Patents Assigned to Solutions
  • Patent number: 9588469
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing belt, a pressuring member, an exciting coil and a belt guide. The pressuring member comes into pressure contact with the fixing belt to form a fixing nip. The exciting coil is provided at an outer diameter side of the fixing belt and configured to generate a magnetic flux to inductively heat the fixing belt. The belt guide supports the fixing belt from an inner diameter side. The belt guide includes a contact part which is in contact with an inner circumferential face of the fixing belt and a non-contact part which is not in contact with the inner circumferential face of the fixing belt. A magnetic flux blocking member configured to block the magnetic flux that passes through the fixing belt is provided between the fixing belt and the non-contact part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Kasama, Shoko Gon, Akihiro Kondo, Eiji Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9589410
    Abstract: Provided is a paper money handling apparatus of which the security of a paper money process unit is improved, the jam is easily removed, and the layout is easily changed while the operability thereof is ensured. The paper money handling apparatus includes a repository, a temporary storage container, and a money deposit/withdrawal slot. The repository is provided inside a safe so as to store paper money therein. The temporary storage container is provided inside the safe so as to temporarily store deposited paper money therein during a transaction. The money deposit/withdrawal slot serves as an entry/exit opening of a paper money passageway provided at the upper part of the safe so as to communicate with the repository and the temporary storage container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi-Omron Terminal Solutions, Corp.
    Inventors: Akira Nishino, Masayasu Ueno, Takeshi Kanagawa, Yukihiro Mabuchi
  • Patent number: 9590656
    Abstract: A nonvolatile memory storage controller is provided for delivering log likelihood ratios (LLRs) to a low-density parity check (LDPC) decoder for use in the decoding of an LDPC encoded codeword. The controller includes read circuitry for reading an LDPC encoded codeword stored in a nonvolatile memory storage module using a plurality of soft-decision reference voltages to provide a plurality of soft-decision bits representative of the codeword. The controller further includes a plurality of neighboring cell contribution LLR look-up tables representative of the contribution of the neighboring cells to threshold voltage distribution of the memory storage module. The controller provides the LLRs from the appropriate LLR look-up table to an LDPC decoder for the subsequent decoding of the codeword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Microsemi Storage Solutions (US), Inc.
    Inventors: Rino Micheloni, Alessia Marelli, Peter Z. Onufryk, Christopher I. W. Norrie, Ihab Jaser, Luca Crippa
  • Patent number: 9591503
    Abstract: A user equipment performs measurements logging which has been defined for a scheduled area belonging to a network of a mobile communications network, the measurements including information about performance of the scheduled area. In case the user equipment connects to an area of areas of the mobile communications network which belongs to a network different from the network of the scheduled area, the user equipment prevents transmission of the logged measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Malgorzata Tomala, Gyula Bodog
  • Patent number: 9591183
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a sheet reading portion, an assimilation surveying portion, a color changing portion, and a printing portion. The sheet reading portion reads image data from a transparent sheet tinted with a predetermined color owned by a user. The assimilation surveying portion looks for, out of printable colors, a particular color that assimilates to the color of the read image data. The color changing portion changes, out of the data of a predetermined document accepted from the user, the color of the data of a concealable character, which is a character concealed when overlaid with the transparent sheet, to the found particular color. The printing portion prints, out of the data of the document, the data of the concealable character in the particular color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Seiki Satomi, Masataka Takemura, Shinji Hayashi, Kunihiko Tanaka, Hiroshi Yokota, Masaki Miyashita
  • Patent number: 9589949
    Abstract: An apparatus having a plurality of power pads of an integrated circuit, a plurality of transistors, and one or more diodes is disclosed. Each transistors may have a drain that forms a junction with a conductive layer of the integrated circuit. The diodes may be coupled between two of the power pads. A first portion less than all of an electro-static discharge that passes through a first of the two power pads and the conductive layer may be transferred through a first of the drains in a first of the transistors. A second portion less than all of the electro-static discharge may be transferred sequentially through (a) at least one of the diodes and (b) a second of the drains in a second of the transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: James T. Harvey, Simon J. Mahon, Anna Dadello
  • Patent number: 9591153
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a camera, a document sheet image determining portion, an operation determining portion, and an image processing portion. The document sheet image determining portion determines whether or not document sheet image data is contained in photographic image data that has been obtained by photographing with the camera installed on the image processing apparatus. The operation determining portion determines whether or not operation image data is contained in the photographic image data, the operation image data showing a pattern of user's hand and corresponding to an operation for processing the document sheet image data. The image processing portion executes the processing of the document sheet image data based on the operation corresponding to the operation image data when it is determined that the document sheet image data and the operation image data are contained in the photographic image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Naoki Sawa
  • Patent number: 9589300
    Abstract: A method for completing a transaction is presented. The method comprises establishing network communications between a user and a server, receiving information, at the server, regarding the transaction, seeking available information pertinent to the transaction from at least one source external to the server and the user, processing data from the available information using a rules based engine including rules established on behalf of a party to the transaction located at the server, and presenting an offer set to the user based on at least one decision made by the rules based engine. The transaction may be one according to a variety of scenarios, and the user may be an appropriate party to the transaction. The user may employ various devices to contact the server and seek to complete the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Apollo Enterprise Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: G. Christopher Imrey, William J. House
  • Patent number: 9590148
    Abstract: Heavily phosphor loaded LED packages having higher stability and a method for increasing the stability of heavily phosphor loaded LED packages. The silicone content of the packages is increased by decreasing the amount of one phosphor of the blend or by increasing the thickness of the silicone phosphor blend layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: GE Lighting Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Ashfaqul Islam Chowdhury, Gary Robert Allen, Dengke Cai
  • Patent number: 9590709
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and computer-readable storage media perform phasing of a first array including one or more antenna elements and phasing of a second array including one or more antenna elements to provide a combined radiation pattern for the first and second arrays, the first array having a first radiation pattern and the second array having a second radiation pattern, wherein the first radiation pattern is substantially orthogonal to the second radiation pattern. The combined radiation pattern is controlled in a first dimension based upon an uplink channel measurement. The combined radiation pattern is controlled in a second dimension based upon a precoding feedback from a user equipment (UE).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Timothy A. Thomas, Frederick Vook, Eugene Visotsky
  • Patent number: 9591275
    Abstract: A hybrid imaging array and method for using the same is disclosed. The image array includes a low-light imaging array and a color imaging array. The two imaging arrays can be utilized separately or in conjunction with one another. The low-light imaging array is optimized for night vision or situations in which the light levels are too low to allow a conventional color image to be formed by the color imaging array. The color imaging array is optimized for daylight or color photography. The low-light imaging array can be utilized in conjunction with the color imaging array to provide a color image with reduced noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: BAE Systems Imaging Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Xinqiao Liu, Feng Xiao, Boyd Fowler
  • Patent number: 9585415
    Abstract: The fermentation of cucumbers and other vegetables into pickles is traditionally a long term process. By exposing the flesh of the vegetable and pickling with calcium chloride instead of sodium chloride, a faster fermentation pickle is achieved with no decrease in quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Fermenting Solutions International, LLC
    Inventor: William A. Scott
  • Patent number: 9587855
    Abstract: A method for operating a water heater appliance is provided. The method includes establishing a temperature drop of water within a tank of the water heater appliance during a time interval. A volume of heated water within the tank is estimated based at least in part on the temperature drop of water within the tank of the water heater appliance during the time interval and a set temperature of the water heater appliance. A related water heater appliance is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Craig Iung-Pei Tsai
  • Patent number: 9590771
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for reception of data units in a device by means of a first protocol and a second protocol are disclosed. A control function of the second protocol is informed of interruption in a control function of the first protocol. In response thereto a reordering timer of the second protocol is considered as having expired, and a state variable of the second protocol is updated to equal with a highest received state variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Henri Markus Koskinen, Chunli Wu, Benoist Pierre Sebire
  • Patent number: 9591700
    Abstract: A microwave appliance and method for operating a microwave appliance are provided. The method includes operating a fan of the microwave appliance in order to draw a flow of air through a circulation conduit of the microwave appliance, measuring an air quality of the flow of air within the circulation conduit with a sensor of the microwave appliance, and deactivating the fan of the microwave appliance if the air quality of the flow of air within the circulation conduit of the microwave appliance exceeds a threshold value. In such a manner, the flow or air can be properly filtered without operating the fan of the microwave appliance excessively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: James Lee Armstrong, Joshua Stephen Wiseman
  • Patent number: 9587939
    Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and a system that includes a confidence level module arranged to calculate, in response to detection signals, estimated upper surface points and to associate a non-binary confidence level with each estimated upper surface point; wherein the detection signals are generated by a receiver in response to an irradiation of at least a portion of the upper surface of the content with radiation pulses transmitted by a transmitter; and an estimator that is arranged to calculate an estimate of the upper surface based upon the estimated upper surface points and the non-binary confidence level associated with each estimated upper surface point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: APM Automation solutions Ltd.
    Inventors: Avishai Bartov, Yossi Zlotnick
  • Patent number: 9588534
    Abstract: A control system (300) allows recognized standard premise electrical outlets, for example NEMA, CEE and BS, among others to be remotely monitored and/or controlled, for example, to intelligently execute blackouts or brownouts or to otherwise remotely control electrical devices. The system (300) includes a number of smart receptacles (302) that communicate with a local controller (304), e.g., via power lines using the TCP/IP protocol. The local controller (304), in turn, communicates with a remote controller (308) via the internet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Zonit Structured Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Chapel, William Pachoud
  • Patent number: 9587292
    Abstract: A method of isolating 99Mo produced using a (n,?) reaction according to example embodiments may include vaporizing a source compound containing 98Mo and 99Mo. The vaporized source compound may be ionized to form ions containing 98Mo and 99Mo. The ions may be separated to isolate the ions containing 99Mo. The isolated ions containing 99Mo may be collected with a collector. Accordingly, the isolated 99Mo may have a relatively high specific radioactivity and, in turn, may be used to produce the diagnostic radioisotope, 99mTc, through radioactive decay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced Applied Physics Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Suzanne Lapi, Thomas J. Ruth, Dirk W. Becker, John M. D'Auria
  • Patent number: 9586773
    Abstract: A sheet storage cassette includes a cassette base and a cover member. The cover member is supported swingably at both ends of a side surface portion of the cassette base on a first rotation fulcrum, which is composed of a first engagement hole and a first boss portion, and on a second rotation fulcrum which is composed of a second engagement hole and a second boss portion. A distance from a tip end portion of the second boss portion to an engagement position of the second engagement hole is smaller than a distance from a tip end portion of the first boss portion to an engagement position of the first engagement hole, and a swing limiting portion, which limits an open angle of the cover member at the opening position, is disposed on only a portion of the cassette base near the first rotation fulcrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Masaki Murashima
  • Patent number: D780454
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Thule Organization Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Roger Zwetzig, Daniel Chaney