracheostomy valves include a flexible diaphragm abutting a rib shaped substantially as a flat plate. Opposite the rib, the diaphragm abuts a boss and forms an uninterrupted seal therewith. As the tracheostomized patient inhales, the diaphragm bends about the rib, interrupting the seal and allowing air to flow smoothly into the valve. The features of the various embodiments contribute to a positive seal at all times except during inhalation, and low resistance to airflow through the valve during inhalation.
US09364625B2
A medical ventilation monitoring system includes a patient ventilation unit defining an airflow path, the unit arranged so that when the unit is applied to a patient, the airflow path is in fluid communication with the patient's airway; an airflow sensor in the air flow path positioned to sense the presence of ventilation airflow to or from the patient; and a wireless transceiver arranged to receive data that is generated by a portable medical device, and to use the data to provide feedback to a rescuer regarding proper administration of ventilation.
US09364611B2
An exemplary embodiment of an injector includes a trigger mechanism, an energy source, and a user-operable firing-initiation member. The trigger mechanism can include a floating trigger member having a retaining portion, a ram assembly having a ram configured to pressurize a medicament container for expelling a medicament therefrom, the ram assembly further having a floating trigger engagement member configured to engage the retaining portion of the floating trigger member when the floating trigger member is in a pre-firing condition. The energy source can be associated with the ram for powering the ram to expel the medicament, and the user-operable firing-initiation member can be operable for causing an axial rotation of the floating trigger member from the pre-firing condition to a firing condition in which the floating trigger engagement member is released from the retaining portion to allow the energy source to fire the ram.
US09364603B2
Single needle vascular access systems, devices and methods for use in hemodialysis and apheresis procedures the device includes a multi-layer dilator. A single needle vascular access device includes a body having a venous and arterial passage with both in fluid communication with a vascular dilator. A cannulation needle is guided through the arterial passage and vascular dilator to cannulate a graft or fistula. Following cannulation, the dilator is gently introduced into the vessel. The cannulation needle is removed, and a venous tube is introduced through the venous passageway through the vascular dilator and into the fistula or graft. Blood is then removed from the body through the vascular dilator side orifices and returned through the venous line.
US09364601B2
The invention described herein teaches methods of removing microvesicular particles, which include but are not limited to exosomes, from the systemic circulation of a subject in need thereof with the goal of reversing antigen-specific and antigen-nonspecific immune suppression. Said microvesicular particles could be generated by host cells that have been reprogrammed by neoplastic tissue, or the neoplastic tissue itself. Compositions of matter, medical devices, and novel utilities of existing medical devices are disclosed.
US09364597B2
The present invention relates to a method as well as a blood treatment unit for the implementation of this method for the best possible attainment of a predetermined substitution target during the ultrafiltration of blood. According to the invention, a method and a blood treatment unit for the implementation of the method is provided, wherein it is determined by detection of pressure measurement values in the blood treatment unit whether the calculated substitution target is achieved at the end of the dialysis session or not and in case of the result that the calculated substitution target cannot be achieved with the current dialysis parameters, an adjustment of the flow rate of blood, dialysate and/or substituate is performed in order to achieve the substitution target for a given treatment time in an optimal way or modify the treatment time for the given substitution target as little as possible.
US09364595B2
An implantable heart help device adapted for implantation in a human patient is provided. The device comprising a fixating member adapted to fixate said device to a part of the human body comprising bone. Further a method of fixating an implantable heart help device in a human patient is provided. The method comprises the steps of: cutting the skin of said human patient, dissecting an area of the body comprising bone, and fixating said implantable heart help device to said part of the body comprising bone.
US09364590B2
A vacuum pressure regulator system is provided for use in association with a vacuum system in which a vacuum is employed for healthcare purposes, for assisting in monitoring and regulating the vacuum pressure, and having a manual pressure control valve to adjust the treatment vacuum pressure supplied to the patient, a vacuum pressure sensor to sense the treatment vacuum pressure for the patient in the system, and producing a treatment vacuum pressure signal, a sampling circuit which intermittently samples the pressure signal generated by the pressure sensor and generate sampling signals, an electrically powered pressure display circuit, and digital pressure display, for receiving the sampling signals and providing a visible display, and a non-mains power supply.
US09364588B2
Disclosed herein are drug delivery medical devices. A polymer coating for a medical device is provided which comprises a minimum amount of a drug bonded to the polymer in the coating.
US09364581B2
A medical implant comprises a biodegradable magnesium-based alloy of which at least a part of its surface layer comprises a magnesium carbonate. A method for the manufacture of a biocompatible, corrosion-inhibiting protective surface layer on a medical implant comprising a magnesium-based alloy, comprises: providing an implant comprising a magnesium-based alloy to be coated; placing the implant into a reactor chamber; exposing at least part of the surface of said implant to an atmosphere comprising humid carbon dioxide to produce a coating on the surface of the implant comprising a magnesium carbonate of the formula x MgCO3.y Mg(OH)2, whereby x+y=1; removing the implant from the reactor chamber; and drying the surface of the implant.
US09364557B2
Provided are methods and compositions related to diphtheria toxin diabody immunotoxins.
US09364556B2
The present invention relates to a drug conjugate comprising a cytotoxic drug conjugated to a c-Met specific human antibody. More specifically, the present invention relates to: a drug conjugate comprising a cytotoxic drug conjugated to a c-Met specific human antibody; a pharmaceutical composition for cancer treatment comprising the drug conjugate; and a cancer treatment method comprising a step in which the drug conjugate or pharmaceutical composition is administered to an individual.
US09364555B2
Compounds that include a pederin, psymberin or pederin/psymberin chimera scaffold. The pederin scaffold includes a substituent at the C10 and/or C13 position that may include a linker that may be conjugated to a targeting moiety. The psymberin scaffold includes a substituent at the C8 and/or C11 positions that may include a linker that may be conjugated to a targeting moiety. The pederin/psymberin chimera scaffold includes a substituent at the C10 and/or C13 position that may include a linker that may be conjugated to a targeting moiety. The pederin, psymberin or pederin/psymberin chimera scaffold may be modified to include substituents at positions other than the C10 or C13 of pederin, or the C8 and C11 of psymberin.
US09364545B2
The invention develops a developed a thermosensitive injectable hydrogel based on HA and a copolymer of polyethylene oxide (PEO) and polypropylene oxide (PPO), which has a gel formation temperature from 30° C. to 37° C. The thermosensitive injectable hydrogel of the invention provides a potential drug delivery system that can increase therapeutic efficacy of the drug.
US09364537B2
A porphyrin of general formula (I) having a transition metal (II) cation in its core and one or two mono-, di-, tri-, tetra- or penta-halophenyl groups and two or three pyridyl groups in the 5, 10, and/or 15 positions of the porphyrin ring contributing to a positive two or three charge neutralized by the presence of a respective number of anions. The porphyrin of the general formula (I) characterized by killing pseudomonas bacteria in the dark.
US09364534B2
The present invention is directed to a method for treating an inflammatory neurodegenerative condition of the CNS in a subject comprising administering to said subject a G-CSF or G-CSFR inhibiting agent selected from the group consisting of an antibody specific for G-CSF or G-CSFR, a soluble G-CSFR or a G-CSF-binding portion thereof and a 20 to 30 nucleotide sense or antisense molecule targeted to a nucleic acid molecule encoding G-CSF.
US09364526B2
The development of a diagnostic, therapeutic and making and administering a vaccine against ungulate diseases which involves spirochete bacteria in particular, Treponemes.
US09364518B2
The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition capable of forming in-situ implant comprising goserelin or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, biodegradable polymer and a biocompatible organic solvent wherein the biocompatible organic solvent is miscible to dispersible in aqueous medium or body fluid. The present invention further provides a process for the preparation of pharmaceutical composition capable of forming in-situ implant. A kit containing composition for in-situ implant is provided comprising a first vial comprising a composition comprising a biodegradable polymer and a biocompatible organic solvent; wherein the biocompatible organic solvent is miscible to dispersible in aqueous medium or body fluid; and a second vial comprising goserelin acetate.
US09364517B2
Provided are methods of treatment for tumors. In particular, methods are provided for use of a chemically modified IL-10 to treat tumors.
US09364512B1
An aloe vera based liquid composition comprising at least one antioxidant agent that reduces oxidative stress in the lungs and delivers various antioxidants and nutrients when absorbed upon vaping by the user.
US09364492B2
The present invention provides a method for preparing a glycoside of a flavonoid compound, which comprises the step of treating flavonoid and a glycosyl donor with an enzymatic agent having glycosylation activity and being derived from the genus Trichoderma (preferably Trichoderma viride or Trichoderma reesei). Such a flavonoid compound includes a catechin compound or a methylated derivative thereof, and the glycosyl donor includes a carbohydrate containing a maltotriose residue (preferably maltotriose, maltotetraose, maltopentaose, maltohexaose, maltoheptaose, dextrin, γ-cyclodextrin or soluble starch). Glycosides obtained by the present invention have higher water solubility, improved taste, and increased stability. The present invention also provides novel glycosides of catechin compounds, which are obtained by the method of the present invention.
US09364483B2
The present invention concerns a premix composition for feeding cattle, comprising: a) a premix carrier having an overall particle size comprised between 300 and 400 μm, b) zilpaterol, and c) a surface agent. The present invention is also related to a method of increasing the rate of weight gain in cattle, comprising the administration to the cattle of feed additives consisting of a premix composition such as described, over a period of at least two weeks.
US09364480B2
The present invention relates to ENOblock, which is a non-substrate analog having an enolase inhibitory activity, and a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating cancer or enolase-associated diseases, containing the same. The ENOblock of the present invention directly binds to enolase so as to inhibit an activity thereof, and the inhibition is more effective in hypoxia than in normoxia. In addition, the ENOblock of the present invention inhibits migration, metastasis and invasion of cancer cells. Furthermore, the ENOblock of the present invention induces glucose uptake into cells, down-regulates the expression of PEPCK, and inhibits adipogenesis and foam cell formation. Therefore, a composition containing the ENOblock of the present invention can be very effectively applied to prevent or treat cancer or enolase-associated diseases.
US09364479B2
The invention comprises use of a therapeutically effective amount of the compound of the formula below for preparation of a medicament for treating polycystic kidney diseases (PKD) in a mammal, such as human or feline (e.g., Persian cat). Formula (I). Also provided are the above compound and compositions comprising it for treating PKD.
US09364477B2
The invention provides the identification of the presence of mutant ROS protein in human cancer. In some embodiments, the mutant ROS are FIG-ROS fusion proteins comprising part of the FIG protein fused to the kinase domain of the ROS kinase. In some embodiments, the mutant ROS is the overexpression of wild-type ROS in cancerous tissues (or tissues suspected of being cancerous) where, in normal tissue of that same tissue type, ROS is not expressed or is expressed at lower levels. The mutant ROS proteins of the invention are anticipated to drive the proliferation and survival of a subgroup of human cancers, particularly in cancers of the liver (including bile duct), pancreas, kidney, and testes. The invention therefore provides, in part, isolated polynucleotides and vectors encoding the disclosed mutant ROS polypeptides (e.g., a FIG-ROS(S) fusion polypeptide), probes for detecting it, isolated mutant polypeptides, recombinant polypeptides, and reagents for detecting the fusion and truncated polypeptides. The identification of the mutant ROS polypeptides enables new methods for determining the presence of these mutant ROS polypeptides in a biological sample, methods for screening for compounds that inhibit the proteins, and methods for inhibiting the progression of a cancer characterized by the mutant polynucleotides or polypeptides, which are also provided by the invention.
US09364470B2
The present invention provides methods and compositions for treating hyperlipidemia and/or hypercholesterolemia comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of an MTP inhibitor to inhibit hyperlipidemia and/or hypercholesterolemia in said subject, wherein said administration comprises an escalating series of doses of the MTP inhibitor. In some embodiments the method comprises administering at least three step-wise, increasing dosages of the MTP inhibitor to the subject. In some embodiments, the method further comprises the administration of one or more other lipid modifying compounds.
US09364462B2
Presented herein inter alia are novel methods of treating heart and brain diseases.
US09364448B2
A method is provided for the treatment of vision problems in a subject suffering from one of various forms of albinism, including, for example, oculocutaneous albinism types OCA1a and OCA1b, as well as ocular albinism type 1, resulting from mutations in the GPR143 gene, as well as the OCA2, OCA3 or OCA4 genes, by administering to the subject a pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of the compound (2-[2-nitro-4-(trifluoromethyl)benzoyl]cyclohexane-1,3-dione), also known as NTBC for a sufficient period of time. The administration of NTBC is believed to increase the amount of pigmentation in the subject and alleviate certain symptoms caused by lack of pigmentation in the eye tissues. Also described are methods of use of NTBC for increasing the pigmentation of a subject for cosmetic purposes, by administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of NTBC.
US09364431B2
The present invention provides an infused carbohydrate based gel pad comprising: glucose polymer syrup, sugar, a hydrocolloid gelling agent, salt, acid, water and an infusing compound for oral transmucosal delivery wherein the gel pad (i) provides transmucosal delivery of active ingredients of the infusing compound into the bloodstream over a predetermined period of time; and (ii) possesses the property of adhesion to gum line tissue of an oral cavity and lack of adhesion to buccal tissue of the oral cavity. The present invention further provides a method of making the infused carbohydrate based gel.
US09364430B2
The present invention is directed to oral, therapeutically effective modified release pharmaceutical compositions of (−)-17-(cyclobutylmethyl)morphinan-3,14-diol and it pharmaceutically acceptable salts and the use thereof, including delayed onset and extended release dosage forms. The present invention is also directed at modified release dosage forms of oral (−)-17-(cyclobutylmethyl)morphinan-3,14-diol which provide robust efficacy and reduced potential for abuse and misuse.
US09364429B2
An orally disintegrating tablet is obtained by dry tabletting a mixture of: hydroxyalkyl cellulose microparticles having a 50% particle size in the cumulative particle size distribution of more than or equal to 15 μm and less than 40 μm, and having a hydroxyalkyl group content of 40 to 80% by mass; a main drug as a pharmaceutical ingredient; and optionally, additives such as an excipient, a binder, a disintegrant, a lubricating agent, an agent for sustained release, a base material, a coloring agent, a pH adjusting agent, a pH buffer agent, a surfactant, a stabilizer, an acidulant, a flavoring agent, a fluidizing agent, a refreshing agent, a sweetener, a savoring component, and a sweetness intensifier.
US09364421B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a hair cosmetic achieving a hair-setting property without causing flaking and further having an excellent hair-rearranging property and non-stickiness. The hair cosmetic of the present invention includes the following components (A) to (D): (A) a (meth)acrylic silicone-based graft copolymer; (B) at least one film-forming polymer selected from nonionic, amphoteric, and cationic polymers; (C) a monohydric lower alcohol; and (D) at least one selected from polyalkylene glycols and sugar alcohols, wherein the component (A) and the component (B) preferably have a content ratio (A):(B) within a mass ratio range of 1:10 to 2:1; and the hair cosmetic preferably has a viscosity at 25° C. of 1000 mPa·s or less.
US09364414B2
Cosmetic methods for improving the microparasol organization in keratinocytes, protecting skin against ultraviolet radiation, decreasing DNA photodamage in keratinocytes and melanocytes, attenuating age-related pigmentation defects and the effects of photoaging on the skin are described. The methods include applying a composition comprising a peptide compound of one of SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 3, SEQ ID NO: 4, SEQ ID NO: 5, SEQ ID NO: 6, or SEQ ID NO: 7, and a cosmetically acceptable medium to appendages or to the affected skin of a subject in need thereof.
US09364411B2
The present invention relates to the use, especially the cosmetic use, of at least one monosaccharide chosen from mannose, rhamnose and a mixture thereof, for reducing or preventing the signs of ageing of the skin or its integuments. The present invention also relates to a cosmetic composition and a device containing it.
US09364410B2
The invention relates to a cosmetic composition, in particular a composition for making up and/or caring for keratin materials, preferably a nail makeup, comprising the compound of chemical formula (I) below: (I) in which: a and b independently represent an integer between 0 and 20; R1, R2, R11 and R12 independently represent an ethoxy group, a group (C1-C20)alkyl optionally substituted with an amino group; R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 independently represent a hydrogen atom or a group (C1-C10)alkyl; X1 and X2 independently represent a carboxyl, carbamate, amide, carbonate, ureido or sulfonate group, an oxygen atom or a NH group; Y represents a hydrocarbon-based group comprising from 2 to 800 carbon atoms, the said hydrocarbon-based group being a linear or branched divalent group, bearing one or more aromatic or non-aromatic rings. The invention also relates to a cosmetic process, characterized in that it comprises at least one step which consists in applying a cosmetic composition as above defined to keratin materials.
US09364396B2
A closed fluid transfer system for fluidly interconnecting a syringe to any one of a patient I.V. set, a vial and an I.V. bag, is provided and includes a housing defining an open distal end and an open proximal end, a base supported in the open proximal end of the housing and including a syringe adapter luer connector, a collar slidably and rotatably supported in the housing, the collar defining a longitudinal opening therethrough, a shuttle slidably extending through longitudinal opening of the collar, the shuttle defining a shuttle lumen extending longitudinally therethrough, a barrel supported on and extending over a distal end of the shuttle, a biasing member interposed between the collar and the shuttle for urging the collar away from the shuttle, and a seal interposed between the shuttle and the barrel, wherein the seal extends across the shuttle lumen and the central opening of the barrel.
US09364390B2
An implantable electroacupuncture device (IEAD) treats obese conditions of a patient through application of stimulation pulses applied at acupoints SP4, LR8 or ST40, or their underlying nerves saphenous and peroneal. The IEAD comprises an implantable, coin-sized, self-contained, leadless electroacupuncture device having at least two electrodes attached to an outside surface of its housing. The device generates stimulation pulses in accordance with a specified stimulation regimen. Power management circuitry within the device allows a primary battery, having a high internal impedance, to be used to power the device. The stimulation regimen generates stimulation pulses during a stimulation session of duration T3 minutes applied every T4 minutes. The duty cycle, or ratio T3/T4, is very low, no greater than 0.05. The low duty cycle and careful power management allow the IEAD to perform its intended function for several years.
US09364388B2
The present invention provides methods of treatment by delivering nitric oxide at a pressure greater than 1 atmosphere (atm) to a subject in need thereof. Thus, the present invention provides an improved method of treating the skin surface of a subject, and below the skin surface of a subject.
US09364384B2
A variable-length crutch 1 has a main body 2, a foot 5 extensible and retractable with respect to the main body 2, and an actuator, which actuator involves a motor 6, a rotary output shaft 9, an irreversible worm transmission converting rotation of the motor shaft 9 into linear movement of the foot 5 with respect to the main body 2, a sensor 10 for extending the foot 5 with respect to the main body 2, and a programmable module 8 connected to the motor 6 to control extension and/or retraction of the crutch to a preprogrammed length and to stop the motor 6 when the length is reached.
US09364379B2
The present invention provides a standing mobility and/or transfer device for handicapped users including an articulating foot platform system effective to move a foot platform between a rearwardly tilted user-receiving condition located close to the floor and an elevated, forwardly tilted condition for user transport at a standing-prone angle. Bilateral lift arms move in concert with the raising and lowering function of the foot platform to elevate the person to a standing-prone position from a seated position. In a raised position, the lift arms are located alongside a user to provide additional posture control. Optional motors associated with one or more wheels of the device may be controlled by the user with a joystick for self-propelled standing mobility.
US09364375B2
Embodiments of a patient transport platform employing one or more adjustable columns interposed between a base having caster wheels with one or more intermediate large wheels, the adjustable columns accommodating deployment and retraction of the large wheels and elevation and positioning of an articulating patient stretcher chair. In various embodiments, the adjustable columns are in parallel or series connection, or combinations thereof. An articulating base frame assembly with a dampened interconnection between fore and aft sections, having three pairs of wheels for selective implementation in use is also presented.
US09364369B2
In accordance with one embodiment, a head and neck support apparatus is provided that comprises a seat attachment portion and a portion which is worn by the child passenger. The worn portion comprises an elastic member that will, when worn, encircle the child's head. The rear of the worn portion will further comprise a first engagement member which will removably connect to a second engagement member connected to the seat where the child may foreseeably fall asleep.
US09364367B2
A nasal dilator is constructed as a single body truss having a resilient member structure comprising a plurality of overlaid, island-placed, or overlapping resilient members. Methods of mass producing dilator devices, individual resilient members, and overlapped, overlaid, and island-placed resilient member structures are also disclosed.
US09364364B2
A simple and inexpensive prosthetic device for manually challenged patients comprising a tube of moderately elastic material which can be stretched over a portion of the patient's anatomy, such as a hand, forearm stub or the like, and which can receive and firmly hold a variety of tools to enable the patient to perform numerous tasks which normally require the use of fingers.
US09364359B2
In various embodiments, the medical device delivery system described herein can be configured to position and deliver a medical device in a body lumen. The medical device delivery system can comprise an elongate member, a medical device and a leash. During deployment, the medical device can be tethered to the catheter by the leash, to stabilize and prevent unwanted shifting of the medical device as it deploys at the treatment site.
US09364349B2
The invention relates to systems and methods for applying coatings to devices. In an embodiment, the invention includes a coating apparatus including a mandrel having a lengthwise axis and an exterior surface, the exterior surface of the mandrel defining a plurality of channels disposed parallel to the lengthwise axis, the mandrel configured to rotate around the lengthwise axis; and a spray head configured to direct a stream of material at the mandrel. In an embodiment the invention includes a method of applying a coating to a medical device. Other embodiments are also included herein.
US09364339B2
An expandable spinal prosthesis is provided for insertion unilaterally into an annulotomy hole created laterally in a spinal disc between two abutting vertebrae. The prosthesis is composed of an elongated rod having first threading at one end and second threading at its other end. A first member is threaded on the threading at one end of the rod. A second member is threaded on the threading at the other end of the rod. The members are disengageably engaged for rotation together. The first member has a plurality of resilient bands extending longitudinally between the two members, which are dependent on the spacing between the two members. The first member and the elongated rod define engagements for coupling of drivers to relatively rotate the members and rod in one sense so that the two members will move toward each other to cause the resilient bands to bend outwardly to expand the prosthesis and in an opposite sense so that the two members will move apart to cause the resilient bands to become unbent and collapse the prosthesis. A method for implanting the prosthesis from one side only and a method for explanting the prosthesis from one side only.
US09364335B2
The invention relates to devices, implants, systems, techniques and methods for addressing certain conditions of the spine, including devices, implants, systems and methods for performing spinal laminoplasty or other expansion of the spinal canal. The devices of the invention are expandable in situ, providing greater versatility for surgeons performing various procedures where expansion of the spinal canal is desired.
US09364333B1
Methods and systems for transosseous access and repair of joint surface are disclosed wherein one embodiment of the method comprises inserting a reaming rod through a bone tunnel positioned perpendicular to a first joint surface, connecting a reaming blade to the reaming rod, reaming the first joint surface with the reaming blade and removing the reaming blade and the reaming rod. In some embodiments, the reaming blade is configured to be inserted into the joint through an arthroscopic access portal. In some embodiments, an implant system comprises an implant anchor and an implant surface cap and the implant anchor is adapted to couple with a fixation element to anchor the implant anchor in a bone.
US09364328B2
Embodiments of the present invention encompass graft assemblies, and methods for their use and manufacture. An exemplary bone graft assembly includes first and second bone pieces having respective mating features which, when combined, define non-uniform press fit. Related embodiments encompass graft assemblies having enclosed or hidden mating features.
US09364327B2
Devices and systems including implants (which may be removable) and methods of using them for reducing ventricular volume. The implants described herein are cardiac implants that may be inserted into a patient's heart, particularly the left ventricle. The implant may support the heart wall, or may be secured to the heart wall. The implants are typically ventricular partitioning device for partitioning the ventricle into productive and non-productive regions in order to reduce the ventricular volume.
US09364323B2
An endoluminal support structure includes strut members interconnected by swivel joints to form a series of linked scissor mechanisms. The structure can be remotely actuated to compress or expand its shape by adjusting the scissor joints within a range of motion. In particular, the support structure can be repositioned within the body lumen or retrieved from the lumen. The support structure can be employed to introduce and support a prosthetic valve within a body lumen.
US09364321B2
A prosthetic heart valve is circumferentially collapsible for less invasive delivery into a patient. The valve re-expands to operating size at the implant site in the patient. A frame structure of the valve includes restraining structure that can help to push one or more of the patient's native heart valve leaflets radially outwardly so that this native leaflet tissue does not interfere with the operation or service life of the prosthetic valve.
US09364320B2
An intraocular lens inserting instrument (1) capable of folding a lens (2) and pressing it by a plunger (4) to discharge it into an eye and capable of taking out the folded lens (2) by tweezers (15). The intraocular lens inserting instrument (1) for inserting a foldable intraocular lens (2) into an eye has a tubular body (3) for allowing the intraocular lens (2) to pass through it and introducing it into the eye, and a plunger (4) for pressing the intraocular lens (2) to discharge it into the eye, wherein the intraocular lens (2) is folded by a folding member (8) provided at a lens placing section (5). The lens placing section (5) has an open/close lid (12) so that the folded intraocular lens (2) can be held by the tweezers (15).
US09364310B2
The present disclosure relates to implantable medical devices which include at least one mesh and at least one film pivotably attached to the mesh.
US09364308B2
Pelvic or other types of implants are provided that can include tensioning feedback components or portions, such as color changing polymer materials, such as polyacetylene. The color changing polymer can be included with, coated on or otherwise provided with a portion of slings or implant devices to provide targeted feedback to the user or physician of the tension applied to a particular device. A first color can be used to indicate a first (initial) tension or compression stage, and a second color can be used to indicate tensioning of the device beyond a predefined threshold.
US09364302B2
Process and systems for molding or forming products from thermosetting plastics. The system utilizes a deformable container that is placed within the cavity of the housing of the mold with the resins and initiator mixed therein. As a piston slides into the cavity, the upper edges of the container engage between the housing and the piston to seal the housing form leakage. The pressure of the piston along with heat on the housing enable the curing process to be controlled to minimize shrinkage and porosity.
US09364300B2
An intra-oral scanning device includes a light source and an optical system, and communicates with a display system. The device captures images of an object of interest, e.g., patient teeth or associated anatomy, by projecting the light source as a first series of frames, and a second series of frames. The first series of frames projects first pattern data, and the second series of frames projects second data. The second series of frames are interleaved between frames in the first series of frames. The frames in the first series are partially-illuminated and are used to capture data for a 3D model. The frames in the second series are preferably fully-illuminated and are used to generate a live preview of the object. By displaying the live preview frames in juxtaposition to the 3D model, the operator is provided with visual feedback of the object.
US09364289B2
Various apparatuses and methods involve flexible components for insertion into tissue, such as for minimally-invasive surgical procedures. As consistent with one or more embodiments, an apparatus includes a plurality of elongated flexible segments and one or more rigid actuators coupled between the flexible segments. One or more tendons extend within and moves the flexible segments, which elastically flex upon insertion into tissue. Each rigid actuator also operates to move one or more of the flexible segments, providing further movement control. A manipulator circuit is coupled to each rigid actuator and operates to position one or more of the segments by actuating the rigid actuator (e.g., via electrical and/or mechanical input).
US09364285B2
An irrigated medical device, including an inlet tube configured to receive an irrigation fluid from a pressurized fluid source, at least first and second outlet tubes configured to deliver the irrigation fluid to respective outlets of the device, a manifold containing a chamber coupled between the inlet tube and at least the first and second outlet tubes, and a ball including a magnetic material contained inside the chamber. The irrigated medical device also includes a magnetic field generator disposed outside the chamber and configured to generate a variable magnetic field within the chamber so as to move the ball between at least a first position in which the first outlet tube is blocked, a second position in which the second outlet tube is blocked, and a third position, in which neither of the outlet tubes is blocked.
US09364283B2
Devices and methods are provided for ablational treatment of regions of the digestive tract in post-bariatric surgery patients who fail to achieve or maintain the desired weight loss. Bariatric procedures include Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, biliopancreatic diversion, and sleeve gastrectomy. These procedures reconstruct gastrointestinal tract features, creating pouches, stoma, and tubes that restrict and/or divert the digestive flow. Post-surgical dilation of altered structures is common and diminishes their bariatric effectiveness. Ablation of compromised structures can reduce their size and compliance, restoring bariatric effectiveness. Ablation, as provided the invention, starts at the mucosa and penetrates deeper into the gastrointestinal wall in a controlled manner. Control may also be provided by a fractional ablation that ablates some tissue within a target region and leaves a portion substantially unaffected. Embodiments of the device include an ablational electrode array that spans 360 degrees and an array that spans an arc of less than 360 degrees.
US09364280B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for pulsed electric field neuromodulation via an intra-to-extravascular approach, e.g., to effectuate irreversible electroporation or electrofusion, necrosis and/or inducement of apoptosis, alteration of gene expression, changes in cytokine upregulation and other conditions in target neural fibers. In some embodiments, the ITEV PEF system comprises an intravascular catheter having one or more electrodes configured for intra-to-extravascular placement across a wall of patient's vessel into proximity with target neural fibers. With the electrode(s) passing from an intravascular position to an extravascular position prior to delivery of the PEF, a magnitude of applied voltage or energy delivered via the electrode(s) and necessary to achieve desired neuromodulation may be reduced relative to an intravascular PEF system having one or more electrodes positioned solely intravascularly. The methods and apparatus of the present invention may, for example, be used to modulate one or more target neural fibers that contribute to renal function.
US09364279B2
A surgical instrument includes a handpiece having a user input feature and a user feedback feature. A shaft assembly extends distally from the handpiece. An end effector is disposed at a distal end of the shaft assembly. The end effector includes an active feature responsive to actuation of the user input feature. The active feature is operable to operate on tissue in response to actuation of the user input feature. The user feedback feature is operable to provide feedback to the user that indicates information relating to operation of the end effector. The feedback may include haptic, visual, and/or auditory feedback.
US09364275B2
A system and method for pressing fragments of a fracture against each other includes a compression device comprising a hollow shaft. The system has an inner engagement portion for engaging an outer feature of a screw head arranged at a distal end of the shaft. The system has a supporting element with a contact surface adapted to abut on one of the fragments, and a joint is provided between the supporting element and the hollow shaft. The joint is formed so as to allow a rotation of the shaft about a longitudinal axis thereof relative to the supporting element. Additionally, the joint is formed to allow a pivot movement of the supporting element relative to the shaft.
US09364274B2
An absorbable screw fastener and a method of firing with an applicator capable of applying a surgical fastener to tissue in order to form tissue connection to secure objects to tissue, the fastener including a body portion having a helical thread, a head portion disposed at the proximal end of the body portion. The head portion includes a driver receiving configuration on its outer surface. The screw fastener further includes a cannulated center lumen with an opening extending from the head portion through the longitudinal length of the body portion.
US09364273B2
The present invention provides a drug eluting surgical screw and a method for manufacturing a drug eluting surgical screw. The drug eluting surgical screw may include a shaft having a threaded portion, a head having a drive recess disposed at a proximal end of the shaft, the drive recess having a reservoir region and a driver engagement region, and at least one or more drug eluting components disposed within the reservoir region of the drive recess in a manner that does not substantially impair a connection between a driver and the surgical screw when the driver is operably disposed within the driver engagement region, each of the at least one or more drug eluting components including a carrier matrix and a therapeutic agent, the therapeutic agent being at least 20 wt % of the drug eluting component prior to any implantation of the drug eluting surgical screw.
US09364272B2
An apparatus for reducing the profile of a bone fixation plate while, preventing backing out of screws is disclosed. The apparatus includes at least one section of relief and sections of engagement. The plate has at least two openings though which two screws can pass through bony tissue. As the screw is tightened, it will begin to lag the plate to the bone. When the screw head interferes with the plate at the interference point, there is a slight resistance that insertion forces can overcome. When the screw is advanced further, it snaps into the sliding fit area and is allowed to move freely. The forces that cause the screw to back out from the plate are preferably not strong enough to pass the screw head back past the interference section. It may be desirable to include a set screw to help prevent backout.
US09364270B2
A battery pack for a use with a powered surgical tool. The battery pack may include a housing with an outer wall and opposing first and second ends. The housing may include an elongated shape that extends between the first and second ends. A first member may extend across the first end of the housing and include a first aperture, and a second end member may extend across the second end of the housing and may include a second aperture. A passage may extend through the housing with a first end that aligns with the first aperture and a second end that aligns with the second aperture. The housing may be sized for a plurality of storage locations positioned between the first and second members and around the passage, and each of the storage locations may be configured to store a power cell.
US09364260B2
An obturator provides access to a joint through a capsule surrounding the joint. A distal end of the obturator has a first distal location with a first width dimension and a second distal location with a second width dimension, wherein the second distal location is proximal to the first distal location and the second width dimension greater than the first width dimension. A retractable blade can extend from the obturator to be exposed between the first distal location and the second distal location.
US09364257B2
A cannula assembly includes a cannula adapted for insertion within tissue and having a longitudinal passage extending along a longitudinal axis of the cannula for passage of a surgical instrument. An expandable member is mounted to the cannula and longitudinally spaced from a distal end of the cannula. The expandable member is adapted to expand, upon introduction of fluids therein, in a radially outward direction relative to the longitudinal axis whereby the expandable member engages the tissue to facilitate anchoring of the cannula relative to the tissue, and also to expand in a radially inward direction relative to the longitudinal axis and within the longitudinal passage to engage the surgical instrument positioned within the longitudinal passage to facilitate formation of a seal about the surgical instrument.
US09364255B2
A cutting device for repairing a heart valve may include a delivery catheter, a cutting unit including an elongate shaft and a plurality of cutting wires, and a plurality of centralizing wires configured to center the cutting unit within a treatment site. A method of repairing a heart valve may include withdrawing a cutting unit through a treatment site while maintaining a plurality centralizing wires in an expanded centering configuration.
US09364254B2
A valvuloplasty catheter comprises a balloon or other expansible shell which carries a plurality of scoring elements, typically formed in an elastic, self-closing metal cage. The expansible shell and scoring elements are positioned inside an aortic or other cardiac valve, and the shell expanded to engage the scoring elements against stenotic material which covers the valve leaflets and valve annulus. The scoring elements uniformly distributed force to break up the stenotic material, and the cage further contributes to rapid balloon deflation allowing shortening of the treatment time.
US09364253B1
Tissue severing devices having extension members that reciprocate distally and proximally and are coupled to dual reciprocating looped blades are disclosed herein. The severing devices described herein can be used during laparoscopic surgery to cut tissue of a predetermined diameter using the two looped blades.
US09364250B2
Methods and systems for resecting and debulking prostatic tissue to utilize a shaft carrying an energy source. The shaft is anchored by a balloon or other structure expanded in the bladder, and the energy source is capable of directing ablative energy radially outwardly from the urethra, where the energy source will be moved in order to remove a pre-defined volume of prostatic tissue.
US09364244B2
Apparatus for locating an attachment position for a reconstructed anterior cruciate ligament on an attachment surface of a bone comprises locating means 51, 61 arranged to locate at least one reference surface 4 of the bone and guide means 53, 54 arranged to define the attachment position in two dimensions on the attachment surface relative to the reference surface.
US09364239B2
A jaw closure mechanism for use in a surgical clip applier having first and second jaws movable relative to one another between a spaced-apart position and an approximated position to form a surgical clip about tissue. The jaw closure mechanism includes first and second eccentric wheels rotatably coupled to the respective first and second jaws. Each of the wheels includes a center and a pivot point that is offset relative to the center. A cable is disposed about each of the wheels. The cable is engaged to the first wheel at a first engagement point and to the second wheel at a second engagement point such that, upon application of a drive force to the cable, the wheels are rotated and displaced relative to the respective jaws from a first position to a second position to urge the jaws from the spaced-apart position to the approximated position.
US09364230B2
A rotary support joint assembly for coupling a first portion of a surgical instrument to a second portion of a surgical instrument. In various forms the joint assembly includes a first annular race in the first portion and a second annular race in the second portion. The second race is configured for substantial registration with the first annular race when the second portion is joined with the first portion. A ring-like bearing is supported within the registered first and second annular races.
US09364227B2
A cartridge assembly is disclosed. The cartridge assembly comprises a cartridge housing and a cartridge. The cartridge housing has a plurality of biasing members thereon. The cartridge is configured for reception at least partially within the cartridge housing. The cartridge includes a plurality of fasteners at least partially therein. The cartridge has a plurality of pockets. Each fastener is ejectable from a corresponding pocket. The cartridge has a plurality of chambers, and each chamber is adjacent a pocket and configured to store at least one fastener at least partially therein. At least one fastener is movable from the chamber to the pocket. The cartridge includes a plurality of pushers, where each pusher is configured to engage at least one corresponding fastener. At least one pusher includes at least one cam surface thereon. Each biasing member urges at least one corresponding fastener toward the corresponding pocket.
US09364219B2
A staple drive assembly includes an actuation sled and at least one staple pusher. The staple drive assembly is adapted to fit within a staple cartridge having a plurality of staples and a corresponding number of retention slots. The at least one staple pusher includes at least one pusher plate for releasably engaging a backspan of a staple. The staple pusher may include a plurality of pusher plates that may be laterally and longitudinally spaced apart. An actuation member has at least one angled camming surface for engaging a complimentary angled surface of the at least one staple pusher. Camming engagement between the actuation member and the at least one staple pusher causes vertical movement of the at least one staple pusher. Lateral and longitudinal offset of the actuation member camming surfaces and the corresponding staple pusher following surfaces improves stability and control of the staple pusher during firing.
US09364217B2
In one aspect of the present disclosure a surgical stapling apparatus is disclosed including a cartridge assembly. The cartridge assembly includes at least one cartridge having a first half and a second half, a first row of retention slots disposed in the first half, a second row of retention slots disposed in the second half, a third row of retention slots being alternately disposed in the first half and the second half of the at least one cartridge between the first and second rows of staple receiving slots, a plurality of fasteners disposed in the retention slots of the first, second and third rows, and a plurality of pushers disposed in each of the first and second halves of the cartridge.
US09364215B2
The present disclosure provides a package for a medical device having a surface prepared for receiving a target agent and a port for permitting the passage of the target agent between the surface of the medical device contained therein.
US09364209B2
An apparatus for closing an opening in a body tissue. The apparatus includes a shaft, a plurality of arms, and an expander. The arms each extend between a proximal end and a distal end. The distal end of each arm is hingedly attached to or integrally formed with the shaft. The arms are laterally spaced apart from each other. The arms are movable between a retracted configuration, in which the arms are each aligned along the shaft, and a deployed configuration, in which the proximal end of each arm pivots respectively about the distal end of the arm so as to extend laterally away from the shaft. The expander is positioned within the shaft, and movement of the expander causes the arms to move between the retracted and deployed configurations. Methods of using the apparatus are also included.
US09364208B2
A medical material delivery device includes a shaft having a lumen that receives a therapeutic agent, and can include a guide having a channel for receiving a medical instrument adapted for positioning in conjunction with a bodily part. An expandable member positioned in conjunction with the guide is adapted for communication with the bodily part and is arranged to burst open when the expandable member is disrupted by a disrupting mechanism to deliver the therapeutic agent to the bodily part. Further embodiments include a medical instrument and an expandable member in conjunction with the medical instrument to burst or leak to deliver a therapeutic agent. The medical material delivery device can include a bodily fluid locator attached with the device, as well as can include a second expandable member to inflate and deflate to localize a bodily part, with a first expandable member bursting to deliver a therapeutic agent.
US09364202B2
A removal pouch that is utilized for removing body tissue from the interior of the body as part of a minimally invasive surgical procedure. The specimen removal pouch includes an elongated body and a gas vent. The elongated body has an interior portion to collect specimen from a body cavity of a patient. The gas vent is configured to allow passage of gas from the interior portion of the elongated body to an external environment during removal of the pouch from within the body cavity of the patient.
US09364198B2
An ultrasound probe diagnosing apparatus which diagnoses an ultrasound probe having an array of a plurality of ultrasound transducing elements on the basis of how the ultrasound probe receives reflected ultrasound waves from a test object placed to face the ultrasound probe, includes a part which detects a posture of the ultrasound probe with respect to the test object by comparing reflected ultrasound signals received by at least some of the plurality of ultrasound transducing elements, and a presenting part which presents information based on the detected posture.
US09364192B2
Systematic error is estimated as a function of location in quantitative functional imaging. The systematic error is estimated by perturbing the system matrix. The values of one or more variables of the system matrix are altered, and the reconstruction repeated. The differences in the resulting object or image data of the different reconstructions provide systematic error information as a function of location.
US09364186B2
A method for the reconstruction of a dose administered in an object to be irradiated includes providing a radiation therapy device. The radiation therapy device includes a therapeutic radiation source for emitting a therapeutic treatment beam, a portal detector opposing the therapeutic radiation source for recording measurement data of the treatment beam once the therapeutic radiation source has left the object to be irradiated, and a single or multi slice computed tomography scanner having a kV x-ray source and an opposing kV detector for producing a computed tomography of the object positioned in the radiation therapy device. The method also includes recording a computed tomography image of the object to be irradiated with the computed tomography scanner, and using the computed tomography image in order to reconstruct a dose administered to the object from measurement data of the portal detector.
US09364177B2
A thin film sensor, such as a glucose sensor, is provided for transcutaneous placement at a selected site within the body of a patient. The sensor includes several sensor layers that include conductive layers and includes a proximal segment defining conductive contacts adapted for electrical connection to a suitable monitor, and a distal segment with sensor electrodes for transcutaneous placement. The sensor electrode layers are disposed generally above each other, for example with the reference electrode above the working electrode and the working electrode above the counter electrode. The electrode layers are separated by dielectric layer.
US09364152B2
There is used an object information acquiring apparatus including a probe for electrically scanning an object in first direction and mechanically scanning in second direction intersecting with the first direction, a first delay-and-sum unit for operating a delay-and-sum on a received signal, a memory for storing a first delay-and-sum signal for each plane in the second direction, a selecting unit for selecting signals corresponding to M sectional planes from among the stored signals, a second delay-and-sum unit for operating a delay-and-sum on the selected signals in the second direction, and a unit for acquiring image in the object from the second delay-and-sum signal, the second delay-and-sum unit switching, according to the mechanical scanning, a first case in which M signals are fixed and a delay pattern is varied and a second case in which a set of the M signals is varied and the delay pattern is fixed.
US09364146B2
A slit lamp microscope capable of appropriately and easily carrying out the setting of the optical system is provided. In storage 102 of a slit lamp microscope 1, correspondence information 110 is stored in which standard setting conditions of an illumination system 8 and/or an observation system 6 are associated with each of multiple sites of an eye E. A searching part 121 searches the standard setting conditions corresponding to a site designated by an operation part 104 from the correspondence information 110. A setting-state acquiring part 122 acquires current setting states of the illumination system 8 and/or the observation system 6. A setting-state specifying part specifies, from among the current setting states acquired by the setting-state acquiring part 122, those differing from the standard setting conditions searched by the searching part 121. A controller displays information based on this specified result on the display 103.
US09364141B2
A device for stabilizing the constant accommodation of an eye comprises a target object, an optical unit, and an additional optical unit. The target object is set up to be fixated by a patient along an optical axis. The optical unit is set up along the optical axis to compensate for a spherical ametropia of the eye. The additional optical unit is set up along the optical axis to compensate for an astigmatic ametropia of the eye. The additional optical unit comprises at least two cylindrical lenses and at least four deflection prisms. At least one cylindrical lens is rotatably arranged about the optical axis. At least one deflection prism can be adjusted to change the optical path length of the light path from the target object to the eye.
US09364133B2
A washing method for a dishwasher is provided, wherein the dishwasher has a wash container that delimits a wash compartment. The washing method includes buffering wash liquid that is no longer required during or after execution of a wash operation in a storage container that is thermally coupled to the wash container; condensing, in a drying step of the wash operation, moisture-laden air or water vapor in the wash compartment of the wash container on at least one side wall of the wash container; and, before or during the drying step, filling the storage container with fresh water to provide a condensation surface.
US09364123B1
A disposable portable toilet comprised of a toilet packaged within a resealable container having a zip lock so that the toilet can be placed back into container after use for disposal. The disposable portable toilet has a lightweight rigid housing with a zippered cover with a plurality of toilet accessories attached to the underside of the seat and containing anti-bacterial agent used to neutralize any pathogen contamination leaking from said disposable portable toilet after use.
US09364114B2
A method and device for creating a beverage recipe for an integrated beverage blending system includes a dispenser and at least one blending/mixing/cleaning module. The method creates the beverage recipe with recipe program running on a computer interactively with a user making recipe entry parameters for the dispensing, blending and mixing operations. The recipe can be stored on a portable memory and inserted into a user interface controller of the integrated system or into an associated point of sale device.
US09364108B2
A beverage container lid is disclosed that includes an overflow chamber for liquid displaced when a straw is inserted through the lid's straw hole. The beverage container lid includes a top layer and a bottom layer that define an overflow chamber between the top and bottom layer. The top layer has a top opening and the bottom layer has a bottom opening, that are aligned along the vertical axis and through which a straw may be inserted into a beverage container to which the beverage container lid is attached.
US09364096B2
An insect-repelling bed pad to be located between the mattress and a box spring of a bed or laid upon the ground inside and out of doors for use by individuals and pets during sleep. The bed pad is manufactured from a porous or loosely-woven material (e.g., burlap) and includes a plurality of chambers. The chambers contain a natural (i.e., green) insect-repelling substance (e.g., cedar wood chips and/or dust) having a scent that is adapted to drive away insects without the use of chemicals. The scent and/or the dust is blown from the chambers of the bed pad to repel insects which may reside between the box spring and the mattress or around the bed site when a compressive force is applied by a user to the bed pad to correspondingly squeeze the chambers.
US09364094B2
A floating pool lounge is disclosed. The floating pool lounge has a head end and a foot end, and includes an opening between the head end and the foot end. The opening extends through the thickness of the lounge and is sized to admit a human head. The pool lounge may also include handles disposed on respective sides, and a head and cervical support disposed around the opening toward the foot end. In some embodiments, particularly where the pool lounge is not rigid enough to resist movement, it may carry a series of connected channels or pockets, and substantially rigid frame members may be connected within the channels or pockets to rigidify the structure.
US09364091B2
A tilt mechanism (10) for a chair comprises a base (11), a back bracket (12) configured to support a chair back (4) and a coupling arrangement (16, 25) configured to couple the back bracket (12) to the base (11). The coupling arrangement comprises a guide track (25) and a guide member (16). One of the guide track (25) and the guide member (16) is provided on a portion of the back bracket (12) extending from a back attaching portion (23) to a pivot coupling portion (24) at which the back bracket (12) may be articulated to a chair seat (3). The other one of the guide track (25) and the guide member (16) is provided on the base (11). When the coupling arrangement (16, 25) couples the back bracket (12) to the base (11), pivoting the back bracket (12) about the pivot coupling portion (24) causes the guide member (16) and the guide track (25) to be displaced relative to each other, effecting a displacement of the pivot coupling portion (24) relative to the base (11).
US09364086B2
Proper article storage management is made possible in the article storage facility which stores articles in containers and in an inactive gas environment. The article storage facility includes a storage rack having storage sections, a transport portion which transports containers to the storage sections, gas supplying portions each of which supplies inactive gas to the container stored in the storage section, and a display. The display displays display sections such that the arrangement of the display sections corresponds to the arrangement of the storage sections in the storage rack and displays a supply state of inactive gas in each of the display sections.
US09364066B2
The present invention is directed to a method for cutting hair that incorporates the shape of the head to determine the angles at which the hair will be cut for a given hair style. The angle at which the hair is cut depends on the shape of the head where the cut is made as well as the angle at which the hair falls at the cut. The shape of the head changes according to location, and therefore the angle at which the hair is cut changes accordingly. Other factors also taken into consideration by the present invention include the natural fall of the hair, the density of the hair, and the guide lengths and the perimeter lines of the haircut style.
US09364065B2
A hair curler comprises a handle, a roller and a heating part. One end of the roller is fixedly connected to the handle and the heating part is electrically connected to the power source. The hair curler comprises a heat insulation unit which is fixedly disposed on the other end of the roller away from the handle and closes the other end of the roller; an extending part is disposed on the other end of the roller; the heat insulation unit comprises a heat insulation part, an end cap and a fixing member, the end cap is cap joint to the other end of the roller, the heat insulation part is adapted inside the extending part and located between the end cap and the heating part, and the fixing member fixes the end cap with respect to the roller; and the heat insulation part is made of heat insulation materials.
US09364045B2
An article of footwear may have an upper and a sole structure secured to the upper. The upper includes an illuminable panel and a plurality of strands positioned to extend adjacent and parallel to the illuminable panel. The illuminable panel has a surface with a covered area and an exposed area. The covered area includes a substantially opaque covering, and the exposed area is at least partially visible from the exterior of the footwear. The strands are located to correspond with the exposed area of the illuminable panel. Light from the exposed area of the illuminable panel may enhance, highlight, or otherwise increase the visibility of the strands or areas of the upper that include the strands.
US09364043B2
An article of footwear has a sole member with an exposed central torsion bar or rod connecting the heel region of the sole member to the forefoot region of the sole member. The torsion bar or rod may be supported at either end by sockets of the sole member. The torsion bar or rod may also be supported at one or more intermediate points by a hollow component. This hollow component may itself be supported by ribs extending to the medial and lateral sides of the sole member, respectively. The torsion bar or rod, the sockets, the hollow component and the ribs form a suspension structure connecting the forefoot region of the sole member to the heel region of the sole member.
US09364038B2
A long sleeved upper torso hooded garment which is worn by a user and comprising a detachable hood, the detachable hood including a top head portion, two opposed lateral portions, a back head portion, wherein there is a natural pocket portion in the back head portion of hood, above the hem or elastic neckline member, giving the natural pocket portion the ability to accommodate at least some of a user's loose hair; a front head opening portion, and a neck portion circumferentially extending around user's neck, the hood including a circumventing channel that encloses a drawstring at the edge of facial opening which is used to decrease the size of the facial opening, the upper torso portion of garment includes four openings, the two opposed lateral portions for allowing the users arms to pass through ending at the wrists' opening, the top opening for connecting the torso piece to the base of hood piece, and the bottom largest opening in which the user places the head, arms, and upper torso through to put on, or take off garment.
US09364034B2
Disclosed is a protective garment that includes a lower portion having a pair of extremities each having a knee joint area connected to an upper leg portion by an upper radial seam and connected to a lower leg portion by a lower radial seam. The knee joint area of each extremity also has an inseam insert connected between the upper and lower radial seams.
US09364033B2
A shock-absorbing device for a human body which can reduce an impact applied to the human body when a wearer falls is provided. The shock-absorbing device for the human body includes: i) an airbag configured to surround the human body; ii) a compressed gas cartridge connected to the airbag and configured to store a gas to be injected into the airbag; iii) a compressed gas cartridge opener connected to the compressed gas cartridge and configured to eject the gas from the compressed gas cartridge; iv) a foot sensor placed at a foot of the human body and configured to sense and store a mass center of the human body; v) an acceleration sensor configured to sense a motion of the human body; vi) a fall detection sensor connected to the foot sensor and the acceleration sensor and configured to determine whether or not the human body is falling based on detection signals received from the foot sensor and the acceleration sensor, respectively; and vii) a control unit configured to control opening of the compressed gas cartridge opener in response to a signal received from the fall detection sensor. When the mass center detected by the foot sensor deviates from a sensing area, the fall detection sensor sends a fall signal to the control unit. When motion acceleration of the human body exceeds predetermined acceleration, the fall detection sensor can send another fall signal to the control unit.
US09364029B2
Embodiments of socks having at least one heel padding are disclosed herein. The at least one heel padding can be attached to the heel pocket area of a sock, preferably in the top half of the heel pocket area. Such socks can be particularly advantageous in improving the comfort, as well as the fit of shoes on a person's feet.
US09364026B2
The present invention is related to an electronic cigarette tightly engaged by expansion, which includes a sucking rod and a power rod, the sucking rod is configured with a first connector, the first connector includes a first seat and a first pole which are respectively served as two connecting electrodes of the first connector, and the first seat is configured with a first expanding portion; the power rod is configured with a second connector, the second connector comprises a second seat and a second pole which are respectively served as two connecting electrodes of the second connector, the second seat is configured with a second expanding portion tightly engaged with the first expanding portion by expansion; the first and second expanding portions are mutually tightly engaged by expansion to make the first connector to abut against the second connector and make the first pole to abut against the second pole.
US09364023B1
The present invention is a tobacco smoking holder for smoking a cigarette and filtering the tobacco byproducts from the air before emitting the clear air from the holder. The holder enables a user to mount the cigarette within the holder, light the cigarette while in the holder, smoke the cigarette while in the holder isolating the combustion byproducts through a motorized filtering assembly housed within a housing, which removes the cigarette's byproducts from the air before exhausting the air, thereby protecting others from secondary smoke and other products produced during smoking. When finished smoking, the cigarette is then extinguished while in the housing by an extinguishing canister that encompasses the lit end of the cigarette.
US09364022B2
A low ignition propensity wrapper comprising a first region and a second region different to the first region, wherein the first region is an embossed region. A low ignition propensity smoking article incorporating the wrapper and an apparatus and a method for forming the wrapper are also described.
US09364014B2
The present invention relates to a method of producing tomato pastes that have increased dietary value, e.g. resulting from the presence of a significant amount of gamma-aminobutyric acid. More in particular, the present method concerns producing tomato pastes from dehydrated processing tomatoes, said dehydrated tomatoes being obtained either by harvesting post-ripened tomatoes that have dehydrated while still on the vine or by harvesting tomatoes that are subsequently dehydrated by drying the intact tomatoes said tomatoes having a cuticle that is permeable to water. The inventors have observed that in order to produce a tomato paste with the desired high GABA content and optimum taste, the processing tomatoes should be dehydrated to a Brix value within the range of 5-10.
US09364013B2
Fried noodles of excellent quality that are approximately 1 to 7 cm in length can be produced efficiently by a process for production of fried noodles including: a step of preparing raw noodles; a step of gelatinizing the raw noodles; a step of cutting the gelatinized raw noodles into noodles of 1 to 7 cm; and a step of frying the cut noodles by allowing the same to naturally float in frying oil.
US09364012B2
A method and apparatus for aging coffee, which both accelerates the aging process, and also imparts and develops a desired flavor profile in the finished (roasted and brewed) bean. Beneficial results are obtained by placing unroasted coffee in intimate contact with or in proximity to aging compounds of interest.
US09363998B2
A pesticidal composition comprising a carboxamide compound represented by following formula (I), wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R2 represents a methyl group, a difluoromethyl group or a trifluoromethyl group, and one or more carbamate compounds selected from group (A) consisting of oxamyl, thiodicarb, carbosulfan, methiocarb and carbofuran is provided by the present invention, and this composition has an excellent pesticidal effect.
US09363993B2
An antibacterial resin composition comprising a thermoplastic resin or a thermosetting resin that contains a metal compound represented by the following formula (1), permitting the metal such as silver having antibacterial power to efficiently elute out and the eluted metal to remain stable as metal ions so that excellent antibacterial power can be exhibited using only a decreased amount of an expensive compound containing silver or the like, wherein M is any one of Ag, Cu, Zn, Co or Ni and X is SO2.
US09363985B1
An aquarium cleaning system uses a housing that seals to the bottom of the aquarium. Water is siphoned out of the top of the housing into a vessel. As a result of the siphoned off water, additional water enters the housing via a tube assembly wherein a spray bar assembly rotates and discharges water out of a pair of opposing openings, such discharge causing a vortex. A counterflow vortex is created either by a second counterrotating spray bar assembly or via angled inlet jets on the base proximate the rotating spray bar assembly. The colliding vortexes cause substrate within the aquarium to collide and thereby clean itself. Lighter waste material is carried out of the housing by the laminar water flow of the siphon with the substrate loosing sufficient kinetic energy from the laminar flow so as to gravitationally settle back toward the base of the housing.
US09363979B2
When a primate is t restrained by a movable partition wall, friction with vertical bars of a lattice of the partition wall causing damages on roots of limbs of the primate is alleviated to reduce or solve such damages. In a primate restraint device comprising a containing body having both side surfaces, a top surface and a bottom surface, a rear surface door capable of opening and shutting the rear surface side of the containing body, and a partition wall formed movably frontward and rearward in the containing body and capable of being fixed at a desired position in the containing body, some sites among vertical bar members of the partition wall, with which roots of limbs of the primate are brought into contact while the limbs are forced to protrude frontward and restrained, are covered with protective cylinders which are rotatable with respect to the vertical bar members.
US09363978B2
An animal habitat arrangeable in a vertical or a horizontal orientation comprising a rectangular enclosure having four side-walls and two opposing end-walls, wherein the four side-walls are joined to a frame at a first end of the enclosure; and the two opposing end-walls comprise a first end-wall and a second-end wall; wherein the first end-wall is releasably connectable to the frame, positionable within the frame in a plurality of orientations and provides an end-wall door with access to an interior of the rectangular enclosure; wherein at least one of the side-walls provides a side-wall door with access to the interior of the rectangular enclosure and has a hinge position which is changeable along opposite side-walls of the enclosure.
US09363976B2
Herein described is a portable sanitation apparatus for pet waste disposal and method for using the same comprising an overall composite structure with a plurality of primary layers with one or more sublayers and an engagement means for attaching the two primary layers together.
US09363973B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01051540. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01051540. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01051540 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01051540 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09363972B2
A novel soybean variety, designated XR30AD14 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XR30AD14, cells from soybean variety XR30AD14, plants of soybean XR30AD14, and plant parts of soybean variety XR30AD14. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XR30AD14 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XR30AD14, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XR30AD14, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XR30AD14. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XR30AD14 are further provided.
US09363970B1
A novel maize variety designated PH1VRW and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1VRW with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1VRW through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH1VRW or a locus conversion of PH1VRW with another maize variety.
US09363955B2
A combination of a tree removal device and working vehicle for coupling the device thereon such that the combination is arranged for slicing tree roots. The working vehicle has a front element which is pivotable relative to a frame of the vehicle about a lateral axis in front of a forward end of the frame. The tree removal device includes an attachment portion for coupling to the front element and a knife element having a blade portion. The blade portion has front and rear edges arranged for engaging the ground in respective forward and backward directions of movement of the vehicle which are sharpened so as to perform a cutting action in the respective direction of movement when the blade portion engages the ground. Furthermore, the knife element is pivotable relative to the attachment about an axis in a vertical plane that divides the vehicle into symmetrical halves.
US09363948B2
A framing unit used with a plurality of replaceable panels that form a vertical retaining wall or a rigid enclosure to make raised planting beds. The framing unit includes two vertical end connectors, two horizontal top rails, at least one bottom rail, and a plurality of vertical panels. Each end connector includes two side flanges joined to form a vertical channel. Each end connector includes at least one hinge sleeve offset from the hinge sleeve on the opposite end connector adjacent framing units to be joined with a single anchor pin. The bottom and the two top rails are parallel and extend between the two end connectors. The top rails are separated by an upper gap that allow a plurality of vertical panels to be inserted into and supported by a channel formed on the bottom rail. The top edges of the panels are captured by the two top rails.
US09363945B2
A method for enhancing a coverage distribution of a robotic garden tool (100) operating within a predetermined working area (200), wherein the robotic garden tool (100) is provided with steering control means operable to change a movement direction of the robotic garden tool (100), and a positioning device (120). The method comprises the steps of providing (301) working area related data, defining (302) a temporary working area (500), based on the working area related data, which temporary working area (500) at least partly extends within the working area (200), estimating (303) a current position (600) of the robotic garden tool (100), evaluating (304) the estimated current position (600), selectively adapting (305) the temporary working area (500), in response to the step of evaluating (304) the estimated current position, selectively adapting (306) a movement direction of the robotic garden tool (100), in response to the step of evaluating (304) the estimated current position. The steps of selectively adapting (305) the extension of the temporary working area (500) and selectively adapting (306) a movement direction of the robotic garden tool are performed so as to push the robotic garden tool towards the temporary working area or so as to keep the robotic garden tool within the temporary working area (500).
US09370135B2
Image readers 6A and 6B that read images of electronic components held by first mounting heads 14A and 14B are each configured to have a line sensor arranged at an oblique arrangement angle with respect to a first direction, and in an image acquiring step of selecting any one of a first-directional scanning operation and a second-directional scanning operation is to be conducted by mounting heads 14A and 14B based on a predetermined scanning operation selecting condition set in advance, and acquiring image signals from the image readers 6A and 6B, image conversion processing of arranging one-dimensional images obtained by converting one-dimensional images sequentially output from the line sensor by an arrangement angle in parallel to generate a two-dimensional image is executed.
US09370131B2
A surface mount clip includes: a bottom portion having a flat surface; clip spring portions which extend from parts of the bottom portion and are provided in a standing manner, in a pair facing each other so as to form a gap therebetween, and which are configured to clip a plate material inserted into the gap by a resilient repulsive force; and a bottom spring portion which is formed by cutting and raising a part of the bottom portion or the clip spring portions, and which has an upper surface to be pressed by a lower end of the plate material inserted between the pair of the clip spring portions.
US09370130B2
A casing for containing electronic equipment includes a casing member of the metal plate having an opening; a closing member for closing the opening; a first inclined plate portion provided at an edge of the opening, the first inclined plate portion being inclined relative to a plate portion of the casing member and being provided by bending the casing member; a second inclined plate portion provided at a edge of the closing member, the second inclined plate portion being provided by bending the closing member, and the second inclined plate portion being opposed to the first inclined plate portion when the closing member is mounted to close the opening; and an elastic member having an electroconductivity and provided compressed between the first inclined plate portion and the second inclined plate portion.
US09370127B2
A gas cooling system for an electronic display is disclosed herein. A closed loop of circulating gas is preferably positioned to surround the electronic display. An open loop of cooling air preferably travels along the rear surface of the electronic display. In an exemplary embodiment the cooling air does not mix with the circulating gas. Heat may be transferred from the circulating gas to the cooling air in order to cool the display.
US09370117B2
An equipment box assembly includes an open-ended housing and a support plate. The housing has a back wall and opposed sidewalls defining a cavity in the housing. The back wall includes a plurality of mounting features for mounting electronic components to the back wall. The housing is configured to be positioned in an installed position in a mounting surface such that the cavity is recessed in the mounting surface. The support plate includes a plurality of mounting features for mounting electronic components to the support plate. The support plate is releasably mounted in the housing cavity in a first position with the support plate generally parallel to and spaced apart a first distance from the back wall.
US09370116B2
A display device includes: a display substrate in which a display for displaying an image is formed; an encapsulation substrate, which is assembled on the display substrate and has a first surface facing the display substrate and a second surface opposite to the first surface; and a circuit substrate for transferring an electrical signal to the display, where a plurality of pads, which are electrically connected to the display and connected to the circuit substrate, are formed on the first surface of the encapsulation substrate, and at least one connector is formed on surfaces of the display and the encapsulation substrate which face each other, the connector configured to provide a connection path between the display and the circuit board by being adhesively pressed in a vertical direction.
US09370113B2
A power semiconductor module includes a power electronics substrate having a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, a first longitudinal side, a second longitudinal side opposite the first longitudinal side, a module frame, which is arranged to enclose the power electronics substrate, at least one power terminal which is arranged at the first longitudinal side and extends through the module frame, a further terminal, which is arranged at the second longitudinal side and extends through the module frame, at least one power semiconductor component which is arranged on the first surface of the power electronics substrate and is electrically connected to at least one power terminal, and at least one current sensor which is designed to measure a current in a power terminal. The at least one current sensor is arranged on the power terminal and has a signal output connected to the further terminal.
US09370110B2
A method of manufacturing a multilayer substrate structure includes the steps of pre-treatment, pressing and post-treatment. A carrier plate provided with a circuit pattern layer is pressed against a plastic sheet. An interlayer connection pad is formed by drilling and filling the lower surface of the plastic sheet. The carrier plate, the plastic sheet, another plastic sheet and another carrier plate with a circuit pattern layer are pressed together, and then drilled/filled to form a multilayer stacked structure such that the two circuit pattern layers are indirectly and electrically connected to the interlayer connection pad, respectively. Therefore, it is possible to overcome the problem due to alignment tolerance by using the interlayer connection pad wider than alignment tolerance, and stacking the circuit layers, each having much finer line and smaller pitch.
US09370109B2
A sensor device has a ceramic carrier substrate. At least two conductor tracks are arranged on the carrier substrate. The sensor device has at least one ceramic component that is in the form of a chip and is connected to the conductor tracks in an electrically conductive manner. The at least one ceramic component is mechanically connected to the conductor tracks by means of a screen printing paste which has been burnt in.
US09370105B2
A package apparatus comprises a first conductive wiring layer, a first conductive pillar layer, a dielectric material layer, a second conductive wiring layer, a second conductive pillar layer, and a first molding compound layer. The first conductive wiring layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first conductive pillar layer is disposed on the first surface of the first conductive wiring layer, wherein the first conductive wiring layer and the first conductive pillar layer are disposed inside the dielectric material layer. The second conductive wiring layer is disposed on the first conductive pillar layer and the dielectric material layer. The second conductive pillar layer is disposed on the second conductive wiring layer, wherein the second conductive wiring layer and the second conductive pillar layer are disposed inside the first molding compound layer.
US09370103B2
An interposer for a chipset includes multilayer thin film capacitors incorporated therein to reduce parasitic inductance in the chipset. Power and ground terminals are laid out in a staggered pattern to cancel magnetic fields between conductive vias to reduce equivalent series inductance (ESL).
US09370101B2
A plug-in board replacement method includes preparing a board having a piece board, forming first conductive pattern on first surface of the board, forming second conductive pattern on second surface on the opposite side such that the second pattern is on the opposite side of the first pattern, irradiating laser upon the first and second surfaces along the first and second patterns such that the piece is cut out from the board, and fitting the piece into another board. The irradiating includes irradiating laser upon the first surface along the first pattern such that laser is irradiated along the border between edge portion of the first pattern and the first surface and laser upon the second surface along the second pattern such that laser is irradiated along the border between edge portion of the second pattern and the second surface such that the piece is cut out through the board.
US09370099B2
The instant disclosure relates to a manufacturing method of connector which comprises the following steps. The first step is to provide a substrate layer and forming a first metal layer on the substrate layer. The next step is to pattern the first metal layer to form a wiring layer. The next step is to form a dielectric layer on the wiring layer, wherein the dielectric layer is formed with at least one via hole to partially expose the wiring layer and a conductive structure arranged on the inner wall of the at least one via hole and electrically connected to the wiring layer. The next step is to form a first protective layer on the dielectric layer and at least one cantilever structure between the first protective layer and the dielectric layer. The last step is to remove the substrate layer.
US09370090B2
A circuit card assembly is provided. The assembly includes a first printed circuit board, at least one electronic component mounted on the first printed circuit board at a predetermined location, a frame coupled to the first printed circuit board, and a heat transfer assembly coupled to the frame. The heat transfer assembly includes a first plate extending over at least a portion of the first printed circuit board, a heat pipe coupled to the first plate, and a thermally conductive member positioned between the at least one electronic component and the heat pipe. The thermally conductive member is selectively mounted at predetermined locations along the first plate based on the predetermined location of the at least one electronic component.
US09370081B2
A delayed light switch system and method is described herein. Such delayed light switch system can comprise a microphone in a first zone, a light switch, and a central computing system that connects to said microphone and said light switch, wherein said central computing system receives an audio signal from said microphone, said audio signal related to a sound detected by said microphone, waits for a delay time to pass, and transmits a first control signal to said light switch to turn said light switch on.
US09370078B2
There is provided a lighting system 100 comprising at least one lighting device 110, 120, 130 and a control unit 140 arranged for providing power P1,2,3 to each lighting device according to a control logic which is based on startup characteristics C1,2,3 of each lighting device. Thereby a lighting system is provided in which the individual characteristics of the lighting devices are taken into account when controlling the lighting devices. Since the control logic is based on startup characteristics for the lighting devices in the system, as an example, a reduction of the total standby power in the lighting system is achievable.
US09370075B2
Circuits for programming a circuit with decreased programming time are provided. Such circuits include a storage device such as a capacitor for storing display information and for ensuring a driving device such as a driving transistor drives a light emitting device according to the display information. To increase programming time, the pixel circuits may be pre-charged or a biasing current may be applied to charge and/or discharge a data line and/or the driving device. Aspects of the present disclosure allow for the biasing current to drain partially through the storage device to allow the portion of the biasing current applied to the driving device to remain small while the data line discharges. Furthermore, the present disclosure provides display architectures and operation schemes for display arranged in segments each including a plurality of pixel circuits.
US09370070B2
An improved LED module that is thermally self-stabilizing, and that is able to be retrofitted into an existing flashlight is provided. In one embodiment, the LED module includes a light emitting diode, an amplifying circuit and a microchip. The amplifying circuit includes a temperature sensing device to sense heat from the light emitting diode. The output of the amplifying circuit is input to the microchip which output to a switching device that regulates energy that is delivered to the light emitting diode. The switching device may be part of a boosting circuit, a bucking circuit or an inverting circuit.
US09370067B2
An LED control circuit for controlling an LED illuminating device is disclosed. The LED illuminating device includes at least serially connected load group, and the LED control circuit includes: a conversion module configured to convert an input voltage to an output voltage, and to output a working current as a sample current; a reference voltage generating module configured to generate a reference voltage; a control module configured to compare a sample voltage corresponding to the sample current with the reference voltage, and to output a control signal to the conversion module according to a comparison result; and a load short circuit module including a plurality of switches each connected in parallel with respective load group for performing a short circuit control on respective load group in response to a switching signal. A controlling method of such LED control circuit is also disclosed.
US09370058B2
The present invention relates to a driving circuit of LED and a driving method thereof, which comprise a converting circuit and a driving unit. The converting circuit receives a pulse-width modulation (PWM) signal and generates an adjusting current according to the PWM signal. The driving unit receives the adjusting current and generates at least a driving current according to the adjusting current for driving a plurality of LEDs coupled to the driving unit. The magnitude of the driving current is adjusted according to the adjusting current. In addition, the driving unit has a bright-controlling pin used for receiving a control signal having a fixed level.
US09370055B2
A driver device of a plurality of light sources, in particular LEDs, includes a multi-channel current control module (20) which sets a power supply current on a respective output channel connected to at least one light source (12). At least one static configuration register (54) is connected to said current control module in which a static driving configuration corresponding to the value of the power supply current which the multi-channel current control module must set on each output channel when the driver device is in a stand alone operating mode, is pre-loaded as well as at least one dynamic configuration register (56) that acts to load a dynamic driving configuration received from a digital transmission data bus connected to an electronic control unit.
US09370049B2
An apparatus and process are provided for controlling the heating and melting of a material that is non-electrically conductive in the solid state and is electrically conductive in the non-solid state. Power is selectively directed between coil sections surrounding different zones of the material in a susceptor vessel by changing the output frequency of the power supply to the coil sections. Coil sections are at least one active coil section, which is connected to the output of the power supply, and at least one passive coil section, which is not connected to the power supply, but is connected in parallel with a tuning capacitor so that the at least one passive coil section can be selectively operated at, or near, resonant frequency when the transition material in the vessel is molten. Depending upon the state of the transition material in the susceptor vessel, the frequency of the power applied to the active coil section can be changed to generate a magnetic field that selectively couples with the susceptor vessel, transition material in the vessel, and/or the passive coil section.
US09370040B2
Aspects disclosed herein relate to partitioning LLCP responsibilities between the NFCC and DH. In an example, with a NFC device a DH maybe configured to establish a LLCP link with a remote NFC endpoint through a NFCC, and partition LLCP related responsibilities between the DH and the NFCC when the NFCC is operable for LLCP split communications. Further, the NFCC may be operable to receive a PDU from a remote NFC endpoint, determine whether the received PDU is a SYMM PDU or a link deactivation PDU, and communicate the received PDU to a DH upon a determination that the received PDU is not a SYMM PDU or a link deactivation PDU.
US09370039B2
A radio base station in a first mobile communication system is disclosed. The radio base station includes a radio communication unit; a network communication unit; and a determining unit. If a massage received by the network communication unit from a switching station indicates that a mobile station is requesting a service which is not provided in the first mobile communication system but which is provided in, a second mobile communication system and it is determined by the determining unit that a handover to the second mobile communication system cannot be conducted, the network communication unit requests the switching station to release a connection with the mobile station. Then the radio communication unit reports to the mobile station that the connection should be released in accordance with an instruction from the switching station.
US09370038B2
A system for intelligent redial on computing devices. More specifically, a system for identifying the ideal subsequent recipient to a prior attempt to connect with a recipient.
US09370030B2
Provided is a communication system that includes a plurality of communication apparatuses and that transmits and receives a connection request command between the plurality of communication apparatuses to establish a connection between the plurality of communication apparatuses, wherein a transmission source communication apparatus as a transmission source of the connection request command from among the plurality of communication apparatuses transmits transmission timing information that indicates timing at which the connection request command is transmitted, and a transmission destination communication apparatus as a transmission destination of the connection request command from among the plurality of communication apparatuses receives the transmission timing information transmitted from the transmission source communication apparatus and determines timing at which an operation of waiting for receipt of the connection request command transmitted from the transmission source communication apparatus is performed based on the timing indicated by the received transmission timing information.
US09370029B2
In an example, the mobile device may be configured to determine whether to authorize a request for the vehicle head unit to utilize a resource of the mobile device. The mobile device may be configured to utilize a proxy of the mobile device to establish a connection with a destination in response to determining to authorize the request.
US09370024B2
The present invention relates to a method for performing a random access, and more specifically, to a method for a terminal performing a random access in a wireless communication system, and comprises the steps of: receiving from a base station a random access preamble index and an indicator related to the random access; and transmitting to the base station a random access preamble that corresponds to the index, wherein the indicator related to the random access indicates what is a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI), which is used for transmitting a physical downlink control channel that indicates a response to the random access.
US09370020B2
At least one example embodiment discloses a method of scheduling communications for a user equipment (UE) in a co-channel heterogeneous network having a macro cell base station and a small cell base station. The method includes obtaining, by the macro cell base station, pre-scheduling information for transmissions to the UE based on measurements from the UE, the obtaining including, allocating resource blocks for the transmissions, the transmissions to the UE being from at least one of the macro cell base station and the small cell base station, and transmitting, by the macro cell base station, the pre-scheduling information to the small cell base station, the pre-scheduling information indicating first resource blocks for first transmissions from the macro cell base station and second resource blocks for second transmissions from the small cell base stations.
US09370016B1
A UE gauges how many UEs are currently served in each of various coverage systems, by evaluating downlink control channel signaling in each coverage system to determine from the control signaling an extent to which the signaling provides for UE scheduling and to establish a corresponding relative measure of an extent to which the coverage system is serving UEs. In an example implementation, this evaluation may involve eliminating from consideration any control channel signaling that is not associated with UE scheduling, so as to determine by exclusion an extent to which the downlink control channel signaling is associated with UE scheduling. The UE then compares such relative measures of the various coverage systems as a basis to select a coverage system in which to operate, such as by favoring operation in the coverage that thereby seems to be serving the fewest number of UEs.
US09370008B2
A device and method for communicating frequency-coded symbols that include data elements and reference symbols are disclosed. In one aspect, a carrier frequency band includes a plurality of subcarrier frequency bands. Data elements are transmitted and received on respective pairs of adjacent subcarrier frequency bands to provide diversity. Reference symbols are transmitted and received on predetermined subcarrier frequency bands. Muting is applied to selected subcarrier frequency bands based on the number and frequency configuration of the reference symbols.
US09370003B2
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate selecting an uplink carrier for random access within a wireless environment having multiple carriers. Selection of an uplink carrier for random access can be randomly selected from a set of available uplink carriers. Additionally, the uplink carrier for random access can be selected based upon which uplink carrier is paired with an anchor carrier. Further, the uplink carrier for random access can be identified based upon a bandwidth related to the user equipment (UE). Reference signals can also be employed in order to identify an uplink carrier to perform random access.
US09369996B2
A base station apparatus in a radio communication system where transmit diversity is applied in uplinks includes a reference signal measurement unit configured to measure a receive level of the reference signal, a switch pitch determination unit configured to determine the antenna switch pitch of transmitting the reference signal based on the receive level measured by the reference signal measurement unit, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the antenna switch pitch determined by the switch pitch determination unit.
US09369986B2
Presented are methods and apparatus for generating an inaccuracy characteristic for a fingerprinting positioning algorithm calculation associated with a user equipment location. Fingerprinting positioning measurements are compared to high-accuracy positioning measurements and an error value is determined. The error values are accumulated and the inaccuracy characteristic is generated based on an inaccuracy calculation. For areas where insufficient data is available, an inaccuracy characteristic value can be interpolated or extrapolated from adjacent areas containing sufficient data.
US09369983B2
In one embodiment, one or more computing devices receive, from one or more mobile devices respectively associated with one or more users, one or more sets of data, wherein each set of data comprises: a user identifier indicating to which user the set of data corresponds; a location where the corresponding user was at; and a time when the corresponding user was at the location. The computing devices store the one or more sets of data; and extract one or more statistics from the one or more sets of data that represent behavioral pattern of at least one of the one or more users.
US09369981B2
Disclosed is a method for sending user equipment location information, used for a network side to accurately determine the location of a user equipment. The method comprises: a relay node (RN) receives configuration information representing the reporting condition of user location information from a control interface management device; and when the reporting condition is satisfied, the RN sends cell-related information representing the user location information to the control interface management device. Also disclosed is an apparatus for implementing the method.
US09369980B2
A method of handling random access response for a network in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a first random access preamble from a first mobile device of the wireless communication system at a first component carrier of a plurality of component carriers, receiving a second random access preamble from a second mobile device of the wireless communication system at a second component carrier of the plurality of component carriers, wherein the second random access preamble is identical to the first random access preamble and is assigned by the network, and responding to the assigned second random access preamble with a random access response including a timing advance command associated to the second mobile device, at the first component carrier.
US09369978B2
A mobile device receives a signal, from a base station, comprising a primary synchronization sequence (PSS) and a secondary synchronization sequence (SSS). The mobile device utilizes two different sampling rates to perform the PSS synchronization and the SSS detection individually. For example, the mobile device synchronizes to the received PSS at a first sampling rate such as 0.96 MHz, which is determined based on the PSS transmission rate and/or the length of the received PSS. The mobile device detects the received SSS at a second sampling rate such as 1.92 MHz, which equals to the sampling rate for an analog-to-digital conversion at the mobile device. The received PSS and associated symbol timing are detected through the PSS synchronization to support the SSS detection. The detected SSS is used to acquire cell-specific parameters such as cell ID. The acquired cell-specific parameters ensure proper communications between the mobile device and the base station.
US09369976B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus receives a CDMA system time from a SIB. The apparatus receives information indicating a number of leap seconds. The information may be received through provisioning information at boot up, a USD, or other means. The apparatus determines a UTC based on the received CDMA system time and the number of leap seconds. The apparatus applies the determined UTC. The apparatus may receive an eMBMS service based on the determined UTC.
US09369967B2
A terminal apparatus and retransmission control method reduces overhead of the uplink control channel in cases when ARQ is applied in communication that uses an uplink unit band and a plurality of downlink unit bands associated with the uplink unit band. A first condition is set in which downlink assignment control information is transmitted from a base station by a unit band group which comprises a basic unit band, which is the downlink unit band on which a broadcast channel signal including information relating to the uplink unit band is transmitted, and a second downlink unit band other than the basic unit band. A bundling unit will not transmit a response signal to the base station in certain cases.
US09369966B2
Channel-state information and hybrid-ARQ ACK/NACK information for multiple carriers are simultaneously transmitted using a PUCCH Format 3 structure, where the hybrid-ARQ ACK/NACK bits and CSI bits are separately encoded and interleaved. In an example method, a power control offset parameter is calculated as a linear combination of at least a number N, representing a number of channel-state information bits and a number M, representing a number of hybrid-ARQ ACK/NACK bits. The method continues with the calculating of a power level for a transmission on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), using the power control offset parameter. In some embodiments, encoded channel-state information and hybrid-ARQ ACK/NACK bits are then transmitted according to the calculated power level. In some embodiments, the linear combination is of the form aN+bM+c, where a, b, and c are non-zero constants.
US09369965B2
The first wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with a first wireless apparatus on a first wireless network. The beacon transmitting unit cyclically transmits a beacon signal to the first wireless apparatus via the first wireless communication unit. The period determiner determines a transmission permission period during which data transmission by the first wireless apparatus is permitted. The notification unit notifies a control signal specifying the transmission permission period to the first wireless apparatus via the beacon signal. The power managing unit performs control so that power supply to the first wireless communication unit is suspended during a suspension period, the suspend period being a period except both the transmission permission period and a transmission timing period of the beacon signal within a whole period.
US09369962B2
A method for reducing idle mode power consumption is disclosed. An idle mode is entered. A neighboring base station is selected. If the selected neighboring base station is assigned a high-frequency monitoring mode, a signal strength of the neighboring base station is measured. A low-frequency monitoring mode is assigned to the selected neighboring base station if the signal strength of the selected neighboring base station has been below a power threshold for longer than a time threshold. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US09369958B2
A method detects misconfiguration of a wireless network which wastes battery power in mobile devices within a location area of the network. A data collection agent installed in a wireless device records and reports idle-mode handovers. An analytics circuit reads RF measurements and locations from these reports to suggest where handover zones may be optimized or IRAT cell resection parameters are defective. A mobile device may self-tune battery consumption by determining its individual location areas of high battery consumption; desensitizing itself to cell signal strength instability; and increasing its tenacity to a most recently used cell.
US09369956B2
The base station includes: a determination unit for comparing states of traffic currently provided by the base station and other neighboring base stations and determining whether the base station has the lowest traffic; an information transmission unit for sending a sleep request and a handover request for handing over the user terminal associated with the base station to one of the neighboring base stations in case where the determination unit determines that the traffic currently provided by the base station is lowest; a receiving unit for receiving feedback information sent from the one of the neighboring base stations after admission control; and an executing unit for executing sleep decision after receiving handover request permitting information from the neighboring base station.
US09369950B2
A user equipment comprises a wireless interface for communication with a cellular communication network. The user equipment is configured to detect a device-to-device signal received from a further user equipment at the wireless interface. The user equipment is configured to search for a cell of the cellular communication network to camp on based on the device-to-device signal.
US09369941B2
A moving cellular communication system comprising at least one upgraded moving relay including at least two base station functionalities and at least one mobile station functionality and a relay resource manager, all co-located, wherein each base station functionality of the upgraded moving relay is operative to communicate via antennae with at least one mobile station thereby to define a first radio link therebetween, and wherein each base station functionality has a connection to its relay resource manager, wherein each mobile station functionality of the upgraded moving relay communicates via antennae with a unit which has base station functionality thereby to define at least one second radio link, respectively, wherein the relay resource manager in each individual moving relay comprises a radio resource manager; and functionality for exchanging information with relay resource managers is included in moving relays other than the individual moving relay.
US09369940B2
A system and method for providing a mobile handheld multi-media gateway and phone. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise a first communication interface module that is adapted to communicatively couple the mobile telephone to a mobile telephone communication network. A second communication interface module may be adapted to communicatively couple the mobile telephone to a computer communication network. At least one module may utilize the second communication interface module to communicate with the computer communication network to establish an independent network presence for the mobile telephone on the computer communication network. The mobile telephone may, for example, be established as an autonomous addressable device on the computer communication network.
US09369931B2
A method for incorporating a moving cell in a hierarchy of cells in a wireless cellular communication network, wherein each cell is associated with a neighbor cell list comprising identification of one or more neighboring cells. The method includes determining a need for an update of one or more neighbor cell lists following relocation of the moving cell from a first location having a first set of neighboring cells to a second location having a second set of neighboring cells. A neighbor cell list is generated for the moving cell including identification of each cell in the second set of neighboring cells. The neighbor cell list is updated for each cell in the second set of neighboring cells to include the moving cell. Each radio access node serving one or more cells in the second set of neighboring cells are informed on the updated neighbor cell list.
US09369925B2
Embodiments are provided for scheduling resources considering data rate-efficiency and fairness trade-off. A value of Jain's fairness index (JFI) is determined for transmitting a service to a plurality of users, and accordingly a sum of throughputs is maximized for transmitting the service to the users. Alternatively, a sum of throughputs is determined first and accordingly the JFI is maximized. Maximizing the sum of throughputs or JFI includes selecting a suitable value for a tuning parameter in an efficiency and fairness trade-off relation model. In accordance with the values of sum of throughputs and JFI, a plurality of resources are allocated for transmitting the service to the users. For static or quasi-static channels, the relation model is a convex function with a monotonic trade-off property. For ergodic time varying channels, the tuning parameter is selected by solving the relation model using a gradient-based approach.
US09369920B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for relaying a packet are provided. The apparatus receives at least one packet and reduces a degree of the at least one packet. The apparatus further processes the at least one packet based on the reduced degree, generates a combined packet by combining the at least one processed packet with at least one other processed packet based on the reduced degree and a weight of each of the processed packets, and transmits the combined packet.
US09369917B2
A system and method which improve the performance of a wireless transmission system by intelligent use of the control of the flow of data between a radio network controller (RNC) and a Node B. The system monitors certain criteria and, if necessary, adaptively increases or decreases the data flow between the RNC and the Node B. This improves the performance of the transmission system by allowing retransmitted data, signaling procedures and other data to be successfully received at a faster rate, by minimizing the amount of data buffered in the Node B. Flow control is exerted to reduce buffering in the Node B upon degradation of channel qualities, and prior to a High Speed Downlink Shared Channel (HS-DSCH) handover.
US09369908B2
A method of controlling the codec mode of a convergence internet protocol (IP) network and a terminal using the method are provided. The terminal may include a variable bit-rate/mode codec controller including a channel status measurement and management (CSMM) unit which measures the status of a wireless channel and provides the results of the measuring of the wireless channel status as channel quality information, and which measures the transfer performance of a received packet and provides the results of the measuring of the packet transfer performance as packet measurement parameter information, and a service quality control (SQC) unit which measures the quality of a multimedia service based on the channel quality information and the packet measurement parameter information, provides the results of the measuring of the multimedia service quality as service quality information and determines a codec mode of the terminal or a counterpart terminal communicating with the all-IP terminal based on the service quality information. Therefore, it is possible to improve the quality of multimedia services.
US09369900B2
Provided are methods and apparatus for selecting a channel to use for communicating. The methods and apparatus select a channel having the least interference and minimize a number of different channels in use. For example, a provided method includes calculating a utility value for each channel in a plurality of channels by weighting, based on a number of the neighborhood small cells (NSC) using each channel in the plurality of channels, both a respective modified non-NSC received signal strength indication (RSSI) and a respective modified reference signal received power (RSRP). The non-NSC RSSI is calculated by subtracting a respective RSRP from a total RSSI. The respective modified RSRP for each channel in the plurality of channels is calculated by applying the respective RSRP to a cumulative distribution function. The channel having the highest or the lowest utility value is chosen as the channel to use for the communicating.
US09369884B2
In one embodiment, characteristics of signals received from Wi-Fi access points during a traversal of a number of drivable streets within a geographic area having a radius of one or more miles are determined, the characteristics of a given signal including a unique identifier of a Wi-Fi access point that transmitted the signal, a location where the signal was observed, and an observed signal strength at the location where the signal was observed. Using the characteristics, a reference database is built including records descriptive of Wi-Fi access points in the geographic area. To determine a current location of a mobile device, an observed signal strength of one or more Wi-Fi access points observed by the mobile device from the current location is determined and a current location of the mobile device is computed using at least the observed signal strength of the one or more Wi-Fi access points observed by the mobile device in comparison to information in the reference database.
US09369882B2
A method in which a terminal (UE) operates to perform channel quality measurement in a system which supports carrier aggregation, disclosed in the present description, comprises the following steps: receiving, from a base station, a first message containing a first indicator for indicating control information for channel quality measurement used in an extension component carrier; receiving control information corresponding to the first indicator from the base station via the extension component carrier; and performing channel quality measurement in the extension component carrier using the received control information.
US09369876B2
Traffic and signaling are routed between a set of networked femto access points (APs) and location-based services are enabled. A femto AP in the set of femto APs is functionally linked to a routing platform that manages traffic and signaling, and is functionally connected to a controller component that relays at least part of data and control to a femto network platform. The femto network platform allows access to one or more external networks. Routing platform can exchange signaling with one or more femto APs to enable, at least in part, location-based services based at least in part on identifier(s) for a femto AP, access privileges, or time-of-flight measurements that assess propagation timing between a mobile device and a femto AP. Routing platform can supply timing configuration to enable predetermined spatial resolution of location estimates. Location estimates can be recorded and conveyed to a consumer layer.
US09369870B2
A method on an electronic device for a wireless network is described. Unique IDs, detectable by the electronic device, are scanned over a period of time. A unique ID is detected. A plurality of detectable time intervals is determined, within the period of time, for the unique ID. An authentication start time and an authentication end time for the unique ID are determined based on at least three of the plurality of detectable time intervals. Authentication data for the unique ID is stored in a historical database. The authentication data includes the authentication start time and the authentication end time. The electronic device is unlocked based on a lookup of authentication data in the historical database.
US09369863B2
A connectivity service platform in a communication network manages changes to subscriptions for radio devices. When the connectivity service platform receives a subscription change message, it sends instructions to a radio device to change from the currently enabled subscription to a second subscription for its network connection. The connectivity service platform tests the second subscription network connection using a pre-defined testing procedure. More particularly, the test is performed uses a network connection from the second subscription to send and receive test messages to verify that the second subscription network connection has passed the testing. The first subscription is then disabled and the second subscription is enabled.
US09369859B2
A method, apparatus and computer program for discovery of network devices and application user. An example method for use in an access point or station may comprise receiving a discovery request from an application, the application running thereon, the discovery request including at least one application level identifier, causing monitoring of a discovery channel for at least one device within a proximate distance, and upon discovery of a device associated with the application level ID, providing an indication to the application of the discovery of the device.
US09369850B2
When a call or message is received from an unidentified sender on the user's communication device, the caller identifier application launches a text-based messaging application and causes it to send an “invisible” text-based message to the user's contacts. The message includes the metadata (e.g., telephone number) associated with the call or message that the user received. The invisible message is a short message whose headers are programmed in a particular manner so that the receiving mobile phone acknowledges the receipt of the message and the receiving mobile phone displays no behavior perceptible by the user. When the invisible message is received by the corresponding caller identifier application on one of the user's contact's mobile phone, the application searches the contact's contact list maintained in his or hers contact application. If the metadata provided to the contact's mobile phone is located in the contact list, the contact details (e.g. Name) or the contact card, if available, is sent back to the user's mobile phone in a second invisible message. Upon receiving the second invisible message, the caller identifier application causes some or all of the contact details to be displayed on the user's mobile phone or otherwise presented to the user in any appropriate manner.
US09369849B2
Radio conditions of a user equipment in a sector of a mobile communications network are detected and the user equipment is allocated to a group of several groups of user equipments based on the radio conditions of the user equipment. The several groups include a first group of user equipments applying user equipment-specific horizontal beamforming and sector-specific vertical beamforming, a second group of user equipments applying user equipment-specific vertical beamforming and sector-specific horizontal beamforming, and a third group of user equipments applying user equipment-specific vertical beamforming and user equipment-specific horizontal beamforming. When the user equipment acquires a signaling message including a measurement set of reference signal ports for obtaining channel state information from the user equipment, it identifies an allocation scheme of the reference signal ports in the measurement set and generates the channel state information based on the measurement set using the allocation scheme.
US09369844B2
Optimized delivery of locally applicable Internet content to users. A cache of locally applicable Internet content is maintained in a local content server, based upon a monitoring of locations of users requesting Internet content. Requests for Internet content are received from user equipment through a wireless network base station, and served from the local content server, which is logically proximate to the wireless network base station. The caching of locally applicable Internet content may be maintained on a layered basis. Secure action request receipt and corresponding performance, and item condition alerts are also described.
US09369842B2
Systems and methods are provided for geo-fencing using a mobile device. In certain instances, the geo-function setting sets boundaries relating to when alerts may be presented to a user of the electronic device, or when an alert may be transmitted to another electronic device. A geo-function setting may relate a perimeter around a location, or may relate to a perimeter bracketing a pre-defined route traversed by a person carrying the electronic device. When the electronic device crosses a perimeter, an alert may be presented or transmitted according to the operating system setting. In other instances, a geo-function may be initiated though a user interface of the electronic device, and may relate to the learning of a route traversed by a person carrying the electronic device.
US09369835B2
An estimated location of an access point is generated based on identification of indoor and outdoor locations and the presumption that most access points are in an indoor location. The estimated location may be produced using location information for the access point and the identification of the indoor and outdoor locations while prioritizing the indoor location to produce the estimated location on or within a boundary of the indoor location. The location information may be, e.g., a preliminary estimated location or wireless signal measurements and associated position fixes for the access point. For example, a preliminary estimated location may be shifted to be on or within the nearest boundary of an indoor location or may be adjusted based on the location information. The estimated location may be calculated directly using weights to bias the calculation of the estimated location to be on or within the boundary of the indoor location.
US09369832B1
A method for “team tracking” delivers position updates for multiple team members using a telecommunications network. Each team member/user carries a handheld and field-portable tracking and messaging device (TMD) that is used to send the current position of the device user to a networked server. The TMD has a built-in GPS receiver which provides the current position coordinates of the user. This position data is periodically transmitted via the telecommunications network to a central server. Team Status Messages (TSM) are sent regularly to each team member, the TSM containing the last known position of each team member. The position data are displayed over a map background, so that each member can see the positions of the other members. When tracking a target, a route is mapped to the target. If the target changes location, the next TSM that is sent indicates a re-calculated map to the target.
US09369830B2
A mobile device comprising at least one controller in communication with one or more transceivers. The one or more transceivers are capable of communication with a vehicle computing system. The at least one controller configured to establish a communication link with the vehicle computing system. The controller further configured to receive a signal having an unique user identification from the vehicle computing system. The controller further configured to search for a mobile application based on the signal and enable the mobile application that matches the unique user identifier. The controller further configured to launch the mobile application.
US09369827B2
A method and a system for near field communication of an electronic device are disclosed. The method comprises: communicating frequency points at which the two parties suffer from interference with a second electronic device through a scanning frame, wherein the scanning frame comprises at least two symbols modulated by using different frequencies; and determining a modulation manner according to the available frequency points in order to perform data transmission with the second electronic device. With the embodiment of the present invention, interference frequencies in the communication environment are detected by sending the scanning frame which comprises at least two symbols modulated by using different frequencies, and frequency points with smaller interference are selected for adaptation modulation data, thus the interference frequency points are shielded from data transmission, and external interference in the near field communication is avoid, and communication stability is improved, and communication quality is improved.
US09369826B2
A mobile electronic device coordination system includes a vehicle-mounted information providing apparatus and a mobile electronic device. The information providing apparatus and the mobile electronic device are each configured to perform both first type communication and second type communication different from the first type communication. The information providing apparatus acquires unique information from the mobile electronic device via the first type communication through which a communication connection with the mobile electronic device has been established, the unique information being necessary for individual identification of the mobile electronic device for establishing a communication connection with the mobile electronic device via the second type communication. Then, the information providing apparatus establishes a communication connection with the mobile electronic device via the second type communication on the basis of the acquired specific information.
US09369817B2
A three channel speaker system is provided that includes a three-channel processor to receive a signal from an audio source, where the speaker system includes a center-channel speaker on a first face, a left-channel speaker on a second face, and a right-channel speaker on a third face, where the first face further includes first and second passive radiators positioned on opposite sides of the center-channel speaker, and also includes a fourth face comprising third and fourth passive radiators. Where all three-channel speakers are on a front face, passive radiators may be positioned in between each of the speakers.
US09369812B2
A circuit and a method are used estimate quality of the output of a wireless receiver. This quality measure is used to control the supply voltage and thereby provide power savings.
US09369805B2
The invention relates to an acoustic absorber comprising an absorption layer (1a, 1b) composed of an open-pored porous material. According to the invention, the open-pored porous material is flexurally stiff in such a way that the absorption layer (1a, 1b) is stimulated to flexurally oscillate when sound waves impinge on the absorption layer and the absorber can absorb sound waves of a first frequency range because of the inflow of air into the open-pored porous material of the absorption layer and can absorb sound waves of a second frequency range that comprises lower frequencies than the first frequency range because of the stimulation of flexural oscillations of the absorption layer. The invention further relates to an acoustic transducer and to a method for producing an acoustic absorber or an acoustic transducer.
US09369801B2
A networked-speaker system which includes noise cancelling for active suppression of unwanted sounds. Feed-forward or feed-back cancelation can be used as appropriate for the location of the microphone sensing the noise.
