US10040451B2
The invention relates to a device (8) to be arranged on a motor vehicle (2). Said device (8) comprises a speedometer (4) for ascertaining a relative speed between an object and a device (8), at least one warning mechanism (6) for emitting a warning signal in the direction of the object, find an electric controller which is designed to emit a warning signal via the at least one warning mechanism (6) when the ascertained relative speed exceeds a predefined threshold value.
US10040449B2
A method for avoiding a rear-end collision between a first vehicle and a second vehicle, in which a distance value is initially read in, which represents a distance, which is detected by a distance sensor of the first vehicle, between the first vehicle and the second vehicle. In particular, the first vehicle is located ahead of the second vehicle in a travel direction of the second vehicle. Using the distance value, a control signal is thereupon generated for controlling the first vehicle to avoid the rear-end collision.
US10040447B2
A vehicle is provided including an electric machine and at least one controller. The controller, or controllers, are configured to, in response to a reset of the at least one controller while a speed of the vehicle is greater than a threshold value, provide a current command to the electric machine in accordance with calibration values calculated prior to the reset such that inoperability of the electric machine due to the reset is less than one second.
US10040445B2
The present invention relates to a drivetrain having a first clutch, which has an input side and an output side which is selectively connectable in terms of rotational drive to the input side, and having a transmission, which has a transmission shaft which is connected or connectable in terms of rotational drive to the output side and which is selectively connectable in terms of rotational drive to a gearwheel by means of a second clutch, wherein a rotor of an electric machine is arranged on the output side, and the electric machine, in motor operation, can be controlled or regulated so as to cause the rotational speeds of the transmission shaft and of the gearwheel to be approximated to or aligned with one another before the closure of the second clutch. The present invention also relates to a method for performing gearshifts in a transmission within a drivetrain of the type according to the invention.
US10040443B2
The present disclosure relates to active vibration control of a hybrid electric vehicle. One form provides a method that may include setting up a period of fast Fourier transform (FFT) and performing FFT of an engine speed or a motor speed corresponding to the period of the FFT from a reference angle signal; setting up a reference spectrum; extracting vibration components to be removed based on information of the reference spectrum; selecting and adding a removal object frequency from the vibration of each frequency and performing inverse FFT; determining a basic amplitude ratio according to the engine speed and the engine load; determining an adjustable rate which decreases an anti-phase torque as a change amount of the engine speed is decreased; and performing active vibration control of each frequency based on the information of the basic amplitude ratio, the adjustable rate, and the engine torque.
US10040439B2
A powertrain system employing multiple propulsion torque actuators is described. A method for controlling the powertrain system includes interpreting a driver request, including determining a driver torque request and a regenerative braking request based upon driver inputs to an accelerator pedal and a brake pedal. A desired request is determined based upon the driver torque request and the regenerative braking request. Torque limits for the powertrain system are coordinated based upon the desired request, the driver torque request, and a previous driver torque request to determine upper and lower output torque limits, and the upper and lower output torque limits are combined with system constraints to generate a final torque request. The final torque request is employed to determine torque commands for the propulsion torque actuators, and the propulsion torque actuators are controlled based upon the torque commands for the propulsion torque actuators.
US10040433B1
The application discloses an improved wheel cleaning device, comprising a lifting system, a brush system, a clamping rotating system, a turnover system and an ejection system. When the device is used, a cylinder II drives a left sliding plate to synchronously clamp a wheel, and a servo motor II drives the wheel to rotate; a servo motor I drives a horizontal brush to rotate, cylinders I drive the rotating horizontal brush and vertical brush to ascend, and when the horizontal brush contacts a wheel flange, base powder which is redundant during spraying therein can be removed; an electric servo cylinder drives the vertical brush to move right, and when the vertical brush contacts a center hole of the wheel, base powder which is redundant during spraying sprayed therein can be removed; after the base powder is removed, a servo motor III drives the clamped wheel to turn over 180 degrees.
US10040431B2
The invention relates to a wiper blade assembly for the windows of a motor vehicle, comprising a longitudinal support (10) intended to receive a pressure application vertebra (20) and a wiper blade (30) and a wiper accessory (40) carrying a device (42a, 42b) for distributing and projecting a washer liquid wherein the accessory is intended to be assembled with the longitudinal support (10).According to the invention, the longitudinal support (10) comprises means for fixing said accessory (40) on said support.
US10040430B2
A vehicle cleaning system in which washer fluid is dispensed onto a vehicle windshield or headlight wiper blade via an integral channel and nozzles arrayed in a way so as to insure efficient dispensation of cleaning solution onto the vehicle windshield or headlight. The vehicle cleaning system comprises a fluid reservoir, an element to heat the fluid based on outside ambient temperature, a valve which regulates the fluid flow creating a hammering action during fluid application, and a surface wiper with an integral fluid dispensing apparatus.
US10040425B2
A system for detecting noise generated by a windshield wiper on a vehicle including a cabin is provided. The system includes a detector for detecting noise generated by the windshield wiper. A processor is provided for generating a signal based on the noise detected by the detector. A controller may also receive the signal and regulate the operation of the windshield wiper, including by adaptive control based on a vehicle operator's desired setting of a speed of the wiper in an intermittent mode of operation. The signal may also be used to notify a service provider of the need for servicing the windshield wiper. Related methods are also disclosed.
US10040402B1
A vehicle rooftop bicycle carrier and lifting apparatus for vehicles has a roof rack with a pneumatic lifting spring urged pivoted boom assembly interconnected by multiple pivot linkage thereto. A bike clamp is adjustably positioned on the extended boom assembly for selectively securing a bike to be lifted and secured on the roof rack for transport in vertical upright orientation.
US10040392B2
A vehicle puddle lamp assembly is provided that includes a plurality of light projectors located on a vehicle and configured to illuminate different lighted image patterns on a ground surface adjacent to the vehicle. The vehicle puddle lamp assembly includes a controller for sequentially activating the plurality of light projectors to generate an animated lighted image on the ground surface. The animated image moves in a location based on a door position.
US10040386B2
Systems and methods for securing a tank to a chassis. In an embodiment, a vehicle includes a chassis and a tank having a proximal end and a distal end. The proximal end is coupled with the chassis for pivotal movement with respect thereto. The vehicle also includes a structural pad coupled to the tank and at least one rib extending from the structural pad. The at least one rib has at least one aperture defined therethrough. At least one fluid cylinder is coupled with the chassis. The at least one fluid cylinder is coupled with a pin aligned with the aperture. Actuation of the at least one fluid cylinder causes the pin to move between a first position wherein the pin is not received within the aperture and a second position wherein the pin is received within the aperture.
US10040382B2
An adjustable headrest for motor vehicle seat. The headrest includes a support structure fixed to a backrest and a body having a front shell and a rear shell. The front shell has a front face intended for contact with the head of a user of the seat, the front face being movable relative to the support structure along a front-rear direction denoted X, over a total travel distance. The total travel distance is formed by a first travel portion provided by a mounting enabling translational movement of the body relative to the support structure while maintaining the position of the front shell relative to the rear shell substantially constant. The total travel distance is also formed by a second travel portion provided by a mounting enabling translational movement of the front shell alone relative to the rear shell.
US10040367B2
A system for providing a scale (11) of electrical charge of a vehicle battery and a hybrid vehicle comprising such a system comprises a scale (11) of state of charge of the vehicle battery. The scale (11) comprises minimum (14) and maximum (15) parameters and a controller to select the minimum (14) and maximum (15) parameters if the scale (11) in dependence on a battery usage parameter dependent on at least one of a mode of operation of the vehicle, a state of charge of the battery and a state of health of the battery. A display (10) for indicating an amount consists of the scale (11) and an indicator (12) movable with respect to the scale (11). Different scales (11) are provided for different purposes, and are changeable without altering the instant position of the indicator (12). The display (10) may indicate the state of charge of a battery of the hybrid electric vehicle having an internal combustion engine and motor/generator, different scales (11) having maxima (15) corresponding to different nominal or optimum states of charge.
US10040364B2
A charging apparatus includes a plurality of charging ports; a charging portion configured to output charge current to the charging ports; an input portion configured to receive selection of a user among a plurality of charge patterns prepared in advance including a charge-history-dependent charge pattern to determine the charge current based on charge history information regarding a charge history of the electrically-powered vehicle; a selection result storing portion configured to store a result of the selection; a history information storing portion configured to store the charge history information of the electrically-powered vehicles connected to any of the charging ports; and a controller configured to refer to the selection result storing portion, control the charging portion in accordance with a selected charge pattern, the controller configured to determine priorities of the electrically-powered vehicles based on the charge history information when the charge-history-dependent charge pattern is selected and two or more electrically-powered vehicles are connected to the charging ports.
US10040363B2
The disclosed systems and methods are directed to a battery assisted charging station. A battery system comprising plurality of batteries and a battery management system software controlling the operations of the battery system, function together with a vehicle charging system that charges electric vehicles using one or both of stored power provided by a battery system, and power provided by a utility power grid. The battery system uses the power grid to charge the batteries therein.
US10040361B2
The present invention relates to a motor vehicle (1) having an electric drive system including an electric traction motor (11) and an energy storage device (13). The vehicle (1) also has an adjustable-height suspension (7) to allow the height (h) of the vehicle (1) to be adjusted. A monitor (21) is provided for monitoring charging of the energy storage device (13) from an external electrical supply. A control unit (27) is provided for adjusting the height of the suspension (7) in dependence on the monitor (21). Aspects of the present invention also relate to a charging indicator system (3); and a method of indicating the charging status of a vehicle energy storage device (13).
US10040357B2
A method for operating a motor vehicle having a vehicle electrical system, which includes at least one electrical or electronic component, which experiences a load during an operation of the motor vehicle, an accumulated load of the at least one component being ascertained, at least one type of damage contributing to the load being ascertained, a service life of the at least one component to be expected as a result of the ascertained accumulated load being ascertained, and at least one variable damaging the at least one component during operation, which is selected as a function of the at least one type of damage, being changed in a load-reducing direction if the service life to be expected of the at least one component deviates from a setpoint service life.
US10040353B2
An information display system displaying different information on each of a plurality of display units includes: a sight line specifying portion that specifies a line of sight of a driver; a cognition display unit specifying portion that specifies, as a cognition display unit, one of the display units being in a direction of the line of sight; a non-cognition display unit specifying portion that specifies, as a non-cognition display unit, a different one of the display units; a priority order assignment portion that assigns a priority order to the non-cognition display unit or displayed information; and a guide process execution portion that executes a guide process in which the line of sight is guided to the non-cognition display unit or the display unit.
US10040340B2
A drive system including a guide rail arrangement fixed to a roof module, a drive slide, a front-side lifting arrangement, a rear-side extension mechanism, and a profiled support part. The lifting arrangement and the extension mechanism interact with the profiled support part such that the profiled support part is guided in a force-controlled manner between a closed, ventilating and open positions of the roof part. The coupling device end region remote from the extension mechanism has a coupling slide which is guided in the guide rail arrangement and which comprises a blocking element that can be moved in the vertical direction. A stationary latch recess is provided in the guide rail arrangement, and the drive slide has a receiving area. Depending on the position of the drive slide, the blocking element is moved into the latch recess or into the receiving area in a force-controlled manner by mechanical control contours.
US10040339B2
A vehicle side portion structure including: a rocker that extends in a vehicle longitudinal direction at a vehicle transverse direction outer side of a vehicle body lower portion; a sliding door that slides in the vehicle longitudinal direction, includes a door inner panel, which is connected to the rocker by a door hinge slidable in the vehicle longitudinal direction and which has a mounted-to portion that is lined up in a vehicle transverse direction with the rocker, and includes a door outer panel that is disposed further toward a vehicle transverse direction outer side than the door inner panel; and a load transmitting member that is mounted to the mounted-to portion and transmits a collision load, which is input to the door outer panel from a vehicle side, to a region of the rocker that is different from a region to which the door hinge is connected.
US10040331B2
Disclosed is a configurable dynamic valve. In various embodiments the valve operates to control a pneumatic leveling system for vehicles and provide the capability for an operator to select an elevated or lowered ride height, to block air flow in and out of the leveling air bags, or to dump air from the air bags controlling the ride height. In various embodiments, the valve utilizes rotary disks which contain actuate apertures, wherein the disks form seals between ports which connect various inlet and outlet chambers such that the pneumatically selected operative disk apertures and ports provide air flow in or out of leveling air bags dynamically at a selected ride height during varying load and road conditions. In various embodiments, the modular design of the valve components allows for an easily configurable valve which may be customized to a particular application with a minimum of effort and manufacturing cost.
US10040326B1
Vehicle hitch adapter comprising a height adjustment post comprising a plurality of pairs of opposed spaced apart height adjustment apertures; a mounting box surmounting the post; a pitch lock system comprising a pitch box having spaced apart pitch plates defining a chamber therebetween for an inferior end of the post to pass therethrough with a pair of opposed spaced apart height adjustment apertures contained within the chamber and the pitch plates comprising a set of spaced apart vertically extending angled end obround shaped slots having a lower surface end defining an at rest position and an upper surface end angled to form a shoulder surface defining a potential energy state; and a pin extending through the obround shaped slots and the apertures contained within the chamber wherein the pin is supported on the shoulder surface in the potential energy state during loading and on the lower surface end during transport.
US10040324B2
The invention relates to a tire-monitoring system for monitoring a tire air pressure and/or at least one other tire-specific quantity in tires of a vehicle; —comprising a plurality of tire sensors for positioning in the tires of the vehicle; —each tire sensor having at least one sensing device for sensing a tire-specific quantity and a control device that has at least one transmitter for transmitting signals in dependence on the sensed quantity and/or a quantity previously programmed in the control device; —and comprising a router for installing in the vehicle, which router comprises a receiver for receiving the signals of the plurality of tires sensors, a memory for storing the quantities of the tire sensors transmitted by means of the signals, and an interface for the wired or wireless retrieval of the stored quantities; —the router having an electrical power connection, by means of which the router can be connected to a vehicle electrical system for the supply of power to the router. The tire-monitoring system according to the invention is characterized in that the router has an energy store, which provides an electrical power supply when the vehicle electrical system is switched off and which can be charged by means of the electrical power connection.
US10040322B2
A run flat tire is provided having a line L1 connecting point P1 having height H1 of 17 mm; and point P2 at which a thickness from point P1 is minimum thickness Ts. Point C represents a point which is distant from point P2 on line L1 by a distance that is 0.4 times Ts. A point B represents a point of intersection of: line L2 that extends in the axial direction through radially outer end of core 36; and line L3 that extends in the radial direction through an axially outer end of core side portion 46a of turned-up portion 46. A line L4 passes through point C and point B. The thickness Ts is greater than or equal to 10 mm, and not greater than 17 mm. The turned-up portion 46 extends through a region surrounded by an axially outer surface of main portion 44, and lines L2-L4.
US10040319B2
A motorcycle tire is provided with a tread pattern made up of circumferentially alternately arranged first and second pattern units. The first pattern unit is substantially mirror symmetrical with the second pattern unit. Each pattern unit comprises a main oblique groove and first and second auxiliary oblique grooves, each of which is a bent groove having a bent position and composed of a steeply-inclined part and a mildly-inclined part, in the main oblique groove, the steeply-inclined part extends from a start position on one side of the tire equator to the bent position on the other side of the tire equator, while inclining to one tire circumferential direction; and the mildly-inclined part extends from the bent position to the adjacent tread edge, while inclining to the above-mentioned one tire circumferential direction.
US10040306B2
A printable film that contains a polymeric film substrate with a front side and a backside. The printable film contains also a light diffusion layer and an image receiving layer. The light diffusion layer is applied on the backside of the polymeric film substrate and contains inorganic particles, dispersing agents and polymeric binders. The image receiving layer is applied over the light diffusion layer on the backside of the polymeric film substrate. Also disclosed herein is the method for obtaining the printable film.
US10040303B2
A printer includes a printer body including a holder configured to house rolled recording paper, a cover configured to open and close the holder, a coupling mechanism that couples the cover to the printer body, and a detachment preventing mechanism configured to prevent the cover from being detached from the printer body. The coupling mechanism includes shafts formed on one of side plates of the cover and inner walls of the printer body, and shaft holes formed in another one of the side plates and the inner walls and configured to receive the shafts; and the detachment preventing mechanism includes a stopper that is disposed such that ends of the stopper contact inner surfaces of the side plates and configured to support the side plates and prevent the side plates from falling when a load is applied to the cover.
US10040302B2
A pinion gear is coaxially attached to vicinity of an end of an inner bar. The pinion gear is engaged with a rack gear and rotates in response to upward and downward movements of the tension bar. When the pinion rotates, the inner bar correspondingly rotates. The inner bar and an outer bar, which is a tension applying bar, are connected to each other so as to freely rotate. When the pinion rotates, the inner bar correspondingly rotates, while the outer bar remains unrotated.
US10040299B2
A printing apparatus comprises a print zone and a media handling system for advancing media through a media path and through the print zone, wherein the media handling system comprises a first media driving arrangement positioned downstream of the print zone in the direction of advance of the media, and a second media driving arrangement positioned downstream of the first arrangement, the second media driving arrangement being operable to cause the tension of the media in a deformation zone between the two driving arrangements to be lower than the tension of the media in the print zone.
US10040294B2
A technique that enables electrical connectivity of a liquid container to a conductive member to be enhanced is provided. A liquid consuming apparatus includes a liquid container in which liquid is contained, a conductive member, at least a part of which is arranged within the liquid container, a circuit board that applies a voltage to the conductive member, a wire that electrically connects the conductive member and the circuit board to each other, and a board holding member that holds the circuit board. The board holding member is provided with a through hole through which the wire is passed, and the wire extends from the through hole and is connected to the circuit board.
US10040287B2
Disclosed is a head unit including: a plurality of ejecting units that eject liquids; a driving IC that drives the plurality of ejecting units; a first substrate; a second substrate; a first electrode; and a second electrode, the first electrode electrically connects the first wiring and the third wiring with each other, the second electrode electrically connects the second wiring and the third wiring with each other, the driving IC is overlapped with the first substrate in plan view of the first substrate, and the signal from the second substrate is transmitted from the second substrate in order of the first terminal, the first wiring, the first electrode, the third wiring, the second electrode, and the second wiring.
US10040285B2
A liquid ejection head, including: a flow path forming member including a resin layer having an ejection orifice and a flow path formed therein; a substrate including a heat-generating resistance element for ejecting liquid and a protective layer having a portion for covering the heat-generating resistance element, a surface of the portion being exposed to the flow path; and an intermediate layer formed between the resin layer and the protective layer, the intermediate layer including a silicon carbonitride material.
US10040282B2
A controller performs an ejection-timing setting process of setting, for each of first and second nozzle groups, ejection timing in scan printing in which a liquid ejection head ejects a liquid droplet while a head moving device moves the head in a scanning direction. The process includes: in response to receiving a first signal, setting ejection timing such that a time difference between ejection timing of the first nozzle group and ejection timing of the second nozzle group is first time, the first signal instructing printing such that a conveyance amount of a medium between successive two-time scan printing is a first conveyance amount; and in response to receiving a second signal, setting ejection timing such that the time difference is second time shorter than the first time, the second signal instructing printing such that the conveyance amount is a second conveyance amount smaller than the first conveyance amount.
US10040281B2
A wide array printhead module includes a plurality of printhead die. Each of the printhead die includes a number of sensors to measure properties of a number of elements associated with the printhead die. The wide array printhead module further includes an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) to command and control each of the printhead die. The ASIC is located off any of the printhead die.
US10040279B2
An ink jet head includes first side walls including two piezoelectric elements, second side walls, a first electrode, a second electrode, an ink chamber containing conductive ink, and a control unit. The second side walls alternate with the first side walls to provide side surfaces for driving pressure chambers and dummy pressure chambers. On one of the first side walls, the first electrode is on the side wall surface of a driving pressure chamber and a second electrode is on the side wall surface of a dummy pressure chamber. The control unit applies a voltage having a first waveform to the first electrode, and a voltage having a second waveform, a portion of which is inverted with respect to the first waveform, to the second electrode to cause ink to be ejected, and cause the second electrode to electrically float such that ink is not ejected.
US10040267B2
The present invention relates to a composite material having a three-dimensional texture and a method for making the same. The composite material includes a base material and a surface layer. The surface layer is disposed on a surface of the base material, and has a substantially uniform thickness. The surface layer includes at least one first portion and at least one second portion. The first portion is attached to the surface of the base material. The second portion is spaced apart from the surface of the base material to form at least one hole.
US10040266B2
A device includes a tank for storing a glue solution; a roll having a surface for transferring the glue solution onto an area of a corrugating medium of a single-faced corrugated fiberboard sheet in the width direction; scraping members for regulating adhesion of the glue solution outside the area on the surface of the roll; a movement mechanism for moving the scraping members in the width direction; and a control device for setting, on the basis of the cutting width dimension with which the double-faced cardboard sheet is to be cut after passing the roll, the area to be a region in which margins in the width direction have been added outside positions of the side edges of the cutting width dimension, and for controlling the movement mechanism to dispose the scraping members at positions corresponding to the positions of the side edges of the glue application region.
US10040255B2
A manufacturing arrangement for the manufacture of a rotor blade, including a pair of tracks arranged along the longitudinal sides of a blade mold, a first gantry assembly realized to span the track pair and to carry a first tool arrangement including at least a fiber distributor for distributing a fiber material into the blade mold, a second gantry assembly realized to span the track pair and to carry a second tool arrangement including at least a handling tool for handling a cover sheet for the fiber distributor, which cover sheet is realized to apply pressure to the distributed fiber material, and a control arrangement realized to effect a coordinated movement of the gantry assemblies along the track pair and to coordinate the operation of the second tool arrangement with the operation of the first tool arrangement, is provided.
US10040253B2
A three-dimensional printing control apparatus comprises a control command generator configured to: generate a control command for outputting a three-dimensional object having a first shape, and generate, in response to a request for changing a shape of the three-dimensional object from the first shape to a second shape is received while performing a output work for the three-dimensional object, an additional control command for outputting a changed three-dimensional object having the second shape; and a control command transmitter configured to, in response to determining that it is possible to output the changed three-dimensional object through the output work, substitute the additional control command for the control command with respect to a non-printed portion of the three-dimensional object.
US10040249B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a three-dimensional object (50) by means of generative construction in a direct constructional sequence from at least one solidifiable material. At least one material component is discharged in a programmable way via a control device in the direct constructional sequence and, as a result of the discharge, produces structurally different regions of the object (50) that are joined together, wherein geometric relationships obtained during the discharge already correspond to the object (50). The fact that configuration criteria for the structurally different regions of the object (50) are predefined to the control device by using a selection, and that the discharge unit is controlled by the control device during the discharge of the at least one material component for the structurally different regions of the object by using the selected configuration criteria in order to configure a three-dimensional structure desired for the respective region of the object, means that a method is provided by means of which the discharge of the material can be carried out in accordance with individual requirements on the object.
US10040238B2
A glazing includes a glazed element, at least one profiled seal portion and at least one insert which is located at least partially inside the profiled seal portion, the insert having along a main portion which is in the profiled seal portion, in cross-section, a section which is closed on itself in the form of a loop and which forms a hollow member, wherein the main portion includes at least at one end a stopper which closes the end.
US10040237B2
An injection head for the fabrication of a container from a preform. An injection head interfaces with a mouth of the preform to establish fluid communication between a liquid supply and the mouth. The injection head includes an injection valve disposed within an outer shell of the injection head and configured to selectively permit fluid communication through the injection head upon displacement between an opened and a closed position. The injection head also includes an injection head cavity disposed between the injection valve and the outer shell and connected to the liquid supply. A liquid supply control mechanism and a control mechanism of the injection valve's opening allow fluid communication through the injection head. The control mechanism of the injection valve's opening is activated by the liquid under pressure in the injection head cavity when liquid supply is opened.
US10040235B2
An extrusion device includes a filament-engaging mechanism that urges a filament, received by the device, through a heater and a nozzle. A moveable control member can be manipulated by a user during operation of the device to alter a rate of extrusion. The extrusion device can have a continuous flow mode of operation. The extrusion device can be configured to operate with low electrical power consumption.
US10040232B2
A locking includes a locking member, a guiding rod, and a space member. The guiding rod is fixedly connected to the locking member. The mold includes a first mold plate, a second mold plate, a stripper plate, and a top plate. The first mold plate, the second mold plate, the stripper plate, and the top plate are connected in sequence. A receiving hole is defined in the first mold board. A through hole is defined in the second mold board corresponding to the receiving hole. The guiding member movably passes through the through hole. The through hole includes a first retaining portion and a second retaining portion. The space member is sleeved on the locking member. A diameter of the space member is greater than that of the receiving hole and the second retaining portion. The disclosure also supplies a mold.
US10040229B2
A method is disclosed for producing a piston (8) having a circumferential seal in the form of a circular cup seal (16). In a functional, installed state, the cup seal (16) has a profile consisting of a leg held in the piston (8) and aligned radially with respect to the piston longitudinal axis (19) in a radial region (17) and of a leg which is bent by approximately 90° into an axial region (18) and is aligned approximately parallel to the piston longitudinal axis (19). The cup seal (16) is mounted in a mold as a flat or arched preform (21, 21a) with a radial region (17a, 17b) which forms the approximately radial leg, aligned with the piston longitudinal axis (19). A circumferential region (18a, 18b) projecting radially beyond the mold cavity is shaped into the axial region (18) after removing the piston from the mold to obtain the functional contour of the installed state of the cup seal (16).
US10040219B2
According to one embodiment, a mold includes a base, a first concave pattern, a second concave pattern, and a third concave pattern. The base includes a first surface and a pedestal projecting from the first surface. The pedestal includes a first region and a second region disposed outside the first region. The first concave pattern is formed in the first region. The second concave pattern is formed in the second region. The third concave pattern extends from the first region to the second region.
US10040213B2
An apparatus for portion cutting food items includes a first cutting device which comprises a cutting unit for the cutting of food items into strips. The apparatus includes one or more additional cutting devices, each comprising a cutting unit for cutting the strips into pieces of predetermined weight and dimensions. Measuring means are arranged in the first cutting device for scanning at least one of a shape, a structure and a dimension of the food item. The apparatus further comprises processor means with a control program for the planning of a portion-cutting profile on the basis of the scanning.
US10040212B2
An apparatus (1) for cutting a pipe (2) made of thermoplastic material including: a cutting unit (T) which includes a tool equipped with a disk (3) rotatable about an axis (XI) and which are used to allow a rotary motion of the axis (XI) of the disk (3) about an axis (X2) of the pipe (2) and disk (3) sinking into the pipe (2) in a radial direction; a lubricant dispensing unit (L) for the disk (3), used to operate on at least one portion (P1,P2) of a face (F1,F2) of the disk (3), for releasing a predetermined quantity of lubricant on it so as to reduce the friction between the disk (3) and the pipe (2) during cutting.
US10040207B1
The present invention is a novel passive adjustable gravity compensation apparatus which utilizes an internal-pressure-variable cylinder. With the coordination of cam, rod, or the combination of the fore mentioned, the internal-pressure-variable cylinder obtains the characteristics of a linear elastic device which has variable elastic coefficient. Through appropriately adjusting the internal pressure of the internal-pressure-variable cylinder, the cylinder would perform as a linear elastic device with proper elastic coefficient to fully or partially compensate the gravitational effect of the manipulator system and the load it holds. Thus, the proposed invention can fully or partially compensate the gravitational effect of the manipulator system at different loading conditions without changing its geometric configuration.
US10040204B2
Apparatus transfers a plate-shaped workpiece to/from a holding surface of a chuck table. The apparatus includes a holding unit and a moving mechanism. The holding unit includes at least two holding members for holding the outer edge of the workpiece, a support plate for supporting the holding members so as to allow movement of the holding members toward or away from the outer edge of the workpiece, and a moving unit for moving the holding members. Each holding member includes a rod portion vertically movably extending downward through the support plate, an engaging portion formed on the outer circumference of the rod portion at the lower end thereof for engaging the outer edge of the workpiece, and a nozzle portion for discharging a fluid from the lower surface of the rod portion toward the holding surface to thereby float the workpiece from the holding surface.
US10040199B2
Provided is a processing apparatus for determining a work to be picked by a robot from a plurality of works, using an image, captured by an image capture device, of an area on which the plurality of works are placed. The apparatus selects a pickable candidate work based on the image, and determines a picking target work positioned in a partial area assigned with a highest priority among the partial areas where candidate works are respectively positioned. The apparatus selects a next pickable candidate work whose position and orientation have changed within allowable ranges before and after picking, and determines a next picking target work positioned in the partial area assigned with the highest priority among the partial areas where the next pickable candidate works are respectively positioned.
US10040198B2
A method of processing measurement information in which a determined parameter value is determined at each of a plurality of measurement times including determining a predicted parameter value at each of the measurement times, determining an error range at each of the measurement times based on the predicted parameter value, obtaining a measured parameter value at each of the measurement times, and determining the determined parameter value based on the predicted parameter value, the measured parameter value, and the error range.
US10040191B2
A device for allowing work to be carried out on or about an object includes at least one gripping arrangement. The at least one gripping arrangement is configured to grip and traverse the object so as to reach a desired location on the object and to anchor the device thereto for allowing the work to be carried out.
US10040180B2
A device for driving fastening elements into an underlying surface has a mount for a fastening element, having a through-passage for a driving-in element, by which a fastening element in the mount is driven into the underlying surface in a driving-in direction, having a strip lead-through, which defines a strip plane and a transporting direction and is intended for a fastening-element bearing strip core, having a supporting element for supporting the strip and/or a fastening element, and having a supporting spring, wherein the supporting element can be deflected transversely to the driving-in direction, counter to a force of the supporting spring, when a fastening element is moved in the driving-in direction by the driving-in element in order for the fastening element to be separated from the strip.
US10040163B2
A polishing apparatus includes a jig unit including a substrate supporting part having a placing surface on which a substrate having a first curvature is placed. The placing surface has a second curvature corresponding to the first curvature and a polishing unit includes at least one polishing part to be rotated to polish a process surface of the substrate. The process surface of the curved substrate may be uniformly polished and foreign substances generated during the polishing process are prevented from entering into the substrate.
US10040161B2
A gemstone positioning fixture, including a base and a cover plate applied over the base. The cover plate has apertures, one for each gem to be worked on. At least one biasing member is positioned beneath the plate. The biasing member applies an upward force to the gems to contact the cover plate. The plate is formed of materials that conduct electricity, so as to conduct any charged particles away from the gem work surface.
US10040152B2
A work support includes a mounting plate and a mechanical lock coupled to the mounting plate. The mechanical lock includes a base coupled to the mounting plate and a support pin. The support pin is movably coupled to the base. As such, the support pin can move relative to the base. The work support further includes a locking collar at least partly disposed inside the base. The locking collar surrounds the support pin and includes a first collar portion disposed around the support pin. The first collar portion has an outer tapered surface facing away from the support pin. The locking collar further includes a second collar portion disposed around the support pin. The second collar portion has an inner tapered surface facing toward the support pin and can move relative to the first collar between an unlocked position and a locked position.
US10040149B2
An assembly for installing a covering over an air intake opening in engagement with a surrounding perimeter extending face. A plurality of elongated supports attached to the perimeter extending face at locations around the intake opening, each of the supports exhibiting a forwardly projecting support surface within which is configured a slot. A plurality of fasteners install through an accessible end location of each support such that a base of each fastener is retained within and traversable along an interior channel defined in said support, a projecting portion of each fastener extending from said base and through said slot. A rigid mesh exhibits a generally rectangular outline which generally matches the arrangement of the elongated supports, an aperture pattern defined in the mesh permitting the projecting portions of the fasteners to extend through the mesh to retain the mesh over the forwardly projecting support surfaces. The covering has a flexible material with perimeter defined apertures for receiving the projecting fastener portions to affix the material against an exterior surface of the mesh in engagement with the perimeter extending supports and to extend over the intake opening.
US10040148B1
A stone setting machine that includes a base structure having a centrally disposed holding aperture, and a holder for a pre-cast setting basket meant to receive a stone. The pre-cast setting basket includes a plurality of prongs meant to be bent to retain the stone. The holder is disposed within the holding aperture. A plurality of slide members are supported over the base structure and meant to bend the prongs. The base structure includes a stationary plate member. A rotatable disc is provided for support by the stationary plate member has a plurality of disc control slots corresponding in number to the number of slide members. A plurality of control pins are received in respective disc control slots and coupled to respective slide members. An actuation mechanism is for controlling the rotatable disc which, in turn, controls the slide members to bend a corresponding respective prong.
US10040145B2
When two high-strength steel sheets (1A, 1B) whose sheet thickness ratio={the sum of sheet thicknesses of the steel sheets}/{the sheet thickness of the thinner steel sheet (when they have the same thickness, the sheet thickness per one sheet)} is within a range of not less than 2 nor more than 5 and which both have tensile strength of not less than 780 MPa nor more than 1850 MPa are stacked to be subjected to resistance spot welding, a first welding step being pre-welding with a pressurizing force P1 kN and a welding current I1 kA and a second welding step being main welding with a pressurizing force P2 kN and a welding current I2 kA are performed, the pressurizing forces P1, P2 are set to a fixed pressurizing force P=P1=P2 all through the first welding step and the second welding step and are set within a range expressed by {0.5≤P≤3.0t(1/3)}, where t mm is an average sheet thickness of the steel sheets (1A, 1B), the welding current I1 is set within a range of not less than 30% nor more than 90% of the welding current I2, and the second welding step is started within 0.1 s after the first welding step is finished.
US10040141B2
The present invention is directed to a system for welding together segments of a pipeline. The system includes an external alignment mechanism for externally supporting and manipulating the orientation of pipe segments in order to align relative segments. The system also includes an internal welding mechanism for applying a weld to an interior face joint of the two abutted pipe segments. The internal welding mechanism including a torch for applying a weld, a laser for tracking the weld profile and guiding an articulating head of the torch, and a camera for visually inspecting the weld after the weld is applied.
US10040139B2
A measurement program for sequentially measuring measurement points, which are to be measured with a touch sensor, is created on the basis of a machining program, which is read in, for machining a turning tool. Then, the rake face height is measured on each of the measurement points and the measurement data is stored. Subsequently, a calculation method of a correction amount is selected so as to calculate the correction amount, and whether or not the calculated correction amount is smaller than a regulation value is determined. The machining program is modified on the basis of the correction amount when the correction amount is not smaller than the regulation value, while the machining program is modified on the basis of the correction amount in accordance with the selected method when the correction amount is smaller than the regulation value.
US10040138B2
A cutting insert for machining has a substantially cylindrical main body with an axis, a lateral flank and opposing rake faces. Cutting edges are formed at the intersection of the flank and rake faces. The cutting edges have, in the direction of the axis, in each case at least two convexly curved sections which are connected together by concavely curved or substantially straight sections.
US10040137B2
A compound fillet radii cutter may have a shaft having a cylindrical member, frustoconical cutting surface, a small radius cutting surface having an arc length of a first circle, and a large radius cutting surface having an arc length of a second circle. The frustoconical cutting surface may be disposed between the cylindrical member and the small radius cutting surface. The small radius cutting surface may be disposed between the frustoconical cutting surface and the large radius cutting surface, and a juncture of the large radius cutting surface and the small radius cutting surface may form a tangential union. In this manner, a single cutter may cut radii of various sizes or cut compound radii.
US10040130B2
A spindle repair kit including a pair of alignment mandrels positionable in a respective spindle bore of a steering spindle. An alignment rod is operative to retain the mandrels in their respective spindle bores. The kit can also include a first clamp member and a second clamp member, each being positionable between the spindle bores. The kit includes a drill fixture including a drill mounting surface and a bearing fixture including a bearing aperture sized to receive the alignment rod. Fasteners clamp the drill fixture and first clamp member to the first spindle bore and clamp the bearing holder and second clamp member to the second spindle bore. The kit includes an arbor connectable to a drill and a reamer, wherein the arbor is sized to position the reamer in the first spindle bore.
US10040112B2
A springback-reduced part formed by performing a springback reduction on a press-formed part that is formed by a press forming of a blank sheet made of a metal sheet. The springback-reduced part is formed by setting each element of an analytic model of the press-formed part to a stressed state that causes a springback, performing an optimization analysis for shape to detect a portion of the press-formed part that highly contributes to the rigidity thereof, applying a rigidity improving means on a specific portion of the press-formed part on the basis of the detected portion, and performing the press forming.
US10040109B2
A method for producing metal sheets from strand-shaped profiles having a low thickness made of magnesium or magnesium alloys, wherein an open or a closed extruded profile is produced in a preceding method step, wherein the extruded profile exiting the extrusion die of an extrusion press is shaped to form a planar metal sheet by the contactless action of electromagnetic forces.
US10040105B2
A method of decontaminating soil and ground water containing organic contaminants and metal compounds. It comprises the steps of first treating such soils and ground water with an effective amount an aqueous solution containing a peroxide and a water soluble chelating agent for a time sufficient to have the water soluble chelating agent chelate at least one of the metals of the metal compounds present in the soil and ground water. Next, the chelated metals are brought into contact with the peroxide to catalytically convert the peroxide to an oxidizing agent and hydroxyl ion. The hydroxyl ion converts the halogenated organic compound into environmentally safe, non-toxic compounds. Gases that are produced from this reaction, and from the oxidation of organic compounds, are used to diffuse solution into the soil to chelate calcium and magnesium, thereby causing the sodium to be dislodged from the soil and reduce sodicity in the soil.
US10040096B2
A system of coating a component or part of a vehicle, device, or an apparatus with an abrasive resistant material (ARM) in order to increase the component or part's life cycle. A welding system can be used to deposit ARM between a lead electrode and a trail electrode and also deposit ARM behind the trail electrode. The welding system can also be used to deposit ARM that includes a lead electrode depositing the steel material and a trailing electrode that delivers an alloying material.
US10040094B2
In one example, article comprising a substrate defining an outer surface; a plurality of joint conduits formed in the outer surface of the substrate, wherein each conduit of the plurality of joint conduits exhibits an undercut configuration; and a coating formed on the outer surface of the substrate, wherein the coating substantially fills the plurality of joint conduits formed in the surface of the substrate.
US10040093B2
A paint edging tool that deliver paint with sharp, clear edges at wall junctions. The paint edging tool includes a base wherein the base may include a handle, at least one wheel, a painting pad, a built-in-deflector, and at least one pad ejector. The handle may be configured to allow rotation between multiple positions. The handle may further include an adapter wherein the adapter is configured to be mounted on the handle, thereby allowing a pivoting motion in relation to the wall. The base may include at least one lobe, wherein the lobe is configured to be located on each side of the base, and is further configured to connect with the at least one wheel. The painting pad may be configured to be notched around the at least one deflector and the at least one wheel in order to allow painting inside a corner area of a wall.
US10040090B2
A microfluidic fluid delivery device and method. The device includes a reservoir and a transport member. The device includes a microfluidic delivery member including a microfluidic die configured to release a fluid composition from the device. The microfluidic delivery member includes an adapter configured to receive an end portion of the transport member, wherein a capillary passage is formed between the adapter and the transport member. The capillary passage has a largest effective pore size that is smaller than the average effective pore size of the transport member.
US10040075B2
Separation of hydrophobic particles from a mixture of particles in a fluid is performed by providing a fluidized bed as a relatively non-turbulent contacting mechanism in a flotation cell incorporating a settling chamber located immediately above the fluidized bed. Hydrophobic particles attach to bubbles in the fluidized bed and rise to the interface with the settling chamber where non-hydrophobic particles flow over the lip of an internal launder and are removed as tailings at. The hydrophobic particles attached to bubbles float upwardly in the relatively placid settling chamber where unwanted gangue can fall back to interface. The bubbles form a froth layer at the upper surface of the settling chamber, and flow over the launder lip carrying the hydrophobic particles. An operation of the apparatus is kept stable by recirculating fluid from the settling chamber via pip and pump to mix with new feed entering at duct.
US10040074B2
A microflotation system comprises a flotation tank with a dispersion water feed line in which an expansion valve arrangement is disposed. An adjusting apparatus is configured to adjust a flow rate of the expansion valve arrangement and an electronic control is connected to the adjusting apparatus. A measuring apparatus is disposed downstream from the expansion valve arrangement for detecting a size distribution of gas bubbles and the electronic control is configured to set the flow rate depending on a size distribution detected with the measuring apparatus.
US10040073B2
A method for purifying a substance in a solution in a simple streamlined process using a magnetic porous particle. For easy small scale purification of a substance, the magnetic porous particle is coated with either a hydrophilic or hydrophobic liquid and transferred into a second liquid containing the substance under conditions which allow said substance to partition into the first liquid within said magnetic porous particle. Finally the magnetic porous particle is removed from said second liquid, wherein the first and second liquid are substantially immiscible and the partition coefficient P of the substance between the first and second liquid is greater than 1.
US10040064B1
A centrifuge tube assembly which allows for a single centrifuge cycle and which permits the aspiration of fluids from multiple levels with the centrifuge tube assembly. The centrifuge tube assembly includes a vertically disposed outer containment tube having a closed lower end and an open upper end with the open upper end being closed by a cap. An elongated inner tube extends downwardly through the cap and into the interior of the outer containment tube. A generally cone-shaped disk assembly is slidably mounted on the inner tube to create a chamber above the disk assembly. An O-ring is mounted on the lower end of the disk assembly which is in yieldable engagement with the inner tube. A flapper valve is positioned in the upper end of the disk assembly. The flapper valve has a plurality of slits formed therein.
US10040062B2
A device and method are proved for transferring a target from a first location to a second location. The target is bound to solid phase substrate to form a target bound solid phase substrate. The device includes transfer surface for receiving the target bound solid phase substrate thereon for transfer. The transfer surface movable between a first position wherein the transfer surface is aligned with the first location and spaced therefrom by a distance and a second position wherein the transfer surface is aligned with the second location. An alignment structure aligns the transfer surface with respect to the second location, with the transfer surface in the second position. A force is movable between an attraction position wherein the target bound solid phase substrate are drawn toward the transfer surface and a discharge position wherein the target bound solid phase substrate are free of the force.
US10040060B2
The invention relates to a hollow needle (1) for a sample pipettor in an automated analysis instrument, which sample pipettor is suitable for withdrawing sample liquid from a sealed sample vessel by virtue of the cover or the cap of the sample vessel being pierced by the hollow needle (1). The hollow needle (1) has a substantially straight cylindrical basic shape with a tip (8) for piercing a cover and enables a removal of sample liquid, comparatively less susceptible to errors, from a sample vessel in an automated analysis instrument. In the region of the tip (8) of the hollow needle (1), a number of faces (22, 26, 28, 30) have been introduced in such a way that the radial force components resulting at the respective faces (22, 26, 28, 30) during an axial movement into an elastic material cancel one another.
US10040054B2
A process for the preparation of an F-T catalyst in which the presence of alkaline earth metals is minimized in the support itself and in the processing conditions, in order to provide a catalyst with an alkaline earth metal content of less than 2000 ppm.
US10040042B2
A container comprising a female coupling configured to receive and establish a friction seal with a male coupling of an external device for inserting or extracting a liquid to or from the container after the friction seal is established between the female and male couplings.
US10040038B2
The apparatus (1) is designed to mix at least two ingredients coming from at least two distinct reservoirs (2, 3). It has at least two distinct orifices (6, 7) suitable for being connected to the reservoirs (2, 3), a motor-driven pump (15), a fluid-connection selector (9) including at least one network of through channels (12) suitable for putting at least one of the orifices into communication with the pump (15), the fluid-connection selector (9) being arranged to be movable between a plurality of positions in order to make it possible, selectively and by means of the pump (15), to transfer at least one ingredient from one orifice to the other orifice or towards the pump (15) and to blend the resulting mixture.
US10040032B2
A complex nanofiltration membrane comprising a substrate and a separating layer, wherein the separating layer is an oxidant-treated, crosslinked network structure formed from a hydroxyl-containing polymer, a thiol-containing silane coupling agent and a crosslinking agent, is disclosed. Also disclosed are a process for preparing the complex nanofiltration membrane and use of the complex nanofiltration membrane in water treatment.
US10040010B1
An oil filter retention device comprises a cup and a lid. The cup has an enlarged upper outer rim having an interior threaded portion. The interior wall of the cup also has a plurality of grip enhancing nubs. The lid is fashioned as a curvilinear upper portion and a frustoconical lower portion. A threaded portion circumscribes an exterior side wall the lid at a position between the upper portion and lower portion. The bottom of the lid is open ended. The lid is configured to removably secure to the cup.
US10040007B2
Filtration systems and methods for removing a filter residue from a filter employed in filtering a liquid (for example, grey water). The filtration system may include a vessel having an inlet through which a liquid can be introduced during use and an outlet through which filtered clean liquid can exit. A filter configured to filter the liquid is disposed within the vessel between the inlet and the outlet. The filtration system may further include at least one transducer disposed on or adjacent to the filter. The at least one transducer may be configured to generate one or more pressure waves effective to dislodge at least some residue materials collected on an upstream side of the filter.
US10040004B2
A method for static mixing in a waste water settling tank to increase the percentage of recovery of entrained solids from the waste water comprising a settling tank having a hopper bottom defining a sludge hopper, a deflector dome centrally disposed within the space contained in the hopper bottom, and an inlet pipe for introduction of waste water containing second entrained solids into the settling tank and having a discharge outlet in proximity to the underside of the deflector dome. Influent waste water is directed vertically upward into the center of the deflector dome which distributes the influent radially into contact, preferably turbulent, with previously introduced waste water containing first entrained solids to cause coalescence of the first and second entrained solids to form larger particles having increased settling velocity.
US10039998B2
An anti-thermosensitization rectification tower comprising a rectification tower, a T-shaped condenser, a baffle plate, a tower bottom, a falling-film reboiler and a recirculation system, wherein the T-shaped condenser is secured exactly on the top of the rectification tower without any pipeline in between, and the circular baffle plate is installed in the T-shaped condenser; an annular sump located between the rectification tower and the T-shaped condenser for collecting the liquid condensed in the T-shaped condenser and channeling it out of the rectification tower into a liquid-collecting tank, and a centrifugal pump utilized to connect together the tower bottom and the falling-film reboiler to form a high-speed circulation system, wherein the tower bottom is an elongated conduit and the falling-film reboiler is in the form of a stout shell-and-tube heat exchanger is provided.
US10039996B2
Systems and methods are provided for heating and manipulating a fluid comprising a closed loop heating assembly thermally coupled to a fluid manipulation assembly.
US10039985B2
Provided is a method for controlling a computer and the like that cause players to effectively use possessed game contents in a game, and increase the attractiveness of the game. The computer includes a storage unit that stores one or more game contents possessed by a player and a game content group, the one or more game contents each having a parameter value, the game content group being composed by using at least one of the one or more game contents, and makes a game proceed based on an instruction from a player. The method includes the steps of modifying the parameter value of a common game content in the game content group possessed by the player and being the same type as the one or more game contents other than the game content group, and processing an event by using the game content group whose parameter value is modified.
US10039980B2
A video game processing apparatus is provided for controlling progress of a video game while displaying a player character on a display screen of a display device provided with a touch panel. The video game processing apparatus is provided with a virtual controller information memory for storing virtual controller information on a virtual controller. The display device is caused to display the virtual controller on the display screen on the basis of the virtual controller information. In a case where an operational input to the virtual controller displayed on the display screen is received, the video game processing apparatus updates a shape of the virtual controller on the basis of the virtual controller information, and controls an action of the player character on the basis of the received operational input. The operational input may include a slide operation and a tap operation, for example.
US10039979B2
A system and method for saving at least a portion of a game with the comments that were made by one or more spectators to the user's live gaming session. The saved portion of the gaming session can be played back at a later time. One or more play back viewer's comments can be associated to the recorded gaming session. The associated play back viewer's comments can be associated corresponding in time with a timing reference within the game. The play back viewer's comments can include the play back viewer's identification. All of the comments to the user's game play can be filtered and shared according to a friend list or other sharing protocol.
US10039978B2
A computing system is configured to execute a computer program on a server and to provide a video stream of the program output to a geographically remote client over a communication network. An add-on manager is provided to facilitate the use of add-ons to extend the functionality of the computer program. The add-on manager is responsive to commands received from the client and is configured to associate individual add-ons and add-on data with specific user accounts. The add-ons can be located on the server or some other location remote from the client.
US10039975B2
An immersive play environment providing techniques for generating an imaginary enemy within the environment is disclosed. A tracker device is provided in the play environment for determining a location of a user. A controller device is provided to generate an invisible interactive object (an “imaginary enemy”), to engage the user during gameplay. The controller device generates tracking information indicating a location of the imaginary enemy. The controller device determines the location of the enemy relative to the location of the user and transmits that information to the tracker device. The tracker device can communicate the location of the imaginary enemy to the user for engagement.
US10039958B2
A golf ball includes plural dimples formed on a surface thereof and plural depressed or protruded portions spaced apart from each other and arranged along an outer periphery of at least one of the plural dimples. The plural depressed or protruded portions each has, as a part of a contour thereof, a shape substantially similar to a part of a contour of the dimple surrounded with the plural depressed or protruded portions. The plural depressed or protruded portions each has a length of more than 1/10 and less than ½ of an outer peripheral length of the dimple surrounded with the plural depressed or protruded portions.
US10039955B2
A device for training purposes or recreational activities using structures having a range of properties. The training device may include a board made of wood (or other material such as metal, rubber, plastic, or a combination thereof) and one or more suspension assemblies coupled to the bottom surface of the board. The assembly is adapted to be coupled to a longitudinal or a lateral slot on the board. The slots allow a user to longitudinally and laterally move the assembly without uncoupling it from the board, thereby allowing the user to easily position and re-position the assembly on the board to change the performance of the training device. Each of the assemblies may include an inflatable base having a polygon or circular shape. The base is for providing a cushioning effect when the board impacts the ground after a user performs an aerial maneuver.
US10039946B2
A combined trigger and concealing device for an automatic fire protection sprinkler includes a first plate attached to a second plate by a heat fusible material. Each plate is formed with an aperture which receives an actuator depending from the bottom of the sprinkler. The trigger device depends a preselected distance from the bottom of the sprinkler body and includes a cover which has an outer dimension which conceals the internal components of the sprinkler from view. The cover includes openings and is dimensioned and positioned to permit heat energy to be received by the inner and outer surface of the trigger device. Conduction of heat energy from both the inner and outer surface of the trigger device permits the heat fusible material to be expeditiously raised to the preselected separation temperature. This construction minimizes response time of the sprinkler while maintaining a highly aesthetic appearance.
US10039943B2
An aircraft comprises a fuselage having a compartment, and a fire suppression system for delivering fire suppressant to the compartment. The system includes at least one suppressant concentration sensor located in the compartment, a valve for regulating flow of the fire suppressant to the compartment, and a controller, responsive to the sensor, for controlling the valve to maintain fire suppressant concentration within the compartment at a target concentration.
US10039941B2
This invention offers a fully protective cowl neck garment with various fasteners designed to attach additional protective gear, such as gloves and shoe coverings. Additionally, a temperature sensor shield is located on the hat and protective mask. This allows the clients or patients the ability to see and to monitor the temperature of their caregivers. The caregiver's temperature is visible on the hat, as well as the face mask. This makes the caregivers accountable to their clients or patients, as well as their colleagues and coworkers. This invention eliminates the worry of contact with infectious diseases or dangerous liquids, by utilizing elastic manual ties and hook-and-loop fasteners to ensure the garment is secured fully on a user's body. Overall, this invention ensures medical professionals, firemen, emergency medical personnel, government workers, and so forth, are protected fully from contagious and infectious diseases, liquids, and so forth.
US10039936B2
A control circuit employs at least two optimization stages while developing a radiation-treatment plan. During a first optimization stage the control circuit uses a first radiation-treatment plan optimization process that employs user-selected constraints to provide general plan results. During this first optimization stage the control circuit then provides one or more opportunities for a user to modify those user-selected constraints to thereby influence the general plan results. Eventually, this first optimization stage identifies a set of resultant user-selected constraints. During the second optimization stage the control circuit then uses a second radiation-treatment plan optimization process that employs the aforementioned resultant user-selected constraints to provide an optimized radiation-treatment plan.
US10039934B2
A method for driving an optical device for optical stimulation. In step (1) upon loading a first image pattern associated with light of a first wavelength into an SLM, the SLM is illuminated with light of the first wavelength for a first time period while the light of the second wavelength is off. In step (2) upon loading a second image pattern associated with light of a second wavelength into the SLM, the SLM is illuminated with light of the second wavelength for a second time period while the light of the first wavelength is off. The steps (1) and (2) are iteratively repeated, in that order, until a predetermined stimulation duration is attained. The first time period and the second time period are both shorter than a response time of a specimen (e.g., neuron(s)) that is being optically stimulated.
US10039930B2
Apparatus and methods for managing pain uses separate varying electromagnetic fields, with a variety of temporal and amplitude characteristics, which are applied to a particular neural structure to modulate glial and neuronal interactions as a mechanism for relieving chronic pain. In another embodiment, a single composite modulation/stimulation signal which has rhythmically varying characteristics is used to achieve the same results as separate varying electromagnetic fields. Also, disclosed is an apparatus and method for modulating the expression of genes involved in diverse pathways including inflammatory/immune system mediators, ion channels and neurotransmitters, in both the Spinal Cord (SC) and Dorsal Root Ganglion (DRG) where such expression modulation is caused by spinal cord stimulation or peripheral nerve stimulation using the disclosed apparatus and techniques. In one embodiment of multimodal modulation therapy, the prime signal may be monophasic, or biphasic, in which the polarity of the first phase of the biphasic prime signal may be either cathodic or anodic while the tonic signal may be either monophasic, or biphasic, with the polarity of the first phase of the biphasic tonic signal being either cathodic or anodic.
US10039924B2
Implantable devices and/or sensors can be wirelessly powered by controlling and propagating electromagnetic waves in a patient's tissue. Such implantable devices/sensors can be implanted at target locations in a patient, to stimulate areas such as the heart, brain, spinal cord, or muscle tissue, and/or to sense biological, physiological, chemical attributes of the blood, tissue, and other patient parameters. The propagating electromagnetic waves can be generated with sub-wavelength structures configured to manipulate evanescent fields outside of tissue to generate the propagating waves inside the tissue. Methods of use are also described.
US10039921B2
The invention provides a retinal prosthetic method and device that mimics the responses of the retina to a broad range of stimuli, including natural stimuli. Ganglion cell firing patterns are generated in response to a stimulus using a set of encoders, interfaces, and transducers, where each transducer targets a single cell or a small number of cells. The conversion occurs on the same time scale as that carried out by the normal retina. In addition, aspects of the invention may be used with robotic or other mechanical devices, where processing of visual information is required. The encoders may be adjusted over time with aging or the progression of a disease.
US10039920B1
A method for positioning an intravascular catheter may include inserting the intravascular catheter into a venous system of a patient, wherein the catheter includes a plurality of electrodes, and multiple electrodes of the plurality of electrodes are configured to emit electrical signals; positioning a distal portion of the catheter in a first position; using one or more electrodes of the plurality of electrodes to acquire an ECG signal; based on the acquired ECG signal, adjusting the distal portion of the catheter to a second position different from the first position; identifying at least one first electrode of the plurality of electrodes to stimulate a first nerve; identifying at least one second electrode of the plurality of electrodes to stimulate a second nerve; and stimulating at least one of the first and second nerves to cause a contraction of a respiratory muscle.
US10039918B2
An implantable lead includes a lead body having a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. The lead body includes an insulative member having a lumen extending longitudinally between the proximal end portion and the distal end portion. The lead body also includes a generally tubular helical liner disposed coaxially with the lumen within the insulative member. A pitch of the helical liner varies along the length of the lead. The implantable lead also includes an electrode disposed along the lead body in the distal end portion thereof, and a conductor disposed within the lumen and electrically coupled to the electrode. A terminal connector is coupled to the proximal end portion of the lead body and to the conductor.
US10039917B2
Example adjustable electrodes are described. One example adjustable electrode includes two or more contacts configured to selectively deliver high frequency alternating current (HFAC) to a nerve in an amount sufficient to produce an HFAC nerve conduction block in the nerve. The example adjustable electrode may also include a logic configured to selectively control which of the two or more contacts deliver HFAC to the nerve to control whether the nerve electrode is in a first (e.g., onset response mitigating) configuration or in a second (e.g., HFAC nerve conduction block maintenance) configuration. The electrode may be used in applications including, but not limited to, nerve block applications, and nerve stimulation applications. The electrode may be adjusted by changing attributes including, but not limited to, the number, length, orientation, distance between, surface area, and distance from a nerve of contacts to be used to deliver the HFAC.
US10039914B2
A connector for transferring fluid, the connector may have a first port, a second port, and a third port which may be fluidly coupled together at an internal chamber with a first valve element therein controlling fluid flow through the second port. The connector can have ribs extending along the internal chamber to provide a fluid path around the valve element and between the first port and the internal chamber. The valve element can separate the internal chamber into an air chamber and a liquid chamber, and the third port can be continuously coupled to the liquid chamber regardless of a position of the valve element.
US10039905B1
Disclosed are cardiac shunts and method of delivery, and in particular, to a shunt to reduce elevated left atrial pressure (LAP). The methods include forming a puncture hole between the left atrium and the coronary sinus, widening the puncture hole, and placing an expandable shunt within the widened puncture hole. A first catheter having a side-extending needle may be used to form a puncture into the left atrium. A second catheter extends along a guidewire and an expandable shunt with distal and proximal flanges is expelled therefrom into the puncture. The shunt defines a blood flow passage therethrough that permits shunting of blood from the left atrium to the coronary sinus when the LAP is elevated. The shunt is desirable formed of a super-elastic material and manipulated with control rods. The shunt defines a tilted flow tube that facilitates collapse into the catheter.
US10039901B2
Method and apparatus for treatment of hypertension through percutaneous ultrasound renal denervation
Apparatus and methods for deactivating renal nerves extending along a renal artery of a mammalian subject to treat hypertension and related conditions. An ultrasonic transducer (30) is inserted into the renal artery (10) as, for example, by advancing the distal end of a catheter (18) bearing the transducer into the renal artery. The ultrasonic transducer emits unfocused ultrasound so as to heat tissues throughout a relatively large impact volume (11) as, for example, at least about 0.5 cm3 encompassing the renal artery to a temperature sufficient to inactivate nerve conduction but insufficient to cause rapid ablation or necrosis of the tissues. The treatment can be performed without locating or focusing on individual renal nerves.
US10039899B2
A catheter includes an elongate body having a proximal portion and a distal portion, and a tip having a proximal portion coupled to a distal portion of the elongate body along a longitudinal axis of the elongate body. The elongate body and tip together define a first lumen and a second lumen. The elongate body further defines a third lumen extending distally to a body opening defined by the elongate body and in fluid communication with the third lumen. A cross-sectional area, orthogonal to the longitudinal axis, of at least one of the first and second lumens increases from a point proximal to the body opening to a point distal to the body opening.
US10039898B2
A catheter sheath introducer comprises a hub and a tubular sheath having an inner lining with one or more dampers to improve retention of medical devices received or passed through the sheath without significantly increasing the force required to advance the medical device through the sheath. The dampers are made of a friction inducing material, for example, rubber-based materials, and configured as fingers, bumps or flaps that are unidirectional by means of an asymmetrical shape relative to a longitudinal axis of the sheath.
US10039897B2
In various examples, an apparatus includes a tray including a channel configured to hold a therapy delivery element at least partially within the channel. A retention clip is sized and shaped to fit within a portion of the channel. The retention clip is configured to releasably retain the therapy delivery element within the retention clip.
US10039896B2
An aspect of some embodiments of the invention relates to a microcatheter comprising a deployment element disposed about around at least a portion of an exterior of a distal end of the microcatheter, the deployment element configured for repeatedly expanding and collapsing, the distal end arranged to allow forward or reverse axial displacement while the deployment element maintains a position, the deployment element arranged for positioning the microcatheter distal end approximately in the middle of a vessel. A method of traversing tortuous vessels using the microcatheter, in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the invention, is also described.
US10039894B2
An interface and headgear assembly includes a headgear assembly. The headgear assembly has a first strap configured to connect to the interface. A crown strap can be adjusted along a length of the first strap. In some configurations, the crown strap has a first portion and a second portion that are adjustably connected. The crown strap can be removably connected to the first strap using bridge regions of the first portion and the second portion.
US10039892B2
Disclosed is a mask-free system and method for inducing anesthesia in a pediatric patient. In a preferred embodiment, calming and then anesthetic gases are administered through a mouthpiece with a distraction device, such as an inflatable bag or balloon or an audible siren whistle. This system avoids the anxieties and trauma of the pediatric patient and their parents that have been associated with mask-based induction methods.
US10039879B2
Described herein are medical fluid infusion systems for pumping a fluid to a patient, such as in a hospital environment. In one aspect, disclosed is an infusion system including a drive assembly having a drive fluid reservoir and a drive mechanism configured to apply a force to drive fluid from the drive fluid reservoir through a length of tubing. The infusion system includes a hydraulic assembly having a first fluid chamber having an inlet port configured to be in fluid communication with the length of tubing and a second fluid chamber having an outlet port configured to be in fluid communication with a patient extension set and a flexible movable divider sealing the first fluid chamber from the second fluid chamber. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US10039873B2
A circulatory support device for an in-vivo heard includes a pump-holder that is placed in an outflow tract of the heart. The pump-holder includes an anchor that is placed in the subcommissural triangles underneath the aortic valve or the pulmonary valve of the heart in a blood flow direction. The device also includes a pump that is placed in the pump-holder. The pump may be placed in the pump holder after the pump-holder is placed in the subcommissural triangles. Once in place, the circulatory support device does not extend through the aortic valve or the pulmonary valve.
US10039869B2
A portable suction device comprising: a gas inlet for receiving pressurized gas from an enclosed source; a gas flow path that extends from the gas inlet to an exhaust; a suction generator that has a suction inlet, the gas flow path extending through the suction generator, such that gas flow through the flow path generates a low pressure at the suction inlet; a collection container with a collection inlet and an outlet that is coupled to the suction inlet; a suction tube that has proximal and distal ends, the proximal end being connected to the collection inlet of the collection container; a valve for controlling gas flow through the flow path, the valve having a stem that is configured to pierce the source with movement of the valve from a closed position.
US10039864B2
The invention features oligofluorinated cross-linked polymers and their use in the manufacture of articles and coating surfaces.
US10039858B2
Provided herein are biodegradable poly(ester amide) elastomers, methods of making the elastomers, and methods of using the elastomers, for example for tissue engineering. The elastomers can be used for preparation of tissue prostheses, such as a heart valve leaflet, a heart valve, cartilage, myocardium, blood vessels, smooth muscle, skeletal muscle, or other tissues. Also provided herein are semiquantitative FTIR methods for determining structure of a poly(ester amide) elastomer.
US10039855B2
Embodiments of the disclosure include elastomeric stretch fibers containing an anti-tack agent, methods of preparing the fiber, methods of using this fiber, articles including this fiber, and the like.
US10039833B2
Drug delivery systems and compositions, comprising a glidant, that increase the bioavailability of biopharmaceutic class II, III, or IV active agents, and methods of making the same, are provided.
US10039831B2
Compositions and methods are described for a polymer hydrogel created by a cycloaddition reaction between an azide and an alkyne that proceeds rapidly without catalyst to produce the polymer hydrogel in less than ninety seconds. The polymer hydrogel can be used in in vivo applications for the localized delivery of therapeutic agent in aqueous solutions. An example of therapeutic delivery of a protein in a mouse model is demonstrated.
US10039829B2
The disclosure provides nanoparticles of indirubin and methods of making and using these particles for the treatment of cancer, neurodegenerative disorders and inflammatory diseases. The effective average particle size of the nanoparticles is less than 2000 nm.
US10039825B2
The invention provides methods for treating a malignant neoplastic cell proliferative disorder or disease, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of an mTOR inhibitor and an effective amount of a CD4 lymphocyte depleting agent. Such methods find utility in the treatment of certain subsets of malignant neoplastic cell proliferative disorders or diseases, e.g. renal cell carcinoma and melanoma. The invention also provides for pharmaceutical compositions comprising a therapeutically effective amount of an mTOR inhibitor and an effective amount of a CD4 lymphocyte depleting agent in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
US10039822B2
Disclosed are synthetic nanocarrier compositions that provide controlled release of immunosuppressants as well as related methods. The synthetic nanocarrier compositions may also include antigen in some embodiments.
US10039819B2
The present invention provides attenuated M haemolitica strains that elicit an immune response in animal against M haemolitica, compositions comprising said strains, methods of vaccination against M haemolitica, and kits for use with such methods and compositions. The invention further provides multi-valent vaccines, which provide protective immunity when administered in an effective amount to animals susceptible to “shipping fever” or bovine respiratory disease.
US10039810B2
Embodiments of the invention provide shaped masses comprising one or more drugs such as proteins or polypeptides and methods for forming such shaped masses. One embodiment provides a shaped mass comprising a drug such as a protein or polypeptide having a biological activity in the body of a mammal. The shaped mass is formed by compression of a precursor material comprising the drug wherein an amount of biologically active drug in the mass is a preserved above a minimum level. Drugs which may be incorporated into the shaped mass may include one or more glucose regulating proteins such as insulin, incretins; and immunoglobulins such as TNF-inhibiting antibodies or interleukin neutralizing antibodies. Embodiments of the shaped mass may be incorporated into a tissue penetrating member which is inserted into the intestinal wall allowing for the oral delivery of proteins and peptides which would otherwise be degraded in the intestinal tract.
US10039801B2
The present invention provides compositions comprising water soluble peptides with poor solubility in isotonic solutions which exhibit enhanced bioavailability with reduced adverse effects including injection site reactions. Methods are also disclosed for using such compositions for the treatment of diseases including, but not limited to, cancer, type 2 diabetes, acromegaly, metabolic disorders, endocrine disorders, exocrine tumors, and hormone-related tumors. Methods to reduce adverse injection site reactions and improve bioavailability are also disclosed.
US10039796B2
The present invention is directed to the composition and use of a modified Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 (HSV-2) as a medicament in the treatment of cancer. The modified HSV-2 has fusogenic activity, and comprises a modified/mutated ICP10 polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having ribonucleotide reductase activity and lacking protein kinase activity.
US10039795B2
Composition and methods for the detection of one or more target microbe(s) are provided. Compositions of the disclosure include at least one recombinant phage capable of infecting a target microbe, said phage comprising at least a capsid protein sequence, a ribosome binding site, and a codon-optimized marker. Compositions of the disclosure may further include an aqueous solution that enhances the ability to detect marker expression upon phage infection of the target microbe. In some embodiments the target microbe include is Listeria.
US10039791B2
Epidermis equivalents capable of pigmentation include cells derived from the differentiation of matrix cells; reconstructed skins comprised thereof, optionally containing hair follicles, are useful for evaluating the effect of topical cosmetic, pharmaceutical or dermatological products and may also be used for the preparation of grafts suited to be transplanted on mammals, more particularly on human patients such as victims of third-degree burns.
US10039789B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for cell transplantation. In particular, the present invention provides a composition comprising procoagulant cells and at least one antithrombin activator, preferably unfractionated heparin, as well as at least one thrombin inhibitor, preferably bivalirudin.
US10039782B2
A system and method includes delivery of a redox gas solution to treat onychomycosis, wherein the redox gas solution comprises a reactive species dissolved in a perfluorocarbon liquid, and wherein the reactive species may include, alone or in combination, one or more of reactive oxygen, reactive nitrogen, reactive chlorine, or reactive bromine species, and the perfluorocarbon liquid may include perfluorodecalin.
US10039778B2
Compounds of Formula (A) are described herein and the uses thereof for the treatment of diseases, conditions and/or disorders mediated by pharmaceutical compositions and the uses thereof as asialoglycoprotein receptor (ASGPR) targeting agents.
US10039774B2
Osteoclast inhibitors, such as neridronic 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.
US10039772B2
Disclosed are methods and compositions for treating alcohol dependence by administration to a patient of an inhibitor of 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases (11β-HSD) to modulate glucocorticoid effects. One such compound is the 11β-HSD inhibitor carbenoxolone (18β-glycyrrhetinic acid 3β-O-hemisuccinate), which has been extensively employed in the clinic for the treatment of gastritis and peptic ulcer. Carbenoxolone is active on both 11β-HSD1 and 2 isoforms. Here, carbenoxolone is surprisingly shown to reduce both baseline and excessive drinking in rats and mice. The carbenoxolone diastereomer 18α-glycyrrhetinic acid 3β-O-hemisuccinate (αCBX), which the applicants discovered to be selective for 11β-HSD2, was also effective in reducing alcohol drinking in mice. Thus, 11β-HSD inhibitors are a new class of candidate alcohol abuse medications and existing 11β-HSD inhibitor drugs may be re-purposed for alcohol abuse treatment.
US10039770B2
A method of treating atrophic cutaneous scarring in humans is claimed. The method involves the topical application of a therapeutic amount of prostaglandin F2-alpha (PGF 2α) or a PGF 2α analog directly to the area of atrophic scarring.
US10039766B2
The present invention discloses certain new solid state forms of (S)-4-amino-N-(1-(4-chlorophenyl)-3-hydroxypropyl)-1-(7H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-yl)piperidine-4-carboxamide, processes for preparing such forms, pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and the use of such forms in therapy.
US10039761B2
The present invention relates to compositions and co-crystals each comprising a compound of formula I having the structure: wherein each of R1 and R2 is H or 2H and a co-crystal former selected from adipic acid, citric acid, fumaric acid, maleic acid, succinic acid, or benzoic acid. Also within the scope of this invention are methods of making and using the same.
US10039758B2
Compositions and methods including Amodiaquine (AQ) or N-Desethy Amodiaquine (DEAQ) are provided for treating, inhibiting, or preventing cathepsin B dependent pathogens and toxins in a host cell or infected subject. Compositions and methods also include AQ or DEAQ in combination with an antibiotic for more effective clearance of the pathogen and/or toxins.
US10039757B2
Pharmaceutical compositions and unit dosage forms comprising Compound I are disclosed.
US10039754B2
Compounds effective in inhibiting replication of Hepatitis C virus (“HCV”) are described. This invention also relates to processes of making such compounds, compositions comprising such compounds, and methods of using such compounds to treat HCV infection.
US10039747B2
The present invention provides tetrahydrocyclopentapyrrole derivatives that can be used for preventing or treating peptic ulcer, gastritis or reflux esophagitis, a method for preparing the same, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the same.
US10039746B2
The invention provides novel, multiply-substituted 1-aryl-3-azabicyclo[3.1.0]hexanes, and related processes and intermediates for preparing these compounds, as well as compositions and methods employing these compounds for the treatment and/or prevention of central nervous system (CNS) disorders, including depression and anxiety.
US10039740B2
Provided is a pharmaceutical formulation and a method associated therewith for treating inflammation. The pharmaceutical formulation includes therapeutically effective amounts of sesquiterpenes such as β-caryophyllene and two flavonoids. The two flavonoids include baicalin and catechin.
US10039733B2
Compositions, methods, and kits useful for treating pulmonary conditions are provided herein. Such compositions can contain synergizing amounts of a non-specific phosphodiesterase inhibitor, such as a methylxanthine, in combination with leucine and/or a leucine metabolite, and resveratrol.
US10039731B2
A method of treating cancer is disclosed comprising administering to a patient in need of such treatment a RXR agonist at a level below the RAR activating threshold and at or above the RXR effective dose.
US10039729B2
The use of Kukoamine A and Kukoamine B in the preparation of drugs for the prevention and treatment of sepsis and autoimmune disease is disclosed. Bacterial endotoxin/lipopolysaccaride (LPS) and unmethylated DNA (CpG DNA) of bacteria, the major pathogen-associated molecular patterns in sepsis and autoimmune disease, are specifically targeted, while the disclosed use directionally isolates lead compounds from traditional Chinese medicine. These measures can overcome the major defects of uncertainty of pharmacological material basis and drug targets of extracts and constituents of traditional Chinese medicine. The disclosed use can help in developing a safe, effective and quality controllable drug for prevention and treatment of sepsis and autoimmune disease so as to help solve the present lack of effective drugs in clinical treatment.
US10039727B2
The present invention relates to a method for treating a Chlamydiales infection comprising the administration of a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula (I) to a subject in need thereof: W-L1-NH-L2-Ar (I) Wherein W, L1, L2 and Ar are as defined in claim 1.
US10039714B2
The invention concerns lipid assemblies, liposomes having an outer surface comprising a mixture of anionic and cationic moieties; wherein at least a portion of the cationic moieties are imino moieties that are essentially charged under physiological conditions, and their use for serum resistant transfection of cells.
US10039712B2
The present invention is drawn to a pharmaceutical composition comprising racecadotril, at least one surfactant and a lipid. The pharmaceutical composition is useful in treating diarrhea.
US10039703B2
The invention relates to a composition comprising 0.01% to 15% resveratrol and 0.01% to 15% of melatonin. In a preferred embodiment, the composition comprises 5% resveratrol and 0.1% melatonin. The invention also relates to the use of the said composition to reduce hair loss and/or increase regrowth of hair in a human subject.
US10039694B2
A vial holder is provided to protect a user's hand from needle sticks. The holder includes a handle and a shield attached to a distal end of the handle. An opening is formed in the distal end of the handle to receive a vial. The vial is placed through the opening and into a passageway of the handle with the upper end of the vial exposed. A user grasps the handle which holds the vial in a stabilized manner. A needle may then safely approach the vial in which inadvertent slippage or movement of the needle results in contact with the needle against the shield and not contact with the user's hand.
US10039693B1
An acupressure apparatus including a manually adjustable head strap, with a flexible material, extending around the circumference of a user's head, and which can be manually adjusted using any of the following: a hook segment; a loop segment; a button; a buttonhole; a snap; and a snap receptacle. The acupressure apparatus includes a rigid protrusion with a rigid material formed into an essentially domed shape. The protrusion can be affixed to a point of the head strap such that the dome faces the user's glabella. When the user manually adjusts the length of the head strap, the rigid protrusion applies pressure on the user's glabella.
US10039688B1
A walker glide is provided. The walker glide has a base configured to support the walker and glide along a floor or other surface that the walker is being used on. A shaft extends from the base and comprises the attaching structure to connect the glide to a leg of the walker. The shaft includes two fingers which extend into the leg of the walker and are flexible towards each other. A protrusion extends from outer faces of each finger. The protrusion is configured to mate with an aperture in each side of the leg, thereby removably securing the glide in place.
US10039686B2
This invention provides neck traction devices wherein a resilient folded biasing body provides a traction force between a shoulder contacting side of the fold and paired head contacting regions. In use, a neck traction is developed when the folded device is applied to a patient with the respective shoulder and head regions contacting the patient's shoulder and head.
US10039679B2
This disclosure provides operating units for a medical apparatus having a driven movable element comprising a fixing device for being fixed to the movable element, an actuating element, a signal processing device, at least one actuation sensor for detecting an actuation of the actuating element in at least one predetermined actuation axis (B1−−B1+, B2−−B2+), wherein the actuation sensor is adapted to supply an actuation signal depending on a direction of actuation (B1−, B1+, B2−, B2+) in the actuation axis (B1−−B1+, B2−−B2+) to the signal processing device and at least one direction sensor for outputting a direction signal. The signal processing device is adapted to align an actuation coordinate system according to the direction signal such that the direction of movement is equal to the direction of actuation (B1−−B1+, B2−−B2+), and to supply a control signal according to the actuation signal in the aligned actuation coordinate system to a control device of the medical apparatus.
US10039675B1
A retaining device for retaining a small-sized detective sensor includes a flexible rubber body. The flexible rubber body includes a first retaining portion, a first connecting portion, a main body portion, a second connecting portion, and a second retaining portion which are connected in sequence. An inner side of the first retaining portion and an inner side of the second retaining portion are provided with primary Velcro retaining straps. An inner side of the main body portion is formed with a recess for installing the small-sized detective sensor.
US10039664B2
A method of manufacturing an orthopedic walking boot, comprising providing a base configured to support a user's foot and receive a support assembly configured to support the user's lower leg; and overmolding an outer sole to the base.
US10039660B2
A medical device includes a vessel member, a port that couples a compartment interior of the vessel member to a region exterior of the vessel member, and a tubular member that defines a lumen. A distal end of the tubular member is attached to an internal surface of the vessel member within the compartment so that a portion of the internal surface of the vessel member provides a seal at a distal end of the lumen. The tubular member passes through the port, and the proximal end of the tubular member is configured to remain exterior of the compartment. A delivery of a sufficient amount of a filling material into the lumen of the tubular member causes a length of the tubular member to pass through the port and into the vessel compartment.
US10039656B2
A scaffold is formed by several segments joined or connected to each other by only at least one coupling. The coupling decouples the segments in the axial direction over a finite distance of axial displacement. The scaffold when implanted in a peripheral vessel reduces loading on rings of a segment due to the decoupling of the segments in the axial direction over the finite distance.
US10039650B2
An expandable fusion cage system includes an expandable fusion cage having an upper portion, a lower portion, and a hinge portion coupling the lower portion and the upper portion at their distal ends. Positioned between the upper and lower portions is an expansion element that when moved in the proximal direction causes the cage to expand at its proximal end. The system can also include inserter instruments, expandable distraction instruments, and bone funnels.
US10039649B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide a distal leading portion of a composite spinal implant for implantation in a spinal facet joint. In one implementation, the distal leading portion includes a distal leading end, a proximal trailing end, a first face, and a second face. The distal leading end has a distal surface generally opposite a proximal surface of the proximal trailing end. The first face has a first surface that is generally parallel with a second surface of the second face. The first and second faces extend between the distal leading end and the proximal trailing end, such that the first and second surfaces slope upwardly from the distal lead end to the proximal trailing end along a length of extending proximally. The first and second surfaces having one or more textured features adapted to provide friction with the spinal facet joint.
US10039646B2
In one embodiment, the present invention is a laminal implant including: a first body including a first flange adapted to engage a first lamina end, a tab and a receiving channel; and a second body including a second flange adapted to engage a second lamina end, and a plurality of teeth adapted to engage the tab, at least a portion of the second body adapted to be positioned within the receiving channel, the first and second bodies adapted to slideably engage one another.
US10039643B2
A method is provided that includes implanting (a) a first venous tissue anchor in a superior vena cava, an inferior vena cava, or a coronary sinus, (b) exactly two atrial tissue anchors, which consist of second and third atrial tissue anchors, at respective different atrial sites, each of which sites is selected from: an annulus of a tricuspid valve, and a wall of a right atrium of a heart above the annulus, and (c) a pulley system, which includes (i) a pulley, which is connected to the second atrial tissue anchor, and (ii) a tether, which (A) is connected to the first venous tissue anchor and the third atrial tissue anchor, (B) is moveable through the pulley, and (C) has a length, measured between the first venous and the third atrial tissue anchors, of at least 30 mm. A size of a tricuspid orifice is reduced by tensioning the tether.
US10039642B2
An assembly for collapsing a self-expanding prosthetic heart valve includes a compression member, a support member and a constricting member. The compression member has a tapered wall between its first open end and its second open end, the tapered wall defining an open space adapted to receive the valve. The support member has a base and a recess adapted to receive an end of the valve. The support member and the compression member are movable toward one another to compress the valve and push it through a relatively small aperture in the second open end of the compression member. The second end of the constricting member is sized to receive the compressed valve from the second open end of the compression member for loading into a delivery device.
US10039640B2
The invention relates to a prosthetic valve comprising a leaflet assembly having at least one leaflet (3) attached to a supporting element (2), which leaflet has a free margin that can move between a first position wherein the free margin is flexed away from a closure surface (700) to allow body fluid to flow through the valve, and a second position wherein the free margin abuts the closure surface to close the valve, and wherein the leaflet, without pulsatile load on the valve, can form a coaptation height H of more than 0.1 mm along the length of the free margin. Such prosthetic valve provides good performance during prolonged time, and can be made using various materials for the leaflets. The invention also relates to a leaflet assembly for use in a prosthetic valve, and to methods of making the prosthetic valve, including making the leaflet assembly.
US10039629B2
Described are various embodiments of surgical procedures, systems, implants, devices, tools, and methods, useful for treating pelvic conditions in a male or female, the pelvic conditions including incontinence (various forms such as fecal incontinence, stress urinary incontinence, urge incontinence, mixed incontinence, etc.), vaginal prolapse (including various forms such as enterocele, cystocele, rectocele, apical or vault prolapse, uterine descent, etc.), and other conditions caused by muscle and ligament weakness, the devices and tools including devices and tools for anchoring an implant to supportive tissue and adjusting the implant.
US10039621B2
A fluted osteotome is rotated in one direction to enlarge an osteotomy by burnishing, and by cutting/drilling when turned in an opposite direction. A conic-ally tapered body has an apical end with lips. The lips are set to grind bone when rotated in the burnishing direction and cut bone when toned in the cutting/drilling direction. Helical flutes and interposed lands are disposed about the body. The flutes each have a working edge that burnishes bone when rotated in the burnishing direction and cuts bone when turned in the cutting/drilling direction. The lips and lands generate an opposing axial reaction force that improves surgical control. The osteotome auto-grafts bone by reapplying ground particles in a compacted manner along the entire depth of the osteotomy, particularly at the bottom.
US10039616B2
An orthodontic bracket consisting of two-components that are engaged and locked together to form the bracket assembly where the tooth component of the orthodontic bracket is semi-permanently glued to the tooth surface and the wire component of the orthodontic bracket is securely attached to the wire. When the wire component and the tooth component of the bracket assembly are engaged, the orthodontic wire that passes through the wire component of the bracket is deflected as a result; the alignment of the teeth occurs due to the elastic recoil of the orthodontic wire. The wire component of the bracket is completely detachable and re-attachable to the tooth component of the bracket.
US10039615B2
A method for planning a root canal treatment of a tooth which includes a cavity of a patient. The method includes measuring a surface of the cavity with an optical three-dimensional method to generate three-dimensional measurement data of the cavity. A 3D-model of a guide template is planned based on the generated three-dimensional measurement data. The 3-D model is designed in its dimensions as a counterpart to the cavity. Three-dimensional volume data of the tooth is displayed. A position and an orientation of a root canal of the tooth is determined based on the three-dimensional volume data of the tooth. A guide opening for a tool is planned to expose the root canal. The guide opening is arranged within the guide template so that the guide opening points at an entry point of the root canal and in an entry direction of the root canal.
US10039613B2
The position of an imaging device can be determined at least in part with a movement portion of the imaging device. The imaging device can be moved relative to the patient to obtain image data of the patient at different perspectives or angles. The image data obtained of the patient can be displayed with a display device at various perspectives and a tracked position of the instrument can be displayed at the appropriate perspective or a selected perspective relative to the image data with the display device based upon a known position of the imaging device.
US10039607B2
A reference foil comprises an unsymmetric marker foil device which advantageously includes spatially separated pieces of a marker material foil in unsymmetric arrangement and/or at least one unsymmetric integral piece of the marker material foil. The reference foil and a carrier device for the same may be used for example in image-guided surgery.
US10039602B2
An electrosurgical energy channel splitter apparatus includes a channel input a plurality of channel outputs, and a controller. The channel input is configured to receive electrosurgical energy from an electrosurgical energy source. Each channel output is configured to couple to a respective electrosurgical device. The controller is coupled to the channel input and the plurality of channel outputs. The controller is configured to selectively direct the electrosurgical energy from the channel input to one of the plurality of channel outputs.
US10039600B2
An apparatus and method is provided for skin treatment. An apparatus includes an applicator assembly that includes an applicator tip which is configured to apply a normal cyclical mechanical force to a skin surface area of a user and to deliver a skin formulation to a skin surface area of a user. The apparatus further includes an electromagnetic energy assembly that includes at least one electromagnetic energy source adjacent to or within the applicator assembly and is configured to deliver pulses of electromagnetic energy stimulus of a character and for a duration sufficient to penetrate one or more dermal layers within the skin surface area of a use.
US10039592B2
A surgical instrument includes a housing, an energizable member, and a deployment mechanism. The energizable member is movable relative to the housing between a storage position and a deployed position. The deployment mechanism includes a first actuator member movable relative to the housing from a first un-actuated position to a first actuated position to move the energizable member from the storage position to the deployed position and a second actuator member movable relative to the housing from a second un-actuated position to a second actuated position to move the energizable member from the deployed position to the storage position. Movement of the first actuator member from the first un-actuated position to the first actuated position effects movement of the second actuator member from the second actuated position to the second un-actuated position and vice versa.
US10039589B2
A surgical device employs a longevity circuit for preventing operation after a specified time based on safe use expectations. The surgical device delivers a therapy signal via a handpiece having electrodes in proximity to the surgical site. The therapy signal is a high frequency electrical signal delivered from a generator coupled to the handpiece, and activated by a control signal. A therapy circuit established by coupling the handpiece and generator delivers the therapy signal, and is monitored for activation based on a time since a first activation, a number of activations, or an aggregate time of activated intervals. A usage limit defines the activation lifespan, and is employed for monitoring either the therapy circuit or the control circuit, to determine a usage history. Following expiration of a safe usage limit, a longevity circuit in the handpiece disables the handpiece for successive uses, and is independent of a connection to a particular generator.
US10039586B2
The present disclosure relates to a thermal ablation probe device that integrates deployable sensors with a freezing probe or heating probe for use in ablating tissues. The ablation probe includes a longitudinal body including a thermal ablation energy source which may be, e.g., a cryosource or a heat source. The longitudinal body has a proximal end and a distal end terminating at a probe tip; and at least one deployable assembly disposed within the longitudinal body. The deployable assembly includes a flexible and substantially rigid deployment member, and at least one sensor affixed to a distal end of the deployment member. The ablation probe further includes a control mechanism for controlling deployment and retraction of the deployable assembly.
US10039585B2
A method of treating a vertebra, comprising: (a) accessing an interior of a vertebra; and (b) introducing a sufficient amount of artificial biocompatible material which does not set to a hardened condition in storage, into said bone, with sufficient force to move apart fractured portions of said bone.
US10039582B2
An intramedullary nail includes a body sized and shaped for insertion into a medullary canal of a bone and extending along a longitudinal axis from a proximal end to a distal end and a channel extending through the body along the longitudinal axis in combination with a locking hole extending laterally through the body along a central axis and in communication with the channel, the locking hole defined by a first opening extending through a first portion of a wall of the nail and a second opening extending through a second portion of the wall substantially opposing the first portion, the first opening being elongated in a lateral direction relative to the longitudinal axis of the nail and the second opening including a coupling element configured to lock a portion of a bone fixation element therein.
US10039578B2
Minimally invasive methods and devices for introducing a spinal fixation element into a surgical site in a patient's spinal column are provided. In general, the method involves advancing a spinal fixation element in a first, lengthwise orientation along a pathway extending from a minimally invasive percutaneous incision to a spinal anchor site. As the spinal fixation element approaches the spinal anchor site, the fixation element can be manipulated to extend in a second orientation, which is preferably substantially transverse to the first orientation, to position the fixation element in relation to one or more spinal anchors.
US10039576B2
Devices, systems and methods for dynamically stabilizing the spine are provided. The devices include an expandable spacer having an undeployed configuration and a deployed configuration, wherein the spacer has axial and radial dimensions for positioning between the spinous processes of adjacent vertebrae. The systems include one or more spacers and a mechanical actuation means for delivering and deploying the spacer. The methods involve the implantation of one or more spacers within the interspinous space.
US10039567B2
A combination (2290) of an annular rotary knife blade (2300) and blade housing assembly (2400) for a power operated dermatome (2000). The rotary knife blade includes an inner wall (2310) defining an interior region (2301) and including a lower tissue-directing surface (2370) adjacent a cutting edge (2360) and a radially recessed upper portion (2380). The blade housing assembly includes a blade housing (2410) having a first end (2412) and an axially spaced apart second end (2414) and an inner wall (2416) and a radially spaced apart outer wall (2418). The blade housing includes a blade housing cover (2450) extending from the inner wall into the blade interior region. The blade housing cover includes a shield (2470) extending along the recessed upper portion of the rotary knife blade inner wall and having an inner surface (2472) adjacent and continuing the lower tissue-directing surface of the rotary knife blade inner wall.
US10039565B2
Membrane forceps for performing an ILM or ERM peel procedure include a handle, a tube extending from the handle, and forceps jaws extending from the tube. The forceps jaws may be configured to grasp an ILM or ERM, and may include an outer surface having a roughened surface. The roughened surface may be structurally configured to aid in gaining an edge of the ILM or ERM.
US10039564B2
Surgical devices are provided having power-assisted or fully powered jaw closure. The devices herein generally include a handle portion, an elongate shaft, and an effector having first and second jaws configured to engage tissue. A motor and one or more compression springs can be operatively coupled, and activation of the motor can compress the spring(s) to reduce the amount of user supplied force to compress tissue between the jaws. In some embodiments, the devices can be configured to regulate an amount of compression applied by the jaws prior to, during, and/or after cutting of the tissue to promote hemostasis. For example, the devices can include sensors, processors, and/or other components that analyze data indicative of tissue type and tissue load. Based on this feedback, the device can automatically adjust the amount of compression or energy applied to the tissue to seal the tissue.
US10039563B2
A suturer may include a base mechanism. The base mechanism may include a first arm having a first driving member. The base mechanism may include a second arm having a second driving member. The suturer may be configured to selectively pass a needle from an enclosed position within the first arm to an enclosed position within the second arm.
US10039558B2
A method and system for performing a total joint arthroplasty procedure on a patient's damaged bone region. A CT image or other suitable image is formed of the damaged bone surfaces, and location coordinate values (xn,yn,zn) are determined for a selected sequence of bone surface locations using the CT image data. A mathematical model z=f(x,y) of a surface that accurately matches the bone surface coordinates at the selected bone splice locations, or matches surface normal vector components at selected bone surface locations, is determined. The model provides a production file from which a cutting jig and an implant device (optional), each patient-specific and having controllable alignment, are fabricated for the damaged bone by automated processing. At this point, the patient is cut open (once), the cutting jig and a cutting instrument are used to remove a selected portion of the bone and to provide an exposed planar surface, the implant device is optionally secured to and aligned with the remainder of the bone, and the patient's incision is promptly repaired.
US10039557B2
A system for establishing an intramedullary path includes a body sized and configured to be received within a resected bone space. The body defines a first aperture that extends through the body and is sized and configured to receive a surgical tool therethrough. A first bone engaging structure extends from the body in a first direction and includes a first surface that is complementary to a surface topography of a first bone. When the first surface of the bone engaging structure engages the surface topography of the first bone to which the first surface is complementary, an axis defined by the first aperture is substantially collinear with a mechanical axis of the first bone.
US10039545B2
A tool assembly for a surgical stapling instrument includes anvil and cartridge assemblies movable between open and closed positions. The cartridge assembly includes a cartridge body defining a tissue contact surface and rows of staples. The cartridge body defines a first firing channel associated with a first row of staples and a second firing channel associated with a second row of staples. A firing cam is positioned within the first firing channel and translates therethrough during a first axial translation to fire the first row of staples. The first firing cam is biased to move into the second firing channel upon retraction after the first axial translation such that the first firing cam translates through the second firing channel upon a second axial translation to fire the second row of staples.
US10039544B2
A fastener for attaching a sheet-like implant to tissue or bone. The fastener includes a first arm having a proximal end and a distal end, a second arm having a proximal end and a distal end, and a bridge extending therebetween. Each of the first and second arms include a trunk portion defining at least a portion thereof, the trunk portion having a cavity therein and an aperture through a wall thereof. A claw is disposed in the cavity which is moveable from a first delivery position to a second deployed position. A pull member engages each claw to move the claw from the delivery position to the deployed position.
US10039541B2
The present invention is a retractor for displacing an organ within the body cavity or the inner wall of a hollow organ, the retractor being provided with: a housing tube; an expansion body which can be housed into and extend from the housing tube; and a grip connected to the proximal ends of the housing tube and the expansion body. The expansion body is provided with: a displacing part configured from a movable wire and multiple fixed wires disposed in the periphery of the moveable wire; and an introduction tube which is disposed along the displacing part and through which the movable wire penetrates. Moreover, when the expansion body is expanded, the displacement part is designed so that, from among the expansion angles formed by two adjacent fixed wires, one expansion angle (θ2) becomes larger than the other expansion angle (θ1).
US10039539B2
A surgical retractor for retracting body tissue in a therapeutic procedure includes two lateral arms each having a block with an aperture extending transverse to a longitudinal axis of the arm. The distal end of each arm pivotably supports a retractor blade. A transverse extension, forming a retractor core, extends through the aperture and slideably supports a lateral arm at each end. A central arm also pivotably supports a retractor blade, and has an extension on a proximal end that is insertable into an aperture within the core. The lateral and central arms are translatable in connection with the core. The retractor blades can be pivoted by rotating a tool engagement. A rack and pinion, controlled by a pawl, is used to translate the side and central arms.
US10039534B2
Embodiments are described for closing vascular access ports, such as arteriotomies, which involve placement and deployment of an expandable device configured to prevent blood flow across a subject arteriotomy while also keeping disturbance of intravascular flow to a minimum. Suitable prostheses may comprise one or more frames constructed from lengths of flexible materials, such as shape memory alloys or polymers. Such frames may be coupled to sheetlike or tube-like structures configured to spread loads, minimize thrombosis which may be related to intravascular flow, and maintain hemostasis.
US10039523B2
An ultrasound probe includes a therapeutic ultrasound transducer, a slot disposed in the therapeutic ultrasound transducer, and a first diagnostic ultrasound transducer disposed in the slot and configured to move along the slot.
US10039519B2
A method of aligning the radiation beam in a radiotherapy system comprising a source for producing a beam of radiation and an imaging device for imaging from the beam, both mounted to be rotatable about an axis, a fiducial phantom between the source and imaging device, the method comprising: rotating the beam and imaging device in a trajectory about the axis while obtaining images of the fiducial phantom from a plurality of different angles, at least one image including a feature of the imaging apparatus, adjusting the trajectory of the source relative to that feature to position the isocenter substantially in the center of the volume, determining from each image of the fiducial phantom the position of the source at the rotational position the image was obtained, and calculating the center of rotation of the positions of the source to define the isocenter of the system.
US10039505B2
An anatomical imaging system of the sort having a fixed gantry and a rotating disc, with an adjustable angle of tilt and increased structural integrity, and with improved power transmission and position sensing.
US10039502B2
A method of mapping electrophysiological information, including receiving imaging information for a tissue region; receiving a monophasic action potential signal from the tissue region; assigning a value corresponding to a depolarization segment of the monophasic action potential signal; receiving location information associated with the monophasic action potential signal; and generating an image based on the imaging information, the assigned value, and the location information.
US10039501B2
A Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) apparatus may include: an image receiver configured to receive consecutive medical images; an image analyzer configured to divide the received consecutive medical images into sequence groups by a predetermined number, separate images in a sequence group, among the sequence groups, into a first image group and a second image group, and perform parallel analysis on the first image group and the second image group; and a display configured to output on a screen a result of the analyzing of the first image group and the second image group.
US10039492B2
In one aspect of the present disclosure, a method involves obtaining, by a body-mountable device, sensor data, where the body-mountable device includes a data storage. The method further involves making a determination that each condition in a condition set has been satisfied. In addition, the method involves responsive to making the determination that each condition in the condition set has been satisfied, storing the obtained sensor data in the data storage.
US10039486B1
An apparatus and method for diagnosing and/or treating autonomic dysregulation is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, a user is presented stressful audio-visual content at a known time. The resulting amount of deviation of the user's autonomic nervous system from stasis is automatically quantified periodically subsequent to the presentation of the stressful audio-visual content by monitoring a parameter of the user's heartbeat over time, thus automatically measuring both the amount of disturbance in the user's autonomic nervous system, and the re-settling time of the user's autonomic nervous system for given stressful audio-visual content. The apparatus may then guide the user through one or more awareness exercises, and subsequently re-measure the user's response to stressful audio-visual content.
US10039472B2
A system, method and apparatus for monitoring uterine and/or cervical activity indicative of labor in a patient. The system includes a medical device and a data processor in communication with the medical device. The medical device includes a structural component, a first electrode attached to the structural component, and a second electrode attached to the structural component. The structural component is structured to be in contact with a cervical surface and a vaginal surface of the patient, such that said first electrode is in electrical contact with said cervical surface and said second electrode is in electrical contact with said vaginal surface. The first electrode is adapted to receive an electrical activity of the cervical surface and the second electrode is adapted to receive an electrical activity of the uterus through the vaginal surface. The data processor is adapted to process the electrical activity of the electrodes to detect contractions on a surface of the patient indicative of labor.
US10039468B2
The present disclosure generally relates to systems and method of a noninvasive electrocardiographic (ECG) technique for characterizing cardiac chamber size and cardiac mechanical function. A mathematical analysis of three-dimensional (3D) high resolution ECG data may be used to estimate chamber size and cardiac mechanical function. For example, high-resolution mammalian ECG signals are analyzed across multiple leads, as 3D orthogonal (X,Y,Z) or 10-channel data for 30 to 1400 seconds to derive estimates of cardiac chamber size and cardiac mechanical function. Multiple mathematical approaches may be used to analyze the dynamical and geometrical properties of the ECG data.
US10039467B2
The present invention relates to a method, device, and system for improved mapping and/or ablation of a tissue. The device may generally include an elongate body and a distal assembly affixed to the elongate body that includes a treatment electrode having a conductive mapping region and a selectively conductive ablation region that is conductive of high-frequency current and substantially non-conductive of low-frequency current. Alternatively, the device may generally include a treatment electrode having a conductive mapping or ablation region and a region that is coated with an electrically insulated but thermally conductive layer.
US10039462B2
It is recognized that, because of its unique properties, graphene can serve as an interface with biological cells that communicate by an electrical impulse, or action potential. Responding to a sensed signal can be accomplished by coupling a graphene sensor to a low power digital electronic switch that is activatable by the sensed low power electrical signals. It is further recognized that low power devices such as tunneling diodes and TFETs are suitable for use in such biological applications in conjunction with graphene sensors. While tunneling diodes can be used in diagnostic applications, TFETs, which are three-terminal devices, further permit controlling the voltage on one cell according to signals received by other cells. Thus, by the use of a biological sensor system that includes graphene nanowire sensors coupled to a TFET, charge can be redistributed among different biological cells, potentially with therapeutic effects.
US10039452B2
An optical sensor includes an irradiation system including at least one light irradiator to irradiate light onto an object under test; and a detection system detecting the light that is irradiated from the irradiation system and is propagated in the object under test. Further, the light irradiator irradiates non-parallel plural light beams on a same position of the object under test.
US10039450B2
An ophthalmologic apparatus of an embodiment includes a focusing indicator projector, a fundus imaging unit, a driver, and a focusing controller. The focusing indicator projector is configured to irradiate light fluxes for projecting a pair of focusing indicators onto a fundus of an eye. The fundus imaging unit is configured to capture an image of the fundus. The driver is configured to move an optical system including the focusing indicator projector, the fundus imaging unit, and a focusing lens. The focusing controller is configured to move the focusing lens based on projection images of the focusing indicators captured by the fundus imaging unit, wherein the projection images are captured along with movement of the optical system by the driver.
US10039440B2
An anatomical probe system comprises an elongated flexible body and an operational component extending within a channel of the flexible body. The system also comprises a support member at a distal end of the elongated flexible body. The support member includes a fluid director adapted to direct a fluid from the channel toward the operational component. The fluid may be automatically directed towards the operational component in response to detecting a material obstruction of an image.
US10039435B1
The present invention relates to a laryngoscope having one-on-one Wi-Fi connecting system including a signal transmitter, a camera module, and a signal receiver, which is characterized to apply Wi-Fi direct transmission to transmit the image from the laryngoscope one-on-one to a display with security and stability effect that can prevent from any interference. Moreover, the invention also provides a bendable inspecting tube connected with the camera module, which can be bent to a desired shape easily for inspecting different sides of the patient that facilitates the diagnosis for doctors. It obtains the design effect of the invention.
US10039420B2
A collapsible colander having a back wall, a front wall, a bottom wall and a pair of side walls. The back wall is positioned adjacent to a sink wall and is configured to attach to the sink wall. The front wall opposes the back wall and is moveable between a first position that is parallel to the back wall and a second position. The bottom wall has a number of apertures formed therethrough and has at least a first position that is substantially perpendicular to the back wall. The pair of side walls each have a first edge connected to the front wall and a second edge connected to the back wall. Additionally, the pair of side walls each have two or more hinges operable to move the front wall between at least the first position and the second position.
US10039419B2
A container and system for holding a cutting tool of a food processing device is disclosed. The container includes a shell defining a chamber sized to receive one of at least a first cutting tool and a second cutting tool. The shell has a slot that receives a stem of the first cutting tool when the first cutting tool is positioned in the chamber and another slot that receives a stem of the second cutting tool when the second cutting tool is positioned in the chamber. The shell also has a plurality of openings that are sized to permit fluid to pass into the chamber.
US10039412B2
A brewing apparatus for extracting a portion capsule includes a first brewing chamber element and a second brewing chamber element, wherein the first and/or the second brewing chamber element are/is movable in an axial direction between a loading position, in which the first and the second brewing chamber elements are spaced apart from each other, and an extraction position, in which the first and the second brewing chamber elements form a substantially closed brewing chamber and wherein the first brewing chamber element has at least one first perforation means for perforating the portion capsule, said perforation means being arranged along the Earth's gravitational field below a horizontal plane extending substantially at a right angle to the gravitational field and centrally through the brewing chamber.
US10039407B2
The coffee dispenser disclosed herein may serve a single serving of coffee. The coffee dispenser may have a mixing chamber that combines one or more liquid concentrates and heated water, and dispenses a single serving of coffee. The coffee dispenser may have a forth control to select the forth level of the serving of coffee dispensed. The liquid concentrate may be a coffee extract.
US10039405B2
Provided is a method for obtaining a cooking vessel having the following steps: producing a bowl having an outer face made of aluminum and an inner face, carrying out hard anodization of at least the outer face of the bowl. According to the method, at least one coloring step is carried out on the anodized outer face after hard anodization, said coloring step employing at least one water-soluble inorganic pigment. Also provided is a culinary article or an electric cooking appliance comprising a cooking vessel obtained by the above method.
US10039403B2
A curtain or drapery panel that is formed having hanging grommets and box pleats along the header band that provides support to allow the box pleats to retain their shape without deforming. The drapery is a fabric panel having a header strip along the top thereof. The header strip has a plurality of spaced apart grommets. Between alternating grommets the fabric is pinched together to form a forward facing bow or loop. The bow or loop is then flattened and the top and bottom edges of the loop along the header strip are sewn down to the header strip to flatten the loop into a rectangular flat gathered pleat. Further, the edges of the pleat along the header strip may also be sewn to give it a more defined crisp edge. This draws two adjacent grommets close together on the two opposing sides of the newly formed pleat.
US10039402B1
A C-shaped separating device equipped with vertical tree trunk couplers which serve to separate normally adjacent trunk sections of an artificial tree. A display panel and a foliaged branch mounting assembly mounted to the separating unit creates an aesthetically appealing artificial tree display.
US10039399B2
Eating utensils, namely forks which have the function of liquid dispensing fluid, via fluidic passages inside of the utensils which attach to a container of a liquid affixed at a point within a cage part of the handle of the utensil. The attachment coupled with the action of the user of the utensil actuates the flow of the liquid from the container to a point on or near the eating surface of the utensil.
US10039393B1
A calendar frame assembly includes a frame that may positioned on a support surface thereby facilitating the frame to surround a calendar. A plurality of pockets is provided and each of the pockets is coupled to the frame. Additionally, each of the pockets may insertably receive a photo. Each of the pockets is comprised of a translucent material such that the photo in each of the pockets is visible. A plurality of strips is provided and each of the strips is selectively written on. Each of the strips is removably positioned in the frame and each of the strips is visible through said frame.
US10039386B2
A bed frame assembly includes a first planar member, a first end bracket, and a connecting member. The first planar member is configured to support a bed. The first end bracket is coupled to a side of the first planar member. The connecting member is detachably coupled to the first end bracket and is configured to secure the first end bracket to the first planar member.
US10039385B2
An electric bed includes a frame, an actuator, a base body and a plate member. The frame includes a fixed rack and a movable rack movably disposed at the fixed rack. The actuator is disposed between the fixed rack and the movable rack in a way that the movable rack is movable relative to the fixed rack. The base body is disposed at a top side of the frame. The plate member is movable into and out of the base body. As a result, the plate member can be used as a table or a supporting frame for replacing things thereon, and the plate member can move back when user do not want to use the plate member.
US10039378B2
An adjustable table includes a table board, an inclining structure, a supporting structure, and a foot structure. The table board is provided with a pivoting portion on one end thereof. The inclining structure is provided with a mounting portion on one end thereof, and the mounting portion is pivotally combined with the pivoting portion of the table board, such that the table board and the inclining structure pivotally sway to open and close. The supporting structure is combined between the table board and the inclining structure for supporting and fixing the table board and the inclining structure. The foot structure is pivotally combined with the inclining structure, such that the inclining structure sways toward the foot structure.
US10039375B2
A mount that is used to attach electronic devices to a guitar stand is made of a back panel, a clamping mechanism, a support beam and a multi-position fastener. The clamping mechanism is a user-actuated clamp that uses a fixed jaw and a movable jaw to hold electronic devices against the back panel. The back panel, which is a rigid plate, is connected to the fixed jaw to further support the clamped electronic device. Additionally, the fixed jaw of the clamping mechanism is mounted onto one end of the rigid support beam. This enables the mount for electronic devices is capable of being attached to various other pieces of musical equipment or stage equipment. Additionally, the multi-position fastener is affixed to a second end of the support beam, opposite to the fixed jaw.
US10039369B2
A paint transfer system for both automatically and manually transferring paint from a paint container directly to a paint brush including a paint container member, a pump mechanism, and a paint brush apparatus coupled together in fluid communication wherein the paint brush apparatus includes a paint brush having a bladder member or housing member positioned and located within the paint brush adjacent to or within its bristle members as well as an optional valve control member for controlling and distributing the flow of paint to the bristle members. In some embodiments, a remote controller is positioned between the paint brush apparatus and the paint container member for allowing a user to selectively activate the flow of paint from the paint container to the paint brush apparatus. A variety of different pumping mechanisms are utilized for transferring paint from the paint container member to the paint brush apparatus.
US10039367B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to a back-mounted power tool system. The power tool system includes a battery package that can be used on other power tool systems, a backpack apparatus, a power tool, and a connecting member. The backpack apparatus includes a backpack harness to mount the backpack apparatus onto a user's body and a first connector to removably couple the battery package to the backpack apparatus. The power tool includes a motor driven by a power supply from the battery package. The connecting member transfers a weight of the power tool and/or a force received from the power tool to the backpack apparatus by rotatably coupling the power tool to the backpack apparatus. The connecting member further enables the power tool to rotate about a first rotation axis or a second rotation axis, the first rotation axis being perpendicular to the second rotation axis.
US10039362B2
A self-weighing luggage device comprises a housing with a towing handle at one end and four wheel units mounted at the other end. Four weight determining sensors are incorporated into the wheel units, respectively. Each weight determining sensor is wired to a central circuit board, which is mounted on the inner surface of other end at position. The central circuit board is connected to a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) mounted in a recess in the handle end of the housing, which recess is adapted to receive the handle in a stowed position, such that the LCD is protected by the handle. In use, the self-weighing luggage device is stood on the ground on the four wheel units and the weight readings from each weight determining sensor are combined to give the total weight of the self-weighing luggage device, which total weight is displayed on the LCD.
US10039353B2
An umbrella system includes a support pole connected to a rotating tube positioned around a center tube that extends between the support pole and a center support that is connected to an umbrella frame. The rotating tube has one or more helical grooves therein that are engaged by teeth of a hub which is connected to the umbrella frame. As the rotating tube is rotated, the hub is driven along the length of the rotating tube thereby opening and closing the umbrella frame. In one arrangement system includes a motor housing assembly including a plurality of batteries and a motor that includes a driven gear that meshes with a stationary gear which causes rotation of the rotating tube. The system also includes a counterbalance assembly positioned within the rotating tube. The counterbalance assembly includes at least one spring positioned within the rotating tube that provides a counterbalance force.
US10039336B2
A helmet including a lighting system integrated into said helmet, the lighting system comprising a first layer; light emitting means mounted to said first layer; controller means mounted to said first layer for controlling said light emitting means; wiring means for linking said light emitting means to said controller means; a second layer fixably attached to said first layer thereby providing an area between said first and second layer for said light emitting means, controller means, and wiring means; power means fixably attached to said second layer for powering said controller and light emitting means; and operating means functionally linked to said controller means for operating said controller means. The application also discloses lighting system contained in a shell that that can be attached to an existing helmet. This application also discloses a lighting system contained in a flexible material that can be fitted onto an existing helmet.
US10039331B2
Clothing for practicing downhill skiing which covers the lower part of the torso and the lower limbs and which includes various zones made using textile fabrics with different elasticities, characterized in that it includes two bands of the first type, presenting lower elasticity than the rest of the clothing, extending from the inner part of the thigh and passing above the anterior part of the thigh, approximately at the level of the iliac crests, and up to the area in the proximity of the lower lumbar vertebrae, both bands are symmetrical in relation to the median plane of the clothing, and two bands of a second type, which are even less flexible, which extend downwards from the top of the anterior zone of the thigh, passing over the antero-external part of the thigh.
US10039328B2
A moldable collar stay device for a shirt turnover collar comprising a collar stay body and dual collar stay inserts. The shape and the length of the present device may be adjusted by fasteners which facilitate changes to the angle of the collar stay inserts and the length of the collar stay body. The device also may be shaped to accentuate the shape of a user's face. Each collar stay insert may be placed inside collar stay pockets at opposite corners of the shirt collar while the stay body lies along the exterior bounds shirt collar. The shirt wearer may adjust the device around the periphery of the collar to the desired position. Once positioned, the device will remain concealed with the collar and collar stay pockets while maintaining the ability to alter the collar shape, the collar stay length and the angle of the collar stay inserts.
US10039322B2
An electronic smoking article includes an outer housing extending in the longitudinal direction, a liquid aerosol formulation, a heater operable to at least partially volatilize at least a portion of the liquid aerosol formulation and form an aerosol, a power supply operable to apply voltage across the heater, at least one light emitting diode, a charging button assembly including a conductive post operable to form a first external, electrical contact at the upstream end of the electronic smoking article, and a second external, electrical contact including a portion of an outer surface of the outer housing at the upstream end of the electronic smoking article. The first and second external, electrical contacts charge the power supply.
US10039319B2
An attachment device for water percolation filtering of a substance such as a vaporized tobacco or marijuana is provided. The attachment device includes an intake chamber, a mouthpiece and a water pipe percolator section. The intake chamber has an opening configured to receive one of a plurality of secondary device mouthpieces or atomizers in sealing engagement, the secondary device mouthpieces or atomizers each belonging to one of a variety of different corresponding design of devices such as vaporizers. The percolator section is in fluid communication with the intake chamber and the mouthpiece and interposed between the two. The percolator is a dome percolator with a cylindrical housing. The intake chamber and the mouthpiece are oriented as in-line extensions of the cylindrical housing.
US10039308B2
An improved, high-capacity die assembly (10) for a food or feed extruder (12) is provided and is particularly useful for the production of high quality aquatic feeds. The die assembly (10) includes a mount (20), which is secured to the discharge end of an extruder barrel (14), with a plurality of tubular die components (22, 24) coupled with the mount (20). Each component (22, 24) includes wall structure (38) defining an outwardly diverging tubular chamber (40) with a die plate assembly (50) coupled to the outer end of the wall structure (38). A flow diverter element (54) is located within each chamber (40) and has a large diameter end adjacent the assembly (50) and a smaller diameter end closer to the chamber inlet. The assembly (50) has a plurality of openings (52) outboard of the element (54).
US10039298B2
The invention relates to machine for preparing frozen confectionery comprising receiving means (1) forming a seat for accommodating an essentially cup-shaped container (8), said receiving means comprising an heat exchange element (1a) having a heat exchange contact surface arranged to be in contact with an heat exchange portion (12) of the container (8) when the container is placed in the machine; wherein said heat exchange element(1a) has an inverted conical or curved shape or a plurality of inverted conical sections, or a combination of curved and inverted conical sections. The confectionery produced can be a frozen product such as soft ice or a chilled dessert such as mousse or whipped yogurt.
US10039297B2
An apparatus for preparing and dispensing food products includes at least one containment tank (2) predisposed to contain the product to be prepared and mounted on a base body (10) which is closed at the front by a panel (12) of transparent or opaque material, backlit through LED lighting structure (13).
US10039292B2
A poultry part harvesting, sorting, and packaging apparatus and system utilizes an arrangement of hoppers to batch poultry parts removed by cut-up machines and deposits the batches onto a transportation conveyor. Each batch is contained within a separate zone on the conveyor, and the system tracks the location of batches and open spaces on the conveyor to deliver the batches to user defined locations.
US10039288B2
The invention relates to plant pathogenic infections, and to the treatment of oomycete pathogenic infections. The invention extends to novel antimicrobial compositions comprising inhibitors of oomycete pathogens, and their use in methods of treating or preventing infections with such pathogens, for example downy mildew of grapevine.
US10039285B2
Particulate ceragenin materials may be manufactured by (i) providing a ceragenin feed material comprised of ceragenin molecules, each having a sterol backbone and a plurality cationic groups attached thereto; (ii) fracturing the ceragenin feed material in a milling apparatus to produce a ceragenin particulate material having a particle size distribution with a median particle size in a range from 5 nm to 20 μm; and (iii) during fracturing, maintaining the ceragenin feed with a moisture content of less than or equal to 10% by weight.
US10039281B2
In a tape for controlling crawling pests, on the first side (S1) is a carrier layer having a multitude of vertically extending structures, and on the opposite side (S2) is a means for attaching the tape to a surface. At least the first side (S1) is impregnated with a composition of A) 0.1 to 45% by weight (based on the total of A plus B) of one or more insecticides and B) 99.9 to 55% by weight (based on the total of A plus B) of an (meth)acrylate binder of one or more homo- or copolymer having units derived from one or more acrylates and/or methacrylates.
US10039278B2
The present invention aims to provide a device for vitrification cryopreservation enabling easy and reliable vitrification cryopreservation of a cell or tissue. The device for vitrification cryopreservation of a cell or tissue of the present invention includes a support and a vitrification solution absorber including at least an adhesive layer and a vitrification solution absorbing layer in the given order on the support. The device includes a portion with no adhesive layer disposed between the support and a portion of the vitrification solution absorbing layer configured to hold a cell or tissue.
US10039277B2
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for tissue, such as an allograft, storage and preservation for extended periods of time at room temperature in a sterile tissue culture chamber. The invention further provides a process for maintaining the sterility of tissue using the apparatus as described.
US10039275B2
A wearable support for a fishing rod (100) which includes:—a lower portion (11) shaped to rest to the thighs of a user and provided with a seat (12) configured to support the handle of the fishing rod (100);—an upper portion (13) fixed to the lower portion (11) and shaped to lean against the lower abdomen of a user and attachable to the waist of the latter;—coupling means (14), fixed to the upper portion (13) and adapted to be attached to the fishing rod (100) and particularly to the reel (102) of the same, to support it as the latter has the handle that engages the seat (12) of the lower portion (11).
US10039264B2
A grooming box is provided in order to easily install member(s) and a work space for pet grooming anywhere, efficiently collect groomed hair, and prevent the groomed hair from scattering outside the grooming box. The grooming box is a compact, easily assemblable and portable box so that members necessary for grooming is accommodated compactly in the box in vertical directions, and a work space where a groomer works is foldably formed. Further, the grooming box includes an air circulating type cleaning device, an air curtain device, and an ion generating device.
US10039261B2
The present invention relates to an unmanned self-propelled and self-steering device for removing manure present on a floor, including a manure slide and a drive for moving the device over the floor, wherein the manure slide is substantially U-shaped or V-shaped with two legs in order to define autonomously a manure-accommodating-space which opens in a forward direction and is closed in a rearward direction, and wherein the legs have a length in the order of magnitude of the width of the manure slide.
US10039259B2
An implement for automatically milking a dairy animal, such as a cow, comprises a milking parlour, a sensor for observing a teat, and a milking robot for automatically attaching a teat cup to the teat. The milking robot comprises a robot control that is connected to the sensor. The sensor comprises a radiation source for emitting light, a receiver for receiving electromagnetic radiation reflected from the dairy animal, a lens, and sensor control unit. The sensor comprises a matrix with a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns of receivers. The sensor control unit is designed to determine for each of the receivers a phase difference between the emitted and the reflected electromagnetic radiation in order to calculate the distance from the sensor to a plurality of points on the part to be observed of the dairy animal.
US10039253B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH754140. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH754140, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH754140 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH754140.
US10039251B1
A novel soybean variety, designated 5PKLM31 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PKLM31, cells from soybean variety 5PKLM31, plants of soybean 5PKLM31, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PKLM31. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PKLM31 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PKLM31, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PKLM31, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PKLM31. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PKLM31 are further provided.
US10039246B2
The present invention provides tomatillo ideotypes and tomatillo plants with machine harvestable traits combined with desirable agronomic traits. The present invention also provides methods of making such plants and methods of using such plants to produce additional machine harvestable tomatillo plants.
US10039244B2
System and methods for monitoring the growth of an aquatic plant culture and detecting real-time characteristics associated with the aquatic plant culture aquatic plants. The systems and methods may include a control unit configured to perform an analysis of at least one image of an aquatic plant culture. The analysis may include processing at least one collected image to determine at least one physical characteristic or state of an aquatic plant culture. Systems and methods for distributing aquatic plant cultures are also provided. The distribution systems and methods may track and control the distribution of an aquatic plant culture based on information received from various sources. Systems and methods for growing and harvesting aquatic plants in a controlled and compact environment are also provided. The systems may include a bioreactor having a plurality of vertically stacked modules designed to contain the aquatic plants and a liquid growth medium.
US10039242B1
An automated irrigation gate system and method for regulating water levels in irrigation channels automates control of water through an irrigation channel based upon water levels, water flow rate, and ambient environmental conditions in the irrigation channel and an adjacent agricultural region. The system comprises at least one irrigation regulation device operationally attached to the irrigation channel. The irrigation regulation device regulates fluid flow through a channel opening in the irrigation channel through use of a gate. A fluid sensor monitors the level of fluid in the channel and an adjacent agricultural region. The fluid sensor also monitors the flow rate of the fluid flowing from the channel to the region. An environmental sensor monitors environmental conditions ambient to the region. A control portion comprises a processor that calculates the data to selectively displace the gate between an open position and a closed position relative to channel opening.
US10039241B2
An irrigation controller, includes a housing, a microcontroller within the housing and configured to store and execute an irrigation schedule, a valve driver coupled to the microcontroller and configured to output a zone activation signal to an actuatable zone valve in response to signaling from the microcontroller, and a user interface. The user interface includes a plurality of user input devices coupled to the microcontroller and configured to provide signaling to the microcontroller based upon a user's engagement therewith, the plurality of user input devices configured to allow the user to create an irrigation schedule; and a user display coupled to the microcontroller and configured to display irrigation parameters associated with the irrigation schedule. The microcontroller is configured to cause the user display to display at least one of a next irrigation start day, a next irrigation start time, and a next zone to irrigate associated with the irrigation schedule.
US10039236B2
An agricultural harvester including a chassis, a threshing and separating system for separating grain from MOG, and a grain cleaning system for further separating grain from residual MOG. The grain cleaning system has a main grain pan, an intermediate grain pan located beneath and rearward of the main grain pan, and at least one sieve located beneath and rearward of the intermediate grain pan. The main grain pan, the intermediate grain pan, and the at least one sieve are so arranged that the mixture of grain and residual MOG undergoes a first fall step from the main grain pan to the intermediate grain pan and a second fall step from the intermediate grain pan to the at least one sieve.
US10039229B2
A walk power mower has a traction drive system that includes a front transmission powering a pair of front wheels and a rear transmission powering a pair of rear wheels. A first one of the transmissions provides forward motion of the mower when it is active and a second one of the transmissions provides rearward motion of the mower when it is active. A slidable handle grip on the handle having a cross bar long enough to be gripped by both hands of the user activates the first one of the transmission when it is slid downwardly on a handle out of a neutral position thereof. The slidable handle grip activates the second one of the transmissions when it is slid upwardly on the handle out of the neutral position.
US10039224B2
A draft control device of tractor includes a top link fixing bracket fixed at the rear side of the tractor, a top link swing bracket hinge-coupled to the top link fixing bracket through a connection pin, and carrying out rotational motion with respect to the axial center of the connection pin according to the change of the compressive force of a top link in response to the change of work machine traction resistance, a leaf spring provided between the top link fixing bracket and the top link swing bracket to supply restoring force for the rotational motion of the top link swing bracket with respect to the top link fixing bracket, and a sensitivity adjustment unit provided between the top link swing bracket and the leaf spring, and changing an acting point, where the top link swing bracket pushes the leaf spring, to adjust work machine traction load sensitivity.
US10039222B1
One embodiment is a tow-behind grading tool structured for attachment to a work machine. The tool includes a frame, ground contacting members rotatably coupled with the frame, a comb coupled with the frame and extending from a first end of the frame, a tow coupling member coupled with the frame and located proximate a second end of the frame, the second end of the frame being opposite the first end of the frame, a drag bar assembly including a plurality of arms rotatably coupled with the frame and drag bar rotatably coupled with the plurality of arms, and at least one spring coupled with the frame and the drag bar assembly such that the spring resists upward rotation of the drag bar and provides force urging the drag bar to rotate downward after upward rotation of the drag bar.
US10045470B2
A component mounting line includes a component mounting apparatus and a board distributing apparatus. The component mounting apparatus includes two transport lanes, each having a carry-in area where a board is carried and a mounting area where a component is mounted onto the board received from the carry-in area. The board distributing apparatus distributes the board to any one of the two transport lanes. The board distributing apparatus distributes the board to any one of the two transport lanes based on a presence or absence of boards in the carry-in area and the mounting area.
US10045469B2
A laminated double-layer textile product comprises a square mesh ferromagnetic alloy metal filament or thread technical fabric layer coupled to a square mesh synthetic monofilament technical fabric layer by laminating to provide a diffused joining of said two layers, said laminating comprising a hot-melt laminating.
US10045467B2
A system and method to render inoperable electronic devices disposed with a volume of a fluid-tight sealed enclosure. Thermally conductive fluids that fill one or more volumes of said sealed enclosure may be circulated away from said sealed enclosure to an external heat exchange mechanism. The volume of the sealed container contains one or more single phase or multi-phase thermally conductive fluids and may contain solid or sealed hollow structures that conform to or occupy space between said electronic devices. Pressure balancing mechanisms are included to maintain suitable pressure of gaseous fluid in a volume of the sealed container.
US10045462B2
An assembly for electrical components that will protect the components from G force trauma. The assembly will also prevent overheating of the component parts due to the trauma through the use of a coolant that will be employed when the trauma impacts the assembly.
US10045456B2
The present disclosure provides a docking frame for receiving at least one uninterrupted power supply module for high power uninterrupted power supply systems. The power supply system includes a bus connection for electrically connecting another uninterrupted power supply module to at least another docking frame and/or an I/O module. The one or more I/O modules, docking frames and uninterrupted power supply modules can be electrically connected in a horizontal arrangement.
US10045454B2
A circuit board (7) is fixed with a screw (8), using a component attachment part (21) cut and raised from a bottom plate part (20) of a bottom chassis (2) toward the inner side of a casing (1). An opening part (22) formed by cutting and raising of the component attachment part (21) is closed by attachment of a rear chassis (5), and the bottom chassis (2) and the rear chassis (5) come into contact with each other via an elastic piece (52).
US10045450B2
A computer casing for a computer system includes a chassis that receives components of the computer system, wherein the chassis includes a front side and a rear side opposite the front side; and a removable side panel that can be secured to the chassis to cover an interior of the computer casing; wherein the side panel includes an opening and a displaceable locking element; and in a secured state of the side panel, a Kensington lock formed to secure the side panel to the chassis can be inserted through the opening of the side panel and a fixing opening such that the locking element is actuated in a direction of the front side and mechanically cooperates with the chassis in the region of the front side.
US10045448B2
A flexible screen module includes a casing, a flexible screen, a bracket, and a support member. The casing has an opening. The first rotating shaft has an axial direction and is accommodated in the casing. The flexible screen is capable of being wound around the first rotating shaft and is capable of being unwound from the first rotating shaft and extended out of the casing through the opening. A bracket is fixed to the flexible screen and is capable of being wound around the first rotating shaft along with the flexible screen. The bracket supports the flexible screen in the axial direction. A support member is capable of being wound in the casing and is capable of being extended out of the casing along with the flexible screen, the support member has a curve memory characteristic in the axial direction.
US10045429B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a light control apparatus which includes: a touch screen to display a graphical user interface for controlling a light; and a wireless communication unit performing communication with a light and transmitting a control signal set through the graphical user interface to the corresponding light, wherein the graphical user interface includes a first area displaying a name of the light, and a second area displaying location information of the light selected from the first area, and the location information is spot information about an actual installed location of the light selected from the first area.
US10045417B2
Illumination of an environment can be selected based on target colors that the illumination would provide for specific samples. One process for synthesizing the illumination includes repeatedly selecting settings for separate light sources in a luminaire system and determining a merit function of the target colors of the samples and apparent colors of the samples under illumination that the luminaire system would produce with the settings selected. The value of the merit function thus determined can be used to identify a synthesized illumination, for example, the synthesized illumination that provides a smallest value. A luminaire system can implement such a process in a luminaire or in a control system for luminaires.
US10045414B1
A method for increasing the luminous intensity of an ultraviolet light emitting diode includes heating an ultraviolet light emitting diode to a working temperature, and supplying electricity to the ultraviolet light emitting diode at the working temperature to make the ultraviolet light emitting diode emit ultraviolet light. An apparatus for increasing the luminous intensity of an ultraviolet light emitting diode includes a substrate, an ultraviolet light emitting diode mounted on the substrate, an electric heater mounted on the substrate, a temperature sensor, and a controller electrically connected to the ultraviolet light emitting diode, the electric heater, and the temperature sensor. The controller can heat the ultraviolet light emitting diode through the substrate. When the temperature sensor detects that the temperature of the ultraviolet light emitting diode reaches a working temperature, the controller supplies electricity to the ultraviolet light emitting diode to make the ultraviolet light emitting diode emit ultraviolet light.
US10045410B2
A modularized light system, a control module and a power module are provided. The modularized light system comprises at least a light module, a control module and a power module. The internal and external wiring of the power source is integrated into the power module. The wiring of the control circuit and the power transmission is integrated into the control module. The wiring of the power transmission and the light source is integrated into the light module. A novel design uses a single power module and a control module for transmitting and controlling the power to one or a plurality of light module. One or more connection units detachably connect the light modules. Thus, the system installation is simplified and design coordinated with advantages such as fast assembly, saving assemble time, saving effort, a neat appearance, no wire entanglement, and flexibility of extending lighting range can be achieved.
US10045404B2
An electrode slipping device comprises an upper holder and a lower holder, both holders containing one or more clamping shoes and one or more clamping cylinders in co-operation with the clamping shoes. The clamping shoes are operable between a position where the electrode is clamped and a position where the electrode is unclamped. The clamping cylinder is connected to the electrode holder by first fastening means and to the clamping shoe by second fastening means such that the clamping cylinder can be released from engagement with the holder by unlocking both sets of fastening means.
US10045401B2
The present invention provides a steering wheel and a heater unit used for the steering wheel that does not give discomfort to a user when operating the steering wheel. A heater unit 31 is comprised of a substrate 10 made of a polymeric foam; and a cord-shaped heater 1 arranged on the substrate 10, wherein a thickness of the substrate 10 is thinner at a portion on which the cord-shaped heater 1 is arranged than other area so that the portion is formed along a shape of the cord-shaped heater 1 and the heater unit 31 is flat. A steering wheel, comprised of the above described heater unit; a wheel core material; and a covering material, wherein the heater unit is arranged between the wheel core material and the covering material.
US10045397B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a data complementing method and apparatus, which relate to the field of computer. In the method provided by the invention, in the process of master database switching in a master-slave database cluster, a slave database is selected from the database cluster to act as a new master database; first connections between the new master database and all the other slave databases are established successively; the data of the new master database is compared with the data of all the other slave databases, respectively, to synchronize new data in all the other slave databases into the new master database, to accomplish data complementing of the new master database, which causes the new master database to have the latest data in the database cluster, guarantees smooth switching of the master database, and therefore will not influence normal running of database services.
US10045390B2
An unmanned vehicle (UV) system provides network data connectivity for terminals. UV nodes in the system may transmit and receive terminal data in a network of UV nodes and other nodes according to a routing protocol. The nodes may include fixed nodes or UV nodes with a wired or wireless network connection to a destination terminal. A UV node may receive data from a source terminal for transmission to the destination terminal, and when the UV node is within range of a node in the network connected the destination terminal, the UV node transmits the received data to the node within range for forwarding to the destination terminal via the network.
US10045374B2
A method and apparatus for managing access to a wireless medium by one or more stations (STAs) in a wireless network. A device determines a first transmit opportunity for a first STA of the one or more STAs in the wireless network. The device enables the first STA to access the wireless medium for a duration of the first transmit opportunity by broadcasting a first grant message to the one or more STAs in the wireless network. The first grant message indicates allocation of the first transmit opportunity to the first STA. The device may selectively adjust the duration of the first transmit opportunity based at least in part on one or more properties of the wireless network.
US10045367B2
An apparatus for wireless communication includes data generation logic configured to generate data to be transmitted to an access point and to determine that a size of the data exceeds a size of a first transmit opportunity (TX_OP). The apparatus includes data fragmentation logic configured to generate at least a first data fragment and a second data fragment based on the data, where a size of the first data fragment is selected based on the size of the first TX_OP. The apparatus further includes a wireless interface configured to transmit, during the first TX_OP, a first data packet to the access point, the first data packet including the first data fragments.
US10045356B2
An apparatus, system and method are provided for transmitting data from logical channel queues over a telecommunications link, each of the logical channel queues capable of being associated with quality of service attributes, the method including determining available resources for transmission over the telecommunications link in a frame; selecting one of the logical channel queues based on a first one of the quality of service attributes; packaging data from the selected one of the logical channel queues until one of: a second one of the quality of service attributes for the selected one of the logical channel queues is satisfied, the available resources are used, or the selected one of the logical channel queues is empty; and repeating the selecting step and the packaging step for remaining ones of the logical channel queues.
US10045350B2
A method of joint clustering and precoding and a base station using the same are provided and applicable to a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system. The method includes: dividing four user equipments into a first cluster and a second cluster each consisting of two user equipments; forming a first cluster signal and a second cluster signal for simultaneous transmission at the base station; establishing a first precoding set and a second precoding set for the first cluster and the second cluster, respectively, by using channel state information between the base station and all the user equipments; selecting a first precoder from the first precoding set and a second precoder from the second precoding set; superposing the first cluster signal multiplied by the first precoder and the second cluster signal multiplied by the second precoder and broadcasting a resulting signal to the user equipments in the first and second cluster.
US10045348B2
A method and apparatus are provided for determining a resource for an acknowledgement signal by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. A method includes receiving an index associated with a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) for transmission of an uplink control signal in an operating bandwidth; and determining an RB for transmission of the acknowledgement signal, based on the index.
US10045346B1
Disclosed are methods and systems for selecting a carrier on which to serve a user equipment device (UE). In particular, a base station may determine that a speed of movement of the UE is threshold high. In response to determining that the speed of movement of the UE is threshold high, the base station may select a carrier based on a group delay variation (GDV) of the selected carrier. For example, the base station may respond to the determining by selecting a carrier having a threshold low GDV. In another example, the base station may respond to the determining by selecting the carrier having the lowest GDV among two or more candidate carriers being considered as part of the selection process. As such, once a carrier is selected, the base station may then serve the UE on the selected carrier.
US10045341B2
A method and an apparatus for wireless communication in case of MTC are provided. The method comprises receiving a signal, wherein a control signal is received on a downlink control channel based on limited reception capacity of the UE and transmitting signals on a uplink channel based on the received signal via the downlink channel.
US10045336B2
Techniques are described for compressing the PUCCH resources reserved for acknowledging downlink data transmissions when those resources are implicitly signaled by EPDCCHs that schedule the downlink transmissions in TDD mode. An acknowledgement resource offset field transmitted in the EPDCCH is configured to correspond to one or more values that compress the region in PUCCH resource index space that would otherwise be reserved for the subframes of a bundling window.
US10045327B2
Systems and methods are directed to monitoring the communications to and from a mobile communication device in accordance with one or more embodiments. For example in accordance with an embodiment, data services on a mobile communication device, such as communications, application use, functionality, operability, and/or presence, may be monitored against rules available from a central data center repository. The rules may be enforced on the mobile communication device through a token device in short range wireless communications with the mobile communication device. Thus, the token device may prevent certain data services of the mobile communication device within a local area to the token device. An alert may be provided to an administrator when unauthorized data services are detected and/or a message may be sent to a third party to prevent the unauthorized activity.
US10045306B2
Certain features relate to systems and methods for optimizing the radio frequency characteristics of signals transmitted between a radio base station (RBS) and a distributed antenna system (DAS). A self-optimizing network (SON) entity can determine adjustments to radio frequency operations and management parameters at the RBS based on radio frequency parameters measured by a measurement and configuration module at the DAS. Adjustments to radio frequency operations and management parameters can include adjustments configured to compensate for signal latency caused by the DAS. Adjustments to radio frequency operations and management parameters can also include adjustments to signal gain due to noise rise caused by the DAS. The SON entity can also measure nominal receive power levels for the RBS for purposes of open loop power control.
US10045304B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for controlling uplink transmission power in a multiple element carrier wave system. The method for controlling uplink transmission power by a terminal in a multiple element carrier wave system includes the steps of: generating an uplink signal to be transmitted in a first serving cell; receiving, from a base station, random access start information for commanding the start of a random access procedure for a second serving cell; calculating the estimated surplus power from first transmission power scheduled for an uplink signal transmission, and second transmission power scheduled for a transmission of a PRACH to which a random access preamble is mapped; and when the estimated surplus power is smaller than a threshold power, adjusting the first transmission power or the second transmission power on the basis of power allocation priority.
US10045302B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for wireless communication are provided. In one aspect, the apparatus is configured to measure an energy level of a transmission channel. The apparatus is configured to compare the measured energy level to a first threshold energy level. The first threshold energy level corresponds to a first state of the transmission channel. The apparatus is configured to determine whether to transmit data in the transmission channel based on the comparison. The apparatus is configured to reduce a transmission power of the apparatus and transmit the data in the transmission channel at the reduced transmission power when the measured energy level is greater than the first threshold energy level.
US10045296B2
A method and apparatus for extending the sleep time for a Bluetooth transceiver circuit uses a fine count signal and a base count signal during the sleep mode, followed by an interval that accounts for wake-up overhead and preparation for the next active mode. The wake-up to active mode is aligned with the timing signal that defines the communication slots in the Bluetooth communications. The extension of the sleep mode until a beginning of a communication slot in active mode is accomplished for wake-up processes that are initiated by an external trigger event as well as for wake-up processes that are initiated as a result of an internal timer. Power consumption is reduced because the circuit does not wake up to active mode before communication can be carried out in a communication slot.
US10045293B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for compressed sensing (CS). The CS is a signal processing concept wherein significantly fewer sensor measurements than that suggested by Shannon/Nyquist sampling theorem can be used to recover signals with arbitrarily fine resolution. In this disclosure, the CS framework is applied for sensor signal processing in order to support low power robust sensors and reliable communication in Body Area Networks (BANs) for healthcare and fitness applications.
US10045291B2
Disclosed are techniques to minimize the electricity consumption of battery powered devices during network communications and performance of other functions. Example techniques include efficiently discovering other mains powered and battery powered devices within communication range of the battery powered device. In another example, techniques enable a battery powered device to serve as a relay for one or more other battery powered devices. In another example, techniques ensure that transmissions to and/or from battery powered devices are delivered efficiently and with low latency. In yet another example, techniques determine whether and under what conditions a battery powered device should migrate from one network to another. In the event of migration, example techniques minimize battery consumption associated with the migration.
US10045289B2
A method for controlling enabling of a station, the method compromising: determining, according to coverage of at least two stations and expected transmission rates of all services, at least one target service that meets a first preset condition or a second preset condition, the first preset condition comprises: for a first target service corresponding to a first station, only the first station can meet an expected transmission rate of the first target service, and the second preset condition comprises: for a second target service corresponding to a second station, no station can meet an expected transmission rate of the second target service; and determining a target station as a to-be-enabled station from the at least two stations according to a sum of expected transmission rates of target services corresponding to each station.
US10045285B2
The present application discloses a wireless local area network access point search method, an apparatus, and a system, relates to the field of communications technologies, and can reduce power consumption for passive scanning. According to the method, beacon sending information of a wireless local area network access point and measurement information of a user equipment are matched, so that the user equipment can search for the wireless local area network access point only at the time when and a frequency channel number at which the wireless local area network access point sends a beacon. Compared with the prior art in which a user equipment needs to continuously keep a state of searching for a wireless local area network access point, the present application greatly shortens time spent by the user equipment in listening to a beacon, and therefore reduces power consumption of passive scanning.
US10045275B2
Disclosed are apparatus and methodology for improving communications among battery operated network endpoints and a central facility. A battery operated endpoint may determine its remaining battery capacity and decide whether it is able to provide message repeating services to other endpoints within the network. The endpoint may make such decision based also on its own communications reliability to a central facility either directly or via other endpoints operating as repeaters.
US10045272B2
The present invention relates to a method for controlling an Access Point (AP) connection and an electronic device thereof. A method of controlling an AP connection by an AP controller includes detecting a movement of an electronic device which is connected to a first AP, determining an AP which is the closest to the detected electronic device, and, when the determined AP is different from the first AP, releasing the connection between the electronic device and the first AP to make the electronic device connect to the determined AP. Accordingly, the present invention has an effect in that the AP controller can provide a proper service in accordance with a position of the electronic device.
US10045267B2
A User Equipment (UE) registers with a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. The UE registers with an Internet Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) over the LTE network. The UE registers with a Wireless Fidelity (WIF) network. The UE receives a status request from the LTE network responsive to a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) invite for the UE received at the IMS. The UE transfers a status response to the LTE network that indicates the WIFI network responsive to the status request. The UE receives the SIP invite from the IMS over the WIFI network. The UE exchanges user data for the media session over the WIFI network.
US10045255B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of processing Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) Protocol Data Units (PDUs) of an Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) Radio Access Bearer (E-RAB). For example, an apparatus may include PDCP processor configured to process a plurality of PDUs of an E-RAB, the PDCP processor configured to apply a sequence of a plurality of PDCP procedures to one or more first PDUs communicated via the cellular link, and to apply no more than a part of the sequence of PDCP procedures, by selecting not to apply one or more of the plurality of PDCP procedures, to one or more second PDUs communicated via a non-cellular Radio Access Technology (RAT).
US10045254B2
A wireless communication method and device are provided. The wireless communication method includes the steps of determining whether the length of an RLC SDU or RLC SDU segment is greater than a threshold; determining the type of length indicator which is allocated by a network when the length of the RLC SDU or RLC SDU segment is greater than the threshold; and determining whether to force to map the RLC SDU or RLC SDU segment to the end of an RLC PDU according to the type of the length indicator.
US10045250B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for configuring a new prohibition buffer status reporting timer in a D2D communication system, the method comprising: configuring with a first group of logical channel and a second group of logical channel; receiving, from a network, an indication indicating that Buffer Status Reporting (BSR) for the first group of logical channel is prohibited; and triggering a BSR for the second group of logical channel if a BSR trigger condition is met for the second group of logical channel not indicated by the indication.
US10045234B2
A tester device may establish a connection to customer devices using protocols, such as a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol or an Open Mobile Alliance device management (OMA DM) protocol. The tester device may receive information related to wireless communications or operations of the customer devices and the information may be determined by the customer devices. The tester device may perform an analysis of the information. The tester device may provide instructions to the customer devices to cause the customer devices to use a channel to communicate. The tester device may perform a throughput test of the customer devices. The tester device may receive additional information based on performing the throughput test. The tester device may perform a comparison of the information and the additional information. The tester device may provide other instructions to the customer devices to cause the customer devices to use the channel.
US10045233B2
A cellular system that includes one or more moving relays, each having one or more add-on Interference Cancellation Modules (ICMs) capable of generating a cleaner signal by increasing the Signal-to-Interferer Ratio (SIR), thereby cancelling interference. The interference originates from intra-network or from out-of-network source. The system enables cellular communication between two or more mobile stations, in a geographic area that lacks adequate cellular coverage by one or more stationary base station.
US10045231B2
Disclosed herein is a method of expanding, by a small cell BS, a transmission range in a heterogeneous network. The method includes estimating a number of success devices which successfully access a small cell BS through a contention based on an idle Random Access Opportunity (RAO) and comparing the estimated number of expected access device with an actual number of measured success devices and determining a transmission range expansion distance.
US10045230B2
The present invention relates to a data exchange method and apparatus. The method includes: sending, by a primary base station, a request of setting up an X3 interface to a secondary base station, wherein the X3 interface has a capability of bidirectional data communication; receiving, by the primary base station, a response of setting up the X3 interface sent by the secondary base station; and performing, by the primary base station, bidirectional data exchange with the secondary base station by using the X3 interface.
US10045229B2
A system and method for operating a cellular network is disclosed. The system includes a cellular network, a transport plane software defined switch (SDS), and a controller. The transport plane SDS is inserted in the transport plane and forwards user data packets between nodes of the cellular network based on forwarding attributes of the data packets. The controller includes a control plane database that stores a correspondence between the forwarding attributes and the cellular attributes of the plurality of nodes. The controller is configured to receive user input specifying a forwarding change in the transport plane SDS in terms of one of the cellular attributes. The controller uses the control plane database to determine a forwarding attribute corresponding to the one of the cellular attributes and downloads a forwarding rule to the transport plane SDS.
US10045224B2
An information processing method and apparatus relate to the field of mobile communications technologies, which are used to resolve a technical problem that no better network planning method is available. A user target throughput (UTT) for a user terminal and a grid throughput ability (GTA) of a grid in which the user terminal is located are determined such that whether a GAP area exists in the grid is determined. This determining manner not only considers user experience, but also makes reference to real service features of a network. Conducting network planning in this manner can make network planning more appropriate and make user experience better.
US10045221B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for operating a communications system using both licensed and unlicensed frequency bands. Unlicensed spectrum may be used as a primary band for transmitting data packets and TCP may be implemented for selectively transmitting (e.g., retransmitting) a subset of the transmitted data packets via licensed spectrum. Selective transmission of the subset of data packets via licensed spectrum may be based on a transmitter failing to receive and acknowledgment (ACK) message in response to one or more transmitted data packets on the unlicensed spectrum. Selective retransmission may be based on a transmitter detecting interference and/or it may be based on a receiver reporting information about channel conditions. In some cases, a transmitter may simultaneously receive channel condition information for both licensed and unlicensed spectrum. In other cases, unlicensed spectrum may be utilized for data packet transmission and licensed spectrum may be utilized for ACK messages.
US10045220B2
Usefulness of resource usage sensing information is determined by at least one node in a radio system. Transmission of sensing result information in the radio system is then controlled based at least in part on the determined usefulness.
US10045212B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for securing user input and/or output on a mobile endpoint device. For example, the method receives an input on the mobile endpoint device, encrypts and authenticates the input in a trusted domain of the mobile endpoint device executing an application and sends the input that is encrypted and authenticated to an untrusted domain of the mobile endpoint device over a secure channel.
US10045209B1
A user of a mobile device is authenticated in a manner that enables the user access to a credential that has been issued by a credential-issuing organization. One or more keys are identified that are associated with the credential and that enable access to one or more physical resources associated with the credential-issuing organization. A physical orientation of the user's mobile device is determined. A display arrangement of one or more control icons that enable usage of the one or more keys is determined based on a physical orientation of the one or more physical resources relative to the determined physical orientation of the mobile device. The one or more control icons are displayed in accordance with the determined display arrangement.
US10045207B2
The disclosure provides a client device for hearing device communication and related method. The client device comprises a processing unit, a memory unit, and an interface. The processing unit is configured to send a session request for a session to the hearing device via the interface. The processing unit is configured to receive a session response from the hearing device via the interface. The processing unit is configured to obtain a session key based on e.g. the session response. The processing unit is configured to determine hearing device data and/or to generate session data e.g. based on the session key and the hearing device data. The processing unit is configured to send the session data to the hearing device via the interface.
US10045204B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: connecting, using a network communication device of a mobile device, to a communication network; detecting, using a short range wireless communication device of the mobile device, one or more known devices; determining, using a processor of the mobile device, that the one or more known devices are authorized to connect to the communication network through the mobile device; sending, using the short range wireless communication device, control data for accessing the communication network to the one or more known devices; and communicating, using the network communication device of the mobile device, data for the one or more known devices via the communication network. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10045202B2
Disclosed in one embodiment of the present invention is a method for a user staying in a first country to be authorized in advance, before entering a second country which is different from the first country, to use a network service on a user terminal in the second country, without buying a local USIM after arriving in the second country or using a roaming service.
US10045198B2
Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for improving communications systems which use home gateways or the like. This can be obtained by avoiding potentially frequent inter-MME (intra-MME pool) context transfers. This can then reduce unnecessary or redundant signalling.
US10045192B2
Technology for a user equipment (UE) to communicate in a device to device (D2D) network is described. A temporary identification (Temp ID) can be received from an enhanced node B (eNB). A D2D discovery resource allocation can be received within a physical uplink channel from the eNB. A UE D2D discovery resource can be selected from the D2D discovery resource allocation based on the Temp ID. A D2D discovery beacon can be transmitted from the UE D2D discovery resource to enable other UEs to detect the UE.
US10045178B2
An apparatus and method of operating a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The apparatus includes a first communication unit comprising a transmitter configured to transmit a first signal to a base station or another UE and a first receiver configured to receive a second signal from the base station, wherein the first communication unit is connected to a first port of a switch module, a second communication unit comprising a second receiver configured to receive a third signal from the another UE and a third receiver configured to receive a fourth signal from the base station, wherein the second communication unit is connected to a second port of the switch module, and wherein the switch module is configured to perform time division duplexing (TDD) switching between the first port and the second port in a first communication mode, and wherein the switch module is connected to the first port in a second communication mode.
US10045171B2
A positional information managing device includes a processor. The processor is configured to manage first positional information of a first mobile device communicating with a network. The processor is configured to associate device information of a second mobile device connected to the first mobile device with the first positional information. The second mobile device communicates with the network through the first mobile device.
US10045159B2
Methods and systems for providing information associated with a location history of a mobile device to one or more applications are disclosed. A mobile device generates one or more location history records based on one or more locations of the mobile device, each location history record comprising one or more points of interest and a duration at the one or more points of interest, receives an information request from at least one application, determines a subset of the one or more location history records that meet criteria from the information request, determines a level of permission for the at least one application based on the information request and the subset of the one or more location history records, and provides information associated with the subset of the one or more location history records to the at least one application based on the level of permission.
US10045158B2
Displaying a map in a mobile communication device. Geographic coordinate information for a location of an address in a contact is determined. A user context for the mobile communications device is also determined. A request for a table of contents of available map data without the map data with the geographic coordinate information of the location as input is sent and the table of contents of available map data is received. A subset of map data comprising less data than is listed in the table of contents for the location corresponding to the geographic coordinate information is selected based on the table of contents of available map data and the user context. The subset of the map data is requested and the map with the subset of the map data is caused to be rendered in the display.
US10045153B2
Methods, devices and systems for generating enhanced location information on or about a wireless device. A fixed wireless device (e.g., fixed infrastructure device) may be configured to determine its current location based on location information received from one or more other devices. For example, the fixed wireless device may determine its current three-dimensional location based on latitude coordinate values, longitude coordinate values, and altitude coordinate values received from a plurality of the devices that are in proximity to the fixed wireless device. The fixed wireless device may then dynamically determine whether the fixed wireless device should be included in a telecommunication resource lease based on its determined current location. The fixed wireless device may allocate its available radio frequency resources use by devices that subscribe to a different network in response to determining that it should be included in the telecommunication resource lease.
US10045152B2
A method, system, and/or apparatus for automatically tracking a mobile user using the user's mobile device. This invention is particularly useful in the field of social media, such as for detecting and tracking the location and activity of a user and her community. The method or implementing software application uses or relies upon location information available on the mobile device from any source, such as cell phone usage and/or other device applications. The social media system can automatically determine a location type and/or user activity from context information. The context information can include current and past location and user and/or community information, time-dependent information, and third party information. The automated location and context information allows for users to set triggering conditions for other users, such as to provide an alert to one user or more users upon a particular action of the monitored other user being automatically determined by the system.
US10045148B2
Apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for a proximity-based connection facilitation device (“PBC”) may be described which may facilitate discovery and connection to computing devices. The PBC may present visual elements representing devices based on their locations, such as their proximity to the PBC. The PBC may present visual elements for a limited set of devices. The PBC may present computing devices in a visual manner that may depict their proximity to the PBC. The PBC may also provide for facilitated connection to devices that are not as proximate to the PBC. The PBC may facilitate identification of devices that are proximate to an identified device. By facilitating a user in selecting a first device and then visualizing devices proximate to the first device, the PBC may facilitate a user in chaining from a first device to devices that are less easily identified. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10045147B2
A memory stores a message map associating requests with human-machine interface (HMI) notifications. A vehicle receives a request from a secondary-connected device, and sends an HMI notification to a primary-connected device, constructed based on the message map and the request, to simulate user input to the vehicle to cause the primary-connected device to perform the request. A secondary-connected device connected to a vehicle computing platform receives a command, constructs a request message describing the command; and sends the request message to the computing platform, to cause the computing platform to send a HMI notification to a primary-connected device to simulate user input to the vehicle requesting the primary-connected device to perform the command.
US10045143B1
Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for sound identification. Aspects include receiving, by a processor in a wearable electronic device, an indication of an audio signal. The audio signal is analyzed to determine an audio source and based at least in part on the audio source, non-auditory feedback is provided to a user of the wearable electronic device.
US10045135B2
Embodiments herein enable fast and easy interconnectivity among multimedia accessories including mobile devices and other devices. There is only limited space on mobile devices yet there are numerous input connectors. The standard TRRS audio jack is one such input that has and remains common, primarily because it is the accepted standard for audio input; namely, headphones and earpieces for listening purposes. Embodiments herein describe an intelligent switch to that audio jack that permits for additional backward and forward compatibility. It transparently allows a user to insert analog or digital audio devices, such as earphones, without the need to manually reconfigure device settings. The device herein automatically converts between input connector types using the same input convention present on their existing mobile devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10045124B2
This application describes methods and apparatus for mitigating the effects of crosstalk in multichannel audio. An audio driver circuit (200) for driving first and second audio loads (103) having a common return path (RC), has first and second signal paths (Left and Right). A crosstalk compensation block (205) is configured to add a first compensation signal to the first signal path and add a second compensation signal to the second signal path. The first compensation signal is generated based on the second audio signal and a first compensation function and the second compensation signal is generated based on the first audio signal and a second compensation function. Each of the first and second compensation functions is based on a predetermined impedance value for at least part of the common return path (RH1) and is also based on a determined DC impedance value (ZL, ZR) for one of the first and second audio loads which is modified by a band correction factor (γ). The band correction factor modifies the DC impedance value so it is a better estimate of impedance across the frequency band of interest.
US10045123B2
Embodiments are described herein that provide numerous volume enhancements to a media playback system. An example implementation involves a playback device playing audio content at a first volume level as part of a first audio playback group configuration, storing a first volume level in association with the first audio playback group configuration, joining a second audio playback group configuration, playing audio content at a second volume level as a part of the second audio playback group configuration, receiving a command to play audio content as part of the first audio playback group configuration, identifying the first volume level in the data storage; and playing audio content at the first volume level as part of the first audio playback group configuration.
US10045122B2
Systems and methods for acoustic echo cancellation are provided. An example method includes receiving a reference signal. The reference signal represents at least one sound captured inside an enclosure of a loudspeaker. The loudspeaker is operable to play back a far end signal. The method also includes receiving an acoustic signal. The acoustic signal represents at least one sound captured outside the enclosure of the loudspeaker. The acoustic signal includes at least a near end signal and the far end signal. The method enables attenuation, using the reference signal, the far end signal in the acoustic signal. The reference signal can be captured by a low sensitivity microphone placed inside the enclosure of the loudspeaker. The attenuation of the far end signal may include subtractive cancellation.
US10045121B2
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors and related bias voltage techniques are described. Exemplary MEMS sensors, such as exemplary MEMS acoustic sensors or microphones described herein can employ one or more bias voltage generators and single-ended or differential amplifier arrangements. Various embodiments are described that can effectively increase the bias voltage available to the sensor element without resorting to high breakdown voltage semiconductor processes. In addition, control of the one or more bias voltage generators in various operating modes is described, based on consideration of a number of factors.
US10045117B2
An earpiece includes an earpiece housing sized and shaped to block an external auditory canal of a user, at least one microphone positioned to sense ambient sound, a speaker, and a processor disposed within the earpiece housing and operatively connected to each of the at least one microphone and the speaker, wherein the processor is configured to modify the ambient sound based on user preferences to produce modified ambient sound in a first mode of operation and to produce a second sound in response to a trigger condition. The second sound may be an unmodified version of the ambient sound. The second sound may be a modified version of the ambient sound which suppresses at least a portion of the ambient sound. The second sound may be a warning sound.
US10045113B2
A positioning and retaining structure for an in-ear earpiece. An outer leg and an inner leg are attached to each other at an attachment end and attached to a body of the earpiece at the other end. The outer leg lies in a plane. The positioning and retaining structure have a stiffness that is greater when force is applied to the attachment end in a counterclockwise direction in the plane of the outer leg than when force is applied to the attachment end in a clockwise direction in the plane of the outer leg. The positioning and retaining structure position an earpiece associated with the earpiece in a user's ear and retains the earpiece in its position.
US10045104B2
A microphone that includes a calibration signal generator that generates a calibration signal based upon a received invocation input. The calibration signal has known audio properties. The microphone also includes a transducer that converts sound energy into an electrical signal. An integrated circuit receives the electrical signal from the transducer. An external microphone interface provides the calibration signal to a device external to the microphone.
US10045100B2
Methods and apparatus for asymmetric distribution of mixed content via a network. Current optical fiber-based access network technologies are multiplexed onto the same fiber for delivery via a common Optical Distribution Network (ODN). Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to combining (using optical multiplexing and power splitting) two or more optical user-technologies onto a single Passive Optical Network (PON) while maintaining an independent serving group size and operational independence for each of the combined user-technologies. The disclosed methods and apparatus allow the so-called “outside plant” architecture (i.e., the fiber optic infrastructure from the headend to the customer premises) to be independent of the user-technologies and network architecture that are provided via the outside plant.
US10045093B2
Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention enhance the security of content distribution using individualized playlists. In many embodiments, a playlist is individually composed for a client device so that the selection of content included in the playlist encodes information. One embodiment includes generating a watermark sequence, where each watermark sequence is a unique identifier, selecting between alternative chunks of encoded content based upon the watermark sequence, where each of the alternative chunks of encoded content includes the same perceptual content and differs in the way it is watermarked, and listing the selected chunks in a playlist, where content assembled using the playlist includes a unique watermark sequence.
US10045092B2
Systems and methods are provided for enforcing the consumption and broadcasting of protected content. A user device on which protected content may be captured, consumed and/or broadcast to other user devices, identifies content being consumed and/or broadcast. Upon identifying the content, the content is determined as being protected or unprotected. If the content is deemed to be protected, the user device can cease consumption of the content on the user device as well as to the other user devices to which the content is being broadcast. Additionally, the user device can transmit a warning notification to one or more of the user device and the other user devices. Further still, the user device can present options to legitimize the presentation of the content on the user device and/or the other user devices.
US10045077B2
Techniques for obtaining a reaction of an individual to content and outputting the reaction of the individual with the content are described herein. The techniques may include obtaining the reaction of the individual as the content is displayed to the individual. The reaction may be obtained by capturing a video of the individual. The reaction of the individual and the content may be output at a same time to another individual. These techniques may also include obtaining the reaction of another individual as the content and the reaction of the individual are output to another individual.
US10045074B2
A computing system receives from a media presentation device a query fingerprint stream representing media content being presented by the media presentation device, where the query fingerprint stream has been determined to represent a first channel. The computing system then detects that a threshold mismatch exists between the received query fingerprint stream and a reference fingerprint stream representing the first channel, thus indicating a likelihood that the media presentation device has transitioned from presenting the first channel to presenting a second channel. Responsive to detecting the threshold mismatch, the system thus discontinues channel-specific action with respect to the first channel. For instance, the system could discontinue superimposing of first-channel-specific content on the presented media content and perhaps start superimposing of second-channel-specific content instead.
US10045067B2
Example embodiments provide systems and methods for replacing recorded media content. In an example method, at least one media content source is searched for a media content item recorded to storage of a first media content device. Based on the media content item being found at a first media content source of the at least one media content source, a recording of the media content item to storage of a second media content device is scheduled based on the media content item being recordable from the first media content source at the second media content device. Based on the media content item not being recordable from the first media content source at the second media device, the availability of the media content item is indicated to the second media content device.
US10045063B2
Various arrangements for controlling presentation of the video mosaic are presented. A television receiver may store a front-end switching condition and a back-end switching condition. The front-end switching condition may define criteria occurring within a piece of content that triggers when focus is to switch from the piece of content to another piece of content. The back-end switching condition may define when focus is to switch to a higher-ranked piece of content. The television receiver may output to a presentation device, the video mosaic comprising a plurality of pieces of content presented within a plurality of tiles. The television receiver may control focus among the plurality of tiles within the video mosaic based on the front-end switching condition and the back-end switching condition, wherein one tile from the plurality of tiles receives focus at a given time.
US10045058B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method comprising encoding, by a server comprising a processor, media content to generate a plurality of media content files each having a filename and a uniform resource locator. The method also comprises receiving a channel request from a client media processor and generating a playlist. The playlist is mapped to the requested channel, and includes a filename and uniform resource locator for a personalized content file that is not included in the media content files. The method further comprises receiving a file request from the client media processor in accordance with the playlist, multicasting the plurality of media content files so that the client media processor receives the plurality of media content files, and delivering the personalized content file to the client media processor to enable presentation of personalized content in accordance with the playlist. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10045055B1
Video streaming is delivered through a communication network to one or more client computing devices/systems. A number of video display or bandwidth control profiles are used in part to control an amount of bandwidth used by each client to stream video at various quality levels or audio-only. Video display profiles can be configured according to a particular device/system being used to stream video.
US10045054B2
A device is configured to perform a method that detects a trigger marker for an action corresponding to a segment of a multimedia signal. A fingerprint is generated based on the segment of the multimedia signal at a trigger time point. The generated fingerprint is stored in a database and communicated to the device. During playback of the multimedia signal, fingerprints of segments of the multimedia signal are generated and matched against fingerprints in the database. When a match is found, one or more associated actions for the segment are retrieved by the device. The trigger time point may be determined as a time point near or at the segment of the multimedia signal with the matched fingerprint. In this way, trigger markers for actions may be enabled without modifying the multimedia signal.
US10045052B2
A system and a method transmit data in a first codec from a first terminal to a second terminal. The first terminal establishes a connection with the second terminal and/or transmits, transfers and/or sends the data to the second terminal via the connection between the first terminal and the second terminal. The connection between the first terminal and the second terminal has a first channel and/or a second channel to transmit the data from the first terminal to the second terminal. The first terminal transmits the data in a first codec to the second terminal via the first channel and/or the second channel of the connection without receiving capabilities of and/or intentions from the second terminal. The second terminal may be incapable of receiving, of processing, of accepting and/or of displaying the data in the first codec. The capabilities of and/or the intentions from the second terminal is transmitted to the first terminal via the connection. The first terminal switches the data from the first codec to the second codec and/or transmits the data in the second codec to the second terminal via the connection between the first terminal and the second terminal.
US10045046B2
This disclosure describes techniques for calculating values of sub-integer pixels applied by an encoder and a decoder to encode blocks of video data. In one example, a video encoder is configured to receive values for a full integer pixel positions of a reference sample, apply an interpolation filter to a first set of the values for the full integer pixel positions to calculate a value for a first sub-integer pixel of one of the full integer pixel positions, apply the interpolation filter to a second, different set of the values for the full integer pixel positions to calculate a value for a second, different sub-integer pixel of the one of the full integer pixel positions, encode a current block of pixels using a motion vector that points to one of the first sub-integer pixel and the second sub-integer pixel.
US10045039B2
A method or coding image information, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: binarizing according to different techniques, index values of forward prediction, backward prediction, and bidirectional prediction, depending on whether the bidirectional prediction is applied when inter-predicting a current block; and entropy coding a binarized codeword, wherein whether to apply the bidirectional prediction when inter-predicting the current block can be determined on the basis of the size of the current block. As a result, provided are a method for binarizing an inter-prediction direction of a prediction unit having a specific size, and an apparatus using same.
US10045034B2
An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method of using pattern vectors for image coding and decoding. The method comprises converting a block of image data into a set of transform coefficients, quantizing the transform coefficients such that a number of the coefficients become zero, constructing a single entity or bit vector indicating which coefficients are non-zero, coding the single entity or bit vector as an integer using an adaptive, semi-adaptive or non-adaptive arithmetic coder, coding the values of the coefficients in any fixed order, using an adaptive, semi-adaptive or non-adaptive arithmetic coder, or some other coder, and coding all coefficients except the zero coefficients. The system and method of decoding data relate to the corresponding hardware and process steps performed by the decoder when decoding a bitstream coded as described herein.
US10045032B2
An apparatus having a circuit. The circuit may be configured to (i) calculate a plurality of complexity values while compressing a current picture in a video signal. Each complexity value generally characterizes how a corresponding one of a plurality of blocks in the current picture was compressed. The circuit may also be configured to (ii) adjust the complexity values below a first threshold to a default value and (iii) generate a region of interest by grouping the blocks having non-default values of the complexity values above a second threshold.
US10045031B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for coding/decoding an image. The method for decoding the image comprises the steps of: deriving a scale factor of a current block, depending on whether the current block is a conversion skip block; and scaling the current block on the basis of the scale factor, wherein the scale factor of the current block is derived on the basis of the position of a conversion coefficient inside the current block, and wherein the conversion skip block is the current block to which conversion is not applied and is specified on the basis of information indicating whether to apply reconversion to the current block.
US10045024B2
The invention relates to a method and device for quantising the floating value of a pixel of an image by rounding either to a lesser whole number, to a greater whole number, or to the whole number closest to this floating value. The method is characterised in that the selection of rounding this floating value is determined based on a test value.
US10045022B2
A system and a method are disclosed for encoding and decoding a video frame using spatial prediction. The video frame is separated into a plurality of image blocks, and a plurality of spatial predictors is created for an image block using methods well-known in the art. The set of predictors is reduced to a set containing fewer spatial predictors before continuing the coding process for the block. The reduction of spatial predictors involves comparing a plurality of spatial predictors in a predetermined sequence and grouping or processing a subset of the spatial predictors to a set of representative spatial predictors.
US10045020B2
A scalable video signal decoding method, according to the present invention, determines a corresponding picture belonging to a lower layer used for an inter-layer prediction of a current picture belonging to an upper layer, and performs the inter-layer prediction of the current picture by using the corresponding picture in the determined lower layer, wherein the inter-layer prediction is restrictively performed according to a tile boundary alignment flag indicating whether tiles between the upper layer and the lower layer are aligned.
US10045015B2
A method for synchronizing a camera that has an image sensor with a projector that can generate a synchronization signal which corresponds to the projector frame rate. The projector is operated with a frame rate (F2), and the camera is operated with a frame rate (F1). A blanking interval is formed between individual images, and the synchronization signal of the projector is provided for controlling the camera. In order to match a phase (P1) of the frame rate (F1) of the camera to a phase (P2) of the frame rate (F2) of the projector and/or in order to match the frame rate (F1) of the camera to the frame rate (F2) of the projector, one or more blanking intervals between the individual images of the camera are varied dependent on the synchronization signal of the projector. For this purpose, a control circuit carries out a comparison between the phase (P1) of the frame rate (F1) of the camera and the phase (P2) of the frame rate (F2) of the projector and/or between the frame rate (F1) of the camera and the frame rate (F2) of the projector, wherein the trigger input of the image sensor is not activated for the matching process.
US10045003B2
A method for determining a macroblock (MB) coding mode for a current MB in a dependent view. A window around a co-located MB in a base view is determined, wherein the co-located MB is a MB in the base view having a same location as the current MB in the dependent view. A coding mode complexity value (CMCV) is determined for each MB in the window, wherein the CMCV is based on a coding mode used to encode the MB. Rate distortion optimization (RDO) is performed for the current MB using a reduced number of coding modes if a total CMCV for all MBs in the window is less than a threshold, or using all supported coding modes if the total CMCV for all MBs in the window is greater than the threshold. A coding mode for the current MB is determined based on the RDO results.
US10044998B2
A projection apparatus includes a projection mode designation unit configured to designate one of a plurality of projection modes which designate at least one of a brightness and a color of the image which is projected by the projection unit; and a projection control unit configured to determine, based on the color information of the projection target surface acquired by the projection surface information acquisition unit and the projection mode designated by the projection mode designation unit, a gray scale range of each of colors constituting the image which is projected by the projection unit, and configured to cause the projection unit to project the image.
US10044997B2
For an example method of reducing diffraction artifacts in a displayed image from a digital image projection system, a digital controller is coupled to a spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator includes a two dimensional array of pixels. The method includes receiving signals containing pixel image data and processing the pixel image data to determine a desired gray scale for a pixel. The desired gray scale is compared to achievable gray scales of the digital image projection system. An upper bounding achievable gray scale is determined, and a lower bounding achievable gray scale is determined. Also, a dithering percentage for the desired gray scale is determined. The method chooses one of the upper bounding achievable gray scale and the lower bounding achievable gray scale. Also, a modified lower bounding gray scale is chosen to reduce the dithering percentage.
US10044993B2
An imaging system and an electronic apparatus are provided and include an image pickup device including a plurality of pixels; a variable filter provided on a light receiving face of the image pickup device, the variable filter is configured to selectively transmit incident light; wherein the image pickup device is coupled to the variable filter via an anisotropic conductive film and a connection bump.
US10044984B1
An electronic device displays an image during a communication between two people. The image represents one of the people to the communication. The electronic device determines a location where to place the image and displays the image such that the image appears to exist at the location.
US10044965B2
A method for image capture of a Thin Film Transistor (TFT) flat-panel image sensor is provided. The method for image capture includes: driving one of the plurality of scanning lines within a driving time; and collecting signals from the plurality of data lines by the signal readout chip periodically with a first period as a signal capture period; where the first period have a same time duration with the driving time, an end time point of an m-th first period coincides with a start time point of an (m+1)-th first period, where m is a positive integer, and an end time point of an n-th driving time coincides with a start time point of an (n+1)-th driving time, where n is a positive integer. The method for image capture can improve stability of the signal readout chip and reduce design difficulty of the entire circuit system.
US10044962B2
The present technique relates to a solid-state imaging device, a solid-state imaging device manufacturing method, and an electronic apparatus that are capable of providing a solid-state imaging device that can prevent generation of RTS noise due to miniaturization of amplifying transistors, and can achieve a smaller size and a higher degree of integration accordingly.A solid-state imaging device (1-1) includes: a photodiode (PD) as a photoelectric conversion unit; a transfer gate (TG) that reads out charges from the photodiode (PD); a floating diffusion (FD) from which the charges of the photodiode (PD) are read by an operation of the transfer gate (TG); and an amplifying transistor (Tr3) connected to the floating diffusion (FD). More particularly, the amplifying transistor (Tr3) is of a fully-depleted type. Such an amplifying transistor includes an amplifier gate (AG) (gate electrode) extending in a direction perpendicular to convex strips (33) formed by processing a surface layer of a semiconductor layer (11), for example.
US10044952B2
The present disclosure provides an adaptive shading correction method for correcting an image for lens shading, including segmenting the image into a plurality of blocks of pixels and identifying hue-flat blocks with a relatively low hue variance, where the hue-flat blocks are clustered into at least one cluster based on a spatial distribution of the blocks. Selected modification parameters for modifying an average shading mesh are identified by modifying the average shading mesh along a plurality of dimensions using a plurality of modification parameters, and processing the at least one cluster with the average shading mesh as modified so as to identify the selected modification parameters. The average shading mesh is modified using the selected modification parameters to generate a shading correction mesh, which is used to correct the image for lens shading.
US10044951B2
The present invention provides an image sensor having a flexible property, the image sensor includes multiple pixels provided in an active area where incident light is detected, the multiple pixels having a photoelectric conversion element and an image correction pattern positioned at a front of the photoelectric conversion element in a direction of an incident surface to which the light is incident, the image correction pattern being formed of a material blocking the light.
US10044939B2
Provided are ways in which a camera can be operated by a control device. Such provides a convenient solution whenever, e.g., two friends, each with a cell phone, wish to take a well-composed impromptu group picture. The “camera” may be any type of camera, which can be coupled to the control or monitoring device. Typical cameras include those associated with mobile devices, such as cell phone cameras, but also dedicated cameras with transceiver functionality. The control device is often a mobile device such as a cell phone, but can also be a dedicated monitoring device. In one implementation, the control device can control the direction of view, the field of view, and shutter operation, and provide to the user an image of the current view seen. In this implementation, the user may control most significant aspects of camera composition, as well as initiating the capture of the image.
US10044919B2
An imaging structure for a portable electronic device is disclosed. The imaging structure may include a housing having an opening for obtaining external light. The imaging structure may also include a reflective module coupled with the housing. The reflective module may include a reflective surface for reflecting the external light. The imaging structure may further include a photo-sensing module coupled with the reflective module. The photo-sensing module may be configured to generate an image based on the external light reflected from the reflective module toward the photo-sensing module.
US10044906B2
An image processing apparatus includes a controller configured to perform: acquiring objective image data, the objective image data being generated by optically reading a manuscript and representing an objective image including a character image indicating a character; determining whether any condition, among conditions including first and second conditions, is satisfied; if the first condition is satisfied, transmitting, to a predetermined communication apparatus, first image data based on the objective image data, the first image data representing the objective image, receiving first processed data from the predetermined communication apparatus; and if the second condition is satisfied, executing, for the objective image data, a predetermined compression processing for reducing size of data representing the character image in the objective image data so as to generate second image data; transmitting the second image data to the predetermined communication apparatus; and receiving second processed data from the predetermined communication apparatus.
US10044902B2
A printing apparatus in which a controller controls an image forming unit. When a cover sheet is a first type of sheet, a normal image is formed on the cover sheet after forming the image on a body sheet and the cover sheet is conveyed to a saddle finisher without reversing the cover sheet. When the cover sheet has a higher transparency than the first type of sheet and is able to be reversed, a mirror image is formed on the cover sheet after forming the image on the body sheet. When the cover sheet is a third type of sheet having a higher transparency than the first type of sheet and is not able to be reversed by the reversing mechanism, a normal image is formed on the cover sheet after forming the image on the body sheet and the cover sheet on which the normal image has been formed is conveyed to the saddle finisher without reversing the cover sheet.
US10044898B2
An image reading device, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes a first transparent body, a second transparent body, a holding body, and a reading body. The second transparent body is disposed separated from and inclined at a predetermined angle to the first transparent body. The holding body holds the first and second transparent bodies. The reading body moves in a sub-scanning direction along the first and second transparent bodies. The holding body includes a flat face and a frame-shaped face. The flat face is contiguous to the first transparent body on a same plane and smoothly connected with the second transparent body. The frame-shaped face projects outwardly beyond the second transparent body facing the reading body. The reading body moves and contacts the first transparent body and the holding body, and moves with a gap relative to the second transparent body.
US10044895B2
An image forming apparatus includes an application on a framework, that is separated into a core logic portion handling basic processing and a user interface frame portion handling rendering processing and operates; and a controller that executes the application and the framework. The core logic portion is implemented with an application programming interface defined by the framework. The application includes plural applications including a specific application, and a core logic portion of the specific application is implemented with a starter programming interface, displays a start screen, and displays a contingency screen in a case where an error occurs in another application.
US10044890B2
An image reading apparatus which is capable of successfully reading an image off an original by correctly detecting a size of the original without degrading productivity even if mixed-size originals are placed on an original tray with edges not aligned. An image reading unit reads an image off an original passing through a reading position. An original size detection sensor detects an original. A first original size is determined using a result of detection by the original size detection sensor, and a second original size is determined using the image read off the original. The first original size or the second original size is adopted as an original size.
US10044889B1
A sheet processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes an image reading unit that reads an image of a sheet. A sheet discharge tray receives a sheet read by the image reading unit. A measurement unit measures a total weight of sheets on the sheet discharge tray. A read counter counts a number of all sheets read by the image reading unit. The read counter stores the number of the currently read sheet in association with the measured total weight of the sheets on the sheet discharge tray. A measured value comparison unit compares the current measured weight of the sheets and a stored measured weight stored in association with the number of the read sheet immediately preceding the currently read sheet. A dropped page identification unit identifies, by page number, one or more sheets dropped from the sheet discharge unit based on the comparison result.
US10044885B2
An information processing system including an information processing apparatus that selects between transferring data and obtaining data, and controls transferring data or obtaining data based on the selection. The system also includes a server that stores data transferred from the information processing apparatus, and controls transferring data to the information processing apparatus based on a request for transferring data received from the information processing apparatus.
US10044880B2
Systems and methods for comparing different models of printers are provided. According to one embodiment, a system for comparing printers includes at least one web portal configured to receive a user's selection of two models of printers to be compared. The system further includes a printer analysis server configured to receive the user's selection via a first network. A plurality of sample printers is connected to the printer analysis server via a second network. The printer analysis server is configured to establish communication with two sample printers of the plurality of sample printers, the two sample printers corresponding to the two selected printer models. The printer analysis server is further configured to provide a data stream of print commands to the two sample printers and analyze print output results from the two sample printers, wherein the print output results may then be provided to the user.
US10044875B2
A method of implementing calls includes identifying a call scheduled for a time in the future from an electronic calendar associated with a user and prior to the call, ordering a plurality of codecs used by an Internet Protocol (IP) phone of the user for the scheduled call. The method further includes, during the call and using a processor, calculating a mean opinion score for the call and storing the mean opinion score as part of call data for the call within a data storage device comprising historical call data.
US10044863B1
A system and method for automated call analysis using context specific lexicons. A system includes memory and a processor configured to executed instructions. The system includes a recording component, a lexicon component, an analysis component, and a display component. The lexicon component defines a plurality of context specific lexicons, with each context specific lexicon having elements associated with one of a plurality of unique conversation segments. The analysis component configured to identify elements of the context specific lexicons, and associate each identified element with a time location in a telephonic conversation. The display component configured to graphically present a multi-line graph such that the intersections of the lines indicate transitions between the unique conversation segments.
US10044854B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods for providing captioned telephone service. One method includes initiating a first captioned telephone service call. During the first captioned telephone service call, a first set of captions is created using a human captioner. Simultaneous with creating the first set of captions using a human captioner, a second set of captions is created using an automated speech recognition captioner. The first set of captions and the second set of captions are compared using a scoring algorithm. In response to the score of second set of captions being within predetermined range of scores, the call is continued using only the automated speech recognition captioner. In response to the score of second set of captions being outside of a predetermined range of scores, the call is continued using a human captioner.
US10044851B2
A method for managing appointments using a wireless device includes receiving scheduling data for a future appointment including a time associated with the future appointment. A current location of the wireless device is determined, and a reminder for the future appointment is provided at a time prior to the future appointment based on the current location of the wireless device. Fox example, the reminder may be provided at a time that varies based on the current location of the wireless device, a location associated with the future appointment, and an estimated travel time between the current location of the device and the location associated with the future appointment. Related methods, devices, and computer program products are also discussed.
US10044843B2
A computer-implemented method for topping up a mobile device account associated with a mobile device includes causing a wireless communication link to be established with the mobile device, receiving, via the wireless communication link, information indicative of identification of the mobile device, receiving information indicative of a desired payment associated with the mobile device account, and causing the desired payment to be applied to the mobile device account, at least in part by sending the information indicative of identification of the mobile device and the information indicative of the desired payment to one or more remote servers.
US10044835B1
Systems and methods for optimized polling. An example method may comprise: receiving, over a transport layer connection, a first application layer request comprising a payload; storing, by a processing device, the payload in a memory; forwarding the payload to an application layer; receiving, over the transport layer connection, a second application layer request comprising no payload; and forwarding the payload to the application layer.
US10044821B2
Various embodiments provide an evaluation module that is configured to monitor activities of new users and ascertain, from monitored activities, a reputation associated with the new users. In at least some embodiments, the evaluation module comprises an activity store and/or a reputation service. The activity store can monitor different types of actions associated with new users. For example, the activity store can monitor content-based actions that pertain to particular pieces of content and/or user behaviors associated with new users. The reputation service, which may or may not comprise part of the evaluation module, can ascertain from information provided from the activity store, information, such as a reputation category, associated with content-based actions and/or user behaviors associated with new users. Based on a new user's information, e.g. reputation category, the new user can be assigned an activity type which, in turn, defines allowed and disallowed activities for the new user.
US10044818B2
Systems and methods for receiving a notification related to a predicted future geographic location of a mobile device are provided. In some aspects, a plurality of geographic locations of the mobile device are determined. A speed for the mobile device is determined based on at least a subset of the plurality of geographic locations and associated timestamps. A future geographic location of the mobile device is predicted based on the speed and at least one geographic location from among the plurality of geographic locations. A representation of the predicted future geographic location of the mobile device is provided to a server. In response to the provided representation of the predicted future geographic location of the mobile device, a notification related to a point of interest associated with the predicted future geographic location of the mobile device is received from the server.
US10044813B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a control device. The control device determines that a first thin client is in a remote session with a remote machine and is in wireless connection with one or more peripherals. The control device detects that the first thin client is in a predetermined status. The control device requests a second thin client to resume the remote session of the remote machine. The control device connects the one or more peripherals with the second thin client wirelessly.
US10044809B2
Provided is a wireless communication device for packet communication. When power is applied, in a case where a packet data is received before receiving a message notifying that packet communication starts, the other party is urged to transmit a message saying that the packet communication starts and a packet number is initialized in accordance with transmission and reception of the message that the packet communication starts.
US10044800B2
A server, which is in communication with a plurality of client computing devices configured to perform a reduced simulation function, comprises a synchronization engine configured to generate synchronization packets for one or more rigid bodies according to a synchronization scheme and, for each rigid body, to dynamically update the synchronization scheme based on a current state of the rigid body in simulation data and stored states for the rigid body which are stored in a buffer. The synchronization packets are then transmitted to one of the plurality of client computing devices.
US10044798B2
The present disclosure relates to offloading computing tasks from a user device to a cloud service. In one embodiment, a method generally includes generating, based on user input, a command for processing by the cloud service. The user device ranks the user device and one or more peer devices in a network based on at least one of information about the user device and one or more peer devices and information about the generated command from the user device and the peer devices, and the user device selects one or more of the user device and the peer devices to transmit the command based on the ranking information. Upon determining that the user device is one of the selected devices, the user device transmits the command to the cloud service. If the user device is not one of the selected devices, the user device discards the generated command.
US10044796B2
Systems for transmitting an application message between nodes of a clustered data processing system are disclosed. One system includes a determination of whether one or more application messages may currently be transmitted to a first node of a plurality of nodes from a second node of the plurality of nodes. The system further includes processing the one or more application messages in response to a determination that the one or more application messages may be currently transmitted.
US10044795B2
Methods and apparatus for rack deployments for virtual computing environments are disclosed. An example method includes retrieving, from a repository remote from a system integrator, a software image to be deployed on a processing unit installed in a server rack, in response to receiving a dynamic host configuration protocol request from a processing unit at a virtual imaging appliance, detecting the processing unit and transmitting a network address to the processing unit to be utilized by the processing unit, transmitting the software image from the virtual imaging appliance to the network address assigned to the processing unit, and transmitting a hardware management system software image from the virtual imaging appliance to a network switch installed in the server rack to cause a hardware management system to be installed in the server rack.
US10044793B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores computer-executable instructions. When the instructions are executed by a processor, the instructions cause an information processing apparatus including a communication section configured to communicate with external devices including a server machine on a network, to perform: a process of acquiring hyperlink information corresponding to a hyperlink from document data; a process of acquiring contents specified by the hyperlink information; a process of transmitting the contents to the server machine via the communication section; a process of acquiring, from the server machine, one of URL for acquiring the contents transmitted and URL-related information related to the URL, via the communication section; and a process of generating combined document data in which the URL is combined with the document data.
US10044792B2
The present invention discloses a system, method, and computer program product for determining an optimal compressive pressure of an exsanguination tourniquet and an exsanguination tourniquet, system, and method of assembly. The method includes obtaining at least one parameter related to a tourniquet material, at least one parameter related to the tourniquet positioning, and identifying information comprising a description of at least one component of the tourniquet, selecting program instructions for execution by the processor, determining a compressive pressure of the tourniquet by executing selected program instructions, and determining if the compressive pressure of the tourniquet is optimized.
US10044787B1
Methods, systems, programs, and apparatus for the easy, bi-directional transfer of any number of files or directories of files between computer systems, over a LAN, without the need for an Internet connection, preexistence or presence of special or specific software on more than one computer (the “host”) in the transaction, or prior knowledge of the platforms or operating systems of more than one (the “host”) of the computers constituting an endpoint in the abovementioned transfer.
US10044780B2
A system can perform operations including receiving a first data stream from a first device, wherein the first data stream is associated with an active session between the first device and a mobile network and wherein the first data stream is associated with a first incoming port. The system can also receive a second data stream from the first device, wherein the second data stream is associated with the active session, and wherein the second data stream is associated with a second incoming port. The system can also determine a third port and a fourth port that are outgoing ports that respectively correspond to the first and second ports. The system can also transmit the first data stream to a second device via the third port and transmit the second data stream to a third device via the fourth port.
US10044765B2
A method and apparatus for centralized policy programming and distributive policy enforcement is described. A method comprises centrally maintaining a plurality of policy definitions for one or more subscribers, generating policy configurations using the plurality of policy definitions, each of the policy configurations being specific to one of the plurality of policy definitions, and disseminating the policy configurations to the appropriate ones of the subscribers' networks.
US10044760B2
In one implementation, an example system may include a policy engine. The policy engine may receive a context of an application to request a set of network traffic and provide a policy rule to a network device of a network path. In another implementation, an example system may identify a party and a requested behavior of the service and maintain a context to determine a policy rule to regulate a set of network traffic associated with the service based on the party and the requested behavior. In another implementation, an example method may comprise receiving a service request and an authentication, identifying a party, identifying a behavior, and deploying a policy to a network device of a network based on the party and the behavior.
US10044754B2
A security device may receive, from a server device, a response to a request. The request may be provided by an attacker device and may include a plurality of input values. The security device may determine the plurality of input values, included in the request, based on receiving the response. The security device may modify the response to form a modified response. The response may be modified to include information associated with the plurality of input values. The response may be modified in an attempt to prevent the attacker device from identifying a vulnerability, associated with the server device, based on the plurality of input values being included in the response. The security device may provide the modified response to the attacker device.
US10044749B2
A system and method is provided that facilitates cyber-physical security. The system may comprise a controller including at least one first processor; a monitor system including at least one second processor; and a plurality of sensors configured to capture a plurality of measurements associated with at least one hardware component. The sensors may include both: at least one controller sensor that communicates with the controller; and at least one side-channel sensor that communicates with the monitor system and not with the at least one controller. The first processor of the controller may be configured to cause the controller to control the hardware component based at least in part on measurements from the controller sensor. The second processor of the monitor system may be configured to: receive the measurements from the sensors; determine whether the measurements are indicative of a possible cyberattack on the at least one hardware component; and generate at least one notification indicating a possible cyberattack based on the determination that the measurements are indicative of a possible cyberattack.
US10044747B2
A method for automatically mitigating vulnerabilities in a source code of an application is provided in the present invention. The method includes the following steps. First, the source code is complied, and a path graph is built according to the compiled source code. The path graph includes a plurality of paths traversing from sources to sinks, and each of the paths includes a plurality of nodes. Then, at least one tainted path is identified by enabling a plurality of vulnerability rules. Each of the at least one tainted path corresponds to a vulnerability, and each of the at least one vulnerability corresponds to a sanitization method. Then, the at least one vulnerability is determined if it is mitigable. If the at least one vulnerability is mitigable, the at least one vulnerability is mitigated automatically. Furthermore, the method may be implemented as a system and a computer program product.
US10044745B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for computer network security risk assessment. One of the methods includes obtaining compromise likelihoods for user accounts. Information describing a network topology of a network is obtained, with the network topology being nodes each connected by an edge to other nodes, each node being associated with a compromise likelihood, and one or more nodes are high value nodes associated with a compromise value. Unique paths to each of the high value nodes are determined for a particular user account. An expected value for each path is determined based on the compromise likelihood of the particular user account, the compromise likelihood of each node included in the path, the communication weight of each edge included in the path, and the compromise value associated with the high value node. User interface data is generated describing at least one path.
US10044744B1
A processing device in one embodiment comprises a processor coupled to a memory and is configured to intercept a storage communication directed over a storage channel between a potentially infected machine and an associated storage system, and to determine if the intercepted storage communication is from a security agent deployed on the potentially infected machine. If the intercepted storage communication is from the security agent, at least a portion of the communication is provided to a security system. If the intercepted storage communication is not from the security agent, the communication is forwarded to the storage system. Accordingly, the security agent is configured to communicate with the security system using storage communications sent over the storage channel in a manner that avoids detection of the security agent by malware that may be installed on the machine and configured to monitor network communications.
US10044743B2
The present disclosure provides a computer-readable medium, method and system for determining security vulnerabilities for a plurality of application programs used to provide television services to a customer device over a communications network. The method includes running a first scanning program against a first application program relating to a control panel for the customer device; running a second scanning program against a second application program that provides Internet content to the customer device; running a third scanning program against a third application program that relates to a component management system of customer premises equipment; and correlating security vulnerabilities identified utilizing the first, second, and third scanning programs.
US10044736B1
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a memory and a processor operatively coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to receive a set of domain name resolutions associated with a domain. Each domain name resolution from the set of domain name resolutions includes a mapping between a domain name and an Internet Protocol (IP) address. The processor is then configured to determine, based on the set of domain name resolutions, a set of resolution metrics associated with a first geolocation and a set of resolution metrics associated with a second geolocation. The processor is also configured to compare and identify a role of an adversary infrastructure at the first geolocation and a role of an adversary infrastructure at the second geolocation, and subsequently send a signal such that a remedy response associated with at least one of the set of IP addresses or the domain name is initiated.
US10044730B1
Disclosed are methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for implementing adaptive levels of authentication assurance according to sensitivity or criticality of information accessed or actions performed in a financial management system to enhance user experience and usability of the financial management system while providing adequate security to safeguard sensitive data. Various flow nodes are associated with one or more levels of assurance which are further associated with some authentication tokens of different authentication strengths. Users are usually first authenticated with a lower authentication strength token. Risk profiles may also be accessed to examine the users' requests for access for fraud detection or prevention purposes. As users attempt to access more sensitive data at a higher level of assurance beyond the authorized level, further authentication with higher authentication strength and involving more user efforts in completing the authentication is required before users are authorized on the higher level of assurance.
US10044721B2
A technique is provided for authenticating a first communication device located in a coverage area of a base station. The base station receives a localization message from the first communication device, the localization message containing an identifier of the first communication device. The base station interrogates a register to retrieve a call number associated with the first communication device by means of the identifier of the first communication device. The base station sends a request message to a second communication device that contains the call number and a request for access to the base station. The base station receives a response message from the second communication device, and if the response message contains a positive response to the request, the first communication device is granted access to the base station.
US10044719B2
Systems and methods, implemented by one or more nodes in a cloud-based security system, for enforcing application-based control of network resources include receiving a request from a user device for the network resources; evaluating the request through the cloud-based security system and determining an application on the user device performing the request; and performing one of (1) denying the request if the application is unauthorized to access the network resources, (2) redirecting the request to an authorized application on the user device if the application is legitimate but unauthorized to access the network resources, and (3) allowing the request if the application is authorized to access the network resources.
US10044712B2
A user may be authenticated to access an account, computing device, or other resource based on the user's gaze pattern and neural or other physiological response(s) to one or more images or other stimuli. When the user attempts to access the resource, a computing device may obtain login gaze tracking data and measurement of a physiological condition of the user at the time that the user is viewing an image or other stimulus. Based on comparison of the login gaze tracking data and the measurement of the physiological condition to a model, the computing device can determine whether to authenticate the user to access the resource.
US10044691B1
Decrypting network traffic on a middlebox device using a trusted execution environment (TEE). In one embodiment, a method may include loading a kernel application inside the TEE, loading a logic application outside the TEE, intercepting, by the logic application, encrypted network traffic, forwarding, from the logic application to the kernel application, the encrypted network traffic, decrypting, at the kernel application, the encrypted network traffic, inspecting, at the kernel application, the decrypted network traffic according to a sensitivity policy to determine whether the decrypted network traffic includes sensitive data, forwarding, from the kernel application to the logic application, filtered decrypted network traffic that excludes the sensitive data, processing, at the logic application, the filtered decrypted network traffic, forwarding, from the logic application to the kernel application, the filtered decrypted network traffic after the processing by the logic application, and forwarding, from the kernel application, the encrypted network traffic.
US10044686B2
Systems and methods for decryption of payloads are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, systems and methods herein are configured for decrypting thousands of transactions per second. Further, in particular embodiments, the systems and methods herein are scalable, such that many thousands of transactions can be processed per second upon replicating particular architectural components.
US10044685B2
Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for securing enterprise data in a mobile computing environment. Aspects include receiving, by an application disposed on a mobile computing device, a request to access the enterprise data stored on the mobile computing device in an encrypted format and determining whether the mobile computing device is in communication with an enterprise network. Based on determining that the mobile computing device is in communication with the enterprise network, aspects include transmitting a decryption request to an encryption application disposed on the enterprise network, receiving the enterprise data in an unencrypted format from the enterprise network and granting access to the enterprise data in an unencrypted format to the application. Based on a determination that the mobile computing device is not communication with the enterprise network, aspects also include denying the request to access the enterprise data.
US10044683B2
The disclosure is directed to reduce a load of time and cost at the time of transition to a safer system in which an encryption scheme is newly set. By allowing a device of a transition step which implements a predetermined security reinforcement measure to handle high-value content only for a given system transition period, a problem of a time necessary for the transition can be avoided and the transition to the safer system can be performed smoothly. The device mentioned herein which implements the predetermined security reinforcement measure is, for example, a device which supports only an existing encryption algorithm and for which security of a weaker portion other than the encryption scheme is ensured.
US10044676B2
Some embodiments provide a method for identifying unnecessary firewall rules for a distributed firewall of a logical network. The method identifies a firewall policy for network traffic of the logical network. The firewall policy includes a set of firewall rules. The method generates a set of data for implementing the firewall policy on a set of managed forwarding elements that implement the logical network. The method analyzes potential network traffic based on the generated set of data to identify a subset of unnecessary data. The method identifies a subset of unnecessary firewall rules of the set of firewall rules that corresponds to the subset of unnecessary data.
US10044674B2
A system, apparatus, and method are described for a secure IoT wireless network configuration. For example, one embodiment of an Internet of Things (IoT) hub comprises: a local wireless communication interface to establish local wireless connections with one or more IoT devices and/or IoT extender hubs; a network router to establish network connections over the Internet on behalf of the IoT devices and/or IoT extender hubs; an authentication module pre-configured with a passphrase and a hidden service set identifier (SSID), the authentication module to receive a connection requests from the IoT devices and/or an IoT extender hubs and to grant the connection requests when the IoT devices and/or IoT extender hubs use the pre-configured passphrase and hidden SSID; and a firewall of the IoT hub to block all outgoing and incoming connection requests other than those directed to designated servers of an IoT service with known host names.
US10044672B2
IPv6 address assignment method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: receiving first Prefix Delegations (PDs) sent by at least two network access devices, where the first PDs sent by the different network access devices are different from each other; generating second PDs according to the received first PDs, where the second PDs have a one-to-one correspondence with the first PDs; and sending the generated second PDs to user device for generating by the user device IPv6 addresses according to the second PDs.
US10044655B2
This disclosure relates to systems and methods that include receiving media content from a content submitter, classifying the media content by initiating one of synchronous classification and asynchronous classification based on a type of the media content, generating a media content certificate based on the media type, the certificate including results of the classification, storing the media content certificate with the media content, and filtering the media content based on at least one of an identity of the content submitter, the results of the classification, and the media content including malicious content.
US10044637B2
Systems and methods are described for using opportunistically delayed delivery of content to address sub-optimal bandwidth resource usage in network infrastructures that allow subscribers to share forward link resources. According to some embodiments, content is identified as delayable and assigned to a delaycast queue and/or service flow. For example, a server system of a satellite communications system identifies content that can be delayed to exploit future excess link capacity through multicasting and to exploit subscriber-side storage resources. Some implementations attempt to exploit any excess link resources at any time, while others exploit unused bandwidth only during certain times or when a certain threshold of resources is available. Various embodiments also provide content scoring and/or other prioritization techniques for optimizing exploitation of the delaycast queue.
US10044631B2
A software defined infrastructure (SDI) makes available a subset of a computer server's resources to a cloud solution or workload. Multiple subsets of resources can be combined in a SDI to provide a logical resource pool. This allows cloud administrators to create software defined infrastructures derived from the partial capacity of a collection of systems. The resources defined across the physical boundaries of a computer server can then be made available to host deployment of cloud workloads. The infrastructure resource pool can be selected upon deployment of a cloud workload.
US10044621B2
Methods and systems for managing a network. A TSDN controller determines a change or an anticipated change in traffic in the network. The controller identifies one or more congested links in the network by solving an optimization problem for maximizing network utility to accommodate the change or anticipated change. Solving the optimization problem includes solving for a set of link constraint dual variables associated with links of the network. The link capacity of one or more links of the network is adjusted to decrease the congestion.
US10044619B1
A system and method for handling a digital electronic flow between a first and second entity in which a flow policy is determined that is to be applied to the flow and the flow is then directed along a path in accordance with the policy. An ID is supplied for each flow and a tag associated with each flow which indicates the policy to be applied to its associated flow. Flows are also associated with one another, with associated flows having associated policies. In particular the flow may be processed or forwarded. The path may include a graph structure and virtual applications.
US10044614B2
A system and method for providing multi-processor data plane architecture have been provided. The method comprises selecting several processing units for performing an egress data process and an ingress data process. A number of processing units are selected for performing an egress data process based on a type of switch and data rate. Several processing pipes are provided for each processing unit. Each processing pipe is divided into several processing stages based on a number of lookup tables used in the egress data process and the ingress data process to absorb a response time of a memory device. The data is stored in several databases in each processing unit, and the databases are copied into several banks to increase an access time with a storage device, such as DDR-SDRAM. Several headers are resynchronized using a fixed delay time through an ACL unit.
US10044608B2
According to an example, virtual machine (VM) migration may include generating a redundant tunnel between a common edge device (ED) of a plurality of common EDs of a multi-site network (MSN) and a gateway ED of the MSN. A gateway media access control (MAC) address and a static route may be configured for forwarding an Internet protocol (IP) message between the common ED and the gateway ED using the redundant tunnel.
US10044605B2
The disclosed method may include (1) identifying, at a first node, a preconfigured level of the first node, (2) receiving, at the first node from a second node, a neighbor advertisement that includes a preconfigured level of the second node, (3) determining that a difference between the preconfigured level of the first node and the preconfigured level of the second node is equal to one, (4) recording, at the first node based on the difference being equal to one, an adjacency relationship between the first node and the second node, (5) transmitting a first type of routing-protocol packet from the first node to the second node based on the adjacency relationship, and (6) refraining from transmitting a second type of routing-protocol packet from the first node to the second node based on the adjacency relationship. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10044603B1
A fast reroute (FRR) implementation utilizes an optimized FRR table to implement a fast switchover to a backup link upon detecting a primary link failure on a label switched path (LSP). The switchover can be performed in a negligible amount of time (close to zero milliseconds) based on a backup indicator flag which can be dynamically updated. The FRR table stores pre-determined backup egress interfaces and FRR labels corresponding to primary egress interfaces to minimize the switchover time.
US10044602B2
Some embodiments provide loop detection and loop prevention mechanisms for messaging passing in between peers in a multi-tier hierarchy. In some embodiments, the messaging header is modified to track which peers have received a copy of the message. Each peer appends its identifier to the message header before passing the message to another peer. When selecting a receiving peer, the sending peer ensures that the receiving peer is not already identified in the message header. If the receiving peer has already received the message, then another peer from a next-peer list is selected to receive the message. If all peers in the next-peer have been traversed, the sending peer returns an error message via a reverse traversal of the peers in the message header.
US10044597B2
Systems and methods for processing service requests using logical environments. One of the methods includes receiving, by a router in a communication service provider system, a user service request from a first communication device; determining, by the router, an identifier of a first user of the communication service provider system associated with the first incoming service request; determining, by the router, a logical environment for the first user, wherein the logical environment for the first user identifies a plurality of components of the communication service provider system used to process service requests associated with the first user; identifying, by the router, a first application cluster of a first version of an application identified in the logical environment for the first user; and routing, by the router, the first incoming service request for processing by the first application cluster of the first version of the application.
US10044592B2
The disclosure is directed to a method and apparatus for D2D communication in a wireless communication system and related apparatuses using the same. In one of the exemplary embodiments, a proposed method may include determining whether to performing a D2D transmission and a cellular transmission simultaneously in a resource block allocated in a cellular uplink time slot; if a cellular uplink transmission rate in addition to a D2D transmission rate is greater than or equal to a maximum cellular UL transmission rate: performing the D2D transmission and the cellular transmission simultaneously; and adjusting a power of the D2D transmission and a power of the cellular transmission to maximize an overall transmission rate which is the cellular UL transmission rate in addition to the D2D transmission rate.
US10044581B1
A first encapsulation protocol processing component (EPPC) at a particular device of a virtualized computing service establishes a network packet tracking session with a second EPPC at another device. The first EPPC tags at least some encapsulation packets (which contain baseline packets generated at or directed to guest virtual machines) sent to the second EPPC as tracked packets. The first EPPC obtains network metrics corresponding to the tracked packets of the session from the second EPPC, prepares network health updates based on the metrics, and send the updates to a network health management service associated with the virtualized computing service.
US10044569B2
Disclosed aspects relate to operator fusion management in a stream computing environment. A topology model which indicates a set of stream operators, a set of connections between the set of stream operators, and a set of stream operator attributes for the set of stream operators may be established. Based on the topology model, a set of operator fusion management operations to combine the set of stream operators into a set of processing elements may be determined. The set of processing elements may be constructed by performing the set of operator fusion management operations.
US10044565B1
Exemplary systems, methods, and apparatuses may direct an application processor of an embedded computing device to: detect an operational mode selection command received from an application being executed by the application processor, the operational mode selection command selecting, from a plurality of operational modes, an operational mode of the application; determine connection statuses of a plurality of wireless network interfaces of the embedded computing device; determine, in accordance with a wireless network configuration optimization heuristic, and based on the detected operational mode selection command and the determined connection statuses of the plurality of wireless network interfaces, a state configuration for the plurality of wireless network interfaces; and direct the plurality of wireless network interfaces to operate in accordance with the state configuration.
US10044562B2
Techniques are disclosed for configuring a LISP mobility network. A management tool receives a configuration for a network fabric. The configuration specifies values for one or more attributes associated with a Locator ID Separation Protocol (LISP)-enabled network. The management tool generates one or more commands based on the specified values for the one or more attributes associated with the LISP-enabled network. The generated commands are distributed to a plurality of network devices in the network fabric. Each network device executes the one or more commands to configure the network fabric.
US10044560B2
There is disclosed a method for managing a wireless communications network and a communications system. A request to configure a single-user service set includes a specified location, a specified future time and configuration information for the single-user service set. The configuration information is transmitted to an access point at the specified location. The selected access point configures the single-user service set at the specified future time using the configuration information.
US10044557B2
A method (100) for configuring a wireless connection (30) between a control component (10) and a first field component (20) of a wiring system (11). Circuit information (40) of the wiring system (11) is first provided. A wired connection (42) between the control component (10) and the first field component (20) is then captured. A first radio network address (12) is then assigned to the control component (10), wherein the first radio network address (12) corresponds to a first end (46) of the wired connection (42). Similarly, a second radio network address (22) is assigned to the first field component (20), wherein the second radio network address (22) corresponds to a second end (48) of the wired connection (42). Linkage information (50) that includes the first and second radio network addresses (12, 22) is then provided to the control component (10) to define a wireless connection (30) between the control component (10) and the first field component (20).
US10044549B2
A distributed system includes a plurality of managed devices, and at least one agent in communication with the managed devices. A polling server is in communication with the at least one agent with the at least one agent communicating over a subscribed bus. A portal bridge is in communication with the bus and communicates through a client's firewall to a Network System. A server includes or is coupled to a database of anomies and time series data.
US10044543B2
The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for a reducing crest factors. An input signal is received. The input signal includes a clipping signal that reduces a peak amplitude of a source signal based on a predetermined clipping level. The input signal is transposed to a plurality of transposed signals using a plurality of multipliers. A feedback signal is generated based on the plurality of transposed signals using a first plurality of delay taps. A windowing signal is generated based on the feedback signal. The windowing signal is used to reduce a crest factor of the source signal.
US10044542B2
A method and device are provided for transmitting data in a wireless communication system. The device generates a scrambling sequence, scrambles the data with the scrambling sequence, maps the scrambled data to a radio resource, and transmits the mapped scrambled data. The scrambling sequence is generated based on 2N+1, where N denotes a cell identifier of a cell.
US10044536B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for data packetizing in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system. In order to improve transmission efficiency, the present invention uses independent packet and OFDDM block boundaries. Therefore, a packet is allowed to go across the OFDM block boundary and packed into two OFDM blocks. To indicate the start of each packet, a Frame Delimiter (FD) with a predefined format is inserted in front of each packet. The predefined format of the FD can be a predefined bit pattern or modulation points of modulation constellation. Idle data can also be inserted into OFDM blocks when no packet is ready. When data of one or more packets and idle data contain the predefined bit pattern of the FD, the data are modified to avoid generating the pre-defined bit pattern.
US10044521B2
The present disclosure provides for devices, systems, and methods which optimize throughput of bonded connections over multiple variable bandwidth logical paths by adjusting a tunnel bandwidth weighting schema during a data transfer session in response to a change in bandwidth capabilities of one or more tunnels. By making such adjustments, embodiments of the present invention are able to optimize the bandwidth potential of multiple connections being used in a session, while minimizing the adverse consequences of reduced bandwidth issues which may occur during the data transfer session.
US10044516B2
A Voice-over-IP (VOIP) system includes a plurality of multi-control units (MCUs). A first MCU in the VOIP system hosts a first VOIP session that joins a plurality of conference devices. Based on an impact metric being acceptable, and an alternate MCU accepting to host the VOIP session, the system joins the plurality of conference devices to a replacement VOIP session hosted on the alternate MCU.
US10044506B2
An electronic device comprising: a cover; a sensing unit; a memory; and at least one processor operatively coupled to the memory and the cover, configured to: acquire authentication information by using the sensing unit; detect a current state of the cover; and disable a locking function in response to detecting that the cover is in a closed state and the authentication information satisfies a first condition.
US10044505B2
A node in a distributed computing environment can generate key-value pairs. The node can categorize the key-value pairs into bins, with each key-value pair being categorized into a bin spanning a range of hashed keys that includes a hashed key of the key-value pair. The node can determine nodes in the distributed computing environment that are mapped to the bins. The node can distribute each key-value pair to a node corresponding to a bin into which the key-value pair was categorized. The node can then sort any of the key-value pairs maintained on the node by hashed key or key to generate sorted key-value pairs. The node can assign index values to the sorted key-value pairs. The indexed key-value pairs may be the same each time the above process is run, regardless of the underlying topology of the distributed computing environment. This can result in stable data-processing.
US10044495B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a apparatus. The apparatus includes: N timing phase adjusters, a level calculator, and a first selector, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2; the timing phase adjuster is configured to perform phase adjustment on a first signal according to a phase adjustment value, to obtain an adjusted first signal, where the first signal is a baseband signal, and the N timing phase adjusters respectively correspond to different phase adjustment values; the level calculator is configured to acquire level fluctuation values, within a preset time, of N adjusted first signals, determine an identifier of an adjusted first signal corresponding to a minimum level fluctuation value, and send the identifier to the first selector; and the first selector is configured to output the adjusted first signal corresponding to the identifier.
US10044492B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an antenna and a communications device, and relate to the field of wireless communications technologies. The antenna includes at least one receive antenna unit, at least one transmit antenna unit, a transmit and receive antenna unit connected to a three-port component having a circulator characteristic, a signal output port, and a signal input port, where each receive antenna unit and a receiver port of the three-port component are both connected to the signal output port by using a power combiner, and the signal output port is configured to connect to a receiver; and each transmit antenna unit and a transmitter port of the three-port component are both connected to the signal input port by using a power divider, and the signal input port is configured to connect to a transmitter.
US10044491B2
In an embodiment, a base station (BS) receives one or more first data transmitting from at least one of one or more transmitting user equipments (UEs). The BS transmits a message including assistance parameters for performing a full-duplex data transmission, to at least one of one or more receiving UEs, wherein the parameters are associated with information of reducing an interference from the at least one of the transmitting UEs. And, the BS transmits one or more second data including the one or more first data to the at least one of the receiving UEs. Wherein, the receiving UEs and the transmitting UEs respectively include at least one of: one or more half-duplex UEs, one or more full-duplex UEs, or any combination of two or more of the half-duplex UEs and the full-duplex UEs.
US10044487B2
Embodiments provide systems and methods for interference management in wireless multi-access communication networks, and more particularly systems and methods to enable reduction and/or suppression of interference. Embodiments for interference reduction include, without limitation, systems and methods to enable interference alignment, interference avoidance, and/or joint transmission to a user equipment (UE). Embodiments for enabling suppression of interference include, without limitation, systems and methods for feedback (from a UE to a network) or feedforward (from the network to the UE) signaling to enable interference estimation at the network/UE.
US10044486B2
A method and an apparatus for reporting a channel state in a multi-carrier system are provided. User equipment receives an uplink grant including an uplink resource allocation and a channel quality indicator (CQI) request via one downlink carrier from among a plurality of downlink carriers. The user equipment reports CQIs for the plurality of downlink carriers via a plurality of subframes in accordance with the CQI request.
US10044473B2
A system that includes a multicarrier transceiver including a processor and memory. The system transmitting a packet using a forward error correction encoder and an interleaver, wherein the packet comprises a header field and a plurality of bytes, and wherein the header field comprises a sequence identifier (SID) and receiving at least one message using a forward error correction decoder and without using a deinterleaver, wherein the at least one message is received in a single DMT symbol and wherein the at least one message includes an acknowledgement (ACK) or a negative acknowledgement (NACK) of the transmitted packet. An SNR margin of the at least one message is greater than an SNR margin of the packet.
US10044470B2
Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide communication between networked nodes operating on a communication network medium. In an implementation, a node generates a broadcast frame that includes at least a preamble and a payload. The preamble of the broadcast frame may include supplemental information. The supplemental information may be associated with one or more symbols of the preamble. The supplemental information may contain predetermined header information for use by nodes operating on the communication network medium.
US10044469B2
A first communication device calculates a data error detection code for detecting an error in data by using the data and a virtual sequence number, and generates a packet comprising the data and the data error detection code. The packet does not include the virtual sequence number which is used for calculating error detection. The first communication device transmits the packet to a second communication device.
US10044465B1
A technique for adaptively disrupting UAVs detects a target UAV using a camera, monitors the target UAV's communications using a directional antenna aligned with the camera, and attempts to communicate with the target UAV to request that it land, fly away, or return to launch. With the camera trained on the UAV, the directional antenna detects down-link signals from the UAV, which the UAV may employ to communicate with a ground-based controller. Control circuitry analyzes the down-link signals and generates a disrupting signal based thereon. The disrupting signal shares characteristics with the down-link signal, such as its protocol, bit rate, and/or packet length. The directional antenna transmits the disrupting signal back toward the UAV to affect the UAV's flight.
US10044462B2
An exemplary apparatus is provided for an optical node of an optical ring network. The optical node comprises a main branch with a wavelength blocker configured to block at least one wavelength of signals targeted to a particular node and to permit the signals received on the other wavelength channels pass, a reception unit tuned to the at least one wavelength dedicated to signals targeted to the particular node, a first optical coupler configured to transmit the signals received from a previous node of the optical ring network both to the main branch and to the reception unit, a transmission unit configured to transmit signals to a wavelength channel according to their targeted node, and a second optical coupler configured to receive the signals received from the main branch and from the transmission unit and to transmit the received signals toward a next node of the optical ring network.
US10044446B2
A device for linearizing non-linear signal transmission characteristics of an optical communication system. A non-linearity introducing part is between an input port and an output port of the optical communication system. The non-linearity introducing part at least partly causes said non-linear signal transmission characteristics. The device is configured for connection between said input port and the non-linearity introducing part, in parallel with the non-linearity introducing part, and comprises a pair of Junction Field Effect Transistors (JFETs), configured to operate in an anti-parallel configuration.
US10044445B2
Techniques are disclosed for providing relatively short distances between multi-channel transmitter optical subassemblies (TOSAs) and associated transmit connecting circuit in order to reduce losses due to signal propagation delays, also sometimes referred to as signal flight time delays. In an embodiment, a TOSA includes a plurality of laser assemblies disposed along a same sidewall of the TOSA along a longitudinal axis. The TOSA may be disposed within an optical transceiver housing in a transverse orientation, whereby a longitudinal center line of the multi-channel TOSA is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the optical transceiver housing. The TOSA may be positioned adjacent an end of the optical transceiver housing having a transmit connecting circuit. Thus each of the plurality of laser assemblies may be positioned at a relatively short distance, e.g., 120 microns or less, away from the transmit connecting circuit.
US10044437B2
Downlink is achieved by point-to-multipoint communication. There is provided a radio communication system 1 that provides information to a mobile terminal 3 via a radio communication device 2 that performs radio communication with the mobile terminal 3. The mobile terminal 3 is capable of receiving first downlink information that has been transmitted by point-to-multipoint radio communication receivable by a plurality of the mobile terminals 3, and capable of receiving second downlink information that has been transmitted by point-to-point communication. The mobile terminal 3 is capable of transmitting uplink information by point-to-point radio communication. The first downlink information and the second downlink information are formed such that information to be used in the mobile terminal 3 is obtained when the mobile terminal 3 performs information processing by using both the first downlink information and the second downlink information.
US10044406B1
A transceiver to communicate in a vehicle via a single twisted-pair Ethernet cable includes a transmitter and a receiver, an analog front end, an equalizer, and a controller. The transmitter transmits signals via the single twisted-pair Ethernet cable. The receiver receives signals via the single twisted-pair Ethernet cable. The analog front end receives a first signal received by the transceiver via the single twisted-pair Ethernet cable and outputs a second signal. The equalizer includes a notch filter to cancel electromagnetic interference from the second signal. The controller makes a frequency response of the equalizer independent of the electromagnetic interference by controlling tap values of the notch filter. The controller controls gain of one or more of the analog front end and the equalizer based on the frequency response of the equalizer.
US10044404B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, are configured to spread a first frame of data using a first spreading code to create a spread first frame and to spread a second frame of data using the first spreading code to create a spread second frame. A delay generator generates a first transmission delay and a second transmission delay. A transmitter starts to transmit the first spread frame on a first frame boundary delayed by the first transmission delay and starts to transmit the second spread frame on a second frame boundary delayed by the second transmission delay. A receiver starts to receive a third spread frame on a third frame boundary delayed by the first transmission delay and starts to receive a fourth spread frame on a fourth frame boundary delayed by the second transmission delay.
US10044403B1
An apparatus, a method, a method of manufacturing and apparatus, and a method of constructing an integrated circuit are provided. The apparatus includes a correlator; a buffer connected to the correlator, including a plurality of buffer components; a combiner array, including a plurality of combiners, wherein each of the plurality of combiners includes a plurality of buses, wherein each bus is connected to one buffer component corresponding to a synchronization signal block for each synchronization signal block; and a selector connected to each of the plurality of combiners, where the selector is configured to apply a pre-determined function to the plurality of combiners corresponding to the synchronization signal blocks, determine a maximum of applying the pre-determined function, and determine that a primary spreading sequence (PSS) is detected at a time corresponding to a time associated with the maximum of applying the pre-determined function.
US10044399B1
Communications receivers and devices are disclosed. A communications receiver includes a low noise amplifier; a multi-band transmit blocking filter having a first port connected to an output of the low noise amplifier, and an RF analog-to-digital converter having an input connected to a second port of the multi-band transmit blocking filter. The multi-band transmit filter passes the receive frequencies of a group of two or more LTE bands, where a first receive frequency range of a first band in the group and a second receive frequency range of a second band in the group are disjoint and not subsets of a receive frequency range of a third band in the group, and attenuates the transmit frequencies of at least some bands in the group by at least twenty dB.
US10044398B2
According to some implementation, a power amplifier includes a plurality of pairs of transistors, each pair of transistors including a common emitter transistor and a common base transistor arranged in a cascode configuration. The power amplifier further includes electrical connections implemented to connect the plurality of pairs in a parallel configuration between an input node and an output node. According to some implementations, the electrical connections are configured to distribute a collector current to all of the common base transistors to thereby reduce likelihood of damage to one or more common base transistors during a thermal run-away event.
US10044393B2
The present invention provides a watch type mobile terminal which comprises: a body; a first wireless communication unit installed in the body; a band connected to the body and wound on a user's wrist; a first battery installed in the body or the band; a wireless audio module mounting unit formed on the band and having a concave shape; and a wireless audio module which can be attached to or detached from the wireless audio module amounting unit, wherein the wireless audio module comprises: a housing; an audio output unit installed in the housing; a second wireless communication unit installed in the housing; and a second battery installed in the housing and receiving power supplied from the first battery.
US10044383B2
A technique that reduces or eliminates trading-off power amplifier efficiency and costly external filtering in amplitude and phase modulated sinusoidal signal generation uses multi-phase outphasing and a multi-phase switching mode power amplifier to generate the amplitude and phase modulated sinusoidal signals. The technique combines multiple clock phases with sinusoidally weighted circuits of the switching mode power amplifier to improve amplitude and phase modulated sinusoidal signal generation.
US10044381B2
Techniques for using a narrow filter located before a power amplifier to reduce interference in an adjacent frequency band are disclosed. In an exemplary design, an apparatus (e.g., a wireless device) includes the narrow filter and the power amplifier. The narrow filter is for a first frequency band (e.g., Band 40) and has a first bandwidth that is more narrow than the first frequency band. The narrow filter receives and filters an input radio frequency (RF) signal and provides a filtered RF signal. The power amplifier receives and amplifies the filtered RF signal and provides an amplified RF signal. The apparatus may further include a full filter for the first frequency band and located after the power amplifier. The full filter receives and filters the amplified RF signal and provides an output RF signal when it is selected for use.
US10044376B2
Disclosed is a transmitting apparatus that includes an uplink transmitting unit that generates at least two carrier transmission signals carrier and generates transmission control data corresponding to the carrier transmission signals, a Radio Frequency Front End (RFFE) that transmits the at least two carrier transmission signals, and a transmission controller including a storage unit and decoders. The transmission controller activates a decoder corresponding to transmission control data output from the uplink transmitting unit, and the activated decoder accesses information of the storage unit to control wireless transmission of the RFFE.
US10044375B2
A multi-band transmitter circuit may include a multi-port network configured to divide an input multi-band signal comprising signal components at each of a plurality of frequency bands into a plurality of output multi-band signals. The multi-band transmitter circuit may also include a plurality of band-specific circulator paths. Each band-specific circulator path includes a circulator configured to receive the respective output multi-band signal and operate at a respective one of the frequency bands to provide a respective band-specific signal. The multi-band transmitter circuit further includes a filter circuit that includes a plurality of band-specific filter elements. Each band-specific filter element is coupled to a corresponding circulator and configured to receive the respective band-specific signal and operate at the same frequency band as the corresponding circulator to provide a filtered band-specific signal for transmission.
US10044369B1
Embodiments are directed towards efficient variable length encoding and decoding of numerical data sets using new interleaved start-step codes. The proposed codes minimize the space required to represent and store numerical values in data intensive applications. Efficient implementations are possible at higher processing speeds and reduced code size than current state-of-the-art codes. Encoding engines select one of a plurality of numerical values from an input stream. The encoding engines convert each numerical value into a codeword. Each codeword consists of a plurality of data bits interleaved with a group of control bits. The encoding engines provide each codeword to an encoded stream. Decoding engines select one of a plurality of codewords from an encoded stream. The decoding engines convert each codeword into a numerical value. The decoding engines provide each codeword to an output stream. Interleaved codes can add intrinsic value to Blockchain applications and the Internet of Things (IoT).
US10044353B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a substrate configured to extend substantially out to at least two edges of a surface of a device. The apparatus also includes a touch sensor disposed on the substrate, the touch sensor comprising an active area that is configured to extend substantially out to at least two of the edges of the surface of the device.
US10044350B1
A power drive circuit is disclosed. The power circuit includes: a pulse detector, configured to generate first and second control signals in response to first and second pulse signals, respectively. The power drive circuit also includes a state storage device, configured to generate first and second driver input signals in response to the first and second control signals, respectively. The power drive circuit also includes a driver configured to generate first and second gate drive signals in response to the first and second driver input signals, respectively. The power drive circuit also includes a power switch, configured to receive the first and second gate drive signals, where the first and second gate drive signals control the power switch to selectively conduct or not conduct current between first and second terminals.
US10044348B2
A method for operating a field device, and a field device that is operated according to the method, in which a measured value is generated, the measured value being assigned a current set point, a target current signal being issued depending on the current set point, wherein an actual current signal is fed back and the target current signal is compared to the actual current signal. To provide more exact comparison of signals a cross-correlation of the target current signal with the actual current signal is formed for comparison.
US10044340B2
A ladder-type elastic wave filter includes an input terminal, an output terminal, and a ground terminal, a first series resonator and a second series resonator connected in series between the input terminal and the output terminal, and a first parallel resonator having a first terminal electrically connected to the series connection between the first series resonator and the second series resonator and a second terminal electrically connected to the ground terminal. A resonance frequency of the first parallel resonator is higher than a resonance frequency of both of the first series resonator and the second series resonator and lower than an antiresonance frequency of both of the first series resonator and the second series resonator.
US10044328B2
A transimpedance amplifier that includes an input configured to receive a current input from an upstream device and output configured to present an output voltage. The current input may be from a photodetector or any other device that is part of an optical signal receiving unit front end. In one configuration, there are three amplifier stages in the transimpedance amplifier connected in series. A feedback path with feedback resistor connects between the input and output of the transimpedance amplifier. A bandwidth extender circuit connects between a stage output and a stage input of the transimpedance amplifier. In a three stage embodiment, the bandwidth extender circuit extends between an input of the second stage and the output of the second stage. The bandwidth extender includes at least one active device configured to provide positive feedback to increase gain. The bandwidth extender circuit is able to be automatically or selectively deactivated to filter unwanted frequency components.
US10044324B2
This invention relates to a power amplifier device comprising an amplifier component (A) operable to receive an input signal (s;) and to provide an amplified output signal (so), according to a control signal (ctrl), an envelope tracking modulator (ET), providing the control signal (ctrl) according to a static voltage (V s) and a dynamic voltage (V D), a power supply (S) providing said static and dynamic voltages according to measurements performed by a power sensor (PS) on the amplified output signal, so that the static voltage (Vs) is determined as a mean value of the output signal (So) over a predetermined time duration.
US10044320B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and method for generating noise waves at millimeter wave frequencies. A noise source generator is designed to be connected to a crystalline structure for efficient heat transfer and compatibility with millimeter wave receivers. The use of crystalline structure coupled to the noise source generator allows heat from a biasing device, such as a diode, to be carried away such that the diode is able to generate noise waves while being reversed biased without compromising the device. In another embodiment, the noise source generator includes the use of a backshort transmission line with vias that is connected to the biasing device for heat transfer from the biasing device to the backshort.
US10044314B1
A motor apparatus and a motor driving circuit are provided. The motor apparatus includes a motor module and the motor driving circuit. The motor driving circuit includes a plurality of bridge arm circuits, a temperature sensor, and a control circuit. Each of the bridge arm circuits is controlled by one of the first PWM signals and one of the second PWM signals generated by the control circuit and outputs a driving signal to drive the motor module. The temperature sensor senses a temperature of the bridge arm circuits and provides a temperature sensing value to the control circuit. When the temperature sensing value is greater than or equal to a threshold temperature value, the control circuit increases a duty cycle of the first PWM signal of one bridge arm circuit and a duty cycle of the second PWM signal of the other bridge arm circuits to lower the temperature.
US10044312B2
A modular stacked DC architecture for traction system includes a propulsion system includes an electric drive, a direct current (DC) link electrically coupled to the electric drive, and a first DC-DC converter coupled to the DC link. A first energy storage device (ESD) is electrically coupled to the first DC-DC converter, and a second DC-DC converter is coupled to the DC link and to the first DC-DC converter. The system also includes a second energy storage device electrically coupled to the second DC-DC converter and a controller coupled to the first and second DC-DC converters and configured to control a transfer of energy between the first ESD and the DC link via the first and second DC-DC converters.
US10044305B2
Embodiments include a technique for controlling aircraft VFG over voltage under fault or load-shed, the techniques includes using a control unit for generating signals to maintain a terminal output voltage and frequency, and a variable frequency generator, coupled to the control unit, for generating the terminal output voltage. The variable frequency generator includes a stator having a set of primary stator windings and a set of secondary stator windings for generating the terminal output voltage, and a switch coupled to the set of secondary stator windings, the switch is configured to operate at a threshold frequency of the VFG to regulate the terminal output voltage by supplementing the terminal output voltage produced by the set of primary stator windings reducing the VFG fault over-voltage.
US10044303B2
A circuit includes a processor that analyzes a pulse width modulated (PWM) signal feedback from a brushless DC motor to determine a transition between a mutual inductance zero crossing condition and a Back Electro Motive Force (BEMF) zero crossing condition of the brushless DC motor. A mutual inductance controller is executed by the processor to commutate the brushless DC motor at startup of the motor when the mutual inductance zero crossing condition is detected by the processor. A BEMF controller is executed by the processor to commutate the brushless DC motor after startup of the motor when the BEMF zero crossing condition is detected by the processor.
US10044301B2
Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of systems and methods for providing a motor interface compatible with multiple motor types. In an exemplary embodiment, a motor control interface circuit generally includes a solid-state switching device controllable to switch a DC voltage from a DC voltage source to provide a signal at a tap of a motor. A normalizing circuit is provided between the DC voltage source and the tap, the normalizing circuit having a clamping device configured to limit a voltage of the signal provided at the tap to an interface voltage level predefined for driving a plurality of motor types having different interface voltage ranges.
US10044295B2
A piezoelectric actuator includes a piezoelectric element, a vibrating plate configured to vibrate according to application of a signal to the piezoelectric element, and a driven body driven by the vibration of the vibrating plate. The vibrating plate vibrates in a first mode according to a signal having a first frequency, vibrates in a second mode according to a signal having a second frequency, and vibrates in a third mode according to a signal having a third frequency. The first frequency and the second frequency are different. The first frequency and the third frequency are different.
US10044293B2
An inverter includes transformers having identical characteristics. Exciting windings of the transformers are connected in parallel so that the transformers are excited simultaneously. Output windings of the transformers are connected in series so that waveforms of output voltages of the output windings are time-synchronized. Each transformer includes a core having an identical shape and including an inner leg having an independent closed magnetic circuit. The excitation winding and the output winding are wrapped around the inner leg of the core in layers. The inner leg of the core has a gap whose size is steplessly adjustable in a state where the excitation current is applied to the excitation winding. The size of the gap is adjusted to regulate exciting inductances of the transformers to a same predetermined value.
US10044292B2
The present invention relates to a method for controlling an inverter system including a plurality of inverters connected in parallel. The method includes: comparing a target power amount with an amount of power to be supplied by the predetermined number of inverters; determining the number of inverters to be driven, based on a result of the comparison; and supplying the final output power to an AC power system by driving inverters by the determined number of inverters.
US10044291B2
A method and device for modulating a five-level inverter, and a photovoltaic system are provided. The method includes: acquiring a voltage command value Vcmd of a phase bridge; controlling a first and a fourth switching devices to be switched on alternately when Vcmd≥V1Pos+Vthrs1; controlling the first and a third switching devices to be switched on alternately when V1Pos−Vthrs2≤Vcmd
US10044290B2
An energy harvester circuit operates to harvest energy in battery-less electrical apparatus. The circuit includes a string of capacitors coupled to a circuit input to receive energy to be harvested. A string of transistors are coupled as pumping transistors to respective ones of the capacitors in the string of capacitors. A compensation coupling circuit is coupled between each transistor in the string of pumping transistors and one of a subsequent or a preceding transistor in the string of pumping transistors.
US10044285B1
Disclosed is an alternating current conversion circuit including an AC input end, an AC output end, an intelligent conversion circuit, a voltage sampling circuit and a master control circuit. The intelligent conversion circuit is configured to output a standard voltage inputted by the AC input end to the AC output end, and convert a non-standard voltage inputted by the AC input end into a standard voltage and output the standard voltage converted to the AC output end, under the control of the master control circuit. The voltage sampling circuit is configured to sample the voltage inputted by the AC input end and the voltage outputted by the intelligent conversion circuit. The invention provides an intelligent AC conversion, allowing the electronic devices which are designed for a single power grid to be adapted to various power grids.
US10044284B2
A synchronous rectifier driving method, a synchronous rectifier circuit and a switching power supply are provided, and the method includes: detecting an output current in a secondary winding of a transformer unit, and generating a first driving signal according to the output current; obtaining a protection signal according to a voltage signal of the secondary winding of the transformer unit in a synchronous rectifier circuit; correcting the first driving signal by using the obtained protection signal to obtain a second driving signal; and driving a rectifier in the synchronous rectifier circuit according to the second driving signal.
US10044282B2
Using two converters placed in a primary-side and a secondary-side and each configured as a single-phase full-bridge, and one single-phase transformer TR, a power conversion device converts DC power of a primary-side capacitor to which a primary-side DC voltage is applied, to DC power of a secondary-side capacitor to which a secondary-side DC voltage is applied, through a transformer. A control device sets a dead time Td1 for the converter serving as a power-transferring side converter, to be equal to or less than a current-polarity reversal time Tcmtt, to thereby surely achieve zero-voltage switching.
US10044281B2
A bidirectional insulated DC/DC converter narrows a pulse width of an AC fundamental wave voltage corresponding to a higher DC voltage of two DC voltages, to cause effective values of the AC fundamental wave voltages to coincide with each other, and then, sets a phase difference between the AC fundamental wave voltages in accordance with a value and a direction of a current that is desired to flow. Accordingly, even when the difference between the two DC voltages greatly varies, DC power can be stably transmitted and received.
US10044278B2
This power conversion device includes a rectification circuit, a reactor, an inverter circuit, and an isolation transformer. The inverter circuit is composed of a first leg A, a second leg B, and a DC capacitor connected in parallel between DC buses. A first AC end of the first leg A is connected to a positive DC terminal of the rectification circuit via the reactor. High power factor control of current iac flowing from an AC power supply via the rectification circuit is performed by PWM control for the first leg A, and voltage Vdc of the DC capacitor is controlled by PWM control for the second leg B using a duty cycle equal to or smaller than that for the first leg A, thereby controlling power outputted to the secondary side of the isolation transformer.
US10044277B2
A switching power converter is provided that includes a detector to detect whether a controller power supply voltage has fallen below a threshold voltage during a dormant period in which a power switch is no longer cycling to deliver power to a load. In response to a detection of such a threshold crossing by the detector, a controller powered by the controller power supply voltage is configured to cycle the power switch to replenish the controller power supply voltage.
US10044276B2
A power supply includes a phase-cut pre-regulator. The phase-cut pre-regulator comprises a switching device connected between a line voltage and an input voltage of a bulk capacitor and a comparator receiving the line voltage and a reference voltage, comparing the line voltage with hysteresis reference voltages based on the reference voltage, and switching the switching device according to the compared result.
US10044273B2
A method and a circuit of operating a multi-phase switching converter is presented. The circuit contains a plurality of phase circuits. The method includes setting an adaptive voltage positioning parameter of an adaptive voltage positioning controller and controlling an output voltage of the multi-phase switching converter using the adaptive voltage positioning controller. The method further includes generating a threshold voltage value based on the adaptive voltage positioning parameter, comparing the output voltage of the multi-phase switching converter with the threshold voltage value and performing at least one of enabling and disabling a phase circuit based on the comparison.
US10044259B2
A DC-DC converter comprises an oscillator and a charge pump, to ensure operation at low voltage. The oscillator comprises one or more source degenerated transistors comprising a degeneration impedance located between a source of the transistor and a ground connection. The degeneration impedance comprises an inductor and a capacitor. Also provided is an energy harvesting device comprising such a DC-DC converter.
US10044252B1
An electromagnetic actuator assembly for moving heavy loads and running on electromagnetic energy has at least one piston providing movement of heavy loads. Two pairs of THK linear rails controls the electromagnetic actuator assembly. A pair of drive motor coil assemblies provides a force to the two pairs of THK linear rails. A foundation houses an internal tube that contains a plurality of cables. A housing mount weldment connects the plurality of cables to a pair of electrical connections of the pair of drive motor coil assemblies, and allows the plurality of cables to extend when traveling back and forth inside the internal tube. The housing mount weldment has a plurality of openings for access to the plurality of cables. An exposed linear encoder runs along the at least one piston, comprising at least one scale providing positional feedback of the at least one piston.
US10044249B2
The present invention relates to a rotary electric machine formed by a stator assembly and a rotor assembly arranged such that they rotate relatively with respect to one another, the stator assembly comprising at least a first stator and a second stator, and the rotor assembly comprising at least a first rotor and a second rotor, the first stator, the first rotor, the second stator and the second rotor being arranged consecutively in a coaxial distribution.
US10044244B2
Disclosed embodiments include a bladeless generator carried by drilling string and disposed to employ mud flow through the drill string or return flow along the exterior of the drill string to drive the bladeless generator utilizing the boundary layer effect of fluid flow across a plurality of disks to generate electricity. The bladeless generator can be spaced apart from the primary flow path so as not to significantly disrupt flow therethrough. A portion of the primary flow path is diverted with flow channels or apertures to direct the diverted portion of the flow tangentially across a portion of the edges of the disks. The bladeless generator can be utilized to power electric downhole equipment, such as monitoring equipment or directional drilling steering equipment.
US10044241B2
A coil is wound via an electrically insulating member within a slot of a stator core of an electromagnetic motor which is formed of a stator and a rotor. Groove portions are formed to oppose one another in respective opposing portions of a slot opening portion side of the electrically insulating member. An electrically insulating sheet is disposed by being inserted into the pair of groove portions.
US10044240B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a three phase motor in which a structure for preventing an electrical short circuit is applied includes a stator including a base portion having a hollow formed therein and a plurality of winding portions extending from the base portion toward the hollow and formed apart a predetermined distance from each other; a rotor having a plurality of magnets inserted therein and disposed in the hollow apart from ends of the winding portions; and an insulation sheet disposed between the winding portions abutting each other to prevent an electrical short circuit among the coils wound around the winding portions abutting each other.
US10044239B2
A lead wire wiring component includes a lead wire guide that guides power supply lead wires and sensor lead wires to a lead wire leading component. The lead wire leading component includes projection portions that can be assembled to the lead wire guide. The projection portions are detached from the lead wire guide for molding such that the lead wire leading component is detached from the lead wire wiring component during the molding.
US10044235B2
The wireless power transfer system obtains, by means of data transfer, specific coil position information that is coil position information corresponding to information related to a position of the electric power supply secondary coil in a specific object that is an object that has made an electric power supply request, and electric power is supplied in a wireless manner from the electric power supply primary coil to the electric power supply secondary coil after the posture/position adjustment mechanism adjusts the relative posture or position between the electric power supply primary coil and the electric power supply secondary coil incorporated in the specific object based on the information related to the position of the electric power supply secondary coil in the specific object corresponding to the specific coil position information.
US10044234B2
The invention relates to a multi-coil wireless power apparatus (100) comprising a first wireless power circuit (121) connectable to a first resonant tank (101, 21), wherein the first resonant tank (101, 21) is arranged to transfer inductive energy at a first frequency, and a second wireless power circuit (122) connectable to a second resonant tank (102, 22), wherein the second resonant tank (102, 22) is arranged to transfer inductive energy at a second frequency. The first resonant tank (101,21) is tunable to the second frequency when the second inductive energy coil (106, 26, 32, 42, 52) is active. The invention further relates to an apparatus and a computer program product.
US10044233B2
Methods and systems are described for using detection coils to detect metallic or conductive foreign objects that can interfere with the wireless transfer of power from a power transmitter to a power receiver. In particular, the detection coils are targeted to foreign objects that are smaller than a power transmitter coil in the power transmitter.
US10044231B1
Some embodiments provide a system for charging devices. The system includes a master device and a slave device. Some embodiments provide a method for charging devices in a system that includes a slave device and a master device. The slave device includes (1) an antenna to receive a radio frequency (RF) beam and (2) a power generation module connected to the antenna that converts RF energy received by the slave antenna to power. The master device includes (1) a directional antenna to direct RF power to the antenna of the slave device and (2) a module that provides power to the directional antenna of the master device.
US10044224B2
Power feeding device, wireless power feeding system using the same and wireless power feeding method
An object is to provide a power feeding device, a power feeding system, and a power feeding method which are more convenient for a power feeding user at the power receiving end. The power feeding device includes a means of controlling a frequency of a power signal transmitted to a power receiver, based on a proportion of signals, among power signals output to an antenna circuit, that return from the power receiver to the antenna circuit without feeding power to the power receiver.
US10044221B2
Auxiliary power is required by each generator to orient the rotor blades to face the wind direction and also for other control and safety functions. This auxiliary power is normally extracted from the power generated within each wind turbine generator. During servicing, auxiliary power is supplied from neighbouring generators using dedicated low-voltage cables. In the event of a fault in the high-voltage cable, connecting one of the groups of generators to the sub-station, these low-voltage cables are used to supply the generators within this group with auxiliary power from the output of one or more of the generators, in the other group of generators.
US10044218B2
A micro-energy harvester that receives an input direct current (DC) voltage from a micro-energy source. The micro-energy harvester includes an oscillator and builds up the input DC voltage into an output DC voltage, where the oscillator includes a transistor that is configured to be normally off and the transistor is configured to be switched on by the micro-energy source. The micro-energy harvester outputs the output DC voltage to a micro-energy application. The micro-energy application and the micro-energy harvester are both configured to operate without a battery. The micro-energy harvester also includes an integrated power manager that provides a complete solution for transforming and storing electrical energy from micro-energy power sources to efficiently power applications that do not require continuous power.
US10044217B2
This disclosure provides a mobile terminal, a DC-charging power source adaptor, and a rapid charging method, which are proposed for a power source adaptor outputting dynamically adjustable voltage, where core voltage of a battery is divided into several intervals, and further in a segmented constant-current-like charging mode, a volt value of charging voltage output by the power source adaptor is adjusted dynamically according to the interval in which the core voltage of the battery in the mobile terminal while the battery is being charged lies, and the battery is DC-charged directly using the charging voltage output by the power source adaptor.
US10044214B2
A battery charger can include a charger controller configured to determine a total charge time that characterizes a time needed to charge a battery, the total charge time being based on a received state of charge (SOC) of the battery that characterizes a present SOC of the battery. The charger controller can also be configured to determine a charging start time for the battery based on a predetermined full charge time and the total charge time.
US10044207B2
A universal power delivery cable includes a first connector, a second connector, and a power delivery controller. The first connector is used for coupling a host, wherein the host has a power delivery function. The second connector is used for coupling an electronic device. When the first connector is coupled the host, the second connector is coupled the electronic device, and the electronic device does not have the power delivery function, the power delivery controller makes the electronic device imitate to have the power delivery function. After the power delivery controller makes the electronic device imitate to have the power delivery function, the host charges the electronic device according to a specification of the power delivery function and a specification of the electronic device.
US10044204B2
The application discloses a power source adaptor for charging directly, where the power source adaptor for charging directly is timed to communicate wirelessly with a mobile terminal which is a charging object, to obtain a change in voltage of a battery in the mobile terminal, adjusts dynamically a volt value of charging voltage output by the power source adaptor for charging directly according to the varying voltage of the battery, and charges directly the battery in the mobile terminal using the charging voltage.
US10044202B2
An apparatus is provided for an electrical component to automatically provide a discharge of a rechargeable battery to a predetermined state of charge. The apparatus includes the electrical component determining a rechargeable battery is not connected to a device and discharging the rechargeable battery. The apparatus includes the electronic component determining whether a state of charge exceeds the predetermined state of charge in the rechargeable battery and responsive to determining that the state of charge exceeds the predetermined state of charge, continuing discharging the rechargeable battery.
US10044201B2
In an embodiment, a device is discussed, the device comprising: a battery, a battery charging circuit configured to allow direct charging of the battery by an external charger, a battery protection circuit configured to protect the battery from damage, coupled to the battery charging circuit; and a connector comprising: at least one sense wire coupled to the battery to sense battery voltage, and at least one wire coupled to the battery via the battery charging circuit and the battery protection circuit, configured to charge the battery.
US10044197B2
A portable power source includes a housing and a battery receptacle supported by the housing. The battery receptacle is configured to receive a battery. The portable power source also includes a first power tool battery pack port that is configured to receive a first power tool battery pack. The portable power source further includes a charging circuit coupled to the battery receptacle and the power tool battery pack, and an inverter. The charging circuit is configured to receive power from the battery receptacle and to provide power to the power tool battery pack port. The inverter includes a DC input coupled to the battery receptacle, inverter circuitry, and an AC output. The inverter circuitry is configured to receive power from the battery receptacle via the DC input, invert DC power received from the battery receptacle to AC power, and provide the AC power to the AC output.
US10044179B2
A method of installing elongate bodies in a building includes the steps of providing a blocking body having one or more openings; blocking a hole in a support structure of a building with the blocking body, the hole passing through the support structure; and inserting at least one elongate body through at least one of the one or more openings in the blocking body.
