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20110277708 | Cylinder Head for Internal Combustion Engine - A cylinder head for an internal combustion engine comprises a cooling water jacket having a high volume lower portion and a low volume upper portion. A plurality of coolant risers in the high volume lower portion are configured to receive high pressure coolant from coolant openings in a cylinder block. Coolant risers extending between the high volume lower portion and low volume upper portion define restrictions regulate coolant flow from the high volume lower portion to the low volume upper portion at a predetermined volume and flow. | 11-17-2011 |
20110277714 | FUEL PUMP TAPPET/ROLLER FOLLOWER LUBRICATION - A cylinder head including a dam defining a reservoir surrounding the periphery of the fuel pump tappet/roller follower mounting hole is provided. The cylinder head includes a tappet/roller follower mounted in the tappet/roller follower mounting hole and in communication with a cam and a fuel pump. The fuel pump is located on the high side of the head and oil drainage occurs in a direction away from the mounting hole. The dam and reservoir are configured to retain lubricant in the mounting hole and the sliding interface between the mounting hole and the tappet/roller follower. The dam and reservoir are configured to retain a minimum level of oil in the mounting hole when the head is in vehicle position. A method is provided for retaining lubrication in the tappet/roller follower hole by forming a dam defining a reservoir in the head and passively providing lubricant to the tappet/roller follower hole. | 11-17-2011 |
20110277721 | CYLINDER HEAD DRAIN AND VENT - A central direct injection (DI) cylinder head is configured with an intake valvetrain and an exhaust valvetrain separated by an uncovered central DI valley. The uncovered central DI valley limits oil flow from the high side chamber to the low side chamber and PCV transfer. Oil drainage and additional PCV transfer between the intake and exhaust chambers is provided by drain/vent passages integrally cast into the casting of the cylinder head. The drain/vent passages may be of varying configuration, and may be located between an injector port of a first cylinder set and a spark plug port of an adjacent cylinder set, or at either or both ends of the cylinder head. A method is provided to form a casting of the cylinder head as described herein, including casting of a plurality of drain/vent passages between the first chamber and the second chamber of the cylinder head. | 11-17-2011 |
20110277725 | ENGINE ASSEMBLY WITH CAMSHAFT HOUSING - An engine assembly may include an engine structure, a first camshaft housing assembly and a first camshaft assembly. The first camshaft housing assembly may be supported by the engine structure and have a first portion providing a first plurality of bearing support surfaces on a first side and a second portion coupled to the first portion and providing a second plurality of bearing support surfaces on a second side opposite the first side. The first camshaft assembly may be rotationally supported by the first camshaft housing assembly and arranged between the first portion and second portion. | 11-17-2011 |
20130306008 | SEALED T-JOINT ASSEMBLY - A sealed t-joint includes a first component having a first sealing surface, a second component having a second sealing surface, and a third component including a channel characterized by a channel height, channel width, and a channel depth. The t-joint also includes a gasket having a thickness and a protrusion characterized by a protrusion height, a protrusion width, and a protrusion depth. The protrusion height is less than the channel height, the protrusion width is less than channel width, and the protrusion depth is less than the channel depth. The t-joint additionally includes a polymer sealant. The gasket is compressed between the first and second sealing surfaces to generate a first and second component sub-assembly. Additionally, the polymer sealant is applied into the channel. The third component is subsequently assembled with the first and second component sub-assembly such that the protrusion extends into the channel to seal the t-joint. | 11-21-2013 |
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20110055535 | Method of Converting Personal Computers Into Thin Client Computers - A system repurposes a personal computer operating with a conventional personal computer operating system, such as Windows® operating system, into a thin client computer system without requiring that the hard drive of the personal computer be re-formatted to remove the previous operating system. The personal computer has its boot loader configuration file edited to include a call to a thin client boot loader file to execute the thin client operating system stored on the personal computer hard drive instead of the previous operating system of the personal computer. The repurposed personal computer can be returned to the previous operating system by electing to bypass the thin client operating system. As a thin client computer, the repurposed personal computer is managed from a central server and can access applications and data on remote servers instead of using the application programs on the hard drive or the capability of storing data on the personal computer hard drive. | 03-03-2011 |
20120303762 | Zero Configuration Set-Up for Thin Client Computers - A method of booting a thin client computer does not require a technician to load an operating system and otherwise configure the thin client computer to permit operation thereof. The thin client computer is pre-loaded with a boot sequence in the read only memory that requires only that a kernel stored in the read only memory be activated. The kernel directs the thin client computer to a domain name server that provides the internet address of a file server from which the requisite operating system is obtained. After installation of the operating system, the domain name server is contacted to provide the address at which the thin client computer obtains application software and data storage capabilities from a remote server to complete the set-up of the thin client computer for operation. The remote server establishes a network application or remote virtual desktop for the operation of the thin client computer. | 11-29-2012 |
20140018637 | Cloud-Based Monitoring of Medical Devices - A system includes a communications device integrally incorporated into a remotely deployed medical device to monitor the operative status and use of the device. A home-based medical device will communicate directly through an integrated communications device to provide informational data to a Cloud server or professional caregiver without requiring input or activity by the patient. A remotely deployed medical device, such as a defibrillator, will provide periodic reports regarding the operational status, including remaining battery life, of the deployed device, thus allowing a service technician to provide maintenance service only when service is needed. Although the informational data is preferably send to a Cloud computing and storage site, the communications device can be accessed remotely and directly queried to provide requested informational data thus providing real time access to the status and utilization of the medical device and allowing the professional caregiver access to change operational parameters for the medical device. | 01-16-2014 |
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20130128693 | Using a Drill Bit as a Seismic Source for SET Velocity Analysis - Disclosed are various embodiments of methods for determining the velocity of seismic energy in geologic layers using Seismic Emission Tomography (SET) imaging of drill bit noise, by recording microseismic data during a drilling operation, recording the time and the position of a drill bit in a well bore during the drilling operation, processing the microseismic data using SET software to image microseismic events proximate a known time and position of the drill bit using an estimated velocity model, computing the difference between the known time and position of the drill bit and the time and position of the microseismic event determined from the SET data, varying the estimated velocity model to minimize the difference between the known time and position of the drill bit and the time and time and position of the microseismic event determined from the SET data. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128694 | Tomographic Imaging of Fracture-Fault Permeability Zones During Drilling Operations - Disclosed are various embodiments of methods for identifying faults and fractures, and other permeable features, within geologic layers during a drilling operation comprising; recording microseismic data during a drilling operation; recording times and positions of a drill bit in a well bore during the drilling operation; processing microseismic data at a plurality of selected times and locations to image microseismic events and identifying faults and fractures, and other permeable features, from corresponding images of microseismic events. In other embodiments, the integrity of a cementing operation may be verified by recording microseismic data during a cementing operation; recording times and positions of a cementing operation in a well bore during the cementing operation; processing microseismic data at a plurality of selected times and locations to image microseismic events and identifying faults and fractures, and other permeable features, within the cemented zone from corresponding images of microseismic events. | 05-23-2013 |
20130201787 | Methods, Systems and Devices for Near-Well Fracture Monitoring Using Tomographic Fracture Imaging Techniques - Described herein are various embodiments of methods and corresponding hardware and software configured to permit the vicinity around and/or near a well to be imaged, where the well is being subjected to, or has been subjected to, fracking operations. The methods and corresponding hardware and software permit the generation of images of near-well fractures or faults resulting from the fracking. | 08-08-2013 |
20140288840 | Method for Subsurface Mapping Using Seismic Emissions - The invention comprises a method for mapping a volume of the Earth's subsurface encompassing a selected path within said volume, comprising dividing the volume of the Earth's subsurface into a three-dimensional grid of voxels and transforming detected seismic signals representing seismic energy originating from said volume of the Earth's subsurface when no induced fracturing activity is occurring along said selected path and conducted to a recording unit for recording into signals representing energy originating from the voxels included in said grid of voxels, and utilizing said transformed seismic signals to estimate spatially continuous flow paths for reservoir fluids through said volume of the Earth's subsurface to said selected path. | 09-25-2014 |
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20090239451 | Automatic Shift Dual-Action Tool - Tools providing automatic, smooth shifting between random orbital and rotary motion by simply increasing or decreasing force applied are taught. Exemplar is a finishing tool switchable between grinding rotary action and random orbital sanding action without powering down and without any mechanical manipulation, made possible by having a clutch mechanism affixed directly to the spindle assembly, which also eliminates the need to dissemble the tool in order to change a backup pad, saving time and money. Direct relationship between the clutch and spindle eliminates need for a specialty pad allowing for use of a variety of backup pads, reducing the cost of replacement backup pads and increasing the functionality of the dual-function tool. An additional feature is that the drive head surface is circular and large enough to encompass the device's circular clutch plate, which means that the available friction surface area of the clutch plate is efficiently utilized. | 09-24-2009 |
20090258584 | Multi-Shell Air-Tight Compartmentalized Casings - A molded tool casing of at least two sections for air-tightly encasing a tool is taught. A seal is inserted into a groove molded into the sealing perimeter of one section. A protruding ridge is molded into the sealing perimeter of a second section that is to be joined to the first casing section is adapted for compressing the seal into the groove providing for an air-tight seal for the two joined sections. The casing sections are contoured to provide air-tightly sealable inner-casing compartments for receiving and encasing tool components. Opposing joining perimeters of the air-tightly sealable compartments are adapted with the grooves and protruding ridges, respectively. The tool casing houses a tool, such as a pneumatic tool, such as a central or self-generating vacuum pneumatic tool, or a non-vacuum tool. The tool casing is molded to have a firm inner layer coated by an outer pliant overmolded layer. | 10-15-2009 |
20100099341 | ERGONOMIC THROTTLE LEVER CONTROL AND HAND SUPPORT - A lever longer than wide and bent across its length producing an angle of <180° between an upper surface of a longer first and a shorter second lever end to control the throttle switch of a hand-held tool by hand-rocking the lever about its vertex to exert pressure on or release pressure from the switch, the lever designed to support a user's fingers and palm while using the tool. Attachment tabs extend downwards from opposing sides of the first end adjacent the vertex, each tab having an aperture for accepting an attachment pin so to pivotally engage the lever within pin receiving apertures of the tool to rotate the lever both toward and away from the actuator switch, the second end extending over an exhaust-outlet or air-intake of the hand-held power tool to protect the user's hand from coming into contact with the tool's exhaust-outlet or air-intake. | 04-22-2010 |
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20080213755 | Method and Device for Detection of Nucleic Acid Sequences | 09-04-2008 |
20080227124 | Solid phases optimized for chemiluminescent detection - Solid supports for chemiluminescent assays are provided. The solid support includes a plurality of probes covalently or physically attached to the support surface and a chemiluminescent enhancing moiety incorporated onto the surface or into the bulk of the support. The solid support can be a multi-layered support including an upper probe binding layer (e.g., an azlactone polymer layer or porous functional polyamide layer) adjacent to a cationic microgel layer. The azlactone-functional polymer can be a copolymer of dimethylacrylamide and vinylazlactone crosslinked with ethylenediamine. The cationic microgel layer can be a cross-linked quaternary onium salt containing polymer. A method and a kit for conducting chemiluminescent assays using the solid supports is also provided. The kit comprises a dioxetane substrate, a biopolymer probe-enzyme complex, and a solid support. The solid support can be an azlactone functional polymer layer adjacent to a cationic microgel layer; a porous polyamide functional layer adjacent to a cationic microgel layer; or a quaternized azlactone functional polymer layer. | 09-18-2008 |
20100236930 | Electrowetting Dispensing Devices and Related Methods - A method for dispensing liquid for use in biological analysis may comprise positioning liquid to be dispensed via electrowetting. The positioning may comprise aligning the liquid with a plurality of predetermined locations. The method may further comprise dispensing the aligned liquid from the plurality of predetermined locations through a plurality of openings respectively aligned with the predetermined locations. The dispensing may be via electrowetting. | 09-23-2010 |
20110318740 | Reduced Interference from Single Strand Binding Proteins - Disclosed, for example, are methods for detecting at least one target polynucleotide comprising cleaving a flap from a polynucleotide probe that is hybridized to a complementary target polynucleotide, and hybridizing the cleaved flap to a complementary capture probe immobilized on a surface, wherein said cleaving and/or hybridizing occurs in the presence of a single strand binding protein that is capable of binding single-stranded DNA, but that can bind neither the flap nor the capture probe. The cleaved flap and the complementary capture probe may each comprise PNA, RNA, LNA, L-DNA or other modified nucleotides or chimeras thereof that do not significantly bind to the single strand binding protein. | 12-29-2011 |
20120138462 | ELECTROWETTING DISPENSING DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS - A method for dispensing liquid for use in biological analysis may comprise positioning liquid to be dispensed via electrowetting. The positioning may comprise aligning the liquid with a plurality of predetermined locations. The method may further comprise dispensing the aligned liquid from the plurality of predetermined locations through a plurality of openings respectively aligned with the predetermined locations. The dispensing may be via electrowetting. | 06-07-2012 |
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20140251811 | Electrowetting Dispensing Devices and Related Methods - A device having a first substrate and a second substrate separated from the first substrate to form a volume between the first and second substrates, electrodes disposed on the first and second substrates and facing the volume, each substrate comprising at least one electrode, and a first insulating layer disposed on the first substrate and a second insulating layer disposed on the second substrate to separate the electrodes from the volume. | 09-11-2014 |
20140374259 | Electrowetting Dispensing Devices and Related Methods - A method for dispensing liquid for use in biological analysis may comprise positioning liquid to be dispensed via electrowetting. The positioning may comprise aligning the liquid with a plurality of predetermined locations. The method may further comprise dispensing the aligned liquid from the plurality of predetermined locations through a plurality of openings respectively aligned with the predetermined locations. The dispensing may be via electrowetting. | 12-25-2014 |
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20100261557 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING A BASKETBALL PLAYER'S SHOOTING - A system and method for improving a player's efficiency in shooting by providing a player with various shooting challenge routines at which a player makes either a total number of shots or a total number shots in a row. Statistics regarding the player's performance are stored, printed and/or evaluated and the player can use the information to improve his or her efficiency at one or more of the plurality of different locations where the player shoots the basketball. | 10-14-2010 |
20130005512 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING A BASKETBALL PLAYER'S SHOOTING INCLUDING A DETECTION AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - A system and method for improving a player's efficiency in shooting by providing a player with various shooting challenge routines at which a player makes either a total number of shots or a total number shots in a row. Statistics regarding the player's performance are stored, printed and/or evaluated and the player can use the information to improve his or her efficiency at one or more of the plurality of different locations where the player shoots the basketball. In another embodiment, a measuring or detection system is used in combination with or separate from a ball launcher. The system is adapted to measure at least one of a distance of a player from the a launcher, height of a shot made by the player after catching a basketball, release angle, release time, or arc of a shot; entry angle of the basketball into a goal; hold or release time; or shot arc. | 01-03-2013 |
20130157786 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING A BASKETBALL PLAYER'S SHOOTING INCLUDING A TRACKING AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR TRACKING, CONTROLLING AND REPORTING STATISTICS - A system and method for improving a player's efficiency in shooting by providing a player with various shooting challenge routines at which a player makes either a total number of shots or a total number shots in a row. Statistics regarding the player's performance are gathered or collected, stored and/or tracked, printed and/or evaluated and the player can use the information to improve his or her efficiency at one or more of the plurality of different locations where the player shoots the basketball. One embodiment includes the ability of players from the same or different teams to compare statistics and enables the launchers at different locations to launch substantially exactly the same pass to different players to facilitate such competition. | 06-20-2013 |
20150290516 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING A BASKETBALL PLAYER'S SHOOTING INCLUDING A DETECTION AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - A system and method for improving a player's shooting efficiency by providing a player with various shooting challenge routines at which a player makes either a total number of shots or a total number shots in a row. Statistics regarding the player's performance are stored, printed and/or evaluated and the player can use the information to improve his or her efficiency at one or more of the plurality of different locations where the player shoots the basketball. In another embodiment, a measuring or detection system is used in combination with or separate from a ball launcher. The system is adapted to measure at least one of a distance of a player from the launcher, height of a shot made by the player after catching a basketball, release angle, release time, or arc of a shot; entry angle of the basketball into a goal; hold or release time; or shot arc. | 10-15-2015 |