Patents Assigned to Solutions
-
Patent number: 9453392Abstract: A bop tray and related method for providing fast and effective containment of various wellhead liquids above and around the high drill assembly of a hydrocarbon wellhead blowout preventer.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2013Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: D Ring Solutions, LLCInventor: David Marchiori
-
Patent number: 9454505Abstract: Chip select (‘CS’) multiplication in an SPI system that includes an SPI master, a CS multiplier, a plurality of SPI slaves, and a fall time detection circuit, where the SPI master is coupled to the CS multiplier and the fall time detection circuit by a CS signal line, the CS multiplier includes a plurality of CS outputs with each CS output coupled to an SPI slave, and CS multiplication includes: receiving, from the SPI master, the CS signal on the CS signal line; detecting fall time of the CS signal; and, if the fall time of the CS signal is less than a predefined threshold, configuring, by the fall-time detection circuit, the CS multiplier to vary from providing a CS signal on a first CS output to providing a CS signal on a second CS output.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Michael Decesaris, Steven C. Jacobson, Luke D. Remis, Gregory D. Sellman
-
Patent number: 9453446Abstract: Exhaust aftertreatment assemblies and methods of manufacturing and operating exhaust aftertreatment assemblies. The exhaust aftertreatment assembly includes a reductant delivery device, a reductant source fluidly coupled to the reductant delivery device, a mixing chamber positioned between the reductant delivery device and the reductant source and thereby fluidly coupling the reductant source to the reductant delivery device, and a compressed air source fluidly coupled to the mixing chamber upstream of the mixing chamber with respect to the reductant delivery device. The compressed air source provides compressed air to mix with reductant in the mixing chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2014Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Douglas A. Mitchell
-
Patent number: 9456094Abstract: Provided is an electronic equipment facilitating a search for setting items associated with items to be set. The display management circuit manages to cause the display circuit to display a first setting item connected with various settings and an advanced setting menu associated with the first setting item. The operation receiving circuit receives an operation of the first setting item or the advanced setting menu. The uncertain operation detecting circuit detects an uncertain operation of the first setting item by confirming that no setting is conducted in the advanced setting menu, and a process is returned to the first setting item. The display management circuit manages to cause the display circuit to display the first setting item and a second setting item associated with the first setting item based on a detected result of the uncertain operation of the first setting item.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2015Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Makoto Kowaka
-
Patent number: 9456093Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including a display part that has a display area on which output candidate images less than or equal to a predetermined number are selectably displayed, a distance detecting part that detects a spatial distance between the indicator and the display area, an area detecting part that detects an area of a projection image of the indicator on the display area when the detected spatial distance is less than or equal to a first distance, and a selection control part that executes a first selection process for displaying all the displayed output candidate images in a selected state when the detected area detected by the area detecting part is greater than or equal to a threshold and the detected area is not changed for more than a time limit.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2015Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Koji Maeda
-
Patent number: 9454100Abstract: A developer guide device includes a conveying pipe portion, a light-emitting portion, a light-receiving portion, and a cleaning mechanism. The conveying pipe portion is configured to guide a developer in a predetermined conveyance direction. The light-emitting portion is configured to emit light into an interior of the conveying pipe portion through a light projection window provided in a peripheral wall of the conveying pipe portion. The light-receiving portion is capable of receiving light from the interior of the conveying pipe portion through a light reception window provided in the peripheral wall of the conveying pipe portion. The cleaning mechanism includes a cleaning member configured to receive a predetermined drive force to be displaced thereby to come into contact with inner surfaces of the light projection window and the light reception window to clean the inner surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Toshiaki Inoue, Koji Murata
-
Patent number: 9456104Abstract: A laser scanning unit includes a scanning lens, a control portion, and a storage portion. The control portion controls a light amount of a light beam emitted from a light source. The storage portion stores therein aberration characteristics representing a relationship between image heights of the scanning lens and a wavefront aberration amount, which have been obtained in advance. The control portion, when the scanning is performed, controls the light amount of the light beam in accordance with the aberration characteristics, such that the light amount is set to a predetermined first light amount, at a point of a first image height where the wavefront aberration amount has a first value, and the light amount is set to a second light amount larger than the first light amount, at a point of a second image height where the wavefront aberration amount has a second value larger than the first value.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2015Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Yuzuru Yuasa
-
Publication number: 20160274756Abstract: A display apparatus (1) includes a display section (14), a gesture acceptance section (102), and a display control section (101). In providing a second scrolling display of a list, the display control section (101) identifies, among a plurality of items enumerated in the list, an item likely to have been missed by a user in a previous scrolling display and allows the display section to provide the scrolling display of the identified item at a speed different from a speed specified by a scroll gesture accepted by the gesture acceptance section (102) or in a display manner different from that of the other items.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2015Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Shoichi Sakaguchi
-
ENHANCED TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF REMOTE DIGITAL DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION OF OPTICAL TRANSCEIVERS
Publication number: 20160277104Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for optical communications are provided. By way of example, an optical transceiver includes a processing device coupled to a memory, an optical subassembly, and a programmable device. The optical subassembly is configured to receive and modulate a first signal carrying high speed user data for transmission to a remote device over an optical link. The programmable device is coupled to the processing device and configured to receive data relating to digital diagnostic monitoring information (DDMI) of the optical transceiver from the processing device, perform forward error correction encoding on the DDMI data to produce a remote digital diagnostic monitoring (RDDM) signal, and send the RDDM signal to the optical subassembly as a second signal to modulate for transmission. The optical subassembly is configured to current modulate the second signal on the first signal to produce a double modulated optical signal for transmission to the remote device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: OE Solutions America, Inc.Inventors: Jong Ho KIM, Wanseok SEO, Soonwon HONG, Moon Soo PARK -
Publication number: 20160274479Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles each including a core and a shell layer. The shell layer is disposed over a surface of the core. The shell layer is substantially formed by a resin. The shell layer has a surface including a plurality of spot regions and a sheet region that is more hydrophobic than the spot regions. The spot regions each are more chargeable than the sheet region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Masami TSUJIHIRO, Jun HIOKI, Ryotaro KOMADA, Yusuke WASHINO, Haruhiro NISHITERA
-
Publication number: 20160274528Abstract: A printer (100) includes a casing (200), an operation section (6), a light emitting section (61), a cover (60), and a pressing member (62). The operation section (6) includes a reference surface (201B), an LCD panel (204) disposed along the reference surface (201B) and displaying predetermined information, and operation keys (202) disposed to protrude though the reference surface (201B). The light emitting section (61) is disposed adjacent to the operation section (6) and emits light based on predetermined notification information. The cover (60) covers the LCD panel (204) and the operation keys (202). The pressing member (62) presses the cover (60) and supports the light emitting section (61).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2015Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Hiroaki TSUCHIYA
-
Publication number: 20160277623Abstract: A light guide includes an incident surface provided at least at an end portion of the light guide in a longitudinal direction, and receiving light from a light source, an output surface constituting a part of an outer peripheral surface, and outputting the light introduced through the incident surface, a reflecting surface extending along the optical axis so as to oppose the output surface, and including a plurality of reflection patterns that reflect the introduced light toward the output surface, and a reflecting plate opposed to a region in the outer peripheral surface other than the incident surface, the output surface, and the reflecting surface, and reflecting the light from the light source. The outer peripheral surface includes a sloped portion formed so as to come closer to the reflecting plate in a direction away from the incident surface in the longitudinal direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Kei OUCHI
-
Publication number: 20160270787Abstract: Tissue fasteners carried on a tissue piercing deployment wire fasten tissue layers of a mammalian body together include a first member, a second member, and a connecting member extending between the first and second members. One of the first and second members has a configuration alterable by a deployment wire to permit release of the fastener from the deployment wire after deployment and without causing excessive tissue trauma.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: EndoGastric Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Steve G. Baker, Stefan J.M. Kraemer, Raymond Michael Wolniewicz, III
-
Publication number: 20160273672Abstract: A valve comprising a base plate defining an inlet and outlet passageway. A cover plate is disposed on the base plate and defines a first and second channel. A pressure plate is disposed on the base plate and includes a first anchoring portion, a first sealing portion, and a first biasing portion connecting the first anchoring portion and the first sealing portion. Furthermore, a suction plate is disposed on the base plate and includes a second anchoring portion, a second sealing portion, and a second biasing portion connecting the second anchoring portion to the second sealing portion. The valve is movable between a first configuration, where the first sealing portion is distal to first channel and the second sealing portion is proximal to inlet passageway, and a second configuration, in which the first sealing portion is proximal to first channel, and second sealing portion is distal to inlet passageway.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2015Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: Cummins Emission Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Dirk Hinze, Kay Schmidt, Thomas Betz
-
Publication number: 20160274491Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an optical sensor which includes a light-emitting part and a light-receiving part opposed to the light-emitting part and is configured to detect an amount of waste toner accumulated in a waste toner container, the waste toner being produced with formation of an image and then accommodated in the waste toner container; a detecting section configured to detect a change in an output of the light-receiving part; a shielding member interposed between the light-emitting part and the light-receiving part and configured to create, between the light-emitting part and the light-receiving part, a light-transmitting environment equivalent to that when the waste toner container is filled with the waste toner; and an adjusting section configured to adjust a light intensity of the light-emitting part when the shielding member is interposed between the light-emitting part and the light-receiving part.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Tadahiro KIYOSUMI
-
Publication number: 20160271552Abstract: A system for large-scale, distributed remediation of particulate air pollution using existing building HVAC cooling towers is described herein. The system consists of a generator section which captures, redirects, and accelerates exhaust air from a cooling tower, a venturi inlet and nozzle, and at least one air scrubber stage. In another embodiment, a portion of the exhaust air from an HVAC cooling tower fan is used to draw atmospheric air directly into a scrubber unit that fits compactly at the top of the exhaust assembly of the cooling tower.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: Particulate Matter Solutions, LLCInventor: Robert D. Allison, III
-
Publication number: 20160273431Abstract: An aftertreatment system comprises a housing defining an internal volume. The housing includes an inlet, an outlet and a first sidewall. A sleeve is positioned within the internal volume and protrudes through the first sidewall. An inner shell is positioned within an inner region defined by the sleeve and defines a recess therein. The inner shell spaced apart from the sleeve so as to define a channel therebetween. A base is positioned within the recess and includes an injection port which is in communication with the internal volume. An injector is disposed on the base and is disposed completely within the recess. The injector is in fluidic communication with the internal volume via the injection port. The injector is configured to inject an exhaust reductant into the internal volume via the opening. A cover plate can be disposed over the recess and structured to prevent objects from impacting the injector.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2015Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.Inventors: Jason Meier, Vipin lyer, Stephanie F. Severance, Gordon Loraas
-
Publication number: 20160274485Abstract: An optical scanning device (11) in the image forming apparatus (1) of the present invention includes a deflector (35, 37) deflecting a laser light scanning an image carrier (13) outputted from a light source (32Y, 32C, 32M, 32K); a first reflection mirror part (43Y, 43C, 43M, 43K) adjusting scanning curve of the laser light deflected by the deflector (35, 37); and a second reflection mirror part (44Y, 44C, 44M, 44K) arranged at a downstream side from the first reflection mirror part (43Y, 43C, 43M, 43K) in an optical path of the laser light to adjust scanning inclination of the laser light.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2014Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Akihiro MASAKI
-
Publication number: 20160271056Abstract: One aspect of the invention provides a method of treating a subject diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, but not having a pathological bacterial colonization in either lung. The method includes administering gaseous nitric oxide at a concentration of between about 40 ppm and about 400 ppm to the subject's lungs wherein said nitric oxide is administered by inhalation, and further wherein said nitric oxide induces conformational change in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) in the cells of the lung of the subject. Another aspect of the invention provides a kit comprising: an apparatus for administering gaseous nitric oxide to a subject and instructions for administering the gaseous nitric oxide according to one or more of the methods described herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2014Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicants: Nitric Solutions Inc., 12th Man Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Miller, Gilly Regev, Alex Stenzler
-
Patent number: 9448531Abstract: An image forming apparatus (1) includes an image carrier unit (15) and a positioning member (30) configured to position the image carrier unit (15) to the apparatus main body (2). The image carrier unit (15) has a concentric circumference part (51L), (51R) formed on a concentric circle with a rotating shaft (9a) of the image carrier (9) and the apparatus main body (2) has an edge part (42L), (42R) facing the concentric circumference part (51L), (51R) at the attachment position. The positioning member (30) has an intervening part (37) formed with an edge side abutment face (37a) facing the edge part (42L), (42R) of the apparatus main body (2) and a unit side abutment face (37b) facing the concentric circumference part (51L), (51R) of the image carrier unit (15).Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2015Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Susumu Hanano