US10036321B2
Systems and methods for utilizing gas turbine compartment ventilation discharge air. In one embodiment, a system may include a gas turbine engine having a compressor. The system also may include a gas turbine compartment disposed about the gas turbine engine. Moreover, the system may include an inlet bleed heat (IBH) manifold in fluid communication with the compressor. The gas turbine compartment may be in fluid communication with the IBH manifold for providing the IBH manifold with ventilation discharge air from the gas turbine compartment.
US10036293B2
An apparatus for purifying an exhaust gas includes an engine, an exhaust pipe, a first lean NOx trap (LNT) adapted to absorb nitrogen oxide (NOx) contained in the exhaust gas, to release the absorbed NOx, and to reduce the NOx contained in the exhaust gas or the released NOx or to generate ammonia (NH3), a second LNT adapted to absorb the NOx, to release the absorbed NOx, and to reduce the NOx contained in the exhaust gas or the released NOx or to generate the NH3, and a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst adapted to temporarily absorb the NH3 and to reduce the NOx contained in the exhaust gas, wherein the second LNT is positioned such that an average temperature of the second LNT is lower than that of the first LNT by 50-150° C. based on an average temperature of the exhaust gas.
US10036287B2
The valve seat includes an iron-based sintered alloy subjected to oxidation treatment, which is obtained by subjecting an iron-based sintered alloy including: 4 mass % to 15 mass % of Co particles; and hard particles each containing at least one compound of an intermetallic compound, a carbide, a silicide, a nitride, or a boride that has one or more kinds of elements selected from group 4a to 6a elements in a periodic table, and having a hardness of from 600 HV to 1,600 HV to oxidation treatment, and which has an oxide mainly including triiron tetraoxide (Fe3O4) and cobalt oxide (CoO) formed on a surface and in an interior of the iron-based sintered alloy. The iron-based sintered alloy subjected to oxidation treatment has an area ratio of the oxide of from 5% to 25% in a cross section thereof in a state prior to installation on the cylinder head.
US10036271B2
A blade outer air seal for a gas turbine engine includes a gas path surface exposed to exhaust gas flow, a first side extending radially outward from the gas path surface, a second side extending radially outward from the gas path surface, and a plurality of film cooling holes disposed on at least one of the gas path surface. The first side and the second side, the film cooling holes are disposed at locations described by a set of Cartesian coordinates set forth in Table 1. The Cartesian coordinates are provided by an axial coordinate, a circumferential coordinate and a radial coordinate relative to a defined point of origin. A gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
US10036269B2
A gas turbine sealing assembly includes a first static gas turbine wall, a second static gas turbine wall, and a leaf seal having a first side and a second side. The first static gas turbine wall contacts the second side at a first position, and the second static gas turbine wall contacts the second side at a second position. A spring exerts force on the first side. The spring includes a first spring wall coupled to the first static gas turbine wall. A second spring wall extends radially outward from the first spring wall. A third spring wall extends axially away from the second spring wall. A fourth spring wall extends radially inward from the third spring wall and includes a radially inner end. The radially inner end of the fourth spring wall contacts the first side of the leaf seal between the first position and the second position.
US10036268B2
Various embodiments include a rotor key member, along with a related assembly and steam turbine. Particular embodiments include a rotor key member for circumferentially retaining a circumferential seal in a steam turbine rotor body, the rotor key member having: a main body sized to contact an axial face of the circumferential seal; and a locking member extending from the main body in a direction axially toward the circumferential seal, the locking member having at least one circumferential edge sized to substantially complement a corresponding slot in the circumferential seal to restrict movement of the circumferential seal relative to the steam turbine rotor body.
US10036267B2
A system includes a diffuser section comprising an outer barrel, an inner barrel, a seal interface, and an aft plate, where the outer barrel and the inner barrel are disposed about a turbine axis, and the diffuser section is configured to receive an exhaust gas from a gas turbine. The seal interface is disposed at a downstream end of the inner barrel between the inner barrel and the aft plate. The seal interface includes a first circumferential groove configured to receive the aft plate, where the first circumferential groove opens in a first direction away from the turbine axis.
US10036265B2
The axial flow expander includes: an outer casing provided with a suction port and a discharge port through which gas is discharged from the outer casing; an inner casing inside which a gas passage is formed and which is provided with a first communication portion which communicates the gas passage with the suction port and a second communication portion which communicates the gas passage with the discharge port; a rotor shaft which extends in the direction along an axis; a bearing configured to bear the rotor shaft; stator vanes which protrudes inward from an inner periphery of the inner casing; and moving blades which protrudes outward from the rotor shaft. The inner casing, the rotor shaft, the bearing, the stator vanes, and the moving blades are integrally assembled, and the assembled members are inserted into the outer casing.
US10036255B2
A platform cooling device directs a cooling fluid onto a root side of a platform of a turbomachine part. The platform cooling device includes a first segment to be positioned at a root of the turbomachine part and a second segment, at an angle to the first segment, to be positioned at the root side of the platform of the turbomachine part. The second segment may include at least one impingement channel having an inlet for receiving at least a part of the cooling fluid and an outlet for releasing the received cooling fluid onto the root side of the platform. The first segment and the second segment may define a path for the cooling fluid via the impingement channel. A turbomachine component includes the platform cooling device.
US10036253B1
A control system for a material gathering mechanism includes a gathering head configured to gather material from aground surface, a plurality of gathering members configured to transport the material gathered by the gathering head towards a material conveying apparatus, and a jam detection device for detecting a jam condition in movement of one or more of the plurality of gathering members and generate signals indicative of the jam condition. The control system further includes a controller communicably coupled to the plurality of gathering members and the jam detection member. The controller receives signals indicative of the jam condition from the jam detection device. The controller initiates a sequence of stopping, delaying, and restarting the gathering member on receiving the signals indicative of the jam condition.
US10036250B2
Embodiments of the invention generally relate to tunnel boring machine cutter assemblies, such as ripping and scraping cutter or tool assemblies, (collectively “cutter assemblies”), and related methods of use and manufacturing. The various embodiments of the cutter assemblies described herein may be used in tunnel boring machines (“TBMs”), earth pressure balance machines (“EPBs”), raise drilling systems, large diameter blind drilling systems, and other types of mechanical drilling and excavation systems.
US10036246B2
Apparatus, computer readable medium, and program code for identifying rock properties in real-time during drilling, are provided. An example of an embodiment of such an apparatus includes a downhole sensor subassembly connected between a drill bit and a drill string, acoustic sensors operably coupled to a downhole data interface, and a surface computer operably coupled to the downhole data interface. The computer can include a petrophysical properties analyzing program configured or otherwise adapted to perform various operations including receiving raw acoustic sensor data generated real-time as a result of rotational contact of the drill bit with rock during drilling, transforming the raw acoustic sensor data into the frequency domain, filtering the transformed data, deriving a plurality of acoustic characteristics from the filtered data and deriving petrophysical properties from the filtered data utilizing a petrophysical properties evaluation algorithm employable to predict one or more petrophysical properties of rock undergoing drilling.
US10036237B2
In one aspect, a device for use in a wellbore is disclosed that in one non-limiting embodiment includes a body having an outer surface and a bore therethrough, an element on the outer surface of the body that expands radially outward from the body, a movable sleeve on the outer surface of the body that expands the element when pushed against the element, and an attachment device connected to an inside surface of the movable sleeve and accessible from inside the body so that the attachment member may be moved from inside the body to move the sleeve to set the device.
US10036234B2
A lateral wellbore completion apparatus may include a flow-through deflector having a deflector face and a junction string that includes a junction block cooperative to mate with the deflector face, a downhole device, and an inductive coupler electrically connected to the downhole device. A method may include anchoring the deflector in a main bore, making-up at the drilling surface a junction string that includes a junction block, a completion string section having a downhole device, and a secondary inductive coupler electrically connected to the downhole device, running the junction string into the main bore, deflecting the completion string section into the lateral bore, and landing the junction block on the deflector face thereby communicatively coupling the secondary and primary inductive couplers.
US10036233B2
An embodiment of a method of performing an energy industry operation includes: collecting historical data relating to one or more previously performed operations having a characteristic common to both the one or more previously performed operations and a proposed operation; planning the proposed operation based on the historical data, the proposed operation associated with one or more operational parameters; performing the proposed operation; measuring a condition during performance of the proposed operation and comparing the measured condition to the historical data; and automatically adjusting the one or more operational parameters based on the comparison.
US10036227B2
A pressure containment device for containing pressure in an annulus around a tubular body, the device comprising a housing having an axis and a passage extending generally parallel to the housing axis, and a seal assembly comprising a seal located in the housing to surround and enter into sealing engagement with a tubular body extending along the passage, wherein the housing is provided with a returns outlet port, an injection port, and an overflow outlet port, all of which extend through the housing from the exterior of the housing into the passage, the injection port being located between the returns outlet port and a first end of the seal, and the overflow outlet port being located adjacent a second, opposite end of the seal, and thus being separated from the injection port by the seal.
US10036226B2
An early production system includes an Emergency Disconnect Package (“EDP”), a production riser coupled between the EDP and a sea surface processing facility, a gas export tubing coupled between the EDP and the sea surface processing facility, and a flow base. The flow base is detachably connectable to the EDP. The flow base also includes an Independent Production Control System (“IPCS”) for controlling at least one production valve.
US10036223B2
A method according to one or more aspects of the disclosure includes actuating a slip device to grip a tubular extending through a bore, the slip device has an upper set of slips spaced axially above a lower set of slips and the actuating includes radially moving in unison the upper and the lower sets of slips from an open position to an extended position gripping the tubular.
US10036218B2
A system and method are disclosed for regulating drilling fluid pressure in a drilling fluid circulation system. In one embodiment, a drilling fluid circulation system includes a processor (110) connected to a pressure relief device (104), which is connected to piping between a discharge of a drilling fluid pump (30) and an inlet of a drill string (31). The processor receives pressure measurement signals representative of a pressure of the drilling fluid in the piping and flow parameter signals representative of a flow of the drilling fluid through the piping. From the pressure measurement signals and the flow parameter signals, the processor determines that a target pressure parameter of the drilling fluid in the piping is not satisfied. In response, the processor lowers the pressure of the drilling fluid in the piping until the target pressure parameter is satisfied by at least partially opening the pressure relief device.
US10036214B2
A method and system for installing a Christmas tree in place of a blowout preventer on a wellhead. The donut in the wellhead BOP is landed using a coiled tubing injector. Then the wellhead BOP is removed and the Christmas tree is installed using the same crane that supported the coiled tubing injector. This employs the coiled tubing rig already in use at the well site for a previous operation, such as plug drilling or perforating and fracturing. Notably, the system provides a second seal, such as a ceramic disk, below the donut while the Christmas tree is installed. The tool string used to install the donut includes a safety union so that the tool string can be disconnected after the donut is landed and locked into place.
US10036197B1
A doorway interconnection and method of creating an airtight seal between two doorways includes a first temporary membrane creating an airtight seal on a first doorway and a second temporary membrane creating an airtight seal on a second doorway and a gasket between the two doorways, and vents and valves to place and remove a sterilizing fluid in the inter-doorway volume. Such a system may be used to attach a sterile modular building unit to a sterile facility without losing the sterility of either the facility or the module building unit. Access to the membranes may be from one direction only. The gasket may provide motion and sound isolation between. Additional elements limit relative motions between the first and second doorways.
US10036192B2
A composite reinforced mull post is disclosed for use in an entryway assembly. The mull post may engage a door on one side and a side light window on the other side. The mull post may comprise a one or two-piece outer portion and one or more internal reinforcing members. The outer portion may comprise a plurality of interlocking pieces. A first internal reinforcing member may be formed of engineered material such as a wood laminate, and a second reinforcing member may comprise a channel that extends partially around the first reinforcing member. The reinforcing member may include orthogonal portions conterminously received within a correspondingly shaped central chamber formed by the housing formed by the joined interlocking pieces. The reinforcing member may include an upper wood portion and a lower durable portion, connected end to end by a glued finger joint.
US10036189B2
A synchronous hinge device includes a first base having a first connecting portion and a first assembling portion. The first connecting portion has a first central groove, a first outer groove, a first through hole and a second through hole. A second base has a second connecting portion and a second assembling portion. The second connecting portion has a second central groove, a second outer groove, a third through hole and a fourth through hole. First, second, third, and forth shafts extending through the first, the second, the third, and the fourth through holes, respectively. A first torque element disposed between the first shaft and the third shaft; and a second torque element disposed between second shaft and the fourth shaft, wherein the first torque element has axle sleeves limiting the first distance, and the second torque element has axle sleeves limiting the second distance.
US10036187B2
An apparatus is provided including a docking device to accept a computing device, the docking device including a keyboard and a hinge to connect the computing device to the keyboard, the hinge is configured to allow the computing device, when connected to the hinge, to rotate relative to the keyboard in a laptop orientation. The hinge includes a plurality of interlinked parallel hinge segments at least partially enclosed in a flexible covering, and each hinge segment is to rotate about a respective one of a plurality of parallel axes of the hinge.
US10036186B2
An electronic device provided. The electronic device includes a first body part including a first connection member and a second body part including a second connection member. At least one of the first connection member and the second connection member includes and a portion having a first flat area and a second area. The second area having a generally curved configuration and extending from the first flat area for magnetically coupling the first body part and the second body part to each other.
US10036175B2
A swimming pool cleaner is driven along a submerged surface by water and debris flowing past a turbine positioned between an inlet and outlet of the cleaner. Retractable elements carried proximate the inlet form a plenum for water to enhance adherence of the pool cleaner to the submerged pool surface being cleaner. A drive train independently drives each of two wheels for maneuvering the pool cleaner in forward and reverse directions along the submerged surface. A hose connector operable with an outlet port is angled toward the forward direction of movement of the pool cleaner such that a suction hose will be placed slightly ahead of the pool cleaner when climbing a side wall surface to provide a weight for keeping the cleaner below the water surface and thus prevent an undesirable sucking of air at the inlet.
US10036172B1
A real estate unit in accordance with a particular embodiment of the present technology includes an interior space within a commercial building, and a reusable bathroom removably disposed within the commercial building. The commercial building can include a storefront between the interior space and an outdoor area. The real estate unit can further include reusable wall components removably disposed within the commercial building. For example, the interior space can be within a compartment at least partially defined by the reusable wall components. In at least some cases, the interior space is a purpose-built retail, office, and/or restaurant space. The real estate unit can be a lodging unit, a rentable residential unit, a rentable office unit, and/or a rentable assembly unit.
US10036171B2
A method for demolishing a building, where the building comprises a building base placed in proximity of a ground, or placed on the ground, and an opposite building top or temporary building top arranged away from the building base, as well as building floors. The equipment used in the method includes a platform adapted to be positioned against the top of the building, avoiding ground support devices which extend from the platform to the base of the building or the ground surrounding the building. The platform includes at least one working scaffold adapted to be arranged along the periphery of the building and to face at least one floor of said building. The working scaffold is supported, hung, on the platform so that it descends along the side wall of the building to border the works for demolishing the building.
US10036165B1
Matrix basalt reinforcing member constructed and arrange to provide lateral support for the longitudinal bar steel or FRP tendons that provide tensile strength to cementitious material or plastics to reduce bending moment by reducing the onset of shear. The reinforcement members are formed from continuous glass fibers treated with a thermoplastic thermoset polymer and formed into structures to provide structural resistance to bending-moment forces, compression forces, and torsional forces acting on the structure.
US10036155B2
A building system comprising a plurality of tubes, a plurality of connection nodes comprising tubular sections for connection to the tubes, wherein the tubes are arranged to connect between the connection nodes to form a frame for a building, wherein at least one continuous cavity is formed through at least a portion of the nodes and tubes when the nodes and tubes are connected, the building system further comprising fluid tight seals between the tubes and connection nodes to enable fluid to flow through the at least one continuous cavity.
US10036152B2
A volume controllable toilet flush system, comprising: a cistern configured to hold and retain a fluid; a vertically moveable siphon assembly comprising a siphon portion, a pipe and at least one resilient element attached to the pipe; a toilet bowl shaped to retain and hold waste; an actuator operatively connected to the pipe by a stud attached to the pipe and configured to provide vertical movement to the siphon assembly, wherein movement of the siphon assembly by the actuator stores or releases energy in the at least one resilient element and, wherein downward vertical movement of the siphon assembly puts the toilet bowl in fluid communication with the cistern by creating a siphoning action between the siphon portion and the fluid in the cistern and wherein subsequent upward vertical movement of the siphon assembly terminates the siphoning action to stop fluid flow from the cistern to the toilet bowl.
US10036151B1
A drain engageable bowl having an interior cavity with an opening at a bottom end thereof. The opening aligns with an axial passage running though an annular projection connected to the bowl and aligned with the opening. The annular projection is adapted to frictionally engage with an interior of a sink drain, and hold the bowl elevated above the lower surface of a sink surrounding the drain. Sealable openings in the sidewall of the annular projection provide an actuable drain for fluid from the sink keeping it separated from the interior cavity of the bowl.
US10036150B2
An automatic faucet includes a faucet body, an inner core assembly, and a sensor. The inner core assembly includes a valve core, a valve core seat, and a sleeve. The valve core is mounted on the valve core seat. The valve core seat has a cold water hole, a hot water hole, a mixed water hole, and a water outlet. The sleeve is mounted beneath the valve core seat, and has a cold water inlet and a hot water inlet. The sleeve further has a diversion passage communicating with the cold water inlet. The sensor is used to open or close the diversion passage. The sensor includes a sensing module, a solenoid valve, and a buffer rod.
US10036148B1
A soap-dispensing faucet assembly for sinks includes a faucet that is configured to couple to a sink and a housing that is configured to couple to a surface below the sink. A nozzle, which is configured to spray water, is fluidically coupled to the faucet. A power module, a reservoir, and a pump are coupled to and positioned in the housing. The reservoir is configured to position fluids, such as liquid soap and liquid detergent. The pump is operationally coupled to the power module and is fluidically coupled to the reservoir. A tube is coupled to a front plate of the nozzle and extends from an opening in the front plate of the nozzle through the faucet. The tube is fluidically coupled to the pump. The pump is configured to motivate the fluids from the reservoir through the tube to be dispensed from the opening in the nozzle.
US10036144B2
A valve assembly includes a valve installed in a fluid/liquid supply line, and a water circulation pipe that has a first end in fluid communication with a water supply line and a second end in fluid communication with an inner volume of the valve. Some water flowing in the water supply line is diverted through the water circulation pipe and circulates in the valve. The water that is diverted through the water circulation pipe and circulates in the valve has a sufficient flow to prevent freezing and/or water stagnation in the valve.
US10036134B2
A portable, water-filled barrier system includes a plurality of water-fillable modules, each module being internally divided into cells that emulates a section of a sandbag dike or wall. Adjacent modules are interconnected by fastening mechanisms, such as loops attached to fronts or sides of the modules and connected by straps or clamps. Automatic valves can seal openings between the filled cells, so that a punctured cell will not cause cells below and behind to deflate. In embodiments, the barrier can be initially filled with air, positioned, and then filled with water while the air escapes through a pressure valve. A manifold can be used to simultaneously fill a plurality of cells. A flexible sheet can be installed beneath and in front of the assembled barrier so as to inhibit leakage of water under or between the cells.
US10036133B2
The present invention relates to a retractable floodwall system comprising a floodwall panel installed in a housing unit. The floodwall panel is connected with a counter-balance weight. The floodwall panel is capable of being raised from the housing unit and being lowered into the housing unit. The present invention also relates to a method of flood prevention comprising providing a floodwall panel in a housing unit; connecting the floodwall panel with a counter-balance weight; raising the floodwall panel from the housing unit for flood prevention; and lowering the floodwall panel into the housing unit.
US10036125B2
A security device with multiple layers. A substrate provides the backing to a first luminescent layer. An optically variable structure is positioned between the first luminescent layer and a second luminescent layer. Both the first and second luminescent layers emit luminescent radiation when stimulated. When the first layer is stimulated, the optically variable structure filters the emitted luminescent radiation such that the emitted luminescent radiation only escapes the optically variable structure at a predetermined range of emission angles. A user, when viewing the security device from the predetermined range of angles as both layers are stimulated, can see a completed image of a predetermined indicia. When the security device is viewed at angles other than the predetermined range of angles as both layers are stimulated, a user will only see an incomplete image of the predetermined indicia.
US10036124B2
A process for providing printable substrates by separately treating one or both surfaces of a paper substrate with an optical brightening agent (OBA) and a multivalent metal salt drying agent, where one or both surfaces of the paper substrate is treated with one of these two agents at the size press, and where the surface(s) is treated with the other of these two agents before or after the size press.
US10036123B2
The present invention relates to a sizing composition that, when applied to paper substrate, creates a substrate, preferably suitable for inkjet printing, having increased print density, print sharpness, low HST, and/or image dry time, the substrate preferably having high brightness and reduced color-to-color bleed as well. In addition, the present invention relates to a method of reducing the HST of a paper substrate by applying the sizing composition to at least one surface thereof. Further, the application relates to methods of making and using the sizing composition, as well as methods of making and using the paper containing the sizing composition.
US10036121B2
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for continuous manufacture of surface sizing starch, wet-end starch or binder starch in paper, cardboard and chemical pulp industry. The starch slurry is modified as a starch size suitable for the application (6) by exposing the starch slurry to ultra sound in the ultrasonic unit (4, 4a, 4b).
US10036117B2
There is described an improved iron structure comprising a soleplate provided with through holes for steam adapted to come into contact with the fabrics to be treated, a boiler adapted to produce steam fluidly connected to the soleplate, a duct for introducing water into the boiler, heating means and a control button functionally connected to the boiler and arranged to obtain the delivery of steam through the through holes of the soleplate. In particular, the boiler is produced as fluid-tight coupling between the soleplate and a cover portion to form a boiler compartment in which the water is boiled and in which during use of the iron the hot water-steam balance is established.
US10036115B2
A method of displaying selection information on a display of a user interface for a laundry treating appliance, including displaying on the display user-selectable options for laundry type and treatment type, in response to receiving user selections for the laundry type and treatment type, displaying on the display a group of user-selectable presets.
US10036114B2
A fabric treating appliance includes a chassis defining an interior. A tub is provided in the interior defining a liquid chamber. A rotatable drum is located within the tub to define a treating chamber for treating laundry articles according to a cycle of operation. A rear drive plate is provided at one end of the drum. A motor is provided within in the liquid chamber of the tub and extends through the rear drive plate to rotate the drum according to the cycle of operation.
US10036107B2
The invention provides a nonwoven electret web comprising fibers made from a thermoplastic polymer material which comprises a polymer, a first additive (a) and a second additive (b), wherein the first additive (a) comprises a hindered amine and the second additive (b) comprises a metal salt of a carboxylic acid and/or an organic amide derived from a carboxylic acid and an amine. The invention further provides a process for making the nonwoven electret web, a fiber, a process for making the fiber, a multi-layer sheet, and the use of the nonwoven electret web, the fiber or the multilayered sheet as a filter material or as a dust-removing fabric for cleaning purposes.
US10036106B2
A yarn withdrawal nozzle 13 for an open-end rotor spinning device 1 with at least two ferromagnetic projections for magnetically coupling to permanent magnets 31 arranged in depressions of a holder in the cover element 8 of a rotor housing 2, wherein the ferromagnetic projections correspond in their arrangement and dimensions to the depressions 30 in the holder. The ferromagnetic projections are formed directly in the yarn withdrawal nozzle 13 made from a non-magnetic material.
US10036095B2
An electrolytic treatment method in which a predetermined treatment is performed using treatment subject ions contained in a treatment liquid, the method including: an electrode positioning step for positioning a direct electrode and a counter electrode so as to sandwich the treatment liquid, and positioning an indirect electrode for forming an electric field in the treatment liquid; a treatment subject ion migration step for applying a voltage to the indirect electrode and thereby moving the treatment subject ions in the treatment liquid to the counter electrode side; and a treatment subject ion redox step for applying a voltage between the direct electrode and the counter electrode and thereby oxidizing or reducing the treatment subject ions which have migrated to the counter electrode side.
US10036084B2
Solid immiscible alloys and methods for making the solid immiscible alloys are provided. The microstructure of the immiscible alloys is characterized by a minority phase comprising a plurality of particles of an inorganic material dispersed in a majority phase comprising a continuous matrix of another inorganic material. The methods utilize nanoparticles to control both the collisional growth and the diffusional growth of the minority phase particles in the matrix during the formation of the alloy microstructure.
US10036082B2
Provided are: an extractant which is capable of quickly and highly efficiently extracting zirconium from an acidic solution that is obtained by acid leaching a material containing zirconium and scandium such as an SOFC electrode material; and a method for extracting zirconium, which uses this extractant. A zirconium extractant according to the present invention is composed of an amide derivative represented by general formula (I). In the formula, R1 and R2 respectively represent the same or different alkyl groups, each of which may be linear or branched; R3 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; and R4 represents a hydrogen atom or an arbitrary group other than an amino group, said arbitrary group being bonded, as an amino acid, to the α carbon.
US10036081B2
In one embodiment, the invention provides a leaching method using a support made of a polypropylene material to form agglomerates with a metal bearing material or mineral concentrates.
US10036070B2
The invention relates to methods of typing a sample from a colorectal cancer patient based on the levels of RNA expression products in a cancer cell of the patient. The invention further relates to methods for determining a strategy for treatment of a patient suffering from colorectal cancer, and to methods for assigning treatment to a patient suffering from colorectal cancer.
US10036069B2
Disclosed are methods are kits for evaluating predicting whether an individual IPF has slowly or rapidly progressive IPF.
US10036066B2
The invention provides compositions and methods for the detection of targets in a sample; in particular, an in situ hybridization (ISH) sample. Probes and detectable labels may be provided in multiple layers in order to increase the flexibility of a detection system, and to allow for amplification to enhance the signal from a target. The layers may be created by incorporating probes and detectable labels into larger molecular units that interact through nucleic acids base-pairing, including peptide-nucleic acid (PNA) base-pairing. Optional non-natural bases allow for degenerate base pairing schemes. The compositions and methods are also compatible with immunohistochemistry (IHC), immunocytochemistry (ICC), flow cytometry, enzyme immuno-assays (EIA), enzyme linked immuno-assays (ELISA), blotting methods (e.g. Western, Southern, and Northern), labeling inside electrophoresis systems or on surfaces or arrays, and precipitation, among other general detection assay formats. The invention is also compatible with many different types of targets, probes, and detectable labels.
US10036061B2
The invention comprises a reversible oligonucleotide inhibitor of nucleic acid polymerases. Methods of designing said inhibitors and using said inhibitors in amplification and detection of nucleic acid, particularly detection of RNA by RT-PCR are also disclosed.
US10036060B2
The present invention provides methods for the amplification of nucleic acid molecules. Methods for amplifying target polynucleotides, including mRNA, using oligonucleotides, DNA and RNA polymerases are provided. The invention further provides compositions and kits for practicing the methods, as well as methods which use the amplification products.
US10036057B2
This disclosure describes related novel methods for Recombinase-Polymerase Amplification (RPA) of a target DNA that exploit the properties of recombinase and related proteins, to invade double-stranded DNA with single stranded homologous DNA permitting sequence specific priming of DNA polymerase reactions. The disclosed methods have the advantage of not requiring thermocycling or thermophilic enzymes, thus offering easy and affordable implementation and portability relative to other amplification methods. Further disclosed are conditions to enable real-time monitoring of RPA reactions, methods to regulate RPA reactions using light and otherwise, methods to determine the nature of amplified species without a need for gel electrophoresis, methods to improve and optimize signal to noise ratios in RPA reactions, methods to optimize oligonucleotide primer function, methods to control carry-over contamination, and methods to employ sequence-specific third ‘specificity’ probes. Further described are novel properties and approaches for use of probes monitored by light in dynamic recombination environments.
US10036054B2
The present disclosure provides improved methods for bead beating and a bead beating system useful therefor. The bead beating system comprises a sample tube, beads, and a dry blocking agent, and methods for using the bead beating system to extract nucleic acids from cells containing the nucleic acids.
US10036051B2
Nucleic acid sequences encoding chimeric polypeptides that exhibit enhanced cellulase activities are disclosed herein. These nucleic acids may be expressed in hosts such as fungi, which in turn may be cultured to produce chimeric polypeptides. Also disclosed are chimeric polypeptides and their use in the degradation of cellulosic materials.
US10036046B2
The present disclosure discloses a transformed Synechococcus elongatus strain capable of producing biodiesel directly from carbon dioxide and a method for producing biodiesel and a method for removing carbon dioxide using the same. In an aspect, the transformed Synechococcus elongatus strain of the present disclosure can produce biodiesel in large scale using carbon dioxide as a carbon source. The Synechococcus elongatus strain is environment-friendly because it can be used to remove or reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The strain of the present disclosure is advantageous in that it can produce biodiesel in large scale because it grows faster and exhibits excellent carbon dioxide fixation capability as compared to other photosynthetic microorganisms.
US10036043B2
The present invention relates to processes for producing ethanol from starch-containing material by liquefying the starch-containing material at a temperature above the initial gelatinization temperature using an alpha-amylase; saccharifying using a glucoamylase and fermenting using a Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast strain deposited under Accession No. V14/004037 at National Measurement Institute, Victoria, Australia) or a fermenting organism strain having properties that are about the same as that of the deposited Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain or a derivative of Saccharomyces strain V14/004037 having the defining characteristics of strain V14/004037. The invention also relates to a Saccharomyces yeast strain deposited under the Budapest Treaty and having NMI accession no. V14/004037 or a derivative of strain V14/004037 which exhibits one or more defining characteristics of strain V14/004037. The invention also relates to a process of recovering/extracting oil from an ethanol process of the invention using a Saccharomyces strain of the invention and compositions comprising a Saccharomyces yeast strain of the invention and naturally occurring and/or non-naturally occurring components.
US10036034B2
Nucleic acid sequences involved in plant yield are provided, as are methods of using such nucleic acid sequences.
US10036028B2
The Zea mays c.v. B73 Ubiquitin-1 (Z. mays c.v. B73 Ubi-1) promoter drives high levels of constitutive transgene expression in plants. Repeated use of the same Z. mays c.v. B73 Ubi-1 promoter in multi-gene constructs may also lead to gene silencing, thereby making transgenic products less efficacious. Provided are gene regulatory promoter elements, constructs, and methods for expressing a transgene in plant cells and/or plant tissues using gene regulatory elements from the Ubi-1 promoter of a different Zea species, Z. luxurians v1.
US10036027B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01064536. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01064536. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01064536 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01064536 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10036023B2
An aspect of an embodiment of the invention relates to providing treatment of disease, in particular age-related disease, through increasing or decreasing the activity of SIRT6 protein. This may be accomplished through upregulation and downregulation of expression of SIRT6 in mammals. It has been found by the inventors that mice over-expressing SIRT6 have a longer lifespan in comparison to control mice, indicating that increasing SIRT6 expression can lengthen lifespan of mammals. Agents which modulate SIRT6 expression through, for example binding to 3′UTR region of human mRNA encoding SIRT6 or by blocking binding of agents to 3′UTR region of human mRNA encoding SIRT6, have been identified.
US10036020B2
The instant invention provides compositions and methods for inhibiting the JC Virus (JCV), and that can be used, for example, for treating progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). Antisense oligonucleotides are provided which are effective in inhibiting JCV replication or multiplication, alone or in a combination. In preferred embodiments, the oligonucleotides contain modifications.
US10036019B2
The present invention provides novel bicyclic carbocyclic nucleosides and oligomeric compounds prepared therefrom. Incorporation of one or more of the bicyclic carbocyclic nucleosides into an oligomeric compound is expected to enhance one or more properties of the oligomeric compound. In certain embodiments, the oligomeric compounds provided herein hybridize to a portion of a target RNA resulting in modulation of normal function of the target RNA. In certain embodiments, bicyclic carbocyclic nucleosides are provided as monomers for use as antivirals.
US10036018B2
The present invention relates, in various embodiments, to methods of treating cachexia (e.g., cancer cachexia) in a patient. The methods comprise administering at least one compound for inhibiting, in alternative embodiments, the expression or activity of a microRNA that is present in microvesicles secreted from cancer cells in the patient (e.g., a miR-21 gene product), the expression or activity of a Toll-like receptor (e.g., TLR7, TLR8), the expression or activity of a c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK), the secretion of microvesicles from cancer cells, or the fusion of microvesicles from cancer cells with muscle cells or adipocytes. The present invention also relates, in certain embodiments, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising at least two compounds useful in the practice of the methods of the invention described herein.
US10036014B2
The present invention relates to antisense oligonucleotides that modulate the expression of and/or function of a Down Syndrome Gene, in particular, by targeting natural antisense polynucleotides of a Down Syndrome Gene. The invention also relates to the identification of these antisense oligonucleotides and their use in treating diseases and disorders associated with the expression of Down Syndrome Genes.
US10036011B2
The present invention discloses methods of applications of indole-3-propionic acid, L-carnitine and O-acetyl-L-carnitine in one or more different reactive steps of a sequencing-by-synthesis workflow. The reactive steps employing these compounds include, but are not limited to, cleaving, imaging, incorporating bases and washing. The use of these new compounds provides improved sequencing performance including, but not limited to, lower error rates, higher sequence outputs and/or longer read lengths.
US10036009B2
The invention relates to methods for isolating traffic-enhancing mutants of drug delivery proteins. In one embodiment, the invention provides a carrier for delivering a therapeutic agent to an organelle, comprising a polypeptide encoded by a mutant penton base gene. In another embodiment, the invention provides a method of enhancing trafficking to a cell by administering a composition comprising a penton base (PB) protein with one or more mutations that enhance cellular entry.
US10036007B2
Proposed is a method of easily finding an error during analysis of various library sequences of nucleic acid base sequences after synthesizing a gene library using a combination of three nucleic acid base sequences (codon) translated into the same protein. This shows that it is possible to create a gene library having the same protein sequence but different nucleic acid base sequences. The present disclosure provides a novel experimental method capable of measuring a correlation between gene expression according to change in a codon by changing the usage of a codon optimized to express a specific gene in vivo.
US10035989B2
The present invention relates to a process for the production of polyunsaturated fatty acids in the seed of transgenic plants by introducing, into the organism, nucleic acids which encode polypeptides with a ω3-desaturase, Δ12-desaturase, Δ6-desaturase, Δ6-elongase, Δ5-desaturase, Δ5-elongase and/or Δ4-desaturase activity. The invention furthermore relates to recombinant nucleic acid molecules comprising the nucleic acid sequences which encode the aforementioned polypeptides, either jointly or individually, and transgenic plants which comprise the aforementioned recombinant nucleic acid molecules. Furthermore, the invention relates to the generation of a transgenic plant and to oils, lipids and/or fatty acids with an elevated content of polyunsaturated fatty acids, in particular arachidonic acid, eicosapentaenoic acid and/or docosahexaenoic acid, as the result of the expression of the elongases and desaturases used in the process according to the invention.
US10035981B2
This invention provides an anti-cancer immunogenic agent(s) (e.g. vaccines) that elicit an immune response specifically directed against renal cell cancers expressing a G250 antigenic marker. Preferred immunogenic agents comprise a chimeric molecule comprising a kidney cancer specific antigen (G250) attached to a granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF). The agents are useful in a wide variety of treatment modalities including, but not limited to protein vaccination, DNA vaccination, and adoptive immunotherapy.
US10035979B2
A beer making system may use direct steam injection during wort manufacturing. Steam may be added directly to the wort, and may be part of a recirculating mash system. The steam may be the primary mechanism for adding heat to the system, and may eliminate many problems that often occur when using conventional heating systems. A water reservoir may feed a stream generator, which may inject steam into wort during mashing or boiling steps. A controller may monitor temperature and other parameters, and may calculate the dilution of wort based on the water added through the steam injection and allow a brewing system to compensate for said dilution and still produce desired results.
US10035969B2
An auxiliary lubricant comprising a composition, the comprising intermediate molecular weight surfactant-functionalized nanoparticles dispersed in a base oil.
US10035968B2
The present invention relates to a lubricating composition containing an oil of lubricating viscosity and a dimercaptothiadiazole salt of a copolymer comprising units derived from monomers (i) an ?-olefin and (ii) an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid or derivatives thereof (typically carboxylic acid groups or an anhydride), are partially esterified with an alcohol, or mixtures thereof, and wherein at least a portion of carboxylic acid groups not esterified are reacted with an amine. The invention further provides for a lubricating composition containing said copolymer. The invention further provides a method and use of lubricating composition in a mechanical device.
US10035959B2
Systems and methods are provided for slurry hydroconversion of a heavy oil feed, such as an atmospheric or vacuum resid. The systems and methods allow for slurry hydroconversion using catalysts with enhanced activity and/or catalysts that can be recycled as a side product from a complementary refinery process.
US10035958B2
Biomass (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) is processed to produce useful products, such as fuels. For example, systems are described that can use feedstock materials, such as cellulosic and/or lignocellulosic materials and/or starchy materials, to produce ethanol and/or butanol, e.g., by fermentation. Hydrocarbon-containing materials are also used as feedstocks.
US10035957B2
A method of treating lignin-based material is provided, comprising the steps of subjecting lignin separated from lingo-cellulosic raw material to hydrothermal carbonization process at an elevated temperature, where carbonized lignin having increased carbon content is obtained, and stabilizing the obtained carbonized lignin under inert atmosphere at a stabilization temperature higher than the temperature of the hydrothermal carbonization process.
US10035954B2
A treatment for soils and road base materials including applying to the soil or road base materials an organosilicon waterproofing agent, and applying to the soil or road base material a soil stabilizer binder including an acrylate ester polymer emulsion.
US10035948B2
Various embodiments disclosed related to compositions and methods of using the same for treating subterranean formations. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of treating a subterranean formation. The method includes placing in a subterranean formation a composition that includes a viscosifier and that also includes a hydrophobically-modified polymer including at least one nitrogen-containing repeating unit.
US10035947B2
A breaker system for a fracturing fluid having a polymer, includes an oxidative polymer breaker which includes water, a persulfate and a transition metal chelate having more than one accessible oxidation state, which inhibits or delays the break of the polymer by the breaker.
US10035946B2
Emulsions of mobility control polymers can be used to increase recovery of crude oil from a subterranean hydrocarbon-containing formation. A flooding fluid comprising the polymer emulsions are injected into a well that is in contact with the subterranean hydrocarbon-containing formation. The polymers can be temporarily cross-linked via hydrolyzable crosslinking moieties derived from a multifunctional hydrazide, a multifunctional amine, a multifunctional hydroxylamine, or a combination thereof and have improved injectivity into the well; the improved injectivity can be measured in terms of the flooding fluid's filter ratio, flow rate, and viscosity.
US10035941B2
Compositions for lost circulation materials (LCM) and methods for using same in drilling and/or completing wellbores that help solve lost circulation problems in a wide range of fracture sizes, thereby advantageously eliminating the need for a variety of products for lost circulation in a field at any one time. The compositions provide specific LCM components in specific ratios that are analogs to lost circulation fractures and that yield superior performance in preventing or alleviating lost circulation in drilling and cementing boreholes. The compositions have a multi-modal particle size distribution (PSD) which provides a higher concentration of component materials in the same range of two or more fracture widths or median pore size diameters, thus allowing plugging to occur over a wider range than a single mode or narrow PSD.
US10035929B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of forming a CMP slurry that is free of pH-adjusters (i.e., chemicals added solely for the purpose of adjusting a pH of a CMP slurry), and an associated a pH-adjuster free CMP slurry. In some embodiments, the method is performed by forming a CMP slurry having a first pH value. A desired pH value of the CMP slurry is determined. A chelating agent configured to bond to metallic ions is provided to the CMP slurry. The chelating agent is configured to adjust a pH value of the CMP slurry from the first pH value to the desired pH value. By using the chelating agent to adjust a pH value of the CMP slurry to achieve a desired pH value, the method is able to form a CMP slurry that is free of pH-adjusters, thereby reducing the cost and complexity of the CMP slurry.
US10035923B2
The invention relates to a crosslinkable or non-crosslinkable aqueous dispersion of polymer, based on structured polymer particles, said particle comprising a core polymer phase, based on a polymer P1 with Tg1 ranging from 60 to 120° C., a second polymer phase enveloping said core, based on a polymer P2 with a Tg2 ranging from −60 to 40° C. and a third outer polymer phase (or shell) based on a polymer P3, with a Tg3 greater than Tg2 not exceeding 120° C. and having a measured Mn of from 1000 to 150 000, with the weight contents of said polymers P1, P2 and P3 being relative to the total weight of polymer (P1+P2+P3): P1 from 5% to 60%, P2 from 40% to 85%, P3 from 5% to 25% with the sum of said weight contents being 100%.
US10035921B2
A water-based ink for inkjet recording contains a pigment, water, organic solvents, at least one compound selected from urea compounds, and a binder resin. The organic solvents include at least (1) a water-soluble organic solvent having a boiling point of from 100° C. to 200° C. inclusive and a vapor pressure at 20° C. of 0.5 hPa or more, (2) propylene glycol, and (3) glycerin, diglycerin, and/or a derivative thereof serving as an organic solvent. Preferably, the water-based ink further contains a polymer (A) serving as a pigment dispersant. The polymer (A) has an anionic group and has a solubility in water of 0.1 g/100 mL or more, a number average molecular weight within the range of 1,000 to 6,000, and an acid value within the range of 40 to 190 mg KOH/g.
US10035920B2
The present application discloses biopolymer-based ink formulations that are useful for inkjet printing and other applications. Related methods are also disclosed.
US10035919B2
A photocurable ink composition for inkjet printing contains: a photopolymerizable compound that contains: virtually no vinyl formamide; 0.1 to 20 percent by mass of a monofunctional monomer containing an ether group relative to the total mass of the photopolymerizable component; 65 to 85 percent by mass of a monofunctional monomer containing a cyclic structure relative to the total mass of the photopolymerizable component; 0.1 to 25 percent by mass of a multifunctional monomer containing an amino group relative to the total mass of the photopolymerizable component; and 5 to 35 percent by mass of a monomer containing a trimethylol propane skeleton relative to the total mass of the photopolymerizable component; and an acyl phosphine oxide photopolymerization initiator by 3 to 20 percent by mass relative to the total mass of the photopolymerizable component; wherein the viscosity of said photocurable ink composition for inkjet printing is 100 mPa·s or less at 25° C.
US10035916B2
To provide a composition for powder coating material which can be sufficiently pulverized, and with which a powder coating material capable of forming a coating film excellent in weather resistance and adhesion to the substrate can be obtained; a powder coating material capable of forming a coating film excellent in weather resistance and adhesion to the substrate; and a coated article having a coating film excellent in weather resistance and adhesion to the substrate, on its surface. A composition for powder coating material comprising a polyvinylidene fluoride (A) having a melting point of from 151 to 200° C., and an acrylic resin (B) having a glass transition temperature of from 40 to 90° C. A powder coating material comprising the composition for powder coating material, and a coated article having a coating film formed of the powder coating material.
US10035914B2
The present invention relates to a new Inorganic Blue pigments from Cobalt doped Magnesium having Transition Element Oxides and a process for the preparing the same. The present invention more particularly relates to the development of blue pigments, comprising oxides of alkaline earth, and transition metals of the general formula Mg1-xCoxWO4 (x=0.1 to 0.5), Mg1-xCoxN-bO6 (x=0.1 to 0.5), and Mg1-xCoxTiO3 (x=0.1 to 0.5) and well suited for coloring applications of a wide variety of substrates for example paints, varnishes, plastics, ceramics etc. Raw materials such as MgO, CoO and one of WO3, TiO2, Nb2O5 and are weighted in the stoichiometric ratio and calcined in the range 1100-1300° C. for 6-12 hrs duration in air atmosphere. The well ground calcined powders were used for characterization of the pigments. The phase purity and optical properties of the prepared pigments were investigated.
US10035911B2
Provided is a one part, dual curable composition comprising (A) a first acrylic functional polyorganosiloxane with at least one moisture curable functional group, (B) a second acrylic functional polyorganosiloxane, which may optionally contain a moisture curable functional group, and (C) a third functional polyorganosiloxane, which optionally contains an acrylic and moisture curable functional group. The combination of (A), (B), and (C) provides a composition that is both moisture curable and radiation curable and provides a material that is fast curing via the dual cure functionality and provides a cured material exhibiting a relatively low modulus, good adhesion, and optical clarity.
US10035909B2
Compositions comprising surface-modified calcite nanoparticles dispersed in a curable resin and to coatings and fibrous composites incorporating such compositions are described. The nanocalcite particles have a high magnesium to calcium surface concentration ratio. The surface-modifying agents include a binding group ionically associated with the nanoparticles, and a compatiblizing segment compatible with the curable resin. The surface-modifying agent may also include a reactive group capable of reacting with the curable resin. Methods of preparing nanocalcite composites, and coatings and fibrous composites prepared from such nanocalcite composites are also described.
US10035888B2
Disclosed herein is a non-birefringent resin material that is very small in both orientation birefringence and photoelastic birefringence, has high transparency, and is capable of providing a molded article having few foreign matter defects and a film made of such a material. The non-birefringent resin material contains a resin (A) and a polymer (B) and has an orientation birefringence of −1.7×10−4 to 1.7×10−4 and a photoelastic constant of −4×10−12 to 4×10−12 Pa−1.
US10035863B2
There is provided a process for the preparation of purified β-(1,3)-D-glucans, comprising the steps of providing an aqueous β-(1,3)-D-glucan initial solution having a to pH of above 11.0, filtering the aqueous β-(1,3)-D-glucan initial solution to obtain a β-(1,3)-D-glucan containing filtrate, adjusting the pH of the β-(1,3)-D-glucan containing filtrate with an acid to a pH of below 5.0 to obtain an acidic β-(1,3)-D-glucan solution, and heating the acidic β-(1,3)-D-glucan solution to a temperature in the range of 60 to 160° C.
US10035860B2
Humanized antibodies and antibody fragments thereof that bind to αvβ6 are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of using these antibodies and antibody fragments to diagnose, treat, and/or prevent αvβ6-mediated diseases such as acute tissue injury, fibrosis, and cancer.
US10035859B2
Humanized antibodies and antibody fragments thereof that bind to αvβ6 are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of using these antibodies and antibody fragments to treat or prevent αvβ6-mediated diseases such as fibrosis and cancer.
US10035855B2
There is disclosed compositions and methods relating to or derived from anti-CD47 antibodies. More specifically, there is disclosed fully human antibodies that bind CD47, CD47-antibody binding fragments and derivatives of such antibodies, and CD47-binding polypeptides comprising such fragments. Further still, there is disclosed nucleic acids encoding such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, cells comprising such polynucleotides, methods of making such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, and methods of using such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, including methods of treating a disease.
US10035850B2
A method is provided for reducing the treatment burden for patients who have an intraocular neovascular disorder, the method comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of VEGF antagonist on a dosing schedule that includes treatment intervals of 8 and/or 12 weeks.
US10035845B2
Monoclonal neutralizing antibodies are disclosed that specifically bind to the CD4 binding site of HIV-1 gp120. Monoclonal neutralizing antibodies also are disclosed that specifically bind to HIV-1 gp41. The identification of these antibodies, and the use of these antibodies are also disclosed. Methods are also provided for enhancing the binding and neutralizing activity of any antibody using epitope scaffold probes.
US10035842B2
The disclosure provides isolated antibodies and antigen-binding fragments that bind to the G protein of RSV and which are capable of neutralizing RSV.
US10035839B2
The present invention relates to the field of medicine and the treatment of diabetes or hyperglycemia within that field. More particularly, the invention relates to a compound that lowers blood glucose, pharmaceutical compositions containing such a compound, and therapeutic uses of such a compound. The compound claimed herein comprises an A chain and a B chain, wherein the amino acid sequence of the A chain is SEQ ID NO: 1 and the amino acid sequence of the B chain is SEQ ID NO: 2.
US10035837B2
The present invention is directed to a method of preparing a water-soluble variant of a G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR), the method comprising replacing residues leucine (L), isoleucine (I), valine (V), and phenylalanine (F) in hydrophilic surface α-helical positions b, c, and f but not positions a, d, e, and g within the 7-transmembrane α-helical domain of the GPCR with glutamine (Q), threonine (T), threonine (T), and tyrosine (Y), respectively.
US10035831B2
The invention provides an Aβ peptide aggregation inhibitor, an Aβ peptide toxicity reducing agent, and a preventive and/or therapeutic agent for Alzheimer's disease. The oxidized Aβ peptide in which one or more amino acid residues of Aβ peptide have been oxidized (excluding an oxidized Aβ peptide in which only Met has been oxidized).
US10035828B2
The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
US10035825B2
The invention in some aspects relates to recombinant adeno-associated viruses having distinct tissue targeting capabilities. In some aspects, the invention relates to gene transfer methods using the recombinant adeno-associate viruses. In some aspects, the invention relates to isolated AAV capsid proteins and isolated nucleic acids encoding the same.
US10035823B2
Provided are compositions, including isolated, synthetic or recombinant peptides for: expanding regulatory T cells (Treg) populations; for treating or ameliorating a vascular inflammation, and Kawasaki disease (KD) or a pediatric acute vasculitis of the coronary arteries, including vascular coronary abnormalities, and acute or chronic vascular inflammatory abnormalities, and methods for making and using them. Provided are immunotherapies for promoting expansion of natural, Treg to establish, or re-establish, vascular homeostasis; or, for ameliorating: a disease or condition associated with an autoimmune disease or condition; an immune-mediated vascular disorder; a disease or condition treated with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) therapy; a vascular coronary abnormality; an acute or a chronic vasculitis; an autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis; a T cell mediated pediatric vasculitis; Kawasaki disease (KD) or a pediatric acute vasculitis of the coronary arteries; atherosclerosis; preventing miscarriage in autoimmune women; rheumatoid arthritis or Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis; a neoplastic hematological disorder, or a leukemia.
US10035808B1
An isatin peroxo compound has the following formula (I): R1 is H, halogen, or C1-3 alkyl, and R2, is H, C1-3 alkyl, or phenyl.
US10035804B2
The invention provides novel compounds having the general formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, R13, R14, R5, A1, A2, m, n and p are as described herein, compositions including the compounds and methods of using the compounds.
US10035800B2
The present invention provides for compounds of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R6, Y1, Y3, A1, A2, A3 and A4 have any of the values defined in the specification, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, that are useful as agents in the treatment of diseases and conditions, including inflammatory diseases, cancer, and AIDS. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more compounds of formula (I).
US10035798B2
Disclosed is a preparation method for praziquantel and intermediates thereof. The method includes: obtaining a target product praziquantel by using β-phenethylamine as an initial raw material through a condensation reaction with chloroacetyl chloride, a substitution reaction with ethanolamine, and an acylation reaction with cyclohexanecarbonyl chloride, followed by an oxidation reaction and cyclization reaction. Also disclosed are two key intermediates, namely, a compound of formula IV and a compound of formula V for preparing praziquantel. The preparation method is reasonable and simple in its technological design, uses moderate reaction conditions, and is economical and environmentally friendly. Additionally, the raw materials are inexpensive and easy to obtain, the key intermediates are easy to prepare, and the total reaction yield and purity of the obtained target compound praziquantel is high, so that industrialized mass production is easy to achieve.
US10035797B2
The present invention relates to HSP90 inhibitors containing fused amino pyridine core that are useful as inhibitors of HSP90 and their use in the treatment of HSP90 related diseases and disorders such as cancer, an autoimmune disease, or a neurodegenerative disease.
US10035792B2
The present invention relates to a compound represented by formula (I) of a resorcinol derivative as an HSP90 inhibitor or pharmaceutically accepted salts thereof. The compound in the present invention has the activity of inhibiting heat shock protein HSP90. Therefore, the compound in the present invention is used to treat proliferative diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. The present invention further provides the compounds and preparation methods for pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, a method for treating diseases, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds.
US10035790B2
Described are RORy modulators of the formula (I), and N-oxides thereof, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and solvates and hydrates thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, Ra, x, y, L, G, Z, the bond denoted by “q”, the ring system denoted by “A” and the ring system denoted by “B” are defined herein. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same. Such compounds and compositions are useful in methods for modulating RORy activity in a cell and methods for treating a subject suffering from a disease or disorder in which the subject would therapeutically benefit from modulation of RORy activity, for example, autoimmune and/or inflammatory disorders.
US10035789B2
Described herein are compounds that inhibit wild-type RET and its resistant mutants, pharmaceutical compositions including such compounds, and methods of using such compounds and compositions.
US10035775B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds and their use in the prophylactic and/or therapeutic treatment of fibrosis and fibrosis-related conditions.
US10035774B2
Pyrazolyl carboxylic acid and pyrazolyl urea derivatives have been synthesized, which are useful in the manufacture of cephalosporin antibiotic compounds.
US10035772B2
A fungicidal 4-methoxy-3-acetyloxypicolinamide may be conveniently prepared in processes that include the coupling together of 4-methoxy-3-acetyloxypicolinic acid or 4-methoxy-3-hydroxypicolinic acid with a key 2-aminopropanoate ester derived from a 1,1-bis(4-fluorophenyl)propane-1,2-diol.
US10035767B2
Provided are a method for industrially advantageously producing a highly purified pentapeptide and an intermediate thereof.A compound represented by the following formula (1) or a salt thereof: wherein R1 represents an alkyl group or an aralkyl group.
US10035762B2
The present invention relates to the synthesis of succinimides, in particular to a method for the synthesis of a succinimide compound, comprising the step of reacting an alkyne, with carbon monoxide and ammonia or an amine, in the presence of an iron catalyst, wherein the reaction is carried out in an amine liquid phase and/or in the absence of an ether solvent. The succinimides may be reduced to quaternary ammonium cations which may be used as structure directing agents in the synthesis of molecular sieves.
US10035749B2
The present invention is in the field of producing bio-based commodity organic chemicals such as bio-acrylic acid, bio-acrylonitrile, and bio-1,4-butanediol using renewable carbon sources as feedstock. In the first stage of the present invention, bio-1,3-propanediol is derived from renewable carbon sources through microbial fermentation. In the second stage of the present invention, bio-1,3-propanediol is converted into bio-acrylic acid or bio-acrylonitrile or bio-1,4-butanediol.
US10035748B2
Methods for catalytic generation of formic acid at an oxygen partial pressure of less than 1 bar and regeneration of the catalyst used in this process, wherein a polyoxometallate ion of the general formula [PMoxVyO40]n−, which serves as the catalyst, is brought in contact with an alpha-hydroxyaldehyde, an alpha-hydroxycarboxylic acid, a carbohydrate, a glycoside or a polymer containing a carbon chain with at least one OH group bound as a repeatedly occurring substituent to the carbon chain and/or an O, N or S atom occurring repeatedly in the carbon chain in a liquid solution in a vessel, at a temperature above 70 ° C. and below 120 ° C.
US10035735B2
The present invention relates to a method of enhancing growth conditions for plants by growing the plants in soil containing, in proximity to the plant roots, both a phosphorus source and at least two strains of the fungus Penicillium, particularly P. bilaiae, more particularly strains NRRL 50162 and NRRL 50169.
US10035734B2
The present disclosure suggests a food waste treatment apparatus. A food waste treatment apparatus in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a housing including a food inlet opening at its top surface; an inner chamber where food introduced through the food inlet opening is collected; a stirring unit provided within the inner chamber and configured to stir food waste; an outer chamber positioned outside the inner chamber; and a rotation driving unit configured to rotate the stirring unit and the inner chamber, and the inner chamber and the stirring unit are rotated by the rotation driving unit in opposite directions.
US10035715B2
A dielectric barrier discharge lamp assembly for a fluid treatment system. The lamp assembly can include an inductive secondary, first and second electrodes coupled to the inductive secondary, and a lamp including a dielectric barrier interposed between the first and second electrodes. The dielectric barrier can define a discharge chamber including a discharge gas, and one of the first and second electrodes can extend within the discharge chamber. The inductive secondary can be adapted to receive power from a nearby inductive primary to promote a dielectric barrier discharge in the discharge chamber. The resulting dielectric barrier discharge can generate ultraviolet light for the treatment of air or water, or for other applications.
US10035714B1
Quantum dots of Cd (Se,S) and fluorescent magnetic nanocomposites (Cd (Se,S)-Magnetite) were used as photocatalyst agent in the photodegradation of methylene blue (MB) under UV irradiation at pH 6.5. A degradation of 99.1% and 90.0% of MB was achieved in presence of 160 mg/L-quantum dots and magnetic nanocomposite, respectively, after 4.5 hours of UV-irradiation. Instead, 45.9% and 100% of MB degradation was achieved using 160 mg/L of TiO2 anatase and aeroxide P25, respectively. The reuse of the magnetic nanocomposites allowed a maximum photo-degradation capacity of 65%.
US10035711B2
A dielectric film containing an alkaline earth metal oxide having a NaCl type crystal structure as a main component, wherein the dielectric film has a (111)-oriented columnar structure in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the dielectric film, and in a Cu—Kα X-ray diffraction chart of the dielectric film, a half width of the diffraction peak of (111) is in a range of from 0.3° to 2.0°.
US10035706B2
Systems and methods for the formation of nanostructures, including carbon-based nanostructures, are generally described. In certain embodiments, substrate configurations and associated methods are described.
US10035702B2
A method and system for preparing a semiconductor wafer are disclosed. In a first aspect, the method comprises providing a passivation layer over a patterned top metal on the semiconductor wafer, etching the passivation layer to open a bond pad in the semiconductor wafer using a first mask, depositing a protection layer on the semiconductor wafer, patterning the protective layer using a second mask, and etching the passivation layer to open other electrodes in the semiconductor wafer using a third mask. The system comprises a MEMS device that further comprises a first substrate and a second substrate bonded to the first substrate, wherein the second substrate is prepared by the aforementioned steps of the method.
US10035699B2
A method of fabricating a MEMS device includes depositing an expandable material into a first recess of a cap wafer. The cap wafer includes a plurality of walls that surround and define the first recess and a second recess. The cap wafer is bonded to a MEMS wafer including a first MEMS device and a second MEMS device. The first MEMS device is encapsulated in the first recess, and the second MEMS device is encapsulated in the second recess. The expandable material is then heated to at least an activation temperature to cause the expandable material to expand after the first recess has been sealed. The expansion of the expandable material causes a reduction in volume of the first recess.
US10035696B2
Measures are provided, by which mechanical stresses within the diaphragm structure of a MEMS component may be intentionally dissipated, and which additionally enable the implementation of diaphragm elements having a large diaphragm area in comparison to the chip area. The diaphragm element is formed in the layer structure of the MEMS component. It spans an opening in the layer structure and is attached via a spring structure to the layer structure. The spring structure includes at least one first spring component, which is oriented essentially in parallel to the diaphragm element and is formed in a layer plane below the diaphragm element. Furthermore, the spring structure includes at least one second spring component, which is oriented essentially perpendicularly to the diaphragm element. The spring structure is designed in such a way that the area of the diaphragm element is greater than the area of the opening which it spans.
US10035695B2
A buckle assembly for a stirrup strap is disclosed, one aspect comprising a plate connectable to a first end of the strap, the plate having a tongue extendable from the first end of the strap, the tongue having at least one pin extending perpendicularly from the first side, the pin being insertable in a strap through-hole near a second end thereof; and a receiver having a sleeve with a first side and a second side, the sleeve being configured to slidably receive the second end of the stirrup strap and the tongue when the pin of the first side of the tongue is positioned in one of the through-holes, the receiver further having a spring latch with a distal end having an opening for receiving the pin, the spring latch moveable between a locking position and a release position.
US10035690B2
Method and system for handling a plurality of hot-filled and capped containers having temporary deformations or distortions caused by vacuums induced in the containers. For each container, temporary deformations are confined or directed to a particular portion of the container. Annular hoop rings can be provided to confine the temporary deformations to a smooth sidewall portion of the container between the annular hoop rings. Alternatively, one or more supplemental vacuum panels can be provided to confine or direct the temporary deformation thereto. The annular hoop rings and the one or more supplemental vacuum panels can provide for substantially stable touch points for the container. The containers are conveyed with temporary deformations such that substantially stable contact points of each container are in contact with corresponding substantially stable contact points of other containers. After the conveying, a moveable element in a bottom end of each container is activated substantially permanently to remove the vacuum in the container.
US10035681B2
A people conveyor (2) comprises at least one belt (4) extending in a longitudinal conveying direction, a plurality of webs (6) attached to the belt (4), and a plurality of transportation elements (14). Each of the transportation elements (14) comprises at least one connection portion (20). The connection portions (20) extend laterally from the transportation elements (14) and are configured for being connected with at least one of the webs (6) for attaching the respective transportation element (14) to the belt (4).
US10035680B2
An elevator safety circuit includes a plurality of relays; safety logic for monitoring status of the plurality of relays, the safety logic generating an output signal in response to the status of the plurality of relays; and a processor controlling operation of an elevator drive in response to the output signal; wherein at least one of the relays is a forced guided relay and at least one of the relays is other than a forced guided relay.
US10035678B2
A buoyant conduit storage system comprising a reel for storing conduit and a drive arrangement for rotating the reel. The reel is rotatable about a substantially vertical axis of rotation to reel and/or unreel the conduit. The drive arrangement drives the reel at the axis of rotation. The buoyant storage system may provide for the storage and/or transportation and/or deployment of reelable conduit.
US10035677B2
A magnetic retractable line divider may include at least a reel assembly having a shell, and a magnetic portion is installed thereon. An elastic line divider belt is wound on the reel assembly, and a magnetic member is connected to a lateral end of the line divider belt. The line divider belt is configured to be horizontally pulled out from the reel assembly and travel a preferred distance to attach to a magnetic object, thus achieving line divider effect. Moreover, when someone pushes against the line divider belt with or over a preferred force, the magnetic member is configured to be detached from the magnetic object and automatically retracted into the reel assembly, thus avoiding accident.
US10035675B2
A solenoid device has a solenoid and a control portion. The solenoid has a body, a plunger, an attracting coil, a retaining coil, and a biasing member. The plunger is arranged selectively either in an attracted position, pulled into the body, or in a returning position, protruding out of the body. Fed with a voltage, the attracting coil generates an attracting force causing the plunger to move from returning position to attracted position. Fed with a voltage, the retaining coil generates a retaining force, weaker than the attracting force, causing the plunger to move to attracted position. The biasing member biases the plunger toward returning position. The control portion controls operation of the solenoid. When moving the plunger from returning position to attracted position, the control portion first starts applying the voltage to the retaining coil and then starts applying the voltage to the attracting coil.
US10035674B2
An apparatus for protecting and dispensing sheet material comprised of a semi-flexible sheet is disclosed. The semi-flexible sheet may be radially collapsed into a cylindrical shape to cover and protect a roll of sheet material. The semi-flexible sheet comprises a leading end and a distal end. When the semi-flexible sheet is radially collapsed over the roll of sheet material, the leading end covers the distal end and a portion of the semi-flexible sheet creating a gap, the sheet may be positioned in the gap created and allows the sheet material to pass between the leading end and the distal end for dispensing. The semi-flexible sheet may continue to radially collapse via the use of attachment mechanisms, as the sheet material is dispensed, applying pressure to the roll of sheet material. The semi-flexible sheet may further comprise a gripping surface located along the leading end to cut sheet material when necessary.
US10035669B2
An apparatus for rotary dumping of rail cars, including a material receiving pit. A rotary rail car dumper includes a rotational frame supporting at least one baffle. The rotational frame is configured to dump a load from a rail car during rotational motion of the rotational frame between an upright position wherein the entire load is in the rail car and a dumping position wherein the load can exit the rail car. A backside airflow diverter is located beneath the rotational frame and includes a curved upper surface. A lower margin of the at least one baffle contacts the curved upper surface during at least part of the rotational motion of the rotational frame.
US10035649B2
A warehouse storage and retrieval system including an array of multilevel storage racks having at least one transfer deck, picking isles and storage areas disposed along picking isles, the storage areas being configured to hold differing loads, and a controller including a management module configured to variably size the storage areas of the array of multilevel storage rack modules and assign each of the variably sized storage areas to a corresponding one of the differing loads, wherein the storage and retrieval system is arranged to transport the differing loads for placement in the variably sized storage areas assigned by the controller.
US10035646B2
System for joining containers for a first container (1) with doors at the front and rear thereof and a second container (2) with at least one door at the rear thereof, attached by the smaller sides, which comprises four hooks (3) on the four corners of the containers (1, 2), a plurality of sheets (4, 5) on the interior edge at the rear of the containers (1, 2) fixable to both and which cover the entire interior perimeter of the containers (1, 2), and means for adjusting the identification number of the containers (1, 2).The means for adjusting the identification number can comprise a series of electronic screens (101, 102) on each container (1, 2) with two control units (102, 202), power sources, and communication means between the control units (102, 202) and optionally a contact (103, 203) in the support area of a sheet (4, 5).
US10035645B2
The present invention is a product and method for conveniently cleaning a single cup brewing machine's pod/cup canister. The present invention is also an improved pod/cup that reduces the chance for over pressurization and unwanted explosions during the brewing process. The pod/cup according to the invention is designed in the same general shape and configuration as a pod/cup intended to be used in the machine with a plurality of apertures in the side of the pod. This invention also includes an improved machine canister with a plurality of piercing pins. Still further, the invention includes a new cup puncture device with puncture pins or blades that can be used on the pod prior to insertion into the canister.
US10035642B2
A reclosable package for an article may include a base with a planar floor defining an article-retaining cavity and raised sidewalls extending about the perimeter forming part of the article-retaining cavity with a cover with raised sidewalls coupled to the base configured to move between an open position and a closed position. The sidewalls may form a double wall about the perimeter of the base with a channel that remains open when the cover is disposed in the closed position. A plurality of projections extending from at least one sidewall of at least one of the cover and base and a plurality of notches in at least one sidewall of at least one of the cover and base keep the cover closed as the projections insert into the notches with a snap fit engagement.
US10035635B2
The present invention relates to a device (1) for packaging a product, comprising:—a container (2) having joined front and rear walls,—an article (3) packaged in a folded state inside the container (2), this article (3) bearing said product, having at least two sections separated by at least one fold line (4), at least one of these two sections being attached to one of the front and rear walls by at least one weld zone (5).
US10035632B2
A method, a food container, and a lid for a food container that actively removes moisture in the food container without changing the food temperature inside the container in a meaningful way are disclosed herein. The removal of moisture is achieved by introducing a cold spot inside the food container that forces condensation of moisture near the cold spot. The condensed moisture is then captured by an absorbent element placed below, and preferably adjacent to, the cold spot and between the cold spot and the stored food. The cold spot is preferably achieved by a properly chosen frozen substance such as an ice cube or a frozen gel packet.
US10035628B2
Breakable spout (100) of the present invention individually comprises spout body (110) and cover (160) that covers an outer circumference of spout body (110). Spout body (110) comprises cylindrical part (120) that has a center hole that serves as a flow channel (111) and breakable part (150) that is breakable at the tip end of cylindrical part (120). Cylindrical part (120) has a first protrusion (123) on an outer circumferential surface thereof. The cover has second protrusion (161) on an inner circumferential surface thereof. Second protrusion (161) engages first protrusion (123) when cover (160) is fitted to spout body (110) such that spout body (110) is covered with cover (120) from the tip end side of cylindrical part (120). Cover (160) covers spout body (110) and is secured when the first protrusion (123) engages the second protrusion (161). Opening (169) is formed in the portion of cover (160) that corresponds to communication hole (155) of annular part (154) when cover (160) is fitted to the spout body and covers spout body (110).
US10035627B2
A tamper-evident closure assembly for a container having an opening includes a cap configured to be secured with the container to cover the opening. A tamper-evidencing member is carried by the cap and is configured to provide an indication when the cap is removed from the container. The closure assembly further includes an outer shell having a central aperture through which the cap is received. The outer shell and the cap may be configured to cooperate with each other such that the cap is operatively secured to, and mounted so as to be non-rotatable relative to, the outer shell. Systems for storing material and methods of closing a container and assembling a closure assembly are also provided.
US10035622B2
Disposable tray includes a base and a perimeter wall. The perimeter wall extends upwardly from the base to define an interior. The perimeter wall includes a set of opposing first sidewalls and a set of opposing second sidewalls. Each of the opposing first sidewalls having a first maximum height above the base and each of the opposing second sidewalls having a second maximum height above the base. The tray further includes a divider wall extending upwardly from the base. The divider wall extends between the set of opposing second sidewalls to define a plurality of compartments. The divider wall intersects each of the opposing second sidewalls proximate the second maximum height. The second maximum height is greater than the first maximum height.
US10035620B2
A container-orienting device includes container-holder groups, each having rotatable container-holders separated from each other by at least one rotatable container-holder from another container-holder group such that no two rotatable container-holders from a particular container-holder group are next to each other. The device also has a plurality of drives, each of which rotates only container holders from a corresponding container-holder group. The container holders are organized into container-holder sequences, each of which comprises equal numbers of container holders from different container-holder groups arranged in a particular order. These sequences following one another along the conveying direction.
US10035616B1
Systems and methods for an exit control mechanism indicating an incomplete packing state near an exit portion of a packing station. A control system determines a pack job and determines a pack plan for the pack job. The control system may send instructions to a pack station directing packing of the pack job in accordance with the pack plan. The control system may receive indications of packing progress, for example, electronic indications from a scanner at the pack station, and update the state of the pack job, such as incomplete or complete. The control system instructs an exit mechanism to change from indicating an incomplete pack state to indicating a completed pack state based on, for example, determinations that the steps of the pack plan have been completed correctly and that the pack job is complete.
US10035613B2
A packaging apparatus includes a packaging unit and two heater rollers. The packaging unit installs a stretch film on an article to be packaged and discharges the article to be packaged installed with the stretch film along a conveyance surface. The two heater rollers heat the stretch film positioned below the article to be packaged discharged from the packaging unit. The heater rollers have contact portions with the article to be packaged positioned higher than the conveyance surface. Among the two heater rollers, height of the contact portion of one heater roller on a upstream side in a discharge direction relative to the conveyance surface is lower than height of the contact portion of the other heater roller on a downstream side in the discharge direction relative to the conveyance surface.
US10035608B2
A method and device for aiding piloting of an aircraft, during at least one flight phase including piloting steps. The device includes a unit for real-time acquisition of flight parameters of the aircraft, a calculation unit for calculating in real time with the parameters, for each of the piloting steps, a distance between current position of the aircraft and a position along a flight trajectory followed by the aircraft, at which the aircraft will reach the corresponding piloting step. At least one display unit is provided for displaying, in real time, characteristic signs each illustrating one of the piloting steps, the characteristic signs being integrated into the environment viewed with the aid of the screen and being positioned so as to make it possible to locate a place of the environment along the flight trajectory followed by the aircraft, at which the aircraft will reach the piloting step.
US10035573B2
A water safety flotation device includes a buoyant body and a hollow core. The buoyant body has a length and a width, with the length defining a longitudinal axis of the device. The hollow core extends along the longitudinal axis of the body. The hollow core is substantially conical and provides a first opening in the body at a first end and a second opening in the body at a second end. The hollow core serves the function of a megaphone.
US10035571B1
A system for attitude control and stabilization of a marine craft includes at least one elongate substantially planar surface, which may be rigid or flexible, disposed on either side of and in substantial alignment with a bottom of the planing hull of the marine craft. The elongate surface, in a rigid form, includes a tongue-like distal end slidably captured as a fluid hinge upon a region of the hull about 2 to 8 feet forward of the transom. In a flexible form, a distal end of the elongate planar surface may be secured directly to the hull. The elongate surface further includes an actuation portion proximal to a transom of the craft. The system also includes an actuator selectably slidable and securable within an actuation sleeve, the sleeve secured to the transom of the craft. Also included in the system are elements, manual, hydraulic or electrical, for selectably advancing the actuator relative to the hull to induce a selectable angulation of the elongate planar surface relative the bottom of the hull of the craft.
US10035566B2
A multi-anchor depth control system for a boat or other watercraft having a line for securing anchors to the boat, at least two anchors attached at or near opposing ends of the line, a depth finder, and a controller configured to automatically adjust the amount of line released from the boat to maintain the anchors on the floor of the body of water in which the boat is floating, based upon information obtained from the depth finder.
US10035557B2
A self-balancing vehicle frame is mounted with two angle sensors and two wheels that are electrically and respectively coupled to the angle sensors, and includes a front frame assembly that includes two front frame units and a first connecting unit. The front frame units cooperatively define a connecting space therebetween. Each of the front frame units is mounted with a respective one of the wheels and a respective one of the angle sensors, and is operable to tilt the corresponding one of the angle sensors. The first connecting unit is located in the connecting space, and interconnects the front frame units such that the front frame units are rotatable relative to each other.
US10035553B2
A bicycle seat apparatus including at least one rail and a saddle shell. The at least one rail can include a first mounting portion. The first mounting portion can include an ankle. A cross section of a terminus of the ankle can be larger than a cross section of the at least one rail. The saddle shell can include at least one mounting cup configured to mate with the first mounting portion of the at least one rail. A cross section of a base of the at least one mounting cup can be larger than a cross section of the terminus of the ankle.
US10035552B2
Lock mounting assemblies are disclosed for storing and mounting a locking apparatus to a transportation device. The mounting assemblies include one or more straps or connectors for securing the mounting assembly to the transportation device. The mounting assemblies having a structure to securely retain the locking apparatus on the transportation device and provide easy access to and release of the locking apparatus from the mounting assembly.
US10035550B2
A track system for use as a replacement of a steerable wheel on a normally wheeled vehicle, is configured to improve the handling of the vehicle when operated over hard surface (e.g. packed dirt, pavement, concrete, etc.). The track system generally comprises a drive wheel configured to be mounted to the vehicle, a support frame mounted to the drive wheel or to the vehicle, front and rear idler wheels respectively pivotally mounted at the front and at the rear of the support frame, road wheels pivotal mounted along the length of the support frame, and a traction band disposed about the wheels and configured to be driven by the drive wheel. The road wheels are particularly configured to improve the handling of the vehicle when the track systems are operated over hard surface.
US10035549B2
A vehicle has first and second portions, with a front aerodynamic element located in the first portion and a rear aerodynamic element located in the second portion. The front and rear aerodynamic elements are each independently movable to respective deployment positions between respective stowed positions and respective fully-extended positions. A controller is operatively connected to each of the front and rear aerodynamic elements and has a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory. The controller is programmed to obtain a front target position (Tf,n) for the front aerodynamic element at a current time step (n) based at least partially on at least one vehicle state parameter at a previous time-step (n−1) and a detected position (Dr,n-1) of the rear aerodynamic element at the previous time-step (n−1).
US10035546B2
A support device for a front end of a passenger motor vehicle includes at least one vehicle body component extending in the vehicle vertical direction, by which respective longitudinal support elements, which are associated on the sides, of respective longitudinal support planes are connected to each other. A transverse support of a front end module is retained on the body of the passenger motor vehicle. At least a first support element is provided on the body component on a side facing outwardly in relation to the transverse direction of the vehicle and has a receptacle. At least a second support element is arranged outside of the body component in relation to the transverse direction of the vehicle, provided on the transverse support and extends rearwardly from the transverse support. In an initial state of the support device, the second support element is spaced apart from the first support element and, as a result of a corresponding accident-caused application of force, it is displaced at least partially into the receptacle, thereby supporting the first support element.
US10035540B2
An anti-jackknife steering system for an articulated bus is provided. A hydraulic turntable is used for actively generating a calculated force to balance the inertia of a front frame and a trailer frame. Consequently, the joint angle is adjusted to an optimal range, and the possibility of causing an oversteering event or a jackknife event is largely reduced. Moreover, a wheel brake device cooperates with the hydraulic turntable to assist in the steering action of the articulated bus on a snowy road. Consequently, while the articulated bus is driven on a slippery road, the possibility of causing collision is minimized.
US10035533B2
Quick-release skis couple to the front wheels of an ATV or other wheeled vehicle, to permit the ATV to travel over snow. The rear ATV wheels may be left unaltered, or more commonly, tracks may be substituted for the rear wheels. The ski coupling includes a drive-on runner and coupling having in one embodiment width-adjustable side walls, an over-center clamp, and a lock for securing the over-center clamp. In a second embodiment, a pivotal tire cage allows the ATV tire to be driven onto the ski, but simply by forward travel of the tire the cage pivots to constrain the tire thereon. A strap then binds the tire and cage to ensure the tire stays in place on the ski. In a third embodiment, an ATV track is converted to a runner by the application and tensioning of a ski. Additional embodiments are illustrated.
US10035530B2
An improved dolly particularly suited for the secure transport of disabled vehicles in a repair shop is described. Specifically, the locations of both the points of contact with the vehicle and the points of contact with the ground may be configured independently from one another. This configurability allows the dolly to contact the vehicle in the most optimally secure locations, while also contacting the floor in the most convenient configuration so as to accommodate obstructions and irregularities in the floor.
US10035525B2
An energy-absorbing device, in particular for a rail-car, extends along an axis and has an attachment member, which can be connected to a fixed structure, an impact member, designed to withstand an impact, and an energy-absorbing member, constituted by a first tube and a second tube, which are coaxial and are made of composite material in order to collapse and hence absorb energy in the event of impact; the first tube is fixed to the attachment member, whereas the second tube is fixed to the impact member and is axially slidable, during impact, guided by the first tube; the radial thickness of the two tubes decreases along the axis, towards their free ends; in a non-collapsed resting condition, the axial gaps present between the two free ends and the attachment and impact members are substantially the same so that the two tubes start to collapse simultaneously in the event of impact.
US10035509B2
A method and system for warning an occupant of a vehicle of a traffic condition includes sensing an impending traffic condition, providing a first indication of the impending traffic condition, and monitoring the operating conditions of the vehicle after the first indication for changes in the operating conditions of the vehicle.
US10035485B2
A far side airbag device of the present invention includes a side airbag, that inflates and deploys on being supplied with gas, housed in a folded state inside a side section of a seatback of a seat, at a side of a center console disposed adjacent to the seat in a vehicle width direction. A lower end portion of the side airbag is positioned further to a vehicle up-down direction lower side than an upper face of the center console.
US10035477B1
Some embodiments are directed to a vehicle console for use with an electronic device having a cord. The vehicle console can be disposed adjacent a storage area for storing the electronic device. The vehicle console can include a compartment that is defined by a front portion, a bottom portion, and a back portion, the front and back portions being spaced apart so as to define an open area therebetween, the back portion defining an opening that is contiguous with the storage area such that the opening is configured to receive the cord therethrough, the bottom portion defining a channel that is configured to receive the cord. The vehicle console can also include a port disposed at the front portion of the compartment and configured to connect with the cord. The vehicle console can further include a removable cover overlaid across the channel.
US10035465B2
A platform that connects to the seat brackets on the floor of a vehicle by a clamping mechanism actuated by a rotatable bolt that extends from the planar top face of the platform. The platform is made in front and rear frame portions that are hingedly attached. The platform is convertible from a folded storage position to a lockable vertical configuration to form a barrier in the cargo compartment of the vehicle, or to a fully extended horizontal configuration to form a table/sleeping platform that extends from the rear of the vehicle. A lockable, extendable ladder pivots from the back frame portion to stabilize the platform onto the ground. Adjustable legs on the frame portions enable the top faces of the two frame portions to be made coplanar.
US10035461B2
An electronic device includes a first substrate, a first electrode, a second substrate, a second electrode, an electrochromic material layer, a sealant, and a light shielding pattern layer. The first electrode is disposed on the first substrate. The second electrode is disposed on the second substrate. The electrochromic material layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The sealant is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and surrounds the electrochromic material layer. The light shielding pattern layer is disposed on the first substrate. The light shielding pattern layer shields the sealant and a little portion of the electrochromic material layer near the sealant. The first electrode disposed on the first substrate and the second electrode disposed on the second substrate are not electrically connected to each other.
US10035460B2
Asymmetric sectioned mirrors are presented. The mirrors include, for example, constant radius of curvature sections that are selected to increase the sizes and improve the definitions of images, for example images of children milling, walking and/or standing about either the front or alongside regions of a school bus. The mirrors may be asymmetric in either or both the horizontal and vertical directions. The mirrors may include a mounting system capable of using both ball mounts and tunnel mounts.
US10035454B1
A brake alert assembly includes a tube that is slidably inserted into a hitch receiver on a vehicle. A tail unit is movably coupled to the tube and the tail unit is electrically coupled to the vehicle. Moreover, the tail unit is in electrical communication with a brake system of the vehicle. In this way the tail unit is turned on when the brake system is engaged. The tail unit is selectively positioned between an actuated position and a de-actuated position. The tail unit extends downwardly from the tube when the tail unit is in the de-actuated position. The tail unit extends upwardly from the tube when the tail unit is in the actuated position.
US10035447B2
This invention provides elevating storage apparatus (10) for storing an article or articles in an elevated position from which the article(s) cannot be vertically lowered because an obstacle obscures the space there beneath. To achieve this the article(s) which are supported on article support means (14) are moved outwardly with the article support means (14) supported by a pair of spaced apart slide assemblies (11, 12) for longitudinal movement between the stowed elevated position above the obscuring obstacle and a withdrawn elevated position forward of the obstacle. The article support means (14) is connected to the slide assemblies (11, 12) by links (52, 53) which enable the article support means to be raised and lowered between substantially vertically aligned withdrawn elevated position and the lower accessible position. Control means (60) is provided for selectively raising and lowering the article support means (14) relative to the slide assemblies (11, 12) and for moving the article support means to and from its stowed elevated position.
US10035446B2
The present invention relates to a system for transporting and discharging material from vehicles and trailers having a material hopper body. The material hopper body has generally inclined sidewalls and a substantially horizontal bottom area defined by an internal conveyor extending the length of the hopper body. A tailgate door closes the end of the hopper body to contain the load in the hopper. The tailgate door is moveable from the closed position to an open position to permit discharge of the material out the rear of the hopper. Lift and stabilizing means proximate the rear of the material hopper body elevate the hopper body. An external throw conveyor is adapted to pivot between a stored position at the side of the hopper body to an operational position behind and below the hopper body at the discharge end to directionally discharge material from the hopper body.
US10035425B2
Apparatuses and methods for estimating a state of a battery in a battery management system is provided. A battery management apparatus includes a rest period detector configured to detect a rest period of a battery, an environment information collector configured to collect environment information during the rest period, and a state of health (SOH) determiner configured to determine an SOH of the battery based on the collected environment information.
US10035423B2
The appliance (A) for recharging batteries of electric vehicles or the like, comprises: AC/DC conversion means which can be connected at input to an alternate current power supply line (AC IN) and connected at output to a high voltage electric battery (HVB) of an electric vehicle; DC/DC conversion means connected at input to the high voltage electric battery (HVB) and connected at output to a low voltage electric battery (LVB) of the electric vehicle; wherein the AC/DC conversion means and the DC/DC conversion means can be activated alternatively for recharging the high voltage electric battery (HVB) and the low voltage electric battery (LVB), respectively; and wherein the AC/DC conversion means and the DC/DC conversion means comprise a sole and shared DC/DC converter (CNV), having an input which can be connected alternatively to the power supply line (AC IN) and to the high voltage electric battery (HVB) and having a first output connected to the high voltage electric battery (HVB) and a second output connected to the low voltage electric battery (LVB).
US10035422B2
A DC link capacitor coupled to positive and negative DC busses between a high voltage DC source and an electric vehicle inverter is quickly discharged during a shutdown. An active discharge circuit connected across the link capacitor has a discharge resistor in series with a discharge switch. The discharge switch has a control terminal for selectably turning the discharge switch on and off. A disable circuit is coupled to the control terminal and is responsive to a disable command signal to turn off the discharge switch. The disable circuit turns on the discharge switch upon cessation of the disable command signal. A timing circuit powered by a voltage from the link capacitor initiates a predetermined time interval upon cessation of the disable command signal, and continuously turns off the discharge switch after the predetermined time interval while the voltage from the link capacitor remains above a threshold.
US10035411B2
A sound insulation member has a fitting portion and a sealing portion. The fitting portion is attached to at least one of a door front-side end portion and a door rear-side end portion of an inner weather strip that is disposed at an upper portion of a door inner panel, and is fitted into the inner weather strip. The sealing portion fills a gap between the inner weather strip and the door inner panel.
US10035402B2
The present disclosure relates to a thermal dissipation system of an electric vehicle that includes: a heat exchanger arranged at the front part of the electric vehicle for providing heating or cooling to an air conditioning system of the electric vehicle; a first heat sink and a second heat sink, which are respectively arranged at the two sides of the front part of the heat exchanger; a number of rotatable and adjustable air deflectors for changing the flow direction of the air flowing through the heat dissipation system. Temperature sensors are included within the thermal dissipation system for sensing the working temperatures and the environmental temperatures of a battery pack and a motor of the electric vehicle. Opening and closing states of the air deflectors are adjusted in accordance with data provided by the temperature sensors.
US10035396B2
A shock absorber system can includes a shock tube and a piston slidably mated to an end of the shock tube. The system can include a first mount on the piston for attaching to a first point on a motor vehicle. A second mount can be positioned on the shock tube near an end of the shock tube opposite the piston. The second mount can be positioned offset from an axial centerline of the shock tube. In some cases, the system can include a stabilizing device connected to the second mount. The system can include a heat sink reservoir. The heat sink reservoir can be connected to the shock tube via a valved fluid connection.
US10035392B2
A computer is programmed to actuate an electric socket mounted to an exterior of a vehicle to close upon determining that the vehicle's speed exceeds a predetermined threshold, that a cover is open, and that the electric socket is in an electrically disengaged state.
US10035391B2
A trailer hitch system for equalizing trailer loads and reducing trailer sway. The trailer hitch system may include spring bars that may be attached to a hitch head using a trunnion style connection. The spring bars may be attached to the trailer using rigid brackets that reduce swinging of the spring bars. The rigid brackets having a plurality of contact points may include an upward extending portion for attaching to the trailer tongue, and a lateral extending portion for receiving the spring bars thereupon.
US10035375B1
An illustrative embodiment of a skull stand may include a tab positioned proximate the mounting edge to secure the skull to the skull stand. An illustrative embodiment of the skull stand may be configured to provide the user with increased enjoyment and pleasure in displaying the animal skull and/or antlers collected during hunting via the animal skull stand selected to emulate or replicate the particular arrow used for hunting the animal to be displayed.
US10035374B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a skull mount for skull mounting or European mounting to display an animal skull with antlers. The skull mount comprises two pieces, a base and a skull plate cover. A skull plate with antlers affixed thereto may be positioned on the base. This way, since the antlers are still attached to the skull plate, it provides natural positioning of the antlers for that animal. The skull plate cover then registers on the base and covers a portion of the skull plate of the animal. As such, the skull mount covers the skull plate and provides a skull mount with naturally positioned antlers within an anatomically correct skull cover patterning.
US10035369B2
An image erasing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a sheet supply portion that supplies a sheet and an ejector. A first conveying path conveys the sheet from the sheet supply portion toward the ejector. A reader arranged on the first conveying path reads an image on the sheet. A second conveying path branches from the first conveying path at a downstream of the reader on the first conveying path and merges with the first conveying path at an upstream of the reader on the first conveying path. An erasing unit is arranged on the second conveying path. A conveying path changing portion is arranged at a branching portion. An operating portion receives a setup of the processing to the sheet. A controller changes a conveying path of the sheet in accordance with the setup received by the operating portion before the sheet is supplied from the sheet supply portion.
US10035368B2
A label assembly and method of using the same to label articles durably, yet removably. In one embodiment, the method includes providing an image removing laminate. The image removing laminate includes (i) a remover support, and (ii) a remover layer secured to the remover support, the remover layer, upon being activated by at least one of heat and light, being bondable to an ink image on a garment in such a way that the bonding between the remover layer and the ink image is stronger than the bonding between the ink image and the garment. The method then includes bonding the remover layer of the image removing laminate to the ink image on the garment and, then, detaching the ink image from the garment by separating the image removing laminate away from the garment.
US10035365B2
An example disclosed media processing device includes an image processing unit; a first optical registration sensor; and a second optical registration sensor spaced apart from the first optical registration sensor along a first axis by a first distance associated with a gap between media units on a web.
US10035360B2
A printer including a first liquid discharger, a second liquid discharger, a curing unit, and a controller is provided. The first and second liquid dischargers discharge active-energy-ray-curable colored and transparent liquids, respectively. The curing unit emits an active energy ray. The controller causes the first liquid discharger to scan multiple times and discharge the colored liquid on a medium, causes the curing unit to cure the colored liquid on the medium after each scan of the first liquid discharger to print a colored image with the colored liquid on the medium, causes the second liquid discharger to discharge the transparent liquid on the colored image, causes the curing unit to cure the transparent liquid on the colored image to form a transparent layer on the colored image, and controls a thickness of the transparent layer in accordance with the number of scan of the first liquid discharger.
US10035359B2
To provide an inkjet printer and a printing method that can print a new pattern to be printed at an appropriate position relative to an existing pattern. An inkjet printer newly prints a new pattern to be printed, that is different from an existing pattern, on an outer surface of a spherical print object on which the existing pattern is printed. The inkjet printer includes a retainer that retains the print object, a carriage, and a projector. The carriage prints the new pattern to be printed on the outer surface of the print object. The projector projects at least a part of the existing pattern and the new pattern to be printed together on the outer surface of the print object retained by the retainer.
US10035358B2
Building panels, especially floor panels, and a method of forming embossed in register surfaces with a digital ink head that applies a curable ink on the panel surface or on an upper side of a foil as a coating and forms an ink matrix that is used to create a cavity in the surface by applying a pressure on the ink matrix.
US10035355B2
A packaged fluidic ejection cartridge assembly is disclosed. The cartridge assembly includes a cartridge for fluidic ejection, a cartridge storage container, and a cartridge retainer rotatably attached to the container so as to rotate about a pivot axis. The cartridge retainer receives and secures the cartridge within the storage cup. A moisture barrier film is sealed over the storage cup. The storage container may be stored with the pivot axis in either a substantially horizontal position or a substantially vertical position. The center of mass of the cartridge retainer and the cartridge within the retainer are offset from the pivot axis so that the center of mass rotates to a position below the pivot axis when the packaged cartridge assembly is stored with the pivot axis in a substantially horizontal position.
US10035351B2
The present teachings disclose various embodiments of a printing system for printing a substrate, in which the printing system can be housed in a gas enclosure, where the environment within the enclosure can be maintained as a controlled printing environment. A controlled environment of the present teachings can include control of the type of gas environment within the gas enclosure, the size and level particulate matter within the enclosure, control of the temperature within the enclosure and control of lighting. Various embodiments of a printing system of the present teachings can include a bulk ink delivery system that can be external to a gas enclosure. A bulk ink delivery system according to the present teachings can supply ink to a local ink delivery system that is internal to the gas enclosure. Various embodiments of a local ink delivery system of the present teachings can be proximal to a printhead device assembly, and can include a two-stage ink supply having a local ink replenishment reservoir that is configured to supply a local ink dispensing reservoir to a constant volume. According to the present teachings, a local ink dispensing reservoir can be in flow communication with a plurality of printhead devices. As such, a two-stage local ink delivery system maintaining a constant volume in a local ink dispensing reservoir can provide constant head pressure to the plurality of printhead devices.
US10035344B2
In a printing apparatus, an indefinite area in which slits are not formed is configured in a portion of a linear encoder scale in a rotation direction, and an adjustment unit adjusts the timing of discharge from a printhead with respect to a first printing area out of a plurality of printing areas on a rotating member, without using a detection result of a first encoder sensor, based on a detection result of a second encoder sensor, the first encoder sensor being provided at a position corresponding to the indefinite area during a discharge of printing material with respect to the first printing, and the second encoder sensor being provided at a position that does not correspond to the indefinite area during the discharge of the printing material with respect to the first printing area.
US10035342B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejecting unit and a drive circuit that generates the drive signal in accordance with a first voltage and a second voltage. The drive circuit includes a first pair of transistors, a second pair of transistors, and an integrated circuit that includes a first terminal to which the first voltage is applied, a second terminal to which the second voltage is applied, a first output terminal group which outputs a first control signal group for controlling the first pair of transistors, and a second output terminal group which outputs a second control signal group for controlling the second pair of transistors. The first terminal, the second terminal, the first output terminal group, and the second output terminal group are arranged along one side of the integrated circuit. The second output terminal group is disposed between the first terminal and the second terminal.
US10035328B2
The disclosure describes a curable composition comprising a) a solute (meth) acryloyl oligomer having a plurality of pendent, ethylenically unsaturated, free-radically polymerizable functional groups and nucleophilic, hydrophilic groups, a Mw of 5 k to 30 k. a Tg<20° C.; b) a solvent monomer component; and non-reactive oligomer an a photoinitiator. The curable composition may be used as an adhesive in optical applications.
US10035324B2
A formed member is provided which can be manufactured at a low cost, which has excellent dimensional accuracy, which has excellent axial crushing properties and three-point bending properties, which has excellent bending stiffness and torsional stiffness, and which is suitable for use in a component of an automobile. The formed member (20) has a reinforcing member (35) which is joined by a weld (40) provided on a ridge portion (28). It is manufactured by joining a flat sheet blank and a flat sheet reinforcing member (35) by a weld (40) and performing bending so that the weld (40) becomes a ridge portion (28).
US10035321B2
An apparatus for manufacturing a sleeve for a paper cup and/or a paper cup comprises a machine frame and at least two star wheels, which are rotatably connected with the machine frame and which can be rotated in synchronized cycles. A first star wheel comprises a number of conical mandrels, on each of which one sleeve made of a flat-lying blank can be formed. The star wheels are positioned in one plane and are arranged to a vertical wall of the machine frame with horizontal rotary axes. The star wheels can be connected to at least one drive, whereby the drive is arranged on the side of the machine frame wall facing away from the star wheels.
US10035320B2
A dunnage crumpling apparatus is provided having first and second entry-side crumpling members and first and second exit-side crumpling members. The first and second entry-side crumpling members define an entry therebetween. The first and second exit-side crumpling members define an exit therebetween that is disposed along the longitudinal path downstream of the entry. A crumpling zone being defined between the entry and exit. The first entry-side crumpling member is configured for moving at an first rate and is associated with the second entry-side crumpling member for moving sheet material through the entry in a first direction along a longitudinal path at an entry rate. The first exit-side crumpling member is configured for moving at an second rate and is associated with the second exit-side crumpling member for moving the sheet material through the exit in the first direction along the path at a exit rate that is slower than the entry rate to crumple the sheet material for producing dunnage. The entry and exit-side crumpling members are displaced laterally along the path with respect to each other to cause shearing of the sheet within the crumpling zone.
US10035312B2
A damaged glass surface restoring tool comprises a replaceable, hermetically sealed container of glass fluid restoring substance aligned within a vacuum chamber perpendicularly to the glass surface. A method of restoring a damaged glass surface creates a vacuum in a chamber aligned over a crack in the glass and applying to the crack a glass restoring substance there before unexposed to air in a straight line path of application.
US10035309B2
Radius fillers for composite structures, composite structures that include radius fillers, and systems and methods of forming the same are disclosed herein. The methods include determining a transverse cross-sectional shape of an elongate void space, which extends within a transition region that is defined by a plurality of plies of composite material, and determining a material property field of the transition region. The methods further include forming the radius filler by combining a plurality of lengths of composite tape to define a radius filler cross-sectional shape, which corresponds to the transverse cross-sectional shape of the elongate void space, and orienting a plurality of lengths of reinforcing fiber in each of the plurality of lengths of composite tape based, at least in part, on the material property field of the transition region. The radius fillers include radius fillers with selectively oriented reinforcing fibers. The composite structures include the radius fillers.
US10035307B2
A method and an apparatus of three-dimensional (3D) printing and an electronic apparatus are provided. The 3D printing method is adapted for printing a 3D object and includes the following. A plurality of layer objects of a 3D model are obtained, and a plurality of two-dimensional images, which correspond to a slice plane, of each of the layer objects are generated. The layer objects include a first layer object and a second layer object. When a comparison relationship between a two-dimensional image of the first layer object and a two-dimensional image of the second layer object matches a stack condition, the first layer object and the second layer object are stacked to generate thickness stack information of a stack object. A printing mechanism is initiated according to the thickness stack information so as to print a 3D object associated with the 3D model.
US10035300B2
A system for manufacturing a stiffened composite panel may include a stiffener tooling assembly, a caul plate, and a rotatable strongback. The stiffener tooling assembly may include stiffener tooling configured to support a plurality of composite stiffeners. The caul plate may have a layup surface for laying up a composite skin. The strongback may be releasably coupled to the caul plate. The system may include a plurality of hinges each having a fixed hinge portion and a movable hinge portion. The movable hinge portion may be coupled to the strongback for rotation thereof between an open position and a closed position for engagement of the caul plate with the stiffener tooling assembly.
US10035299B2
The invention describes a device and method for making corrugated products. The device can be used with any substrate and includes, at least, first and second drive rollers for driving a middle substrate and a single wall corrugated product. In other embodiments the invention includes upper drive rollers, lower drive rollers and middle drive rollers for driving an upper substrate, a lower substrate and a middle substrate. The middle substrate is driven between the upper and lower substrates at a higher velocity to form flutes that are anchored between the upper an lower substrates thereby forming a corrugated product. The invention also provides for customized corrugated products having multiple fluted substrates in various desirable arrangements. Examples of such products include mattress, partition panels, other furniture and construction products.
US10035298B2
According to one aspect, embodiments herein provide a method comprising forming a shrinking platform of model material above a build plate, the model material including sinterable metal particles and a first binder, forming a support structure of the model material extending up from the shrinking platform, forming a first portion of the part from successive layers of the model material above the support structure, forming a release layer intervening between a surface of the part and an opposing surface of the support structure or between a surface of the shrinking platform and an opposing surface of the build plate, the release layer including a dispersed ceramic powder and a second binder, and supporting the part, the release layer, and the support structure upon the shrinking platform to form a platform-integrating part assembly, the support structure being configured to prevent the first portion from distorting from gravitational force during sintering.
US10035297B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and method of generating a bitmap of a 3D model. The apparatus for generating a bitmap of a 3D model includes a pixel column generator configured to divide a 3D space into a plurality of pixel columns parallel to an output direction of a 3D printer, an intersection point calculator configured to calculate intersection points between the plurality of pixel columns and the 3D model, a rasterizer configured to rasterize the pixel columns and determine a support material region in each of the rasterized pixel columns based on the intersection points; and a bitmap generator configured to generate the bitmap of the 3D model by merging the rasterized pixel columns.
US10035289B2
The manufacturing apparatus of the present invention comprises a die for extruding a resin plate and a first roller and a second roller for molding the resin plate. The manufacturing apparatus further comprises: an inner deckel for dividing the resin plate and pre-forming a thick section; and a main molding section provided on the first roller and/or the second roller for molding a non-uniform thickness section from the thick section.
US10035286B2
The present disclosure relates to a tool such as an injection molding tool or an embossing tool. A heating device including a stack of layers is provided for heating a tool surface. The stack may include a coil carrier layer with a number of wound coils for generating a magnetic field, and a conductive top layer, being adjacent to the tool surface currents are induced in the top layer to heat the surface. Efficient heating may be provided by solutions involving low resistivity layers that lead currents to the top layer without themselves developing heat to any greater extent. A conduction frame device can be provided beneath the top layer and around the perimeter thereof to provide reliable contact with a backing layer. A thermal resistance layer may placed between the intermediate layer and the top layer, and may comprise a heat resistive plastic material such as a polyimide.
US10035268B2
A measurement system able to perform measurement by a simpler manner when performing measurement a plurality of times for a plurality of targets. The measurement system utilizes the light receiving device to measure targets fastened to the machine tool. The robot is moved so that the difference between a target on a light receiving surface of the light receiving device and an image acquired by the light receiving device in the state where the machine tool is stopped at each stop position and the robot is placed in the measurement position and posture becomes within a predetermined error. A plurality of stop positions and a plurality of end point positions and postures after the movement are used as the basis to simultaneously find the error of the mechanical parameters of the robot and the relative relationship between the robot coordinate system Σb and the machine tool coordinate system Σm.
US10035267B2
A robot system, and method for controlling it, for collaborative robot applications has a movable robot arm and a controller, wherein the controller is provided to control the movement of the distal end of the robot arm along a movement path according to at least a sequence of coordinate data and respective commands of a robot program and wherein the controller is provided to determine exact movement speed and course of the movement path between consecutive coordinates according to a set of parameters. At least two alternatively selectable sets of parameters are provided which both are related to a respective individual comfort level of a respective collaborative human worker.
US10035262B2
Provided herein is a robotic gripper comprising two gripping components, where each component may comprise a rotatable axle oriented along a longitudinal axis, and where the respective axles may be oriented substantially perpendicular to each other. Each component may further comprise a pair of opposing gripping fingers with each gripping finger of the pair being coupled to a respective end of the axle. Each axle may be independently operable to rotate the respective pair of gripping fingers about the longitudinal axis of the respective axle, and each pair of gripping fingers may be independently operable to move the gripping fingers of the respective pair toward and away from each other. A control system for the robotic gripper may thus actuate one or both pairs of gripping fingers to grasp one or more objects.
US10035261B2
An actuatable joint for a robotic system has a body, a motor positioned in the body, an output shaft configured to be rotated by the motor relative to the body, and a bearing assembly positioned between the output shaft and the body and configured to support the rotation of the output shaft. The bearing assembly has a first axial angular contact roller bearing. The roller bearing has a pair of frusto-conical bearing rings forming a pair of parallel races, a bearing cage positioned between the pair of bearing rings and including a plurality of openings, and a plurality of rollers positioned in the openings and in contact with the races.
US10035255B2
A portable workbench assembly includes a table. Objects may be positioned on the table thereby facilitating the objects to be accessible. A handle is hingedly coupled to the table thereby facilitating the table to be carried. A pair of stands is provided and each of the stands is hingedly coupled to the table. Each of the stands is selectively positioned in a deployed position to abut a support surface. Each of the stands is selectively positioned in a stored position.
US10035254B2
A versatile extension grip that may be affixed to a handle such as the handle of a broom, mop, shovel, paint roller, fruit picker or other type of tool. The versatile extension grip provides leverage, maneuverability and efficiency in using many different types of tools and provides for the tools to be manipulated using only one hand.
US10035251B2
A hydraulic hammer is provided. The hydraulic hammer includes a housing member. The hydraulic hammer also includes a power cell disposed within the housing member. The power cell includes an outer casing. The hydraulic hammer also includes a work tool operatively coupled with the power cell. The hydraulic hammer also includes one or more bushing parts arranged within the outer casing of the power cell. The one or more bushing parts are adapted to guide the work tool during an operation of the hydraulic hammer. The one or more bushing parts include a first surface and a second surface spaced apart from the first surface. The hydraulic hammer also includes a wear indicating system for indicating a wear of the one or more bushing parts with respect to the first surface. The wear indicating system includes a first passage and a second passage.
US10035246B2
One example of the present disclosure relates to a tool for releasing a cable tie. The tool includes a front member having a front indexing surface and a front extension member. The tool includes a rear member movably coupled to the front member, with the rear member including a rear indexing surface and a rear extension member. When the front member and the rear member engage a head of the cable tie in a closed state, the front extension member protrudes into an opening in the head, in an insertion direction, a front extension distance that is less than the length of the head minus a distance from the rear surface to a pawl of the cable tie along the insertion direction, and spaces a contact portion of the pawl, along a transverse direction, by a distance sufficient to disengage the cable tie.
US10035236B2
In order to provide a handheld abrading machine which is of robust construction and is easy and comfortable to handle, it is proposed that the handheld abrading machine comprise a holding device for holding the abrading machine, a drive motor and a tool head, wherein the tool head is arranged on the holding device such as to be moveable by means of a moving device, wherein the tool head is pivotal relative to the holding device about one or more pivotal axes by means of the moving device and wherein a distance of the tool head from the holding device is variable by means of the moving device.
US10035231B2
A tool support structure includes a base; a tool rail that extends in an axial direction; a first mounting portion that is connected to the base; a second mounting portion that is connected to a first end of the tool rail and releasably connectable to the first mounting portion; a support receiver that is connected to the base, the support receiver has a housing, a clamp member, and a locking member; and a support member that has a first portion and a second portion, wherein the second portion and at least part of the first portion are configured to enter an axial open end of the housing of the support receiver and a clamp member of the support receiver is pivoted into engagement with the support member by a locking member of the support to restrain motion of the support member with respect to the support receiver.
US10035209B2
A welding apparatus having a waveform compensation device, a power section coupled to the waveform compensation device which generates a welding waveform in accordance with a signal from the waveform compensation device, and a frequency detection device which detects at least one of a voltage, current and power of a welding arc and determines a shorting frequency of the arc. The waveform compensation device adjusts at least a portion of the welding waveform based on an output from the frequency detection device.
US10035204B2
A circular saw blade indexing assembly includes a base and a circular saw blade mounting assembly connected to the base and having a saw hub configured to support a circular saw blade. The circular saw blade indexing assembly includes an indexing mechanism connected to the base and having a feed finger disposed at a radial distance from the saw hub, the feed finger configured to rotate the circular saw blade about the saw hub between a first arc position and a second arc position. The circular saw blade indexing assembly includes a radius adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a relative longitudinal position between the saw hub of the circular saw blade mounting assembly and the feed finger of the indexing mechanism.
US10035195B2
In the case of a tool holder having a receptacle for a cutting insert, in particular a tangential cutting insert having eight lips, having a lateral bearing surface, a rear bearing surface and a bottom surface, the bottom surface is quadrangular in plan view and has a raised supporting region which has two supporting surfaces, positioned obliquely with respect to one another, for the cutting insert.
US10035189B2
A method and apparatus for removing a canister 12 from a component 18 by forming an opening 30 in the canister wall thickness 14, 16 and introducing a pressurised fluid into the opening 14, 16 causing hydrostatic pressure build up between an internal canister surface 14 and the component 18, leading to the removal of the canister 12. This method and apparatus obviates the need to expend significant machining or chemical processing to remove the canister 12.
US10035188B2
The invention relates to a method for layered production of a three-dimensional object, wherein a powdery or fluid building material, which can be solidified by the effects of electromagnetic or particle radiation, is applied in layers having a layer thickness d, and the locations in each layer which correspond to a cross-section of the object allocated to said layer are solidified by means of electromagnetic or particle radiation. According to the invention, each cross-section consists of a contour region and an inner region and the method comprises the following sub-step: in a sequence of N successive cross-sections, wherein N is a whole number greater than 1, a partial region is defined in every cross-section as a critical region and the rest of the cross-section is defined as a non-critical region, a number of N layers are applied successively, without solidification of the non-critical regions. The non-critical regions of all N layers are not solidified in all N layers until after application of the Nth layer.
US10035183B2
A manufacturing method for a cast bar and tube made of a magnesium alloy, includes steps of preparing a manufacturing device; depressurizing a vacuum chamber through a depressurization device; heating a vicinity of an opening of a hollow tube; inserting the opening of the hollow tube into a molten metal; switching a valve member to be open; introducing the molten metal into a cylindrical part, and filling the cylindrical part with the molten metal; cooling the hollow tube; and continuously vibrating the hollow tube until completing solidification of the molten metal in the cylindrical part.
US10035178B2
A portable and compact, hand-held electrically powered vacuum tool, designed expressly for suctioning clogs from the drains and traps of sinks and bathtubs to pull clogs out of drains and traps thereby clearing the clog without use of chemicals and recover items such as rings and toothpaste-tube caps that have gone down the drain.
US10035175B2
Reflectin proteins are proteins derived from cephalopods (certain species of squid) which have unusual optical properties. Disclosed herein are thin films of reflectin proteins which can be tuned to reflect infrared light. Advantageously, the films can be tuned dynamically over short time scales, to reflect at different wavelengths. Disclosed herein are novel infrared-reflective coatings, methods of making such coatings, and infrared-reflective objects such as textiles, building materials, and camouflage materials.
US10035157B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid container containing section, and a pressurizing section that pressurizes inside of the liquid container containing section. The liquid container containing section has a casing that contains a liquid container, a mounting member that is mounted with the liquid container, and a cover that covers an opening that is formed in the casing, the mounting member is arranged inside the casing on the opening side, the cover is arranged outside the casing on the opening side, and the mounting member is fixed to the cover.
US10035156B2
A connector system for a liquid container system for a spray gun includes a lid that includes a liquid outlet and an adapter. The adapter includes a spray gun end and a lid end. The ends are connected with a liquid-tight passageway. Further, the spray gun end is adapted for releasable engagement with a liquid inlet port of the spray gun and the lid end is adapted for releasable engagement with the liquid outlet. The connector system also includes a plurality of interlocking tab assemblies for releasably attaching the adapter to the lid. Each assembly includes a first tab and a second tab, wherein an end of the first tab is adapted to secure the adapter to the lid when the first tab and the second tab are interlocked.
US10035148B2
A device for use in molecular diagnostics testing includes at least one sealed reagent storage container, and at least one opener for unsealing the reagent storage container. The device further includes an actuator coupled to the reagent storage container and opener such that moving the actuator brings the reagent storage container and the opener together so that the opener unseals the reagent storage container. In addition, a locking unit is configured to prevent movement of the reagent storage container and the opener towards each other in a locked position and to allow the movement in an unlocked position, where moving the actuator moves the actuator between the locked position and the unlocked position.
US10035143B2
A cross-linked anionic polyelectrolyte resulting from the polymerization, for 100 mol %: (i) of a proportion no smaller than 30 mol % and smaller than 99.5 mol % monomer units from a monomer having a partially or totally salified strong acid function; (ii) of a proportion no smaller than 0.5 mol % and no greater than 5 mol % monomer units from at least one monomer having Formula (I): CH2═CH(CH3)—C(=0)—OR1 (I), wherein Ri is an alkyl radical including 6 to 18 carbon atoms; (iii) of a proportion greater than 0 mol % and no greater than 5 mol % monomer units from at least one diethylene or polyethylene cross-linking monomer; and (iv) optionally, of a proportion smaller than 69.5 mol % monomer units from a neutral monomer. Also, a method for preparing the polyelectrolyte and to the use thereof as a thickener in topical compositions.
US10035133B2
A catalytic converter includes a catalyst. The catalyst includes a metal oxide support and platinum group metal (PGM) complexes atomically dispersed on the metal oxide support. The PGM complexes include a PGM species selected from the group consisting of an atom of a platinum group metal, a cluster including from 2 atoms to less than 10 atoms of the platinum group metal, a nanoparticle including 10 or more atoms of the platinum group metal, and combinations thereof. An alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal is bonded to the PGM species. The alkali or alkaline earth metal is part of a structure including oxygen atoms and hydrogen atoms. A barrier is disposed between a first PGM complex and a second PGM complex.
US10035130B2
The present invention provides a method of preparing a superabsorbent polymer, including adding a superabsorbent polymer with a water dispersion solution containing particles having i) a BET specific surface area of 300 to 1500 m2/g and ii) a porosity of 50% or more, and a superabsorbent polymer prepared by the method.
US10035122B2
A heat insulation material is provided that is produced by drying a fibrous matrix impregnated with a solution of pseudo-peptides of formula (I), wherein: R is a side-chain of a natural or synthetic amino acid, R1 is either a linear or branched (C1-C3)alkyl group, or a linear or branched (C1-C3)alcoxy group, or an aryl group, or an aryl(C1-C3)alkyl group, or an aryloxy group, or a saturated or unsaturated heterocycle, n=1 or 2, and A is an aromatic or heteroaromatic group with at least one cycle.
US10035115B2
A beverage dispenser includes a mixing portion to mix a plurality of beverage ingredients and a dispensing portion to dispense the mixed beverage. The dispenser further includes a product input portion having a plurality of refillable ingredient bins operably connectible to the mixing portion. Each refillable ingredient bin includes a self-closing seal located at a bin outlet to prevent leakage of the beverage ingredients from the bin outlet when the refillable ingredient bin is disconnected from the mixing portion. An ingredient bin assembly for a beverage dispensing machine includes a refillable ingredient bin having a bin outlet and a self-closing seal positioned at the bin outlet to prevent leakage of beverage ingredients from the bin outlet when the refillable ingredient bin is disconnected from a beverage dispensing machine.
US10035112B2
The invention provides a process for the production of nanoparticles as well as a device that is disposed for the production of the nanoparticles. The process is especially characterized in that the nanoparticles are pure, especially free from organic carbon compounds, preferably carbon-free, and are obtained continuously. The nanoparticles which are obtainable by the process of the invention are characterized in that they are present without an organic ligand in suspension and are especially preferred stable as a suspension against agglomeration, wherein the medium having the particles suspended therein is free from organic carbon compounds, especially carbon-free.
US10035102B2
Systems are provided for a urea mixer. In one example, the urea mixer may include perforated tube having a toroid shape configured to receive a urea injection and exhaust flow.
US10035100B2
Wastewater treatment and conveyance; and other chemical processes result in emission of a wide variety of odorous compounds. Contaminated exhaust air is typically a byproduct emitted from sludge in tanks and wells that are part of a wastewater treatment, conveyance, or chemical process. Said contaminated air has to be treated to capture or reduce odorous compounds or pollutants below human smell recognition threshold levels before the exhaust is discharged to the atmosphere. The present invention is a carbon scrubber used to treat and filter contaminated exhaust air produced in wastewater treatment and conveyance; and other chemical processes.
US10035098B2
A cartridge mounting an air treatment material is a housing defining a housing in a perimeter. The air treatment material is received within the housing, and spaced from the inner wall of the housing by a plurality of resilient sheets. There is an inlet direction into the housing for air flowing across the air treatment material and an outlet opening on an opposed side of the housing. There are top and bottom surfaces and side surfaces forming a perimeter about the air treatment material. The resilient sheets extend substantially continuously across the side surfaces and the top and bottom surfaces at least at the inlet end to increase airflow across the air treatment material. An enclosed inhabited space is also disclosed and claimed.
US10035091B2
A liquid fuel catcher has a case which defines a plurality of chambers formed as depressions in a passage so that a liquid fuel is accumulated. The case has a communicating portion which communicates the chambers in series at upper portions thereof. The case has openings at each bottom portions of the chambers. The case has a return passage which returns the liquid fuel accumulated in the chambers to a fuel tank. The liquid fuel catcher has a return valve. The return valve closes the return passage, when the liquid fuel level in the fuel tank exceeds a predetermined level. The return valve opens the return passage, when the liquid fuel level in the fuel tank is less than a predetermined level. The fuel returns to the fuel tank from the chambers through the return valve.
US10035088B2
A drum structure, for a rotary drum filtering apparatus, comprising: a generally annular supporting drum, and a plurality of rib elements carried by the supporting drum longitudinally extending along the circumference of the drum generally in the longitudinal direction of the drum. A duplex stainless steel cover plate extends between two rib elements. A single supporting element supports the cover plate extending between each pair of two rib elements.
US10035086B2
A filter cartridge for use within a filter housing of a filter assembly that includes a filter media, a first endplate attached to a first end of the filter media, and a second endplate attached to a second end of the filter media. The second endplate includes a plurality of extensions extending axially away from a surface of the second endplate. The plurality of extensions possess a toothed profile and are sized and positioned so as to engage with at least one rib associated with a portion of the filter housing such that, when at least one of the plurality of extensions is engaged with the at least one rib, a rotation of the portion of the filter housing in a first direction results in a corresponding rotation of the filter cartridge.
US10035078B2
A process for recovering metal from a process material comprising the metal and a component that is more volatile than the metal, which process comprises: transporting the process material in a retort provided in a furnace, the retort being operated under vacuum and at a temperature sufficient to cause sublimation of the component from the process material thereby producing purified metal; depositing the component that has been sublimed on a cool surface; removing purified metal from the retort; and removing deposited component from the cool surface.
US10035073B2
Racetracks for toy cars include structures formed from sheets of foldable material. Tracks include path channels supported by structures of triangular cross-section for mounting on room walls. Kits include planar sheets of material with lines or creases directing fold locations to fabricate a track from the sheets.
US10035072B2
An interactive food storing device. The food storing device includes a container having a base, one or more sidewalls, and an open end, defining an interior volume for storing food. A body extends from the base of the container for supporting the container in an upright position. A sensor is disposed in the container in order to detect movement within the interior volume of the container. The device includes a speaker and an audio unit connected to a processor for playing pre-recorded messages when the sensor detects an object. Further, portions of the device illuminate when food is placed within the container. The container and body resemble a fruit or vegetable in order to encourage children to eat healthy foods.
US10035058B1
A boot binding system for a splitboard that can include a latch pedal mechanism at an end of a baseplate on which the rider's boot rests. The latch pedal can have a dual function: either to attach each boot binding to a ride mode interface, or to attach each boot binding to a ski tour interface. In a “release position” the latch pedal is disengaged allowing the baseplate assembly to alternate between the ski tour interface and the ride mode interface. In a “lock position,” the rider depresses the latch pedal and locks the boot binding onto the selected interface. The latch pedal is held down by the rider's boot when in the lock position, contributing to the system's lightness and strength.
US10035054B2
Golf club heads include at least one weight port situated to retain weights and positioned above an approximate club face geometric center with the club in a standard address position. One, two, or more weight ports can be located above the club face center in a club crown or other portion of a club body. Club head vertical center of gravity can be selected to compensate dynamic loft associated with locating the club head center of gravity well behind the club face. Three-dimensional adjustment of club head center of gravity is possible.
US10035053B2
A set of golf clubs including golf club heads having improved mass distribution characteristics. The set includes golf club heads having a club head main body including a hitting face and a face support, a muscle back shell and a weight insert.
US10035051B2
A golf club head having an exterior surface opposite the hollow golf club interior, the body having a center of gravity, wherein the body comprises an elongate weight receptacle, a weight retainer located in the weight receptacle, wherein the weight receptacle comprises a plurality of weight mounts, wherein the weight retainer is configured to slide along the weight receptacle between each of the plurality of weight mounts when the weight retainer is unlocked, and wherein the weight retainer is configured to reside in any of the plurality of weight mounts when the weight retainer is locked, and wherein the weight receptacle comprises a weight receptacle installation feature configured to receive the weight retainer, wherein the weight receptacle installation feature is located between two of the plurality of weight mounts, wherein the two of the plurality of weight mounts are located adjacent one another.
US10035046B2
The present invention is directed to an improved multi-layered core golf ball wherein each core layer comprises its own specific hardness gradient (positive, negative or a combination) in addition to an overall specific hardness gradient from one core layer to the next.
US10035045B2
Disclosed herein are heterogeneous golf ball compositions comprising a matrix formed from a thermosetting polymer composition and discrete particles of crosslinked rubber dispersed within the matrix.
US10035043B2
A golf ball comprising at least one layer consisting of a color-stable composition comprising a color concentrate composition comprising a carrier resin, at least one backer pigment and a plurality of highly crosslinked thermoset fluorescent microspheres having a hue that is substantially similar to a hue created by the at least one backer pigment. Each highly crosslinked thermoset fluorescent microsphere may be substantially spherical. Each highly crosslinked thermoset fluorescent microsphere may have a diameter of from about 0.5 micron to about 2.0 microns. The carrier resin may be an ionomer. The color-stable composition may comprise a mixture of the color concentrate composition and a polymer composition, wherein the polymer composition may be an ionomer composition.
US10035036B2
A wall-mounted exercise apparatus that includes a plurality of elongate anchor members fixed to a first wall and a second wall, and includes a plurality of hooks fixed to each elongate anchor member. A first strap is configured to be attached to a first hook of the plurality of hooks, and the first hook is located on a first elongate anchor member fixed to the first wall. A second strap is configured to be attached to a second hook of the plurality of hooks, and the second hook is located on a second elongate anchor member fixed to the second wall, wherein the first and second hooks are selected based on a desired difficulty of a selected exercise to be performed.
US10035033B2
The present invention relates to a fire-extinguishing composition containing an alcohol/phenol compound and its derivative. The fire-extinguishing composition releases a great quantity of active fire-extinguishing particles by making use of the heat generated from combustion of a pyrotechnic agent. The fire-extinguishing composition containing an alcohol/phenol compound and its derivative in the present invention reacts at a high temperature to generate a great quantity of nanoscale active fire-extinguishing particles, takes reaction with one or more of O-, OH-, H-free radicals necessary for a chain combustion reaction, so as to cut off the chain combustion reaction and take physical and chemical inhibiting effects to jointly achieve a fire extinguishing effect at the same time. Meanwhile, it takes a synergistic interaction effect with pyrotechnic agent to further raise the fire extinguishing efficiency of the fire extinguishing agent and greatly shorten the effective fire extinguishing time.
US10035030B2
An open framework warehouse storage rack system for supporting articles on multi-tiered shelves within the wetting zone of an overhead fire sprinkler system. The storage rack system comprises one or more a longitudinally extending rack arrays. A falling water collection system is combined with some or all of the rack arrays. The falling water collection system includes any one of several water handling features that enhance the wetting of storage articles during a fire. One such feature is a scoop-like longitudinal water catcher that protrudes outwardly beyond the front and/or rear faces of the rack array. Another is a transverse intra-stanchion water diverter. Another is a transverse mid-span water diverter. Another is a gutter formed integrally in an uppermost beam. And another is a vertical flue catcher. The falling water collection system maximizes the amount of water that is applied directly to a fire inside the rack array.
US10035022B2
Embodiments include a leadless implantable heart stimulator (that includes an acceleration sensor, wherein the acceleration sensor delivers an acceleration signal as an output signal. The acceleration sensor is connected to an activity determination unit. The activity determination unit generates an activity signal from the acceleration signal wherein the activity determination unit at least partially subtracts a component of the acceleration signal from the acceleration signal that represents an intrinsic heart movement.
US10035021B2
The method and system described herein relate to stimulating nerve tissue using a pulse generator. A stimulus is created that comprises a signal that is produced from a frequency spectrum having a power spectral density per unit of bandwidth proportional to 1/fβ, wherein β is excludes 0. The stimulus is provided from the pulse generator to at least one stimulation lead; and applied to nerve tissue via one or several electrodes.
US10035007B2
According to some embodiments, a skin treatment assembly comprises a handpiece comprising a distal end, the handpiece comprising a recess or cavity configured to receive a cartridge or other fluid container, a tip configured to be positioned along the distal end of the handpiece, the tip being configured to contact a skin surface of a subject during use, and at least one rollerball configured to extend to or near the tip, wherein the rollerball is configured to be in fluid communication with an interior of a cartridge or other fluid container secured to the handpiece, wherein the at least one rollerball is configured to contact the skin surface of the subject during use and to facilitate the delivery of fluids to said skin surface as the rollerball is moved relative to said skin surface.
US10035002B2
A guide wire (400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000, 1200, 1300) is adapted for use in magnetic resonance imaging systems. The guide wire has a shaft region (402) and a distal tip region (404). The shaft region comprises a composite shaft (406) comprising reinforcing fibers aligned with a length extension (403) of the shaft region. The fibers extend at least partially into the distal tip region. The fibers form a taper (410) within the distal tip region. The distal tip region comprises a sensor (504, 604, 702, 704, 804, 904, 1006, 1008). The shaft comprises a cable (502, 602, 702, 704, 802, 902, 1002, 1004). The cable is connected to the sensor.
US10035001B2
An introducer assembly that may be employed to implant a medical device includes an introducer shaft, and an anchor sleeve and a deployment tool mounted on the shaft. According to some methods, the sleeve is deployed onto an elongate body of the medical device, after the body has been advanced through a lumen of the introducer shaft and to an implant site within a body of a patient, by pulling the introducer shaft proximally, out from the body of the patient, while holding the deployment tool in place, relative to the advanced body of the device.
US10034995B2
A retractable tube for use in a respiratory apparatus for delivering a pressurized flow of breathable gas to a patient has an internal diameter of about 30 mm or less, a weight of about 500 g/m or less, and an unextended length of about 2 m or less. The retractable tube includes a portion that is extensible in a range of about 40%-400% in response to force applied to the tube, and the extensible portion is configured to return the tube to its unextended length in the absence of force applied to the tube. A respiratory apparatus for delivering a flow of pressurized breathable gas includes a flow generator to generate the flow and a patient interface to deliver the flow to the patient's airways. The flow generator and the patient interface are connected by a retractable tube. A method of delivering a flow of pressurized breathable gas includes connecting the flow generator and the patient interface using a retractable tube.
US10034993B2
An airway device for use with deep sedation has a pair of conduits, one to supply oxygenated gas and the other to extract exhaled gas. The conduits are encompassed in a permeable sleeve with a stylet to facilitate positioning of the device in the airway.
US10034965B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions useful in synthetic bone graft applications. Particularly, the disclosure teaches moldable bone graft compositions, methods of making said compositions, and methods of utilizing the same.
US10034962B2
An implant for bone-graft insertedly placed in a procedure pore, the implant includes a bone organism having a lump shape, and a protective film coated to cover an overall outer surface of the bone organism as to form an absorbent membrane. After the implant is insertedly placed in the procedure pore, the absorbent member is absorbed into a body and dissolved as time passes. The implant for the bone-graft may be applied to diverse procedures performed for hone-graft not only in a dental surgery but also in orthopedics or a plastic surgery.
US10034961B1
A composite dura substitute implant for implantation at a dura defect site having a porous layer that provides an osteoconductive scaffold for bony ingrowth, a porous layer that provides a scaffold for regeneration of collagen at a dura surface, and an intervening layer for preventing cerebrospinal leakage is disclosed. The composite dura substitute implant facilitates regeneration of dura mater and promotes osteointegration with bony tissue. Methods of manufacturing such an implant and methods of treatment using such composite dura substitute implants are further disclosed.
US10034960B2
A composition including PPF or a PPF copolymer that can be used to fabricate biodegradable structures. The composition can be used in 3-D patterning (e.g., 3-D printing and sterolighography) methods. For example, 3-D patternable compositions include PPF or a PPF copolymer, a photoinitiator or photoinitiators, and a resolution control inhibitor or inhibitors. The compositions can be used to make biodegradable structures (such as cardivascular scaffolds). The biodegradable structures can be surface functionalized. The biodegradable structures can be used in methods of blood delivery in an individual.
US10034959B2
Provided, among other things, is a method of treating skin and soft tissue wounds, ulcers, burns, various types of dermatoses, inflammatory conditions of the mucosa, and the like comprising: periodically applying to the wound, inflammatory condition of mucosal tissues, or dermatoses, over a course of days an effective amount of water based formulation (comprising: 0.5 to 5 wt % of an emollient comprising silicone oil, 2 to 10 wt % of fatty acid, humectant(s), emulsifying agent(s), and polymer(s)), wherein the formulation is formulated as a spray, cream, lotion, milk or foam-former.
US10034958B2
Provided herein are hemostatic compositions useful for treating wounds in a patient in need thereof. An exemplary hemostatic comprises gelatin or a derivative thereof and silicate nanoparticles. Methods of use, kits comprising the compositions, and a process of making the compositions are also provided.
US10034957B2
The present invention is directed to a hemostatic material comprising a compacted, hemostatic aggregates of cellulosic fibers. In some aspects, the hemostatic material further includes additives, such as carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) or other polysaccharides, calcium salts, anti-infective agents, hemostasis promoting agents, gelatin, collagen, or combinations thereof. In another aspect, the present invention is directed to a method of making the hemostatic materials described above by compacting a cellulosic-based material into hemostatic aggregates. In another aspect, the present invention is directed to a method of treating a wound by applying hemostatic materials described above onto and/or into the wound of a patient.
US10034949B2
Provided is an immunogenic composition comprising 15 different polysaccharide-protein conjugates. Each of the conjugates comprises a capsular polysaccharide prepared from different serotype Streptococcus pneumoniae conjugated to a carrier protein, that is, serotypes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6A, 6B, 7F, 9N, 9V, 14, 18C, 19A, 19F and 23F. An immunogenic composition formulated into a vaccine comprising an aluminum-based adjuvant increases application range with respect to pneumococcal diseases in infants and children.
US10034947B2
The present invention provides compositions containing clopidogrel, present as a free base or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and sulfoalkyl ether cyclodextrin (SAE-CD). The compositions can be liquid, suspension or solid compositions. They can be adapted for oral, peroral or parenteral administration. The SAE-CD serves to aid in dissolution and stabilization of the clopidogrel in aqueous media. The stability of clopidogrel against hydrolytic degradation, thermal degradation, and photolytic degradation are improved. SAE-CD provides improved results over other cyclodextrin derivatives. The SAE-CD-containing composition of clopidogrel can be provided in liquid form, solid form or as a reconstitutable powder. Both ready-to-use and concentrated liquid compositions can be prepared. The liquid composition is optionally available as a clear solution. The compositions herein can be administered perorally or parenterally and provide substantial pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic and/or therapeutic advantages over a tablet composition administered perorally and excluding SAE-CD.
US10034941B2
The present invention provides a drug delivery system that overcomes conventional technical problems and that is readily put to practical use. Iron-salen complexes represented by General Formula (I) below. The invention renders iron-salen complexes magnetic, which can thus be used as drugs that can be delivered to affected areas in the body using the inherent magnetic properties of the drug without employing carriers composed of magnetic substances as has been done hitherto.
US10034934B2
The present disclosure provides an isolated or purified Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDV) or Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDV) S1 protein, and methods of use thereof.
US10034926B2
The present invention is directed to methods and agents used for treating cancer in Toll-Like Receptor 5-expressing tissues by providing a Toll-Like Receptor agonist such as flagellin. The present invention also relates to protecting the liver from a liver toxicity using a Toll-like receptor agonist.
US10034925B2
NK cells and NK cell lines are modified to increase cytotoxicity, wherein the cells and compositions thereof have a use in the treatment of cancer. Production of modified NK cells and NK cell lines is via genetic modification to remove checkpoint inhibitory receptor expression and/or add mutant (variant) TRAIL ligand expression.
US10034923B2
The invention provides compositions and methods for treating incontinence associated with sexual activity.
US10034908B2
A method for treatment of virus-based diseases of the skin, in particular, herpes simplex virus type-1 and herpes zoster, which comprises topically administering to the skin of a subject suffering from a virus-based disease of the skin a therapeutically amount of an aqueous, aqueous/alcohol, or natural plant oil extract of dandelion.
US10034907B1
A flavored cannabinoid composition and method of manufacturing. The cannabinoid composition includes a cannabis resin, a solvent, such as propylene glycol, and a flavoring agent selected from the following group consisting of Cinnamaldehyde, Isoamyl acetate, d-limonene, Methyl anthranilate, vanilla extract, chocolate extract, and Allyl hexanoate. The cannabinoid composition is administered via inhalation or consumption of food and drink to complement or supplement other medications.
US10034899B2
The invention is a solid oral dosage form that is designed to deliver a supraphysiological dose of molecular iodine of 3 to 60 mg per day. The solid oral dosage form is designed to have a low risk of thyroid related adverse clinical events for patients with deficiencies of certain minerals. The solid oral dosage form includes a source of iodine, a reactive agent, and calcium or iron. The solid oral dosage form may include one or more of selenium, vitamin A, vitamin D, zinc, gamma-linolenic acid, vitamin B1, and magnesium. The solid dosage form may further comprise an enteric coating that coats ingredients that are absorbed predominantly from the intestines, such as vitamin A and D, and does not coat the source of iodine and the reactive agent.
US10034892B2
This invention is related to the field of PCSK9 biology and the composition and methods of use of small molecule ligands for modulation of PCSK9 biological activity. In particular, the invention provides compositions of small molecule compounds that modulate circulating levels of low density lipoproteins by altering the conformation of the protein PCSK9. Binding these small molecule ligands to PCSK9 alters the conformation of the protein, modifying the interaction between PCSK9 and an endogenous low density lipoprotein receptor, and can lead to reduced or increased levels of circulating LDL-cholesterol. High LDL-cholesterol levels are associated with increased risk for heart disease. Low LDL-cholesterol levels may be problematic in other conditions, such as liver dysfunction; thus, there is also utility for small molecule ligands that can raise LDL levels.
US10034890B2
Oral dosage forms of osteoclast inhibitors, such as zoledronic acid, in an acid or a salt form can be used to treat or alleviate pain or related conditions, such as complex regional pain syndrome.
US10034882B2
The present invention relates to Orally Disintegrating Tablets (ODT) of Tofacitinib and its pharmaceutically acceptable salts and the process to produce the ODT. The invention further relates to ODTs comprising Tofacitinib and its pharmaceutically acceptable salts, at least one sweetening agent, at least one disintegrant and optionally other excipients. The weight of the Orally Disintegrating tablets is 200 mg or less. The invention further relates to Orally Disintegrating Tablets of Tofacitinib Citrate.
US10034881B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and to their use in therapy.
US10034877B2
The present invention relates to the finding that certain DPP-4 inhibitors are particularly suitable for treating and/or preventing metabolic diseases, particularly diabetes, in patients for whom metformin therapy is inappropriate due to intolerability or contraindication against metformin.
US10034873B2
Pharmaceutical compositions and unit dosage forms comprising Compound I are disclosed.
US10034869B2
The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) or (II) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and their use in modulating the activity of S1P receptors. Also provided is a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compounds of formula (I) or (II) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient or carrier.
US10034861B2
The present invention provides 1H-pyrazolo[4,3-b]pyridin-7-amines of formula (I) as PDE1 inhibitors and their use as a medicament, in particular for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders and psychiatric disorders.
US10034856B2
The present invention refers to the use of N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine (melatonin) and/or an analog thereof, for use in the medical or veterinary field in the assisted reproduction for promoting the mechanism of implantation of the embryo, and in particular for the prevention of implantation failure into the uterus, by topical administration of an effective amount in a mammalian subject female in need of such treatment, and related compositions, culture media and medical devices.
US10034855B2
An object is to provide a solid composition of stabilized pyrrole carboxamide. A means for achieving the object is a solid composition for medical use containing (S)-1-(2-hydroxyethyl)-4-methyl-N-[4-(methylsulfonyl)phenyl]-5-[2-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-1H-pyrrole-3-carboxamide and an appropriate additive.
US10034854B2
The invention relates to solid dispersions of poorly water soluble compounds, in particular Compound A as disclosed herein, formed by solvent co-precipitation or spray drying, resulting in improved bioavailability, safety and tolerability of said compounds.
US10034853B2
The present invention discloses a PPAR α/γ dual agonist and its application. The PPAR α/γ dual agonist comprises an effective amount of the compounds represented by formula I or/and its pharmaceutically acceptable derivative. Wherein. R1 is selected from alkoxyl or ester group; R2 is selected from hydroxyl or ester group. The PPAR α/γ dual agonist according to the present invention can be used for preparing drugs and functional foods for preventing or/and treating metabolic syndrome, especially glucose or/and lipid disorders, with extensive and bright prospects of application.
US10034829B2
A semi-permanent mascara composition for use on eyelashes and/or eyelids that includes from 17% to 30%, by weight, of a film former selected from the group consisting of tall oil glyceride, pentaerythrityl rosinate, glyceryl rosinate, and the hydrogenated versions and mixtures thereof. Further there is from 0.1% to 14%, by weight, of a colorant and from 10% to 15%, by weight, of disteardimonium hectorite, and less than about 3% of wax. The semi-permanent mascara composition is long lasting and has excellent wear characteristics.
US10034828B2
The present invention generally relates to compositions and methods for transdermal delivery, and treatment of hair related conditions. The compositions can be used in a variety of applications, including causing or promoting hair growth and/or hair pigmentation. In some cases, the composition may include nitric oxide and/or peptides. The nitric oxide and/or peptide may be present within a first phase comprising a lecithin, such as phosphatidylcholine. In certain embodiments, the lecithin is present in liposomes, micelles, or other vesicles containing nitric oxide, peptides, or both. The composition can take the form of a gel, a cream, a lotion, an ointment, a solution, a solid “stick,” etc., that can be rubbed or sprayed onto the skin, e.g., onto the scalp, or other suitable portion of the skin. Other aspects of the present invention are generally directed to methods of making or using such compositions, methods of promoting such compositions, kits including such compositions, or the like.
US10034817B2
The present invention relates to a solid makeup and/or care cosmetic composition in the form of a compact powder, comprising, in a physiologically acceptable medium, at least: one pulverulent phase, one organopolysiloxane elastomer, one emulsifying system, one hydrophilic gelling agent, and one organic non-volatile oil present in a content of greater than or equal to 1% by weight relative to the total weight of the composition. The invention also relates to an intermediate composition for the preparation of such a cosmetic composition, to a process for manufacturing this cosmetic composition, and to a process for coating the skin with the said cosmetic composition.
US10034816B2
A pharmaceutical package may include a glass body enclosing an inner volume and having an exterior surface. The glass body may be formed from a borosilicate glass that meets the Type 1 criteria according to USP <660>or an alkali aluminosilicate glass having a Class HGA 1 hydrolytic resistance when tested according to the ISO 720-1985 testing standard. A coupling agent layer having a first thickness less than or equal to 100 nm may be disposed on the exterior surface of the glass body. A polymer layer having a second thickness of less than 50 nm may be positioned over the coupling agent layer. The exterior surface of the glass body with the coupling agent layer and the polymer layer may have a coefficient of friction less than or equal to 0.7.
US10034813B1
A system, device, and method for therapeutic deep tissue massage is disclosed. The therapeutic deep tissue massage device includes an apparatus for use in therapeutic massage applications in which forces are provided to an outer surface of the human body and subcutaneously within human tissues.
US10034808B2
Mattresses and cushions, methods of making mattresses and cushions, and patient supports comprising a mattress and/or a cushion. At least some embodiments of the present mattresses and cushions comprise a body with air-impermeable material having a plurality of openings, and a cover sheet comprising air-permeable and liquid-impermeable material covering at least a portion of the plurality of openings and coupled to the body by a liquid-impermeable welded seam encircling the covered one or more openings.
US10034807B2
A bed step stool for assisting a user into and out of bed including opposite sides, a head, and a foot. The bed step stool includes a first support to be disposed closer to the head of the bed; a second support to be disposed closer to the foot of the bed; and a step assembly supported between the first support and the second support, the step assembly to enable the user to step thereon for assisting the user into and out of the bed.
US10034805B2
Systems, devices, and methods are described for providing, among other things, a stand-up wheel chair having automatic stability control.
US10034791B2
A system and method for measuring and/or monitoring compliance and/or quality of brace usage is provided that includes one or more straps, one or more assemblies interacting with the one or more straps, and measurement mechanism(s) associated with the strap/assembly combination to generate information related to compliance and/or quality of brace usage. The systems and methods may be retrofit to existing scoliosis braces and may be used to transmit information to remote devices and/or processors. In addition, information concerning compliance and/or quality of brace usage may be communicated to a user and/or health care provider(s), e.g., through one or more signaling elements such as aural, visual and/or haptic signaling elements associated with the at least one assembly.
US10034790B2
A dynamic platform with extending struts has fastened thereto a bi-directional torsional power unit to selectively deliver force opposing either extension or flexion, and to provide assistance in a respective opposite direction. The power unit is threadably mounted on a hinge pin (spline) centrally located on the platform, and is latched to a catch assembly radially located thereto, the hinge pin of the platform communicating with one end of a torsion spring of the power unit and the catch assembly communicating with another end of the torsion spring, to selectively deliver the extension/flexion force. The power unit can be detached, with simple manual operation of the catch assembly, without tools, flipped over and reattached to the same platform attachment points to switch (reverse) extension torque to flexion torque and vice versa.
US10034788B2
A stent graft adaptor has an outer graft tube and an inner graft tube with the inner graft tube substantially concentric with and within the outer graft tube. A joining member extends between the inner tube and the outer tube. The joining member can be a continuous fold of graft material extending from a proximal end of the outer tube to a proximal end of the inner tube. The inner tube has at least one self expanding stent on an outer surface thereof and the outer graft tube has at least one self expanding stent on an inner surface. The outer surface of the outer tube provides a sealing surface to engage against the wall of a vessel and the inner tube provides a sealing surface to engage with a corresponding sealing surface of a stent graft deployed through it. The outer sealing surface can include barbs.
US10034783B1
In one embodiment, an adjustable prosthetic ankle separate from a prosthetic foot includes an upper coupling member, a lower coupling member that couples with the upper coupling member, and a flexion angle adjustment mechanism associated with the coupling members that enables a user to change a relative angle between the coupling members, and therefore a flexion angle of the prosthetic ankle, without using any tools.
US10034778B2
A workstation having a pair of posts on either side of a clamping plate where a donor bone may be placed on sequentially cut in three separate cutting paths. Cutting gates are attached to the posts and used to provide cutting paths that can be precisely oriented with respect to the meniscus of the donor bone part using visual alignment without any manual measurements. The graft is affixed to a machining clamp and shaved to appropriately shape the sides and form a radius on the bottom of the graft. A tibia is then prepared by using a drill guide to form a pilot hole and then to drill out a large hole for the graft. The drilled hole is expanded and shaped using a rod guide and chisel and then a rasp. The shaped graft may then be implanted into the shaped hole and sutured in place.
US10034773B2
An implant for therapeutically separating bones of a joint has two endplates each having an opening through the endplate, and at least one ramped surface on a side opposite a bone engaging side. A frame is slideably connected to the endplates to enable the endplates to move relative to each other at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the implant, in sliding connection with the frame. An actuator screw is rotatably connected to the frame. A carriage forms an open area aligned with the openings in the endplates. The openings in the endplates pass through the carriage to form an unimpeded passage from bone to bone of the joint. The carriage has ramps which mate with the ramped surfaces of the endplates, wherein when the carriage is moved by rotation of the actuator screw, the endplates move closer or farther apart.
US10034761B2
The present invention concerns an intersomatic implant (2) comprising a body (4) suitable for being inserted between two vertebrae (1) to space them a predetermined distance apart, the body (4) being provided on either side, respectively, with a contact surface (5, 5′) with the corresponding vertebrae (1). The body (4) is formed from an oblong part of predetermined thickness provided at a first so-called proximal end with a gripping cam (9) mounted movable in rotation relative to the part about an axis perpendicular to the two surfaces (5, 5′), between two predetermined angular positions. The contact surfaces (5, 5′) are either parallel or substantially parallel to one another, and each contact surface (5, 5′) of the body (4) with a corresponding vertebra (1) comprises a set of curved longitudinal protrusions (7, 7′, 7″) which decrease in height towards the distal ends thereof.
US10034753B2
A system for use in conjunction with a hip prosthesis is shown. A customized patient-specific acetabular orthopedic surgical instrument and a customized patient-specific femoral orthopedic surgical instrument are disclosed. A method for fabricating and using the orthopedic surgical instruments is also disclosed. A method for using the customized patient-specific acetabular orthopedic surgical instrument is disclosed. A method for using the customized patient-specific femoral orthopedic surgical instrument is disclosed.
US10034739B2
There is described an arteriovenous fistula stent, having a tubular body comprising a series of sinusoidal shaped struts along the length of the tubular body. A plurality of curvilinear connectors extend between and are attached to adjacent struts wherein a first end of a connector is attached to a distal face of a proximal strut apex and a second end of a connector is attached to a proximal face of a distal strut apex. A pair of unconnected strut apexes are between pairs of connected apexes. When the tubular body is in a stowed configuration a proximal aperture and a distal aperture are circular and when the tubular body is in a deployed configuration the distal aperture is oblong or ovoid. There is also described a method for inserting a stent for use in creation of an arteriovenous fistula by identifying a candidate artery and a candidate vein and dissecting the candidate vein. Next, inserting a stent into the vein and creating a breach in the candidate artery at a desired angle and location. Next, introducing the stent and vein into the candidate artery and forming the stent into a curvature angle selected to minimize turbulent blood flow in an anastomosis formed by the vein and the artery. Optionally, there is a step of fastening a distal portion of the stent to the artery.
US10034737B2
The present invention concerns a biomaterial comprising a nanofibrous scaffold made of polymers, such as poly(ε-caprolactone) or collagen, coated with at least one layer pair consisting of a layer of polyanions and a layer of polycations, wherein said at least one layer pair incorporates a therapeutic molecule such as a growth factor. The biomaterial may optionally comprise living cells such as osteoblasts and/or chondrocytes.
US10034730B2
The power toothbrush includes a brushhead arm (36) and a brush element (38) at a distal end thereof. A V-spring assembly (14) converts the movement of a power drive assembly in a back-and-forth movement. A mounting member (55) at the rear end of the V-spring assembly provides a base for a magnet (56). The back end of the V-spring assembly is displaced in accordance with pressure applied to the brush member. A Hall effect sensor (58) is mounted within the changing magnetic field produced by the magnet as the rear end of the V-spring assembly is displaced due to pressure on the brushhead. A processor (65) is responsive to the output from the Hall sensor and provides an indication when the pressure exceeds a threshold value.
US10034728B2
A method of coloring pre-sintered dental restoration, comprises: securing a pre-sintered dental restoration; applying a preceding liquid on the dental restoration; dipping the dental restoration, with the preceding liquid thereon, into a subsequent liquid for coloring; and sintering the dental restoration to acquire a fully sintered dental restoration. The subsequent liquid is different from the preceding liquid. The preceding liquid at least partly blocks or interferes with an infiltration of the subsequent liquid into an area where the preceding liquid was applied. The fully sintered dental restoration has less color/chroma in the area where the preceding liquid was applied.
US10034725B2
A dental superstructure defines a channel formation for the fixing element of a dental superstructure. The superstructure (1) is fixed to an implantation (3) integrated in the jaw bone by means of a fixing element (2). A channel (7) is formed in the superstructure (1). The axis line (8) of the channel (7) is shaped to follow an arc (9) whose radii pointing to given points of the axis line (8) diverge from the plane of the arc (9) by 0-5°. The channel (7) is shaped in such a manner that the sections determined by the planes perpendicular to its axis line (8) are circles with the same diameter with their centers on the axis line (8). In the method according to the invention a computer controlled device is used for forming the channel.
US10034723B2
A tooth bracket extraction device which comprises a motor housed within a motor housing, and a motor shaft extending from the motor. A gear cover is fastened to the motor housing, and a first shaft is coupled to the motor shaft, where the first shaft receives the drive from the motor via the motor shaft. A first gear is attached to the first shaft, and a second shaft comprises a second gear, where the second shaft is in communication with the first shaft via engagement of the second gear to the first gear. A torque generated from the motor is transferred to the second shaft, and the second shaft comprises a head receiver member which is configured to receive and mount a plurality of heads. Each head is configured to transfer the torque to a bracket section attached to teeth, thereby removing the bracket section from the teeth.
US10034720B2
An overforce mechanism comprising a driving assembly, a driven assembly, and a variably engageable coupling, shunts or dampens a motion of a control cylinder for a hydraulic device when that motion exceeds a predefined, unsafe threshold. The overforce mechanism avoids or reduces damage either to the device itself, to ancillary devices and/or to the patient. In an aspect, the variably engageable coupling may include a biasing mechanism and a coupling member, wherein the biasing mechanism automatically resets or releases upon reaching a force or tension threshold. Further, the overforce driven assembly may include an overforce rod that allows the force or motion to be channeled away from the source. The variably engageable coupling may comprise a dowel and spring mechanism that automatically resets with tension.
US10034718B2
Robotic and/or surgical devices, systems, and methods include kinematic linkage structures and associated control systems configured to facilitate preparation of the system for use. A set-up mode employs an intuitive user interface in which one or more joints of the kinematic linkage are initially held static by a brake or joint drive system. The user may articulate the joint(s) by manually pushing against the linkage with a force, torque, or the like that exceeds a manual articulation threshold. Articulation of the moving joints is facilitated by modifying the signals transmitted to the brake or drive system. The system may sense completion of the reconfiguration from a velocity of the joint(s) falling below a threshold, optionally for a desired dwell time. Embodiments of the invention can provide for manual movement of a platform supporting a plurality of surgical manipulators or the like without having to add additional input devices.
US10034713B2
Devices and systems are provided for tracking a position and orientation of a handheld implement, such that the handheld implement may be trackable with an overhead tracking system. A support member secures one or more markers relative to a longitudinal portion of the handheld implement, and a marker plane containing the markers is orientated an angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the longitudinal portion. A marker assembly may include a support member for supporting the markers, and a connector for removably attaching the marker assembly to one or more handheld implements. The marker assembly may be configured to be removably attachable to a plurality of connection adapters, where each connection adapter is further connectable to a handheld implement, optionally at a calibrated position, such that a single connection adapter can be optionally employed to track a plurality of handheld implements. The handheld implement may be a medical instrument.
US10034705B2
The present disclosure is directed to electrode assemblies, and specifically to struts comprising electrode assemblies and electrodes contained on the struts. The electrode assembly struts are constructed to have a low profile and to have superior strength over the length of the strut such that an electrode assembly including the strut is highly resistant to radial compression. The electrodes included on the low profile, high strength strut also is designed to have a reduced profile such that electrode assemblies including the strut and electrode can easily be used with 6 French and smaller guide catheter assemblies.
US10034700B2
An adjustable balloon that includes a handle having an inflation port, an access cannula, a rotary handle, an inner sleeve and sharp tip. The inner sleeve extends within the access cannula to support compliant, inflatable structure. The access cannula may be retracted into the handle by operation of the rotary handle to expose the inflatable structure, such that the inflatable structure may have an adjustable length. The access cannula may include length indicators to show a length of the inflatable structure as a result of the access cannula being withdrawn into the handle.
US10034698B2
In an exemplary embodiment, the present invention provides an orthopedic plate blocking assembly that can be used for the fixation or fastening of an orthopedic plate to bone tissue. In particular, the present invention, in one embodiment, provides an orthopedic plate having a plurality of cavities where each cavity is configured and dimensioned to receive a bone anchoring member. The orthopedic plate further provides a blocking mechanism having a plurality of blocking members that block the bone anchoring members to prevent the bone anchoring members from “backing out” of cavities once the bone anchoring members are finally seated in the cavities.
US10034697B2
A detachable actuator arm as part of or in combination with an osteogenesis distractor device, the actuator arm being detachable from the distraction mechanism of the distractor device by manipulation of a proximally disposed release mechanism.
US10034693B2
A spinous laminar clamp system is disclosed herein. The preferred embodiments are either a three or a four-point fixation system at a particular vertebral level. For example, a two-point adjustable fixation below a vertebrae and a single-point non-adjustable point above the vertebrae exemplifies the three-point fixation. Multiple level and further stabilizing is provided by fixation to subjacent vertebrae above and/or below with a connecting rod providing unitization between levels. Specific designs are applicable to the cervical spine; however, fixation at all levels and regions of the human spine are contemplated.
US10034684B2
A surgical instrument for cutting and coagulating tissue is provided that includes an elongate sheath and an ultrasonic blade. In one embodiment, an ultrasonic blade is positioned within a sheath such that movement of the sheath relative to the blade results in the dissection and/or coagulation of tissue therebetween. In another embodiment, an ultrasonic blade is positioned within a sheath such that movement of the blade relative to the sheath results in the dissection and/or coagulation of tissue therebetween. The size and shape of distal ends of the blade and sheath determine the size and shape of the tissue being cut and/or removed from a body.
US10034667B2
An apparatus for gathering of tissue of a heart valve leaflet comprises an elongated member and a grasping assembly movable in the elongated member between a retracted position and an extended position. The grasping assembly includes an actuating arm having a proximal end and a distal end. The grasping assembly is attached to the distal end of the activating arm. The grasping assembly is operable to gather and clamp the tissue of the heart valve leaflet such that clamped tissue has a gathered configuration.
US10034664B2
Various devices, systems, and methods are provided for securing soft tissue to bone. In one exemplary embodiment, a two-piece inserter tool is provided that includes a tip portion that is configured to be removably coupled to a handle portion. A distal portion of the tip portion can be configured to be coupled to a suture anchor, and the tip portion and the anchor can be passed through a continuous suture loop prior to mating the tip portion to the handle portion.
US10034656B2
Ultrasound tomography imaging methods for imaging a tissue medium with one or more ultrasound transducer arrays comprising a plurality of transducers, wherein said transducers comprise source transducers, receiving transducers. The methods include assigning a phase value or time delay to source transducers, exciting the transducers and calculating a search direction based on data relating to the excited transducers.
US10034655B2
Devices and methods for enhancing observability under ultrasound imaging of medical devices include temporal markers which are dynamic, producing a variable ultrasound image over time. Included are rotating markers which produce a Doppler shift visible through ultrasound imaging in a Doppler mode and which enhance visibility of the marker. Other devices and methods include alternating streams of fluid contrast agents and saline as well as destroying a fluid contrast agent stream with a high intensity ultrasound pulse.
US10034654B2
An ultrasound unit includes a plurality of elements each including N cells, in each of which a bottom electrode and a top electrode that constitutes a membrane are arranged facing each other with a cavity therebetween, wherein the element has N1 first cells and N2 (where N1≠N2, N1+N2=N) second cells having higher reception sensitivity and lower transmission sensitivity than the first cells.
US10034653B2
A method for estimating a thickness of tissue includes receiving multiple measurements, each measurement indicating (i) a respective mechanical pressure applied to the tissue, and (ii) one or more round-trip propagation times of an ultrasound wave traversing the tissue in the presence of the respective mechanical pressure. A set of the measurements is selected, having mechanical pressures that fall in a specified partial subrange of mechanical-pressure values. The thickness of the tissue is estimated based on the round-trip propagation times in the selected set of the measurements.
US10034651B2
Compositions, including composition for use in radiographic calibration and quality assurance include glass micro bubbles, epoxy, CaCo3, MgO, and Polyethylene. Embodiments of the composition may be used in calibration devices or phantoms. Calibration devices or phantoms constructed of embodiments of the composition may be used in methods of calibrating a radiographic device for imaging of brain tissue.
US10034637B2
A multi electrode catheter for non contact mapping of the heart having independent articulation and deployment features.
US10034635B2
A method and system for monitoring a user's intoxication including receiving a set of signals, derived from a set of samples collected from the user at a set of time points; providing a sobriety task to the user proximal to a time point of the set of time points; generating a performance dataset characterizing performance of the sobriety task by the user; receiving a supplementary dataset characterizing a demographic profile of the user and/or a physiological state of the user; determining a set of values of an intoxication metric, derived from the set of signals; generating a predicted temporal profile of the intoxication metric for the user based upon the set of values, the set of time points, and the supplementary dataset; generating an analysis of the user's sobriety based upon the performance dataset and the predicted temporal profile; and providing a notification to the user based upon the analysis.
US10034631B1
A vehicle seating system includes a vehicle seat, piezoelectric sensors individually positioned at respective locations within the seat corresponding to anatomical locations of a person sitting in the seat, and a controller. The sensors to generate electrical signals in response to mechanical stress applied on the sensors from biologically motivated force inputs of the person. The controller to detect from the electrical signals generated by the sensors biometric information of the person corresponding to the biologically motivated force inputs of the person.
US10034626B2
The invention relates to a method for training adjustment in sports. The method may measure lactate concentrations in the body of a person by a lactate measuring device comprising a transdermal microneedles sensor. The method for training adjustment in sports includes steps of: measuring a lactate concentration value in the body of a user by the transdermal microneedles sensor; comparing the lactate concentration value with a predetermined value; and informing the user to reduce exercise intensity if the lactate concentration value is higher than the predetermined value, otherwise informing the user to increase exercise intensity if the lactate concentration value is lower than the predetermined value. The invention also relates to a lactate measuring device.
US10034621B2
Apparatuses are described to accurately determine a gas concentration of a sample of a patient's breath. The apparatuses may include a sample compartment, a breath speed analyzer, a gas analyzer, and a processor. The sample compartment includes an inlet that receives the breath. The breath speed analyzer determines the speed of a portion of the breath. The gas analyzer determines a gas concentration. The processor includes an algorithm that determines a degree of non-homogeneity of the sample based on the speed, and a corrected gas concentration based on the degree of non-homogeneity. In some variations, the gas correction is determined independently of patient cooperation. Apparatuses may be tuned based on the intended population's expected breathing pattern ranges such that the sample compartment is filled with a homogenous end-tidal gas sample regardless of an individual's breathing pattern. These apparatuses are useful, for example, for end-tidal CO analysis. Methods are also described.
US10034617B2
A data collection unit obtains physiological data from a subject interface on a subject. The subject interface can be connected to the data collection unit. When the subject interface is connected to the data collection unit, subject interface contacts on the subject interface make contact with data collection unit contacts on the data collection unit. Some of the data collection unit contacts are for communicating physiological data from the subject interface to the data collection unit. Some of the contacts are for powering the data collection unit upon the subject interface being connected to the data collection unit and for powering down the data collection unit upon the subject interface being disconnected from the data collection unit.
US10034615B2
An implantable device for body tissue, including an electrical subsystem that flexes within and interfaces with body tissue and a carrier that operates in the following two modes: provides structural support for the electrical subsystem during implantation of the device in body tissue and allows flexing of the electrical subsystem after implantation of the device in body tissue. The implantable device is preferably designed to be implanted into the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerve, muscle, or any other suitable anatomical location. The implantable device, however, may be alternatively used in any suitable environment and for any suitable reason.
US10034604B2
An optical measuring apparatus includes a first light source, a second light source and a switching unit. The first light source is used to emit a first light toward a first direction. The second light source is used to emit a second light toward a second direction. The switching unit selectively switches to a first mode or a second mode. When the switching unit switches to the first mode, it blocks the second light and let the first light emitted to an aiming region on eyeball to perform an optical aiming and determine an eye axis center position on the eyeball; when the switching unit switches to the second mode, the switching unit changes the second light from the second direction to the first direction to let the second light emitted to the eye axis center position on the eyeball to perform an optical measurement.
US10034603B2
An endoscope conduit switching apparatus configured to have a cylinder to which a plurality of conduits provided in an endoscope are connected, a piston that is fitted and inserted into the cylinder to be capable of advancing and retreating, and an urging member that urges the piston to the normal position, and switch communication states of the plurality of conduits, includes: a seal member configured to isolate the gas flow conduit from an outside, when the piston is in the normal position, and a leak portion configured to be provided on the wall face of the other one, and open the gas flow conduit to the outside in a space between the cylinder and the piston when the piston is in a position that closes the liquid flow conduit and allows the gas flow conduit to be continuous.
US10034601B2
A heat resistant sheath for endoscope includes a main body sheath into which an insertion portion of an endoscope apparatus is inserted, and into which a cooling fluid is supplied by a cooling device, a sheath distal end portion at which an endoscope distal end portion is arranged, and that is connected to a distal end of the main body sheath, an observation hole formed at a middle part of a circumferential side portion of the sheath distal end portion, and configured to expose an observation window of the endoscope distal end portion to allow observation of an object, and an exhaust hole formed in the circumferential side portion of the sheath distal end portion, on a distal end side with respect to the observation hole, and configured to discharge the cooling fluid in a direction different from an observation direction of the endoscope apparatus.
US10034593B2
Provided is a combination broom and cleaning fabric adapter apparatus. The apparatus may include a planar plate having a first and a second surface. The plate may be configured to position a cleaning fabric on the first surface. The first surface may include grippers to grip the cleaning fabric onto the first surface. A stick attachment device may be connected to the second surface for attaching a standard broom or mop stick to the plate at a first location on the plate. The stick attachment device may be configured to allow the stick to pivot freely in two-dimensions relative to the plate. A broom brush attachment device may be connected to the second surface adjacent an edge of the plate for attaching a broom brush to the plate.
US10034592B2
A steam frame for a steam appliance has a body, a passageway in the body for passage of a fluid medium, and a member such as an unbalanced rotatable turbine in fluid communication with the passageway, where the member is capable of being engaged by the fluid medium to produce vibrations in the body for enhanced cleaning performance. A steam attachment includes a body, a pad covering at least a portion of the body, and a heating element coupled to the body. The heating element and vibration-producing member may be used separately or together.
US10034578B2
An electric grill and method, and an electrically-powered heat radiating module which is removably or permanently positioned in the grill housing. The heat radiating module includes one or more electric heating elements which are preferably contained within a shallow heating cavity which is at least 95% closed to air flow into or out of the heating cavity and is also preferably insulated. Fat and water drippings from the food product flow around the heat radiating module rather than into the heating cavity. An infrared cooking grate assembly with a food support grate positionable on an emitter plate is also provided.
US10034575B2
A point-of-use food holding cabinet keeps food products hot and cold in different compartments, which are heated and refrigerated respectively. Solid state heat pumps such as Peltier devices absorb heat on one side and emit heat on the other. By configuring the solid state heat sinks appropriately, one compartment or shelf of a holding cabinet can be refrigerated while an adjacent compartment can be kept warm.
US10034568B2
A heat distribution apparatus uniformly distributes heat and air for efficient cooking and retention of heat. The apparatus includes an inner container containing an object requiring heating, such as food and water. The inner container includes a closed end to receive heat, an open end, a sidewall having an inner surface and an outer surface, and a cavity. The sidewall extends between the closed and open ends. The outer surface of the sidewall includes a heat absorption portion fabricated from a material efficacious for absorbing heat. The outer surface includes a heat guidance portion spiraling between the open and closed ends of the inner container for funneling heat and air. An outer cylinder encompasses the inner container. A gap forms between the inner container and outer cylinder. Heat and air flow through the gap and out a vent portion in the outer cylinder.
US10034562B2
A frame assembly system is disclosed. In some examples, the frame assembly system comprises a plurality of joining pieces having a plurality of openings in each joining piece, each of the plurality of openings having a first cross-sectional shape and framing pieces having a second cross-sectional shape, different from the first cross-sectional shape, wherein the first cross-sectional shape can be formed by an arrangement of two or more of the framing pieces, a first one of the two or more framing pieces positioned approximately perpendicular to at least a second one of the two or more framing pieces in the arrangement. In some examples, four joining pieces form four corners of a rectangular frame, and at least eight framing pieces form four sides of the rectangular frame. In some examples, the first cross-sectional shape is a T shape and the second cross-sectional shape is rectangular. In some examples, the first cross-sectional shape is an L shape and the second cross-sectional shape is rectangular. In some examples, the frame assembly system further comprises a fastener for coupling at least one of the framing pieces to at least one of the joining pieces and a cap piece couplable to at least the at least one joining piece and configured to conceal the fastener.
US10034556B2
The present invention includes an adjustable pocket that stretches to accommodate many types of seats. The invention is sized to fit over seats associated with infant swings, bouncers, carriers, strollers and the like. The adjustable pocket includes a mechanism for securely holding an infant in the seat and eliminates the inconvenience of various seat straps.
US10034549B1
A footstool comprising a solid expanded polystyrene foam inner core with a plurality of foam side panels secured to the inner core. The footstool also comprises a foam top member secured to a top surface of the inner core and a cover material arranged over the plurality of side panels and the top member. The footstool further comprises a first base member in contact with the bottom surface of the inner core and a second base member in contact with the first base member and in contact with the cover material. The footstool is lightweight, easy to manufacture and low in cost.
US10034548B2
An orthopedic device for improving posture while sitting, having a foundation member including a front portion for upper legs and a bowl portion for lower pelvic area. The bowl portion has a central portion and an upwardly inclined lateral portion. The lateral portion and the front portion collectively surround the central portion. A channel attachment is connected with one or more pelvic crest portions. The channel attachment portion connects over a concave recessed portion. The central portion has plural regions of varying flexibility and the lateral portion has plural regions of varying flexibility.
US10034543B1
A furniture unit includes at least one shelf. The shelf includes a substrate having an upper surface, a lower surface opposite the upper surface, a proximal peripheral surface, a distal peripheral surface, a first seam, and a second seam. The proximal peripheral surface extends from the upper surface to the lower surface. The distal peripheral surface is opposite the proximal peripheral surface and extends from the upper surface to the lower surface. The second seam is spaced apart from the first seam. The first and second seams extend in a direction parallel to the proximal peripheral surface. The proximal peripheral surface engages one of the distal peripheral surface, the upper surface, and the lower surface.
US10034541B2
A set of panels includes a first panel having a first main plane and a second panel having a second main plane. The panels are provided with a mechanical locking device for locking a first edge of the first panel to a second edge of the second panel. The mechanical locking device includes an edge groove at the first edge, wherein an edge tongue of the second edge is insertable into the edge groove. A flexible tongue is arranged in an insertion groove provided in the edge section groove, and cooperates with a tongue groove provided at the edge section of the second panel. The first and the second panels are locked at a junction plane which is extending between the first main plane and the second main plane. The first edge comprises an edge tongue that extends from the junction plane.
US10034539B2
A connector hub assembly usable as a standalone module or as a component in a work space system. The connector hub assembly optionally includes features for connecting one or more arms of a support frame for supporting a modular workspace system including desk space, cabinet space, view screens, electronic equipment, and/or other workspace system components.
US10034532B2
A cosmetic case including an outer case assembly and an inner disk assembly. The outer case assembly includes a case body and a case cover. the case body includes a first accommodation chamber having an opening. The inner disk assembly includes a disk body, a disk cover, an outer slot, and a seal ring. The disk body includes a second accommodation chamber for accommodating cosmetics. The case cover is hinged to the case body and adapted to open and close the opening of the first accommodation chamber. The inner disk assembly is disposed detachably in the first accommodation chamber. The disk cover is hinged to the disc body and adapted to open and close the opening of the second accommodation chamber. The outer slot is positioned around the outer side wall of the second accommodation chamber and the seal ring is housed in the outer slot.
US10034522B1
A combination cane and reaching device within the cane body having a longitudinal axis and terminating in a pair of grabber ends which are concealed by a stopper at a distal end of the cane. The grabber ends are exposed when the rubber bottom of the cane is removed. The grabber ends are actuated when the cane handle at the proximal end is gripped and squeezed. The combination cane and reaching device is capable of being collapsed by folding the cane body back upon itself. This feature allows the cane to be stored in an unobtrusive manner. The combination cane and reaching device also contains a flashlight in the handle.
US10034520B1
A sports shoe with a sole comprising a novel cleat. A sports shoe may comprise a first cleat at the ball area of the sole and a second cleat at the heel area of the sole. The cleats have a circular wall that extends outward from the sole, the circular wall having a substantially straight outer surface, a graded inner surface, and a rim. The cleats are constructed of a substantially rigid material and have a front section higher than a rear section. The graded inner surface of the wall is curved. The graded inner surface of the wall has a radius of curvature that remains the same from the rim to the base and from the front section to the rear section of the cleat. In alternate embodiments the radius of curvature may vary from the rim towards the base of the cleat where the cleat connects to the sole, and from the front section of the cleat to the rear section of the cleat.
US10034503B2
Various embodiment of a body-top garment for removably housing a tube assembly is disclosed. The tube assembly has a first end that connects to a mouthpiece, and a second end connects to various types of devices. The body-top garment has an elongated pouch with a zipper opening for easy access to the tube assembly. The elongated pouch has a first opening and a second opening to pass at least part of the tube assembly outside the body-top garment. Optionally, the body-top garment has pocket with a horizontal opening to hold the various type of devices.
US10034501B2
A wearable metal detection system. The system includes a glove including a metal detection circuit disposed therein including a power supply, a first speaker, and a wireless transceiver each operably connected to a sensor configured to detect the presence of metal. The system further includes an earpiece including a power supply, a wireless transceiver, and a second speaker. A switch disposed on the glove allows a user to select between the first and second speakers. When the first speaker is selected, the first speaker emits an audible alert upon the sensor detecting metal. When the second speaker is selected, a detection signal is transmitted to the earpiece when the sensor detects a metallic object, and the second speaker then emits an audible alert. The glove may further include an inner lining, an outer layer, and a puncture-proof layer for protecting the wearer from puncture wounds while searching for metallic objects.
US10034496B2
Next-to-skin garments for men include an internal stretch panel. An opening in the stretch panel receives a wearer's external genitalia. A three-dimensional pouch is defined between the stretch panel and a front portion of the body of the garment. Embodiments provide garments such as undershorts, boarding shorts, and athletic shorts.
US10034493B2
A package for housing at least a heat source, used for a flavor inhaler, having a columnar shape extending along a predetermined direction and four housing a tubular member having a tubular shape. The package includes a bottom surface and a heat source holder for holding the heat source so that the predetermined direction is directed toward a direction crossing the bottom surface. The heat source holder holds the heat source provided separately of a tubular member and holds the heat source at a state that allows the heat source to swing toward the bottom surface, the tubular member, used for the flavor inhaler, having a tubular shape.
US10034486B2
Shown is a method of making a coffee concentrate, and a coffee concentrate obtainable by the method. The method involves primary and secondary extraction, with split tapping of the primary extract into a first and second primary draw off. The extraction is conducted under such conditions as to satisfy a minimum mass transfer Fourier number, and a minimum ratio of the extraction yield of the first primary draw-off to the extraction yield obtained in all extraction sections.
US10034484B2
An oxygen concentration in the interior of a container is detected by an oxygen concentration detection sensor. If the oxygen concentration detected by the oxygen concentration detection sensor is higher than that of a gas mixture, the container is supplied with the gas mixture having an oxygen concentration lower than that of the outside air and higher than a target concentration. The oxygen concentration in the interior of the container is reduced to the vicinity of the oxygen concentration of the gas mixture by supplying the interior of the container with the gas mixture, and then is further reduced to the target concentration by respiration of plants. This appropriately controls the oxygen concentration in the interior of the container, and reduces a decrease in the degree of freshness of the plants.
US10034481B1
A tripes cleaning apparatus includes a rotatable drum presenting a tripes-supporting surface and a nozzle associated with the tripes-supporting surface and operable to discharge fluid from a fluid source into the tripes as the drum is rotated. The tripes cleaning apparatus also includes an automatic valve configured to cyclically control flow from the fluid source to the nozzle in coordination with rotation of the drum.
US10034480B2
An air pressure regulator for a dehider includes a valve to open and close the flow of pressurized air in an air inlet, a first spring urging the valve in the direction of air flow through the inlet to close the valve, a plunger operable to move the valve from a closed to an open position against the direction of air flow, a piston connected to the valve exposed to the air flow, and a second spring between the piston and the plunger. Upon depressing the plunger, the second spring urges the piston to open the valve against the air flow direction to permit pressurized air to flow through the regulator. The maximum allowable air pressure through the regulator is determined by spring forces of the first and second springs and resistance of the piston to the flow of air through the valve.
US10034479B2
An agitator assembly for use with industrial mixers that includes at least two rotating agitators, wherein each rotating agitator includes an agitator shaft, wherein the agitator shaft defines an axis of rotation extending from a first end of the agitator shaft to a second end of the agitator shaft; and first, second, and third sweep blades mounted on the agitator shaft, wherein the pitch angle of each sweep blade relative to the axis of rotation of the agitator shaft is between 30-60°; and wherein the rotating agitators rotate in opposite directions relative to one another when the assembly is in use.
US10034478B2
Compositions having antimicrobial activity contain surface functionalized particles comprising an inorganic copper salt which has low water solubility. These types of inorganic salts may also be introduced in porous particles to yield antimicrobial compositions. The compositions may optionally comprise additional antimicrobial agents, salts with high water solubility, organic acids, salts of organic acids and their esters. The compositions may be added to various fluids used in the petroleum extraction industry, or used as coatings on components used in this industry. These antimicrobial materials may be used for reducing both anaerobic and aerobic bacteria and are also useful for reducing corrosion of ferrous components caused by anaerobic bacteria. Although such compositions may be used for any antimicrobial application, and some of the other important uses of these compositions are in wound care, personal care and waste processing.
US10034460B2
A retractable leash system includes a housing, a leash, a spool, and a brake. The spool is attached to the leash and disposed within the housing. The leash is configured to be rotationally biased so as to urge the leash into a spooled configuration. The brake includes an operating button, a compression spring, and a brake member coupled to the operating button. The brake member is associated with the compression spring and is configured to engage the spool by operation of the operating button, such that, when the brake is engaged, the spool is prevented from rotating in an unspooling direction and capable of rotating in a spooling direction.
US10034459B1
A multi-function cat toy is disclosed. The toy has a physical cat-attracting toy such as a feather clump, a light pointer and a sound chip for producing cat interest-piquing sounds. The toy may include batteries rechargeable through connecting the toy to a USB-powered connector.
US10034449B1
A novel cotton cultivar, designated UA 114, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of cotton cultivar UA 114, to the plants and plant parts of cotton UA 114 and to methods for producing a cotton plant produced by crossing the cultivar UA 114 with itself or another cotton variety. The invention also relates to methods of using cotton cultivar UA 114 and products derived therefrom. The invention also relates to methods for producing a cotton plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic cotton plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid cotton seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar UA 114 with another cotton cultivar.
US10034445B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01050611. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01050611. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01050611 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01050611 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10034435B2
A system includes an enclosed space defining a controllable environment chamber. The system also includes at least one monitoring device configured to measure multiple characteristics of an environment within the chamber. The system further includes multiple actuators configured to alter the characteristics of the environment within the chamber. The enclosed space includes at least one rack system configured to be placed within the enclosed space. Each rack system includes multiple layers configured to receive multiple plants to be grown in the chamber. The actuators are configured to adjust the characteristics of the environment within the chamber to condition the environment based on the plants to be grown in the chamber.
US10034434B2
Systems and methods for creating a grow cycle are described. One embodiment of a method includes receiving a plant type for providing grow lighting and receiving first data for creating a first grow cycle for a first predetermined period of plant growth, where the first grow cycle includes providing a first wavelength of photon-emitting lighting. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving second data for creating a second grow cycle for a second predetermined period of plant growth, where the second grow cycle includes providing a second wavelength of photon-emitting lighting, determining when the first predetermined period of plant growth begins, and in response to determining that the first predetermined period of plant growth has begun, implementing the first grow cycle. In some embodiments, the method includes determining when the second predetermined period of plant growth begins and, in response to determining that the second predetermined period of plant growth has begun, implementing the second grow cycle.
US10034431B2
A method for unloading a first and a second bale from a round baler onto a field. The round baler includes a bale chamber and a bale holder. The method successively includes steps of: growing the second bale in the bale chamber, while the first bale is carried by the bale holder; unloading the first bale from the bale holder onto the field a period of time before finishing growing the second bale, the first bale defining a first position on the field; finishing growing the second bale; transporting the second bale to the bale holder; and unloading the second bale onto the field. The second bale defines a second position on the field. The period of time is determined such that a distance between the first position and the second position is smaller than a sum of the diameters of the first bale and second bale.
US10034430B2
A combine harvester including at least one straw walker extending in a longitudinal direction of the harvester and supported by a front and rear shaft. The shafts are rotatable about respective rotation axes, and each shaft provided with one or more eccentric portions. The straw walker is rotatably mounted on an eccentric portion of the respective front and rear shafts, so that the simultaneous rotation of the shafts actuates a reciprocating motion of the straw walker. The combine further comprises a pivot frame and one or more actuators, configured to adjust the angular position of the frame by pivoting the frame about a pivot axis oriented transversally to the longitudinal direction. The front and rear shafts are configured to rotate with respect to the pivot frame, so that the straw walker's angular position is adjustable while the straw walker executes the reciprocating motion.
US10039219B1
A device may comprise a track defining a common X-axis and first and second robots. The first robot may comprise a first X-axis driven element for movement along the track; a first Z-axis driven element, for moving parallel to a Z-axis and along the common X-axis; a first Y-axis driven element, attached to the first Z-axis driven element, for moving parallel to a Y-axis, the Z-axis and along the common X-axis. The second robot may comprise a second X-axis driven element for movement along the track; a second Z-axis driven element, for moving parallel to the Z-axis and along the common X-axis; a second Y-axis driven element, attached to the second Z-axis driven element, for moving parallel to a Y-axis, the Z-axis and along the common X-axis. The first and second robots have first and second end-effectors coupled to the first and second Y-axis drive elements, respectively.
US10039213B1
An example electronic device may include a chassis, a circuit board in the chassis that includes a first active component, a number of fans, a number of guide walls that define an air inlet channel, and a thermoelectric cooler (TEC). There may be an airflow path such that, when the fans operate, air flows along the airflow path from an intake opening of the air inlet channel to an exhaust of the chassis, with the first active component being located in the airflow path downstream of the intake opening of the air inlet channel. A cold portion of the TEC may extend into the airflow path upstream of the first active component and a hot portion of the TEC may extend into the airflow path downstream of the first active component.
US10039208B2
A cage can include a thermal plate positioned so as to be aligned with a bottom of a channel. An adjustable biasing system is provided to urge a module toward the thermal plate. The adjustable biasing system may be a riding heat sink. The thermal plate may include a fin to help increase its surface area. A housing with a card slot aligned with the channel can be provided in the cage to provide a receptacle that has a card slot aligned with the channel. A receptacle so configured allows for greater thermal energy to be removed from a module.
US10039189B2
A circuit fixing member is provided which achieves a connection with a controlled object after a circuit module is produced, thereby avoiding disconnection of a wire member in the course of the production, easy to transfer between production processes, and is designed to avoid the entry of water into the circuit module. The terminal-embedded portion 110 of the circuit fixing member 10 which retains the control circuit 15 is equipped with a plurality of circuit supports 111 and the space 115 which communicates at an end thereof with the opened terminal insertion hole 117 and is closed at the other end thereof. For engaging the terminal fitting portion 130 of the terminal member 13 with the fitting portion 200 of the controlled object side terminal member 20 within the space 115, the terminal locking opening 114 and the terminal locking member 14 are provided. The terminal locking member 14 works to secure the locked portion 201 in the space 115.
US10039185B2
Provided is a landless multilayer circuit board and a manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method includes steps of forming a first circuit on a first substrate, patterning a photoresist layer to form at least one via between the first circuit and a second circuit, forming at least one connecting pillar in the at least one via, removing the photoresist layer, forming a second substrate to cover the at least one connect pillar, and forming the second circuit on the second substrate. The second circuit is connected to the first circuit through the at least one connecting pillar. When the second circuit is formed, the at least one via does not need to be filled, thereby making the second circuit flat.
US10039178B2
A method of determining a failure event of consumable for a plasma torch is provided. The method includes monitoring at least one of an operating current or an operating voltage during a transfer arc mode of the plasma arc torch. The method also includes determining when at least one parameter associated with the operating current or the operating voltage exceeds a tolerance threshold for a time period indicative of the failure event. The method further includes shutting off at least one of the operating current or the operating voltage of the plasma arc torch when the at least one parameter exceeds the tolerance threshold for the time period.
US10039171B1
The present invention particularly discloses a novel feedback circuit, mainly comprising: a signal sampling unit, a feedback unit, a signal concerting unit, and a signal adjusting unit. During the operation of the feedback circuit, a current-mode error amplifier unit is configured to output a current error signal based on a current sampling signal and a dimming signal outputted by the signal converting unit, so as to activate a PWM controlling unit to stabilize an output current of a LED driver circuit. In the meantime, a voltage-mode error amplifier unit cooperates with the PWM controlling unit to adaptively regulate an output voltage of the LED driver circuit based on a voltage sampling signal and an adjustment signal outputted by the signal adjusting unit, in order to facilitate the LED driver circuit provides a constant output power.
US10039165B2
A light emitting diode (“LED”) module is disclosed. The LED module includes a first LED tap and a second LED tap, the first tap being powered on for a longer amount of time than the second LED tap, based on an alternating current voltage. The LED module also includes a first LED package on which a first LED associated with the first LED tap and a second LED associated with the second LED tap are disposed. The LED module further includes a second LED package on which a third LED associated with the first LED tap and a fourth LED associated with the second LED tap are disposed.
US10039161B2
A lighting arrangement can include a light emitter portion and a battery backup portion. The light emitter portion can have a plurality of light emitting diodes and circuitry for driving the plurality of light emitting diodes including a rectifier and an IC chip configured to drive the plurality of light emitting diodes with the rectified voltage provided by the rectifier. The battery backup portion can be in electronic communication with the light emitter portion and can have a battery portion with one or more batteries and a converter portion with a DC-AC inverter downstream of the one or more batteries that directs the electrical power to the rectifier and is driven by the one or batteries.
US10039151B1
Methods and systems for connecting a wireless communications device to a deployable wireless communications network. The method includes receiving, from the wireless communications device via a mobile management entity (MME) configured to operate as an extensible authentication protocol (EAP) authenticator, an extensible authentication protocol packet. The method further includes authenticating the wireless communications device based on the extensible authentication protocol packet. The method further includes establishing a first wireless connection between the wireless communications device and a deployable subscription bootstrapping service of the deployable wireless communications network. The method further includes generating a subscription profile for the wireless communications device, and communicating the subscription profile to the wireless communications device via the first wireless connection. The method further includes discontinuing the first wireless connection, and establishing a second wireless connection between the wireless communications device and the deployable wireless communications network using the subscription profile.
US10039145B2
Described herein are systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing proximity-based authentication operations using received signal strength indicator (RSSI) values. An expected proximity of devices to be paired is used to determine whether to execute a wireless personal area network (WPAN) connection process. This expected proximity is correlated with the RSSI value of received signals. By utilizing the RSSI value of received signals, embodiments do not utilize any additional hardware for performing the described proximity-based authentication process, and in some implementations, do not utilize any additional processes or routines to determine an RSSI value (e.g., some devices utilize RSSI values in order to adjust output power levels of transmitted signals, and thus, already execute processes or routines to determine RSSI values).
US10039142B2
A method for and apparatus for performing an initial access procedure in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device detects a discontinuous transmission (DTX) cell that operates in a discontinuous transmission (DTX) state by receiving a discovery signal from the DTX cell; transmits an initial request message to the DTX cell to request the DTX cell to transition from the DTX state to a continuous transmission (TX) state.
US10039141B2
A mobile terminal comprises a modem for communication with a wireless network. The modem is configured for operating in a plurality of different modes. The mobile terminal comprises a processing device operative to, in response to detecting a trigger event, perform a mode selection to select a mode from the plurality of modes in accordance with at least one constraint, and control the modem to start operating in the selected mode.
US10039136B2
A base station, a service processing method, and a cloud computing system. The method includes: establishing a wireless network bearer channel with a UE; receiving a service request of the UE through the wireless network bearer channel; parsing a request content in the service request of the UE, and generating a cloud service access request according to a content, which needs to be processed by a cloud server end, in the request content; and sending the cloud service access request to the cloud server end, and returning a corresponding processing result of the cloud server end to the UE through the wireless network bearer channel. Therefore, a transport layer protocol and an access layer protocol on a user equipment side are terminated at a base station, so that in the embodiments of the present invention, inter-layer optimization is implemented.
US10039134B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for random access in a wireless communication system. In a communication environment in which a first terminal and a second terminal coexist, a base station receives a random access identification signal from one among a first terminal and a second terminal. The base station transmits a busy signal in response to the random access identification signal. After that, the base station receives data from the terminal having transmitted the random access identification signal.
US10039129B2
A wireless device performs communication of a first access period and a second access period, the first access period including a plurality of slots in which communication is performed on a slot basis by allocating the slots and the second access period including a plurality of slots in which communication is performed in a contention-based access scheme on a slot basis, and includes a transmitter, a receiver and an control circuitry. The control circuitry performs, when one slot in the second access period is determined, carrier-sensing during a period of time depending on a type of the frame, and controls to transmit via the transmitter the frame at a timing defined depending on the type of the frame after the period of time.
US10039121B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for performing a HARQ action and an apparatus for same, comprising the steps of: receiving from a base station resource allocation information which indicates a subframe set for D2D communication; receiving D2D data from a subframe #n from different user equipment; and receiving HARQ-ACK information with respect to the D2D data, wherein the HARQ-ACK information is transmitted from subframe #(n+k) when the subframe #(n+k) belongs to the subframe set for the D2D communication, and the HARQ-ACK is transmitted from a subframe that is closest to the subframe #(n+k) from among subframes belonging to the subframe set for the D2D communication after the subframe #(n+k), when the subframe #(n+k) does not belong to the subframe set for the D2D communication.
US10039120B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to wireless communication systems configured to utilize a shared spectrum between two or more network operators. Coexistence between the different network operators on the shared spectrum may be provided by reserving resources for exclusive use by each of the network operators within a period of time that is variable based on the number of network operators. Non-exclusive use of resources may further be granted to one or more network operators in accordance with network operator priorities.
US10039118B2
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may determine channel quality indicators (CQIs) from measurements of downlink transmissions from many cells. CQIs for a first cell of the many cells may be transmitted by the WTRU at transmission time intervals (TTIs) and CQIs for a second cell of the many cells may not be transmitted with CQIs of the first cell. In response to expiration of a timer for the first cell, transmission of the control information may be ceased for the first cell and transmission of CQIs may continue for the second cell. Transmission of the CQIs for the second cell may be ceased in response to a received layer 2 (L2) message while transmission of CQIs for other cells continue.
US10039116B1
A computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable storage media for scheduling physical resource blocks (PRBs) comprises a communication radio access network (RAN) base station with a scheduler that assigns one or more PRBs to a communication channel of a user device. The PRBs can be prioritized according to a radio frequency (rf) interference level across the contiguous band of PRBs. The rf interference level of a communication channel of the user device can be monitored by the scheduler. The scheduler assigns one or more of the prioritized PRBs according to the rf interference level of the PRBs and according to the rf interference level of the communication channel of the user device.
US10039112B2
Upon receiving a request for a virtual network and before admitting the requested virtual network, a virtual service provider controller may assess the ability of the virtual service provider network to meet conditions specified in the request. In particular, the virtual service provider controller may consider details of the traffic expected in the requested virtual network in the context of existing traffic on the virtual service provider network. Consideration may be given to geographic distribution of traffic, type of traffic, and key performance indices. Indeed, traffic of different types may be homogenized through the use of weighting factors to simplify the assessment. Upon determining that the virtual service provider network may not be able to meet the conditions, the virtual service provider controller may attempt to obtain additional resources from an infra-structure provider network or may attempt to adjust resources allocated to already admitted virtual networks.
US10039100B2
Systems and methods for OFDM channelization are provided that allow for the coexistence of sub-band channels and diversity channels. Methods of defining diversity sub-channels and sub-band sub-channels are provided and systematic channel definition and labeling schemes are provided.
US10039099B2
Provided is a wireless communication system that efficiently carries out communications between a wireless control device and a wireless device. A wireless control device (20) has a wireless resource allocation unit (22) and a wireless resource instruction unit (24). The wireless resource allocation unit (22) allocates wireless resources that are used by a wireless device (30) when wirelessly communicating with a wireless terminal (2). The wireless resource instruction unit (24) sends, to the wireless device (30), instructions for causing the allocated wireless resources to be used. The wireless device (30) has a wireless signal processing unit (32) and a wireless transmission unit (34). On the basis of the instructions from the wireless control device (20), the wireless signal processing unit (32) performs processing, for performing wireless communications using the allocated wireless resources, on data to be sent to the wireless terminal (2). The wireless transmission unit (34) converts signals processed by the wireless signal processing unit (32) to wireless signals, and transmits the wireless signals to the wireless terminal (2).
US10039098B2
A method and apparatus are described that provides flexible spectrum usage by using a paired frequency division duplex (FDD) spectrum to enable dynamic access in television white space (TVWS), sub-leased spectrum or unlicensed spectrum, (e.g., industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) bands), in a femto cell environment or the like. Elastic FDD (E-FDD) enables femto cell operation in TVWS, sub-leased spectrum and/or unlicensed spectrum, either simultaneously with licensed spectrum or as an alternate channel to licensed spectrum. E-FDD enables dynamic asymmetric bandwidth allocation for uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) in FDD, and enables variable duplex spacing, (i.e., using FDD with minimum duplex spacing between DL and UL spectrum, or, using hybrid-FDD, (FDD in a time duplexed fashion), when a spectrum gap between the UL and DL spectrum is below a certain minimum threshold. Additionally, the signaling enhancements to implement E-FDD are also provided.
US10039097B2
Systems and methods for communicating in an Ethernet cloud radio access network are disclosed. In some implementations, a baseband unit determines a time when a plurality of remote radio heads, accessible to a user equipment, are scheduled to transmit a signal to the user equipment. The baseband unit transmits, via an Ethernet connection and in advance of the determined time, the signal and information about the determined time to each of the plurality of remote radio heads, to enable the plurality of remote radio heads to simultaneously transmit, at the determined time and via a radio connection, a Fourier transform of the signal to the user equipment.
US10039096B2
A method for prioritizing first group devices over second group devices in accessing a channel during a time slot scheduled for communications by the first group devices is provided. The method includes generating a frame comprising a Duration field containing a value set to a sum of a duration of a frame exchange including a transmission of the frame and a duration of a time extension, and transmitting the frame in the time slot.
US10039092B2
Disclosed is a base station in which the frequency usage efficiency can be improved when the communication bandwidths are asymmetric in the uplink line and the downlink line. A base station can communicate by using a plurality of downlink unit bands and a smaller number of uplink unit bands. A control unit allocates uplink resource allocation information and downlink resource allocation information to a PDCCH which is arranged in each of the plurality of downlink unit bands, and allocates a response signal to the uplink line data to a PHICH which is arranged in the same number of downlink unit bands from the plurality of downlink unit bands as there are uplink unit bands. A transmit RF unit transmits the resource allocation information or the response signal.
US10039088B2
Methods and apparatus are described for a User Equipment (UE) with reduced processing capabilities (e.g., Machine Type Communication (MTC) UE) to transmit and receive signaling are provided. The Downlink Control Information (DCI) formats scheduling a transmission of a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH) or a reception of a Physical Downlink Shared CHannel (PDSCH) are designed and have a smaller size than respective DCI formats for conventional UEs. DCI formats scheduling PUSCHs to or PDSCHs for a group of MTC UEs are also designed and can have a same size as DCI formats scheduling PUSCH or PDSCH for an individual MTC UE.
US10039087B2
Methods and systems for transmitting uplink control information and feedback are disclosed for carrier aggregation systems. A user equipment device may be configured to transmit uplink control information and other feedback for several downlink component carriers using one or more uplink component carriers. The user equipment device may be configured to transmit such data using a physical uplink control channel rather than a physical uplink shared channel. The user equipment device may be configured to determine the uplink control information and feedback data that is to be transmitted, the physical uplink control channel resources to be used to transmit the uplink control information and feedback data, and how the uplink control information and feedback data may be transmitted over the physical uplink control channel.
US10039074B1
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a first apparatus comprising a transmitter, a receiver, a processor, and a UI. The transmitter is configured to command a second apparatus to emit at least one tone. The receiver is configured to receive the at least one tone. The processor is configured to determine at least one of: a signal strength and a direction associated with the at least one tone. The UI is configured to output an indication of a current location of the second apparatus based, at least in part, on the determined signal strength or the determined direction. According to an example, at least one of the request or the at least one tone may be a high-frequency or ultrasonic signal.
US10039072B2
A method is provided in one example embodiment and may include determining that a periodic timer for a user equipment (UE) is about to expire; communicating to an application service, prior to expiration of the periodic timer for the UE, an indication associated with an availability of the UE to receive data from the application service; and communicating the data from the application service to the UE upon receiving the indication. In some cases, the method can include registering, by the application service, to receive the indication from a Mobility Management Entity (MME) or a serving General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) support node (SGSN), wherein the registering is performed via a service capability exposure function (SCEF) in communication with the MME or the SGSN and the application service.
US10039065B2
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may operate in a first state where the WTRU does not have configured physical channels and discontinuously monitors for pages and a second state where the WTRU has configured uplink physical channels. The WTRU may, in response to a signal, transition to the first state and store an identity and medium access control (MAC) information. The WTRU may reinitiate communication with a network using the stored identity and MAC information.
US10039061B2
A system that incorporates aspects of the subject disclosure may perform operations including, for example, monitoring performance parameters in a communications network, identifying a degradation in performance of one or more nodes of the communications network according the monitored performance parameters, and initiating corrective action to mitigate the degradation in performance of the one or more nodes of the communications network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10039023B2
The present disclosure provides a method and as apparatus for operating an intelligent device in a test mode. The method includes: scanning a Wi-Fi network periodically, determining whether a service set identifier (SSID) of the Wi-Fi network scanned includes a preset SSID, and operating the intelligent device in a test mode if the SSID of the Wi-Fi network scanned includes the preset SSID.
US10039018B2
Systems and methods for communicating with a radio frequency (RF) device are disclosed herein. In particular, a method of recovering an out-of-service node comprises sending a hailing message on a plurality of hailing channels from a second node to the out-of-service node, the second node being in direct wireless communication with the out-of-service node, and sending a synchronization request message from the second node to the out-of-service node on a first data channel.
US10039013B2
Systems and methods are provided to administer a wireless telecommunication network (WTN) having a plurality of cell sites. Network data is received from a data source for a subject cell site. A baseline performance of the subject cell site is determined. Parameters to optimize for the subject cell site based on the baseline performance are identified. Load balancing is performed on the subject cell site by comparing a normalized user equipment (UE) downlink (DL) throughput at a first cellular frequency band to a second cellular frequency band. A cellular coverage of the subject cell site is adjusted based on a voice over LTE (VoLTE) drop call rate for a predetermined time period and a normalized UE DLL throughput. A layer management is performed on the subject cell site.
US10039011B2
The polarization beamforming communication apparatus of a base station estimates an azimuth, elevation, and polarization of each of terminals using a reference signal of a terminal received through a plurality of dual polarization antennas, determines a stream to be transmitted based on the azimuth, elevation, and polarization of the terminal, and sends the stream to be transmitted to the terminal through a polarization-matched beam formed in accordance with each of the plurality of dual polarization antennas using the azimuth, elevation, and polarization of the terminal.
US10039008B2
Examples of wideband spectrum sensing techniques for cognitive radio are provided. The techniques permit undersampling (e.g., sub-Nyquist sampling) the spectrum band, which permits use of more cost effective electronic components (e.g., lower frequency analog-to-digital converters (ADC)). The techniques permit determination of whether there are any (or sufficient) sub-channels that exist in the band to use for transmission, so that only a portion of less than the entire spectrum band is sampled. Detection decisions can be based at least partly on a pair of performance metrics more appropriate for wideband spectrum sensing. These performance metrics are the probability of insufficient spectrum opportunities (PISO) and the probability of excessive interference opportunities (PEIO).
US10039001B2
A method is disclosed comprising receiving identification information on an addressee, to whom an encrypted data object is sent by a transmission device or for whom the encrypted data object is to be provided by the transmission device for retrieval, from the transmission device to a server, associating the identification information with a key for decrypting the encrypted data object by the server, sending the key for decrypting the encrypted data object to the addressee by the server, or providing by the server the key for decrypting the encrypted data object for retrieval by the addressee.
US10039000B2
A host-slave control system and an addressing method thereof are provided. The host-slave control system includes a plurality of slave devices, a host device, and a remote control device. The host device is coupled to and controls the slave devices through a host-slave transmission interface. When one of the slave devices receives an addressing signal sent by the remote control device, the one of the slave devices sends an addressing information to the host device, such that the host device assigns a specific address as the address of the one of the slave devices according to the addressing information. In particular, the addressing information includes a default identification code of the one of the slave devices, and the address assigned to the one of the slave devices corresponds to the default identification code of the one of the slave devices.
US10038997B2
Examples herein retrieve a profile data corresponding to a mobile device from a first data repository in response to the mobile device entering a regional service area. The examples store the profile data in a second data repository. The second data repository is local to the regional service area.
US10038991B2
An information reporting method is disclosed. A User Equipment (UE) receives configuration information for a Device to Device (D2D) resource acquisition failure, the configuration information for the D2D resource acquisition failure being used for a D2D UE with a drive test capability to collect information on the D2D resource acquisition failure in case of the D2D resource acquisition failure, and send the information on the D2D resource acquisition failure. Another information reporting method, an evolved Node B, a UE and a storage medium are also disclosed.
US10038982B2
This disclosure pertains to systems and methods that may be used to increase the information content of a mobile device so as to locate, track, or determine the behavior of a mobile device and/or the user of the mobile device. Separate pieces of information (information snippets) may be aggregated over time to form information linkages. The snippets and linkages may be associated with a time stamp and/or a time frame. The snippets and linkages may be associated with a probability value which may be updated as more information is acquired. The snippets and linkages may be aggregated with, for example a building floor plan to provide more complete informational description of the mobile device and/or the behavior of the user of the mobile device (information map).
US10038971B2
An approach includes contacting a predefined contact information when a mobile device, which is password protected, is lost and subsequently found. The approach includes receiving an activation event predefined for a specified password protected mobile device, and receiving predefined contact information stored in the mobile device while the mobile device remains password protected, upon the receipt of the activation event.
US10038968B2
Provided is a process of merging data from feeds from multiple sources of computing device network activity data having heterogenous device identifier namespaces and device identifier to device mappings that change over time, the process including: accessing three or more sources of network activity log data from three or more different sources of network activity data, wherein: for each of the sources of network activity log data, based the respective network activity log data, updating a multi-namespace mapping that maps the external-namespace device identifiers to internal-namespace device identifiers in an internal namespace of a system configured to profile mobile computing devices based on logged network activity data of the mobile computing devices, wherein: the namespace mapping comprises a plurality of external-namespace-specific mappings each mapping a respective type of device identifier in a respective external namespace used in the network activity log data to one or more internal-namespace device identifiers.
US10038949B1
A remote surveillance composite machine includes a primary device and a secondary device wirelessly connected with and driven by the primary device. The secondary device includes a housing provided with a recess, a pivot member and a locking member. The secondary device is used individually or connected with a hanging arm which is mounted on a baby playpen. The hanging arm has a distal end provided with a pivot hole and a locking hole. The recess is mounted on the distal end of the hanging arm. The pivot member is connected with the pivot hole. The locking member is locked in the locking hole. Thus, the secondary device is mounted on the distal end of the hanging arm and is located above the playpen to face the baby.
US10038936B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for source device detection. Source device detection may be performed for a variety of types of connectors such as cables or board/substrate connectors across which a DC voltage or stable presence signal is normally supplied during connections when the power signal of the connector is not present. An alternating power source is coupled to a capacitor of known capacitance via a switch. The capacitor is in series with an effective capacitance of a sink device, a connector, and a source device. When the switch is open, the voltage between the capacitor and the effective capacitor is read to determine if a source device is present and On, and when closed, if the source device is present and Off or in Stand-By, or not present. The methods, systems, and apparatuses described include tunability for the capacitor based on temperature and effective capacitance variations.
US10038935B2
The disclosure relates generally to transfer of audio and/or video streams, and, more particularly, to system and method for real-time transfer of the audio and/or video streams through an Ethernet audio/video bridging (AVB) network. In one embodiment, multiple audio and/or video streams from multiple AVB enabled devices are received by an AVB enabled network device. Each of the multiple AVB enabled devices has a static priority based on criticality of an application that each of the multiple AVB enabled devices is performing. Further, each of the multiple audio and/or video streams is dynamically queued, by the AVB enabled network device, based on the static priority of the associated one of the AVB enabled devices. Furthermore, real-time transfer of the multiple audio and/or video streams to a user device is enabled, by the AVB enabled network device, through an Ethernet AVB network upon queuing the multiple audio and/or video streams.
US10038933B2
Disclosed is an information providing system for providing information on content recording. The system includes: a network communicating unit for communication via a network; and an information distributing unit for distributing the information on content recording via the network.
US10038926B2
Some embodiments provide server-side implementation and enforcement of blackout rules for streaming content. A server receives a request from an end user device and extracts a first identifier identifying the end user device and a second identifier identifying the requested stream from the request. The server determines if blackout rules identified for the requested streaming content using the second identifier apply to the end user device based on the first identifier. The blackout rules may restrict IP addresses, IP address subnets, or geographic regions defined using zip codes or DMAs. The first identifier can be an IP address that directly or indirectly maps to the blackout rules. If the first identifier is restricted by a blackout rule, the server identifies the restrictions of the rule, when they apply, and how they are to be applied before dynamically altering the content that is streamed to the end user device.
US10038919B2
Chroma deblock filtering of reconstructed video samples may be performed to remove blockiness artifacts and reduce color artifacts without over-smoothing. In a first method, chroma deblocking may be performed for boundary samples of a smallest transform size, regardless of partitions and coding modes. In a second method, chroma deblocking may be performed when a boundary strength is greater than 0. In a third method, chroma deblocking may be performed regardless of boundary strengths. In a fourth method, the type of chroma deblocking to be performed may be signaled in a slice header by a flag. Furthermore, luma deblock filtering techniques may be applied to chroma deblock filtering.
US10038915B2
In an example, a method of processing video data includes determining a value of a block-level syntax element that indicates, for all samples of a block of video data, whether at least one respective sample of the block is coded based on a color value of the at least one respective sample not being included in a palette of colors for coding the block of video data. The method also includes coding the block of video data based on the value.
US10038912B2
The present invention relates to a video signal decoding method for adding an intra prediction mode as a sub-macroblock type to prediction of a macroblock in coding a video signal. Some implementations may include obtaining a macroblock type, when a macroblock includes the intra prediction coded sub-macroblock and the inter prediction coded sub-macroblock based on the macroblock type, obtaining prediction mode flag information indicating whether the sub-macroblock is the intra prediction coded or the inter prediction coded, and obtaining a prediction value of the sub-macroblock. Accordingly, implementations disclosed herein may raise coding efficiency of video signal by adding an intra prediction mode as a sub-macroblock type in predicting a macroblock.
US10038905B2
An image decoding method which can improve both image quality and coding efficiency is an image decoding method for decoding a coded stream which includes a plurality of processing units and a header for the processing units, the coded stream being generated by coding a moving picture, the processing units including at least one processing unit layered to be split into a plurality of smaller processing units, the image decoding method including specifying a hierarchical layer having a processing unit in which a parameter necessary for decoding is stored, by parsing hierarchy depth information stored in the header, and decoding the processing unit using the parameter stored in the processing unit located at the specified hierarchical layer.
US10038904B2
An image processing method includes at least the following steps: partitioning a picture into a plurality of slices, wherein each slice row in the picture includes at least one slice; generating a compressed picture by encoding each of the slices; and controlling at least one of start of transmission of encoded data of a slice row and end of the transmission of encoded data of the slice row according to a transmission synchronization event.
US10038886B2
Embodiments discussed herein include: accessing by a user terminal a recording of a communication session in the form of a media file wherein the media file comprises at least an audio component; accessing by the user terminal, metadata associated with the media file, wherein the metadata comprises an indication of a respective one or more visual representations of each of a plurality of events determined to have occurred during the communication session, wherein at least some of the visual representations comprise text converted from at least one communication stream of the recorded communication session, and wherein the metadata further comprises timing information linking the respective visual representations to the events; playing the media file using a media playing application running on the user terminal; and controlling play back of the media file so that a play back rate of the audio component is synchronized with a rate of a user scrolling through the visual representations.
US10038882B2
A projector and a method of controlling the projector that may give information on suitability of a light source. A projector includes light sources, light modulators (liquid crystal panels) that modulate lights output from the light sources, a projection optical device that projects the lights modulated by the light modulators, a determination unit that determines whether or not a light source unadapted to a mounting position of the projector is attached, and an informing unit (display control unit) that, if a determination that the light source unadapted to the mounting position of the projector is attached is made by the determination unit, gives information in response to a determination result.
US10038880B2
A control device is connectable to a first projection device and a second projection device. The first projection device performs projection onto a projection area to display a first image with a first resolution in the projection area. The second projection device performs projection onto the projection area to display a second image with a second resolution lower than the first resolution in the projection area. Both the first and second images are displayed to display an image based on target image data in the projection area. The control device includes a control unit that controls the display of the first image and the display of the second image based on the target image data. The control unit controls the display of the first image and the second image such that the first image attains gradation almost equal to gradation of the target image data.
US10038879B2
The present disclosure relates to a bi-directional VR (virtual reality) system and, more particularly, to a bi-directional VR system using a user image and a user voice extracted by a 3D depth camera, and media processed by synthesizing an interactive content image and sound.A bi-directional VR system may include two or more terminals; and a mixing server configured to transmit mixed data generated by processing signals transmitted from the terminals to the respective terminals. At least one main terminal of the two or more terminals may include a 3D depth camera; a main body unit provided with a processor and a memory, and loaded with an operation program; at least two sound devices connected to the main body unit to be controlled by the main body unit, and provided with an audio output terminal and a microphone terminal; and at least two display units connected to the main body unit to be controlled by the main body unit.
US10038878B1
The present invention relates to a video conference method using a computer 20 and a conference server 10 connected to the Internet, in which objects that can be selected by a user, such as icons, buttons and the like, are outputted on the computer 20 connected to the conference server 10, and the computer 20 is registered as a participant of a conference as the user performs handling of selecting an object, and thus circulation of video information is performed through the conference server 10. Through the present invention, it is possible to participate in a video conference only by intuitive handling of selecting an object implemented in a computer 20 without inputting the complicated identification information or a URL, and therefore, an effect of enhancing user's convenience and expanding utilization of an Internet video conference can be obtained.
US10038877B1
Systems and methods for displaying a teleconference session are described. Teleconference data including display streams is transmitted to a number of client computers. Each of the streams may include at least a video and an audio component. A user interface includes a first display area rendering a first stream and a second display area rendering a second stream. An event may occur that removes a video component from the first stream. In response to the event, the rendering of the first stream may be removed from the first display area, and one or more streams of the plurality of streams may be displayed in at least a portion of the first display area. Such techniques for modifying user interface displays based on the actions of select users that have transitioned to an audio-only mode can optimize the use of a display area.
US10038876B2
Binding of separate communication platform meetings is provided. Video conference service interconnection with online meeting service may be achieved by allowing the online meeting service to provide a tenant identifier to the video conference service, which may be associated with the tenant and used in a key that is used by the video conference service to schedule and initiate meetings. The online meeting service may also include the key in metadata used by its scheduling service. The tenant identifier and/or the key may be used by the components involved in initiating and, facilitating various meetings by users of the online meetings (and by users of the video conference service).
US10038868B2
The present invention provides a technique for achieving higher picture quality of a captured image by reducing noise which occurs at the time of resetting in a solid-state image sensing device and the like. A pixel array in a solid-state image sensing device includes a plurality of pixels and includes an OB pixel region and an effective pixel region. The solid-state image sensing device has a signal processing unit outputting a pixel signal of each of the pixels in the effective pixel region on the basis of the signal level of a signal output from each of the pixels. The solid-state image sensing device obtains a signal without applying a reset signal to each of the pixels in the OB pixel region, obtains the difference between the signal and a signal of a pixel in the effective pixel region, and outputs an image signal.
US10038866B2
An image sensor including a comparator configured to generate a comparison signal by comparing a ramp signal and a pixel signal with each other, a counter configured to generate a digital pixel value by counting an input clock signal according to the comparison signal, and a divider configured to control a frequency of the input clock signal according to an analog gain of the image sensor.
US10038856B2
An imaging device includes an imaging optical system that includes a first optical system and a second optical system having a common optical axis and having different focal lengths, an imaging element that includes a first sensor group selectively receiving light passing the first optical system and a second sensor group selectively receiving light passing the second optical system, and an image compositing unit that generates a first generated image by performing registration on a plurality of first captured images captured in different states of an optical axis L of the first optical system and by compositing the registrated plurality of first captured images and that generates a second generated image by performing registration on a plurality of second captured images captured in different states of the optical axis L of the second optical system and by compositing the registrated plurality of second captured images.
US10038855B2
Some embodiments provide a method of operating a device to capture an image of a high dynamic range (HDR) scene. Upon the device entering an HDR mode, the method captures and stores multiple images at a first image exposure level. Upon receiving a command to capture the HDR scene, the method captures a first image at a second image exposure level. The method selects a second image from the captured plurality of images. The method composites the first and second images to produce a composite image that captures the HDR scene. In some embodiments, the method captures multiple images at multiple different exposure levels.
US10038850B2
Systems and methods for compensating angular misalignment in Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) systems are described. In some embodiments, a method may include measuring an angle representing a misalignment between an actuator and an electronic component within a camera; and compensating for the misalignment using a rotation matrix, wherein the rotation matrix is calculated based upon the angle. In other embodiments, a camera may include an image sensor coupled to a Printed Circuit Board (PCB); an OIS actuator coupled to the PCB and optically coupled to the image sensor, where the OIS actuator is physically misaligned with respect to the image sensor; and a controller coupled to the PCB, the controller configured to: measure an angle representing the misalignment; and compensate for the misalignment using a rotation matrix at the time of an image capture, where the rotation matrix is calculated based upon the angle.
US10038842B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for generating improved planar panorama imagery, which may be used to view street-level, human-scale locations along a desired path, for example. One or more desired objects can be detected in source imagery that may be used to produce the resulting planar panorama imagery. Respective object regions comprising a desired object can be identified in one or more frames of the source imagery. One or more portions of the source imagery that do not comprise the object region for the desired object can be joined with at least some of the one or more frames that do comprise the object region for the desired object. The resulting planar panorama imagery can thus comprise the desired object. Also, the planar panorama imagery can be generated so as to lack one or more non-desired objects and/or adverse effects that may result therefrom.
US10038838B2
A process is provided for graphically guiding a user of a capture device (e.g., smartphone) to more accurately capture a series of images of a building. Images are captured as the picture taker moves around the building—taking a plurality (e.g., 4-16) of images from multiple angles and distances. Before capturing an image, a quality of the image may be determined to prevent low quality images from being captured or to provide instructions on how to improve the quality of the image capture. The series of captured images are uploaded to an image processing system to generate a 3D building model that is returned to the user. The returned 3D building model may incorporate scaled measurements of building architectural elements and may include a dataset of measurements for one or more architectural elements such as siding (e.g., aluminum, vinyl, wood, brick and/or paint), windows, doors or roofing.
US10038831B2
A lighting device includes a light source, an image sensor, a controller, a memory, and a wireless transceiver. The light source is configured to emit light for general illumination. The image sensor is configured to acquire an image of an area illuminated by the light source. The controller is coupled to control the image sensor and to receive the acquired image of the illuminated area from the image sensor. The controller is configured to operate the wireless transceiver to receive identification information from a wireless device in the illuminated area. The controller is further configured to automatically generate a visual signature based on image information of a person or object, obtained from the image of the illuminated area. The controller also is configured to store the visual signature of the person or object in the memory in association with the wireless device identification information.
US10038829B2
A directionally adjustable mounting device is disclosed for use with a small electronic device such as a wireless camera. Also disclosed is a method of using the mounting device. The mounting device has a mounting rod extending from a rotatable bearing. The hearing is biased into frictional contact with a socket by a spring to inhibit movement of the camera relative to the mount housing. The mount is configured to receive an opposing force on the bearing to overcome the spring force and allow the electronic device to be repositioned.
US10038816B2
An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an external apparatus, comprises: an obtainment unit that obtains information from an external apparatus; a determination unit that determines an operation mode of the information processing apparatus; and a notification unit that performs a notification based on the information obtained by the obtainment unit, wherein the notification unit, if the mode determined by the determination unit is a specific operation mode, performs the notification based on the information obtained by the obtainment unit in a second notification screen that is smaller than a first notification screen, and, if the mode determined by the determination unit is not the specific operation mode, performs the notification based on the information obtained by the obtainment unit in the first notification screen.
US10038814B2
In one or more embodiments, a control unit reads image data and date information of a main image from a memory card into a RAM. When a watermark printing is set, the control unit combines characters of the date information having a high gradation value with overcoat layer data having a mixture pattern in which pixels having a high gradation value and pixels having a low gradation value are located randomly or alternately in rows and columns to generate overcoat layer print data and stores the data in an overcoat layer data storage area. The control unit generates CMY print data from the image data of the main image to print it on image-receiving paper by using a print processing section. After printing of the main image, the control unit prints the overcoat layer print data so that it is superimposed on the main image on the image-receiving paper.
US10038808B1
The present disclosure discloses methods and systems for remotely configuring a multi-function device without requiring an expert visit at a user's place. The method includes transmitting a configuration request through the multi-function device for configuring the multi-function device along with a unique parameter of the multi-function device. Based on the request, one or more configuration files having one or more keys are retrieved, as generated by a remote server. The one or more keys are generated based on the unique parameter of the multi-function device and one or more features to be configured related to the multi-function device. As a next step, the multi-function device is automatically configured by installing the one or more configuration files using the one or more keys.
US10038804B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an accepting unit to accept user operations to transition the apparatus from a standby state to a power save state; a detecting unit to detect objects around the apparatus; and a power control unit to transition the apparatus from the power save state to the standby state according to detection of an object by the detecting unit, and to transition the image forming apparatus from the standby state to the power save state according to user operations accepted at the accepting unit. The power control unit prohibits the apparatus from transitioning from the power save state to the standby state according to the detection of the object, until a user, which performed operations accepted by the accepting unit to transition the apparatus from the standby state to the power save state, thereafter ceases to be detected by the detecting unit.
US10038790B2
An electronic device includes: a first communication module configured to perform a call signal based communication and a second communication module configured to perform a short range communication or wired communication; and a processor configured to control call signal reception processing of the first communication module, wherein when an operation change of a communication channel established based on the second communication module, based on at least one of a movement of an electronic device and a movement of a second electronic device that is connected through the second communication module or has a connection history, the processor allows the electronic device or the second electronic device to receive the call signal.
US10038785B1
A system for recognizing processes performed by a call center agent during a session may receive input data from a screen recording system that includes a video signal representing a plurality of frames from a time-series video recording or video stream of a desktop of a user electronic device. The system processes the video signal to identify one or more frames of interest from the plurality of frames. Each frame of interest includes a change in a layout of the corresponding one or more screens as compared to a preceding frame in the time-series video recording. The system automatically identifies actions performed by the call center agent that represent an interaction that the call center agent had with one or more screens corresponding to the frame of interest. The system generates an event log that includes a timeline depicting a visual representation of the identified actions.
US10038784B2
A system and method for providing agent guidance is provided. Speech communicated by a user to an agent is monitored during a call within a call center. Traits of the user are identified during the call based on the speech of the user. A determination is made as to how likely the user is to accept an offer provided by the agent based on the user traits. The user is classified as belonging to one of a plurality of stages of persuasion based on the likelihood determination, and guidance is provided to the agent based on classification of the user in at least one of the classes. The offer is provided to the user based on the guidance.
US10038779B2
Methods and apparatus for intercepting communications in an Internet Protocol (IP) network involve maintaining dialing profiles for respective subscribers to the IP network, each dialing profile including a username associated with the corresponding subscriber, and associating intercept information with the dialing profile of a subscriber whose communications are to be monitored. Intercept information will include determination information for determining whether to intercept a communication involving the subscriber, and destination information identifying a device to which intercepted communications involving the subscriber are to be sent. When the determination information meets intercept criteria communications are established with a media relay through which communications involving the subscriber will be conducted or are being conducted to cause the media relay to send a copy of the communications involving the subscriber to a mediation device specified by the destination information.
US10038768B2
The devices, systems, and methods of the present disclosure allow a radio device to connect to a mobile device. When interconnected with the radio device, the mobile device may communicate via radio connection as well as cellular network connections and other wireless connections inherent to the mobile device. Described herein are devices, systems, and methods to create a coupled mobile device and radio, with a Software Defined Radio capability operating on the mobile communication device to control the radio functionalities embedded within the radio device.
US10038766B2
In one embodiment, a decapsulating network device receives a plurality of encapsulated packet fragments of an original packet, and decapsulates them into respective decapsulated packet fragments. The decapsulating network device caches an inner header of the original packet from one of the decapsulated packet fragments, and in response to caching the inner header, and for each particular decapsulated packet fragment as it is received and decapsulated: prepends the inner header and fragmentation information to the particular decapsulated packet fragment; and forwards the particular decapsulated packet fragment with the prepended inner header and fragmentation information from the decapsulating network device toward a destination of the original packet.
US10038765B2
A method of transmitting data and an eNB are disclosed. The method of transmitting data, which is received from a user equipment and transmitted to a network entity by an eNB, can include the steps of receiving a data packet of the user equipment from a first layer different from an IP layer of the eNB in the IP layer, checking whether or not the data packet corresponds to a data packet transmitted by the first layer using a header of the data packet, if the data packet corresponds to the data packet transmitted by the first layer, adding an IP header selected using a pre-stored mapping table to the data packet, delivering the data packet to which the IP header is added to a second layer corresponding to a lower layer, and transmitting the data packet to which the IP header is added to the network entity.
US10038764B2
A data transmission method includes determining, by a transmitting device, a long training sequence set, where the long training sequence set includes a plurality of long training sequences. The method also includes determining a mapping relationship between each long training sequence in the long training sequence set and first sub-identity information in identity information of each receiving device in a communications system. When data needs to be transmitted to a target receiving device, the method includes selecting a target long training sequence from the long training sequence set according to first sub-identity information of the target receiving device and the mapping relationship. The method includes performing encapsulation processing on the data according to the target long training sequence to generate a data packet, so as to carry the target long training sequence in the data packet. The method includes sending the data packet to the target receiving device.
US10038761B1
In general, embodiments of the technology relate to a method for predictive loading of software resources in web applications. The method includes determining, based on a current state of the web application, one or more predicted future states of the web application. Determining the predicted future states includes predicting a first set of possible future states based on use case data and determining an associated probability for each possible future state in the first set of possible future states, and identifying, from the first set of possible future states, a first predicted future state. The first predicted future state is the possible future state in the first set of possible future states with the highest associated probability. The method further includes determining resources required by the predicted future states, and loading the resources required by the predicted future states.
US10038758B1
Techniques are described for balancing traffic among content delivery networks (CDNs). A CDN balancer can analyze CDN performance data and determine CDN balancing ratios used to distribute traffic among the CDNs.
US10038752B2
A method and a system for execution of client-initiated operations on file handles in a distributed server system. The method may include: generating a file handle, responsive to a connect request sent by a client to a distributed file system, wherein the handle has a handle identifier that is unique throughout the distributed file system; embedding a protocol server identifier within the handle identifier, wherein the protocol server identifier relates to a protocol server to which the handle is assigned, wherein the protocol server is a data structure containing a list of all valid handles that belong to a specific file; sending an operation request from said client to the distributed file system, wherein the file system operation request includes the handle identifier; and locating the protocol server based on the protocol server identifier embedded within the handle identifier upon receiving the operation request at the distributed file system.
US10038751B2
A sensor system (200) comprises a plurality of sensors (110) and a system server (120), all of said plurality of sensors (110) being of a same accelerometer-based sensor type. Each of said plurality of sensors is adapted for attachment to a respective movable structure (112) in a building. Each of said plurality of sensors (110) is individually configured to detect a respective basic movement (114) of said movable structure (112), wherein said basic movement is indicative of a human behavioral action (116) in said building. Each of said plurality of sensors (110) is arranged to detect its basic movement and communicate with said system server in response to detecting the basic movement. The system server (120) is configured to receive a detection signal (118) from any of said plurality of sensors (110), determine an activity pattern (124) based on said detection signal, determine an appropriate function (126) based on said activity pattern and, execute said function.
US10038736B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains a first set of metrics generated during loading of a single-page application (SPA) in a web browser, wherein the first set of metrics includes a page load event and a render completion time. Next, the system uses the first set of metrics to calculate an initial page load time for the SPA. The system also obtains a second set of metrics generated during loading of a subsequent view in the SPA, wherein the second set of metrics includes a transition time and the render completion time. The system then uses the second set of metrics to calculate a subsequent page load time for the SPA. Finally, the system outputs the first and second sets of metrics, the initial page load time, and the subsequent page load time for use in analyzing a performance of the SPA.
US10038734B2
In some embodiments, a telecommunication network manager can receive input regarding quality information for a plurality of data paths among a plurality of endpoint devices. The telecommunication network manager can receive statistical information from these endpoints and make decisions on bandwidth optimization for a group of calls sharing the same infrastructure. The telecommunication network manager can recommend rate changes on other endpoints using the same network infrastructure to mitigate against packet loss for a more important data path.
US10038724B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for accessing an electronic access control model and data indicating results of access control requests that have been processed in accordance with an access control policy of the electronic access control model. Identifying a plurality of partitions in the electronic access control model, where each partition represents one or more access criteria of the electronic access control model that, taken together, define a computer executable access privilege. For each partition, determining a number of access control requests processed based on the partition based on the data, assigning an access type to the partition, determining whether modification of a policy underlying the partition would improve the electronic access control model based on the access type of the partition and the number of access control requests processed based on the partition, and, if so, selectively modifying the policy.
US10038723B2
Methods and systems for reliable token revocation at a server are described. The server receives, a token revocation policy, which includes an identification of a set of users for which a set of associated tokens are to be revoked. The server receives, from a first client device, a first request to access resources at the server, the first request including a first token generated at the token authority server for the client device, wherein the first token is associated with a first expiration time interval; and denies access to the resources at the server based on the first token and the token revocation policy, prior to an expiration of the first expiration time interval associated with the first token.
US10038714B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for data center redundancy in relation to a computer network. In particular, the present disclosure provides for one or more available redundant data centers, or bunkers, associated with a computer network. In one embodiment, the bunker data centers are configured to absorb traffic intended for an application operating on a data center when the traffic threatens to overwhelm the application. For example, during a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack, the bunker data centers are configured to absorb some of the traffic from the DDOS attack to prevent the application that is the target of the attack from being overwhelmed.
US10038713B2
In one embodiment, attack detectability metrics are received from nodes along a path in a network. The attack detectability metrics from the nodes along the path are used to compute a path attack detectability value. A determination is made as to whether the path attack detectability value satisfies a network policy and one or more routing paths in the network are adjusted based on the path attack detectability value not satisfying the network policy.
US10038700B1
Technology for establishing trustworthiness of devices in the Internet of Things (IoT), and for controlling communications between devices based on the trustworthiness scores of individual devices. A hub computer collects behavioral characteristics from multiple devices, and calculates trustworthiness scores for individual devices by comparing recently collected behavioral characteristics to expected behavioral characteristics. The expected behavioral characteristics may include i) historically collected behavioral characteristics for the device, and/or ii) expected behavioral characteristics for devices in a device group to which the device belongs. The trustworthiness scores are obtained from the hub by individual devices to control communication with other devices. A composite trustworthiness score for a device may also be calculated at the hub computer based on the trustworthiness scores of other devices with which the device has previously communicated.
US10038699B2
A management device manages information of a task having been executed by users cooperatively. An electronic data access unit accesses electronic data by using authentication information of a corresponding user. A management unit manages, for each task, task information in which pieces of authentication information of the users having participated in the task are associated with access destination information. A receiver receives a request, from a user, for access to the electronic data. When the electronic data access unit needs the authentication information of a user different from the requester user having participated in the task same as the task in which the requester user has participated to access the electric data as a target of the request, the electronic data access unit acquires the authentication information of the different user based on the task information and accesses the electronic data using the acquired authentication information of the different user.
US10038687B2
The present invention relates to a terminal and a control method thereof which automatically log in to an application, which is installed on a common smart apparatus that multiple users use, using a personal smart device used by an individual such as a smart phone.
US10038685B2
Methods and apparatuses for service request authentication are disclosed to prevent a terminal or a first server that does not sign an agreement with a gateway from bypassing the gateway to directly access a second server. The method includes receiving a service request and determining a session in which the service request is located; determining whether a token corresponding to the session exists, the token corresponding to a session in which a service request from a gateway is located; if the token exists, determining that the authentication of the service request passes and proceeds to process a corresponding service; if the token does not exist, determining that the authentication of the service request fails and the processing of the corresponding service is refused. Thus, since only a session corresponding to service requests forwarded by the gateway can have a token, the authentication of each service request that belongs to such session will pass. The service request that does not belong to the session may be a service request which is directly transmitted by a merchant bypassing the gateway through the terminal or the first server which did not sign an agreement with a service interface of the second server, and the authentication fails.
US10038677B1
A digital security bubble encapsulation is disclosed. A public key and a device identifier of at least one recipient is requested from a first server. A message containing one or more components is encrypted using a symmetric key. The symmetric key is encrypted with a public key received in response to the request. The encrypted message, the encrypted symmetric key, and the device identifier are encapsulated in a digital security bubble encapsulation. The digital security bubble encapsulation is transmitted to a second server.
US10038676B2
Techniques described herein may be used to encrypt a telephone call between users. User devices (e.g., smart phones) may be connected to encryption relay devices that operate as relays between headsets worn by the user and the user devices. As information passes from the headset toward a corresponding user device, an encryption relay device may encrypt the information before the information reaches the user device so that the user device transmits encrypted call information to the other user participating in the call. When encrypted information is received, and travels from the user device to the headset, the encryption relay device may decrypt the information before it reaches the headset. Thus, the techniques described herein provide an end-to-end encryption solution to telephone calls.
US10038673B1
A system and method for tunneling through a network separation device such as a firewall or a Network Address Translator including a first server receiving an access request from a client device to communicate with a host device, where the host device is behind the network separation device. The first server sending a message to a second server in response to receiving the access request, the message including host data for the host device. The second server is configured to send a notification to the host device, and the notification includes instructions for the host device to initialize a pass-through channel with the first server. The first server receiving a pass-through initialization request from the host device and establishing the pass-through channel for communication between the client device and the host device in response to receiving the pass-through initialization request.
US10038672B1
A system for generating virtual private network (VPN) sessions from VPN server log messages uses and displays a VPN sessions table in which each row contains attributes of a corresponding VPN session. Processing of a log message causes a session to be generated when there is no ACTIVE session in the table for a username extracted from a log message. A time extracted from the log message is stored as the session start time and as a temporary end time associated with the session. If a gap between a temporary end time and a time extracted from a log message for the associated ACTIVE session is less than a threshold amount, the temporary end time is set to the extracted time. If the gap is equal to or exceeds the threshold, the status of the session is changed from ACTIVE to CLOSED, and a new ACTIVE session is generated.
US10038671B2
Systems and methods for managing network traffic by a perimeter network security device based on internal network traffic or configuration information are provided. According to one embodiment, a network security appliance of a private network receives internal network information collected by multiple Layer 2/3 network devices of the private network. The Layer 2/3 network devices switch/route internal network traffic among multiple internal host devices without the network traffic passing through the network security device and switch/route external network traffic between the network security appliance and the internal host devices. A topology of the private network is derived based on the internal network information. Existence of potential malicious activity involving an internal host device is identified by evaluating the internal network information. Responsive thereto (i) a traffic policy is created to control transmission of network traffic associated with the internal host device; and (ii) the traffic policy is enforced.
US10038670B2
A system for centrally controlling access by computers in a corporate network to a plant network that runs plant applications. The system includes an access control computer in communication with the corporate network and includes a memory, a processor coupled to the memory and a multi-user application stored in the memory and executable by the processor. The multi-user application communicates with a plurality of computers in the corporate network concurrently and communicates with at least one plant application running in the plant network to retrieve data from and pass data to the plant application on behalf of the plurality of computers in the corporate network concurrently. Since all communication from the plurality of computers is tunneled through the access control computer, the likelihood of any virus or worm spreading into the plant network is minimized.
US10038668B2
Methods and systems for processing network content associated with multiple virtual domains are provided. According to one embodiment, a service daemon process is instantiated within a firewall to handle content processing of network traffic of virtual domains by aggregating communication channels associated with the virtual domains and by applying an appropriate content processing policy for the corresponding virtual domain. A connection request is received by the firewall from a virtual domain. A child process is forked by the service daemon process to handle network traffic associated with the virtual domain. A communication channel is established between a kernel of the firewall and the service daemon process to transfer a portion of the network traffic between the service daemon process and the kernel. The child process is configured to perform content processing of the network traffic in accordance with a content processing policy associated with the virtual domain.
US10038665B2
A mechanism is provided for reducing network load in a software defined network. The mechanism is executed by a virtual machine hypervisor. The mechanism receives a network broadcast request sent by a source virtual machine node; acquires a first destination address in the network broadcast request; and reads a predefined mapping rule of the first destination address and a second destination address. An address of a node in the software defined network is configured by using the predefined mapping rule. The mechanism derives the second destination address corresponding to the first destination address according to the mapping rule. The mechanism responds to the network broadcast request by using the derived second destination address.
US10038639B2
The present disclosure generally discloses a congestion control capability for use in communication systems (e.g., to provide congestion control over wireless links in wireless systems, over wireline links in wireline systems, and so forth). The congestion control capability may be configured to provide congestion control for a transport flow of a transport connection, sent from a transport flow sender to a transport flow receiver, based on flow control associated with the transport flow. The transport flow may traverse a flow queue of a link buffer of a link endpoint. The link endpoint may provide to the transport flow sender, via an off-band signaling channel, an indication of the saturation state of the flow queue of the transport flow. The transport flow sender may control transmission of packets of the transport flow based on the indication of the saturation state of the flow queue of the transport flow.
US10038635B2
Provided is a method of transmitting and receiving a frame for a multi-user multiple-input and multiple-output (MU-MIMO) communication in an access point (AP), the method including transmitting, to each of a plurality of stations (STAs), an uplink multi-user request (UL MU request) frame requesting transmission of a data frame, and receiving, from each of the plurality of STAs, the data frame during an identical period of time based on an identical reception intensity, wherein the UL MU request frame includes at least one of information on a transmission time of the data frame and information on a reception intensity of the data frame in the AP.
US10038630B2
A network system includes a terminal device, a first router, a second router, a first border router, a second border router and a server. The server transmits an updating software to the first and the second border routers through an Internet network. The first border router transmits the updating software to the first router and the second border router transmits the updating software to the second router. The first router transmits the updating software to the terminal device and the second router transmits the updating software to the terminal device. When a version information of the updating software received from the first router and that received from second router are identical, the terminal device executes the updating software. When the version information of the updating software received from the first router and that received from the second router are different, the terminal device does not execute the updating software.
US10038619B2
Technologies are described herein for providing a monitoring service in a cloud-based computing environment. A request is received from a user to subscribe to the monitoring service. The monitor workflow may correspond to the monitoring service. A first call to a finder application is executed over a communications network to retrieve data points according to the monitor workflow. A second call to an analyzer application is executed over the communications network to identify a relevant data point in the data points. A third call to a notifier application is executed over the communications network to notify the user of the relevant data point.
US10038613B1
A census server provides measurement reports describing clients accessing a specified network-based service to a measurement agency via a network. The census server receives census events from clients used by users via the network. The census events describe usage of a network-based service by the clients. The census server processes the census events to produce measurement reports describing the usage of the network-based service. The processing includes filtering specified information out of the census events to prevent the measurement reports from identifying the users of the clients. The measurement agency may use the measurement reports, for example, to describe how the clients tend to access and use the service.
US10038611B1
Embodiments are directed to monitoring network traffic using network computers. A monitoring engine may monitor network traffic associated with a plurality of entities in a network to provide metrics. A device relation model may be provided based on the plurality of entities, the network traffic, and the metrics. Interest information for a user may be provided based on one or more properties associated with the user. An inference engine may associate each entity in the plurality of entities with an interest score based on the interest information, the device relation model, and the metrics. An alert engine may generate a plurality of alerts associated with the plurality of entities based on the metrics. Some of the alerts may be provided to the user based on ranked interest scores associated with the entities.
US10038606B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a channel learning entity is configured to receive a priori network data via a transceiver. The channel learning entity generates at least one measurement of the communication environment based on the a priori network data, and generates first report data for transmission via the transceiver based on the at least one measurement of the communication environment. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10038595B2
A device may receive an indication to generate a probe packet associated with a tunnel included in a first network. The tunnel may include a first tunnel endpoint and a second tunnel endpoint and may correspond to a path, associated with a second network, between the first tunnel endpoint and the second tunnel endpoint. The device may generate the probe packet including information associated with the tunnel. The device may provide the probe packet, via the first tunnel endpoint, such that the probe packet is received by a network device that lies on the path. The device may receive a response packet, associated with the probe packet and provided by the network device, that includes path information. The path information may include information associated with the network device. The device may store the path information to allow the network device to be identified as lying on the path.
US10038594B2
Systems and methods are provided for centralized access, control, and management of APs. According to one embodiment, multiple APs of a private IP network are decoupled from potentially transient IP addresses by assigning a unique identifier to each of the multiple APs by an AC. An AC GUI is presented by the AC to an administrator through which (i) commands are provided by the administrator and (ii) the administrator is provided with access to a first AP of the multiple APs responsive to a command received from the administrator though the AC GUI and based upon the first AP's assigned unique identifier. The first AP is accessed, controlled or debugged by the AC based on the command. The access to the first AP enables a first AP GUI of the first AP through which the network administrator is provided with an ability to issue multiple commands to the first AP.
US10038587B2
There is provided a device and method for demodulating a pulse amplitude modulated, hereinafter referred to as PAM, signal. The device comprises memory storing a set of boundaries of regions in which the log likelihood ratio, hereinafter referred to as LLR, for each bit to be determined is represented by a linear function of the received signal, along with the properties of the linear function for each bit for each region; and a controller. The controller is configured to: receive a PAM signal to be demodulated; determine which region the signal falls within; for each bit to be determined, retrieve the properties of the linear function for the LLR for the bit within the determined region and determine, from this linear function, the LLR value for the bit; and demodulate the signal based on the determined LLR values.
US10038585B2
Embodiments relate to a receiver (310) for receiving a multicarrier signal. The multicarrier signal comprises a first frequency block with a first group of subcarriers, the first frequency block being filtered with a first frequency block specific sideband suppression filter (106-1) for sideband suppression outside of said first frequency block, and at least a second frequency block with at least a second group of subcarriers, the second frequency block being filtered with a second frequency block specific sideband suppression filter (106-2) for sideband suppression outside of said second frequency block. The receiver (310) comprises a filter module (320) operable to perform an inverse sideband suppression filter operation for the first and at least the second frequency block.
US10038571B2
A method for reading and writing a forwarding information base, including receiving a write an associated data (AD) request used to modify the AD and a write a keyword (Key) request used to modify the Key corresponding to the AD, and before the write AD request and the write Key request pass through a cache, transforming, when any one stage to be read and written includes the Key, a row address in the write AD request into a row address that is same as a row address of a node block on which the Key is located, or transforming, when any one stage to be read and written does not include the Key, a row address in the write AD request and a row address in the write Key request into a same row address in the any one stage.
US10038566B1
A computing device configured for multicast message routing is described. The computing device includes a processor and instructions in memory. The computing device receives a multicast request message on a receiving network interface. The receiving network interface is one of multiple network interfaces. The computing device determines which network interface is the receiving network interface based on a network interface list. The computing device sends a multicast reply message on the receiving network interface based on the network interface list.
US10038562B2
A method for providing encrypted data for searching of information includes generating a number of distinct key triples each comprising a public key, a corresponding secret key, and a corresponding evaluation key based on searchable information and files to be searched. Information indicating whether the searchable information is included within the files is encrypted with a key of the generated key triples. The secret keys are merged to obtain a single secret key for an entirety of the searchable information within respective ones of the files for each of the files. The encrypted information is provided with the merged secret keys for each of the files as encrypted data for searching of information within the files. The generating of the distinct key triples and the encrypting of the information are performed based on a multikey homomorphic encryption scheme.
US10038553B2
Technologies are generally described for implementing an information rendering scheme. In some examples, a method performed under control of an end device may include obtaining a decryption key; decrypting encrypted information based on the obtained decryption key; and rendering the decrypted information stored in a video random access memory (VRAM) that is operatively connected to a graphic processing unit (GPU) of the end device.
US10038550B2
Instructions and logic provide secure cipher hashing algorithm round functionality. Some embodiments include a processor comprising: a decode stage to decode an instruction for a secure cipher hashing algorithm, the first instruction specifying a source data, and one or more key operands. Processor execution units, are responsive to the decoded instruction, to perform one or more secure cipher hashing algorithm round iterations upon the source data, using the one or more key operands, and store a result of the instruction in a destination register. One embodiment of the instruction specifies a secure cipher hashing algorithm round iteration using a Feistel cipher algorithm such as DES or TDES. In one embodiment a result of the instruction may be used in generating a resource assignment from a request for load balancing requests across the set of processing resources.
US10038547B2
A method and system for synchronizing a server cluster having a plurality of nodes each provided with an internal clock and interconnected with each other by a clock interconnection network comprising a plurality of transmission segments. Time-stamping information is generated by the internal clock of a source chosen from the nodes of the server cluster. The time-stamping information is transmitted to all the nodes in the server cluster from the source; and and the internal clock of each node of the server cluster is adjusted from this time-stamping information The time for transmission of the time-stamping information is adjusted by each transmission segment to a constant value established for each transmission segment. Upon receiving the time-stamping information by any one of the nodes in the server cluster, its internal clock is adjusted from the time-stamping information and information relating to the transmission segments passed through between the source and this node.
US10038546B2
The locking of optical carriers to a grid can be achieved by employing an optical filter that exhibits athermal behavior in a frequency range to lock at least the frequency of a first channel to a target frequency. The locked frequency may be used to tune and lock the location of the free spectral range of a bandpass filter having transmission peaks at intervals, e.g., an FSR, corresponding to the target grid. The bandpass filter is used generate feedback signals that are used to lock the remaining frequencies to the grid. The athermal filter may be integrated on a silicon photonic integrated circuit.
US10038545B1
A clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit includes a phase detector, a frequency accumulator, and a sequencer circuit. The phase detector generates a phase detect result signal in response to phase detection of a plurality of samples, which are generated by sampling a first data signal from a receiver using a sampling clock. The frequency accumulator accumulates, using a frequency register, frequency offset information from the phase detect result signal to generate an accumulated total. The frequency offset information is associated with a frequency difference between a first reference clock of the receiver and a second reference clock associated with the first data signal. The accumulated total is stored in the frequency register and provided from the frequency register for updating the sampling clock. The sequencer circuit is configured to perform a reset operation to reset the accumulated total in the frequency register based on a sequence of sequence elements.
US10038527B2
Disclosed are a method for ensuring channel continuity after precoding, a base station, a user equipment (UE), and a computer readable storage medium. The method comprises: the base station notifying the UE of whether a precoding manner with a continuous frequency domain is used in data sent to the UE by the base station, and the base station sending data to the UE according to a precoding manner with a continuous or discontinuous frequency domain. The method further comprises: when the UE determines, according to the notification of the base station, that the precoding manner with a continuous frequency domain is used in the data sent to the UE by the base station, the UE executing an optimized channel estimation and demodulation manner within a processing capability of the UE.
US10038519B2
A radio communication base station device which can reduce the number of judgment times for a control signal in a mobile station, thereby suppressing power consumption by the mobile station. The radio communication base station device (100) includes: a mapping setting unit (122) which sets a mapping method in a mapping unit (102); the mapping unit (102) which maps a control signal to respective mobile stations to any of subcarriers constituting the OFDM symbol according to the mapping method set by the mapping setting unit (122); an MCS setting unit (121) which references a mapping table in which correlation between a plurality of MCS having different MCS levels and mapping methods is set according to the judgment result of the mapping setting unit (122) and sets MCS in encoding/modulation units (101-1 to 101-n).
US10038516B2
Disclosed herein is a modulator (50) for polarization-division multiplexing (PDM) transmission. The modulator (50) comprises first and second DP-MZMs (12, 28) associated with first and second polarizations, each DP-MZM (12, 28) having an input for an in-phase and a quadrature driving signal for modulating the in-phase and quadrature components of an optical signal according to respective transfer functions, and a detector (58) suitable for detecting light comprising at least a portion of the light outputted by the first DP-MZM (12) and a portion of the light outputted by the second DP-MZM (28). The modulator (50) is adapted to superimpose a first pilot signal on one of the in-phase and quadrature driving signals of the first DP-MZM (12) and on one of the in-phase and quadrature driving signals of the second DP-MZM (28), and a second pilot signal on the respective other of the in-phase and quadrature driving signals of the first and second DP-MZMs (12, 28). Further, the first and second pilot signals are chosen such that the signal detected by said detector (58) is indicative as to whether the slopes of the transfer functions are different for the in-phase and quadrature components of one of the first and second DP-MZMs (12, 28) and identical for the other of the first and second DP-MZMs (12, 28).
US10038512B1
Methods and apparatus for controlling frame timing and/or duration in a wireless communications network are described. Recurring interference is monitored for, detected and evaluated. Frame structure to be used in the network is determined based on the detected recurring interference in one or more monitored frequency bands. An implemented frame structure is changed dynamically in response to a detected new pattern of interference. Uplink and downlink timing and frame duration maybe determined separately, e.g., based on interference which affects uplink and downlink communications, respectively. Devices, e.g., base stations, may independently determine frame start times and durations based on detected interference or may communicate with one another to reach a consensus on a frame start time and duration to be used by multiple base stations. Downlink frame start times and durations may be based on interference information reported by one or more devices, e.g., mobile user equipment devices.
US10038511B1
A method and apparatus for controlling delay over a data path in a device for transporting Ethernet packets over an optical transport network. The device is configured to receive an incoming clock signal having a first frequency and an incoming data signal and to output an outgoing clock signal having a second frequency and an outgoing data signal. One or more delays over the data path in the device are measured in a predetermined measurement period. A phase adjustment amount is determined based on the one or more measured delays over the data path in the predetermined measurement period, and based on the determining phase adjustment amount, a phase of the outgoing clock signal is adjusted by a phase locked loop in such a way that the delay over the data path in the device is substantially equal to a fixed delay value.
