Abstract: The system relates to a system for joining flat, relatively thin members that adjoin one another along their narrow face, the members having grooves incorporated into the narrow faces that are parallel to the surface and have groove walls that are parallel to each other, and the joining element being inserted into the grooves of two adjacent members and bridging the partition gap between the members in the manner of an external tongue.
Abstract: The invention generally relates to enterprise computer applications, and more particularly to methods and tools for data-driven engineering of computer applications. A method of generating a business application includes: inputting requirement data into a requirement model; inputting platform data into a platform model; generating a design model based on the requirement model and the platform model; generating source code of the business application from the design model; and outputting the source code.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 9, 2008
Date of Patent:
September 18, 2012
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Abstract: A location based service and method configured to provide recovery assistance for a misplaced or stolen mobile device. The location based system and method is configured to locate (recover) high value mobile devices using location, presence and other IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) based telecommunications network assets. The method includes leveraging location dips performed for other services to drive a recovery process for a mobile device to thereby reduce resource overhead on a location platform; locating the mobile device using the location dips performed for other services; and sending a notification to a subscriber of the location of the mobile device for recovery of the mobile device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 9, 2009
Date of Patent:
September 11, 2012
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Inventors:
Kerrie L. Holley, Michael E. Piotrowski, Sri Ramanathan, Matthew B. Trevathan
Abstract: A system is provided for stacking mail having an escort assembly for handling each mailpiece. The system comprises a containment device, a transport mechanism and a detachment mechanism. The containment device includes a base, vertical walls extending from the base and an open end for accepting the mailpieces therein. The containment device, furthermore, has a slot formed in at least one of the vertical walls thereof. The transport mechanism includes first and second transport segment, the first transport segment conveying escort assemblies and respective mailpieces over an open end of the containment device and the second transport segment lowering the escort assemblies and respective mailpieces into the open end of the containment device. The transport mechanism furthermore aligns the edges of the mailpieces along one of the vertical walls of the containment device and positions the escort assembly through the slot of the containment device.
Abstract: A method and system is provided to enhance user presence management to enable the federation of rich media sessions. The method is implemented on a system and includes a presence manager server receiving a notification of user activity of one or more users taking place on one or more participating ecosystem sites in a participant ecosystem. The method further includes processing the user activity of the one or more users based on preferences of the one or more participating ecosystem sites established during a registration process and stored in a preference repository. The method further includes sending a notification of the user activity of the one or more users to the one or more participating ecosystem sites in the participant ecosystem to enable the participating ecosystem sites to at least one of communicate the user activity of the one or more users to one or more users and maintain a session of the one or more users.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 26, 2009
Date of Patent:
September 11, 2012
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Inventors:
Pramodh D. Narayan, Dana M. Norwood, Sri Ramanathan, Matthew A. Terry, Matthew B. Trevathan
Abstract: A method is implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions. The programming instructions are operable to determine one or more optimal mappings between a server layer and a storage layer through a network layer based on performance metrics of one or more ports of at least one of the server layer, the storage layer and the network layer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 17, 2010
Date of Patent:
September 11, 2012
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Inventors:
Seshashayee S. Murthy, Ramani R. Routray, Sandeep M. Uttamchandani
Abstract: An architecture and method of voicemail based on session initiated protocol presence and location information of a callee is disclosed. A method of providing voicemail includes determining a location and a presence of a callee, and playing a customized voicemail greeting to a caller based on preferences defined by the callee and also based on at least one of the location and the presence.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 25, 2009
Date of Patent:
September 11, 2012
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Inventors:
Pramodh D. Narayan, Sri Ramanathan, Matthew A. Terry, Matthew B. Trevathan
Abstract: A process for producing a monoalkylated aromatic product in a reactor by reacting a mixed phase mixture of an alkylatable aromatic compound feedstock with another feedstock comprising alkene component in a reaction zone containing an alkylation catalyst. An effluent comprising the monoalkylated aromatic product and polyalkylated aromatic compounds exits from the reaction zone in liquid phase. The polyalkylated aromatic compounds can be separated as feed stream for transalkylation reaction in a transalkylation reaction zone.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 1, 2006
Date of Patent:
September 4, 2012
Assignees:
ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc., Stone & Webster, Inc.
Inventors:
Michael C. Clark, Vijay Nanda, Brian Maerz
Abstract: A system and a method for analysis of ECG curvature, which system involves a mathematical analysis comprising the following features where a number of different parameters are isolated and stored in a computer, where a first number of parameters are selected from at least one main group, where the selected parameters are combined in at least a first mathematical analysis. It is the object of the invention to improve mathematical analysis of ECG curvature particular for complex parts of the curvature such as notches or concavities. This can be achieved by selecting parameters from groups of symmetry, flatness, duration and/or complexity, using the parameters as input to an algorithm, where concavity intervals are evaluated on subsegments of the ECG segment and form the basis of up and downwards concavity quantification, where the system based on an algorithm detects and quantifies concavity on ECG curvatures.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 28, 2007
Date of Patent:
September 4, 2012
Assignee:
Aalborg Universitet
Inventors:
Thomas Bork Hardahl, Claus Graff, Mads Peter Andersen, Egon Toft, Johannes Jan Struijk, Joel Q. Xue
Abstract: An annular sealing member 95 for establishing sealing between a boosted hydraulic pressure application chamber 22 and an input-side annular chamber 93 formed between a casing and a backup piston 64A and connected to a hydraulic pressure source is disposed between the casing and the backup piston 64A, and communication passage 216 for establishing communication between the input-side annular chamber 93 and the boosted hydraulic pressure application chamber 22 as the backup piston 64A moves forward by a predetermined stroke or more is provided in one of the backup piston 64A and the casing.
Abstract: A webbing take-up device includes a speed-reduction mechanism that reduces rotation speed of a motor to transmit rotation force to a take-up shaft. An overload release mechanism is disposed at a middle position of the speed-reduction mechanism. The overload release mechanism includes a large-diameter gear rotating with the rotation speed of the motor being reduced and the rotation force being transmitted, a spring member mounted to the large-diameter gear, and a small-diameter gear provided to rotate relatively to the large-diameter gear, rotating the take-up shaft when the rotation speed thereof is reduced and the rotation force is transmitted to the take-up shaft, engaging with the spring member to become a state where relative rotation with respect to the large-diameter gear is stopped, and slides with the spring member when the rotation force acts between the large-diameter gear to become a state where relative rotation to the large-diameter gear is allowed.
Abstract: A device and method are disclosed for driving an electromagnet for operating a pump. The electromagnet includes a primary winding and a moving element that is attracted within the primary winding when an energizing current is higher than a first threshold value. The moving element lets a liquid dose into an external hydraulic circuit depending on the a travel of the moving element. A control logic unit detects an energizing current to provide the energizing current to the primary winding until the energizing current assumes a second threshold value, depending on a value of the liquid dose to let into the external hydraulic circuit. The second threshold value is higher than the first threshold value and not higher than a third threshold value in correspondence of which the moving element arrives at a stop.
Abstract: A wood fiberboard, in particular floor panel, includes an HDF support board with a top side and an underside, the top side having a decoration, preferably a wood or tile decoration, is distinguished in that the decoration is printed directly onto the top side of the support board and is covered by at least one layer of a transparent synthetic resin.
Abstract: A planar transformer suitable for intrinsically safe electronic circuits with a core, a first printed circuit board and a second printed circuit board. The first printed circuit board has a first winding and the second printed circuit board has a second winding. The planar transformer can be produced at a low cost and is compact, but is still suitable for connection to intrinsically safe operating circuits is implemented by at least one gap being asymmetrically split on the first printed circuit board and the second printed circuit board.
Abstract: An active suture that can be used for both wound closure and the delivery of therapeutic fluids to the tissue surrounding a wound is disclosed. The active suture may include a connector designed to join a fluid source, such as a syringe or conventional IV delivery system, to an internal passageway that is embedded within a braided suture. The internal passageway may be comprised of a fine polymeric tube and is capable of conducting and emitting a fluid into at least a portion of the braided suture and surrounding tissue. The invention enables delivery of an efficacious volume of drug bearing solution on the order of milliliters per day, provides a high level of fluid delivery rate control enabling the physician to start or stop drug administration at his/her discretion, and offers a means of providing more than one type of medication that may be selected post-surgically in accord with unexpected patient symptoms that may arise.
Abstract: In order to maintain a stable arc and avoid wear of the projections of electrode tip ends even if the lamp is lighted with a lamp power of at most 70% of the nominal electric power, a high pressure discharge lamp light source device is provided with a power supply device for supplying alternating current to the high pressure discharge lamp in a low electric power lighting mode having a defined current value in the range of 40 to 70% of a nominal electric power consumption, and wherein the power supply device, in the low electric power lighting mode supplies an alternating current with a low frequency which is lower than the steady-state lighting frequency, and supplies a boost current at least two times during a half cycle of the alternating current with a low frequency which is larger than the alternating current with a low frequency.
Abstract: A circuit arrangement for producing short electrical pulses, including a logic gate (1) with a very short gate transit time and having a clock signal being supplied to a trigger input (2) of the logic gate (1) as a trigger signal. An output signal based on the trigger signal is generated as a short electrical pulse at an output (3) or at one output (3 or 4) or at both outputs (3 and 4) of the logic gate (1).
Abstract: An exposure device for producing semiconductors and liquid crystals has an optical system capable of effectively using light generated without making a hole in a lamp discharge vessel when high energy laser light is supplied to it for emitting light, such as ultraviolet light. The exposure device has a light source for emitting ultraviolet light, a laser device for emitting laser light, an elliptical reflector for reflecting ultraviolet light emitted from the light source, and an optical system for directing light reflected by the elliptical reflector to an article to be treated via optical elements including a collimator lens and an integrator lens, and a beam splitter having a wavelength selecting ability provided in the optical path for light reflected by the elliptical reflector to allow laser light to be incident on the light source from and opening side of the elliptical reflector.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 24, 2009
Date of Patent:
August 28, 2012
Assignees:
Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Energetiq Technology, Inc.
Abstract: Black beans B are coated with a mineral layer 1 containing calcium powder and dolomite powder, a dough layer 2 formed by roasting a dough mixture containing flour, and an outside layer 3 formed by solidifying a seasoning mixture containing, for example, soymilk powder and powdered tea with hardened fat or oil. In 30 parts by weight of black beans, from 2 to 5, both inclusive, parts by weight of the calcium powder, from 30 to 45, both inclusive, parts by weight of the dolomite powder, and from 5 to 15, both inclusive, parts by weight of the soymilk powder, are contained.
Abstract: In a method of producing a particulate electrocatalyst composition, a precursor medium comprising at least a first metal precursor, a liquid vehicle, and a substrate precursor to substrate particles is atomized into precursor droplets. The droplets are then heated to a reaction temperature of not greater than 700° C. to form composite particles comprising said first metal at least partly in an oxide form dispersed on said substrate particles. The composite particles are then collected and are heated at a first treatment temperature no greater than 250° C. in the presence of a reducing atmosphere to at least partly convert said oxide form to the metal.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 13, 2007
Date of Patent:
August 28, 2012
Assignee:
Cabot Corporation
Inventors:
Yipeng Sun, Paolina Atanassova, James Brewster, Leonard P. Perez, Hanwei Lei, Berislav Blizanac