Patents Issued in January 12, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170013659
    Abstract: A device-to-device (D2D) pairing assembly comprises: a first and a second device detecting and communicating (DDC) component communicatively coupled to each other and to a microprocessor that executes a device pairing parameter exchange (DPPE) utility, which configures the D2D pairing assembly to: detect a communicative coupling of a first user device to the first DDC component; receive from the first user device at least one first pairing parameter, which first pairing parameter enables another device to connect to and participate in a pairing session with the first user device; detect a communicative coupling of a second user device to the second DDC component; and communicate the at least one first pairing parameter to the second user device, via the second DDC component, to trigger the second user device to connect to and participate in a pairing session with the first user device via a direct device-to-device communication channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Rohit R. Sinha, Naveen Aerrabotu
  • Publication number: 20170013660
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a near-field communication system and a terminal The system includes: a first terminal having a first near-field communication region; and a second terminal having a second near-field communication region, where the second near-field communication region has a first subunit and a second subunit, and the first subunit and the second subunit are configured to detect a distance between the first near-field communication region and the second near-field communication region, and the second subunit is configured to establish communication with the first near-field communication region when the distance between the first near-field communication region and the second near-field communication region is less than or equal to a preset distance. Embodiments of the present disclosure may reduce signal attenuation and external interference in data transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Siqiu Cheng, Gengchun Deng
  • Publication number: 20170013661
    Abstract: Macrocell communication resources are assigned for device-to-device (D2D) communication between two wireless communication user equipment (UE) devices. A scheduler in a communication system schedules (assigns) scheduled downlink communication resources for downlink transmission of signals from a base station, schedules (assigns) scheduled uplink communication resources for uplink communication from wireless communication UE devices to base stations, and schedules (assigns) D2D communication resources for D2D communication between wireless communication UE devices. The D2D communication resources are selected from either defined downlink communication resources or defined uplink communication resources that are defined by communication specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Amit KALHAN
  • Publication number: 20170013662
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are directed to a first peer-to-peer (P2P) enabled device configured to wirelessly transmit a first request message and a second P2P-enabled device configured to wirelessly receive the first request message. In response to receiving the first request message, the second P2P-enabled device wirelessly transmits a second request message to the first P2P-enabled device, and if the first request message is rejected by the second P2P-enabled device, the second request message includes status control information indicating that the first request message is rejected. In addition, if the first request message is to be cancelled, the first P2P-enabled device transmits another request message to the second P2P-enabled device with status control information indicating that the first request message has been cancelled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Emily H. Qi, Venkata Vallabhu, Rita Lee
  • Publication number: 20170013663
    Abstract: Various wireless communication methods are provided for controlling two or more wireless devices. In one embodiment, various processes optimize the wireless communication, especially when multiple devices are present in a system or a network. In another embodiment, various controlling devices are accommodated in a network of devices at different points in time. The speed at which the new controlling device comes into a range of the networked devices is improved with existing signatures of different wireless protocols or devices present in the network. In another embodiment, a change in the signal strength of a wireless device can be used to detect an object or person, such as an intruder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Swapnil Bora, Corey Egan, Qinghui Tang
  • Publication number: 20170013664
    Abstract: A first reception unit receives a sound signal destined to a second terminal device in a second communication system supporting one way communication from a first terminal device in a first communication system supporting two way communication. A first transmission unit transmits the sound signal received in the first reception unit to the second terminal device. A second reception unit receives a sound signal destined to the first terminal device from the second terminal device. A second transmission unit transmits the sound signal received in the second reception unit to the first terminal device. A storage unit stores the sound signal received in the first reception unit if the second transmission unit is transmitting the sound signal received in the second reception unit. The first transmission unit transmits the sound signal stored in the storage unit when reception of the sound signal in the second reception unit is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro AZAMI
  • Publication number: 20170013665
    Abstract: The present invention is to process a request of an application layer in an electronic device, and a method for operating the electronic device comprises transmitting a request signal through a first interface, and, when a response signal corresponding to the request signal is not received before a timer expires, retransmitting another request signal through a second interface. The request signal and the another request signal correspond to a single request signal generated in the electronic device. Also, the present invention includes other embodiments than the described embodiments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Kang-Jin YOON, Jiangwei XU, Jin-Ho LEE, Yong-Seok PARK
  • Publication number: 20170013666
    Abstract: A serving gateway includes a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor configured to process the instructions to, if a mobility management node performs restarting thereof, maintain at least one specific S5/S8 bearer between the serving gateway and a packet data network gateway eligible for restoration of network initiated communication services and release all other S5/S8 bearers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Junya Okabe, Toshiyuki Tamura
  • Publication number: 20170013667
    Abstract: A wireless device has a WiFi transceiver and a WWAN transceiver. A programmed processor is configured to connect the WiFi transceiver to an access point and while connected, operate in a learning mode in which WWAN signals are characterized at a location of the WiFi access point and stored as an access point characterization. When a connection to the AP is lost, operating in a monitoring mode in which WWAN signals are compared to the stored access point characterization with the WiFi transceiver disabled. When the WWAN signals match the WiFi AP characterization the WiFi transceiver is enabled to reconnect to a WiFi AP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Shanning Yang
  • Publication number: 20170013668
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a bearer management apparatus and method, and a communication system. The method comprises: a user equipment (UE) receives an indication message, sent by a base station, for changing a bearer type of a bearer or releasing the bearer under dual connectivity; and changes the bearer type of the bearer or releases the bearer according to the indication message. Through the embodiments of the present disclosure, the UE configured with dual connectivity can seamlessly convert the bearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Ningjuan CHANG, Haibo XU, Yanling LU, Weiwei WANG
  • Publication number: 20170013669
    Abstract: The control module (16) of the apparatus is operable to relay data packets of the data service between the mobile transceiver (200) and the data server (300). The control module (16) is further operable to determine a control data packet for the data service between the data server (300) and the mobile transceiver (200). The control data packet is intended to maintain a connection established between the data server (300) and the mobile transceiver (200). The control module (16) is further operable to provide a reply data packet for the control data packet to the data server (300) without relaying the control data packet to the mobile transceiver (200), and/or generate and provide the control data packet to the data server (300).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Dietrich Karl Zeller, Uwe Doetsch
  • Publication number: 20170013670
    Abstract: A device and method controlling working state change of a small cell and a base station including the device. The device includes: an information acquiring unit that acquires interference between a small cell to be controlled and an adjacent small cell and/or load of the small cell to be controlled or load distributed by other small cells and to be borne by the small cell to be controlled; and a state change determination unit that determines working state change to be performed by the small cell to be controlled according to the acquired interference and/or load. The working state includes multiple sleep levels from low to high. A sleep degree of the small cell to be controlled in a low sleep level is less than a sleep degree of the small cell to be controlled in a high sleep level, the working state change being performed among multiple sleep levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Ningyu CHEN, Jiahui LIU, Yingni ZHANG, Liang ZENG, Zhongbin QIN
  • Publication number: 20170013671
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of wireless communications. Disclosed are a state switching method and device for a small cell base station and a computer storage medium. The method comprises: acquiring state switching information comprising a state switching mode and performing state switching on the small cell base station according to the state switching information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Hanqing Xu, Yajun Zhao, Linmei Mo
  • Publication number: 20170013672
    Abstract: A method and network element for sending a transition indication to transition a user equipment to a different state or mode, the method receiving a configuration message from a network; and transmitting a transition indication from the user equipment, the transition indication only includes a cause if the configuration message contains an inhibit transition indication. Also, a method and user equipment for processing a transitioning indication from a user equipment indicating the user equipment desires a transition to a different state or mode, the method comprising: receiving the transition indication from the user equipment; if the transition indication contains a cause: releasing a signaling connection of the user equipment or transitioning the user equipment to a different state or mode; and if the transition indication does not contain the cause: releasing the signaling connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Muhammad Khaledul ISLAM, Jeffrey William WIRTANEN, Takashi SUZUKI, Gordon Peter YOUNG, Claude Jean-Frederic ARZELIER
  • Publication number: 20170013673
    Abstract: In TDD-FDD carrier aggregation, delay in downlink retransmission timing and UE's battery energy consumption are reduced. In a mobile communication system that performs carrier aggregation using a first component carrier associated with a first cell conducting radio communication in a first duplex mode and a second component carrier associated with a second cell conducting radio communication in a second duplex mode, a cell is provided on which an uplink control channel carrying acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement for the first component carrier and the second component carrier is transmitted, and a user equipment performs discontinuous reception using a timer value corresponding to a duplex mode of said cell on which the uplink control channel is transmitted upon receiving at least one of a first downlink data signal transmitted over the first component carrier and a second downlink data signal transmitted over the second component carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Kazuki Takeda, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20170013674
    Abstract: A network node and method is described for providing timing information of at least one other network node operating in DTX mode. The network node comprises a processor, configured for determining timing information for periodically monitoring of said at least one other network node operating in DTX mode. The timing information is based on time-frequency characteristics of at least one downlink signal transmitted by said at least one other network node to be monitored. Further, the network node comprises a transmitter, configured for transmitting a signal comprising said timing information, associated with periodical monitoring of said at least one other network node operating in DTX mode, to the at least one mobile station. Also, a mobile station configured for periodically monitoring the at least one other network node and a method therein is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Pablo Soldati
  • Publication number: 20170013675
    Abstract: A method for resource management in a vehicle-based mobile communications unit. In the method, during a mobile communication transaction conducted via two simultaneously established mobile communication channels, the user-nonspecific data components of the currently active identity profile are compared with one another to determine the mobile communication services provider currently being used. In case of a mobile communication services provider identity determined within the context of the comparison, one of the mobile communication channels is switched off and the mobile communications are conducted via the other mobile communication channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas KRAUSS, Peter FERTL, Markus KAINDL
  • Publication number: 20170013676
    Abstract: A heater includes a substrate, a heating resistor layer, and an electrode layer. The substrate has a substrate obverse surface and a substrate reverse surface. The heating resistor layer is formed on the substrate obverse surface. The electrode layer is formed on the substrate obverse surface and in contact with the heating resistor layer. The electrode layer includes a pair of strip portions extending in a longitudinal direction of the substrate and spaced apart from each other in the width direction of the substrate. The heating resistor layer includes a main heating member and a sub heating member each extending in the longitudinal direction of the substrate and located between the strip portions in the width direction. The sub heating member has a higher temperature coefficient of resistance than that of the main heating member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Yasuyuki ARITAKI, Masashi TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20170013677
    Abstract: This invention is related to a heating plate for a heated clothing and a connecting structure of the same. The heating plate comprises a heater strip which two ends are connected with two electric wires respectively, and each electric wire comprises sequentially a first right angle, a horizontal segment, a second right angle, and a vertical segment. The vertical segments of the electric wires go out from a covering piece which covers the heater strip and the electric wires. Therefore, when the electric wires of the heating plate are pulled, the pull strength is dispersed at the right-angle bend to be decreased, avoiding the heater strip moving. Furthermore, when the heating plate is set on the heated clothing, according to different size of the heated clothing, the length of an assembly electric wire is relative to the distance between the heating plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: CHIEN-CHOU CHEN
  • Publication number: 20170013678
    Abstract: A trimmable heater mat has a plurality of heater mat segments that together comprise a length of the heater mat. Each of the heater mat segments has a segment heater element connected to a power bus for generating heat. One or more of the heater mat segments can be severed from the others and removed from the heater mat to trim the length of the heater mat to a desired length. Heater mat segment boundary indicia on the heater mat indicate locations where one of the heater mat segments can be severed from the other remaining heater mat segments of the heater mat without interfering with the segment heater elements of the remaining heater mat segments or with the connections of the remaining segment heater elements to the power bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: MKS INSTRUMENTS, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey D. Kiernan, Karl Hausmann, Paul Dozoretz
  • Publication number: 20170013679
    Abstract: A windowpane system (101) comprising: a windowpane (102); and at least one primary light source (105); each primary light source (105) being arranged so that light (106) from the primary light source (105) passes into the windowpane (102) through a first surface of the windowpane (102), the light (106) then travelling within the windowpane until it has undergone total internal reflection from one or more second surfaces of the windowpane a plurality of times, wherein at least some of the light from the primary light source is absorbed by the windowpane as the light from the primary light source passes through the windowpane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Ashutosh Tomar
  • Publication number: 20170013680
    Abstract: A domestic appliance includes at least one manually operable longitudinally or rotationally movable control device which is configured to adopt several latching positions. The latching positions are variably adjustable, for example adjusting a number of latching positions, or by adjusting a spacing between adjacent latching positions, or by adjusting a latching sensation of the latching positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Sebastien Gerstheim
  • Publication number: 20170013681
    Abstract: A cooking tool is disclosed, which comprises a fastening portion detachably provided in a cooking vessel provided above or inside a kitchen appliance to cook food; a sensor sensing a temperature of food which is cooked in the cooking vessel; a transmitter transmitting temperature information sensed by the sensor to the kitchen appliance as an electric signal; and a controller controlling the transmitter to transmit the temperature information sensed by the sensor as an electric signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Sangcheol LEE, Wontae KIM, Yangkyeong KIM
  • Publication number: 20170013682
    Abstract: A high frequency induction continuous heating method and a high frequency induction continuous heating apparatus are provided, and they can improve a working efficiency of a heating treatment and can also improve an uniformity of the heating treatment for an entirety of a work piece corresponding to multiple types of work pieces. In the high frequency induction continuous heating method in which a work piece (W) placed on a conveyance surface (2a) of a conveyor (2) is conveyed, and the work piece (W) on the conveyance surface (2a) is heated by high frequency induction heating coils (3) which are disposed at both ends of the conveyor (2) in a crosswise direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction (shown by an arrow (D) in the drawing), the work piece (W) is rotated around an axis which is extended so as to be perpendicular to the conveyance surface (2a), at a certain rotation angle (?) in mid-flow of the conveyance of the work piece (W) to change an orientation of the work piece (W).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Kouichi Miyashita, Toshiyuki Sakuma, Akira Suenaga
  • Publication number: 20170013683
    Abstract: The power supply device includes a converter including a pair of input terminals, a pair of output terminals, a transformer, a capacitor, and a switching device, and a controller for controlling the switching device. The capacitor is electrically connected between the pair of input terminals. The converter further includes a reverse flow preventer for preventing a current from flowing through a closed circuit including the capacitor, a primary winding of the transformer, and the switching device, in an opposite direction to a direction of a discharging current from the capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Kiyoshi OGASAWARA, Takafumi FUJINO
  • Publication number: 20170013684
    Abstract: The lighting device includes a converter circuit including a switching device, a first inductor, and a second inductor. The first inductor and the second inductor have winding directions such that a magnetic field of the first inductor and a magnetic field of the second inductor have a canceling effect on each other. The switching device is mounted on the substrate so as to be present between the first inductor and the second inductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ASANO, Masato HIMEDA, Masafumi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170013685
    Abstract: A lighting device includes: a signal converting circuit which receives a dimming signal that is a rectangular voltage signal, and converts the dimming signal to a DC voltage signal corresponding to a duty ratio of the dimming signal; and a power supply circuit which receives an AC voltage and outputs DC current having a current value corresponding to the DC voltage signal. The signal converting circuit includes a resistor-capacitor (RC) circuit which integrates a signal corresponding to the dimming signal by way of charging and discharging to produce the DC voltage signal, and a time constant of the RC circuit during charging is greater than a time constant of the RC circuit during discharging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Masato HIMEDA, Hiroyuki ASANO, Masafumi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170013686
    Abstract: A control circuit is configured to convert a DC voltage that is outputted from a DC power supply to a square wave voltage by switching the switching element according to a PWM signal having a duty ratio that corresponds to a light modulation level of the light source unit, and cause the square wave voltage to be outputted to the light source unit. The control circuit includes a voltage controller configured to control an operating voltage for operating the switching element such that at least one of a rising time and a falling time of a current that flows through the switching element is 1 microsecond or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Shigeru IDO, Akinori HIRAMATSU, Hiroshi KIDO, Takeshi KAMOI, Daisuke UEDA
  • Publication number: 20170013687
    Abstract: An apparatus for sensing input power source includes; an input power source; a rectifier for rectifying input power source (Vin) of the input power source into rectified power source (Vr); a dimming interface for sensing the state of the input power source; a first light; and a converter for converting the rectified power source (Vr) into a first power source (V21) and a second power source (V22) which were preset to apply them to the dimming interface and the first light, wherein the dimming interface and the first light are connected with the converter in a feedback type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Yong Hee LEE
  • Publication number: 20170013688
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED)-based solid-state lamp using an LED driving circuit with an electric current control operates normally for a regulated power from either a compact fluorescent (CFL) electronic ballast or AC mains. The LED driving circuit together with a matching circuit is configured to optimize resonant characteristics of the CFL electronic ballast used and enhance lamp compatibility without flickering, which in turn reduces possibility of overheating and fires due to incompatibility. With a cycle-by-cycle current control and power switching at a constant on-time and varied off-time, an over-rated surge current is limited, preventing occasional fire hazards occurred in both the CFL electronic ballast and the LED lamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Chungho Hsia
  • Publication number: 20170013689
    Abstract: To provide a light-emitting device whose amount of light can be adjusted, or the like. The amount of light emitted from the light-emitting device can be adjusted by controlling the magnitude of the constant current pulse by a control signal. Specifically, the light-emitting device includes a constant current supply configured to be supplied with a control signal and a control pulse signal and configured to supply a constant current pulse; a control device configured to supply the control signal; a driver circuit configured to supply the control pulse signal; and a light-emitting panel configured to be supplied with the constant current pulse. The control signal is a signal for controlling the magnitude of the constant current pulse. The light-emitting panel includes a light-emitting element. The current density of the light-emitting element is greater than or equal to 10 mA/cm2 and less than or equal to 1000 mA/cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daiki Nakamura, Nobuharu Ohsawa, Hisao Ikeda, Akihiro Kaita, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20170013690
    Abstract: A biasing and driving circuit for an electric load, having an input adapted to receive an a.c. input voltage and an output adapted to supply a d.c. output voltage, comprising: a voltage-regulator device, having a feedback input terminal configured to receive a sensing voltage that is a function of a supply current that flows through the electric load and regulating, on the basis of the sensing voltage received, the supply current; a resistive sensing element, operatively coupled to the feedback input, configured to receive the supply current and generate the sensing voltage as a function of the supply current; a resistor coupled to the feedback input; and an auxiliary biasing circuit adapted to receive the a.c. input voltage and inject through the resistor an a.c. auxiliary biasing current that varies in a way inversely proportional to the input voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Fulvio Ottavio Lissoni, Domenico Attianese, Stefano Signoria
  • Publication number: 20170013691
    Abstract: An apparatus that is configured to be installed with a predetermined maximum wattage output wherein the maximum wattage output can be selected by the installer. The light fixture includes a housing and an adjustable resistor. A light source is electrically to the adjustable resistor. And the adjustable resistor is associated with the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: George Erik McMillan
  • Publication number: 20170013692
    Abstract: A method of controlling a plurality of light fixtures. The method includes determining first light outputs for each of the plurality of light fixtures. The method also includes determining a first spectrum of light reflected off of a surface. The method further includes determining a first difference between the first light outputs and desired light outputs for each of the plurality of light fixtures. The method also includes determining a second difference between the first spectrum of light reflected off of the surface and a desired spectrum of light reflected off of the surface. The method further includes calculating an updated output spectrum for the plurality of light fixtures based at least in part on the first difference and the second difference. The method also includes determining a second set of light source output values based at least in part on the updated output spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Gary Bewick, Joshua Jordan, Timothy G. Robbins
  • Publication number: 20170013693
    Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to a lighting system including a string of light sources connected in series between a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein at least one electrical contact of the string of light sources is accessible. The system further includes a protection circuit that protects the light sources from an electrostatic discharge applied to the electrical contact that is accessible. In particular, the protection circuit includes at least one TVS diode or set of antiparallel diodes connected to the second terminal, and for each electrical contact a respective capacitor connected between the respective electrical contact and a TVS diode or set of antiparallel diodes, in such a way that an electrostatic event applied to an electrical contact is discharged through the respective capacitor and the respective TVS diode or set of antiparallel diodes towards the second terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Alessio GRIFFONI, Lorenzo BALDO
  • Publication number: 20170013694
    Abstract: In a circuit device, a plurality of protection circuits are disposed between a plurality of first power supply connecting terminals and a first input terminal of a load circuit. A switching element of each of the plurality of protection circuits is connected between a first power supply connecting terminal and a first input terminal, and is turned on when a DC power supply is connected with a normal polarity to the first power supply connecting terminal. Each of the plurality of protection circuits a parasitic diode that is connected in parallel to the switching element between a corresponding first power supply connecting terminal and a first input terminal in a direction where a current having a normal polarity is caused to flow. The reset circuit performs periodically a reset operation of temporarily turning off the switching element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Toshiaki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170013695
    Abstract: A lighting system includes a control unit for controlling brightness level of a light source based on a photosensor output signal and a motion sensor output signal. The control unit may increase the brightness level of the light source as ambient light level decreases, or decreases the brightness level as the ambient light level increases. The control unit may also increase the brightness level to a maximum brightness level when motion is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: HAMPTON PRODUCTS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kim Kelley, Ben Huang
  • Publication number: 20170013696
    Abstract: A lifestyle lighting solution using microcontroller technology for controlling nighttime illumination is disclosed wherein the night time illumination is divided into two stages with the first stage being a high power illumination for a preset time period and the second stage being an energy saving/security illumination. The time period of the first stage high power illumination is managed by a virtual timer which is programmable and dynamically variable according to the home owners' living habits and needs. The second stage energy saving illumination with four options is produced by different combinations of dimming techniques and motion sensor. The lifestyle illumination also using microcontroller technology to replace the function of photo cell enables the users to manage their time table of home lighting performance for both indoor and outdoor application. The present invention provides home owners possibility to choose among different working modes integrated in a single lighting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: CHIA-TEH CHEN
  • Publication number: 20170013697
    Abstract: A method of controlling lighting devices (4) via input from a mobile device (1), involving the operations of:—upon movement of the mobile device, while being wirelessly connected with an influencing lighting device, obtaining movement direction data generated by the mobile device (1); and—providing the movement direction data for determining a next lighting device to be controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: Philips Lighting Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Dirk Valentinus René ENGELEN, Alexander Henricus Waltherus VAN EEUWIJK, Bartel Marinus VAN DE SLUIS
  • Publication number: 20170013698
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and techniques for managing streetlights. The subject matter included in this document is embodied in a method that includes receiving, at a computing device, information representative of a location and status of a streetlight included in a network of streetlights. The method also includes presenting a representation of the streetlight in a graphical user-interface in accordance with the received location and status information, and receiving information representing a selection of the streetlight for inclusion in a group of streetlights from the network. The method further includes initiating delivery of one or more control signals to the group of streetlights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Anil Agrawal
  • Publication number: 20170013699
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus that emits light from a light source using accumulated electric energy and that performs wireless communication with another illumination apparatus via a communication unit includes a capacitor that accumulates the electric energy used to emit light from the light source, a detection unit that detects a charge state of the capacitor, and a notification unit that performs notification indicating information indicating that the illumination apparatus is in a flash available state and notification indicating information indicating that both the illumination apparatus and the other illumination apparatus are in a flash available state in a distinguishable manner in accordance with information on the other illumination apparatus received by the communication unit and a result of the detection performed by the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Kentarou Midorikawa
  • Publication number: 20170013700
    Abstract: In a processing machine according to the present invention, an electric discharger to remove static electricity from a charged work piece or charged machining chips is installed on a movement means including a beam supported by a constituting member of the processing machine and a power source installed in the beam. By making the electric discharger movable inside and outside the processing machine, the static electricity can be removed from machining chips and the like in a plurality of areas needing removal of the static electricity using a small number of the electric dischargers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki Sato
  • Publication number: 20170013701
    Abstract: A gantry scanner system comprises a radiation source, a plurality of detectors and a support frame supporting the detectors. The support frame includes an elongate support member arranged to support the detectors, cable support means arranged to support power cables or signal cables connected to the detectors, and cover means arranged to cover the support member, the cable support means and the detectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Edward James Morton
  • Publication number: 20170013702
    Abstract: The invention includes a power supply 17 for an x-ray tube 49. The power supply 17 can comprise a control box 48 and a remote box 47. An electron-emitter transformer 14 can be located in the remote box 47. A box-connector cable 41 between the control box 48 and the remote box 47 can be relatively long and an x-ray tube cable 21 between the remote box 47 and an electron emitter 19 can be relatively short. This design can provide improved electrical power transfer from the power supply 17 to the x-ray tube 49. Also, electrical cable size and cost can be reduced if a high voltage source 15 is located in the remote box 47.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Gordon Ernest Smith, Tyler Dean Washburn
  • Publication number: 20170013703
    Abstract: A device controller controls an acceleration-related devices and an extraction-related devices of an accelerator for accelerating and extracting a particle beam, in such a way that the controller checks, at a time point when receiving a master clock pulse, that preparation for operating the acceleration-related devices is completed and then commands the acceleration-related devices to operate in accordance with an operation pattern corresponding to a prescribed energy of the particle beam, and commands the acceleration-related devices to operate in accordance with an extracting operation pattern when an extraction enable signal indicating that the particle beam reaches the prescribed energy is turned ON and an extraction-related device setting-status signal indicating that completion of setting the extraction-related devices for the prescribed energy is ON.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kengo SUGAHARA, Shuhei ODAWARA, Kazuhiro NISHI
  • Publication number: 20170013704
    Abstract: A curved display device including: a display panel having a curvature; a frame which supports the display panel; and a control circuit coupled to the frame, where the control circuit includes a circuit board coupled to the frame, and an electronic element on a surface of the circuit board opposing the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Seungwan KIM, Mingyu KIM, Youngsup KWON, Byungkyou MIN, Jinwon JANG
  • Publication number: 20170013705
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a portable device including a flexible display panel and having a new structure in which the flexible display panel is easily accepted and withdrawn to be used. In the portable device including a flexible display panel according to the present invention, when a support (40) is rotated using a rotation driving unit (100), a display panel (30) is withdrawn from a case (10) or the display panel (30) is accepted into the case (10). Therefore, the flexible display panel (30) is easily accepted and withdrawn to be used and since there is a feature that the flexible display panel (30) is wound in the form of rolled paper and maintained in a compact size when not used, there is an advantage capable of minimizing the overall size of the portable device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Jin Woo JAHNG
  • Publication number: 20170013706
    Abstract: A communication device is provided wherein a number of the pairs of transmission lines is N, each pair of the transmission lines comprises (N?1) stages of sub-transmission lines generating a same amount of crosstalk as that caused at a connector, and (N?1) stages of connecting portions comprise a transmission path of the connector and a first stage sub-transmission line, and (N?1) stages of the connecting portions to connect an i th stage sub-transmission line and an (i+1) th stage sub-transmission line by the straight/cross connection, and wherein each pair of the transmission lines is different in all pairs in a number of the connecting portion having the cross connection; and as a j th stage connecting portion in any one pair of the transmission lines has cross connection, a (N?j) th stage connecting portion in the any one pair of the transmission lines also has cross connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Yohei SHIRAKAWA, Koki HIRANO, Yoshitake AGEISHI, Yuki HAGA
  • Publication number: 20170013707
    Abstract: The border routing of conductive traces in devices, such as displays, touch sensor panels, and touch screens, to improve border area space usage, thereby reducing device size, and to reduce trace resistance, thereby improving device operation, is disclosed. The conductive traces can form a staggered stair-step configuration in the device border area, in which the average widths of the traces can be different from each other and each trace can have segments with different widths. The conductive traces can be coupled to an active area of the device to transmit signals to and from the active area in accordance with a device operation. The varying widths can help improve the border area space usage, reduce trace resistance, and reduce the differences in resistance between traces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Benjamin B. LYON, Shih-Chang CHANG, Martin Paul GRUNTHANER
  • Publication number: 20170013708
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a laminate substrate for mounting RF components can include a plurality of layers vertically stacked on top of each other. The laminate substrate includes a plurality of conductor pads, such that a respective conductor pad is positioned within a respective layer of the laminate substrate. The plurality of conductor pads includes an input pad on a first layer, an output pad on a second layer such that the output pad does not completely overlap with the input pad, and at least one intermediate pad between the input and output pads. The at least one intermediate pad defines a cutout reducing overlap between the at least one intermediate pad and one or more neighboring conductor pads. The laminate substrate can further include a plurality of connection features between the plurality of conductor pads to provide a signal path between the input pad and the output pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Ambarish ROY, Stephen Richard MORESCHI