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20090000675 | COMBINED RELIEF VALVE AND CHECK VALVE - A combination check valve and relief valve has a valve body with an inlet, an outlet, and a valve chamber operatively interposed between the inlet and outlet. A check valve may be integrated with the relief valve and therefore simplify a hydraulic system. The valve includes a relief valve member which is within the valve chamber. The valve also includes a resilient member with a first end and a second end. The first end of the resilient member operatively engages the relief valve member. The valve includes a setting member pressure-fit within the valve chamber to operatively engage the second end of the resilient member. The resilient member is resiliently biased between the setting member and the relief valve member to bias the relief valve member against a relief valve seat, whereby, when pressurized fluid communicates with the inlet, the resilient member is compressed, and the relief valve member disengages its seat to enable the fluid to pass through to the outlet. | 01-01-2009 |
20090149091 | MEANS FOR PROVIDING UP-RELIEF TO A HYDRAULIC CYLINDER UNIT - A hydraulic cylinder unit comprises a cylinder, a piston disposed within the cylinder, and piston rod connected to the piston. The piston rod is reciprocatingly received within the cylinder, and the piston rod being movable between a first position in which the piston rod is substantially disposed within the cylinder and a second position in which the piston rod is fully extended outside the cylinder. A first hydraulic port and a second hydraulic port hydraulically connecting the cylinder unit to a reservoir. Hydraulic fluid is received by the first hydraulic port and hydraulic fluid is discharged by the second port when the piston rod is actuated to move towards the first position. Hydraulic fluid is received by the second hydraulic port and hydraulic fluid is discharged by the first hydraulic port when the piston rod is actuated to move towards the second position. A bore connects the tilt cylinder to a down gallery allowing hydraulic fluid within the cylinder to re-circulate to the reservoir when the piston rod is fully extended outside the cylinder. | 06-11-2009 |
20090235548 | TILE SPACER AND HOLDER THEREFOR - A tile spacer for a plurality of tiles arranged on the surface with spaces in between. The tile spacer has a first set of elongate members, each having a proximal end and a distal end. The proximal ends are connected together and the distal ends are spaced-apart for setting the spaces between the tiles. The spacer has a body having a portion which is spaced-apart above the tiles when the distal ends of the members are fitted within the spaces between the tiles, thereby facilitating removal of the spacer when tile spacing is completed. | 09-24-2009 |
20100088912 | TILE SPACER AND HOLDER THEREFOR - The present invention relates to a removable tile spacer for enabling even spacing between a first tile and a second tile that are perpendicular to each other. The second tile has an end opposite the first tile. The removable tile spacer includes a first elongate member interposable between the first tile and the end of the second tile to provide spacing between the first tile and the second tile. The tile spacer includes a body. The first elongate member is connected to and extends away from the body at an angle relative to the body such that the body has at least a portion which is spaced-apart from both the first tile and the second tile when the first elongate member is interposed between the first tile and the end of the second tile. This thereby facilitates removal of the tile spacer when tile spacing is completed. | 04-15-2010 |
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20080276107 | Method and Device to Wake-Up Nodes in a Serial Data Bus - A method of communication comprising sending communication signals switched between dominant and recessive values at clock intervals in frames over a serial data bus from at least one of a plurality of sending nodes to a plurality of receiving nodes. The receiving nodes have an operational state and a standby state in which the current consumption of the node is reduced compared to the operational state. The receiving nodes include wake-up trigger means for triggering transition from the standby state to the operational state in response to the communication signals. The frames of the transmitted signals include an identifier field during which the communication signal alternates between the dominant and recessive values in successive clock intervals with at least one significant occurrence during which the communication signal remains at one of the dominant and recessive values during at least two successive clock intervals, and the trigger means is selectively responsive to the position of the occurrence within the identifier field for triggering the transition from the standby state to the operational state. | 11-06-2008 |
20100058144 | MEMORY SYSTEM WITH ECC-UNIT AND FURTHER PROCESSING ARRANGEMENT - A memory system including a first memory for storing data and an ECC unit for accessing the first memory and for detecting errors in data retrieved from the first memory, and characterised by an error further processing arrangement operable to process errors detected by the ECC unit, the error further processing arrangement including a second memory for recording information relating to the detected errors. | 03-04-2010 |
20110057951 | DISPLAY CONTROLLER, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, DISPLAY SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A display controller includes a controller input connectable to receive first image data representing a non-safety relevant part of an image to be displayed on a display and to receive second image data representing a safety relevant part of the image. A merging unit is connected to the controller input, for composing the image from the first image data and second image data. A controller output is connectable to the display, for outputting display data representing the image. An image monitor is connected to the controller output, for comparing a part of the image corresponding to the safety relevant part with an reference for the part. | 03-10-2011 |
20140129001 | SAFETY CRITICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISTRACTION OF AN OPERATOR OF A SAFETY CRITICAL APPARATUS - A safety critical apparatus comprises a set of safety relevant modules; one or more comfort modules having one or more user interfaces; and a distraction controlling device arranged to adapt at least one of the one or more user interfaces to a current situation of operation of the safety critical apparatus. The distraction controlling device comprises an operator imposition estimation unit arranged to receive a set of safety relevant status signals from the set of safety relevant modules and to provide a current acceptable-distraction threshold value depending on the set of safety relevant status signals; a distraction managing unit arranged to receive one or more comfort status signals from the one or more comfort modules and to provide a current distraction value depending on the one or more comfort status signals; and a decision unit arranged to receive the current acceptable-distraction threshold value and the current distraction value and to provide one or more deactivation decision signals for the one or more user interfaces of the one or more comfort modules when the current distraction value exceeds the current acceptable-distraction threshold value. | 05-08-2014 |
20150109330 | DISPLAY CONTROLLER WITH BLENDING STAGE - A display controller comprising a blending stage and a blending controller. The blending stage is provided for blending multiple image layers into one display output image and comprises a plurality of input channels for receiving pixel data for the multiple image layers. The blending stage further comprises multiple blenders for combining the pixel data received by at least two input channels of the plurality of input channels. The blending controller is coupled to the blending stage for controlling operation of the blending stage. The blending stage further comprises a controllable switch for coupling an output of at least one blender of the multiple blenders to a display output of the blending stage for regular on-the-fly blending or to an offline blending memory for storing a result of an offline blending task. The blending controller comprises an input for receiving layer data describing locations and/or properties of the multiple image layers and a predictor for, based on the layer data, predicting an availability of the at least one blender. The blending controller is further operative to control the blending stage to perform the offline blending task in dependence of the predicted availability | 04-23-2015 |
20150245116 | AUDIO UNIT AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A SAFETY CRITICAL AUDIO SIGNAL - An audio unit, connected or connectable to a safety-critical apparatus, or integrated or integrable in the apparatus, is proposed. The audio unit may comprise a driver unit, a detection unit, and an alert unit. The driver unit may generate an analog audio signal in response to a request from the apparatus, to drive an acoustic output unit and thereby generate an acoustic signal for a user of the apparatus. The detection unit may detect the audio signal. The alert unit may generate an alert signal in response to the request if the detection unit has not detected the audio signal. It can thus be checked whether the acoustic signal is generated. A method for generating a safety critical acoustic signal is also described. | 08-27-2015 |
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20120331180 | FAILOVER MECHANISM - Some embodiments of the invention provide a failover capability in a computer system that employs multiple paths to transfer information between virtual machines and a network, without introducing a driver component to provide this capability. For example, some embodiments of the invention provide a networking virtual switch client capable of direct communication between a networking stack implemented by a virtual machine operating system and components comprising either a direct path or a synthetic path to a network interface controller coupled to a network. The networking virtual switch client may be capable of determining which of the paths to employ for a given communication, such as by determining that a synthetic path should be employed if a direct path is not available. | 12-27-2012 |
20140365812 | FAILOVER MECHANISM - Some embodiments of the invention provide a failover capability in a computer system that employs multiple paths to transfer information to and from a network, such as a computer system that performs virtualization, without introducing a new driver component to provide this capability. For example, some embodiments of the invention provide a networking virtual switch client capable of direct communication between a networking stack implemented by a virtual machine operating system and components comprising either a direct path or a synthetic path to a network interface controller coupled to a network. The networking virtual switch client may be capable of determining which of the paths to employ for a given communication, such as by determining that a synthetic path should be employed if a direct path is not available. | 12-11-2014 |
20150078152 | VIRTUAL NETWORK ROUTING - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for connecting a virtual switch to multiple routers (e.g., multiple IP subnets, multiple networks, multiple leaf routers, etc.), for implementing a virtual router for IP address routing, and/or for MAC address overwrite. In an example, a virtual switch is configured to connect a server to multiple routers, such as leaf routers of a Layer 3 network. The virtual switch may route communication packets amongst the multiple routers based upon fail-over and/or load balancing routing criteria. In another example, a virtual router is implemented within the server for IP address routing. In another example, destination MAC address overwriting is performed to direct communication packets to a selected router (e.g., a destination MAC address is overwritten with a MAC address of the selected router). In this way, load balancing and/or fail-over may be implemented within a Layer 3 network. | 03-19-2015 |
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20090100360 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING EXPRESSIONS - A computer readable storage medium comprises executable instructions to provide a workspace for a user to define an expression with expression components from a graphical palette associated with the workspace. Placeholders are indicated in the workspace for the expression components to be added by the user. The placeholders are associated with a data type. The data type is enforced for each placeholder. A structured visual representation of the expression is provided on the workspace. | 04-16-2009 |
20090112904 | Apparatus and Method for Categorical Filtering of Data - A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to retrieve a dataset from a data source. The dataset includes a first set of categories. A data structure with nodes connected by edges is built to represent the dataset. A first set of merit values is calculated for the first set of categories. Each merit value is a measure of how efficient a category is in filtering data. The first set of categories is ordered based on a criterion. The first set of categories is then returned. | 04-30-2009 |
20100198823 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO AUTOMATICALLY GENERATE ENHANCED INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH A SELECTED WEB TABLE - According to some embodiments, a system, method, means, and/or computer program code are provided to facilitate use of a data sharing web server remote from a user device. According to some embodiments, information from a remote web resource server may be received at the user device (and the received information may include tabular data comprising cells arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns). A user selection of a portion of the received information may also be received at the user device, and the selected portion may include the tabular data. Enhanced information associated with the selected portion may be automatically generated and transmitted to the remote data sharing web server. | 08-05-2010 |
20110119273 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING RELEVANT CATEGORIES AND MEASURES FOR USE IN DATA ANALYSES - A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to receive a relevancy parameter. The relevancy parameter is searched in a category ensemble including a set of categories, where the category ensemble overlies a dataset. A first order of the set of categories is created based on the relevancy of the relevancy parameter to each category in the set of categories, where the relevancy is a degree of match to the relevancy parameter. A second order of the set of categories is created based on the merit of each category to partition the dataset. The first order and the second order are combined into a final order, which is returned. A measure in the category ensemble is searched based on the relevancy parameter. The measure is returned as a selected measure, where the selected measure is a codomain of a visualization depicting a portion of the dataset. | 05-19-2011 |
20120221575 | Apparatus and Method for Categorical Filtering of Data - A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to retrieve a dataset from a data source, where the dataset includes a first set of categories. A data structure that represents the dataset is built. A first set of merit values for the first set of categories is calculated. The first set of categories is ordered based on a criterion. The first set of categories is returned. | 08-30-2012 |
20130304766 | Categorical Filtering of Data - A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to retrieve a dataset from a data source, where the dataset includes a first set of categories. A data structure that represents the dataset is built. A first set of merit values for the first set of categories is calculated. The first set of categories is ordered based on a criterion. The first set of categories is returned. | 11-14-2013 |
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20110165224 | VACCINES FOR INCLUSION BODY HEPATITIS - A composition comprising an isolated fowl adenovirus (FAdV), wherein the FAdV is a strain selected from FAdV-2, FAdV-7, FAdv-8a, FAdV-8b, FAdV-8a/8b or FAdV-11 serotype strains; and a suitable carrier and methods for inducing protective immunity in a subject and/or its progeny. | 07-07-2011 |
20130295126 | VACCINES FOR INCLUSION BODY HEPATITIS - A composition comprising an isolated fowl adenovirus (FAdV), wherein the FAdV is a strain selected from FAdV-2, FAdV-7, FAdv-8a, FAdV-8b, FAdV-8a/8b or FAdV-11 serotype strains; and a suitable carrier and methods for inducing protective immunity in a subject and/or its progeny. | 11-07-2013 |
20140010834 | NON-PATHOGENIC SEROTYPE 4 FOWL ADENOVIRUS (FADV-4) AND VIRAL VECTOR THEREOF - A high level replication fowl adenovirus (FAdV) isolate capable of reaching a viral titer of at least 3 log 10 is described. Said FAdV is a non-pathogenic strain of fowl adenovirus serotype 4, identified as FAdV-4 ON1. Additionally, the present disclosure also provides a viral vector comprising the fowl adenovirus, which has inserted an exogenous nucleotide sequence coding for at least one antigenic site of a disease of concern, as well as a method for obtaining said viral vector and an immunogenic composition comprising the same. | 01-09-2014 |
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20090018588 | Orthopedic screw fastener system - An orthopedic screw fastener system, includes at least one screw, consisting in each case of a screw head and of a screw shank, the screw head being provided with a thread, and at least one plate with a thickness, provided with at least one through-bore which is able to receive a screw. The plate has a through-opening, formed by at least two through-bores, each through-bore being defined by a midpoint and by a radius, and the through-bores are offset relative to each other and intersect each other in such a way that intersection lines and/or intersection surfaces form, which extend into the depth of the through-opening. | 01-15-2009 |
20150039038 | Orthopedic Screw Fastener System Including Locking and Non-Locking Screws - An orthopedic screw fastener system which includes at least two screws and at least one bone plate. At least one screw is a locking screw comprising a screw head and a screw shank, the screw head being provided with a thread. At least one other screw is a non-locking screw comprising a non-threaded (i.e., smooth) screw head and a screw shank. The at least one bone plate has a thickness and it has at least two through-bores which are able to receive screws. The plate has two or more through-openings, each formed by at least two through-bores, each through-bore being defined by a midpoint and by a radius, and the through-bores are offset relative to each other and intersect each other in such a way that intersection lines and/or intersection surfaces extend into the depth of the through-opening. | 02-05-2015 |