| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20100266462 | Exhaust Gas Treatment Device - A flexible and substantially crack resistant intumescent, non-intumescent, or hybrid mounting mat material for use in mounting fragile structures includes at least one intumescent, non-intumescent or hybrid layer containing inorganic fibers and reinforcing layer applied to the layer. Also provided is an exhaust gas treatment device including a housing, a fragile catalyst support structure mounted within the housing, and the crack resistant mounting mat disposed in a gap between the housing and the fragile catalyst support structure. Also disclosed are methods of making a mounting mat for an exhaust gas treatment device and for making an exhaust gas treatment device incorporating the mounting mat. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20110097246 | Low Shear Mounting Mat for Pollution Control Devices - A mounting mat for an exhaust gas treatment device including high temperature resistant ceramic fibers containing alumina and/or high temperature resistant biosoluble inorganic fibers, organic binder which at least partially liquefies at elevated temperature prior to binder burnout, colloidal inorganic oxide and optionally intumescent material. The exhaust gas treatment device includes a housing, a fragile catalyst support structure resiliently mounted within the housing, and the mounting mat disposed in a gap between the housing and the fragile catalyst support structure. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110123417 | EXHAUST GAS TREATMENT DEVICE - A device for treatment of exhaust gases includes a housing, a fragile structure resiliently mounted within the housing, and a non-intumescent mounting mat disposed in a gap between the housing and the fragile structure. The mounting mat includes a plurality of inorganic fibers that have undergone a surface treatment to increase the holding force performance of the mounting mat. Also disclosed are methods of making a mounting mat for an exhaust gas treatment device and for making an exhaust gas treatment device incorporating the mounting mat. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110126499 | Multiple Layer Mat and Exhaust Gas Treatment Device - A hybrid mounting mat for mounting a catalyst support structure within a housing in an exhaust gas treatment device. The exhaust gas treatment device includes an outer housing, a fragile catalyst support structure, and a mounting mat disposed in the gap between the housing and the fragile catalyst support structure. Additionally disclosed are methods of making the hybrid mounting mat and for making an exhaust gas treatment device incorporating the mounting mat. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110150715 | Multilayer Mounting Mat for Pollution Control Devices - A multilayer mounting mat for an exhaust gas treatment device including high temperature resistant inorganic fibers, optionally organic binder, and optionally intumescent material. A plurality of the mounting mat plies contain a substantial proportion of the inorganic fibers oriented in the x-y plane of the mounting mat. An exhaust gas treatment device includes a housing, a fragile catalyst support structure resiliently mounted within the housing, and the multilayer mounting mat disposed in a gap between the housing and the fragile catalyst support structure. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110150717 | MOUNTING MAT FOR EXHAUST GAS TREATMENT DEVICE - A mounting mat for an exhaust gas treatment device includes a wet laid sheet of polycrystalline inorganic fibers that have been physically entangled while the wet laid sheet is still in a wet condition. The exhaust gas treatment device includes a housing, a fragile catalyst support structure resiliently mounted within the housing, and the mounting mat disposed in a gap between the housing and the fragile structure. Additionally disclosed are methods of making a mounting mat for an exhaust gas treatment device and for making an exhaust gas treatment device incorporating the mounting mat. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110311403 | Use of Microspheres in an Exhaust Gas Treatment Device Mounting Mat - A mounting mat for an exhaust gas treatment device including inorganic fibers, organic binder, high temperature resistant inorganic microspheres, and optionally intumescent material. The exhaust gas treatment device includes a housing, a fragile catalyst support structure resiliently mounted within the housing, and the mounting mat disposed in a gap between the housing and the fragile catalyst support structure. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110311404 | Thermally Stable Inorganic Fibers For Exhaust Gas Treatment Device Insulating Mat - An insulating mat for an exhaust gas treatment device thermally stable to at least 900° C., wherein the insulating mat contains inorganic fibers uniformly coated with a metal oxide including at least one of aluminum oxide, titanium oxide, zirconium oxide, or mixtures thereof; wherein said fibers are uniformly coated with the metal oxide by precipitating metal hydroxide corresponding to the metal oxide on the fibers, followed by converting the precipitated metal hydroxide to the metal oxide. A method of increasing the thermal stability of inorganic fibers for use in an exhaust gas treatment device insulating mat including the inorganic fibers, including uniformly coating the fibers with a metal oxide of at least one of aluminum oxide, titanium oxide, zirconium oxide or mixtures thereof by a chemical precipitation process. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20120121473 | Mounting mat and exhaust gas treatment device - A mounting mat for mounting a catalyst support structure within a housing in an exhaust gas treatment device. The mounting mat includes a layer of high silica content fibers and a layer of polycrystalline and/or high alumina inorganic fibers. The exhaust gas treatment device includes an outer housing, a fragile catalyst, and a mounting mat disposed in the gap between the housing and the fragile catalyst support structure. Additionally disclosed are methods of making the mounting mat and for making an exhaust gas treatment device incorporating the mounting mat. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120121478 | Heated Mat and Exhaust Gas Treatment Device - A mounting mat for an exhaust gas treatment device, includes at least one layer comprising inorganic fibers and a heater in thermal communication with the layer. Also disclose is an exhaust gas treatment device comprising an outer housing, a fragile structure located in the housing and the mounting mat located between the housing and the fragile structure. A method is further disclosed for maintaining and/or increasing the temperature of a substrate of an exhaust gas treatment device comprising providing the mounting mat and transferring heat from the heater to the mounting mat in order to maintain and/or increase the temperature of the substrate and/or the exhaust gas treatment device during the battery mode of a hybrid gas/electric vehicle. | 05-17-2012 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090106821 | CALL LIMITER FOR WEB SERVICES - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with web services are disclosed. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090164632 | WEB SERVICE MULTI-KEY RATE LIMITING METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method and computer system for limiting a number of web service programming calls including intercepting a web request for web service programming from a client and extracting call specific data from the web request. The method and computing system further includes transmitting call specific data to a plurality of rate limiter servers and on the rate limiter servers, calculating a total number of web requests, where the web requests are identified by the call specific data. The method and computing system further includes receiving web request totals from the rate limiter servers and thereby determining accessibility of the client to the web request based on a comparison of the number of web requests for the web service programming relative to a predetermined access limit. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20110040830 | WEB SERVICE MULTI-KEY RATE LIMITING METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method and computer system for limiting a number of web service programming calls including intercepting a web request for web service programming from a client and extracting call specific data from the web request. The method and computing system further includes transmitting call specific data to a plurality of rate limiter servers and on the rate limiter servers, calculating a total number of web requests, where the web requests are identified by the call specific data. The method and computing system further includes receiving web request totals from the rate limiter servers and thereby determining accessibility of the client to the web request based on a comparison of the number of web requests for the web service programming relative to a predetermined access limit. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110153833 | RATE PROVISIONER FOR WEB SERVICES - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with web services are disclosed. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110166745 | AUTOMATED START-STOP SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES - An automated start/stop system for a vehicle comprises an auto-stop module, a diagnostic module, and an auto-start module. The auto-stop module selectively initiates an auto-stop event and shuts down an engine while the vehicle is running. The diagnostic module selectively diagnoses a fault in a clutch pedal position sensor of the vehicle. The auto-start module, while the vehicle is running and the engine is shut down, selectively initiates an auto-start event after the fault has been diagnosed when current drawn by a starter motor is less than a predetermined maximum starting current. | 07-07-2011 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20100286992 | Integration of Third-Party Business Applications with Hosted Multi-Tenant Business Software System - A computing device includes a processing unit and a memory with instructions that, when executed by the processing unit, cause the processing unit to create: a business software processing module that manages business application software for a plurality of businesses. The business processing software module comprises a customization module, a registration module and an activation module. The customization module stores and processes definitions for business solutions that permit a business application external to the computing device to be integrated with business application software included on the computing device. The registration module makes the business solutions available to users of the computing device. The activation module generates an activation token and a web page for each request to activate a business solution. For each activation request, the activation module redirects the web page to a URL specified in the business solution definition corresponding to the activation request. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20110145643 | REPRODUCIBLE TEST FRAMEWORK FOR RANDOMIZED STRESS TEST - A test framework architecture that separates the generation of random test actions from test execution and provides a way to record the state of the system under test at user controlled intervals. This saved state is used to bring the test system to the last known state before failure and then execute the much smaller set of actions to the point of failure, thus requiring shorter run time. Given the same time constraints, this enables the execution of this smaller set more frequently, providing better bug fix verification and shorter reproduction time. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20120129506 | DESKTOP TO MOBILE DATA AND ACTION TRANSFER - Methods and systems for utilizing tags to transfer data are provided. Digital tags may be presented on a display device of a first computing device such that the tags are selectable by a second computing device. The tags may include tag content that is associated with a target item indicated by a user. The tag content may be identified based on actions performed by the second computing device. Upon selection of the tag by the second computing device, the tag content is communicated to the second computing device. | 05-24-2012 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090256207 | FINFET DEVICES FROM BULK SEMICONDUCTOR AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a transistor comprising a first fin having a first gate electrode disposed across the first fin; the gate electrode contacting opposing surfaces of the fin; and a planar oxide layer having a second gate electrode disposed across the planar oxide layer to form a planar metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor; the first fin and the planar oxide layer being disposed upon a surface of a wafer. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20100242012 | FORMATION OF MASKS/RETICLES HAVING DUMMY FEATURES - A method of forming a mask. The method includes providing design information of a design layer. The design layer includes M original design features and N original dummy features. The method further includes (i) creating a cluster of P representative dummy features, P being a positive integer less than N, (ii) performing OPC for the cluster of the P representative dummy features but not for the N original dummy features, resulting in P OPC-applied representative dummy features, and (iii) forming the mask including N mask dummy features. The N mask dummy features are identical. Each mask dummy feature of the N mask dummy features of the mask has an area which is a function of at least an area of an OPC-applied representative dummy feature of the P OPC-applied representative dummy features. The N mask dummy features have the same relative positions as the N original dummy features. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100269085 | Automated Generation of Oxide Pillar Slot Shapes in Silicon-On-Insulator Formation Technology - A method of automated generation of oxide pillar (PX) slot shapes of a PX layer within silicon-on-insulator (SOI) structures that includes generating a placement grid on recess oxide (RX) shapes, creating PX placement markers on the placement grid along a perimeter of the RX shapes, filtering the PX placement markers, generating a PX slot shape corresponding to each filtered PX placement marker on the RX shapes, correcting location errors associated with the generated PX slot shapes, generating PX slot shapes on RX shapes of a predetermined size for which PX slot shapes were not generated, performing a verification operation of the PX slot shapes, and outputting the PX layer including the verified PX slot shapes. | 10-21-2010 |