US10020970B2
A data processing apparatus is arranged to map input data symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed OFDM symbols. The predetermined number of sub-carrier signals is determined in accordance with one of a plurality of operating modes and the input data symbols are divided into first sets of input data symbols and second sets of input data symbols.
US10020969B2
Adaptation of measurement procedures for cell detection and association provide more accurate and frequent reports for use by the network, to enhance cell association. A user equipment receives, within a configured measurement bandwidth, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols comprising discovery reference signals (DRS). For subframes in which the DRS are transmitted, a discovery reference signal received quality (D-RSRQ) is determined from the DRS within the received symbols as a ratio of discovery reference signal received power (D-RSRP) to carrier discovery received signal strength indicator (D-RSSI), where the D-RSRP is measured in symbols containing DRS resource elements and the D-RSSI is measured in all symbols in subframes containing the DRS. For a UE configured to also measure common reference signals, non-DRS measurements are suspended upon deactivation of a secondary cell, and measurement timing of the DRS during a deactivation period is based on a measurement timing parameter.
US10020966B2
An alternative type of vector signaling codes having increased pin-efficiency normal vector signaling codes is described. Receivers for these Permutation Modulation codes of Type II use comparators requiring at most one fixed reference voltage. The resulting systems can allow for a better immunity to ISI-noise than those using conventional multilevel signaling such as PAM-X. These codes are also particularly advantageous for storage and recovery of information in memory, as in a DRAM.
US10020956B2
A thermostat in a building includes an occupancy sensor configured to collect occupancy data. The thermostat includes a communications interface configured to communicate with one or more display devices for the building and a user interface configured to display information to a user and receive input from the user. The thermostat includes a processing circuit configured to identify the user based on the occupancy data and generate building navigation directions based on the identity of the user and cause the user interface to display at least a portion of the building navigation directions. The processing circuit is configured to cause the communications interface to send at least a portion of the building navigation directions to at least one of the display devices in the building.
US10020945B2
Provided an information processing apparatus including a number generation unit configured to generate numbers used in coefficients of terms included in a pair of multi-order multivariate polynomials F=(f1, . . . , fm), using a predetermined function, from information shared between entities executing an algorithm of a public-key authentication scheme or a digital signature scheme that uses a public key including the pair of multi-order multivariate polynomials F, and an allocation unit configured to allocate the numbers generated by the number generation unit to the coefficients of the multi-order multivariate polynomials for which the pair of multi-order multivariate polynomials F are included in constituent elements.
US10020937B2
An apparatus and method for revealing both attack attempts performed on the single-photon detector(s) of a quantum cryptography system and Trojan horse attack attempts performed on quantum cryptography apparatus containing at least one single photon detector. The attacks detection relies on both the random modification of the setting parameters of the said single-photon detector(s) and the comparison of the measured detection probability values for each setting parameter with the expected detection probability values. The modified parameter of the single-photon detector can be its efficiency or its timing of activation for example.
US10020925B2
A method and apparatus for dynamic acknowledgement repetition for a downlink medium access control packet data unit transmission ‘MAC PDU’ requiring multiple acknowledgements, the method having the steps of: receiving the downlink MAC PDU requiring multiple acknowledgements; and utilizing a differentiating factor and acknowledgement scheme, sending the multiple acknowledgements.
US10020905B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing network timing functionality. In some embodiments, a grand master clock(s) might receive a first timing signal from a global positioning system (“GPS”) source via a GPS antenna(s), and might send a second timing signal (which might be based at least in part on the first timing signal) to a slave clock(s), in some cases, via one or more network elements or the like. A computing system might calculate various transmission times for the second timing signal to be transmitted between the grand master clock(s) and the slave clock(s), and might calculate any time delay differences in the transmission times, might generate a third timing signal based at least in part on the calculated time delay differences (if any), and might send the third timing signal to one or more network elements, thereby providing Accurate Synchronization as a Service (“ASaaS”) functionality.
US10020898B2
A radio-device system with a monitoring unit is provided, wherein the monitoring unit is connected to a main-radio device and to an emergency-radio device. By means of a control signal of the monitoring unit, an antenna is connected either with the main-radio device or with the emergency-radio device. The monitoring unit is fitted with a time-evaluation unit, which evaluates the processing of the command with regard to a time parameter. Furthermore, a method is also provided for monitoring the implementation of a command of the main-radio device within the radio-device system.
US10020891B2
A system for enabling signal penetration into a building includes first circuitry, located on an outside of the building, that receives millimeter wave signals and converting the millimeter wave signals into a format that penetrates into an interior of a building for reception by wireless devices within the building. Second circuitry, located on an inside of the building and communicatively linked with the first circuitry, receives the millimeter wave signals in the format that penetrates into an interior of the building and converts the millimeter wave signals in the format to a second format for transmission to the wireless devices within the building.
US10020889B2
A passive optical network (PON) includes a first optical line terminal (OLT), a second OLT, and an optical network unit (ONU). The first OLT sends an equalization delay change message to the ONU, wherein the equalization delay change message includes an equalization delay, an upstream channel ID and a downstream channel ID corresponding to the equalization delay. The ONU receives the equalization delay change message. When the ONU tunes from the first OLT to the second OLT, the ONU obtains the equalization delay for upstream transmission according to the upstream channel ID and the downstream channel ID.
US10020880B2
A reconfigurable free-space optical inter-rack network includes a plurality of server racks, each including at least one switch mounted on a top thereof, where each top-mounted switch includes a plurality of free-space-optic link connector, each with a free-space optical connection to a free-space-optic link connector on another top-mounted switch, a single ceiling mirror above the plurality of server racks that substantially covers the plurality of server racks, wherein the single ceiling mirror redirects optical connections between pairs of free-space-optic link connectors to provide a clear lines-of-sight between each pair of connected free-space-optic link connectors, and a controller that preconfigures a free-space optical network connecting the plurality of server racks by establishing connections between pairs of free-space-optic link connectors, and that reconfigures connections between pairs of free-space-optic link connectors in response to network traffic demands and events.
US10020875B2
Satellite communications systems, methods, and related devices are described. In one embodiment, a satellite communications system is configured to dynamically allocate bandwidth among different downlink beams. The satellite may receive and compile traffic measurements and terminal parameters. The satellite may be configured with different downlink beam coverage areas, and may dynamically allocate downlink bandwidth and particular frequency channels to different beam coverage areas based on the measurements and parameters. The satellite may also assign frequency channels and time slots based on such measurements and parameters.
US10020873B2
Even in the case of satellite communications to which LTE is applied, a difference between reception timings of uplink singles transmitted from a plurality of mobile stations UE located in the same cell is kept within GI specified in LTE. A mobile station UE#1 according to the present invention includes: an offset calculation unit 23 configured to calculate an offset δ from a transmission timing to be referenced, based on a distance Lx between the mobile station UE#1 and a satellite 1 used in satellite communications, and a distance Lref between the satellite 1 and a reference mobile station UE; and an RACH functional unit 24 configured to adjust a transmission timing of a random access preamble based on the calculated offset δ.
US10020868B2
A communication module assembly includes a case; a communication module accommodated in the case and including at least two module terminals; and a connection member including connection terminals respectively connected to the module terminals, and a bridge unit configured to connect the connection terminals, wherein when the connection terminals and the module terminals are disconnected, the connection terminals are electrically connected to each other through the bridge unit.
US10020867B2
In this disclosure, methods and apparatus for managing interference are disclosed. In one example, the first station receives the first signal from the base station. The first station acquires information on a specific processing scheme of a second station for processing the first signal to be transmitted to a third station at the second station. The first station receives a second signal from the base station while the second station transmits the first signal to the third station. Here, since the first station has knowledge on the first signal and the information on the specific processing scheme, it can manage interference caused by the first signal from the second station.
US10020863B2
A method for wireless communication includes monitoring a channel of a radio frequency spectrum band using at least a first receiver and a second receiver in parallel; determining, during the monitoring, at least a first received signal strength of a first receiver output of the first receiver, and a second received signal strength of a second receiver output of the second receiver; and selecting, based on the first received signal strength and the second received signal strength, one or both of the first receiver output or the second receiver output for use in decoding a candidate information signal of unknown signal strength. The first and second receivers are set to first and second fixed gain state providing the first and second receivers with first and second dynamic ranges. The second dynamic range partially overlaps the first dynamic range to provide the wireless device an extended dynamic range.
US10020859B2
A method implemented in a base station used in a wireless communications system where different antenna arrays are employed for transmissions to different co-scheduled users in a cell is disclosed. The method includes configuring multiple channel state information (CSI) processes for a user equipment (UE), and configuring, for the UE, a plurality of non-zero power (NZP) CSI reference signal (RS) resources, each of which is associated with an antenna array. Other apparatuses, systems, and methods also are disclosed.
US10020855B2
User equipment for implementing 3D MIMO (3-Dimensional Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) communication includes: a transmission and reception unit configured to transmit and receive radio signals to/from a base station in the 3D MIMO communication; and a codebook management unit configured to have a first codebook and a second codebook. The codebook management unit determines a 3D codebook for the 3D MIMO communication by combining the first codebook with the second codebook, and the transmission and reception unit feeds the first codebook and the second codebook serving as a basis of calculating the determined 3D codebook back to the base station.
US10020846B2
A data medium stores a group of data and comprises i) at least a first element suitable for interacting magnetically with a second element, located in the vicinity of a contactless reader comprising a second near field communicator and coupled to an electronic device having at least two predefined configurations, for coupling to this contactless reader, and ii) a first near field communicator arranged for cooperating with the second near field communicator to transfer some data of this group into the contactless reader, so that the electronic device uses the transferred data to configure itself in a predefined configuration corresponding to these transferred data.
US10020821B2
A transmission device and reception device for digital data that have excellent resistance to noise are provided. An encoder (11-1) of this disclosure, included in a transmission device (1) of this disclosure, applies LDPC encoding to digital data using a unique check matrix for each code rate by using a check matrix in which, taking a check matrix initial value table established in advance for each code rate at a code length of 44880 bits as initial values, 1 entries of a partial matrix corresponding to an information length appropriate for a code rate of 93/120 are allocated in the column direction over a cycle of 374 columns. A demodulator (23) of this disclosure, included in a reception device (2) of this disclosure, decodes digital data encoded by the encoder (11-1).
US10020815B2
An integrated circuit (IC) includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The ADC includes an ADC core circuit integrated in the IC to receive an analog signal, to convert the analog signal to a digital signal in response to a trigger signal. The ADC core circuit further provide the digital signal as an output of the ADC. The ADC further includes internal trigger circuitry integrated in the ADC to provide the trigger signal to the ADC after a prescribed delay period has expired.
US10020812B1
An integrated circuit includes first and second circuit blocks. The first circuit block includes a first storage circuit. A first data path passes through the first storage circuit and a first multiplexer circuit to a first input of a first logic circuit. The first multiplexer circuit is coupled to the first storage circuit. A second storage circuit is coupled between the first storage circuit and the first multiplexer circuit. A second data path passes through the second circuit block to a second input of the first logic circuit. The first multiplexer circuit is configurable to bypass or to couple the second storage circuit in the first data path based on an indication of whether a redundant third circuit block is coupled between the first and second circuit blocks in at least one of the first data path or the second data path.
US10020805B2
A bidirectional MOSFET switch is provided. The switch includes an input terminal, an output terminal and two MOSFET transistors which are connected to one another by their source and gate terminals. The input and the output terminals are connected to a respective drain terminal of the two MOSFET transistors. The switch further includes a control input terminal that is galvanically isolated by a potential isolator and connected to a control unit configured to switch a control current for a FET transistor via a further MOSFET transistor. The FET transistor is configured to generate, by the control current, a gate voltage Vgs between the gate and the source at the two MOSFET transistors for the switching thereof, and a floating voltage source, which is galvanically connected to the input and which is configured to generate a gate control current for the two MOSFET transistors.
US10020800B2
A nanosecond pulser is disclosed. In some embodiments, the nanosecond pulser may include one or more switch circuits including one or more solid state switches, a transformer, and an output. In some embodiments, the transformer may include a first transformer core, a first primary winding wound at least partially around a portion of the first transformer core, and a secondary winding wound at least partially around a portion of the first transformer core. In some embodiments, each of the one or more switch circuits are coupled with at least a portion of the first primary winding. In some embodiments, the output may be electrically coupled with the secondary winding and outputs electrical pulses having a peak voltage greater than about 1 kilovolt and a rise time of less than 150 nanoseconds or less than 50 nanoseconds.
US10020794B2
A power transmitter apparatus of a wireless power transmitter apparatus transmits electric power from the power transmitter apparatus to a power reception apparatus by electromagnetically coupling a power transmitter apparatus resonance coil with a power reception apparatus resonance coil. The power transmitter apparatus includes a control signal detector portion that generates a control signal based on a voltage change of a voltage across both terminals of the power transmitter apparatus resonance coil and transmits the control signal; and a switching circuit that resonates the power transmitter apparatus resonance coil on the basis of the control signal.
US10020792B2
An interdigital capacitor low loss and high resolution phase shifter is disclosed. The phase shifter includes an input port, a first electrode connected to the input port, an output port and a second electrode connected to the output port and arranged substantially parallel to the first electrode. The phase shifter also includes a substrate disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, a first variable capacitor disposed on the first electrode and a second variable capacitor disposed on the second electrode. Adjustment of one or more of the variable capacitors causes a phase shift between the input port and the output port.
US10020791B2
Provided is a ferrite composition composed of: a main component including 23.0 to 47.0 mole % of Fe compound in terms of Fe2O3, 3.0 to 16.0 mole % of Cu compound in terms of CuO, 4.0 to 39.0 mole % of Zn compound in terms of ZnO, 1.5 to 13.0 mole % of Si compound in terms of SiO2, and a residue of Ni compound; and a subcomponent including, with respect to 100 parts by weight of the main component, 0.1 to 8.0 parts by weight of Co compound in terms of Co3O4 and 0.25 to 5.00 parts by weight of Bi compound in terms of Bi2O3.
US10020763B2
A power generation system is provided in which, when a static frequency converter (SFC) is connected to synchronous generator's armature windings, an AC exciter performs AC excitation by allowing a d-axis winding and a q-axis winding of the AC exciter to configure d-q orthogonal axes; and, at the time of steady-state operation of the synchronous generator, an alternating current(s) supplied from an electric power source is rectified by a thyristor excitation device, and also the AC exciter thereby performs DC excitation by connecting the d-axis winding and the q-axis winding in series with each other.
US10020753B2
The present application is directed to an electrical converter having at least one of an active rectifier and an inverter interconnecting an electrical source with an electrical load. A method for controlling the electrical converter includes receiving at least one estimated control variable, receiving at least one outer loop control variable provided by an outer control loop and determining a control region based on a control error and selecting control parameters based on the control region. The control method then predicts at least one reference control value based on a solution of a physical model of the electrical converter. The solution is based on a constraint that minimizes a difference between the at least one estimated control variable and the at least one outer loop control variable. The control method then determines switching states of the electrical converter based on the reference control value.
US10020749B2
The present invention relates to a power converter including a transformer; a current doubler including a switch element and connected to a secondary side of the transformer to double a current of the transformer according to an operation of the switch element; and a voltage resonator connected to the switch elements, wherein the voltage resonator includes a switch element and a capacitor which are connected to each other in series.
US10020739B2
An integrated current replicator includes a first current sense resistor configured to sense a first input current to a power converter during a primary portion of a duty cycle and a first transconductance amplifier configured produce a first voltage at a common circuit node proportional to the first input current during the primary portion of the duty cycle. The integrated current replicator includes a second current sense resistor configured to sense a second input current to the power converter during a complementary portion of the duty cycle and a second transconductance amplifier configured produce a second voltage at the common circuit node proportional to the second input current during the complementary portion of the duty cycle. The integrated current replicator includes an amplifier configured to produce a voltage replicating the first input current and the second input current from the first voltage and the second voltage.
US10020738B2
A control circuit for an interleaved switching power supply having a plurality of parallel coupled power stage circuits, can include: a feedback circuit that receives an output voltage of the interleaved switching power supply, and generates an output voltage feedback signal; a ripple generator that receives a plurality of switching control signals, and generates an AC ripple signal having a frequency that is N times a switching frequency; an adder circuit that adds the output voltage feedback signal with the AC ripple signal, and generates a superposition signal; a comparison circuit that receives the superposition signal and a reference voltage, and generates a comparison signal; and a frequency divider circuit that divides the comparison signal into a plurality of turn on control signals configured to control turn on of a plurality of main power switches in the plurality of power stage circuits.
US10020736B2
A method and an information handling system (IHS) perform current calibration of a multi-phase voltage regulator (VR) by using a calibrated operating phase to calibrate an unknown operating phase. A calibration controller, using a pulse width modulation (PWM) controller, enables a first unknown operating phase within a first converter sub-circuit in the multiphase VR. The calibration controller enables a calibrated circuit component electronically coupled to the first unknown operating phase. The calibration controller determines a target voltage for the first unknown operating phase based on sense component specifications. The calibration controller determines, for the first unknown operating phase, a sense voltage that identifies the first unknown operating phase as a first evaluated operating phase. The calibration controller performs calibration of operating phases of the multi-phase VR, including the first evaluated operating phase, based on a respective difference between a sense voltage and a corresponding target voltage for each operating phase.
US10020735B2
In one form, a multi-mode converter includes first, second, third, and fourth transistors having respective control terminals and arranged in a four-switch buck-boost (FSBB) configuration for coupling to an inductor. The multi-mode converter also includes a first driver having an input for receiving a first switching signal and an output, a first charge pump having an output, a second driver having an input for receiving a second switching signal and an output, a second charge pump having an output, and a control circuit. The control circuit alternatively couples an output of the first driver or an output of the first charge pump to the control terminal of the first transistor, and the output of the second driver or the output of the second charge pump to the control terminal of the fourth transistor in response to a mode of operation of the multi-mode power converter.
US10020734B2
An auto calibration method used in switching converters with constant on-time control. The auto calibration method includes: generating a periodical clock signal with a predetermined duty cycle; providing a first voltage and a second voltage to an on-time control circuit to generate an on-time control signal based on the first and second voltage; providing the clock signal and on-time control signal to a logic circuit to generate a switch control signal based on the clock signal and on-time control signal; comparing the duty cycle of the switch control signal with the duty cycle of the clock signal to adjust a calibration code signal; and adjusting circuit parameters of the on-time control circuit in accordance with the calibration code signal.
US10020730B2
A DC-DC converter includes a substrate having opposing first and second sides, a power stage attached to the first side of the substrate and having active semiconductor components operable to provide an output phase of the DC-DC converter, an inductor attached to the first side of the substrate and electrically connected to the power stage through a first metal trace at the first side of the substrate, and a plurality of electrically conductive vias extending through the substrate from the first side to the second side. The vias are electrically connected to the first metal trace. At least some of the vias are disposed at least partly under the power stage. A corresponding method of assembling such a DC-DC converter also is disclosed.
US10020728B2
A signal generation device outputs a signal based on a predetermined pattern with a logic transition to a predetermined external device. The signal generation device comprises an output driver which outputs respective signals based on at least two test patterns different in the frequency of the logic transition respectively to the predetermined external device, a regulator which supplies power to the output driver, a current compensation circuit which generates a compensation current, and a control circuit which adjusts a value of the compensation current. The control circuit adjusts, for each test pattern, the value of the compensation current such that a difference value calculated based on output voltages of the regulator becomes a determination criteria value or less.
US10020718B2
There is provided a alternator device for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy, the device comprising a first rotating disk comprising first coils ducts; a second rotating disk comprising second coil ducts; a magnet adapted to be located intermediate the first and second rotating disks and to generate a first magnetic field having a first magnetic pole at the first coil ducts and a second magnetic field having a second magnetic pole opposite the first magnetic pole at the second coil ducts; and a coil base adapted to be located intermediate the first and second rotating disks, the coil base being adapted to receive coils in a position alignment with the first and second coil ducts; and wherein the first and second rotating disks are adapted to rotate along a rotation axis while the magnet and the coil base remain in a static position, the rotation of the rotating disks enabling a rotational movement of the magnetic fields through the coils for the generation of electric current within the coils. There is also provided a method of manufacturing of such a device.
US10020710B2
A poly-generation system includes: at least one cylinder; a reciprocating piston provided in the cylinder; an engine rotor generates a magnetic force and reciprocates with the piston; an engine stator includes an engine coil which induces an electromotive force by interference with the reciprocating engine rotor and outputs the electromotive force induced in the engine coil; and a generator which is integrally coupled with a reciprocating shaft of the piston and generates electricity using an inertial force generated by the reciprocating piston, the generator includes: an elastic member deformed by the inertial force; a generator rotor includes a generator magnet and reciprocates due to the deformation of the elastic member; a generator stator includes a generator coil and outputs an electromotive force induced in the generator coil due to interference with the generator magnet, and a generator battery stores the electromotive force induced in the generator coil.
US10020706B2
An electric machine (1) and to a method for producing the machine (1), including a housing (2) and a stator (3) accommodated therein, as well as at least one rotor (4) arranged radially inside the stator (3), a plastic body (7) that at least radially surrounds the outside of a soft-magnetic core (5) of the stator (3), and a cooling device (10) located between the stator (3) and the housing (2) is provided. In order to improve the cooling device (10), at least one recess (11) that conveys a cooling medium is created between the housing (2) and the stator (3) at least partially in the outer circumferential surface of the plastic body (7).
US10020701B2
A rotor includes: a rotor core; a plurality of magnets; and an adhesive that adhesively bonds the magnet to the rotor core. The magnets are housed in the magnet holders such that the same magnetic poles of adjacent magnets face each other in a circumferential direction of the rotor core. The adhesive includes: a first adhesive part that adhesively bonds two interior surfaces of the magnet holder facing the circumferential direction to the magnet and that reaches one of ends of the magnet in a direction of axis of the magnet; and a second adhesive part that adhesively bonds, on a side of one of end surfaces of the rotor core in a direction of axis of the rotor core, said end surface of the rotor core to an end surface of the magnet in an axial direction of the magnet and that is connected to the first adhesive part.
US10020699B2
Embedded permanent magnet type electric motor, compressor, and refrigeration air-conditioning device
In an interior permanent magnet motor, a plurality of slits are formed between a rotor outer peripheral surface of a rotor and a radially-outer insertion hole contour surface of a magnet insertion hole. Assuming that a total area of the plurality of slits per magnetic pole is represented by Ss, and an area of a region in a rotor core on a radially outer side with respect to the corresponding one magnet insertion hole is represented by Si, the plurality of slits are formed so as to satisfy a relationship of 0.35≤Ss/Si≤0.5.
US10020691B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for wirelessly transmitting power. A method for wirelessly transmitting power according to an embodiment can measure and store signal strength values corresponding to inductive coupling degrees with a secondary coil of a receiving apparatus sequentially with respect to two or more primary coils included in two or more resonance circuits, select a primary coil related to a largest signal strength value among the signal strength values as an operating coil, adjust a reference value of a power loss value which becomes a basis for entering a mode for detecting power loss based on a difference between a signal strength for a primary coil adjacent to the operating coil and a signal strength value for the operating coil, and transmit power to a wireless power receiving apparatus through the operating coil.
US10020688B2
A power supply ECU executes turn-on current control for controlling a turn-on current It to a target value Itr by adjusting a drive frequency f, turn-on current It indicating an output current Io of an inverter at a rising of an output voltage Vo of the inverter. Target value Itr is set to fall within a range where a recovery current is not produced in the inverter. In the turn-on current control, when a startup frequency indicating drive frequency f at a startup of the inverter is fa0, the control unit adjusts drive frequency f to be more than or equal to fa0. When turn-on current It is larger than target value Itr, the control unit adjusts drive frequency f in the direction toward startup frequency fa0.
US10020687B2
An inductive power transfer device including: a resonant circuit, having a power transfer coil and a power transfer capacitor; a coupling coil, magnetically-coupled to the power transfer coil; a variable impedance; and a controller configured to determine the impedance value of the variable impedance based on predetermined criteria including: substantially regulating power provided to a load; tuning the resonant circuit resonant frequency substantially to a predetermined frequency; adjusting a frequency of a magnetic field associated with the power transfer coil; and/or adjusting an impedance reflected by the power transfer coil to a corresponding coupled power transfer coil.
US10020679B2
An apparatus and a handheld electrical tool system comprising an insert receivable in an ultrasonic handpiece comprising a primary coil disposed about a well and electrically connected to a primary current supply, the insert comprising a secondary coil disposed about at least a portion of the insert dimensioned and arranged to be disposable within the well such that the secondary coil is inductively coupled to the primary coil, the secondary coil in electrical communication with at least one electrical device powered by the secondary coil. A method of operating a handpiece and of retrofitting a handpiece is also disclosed.
US10020676B2
One example discloses a watchdog circuit: wherein the watchdog circuit is configured to receive a primary ground from a primary power supply, and a backup ground from a backup power supply; wherein the watchdog circuit includes a ground switch coupled to the primary ground and the backup ground; and wherein the ground switch is configured to isolate the primary ground from the backup ground in response to a fault signal.
US10020675B1
An emergency lamp has a first line contact configured for connection to a first line. A second line contact is configured for connection to a second line. The second line is not switched. A neutral line contact is configured for connection to a neutral line. The voltage checker changes a mode of a main driver enablement signal and an emergency driver enablement signal when the voltage checker does not sense voltage. The voltage checker is electrically connected to the second line. A main driver is powered by the first line and the neutral line. The main driver is controlled by the main driver enablement signal. An emergency driver is powered by a battery. The battery is maintained by a charge controller. The charge controller is powered by the second line and the neutral line. The emergency driver is controlled by an emergency driver enablement signal.
US10020673B2
A mobile terminal is provided, which includes a wireless charging module, a battery pack, and a circuit board substrate. The wireless charging module includes a charging coil formed of a wound conducting wire and a communication coil placed adjacent to the charging coil. The wireless charging module has a substantially planar shape. The battery pack has a substantially planar shape and is configured to store power from the wireless charging module. The circuit board substrate is configured to control operation of the mobile terminal. The wireless charging module overlaps with each of the circuit board substrate and the battery pack.
US10020672B2
A network of participating geographically diverse organizations or locations that offer a bluetooth/wifi aggregated enhanced wireless charging system to charge personal digital assistants is provided. The enhanced wireless charging system includes a bluetooth charging outlet device that charges the personal digital assistant, and a bluetooth charging USB plug-in device. The bluetooth charging outlet device includes a function button that turns the bluetooth charging outlet device ON or OFF, ventilation slots that maintains air flow in the bluetooth charging outlet device to avoid overhearing The bluetooth charging USB plug-in device is coupled with the personal digital assistant. The bluetooth charging USB plug-in device includes a USB that connects the bluetooth charging USB plug-in device to the personal digital assistant, a function button that turns the bluetooth charging USB plug-in device ON or OFF, a USB charging port that charges the bluetooth charging USB plug-in device, and a Velcro that couples the bluetooth charging USB plug-in device to the personal digital assistant.
US10020669B2
Disclosed is a wireless power receiving apparatus, which includes: a residual power collecting unit configured to collect residual power remained after supplying an RF power signal to a load while receiving the RF power signal through a resonator; a power selecting unit configured to select one of the RF power signal and a power signal of an auxiliary battery according to a reception state of the RF power signal; a communication unit configured to receive the power signal of the auxiliary battery and perform wireless communication with the wireless power transmitting apparatus, when a supply of power to the load is required in a state in which the transmission of the RF power signal from the wireless power transmitting apparatus is stopped; and a controller configured to request the transmission of the RF power signal to be supplied to the load.
US10020666B2
Provided is a power supply control device including a command sending unit configured to deliver a polling command to a bus line, and a battery registration unit configured to give an identifier to a battery device that has responded to the polling command within a predetermined response period. The command sending unit delivers information of the identifier to the bus line for the battery device to which the battery registration unit gives the identifier and delivers, to the bus line, a command for the battery device to which the identifier is given.
US10020660B2
The present invention relates to a technique for implementing a bidirectional DC-DC converter applied to an energy storage system.The bidirectional DC-DC converter includes a magnetically coupled inductor and a charging/discharging voltage storage unit between a DC link power supply and a battery power supply, and implements a high gain through a two-step voltage transformation process when a charging process or discharging process is performed. Thus, the bidirectional DC-DC converter can reduce the construction cost of the battery cell, guarantee a high voltage available range, and reduce the influence of leakage inductance.
US10020654B2
An energy storage system is provided that is adapted to simultaneously carry out control and system tasks in non-local and local power supply grids and to a method for operating such an energy supply system. The energy storage system comprises at least one energy storage module and a system storage capacity and system output, wherein the energy storage system is at least intended for connection to a non-local power supply grid for the execution of received, non-localized control and system tasks in the non-local power supply grid and for connection to one or more local power supply grids for the execution of received, localized control and system tasks in the local power supply grid(s), and is adapted to be connected to a communication network via at least one interface and to receive at least the non-localized control and system tasks via the communication network.
US10020634B2
A Schottky diode is monolithically integrated into the core of an infrared semiconductor laser (e.g., a quantum cascade laser) to create a heterodyned infrared transceiver. The internal mode field of the infrared semiconductor laser couples to an embedded Schottky diode and can mix the infrared fields to generate a response at the difference frequency.
US10020614B1
A pluggable module includes a pluggable body having a top wall, a bottom wall and side walls therebetween. The pluggable body defines a chamber extending along a longitudinal axis between a cable end and a mating end opposite the cable end. The pluggable module includes a latch held by the pluggable body. The latch has an actuation end and a latching end opposite the actuation end. The actuation end has a handle and the latching end has a latching tooth configured to latchably secure the pluggable module to a component when the latching tooth is in a latching position. The actuation end is movable in a linear actuation direction to move the latching tooth in a linear releasing direction perpendicular to the actuation direction from the latching position to a released position.
US10020611B2
In a connector which accommodates female terminals in a plurality of female terminal accommodating chambers arranged side by side in a connector housing, each of the plurality of female terminal accommodating chambers in the connector housing has a protruding enclosure wall provided in such a way that walls enclosing the outer periphery of each female terminal protrude towards a direction of connector engagement with a connection mating connector accommodating male terminals which connect to each of the female terminals. Further, an inter-terminal through hole which penetrates through the inside of the connector housing and connects to the outside of the connector housing is formed in a wall coupling base ends of the protruding enclosure walls of at least one group of adjacent female terminal accommodating chambers.
US10020607B2
An electrical connector for connecting a conductor of a daughter card connector wafer with a blade in the housing of a backplane connector. The daughter card conductor has a body with two elongated beams extending outward from the body. The two elongated beams each have an outer edge and an inner edge, whereby an opening is defined between the inner edges. The backplane conductor has a body with a narrowed tab portion extending outward from said second conductor body. The narrowed tab portion having outer opposite edges and is sized so that the narrowed tab portion fits between at least a portion of the outer edges of the two elongated beams, and in some cases between at least a portion of the inner edges of the two elongated beams.
US10020600B2
An assembly is provided for a connector of an electrical wiring device having a base with a plurality of electrical terminals having a connecting screw. The assembly includes a plurality of terminal connector with a base extending from the first end and having a screw hole for coupling to one of the electrical terminals by a connecting screw. The leg has a screw hole receiving a coupling screw for electrically connecting a wire to the terminal connector and the terminal of the electrical wiring device. A clamping member receives the coupling screw for clamping the wire between the leg and clamping member. A cover encloses the terminal connectors and includes one or more apertures directing a wire through the cover to the terminal connector assembly to clamp the wire in place. Access openings are provided in a wall of the cover to access the coupling screws for clamping wires to the terminal connector assembly.
US10020595B2
A circuit for generating a negative group delay (NGD). The circuit comprises one or more electrical components, at least one of which has an input impedance that is sufficient for the electrical component(s) to generate an NGD. In an embodiment, the circuit comprises antenna that is configured to radiate an electrical signal delivered thereto and generate an NGD. The antenna has an input impedance sufficient for the antenna to generate the NGD. In another embodiment, the circuit comprises an amplifier that is configured to amplify an electrical signal delivered thereto and generate an NGD. In such an instance, the amplifier has an input impedance and either the amplifier or one or more matching circuits thereof has a quality factor sufficient to generate the NGD.
US10020594B2
Disclosed herein is an array antenna in which a plurality of radiating elements is arranged. The array antenna includes: a first layer comprising a first substrate forming an upper portion of the array antenna and a plurality of radiating elements disposed on the first substrate; a second layer comprising a second substrate forming a lower portion of the array antenna and a feedline disposed on the second substrate to supply output power to the plurality of radiating elements; and a third layer formed between the first layer and the second layer and comprising a ground plane and an aperture slot formed through the ground plane.
US10020593B1
A system that includes an electromagnetic wave transmission structure having a first end and a second end, conducting components, the conducting components selected from at least one of a network of carbon nanotubes, at least one strip of palladium, at least one strip of platinum or at least one exfoliated graphene sheet, deposited across a location in a wave transmission section of the wave transmission structure (also referred to as a gap), and at least one antenna electromagnetically coupled to the electromagnetic wave transmission structure at one of the first or second end, the antenna and the electromagnetic wave transmission structure being formed by integrated circuit techniques is disclosed.
US10020587B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, antenna that includes a first plurality of antenna elements radially arranged in a first plane to wirelessly transmit first channel signals received from a guided wave communication system to a plurality of client devices via a first plurality of beams at a corresponding first plurality of angles. A second plurality of antenna elements are radially arranged in a second plane that is displaced a first distance from the first plane to wirelessly transmit second channel signals received from the guided wave communication system to the plurality of client devices via a second plurality of beams at a corresponding second plurality of angles that are angularly displaced from the first plurality of angles. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10020585B2
Embodiments of a wide band multi-polarization antenna system are described, which can be attached to the back or front of a soldier's vest or backpack. The antenna system can allow for release of pre-shaped integral radiating elements that spring into a geometric configuration suitable for circular polarization radiation or linear polarization over a desired band of frequencies. The antenna system can provide, when collapsed, linear polarized line-of sight capability over a wide band of frequencies. In a collapsed low-profile state, the antenna system can remain on the soldier, but out of the way for maneuvering.
US10020583B2
A dual-band antenna includes a substrate, a first antenna assembly, an isolation metal sheet, and a second antenna assembly. The first antenna assembly includes a first and a second planar inverted-F antennas, which are symmetric with each other and disposed on the first side of the substrate. The first planar inverted-F antenna includes a first radiation portion and a first ground portion. The second planar inverted-F antenna includes a second radiation portion and a second ground portion. The isolation metal sheet is coupled between the first ground portion and the second ground portion. The second antenna assembly includes a third and a fourth antennas, which are coupled to the first and the second ground portions, respectively, and are symmetric with each other and are disposed on the second side of the substrate. The first and the second antenna assemblies are operated at a first and a second frequencies, respectively.
US10020579B1
Antenna structures and methods of operating the same are described. One antenna structure includes a ground plane, a feed point, an antenna element, and a parasitic element. The feed point can be coupled to the antenna element and can receive a signal to cause the antenna structure to radiate electromagnetic energy. The antenna element includes: a first portion that extends in a first direction from the feeding point at the RF feed; a second portion that extends from a distal end of the first portion; a third portion that extends from a side of the second portion; a fourth portion that extends from the third portion; and a fifth portion that extends from the fourth portion. The parasitic element includes: a sixth portion that extends from the fourth portion; and the seventh portion that extends from the sixth portion to the ground plane.
US10020568B2
The present invention provides an RFID inlet antenna comprising a resin base film and a metallic circuit formed via an adhesive layer on the surface of the resin base film. The RFID inlet antenna is prevented from removal of the metallic circuit by unauthorized detachment after the RFID inlet antenna is bonded to an item by a bonding material disposed in such a manner as to cover the metallic circuit.
US10020566B2
Disclosed is a multi-band multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) antenna for a vehicle using a coupling stub, and an antenna system using the same. The multi-band MIMO antenna system includes a ground plate having a quadrangular planar shape, a first antenna mounted at one lateral edge of the ground plate while extending in a direction perpendicular to the ground plate, and a second antenna mounted at one longitudinal edge of the ground plate while extending in a direction perpendicular to the ground plate. In accordance with this configuration, the multi-band MIMO antenna system can support high isolation and wide high-frequency bandwidth.
US10020565B2
A band-type electronic device and an antenna module included therein are provided. The band-type electronic device includes a band configured to be worn on a body of a user, a metal housing configured to connect to the band, and a frequency control module configured to operate such that the metal housing is used as a wireless charging antenna.
US10020561B2
A “thin” and cost-effective three-dimensional antenna assembly and methods of use and manufacturing thereof. In one exemplary embodiment, the solution of the present disclosure is particularly adapted for small form-factor portable radio devices, and comprises an antenna (or array of antennas) deposited on a thin preformed flexible or deformable structure using a conductive fluid. The antenna (array) includes one or more antennas each having a radiator and a plurality of contacts. Use of the thin preformed structure allows, among other things, thinner form factors for the host wireless device, and obviates use of a separate molded carrier or other more costly or involved processes (such as laser direct structuring).
US10020544B2
Systems and methods for controlling a tap location associated with a string of an energy storage system are provided. In one embodiment, an energy storage system can include one or more strings. Each of the one or more strings can include a plurality of energy storage cells coupled in series. Each of the one or more strings can be associated with a selectively adjustable tap location to control the number of cells in the string that provide power to a power system. The energy storage system can further include a one or more control devices that can be configured to detect a change in a voltage associated with one or more of the one or more strings. The one or more control devices can be configured to adjust the tap location for at least one of the one or more strings in response to the change in the voltage.
US10020533B2
A lithium-sulphur electrochemical cell comprising a laminate comprising: a lithium anode comprising a layer of lithium metal foil or lithium metal alloy foil; a cathode comprising an active sulphur material; a porous separator disposed between the lithium anode and the cathode; and an electrolyte; wherein: the laminate is folded in a zigzag configuration; and the cathode is offset relative to the lithium anode in the laminate, such that the cathode is accessible from one side of the laminate and the lithium anode is accessible from an opposite side of the laminate.
US10020532B2
Solid-state battery structures and methods of manufacturing solid-state batteries, such as thin-film batteries, are disclosed. More particularly, embodiments relate to solid-state batteries having a current collector tab between multiple electrochemical cells. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US10020528B2
A fuel cell comprises an anode, a cathode, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the anode and the cathode. The solid electrolyte layer contains a zirconia-based material as a main component. A first intensity ratio of tetragonal crystal zirconia to cubic crystal zirconia in a Raman spectrum in a central portion of the solid electrolyte layer is greater than a second intensity ratio of tetragonal crystal zirconia to cubic crystal zirconia in a Raman spectrum of an outer edge.
US10020525B2
A method for diagnosing a state of a fuel cell stack as being contaminated includes measuring an impedance of a fuel cell stack at a predetermined low frequency and a predetermined high frequency, increasing an amount of fuel or oxidizer supplied to the fuel cell stack when the impedance at the predetermined high frequency is lower than a first critical point and the impedance at the predetermined low frequency is higher than a second critical point, remeasuring the impedance of the fuel cell stack at the predetermined low frequency, and determining that the fuel cell stack is contaminated when the impedance at the predetermined low frequency that is measured in the remeasuring step is higher than the second critical point.
US10020520B2
The invention relates to a bipolar plate (10) for a fuel cell (100), comprising—an internal coolant flow field (33), which comprises a coolant channel (43), and—a first and a second flat side (11, 12) with a first and second reactant flow field (31, 32) respectively, which has at least one first and second channel structure (41, 42) respectively, wherein—the first and the second channel structure (41, 42) each form a trunk channel (44) and branch channels (46), wherein the branch channels (46) branch off in a branching region (48) from the respective trunk channel (44), and a first intermediate region (51) is formed between the branch channels (46) of the first channel structure (31), and a second intermediate region (52) is formed between the branch channels (46) of the second channel structure (32), wherein normal projections of the first and second intermediate region (51, 52) onto a center plane (56) of the bipolar plate (10), which center plane is arranged between the two flat sides (11, 12) of the bipolar plate (10), partially overlap so that an overlapping region (53) is formed. It is provided that the coolant channel (43) extends from an outer region (54), which is located outside the first and second intermediate region (51, 52), into the overlapping region (53), crossing a transit region (55) in the process, wherein the transit region (55) is a subregion of the normal projection of the first intermediate region (51) onto the center plane, which projects from the overlapping region (53).
US10020515B2
The present invention relates to a strontium magnesium molybdenum oxide material having perovskite structure and the method for preparing the same. Citric acid is adopted as the chelating agent. By using sol-gel pyrolysis and replacing a portion of strontium in Sr2MgMoO6-δ by cerium and a portion of magnesium by copper, a material with a chemical formula of Sr2-xCexMg1-yCuyMoO6-δ is produced, where 0≤x<2, 0
US10020509B2
The present invention relates to a lithium transition metal phosphate including nano rod-like Fe2P crystals, a method of preparing the same, and a lithium secondary battery manufactured by using the lithium transition metal phosphate. According to the present invention, a lithium transition metal phosphate including nano rod-like Fe2P crystals may be provided, thereby enhancing high rate capability and low-temperature properties of a lithium secondary battery prepared by using the same. Further, the whole or a part of an airflow direction in a firing furnace may be controlled to be in a direction opposite to a proceeding direction of a fired raw material by adjusting the exhaust conditions in the firing process, thereby providing a method of preparing a lithium transition metal phosphate, in which the nano rod-like Fe2P crystals are reproducibly included.
US10020508B2
A composite material as an electrode for a sodium ion secondary battery includes an active material crystal, a sodium-ion conductive crystal, and an amorphous phase. The active material crystal may contain Na, M (where M represents at least one kind of transition metal element selected from Cr, Fe, Mn, Co, and Ni), P, and O.
US10020505B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided an active material that includes a composite oxide having a crystal structure belonging to a space group Fmmm. The composite oxide is represented by the formula: Li2+xNa2-yMzTi6O14+δ. Herein, M includes at least one of Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba. x is within a range of 0≤x≤6. y is within a range of 0
US10020504B2
According to one embodiment, an active material including a composite oxide is provided. The composite oxide is represented by a general formula LixM14−yTi10−zM22+zO27+δ. Here, M1 includes at least one selected from the group consisting of Na, K, and Cs. M2 includes at least one selected from the group consisting of Zr, Sn, V, Nb, Ta, Mo, W, Fe, Co, Mn, Ni, and Al. x satisfies 0≤x<18. y satisfies 0
US10020497B2
A lithium secondary battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separation film, and an electrolyte, wherein the negative electrode includes a silicon-carbon composite as a negative active material, and wherein the electrolyte includes an additive selected from the group consisting of FEC, VEC, VC, EC, DFEC, t-butylbenzene, and t-pentylbenzene.
US10020489B2
A lithium-ion secondary cell according to the present invention is provided with a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The positive electrode contains a lithium-manganese composite oxide partially substituted by magnesium as a positive electrode active material. The negative electrode contains a graphite coated with amorphous carbon as a negative electrode active material, a carbon black-based conductive aid and a fluororesin-based binding agent.
US10020474B2
A cell block includes holding sections that hold a battery cell arrayed body of a lower layer between a lower holding frame member and a middle holding frame member, hold a battery cell arrayed body of an upper layer between the middle holding frame member and an upper holding frame member, and hold the battery cell arrayed body of the upper layer and the battery cell arrayed body of the lower layer in a state displaced from each other in the row direction. Lower fastening sections are disposed at positions below a battery cell and projects in the row direction beyond the battery cell arrayed body of the lower layer, and join the lower holding frame member and the middle holding frame member with each other by fastening.
US10020473B2
An electric storage device includes a first connection plate, a second connection plate, a fastening member, and a plurality of storage modules. The plurality of storage modules are provided between the first connection plate and the second connection plate in a stacking direction. Each of the plurality of storage modules includes a plurality of rectangular storage cells stacked in the stacking direction to provide a stack of storage cells. The plurality of storage modules are arranged next to each other in a direction that crosses the stacking direction. The plurality of storage modules are clamped between the first connection plate and the second connection plate and fastened together by the fastening member. At least one of the first connection plate and the second connection plate is fastened to the plurality of storage modules in the stacking direction by the fastening member.
US10020467B2
Provided is a light emitting apparatus including a substrate including a plurality of light emitting devices, wherein the substrate further includes a plurality of first members configured to diffuse light emitted from at least one of the light emitting devices, and a second member that is positioned between the first members, wherein the second member includes a light absorbing layer.
US10020465B2
A composition for encapsulating an organic light emitting diode device and an organic light emitting diode display, the composition including a di(meth)acrylate including an unsubstituted alkylene group, a tri(meth)acrylate including a substituted or unsubstituted alkylene group or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, and a photo-initiator, wherein the composition for encapsulating the organic light emitting diode device has a chloride content of about 200 ppm or less.
US10020464B2
There is provided a flexible display having a plurality of innovations configured to allow bending of a portion or portions to reduce apparent border size and/or utilize the side surface of an assembled flexible display.
US10020450B2
The present application relates to a compound according to formula (I), and the use thereof as a functional material in an electronic device. The compound according to formula (I) is preferably used as a hole-transporting material in an organic electroluminescence device (OLED).
US10020447B2
A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting display apparatus using a light-blocking photoresist layer which minimizes damage to an intermediate layer, including an emission layer, during a process for manufacturing the organic light-emitting display apparatus.
US10020443B2
A first lamination step of forming lower electrode films on both surfaces of a diaphragm and directly forming a first Pb-containing perovskite oxide film which has a larger thermal expansion coefficient than that of the diaphragm and has a columnar structure on a front surface of the lower electrode film; and a second lamination step of directly forming a second Pb-containing perovskite oxide film on a front surface of the lower electrode film are sequentially performed. The second Pb-containing perovskite oxide film is formed under a condition that a difference between a molar ratio RA1 of Pb to a B-site element in the first Pb-containing perovskite oxide film and a molar ratio RB1 of Pb to a B-site element in the second Pb-containing perovskite oxide film after the second lamination step is 0.056 or less.
US10020442B2
The present invention relates to a ceramic comprising (or consisting essentially of) a solid solution containing Bi, K, Ti and Fe (and optionally Pb) which exhibits piezoelectric behavior.
US10020441B2
A piezoelectric transformer device is disclosed having a decreased thickness. In particular, a piezoelectric transformer device is disclosed that includes a piezoelectric transformer element in which first and second element electrodes are provided on first and second side surfaces of a piezoelectric transformer main body, respectively, and first and second flexible electrode members which are arranged at the lateral sides of the first and second side surfaces of the piezoelectric transformer main body, respectively, and are electrically and mechanically connected to the first and second element electrodes, respectively.
US10020433B2
An optoelectronic component includes a housing, wherein a cavity is formed on an upper side of the housing, which is delimited by a wall, the housing has an empty space, the wall is arranged between the cavity and the empty space, the housing has a surface, the empty space is arranged between the surface of the housing and the wall, the wall and the surface are arranged at least partially parallel to each other, the wall includes an optically transparent material, and the wall has a wall thickness of 1 μm to 100 μm.
US10020431B2
A method according embodiments of the invention includes providing a wafer of semiconductor devices. The wafer of semiconductor devices includes a semiconductor structure comprising a light emitting layer sandwiched between an n-type region and a p-type region. The wafer of semiconductor devices further includes first and second metal contacts for each semiconductor device. Each first metal contact is in direct contact with the n-type region and each second metal contact is in direct contact with the p-type region. The method further includes forming a structure that seals the semiconductor structure of each semiconductor device. The wafer of semiconductor devices is attached to a wafer of support substrates.
US10020430B2
The present invention provides a phosphor with a preferred orientation represented by the following formula: A2[MF6]:Mn4+, wherein A is selected from a group consisting of Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, and NH4, M is selected from a group consisting of Ge, Si, Sn, Ti, and Zr. The preferred orientation is a (001)/(011) preferred orientation. The present invention also provides a method for fabricating the above phosphor. The present invention further provides a light-emitting element package structure employing the same.
US10020426B1
A light emitting device includes a base and a light emitting diode chip, the light emitting diode chip is formed on a top surface of the base, an outline of a projection of the light emitting diode chip projected on the top surface of the base is positioned in the top surface of the base. The light emitting device further includes a light reflecting portion, the light reflecting portion is formed on the top surface of the base, the light reflecting portion is defined around the light emitting diode chip, a height of the light reflecting portion is less than a height of the light emitting diode chip.
US10020420B2
A repairing method, manufacturing method, device and electronic apparatus of micro-LED are disclosed. The method for repairing micro-LED defects comprises: obtaining a micro-LED defect pattern on a receiving substrate; forming micro-LEDs (703b) corresponding to the defect pattern on a laser-transparent repair carrier substrate (707); aligning the micro-LEDs (703b) on the repair carrier substrate (707) with defect positions on the receiving substrate, and bringing the micro-LEDs (703b) into contact with pads at the defect positions; and irradiating the repair carrier substrate with a laser from the repair carrier substrate side, to lift-off the micro-LEDs from the repair carrier substrate (707).
US10020415B2
A device and a method of forming a device. The method comprises forming an oxide material film; forming two metal electrodes on the oxide material film, the two metal electrodes laterally spaced from each other such that an electric path between the two electrodes comprises at least a portion of the oxide material film; configuring the oxide material film such that a current-voltage characteristic of the device as measured via the two metal electrodes exhibits nonlinearity and rectification.
US10020412B2
Solar cells are packaged by placing the solar cells between sheets of encapsulants. The encapsulants are exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light to cure the encapsulants and bond the encapsulants together to encapsulate the solar cells. The UV curing steps may be performed to bond one of the encapsulants to a transparent top cover and the solar cells, and to bond the other encapsulant to the solar cells and a backsheet. A protective package that includes the transparent top cover, encapsulated solar cells, and the backsheet is then optionally mounted on a frame.
US10020410B1
In one embodiment, a solar tile includes a hollow body including a first half and a second half, the first half including a dark-colored side that is adapted to absorb solar energy and the second half including a light-colored side that is adapted to reflect solar energy, the first and second halves defining an open interior space through which heat exchange fluid can pass, and a central tube that enables the heat exchange fluid to enter or exit the interior space of the body, wherein the central tube also forms a central axis about which the tile can be rotated.
US10020409B2
A conductive reflective film which is formed by calcining a substrate on which a composition containing metal nanoparticles is coated, the conductive reflective film including pores which appear on the film contact surface in the substrate side having an average diameter of 100 nm or less, an average depth of 100 nm or less in terms of position of the pores, and a number density of the pores of 30 pores/μm2 or less.
US10020406B2
A protective film for a solar cell including a barrier film having a multilayer structure in which a substrate layer, an organic-inorganic hybrid layer and an inorganic barrier layer are sequentially stacked and a fluorine-based polymer layer, and a solar cell including the same are provided. Here, at least one of the substrate layer, the organic-inorganic hybrid layer, the inorganic barrier layer and the fluorine-based polymer layer includes at least one of a UV stabilizer and a UV absorbent. The protective film for a solar cell can prevent degradation of efficiency of a solar cell module due to oxygen and moisture penetration, and can prevent degradation of performance of the protective film caused by UV rays, and thus can significantly improve efficiency and lifespan of the solar cell module.
US10020403B2
A low-power-consuming semiconductor device that can store analog data stably and very accurately is provided at low cost. The semiconductor device includes a power supply portion, a sensor portion, and a memory element portion. The sensor portion acquires analog data. The memory element portion stores the analog data. A channel formation region of a transistor included in the memory element portion is formed in an oxide semiconductor film. The semiconductor device does not include an analog/digital converter circuit and has functions of measuring and storing analog data.
US10020402B2
Provided are a thin film transistor (TFT) and a method of manufacturing the TFT. The TFT includes a substrate; a first conductive type semiconductor layer on the substrate and having a recess; second conductive type spacers at opposite side walls in the recess; a main semiconductor layer covering the first conductive type semiconductor layer and the second conductive type spacers and comprising a channel region and source and drain regions; a gate insulating layer on the main semiconductor layer; and a gate electrode on the gate insulating layer and corresponding to the recess.
US10020400B2
Semiconductor devices with airgap spacers and methods of forming the same include forming a lower spacer that defines a gate region. A sacrificial upper spacer is formed directly above the lower spacer. A gate stack is formed in the gate region. The sacrificial upper spacer is etched away to form an upper spacer opening. An airgap spacer is formed in the upper spacer opening. The airgap spacer includes a dielectric material that encapsulates an internal void.
US10020395B2
One illustrative method disclosed herein includes, among other things, forming a trench in a semiconductor substrate, forming a liner semiconductor material above the entire interior surface of the trench, the liner semiconductor material defining a transistor cavity, forming a gate structure that is at least partially positioned within the transistor cavity, and performing at least one epitaxial deposition process to form a source region structure and a drain region structure on opposite sides of the gate structure, wherein at least a portion of each of the source region structure and the drain region structure is positioned within the transistor cavity.
US10020391B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer; a plurality of semiconductor regions; second semiconductor region; a first electrode being positioned between the plurality of first semiconductor regions, the first electrode contacting with the semiconductor layer, each of the plurality of first semiconductor regions, and the second semiconductor region via a first insulating film; a second electrode provided below the first electrode, and contacting with the semiconductor layer via a second insulating film; an insulating layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; a third electrode electrically connected to the semiconductor layer; and a fourth electrode connected to the second semiconductor region. The first electrode has a first portion and a pair of second portions. And each of the pair of second portions is provided along the first insulating film.
US10020385B2
The present invention provides a memory cell, which includes a substrate, a gate dielectric layer, a patterned material layer, a selection gate and a control gate. The gate dielectric layer is disposed on the substrate. The patterned material layer is disposed on the substrate, wherein the patterned material layer comprises a vertical portion and a horizontal portion. The selection gate is disposed on the gate dielectric layer and atone side of the vertical portion of the patterned material layer. The control gate is disposed on the horizontal portion of the patterned material layer and at another side of the vertical portion, wherein the vertical portion protrudes over a top of the selection gate. The present invention further provides another embodiment of a memory cell and manufacturing methods thereof.
US10020380B2
This invention discloses a semiconductor power device disposed in a semiconductor substrate including an active cell areas and a termination area. The semiconductor power device further comprises a plurality of gate trenches formed at a top portion of the semiconductor substrate in the active cell area wherein each of the gate trenches is partially filled with a conductive gate material with a top portion of the trenches filled by a high density plasma (HDP) insulation layer. The semiconductor power device further comprises mesa areas of the semiconductor substrate disposed between the gate trenches wherein the mesa areas are recessed and having a top mesa surface disposed vertically below a top surface of the HDP insulation layer wherein the HDP insulation layer covering over the conductive gate material constituting a stick-out boundary-defining layer surrounding the recessed mesa areas in the active cell areas between the gate trenches.
US10020376B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) which includes a heterojunction structure arranged over a semiconductor substrate. The heterojunction structure includes a binary III/V semiconductor layer made of a first III-nitride material to act as a channel region of the e-HEMT, and a ternary III/V semiconductor layer arranged over the binary III/V semiconductor layer and made of a second III-nitride material to act as a barrier layer. Source and drain regions are arranged over the ternary III/V semiconductor layer and are spaced apart laterally from one another. A gate structure is arranged over the heterojunction structure and is arranged between the source and drain regions. The gate structure is made of a third III-nitride material. A first passivation layer is disposed about sidewalls of the gate structure and is made of a fourth III-nitride material.
US10020371B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide contact techniques and configurations for reducing parasitic resistance in nanowire transistors. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate, an isolation layer formed on the semiconductor substrate, a channel layer including nanowire material formed on the isolation layer to provide a channel for a transistor, and a contact coupled with the channel layer, the contact being configured to surround, in at least one planar dimension, nanowire material of the channel layer and to provide a source terminal or drain terminal for the transistor.
US10020370B2
A ring-type FET may include a silicon base, a source formed on a portion of the silicon base through doping, a channel formed to encompass the source on a plane, a drain formed outside the channel, a dielectric layer formed on the source, the channel and the drain, and a gate provided on the dielectric layer, wherein a center of the source is spaced apart from a center of the channel, and the gate is formed of a metal material, disposed above the channel and configured to cover an upper face of the channel and overlap a portion of the source and a portion of the drain.
US10020364B2
One embodiment includes: forming a laminated body by alternately laminating a conducting layer and an interlayer insulating layer on a substrate; forming a memory hole passing through the laminated body; forming a memory gate insulating layer including a charge storage layer on an inner wall of the memory hole; forming a first semiconductor layer on the memory gate insulating layer; forming a cover film on the first semiconductor layer; removing the memory gate insulating layer, the first semiconductor layer, and the cover film on a bottom surface of the memory hole, to expose the substrate; forming an epitaxial layer on the exposed substrate; removing the cover film; and forming the second semiconductor layer along the first semiconductor layer, to electrically couple: the substrate to the first semiconductor layer; and the substrate to the second semiconductor layer, via the epitaxial layer.
US10020354B2
An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. The silicon transistors may be configured in a top gate arrangement. The oxide transistors may be configured in a top gate or a bottom gate arrangement. In one embodiment, source-drain contacts for the silicon and oxide transistors may be formed simultaneously. In another embodiment, the silicon and oxide thin-film transistor structures may be formed using at least three metal routing layers.
US10020353B2
An organic electroluminescent display device includes a display area including a plurality of pixels, a peripheral area as an area on the outside of the display area, a circuit layer including a circuit formed in the display area and a circuit formed in the peripheral area, a planarization film formed in the display area, the planarization film covering the circuit in the display area but not covering at least a portion of the circuit in the peripheral area, and an inorganic insulating layer formed of an inorganic material, the inorganic insulating layer being formed in the peripheral area and covering the at least a portion of the circuit in the peripheral area.
US10020352B2
A substrate structure may be used in a display device. The substrate structure may include a base substrate, a transistor, and a silicon oxynitride layer. The transistor may include a semiconductor member and a gate electrode and may overlap the base substrate. The silicon oxynitride layer may directly contact at least one of the base substrate, the semiconductor member, and the gate electrode and may include (and/or contain) a hydrogen atom set. A hydrogen concentration in the silicon oxynitride layer may be greater than or equal to 1.52 atomic percent.
US10020349B2
Provided is an organic light emitting device. The organic light emitting device includes a plurality of light emitting units laminated between a first electrode and a second electrode and each including an organic emitting layer, and a charge generation layer between the light emitting units. Further, the charge generation layer includes an N-type charge generation layer disposed to be in direct contact with an organic emitting layer of the adjacent light emitting unit and HOMO levels of the N-type charge generation layer and the organic emitting layer are regulated. Thus, a color change rate based on a viewing angle can be improved, and efficiency and a lifetime of the organic light emitting device can be improved.
US10020347B2
Image sensors, electronic apparatuses, and methods of manufacturing an image sensor are provided. More particularly, an image sensor having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements included in a laminated body is provided. At least one of the photoelectric conversion elements includes organic photoelectric conversion elements. In addition, at least a first surface of the laminated body includes a curved light incident surface, which further includes a concave surface. The plurality of photoelectric conversion elements receive light through the concave light incident surface. The laminated body can be connected to a support structure.
US10020342B2
A manufacturing device holds a lens unit on a Z axis that is orthogonal to a chart surface of a measurement chart, holds an image pickup element unit on the Z axis, picks up an image of the measurement chart by an image pickup element while changing a Z-axis direction position of the image pickup element unit held on the Z axis in a state in which current is applied to a second lens drive unit and a third lens drive unit of the lens unit held on the Z axis, adjusts the position and a tilt of the image pickup element unit relative to the lens unit on the basis of image pickup signals that are obtained in the case where the image of the measurement chart is picked up, and fixes the image pickup element unit to the lens unit.
US10020338B2
A backside illuminated image sensor includes a substrate, a backside passivation layer disposed on backside of the substrate, and a transparent conductive layer disposed on the backside passivation layer.
US10020337B2
Provided is a photoelectric conversion device including: a semiconductor substrate having a photoelectric conversion unit; a first conductive layer formed over the semiconductor substrate; a first diffusion prevention layer formed over the first conductive layer; and a light guide that guides an incident light into the photoelectric conversion unit, in which the first diffusion prevention layer contains hydrogen atoms and carbon atoms, and a composition ratio of the hydrogen atoms is greater than or equal to 46 at % and less than or equal to 50 at %.
US10020336B2
An imaging device having a three-dimensional integration structure is provided. A first structure including a transistor including silicon in an active layer or an active region and a second structure including an oxide semiconductor in an active layer are fabricated. After that, the first and second structures are bonded to each other so that metal layers included in the first and second structures are bonded to each other; thus, an imaging device having a three-dimensional integration structure is formed.
US10020333B2
In this solid-state imaging device, the sameness of the potential distributions in pixels, in a region from a photodiode of a transfer transistor to a floating diffusion in a charge transfer path, is improved. The solid-state imaging device includes a first transfer transistor including a first photodiode, a first gate electrode, and a first floating diffusion, a second transfer transistor including a second photodiode, a second gate electrode, and a second floating diffusion, a third transfer transistor including a third photodiode, a third gate electrode, and a third floating diffusion, and a reset transistor including a diffusion layer, which is a source or drain region, and a reset gate. The first to third floating diffusions and the diffusion layer of the reset transistor are separated from each other, and are electrically connected to each other via an interconnect. The first to third photodiodes are arrayed one-dimensionally.
US10020327B2
A method device is prepared with a patterned thin film that can include one or more metal oxides on a suitable substrate. Initially, a pattern of a deposition inhibitor is provided on a surface of the substrate, which deposition inhibitor comprises at least one cellulose ester. This pattern has both inhibitor areas where the deposition inhibitor is present and open areas where the deposition inhibitor is absent. An inorganic thin film is then deposited on the surface of the substrate by a chemical vapor deposition process only in the open areas of the pattern. Further operations can be carried out including deposit of a second inorganic thin film exactly over the initial inorganic thin film, the deposition inhibitor can be removed from the inhibitor areas of the pattern, or both operations can be carried out in sequence.
US10020320B2
According to the embodiment, a semiconductor device includes: a stacked body; a columnar portion, an insulating portion; and wall portion. The stacked body includes a plurality of electrode layers stacked with an insulator interposed. The columnar portion is provided in the stacked body and extends in a staking direction of the stacked body. The insulating portion is provided around the stacked body and surrounds the stacked body. The wall portion is provided in the insulating portion and is separated from the stacked body. The wall portion extends in the stacking direction and in a first direction crossing the stacking direction.
US10020318B2
A semiconductor device includes gate electrodes vertically stacked on a substrate, and channel holes passing through the gate electrodes to extend perpendicularly to the substrate and including a gate dielectric layer and a channel area. The gate dielectric layer may be formed of a plurality of layers, and at least one layer among the plurality of layers may have different thicknesses in different locations.
US10020315B1
A semiconductor memory device includes a first electrode film and a second electrode film spreading along a first direction and a second direction, first insulating plates intermittently disposed along the first direction and each of two columns separated in the second direction from each other, second insulating plates provided between the two columns, intermittently disposed along the first direction and each of n columns, third insulating plates provided between one of the two columns and a column formed of the second insulating plates, intermittently disposed along the first direction, a first insulating member provided between the first insulating plate and the third insulating plate, and a second insulating member provided between the second insulating plate and the third insulating plate. The first electrode film is divided into two parts between the two columns. The second electrode film is divided into {(n+1)×2} parts between the two columns.
US10020314B1
Disclosed herein are methods of forming non-volatile storage. An opening may be etched through a stack of two alternating materials to a semiconductor substrate. A silicon nitride film may be formed on a vertical sidewall of the opening. The semiconductor substrate may be cleaned to remove oxide from the semiconductor substrate. The silicon nitride film protects the materials in the stack while cleaning the semiconductor substrate. The silicon nitride film may be converted to an oxide after cleaning the semiconductor substrate. A semiconductor region may be formed in contact with the cleaned semiconductor substrate. A memory cell film may be formed over the oxide in the opening. Control gates may be formed by replacing one of the materials in the stack with a conductive material. The oxide may serve as a blocking layer between the control gates and charge storage regions in the memory cell film.
US10020309B2
At least one of a plurality of transistors which are highly integrated in an element is provided with a back gate without increasing the number of manufacturing steps. In an element including a plurality of transistors which are longitudinally stacked, at least a transistor in an upper portion includes a metal oxide having semiconductor characteristics, a same layer as a gate electrode of a transistor in a lower portion is provided to overlap with a channel formation region of the transistor in an upper portion, and part of the same layer as the gate electrode functions as a back gate of the transistor in an upper portion. The transistor in a lower portion which is covered with an insulating layer is subjected to planarization treatment, whereby the gate electrode is exposed and connected to a layer functioning as source and drain electrodes of the transistor in an upper portion.
US10020305B2
There is formed a first concave portion that extends inside a semiconductor substrate from a main surface thereof. An insulating film is formed over the main surface, over a side wall and a bottom wall of the first concave portion so as to cover an element and to form a capped hollow in the first concave portion. A first hole portion is formed in the insulating film so as to reach the hollow in the first concave portion from an upper surface of the insulating film, and to reach the semiconductor substrate on the bottom wall of the first concave portion while leaving the insulating film over the side wall of the first concave portion. There is formed a second hole portion that reaches the conductive portion from the upper surface of the insulating film. The first and second hole portions are formed by the same etching treatment.
US10020299B2
A silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) circuit is configured to shunt electrostatic discharge (ESD) current from a node to a reference voltage. The SCR circuit includes a first bipolar PNP transistor having a first emitter connected to the node, a first base, and a first collector. A second bipolar NPN transistor has a second collector sharing a first region with the first base, a second base sharing a second region with the first collector, and an emitter electrically connected to the reference voltage. A guard region is configured and arranged to delay triggering of the SCR circuit in response to an ESD event by impeding current flow in the second region.
US10020297B2
Control ICs for controlling IGBTs include overheat detection comparators that determine an overheated state of the case, in addition to overheat detection comparators that determine an overheated state of chips of the IGBTs. Outputs of the overheat detection comparators are input into an AND circuit, and when all of the overheat detection comparators determine the overheated state of the case, the AND circuit outputs a protection operation signal of high level, and an alarm output circuit outputs an alarm signal. The overheated state of the chips and the overheated state of the case are detected on the basis of chip temperatures measured by temperature detection diodes which are provided with the IGBTs respectively, and therefore a temperature detection IC for case overheat protection is unnecessary, and detection accuracy of the case overheat improves.
US10020291B2
An LED light emitting device with good color mixing property is provided. The LED light emitting device including a rectangular substrate having a short-side and a long-side and a first LED element, a second LED element and a third LED element that are mounted on a surface of the substrate and emit light with wavelengths different from one another, wherein the first LED element and the second LED element are mounted on the substrate so that a first distance from the short-side to a mounting position of the first LED element in the long-side direction of the substrate and a second distance from the short-side to a mounting position of the second LED element in the long-side direction are the same.
US10020289B2
Apparatuses and methods for supplying power to a plurality of dies are described. An example apparatus includes: a substrate; first, second and third memory cell arrays arranged in line in a first direction in the substrate; a first set of through electrodes arranged between the first and second memory cell arrays, each of the first set of through electrodes penetrating through the substrate, the first set of through electrodes including first and second through electrodes; and a second set of through electrodes arranged between the second and third memory cell arrays, each of the second set of through electrodes penetrating through the substrate, the second set of through electrodes including third and fourth through electrodes.
US10020288B2
A semiconductor chip is provided including an integrated circuit on a substrate; pads electrically connected to the integrated circuit; a lower insulating structure defining contact holes exposing the pads, respectively; and first, second and third conductive patterns electrically connected to the pads. The second conductive pattern is between the first conductive pattern and the third conductive pattern when viewed from a plan view. Each of the first to third conductive patterns includes a contact portion filling the contact hole, a first conductive line portion extending in one direction on the lower insulating structure, and a bonding pad portion. Ends of the bonding pad portions of the first and third conductive patterns protrude in the one direction as compared with an end of the bonding pad portion of the second conductive pattern when viewed from a plan view.
US10020287B2
Pass-through interconnect structures for microelectronic dies and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a microelectronic die assembly includes a support substrate, a first microelectronic die positioned at least partially over the support substrate, and a second microelectronic die positioned at least partially over the first die. The first die includes a semiconductor substrate, a conductive trace extending over a portion of the semiconductor substrate, a substrate pad between the trace and the portion of the semiconductor substrate, and a through-silicon via (TSV) extending through the trace, the substrate pad, and the portion of the semiconductor substrate. The second die is electrically coupled to the support substrate via a conductive path that includes the TSV.
US10020282B2
In a heat insulating load jig 11 of the present invention, a solder material 14 having a melting point or a solidus temperature in a range between a thermal resistance temperature of a semiconductor chip 13 and a temperature 100° C. below the thermal resistance temperature is interposed between a circuit board 12 and the semiconductor chip 13; a heat insulating body 17 is placed on an upper side of the semiconductor chip 13 in this state; a metal weight 16 is disposed on the heat insulating body 17; and load is applied to the semiconductor chip 13 while the solder material 14 is melted and solidified.
US10020276B2
An embodiment apparatus includes a dielectric layer in a die, a conductive trace in the dielectric layer, and a protrusion bump pad on the conductive trace. The protrusion bump pad at least partially extends over the dielectric layer, and the protrusion bump pad includes a lengthwise axis and a widthwise axis. A ratio of a first dimension of the lengthwise axis to a second dimension of the widthwise axis is about 0.8 to about 1.2.
US10020270B2
In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including a front surface, an LDMOS transistor structure in the front surface, a conductive interconnection structure arranged on the front surface, and at least one cavity arranged in the front surface.
US10020257B2
Electrical fuse (eFuse) and resistor structures and methods of manufacture are provided. The method includes forming metal gates having a capping material on a top surface thereof. The method further includes protecting the metal gates and the capping material during an etching process which forms a recess in a dielectric material. The method further includes forming an insulator material and metal material within the recess. The method further includes forming a contact in direct electrical contact with the metal material.
US10020246B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate through which a via hole is formed from a back surface to a front surface of the semiconductor substrate; an electrode provided on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate and closing the via hole; and a metal film provided on the back surface of the semiconductor substrate, a side wall of the via hole and a lower surface of the electrode, wherein an opening is provided in the metal film on the back surface of the semiconductor substrate, and the opening abuts on only part of a circumference of the via hole.
US10020245B2
A method of manufacturing a laminate electronic device is disclosed. One embodiment provides a carrier, the carrier defining a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface. The carrier has a recess pattern formed in the first main surface. A first semiconductor chip is attached on one of the first and second main surface. A first insulating layer overlying the main surface of the carrier on which the first semiconductor chip is attached and the first semiconductor chip is formed. The carrier is then separated into a plurality of parts along the recess pattern.
US10020243B2
A power electronics assembly having a semiconductor device stack having a wide bandgap semiconductor device, a first electrode electrically coupled the wide bandgap semiconductor device, and a second electrode electrically coupled the wide bandgap semiconductor device. A substrate layer is coupled to the semiconductor device stack such that the first electrode is positioned between the substrate layer and the wide bandgap semiconductor device. The substrate layer includes a substrate inlet port and a substrate outlet port. An integrated fluid channel system extends between the substrate inlet and outlet ports and includes a substrate fluid inlet channel extending from the substrate inlet port into the substrate layer, a substrate fluid outlet channel extending from the substrate outlet port into the substrate layer, and one or more semiconductor fluid channels extending into the wide bandgap semiconductor device in fluid communication with the substrate fluid inlet and outlet channels.
US10020240B2
A semiconductor device includes a wiring substrate, a semiconductor element mounted on the wiring substrate, a heat dissipation plate bonded to an upper surface of the semiconductor element with an adhesive, and an encapsulation resin that fills a gap between the heat dissipation plate and the wiring substrate. The heat dissipation plate includes a body overlapped with the semiconductor element in a plan view. The body is larger than the semiconductor element in a plan view. A projection is formed integrally with the body. The projection projects outward from an end of the body and is located at a lower position than the body. The encapsulation resin covers upper, lower, and side surfaces of the projection. The body includes an upper surface exposed from the encapsulation resin.
US10020236B2
An apparatus comprising a first substrate, a dam structure disposed on a first side of the first substrate, and an integrated circuit (IC) memory chip coupled to the first side of the first substrate by a plurality of first conductive members. A second substrate is coupled to a second side of the first substrate by a plurality of second conductive members. A lid coupled to the second substrate encloses the IC memory chip and the first substrate. A thermal interface material (TIM) is coupled between the lid and the dam structure.
US10020235B2
In various approaches room-temperature gamma detector longevity may be improved by selectively removing, or selectively incorporating, alternate halogen component(s) from select surfaces of the detector. According to one embodiment, a method of improving operational longevity of a thallium bromide (TlBr)-based detector includes: selectively treating one or more surfaces of the TlBr-based detector to produce a surface substantially comprising pure TlBr. Similar techniques may be employed to restore a degraded or failed detector. According to another embodiment, a method of forming a TlBr-based detector exhibiting improved operational longevity includes: selectively treating one or more surfaces of the TlBr-based detector to replace Br therein with one or more alternate halogen components while also substantially avoiding replacing some or all of the Br in other surfaces of the TlBr-based detector with the one or more alternate halogen components. Corresponding structures for TlBr-based detectors with improved longevity are also described.
US10020234B2
A method for fabricating a substrate includes forming a first substrate including a thin film transistor array, and inspecting a first surface of an inspecting device, wherein inspecting the first surface of the inspection device includes: generating first measurement data by detecting a first measurement light that is parallel to a surface of an inspection region in the first surface, generating second measurement data by detecting a second measurement light that is parallel to the surface of the inspection region, and inspecting a state of a surface of the inspection region by comparing the first measurement data with the second measurement data.
US10020233B2
In a plasma processing method and apparatus for processing a film to be processed contained in a film structure preliminarily formed on an upper surface of a wafer mounted in a processing chamber, by using plasma, a residual film thickness at an arbitrary time is calculated using a result of comparing detective differential waveform pattern data with actual differential waveform pattern data. The detective differential waveform pattern data is produced by using two basic differential waveform pattern data which respectively use, as parameters, residual thicknesses of the films to be processed in film structures having underlying films with different thicknesses and the wavelengths of the interference light. The detective waveform pattern data being preliminarily prepared prior to processing of the wafer. Determination is made as to whether or not an object of the processing has been reached by using the residual film thickness.
US10020219B2
A method of fabricating ultra-thin semiconductor devices includes forming an array of semiconductor dielets mechanically suspended on a frame with at least one tether connecting each semiconductor dielet of the array of semiconductor dielets to the frame.
US10020216B1
A robot diagnosing method of detecting a deviation amount caused by a lost motion includes: a first step of preparing a robot and a line sensor, the robot including a robot arm including one or a plurality of joint portions including a first joint portion, the line sensor including a detecting portion configured to detect a position of a detected portion based on a light receiving state of a light receiver, the detected portion being inserted between a light emitter and the light receiver; and a sixth step of detecting the deviation amount caused by the lost motion at the first joint portion based on (i) the position of the detected portion based on the position of the detected portion detected in a third step and a command value from a robot control portion in a fourth step and (ii) the position of the detected portion detected in a fifth step.
US10020213B1
Semiconductor wafer carriers, methods for manufacturing the semiconductor wafer carriers, and methods for using the semiconductor wafer carriers. The semiconductor wafer carriers can include features for avoiding double-slotting, for preventing glove marks on semiconductor wafers, and for providing additional sitting and storage options for the wafer carrier. In some examples, a semiconductor wafer carrier includes multiple notched left-side rods that are parallel in a vertical direction and multiple notched right-side rods that are parallel in the vertical direction. The semiconductor wafer carrier includes one or more bottom rods. The left-side rods, the right-side rods, and the one or more bottom rods are joined to define semiconductor wafer slots.
US10020208B2
A method for cleaning semiconductor substrate using ultra/mega sonic device comprising holding a semiconductor substrate by using a chuck, positioning a ultra/mega sonic device adjacent to the semiconductor substrate, injecting chemical liquid on the semiconductor substrate and gap between the semiconductor substrate and the ultra/mega sonic device, changing gap between the semiconductor substrate and the ultra/mega sonic device for each rotation of the chuck during the cleaning process. The gap can be increased or reduced by 0.5/N for each rotation of the chuck, where λ is wavelength of ultra/mega sonic wave, N is an integer number between 2 and 1000. The gap is varied in the range of 0.5λn during the cleaning process, where λ is wavelength of ultra/mega sonic wave, and n is an integer number starting from 1.
US10020206B2
The present disclosure relates to enhancing the thermal performance of encapsulated flip chip dies. According to an exemplary process, a plurality of flip chip dies are attached on a top surface of a carrier, and a first mold compound is applied over the top surface of the carrier to encapsulate the plurality of flip chip dies. The first mold compound is thinned down to expose a substrate of each flip chip die and the substrate of each flip chip die is then substantially etched away to provide an etched flip chip die that has an exposed surface at the bottom of a cavity. Next, a second mold compound with high thermal conductivity is applied to substantially fill each cavity and the top surface of the second mold compound is planarized. Finally, the encapsulated etched flip chip dies can be marked, singulated, and tested as a module.
US10020198B1
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure, including a semiconductor fin, a metal gate over the semiconductor fin, and a sidewall spacer composed of low-k dielectric surrounding opposing sidewalls of the metal gate. A portion of the sidewall spacer comprises a tapered profile with a greater separation of the opposing sidewalls toward a top portion and a narrower separation of the opposing sidewalls toward a bottom portion of the sidewall spacer. The present disclosure also provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes forming a polysilicon stripe over a semiconductor fin, forming a nitride sidewall spacer surrounding a long side of the polysilicon stripe, forming a raised source/drain region in the semiconductor fin, and forming a carbonitride etch stop layer surrounding the nitride sidewall spacer.
US10020195B2
The disclosure herein describes methods for Photosensitized Chemically Amplified Resist Chemicals (PS-CAR) to pattern light sensitive films (e.g., photoresist on anti-reflective coatings) on a semiconductor substrate. In one embodiment, a two-step exposure process may generate higher acid concentration regions within a photoresist layer. The PS-CAR chemicals may include photoacid generators (PAGs) and photosensitizer elements that enhance the decomposition of the PAGs into acid. The first exposure may be a patterned EUV or UV exposure that generates an initial amount of acid and photosensitizer. The second exposure may be a non-EUV flood exposure that excites the photosensitizer which increases the acid generation rate where the photosensitizer is located in the film stack. The distribution of energy during the exposures may be optimized by using certain characteristics (e.g., thickness, index of refraction, doping) of the photoresist layer, an underlying layer, and/or an overlying layer.
US10020190B2
The present disclosure relates to a nano-heterostructure. The nano-heterostructure includes a semiconductor layer, a first metallic carbon nanotube, a semiconducting carbon nanotube and a second metallic carbon nanotube. The semiconductor layer comprises a first surface and a second surface. The first metallic carbon nanotube is located on the first surface and extends in a first direction. The semiconducting carbon nanotube is located on the first surface and extends in the first direction. The semiconducting carbon nanotube is parallel and spaced away from the first metallic carbon nanotube. The second metallic carbon nanotube is located on the second surface and extends in a second direction. An angle forms between the first direction and the second direction.
US10020189B2
A method of forming an integrated circuit structure includes providing a wafer having a silicon substrate; forming a plurality of shallow trench isolation (STI) regions in the silicon substrate; and forming recesses by removing top portions of the silicon substrate between opposite sidewalls of the plurality of STI regions. Substantially all long sides of all recesses in the silicon substrate extend in a same direction. A III-V compound semiconductor material is then epitaxially grown in the recesses.
US10020187B2
Provided apparatus and methods for back side passivation of a substrate. The systems comprise an elongate support with an open top surface forming a support ring so that when a substrate is on the support ring, a cavity is formed within the elongate support. A plasma generator is coupled to the cavity to generate a plasma within the cavity to deposit a passivation film on the back side of the substrate.
US10020185B2
A composition for forming a silica layer including a silicon-containing polymer having a weight average molecular weight of about 20,000 to about 70,000 and a polydispersity index of about 5.0 to about 17.0 and a solvent; a silica layer manufactured using the same; and an electronic device including the silica layer.
US10020183B1
A method for processing a stack with an etch layer below a mask is provided. The mask is treated by flowing a treatment gas, wherein the treatment gas comprises a sputtering gas and a trimming gas, providing pulsed TCP power to create a plasma from the treatment gas, and providing a pulsed bias, wherein the pulsed bias has a same period as the pulsed TCP power, wherein the pulsed TCP power and pulsed bias provide a first state with a first bias above a sputter threshold and a first TCP power, which causes species from the sputtering gas to sputter and redeposit material from the mask, and provide a second state with a second bias below the sputter threshold and a second TCP power, wherein the second TCP power is greater than the first TCP power, which causes species from the trimming gas to chemically trim the mask.
US10020182B2
The present disclosure provides an apparatus for fabricating a semiconductor device. The apparatus includes a portable device. The portable device includes first and second sensors that respectively measure first and second fabrication process parameters. The first fabrication process parameter is different from the second fabrication process parameter. The first and second sensors may communicate the parameters using different and incompatible protocols. The portable device also includes a wireless transceiver that is coupled to the first and second sensors. The wireless transceiver receives the first and second fabrication process parameters and transmits wireless signals containing the first and second fabrication process parameters.
US10020173B2
A chromatograph mass analysis data processing method for obtaining pertinent information on a compound series including a plurality of compounds whose structures and characters are similar. Based on the data obtained by a chromatograph mass analysis, a two-dimensional isointensity line graph is created and displayed with a retention time and a mass-to-charge ratio on the two axes and with a signal intensity represented with a contour. When the operator specifies a desired range, the data contained in the range specified are collected, the signal intensities along the mass-to-charge ratio axis direction are summed up for every retention time to create a summed mass chromatogram based on the summed value. Simultaneously, the signal intensities along the retention time axis direction are summed up for every mass-to-charge ratio to create a summed mass spectrum based on the summed value. These are then displayed on the same screen of the isointensity line graph.
US10020170B2
A method includes feeding powder comprising a yttrium oxide into a plasma spraying system, wherein the powder comprises a majority of donut-shaped particles, each of the donut-shaped particles having a spherical body with indentations on opposite sides of the spherical body. The method further includes plasma spray coating an article to apply a ceramic coating onto the article, wherein the ceramic coating comprises the yttrium oxide, wherein the donut-shaped particles cause the ceramic coating to have an improved morphology and a decreased porosity as compared to powder particles of other shapes, wherein the improved surface morphology comprises a reduced amount of surface nodules.
US10020169B2
An etching device and an etching method. The etching device includes an etching chamber and a chuck located therein for clamping a substrate to be etched, a plasma generating device surrounding the etching chamber in an area and a gas nozzle distribution device for introducing etching gas, which is situated above the chuck in such a way that an etching gas stream is directed essentially perpendicular to a surface of the substrate to be etched. A moving mechanism may be used to change the distance between the gas nozzle distribution device and the chuck as a function of the etching mode.
US10020166B1
The present application discloses methods, systems and devices for using charged particle beam tools to pattern and inspect a substrate. The inventors have discovered that it is highly advantageous to use patterns generated using the Hadamard transform as alignment and registration marks (Hadamard targets) for multiple-column charged particle beam substrate processing and inspection tools. Hadamard targets can be written to a substrate using charged particle beams performing, for example, resist-based lithography or resist-less direct processing. High-order Hadamard targets can also be patterned and imaged to obtain superior column performance metrics for applications such as super-rapid beam calibration DOE, column matching, and column performance tracking. Hadamard target blocks can be written highly locally to electrically functional pattern portions, or integrated into said pattern portions, thereby enabling re-registration local and contemporaneous to writing and improving beam targeting accuracy following re-registration. Superior alignment and registration, and column parameter optimization, allow significant yield gains.
US10020164B2
The present invention provides apparatuses to inspect small particles on the surface of a sample such as wafer and mask. The apparatuses provide both high detection efficiency and high throughput by forming Dark-field BSE images. The apparatuses can additionally inspect physical and electrical defects on the sample surface by form SE images and Bright-field BSE images simultaneously. The apparatuses can be designed to do single-beam or even multiple single-beam inspection for achieving a high throughput.
US10020159B2
A multi charged particle beam writing method includes performing ON/OFF switching of a beam by an individual blanking system for the beam concerned, for each beam in multi-beams of charged particle beam, with respect to each time irradiation of irradiation of a plurality of times, by using a plurality of individual blanking systems that respectively perform beam ON/OFF control of a corresponding beam in the multi-beams, and performing blanking control, in addition to the performing ON/OFF switching of the beam for the each beam by the individual blanking system, with respect to the each time irradiation of the irradiation of the plurality of times, so that the beam is in an ON state during an irradiation time corresponding to irradiation concerned, by using a common blanking system that collectively performs beam ON/OFF control for a whole of the multi-beams.
US10020151B2
A safety relay configuration system for configuring safety functions to be carried out by a safety relay is provided. The configuration system comprises a number of features that facilitate intuitive and simplified configuration of an industrial safety relay, including but not limited to features that guide the user through the configuration process using an intuitive sequential procedure that provides feedback and prompts based on user interaction, enforce design consistency throughout the configuration project by intelligently limiting user selections, and visually organize configuration and status information in a manner that efficiently utilizes display space and allows the user to quickly evaluate available configuration options.
US10020150B2
A method operates an electromotive adjusting device of a motor vehicle. The adjusting device contains a relay which has two contacts. The relay is switched by an electric current flow across the contacts or by an electrical voltage drop between the contacts given a first condition. The relay is switched without an electric current flow across the contacts or without an electrical voltage drop between the contacts given a second condition. An electromotive adjusting device of a motor vehicle, in particular an electromotively operated tailgate, contains such a relay which has two contacts.
US10020147B2
Proximity switches include a hermetically sealed unit that can be used in harsh environments and under significant pressures, such as underwater and in nuclear power facilities, without having any parts that would require replacement or periodic maintenance. The proximity switches are preferably switches actuated by physical movement of a contact in response to changing magnetic forces. The switches are preferably disposed in a body tube optionally including a hermetic seal assembly to seal an open end of the body tube and/or a ferrule that prevents electrical wires attached to the switch inside the body tube from being pulled away from the switch. Further, the switches preferably maintain a contact pressure between electrical contacts sufficient to withstand acceleration seismic testing of 10 g with no contact discontinuity.
US10020146B2
A current interruption device includes: a deforming plate configured to deform when the internal pressure of the casing rises above the predetermined level; a conducting plate which configures the current path; and a contact plate. The conducting plate includes a first contact portion configured to contact the contact plate. The contact plate includes a second contact portion configured to contact the first contact portion. The deforming plate includes a pressure receiving portion configured to receive the internal pressure of the casing and a contacting portion configured to contact the first contact portion. The second contact portion is configured to be separated from the conducting plate by deformation causing the contacting portion to move toward the contact plate. The deforming plate is insulated from the conducting plate and the contact plate. The conducting plate is disposed to be interleaved between the deforming plate and the contact plate.
US10020142B2
A trippable control system for one or more electrical breaker poles includes a first link pivotable about a first pivot point between first and second positions; a second link pivotable about a pivot axis for connecting to one or more breaker poles, whereby movement of the first link causes the second link to pivot about the pivot axis between a position for opening and a position for closing the breaker pole(s); and a trip mechanism suitable for releasing the first pivot point and for exerting a movement force on the first link to move the first link between the second and third positions when the first link pivots about a second pivot point. Movement of the first link between the second and third positions causes the second link to pivot about the pivot axis between the position for closing the breaker pole(s) and the position for opening the breaker gear.
US10020141B2
A key device includes a bottom plate, a light guiding membrane switch, and a keycap. The light guiding membrane switch is disposed on the bottom plate and includes a lower membrane layer, an upper membrane layer, a light guiding spacing layer, a reflective layer, and an adhering layer. The upper membrane layer is disposed above the lower membrane layer and farther from the bottom plate than the lower membrane layer. The light guiding spacing layer is disposed between the lower membrane layer and the upper membrane layer and includes opposite upper and lower surfaces. The reflective layer is securely fastened on the upper surface. The adhering layer is adhered between the reflective layer and the upper membrane layer, and a position and a shape of the adhering layer correspond to a position and a shape of the reflective layer.
US10020137B2
An input apparatus includes a pressing part, a spacer, a rotating cam, and a sensor. The pressing part is capable of reciprocating along a first direction. The spacer is disposed in the first direction with respect to pressing part and is capable of reciprocating along the first direction with reciprocation of the pressing part. The rotating cam is disposed at a side of the spacer opposite to the pressing part and rotates in a plane perpendicular to the first direction with reciprocation of the spacer. The sensor detects rotation of the rotating cam.
US10020135B2
A scissors-type connecting member includes a first frame and a second frame. The first frame includes a rotating shaft. The second frame includes a pivot hole, an entrance and a stopper. After the rotating shaft is introduced into the pivot hole through the entrance, the first frame is pivotally coupled to the second frame. The stopper is located near the entrance or arranged between the entrance and the pivot hole. A position of the rotating shaft is limited between the stopper and the pivotal hole by the stopper. Consequently, the scissors-type connecting member is assembled easily, and the stability of connecting a first frame and a second frame of the scissors-type connecting member is enhanced. Moreover, the present invention also provides a key structure with the scissors-type connecting member.
US10020132B1
A terminal barrier for covering an electrical terminal of an electrical switching apparatus having a housing is provided. The terminal barrier comprises a flexible portion that is configured to flexibly bend away from a rest position after the terminal barrier is installed. The terminal barrier further comprises a wall portion configured to surround the electrical terminal to block any access to the electrical terminal from one or more sides except an access for installation of a service line wire in the electrical terminal. The terminal barrier further comprises a snap portion for snapping in place around the electrical terminal to removably attach the terminal barrier to the housing of the electrical switching apparatus.
US10020128B2
The present invention relates to a structure of contacts for an air circuit breaker, in which a movable contact arm can be stably brought into contact with a fixed contact arm by changing an applying direction of an electromagnetic repulsive force generated between a movable contact and a fixed contact, and, to this end, the structure, which includes the fixed contact arm having the fixed contact, and the movable contact arm having the movable contact and rotatably installed to be brought into contact with or separated from the fixed contact arm, is configured such that the fixed contact and the movable contact have contact surfaces, respectively, disposed in an inclined manner, and a line commonly passing the contact surfaces of the fixed contact and the movable contact forms an acute angle with respect to a line passing through a center of a longitudinal axis of the movable contact arm.
US10020127B1
A capacitor is described. A casing for the capacitor has a surrounding sidewall extending to opposed first and second open ends. An inwardly extending ledge of the sidewall is intermediate the first and second open ends. A partition plate is supported on the ledge. A first lid is secured to the first annular edge to close the first capacitor compartment bounded by the partition plate, the surrounding sidewall and the first lid, and a second lid is secured to the second annular edge to close the second capacitor compartment bounded by the opposite side of the partition plate, the surrounding sidewall and the second lid. At least one anode resides in each of the first and second capacitor compartments spaced from cathode active material supported on the casing walls facing the anodes. There is also a separator intermediate the anode and cathode. Insulative seals supported by the casing electrically isolate anode leads connected to the respective anodes from the casing serving as a terminal for the cathode. Finally, a working electrolyte is provided in the first and second capacitor compartments in contact with the anodes and cathode active material.
US10020126B2
A three-dimensional network aluminum porous body which enables to produce an electrode continuously, an electrode using the aluminum porous body, and a method for producing the electrode is disclosed. A long sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body is provided to be used as a base material in a method for producing an electrode including at least winding off, a thickness adjustment step, a lead welding step, an active material filling step, a drying step, a compressing step, a cutting step and winding-up, wherein the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body has a tensile strength of 0.2 MPa or more and 5 MPa or less.
US10020123B2
Provided is a carbon fiber membrane which is inexpensive and can sufficiently increase the electric capacity per mass. The carbon fiber membrane includes only carbon nanotubes and carbon material other than carbon nanotubes, and the carbon nanotubes each having a fiber length of 30 to 500 μm are contained in an amount of 3% by mass or more to less than 100% by mass with respect to the total amount.
US10020115B2
Disclosed herein is a dielectric composite comprising an organic polymer that has a glass transition temperature greater than or equal to about 250° C.; and a dielectric filler present in an amount effective to impart to the dielectric composite a dielectric constant that varies by less than 5% over a temperature range of 25° C. to 300° C., with an applied alternating electric field having a frequency of 104 Hz and a maximum operating electric field strength of at least 250 megavolt per meter. Disclosed herein too is a method of manufacturing the dielectric composite and articles that contain the dielectric composite.
US10020111B2
A transformer (01) for transmitting data and/or energy, including a concentric coil pair with a fixed first coil (04) and a second coil (05) which is mounted so as to be rotatable with respect to the first coil (04), wherein the coils (04, 05) are arranged with respect to one another in such a way that they are magnetically coupled. The transformer (01)—is defined, in particular, by the fact that the first and the second coils (04, 05) are embodied as printed circuits on one multi-layered circuit board (02, 03) each, wherein in each case a magnetically conductive layer (07) is attached to the outer layers of the multi-layered circuit boards (02, 03), wherein the magnetically conductive layers (07) are selectively connected to one another by recesses which are formed in the circuit boards (02, 03) and filled with magnetically conductive material.
US10020104B2
Provided is a magnetic sheet including a resin film and a thin sheet-shaped magnetic body adhered to the resin film by an adhesive layer sandwiched between the thin sheet-shaped magnetic body and the resin film. The thin sheet-shaped magnetic body is made from an Fe-based metal magnetic material, has a thickness of 15 μm to 35 μm, and has an AC relative magnetic permeability (μr) in the range of 220 to 770 at a frequency of 500 kHz.
US10020103B2
A grain oriented electrical steel sheet reduces local exfoliation of insulating coating films and thus has excellent corrosion resistance and insulation properties. The grain oriented electrical steel sheet may be obtained by, assuming that a1 (μm) is a film thickness of the insulating coating at the floors of linear grooves and a2 (μm) is a film thickness of the insulating coating on a surface of the steel sheet at portions other than the linear grooves, controlling a1 and a2 to satisfy the following formulas (1) and (2): 0.3 μm≤a2≤3.5 μm (1), and a1/a2≤2.5 (2).
US10020096B2
A method for manufacturing a shielded wire harness, includes: wrapping a conductive sheet around a wire harness in a parallel state to the wire harness, the conductive sheet having a long belt shape along a longitudinal direction of the wire harness, and cutting the conductive sheet in matching with a desired electric wire length; allowing an adhesive surface formed on a back surface side of the protection tape to fix the conductive sheet to the wire harness by spirally winding a long protection tape around an outer circumference of the conductive sheet wrapped around the wire harness; and cutting the protection tape in matching with the desired electric wire length.
US10020092B2
An insulated wire which comprises an aluminum conductor, having: an adhesion layer formed by directly baking, on the aluminum conductor, varnish containing a carboxy group; an insulation layer as an outer layer of the adhesion layer; and a reinforcement insulation layer as an outer layer of the insulation layer; and a method of producing the same.
US10020080B2
A nozzle repair method and a nuclear reactor vessel include: removing a trepanning portion (208) as a connection portion with respect to an in-core instrumentation cylinder (204) in a groove-welding portion (206); removing the in-core instrumentation cylinder (204) from a semi-spherical portion (66) as a lower end plate; forming a surface buttered-welding portion (210) by buttered-welding the surface of the groove-welding portion (206); forming a welding groove (212) by grooving the surface buttered-welding portion (210); inserting a new in-core instrumentation cylinder (204A) provided with a circumferential groove portion (204f) outside an instrumentation equipment guide passage (204d) into an attachment hole (203); and fixing the new in-core instrumentation cylinder (204A) by groove-welding the welding groove (212). Accordingly, since the nozzle welding area is suppressed to a predetermined range, the workability of the repair is improved.
US10020073B2
A memory device may include: a plurality of memory cells; at least one address storage unit; a fail detection unit suitable for comparing first and second read data that are read from at least one memory cell selected among the plurality of memory cells to detect a fail, and storing an address of the selected memory cell in the address storage unit when the fail is detected; and a refresh control unit suitable for refreshing the memory cell corresponding to the address stored in the address storage unit at a higher frequency than the other memory cells.
US10020063B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, a voltage generation unit and a control unit. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array having a plurality of blocks each including a plurality of memory cells, and a voltage generation unit configured to change a read level of the memory cell. The control unit controls write, read, and erase of the nonvolatile semiconductor memory device. The control unit changes the read level between a start of use of the nonvolatile semiconductor memory device and a timing after an elapse of a time.
US10020061B2
A memory system may include a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks each memory block including a plurality of pages; and a controller suitable for non-sequentially selecting some pages among a plurality of pages included in an open block among the plurality of blocks, checking a program state or an erase state of each of the selected pages, and searching for a boundary page between the program state pages and the erase state pages among the plurality of pages.
US10020056B2
Generally discussed herein are apparatuses and methods. One such apparatus includes a data line, a first memory cell and a first select transistor. The first transistor has a gate and is coupled between the data line and the first memory cell. The apparatus can include a second memory cell and a second select transistor having a gate. The apparatus can include a third select transistor having a gate. The second select transistor is coupled between the second memory cell and the third select transistor. The third select transistor is coupled between the second select transistor and a source. The apparatus can include a drive transistor coupled to both the gate of the first select transistor and the gate of the second select transistor or the gate of the third select transistor.
US10020051B1
A memory device including a plurality of memory cells arranged in a crossbar configuration for a neural network is provided. Each of the memory cells includes a readout transistor, a charging transistor, a discharging transistor, and a stack capacitor array connected to one of source/drain regions of each of the charging transistor and the discharging transistor and a functional gate of the readout transistor for storing analog information.
US10020047B2
Approaches for a write assist circuit are provided. The write assist circuit includes a boost capacitor with a first node coupled to a bitline through control logic and a second node connected to a field effect transistor (FET) diode stack, a plurality of boot enabled transistors which each contain a gate connected to a boost control signal, and a controlled current source coupled between a ground signal and the second node of the boost capacitor. In the write assist circuit, the boost capacitor has a discharge path which is controlled to provide a boost voltage which is invariant to a level of a power supply signal.
US10020045B2
Some embodiments provide a method to reduce the refresh power consumption by effectively extending the memory cell retention time. Conversion from 1 cell/bit to 2N cells/bit reduces the variation in the retention time among memory cells. The conversion can be realized very simply from the structure of the DRAM array circuit, and it reduces the frequency of disturbance and power consumption by two orders of magnitude. On the basis of this conversion method, some embodiments provide a partial access mode to reduce power consumption dynamically when the full memory capacity is not required. One bit data may be stored into 1 cell for a normal operation mode and stored into 2N cells for a self refresh operation mode for a first partial access mode, while one bit data may be stored into 2N cells for both normal and self refresh operation modes.
US10020042B2
A memory cell and memories constructed from that memory cell are disclosed. A memory according to the present invention includes a ferroelectric capacitor, a charge source and a read circuit. The charge source receives a data value to be stored in the ferroelectric capacitor. The charge source converts the data value to a remanent charge to be stored in the ferroelectric capacitor and causes that remanent charge to be stored in the ferroelectric capacitor. The read circuit determines a charge stored in the ferroelectric capacitor. The data value has more than three distinct possible states, and the determined charge has more than three determined values. The memory also includes a reset circuit that causes the ferroelectric capacitor to enter a predetermined known reference state of polarization.
US10020041B1
Precharging circuits and techniques are presented for use with magnetic memory devices in order to speed up access to the memory cells for reading and writing. Including precharging in the sense amplifiers used to access the memory cells enables self-referenced read operations to be completed more quickly than is possible without precharging. Similarly, precharging can also be used in conjunction with write-back operations in order to allow the data state stored by magnetic tunnel junctions included in the memory cells to be changed more rapidly.
US10020034B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and devices for parallel read and write operations. Devices may include a first transmission device coupled to a local bit line and a global bit line associated with a memory unit of a memory array. The first transmission device may be configured to selectively couple the global bit line to the local bit line. The devices may further include a first device coupled to the local bit line and a sense amplifier. The first device may be configured to selectively couple the local bit line to the sense amplifier. The devices may also include a second device coupled to the local bit line and an electrical ground. The second device may be configured to selectively couple the local bit line to the electrical ground.
US10020026B2
Some embodiments provide an application that can automatically generate a movie from a collection of media clips stored on a device or accessible by the device. The movie creation process of some embodiments uses novel video and audio compositors that dynamically composite video and audio components of the movie. The video compositors process explores different combination of media clips and media-clip arrangements to produce an interesting video presentation. The audio compositor receives the duration of the video presentation, and dynamically generates a song for the video presentation based on this duration. Another novel interaction is that in some embodiments the audio compositor provides the starting location of its last segment to the video compositor so that the video compositor can align the start of the last video segment with this ending segment. In some embodiments, the video and audio compositors also synchronize fade-out effects that they apply to their respective presentations with each other. Also, in some embodiments, the video compositor can ask the audio compositor for one or more audio onsets that are near a particular time in the presentation. In some of these embodiments, the audio compositor returns (1) a list of onsets that are near a time that is specified by the video compositor, and (2) a priority for each of these onsets. The video compositor then uses this list of onsets to align an edit point in the composite video's definition to the location of one of the onsets based the specified priority value(s) and the desirability of the video edit at the onset location.
US10020024B2
Various embodiments provide a so-called smart gallery that is designed to create a short summary view of a collection of content, such as photographs and video. The content can be prioritized and presented in a smart gallery user interface that includes gallery elements that can be sized in accordance with prioritized content. Prioritization can take place based on whether content is manually captured or automatically captured. Alternately or additionally, prioritization can take place based on content analysis that looks at content quality and/or objects that appear in the content.
US10020022B2
A multitrack recording system is disclosed. A multitrack recording/reproducing apparatus records a first audio signal with a multitrack recording apparatus into any of a plurality of channels (tracks). In the meantime, a smartphone records a second audio signal as a sound record file into a recording medium. A Wi-Fi connection is established between the sound recording apparatus and the smartphone, and the sound record file is transferred from the smartphone to the recording/reproducing apparatus. The recording/reproducing apparatus stores the sound record file into a remaining channel where the first audio signal is not recorded among the plurality of channels.
US10020016B2
A magnetic recording medium including a magnetic recording layer of a granular structure and having a large thickness as well as excellent magnetic properties is provided. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic substrate and a magnetic recording layer, wherein the magnetic recording layer includes first magnetic recording layers on the side of the non-magnetic substrate and second magnetic recording layers, the first magnetic layers have a granular structure including first magnetic crystal grains containing an ordered alloy and a first non-magnetic segregant surrounding the first magnetic crystal grains and containing carbon; and the second magnetic layers have a granular structure including second magnetic crystal grains containing an ordered alloy and a second non-magnetic segregant surrounding the second magnetic crystal grains and containing Zn and O.
US10020004B2
In some embodiments, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein pertaining to sound analysis in a shopping facility. In some embodiments, a system comprises one or more sound sensors distributed throughout at least a portion of a shopping facility and configured to receive at least sounds resulting from activity in the shopping facility and a control circuit, the control circuit configured to receive, from at least one of the one or more sound sensors, audio data, receive an indication of an employee, correlate the audio data and in the indication of the employee, and determine, based at least in part on the audio data and the indication of the employee, a performance metric for the employee.
US10020002B2
A device including gain shape circuitry configured to determine a number of sub-frames of multiple sub-frames that are saturated, the multiple sub-frames included in a frame of a high band audio signal. The device also includes gain frame circuitry configured to determine, based on the number of sub-frames that are saturated, a gain frame parameter corresponding to the frame.
US10019999B2
The present disclosure relates to a data processing method and system. The method includes obtaining network data and a sound wave synthesized with the network data by a terminal, the sound wave being obtained by performing an encoding conversion on resource data; and according to an operation performed by a user on the network data on the terminal, invoking an audio playback apparatus of the terminal to play the sound wave synthesized with the network data to terminals of one or more users nearby.
US10019997B2
With quantization index modulation QIM it is possible to achieve a very high data rate, and the capacity of the watermark transmission is mostly independent of the characteristics of the original audio signal, but the audio quality suffers from degradation with each watermark embedding-and-removal step. In order to avoid degradation of the audio quality, the inventive audio signal watermarking uses specific quantizer curves in time domain and in particular in frequency domain for embedding the watermark message into the audio signal, whereby the processing is almost perfectly reversible. Furthermore, it has embedded a power constraint in order to guarantee that the modifications of the audio signal due to the watermark embedding are inaudible.
US10019995B1
A method for teaching a language, comprising: accessing, using a processor of a computer, an audio recording corresponding to a series of pitch patterns; accessing a cantillation representation of said series of pitch patterns, said cantillation representation comprising a plurality of cantillations; processing said audio recording to match the pitch patterns to the cantillations in said cantillation representation; calculating, using said processor, a start time and an end time for each of the series of cantillations as compared to said audio recording; outputting, using said processor, an aligned output representation comprising an identification of each of the cantillations, an identification of the start time for each of the cantillations, and an identification of the end time for each of the cantillations; receiving a request to play a requested pitch pattern; looking up said requested pitch pattern in said aligned output representation to retrieve one or more requested start times and one or more requested end times for said requested pitch pattern; and outputting said requested pitch pattern, said outputting comprising: playing said audio recording at the one or more requested start times until the one or more requested end times to output one or more instances of said requested pitch pattern from said audio recording, and displaying a textual representation of said audio recording, said displaying comprising: visually distinguishing a word of the textual representation to the audio recording, said visually distinguishing being performed based at least in part on said aligned output representation.
US10019994B2
Methods and systems for recognizing textual identifiers within a plurality of words are described. A textual representation of a voice input is received from a user. The textual representation includes a plurality of words. A keyword is identified in the textual representation. It is determined whether one or more words adjacent to the keyword correspond to a textual identifier of a collection of textual identifiers. Responsive to a determination that the one or more adjacent words correspond to a textual identifier, the keyword and the one or more adjacent words are replaced with the textual identifier.
US10019992B2
A device includes a plurality of components, a memory having a keyword recognition module and a context recognition module, a microphone configured to receive an input speech spoken by a user, an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert the input speech from an analog form to a digital form and generate a digitized speech, and a processor. The processor is configured to detect, using the keyword recognition module, a keyword in the digitized speech, initiate, in response to detecting the keyword by the keyword recognition module, an action to be taken one of the plurality of components, wherein the keyword is associated with the action, determine, using the context recognition module, a context for the keyword, and execute the action if the context determined by the context recognition module indicates that the keyword is a command.
US10019983B2
A system and method are presented for predicting speech recognition performance using accuracy scores in speech recognition systems within the speech analytics field. A keyword set is selected. Figure of Merit (FOM) is computed for the keyword set. Relevant features that describe the word individually and in relation to other words in the language are computed. A mapping from these features to FOM is learned. This mapping can be generalized via a suitable machine learning algorithm and be used to predict FOM for a new keyword. In at least one embodiment, the predicted FOM may be used to adjust internals of speech recognition engine to achieve a consistent behavior for all inputs for various settings of confidence values.
US10019981B1
A method for using a loudspeaker array that is housed in a loudspeaker cabinet to present audio content to a listener in a room includes receiving (1) an audio channel that includes audio content and (2) acoustical characteristics of the room. The method also produces (1) a first beamformer input signal from the audio channel and (2) a second beamformer input signal and a third beamformer input signal by decorrelating the audio channel and adjusting the audio channel in accordance with the acoustical characteristics of the room. The second and third beamformer input signals are different de-correlated versions of the audio channel. The method also generates driver signals from the first, second, and third beamformer input signals to drive the loudspeaker array to produce a main beam, a first ambient beam, and a second ambient beam, respectively. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US10019969B2
An image can be presented using render-tiles, which are movable rendering contexts in which multiple image-tiles can be drawn as a single image. To optimize performance, the render-tiles can be large enough to minimize the number of render-tiles necessary to present the image within the screen view of a client device, while remaining small enough to avoid memory or performance issues when panning or zooming the image. A set of active image-tiles and active render-tiles can be identified based on a specified view boundary that represents a portion of the image that is presented by a client device. The active render-tiles can be presented by the client device and the image-tiles can be drawn into the render-tiles to present the image. The render-tiles can be generated as needed and inactive render-tiles can be stored for later use or recycled.
US10019965B2
A display system includes a plurality of display screens and a display controller. The plurality of display screens are disposed in front of the driver of the vehicle in a vertical direction in a row such that the distance from the viewpoint position of the driver differs, and present images showing predetermined information to the driver. The display controller is configured to display the images with a lower color temperature on the plurality of display screens, as the distance from the viewpoint position is longer.
US10019958B2
A display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of pixels, a plurality of scan lines, a pull-down control circuit, and a gate driving circuit. The pixels are disposed on a display area of the substrate. The scan lines are disposed on the substrate and respectively coupled to the corresponding pixels. The pull-down control circuit is disposed on a peripheral area of the substrate, receives a plurality of clock signals, and has a plurality of pull-down units to provide a plurality of pull-down signals. The gate driving circuit is disposed on the peripheral area and has a plurality of shift registers. The shift registers are coupled to the scan lines to provide a plurality of gate driving signals and pull down the gate driving signals in sequence according to the pull-down signals. The pull-down control circuit and the gate driving circuit are arranged along a side of the display area.
US10019950B2
A panel defect detection method and an organic light emitting display device. A region having a high probability of a panel defect is intensively sensed through panel defect detection based on sensing results of characteristic values according to subpixels on sensing subpixel lines in an amount equal to the number of sensing subpixel lines preset in specific regions rather than all regions of a display panel. Rates and accuracy in detection of panel defects can be improved.
US10019948B2
A scan driving circuit includes a shift register unit and a logic circuit unit. The start of a start pulse of an output signal STp+1 of a p+1′th shift register is situated between the start and end of a start pulse of the output signal STp of a p′th shift register, and one each of a first enable signal through a Q′th enable signal exist in sequence between the start of the start pulse of the output signal STp and the start of the start pulse of the output signal STp+1. The operations of a (p′, q)′th NAND circuit are restricted based on period identifying signals, such that the NAND circuit generates scanning signals based only on a portion of the output signal STp corresponding to the first start pulse, the signal obtained by inverting the output signal STp+1, and the q′th enable signal ENq.
US10019928B2
The present disclosure provides a method for obtaining a mura compensation value, a device for obtaining a mura compensation value and a display panel. The method includes: obtaining an image of a detection picture displayed on a display panel, extracting display data matrices of three primary colors, obtaining first correction matrices of the three primary colors, obtaining position coordinates of extreme points of the first correction matrices of the three primary colors, obtaining second correction matrices and a third correction matrix group of the three primary colors, obtaining compensation matrices from the third correction matrices as mura compensation values of the display panel.
US10019924B2
It is an object to provide a semiconductor display device with high reliability. Further, it is an object to provide a semiconductor display device which can reduce power consumption. A decoder is provided for a scan line driver circuit and operates such that, in accordance with a signal input to the scan line driver circuit, a pulse is sequentially input only to scan lines included in pixels of rows performing display and a pulse is not input to scan lines included in pixels of rows at which display is not performed. Then, all pixels or part of pixels in the line selected by the pulse is supplied with a video signal from a signal line driver circuit, whereby display of an image is performed in pixels arranged in the specific area of the pixel portion.
US10019922B2
A display device including a plurality of source drivers. Each of the .plurality of source drives may include a register storing information on a bias voltage provided from the outside; a gamma voltage generation unit receiving at least one reference gamma voltage and generating a plurality of gamma voltages according to the reference gamma voltage; and an output buffer including a plurality of source amplifiers driven by the bias voltage and receiving the plurality of gamma voltages. The gamma voltage generation unit may adjust a level of at lest one of the at least one reference gamma voltage, according to a bias voltage having the lowest level among bias voltages provided to respective source drivers.
US10019916B2
A decorative device for use with a medical instrument having a tubing structure, the decorative device including at least one connector configured to removably couple to the tubing structure on the medical instrument, the connector having a face plate engaging structure configured to attachably engage at least tone decorative face plate member.
US10019910B2
Systems and methods can dynamically set user-specific schedules for prompting users to access educational content objects. An educational performance metric is identified for a user. A learning schedule is accessed that includes an identification of a plurality of learning episodes. Each of the plurality of learning episodes is associated with a time-related variable indicative of when the learning episode is to occur and a substance-related variable indicative of a learning substance for the learning episode. The learning schedule is adjusted based on the identified educational performance metric and associated with the user. A presentation time is identified based on a time-related variable in the learning schedule. An electronic content object associated with the presentation time is identified based on a substance-related variable the learning schedule. A notification with an offer to access the identified electronic content object is presented at the presentation time via a device of the user.
US10019909B2
Described herein are embodiments of systems, methods, apparatus and computer program products that accept student input and use a computer to process its mathematical meaning. The input can then be algorithmically tested for certain mathematical criteria. Those test results then allow the system to output immediate assessment, grades, and feedback.
US10019907B2
Apparatuses and methods for detecting an obstacle in a path of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) are described herein, including, but not limited to, receiving data from a single image/video capturing device of the UAV, computing a score based on the received data, and performing at least one obstacle avoidance maneuver based on the score.
US10019906B2
An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) air traffic control method is implemented in a UAV during a flight, for concurrently utilizing a plurality wireless networks for air traffic control. The UAV air traffic control method includes maintaining communication with a first wireless network and a second wireless network of the plurality of wireless networks; communicating first data with the first wireless network and second data with the second wireless network throughout the flight, wherein one or more of the first data and the second data is provided to an air traffic control system configured to maintain status of a plurality of UAVs in flight and perform control thereof; adjusting the flight based on one or more of the first data and the second data and control from the air traffic control system.
US10019905B1
A holding pattern analysis system and method include a holding pattern detection unit that is configured to detect when an aircraft is flying in a holding pattern proximate to a destination airport, and a holding time prediction unit that is configured to predict a total time of the holding pattern in response to the holding pattern detection unit detecting that the aircraft is flying in the holding pattern.
US10019904B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying high risk parking lots. High risk parking lots may be, for example, parking lots that pose a higher than average risk of collisions and/or theft. Auto insurance claim data may be analyzed to identify hazardous areas. A virtual navigation of roads within the hazardous area may be identified. Public parking lots within the virtual navigation map may be defined, with each public parking lot determined as either in a hazardous area or not. A vehicle may be determined to be approaching or parking in a parking lot in a hazardous area, and a nearby public parking lot not associated with the hazardous area may be selected instead. A route from a current position to the nearby public parking lot may be generated, and the vehicle may be routed to the nearby public parking lot. As a result, collisions and thefts may be reduced.
US10019901B1
Methods and systems are described for generating a vehicle-to-vehicle traffic alert and updating a vehicle-usage profile. Various aspects include detecting, via one or more processors associated with a first vehicle, that an abnormal traffic condition exists in an operating environment of the first vehicle. An electronic message is generated and transmitted wirelessly, via a vehicle-mounted transceiver associated with the first vehicle, to alert a nearby vehicle of the abnormal traffic condition and to allow the nearby vehicle to avoid the abnormal traffic condition. The first vehicle receives telematics data regarding operation of the nearby vehicle after the nearby vehicle received the electronic message, and transmits the telematics data to a remote server for updating a vehicle-usage profile associated with the nearby vehicle.
US10019885B2
A warning notification device includes a sensor, a notification unit, and a processor. The processor is configured to calculate a water depth from an output of the sensor every predetermined time and to calculate a surfacing amount from a change in the calculated water depth every predetermined time. When a long-term surfacing speed condition, which is to be determined on the basis of the surfacing amounts of a first number, is satisfied or when a short-term surfacing speed condition, which is to be determined on the basis of the recent surfacing amounts of a second number smaller than the first number, is satisfied, the processor enables the notification unit to issue a warning of a surfacing operation.
US10019882B2
A protective equipment with an alarm system capable of ensuring safety, workability and convenience, as well as alerting to a life-threatening danger such as heatstroke is provided. The alarm system includes (i) a sensor for detecting a biometric information of a wearer of the protective equipment; (ii) a means for determining if the biometric information which is detected by the sensor reaches a threshold value; (iii) a means for alarming an elevated risk based on an instructions from the means (ii); (iv) a means for transmitting an alarm when the means (iii) is activated; and (v) a means for controlling the means (iii) and (iv).
US10019880B1
A portable security system comprising a control unit and one or more modular sensors adapted to detect the presence of various alarm conditions within a monitoring location. The control unit is operably connected to the modular sensors via sensor cables, and further comprises a portable housing allowing a user to easily transport and deploy the portable security system within a monitoring location. The control unit further contains an auto-dialer, which transmits an alarm call to an alarm recipient once the system detects the alarm condition. The housing may further have a storage compartment covered by a hingedly attached housing lid which stores the modular sensors when the system is not in use, allowing the user to transport the system in a unitary package.
US10019879B2
A smoke detector having a light source for generating a beam of light is disclosed. The smoke detector is arranged to transmit the beam along an optical axis and includes a sensor for receiving light scattered from the beam off the optical axis by smoke; and a light trap comprising one or more walls that define a volume for receiving light that passes unscattered from the light source past the sensor along the optical axis. The volume includes a first end closest on the optical axis to the light source; and a second end furthest on the optical axis from the light source. The volume is open at said first end but is otherwise closed, and at least one of the walls is sloped from the first end to the second end, such that the light trap progressively narrows from the first end axially towards the second end.
US10019878B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems are provided for tracking freight. Embodiments include a tracking device for a trailer containing a load. The tracking device includes a support member, a connector, a housing and a GPS tracker configured to track the location of the load. The connector securely attaches to a container on the trailer and attaches to a seal such that the container cannot be opened without breaking the seal. The support member stabilizes the housing and protects the tracking device during transit of the load. A tracking system may implement to monitor, gather information and report on the tracking device and the load.
US10019871B2
A prepaid interleaved wagering system is disclosed, including a wager controller operatively connecting an outcome server and an application controller, the wager controller constructed to: receive a plurality of computer-generated tokens; determine and communicate token information; receive wagering outcomes and token identifications, each token of the plurality of tokens corresponds with a wagering outcome and token identification; receive wager request instructions; determine and communicate wagering outcome; and communicate the token identification; the outcome server constructed to: receive and authenticate the token information; when the plurality of tokens are valid, communicate wagering outcomes and token identifications; receive the token identification; and store the token identification; and the application controller constructed to: determine whether to trigger a wager; when a wager is triggered, generate the wager request instructions; communicate the wager request instructions; receive the wagering outcome; communicate the wagering outcome; generate application resource; and communicate the application resource.
US10019868B2
A gaming machine includes a gaming cabinet, an electronic display device, and a front diffuser. The display device is positioned within the cabinet and includes an active area for displaying images of a casino wagering game and an inactive area lacking image display capability. The inactive area is immediately adjacent to the active area. The front diffuser receives light from a light source and diffuses at least a portion of the received light as indirect light viewable from a player position in front of the gaming machine. The diffuser overlaps the inactive area, is adjacent to the active area, and faces the player position.
US10019858B2
Vehicle event data playback systems described herein may provide users means for reviewing events recorded by a vehicle event recorder. Circumstances relating to vehicle operation may be visually presented in these playback systems. Video playback from multiple recording devices may be synchronized with each other and/or with information related to the operation of the vehicle during the recorded events to affect a presentation of information related to operation of the vehicle. A user may be presented with many data types in graphical and/or intuitive arrangements.
US10019855B2
A method includes obtaining data associated with operation of a vehicle and determining a first operational phase of the vehicle based on the data. The method includes identifying a candidate operational phase transition from the first operational phase to a candidate operational phase based on a first portion of the data satisfying a first condition associated with the candidate operational phase, the first portion of the data associated with a first time. The method includes evaluating a second portion of the data based on a second condition associated with the candidate operational phase, the second portion of the data associated with a second time that is subsequent to the first time. The method further includes, based on the second condition being satisfied, generating an operational phase transition indication associated with the first time and that indicates an operational phase transition to the candidate operational phase.
US10019847B2
A system of properly displaying chroma key content is presented. The system obtains a digital representation of a 3D environment, for example a digital photo, and gathers data from that digital representation. The system renders the digital representation in an environmental model and displays that digital representation upon an output device. Depending upon the context, content anchors of the environmental model are selected which will be altered by suitable chroma key content. The chroma key content takes into consideration the position and orientation of the chroma key content relative to the content anchor and relative to the point of view that the environmental model is displayed from in order to accurately display chroma key content in a realistic manner.
US10019845B2
A machine-implemented method includes establishing a virtual or augmented reality entity, and establishing a state for the entity having a state time and state properties including a state spatial arrangement. The data entity and state are stored, and are subsequently received and outputted at a time other than the state time so as to exhibit a “virtual time machine” functionality. An apparatus includes a processor, a data store, and an output. A data entity establisher, a state establisher, a storer, a data entity receiver, a state receiver, and an outputter are instantiated on the processor.
US10019833B2
Methods and systems for luggage visualization perform virtual unpacking by visually moving an object image away from its original pose. A scanned 3D volume is segmented guided by a confidence measure to create a label volume whose voxels specify the detected object IDs. The luggage dataset and the label volume are visualized by volume rendering. Using an automatic coloring algorithm, any pair of objects whose projections are adjacent in an image are assigned distinct hues. A layered framework efficiently renders a scene mixed with packed luggage, animated unpacking objects, and already unpacked objects put aside for further inspection. A GPU is used to automatically select objects that are not blocked by others and can be unpacked.
US10019830B2
A rendering method includes determining frames. The rendering method further includes successively rendering same regions of the frames. In another general aspect, rendering device includes an inter-frame determining unit configured to determine frames. The rendering device further includes a rendering unit configured to successively render same regions of the frames.
US10019821B2
An indoor map constructing apparatus may include an information extractor configured to extract cloud point information from scan information about each point inside a target facility of which an indoor map is to be constructed, and an indoor map constructer configured to construct the indoor map of the target facility based on the cloud point information about each point.
US10019816B2
Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention are configured to render images using light field image files containing an image synthesized from light field image data and metadata describing the image that includes a depth map. One embodiment of the invention includes a processor and memory containing a rendering application and a light field image file including an encoded image, a set of low resolution images, and metadata describing the encoded image, where the metadata comprises a depth map that specifies depths from the reference viewpoint for pixels in the encoded image. In addition, the rendering application configures the processor to: locate the encoded image within the light field image file; decode the encoded image; locate the metadata within the light field image file; and post process the decoded image by modifying the pixels based on the depths indicated within the depth map and the set of low resolution images to create a rendered image.
US10019813B2
Information with respect to an embroidery frame and information with respect to a mark alignment region are acquired. The mark alignment region is displayed for guiding multiple marks that are provided to an embroidery frame in order to define an embroidery region in the embroidery frame. When the multiple marks thus displayed are all positioned within the mark alignment region, an image of the embroidery region is acquired. Image analysis is performed based on the information with respect to the embroidery frame thus acquired and the information with respect to the multiple corresponding marks within the acquired image. Subsequently, the embroidery region within the embroidery frame is determined based on the analysis result. This allows the embroidery region to be detected with high precision in a simple manner.
US10019805B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting vehicle movement. For example, one or more computing devices may receive first image data representative of a vehicle's wheel and second image data representative of the wheel captured subsequent to the capture of the first image data. The one or more computing devices may determine a first location of a first portion of the wheel based on the first image data, and a second location of the first portion of the wheel based on the second image data. The one or more computing devices may calculate a value based on the angular distance between the first location and the second location of the first portion, and based on the value, determine whether the vehicle is in motion. Upon determining the vehicle is in motion the one or more computing devices may provide a signal that the vehicle is in motion.
US10019804B2
A medical image processing apparatus includes a medical image data obtaining unit for obtaining medical image data containing an image of a heart, and a region extraction processing unit for extracting a left ventricular region of the heart in the medical image data obtained by the medical image data obtaining unit, and, based on an extraction result of the left ventricular region, performing region extraction processing for extracting at least one of a right ventricular region, a left atrium region, and a right atrium region of the heart.
US10019802B2
A graphics processing unit (GPU) that performs rendering in units of tiles includes a coefficient generator that produces an interpolation coefficient based on coordinates of vertices of a primitive included in a first tile and a second tile; an interpolator that produces barycentric coordinates in respective pixels for the first tile of the primitive and pixel values in the first tile corresponding to the primitive, based on the interpolation coefficient, and a storage configured to store the interpolation coefficient. The GPU produces barycentric coordinates in and pixel values of respective pixels for a second tile of the primitive, based on the interpolation coefficient stored in the storage.
US10019801B2
A method of determining a camera movement expressed in terms of an absolute transformation of a camera state from a reference state, including receiving a stream of video images captured from a camera; producing a stream of odometry measurements from the video images determining the relative transform of the camera state between consecutive images or consecutive sets of images; producing a stream of loop closure measurements from the video images by determining the relative transform of the camera state between non-consecutive images or non-consecutive sets of images; and estimating the absolute transform of the camera state from a posterior distribution of the relative transformations over the odometry measurements and the loop closure measurements, wherein the posterior distribution is approximated by a factorized distribution which assumes that the relative transformations are mutually independent.
US10019799B2
Determining collateral information describing blood flow in collaterals of a blood vessel system in a target region of a patient from a four-dimensional vascular data set describing image values of temporal flow of a contrast medium and/or marked blood constituents as recorded by a medical imaging device is provided. A method includes segmenting the blood vessel system in the vascular data set and determining collaterals among the segmented blood vessels by a collateral classifier. For all collaterals determined, a diameter of the collateral is determined taking into account the segmentation, a filling parameter describing the filling of the collaterals, and a time parameter describing the time response relative to a reference point in the blood vessel system from a temporal course of the image values in a portion of the collaterals under consideration. The method includes determining the collateral information from the diameter, the filling parameter, and the time parameter.
US10019794B2
Provided herein is an image interpretation auxiliary method for breast lesion diagnosis, the method including obtaining, by an image interpretation auxiliary apparatus, a plurality of 3D images photographed from a breast; determining, by the image interpretation auxiliary apparatus, a first image of among the plurality of 3D images as a basic image; and creating an image for interpretation, by the image interpretation auxiliary apparatus, by combining information related to a second image of among the plurality of 3D images with the first image.
US10019788B1
A computer system may train and use a machine-learning model to quantitatively analyze an image. In particular, the computer system may generate the machine-learning model based on a set of reference images that include content with instances of a quantitative feature attribute and one or more feedback metrics that specify locations of the instances of the quantitative feature attribute in the reference images and numerical values associated with the instances of the quantitative feature attribute. Then, after receiving the image from an electronic device, the computer system may analyze the image using the machine-learning model to perform measurements of one or more additional instances of the quantitative feature attribute in the image. Moreover, the computer system may provide a measurement result for the image, the measurement result including a second numerical value associated with the one or more additional instances of the quantitative feature attribute in the image.
US10019784B2
A medical image processing apparatus comprises smoothing circuitry that receives a volumetric medical image data set corresponding to a 3D region of a subject and smooths the volumetric medical image data set to generate a smoothed medical image data set, wherein at least one part of the surface of a structure is represented in the volumetric medical image data set, rendering circuitry that produces a 2D rendered data set from the smoothed medical image data set, curvature calculation circuitry that calculates a respective curvature at each of a plurality of positions on the at least one part of the surface of the structure and smooths the calculated curvatures to obtain smoothed calculated curvatures, and shading addition circuitry that adds shading to the 2D rendered data set in dependence on the smoothed calculated curvatures.
US10019782B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for displaying content. The method includes receiving content displayed on an external display apparatus; displaying only a partial region of an entire region of the content on a device; generating additional information corresponding to the partial region, based on a user input; and providing the additional information to the external display apparatus, and wherein the additional information comprises information provided to the external display apparatus to be applied to the content that is displayed on the external display apparatus.
US10019781B2
Disclosed aspects relate to image processing. An image includes one or more original objects and an original background. The image has a first resolution. A first object having a second resolution is obtained. The second resolution is not higher than the first resolution. The first object is corresponds to at least one of the one or more original objects. A first background with a third resolution is obtained. The third resolution is lower than the second resolution. The first background corresponds to a portion of the image which includes at least the original background. The first object and the first background are sent to a user to display a processed image.
US10019780B2
The present disclosure provides a method for transferring data for displaying images at a first resolution to a display panel of a second resolution, the first resolution being higher than the second resolution. The method includes steps of sequentially collecting and storing pixel data into primary caches; sequentially transferring the pixel data stored in the primary caches to a data processing unit; and applying a color mixing process to received pixel data according to a time-sharing operation to generate display data. The method also includes sequentially transferring the display data to secondary caches and repeating the steps until pixel data for a row of pixel structures corresponding to the first resolution are processed and stored in the secondary caches as display data, and transferring the display data to a row of pixel structures corresponding to the second resolution.
US10019778B2
Systems and methods that may be implemented to orchestrate external graphics, for example to support and extend switchable graphics capability beyond internal system components of a host information handling system so as to include an external discrete graphics processing unit (xGPU) that is not integrated or embedded within the chassis enclosure of the host information handling system, and that is coupled to the host information handling system from outside the host system chassis enclosure.
US10019777B2
A high-speed ring topology. In one embodiment, two base chip types are required: a “drawing” chip, LoopDraw, and an “interface” chip, LoopInterface. Each of these chips have a set of pins that supports an identical high speed point to point unidirectional input and output ring interconnect interface: the LoopLink. The LoopDraw chip uses additional pins to connect to several standard memories that form a high bandwidth local memory sub-system. The LoopInterface chip uses additional pins to support a high speed host computer host interface, at least one video output interface, and possibly also additional non-local interconnects to other LoopInterface chip(s).
US10019775B2
The provided scalable, radiation tolerant, high-integrity, space-rated Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) supports open interfaces and provides sufficient graphics performance for known display formats as well as as-yet-undefined, futuristic, display formats that may be updated on-mission without needing, for example, a host space vehicle to return to earth or a lunar site. The provided GPU further provides flexibility and dynamic scalability.
US10019774B2
A method, system, and processor-executable software for processing images or video captured by a smartphone or other digital image capture device for subsequent validation and authentication captures not only the image, but also metadata relevant to the authenticity of validity of the image, such as position, time, camera movement and orientation, image parameters, and so forth. The image is watermarked and both the watermarked image and the metadata, as well as a symmetric key used in the watermarking, are digitally signed and transmitted or uploaded to a web server or authentication centric entity for authentication and storage. When a third party submits an image to the web server or authentication centric entity, the submitted image is compared with the stored watermarked image for authentication and validation of the submitted image, and the metadata is then retrieved to enable analysis of the contents of authenticated and validated image.
US10019773B2
A method, system, and processor-executable software for processing images or video captured by a smartphone or other digital image capture device for subsequent validation and authentication captures not only the image, but also metadata relevant to the authenticity of validity of the image, such as position, time, camera movement and orientation, image parameters, and so forth. The image is watermarked and both the watermarked image and the metadata, as well as a symmetric key used in the watermarking, are digitally signed and transmitted or uploaded to a web server or authentication centric entity for authentication and storage. When a third party submits an image to the web server or authentication centric entity, the submitted image is compared with the stored watermarked image for authentication and validation of the submitted image, and the metadata is then retrieved to enable analysis of the contents of authenticated and validated image.
US10019771B2
In an example of a method for enabling after-hours vehicle pick up, a server recognizes that a service payment request is outstanding for a serviced vehicle. In response to the recognizing, the server transmits an ignition block command to the serviced vehicle. The ignition block command triggers a powertrain control module of the serviced vehicle to enter a disengaged state that electrically prohibits the powertrain control module from providing tractive power to a vehicle drive wheel. At the server, a notification of a payment acceptance is received from an infotainment unit of the serviced vehicle or a mobile communications device associated with the serviced vehicle. In response to receiving the notification, the server transmits an ignition enabling command triggering the powertrain control module to enter an engaged state that electrically enables the powertrain control module to provide tractive power to the vehicle drive wheel.
US10019756B2
A computer-based method for throttling payment card transaction processing is provided. The method uses a computer device including a processor and a memory. The method includes identifying, in the memory, a first threshold level. The method also includes transmitting a first plurality of transaction requests to a sub-processing system. The method further includes computing, by the processor, an average response time of the sub-processing system for processing the first plurality of transaction requests. The method also includes receiving a second plurality of transaction requests. The method further includes identifying one or more of the second plurality of transaction requests as failure candidates based at least in part on the average response time and the first threshold level. The method also includes failing one or more of the failure candidates.
US10019751B2
Systems and methods to provide a prioritized shopping system are discussed. For example, a method can include receiving a list of target items, receiving busyness data for a plurality of local merchants, developing a prioritized shopping plan, and communicating the prioritized shopping plan to a mobile device. Each target item in the list of target items can represents a product or service that a user has indicated an interest in purchasing. The prioritized shopping plan is based at least in part on the busyness data and the list of target items. Busyness data provides an indication of traffic levels within at least a portion of the plurality of local merchants.
US10019750B2
A method of providing coupons for shopping includes storing a shopping list in an electronic device including items for purchase via a merchant, storing electronic representations of coupons in the electronic device and associating the electronic representations of coupons with items included in the shopping list.
US10019747B2
The subject disclosure provides systems and methods for enhancing a purchasing experience by enabling a purchaser to receive a variety of real-time updates or recommendations regarding products that the purchaser, such as a user, may need or intend to purchase. A recommendation provided by the system may be based upon comparing the product with a plurality of sources. The recommendation may include a recommendation that a product may near depletion and thus may need to be replaced, a recommendation that the user may already have a sufficient amount or number of the product, a recommendation that the product may or may not match an existing item owned by the user, or a recommendation not to purchase a product. A virtual closet may also be created according the systems and methods of the subject disclosure, allowing users and contacts selected by the user to collaborate on products.
US10019720B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and apparatuses that can provide, for example, dynamic page feed recognition for providing zero-configuration analysis of web pages and tailored advertisement provision to website visitors. The systems, methods, and apparatuses can be used to analyze inventory feed. Based on analysis of user interaction data on the web pages, one or more matching methodologies can be used to determine matching data between the visited web pages and the inventory feed.
US10019718B2
A computing system may generate a customer interface comprising a listing of transactions of a customer and one or more user-selectable options for the customer to utilize to identify a subset of the transactions relevant to an inquiry and may communicate the customer interface to a computing device associated with the customer. The computing system may receive, from the computing device associated with the customer, data, generated by the computing device associated with the customer in response to the customer invoking the user-selectable option(s), identifying the subset of the transactions relevant to the inquiry. The computing system may generate an associate interface comprising a listing of the subset of the transactions relevant to the inquiry and omitting or obscuring one or more of the transactions that are not amongst the subset relevant to the inquiry and may communicate the associate interface to a computing device associated with an associate.
US10019717B2
A method of prioritizing and routing electronic requests, may include accessing, at an incident management system, an incident record. The method may also include assigning, by the incident management system, a priority to the incident record. The method may additionally include causing a thread to be generated in an internal social networking application, wherein the thread is based on the incident record. The method may further include linking the incident record in the incident management system to the thread in the internal social networking application. The method may also include generating an interface for an agent portal to display an indication of the thread within a plurality of thread indications according to the priority.
US10019716B1
Techniques for expeditiously providing a resolution for an application feedback submission are provided. An example method includes displaying a feedback interface configured to receive a feedback report relating to a software application issue, providing the received feedback report for resolution, the resolution based on classification of one or more issue topics identified in the feedback report, and receiving the resolution as instructions to display an action button, the action button when selected by a user causing execution of an operation resolving the software application issue.
US10019714B1
A system for providing card account controls and purchase impact information may comprise at least one subsystem that receives information regarding a potential purchase of a customer, and at least one subsystem that provides potential purchase impact information to the customer based on the information regarding the potential purchase of the customer.
US10019710B2
A financial transaction is facilitated without unlocking a mobile device, where the lock screen wallpaper of a mobile device is dynamically set to an image having a scanning code (e.g., a QR code, a barcode, etc.) for use at a business location that the user is currently located.
US10019703B2
A beacon device establishes a network connection with a user computing device. The beacon device determines the received signal strength indicator of the user computing device (the “reverse RSSI”) and transmits it to the user computing device, which determines the received signal strength indicator (the “RSSI”) of the beacon device, and saves the RSSI with the reverse RSSI as a data pair. At a later time, the beacon device determines a subsequent reverse RSSI and transmits it to the user computing device, which determines a subsequent RSSI, and saves the subsequent RSSI with the subsequent reverse RSSI as a data pair. If the user computing device determines a correspondence in the changes of the RSSI values and reverse RSSI values in the two data pairs, a transaction between the two devices is allowed. If correspondence does not exist, then the user computing device terminates the network connection.
US10019688B2
A method for providing incentive to mentors of at-risk mentees is described. The method comprises the steps of determining an at-risk mentee's behavior and progress in a period of time, determining the mentee's income and income tax payments during the same period of time, and calculating a financial incentive to the mentee's mentor, wherein the amount of the financial incentive is calculated based on the mentee's behavior and/or income tax payment during the period of time.
US10019679B2
A management apparatus includes: a unit to read configuration information of information processing apparatuses, which contains an attribute value of each of information processing apparatuses and a reference relationship between the information processing apparatuses, and log information containing a first type command executed by the information processing apparatuses; a unit to check a parameter value specified by the first type command with the configuration information of information processing apparatuses and to extract path information indicating a relationship between first configuration information of a first information processing apparatus with the first type command being executed and second configuration information of a second information processing apparatus that contains and attribute value coincident with the parameter value; and a unit to generate a second type command with the path information being specified in the first type command in place of the parameter value.
US10019668B1
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a batch of neural network inputs to be processed using a neural network on a hardware circuit. The neural network has multiple layers arranged in a directed graph and each layer has a respective set of parameters. The method includes determining a partitioning of the neural network layers into a sequence of superlayers. Each superlayer is a partition of the directed graph that includes one or more layers. The method includes processing the batch of inputs using the hardware circuit, which includes, for each superlayer in the sequence: i) loading the respective set of parameters for the layers in the superlayer into memory of the hardware circuit, and ii) for each input in the batch, processing the input through each of the layers in the superlayer using the parameters in the memory of the hardware circuit to generate a superlayer output for the input.
US10019667B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for feature extraction comprising generating synaptic connectivity information for a neurosynaptic core circuit. The core circuit comprises one or more electronic neurons, one or more electronic axons, and an interconnect fabric including a plurality of synapse devices for interconnecting the neurons with the axons. The method further comprises initializing the interconnect fabric based on the synaptic connectivity information generated, and extracting a set of features from input received via the electronic axons. The set of features extracted comprises a set of features with reduced correlation.
US10019662B2
A system and method for electronically tagging items for use in controlling electrical devices are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: a controller; a tag reader interface in data communication with the controller, the tag reader interface being configured to receive item information read from an electronically readable tag attached to an item placed in an electrical device; a display device driver in data communication with the controller for driving the display of operational messages for a user/operator of the electrical device, the operational messages being based on the item information; and an appliance interface in data communication with the controller for receiving control commands from the controller and for issuing corresponding control signals for controlling the electrical device, the control commands being based on the item information.
US10019660B2
A method of storing data for a user form document received from the outside in an image forming apparatus, in place of a test page that has been stored in the image forming apparatus, and printing the user form document according to a command to print the test page, an image forming apparatus using the method, and a computer-readable recording medium.
US10019655B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for automatically identifying a query object within a visual medium. The technique generally involves receiving as input to a neural network a query object and a visual medium including the query object. The technique also involves generating, by the neural network, representations of the query object and the visual medium defining features of the query object and the visual medium. The technique also involves generating, by the neural network, a heat map using the representations. The heat map identifies a location of pixels corresponding to the query object within the visual medium and is usable to generate an updated visual medium highlighting the query object.
US10019646B2
A method for recognition and/or verification of authenticity of digital, and/or physical objects, comprising the steps of codebook training, object enrollment, and object verification, the latter consisting in object recognition and/or object authentication. The method uses two types of features, of codebooks, and of databases, which are specifically designed for identification, respectively authentication, the identification database and authentication database having different organizations. The invention is also directed to corresponding computer program means adapted to implement the proposed method, devices adapted for implementation of a method, as well as to applications which are particularly adapted for use of the proposed method.
US10019636B2
An object detection apparatus includes: an image processing circuit configured to: (i) derive optical flows based on feature points of captured images periodically captured by a camera that captures images of the surroundings of the vehicle; (ii) group the feature points relating to the optical flows based on positions of the feature points to derive one or more groups; and (iii) detect the object based on a size of each of the one or more groups; and a microcomputer that communicates with the image processing circuit and is configured to: (a) obtain a speed of the vehicle; and (b) set a parameter that affects the size of the one or more groups such that as the speed of the vehicle is slower, the size of the one or more groups is greater.
US10019635B2
An objective of the present invention is to obtain a vehicle-mounted recognition device capable of recognizing an object to be recognized in a shorter processing time than previously possible. This vehicle-mounted recognition device recognizes an object to be recognized from any image of a pair of images captured simultaneously by a pair of image capture units, said vehicle-mounted recognition device comprising: a disparity measurement unit which measures disparity using the pair of images; an object information estimation unit which estimates the present location of the object from a previous location of the object; a concealment determination unit which determines whether the object is concealed in at least one of the pair of images on the basis of the result of the measurement by the disparity measurement unit and the result of the estimation by the object information estimation unit; an image selection unit which selects the image in which the object can be recognized from among the pair of images on the basis of the result of the determination by the concealment determination unit; and an object recognition unit which recognizes the object using the selected image.
US10019633B2
Techniques and systems are provided for processing video data. For example, techniques and systems are provided for matching a plurality of bounding boxes to a plurality of trackers. In some examples, a first association is performed, in which case one or more of the plurality of bounding boxes are associated with one or more of the plurality of trackers by minimizing distances between the one or more bounding boxes and the one or more trackers. A set of unmatched trackers are identified from the plurality of trackers after the first association. The set of unmatched trackers are not associated with a bounding box from the plurality of bounding boxes during the first association. A second association is then performed, in which case each of the set of unmatched trackers is associated with an associated bounding box from the plurality of bounding boxes that is within a first pre-determined distance. A set of unmatched bounding boxes is identified from the plurality of bounding boxes after the second association. The set of unmatched bounding boxes are not associated with a tracker from the plurality of trackers during the second association. A third association is then performed, in which case each of the set of unmatched bounding boxes is associated with an associated tracker from the plurality of trackers that is within a second pre-determined distance.
US10019629B2
In implementations of the subject matter described herein, an action detection scheme using a recurrent neural network (RNN) is proposed. Joint locations for a skeleton representation of an observed entity in a frame of a video and a predefined action label for the frame are obtained to train a learning network including RNN elements and a classification element. Specifically, first weights for mapping the joint locations to a first feature for the frame generated by a first RNN element in a learning network and second weights for mapping the joint locations to a second feature for the frame generated by a second RNN element in the learning network are determined based on the joint locations and the predefined action label. The first and second weights are determined by increasing a first correlation between the first feature and a first subset of the joint locations and a second correlation between the second feature and the first subset of the joint locations. Based on the joint locations and the predefined action label, a parameter for a classification element included in the learning network is also determined by increasing a probability of the frame being associated with the predefined action label. The probability is generated by the classification element at least based on the first and second features.
US10019621B2
A communication system and a method of identifying a target vehicle using application software on a mobile device. The method includes the steps of receiving at the mobile device a wireless signal transmitted from a transmitter at the target vehicle, wherein the wireless signal is received using an imaging detector in the mobile device; identifying that the target vehicle is a source of the wireless signal based on characteristics of the wireless signal; and in response to the identification, displaying to a user on a display of the mobile device an indication of an identity of the target vehicle.
US10019609B2
A container for a cosmetic product having a given period after opening (PAO) is disclosed. The container includes at least one electronic data processing device able to read data which, associated with the product, is contained in a data medium to selectively record at least a first opening of the product so as to be able to calculate the period after opening (PAO) of the product and also relates to a cosmetic product cartridge for such a container.
US10019608B2
A method for operating an RFID device is disclosed. In the embodiment, the method involves establishing a radio-frequency link, receiving signal samples of the radio-frequency link, determining the offset of an initial phase of the link by filtering noise from the signal samples, windowing the filtered signal samples, and calculating an offset value from phase differences between the windows of signal samples, and modifying a configuration profile based on the offset value. During data transmission the configuration profile can be used to configure the transmitter in order to maintain the constant phase during transmission.
US10019597B2
Data processing systems and methods for: (1) receiving, via privacy data compliance software, from a first set of users, respective answers for question/answer pairings regarding the proposed design of a product; (2) using the question/answer pairings to prepare an initial privacy impact assessment for the product; (3) displaying, via the privacy data compliance software, the plurality of question/answer pairings to a second set of users, and receiving recommended steps to be implemented as part of the design of the product; (4) initiating the generation of one or more tasks in project management software that would advance the completion of the recommended steps; and (5) after the tasks have been completed, generating, by the privacy data compliance software, an updated privacy impact assessment for the product that reflects the fact that the tasks have been completed.
US10019581B2
Identifying stored security vulnerabilities in computer software applications by providing via a first interface of a computer software application during execution of the computer software application, test data having a characteristic of a malicious payload, where an interaction performed with the first interface resulted in data being written to a location within a persistent data store, and where an interaction performed with a second interface of the computer software application resulted in data being read from the location within the persistent data store, and identifying a stored security vulnerability associated with the computer software application if the test data are written to the persistent data store at the location.
US10019570B2
Systems and methodologies for accessing resources associated with a Web-based application in accordance with one or more embodiments disclosed herein may include a browser that obtains at least first resources from a first domain and second resources from a second domain and a resource management component that facilitates controlled communication between the first resources and the second resources and prevents the first resources and the second resources from accessing other resources that the first resources and the second resources are not permitted to access. The resource management component may be further operable to contain restricted services in a sandbox containment structure and/or to isolate access-controlled resources in a service instance. In addition, the resource management component may be operable to facilitate the flexible display of resources from disparate domains and/or controlled communication therebetween.
US10019556B2
Technologies for verification include storage with private keys, wherein each private key is associated with a group affiliation. The storage also includes characteristic information about an apparatus. The technologies also include a wireless interface configured to receive a request from a reader for verification of membership of the apparatus within a group affiliation. The technologies further include a controller with programmable logic for configuring the controller to determine whether to verify membership of the apparatus within a given group affiliation. The controller is also configured to verify membership of the apparatus within the given group affiliation by signing data with a private key associated with the given group affiliation. The signed data is sent to the reader. Membership within the given group affiliation conveys a subset of the characteristic information.
US10019554B2
A system and method for determining glycemic risks based on an analysis of glucose data includes visualization of hypoglycemia, variability, and hyperglycemia with a control grid, increasing the accuracy of glucose estimates using a combination of CGM and HbA1c, calculating glycemic risk by applying a probability distribution, and tailoring SMBG test schedules based on CGM use/wear.
US10019537B1
A method for auto-generation of tags and retrieval of data form a graph-based database. A triplestore is a purpose-built database for the storage and retrieval of triples, a triple being a data entity (also known as a statement) composed of Subject-Predicate-Object. A triplestore is optimized for the storage and retrieval of triples. A query language is used for accessing to triples stored in the triplestore. A search items need to be tagged for search and retrieval. The number of tags increases as the amount of data increases. Stored data changes over time, so the old tags are deleted or replaced by the new tags. A large number of new tags must be created. The tags (i.e., autotags) are created automatically to facilitate efficient data retrieval from the triplestore.
US10019532B2
Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a method comprising automatically rendering a message to a webpage user, the message created by a webpage operator via an automatic merger of a customized message content that corresponds to a message-generator-selected message identifier with a message template that corresponds to a message-generator-selected message template identifier, the message-generator-selected message identifier and the message-generator-selected message template identifier provided by the message generator to the webpage operator responsive to receipt of data gathered from the webpage user by the webpage operator.
US10019520B1
A system and a process for using artificial intelligence (AI) to provide context-relevant search engine results are disclosed. The system of some embodiments is an object-oriented relational-contextual analysis (OORCA) system. The OORCA system reverses the search process performed by typical search engines by having experts assess a topic prior to the search and then performing searches based on expert input. The OORCA system utilizes AI and expert system techniques to simulate common sense reasoning in relation to search criteria based on human expert analysis of digital objects.
US10019515B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains a set of content items and a set of topics in the set of content items. For each topic in the set of topics, the system automatically extracts a set of attributes that provides a context for the topic from a subset of the content items containing the topic. The system then displays the set of attributes in the context of the topic to improve understanding of the set of content items by the user without requiring the user to manually analyze the set of content items.
US10019514B2
A system and method for searching for an element in speech related documents may include transcribing a set of speech recordings to a set of phoneme strings and including the phoneme strings in a set of phonetic transcriptions. A system and method may reverse-index the phonetic transcriptions according to one or more phonemes such that the one or more phonemes can be used as a search key for searching the phoneme in the phonetic transcriptions. A system and method may transcribe a textual search term into a set of search phoneme strings and use the set of search phoneme strings to search for an element in the set of phonetic transcriptions.
US10019513B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating answer terms for scoring answer passages. In one aspect, a method includes accessing resource data describing a set of resources, identifying question phrases in the resources, for each identified question phrase in a resource, selecting in the resource a section of text subsequent to the question phrase as an answer, the answer having a plurality of terms, grouping the question phrases into groups of question phrases, and for each group: generating, from the terms of the answers for each question phrase in the group, answer terms and for each answer term, an answer term weight, and storing the answer terms and answer term weights in association with one or more queries.
US10019509B1
The invention relates to systems and methods using a logical data model for aggregating data entities in a functional information system supported upon a computing platform, and also for providing systems and methods for analyzing economic information using a functional coordinate system.
US10019504B2
Partitioning a set of data using a binary format to more evenly distribute data values across a set of data partitions. By using a system of matching binary indices in a “back to front” manner, data values stored in or associated with data partitions are more evenly balanced.
US10019502B2
One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for non-disruptively establishing a synchronous replication relationship between a primary volume and a secondary volume and/or for resynchronizing the primary volume and the secondary volume. For example, a baseline snapshot and one or more incremental snapshots of the primary volume are used to construct and incrementally update the secondary volume with data from the primary volume. A dirty region log is used to track modifications to the primary volume. A splitter object is used to split client write requests to the primary volume and to the secondary volume. A synchronous transfer engine session is initiated to processing incoming client write requests using the dirty region log. A cutover scanner is used to transfer dirty data from the primary volume to the secondary volume. In this way, a synchronous replication relationship is established between the primary volume and the secondary volume.
US10019500B2
The present disclosure provides a method for making a playlist available to the public. In another embodiment, the present disclosure provides a method for creating a playlist comprising user-defined descriptor information. In another embodiment, the present disclosure provides a method for searching for such public playlists.
US10019498B2
A biometric data brokerage system (BDPS) and method for transfer of biometric records between at least one biometric collection device (BCD) and at least one biometric processing service (BPS) are disclosed. Embodiments provide a BDPS that utilizes biometric record translation routines that allow for biometric record submissions from any BCD to any BPS, regardless of biometric record format requirements. The need for costly and proprietary biometric record formatting software on BCDs is thereby eliminated.
US10019492B2
The present application relates to the field of computer technologies, and in particular, to a stop word identification method used in an information retrieval system. In a stop word identification method, after a first query input by a user is acquired, a second query that belongs to a same session as the first query is acquired, and a stop word in the first query is identified according to a change-based feature of each word in the first query relative to the second query. According to the solution provided by the present application, a stop word in a query can be identified more accurately, and efficiency and precision of an information retrieval system are improved.
US10019491B1
A machine learning of response selection to structured data input enables a machine to flexibly and responsively actively engage with a response recipient through a device, such as any electronic device connected to a data network. In at least one embodiment, the response selection module improves response selection to the structure data input by initially filtering a library of templates to identify candidate templates that best respond to the input. In at least one embodiment, the response selection module ranks the identified candidate templates to provide the response to the device. The response selection module learns by receiving feedback, such as a linked recipient action result signal.
US10019474B2
A computer-implemented method for ranking design parameter significance includes a computer receiving an input dataset representative of a physical object. This input dataset includes a baseline parameters and associated probabilities. The computer also receives performance requirements. For each respective baseline parameter, the computer performs an analysis process. During this analysis process, a range of parameter values are selected for the respective baseline parameter based on its corresponding probability distribution. The range of parameter values are segmented into parameter subsets and multiple instances of a simulation are executed using the performance requirements to yield snapshots. A Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) basis is derived using the snapshots. A sensitivity analysis is performed based on the POD basis to yield a sensitivity measurement representative of an effect of variation of the respective parameter on the performance requirements. The computer may then generate a ranking of the baseline parameters according to their corresponding sensitivity measurements.
US10019466B2
In one embodiment, an online social network accesses a social graph that includes a number of place-entity nodes each corresponding to a place-entity, and a number of user nodes each corresponding to a user. A heterogeneous graph is generated based on the place-entity nodes, user nodes, and n-gram nodes, each n-gram node corresponding to an n-gram in the name of at least one place-entity. Each n-gram node is connected to corresponding place-entity nodes containing the n-gram, and user nodes with a social networking interaction with the corresponding place-entity nodes. Each place-entity node is assigned an initial quality-score. The quality-scores are propagated through the redirection graph based on the connections between the place-entity nodes, the n-gram nodes, and the user nodes. A final quality-score is assigned to each place-entity node when the propagation of the quality-scores through the redirection graph reaches convergence.
US10019462B1
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for managing a computing environment, such as a cloud data repository. In some embodiments, this includes providing a data archive, and relegating data items to a second, long-term data archive. In some embodiments, data items may be converted to an archive format prior to being relegated.
US10019452B2
A topology aware distributed storage system includes a plurality of storage nodes, at least one client node, and a storage manager and metadata store. A user-defined storage policy specifies where data is stored within a topological hierarchy of nodes within the network. A hierarchical ring topology including a hierarchical structure of rings representing an organizational structure of nodes is computed and flattened into a single global ring divided into segments corresponding to a unique range of integers and associated with a replica set responsible for storing a key corresponding to one of the integers. A hash function is performed on a user key received from the client node, and the hashed key is looked up on the flattened global ring stored on each storage node to identify the replica set responsible for storing data corresponding to the hashed key.
US10019451B2
Apparatus and methods are provided herein for path lookup in a hierarchical file system. An inode associated with a requested object is identified. The inode may be organized in an inode table and identified in the table using an inode number. Ancestry information and size constraint information may also be available for the inode. An inode chain associated with the pathway is identified based, at least in part, on ancestry information associated with the inode for the requested object. A size constraint analysis is performed for the requested object. The size altering operation is selectively performed based on the size constraint analysis.
US10019439B2
In language translation and intent understanding scenarios, the automated translation of expressions including temporal elements (e.g., calendar dates, date ranges, times, and durations) may be achieved by an implementation of translation techniques, such as compiled rule sets and/or machine learning recognizers that have been trained with a training set. However, sharing development resources among various implementations may be difficult; e.g., updates that extend a rule set for application of the translation techniques to a new context may be difficult to utilize while updating a machine learning recognizer. Presented herein are techniques for facilitating the development of temporal translation resources by providing a temporal translation grammar, comprising recognition rules that specify the recognition of temporal elements; normalization rules that specify the normalization of recognized temporal elements into normalized temporal elements and temporal intent; and translation rules that translate the normalized temporal elements of an expression into dates in a translated expression.
US10019427B2
An end user application running on a local client computer stores activity data and comment data for an electronic document. Activity data includes data indicative of actions taken by users and associated with the electronic document, such as actions with respect to the electronic document itself, and actions with respect to comments, such as adding a comment and marking a comment as resolved. A displayed comment or comment thread can be marked as resolved in response to a user action. A corresponding action is stored in the activity data. Activity data can be displayed while the electronic document is open in the end user application. An action of resolving a comment can be accessed in the displayed activity data. In response to receiving an input associated with a displayed action of resolving a comment, the comment can be marked as unresolved.
US10019404B2
An accessing method for accessing a hybrid hard-disk drive (HDD) including a main storage and a cache storage is provided. When receiving data, the HDD directly writes the data to the cache storage. The HDD determines whether the capacity of saved data in the cache storage exceeds a threshold capacity, and controls the cache storage to synchronously write exceeding part of the saved data to the main storage. When the cache storage is full, the HDD deletes synchronized data of the cache storage for refreshing the cache storage and writes new incoming data to the refreshed cache storage.
US10019394B2
A data processing apparatus has a plurality of processors and a plurality of interrupt interfaces each for handling interrupt requests from a corresponding processor. An interrupt distributor controls routing of interrupt requests to the interrupt interfaces. A shared interrupt request is serviceable by multiple processors. In response to the shared interrupt request, a target interrupt interface issues an interrupt ownership request to the interrupt distributor, without passing the shared interrupt request to the corresponding processor, if it estimates that the corresponding processor is available for servicing the shared interrupt request. The shared interrupt request is passed to the corresponding processor when an ownership confirmation is received from the interrupt distributor indicating that the processor has been selected for servicing the shared interrupt request.
US10019386B2
One or more characteristics of devices are ascertained in accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosure. As may be consistent with one or more embodiments, the attachment of an external circuit to an input port is detected based on a resistance value presented by the external circuit. A resistance range that includes the resistance value presented at the input port is determined, in response to detecting the attachment, by dynamically coupling one or more of a plurality of resistor-based circuits relative to the input port. A signal presented by the external circuit on the input port is coded based on the determined resistance range, using one or more of the resistor-based circuits, and the code is used to identify a type of the external circuit. These aspects can provide for the communication of power and data with a variety of different types of external circuits.
US10019385B2
Described is an apparatus comprising a first circuitry, a second circuitry, a third circuitry, and a fourth circuitry. The first circuitry may be an elastic buffer coupled to a received clock, a local clock, a received-clock data, and a local-clock data. The second circuitry may assert a first flag when a set of values on the received-clock data matches part of a skip ordered set. The third circuitry may assert a second flag when a set of values on the local-clock data matches part of the skip ordered set. The fourth circuitry may increment a count value upon assertion of the first flag and may stop incrementing the count value upon assertion of the second flag. In some embodiments, additional circuitries may extract a first timestamp from a packet, sum the first timestamp and the count value, and substitute the sum for the first timestamp within the packet.
US10019382B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for accessing and managing storage class memory (SCM) enabled main-memory database structures. An embodiment operates by traversing a first node to find a location of a second node corresponding to a search key, calculating a hash value for the search key, comparing the calculated hash value with at least one fingerprint value stored in the second node, wherein the fingerprint value is determined by hashing a stored key, accessing at least one key-value pair having a matching hash value, and returning a value associated with the matching key-value pair, wherein at least one of the traversing, calculating, comparing, accessing, and returning are performed by one or more computers.
US10019376B2
A memory system includes a memory device including first and second storage regions, each comprising a plurality of memory blocks and a controller suitable for selecting a first mode or a second mode based on a method for accessing data stored in the memory device and mapping a logical address of the data into a physical address of the first storage region in the first mode and into a physical address of the second storage region in the second mode.
US10019371B2
A system and method for retrieving cached data are disclosed herein. The system includes a cache server including a local memory and a table residing on the local memory, wherein the table is used to identify data objects corresponding to cached data. The system also includes the data objects residing on the local memory, wherein the data objects contain pointers to the cached data. The system further includes a remote memory communicatively coupled to the cache server through an Input-Output (I/O) connection, wherein the cached data resides on the remote memory.
US10019364B2
Methods and systems are presented for allocating CPU cycles among processes in a storage system. One method includes operations for maintaining segments in a first memory, each segment including blocks, and for maintaining a block temperature for each block in a second memory. The first memory is a read-cache where one segment is written at a time, and each block is readable from the first memory without reading the corresponding complete segment. The block temperature is based on the frequency of access to the respective block, and a segment temperature is based on the block temperature of its blocks. Additionally, the segment with the lowest segment temperature is selected for eviction from the second memory, and blocks in the selected segment with a block temperature greater than a threshold temperature are identified. The selected segment is evicted, and a segment with the identified blocks is written to the first memory.
US10019363B2
Example implementations may relate to a version controller allocating a copy page in persistent memory upon receiving, from an application executing on a processor, a copy command to version an image page for an atomic transaction. The version controller may receive application data addressed to a cache line of the image page, and may write the application data to a cache line of the copy page corresponding to the addressed cache line of the image page. If the version controller receives a replace-type transaction commit command, the version controller may generate a final page by either forward merging the image page into the copy page or backward merging the copy page into the image page, depending a merge direction policy.
US10019359B1
Described are techniques for processing I/O operations. A read operation is received to read first data from a first location. It is determined whether the read operation is a read miss and whether non-location metadata for the first location is stored in cache. Responsive to determining that the read operation is a read miss and that the non-location metadata for the first location is not stored in cache, first processing is performed that includes issuing concurrently a first read request to read the first data from physical storage and a second read request to read the non-location metadata for the first location from physical storage.
US10019352B2
A storage layer may over-provision physical storage resources of a storage medium by reserving a portion of the full physical storage capacity of the storage medium for use as reserve capacity. The reserve capacity may be used to prevent write stall conditions and/or for grooming operations, such as storage recovery, refresh, and the like. A reserve module may be configured to adapt the reserve capacity in accordance with, inter alia, operating conditions on the storage layer. The reserve module may be configured to dynamically modify the storage capacity available through the storage layer. A cache layer configured to cache data of a backing store on the storage layer, may be configured to add and/or remove cache entries in response to changes in the reserve capacity.
US10019351B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments for booting an application from multiple memories. An embodiment operates by executing in place from a first memory a first portion of the application, loading a second portion of the application from a second memory, and executing the second portion of the application.
US10019349B2
A cache memory and a method of managing the same are provided. The method of managing a cache memory includes determining whether a number of bits of a data bandwidth stored in a bank is an integer multiple of a number of bits of unit data in data to be stored, storing first unit data, among the data to be stored, in a first region of a first address in the bank in response to the number of bits of the data bandwidth not being the integer multiple of the number of bits of the unit data, and storing part of second unit data, among the data to be stored, in a second region of the first address.
US10019347B2
The present disclosure proposes a computer implemented method for selecting test cases to be executed on a terminal by creating a configuration code and applying this code to a set of test case selection tuples. The present disclosure also proposes a method for automatically creating a set of test case selection tuples, taking a source code as an input. The created set of test case selection tuples can be used in the above-mentioned method for selecting test cases. Finally, the present disclosure proposes a method for operating a program for selecting test cases having a user interface and a selection logic. The program may apply the above-mentioned method for selecting test cases by creating a configuration code and applying this code to a set of test case selection tuples.
US10019344B1
A system, method and computer program product for a test framework for orchestration workflows. For example, a method in accordance with some embodiments includes accessing a workflow test function library comprised of a plurality of workflow test functions. A workflow test function is a function that tests an orchestration workflow component. A plurality of workflow test suites may be accessed, each of which is comprised of one or more workflow tests. A workflow test hook is inserted into a target orchestration workflow component. The inserted workflow test hook is associated with at least one of the plurality of workflow test suites. The inserted workflow test hook is invoked thereby causing each of workflow tests to be performed on the target workflow test component. Target orchestration workflow component test result information is received from the target orchestration workflow component and the target workflow component test result information is outputted.
US10019335B2
Systems and methods for processing test results. A method of analyzing test results includes receiving a set of test result files, the set of test result files including a plurality of test results. The method also includes identifying a set of data filters based on one or more of the set of test result files or user input. The method further includes generating filtered results based on the set of data filters and the set of test result files, the filtered results including one or more of a subset of the plurality of test results or reordered test results. The method further includes providing a visual representation of the filtered results.
US10019334B2
A portable data terminal generally includes a housing supporting: a data collection device: a keypad: and a touch screen. One or more PDTs are provided with a monitoring system that records occurrences experienced by the portable data terminal. The record of occurrences may be analyzed to identify errors and/or failure prone parts of the PDT along with behaviors likely to lead to errors or failures. Additionally, the record of events may be analyzed to predict errors and/or failures for any given PDT.
US10019332B1
A non-volatile storage system is proposed with an efficient process for recovering from programming failures. In response to determining that a program fault occurred, and prior to completing the programming, the system programs data associated with the program fault to a back-up location. After programming the data associated with the program fault to the back-up location, the system continues programming including programming data that has not yet been subject of a programming process to the back-up location. After completing the programming process, the system moves already programmed data near the location of the program fault to the back-up location.
US10019329B2
A method for providing backup power to power loads. The method includes a computer processor identifying an indication of a power failure to a computing system. The method further includes identifying a first active power load that is imposed on the computing system by one or more computing devices in the computing system. The method further includes responding to the power failure by activating a first IPU that is connected to the first active power load, identifying a power duration threshold for the first active power load, and determining whether a duration of power stored in the first IPU is less than the identified power duration. The method further includes responding to the determination that the duration of power stored in the first IPU is less than the identified power duration threshold of the first active power load by initiating a shutdown protocol for the first active power load.
US10019317B2
The present invention relates to a method and system for providing parity protection in an object storage system. The present invention allows for tracking the storage requirements for chunks in a distributed storage cluster when transitioning from replica-based protection to parity or erasure coding-based protection and when transitioning from parity or erasure coding-based protection to replica-based protection.
US10019302B2
A workflow engine may be used to resolve service issues in a more expedient and effective manner. The workflow engine may select a troubleshooting flow to detect problems associated with a user device that uses communication services provided by a wireless telecommunication network. The workflow engine may determine alert notifications that are relevant to the troubleshooting operations. The workflow engine may make such a determination based on information from multiple data sources of the wireless telecommunication network. The workflow engine may further assign priority ratings to the alert notifications. Subsequently, a presentation layout may be assigned to the troubleshooting operations of the troubleshooting flow and the alert notifications by the workflow engine based on the priority ratings. The troubleshooting operation and the alert notifications are then provided for presentation on a computing device according to the presentation layout by the workflow engine.
US10019296B2
A method and apparatus for dispatching messages in a distributed computing system. A dispatcher receives a message. The dispatcher examines the message to determine whether the message is addressed to the dispatcher. If the message is addressed to the dispatcher, the dispatcher performs an action based on the message. If the message is not addressed to the dispatcher, the dispatcher passes on the message to a destination.
US10019291B2
Complex devices, software systems, and/or networks may comprise one or more subsystems that perform periodic tasks. A first task may be assigned a first execution frequency and a second task may be assigned a second execution frequency that is not an alias of the first execution frequency (e.g., assignment of execution intervals that are non-overlapping harmonics of each other, such as non-repeating frequencies). A first resource utilization by the first task may be distinguished from a second resource utilization of the second task based upon the first resource utilization corresponding to resource utilization (e.g., network usage, processor usage, power consumption, user access, etc.) associated with the first execution frequency and the second resource utilization corresponding to resource utilization associated with the second execution frequency. Thus, resource utilization of individual tasks of various subsystems and/or networks may be determined.
US10019274B2
A system is described for integrating menu bars of applications executed on a virtual machine in a computing device with menu bars in the host operating system. A hosted hypervisor is executed on the computing device. The hypervisor manages a virtual machine running a guest operating system (OS) on the computing device. An application is executed on the guest OS. A call by the application to the guest OS is detected, the call requesting the guest OS to set a menu bar for the application. The call is intercepted, information regarding the content of the menu bar is retrieved from the intercepted call, and the information is used to set a menu bar for the application in the host OS. Subsequently, when a selection is made from the menu bar in the host OS, the selection is translated to the application running in the virtual machine to effectuate the selection.
US10019272B1
A method, system and computer readable media for managing virtual appliances are provided. The method includes discovering each of a plurality of components of an enterprise solution, the enterprise solution encompassing a plurality of virtual appliances and relationships among the plurality of virtual appliances. Each of the plurality of virtual appliances has one or more virtual machines, and the plurality of virtual appliances are implemented in a physical computing environment. The method includes reconfiguring the plurality of components in response to a change in a configuration of one or more of the plurality of components.
US10019271B2
A device dynamically collects runtime data while the device is continuously executing an application to identify the cause of a performance bottleneck. The device hardware first collects data of high-level performance events that indicate alternative causes for the performance bottleneck. Based on real-time analysis of the data, a first performance event is identified among the high-level performance events for causing the performance bottleneck. The device hardware is then re-configured to collect additional data of lower-level performance events that are under the first performance event and indicate additional alternative causes more specific than the alternative causes. The collecting, identifying, and re-configuring are performed while the device is continuously executing the application.
US10019270B2
An aspect includes receiving, by a processor, a capability indicating one or more performance aspects capable of being rendered by at least one hardware device of a computer system, determining a total number of hardware devices in the system, and determining a total number of the hardware devices having the capability. Upon determining, by the processor, that the total number of hardware devices in the system matches the total of the hardware devices having the capability, the capability is enabled for each of the hardware of the system with respect to a corresponding performance aspect.
US10019268B2
A vehicle mount computer having a configurable behavior controlled by a vehicle's ignition switch. A user can configure the computer to perform an action, switch modes, or execute a software application in response to the ignition switch being pressed or the position of the ignition switch being adjusted. For example, the computer can be configured to switch to a standby mode or hibernation mode, shutdown, prompt the user to select an action, or do nothing in response to the ignition switch being placed in an off position. The ignition switch can be electrically coupled to an input of the computer so that the computer's operating system or another application can monitor the status of the ignition switch. The operating system or application can cause the computer to perform the configured response upon detecting a change in the ignition switch's position or an actuation of the ignition switch.
US10019264B2
Methods and apparatuses relating to processors that contextually optimize instructions at runtime are disclosed. In one embodiment, a processors includes a fetch circuit to fetch an instruction from an instruction storage, a format of the instruction including an opcode, a first source operand identifier, and a second source operand identifier; wherein the instruction storage includes a sequence of sub-optimal instructions preceded by a start-of-sequence instruction and followed by an end-of-sequence instruction. The disclosed processor further includes a decode circuit to decode the instruction, to detect the start-of-sequence instruction and the end-of-sequence instruction, to buffer the sequence of sub-optimal instructions there between, to access a lookup table to identify one or more optimized instructions to substitute for one or more of the sequence of sub-optimal instructions, and to select either the decoded instruction or the sequence of one or more optimized instructions to dispatch to an execution circuit.
US10019260B2
A microprocessor includes a plurality of dynamically reconfigurable functional units, a fingerprint, and a fingerprint unit. As the plurality of dynamically reconfigurable functional units execute instructions according to a first configuration setting, the fingerprint unit accumulates information about the instructions according to a mathematical operation to generate a result. The microprocessor also includes a reconfiguration unit that reconfigures the plurality of dynamically reconfigurable functional units to execute instructions according to a second configuration setting in response to an indication that the result matches the fingerprint.
US10019250B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for facilitating an upgrade of a cluster of servers in the presence of one or more inaccessible nodes in the cluster. During operation, the system upgrades a version of a distributed software program on each of a plurality of nodes in the cluster. The system may detect that one or more nodes of the cluster are inaccessible. The system continues to upgrade nodes in the cluster other than the one or more nodes that were detected to be inaccessible, in which upgrading involves installing and activating a newer version of the distributed software on the nodes being upgraded. The system then upgrades an acting version of the cluster.
US10019249B1
Techniques described and suggested herein include systems and methods for updating applications by reconfiguring an active original application to serve as a proxy for an active replacement application. An original application may be initialized in a way that allows updates to the original application to occur without adversely affecting the operation of the original application. A replacement application may be configured to connect to one or more communication endpoints via the active original application.
US10019244B1
Technology is described for executing program code in a service provider environment. Program code to be interpreted in the service provider environment may be identified. A symbol may be detected in the program code during execution of the program code. A data store in the service provider environment may be accessed to fetch a value corresponding to the symbol in the program code. The data store may include a plurality of symbols and corresponding values. The program code may be interpreted using the value fetched from the data store.
US10019231B2
Apparatus and method for fixed point to floating point conversion and negative power of two detector
A data processing system 2 supports conversion of fixed point numbers to floating point numbers. The result floating point numbers may be subnormal. A first shifter 28 shifts input signals representing the fixed point number by a first shift amount depending upon a leading zero count within an integer portion followed by a fractional portion of the fixed point number. A second shifter 30 shifts the input signals by a second shift amount depending upon the variable point position within the fixed point number. A subnormal result detector 34 generates a selection signal in dependence upon detection of a combination of a variable point position and the count of leading zeros which corresponds to the floating point number having a subnormal value. Selection circuitry 32 selects one of the outputs from the first shifter or the second shifter to form the significand in dependence upon the selection signal generated by the subnormal result detector.
US10019229B2
A microprocessor comprises an instruction execution unit operable to generate an intermediate result vector and a plurality of calculation control indicators and storage external to the instruction execution unit which stores the intermediate result vector and the plurality of calculation control indicators. The intermediate result vector is generated from an application of at least a first arithmetic operation of a compound arithmetic operation. The calculation control indicators indicate how subsequent calculations to generate a final result from the intermediate result vector should proceed. The subsequent calculations may involve one or more remaining arithmetic operations of the compound arithmetic operation. The intermediate result vector, in combination with the plurality of calculation control indicators, provides sufficient information to generate a result indistinguishable from an infinitely precise calculation of the compound arithmetic operation whose result is reduced in significance to a target data size.
US10019222B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for obtaining music data, an earphone and a music player. The method includes: reading an identification code from a memory card; sending the identification code to a mobile terminal so that the mobile terminal sends the identification code to a server, and the server returns stored music data, corresponding to the identification code, to the mobile terminal; receiving a music signal converted by the mobile terminal after the mobile terminal obtains the music data from the server; and outputting the music signal.
US10019214B2
A wearable computing device includes a head-mounted display (HMD) that provides a field of view in which at least a portion of the environment of the wearable computing device is viewable. The HMD is operable to display images superimposed over the field of view. When the wearable computing device determines that a target device is within its environment, the wearable computing device obtains target device information related to the target device from a programmed local tag. The target device information may include information that defines a virtual control interface for controlling the target device and an identification of a defined area of the target device on which the virtual control image is to be provided. The wearable computing device controls the HMD to display the virtual control image as an image superimposed over the defined area of the target device in the field of view.
US10019200B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for identifying randomly ordered write commands by a storage device enabled to communicate with a drive compatible with a storage protocol enabling command execution in random order. The storage device may determined a particular order of the identified write commands. The write commands in the determined particular order may be arranged by the storage device. The storage device may send the ordered write commands to the drive. The ordered write commands may allow for pre-fetching of data associated with the write commands by the drive.
US10019192B2
A storage management computing device obtains an information lifecycle management (ILM) policy. A data protection scheme to be applied at a storage node computing device level is determined and a plurality of storage node computing devices are identified based on an application of the ILM policy to metadata received from one of the storage node computing devices and associated with an object ingested by the one of the storage node computing devices. The one of the storage node computing devices is instructed to generate one or more copies of the object or fragments of the object according to the data protection scheme and to distribute the object copies or one of the object fragments to one or more other of the storage node computing devices to be stored by at least the one or more other storage node computing devices on one or more disk storage devices.
US10019189B2
A preliminary investigation execution unit sequentially sets a plurality of target values for each of predetermined times and then executes adjustment of a bandwidth of a storage apparatus on the basis of each of the set target values. A performance information acquisition unit obtains performance information for each of predetermined times regarding a business server in a case where adjustment of a bandwidth by the preliminary investigation execution unit is not performed, and obtains the performance information regarding the business server for the predetermined time for each of the target values in a case where adjustment of the bandwidth is performed by the preliminary investigation execution unit. A notification unit notifies the performance information obtained. A bandwidth management unit adjusts a bandwidth of the storage apparatus on the basis of a specific target value, on the basis of an input of the specific target value after notification.
US10019187B2
A nonvolatile memory module includes volatile memory devices sharing a data bus and a control bus; at least one nonvolatile memory device; and a controller for backing up data stored in the volatile memory devices into the nonvolatile memory device at a power failure of a host, and restoring data backed up in the nonvolatile memory device to the volatile memory devices at recovery of the power failure, the controller including: a command/address snooping logic for snooping on a command and an address inputted from a memory controller of the host, and analyzing amounts of stored data in the respective volatile memory devices; and a command/address control logic for selecting one of the volatile memory devices in order of the amounts of stored data based on analysis results of the command/address snooping logic, and backing up data of the selected volatile memory device in the nonvolatile memory device.
US10019182B2
A management system, which manages at least a computer system including a copy destination VOL, receives first performance related information including information related to a resource related to an operation with which a copy source VOL is associated as an I/O destination, and stores the received first performance related information. When an operation migrates from a first site to a second site (for example, when the first site is affected by a disaster), the management system reallocates a resource of the second site based on both the first performance related information and second performance related information including information related to a resource related to an operation originally executed at the second site among a resource group of the second site.
US10019180B1
A snapshot analysis system analyzes a plurality of data snapshots taken in connection with data stored on a block device allocated by a data storage system. The snapshot analysis system may include an ingestor capable of initially detecting new snapshots and adding a root node for the snapshots. The system may include a block device analyzer that analyzes each snapshot to determine its contents, the relationship within data structures extant within the snapshot, and the snapshot's relationship to other snapshots and/or that of other block devices. The system may also include a clustering analyzer capable of determining whether snapshots are associated with multipart block devices, such as LVM or MD RAID devices. The system may further include a block device emulator that exposes data associated with a given snapshot as an addressable block device without necessitating retrieval or exposure of the full block device to which the snapshot is associated.
US10019171B2
Systems and methods for decoupling host commands in a non-volatile memory system are disclosed. In one implementation, a non-volatile memory system includes a non-volatile memory and a controller in communication with the non-volatile memory. The controller is configured to translate a first command that is formatted according to a communication protocol to a second command that is formatted generically, store the first command in an expected queue, and store the second command in the expected queue with a command priority. The controller is further configured to execute the second command based on the command priority, translate a result of the executed second command into a format according to the communication protocol, and transmit the result of the executed second command in the format according to the communication protocol to a host system dependent upon a position of the first command in the expected queue.
US10019169B2
A data storage apparatus includes a storage device, a first processor storing first data at a first address region of the storage device in the first memory, the first data included in a first data writing request, and a second processor coupled to a second memory storing second data at a second address region of the storage device in the second memory, the second data included in a second data writing request, and transmit the second data at the second address region of the storage device to the first processor, wherein the first processor is configured to store a first reception number in the first memory, the first reception number indicating a reception order, store the second data at the second address region of the storage device in the first memory, store a second reception number in the first memory, the second reception number indicating a reception order.
US10019160B2
A controller includes a descriptor identifier (ID) management block suitable for allocating or deallocating a descriptor ID; a control unit suitable for generating a descriptor corresponding to the descriptor ID, which is allocated by the descriptor ID management block; and an input/output unit suitable for processing a work based on the descriptor, wherein the input/output unit transfers a request for deallocating the descriptor ID to the descriptor ID management block when the work is normally processed.
US10019154B2
A method, an apparatus and a computer program product for operating items with multiple fingers, adapted to a portable apparatus having a touch screen, are provided. In the method, a first touch operation performed on at least one item displayed on the touch screen is detected. A time of the first touch operation staying on the at least one item is accumulated and determined whether to be over a threshold. When the staying time is over the threshold, an edit mode of the item is entered and a second touch operation performed on the touch screen is detected. Finally, the at least one item is operated according to the first touch operation and the second touch operation.
US10019150B2
A method and apparatus for controlling a cursor in a portable terminal is provided. The method includes displaying a character on a screen, modifying the character and displaying the modified character, when a position of a cursor is designated, and restoring the modified character, when the designation of the position of the cursor is cancelled.
US10019149B2
Systems and methods for implementing retail processes based on machine-readable images and user gestures are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes capturing one or more images including a machine-readable image and a user hand gesture. The method also includes identifying the machine-readable image as being associated with a product. Further, the method includes determining whether the user hand gesture interacts with the machine-readable image in accordance with a predetermined gesture. The method also includes implementing a predetermined retail process in association with the product in response to determining that the user hand gesture interacts with the machine-readable image in accordance with the predetermined gesture.
US10019145B2
Methods and systems are provided for an improved user interface for displaying and scaling selectable software commands and controls in at least one of a first ribbon and a second ribbon. Underneath a first ribbon of top-level command tabs, selectable controls associated with a selected command tab are presented in logical subgroups or chunks. The selectable controls within the chunks are granularly scaled to accommodate different screen sizes or changes in window size. The scaling includes moving a subset of the selectable controls within at least one of the chunks between an overflow pane and the second ribbon.
US10019140B1
Approaches are described for managing a display of content on a computing device. Content (e.g., images, application data, etc.) is displayed on an interface of the device. An activation movement performed by a user (e.g., a double-tap) can cause the device to enable a content view control mode (such as a zoom control mode) that can be used to adjust a portion of the content being displayed on the interface. The activation movement can also be used to set an area of interest and display a graphical element indicating that the content view control mode is activated. In response to a motion being detected (e.g., a forward tilt or backward of the device), the device can adjust a portion of the content being displayed on the interface, such as displaying a “zoomed-in” portion or a “zoomed-out” portion of the image.
US10019137B2
Methods, systems, devices, are described for displaying a document. In one view, a first substantially rectangular shape containing a current page of the document may be displayed adjacent to a second substantially rectangular shape containing a number of pages other than the current page. A rotational motion input may be received at the device, and the first and second shapes may be updated based on a new current page identified by the rotational motion input. In another view, a number of curved shapes may be displayed in a nested arrangement defined by a spiral, each of the curved shapes being associated with a portion of the document. A current page may be stored, and a rotational motion input may be received. The current page may be updated according to at least an end point of the received rotational motion input.
US10019136B1
In one embodiment, a device (and associated method) is provided, comprising: a screen; an input mechanism; at least one non-transitory memory storing instructions; and one or more processors in communication with the screen, the input mechanism, and the at least one non-transitory memory, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to cause the device to display, utilizing the screen of the device, a plurality of indicia each including at least a portion of an image including a face; receive, utilizing the input mechanism of the device, a user input indicating a selection of at least one of the plurality of indicia including at least a portion of a first image including a first face; and after receiving the user input indicating the selection of the at least one of the plurality of indicia, display, utilizing the screen of the device, a set of images each including the first face that has been recognized in at least one of a plurality of images accessible via the device.
US10019128B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and method for providing a virtual appliance. One or more application delivery controller appliances intermediary to a plurality of clients and a plurality of servers perform a plurality of application delivery control functions on network traffic communicated between the plurality of clients and the plurality of servers. A virtual application delivery controller is deployed on a device intermediary to the plurality of clients and the plurality of servers. The virtual application delivery controller executing on the device performs one or more of the plurality of application delivery control functions on network traffic communicated between the plurality of clients and the plurality of servers.
US10019127B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to a remote display area including input lenses each depicting a region of a graphical user interface. Examples include, in response to detection of a graphical user interface (GUI) input event with a remote computing device within an input lens having input focus, invoking the GUI input event at a location of the GUI of a local computing device within the region of the GUI depicted in the input lens having input focus.
US10019126B2
A touch window may include a substrate, and an electrode part on the substrate to detect a position. The electrode part includes a first sub-pattern, a second sub-pattern adjacent to the first sub-pattern, a first electrode layer on the first sub-pattern, and a second electrode layer on the second sub-pattern. Another touch window includes a substrate, and an electrode part on the substrate to detect a position, the electrode part includes a first sub-pattern, a second sub-pattern adjacent to the first sub-pattern, an electrode layer on the first sub-pattern, a first anti-reflective layer on the first sub-pattern, and a second anti-reflective layer on the second sub-pattern.
US10019121B2
Provided is a display device including: a display unit including a pixel and a non-pixel area; an encapsulation unit configured to seal the display unit; a touch sensing electrode at the non-pixel area on the encapsulation unit and provided with a plurality of first openings; and a reflection reducing unit at the pixel and the non-pixel area on the encapsulation unit and configured as a multilayer of a metal layer and a dielectric layer. The metal layer includes a non-pixel portion overlapping the touch sensing electrode and provided with a plurality of second openings.
US10019118B2
An optical signal output apparatus includes: a switch having a first state or a second state in accordance with user's operation; and an optical signal output section that outputs a low-level optical signal when the switch is in the first state, whereas outputting a high-level optical signal when the switch is in the second state.
US10019116B2
A touch-sensor-equipped display device includes a touch sensor 10, a transparent substrate 1, an image-display body 2, an adhesive layer formed of a thermal adhesive film 5, and a resin layer 3. The touch sensor 10 includes a first conductive layer 12A composed of a plurality of first electric conductors 13A, a second conductive layer 12B composed of a plurality of second electric conductors 13B, and at least one support film 11. The plurality of first electric conductors 13A extend in a different direction from a direction in which the plurality of second electric conductor 13B extend. The thermal adhesive film 5 bonds the at least one support film 11 and the transparent substrate 1. The resin layer 3 is disposed between the touch sensor 10 and the image-display body 2 and is made of a photo-curable resin.
US10019111B2
An electrostatic capacitance-type input device in which input position detecting electrodes are disposed in an input area of a substrate, includes a lower layer-side conductive film, an interlayer insulating film, and an upper layer-side conductive film, which are stacked on the substrate in order from the substrate side. A first input position detecting electrode and a second input position detecting electrode are formed as the input position detecting electrodes by a first conductive film out of the lower and upper layer-side conductive films. A relay electrode overlaps with the first input position detecting electrode in the intersection portion to be electrically connected to the discontinued portion of the second input position detecting electrode. An input area shield electrode that overlaps with the first and second input position detecting electrodes are formed by a second conductive film out of the lower and upper layer-side conductive films.
US10019104B2
An array substrate array, a display panel and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes multiple touch electrode blocks, multiple pressure sensing electrode blocks, and multiple drive modules. Each of the multiple pressure sensing electrode blocks is embedded within a corresponding one of the multiple touch electrode blocks, and the pressure sensing electrode blocks are not in contact with the touch electrode blocks. The drive module is configured to electrically connect the touch electrode block to the pressure sensing electrode block embedded within the touch electrode block and input a touch sensing signal during a touch sensing period. The drive module is configured to electrically disconnect the touch electrode block from the pressure sensing electrode block embedded within the touch electrode block and input a pressure sensing signal to the pressure sensing electrode block during a pressure sensing period.
US10019099B2
Embodiments of the present invention recite a system for extending the lifespan of a touch screen assembly. In one embodiment, a signal is received indicating an input pressure is being applied to a touch screen assembly. It is then determined that the input pressure comprises a valid input event and the coordinates of the valid input event are received from the touch screen assembly.
US10019093B2
A touch panel is provided. The touch panel includes a substrate which includes a visible region, a border region outside the visible region, a shielding layer over the border region, and a sensing electrode layer extending from the visible region to the border region. The sensing electrode layer includes first electrode pads arranged along a first direction and electrically connected to each other. The sensing electrode layer also includes second electrode pads arranged along a second direction. The second electrode pads include a first pad and a second pad adjacent to the first pad. The first pad and at least part of the second pad are disposed above the border region. The sensing electrode layer also includes bridge portions connecting the adjacent second electrode pads, and the bridge portions include a first bridge part disposed above the border region and connecting the first pad and the second pad.
US10019091B2
Disclosed herein is a display device integrated with a touch screen. According to the present invention, the display device integrated with a touch screen includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed to be opposite to each other, having a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween, in which the first substrate is formed with a color filter and a common electrode, a sensor pattern and a sensor signal line sensing a touch signal are formed beneath a transparent substrate of the second substrate, and a pixel electrode and a driving signal line driving the display device are formed beneath the sensor signal line.
US10019084B2
The present application relates to a touch screen and a method for preparing the same, and the touch screen according to the present application comprises a screen part and a non-screen part, in which the non-screen part comprises a router part, a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) part, a first pad part connecting the screen part and the router part, a second pad part connecting the router part and the flexible printed circuit board part, and a decoration part, the screen part comprises a first conductive pattern, the router part, the first pad part, and the second pad part each comprise a second conductive pattern, and the decoration part comprises a third conductive pattern, and a darkened pattern or a color pattern provided on at least one surface of the third conductive pattern and provided in a region corresponding to the third conductive pattern.
US10019081B2
Various embodiments for switching functionality of a graphical user interface (GUI) pointer input device are provided. A first gesture pattern is configured. The first gesture pattern, when performed, enables a predetermined function of the input device. The predetermined function substitutes for a default function of the input device. The enabling of the predetermined function is indicated to a user on the GUI. A second gesture pattern is configured. The second gesture pattern, when performed, cancels the predetermined function of the input device and enables the default function.
US10019079B2
A handheld device includes a conductive tip configured to interact with a capacitive based digitizer sensor, an active transmission module, a reflective transmission module, a switch configured to connect the conductive tip to one of the active transmission module and the reflective transmission module and a controller configured to toggle position of the switch. The active transmission module configured to generate a first signal on the conductive tip independent from a drive signal transmitted on the digitizer sensor. The reflective transmission module is configured to generate a second signal on the conductive tip based on the drive signal transmitted on the digitizer sensor and picked by the conductive tip during interaction with the digitizer sensor.
US10019076B2
Apparatus and systems directed to a wireless hand-held inertial controller with passive optical and inertial tracking in a slim form-factor, for use with a head mounted virtual or augmented reality display device (HMD), that operates with six degrees of freedom by fusing (i) data related to the position of the controller derived from a forward-facing optical sensor located in the HMD with (ii) data relating to the orientation of the controller derived from an inertial measurement unit located in the controller.
US10019066B2
A method of launching a software program or application is provided for use with a graphical user interface (GUI) display. One portion of the GUI display includes a taskbar while a second portion is divided into a plurality of windows. To launch one of the programs/applications represented by the icons within the taskbar, the user first selects the icon representing the icon to be launched. When the user drags the selected icon into one of the windows and then releases the icon, the selected program/application is launched in the selected window.
US10019054B2
A method and system for facilitating a user drive an automobile remotely in real-time through a virtual reality system is disclosed. The virtual reality environment may present real-time road conditions, weather condition, automobile information, and/or any other information regarding driving of the automobile in real time.
US10019050B2
A method of power management to be implemented by an energy-consuming device includes the steps of: while the energy-consuming device is in an operating state, receiving an input associated with a time period; determining first energy consumption for operation in the operating state for the time period; determining second energy consumption for switching to a shutdown state; determining a smaller one between the first and second energy consumptions; maintaining operation in the operating state when it is determined that the first energy consumption is the smaller one; and switching to the shutdown state when it is determined that the second energy consumption is the smaller one.
US10019038B2
An electronic device may be provided with upper and lower housing portions that are separated by a gap. Hinge structures may allow the upper housing portion to rotate between a closed position and an open position. A flexible printed circuit in the electronic device may be coupled between components in the upper housing portion such as the display and components in the lower housing portion and may span the gap. A hinge gap cover may cover the gap and may overlap the flexible printed circuit to block the flexible printed circuit from view when the upper housing portion is in the closed position. The hinge gap cover may be formed from a layer of radio-transparent material that is rotatably coupled to the upper housing portion and that is biased towards the lower housing with a spring structure.
US10019037B2
A notebook computer carrying device includes a carrier, a handle, and two telescopic members disposed at two ends of the handle and each including a first component and a second component, with the first components formed by extending the ends of the handle outward, and the second components disposed on the carrier. The first and second components of each telescopic member are movably connected, and the first component slides in a displacement direction from a first position to a second position. The displacement direction is defined as the start direction of the first position. A horizontal plane is defined by connecting the two ends of the handle. A vertical plane is defined to extend outward in the direction in which the horizontal plane faces the center of the handle. The displacement direction extends from the horizontal plane to vertical plane and forms an inclination angle relative to the horizontal plane.
US10019031B2
A button mechanism is provided, including a housing, a fixing member fixed on the housing, a moving member movably disposed in the fixing member, a pressing member disposed on the moving member, and a driving module for moving the moving member relative to the fixing member. When the pressing member pushes the moving member to move from an initial position along a first direction to a first position, the driving member moves the moving member from the first position along the first direction to a second position. When the moving member is in the second position, the driving member moves the moving member along a second direction to impact the pressing member, wherein the first direction is opposite to the second direction.
US10019029B1
A housing for an electronic device includes a single rear housing assembly coupled to the cover glass of a display assembly. The rear housing assembly includes a metal rear chassis with two layers of injection molded material formed on at least the chassis side regions. The first injection molded layer includes a high reinforcing agent content percentage to provide increased stiffness, and the second injection molded layer includes a low reinforcing agent content percentage, which provides less structural support than the first injection molded layer, but an improved aesthetic appearance.
US10019026B2
A circuit for generating a bandgap voltage includes a circuit module for generation of a base-emitter voltage difference, the circuit module including a pair of PNP bipolar substrate transistors which identify a first current path and a second current path. A first current mirror of an n type is connected between the first and second branches and is further connected via a resistance for adjustment of the bandgap voltage to the second bipolar transistor. A second current mirror of a p type is connected between the first and second branches, and connected so that the current mirrors repeat current of each other. In operation to generate the bandgap voltage, current flows from the supply voltage to ground only through said the first and second bipolar substrate transistors.
US10019021B1
The present disclosure describes aspects of voltage settling detection for switching regulators. In some aspects, an integrated circuit for controlling a switching regulator includes a modulator having an output coupled to switch drive circuitry of the switching regulator. A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) has a first output coupled to an input of the modulator and a second output configured to indicate when a digital-to-analog conversion is complete. A voltage settling detector is configured to receive, from the second output of DAC, an indication that the digital-to-analog conversion is complete and detect a signal transition at the output of the modulator. Based on the indication and the signal transition, the voltage settling detector can provide a status indication for the switching regulator. By so doing, the voltage settling detector may indicate that an output voltage of the switching regulator is proximate a target output voltage level set by the DAC.
US10019012B2
A system for calculating a desired time of arrival to a target destination for a vehicle includes a device mountable to a first vehicle. The device includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a logic unit configured to receive signals for determining a current position and a current vehicle speed of the first vehicle, the logic unit being further configured to determine an estimated time of arrival at a target destination for the first vehicle based on predetermined route information, the current position of the first vehicle and the target destination of the first vehicle. The device is configured to transmit the estimated time of arrival at the target destination for the first vehicle, receive, from a second vehicle, an estimated time of arrival at the target destination for the second vehicle, calculate a desired estimated time of arrival at the target destination for the first vehicle based on the received estimated time of arrival at the target destination for the second vehicle, and calculate a desired vehicle speed for the first vehicle for achieving the desired estimated time of arrival at the target destination for the first vehicle.
US10019011B1
The present disclosure provides autonomous vehicle systems and methods that include or otherwise leverage a machine-learned yield model. In particular, the machine-learned yield model can be trained or otherwise configured to receive and process feature data descriptive of objects perceived by the autonomous vehicle and/or the surrounding environment and, in response to receipt of the feature data, provide yield decisions for the autonomous vehicle relative to the objects. For example, a yield decision for a first object can describe a yield behavior for the autonomous vehicle relative to the first object (e.g., yield to the first object or do not yield to the first object). Example objects include traffic signals, additional vehicles, or other objects. The motion of the autonomous vehicle can be controlled in accordance with the yield decisions provided by the machine-learned yield model.
US10019009B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for the utilization of vehicle control systems to cause a vehicle to take preventative action responsive to the detection of a near short term adverse driving scenario. A vehicle control system may receive information corresponding to vehicle operator data and ancillary data. Based on the received vehicle operator data and the received ancillary data, a multi-dimension risk score module may calculate risk scores associated with the received vehicle operator data and the received ancillary data. Subsequently, the vehicle control systems may cause the vehicle to perform at least one of a close call detection action and a close call detection alert to lessen the risk associated with the received vehicle operator data and the received ancillary data.
US10019007B2
A work machine control system is configured to control a work machine that travels in an operation region and includes a position detection unit, a non-contact sensor, and a control unit. The position detection unit detects a position of the work machine. The non-contact sensor detects a position of an object around the work machine. The control unit extracts information on an object to be detected from a detection result of the position detection unit and a detection result of the non-contact sensor, and excludes moving object information that is information on an object to be detected regarding a moving object that moves in the operation region.
US10018980B2
A method and apparatus are provided to control processes, such as industrial processes or computer programs to increase process security and avoid injury to persons. An apparatus, may include a receiver that may be configured to receive sensor information from a sensor. The apparatus may also include at least one processing core that may determine, based on the sensor information, at least one characteristic of a user, and to modify execution of a process based at least in part on the characteristic.
US10018979B2
Device and method for the detection and/or diagnosis of faults in a process, equipment and sensors used to measure and control variables of a process, either for single faults or multiple faults. The detection and/or diagnosis are performed on the basis of residual calculation between measured values and values calculated by a plurality of parallel linear models, built up from the existing correlations between the measured variables by the process sensors and by different equations that rule the process, such as mass and heat balances, quality relationships, etc. A fault in a model (i.e. the obtainment of a residual anomaly high by comparing the model estimation and the measurement), increases the probability that some of the parameters or faults associated to that model are failing. When all models in which a participating parameter fail or show a high probability of failure, the anomaly rate of said parameters is maximum. Using said rates and a description of cause-consequence relationship between the parameters a fault probability is obtained, where the root cause of the problem is indicated, indicating the consequences produced in the process. The device comprises data storage means; pre-processing means for filtering data; means for generation and storage of multiple behavior models; residual calculation means for calculating the difference between the measured and the predicted values of the variables; analysis means for determining the need to communicate an anomalous situation; communication means for presenting a process status report.
US10018974B2
A device for altering processing of a signal during processing of the signal has a display unit, an input unit and a processing unit. The display unit is configured for graphically displaying at least a predetermined interval to-be-processed-next of the signal. The input unit is configured for receiving at least one of: a selection input for selecting duration of a time period within the interval and a command input for commanding altering the processing using the time period. The processing unit is configured for processing the signal and for altering the processing in response to the command input. The input unit is touch-sensitive and the processing unit is configured to control the display unit for displaying graphically the time period at least while the input unit is touched.
US10018945B1
An image processing apparatus includes a first image processing unit comprising a first image heating portion, wherein the first image heating portion is selectively operable at a toner fixing temperature and a higher, image decoloring, temperature and thus can perform both image fixing and image decoloring therein, and a second image processing unit comprising a second image heating portion. At least one of the first and second image processing units further comprises a user input section for receiving a request to decolor one or more sheets. Upon receiving a user input to the input section requesting decoloring of one or more sheets, a controller of the image processing unit to which the request was input determines the operating status thereof, and determines if the request to decolor the one or more sheets can be currently performed therein.
US10018933B2
An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles each including a toner core and a shell layer. The shell layer includes first and second domains. The first domain includes a first copolymer of a first main monomer having a mole fraction of at least 20 mol % and one or more first additional monomers each having a mole fraction of less than 20 mol %. The second domain includes a second copolymer of a second main monomer having a mole fraction of at least 20 mol % and one or more second additional monomers each having a mole fraction of less than 20 mol %. A difference in polymer SP value between the first and second main monomers is at least 0.5 and no greater than 5.0. The first and second additional monomers each include one or more common monomers having a homopolymerization glass transition point of no greater than −20° C.
US10018928B2
Provided is an electrophotographic photosensitive member capable of suppressing a ghost image. The electrophotographic photosensitive member includes, in this order: a support; an intermediate layer containing metal oxide particles; and a photosensitive layer, in which the intermediate layer contains at least one kind of compound X selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by the formula (1) and a compound represented by the formula (2).
US10018924B2
A substrate holder for a lithographic apparatus has a planarization layer provided on a surface thereof. The planarization layer provides a smooth surface for the formation of a thin film stack forming an electronic component. The thin film stack comprises an (optional) isolation layer, a metal layer forming an electrode, a sensor, a heater, a transistor or a logic device, and a top isolation layer.
US10018917B2
An illumination optical unit for EUV projection lithography illuminates an object field, in which an object to be imaged is arrangeable. A first facet mirror of the illumination optical generates secondary light sources as images of an upstream light source. The first facet mirror includes mirrors which include a mirror surface smaller than 2 mm×2 mm. The first facet mirror is a distance |g| from the light source. The illumination optical unit includes a second facet mirror. The two facet mirrors are a distance b′ from each other. The individual mirrors of the first facet mirror have a focal length f in a plane of incidence of the illumination light on the individual mirrors such that [0.1 b′g/(g−b′)]
US10018915B2
A pattern forming method includes forming a guide pattern on a substrate including first and second regions and applying a directed self-assembly material including a first and a second polymer portion to the substrate. The first region is irradiated with an energy beam. The substrate is subjected to a heating process after irradiation and the directed self-assembly material in the second region separates into a first polymer phase and a second polymer phase. The directed self-assembly material is removed from the first region after irradiation.
US10018913B2
Provided are an active-light-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition having high DOF and excellent LWR, a pattern forming method using the composition, and a method for manufacturing an electronic device. The composition is an active-light-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition containing a resin (P), in which the resin (P) includes a repeating unit (a) having a group that decomposes by the action of an acid to generate a polar group, including at least a specific repeating unit (a1) represented by General Formula (1); a repeating unit (b1) having at least one of a lactone structure, a sultone structure, or a carbonate structure; and a repeating unit (b2) having at least one of a lactone structure, a sultone structure, or a carbonate structure, which is different from the repeating unit (b1), the Ohnishi parameter of the repeating unit (b1) is larger than the Ohnishi parameter of the repeating unit (b2), and the difference between both the Ohnishi parameters is 0.85 or more.
US10018906B2
A display device includes a substrate including a first region and a second region, a gate line and a data line on the substrate, a thin film transistor on the substrate, being connected to the gate line and the data line, and a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, wherein the second region has a second contact hole of which an area is larger than that of a first contact hole of the first region.
US10018901B2
A projection screen assembly is disclosed including a projection screen and a projection screen frame. The projection screen frame includes a plurality of projection screen frame modules that may be coupled together to provide a projection frame for projection screens of different sizes.
US10018898B2
A projector includes a cooling fan that discharges cooling air toward a liquid crystal panel as a target to be cooled, a liquid crystal panel frame that holds the liquid crystal panel, and a turbulence generator that is disposed at an upstream-side end portion of the liquid crystal panel in relation to the cooling air, converts the cooling air into turbulence, and causes the turbulence to flow toward the liquid crystal panel, and the turbulence generator includes an inclined section having an inclined surface and a plate-shaped protruding section formed on the inclined surface and inclined by an inclination angle with respect to a direction in which the cooling air flows into the turbulence generator.
US10018892B2
A lens barrel includes a frame body, a support frame, and a refracting lens frame. The support frame is configured to be supported by the frame body and move within a plane perpendicular to the optical axis with respect to the frame body. The refracting lens frame includes a lens support portion and is configured to retract around a retraction shaft. The frame body includes an opening portion. The opening portion is configured to open outward with respect to the optical axis. The opening portion is configured to house part of the lens support portion during a transition period between an imaging enabled state and a housed state. The support frame includes a light blocking portion. The light blocking portion is provided in front of part of the opening portion in an optical axis direction in order to block light rays.
US10018890B2
The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus, an iris device, an imaging method, and a program that are capable of performing multispectral imaging in a small mechanism. The imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor that captures an image of a subject; an optical system that forms an image on the image sensor with light from the subject; and an iris mechanism that restricts the amount of light passing through the optical system. The iris mechanism includes aperture blades that adjust a size of an aperture causing the light from the subject to pass through the aperture, and an optical filter that is provided to at least one of the aperture blades and transmits light having a predetermined wavelength. The aperture blades are driven to positions where the aperture has a predetermined size, in a state where the optical filter provided to the at least one of the aperture blades is hidden by one of the aperture blades other than the aperture blade of the optical filter. The aperture blades provided with predetermined optical filters are driven such that the predetermined optical filters sequentially cover the aperture at predetermined timings. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an imaging apparatus including an iris mechanism.
US10018881B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a fringe-field-switching mode liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display panel comprises: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first lower electrode, a first insulating layer and a first upper electrode, which are formed sequentially on a surface of the first substrate facing the second substrate; and a second lower electrode, a second insulating layer and a second upper electrode, which are formed sequentially on a surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate.
US10018867B2
A nano capsule liquid crystal layer and a liquid crystal display having the same are provided. The nano capsule liquid crystal layer includes a buffer layer and a plurality of nano capsules disposed in the buffer layer. An inside of each of the nano capsules includes liquid crystal molecules, and additives each having a center molecule and at least two first peripheral molecules connected to the center molecule and spaced apart from each other, and that are mixed with the liquid crystal molecules. The first peripheral molecules have a same phase as the liquid crystal molecule.
US10018859B2
There is provided a liquid crystal display (LCD) device that prevents light leaks near spacers. The LCD device controls the optical transmissivity of a liquid crystal layer interposed between substrates disposed opposite each other, by means of an electric field generated in the layer-thickness direction of the liquid crystal layer. The LCD device includes spacers on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate, signal lines formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of the other substrate, an insulating film formed to cover the signal lines, and electrodes on the insulating film's upper surface. Each electrode contributes to controlling the optical transmissivity of the liquid crystal layer. Each spacer has a vertex surface disposed opposite to the signal lines. A portion of each electrode extends to the upper surface of a corresponding signal line. The extended portion is opposite to a part of a spacer's vertex surface disposed opposite to the corresponding signal line.
US10018856B1
Insect screen assemblies may be configured for attachment to sunglasses having sunglasses frame arms and may include an assembly screen having a plurality of screen openings. A pair of spaced-apart screen attachment devices may include a pair of screen magnets carried by the assembly screen; a pair of sunglasses frame mounts configured for attachment to the sunglasses frame arms, respectively, of the sunglasses; and a pair of frame mount magnets carried by the pair of sunglasses frame mounts, respectively. The pair of screen magnets may magnetically engage the pair of frame mount magnets, respectively, to detachably secure the assembly screen on the sunglasses. Sunglasses with an insect screen assembly are also disclosed.
US10018851B2
A method of performing coherent transformations of optical fields includes forming a far field distribution of the input optical field. A fraction of the formed far field is diffracted by producing localized discontinuities within said far field. A Fraunhofer diffraction pattern of the diffracted optical field is formed. The Fraunhofer diffraction pattern is modified by producing localized optical path differences within the Fraunhofer diffraction pattern. The transformed output optical field is produced in the far field with respect to the modified Fraunhofer diffraction pattern.
US10018849B2
A one-way vision system includes a light valve device, a first illumination device, and a control module electrically connected to the light valve device and the first regulating module of the first illumination device for synchronously controlling switching frequency and time sequence of the light valve device and the first illumination device. Therefore, the one-way vision window system provides well anti-peeping effect without interfering from the external light of the present system.
US10018845B2
Disclosed are a short-range optical amplification module, spectacles, a helmet and a VR system. The amplification module includes a reflective polarizing plate, a first phase delay plate, a second lens and a second phase delay plate that are arranged in turn, and a first lens is further set on either side of any one of the reflective polarizing plate, the first phase delay plate, the second lens and the second phase delay plate; in the second lens, the optical surface adjacent to the second phase delay plate is a transflective optical surface; the first focal length f2 of the second lens meets the condition: 1.2F≤f2≤2F, wherein F is the system focal length of the optical amplification module. By performing parameter refining on the first focal length f2 that influences the optical amplification effect, the module can keep a small overall thickness while obtaining a large optical amplification effect, and the VR device can realize a good field angle, a large eyebox and a high-quality imaging effect, and hence a better user experience.
US10018844B2
A wearable image display system includes a headpiece, a first and a second light engine, and a first and a second optical component. The first and second light engines generate a first and a second set of beams respectively, each beam substantially collimated so that the first and second set form a first and a second virtual image respectively. Each optical component is located to project an image onto a first and a second eye of a wearer respectively. The first and second sets of beams are directed to incoupling structures of the first and second optical components respectively. Exit structures of the first and second optical components guide the first and second sets of beams onto the first and second eyes respectively. The optical components are located between the light engines and the eyes. Both of the light engines are mounted to a central portion of the headpiece.
US10018835B2
A projective MEMS device, including: a fixed supporting structure made at least in part of semiconductor material; and a number of projective modules. Each projective module includes an optical source, fixed to the fixed supporting structure, and a microelectromechanical actuator, which includes a mobile structure and varies the position of the mobile structure with respect to the fixed supporting structure. Each projective module further includes an initial optical fiber, which is mechanically coupled to the mobile structure and optically couples to the optical source according to the position of the mobile structure.
US10018831B2
Method for the production of stretchable and deformable optical elements, and elements thus obtained
It is described a method for the production of a fully or partially reflective stretchable and deformable optical element, comprising the implantation in at least one surface of an elastomeric support, by a technique of “Cluster Beam Implantation”, of neutral nanoclusters of a material selected among one or more metals, their alloys, their oxides or mixtures thereof, thus obtaining in said support a nanocomposite layer, possibly emerging at the surface of said element, and said implantation taking place by: uniformly implanting said nanoclusters in a surface of said elastomeric support, wherein said surface has a molded profile essentially corresponding to the profile of the optical element to be produced; or selectively implanting said nanoclusters in a flat surface of said elastomeric support; or uniformly implanting a first layer of said nanoclusters in a surface of said elastomeric support, and then selectively implanting a second layer of said nanoclusters onto the first nanoclusters layer thus obtained.
US10018815B1
A method of applying a reflective optics system that requires the presence of both convex and a concave mirrors that have beam reflecting surfaces. Application thereof achieves focusing of a beam of electromagnetic radiation with minimized effects on a polarization state of an input beam state of polarization that results from adjustment of angles of incidence and reflections from the various mirrors involved.
US10018809B2
An image capturing optical lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has refractive power. The third lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface. The fourth lens element has refractive power, and at least one surface thereof is aspheric. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, and the surfaces thereof are aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power has a convex object-side surface, and an image-side surface changing from concave at a paraxial region thereof to convex at a peripheral region thereof, and the surfaces are aspheric.
US10018803B2
An external facility is used to control positioning of multiple displaceable mirror elements of a multi-mirror arrangement. The external facility is to a multi-mirror arrangement via a data channel having a bandwidth of at least 1 kHz per controlled degree of freedom of displacement.
US10018794B2
An optical module may include a case, an optical assembly, a circuit board interface positioned on the case, and a circuit board attached to the case through the circuit board interface. The optical assembly may be arranged in the case. The circuit board may include a first area that may electrically connect the circuit board to the optical assembly. The circuit board may also include a second area that may secure the circuit board to the circuit board interface. An optical module manufacturing method is also provided.
US10018793B2
A connector is mateable with and removable from a mating connector, which has an optical connector, along a mating direction. The connector is provided with a receptacle to be attached to a case and an adapter to be mounted on a circuit board located in the case. The adapter has an inner module to be connected to the optical connector and a cage which accommodates the inner module at least in part. One of the receptacle and the cage is provided with a contact portion which is in contact with a remaining one of the receptacle and the cage. The receptacle and the cage are electrically connected to each other through the contact portion without direct fixation between the receptacle and the cage.
US10018791B2
Provided is a multi-channel optical subassembly. The multi-channel optical subassembly includes a first sub-mount including first and second areas having different thicknesses, a photoelectric device provided in the first area, a circuit board provided in the second area, a second sub-mount inserted into and fastened to the first guide hole and coupled to the first sub-mount, an optical fiber array fixed to the second sub-mount to provide a path through which light emitted from the photoelectric device is received or transferred, and a micro-lens array mounted on the second sub-mount. The first guide hole is provided in one of the first and second areas. The micro-lens array includes a lens collecting the light between the photoelectric device and the optical fiber array.
US10018788B2
A silicon photonic (SiPh) packaging assembly includes a SiPh interposer and a wafer. The SiPh interposer has one or more optical gratings disposed thereon to couple an optical signal traversing the wafer. The wafer is bonded to the interposer, with the wafer including one or more microlenses, each microlens aligned with a respective optical grating and designed to direct the optical signal traversing the wafer at a desired angle.
US10018780B2
A doping optimized single-mode optical fiber with ultra low attenuation includes a core layer and cladding layers. The cladding layers has an inner cladding layer surrounding the core layer, a trench cladding layer surrounding the inner cladding layer, an auxiliary outer cladding layer surrounding the trench cladding layer, and an outer cladding layer surrounding the auxiliary outer cladding layer. The content of fluorine in the core layer is ≤0.5 wt %, ΔGe≤0.12%, Δn1≤0.12%. The content of fluorine in the inner cladding layer is 0.5-1.5 wt %, Δn2≤−0.14%. The content of fluorine in the trench cladding layer is 1-3 wt %, Δn3≤−0.25%. The content of fluorine in the auxiliary outer cladding layer is 0.5-2 wt %, Δn4≤−0.14%. The outer cladding layer is a pure silicon dioxide glass layer and/or a metal-doped silicon dioxide glass layer.
US10018779B2
A bending-insensitive single-mode fiber with ultralow attenuation includes a core layer and cladding layers. The cladding layers includes an inner cladding layer surrounding the core layer, a trench cladding layer surrounding the inner cladding layer, an auxiliary outer cladding layer surrounding the trench cladding layer, and an outer cladding layer surrounding the auxiliary cladding layer. The core layer has a radius of 3.0 to 3.9 μm and a relative refractive index of −0.04% to 0.12%. The inner cladding layer has a radius of 8 to 14 μm and a relative refractive index −0.35% to −0.10%. The trench cladding layer has a radius of 14 to 20 μm and a relative refractive index of −0.6% to −0.2%. The auxiliary outer cladding layer has a radius of 35 to 50 μm and a relative refractive index of −0.4% to −0.15%. The outer cladding layer is a pure silica glass layer.
US10018777B2
A circuit board, and a lighting device and board housing module having the circuit board. The circuit board includes a support substrate having a first region and a second region bent from the first region, light emitting devices disposed on the first region, and a protective support portion protruding more than the light emitting devices from the support substrate of the first region.
US10018776B2
An illumination device (11) includes a light guide plate (15) and a light source unit (10) which includes a substrate (12) and a plurality of LED chips (16) disposed on the substrate (12), and which is disposed in a position at which emitted light of the LED chips (16) enters a light entrance portion (15a) of the light guide plate (15). The LED chips (16) are disposed to form a plurality of rows on the substrate (12), and are disposed to line up in a direction which orthogonally intersects the rows between each of the rows.
US10018774B2
A display device includes a curved display panel, a light source unit, a curved light guide plate, a support frame disposed under the light guide plate and including a curved upper surface, a first magnetic member disposed at at least one edge of the upper surface of the support frame, and a second magnetic member disposed at at least one edge of a surface facing the upper surface of the light guide plate and facing the first magnetic member.
US10018756B2
A display apparatus and an electronic device are provided, which belong to the field of display technology. The display apparatus comprises a light-converging layer configured to refract the light in a first designated direction, wherein the first designated direction is a direction whose angle with a straight ahead direction of the display apparatus is less than a designated angle, and the straight ahead direction is a direction perpendicular to a plane where the light-converging layer is located; and a light-emitting layer positioned below the light-converging layer and configured to emit light.
US10018753B2
A light diffusion sheet for an organic electroluminescent element to be used in an organic electroluminescent panel. The light diffusion sheet includes: a glass fiber cloth composed of at least one glass fiber; silica on a surface of the glass fiber or between the glass fibers; and at least one selected from a group consisting of metal alkoxides and reaction products of metal alkoxides.
US10018752B2
A diffusion sheet, a backlight module and a liquid crystal module are disclosed. The diffusion sheet comprises a paper fiber layer (1) with surfaces on two sides both disposed with a light-transmissive protection layer (2, 3). The diffusion sheet can well diffuse light passing through the diffusion sheet, and hence improve uniformity of light passing through the diffusion sheet. A paper fiber layer (1) is employed in the diffusion sheet for diffusion, which makes a paper fiber layer (1) be prepared at a low cost and have a small weight, and hence reduce the preparation cost and weight of a diffusion sheet to provided convenience for transfer of a product.
US10018740B2
A coupling device is provided for a sensor unit having at least one sensor located within a housing. The coupling device includes at least one supporting portion, wherein the supporting portion is configured for maintaining the sensor unit in a stable position, with the coupling device either resting on or being buried into the ground, and at least one rod, arranged in a plane which is essentially perpendicular to a peripheral surface of the supporting portion and linked to the supporting portion. The coupling device further includes a fastener for connecting the sensor unit to the coupling device. The supporting portion maintains the sensor unit in a stable position when resting on the ground, while the rod provides an additional stiffness to the housing.
US10018735B2
A luminescent composition includes a host matrix sensitized by Ce3+ and showing emission in the ultraviolet range. Typical host matrices include fluorides, sulphates, and phosphates, in particular A(Y1-x-yLuxLay)F4, A(Y1-x-yLuxLay)3F10, BaCa(Y1-x-yLuxLay)2F10, and Ba(Y1-x-yLuxLay)2F8, wherein A=Li, Na, K, Rb, or Cs. One or more of these luminescent compositions may be applied as a ceramic or single crystalline converter for CT, PET or SPECT scanners, or as a luminescent powder layer for x-ray intensifying screens.
US10018710B2
An object detection device includes a first substrate with a laser diode thereon; a second substrate with a photodiode thereon; a holding member holding the first and second substrates; an optical deflector deflecting light projected from the LD to irradiate a target with the deflected light, and deflects light reflected off the target; and a reflecting mirror guiding the reflected light deflected by the optical deflector to the PD. The LD is mounted on a mounting surface of the first substrate to project light mainly in a direction parallel to the mounting surface. The PD is mounted on a mounting surface of the second substrate to receive light coming mainly in a direction perpendicular to the mounting surface. The holding member parallelly holds the first and second substrates such that projection planes of the first and second substrates perpendicular to the mounting surfaces overlap each other.
US10018705B2
A radio communication apparatus includes an estimating unit that estimates directions of arrival of signals transmitted by a plurality of respective users, a calculating unit that calculates a map as a trigonometric function of an angle representing each of the directions of arrival estimated by the estimating unit, a grouping unit that groups the users based on the maps calculated by the calculating unit, and a determining unit that determines a weight coefficient for forming a directional beam steered to a user belonging to a group, for each group resultant of grouping performed by the grouping unit.
US10018700B2
A method for correcting for main magnetic field (B0) inhomogeneity in a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner is disclosed. The method includes applying a first and a second three-dimensional volumetric navigator after an acquisition of a volume in a scanning sequence and before the next volume is acquired. From a resultant pair of navigator images, a magnetic field map is obtained by complex division of the pair of navigator images, and the field map is used to determine parameters to adjust the MRI scanner to compensate for B0 inhomogeneity. The navigators may excite only a portion of an entire object to be imaged, so that adjustment of the MR scanner can be done slice-by-slice or slab-by-slab. Motion correction can also be implemented by comparing the first navigator to a stored reference image and updating for motion before acquisition of the next volume in the scanning sequence.
US10018699B2
In a method and magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus for performing an MR examination with prospective motion correction, multiple MR signals are acquired. For each MR signal, signal, an examination volume is established and a navigator volume is established for recording navigator signals. The examination volume and the navigator volume are not identical. At least one navigator reference signal is acquired at a time t0, and at least one navigator signal is acquired at a time t1>t0. Motion information is determined from the navigator signal and the navigator reference signal, and the recording parameters are set as a function of the motion information. At least one further magnetic resonance signal is acquired with this setting.
US10018696B2
In beta emission imaging, magnetic lensing allows a lower resolution detector to detect the spatial distribution of emissions at a higher resolution. The sample is placed in a magnetic field with field lines at a given density, and the detector is placed away from the sample where the magnet field lines diverge, resulting in a lesser density. Since the beta emissions travel along the field lines, the divergence of the field lines from the sample to the detector result in lensing or magnification. Using positron attenuation tomography to detect annihilation in the detector allows for correction due to self-absorption by the sample. The correction and lensing are used together or may be used independently.
US10018695B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods involving the use of magnetic resonance imaging and optogenetic neural stimulation. Aspects of the disclosure include modifying a target neural cell population in a first region of a brain to express light-responsive molecules. Using a light pulse, the light-responsive molecules in the target neural cell population are stimulated. Multiple regions of the brain are scanned via magnetic resonance imaging. The scans allow for observation of a neural reaction in response to the stimulation in at least one of the multiple regions of the brain.
US10018694B2
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system and method of magnetic resonance imaging. The preferred MRI system is of lower weight and/or uses less power than conventional MRI systems, due to one or more of magnet design, transmit and receive coil design, selection of RF pulse sequence, synchronization methods, and image reconstruction methods. Preferably, the MRI system is portable.
US10018684B2
A sensor device for suppressing a magnetic stray field, having a semiconductor body with a surface, formed in an x-y plane, and a back surface. Each circle half of a disk-shaped magnet has two magnetic poles and the magnet is rotatable relative to the IC housing around a z-direction. An imaginary lengthening of the axis penetrates the magnet in the center of gravity of the main extension surface of the magnet. A first pixel cell and a second pixel cell are integrated into the surface of the semiconductor body together with a circuit arrangement, and each pixel cell has a first magnetic field sensor and a second magnetic field sensor. The first pixel cell is spaced apart from the second pixel cell along a connecting line, and the first pixel cell in a projection along an imaginary lengthening of the axis is arranged within the two inner circle segments.
US10018683B2
The present disclosure relates to an open circuit voltage estimating apparatus capable of estimating an open circuit voltage even when a battery cell does not have a rest time. The open circuit voltage estimating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a current measuring unit configured to measure a charge/discharge current of a battery cell; a current integrating unit configured to integrate the current measured by the current measuring unit starting from an initial time; a time calculating unit configured to calculate a critical time, that is a time in which the integrated current value integrated by the current integrating unit is within a critical range; a cell voltage measuring unit configured to measure a voltage of the battery cell; and an open circuit voltage estimating unit configured to estimate an open circuit voltage of the battery cell by calculating an average value of the voltage measured by the cell voltage measuring unit during an operation time starting from the initial time to the critical time.
US10018678B2
The invention relates to a method and to a device for measuring a battery cell current through a battery cell unit. After the battery cell unit has been switched off, inductively stored energy from the battery cell unit is discharged (S1) by means of a discharging unit, wherein the inductively stored energy from the battery cell unit is energy stored by means of an inductive behavior of the battery cell unit, a time period in which the inductively stored energy from the battery cell unit has fallen to a predefined threshold value is determined (S2), and a battery cell current is determined (S3) on the basis of the time period determined.
US10018676B2
One embodiment describes an interlock for an electromechanical switching system, which includes a housing; a first camming lockout member disposed in the housing and that contacts an auxiliary operator of a first electromechanical switching device; a second camming lockout member disposed in the housing and that contacts an auxiliary operator of a second electromechanical switching device, which the first camming lockout members contacts the second camming lockout member when the first camming lockout member is moved to an actuated position by the first electromechanical switching device to prevent movement of the second camming lockout member to an actuated position.
US10018673B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device comprises an integrated circuit having a plurality of current modes different in operation current; a voltage sensor that detects a voltage in use by the integrated circuit; a BIST control circuit that generates BIST patterns different in the operation current and creates a flag indicating the success or failure of a BIST corresponding to the operation current based on the result of detecting the voltage while the integrated circuit is made to operate based on the BIST pattern; and a storing unit that stores the flag. The integrated circuit sets the current mode based on the flag.
US10018640B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include methods and systems for assaying a sample for an analyte. Methods according to certain embodiments include illuminating a sample with a slit-shaped beam of light, detecting light transmitted through the sample, determining absorbance of the transmitted light at one or more wavelengths and calculating concentration of the analyte based on the absorbance to assay the sample for the analyte. Systems for practicing the subject methods are also described.
US10018631B2
The invention provides a system, composition, and methods of using the systems and compositions for the analysis of a sample from a subject to accurately diagnose, prognose, or classify the subject with certain grades of or susceptibility to Barrett's esophagus. In some embodiments, the system of the present invention comprises a means of detecting and/or quantifying morphological features, the expression of protein, or the expression of nucleic acids in a plurality of cells and correlating that data with a subject's medical history to predict clinical outcome, treatment plans, preventive medicine plans, or effective therapies. In some embodiments, the invention relates to a method of classifying and compiling data taken from a cell sample from a subject analyzing the data, and converting the data from the system into a score by which a pathologist may calculate the likelihood that the subject develops cancer.
US10018620B2
The present disclosure describes systems and methods for mimicking body tissue and the function thereof. The mimicked body tissue can include kidney tissue, the blood brain barrier, and other tissues. In some implementations, the systems described herein are used to test the impact of controlled factors on the tissue. The controlled factors can include flow rates, shear rates, and test chemicals (e.g., therapeutics and toxins). In some implementations, the system and methods are used to test pharmaceutical and biological therapies, characterize healthy or diseased tissue, and observe phenomena of the tissue in vitro.
US10018619B2
This invention relates to methods of identifying, synthesizing, optimizing and profiling compounds that are inhibitors or activators of proteins, both naturally occurring endogenous proteins as well as certain variant forms of endogenous proteins, and novel methods of identifying such variants. The method accelerates the identification and development of compounds as potential therapeutically effective drugs by simplifying the pharmaceutical discovery and creation process through improvements in hit identification, lead optimization, biological profiling, and rapid elimination of toxic compounds. Implementation results in overall cost reductions in the drug discovery process resulting from the corresponding increases in efficiency.
US10018618B2
An intracellular selection system allows screening for peptide bioactivity and stability. Randomized recombinant peptides are screened for bioactivity in a tightly regulated expression system, preferably derived from the wild-type lac operon. Bioactive peptides thus identified are inherently protease- and peptidase-resistant. Also provided are bioactive peptides stabilized by a stabilizing group at the N-terminus, the C-terminus, or both. The stabilizing group can be a small stable protein, such as the Rop protein, glutathione sulfotransferase, thioredoxin, maltose binding protein, or glutathione reductase, an α-helical moiety, or one or more proline residues.
US10018615B2
Disclosed here is a three-dimensional electronic scaffold, comprising a porous scaffold and a plurality of micro-strain gauges distributed spatially inside the porous scaffold, wherein the micro-strain gauges are adapted to detect contraction force. Also disclosed is a method comprising detecting and mapping intra-tissue cardiac contraction force of one or more cardiac cells or tissues disposed in a three-dimensional electronic scaffold, wherein the three-dimensional electronic scaffold comprises a porous scaffold and a plurality of micro-strain gauges distributed spatially inside the porous scaffold and in contact with the cardiac cells or tissues, and wherein the micro-strain gauges are adapted to detect contraction force of the cardiac cells or tissues.
US10018611B2
The invention relates to a method of, and system for, obtaining an indication of the soil strength of soil over which a compactor roller travels. The method includes determining the depth to which a drum of the compactor roller penetrates into and depresses the soil when the compactor roller travels over a soil surface. The system includes a compactor roller, a measuring arrangement and a processor which is operatively connected to the measuring arrangement and which is configured to process data received from the measuring arrangement. The measuring arrangement includes an inertial measurement unit which is operatively connected to the compactor roller, wherein the arrangement is configured to obtain an indication of the soil strength of soil over which the compactor roller travels during operation, by determining the depth to which the drum penetrates into and depresses the soil over which it travels.
US10018609B2
Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods using infrared imaging modules to image and detect phase transitions of water, such as ice formation, in a scene. An ice formation detection system may include one or more infrared imaging modules, a logic device, and a communication module. The infrared imaging modules may be positioned to image a scene in which ice formation is to be detected. The logic device may be adapted to process captured infrared images to detect ice formation in the scene. The logic device may also be adapted to use the communication module to report detected ice formation to an indicator, a display, a user interface, and/or an ice formation mitigation system.
US10018605B2
A method for measuring an amount of dissolved oxygen contained in a liquid sample, including the steps of: (1) adding a deoxygenating amino compound to a liquid sample to prepare the liquid sample having a predetermined concentration of the deoxygenating amino compound; (2) after Step (1), heating the liquid sample containing the deoxygenating amino compound at a temperature of 80° C. or more; (3) after Step (2), measuring the concentration of the deoxygenating amino compound contained in the liquid sample; and (4) calculating the amount of the dissolved oxygen contained in the liquid sample in Step (1) from the amount of the reacted deoxygenating amino compound by comparing the concentration of the deoxygenating amino compound measured in Step (3) and the concentration of the deoxygenating amino compound measured in Step (1).
US10018596B2
This disclosure provides systems and methods for using a health monitoring system with acoustic emissions (AE) signals and the resonance frequency of the damage state of a component in a machine to monitor component health. AE signals collected from sensors on an operating machine are analyzed to identify signal features or events that correspond to component resonance frequencies. The AE signal features proximate to the component resonance frequencies and how those features and the component resonance frequency changes over time enable the identification and monitoring of damage states, such as cracks in the stator vanes of a compressor, gas turbine, steam turbine, or generator.
US10018594B2
A fixing device for acoustic emission test sensors for rock damage testing, the device including: a fixing frame, installation bases operating to accommodate the acoustic emission test sensors, respectively, fixing assemblies operating to fix the acoustic emission test sensors in the installation bases, and installation mechanisms operating to install the installation bases on the fixing frame. The fixing frame is an integrated loop-shaped frame. Each of the installation bases is a cylinder structure which includes: a cavity corresponding to an outer edge of each of the acoustic emission test sensors, and a wall including a gap for leading out wires of each sensor. The installation mechanisms are adapted to automatically and axially adjust positions of the installation bases. The installation mechanisms are four in number. The four installation mechanisms are disposed on a same section plane of the fixing frame and every two installation mechanisms are oppositely disposed.
US10018581B2
A method for assaying target molecules in a sample liquid, the method comprising: providing an impedance monitoring device operably connected to an impedance analyzer; adding a sample liquid suspected of having target molecules to the well thereby permitting binding of target molecules to the capture molecules; monitoring impedance of the well; and determining the presence, amount or concentration of target molecules in the liquid sample from the monitored impedance. The device includes a nonconducting substrate having a well, at least two electrodes fabricated on a bottom of the well and on a same plane, wherein the surfaces of the at least two electrodes are modified with capture molecules configured to bind target molecules in a liquid sample, and at least two connection pads electrically connected to the at least two electrodes.
US10018579B1
A system for measuring cathodoluminescence from a substrate includes an electron beam source configured to generate an electron beam, a sample stage configured to secure a sample and an electron-optical column including a set of electron-optical elements to direct at least a portion of the electron beam through onto a portion of the sample. The system also includes a set of guide optics located at a position within or below the electron-optical column and a set of collection optics, wherein the set of guide optics captures cathodoluminescent light emitted from the sample in response to the electron beam and directs the cathodoluminescent light to the set of collection optics. In addition, the system includes a detector. The set of collection optics is configured to image the cathodoluminescent light onto the detector.
US10018567B2
A real-time, on-line method and analytical system for determining halohydrocarbons in water which operate by (1) extracting on-line samples; (2) purging volatile halohydrocarbons from the water (e.g., with air or nitrogen); (3) carrying the purge gas containing the analytes of interest over a porous surface where the analytes are adsorbed; (4) recovering the analytes from the porous surface with heat (thermal desorption) or solvent (solvent elution) to drive the analytes into an organic chemical mixture; (5) generating an optical change (e.g., color change) in dependence upon a reaction involving the analytes and a pyridine derivative; and (6) measuring optical characteristics associated with the reaction to quantify the volatile halogenated hydrocarbon concentration.
US10018559B2
A system for tissue inspection is provided, comprising a console (50) with a light source (64), a spectrometer (66), an optical switch (65) and a processing unit. The system further comprises an elongated shaft (10), wherein an illumination fiber (40), a plug (50) in front of the illumination fiber (40), and a detection fiber (41) is provided in the elongated shaft (10). The illumination fiber (40) is capable of transmitting light from the light source (64) to its front surface and is capable of transmitting light being back-reflected from the plug (50) to the optical switch (65). The detection fiber (41) is capable of transmitting light reflected from tissue in front of the distal end surface of the elongated shaft (10) to the optical switch (65). The optical switch (65) is configured to provide the back-reflected light to the spectrometer (66) for generating a reference spectrum and to provide the light reflected from the tissue to the spectrometer (66) for generating a diffuse reflectance spectrum. The processing unit is configured to generate a tissue spectrum by normalizing the diffuse reflectance spectrum with the reference spectrum.
US10018557B2
The terahertz wave measuring device includes a pulsed laser light generation unit 1, a seed light generation unit 2, a terahertz wave generator 5 that generates terahertz waves, a terahertz wave detector 8 on which the terahertz waves that are generated from the terahertz wave generator and that have interacted with a measurement object 7 and the pump light are incident and that generates terahertz wave detection light 9, an interference optical system 11 that multiplexes the terahertz wave detection light and reference light 14 of the same wavelength as the terahertz wave detection light to generate a plurality of interfering light beams 12, a plurality of light detectors 13 that detect the interfering light beams, and a signal processing unit 16 that outputs an intensity signal and/or a phase signal of the terahertz waves by performing arithmetic operations on the outputs of the plurality of light detectors.
US10018554B2
A disposable photometric measurement tip comprising a polymer tip, the polymer tip having a capillary filling channel, the capillary filing channel having an opening at a distal end of the polymer tip, a wave guide channel acting as an optical input coupling and a wave guide channel acting as an optical output coupling, each of the wave guide channels having an opening at a proximal end of the polymer tip wherein the capillary filling channel, the wave guide channel acting as an optical input coupling and the wave guide channel acting as an optical output coupling are connected to each other.
US10018553B2
The present set of embodiments relate to a system, method, and apparatus for an optical configuration in a flow cytometer that allows for independent adjustment of focusing for each light source. Such systems, methods, and apparatuses require a final focusing element to be moved near the beginning of the optical train and for each optical element coming after the final focusing element to be configured to accommodate converging light beams while minimizing the introduction of aberrations into those beams.
US10018552B2
A particle analysis apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of images each captured at a different time in each of which a particle moving in a predetermined direction in a medium is imaged; and a determination unit that determines, based on a movement amount of a particle due to Brownian motion in the medium, whether or not an image of a first particle included in an image captured at a first time of the plurality of images acquired by the acquisition unit and an image of a second particle included in an image captured at a second time which is different from the first time of the plurality of images acquired by the acquisition unit are images indicating the same particle.
US10018549B2
Devices and methods are described for measuring formed blood component sedimentation rate. Some of the methods may use (1) centrifugal techniques for separating red blood cells from plasma and (2) video and/or still imaging capability. Both may be used alone or in combination to accelerate formed blood component sedimentation and to measure its rate. In one example, the method may advantageously enable rapid measurement of sedimentation rate using small blood sample volumes. Automated image analysis can be used to determine both sedimentation rate and hematocrit. Automated techniques may be used to compensate for effects of hematocrit on uncorrected sedimentation rate data.
US10018544B2
An electromagnetic multiaxial fatigue testing machine includes a test piece fixing platform and an electromagnet loading mechanism arranged on a frame, wherein the electromagnet loading mechanism includes a first loading device for bend loading, and a second loading device for axial and torsional loading. The first loading device includes a first permanent magnet and a first electromagnet with a direction of a magnetic force generated therebetween is orthogonal to an axial direction of a test piece; the second loading device includes a second permanent magnet and a second electromagnet mounted on a swinging pair with a direction of a magnetic force generated therebetween is parallel to the axial direction of the test piece.
US10018541B2
The invention is directed to a process for sorting target cells and non-target cells from a sample by a cell sorting valve microfabricated on a surface of a silicon substrate, with microfabricated channels leading from the cell sorting valve, wherein the cell sorting valve separates the target particles from non-target material; a disposable cartridge containing a sample reservoir, a sort reservoir and a waste reservoir; wherein the sample is provided in a buffer comprising nuclease.
US10018536B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a small volume sampling device having a deformable fluid reservoir and a stem. The sampling device includes a plurality of volumetric fluid loading indicia increasing from the closed end of the deformable fluid reservoir to the open end of the deformable fluid reservoir adjacent the stem. The sampling device has an improved hold-up volume when sampling small volumes of fluid.
US10018526B2
A connection device for a pressure sensor includes a supporting unit and a circuit board. The circuit board carries an electronic circuit having at least one of at least one electronic component and at least one electrical component. The supporting unit includes a multi-part main body that is electrically and mechanically connected to the circuit board via at least one soldered connection. The supporting unit further forms an external interface having at least one electrical contact point that enables tapping of at least one electrical output signal of the electronic circuit, and that is electrically connected to a corresponding contact point of the circuit board via an electrical connection. A pressure sensor includes such a connection device, and a method pertains to producing such a connection device.
US10018525B2
In one embodiment, a self-powered tactile pressure sensor includes a flexible substrate, an array of piezoelectric crystalline nanorods each having a bottom end and a top end, the nanorods being generally perpendicular to the substrate, a top electrode that is electrically coupled to the top ends of the nanorods, and a bottom electrode that is electrically coupled to the bottom ends of the nanorods.
US10018519B2
A method for estimating the temperature of the fuel entering a turbomachine injector, the turbomachine including engine spaces and an oil/fuel exchanger upstream of the injector, the engine spaces and the oil/fuel exchanger having oil passing through them, the oil/fuel exchanger having an efficiency, the engine spaces including a high-pressure spool, the method including (a) measuring the temperature of the oil entering the engine spaces; (b) measuring the rotational speed of the high-pressure spool; (c) calculating the temperature of the fuel leaving the oil/fuel exchanger using the temperature of the oil entering the engine spaces and the rotational speed of the high-pressure spool.
US10018518B2
The overheat detection device for an electric motor of the present invention includes: PTC thermistors each attached to the coil of a different phase of a three-phase AC electric motor and connected in series; an overheat determination unit for determining overheat of coils based on the output voltage from the serially connected circuit of the PTC thermistors; and, an output voltage control unit that controls the output voltage from the PTC thermistors in accordance with the electric angle or magnetic phase of the three-phase AC electric motor.
US10018516B2
A foreign matter detection device of the present invention is provided with a temperature detection means that detects a temperature distribution in a magnetic field that is formed by a power-supplying device that transmits power wirelessly to a power-receiving device; and a signal processor that, based on a detection result from the temperature detection means, detects a conductive foreign matter in the magnetic field.
US10018506B2
A multifunctional infrared (IR) module is configured for multiple IR applications without an additional microcontroller to be integrated into a computing device and is able to utilize voltage control instead of current control. The multifunctional IR module includes an IR light emitting diode (LED), and an IR receiver (e.g., photodiode or phototransistor). In one embodiment, the multifunctional IR module includes a resistor that is connected to the cathode of the IR LED and the drain of a transistor, with the source of the transistor grounded. In some embodiments, the multifunctional IR module additionally includes a red LED. Various configurations of the multifunctional IR module are able to perform one or more of the following functions: IR in (receiving IR signals), IR out (generating IR signals), heart rate sensing, SpO2 (oxygen saturation) sensing, distance/proximity detection, gesture detection, LED control, and ambient light detection.
US10018498B2
A set of scales having a rack on which at least one, preferably a plurality of weighing tables is/are provided which has/have in each case one frame. The frame of at least one weighing table is provided so as to be at least partially pivotable and/or rotatable in relation to the rack such that the frame is convertible from a use position to a cleaning position and vice-versa.
US10018495B2
A radar-based fill-level measuring device comprising at least one synthesizer circuit having a plurality of circuit components for producing phase controlled microwave signals for a travel-time measurement and at least three electrical potentials for supplying the synthesizer circuit, wherein the synthesizer circuit has at least three circuit groups. Each circuit component is associated with at least one circuit group, wherein each of the at least three circuit groups is fed by means of at least one potential difference between two of the at least three different potentials.
US10018477B2
An advanced driver assist system (ADAS) comprises a user interface (UI) configured to receive a destination from a user; a communicator configured to transmit position information of a vehicle; a route information transmission device configured to calculate a current position of the vehicle based on the position information and to transmit road model information by modeling map information of a traveling route from the calculated current position to the destination; and an ADAS control device configured to output a section residual distance for each road model, a section average valid gradient, and a section average valid curvature using the transmitted road model information.
US10018456B2
An open-loop thermal control system and method for components that generate heat includes a reservoir for containing a pressurized working fluid, a first heat exchanger in thermal communication with the working fluid, a Joule-Thomson expansion valve in fluid communication with the reservoir, and a second heat exchanger in fluid communication with the valve. The first heat exchanger is configured to transfer heat from the components to the fluid in the reservoir. The valve is configured to expand the working fluid into a two-phase fluid having a primary use of cooling. The second heat exchanger is configured to receive heat from the components and receive the two-phase fluid. The second heat exchanger provides a single-phase working fluid for at least one secondary use before the working fluid is expelled from the thermal control system.
US10018452B1
The invention relates to a dart head for a toy dart, comprising a body having a hollow stem portion integrally formed with and longitudinally extending from an enlarged, hollow head portion; the head portion and the stem portion being fluidly connected, with the head portion defining at least one first transverse internal head dimension, and the stem portion defining at least one first transverse internal stem dimension; wherein the at least one first transverse internal head dimension is larger than the at least one first transverse internal stem dimension. The invention also relates to a toy dart comprising a dart body connectable with the dart head as described, and a method of manufacturing the dart head as described.
US10018447B1
A firearm holster has a plate, a firearm enclosure configured to carry a firearm, and an elastic hinge. The hinge couples the plate to the enclosure and allows for relative motion between the plate and enclosure about the hinge. This relative motion about the elastic hinge during use allows for parts of a hand of a user to be inserted between the plate and enclosure when establishing or maintaining a grip on a firearm carried by the holster.
US10018446B2
The vertical forward grip is a revolutionary new design, which increases shooter(s) accuracy, providing comfort to the shooter and increasing control of the weapon, while reducing fatigue to the shooter(s) overall stamina. The overall design, ergonomic feel, textured finger grip and an ergonomic index finger stabilization cradle of the vertical forward grip allows the shooter(s) to remain comfortable for long extended periods of time, increasing accuracy and control, providing stabilization of the weapon and the design features are different from conventional vertical forward grip(s). Specific design features/improvements are incorporated into the vertical forward grip unlike the design of conventional vertical forward grip(s). Design features and improvements include: a ergonomic index finger stabilization cradle, a textured finger grip, an ergonomic grip control feature (increasing grip comfort, control and accuracy), and a threaded quick turn-and-release base grip cap tube (⅞″-9 UNC Double 2A Thread).
US10018440B2
A sound suppressor for a firearm includes a plurality of segments attached end to end to form a container having an entrance orifice and an exit orifices defining a firing axis. Baffles are positioned in some of the segments. The baffles have a plate from which a truncated cone projects. The cone defines an opening aligned with the firing axis. The opening is offset from the geometric center of the plates.
US10018423B2
A heat exchanger for cooling particulate matter from a high-temperature industrial process or warming material from a cryogenic process is disclosed. The heat exchanger comprises a structure comprising a rectangular frame, piping that is supported by the rectangular frame and completes at least one circumference around the rectangular frame, and a fan. The piping is supported to the frame on a series of moving supports. The piping comprises an inlet end and an outlet end, and the piping contains external cooling fins. The structure is sealed except for where the finned piping is located.
US10018422B2
A cooling module including a first heat exchanger cooling a first heat exchange medium, a second heat exchanger cooling a second heat exchange medium, a third heat exchanger cooling a third heat exchange medium, and a fan and shroud assembly arranged in parallel in an air flow direction, wherein a flow of the first heat exchange medium inside first tubes forming the first heat exchanger is perpendicular to a flow of the second heat exchange medium inside second tubes forming the second heat exchanger and parallel with a flow of the third heat exchange medium inside third tubes forming the third heat exchanger. The cooling module capable of sufficiently securing the first heat exchange medium condensing performance, the third heat exchange medium cooling performance, and the second heat exchange medium cooling performance and being miniaturized.
US10018418B2
A mobile removable hearth skid for a furnace and/or cooling chamber including: a base, the base including a top horizontal surface supporting a refractory platform which possesses a perimeter edge including a front perimeter edge, a rear perimeter edge, and at least two side perimeter edges. The rear perimeter edge and the at least two side perimeter edges form a continuous shoulder extending beyond the base perimeter edge. Also disclosed is a furnace and/or cooling chamber including a refractory lining with a continuous ledge at the bottom edges of the refractory linings mounted on the rear wall and the at least two side walls. A gap is formed by the furnace supports between a bottom surface of the ledge and a surface supporting the furnace supports. The shoulder and ledge form a removable refractory seal.
US10018411B2
A method comprising the cooling of the feed natural-gas (15) in a first heat exchanger (16) and the introduction of the cooled feed natural-gas (40) in separator flask (18). The method further comprising dynamic expansion of a turbine input flow (46) in a first expansion turbine (22) and the introduction of the expanded flow (102) into a splitter column (26). This method includes sampling at the head of the splitter column (26) a methane-rich head stream (82) and sampling in the compressed methane-rich head stream (86) a first recirculation stream (88). The method comprises the formation of at least one second recirculation stream (96) obtained from the methane-rich head stream (82) downstream from the splitter column (26) and the formation of a dynamic expansion stream (100) from the second recirculation stream (96).
US10018410B2
A refrigeration or freezing cabinet includes a cabinet corpus having an interior space configured for storing goods to be chilled or frozen, and a cabinet door which is attached to the cabinet corpus so as to be pivotable about a vertical axis of pivoting. In one embodiment, there is arranged or formed, on the inside of the door, a pair of rib members which extend vertically at a distance from one another and support one or more door shelving elements. In this embodiment, there is attached to one of the rib members of the pair, which rib member is located closer to the axis of pivoting, an illuminating strip designed with a plurality of lighting elements arranged vertically one above another. The illuminating strip is attached to that lateral face of the rib member in question which faces towards the interior space of the refrigerator when the door is open.
US10018404B2
A refrigerator includes a door having a user interface electrical module, an accommodating space accommodating the user interface electrical module, a handle groove, and a concave portion being open towards a front surface and a side surface of the door in such a way that the handle groove is accessible to a user through the concave portion. The door includes a user interface housing. The accommodating space, the handle groove and the concave portion are located within the user interface housing and are successively disposed side by side along a depth direction of the handle groove.
US10018402B2
A refrigerator (1) is provided with an image capturing camera 18 (image capturing unit) configured to capture an image of an interior of a storage chamber (such as a refrigeration chamber 3); a communication portion (52) (communication unit) configured to transmit image of the interior of the storage chamber captured by the image capturing camera (18) to an exterior device; wherein the image capturing unit is stored in a recess provided in the interior of the storage chamber.
US10018401B2
If an exterior heat exchanger is sensed to be frosted while a heat pump device is operating in a first heating operation mode in which two interior heat exchangers are used, the operation modes are switched into a second heating operation mode in which one interior heat exchanger is used, and then switched into a defrosting operation mode.
US10018396B2
A refrigerator is provided that includes at least one freezer compartment and at least one refrigerator compartment, wherein the freezer compartment and the refrigerator compartment are defined by a plurality of interior surfaces. The refrigerator further includes a cooling module set (CMS) removably attached to at least one of the plurality of interior surfaces, wherein the CMS is configured to operate in any orientation of a plurality of orientations, and the CMS is further configured to be repositionable with respect to the plurality of interior surfaces to alter a shape of at least one of the refrigerator compartment and the freezer compartment.
US10018393B2
A method for controlling an economizer circuit is provided. The economizer circuit includes a valve to regulate refrigerant flow between the economizer and the compressor. The valve can be opened to engage the economizer circuit or closed to disengage the economizer circuit based on the output frequency provided to the compressor motor by a variable speed drive and an operating condition of the economizer.
US10018392B2
A climate-control system is provided that includes a variable-capacity compressor unit and a control module controlling the compressor unit. The compressor unit is operable in a first capacity mode and in a second capacity mode that is higher than the first capacity mode. The control module may be configured to switch the compressor unit among a shutdown state, the first capacity mode and the second capacity mode based on a demand signal and a number of times that the compressor unit has been switched into the shutdown state within a predetermined time period.
US10018390B2
An air-conditioning apparatus includes actuation control means including an actuation unit that sequentially opens heat medium flow switching devices or heat medium flow control devices on a one-by-one basis. The actuation control means performs control in such a manner that start time of driving of pumps is later than start of actuation of the heat medium flow switching devices and the heat medium flow control devices.
US10018379B2
A system and method for converting the sun's electromagnetic radiation to work, where the system collects the radiation with at least first one lens or mirror. Splitting means split the radiation spectrum, preferably using prism, set of prisms, diffraction grating, or set of beam splitters. Second one lens or mirror is configured to collect the radiation separately for each wavelength range. At least one fiber optic cable is configured to transfer the radiation to electromagnetically or electrically operated appliance, device or machine.
US10018378B1
A solar thermal lamp used for heating water inside a tank. The thermal lamp includes a transparent glass bulb with a threaded male coupling for attaching to a female coupling in the tank. The lamp also includes a heat tube with an enlarged water heating condenser. The condenser is received inside the tank. The heat tube can include a copper coil, copper fins, a glass coil, a copper lamp, a glass lamp, and the like for receiving solar energy and conducting the heat to the heating condenser for heating the water inside the tank. Also, the invention can be in the form of a solar thermal globe. The solar globe is self-contained and includes a water tank. Another embodiment of the globe tracks with the daily movement of the sun and change with seasons.
US10018377B2
A solar light (heat) absorption material which has an excellent solar light (heat) absorbing ability and a simple structure, and may be used as a low-cost and high-performance heat absorption/accumulation material. Also, a solar light (heat) absorption/control building component including the solar light (heat) absorption material that allows for easy change of its solar light (heat) absorption/control ability. The material includes particles dispersed into a liquid medium having a specific heat ranging from 0.4 to 1.4 cal/g/° C. and a melting point of 5° C. or lower. The dispersed particles have L*value of 30 or less as determined by the CIE-Lab color system (light source D65).
US10018375B2
The present disclosure provides an electric water heater, including a casing, an inner tank, a drain valve and a protection cover. The casing defines an opening. An inner tank is disposed in the casing and defines a drain outlet. A drain valve is mounted at the drain outlet and exposed from the opening. A protection cover is detachably fixed on the casing or the drain valve and covers the drain valve. The protection cover of the electric water heater according to embodiments of the present disclosure may be detached from the casing during the sewage discharge and fixed on the casing again after the sewage discharge. Because of the protection of the protection cover, the drain valve is no more exposed so as to avoid the potential safety risk. In addition, the protection cover may further improve the integrity and the aesthetics of the appearance of the casing.
