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20110143320 | HEV BRAKE PEDAL SIMULATOR AIR GAP FILLER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A brake pedal simulator air gap filler system includes a brake pedal, a pedal feel simulator engaged by the brake pedal, a pedal push rod engaged by the brake pedal, a master cylinder/booster push rod spaced-apart from the pedal push rod, an air gap between the pedal push rod and the master cylinder/booster push rod, a master cylinder/booster engaged by the master cylinder/booster push rod and an air gap filling apparatus having an air gap filling head in adjacent proximity to the air gap and adapted to selectively engage and disengage the air gap. | 06-16-2011 |
20120175200 | Customized Vehicle Deceleration - A system is provided for customized vehicle deceleration. The system includes a braking system and a brake pedal position sensor that transmits a brake pedal position signal. A user interface is configured for transmitting a profile selection signal in response to a user input. A controller is configured for receiving the brake pedal position signal, the profile selection signal and an available torque signal, the available torque signal being indicative of a braking system torque capability. The controller analyzes the profile selection signal, to select a brake profile from pre-existing data. The controller compares the brake pedal position signal to the brake profile to determine a deceleration value. The controller compares the deceleration value to the available torque signal to determine a torque command. The controller transmits a torque command signal to the braking system for initiating braking. | 07-12-2012 |
20140354035 | CONTROL AND DELIVERY OF HYDRAULIC FLUID IN VEHICLE BRAKING SYSTEM - A braking system in a hybrid vehicle is provided. The braking system includes a master cylinder having a first outlet, a second outlet, and a piston disposed therein and translatable from a proximal end to a distal end in response to brake pedal displacement. A brake fluid reservoir supplies hydraulic fluid to the master cylinder. A first fluid circuit connects the first outlet of the master cylinder to the brake fluid reservoir. A second fluid circuit connects the second outlet of the master cylinder to wheel brakes and supplies hydraulic fluid from the master cylinder to the wheel brakes in response to brake pedal displacement. The first outlet of the master cylinder is disposed between the second outlet and the proximal end of the master cylinder such that initial brake pedal displacement transfers brake fluid from the master cylinder to the fluid reservoir to inhibit hydraulic braking during regenerative braking. | 12-04-2014 |
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20150194052 | TELEMETRY ARRANGEMENTS FOR IMPLANTABLE DEVICES - In various embodiments, a system for receiving wireless power includes a magnetic core and a plurality of layers of electrical conductors wrapped around the magnetic core. Each electrical conductor includes a first endpoint and a second endpoint; the first endpoint and the second endpoint are electrically connected to a circuit to provide power thereto, and two of the electrical conductors are electrically insulated from each other between the first endpoint and the second endpoint. | 07-09-2015 |
20150194697 | STACKED BATTERY TRAY STRUCTURE AND RELATED METHODS - Thin-film batteries are stacked within a structure that permits battery expansion. In various embodiments, the batteries are retained within individual trays that may be tiled into multi-tray layers which are then stacked, or are retained within a stacked series of printed circuit boards or within the pleats of a single, flexible, accordion-folded printed circuit board. | 07-09-2015 |
20150365738 | TELEMETRY ARRANGEMENTS FOR IMPLANTABLE DEVICES - In various embodiments, a system for receiving wireless power includes a magnetic core and a plurality of layers of unbraided electrical conductors wrapped around the magnetic core. Each unbraided electrical conductor includes a first endpoint and a second endpoint; the first endpoint and the second endpoint are electrically connected to a circuit to provide power thereto, and two of the unbraided electrical conductors are electrically insulated from each other between the first endpoint and the second endpoint. The system may include a biocompatible, magnetically transparent, rigid polymer casing surrounding the magnetic core and at least a portion of the electrical conductors. | 12-17-2015 |
20160042205 | IMPLANT TELEMETRY WITH DYNAMIC TUNING - Systems and methods for maximizing the resonance frequency match between a reader and a controlled device interacting over a narrowband inductive link involve, in various embodiments, features of the controlled device, the reader, or both. | 02-11-2016 |
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20110103609 | WIRELESS EARPHONE THAT TRANSITIONS BETWEEN WIRELESS NETWORKS - A wireless earphone that comprises a transceiver circuit for receiving streaming audio from a data source over a local ad hoc wireless network. When the data source and the earphone are out of range, they transition automatically to an infrastructure wireless network. If there is no common infrastructure wireless network for both the data source and the speakerphone set, the earphone connects to a host server via an available wireless network. | 05-05-2011 |
20120213381 | SYSTEM WITH WIRELESS EARPHONES - A system comprising a wireless network adapter and a pair of earphone. The wireless network adapter is external to a digital audio player and configured to connect to the digital audio player via an audio jack of the digital audio player. The wireless network adapter is for encoding analog audio received from the digital audio player into digital format and wirelessly transmitting the digitally-formatted audio. The pair of earphones is in direct wireless communication with the wireless network adapter and are configured to be worn simultaneously by a user. Each earphone in the pair of earphones comprises: (i) a transceiver that is for receiving the digitally-formatted audio from the wireless network adapter via the wireless network, and converting the digitally-formatted audio received via the wireless network to analog audio signals; and (ii) at least one acoustic transducer connected to the transceiver, wherein the at least one acoustic transducer is for outputting the analog audio signals. | 08-23-2012 |
20120230510 | SYNCHRONIZING WIRELESS EARPHONES - Electroacoustical speaker devices that synchronously play audio received from a source. In one embodiment, one speaker acts as the master and the other speaker acts as the slave. The master speaker receives digital audio data from a source and, in addition to playing the digital audio received from the source, the master speaker retransmits the digital audio to the slave speaker. The master speaker additionally sends synchronization data to the slave speaker, such as data that indicates the buffer status or playback position of the master speaker. The slave speaker utilizes the synchronization data from the master speaker to adjust, for example, its buffer status or playback position, so that the two speakers play the audio synchronously (e.g., within thirty milliseconds). In one embodiment, the master speaker uses a connection-oriented protocol, such as TCP/IP, to transmit buffered audio data to the slave speaker and uses a connectionless protocol, such as UDP or ICMP, for the synchronization data. In addition, the speakers may transition roles as master and slave. | 09-13-2012 |
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20100290038 | DISTRIBUTED ARRAY SEMI-ACTIVE LASER DESIGNATOR SENSOR - A system is provided for semi-active laser designation, the system comprising: a guidance and control system having a plurality of wings disposed at an aerodynamically advantageous angle; a plurality of linear sensor arrays configured to measure location of a target, each the sensor array being disposed on a wing of the plurality of wings; and each the linear sensor array providing independent data to the guidance and control system as to the location of the target. | 11-18-2010 |
20130063797 | OPTICAL LINE OF SIGHT TOGGLE MODULE - An optical LOS toggle uses two refractive optical elements located in the afocal space of an optical sensor. Optical surfaces of the two elements are shaped appropriately to work in combination with lateral displacements of the two elements such that the LOS angle is shifted. For a prescribed, discrete LOS shift, the optical image quality of the toggle module is corrected by a combination of aspheric shapes and diffractive surfaces on the optical surfaces of the two elements. To maintain performance along any radial direction and simplify fabrication, these aspheric or spheric shapes and diffractive surfaces should be rotationally symmetrical. Image quality is further improved through proper selection of the optical materials used to construct the optical elements. | 03-14-2013 |
20130342591 | Extending Dynamic Range Of A Display - A method for extending dynamic range of a display that can attenuate brightness to match scene brightness is disclosed. Standard RGB sub pixel filtering as well as neutral density sub pixel filtering is performed. The color addressability of the display is utilized to extend the dynamic range of the emitted energy by more than one order of magnitude with the standard RGB sub pixel filtering. The standard filtering extends the dynamic range of the emitted energy by more than one order of magnitude, while the neutral density filtering extends the dynamic range of the emitted energy by two or more orders of magnitude. | 12-26-2013 |
20140021380 | SINGLE APERTURE COAXIAL THREE CHANNEL OPTICAL SYSTEM - A single aperture three channel optical system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the optical system includes a front optical group and a back optical group that is disposed in substantially close proximity to the front optical group. Further, the optical system includes a first sensor, a second sensor, and a third sensor. The front optical group and the second optical group receives an object beam and splits into a reflected beam having first wavelengths and a transmitted beam of second wavelengths. Furthermore, the front optical group and the second optical group splits the reflected beam having first wavelengths into a transmitted beam having third wavelengths and a reflected beam having fourth wavelengths. The first sensor, the second sensor and the third sensor receive the transmitted beam of second wavelengths, transmitted beam of third wavelengths, and reflected beam of fourth wavelengths, respectively and produce the coaxial three channel images. | 01-23-2014 |
20150145950 | MULTI FIELD-OF-VIEW MULTI SENSOR ELECTRO-OPTICAL FUSION-ZOOM CAMERA - A system and method for creating an image is presented. The system includes a first camera, a second camera, and a fusion processor. The first camera has a small field-of-view (FOV) and an optical line of sight (LOS). The second camera has a large FOV that is larger than the small FOV and the second camera has an optical LOS. The first camera and second camera are mounted so that the optical LOS of the first camera is parallel to the optical LOS of the second camera. The fusion processor fuses a second image captured by the second camera with a first image captured by the first camera. The fused image has better resolution in a fused portion of the fused image than in unfused portion of the fused image. | 05-28-2015 |
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20090308530 | PROCEDE ET DISPOSITIF D'AUTHENTIFICATION - The authentication process comprises:
| 12-17-2009 |
20100014122 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MAKING DOCUMENTS SECURE - The document identification method comprises:
| 01-21-2010 |
20100220364 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SECURING DOCUMENTS - The document securization method includes:
| 09-02-2010 |
20110038012 | METHOD AND DEVICE AGAINST FORGERY - The method includes determining characteristics of an item of equipment printing the original document; determining a mark allowing an original to be distinguished from a copy, according to characteristics of the print equipment destined to be utilized for printing the mark on the document; printing the mark with the print equipment to form the original document; and determining a first limit value to be used by an item of copy detection equipment to distinguish the original document from a copy of the original document, according to at least one print of the mark. Preferably, the method includes a step of printing at least one print reference representative of an authorized maximum or minimum inking for printing the document and, during the step of determining the first limit value, a measurement is determined over at least one the print reference and a tolerance is added to it. | 02-17-2011 |
20120144503 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING OBJECTS OR DOCUMENTS - The document identification method comprises: a step of marking the document with an anti-copy mark that is identical for a plurality of documents; a step of reading an anti-copy mark; a step of generating an identification mark that can vary from one document to another and according to the reading of the anti-copy mark and; a step of marking said document to form said identification mark on said document. In embodiments the method comprises, in addition, a step of printing a uniform area and the step of marking the document to form the identification mark comprises a step of emitting light with a laser in the uniform area. In embodiments the method comprises, in addition, a step of invisibly marking the identification mark on said document. | 06-07-2012 |
20120327450 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR SECURING AND AUTHENTICATING DOCUMENTS - A method for securing a document, includes:
| 12-27-2012 |
20130094064 | PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR SECURING DOCUMENTS - A process for securing a document including a step of printing a distribution of dots on said document, said printing, as a result of unanticipated unknowns in printing, causing an unpredictable variation, dot by dot, of at least one geometric characteristic of the printed dots and prior to said print step, a step generating said distribution of dots so that at least half the dots of said distribution are not laterally juxtaposed to four other dots of said dot distribution, and at least one dimension of at least one part of the dots of said distribution of dots is of the same order of magnitude as the average for the absolute value of said unpredictable variation. In embodiments, during the step generating the dot distribution, more than half the dots do not touch any other dot of said distribution. In embodiments, during the step of generating the dot distribution, dots are produced of which at least one geometric characteristic is variable, the geometric amplitude of the generated variation having the order of magnitude of the average dimension of at least one part of the dots. | 04-18-2013 |
20130200144 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR MARKING AND AUTHENTICATING A PRODUCT BY A CONSUMER - he method for marking a product includes:
| 08-08-2013 |
20130286443 | PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR SECURING DOCUMENTS - A process for securing a document including a step of printing a distribution of dots on said document, said printing, as a result of unanticipated unknowns in printing, causing an unpredictable variation, dot by dot, of at least one geometric characteristic of the printed dots and prior to said print step, a step generating said distribution of dots so that at least half the dots of said distribution are not laterally juxtaposed to four other dots of said dot distribution, and at least one dimension of at least one part of the dots of said distribution of dots is of the same order of magnitude as the average for the absolute value of said unpredictable variation. In embodiments, during the step generating the dot distribution, more than half the dots do not touch any other dot of said distribution. In embodiments, during the step of generating the dot distribution, dots are produced of which at least one geometric characteristic is variable, the geometric amplitude of the generated variation having the order of magnitude of the average dimension of at least one part of the dots. | 10-31-2013 |
20130299573 | SHEET, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING A SHEET AND METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING A SHEET - A planar sheet comprising, on a first surface of the sheet, at least one printed mark, and on a second surface of the sheet, opposite the first surface, at least one invisible printed mark vertically adjacent to the mark printed on the first surface. In at least one pair of vertically adjacent marks formed on the opposite surfaces, at least one of the marks of the pair has unique content. At least one invisible mark can be a two-dimensional barcode and/or at least one invisible mark can be a copy-protection mark. The content of at least one mark can be representative of the position of an invisible mark on the sheet. | 11-14-2013 |
20140112525 | DOCUMENT SECURIZATION METHOD AND A DOCUMENT SECURIZATION DEVICE USING PRINTING A DISTRIBUTION OF DOTS ON SAID DOCUMENT - An analogical mark printed on a document that includes a distribution of dots defined by a digital file, having, as a result of unanticipated unknowns in printing, an unpredictable variation, dot by dot, of at least one geometric characteristic of the printed dots where dots of the distribution of dots have, in the digital file, at least one geometric characteristic that digitally varies among dots, the geometric amplitude of the digital variation having the order of magnitude of said unpredictable variation and being less than an average dimension of the dots of the distribution of dots. | 04-24-2014 |
20140147046 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AUTHENTICATING A TAG - A method for authenticating a tag, includes:
| 05-29-2014 |
20150266331 | METHODS, DEVICES AND IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT FOR A PERSON OR AN ANIMAL - A device for producing a document carrying the identification of a person/animal. A first detector to determine the printing conditions of the document. A sensor to obtain the biometric data of the person/animal. A first encoder encodes the biometric data to form a digital identification image including redundancies. A second detector to determine physical characteristics of cells of at least one shape, such that the proportion of cells printed with a print error results from unanticipated unknowns in printing. A second encoder to form, within the shape, an authentication image for authenticating the document and includes elementary cells representing the encoded authentication image. A printer to print the authentication and identification images on the document, and to generate random errors in the printed elementary cells of the authentication image to detect modification to the appearance of the elementary cells. | 09-24-2015 |