US10046498B2
A three-dimensional drawing device can include a housing configured for to be held in user's hand, shaped to allow manipulation of the housing like a pen, and configured to accept a strand of thermoplastic material. The drawing device has a nozzle assembly with an exit nozzle and a motor connected to a gear train that engages the strand such that rotation of the motor causes the feed stock to be extruded out of the exit nozzle to form a three-dimensional object. The motor can be controlled using a variable speed control mechanism or first and second actuators, thereby controlling movement of the strand, for example, to advance or retract the strand relative to the nozzle assembly.
US10046490B2
A container comprises: a body having a neck extending to a mouth defining a body opening; a spout fitment having a spout within the body opening, an outer wall surrounding an upper portion of the neck, and an intermediate wall between the outer wall and the spout; and a cap having sidewall. An external thread of the cap sidewall is engaged to an internal thread of the intermediate wall. The spout fitment has one or more projections extending mouthward from the outer wall in backlocked engagement with one or more features of the neck.
US10046486B2
A mold thermal controlling device including a first trench, a first temperature control layer and at least a temperature control tunnel is provided. The first temperature control layer includes a first temperature control face, and the first temperature control layer forms a first temperature control trench forming at least a part of the inner surface of the first trench. The first temperature control trench is configured to accommodate a mold and touch with the mold through the first temperature control face. The temperature control tunnel is disposed in the first temperature control layer, and the temperature control tunnel is configured to inject a heated fluid or a cold fluid. When the mold is contained in the first temperature control trench, the first temperature control surface is located between the mold and the temperature control tunnel. A hot press system is also provided.
US10046475B2
A machining device, including: a cart, for carrying a master-piece and a work-piece; a rail, for allowing manual sliding of the cart along the rail thereabove; a first vice for securing the master-piece, the first vice being fixed to the movable cart; a second vice for securing the work-piece, the second vice being fixed to the movable cart; a limiting element, for limiting the manual sliding of the cart upon meeting of the master-piece with the limiting element; and a protrusion including at least two points extending downwards from the rail; thereby the machining device utilizes parallelism between the channel and a cutting blade of the table saw.
US10046462B2
Exemplary embodiments relate to improvements in soft robotic systems that permit a soft robotic end effector to be a self-contained system, without reliance on a tether to deliver inflation fluid to the actuator(s) of the end effector. According to some embodiments, a robotic system may be provided including a soft actuator and a hub. The body of the hub may include an integrated pressure source configured to supply inflation fluid through the actuator interface to the soft actuator. The pressure source may be, for example, a compressor (such as a twin-head compressor) or a reaction chamber configured to vaporize a fuel to create a high-temperature pressurized gas and deliver the pressurized gas to the actuator One or more accumulators may receive inflation fluid (or a partial vacuum) from the compressor over time, and store the inflation fluid under pressure, thus allowing actuation over a relatively short time period.
US10046456B2
A pipe spacing wedge system including a pipe spacing wedge assembly, with the pipe spacing wedge assembly including a wedge-body. The wedge-body may be defined by a front-side, a back-side, a right-edge, a left-edge, a top-edge, and a bottom-edge. The front-side of the wedge-body includes a plurality of stepped surfaces and the top-edge includes a sharp point. The pipe spacing wedge assembly is structured and arranged to assist a user in setting a variety of specific gap-distance between sections of pipe and pipe spacing wedge assembly is intended to be driven between the two sections of pipe by the user to set the gap-distance.
US10046454B2
A tool head for easy attachment and detachment to a handle is provided for configurations such as axes, picks, shovels, sledges, hatches, and hoes. The tool head includes two clamps, one clamp being threadingly engaged on a shaft that freely rotates within the tool head. To attach the tool head to a handle, the user rotates the shaft which moves the clamps together and compresses the handle there between first clamp moves towards a second clamp. To detach, the shaft is counter rotated thereby decompressing the handle. When detached from a handle, the clamps turn and nest in two cutouts within the tool head allowing for compact storage or packing. Integrally formed features that include scraper, blade, wrenches, gut hook, cord cutter, carabineer, and the like provide the user in the field needed tools when fashioning a handle from a sapling or stick.
US10046449B2
A hand tool device has a tool spindle and a hammer mechanism which includes a hammer and at least one curve guide driving the hammer at least during a hammer drilling operation. The tool spindle has at least one bearing surface on which the hammer is movably supported in at least one operating state.
US10046448B2
A fastener driving tool comprises a hand-held casing having a movable and drivable energy transmission element including a driving member, wherein the driving member acts to drive a fastener, a locking element, and a sensor member for determining an operational state of the fastener driving tool, wherein a driving process is released only if the operational state prevails, wherein the locking member is arranged in a locking manner in a path of the energy transmission element if the non-operational state prevails, wherein, once a driving process has been triggered, the locking member can stop the energy transmission element.
US10046446B2
A hinge pin extractor operable to urge a pin out of engagement with a hinge assembly can include a base, a receiver, a plunger, and a lever. The receiver can be mounted to the base and configured to engage a portion of the hinge assembly. The plunger can be mounted to the base and configured to urge a pin of the hinge assembly out of engagement during movement from the first end limit of travel to the second end limit of travel. The lever can be pivotally engaged with the base and disposed to engage the plunger to move the plunger along the rectilinear path. The lever and the base and the plunger can be engaged such that pivoting motion of the lever is transmitted to rectilinear motion of the plunger through at least one fulcrum defined in the base.
US10046445B2
A torque wrench for use in driving fasteners is provided. The wrench includes an electronics unit disposed within a housing engaged with the body of the wrench that is capable of sensing and measuring the torque applied to a fastener by the wrench and providing an output of the level of torque to the user. The data sensed by the electronics unit can be utilized to provide feedback to the user regarding the operation of the wrench, and to monitor the overall operation of the wrench for calibration purposes, among other functions. During use, the wrench can provide the user with visual, audible and tactile feedback regarding the operation of the device relative to stored maximum torque values stored in the electronics unit. The housing for the electronics unit can be formed to be a single use component of the tool or can be designed for multiple uses with a configuration that can be engaged with cradles forming the body of the wrench having various different configurations.
US10046444B2
A tool includes a first body, a rotary member, a positioning unit and an engaging unit. By the positioning unit and the engaging unit, the rotary member is positioned relative to the first body with dual-positioning feature. When the first body is rotated, the rotary member is positioned by the positioning unit and the engaging unit. The rotary member is not likely to freely rotate because both of the positioning unit and the engaging unit fail when using the tool.
US10046438B2
A floor polishing or grinding pad assembly is provided. In one aspect, a polishing or grinding pad assembly employs a flexible pad, a reinforcement layer or ring, and multiple floor-contacting tools such as abrasive disks. In another aspect, the reinforcement layer includes a wavy or undulating internal edge shape. A further aspect includes an inner ring edge having radially extending slots between pairs of radially enlarged tool mounting peaks. Still another aspect includes an insulator or spacer between a head of an abrasive tool and a reinforcement ring.
US10046431B2
The present invention relates to a one-circle two-chamfer deburring machine and a deburring method comprising the following steps after starting up: (1) The upper wheelhead motor drives the upper grinding belt to rotate horizontally (2) the lower wheelhead motor drives the lower grinding belt to rotate horizontally and (3) when a deburred workpiece goes through a passage formed by the active feeding roller row and the upper grinding belt, an upper abrasive block elastically contacts surface of the workpiece and, under the drive of the upper wheelhead motor and the upper active drum, polishes and deburrs the front side of the workpiece twice; the lower abrasive block elastically contacts the surface of the workpiece and, under the drive of the lower wheelhead motor and the lower active drum, polishes and deburrs the back side of the workpiece twice.
US10046427B2
A workpiece change for use in a machine tool that comprises a tool spindle for clamping tools for machining workpieces, comprises two wheels arranged parallel to one another and rotatable about an axis of rotation into at least two prominent angular positions. Two swivel tables for clamping workpieces are arranged between the wheels and are each mounted on the wheels to swivel about a swivel axis which runs parallel to the axis of rotation. In each prominent angular position, one of the swivel tables is located in its working position in which clamped workpieces can be machined with the tools. Both wheels are supported at their rim.
US10046426B2
A bolt tensioning assembly includes a bolt having a through-hole extending longitudinally through the bolt. A ram is inserted into the through-hole. A top cap is configured to be attached to a first end portion of the bolt. A load distributing member is configured to engage the ram at a location adjacent a second end portion of the bolt to distribute a force exerted thereon by the ram, and an actuator is connected to the top cap to exert a force on the ram to cause the ram to engage the load distributing member such that the bolt is placed under tensile stress.
US10046422B2
A profile piece includes: an extruded piece of a first material having a mouth portion along at least part of its length; and an insert of a second material different than the first material, the insert attached to the extruded piece by the mouth portion, wherein the insert is configured for welding the profile piece to a component of a third material different than the first material.
US10046421B2
A rotatable gas metal arc welding apparatus comprising: a) a rotatable base; b) a rotation brake; c) a primary welding boom arm; d) at least one secondary welding boom arm rotatably attached to the primary welding boom arm, the at least one secondary welding boom arm being rotatable about a swivel joint so as to be rotatable in a generally horizontal plane; e) a MIG welder station; f) at least one manually operated welding gun connector, each welding gun connector being suspended from a secondary welding boom arm; g) a process controller for controlling a welding gun and the rotation brake; h) a rotatable electrical input connection for connecting electrical power from an external electrical power source to the base; i) an electrical ground connection; and j) a welding wire supply station.
US10046418B2
Electrically conductive paste, and electrically conducive connection member produced using the paste
Providing the conductive paste for the material forming the conductive connecting member without disproportionately located holes (gaps), coarse voids, and cracks, which improves thermal cycle and is excellent in crack resistance and bonding strength. An conductive paste including metal fine particles (P) comprising metal fine particles (P1) of one or more than two kinds selected from metal and alloy thereof, having mean primary particle diameter from 1 to 150 nm, and metal fine particles (P2) of same metal as the metal fine particles (P1), having mean primary particle diameter from 1 to 10 μm, mixing ratio of (P1/P2) being from 80 to 95 mass % for P1 and from 20 to 5 mass % for P2 (a total of mass % being 100 mass %); and organic dispersion medium (D) comprising organic solvent (S), or organic solvent (S) and organic binder (B), mixing ratio (P/D) of the metal fine particles (P) and the organic dispersion medium (D) being from 50 to 85 mass % for P and from 50 to 15 mass % for D (a total of mass % being 100 mass %).
US10046415B2
A tool and related method for removing unwanted gas hydrates from the surface of equipment used in subsea exploration and production. The tool includes a main vessel and a power cable linked together by a connector. Inside the vessel a laser device is connected to an adjustable focus collimator by a cable, with the wavelength emitted by the laser being between 200 nm and 930 nm. When the radiation reaches the subsea exploration equipment it causes the heating thereof, which in turn heats the hydrate through conduction, breaking down the hydrate formation from the inside out. The front lid of the tools includes a window fitted with anti-reflection film that forms an interface between the vessel and the aqueous medium.
US10046413B2
A method for forming an impact weld used in an additive manufacturing process. The method includes providing a wire having a powder filler metal core located within a sheath. The wire is then inserted within a conduit having an opening. Further, the method includes providing at least one energy pulse that interacts with the sheath to pinch off at least one segment of the wire, wherein the energy pulse causes propulsion of the segment toward a substrate with sufficient velocity to form an impact weld for welding the metal core to the substrate. In particular, the energy pulse is an electromagnetic pulse, a laser energy pulse or a high electric current pulse.
US10046412B2
A method of manufacturing a component includes providing a powder layer; scanning the powder layer using an electron beam; detecting back scattered electrons produced by the interaction of the electron beam with the powder layer; identifying, from the detected back scattered electrons, any defects in the powder layer; selectively melting at least a part of the powder layer so as to generate a solid layer; and repeating these steps at least once so as to build up a shape corresponding to the component. The method may also includes steps of making a decision about whether to remove any identified defects in the powder layer, and adjusting one or more parameters of the step of providing a powder and/or adjusting one or more parameters of the selective melting step so as to avoid future recurring defects at that position based on stored data relating to the scanned powder layer.
US10046396B2
The cutting insert is provided with: a top surface, a bottom surface, a side surface, a cutting edge located at the intersection portion of the top surface and the side surface; a through hole located from the top surface to the bottom surface; a projecting portion extending from a corner section to a through hole side; and a rake surface located between the cutting edge and the projecting portion. A boundary line between the rake surface and the projecting portion comprises a first end. In a top view, a bisector of the corner section intersects the cutting edge at a first point and intersects a top edge section of the through-hole at a second point. The first end is located closer to the through-hole side than a perpendicular line that passes through a midpoint of a line segment connecting the first point and the second point.
US10046385B2
The present invention provides a die cast component, in particular a water outlet fitting, containing a base body (1) produced from metal or a metal alloy by the die casting method and having a cavity in which a number of openings (2, 3, 4) are provided by which the cavity is accessible from the outside, the cavity being at least partially filled with a casting core (5) that is in two-dimensional contact with the inside of the base body (1) and in which at least one channel (6) is provided for the conveyance of fluid, the casting core (5) being made of a material the melting point of which is lower than the melting point of the material from which the base body (1) is produced, and that the outside of the casting core (5) rests with at least substantially all of its surface against the inside of the base body (1). Furthermore, the invention also provides a method for producing this type of die casting component.
US10046384B2
A side dam for a continuous twin roll caster with a body of refractory material shaped to form a side dam and having edge portions adapted to engage end portions of casting rolls of a twin roll caster and having a nip portion adapted to be adjacent a nip between the casting rolls and having upper portions extending across the side dam to form a lateral restraint for a casting pool of molten metal during operation in the twin roll caster; and a pocket between 5 and 50 mm in depth formed in the body between the edge portions and forming shoulder portions in the body between the edge portions and the pocket adapted to be worn as a casting campaign continues until the pocket is reached and continuing to be worn away at level of base portions of the pocket until casting is completed.
US10046381B2
A method and apparatus for positioning an end effector relative to a fuselage assembly. A configuration of the fuselage assembly may be determined. The end effector may be positioned relative to the fuselage assembly based on the configuration determined. A set of actual reference locations may be identified for a set of reference points on the fuselage assembly. The end effector may be positioned at an operation location based on the set of actual reference locations identified.
US10046380B2
A twist application device, including a feeder (1) for feeding conductor ends (2a . . . 2c) of at least two conductors (3a . . . 3c), and a rotatably mounted twist application head (4) for twisting the said conductors (3a . . . 3c). The twist application device also includes a controller (7), connected with a drive (8) for first clamping jaws (5a . . . 5f) of the feeder (1), and is equipped for control of the latter. The distance (a) between clamped conductor ends (2a . . . 2c) is set at an adjustable value before the transfer of the conductor ends (2a . . . 2c) from the feed device (1) into the twist application head (4). A method of twisting at least two conductors (3a . . . 3c), in which the referred-to distance (a) is set at an adjustable value before clamping of the conductor ends (2a . . . 2c) in the second jaws (6a, 6b) of the twist application head (4). In alternative aspect, a feed device (1) for feeding conductor ends (2a . . . 2c) of conductors (3a . . . 3c) into a further processing device (4). The feed device (1) has first clamping jaws (5a . . . 5f), and the further processing device (4) has second clamping jaws (6a, 6b) for accepting and clamping the conductor ends (2a . . . 2c). The first jaws (5a . . . 5f) in a clamping position can be relatively moved so that distance (a) between ends (2a . . . 2c) may be altered. An intermediate space, located between first jaws (5a . . . 5f), extends, in a direction of movement (A) for altering the distance between clamped ends (2a . . . 2c), at least twice as far as in a clamping direction (B). Also a method, in which a variable position of the first jaws (5a . . . 5f) is adjusted in accordance with a selected distance (a) between the ends (2a . . . 2c) before clamping of the ends (2a . . . 2c), and the first jaws (5a . . . 5f) are moved into a prescribed position before the clamping of the ends (2a . . . 2c) in the second jaws (6a, 6b) of the further processing device (4).
US10046376B2
A guided keeper assembly and related method includes a cylindrical base that mounts to a die member using a multi-piece, interlocking flange. The flanges have outer fastener holes and inner arcuate walls that matingly engage a complimentary profile on the outer surface of the base to axially interconnect the same. The flanges also have male and female end connectors which snap lock together around the base in an assembled condition. Mounting screws pass through the fastener holes in the flanges and are anchored in the die member to securely retain the guided keeper assembly in place. A retainer ring is mounted in an associated groove in the base over the heads of the screws to prevent unintentional unfastening of the screws from the die member.
US10046370B2
The present disclosure provides a substrate processing apparatus including: a processing chamber configured to process a substrate; a fluid supply source configured to supply a substrate processing fluid used in processing for the substrate in a predetermined pressure; a constant pressure supplying path configured to supply the substrate processing fluid from the fluid supply source to the processing chamber in a predetermined pressure without boosting the pressure of the substrate processing liquid; a boosted pressure supplying path configured to boost the pressure of the substrate processing fluid from the fluid supply source into a predetermined pressure by a booster mechanism and supply the pressure boosted substrate processing fluid to the processing chamber; and a control unit configured to switch over the constant pressure supplying path and the boosted pressure supplying path.
US10046365B2
A multi-deck screening assembly includes upper and lower screen decks, each having first and second deck sections. The upper deck's first deck section has first-size grading apertures, and its second deck section is downstream of the first deck section with second-size grading apertures larger than the first-size apertures. The lower deck's first section has third-size grading apertures and its second section is downstream of its first section with fourth-size grading apertures larger than the third-size apertures. A gap between the lower deck's first and second sections allows oversize material from the lower deck's first section to pass through to a first collection region. A diverter is positioned between the upper and lower decks and over the gap, whereby material from the upper deck collected on the diverter passes onto the lower deck's second section, thereby preventing undersize material that passes through the upper deck from passing directly through the gap.
US10046364B2
A modular exciter beam fitted to a vibratory screen assembly. The exciter beam spans between opposing side walls of the screen assembly. The modular exciter beam provides mounting for a pair of exciter mechanisms which are located substantially inside the side walls of the screen assembly.
US10046361B2
A component is conveyed in a conveyor direction through a painting installation by conveyor. The component surface of the component to be painted is subdivided into surface painting modules which lie one behind the other in the conveyor direction. The individual painting modules of the component surface are painted one after the other using a multi-axis painting robot that has an atomizer.The painting robot guides the atomizer, within each one painting module, along a painting path and across the component surface of the painting module. The painting path has at least one path section running transverse to the component edge.Within the painting module, the painting path can comprise at least one path section that runs substantially parallel to the component edge.
US10046356B2
This coating device according to the present invention comprises a slit nozzle (30); a liquid supply path (10) for a coating liquid; a pneumatic transportation device (20) for transporting the coating liquid pneumatically; a liquid supply valve (50) for opening/shutting the liquid supply path (10); a pump (40) configured so as to be capable of suctioning the coating liquid inside the slit nozzle (30); a residual-pressure removal means (80) for removing the residual pressure inside the slit nozzle (30); and a control section (70) for controlling the operation of the liquid supply valve (50), the pump (40), and the residual-pressure removal means (80); wherein the coating liquid remaining inside the slit nozzle (30) is suctioned at the end of coating after pumping of the coating liquid is stopped and the residual pressure inside the slit nozzle (30) is removed. With this configuration the coating device improves responsive at the end of the coating without a complicated control procedure.
US10046355B2
A dispenser for a fluid material includes a handle portion and a cartridge having the material to be dispensed. The cartridge is easily mounted to the handle portion or removed, whereby the handle portion may be used with a variety of cartridges, each of which may contain a selected material. The handle portion includes a plunger that is moved linearly by actuation of a trigger mechanism, which is engaged by a user's finger. The trigger mechanism is configured to release pressure applied to the plunger quickly upon release of pressure on the trigger and to allow the plunger to move away from the cartridge to ensure release of pressure in the material to be dispensed to prevent dripping.
US10046354B2
Provided are a blade device equipped with a blade member which can accurately adjust pressing force due to a blade member, and a printing machine and a coating device equipped with the blade device. A blade device according to the present invention has: a blade member contacting with a plate roll to which coating material is to be applied; an upper holder contacting with the blade member from one surface side of the blade member; a lower holder contacting with the blade member from another surface side of the blade member; a tube contacting with the blade member and configured to expand and contract by pressure of fluid; and a tube positioning part which is provided on the upper holder and positions the tube closer to the roller, in a direction in which the blade member extends, than a tip end of the lower holder is. The tube adjusts a pressing force, of the tip end of the blade member, against the roller by being expanded or contracted while being held by the tube positioning part and the blade member.
US10046352B2
A contact nozzle for coating an elastic strand with an adhesive. Air is discharged at the adhesive in contact with the strand, causing the adhesive to spread around the periphery of the strand. The air assists with release of the adhesive from the nozzle and also cleans the nozzle to discourage adhesive build-up on the nozzle.
US10046330B2
A regenerated cutting blade to be mounted and used in a shearing type grinder. The cutting blade includes a fixed part and a blade tip projecting outward from this fixed part, in which the blade tip has a leading edge pointed toward the rotating direction. Side edges 110 on the lateral side outer periphery including the blade tip, the leading end edge and the side edges are regenerated and formed by build-up welding. The lateral sides are provided with slip preventive build-up welding parts 111, 112, 113 extending from the side edges 110 toward the central side of its rotation or the central direction, and the build-up welding parts are formed by three regenerating processes.
US10046329B2
A gyratory crusher topshell assembly in which a spacer (filler) ring is mounted radially intermediate a topshell and an outer crushing shell. The spacer ring is locked axially at the topshell via a shape profile of the mating surfaces of the spacer ring and the topshell. Additionally, the spacer ring is rotationally locked at the topshell via contact between abutments extending between the spacer ring and the topshell.
US10046318B2
A ligand component is formed according to formula (1):R12P—X—N═C(R2)—Y, wherein R1 is Ph or Cyc or a C1-C20 substituted or unsubstituted ailkyl group; each Ph is a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group; each Cyc is a substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group; X is an unsubstituted arylene or a C2-C3 substituted or unsubstituted alkylene; R2 is H, methyl or Ph; and Y N is pyridyl, 6-phenylpyridyl or 6-methylpyridyl; with the proviso that when X is a C2 substituted or unsubstituted alkylene and Y is pyridyl, R2 is methyl or Ph. A reaction product including the ligand component and a metal precursor is prepared by combining the ligand component with the metal precursor. An activated reaction product is formed by activating the reaction product as a hydrosilylation catalyst.
US10046316B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an AFX zeolite having a novel structure. An AFX zeolite having a lattice spacing d of a (004) plane being not less than 4.84 Å and not greater than 5.00 Å, and a molar ratio of silica to alumina being not less than 10 and not higher than 32. Such an AFX zeolite can be produced by a production method comprising a crystallization step of crystallizing a composition at a temperature of not lower than 160° C.; the composition containing a silicon source, an aluminum source, a 1,3-di(1-adamantyl)imidazolium cation, and an alkali metal; a molar ratio of hydroxide ions to silica being less than 0.25 or a molar ratio of silica to alumina being not higher than 27; and a molar ratio of the 1,3-di(1-adamantyl)imidazolium cation to silica being less than 0.20.
US10046312B2
The present invention relates to an oxidation catalyst, a method for preparing the same, and a filter for exhaust gas purification comprising the same and, more specifically, to an oxidation catalyst, a method for preparing the same, and a filter for exhaust gas purification comprising the same, the oxidation catalyst being formed by comprising an amorphous metal alloy powder, thereby being preparable at a low cost, being capable of enhancing purification efficiency for exhaust gas when applied to the filter for exhaust gas purification, and being capable of deriving reliability enhancement for operation of an exhaust gas purifier having the filter for exhaust gas purification mounted therein. To this end, the present invention provides an oxidation catalyst, a method for preparing the same, and a filter for exhaust gas purification comprising the same, the oxidation catalyst characterized by being coated onto the carrier surface of the filter for exhaust gas purification and being formed by comprising an amorphous metal alloy powder.
US10046310B2
A catalytic converter includes a catalyst. The catalyst includes a supporting oxide layer. The catalyst also includes platinum group metal (PGM) particles partially embedded in the supporting oxide layer such that a portion of each PGM particle is surrounded by the supporting oxide layer and an other portion of each PGM particle remains exposed.
US10046307B2
The present invention relates to: a catalyst for glycerin dehydration; a preparation method therefor; and an acrolein preparation method using the catalyst. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the catalyst is used in glycerin dehydration so as to exhibit high catalytic activity, a high yield and high acrolein selectivity, and has a characteristic in which carbon is not readily deposited, thereby having a long lifetime compared with that of a conventional catalyst.
US10046303B2
A plate-type flow reactor device with a first plate (20) having first and second opposing surfaces (22, 24) and one or more through-holes (26); a second plate sealed against the first surface (22) by at least two first O-rings (50); a third plate (40) sealed against the second surface (24) by at least one second O-ring (60); two or more first elongated channels (70) defined between the first surface (22) and the second plate and one or more second elongated channels (80) defined between the second surface (24) and the third plate, wherein each first channel communicates with the at least one second channel (80) via one or more of the through-holes (26) through the first plate (20), and said one first channel (70a) communicates with another first channel (70b) of the two or more first channels (70) only via said at least one second channel (80), and each first channel (70) is individually surrounded by at least one of the first O-rings (50) and the at least one second is individually surrounded by the at least one second O-ring (60).
US10046302B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for manufacturing a potassium compound and a method of recovering a potassium compound from a brine, and provides the apparatus for manufacturing the potassium compound, including: a continuous pre-treatment apparatus including a crushing portion, a pulverization portion, and a particle size separation portion for processing a mixed raw material salt obtained after lithium, magnesium, and calcium are extracted from a brine to have a particle size for easy separation and sorting; a continuous potassium compound lump recovering apparatus continuously separating and recovering the potassium compound from the pre-treated mixed raw material salt; a continuous potassium compound separating and sorting apparatus continuously separating and sorting potassium chloride and a glaserite (Na2SO4.3K2SO4) from the recovered potassium compound; and a continuous potassium sulfate conversion apparatus extracting potassium sulfate from the separated glaserite.
US10046299B2
A system with a non-thermal, repetitively-pulsed gliding discharge reactor for converting gaseous hydrocarbons into liquid fuels efficiently. The system optionally contains a gas separator for removing non-hydrocarbon components from the gaseous hydrocarbon feed to improve efficiency of the system. The system may optionally reclaim hydrogen gas from the product gas for storage, transportation or power generation.
US10046291B2
The present invention provides a process for producing microcapsules capable of retaining an organic compound as an active ingredient such as fragrance materials therein over a long period of time. The present invention relates to process for producing microcapsules, which includes step (1) of emulsifying an organic phase including at least one organic compound and a tetraalkoxysilane such that a content of the tetraalkoxysilane in the organic phase is not less than 10% by mass and not more than 60% by mass on the basis of the organic compound, in a water phase inducing a surfactant, and subjecting the resulting emulsion to a sol-gel reaction under acidic conditions to form capsules each including the core and the first shell; and step (2) of further adding a tetraalkoxysilane to a water dispersion containing the capsules obtained in the step (1), and subjecting the obtained mixture to a sol-gel reaction while maintaining an initial pH value in the sol-gel reaction of the step (2) below an initial pH value in the sol-gel reaction of the step (1) to form the capsules each including the second shell encapsulating the first shell.
US10046284B2
In some aspects, the present disclosure provides a polymer composition which comprises two polymer molecules and a compatibilizing agent. In some embodiments, the polymer composition is useful for the preparation of membranes used in the separation of two or more gases. In some embodiments, the polymer composition comprises a polyimide polymer and a polybenzimidazole polymer which have been compatibilizing with a small molecule or a metal organic framework.
US10046283B2
Provided is a technique for fabricating a novel thin membrane with a starting material such as a biocompatible compound that is not easily processible into a membrane, particularly a technique for fabricating a novel thin membrane of a composition that is gradually polymerized from a membrane surface into the membrane in the cross sectional direction of the membrane, and having, for example, different structures on the front and back of the membrane. The technique includes the steps of preparing a solution of a starting material compound; forming a thin membrane of the solution on a base material surface; and forming the organic polymer thin membrane through a polymerization reaction caused by irradiating the exposed surface of the thin membrane with a plasma or an electron beam.
US10046268B2
Flue gas desulfurization processes and systems that utilize ammonia as a reactant, and in which any hydrogen sulfide and/or mercaptans within the ammonia are separated during the desulfurization process so as to prevent their release into the atmosphere. The process and system entail absorbing acidic gases from a flue gas with a scrubbing media containing ammonium sulfate to produce a stream of scrubbed flue gas, collecting the scrubbing media containing the absorbed acidic gases, injecting into the collected scrubbing media a source of ammonia that is laden with hydrogen sulfide and/or mercaptans so that the injected ammonia is absorbed into and reacted with the collected scrubbing media, stripping the hydrogen sulfide and/or mercaptans from the collected scrubbing media by causing the hydrogen sulfide and/or mercaptans to exit the collected scrubbing media as stripped gases, and collecting the stripped gases without allowing the stripped gases to enter the stream of scrubbed flue gas.
US10046263B2
A filter that is retained in a shell housing by the use of a snap connection. The filter includes an endplate having snap features that interact with a groove in an inner portion of the shell housing. The groove may extend 360 degrees around an inner circumference of the shell housing. Accordingly, when the shell is unthreaded from the head for service (e.g., during a filter replacement service), the shell only needs to be displaced the length of the inner radial seal interface between the shell and the head, not the entire length of the filter media thereby minimizing the stroke length needed to service the filter assembly.
US10046262B2
A system to excavate and remove underground noxious vapors includes a suction wand in fluid communication with a debris tank. A collar is fitted around the suction wand and is configured to seal noxious vapors within a hole around the suction wand. A primary valve is used to control whether the suction wand is being used to excavate material to send to the debris tank, or whether the suction wand is being used to remove noxious vapors from the hole to send to a filtration unit. A monitor is configured to detect explosive concentrates in the noxious vapors to determine whether the explosive concentrates exceed an acceptable level. In addition, the system is configured to dilute and filter the noxious vapors before discharging to the atmosphere.
US10046260B2
According to the present disclosure, features, components and techniques useable for providing air cleaner arrangements are provided. Many of the features relate to an axial seal arrangement provided on a filter cartridge. A typical filter cartridge, for use with these features, is a filter cartridge having opposite flow ends. Example media arrangements that fit this characterization are described. Seal arrangements provided with an axial housing sealing engagement surface are shown. A seal arrangement is provided with variations therein, to advantage. These variations can be in either or both of an outer peripheral edge surface and a housing seal engagement surface. Also, air cleaner assemblies having advantageous features therein are provided. Further, air cleaner housings are described, with selected, preferred features for engagement with filter cartridges.
US10046259B2
A filtering multilayer is described, having at least two layers, one input layer and one output layer, made of non-woven fabric, wherein each fiber of said non-woven fabric consists of a polymer matrix of thermoplastic material, wherein the average diameter of the fibers that form the input layer is larger than the average diameter of the fibers that form the output layer, characterized in that the diameters of the fibers that form the input layer and the output layer have a Gaussian distribution, wherein the diameter of the single fibers that form said input layer varies around the average with a normal distribution of width at least equal to 10% of the average value and the diameter of the single fibers that form said output layer varies around the average with a normal distribution of width at least equal to 14% of the average value. In a preferred embodiment, said polymer matrix contains a carbon-based filler or additive, preferably in the form of powder.
US10046253B2
A filtration device including: a casing 1 having a fluid inlet 6, a fluid outlet 7, a raw fluid chamber 8, and a filtered-fluid chamber 9; a box-shaped or tube-shaped filter element 3 (3a, 3b) having a filter medium 31 removably installed inside the casing 1, allowing the fluid to pass through from inside to outside to filter the fluid, and having a backwashing mechanism inside thereof; and a backwash fluid discharge pipe 4 which discharges backwash fluid to the outside, wherein the backwashing mechanism has a fixed pipe 33 fixed to the inside of the filter element, a movable pipe 34 movably fitted to the outside of the fixed pipe, and a backwash head 35 attached to the movable pipe to backwash the filter medium, wherein the fixed pipe and the movable pipe movably guide the backwash head and form a discharge passage for backwash fluid.
US10046248B2
The present invention is a toy projectile and launcher system. The lightweight projectile has an exterior surface symmetrically disposed about an imaginary longitudinal axis. The launcher has planar leaves or holding pins, for receiving and holding the projectile. Within the launcher is a spring-loaded element that moves between cocked and released positions. The spring-loaded element contacts a first planar leaf or a first holding pin as the spring-loaded element moves from cocked to released position. Contact with the spring-loaded element causes the leaves or pins to pinch the projectile and launch the projectile into flight in a direction perpendicular to its longitudinal axis. In an alternate embodiment, rotational and linear velocities are imparted to a projectile by action of a ribbon held against the projectile's exterior surface by parallel members. Contact with the spring-loaded element causes the ribbon to translate along the length of said parallel members and into flight.
US10046247B2
A power unit for a toy or a system of toys that can removable receive the power unit. The power unit comprises a drive gear that can provide rotational power to one or more driven components of a toy with which the power unit is associated. The drive gear can comprise multiple drive portions. The toys can comprise a wide variety of toy types.
US10046245B1
An obstacle apparatus is disclosed for an individual to traverse. The obstacle apparatus comprises a chassis and a frame. A hinge pivotably couples the chassis and the frame for positioning the frame in an inclined orientation relative to the chassis. A first drum is rotatably coupled to the frame. A second drum is rotatably coupled to the frame. A belt encircles the first drum and the second drum for defining a continuous loop belt system. A drive engages the continuous loop belt system for creating a displacement in the belt. The belt defines an upper belt surface for the individual to traverse.
US10046241B1
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with output production are described. One example system comprises an analysis component configured to analyze a data set to produce an evaluation result. The system also comprises a production component configured to produce a rendered output based, at least in part, on the evaluation result, where the rendered output is stored in a computer-readable medium.
US10046236B2
A method includes: receiving, from a browser executed by a client device, a request to initiate gameplay of a cloud video game; responsive to the request, transmitting to the client device a web application, and initiating execution of the cloud video game by a cloud game machine to generate a first video stream including video content of the cloud video game that is encoded in a compressed video format and encrypted; transmitting the first video stream from the cloud game machine to a streaming server; decrypting the first video stream by the streaming server to generate encoded video content; transmitting, by the streaming server, the encoded video content using a secure protocol to the web application, thereby defining a second video stream, the web application being configured to receive and process the second video stream to provide the video content of the cloud video game for rendering to a display.
US10046234B2
The present disclosure relates to an interactive movement detection system applicable to articles of clothing that allows a user to interact with virtualized controllable environments such as the graphical programming environments of personal computers and/or those generated by video game consoles. Similarly, the system of example implementations of the present disclosure allows feedback of actions to the system in the form of impulses that generate pressure and/or vibration sensations that simulate interaction with elements of the controllable interface.
US10046229B2
An Internet of Thing (IoT) device includes a body with a processor, a camera and a wireless transceiver coupled to the processor.
US10046224B2
A boxing device (1,400) serves for performing a harmless boxing match. The boxing device (1,400) has a base (2,5,53,87), a buffer (3,6,54) configured to hit a target (A,B,75) without injuring the target (A,B,75), and an extensible joint (4,7,54) that connects the base (2,5,53,7) and the buffer (3,6,54) to move the buffer between a retracted position and one or more extended positions. The extensible joint (4,79,82) is an element assembly of at least two extension elements (8,9,55,56,80a,80b), the extensible joint is configured to move the buffer (3,6,54) into the one or more extended positions by virtue of the propulsive force transferred to the extensible joint (4,79,82) by a punch done by a hand of a boxer (A,B) holding the boxing device (1,400), and auto-retract after the punch has been performed. The harmless boxing match is an enjoyable and beguiling exercise, which furthermore imparts good and healthy motions to the participants.
US10046222B2
The system includes memory having computer-executable instructions and at least one processor to execute the computer-executable instructions to wireless connect the exercise device, receive a training mode, receive at least one variable for determining a power set point, determine the power set point responsive to the training mode and the at least one variable and control a magnetic brake assembly in the exercise device responsive to the power set point.
US10046221B2
The present invention relates to a highly-simulated horseback riding machine, comprising supporting horse feet, a horse head, a horse hide, and a saddle. A movement mechanism is disposed within the horse hide, which comprises a base, a motor, a crank, a connecting rod, and a swing arm. Two ends of the connecting rod are hinged to the crank and the swing arm, respectively. The sum of length of the crank and the length the swing arm is less than the length of the connecting rod, and the length of the crank is less than that of the swing arm; the lower end of the swing arm is fixed to the base, and the fixed position of the lower end of the swing arm is higher than the position of the highest point of the crank in the process of rotation; the saddle is fixed to the connecting rod by means of a vertical rod; and the base is supported by the horse feet. The horse feet are in a double-splayed form so as to ensure that the horseback riding machine may not bounce unexpectedly in motion.
US10046218B2
A non-planar table tennis racket includes a racket blade and a racket handle connected together according to an offset angle. The linear configuration of the handle connected directly to the planar racket blade creates a non-planar racket body that is asymmetrical and unbalanced, capable of imparting ultrahigh spin to a table tennis ball.
US10046216B2
A golf club with improved weighting characteristic is disclosed. More specifically, the present invention discloses to a golf club wherein the improved weighting distribution stems from an increase in the mass of the golf club at a specific distance away from the butt end or proximal end of the golf club head to help increase the feel and minimize the dispersion of the golf shot by minimizing the pull and or draw tendencies of a golf shot.
US10046201B2
An electronic apparatus includes: a control unit that, in an interval training in which a high intensity exercise and a low intensity exercise are repeated, calculates one or both of a high intensity exercise time for performing the high intensity exercise and a low intensity exercise time for performing the low intensity exercise based on input time information.
US10046200B2
The present invention provides a height target exercise scoring device comprising a pad adapted to absorb repeated impacts, the pad including a front surface, a rear surface, and one or more impact sensors positioned beneath the front surface. The target height exercise scoring device also includes a housing coupled to the pad including a control system. The control system includes an interface for inputing a target height parameter, and a processor coupled to the one or more impact sensors configured to determine whether an impact registered by the array of impact sensors occurs on the pad at or above the input target height. The a control system can wirelessly communicate with a mobile device configured to execute a mobile application for configuring the settings of the scoring device, and to send data to, and receive data from, the scoring device.
US10046183B2
Novel systems and methods for performing treatment (e.g., coloration) of keratinous fibers are disclosed. The methods and systems utilize one or more of a dispensing device which is configured to provide customized composition for treating keratinous fibers (e.g., a coloring composition), optionally formed from tablets; an optical reader, for obtaining sufficient characteristics of the keratinous fibers to make a realistic prediction of the outcome of a treatment (e.g., coloring treatment); a computational units for predicting an outcome of a treatment, optionally being interfaced with the dispensing device and for selecting a customized treatment; and tablet formulations which are useful in preparing customized composition for treating keratinous fibers. Further disclosed are rapidly disintegrating tablets for use in the preparation of compositions for treating keratinous fibers.
US10046181B2
A method and system for energy-based (e.g., ultrasound treatment and/or other modalities) of sweat glands are provided. An exemplary method and system for targeted treatment of sweat glands can be configured in various manners, such as through use of therapy only, therapy and monitoring, imaging and therapy, or therapy, imaging, and monitoring, and/or through use of focused, unfocused, or defocused ultrasound (or other energy) through control of various spatial and temporal parameters. As a result, ablative energy can be deposited at the particular depth at which the aberrant sweat gland population is located below the skin surface.
US10046173B2
A portable self-contained tooth-whitening device includes a compact housing structured and configured to be held in a fixed position adjacent to a human jaw during use; at least a first array of LEDs disposed in a first plane at a front side of the housing and arranged to deliver blue visible light or near-visible UV light of at least a threshold intensity to substantially all anterior surfaces of anterior maxillary teeth or anterior mandibular teeth of the human jaw, wherein the first array of LEDs forms at least two intersecting arcs, each of which is disposed in the first plane and has its own focal point located outside the device; and at least one battery cell powering the array of LEDs.
US10046171B2
A transcranial magnetic stimulation device in accordance with embodiments of the present invention comprises a head mount for disposition on a head of a patient and configured with a plurality of attachment points, a plurality of magnetic assembly devices connected to the plurality of attachment points, a given magnetic assembly device equipped with an actuator device to actuate a magnet, is addressable, and configured to receive a control signal addressed to the given magnetic assembly device, and a processor having a memory and configured by program code. The processor is configured to: select one or more treatment protocol units, generate a control signal using at least information contained in the selected treatment protocol units, energize at least one magnetic assembly device over a period of time to cause the magnet to actuate according to the control signal, and monitor the patient response to energizing to addressable actuator.
US10046169B2
A defibrillator (20) employs a ECG monitor (23), a shock source (24) and a controller (25). In operation, the controller synchronizes a ECG analysis window (EAW) to a shock activation of the defibrillator, and analyzes a ECG waveform (30) of a heart (11) of a patient (10) as monitored by the ECG monitor within the ECG analysis window for detecting the patient experiencing an organized heartbeat condition or an unorganized heartbeat condition. The controller further controls a delivery by the shock source of a synchronized defibrillation shock to the heart of the patient in response to a detection within the ECG analysis window by the controller of the patient experiencing the organized heartbeat condition, or controls a delivery by the shock source of an unsynchronized defibrillation shock to the heart of the patient in response to a detection by the controller within the ECG analysis window of the patient experiencing one of the unorganized heartbeat condition or an undetected organized heartbeat condition.
US10046166B2
A hermetically sealed feedthrough filter assembly is attachable to an active implantable medical device and includes an insulator substrate assembly and a feedthrough filter capacitor disposed on a device side. A conductive leadwire has a proximal leadwire end extending to a distal leadwire end, wherein the proximal leadwire end is connectable to electronics internal to the AIMD. The distal leadwire end is disposed at least partially through a first passageway of the feedthrough filter capacitor and is in contact with, adjacent to or near a device side conductive fill. A first electrically conductive material makes a three-way electrically connection that electrically connects the device side conductive fill to an internal metallization of the feedthrough filter capacitor and to the distal leadwire end. A second electrically conductive material electrically connects an external metallization of the feedthrough filter capacitor to a ferrule or an AIMD housing.
US10046165B2
An implantable magnetic resonant imaging (MRI) safe stylus for biomedical devices is described. In one example, the stylus includes a set of stylus modules. One or more of the stylus modules includes a core rod formed of silicon carbide (SiC) material, a recording array mounted on the core rod, and a stimulation array mounted at a distal end of the core rod. The stylus also includes a hemispherical cap formed of SiC material. In part due to the construction and choice of materials used in the stylus, it does not substantially couple with electromagnetic fields during an MRI, for example. Therefore, the stylus does not produce excessive additional heat. The designs described herein also rely on the high thermal transport but low heat capacity of SiC to provide a thermal pathway which will conduct induced heat throughout the stylus, to dissipate heat more evenly.
US10046164B2
In some examples, a chronic implantable neurostimulator supports trial and chronic modes of operation. In addition, in some examples, the neurostimulator can alternatively include one or more sensors that may or may not function differently in trial and chronic modes. The device may be designed to be used as both a trial neurostimulator and a permanent, or chronic, neurostimulator. A trial neurostimulation period can be used to evaluate the efficacy of the therapy. A percutaneous or implantable trial neurostimulator is used for the trial neurostimulation period. In most cases, the trial period is successful, in which case the trial stimulator is explanted and replaced with a permanent, i.e., “chronic,” implantable stimulator. In accordance with the disclosure, an implantable neurostimulator supports both trial neurostimulation and chronic neurostimulation in the event trial stimulation is successful.
US10046149B2
A dilation system and method for accessing a surgical target site to perform surgical procedures. In one version, the dilation system includes a dilation assembly and an actuating mechanism. The dilation assembly comprises plurality of dilator segments. The actuating mechanism is operably associated with the dilator segments so as to cause the dilator segments to move from a collapsed state to an expanded state.
US10046146B2
A medical balloon catheter including a catheter shaft and an inflatable balloon secured to a distal portion of the catheter shaft. One or more cutting blades are secured to the inflatable balloon by a first polymeric adhesive material forming a mounting pad encasing a base portion of the cutting blade therein, and a second polymeric adhesive material adhesively bonding the mounting pad to a surface of the balloon. The first polymeric adhesive material has a first ductility and the second polymeric adhesive material has a second ductility greater than the first ductility.
US10046142B2
Some embodiments of a medical device anchor system includes an anchor sleeve and a catheter (or other medical instrument) to advance through a working channel of the anchor sleeve. The anchor sleeve may have a subcutaneous cuff device arranged along an outer surface. In such circumstances, the embedded cuff device can inhibit the migration of infection from outside the skin and into the blood stream.
US10046141B2
An introducer has a shaft with a central lumen, a control handle with a deflection assembly, and a tensile member with a distal portion extending along opposing sides of within the shaft and a proximal portion extending within the control handle. The deflection assembly has a deflection arm, and a rotatable member rotationally coupled to the deflection arm, wherein the rocker member has at least one pulley engaged with the proximal tensile member portion. Rotation of the deflection arm in one direction draws the proximal tensile member portion for deflecting the shaft.
US10046138B2
Ureteral access sheaths can have a nonuniform axial-stiffness. A nonuniform axial-stiffness ureteral access sheath can have an inner liner defining a longitudinally extending and generally uniform bore. A non-uniform axial-stiffness outer jacket can define a longitudinally tapered outer surface, and a reinforcement layer can be encapsulated between the inner liner and the non-uniform axial-stiffness outer jacket. The reinforcement layer can have a non-uniform axial-stiffness. For example, a proximal portion of the reinforcement layer can be thicker than a distal portion of the reinforcement layer. A coil of wire can be included in the reinforcement layer, and a diameter of the wire in a proximal portion of the reinforcement layer can be larger than a diameter of the wire in a distal portion of the reinforcement layer. In some instances, the diameter of the wire tapers from the proximal portion to the distal portion.
US10046136B2
A method of automatically controlling the humidity of a gas stream of a pressure support system (50) during use of the system is provided. The method includes receiving a first humidification level, and controlling operation of a humidifier (68) based on the first humidification level and at least one of: (i) one or more environmental parameters relating to environmental conditions around the pressure support system, (ii) one or more gas stream parameters relating to a gas stream output by the pressure support system to a patient circuit (56, 58), (iii) one or more respiratory demand parameters of a user of the pressure support system, and (iv) one or more operating parameters of the pressure support system that effect a flow rate that is generated by a pressure generating system (52, 60) of the pressure support system.
US10046131B2
A patient interface and a patient interface system comprise a responsive material and a method for preventing the formation of red marks due to wearing a patient interface that is pressing against the skin of a patient for a longer time and/or for reducing air leakages of the patient interface that may result from an unintended shift of the patient interface on the patient's face. The responsive material is configured for alternating the pressure exerted by the cushion element on the patient and/or the area on the patient where the pressure is exerted by the cushion element in response to a physical quantity acting on the responsive material. The formation of red marks and of air leakages can be reduced or even avoided by means of the responsive material.
US10046129B2
A system for ventilating lungs of a subject is disclosed herein. The system includes a control unit configured to control operation of the system. The system also includes a machine ventilator circuit configured to assist the breathing functions of the subject, the machine ventilator circuit includes an inspiration delivery unit, and an expiration circuit. The system also includes a manual ventilation circuit comprising a manual bag guiding a gas from the manual bag wherein a gas flow is guided out from the manual bag to assist an inspiration phase, a gas flow is received to fill the manual bag during an expiration phase, and wherein the gas flow received to fill the manual bag during the expiration phase at least partially comprises the gas flow guided to assist the inspiration phase.
US10046126B2
An apparatus and method for providing heat exchange in the lungs of the mammal during partial liquid ventilation are provided. The apparatus and method can control delivery and removal of partial liquid ventilation to the lungs of a mammal by responding to pressure change in the lungs to minimize danger of causing barotrauma to the patient.
US10046123B2
Example techniques and systems include detecting patient inhalation with a pulmonary medication dosing device and controlling a valve to release medication based on the detection. For example, a method includes generating a signal indicative of air flow within a portion of a pulmonary medication dosing device, receiving, by a processor, a command based on the signal and associated with a valve configured to at least partially control release of medication via the pulmonary medication dosing device, and controlling, by the processor and based on the received command, the valve to release at least a portion of a dose of the medication into the air flow. In some examples, a mobile computing device may be configured to generate and transmit the command to the pulmonary medication dosing device for controlling the valve.
US10046121B2
The invention provides an inhalation device for enabling a user to inhale at a desired inspiratory flow rate and/or pressure, comprising a feedback system configured to indicate to a user by means of a signal during an inhalation maneuver whether an inhalation parameter, such as the inspiratory flow rate, is within a predefined target range. The signal may be an optical or a non-optical signal, such as a light signal, an acoustic signal, or a tactile signal.
US10046117B2
Drive mechanism for a drug delivery device is disclosed. The drive mechanism includes an elongated housing extending in an axial direction. It includes a piston rod that operably engages with a piston of a cartridge to displace the piston in an axial distal direction. It includes a first dose indicating member that is rotatably supported on a longitudinal axis. It includes a second dose indicating member axially adjacent to the first dose indicating member and rotatably supported on the longitudinal axis. It includes a dose setting sleeve extending in an axial direction, rotatably engaged with the first dose indicating member and axially extending through the first dose indicating member to rotatably engage with the second dose indicating member.
US10046116B2
Processes and devices for delivering a fluid by chemical reaction are disclosed. A chemical reaction is initiated in a reaction chamber to produce a gas, and the gas acts upon a piston to deliver the fluid. An exemplary device may include an upper chamber, a lower chamber, a fluid chamber, a piston between the lower chamber and the fluid chamber, and a one-way valve between the upper chamber and the lower chamber.
US10046110B2
A drug injection device comprises a main body case, a drug syringe mounting component, a piston, a drive mechanism, a controller, and means for locking the lid during operation of the drug injection device. The main body case has a lid and a base and an injection needle let-in/let-out opening. The drug syringe mounting component is provided inside the main body case, and allows a (filled) drug syringe to be mounted therein. The piston is movable with respect to the drug syringe mounting component. The drive mechanism drives the drug syringe mounting component and the piston. The controller is electrically connected to the drive mechanism. The means for locking the lid during operation of the drug injection device is activated and deactivated by movement of the drug syringe mounting component when the lid is closed.
US10046098B2
Materials and methods related to blood pump systems are described. These can be used in patients to, for example, monitor arterial pressure, measure blood flow, maintain left ventricular pressure within a particular range, avoid left ventricular collapse, prevent fusion of the aortic valve in a subject having a blood pump, and provide a means to wean a patient from a blood pump.
US10046097B2
Wearable breast pumps are provided which utilize compression to enhance milk expression. The breast milk expression systems herein can allow breastfeeding users to obtain milk discreetly and comfortably in the presence of others. These systems compress the breast at one or more locations, such as at a base of a breast and/or along inferior and lateral sides of a breast, to stimulate milk expression. Various components and methods for expressing milk can facilitate milk output. For example, vacuum can be used in conjunction with compression. For another example, one or more temperature sensitive components can be utilized to improve milk secretion. In some embodiments, milk can be collected in a sterile custom storage container located around or beneath the breasts to facilitate wearability. After expression is complete, a quick-release valve can be used to detach the storage container from the pump and can prevent leaks.
US10046096B2
Some embodiments have a pump assembly mounted to or supported by a dressing for reduced pressure wound therapy. The dressing can have visual pressure, saturation, and/or temperature sensors to provide a visual indication of the level of pressure, saturation, and/or temperature within the dressing. Additionally, the pump assembly can have a pressure sensor in communication with the flow pathway through the pump, and at least one switch or button supported by the housing, the at least one switch or button being accessible to a user and being in communication with the controller. The pump assembly can have a controller supported within or by the housing, the controller being configured to control an operation of the pump. The pump can be configured to be sterilized following the assembly of the pump such that all of the components of the pump have been sterilized.
US10046095B1
A wound covering assembly includes a wound covering membrane and a removable layer. The wound covering membrane can allow liquid or air to pass through the wound covering membrane from a wound site covered by the wound covering membrane to ambient and vice versa. The removable layer covers a portion of the wound covering membrane and is removable from the wound covering membrane when the wound covering membrane is affixed to skin around the wound site. The removable layer is configured and connected with the wound covering membrane such that air and liquid are inhibited from passing through the wound covering membrane and the removable layer when the wound covering membrane is affixed to skin surrounding the wound site and the removable layer is connected with the wound covering membrane. The wound covering assembly can be used with a pump assembly to provide negative pressure to the wound site.
US10046093B2
A method and device for local delivery of water-soluble or water-insoluble therapeutic agents to the surface of a normal or diseased body lumen is disclosed. An expandable structure of a medical disposable device, such as a balloon of a balloon catheter, is coated with an amphiphilic polymer coating comprising a therapeutic agent and an amphiphilic polymer or co-polymer. The medical disposable device is inserted into a body lumen, and expanded to contact the amphiphilic polymer coating against the body lumen. The total solubility of the polymer or co-polymer in vivo prevents any embolic hazard associated with the amphiphilic polymer coating.
US10046090B2
Bone particle compositions and kits are provided that include a biologically-resorbable cement and a plurality of processed bone particles. A first portion of the processed bone particles in the compositions have a shape configured to interconnect with one another, while a second portion of the processed bone particles having an irregular shape. Methods for treating a bone defect are also provided wherein an effective amount of the bone particle compositions are administered to a site of a bone defect in a subject.
US10046086B2
A biodegradable scaffold, a low-molecular weight thioketal, and a method of forming a biodegradable scaffold are provided. The biodegradable scaffold includes a thioketal and an isocyanate, where the thioketal is linked to the isocyanate to form the scaffold. The low-molecular weight thioketal includes 2,2-dimethoxypropane and thioglycolic acid, wherein the thioketal includes at least two hydroxyl terminal groups. The method of forming the biodegradable scaffold includes blending a thioketal with an excess isocyanate, forming a quasi-prepolymer, mixing the thioketal, the quasi-prepolymer, and a ceramic, and then adding a catalyst to form the biodegradable scaffold. The thioketal is a low-molecular weight thioketal having at least two hydroxyl terminal groups.
US10046085B2
Embodiments of the invention provide compositions include bio degradable polymers, medical implants fabricated from these compositions and methods of using such implants. Many embodiments provide medical implants including a first polymer backbone having a first rate of biodegradation and a second polymer backbone having a second rate of biodegradation faster than the first rate. In some embodiments, the second backbone is configured to be replaced by a natural tissue layer. The first backbone provides a scaffold for the implant while the second backbone degrades. This scaffold can enhance mechanical properties of the implant including various aspects of mechanical strength such as tensile, bending, hoop and yield strength; and elasticity. The scaffold also serves to maintain a minimum level of structural support of the implant during the period of degradation of the second backbone or for the entire life of the implant so that the implant does not mechanically fail.
US10046070B1
According to one implementation a central venous catheter is provided that include a main shaft and an infusion shaft. The main shaft has a proximal end, a distal end and a working lumen, the distal end configured for placement inside a patient. The infusion shaft has a proximal end, a distal end and a working lumen. The assembly further includes an optical fiber that is configured to emit bacterial disinfecting light. The distal end of the infusion shaft is coupled to the proximal end of the main shaft by a conduit located inside a hub. The conduit fluidly connects the working lumen of the infusion shaft with the working lumen of the main shaft. The hub has a channel that houses at least a portion of the length of the optical fiber.
US10046069B2
The invention is directed to bodies comprising an amorphous carbon particle on which are supported nanoparticles of an oxide of lanthanide. These bodies find use as a pharmaceutical for use in a surgery or therapy and diagnostic methods. The bodies can be made by a process comprising impregnating a carbon source material by contacting it with a solution of a salt of the lanthanide; drying the impregnated carbon source material; and subjecting the dried impregnated material to pyrolysis under inert conditions.
US10046063B2
Conjugates and compounds for making conjugates which are PBD molecules linked via the N10 position are disclosed, along with the use of the conjugates for treating proliferative diseases, including cancer.
US10046061B2
Provided are an insulin conjugate having improved insulin receptor binding affinity and increased activity, in which a non-peptidyl polymer and an immunoglobulin Fc region are site-specifically linked to an amino acid residue of the insulin beta chain excluding the N-terminus thereof via a covalent bond, a long-acting formulation including the same, and a preparation method thereof. The insulin conjugate of the present invention is used to provide an insulin formulation which exhibits a remarkably increased in vivo activity of the peptide.
US10046057B2
There are disclosed compositions and methods to render nucleic acids resistant to nuclease digestion while maintaining sequence selective hybridization competency. The approach relies on utilizing nucleic acids as the polar head group of a nucleic acid-polymer amphiphile in order to assemble well-defined, discrete micellar nanoparticles. Dense packing of nucleic acid in the micelle corona allows for hybridization of complementary oligonucleotides while prohibiting enzymatic degradation.
US10046052B2
Methods and dosage formulations for the safe treatment of cold, cough, flu, and sinus symptoms in children and adolescents by age and nature of symptoms, and adults and the elderly by age, nature of symptoms, and concomitant patient medical conditions. The method of the present invention comprises the formulation of a cold medication which consists essentially of combinations of a nonsedating or minimally sedating antihistamines with pain relievers and the expectorant, guaifenesin.
US10046050B2
Disclosed are methods and compositions for targeting antibodies to amyloid deposits. For example, amyloid-reactive peptides that bind amyloid deposits are administered to a subject. Antibodies to the amyloid-reactive peptides are then administered to the subject. Upon administration of the antibodies, the amyloid-reactive peptides bind the antibodies and thus pre-target the antibodies to the amyloid deposits. In other examples, an amyloid-reactive fusion peptide contains an epitope of a known antibody. When the fusion peptide is administered to a subject, the fusion peptide binds amyloids in the subject. Administration to the subject of the known antibody that binds the epitope of the fusion peptide then targets the antibody to the amyloid deposit to which the fusion peptide is bound.
US10046049B2
This invention relates to the field of therapeutics. Most specifically invention provides methods of generating in vitro engineered immune cells conditionally expressing interleukin-12 (IL-12) and one or more immunomodulators under the control of a gene expression modulation system in the presence of activating ligand and uses for therapeutic purposes in animals.
US10046045B2
The present disclosure relates to nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) from flaviviruses and uses thereof. In particular, the present invention relates to diagnostic and therapeutic uses of NS1 to treat and prevent disease caused by flaviviruses.
US10046038B2
The antigenic mass of Leptospira cultures can be significantly increased, independent from any increase in biomass, by supplementing Leptospira cultures with a specific type of fatty acid: a polyunsaturated C18 fatty acid. This provides advantages in the production Leptospira antigens. Also this enables the production of improved Leptospirosis vaccines, that are safer and more effective.
US10046034B2
The invention relates to a hemostatic composition in powder form comprising collagen of the fibrillar type comprising a content of fibrous collagen and/or fibrillar collagen of at least 70% by weight relative to the total weight of the collagen, and at least one monosaccharide, and optionally, at least one compound selected from coagulation factors and glycosaminoglycans. The invention further relates to a method for preparing such composition, and to a unit comprising such composition and a spraying device.
US10046033B2
The present application provides for compositions comprising high concentrations of acid a-glucosidase in combination with an active site-specific chaperone for the acid α-glucosidase, and methods for treating Pompe disease in a subject in need thereof, that includes a method of administering to the subject such compositions. The present application also provides methods for increasing the in vitro and in vivo stability of an acid α-glucosidase enzyme formulation.
US10046031B2
Disclosed herein are improved methods of treating hyperglycemia with a combination of an ultrarapid acting insulin and insulin glargine comprising prandial administration of the ultrarapid insulin, and administration of a first dose of insulin glargine within 6 hours of waking for a day.
US10046025B2
The present invention relates to alkylglycoside-containing compositions and methods for increasing the stability, reducing the aggregation and immunogenicity, increasing the biological activity, and reducing or preventing fibrillar formation of a cyclic polypeptide.
US10046024B2
A composition which is reversible inhibitor of at least one neuron-specific PDZ domain comprising wherein R is a molecular transporter with or without a linker amino acid; R1 is at least about one amino acid covalently bound; and, R2 is isoleucine, leucine, alanine, phenylalanine, or valine, and methods of use.
US10046022B2
Provided are a synthetic peptide that increases the radiosensitivity of tumor cells and a pharmaceutical composition containing that synthetic peptide.The peptide provided by the present invention is a synthetic peptide having a radiosensitizing peptide sequence including the following amino acid sequence: CX2X3KX5X6X7X8C (wherein, X2 represents K or R, X3 represents S or A, X5 represents S or A, X6 represents R or G, X7 represents R or D and X8 represents S or P); or, a modified amino acid sequence in which one, two or three amino acid residues are substituted, deleted and/or added in that amino acid sequence. In addition, the pharmaceutical composition provided by the present invention is a composition used to increase the sensitivity of tumor cells to radiation in tumor radiation therapy, and contains the synthetic peptide described above.
US10046020B2
The present invention relates to the use of compounds selected from the group consisting of Lys-(D)Pro-Thr, N-acyl Lys-(D)Pro-Thr, C-amide Lys-(D)Pro-Thr, and C-esters of Lys-(D)Pro-Thr; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of said compound for the treatment of inflammatory disorders. The invention also relates to the use of αMSH for inducing tolerance.
US10046012B2
The invention generally relates to postnatal periodontal ligament stem cells and methods for their use. More specifically, the invention relates in one aspect to postnatal periodontal ligament multipotent stem cells, use of the cells to generate periodontium, differentiation of the cells and methods of tissue cryopreservation.
US10045992B2
This disclosure relates, at least in part, to a method of treatment. In one embodiment, the method of treatment comprises administering to a subject in need of such treatment a first therapeutic agent including compound (1): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in combination with a second therapeutic agent, wherein the first therapeutic agent and the second therapeutic agent are administered either simultaneously or sequentially.
US10045990B2
Disclosed herein are methods of treating diseases that exhibit over-activation of the ERBB4 pathway, such as breast cancer and lung cancer. The method comprises administering to a subject having a disease that exhibits over-activation of the ERBB4 pathway and a gene expression profile consistent with an ERBB4-sensitive profile a therapeutically effective amount of an ERBB4 inhibitor, wherein the disease is effectively treated. Gene expression profiles of ERBB4-sensitive cells and microarrays suitable for protein-tyrosine kinases are also provided.
US10045984B2
The present invention provides a composition comprising zinc and trimethoprim, particularly in a weight ration of about 1:3 to about 1:7, as well as a sustained- or prolonged-release preparation which comprises trimethoprim and zinc and a biodegradable polymer providing a clinically useful composition which has prolonged release over a long period of time.
US10045982B2
The invention relates to new pyridopyrazine derivative compounds of formula (I-A) or formula (I-B): to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds, to processes for the preparation of said compounds and to the use of said compounds in the treatment of diseases, e.g. cancer.
US10045980B2
A dry powder pharmaceutical formulation for inhalation including a compound of formula (I): that is 1-(3-(tert-butyl)-1-(p-tolyl)-1H-pyrazol-5-yl)-3-(4-((2-((6-ethylpyrazin-2-yl)amino)pyridin-4-yl)methoxy)naphthalen-1-yl)urea or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, including all stereoisomers, tautomers and isotopic derivatives thereof; and lactose as a topically acceptable diluent. An inhaler device containing the dry powder pharmaceutical formulation is also described.
US10045979B2
The present invention relates to novel anthelmintic compounds of formula (I) below: wherein Y and Z are independently a bicyclic carbocyclic or a bicyclic heterocyclic group, or one of Y or Z is a bicyclic carbocyclic or a bicyclic heterocyclic group and the other of Y or Z is alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, phenyl, heterocyclyl or heteroaryl, and variables X1, X6, X8, Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4, Q5, Q6, Ring A, Ring B, W, W′, R2, R3, R, R′, m, n and q are as defined herein. The invention also provides for veterinary compositions comprising the anthelmintic compounds of the invention, and their uses for the treatment and prevention of parasitic infections in animals.
US10045977B2
The present invention relates to new medical uses of morphinans such as nalmefene and naltrexone and their related derivatives, pharmaceutical formulations thereof, and use thereof for prevention and treatment of NASH, NAFLD, and/or ASH.
US10045968B2
The present invention provides a new cyclic compound having a CCR antagonist activity, especially a CCR5 antagonist activity, and the use thereof. The compound of the present invention is represented by the formula: wherein, R1 is a 5- to 6-membered ring group which may be substituted; X1 is a bond or the like; ring A is a 5- to 6-membered ring group which may be substituted; ring B is a 8- to 10-membered ring group which may be substituted; X2 is a bivalent group of 1 to 4 atom; Z1 is a bivalent cyclic ring group or the like; Z2 is a bond or the like; and R2 is an amino group, a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group which may be substituted or the like, or a salt thereof.
US10045963B2
Disclosed are methods for the preparation of amorphous N-[(3aR,4R,4aR,5aS,6S,6aS)-3,3a,4,4a,5,5a,6,6a-octahydro-1,3-dioxo-4,6-ethenocycloprop[f]isoindol-2(1H)-yl]-4-(trifluoromethyl)-benzamide for the treatment or prophylaxis of viral infections and diseases associated therewith, particularly those viral infections and associated diseases caused by the orthopoxvirus. Also disclosed are methods for the preparation of amorphous solid dispersion of N-[(3aR,4R,4aR,5aS,6S,6aS)-3,3a,4,4a,5,5a,6,6a-octahydro-1,3-dioxo-4,6-ethenocycloprop[f]isoindol-2(1H)-yl]-4-(trifluoromethyl)-benzamide.
US10045960B2
A coating composition for drug-eluting medical devices, which enables a medical device to be delivered to a target tissue for the purpose of treating an affected blood vessel part such as restenosis, without easy separation of a drug from the medical device during the delivery process is provided. The coating composition for drug-eluting medical devices contains a water-insoluble drug and at least one selected from the group consisting of ester compounds of amino acids, which have a hydropathy index of the amino acid of zero or less than zero, and salts thereof. A drug coating layer, a drug-eluting medical device and a method of treatment are also provided.
US10045955B2
The present invention is directed to an aqueous gel composition containing a local anesthetic, a lubricating agent, and a preservative and methods of treating vulvovaginal pain, such as dyspareunia by topically administering said composition.
US10045953B2
A method for treating and preventing diseases associated with neutrophil infiltration, particularly ocular diseases, is provided, which method comprises administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of ceramide or a derivative thereof. Also provided is a composition for treating diseases associated with neutrophil infiltration, the composition comprising ceramide or a derivative thereof.
US10045946B2
A unit multiparticulate dosage form for delivering one or more basic, active pharmaceutical ingredients into the body in need of such medications to achieve target PK (pharmacokinetics) profiles is described. The dosage form comprises one or more multicoated drug particles (beads, pellets, mini-/micro-tablets) having a barrier coating and a lag-time coating. Each Timed Pulsatile Release (TPR) bead population exhibits pre-determined lag-time followed by differing release characteristics. The composition and thickness of the barrier coating, composition and thickness of the lag-time coating, ratio of IR beads to one or more TPR bead populations and total dose may be varied depending on the alkalinity, pH-dependent solubility and elimination half-life of the active ingredients to achieve target PK profiles (suitable for a once or twice daily dosing regimen) in patients in need of such medications.
US10045931B2
A composition for providing a film on keratin fibers, the composition comprising an aminosilicone polymer; a silicone resin which is a MQ resin; a thickening system comprising a thickening polymer; water; one or more pigments or one or more colored materials; wherein when drying the composition spread with an average wet thickness of 37 micron the fluidity factor is measured to form a drying curve of fluidity factor over time, wherein the fluidity factor is within the range of 10 Hz to 0.001 Hz within the first 15 minutes of drying and the fluidity factor reduces by at least a factor of 100 within the first 15 minutes of drying; wherein the drying curve of fluidity factor over time is measured according to the fluidity factor measurement method and at 23° C. and ambient conditions. Also associated methods, kits and uses.
US10045924B2
A multi-component packaging unit (kit of parts) for oxidatively coloring keratin fibers, including two preparations (A) and (B) packaged separate from each other. Preparation (A) includes, in a cosmetic carrier, (a1) at least one oxidation dye precursor and (a2) ammonia, and preparation (B) includes, in a cosmetic carrier, (b1) hydrogen peroxide, (b2) at least one fatty alcohol from the group comprising arachidyl alcohol (eicosan-1-ol), gadoleyl alcohol ((9Z)-eicos-9-en-1-ol), arachidonyl alcohol ((5Z,8Z,11Z,14Z)-eicosa-5,8,11,14-tetraen-1-ol), heneicosyl alcohol (heneicosan-1-ol), behenyl alcohol (docosan-1-ol), erucyl alcohol ((13Z)-docos-13-en-1-ol), and/or brassidyl alcohol ((13E)-docosen-1-ol), and (b3) at least one hydrocarbon having 8 to 80 C atoms.
US10045920B2
An agent for coloring keratinic fibers, particularly human hairs, including in a cosmetic carrier (a) at least one direct dye, and (b) an inorganic butter system comprising at least one inorganic aid (b1) and at least one inorganic salt of this acid or these acids (b2), and (c) water. Further, a cosmetic product includes the aforementioned colorant which is packaged in a pressurized aerosol container possessing an aerosol dispensing device with spray valve. Finally, a method for increasing the nuance stability of colorants includes adding the aforementioned ingredients (a), (b), and (c) in the agent.
US10045914B2
Provided is a medicine dispensing apparatus including a plurality of medicine cassettes for respectively dispensing desired types of medicines. The medicine dispensing apparatus allocates medicine information on a medicine to be dispensed to one of the medicine cassettes when the medicine information is given. Then, the medicine dispensing apparatus drives the medicine cassette according to a predetermined driving condition corresponding to the medicine information allocated to the medicine cassette to dispense the medicine from the medicine cassette. By using the medicine dispensing apparatus, it is possible to reduce a user work for dispensing the desired types of medicines.
US10045910B2
A connector device for connecting two containers with first and second members slidably displaceable in regard to each other along an axis between a first and a second position is presented. The first member comprises a needle parallel to the axis so that the first container's septum is penetrated by one end of the needle when the first container is introduced into the first member. The second member comprises a coupling to the second container. The other needle end penetrates the second container's septum when the members are in the second position establishing a connection between the two containers. The first member comprises a coupling to the second container coupled to the second member. The first member can couple to the second container when the two members are in the second position and cannot couple to the second container when the two members are in the first position.
US10045899B2
The exemplary embodiments herein provide a medical cart having a drawer with a post which extends upwardly from a bottom surface of the drawer. The cart further includes a removable medication delivery module having four sidewalls and a bottom wall as well as a plurality of individually-lockable bins placed above the bottom wall and within the four sidewalls. A lock may be positioned above the bottom wall and below the plurality of individually-lockable bins with an aperture on the lock which engages with the post and a hole in the bottom wall sized to accept the post.
US10045883B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods of and for an ophthalmic surgical system are disclosed. An example ophthalmic surgical system may include a body sized and shaped for grasping by a user. The body may include a lumen and a vent in fluid communication with the lumen. The vent may be located and arranged to be selectively occluded, such as when a user places a finger over the vent, and selectively unoccluded, such as when the user removes the finger from over the vent. Fluid pressure within the lumen may be increased when the vent is occluded and decreased when the vent is unoccluded. A piston within the may be displaced in response to the fluid pressure changes within the lumen.
US10045871B2
Apparatus for manipulating and securing tissue are described herein. In creating tissue folds within the body of a patient, a tissue manipulation assembly may generally have an elongate tubular member, an engagement member slidably disposed through the tubular member and a distal end adapted to engage tissue via a helical member, tissue stabilizing members positioned at the tubular member distal end which are adapted to stabilize tissue therebetween, and a delivery tube pivotable about the tissue stabilizer. The stabilizing members can be adapted to become angled relative to a longitudinal axis of the elongate tubular member. Moreover, one or all the articulation controls and functions can be integrated into a singular handle assembly connectable to the tissue manipulation assembly via a rigid or flexible tubular body.
US10045870B2
The present disclosure provides a support device for a gastrointestinal implant. The support device may include a lumen configured to extend through a submucosal tunnel and a mouth located at a proximal end of the lumen and in fluid communication with the lumen. The mouth may be configured to face proximally within a gastrointestinal tract to receive GI contents, and the mouth may be configured to direct the GI contents into the lumen. The support device may further include a support structure, where the lumen extends through the support structure, and where the support structure is configured to apply an outward radial force on an inner wall of the gastrointestinal tract. An artificial tunnel may extend distally from the support structure, may form at least a portion of the lumen, and may be configured to extend through the submucosal tunnel.
US10045867B2
A stent delivery system can include a core member, a stent engagement member, and a stent. The core member can have a distal segment. The stent engagement member can have a generally tubular body positioned about the core member distal segment and can be rotatably coupled to the core member. The engagement member can include an inner layer that has a first durometer and an outer layer that has a second durometer less than the first durometer. The stent can extend along the core member distal segment such that an inner surface of the stent is engaged by the engagement member outer layer for facilitating rotation of the stent relative to the core member.
US10045864B2
A trial implant system including a trial implant configured to be temporarily inserted into an intervertebral space defined by a superior vertebral body and an inferior vertebral body is disclosed. The trial implant may include a superior plate and an inferior plate coupled to the superior plate. The superior plate may have a first mating portion that defines a first articulating interface and the inferior plate may have a second mating portion that defines a second articulating interface. The second articulating interface may be configured to interact with the first articulating interface of the superior plate such that at least one of the superior plate and the inferior plate is capable of movement relative to the other. The first and second articulating interfaces may be primary or auxiliary articulating interfaces. For example, the first and second articulating interfaces may be corresponding curved surfaces or they may be corresponding engagement features.
US10045863B2
A system for cleaning bone that includes a base unit with a motor, a cleaning head with a cleaning element and a mill head with a mill element. Both the cleaning head and the mill head are designed to be coupled to the base unit. Both the cleaning element and mill element have features that facilitate their coupling to the motor. When the cleaning head is attached to the base unit, a motor in the base unit rotates the cleaning element to remove soft tissue from the bone so as to clean the bone. The mill element is placed on the base unit and the cleaned bone placed in the mill head. The actuation of the base unit motor results in the actuations of the mill element. The actuation of the mill element converts the cleaned bone into bone chips.
US10045860B2
An intervertebral prosthesis includes: a body including first and second spaced apart major surfaces defining a longitudinal axis extending substantially normal to said surfaces and at least anterior and posterior sidewalls extending therebetween, the first and second major surfaces for engaging endplates of first and second vertebral bones of a spine; an aperture extending from within the body, transversely to the longitudinal axis, and opening at a major surface; an anchoring element disposed within the aperture and including a threaded shaft; and a gear disposed adjacent to and in meshed, threaded communication with the threaded shaft of the anchoring element such that rotation of the gear causes rotation of the anchoring element, and a driving rotational force on the gear causes the anchoring element to rotate, deploy from the body, and thread into a vertebral bone transverse to the longitudinal axis of the body.
US10045856B2
A method for reducing prosthetic loading failure including the steps of providing a prosthesis for a vertebral column comprising at least an upper part for attachment to an upper vertebrae and a lower part for attachment to a lower vertebrae, the upper part having a lower curved surface and the lower part having an upper curved surface, wherein the upper and lower curved surfaces have a center of radius of curvature offset rearwardly with respect to a central vertical axis through the upper and lower vertebrae, and positioning the centroid of at least one of the upper and lower parts substantially on the same vertical axis of the center of radius of curvature.
US10045853B2
An artificial knee joint includes a femoral component (11), provided with a medial condyle (13), a lateral condyle (14) and a front flange (50). The medial condyle (13) and the lateral condyle (14) are joined together in proximity with the rear end of the intercondyle groove (19) by a femoral cam (17), and separated by the intercondyle groove (19) in the remaining part of their extension. A tibial component includes a tibial plate and a tibial insert (12). The tibial insert (12) is configured to support the medial condyle (13), and the lateral condyle (14), and is provided with a tibial post (18). The femoral cam (17) is asymmetrical and comprises a distal surface (20) shaped like a drum which articulates with the tibial post (18).
US10045850B2
An orthopaedic knee prosthesis includes a femoral component which exhibits enhanced articular features, minimizes removal of healthy bone stock from the distal femur, and minimizes the impact of the prosthesis on adjacent soft tissues of the knee.
US10045838B2
A denture is manufactured in a single visit using a pre-formed dental template chosen from a plurality of different sized dental templates, based on the size of a patient's alveolar edentulous ridge. The dental template includes a base acrylic with prosthetic teeth attached thereto. A viscous material such as an acrylic is added to the selected dental template and the dental template with the added viscous material is placed on the patient's alveolar edentulous ridge. The viscous material is then allowed to solidify to form a rigid or semi-rigid material with the template in proper position in three planes and properly border molded. After solidification a denture is formed that consists of a first base acrylic portion in conterminous relation with a second portion formed of the solidified material that had been added as a viscous material, and with teeth joined to the base acrylic portion.
US10045837B2
A dental augment system includes a porous metal augment, a solid metal insert, and a dental implant. The porous metal augment is sized for use in mandibular or maxillar bone. The porous metal material of the augment facilitates and promotes ingrowth of the surrounding bone into the porous metal structure, thereby rebuilding a suitable foundation for affixation of dental implants. The solid metal insert can be configured to be received within an insert bore of the porous metal augment and a dental implant can be received within and theradably engaged with a threaded bore of the solid metal insert.
US10045834B2
The present disclosure is directed, at least in part, to a self ligating orthodontic bracket system that includes a rotatable member for securing an archwire within a slot of a bracket. Embodiments of the orthodontic bracket system disclosed herein include a bracket body containing the archwire slot as well as tie wings for attaching various orthodontic devices (e.g., elastomeric bands) to the bracket. The rotatable member is rotatable in a first direction (e.g., counter clockwise) relative to a body of the bracket for securing or locking the archwire within the slot, and for rotating in an opposite direction (e.g., a clockwise direction) relative to the bracket body for unsecuring or unlocking the archwire so that it is substantially unrestrained from exiting the slot. Other embodiments include an orthodontic appliance and method of producing and using the same, and preferably employed in a lingual orthodontic system, that includes friction reducing features between an interior of an archwire slot portion of the appliance and an archwire placed within the archwire slot.
US10045833B2
A system for dental tissue treatment includes a system for directing a laser beam to an area of dental tissue to be treated, and a fluid-delivery system for directing and controlling a flow of a fluid. The fluid is directed to at least a portion of the area to be treated and the fluid flow is controlled to substantially prevent both a change in laser energy absorption by the dental tissue and attenuation of treatment efficiency due to fluid interference with the laser beam. The fluid present in at least a portion of the area to be treated may prevent or reduce the likelihood of melting of enamel in that area.
US10045832B2
A system for at least partially filling and marking a cavity within a patient includes a delivery device. A quantity of marker forming fluid is located within the delivery device. The quantity of marker forming fluid is configured to at least partially fill the cavity and form therein a bioabsorbable body after delivery into the cavity from the delivery device. A radiopaque marker, separate from the quantity of marker forming fluid and releasably attached to a portion of the delivery device, is configured to be delivered into the quantity of marker forming fluid in the cavity from the delivery device and configured to remain in the bioabsorbable body upon the formation of the bioabsorbable body in the cavity.
US10045822B2
The veterinary orthopedic kit relates to veterinary science and more specifically to orthopedics and traumatology, and can be used in veterinary clinics in the treatment and restoration of function to damaged limbs of dogs, cats and other animals. The technical problem to be solved consists in the timely and quality provision of emergency care to injured animals, an increase in the effectiveness of treatment and the prevention of serious complications. This problem is solved in that orthopedic external fixation systems are provided in a universal and multifunctional set. The veterinary orthopedic kit consists of a rectangular container in the form of a box having a lid and being divided by partitions into a plurality of sections. The sections accommodate a set of components and instruments for the purposes of external fixation: polyfunctional monoblocks, plates, rods and pins, bars, fasteners and instruments.
US10045818B2
A treatment tool for an endoscope includes a sheath which is extended along a longitudinal axis; a pre-curved portion which is disposed at a distal portion of the sheath; a knife wire lumen which is formed along the longitudinal axis of the sheath; a first communication hole and a second communication hole which are open on an outer circumferential surface to communicate the outer circumferential surface positioned with the knife wire lumen; a wire-shaped cutting portion which is protruded from the first communication hole and the second communication hole, and is extended in a position spaced from the outer circumferential surface and the virtual plane; a fixing portion which is provided to fix an end portion of a wire connected to the cutting portion inside the knife wire lumen, and a bending portion which is provided to bend the wire.
US10045808B2
A device for effecting change in tissue at a treatment site includes a housing having an aperture for receiving a user's finger, a cold plate supported by said housing for cooling the tissue at the treatment site, and at least one thermoelectric cooling semiconductor thermally coupled to said cold plate and electrically coupled to a power source. In another embodiment, the cold plate may include a surface for contacting the treatment site, and at least a portion of said cold plate including said surface may extend from said housing.
US10045807B2
Methods for temporarily fixing an orientation of a bone or bones. Methods of correcting a bunion deformity. Bone positioning devices. Methods of using a bone positioning device. Bone preparation guides. Methods of using a bone preparation guide.
US10045802B2
An orthopedic device for repairing a portion of a body, the orthopedic device includes an orthopedic plate, a tissue protector, and a rotating member. The orthopedic plate is configured to attach to at least one bone. The tissue protector is attached to the orthopedic plate and configured to at least partially detach from the orthopedic plate after a force is applied to the tissue protector. The rotating member is configured to connect the tissue protector to the orthopedic plate while allowing the tissue protector to rotate relative to the orthopedic plate.
US10045799B2
A posterior vertebral plating system comprising a plate and a plurality of attachment members. The plate has a plurality of holes extending through the plate from an upper surface to a lower surface, and the plate is configured to extend along the posterior side of at least two vertebrae adjacent at least one boney structure of each of the vertebrae. The holes are spaced in such a way that a first plurality of holes is positionable over a boney structure of a first vertebra to define a plurality of fixation points to the first vertebra and a second plurality of holes is positionable over boney structure of a second vertebra to define a plurality of fixation points to the second vertebra. The attachment members are insertable through the holes of the plate and into the boney structure of a corresponding vertebra to fix the plate to the vertebra.
US10045788B2
A retrograde resection apparatus may include a cutting blade including a slot defined in the cutting blade, a recess defined in at least a portion of the slot, a screw, including a proximal end and a distal end defining a bore therethrough, a shaft having a distal end and a proximal end, wherein the shaft passes through the bore and the distal end is configured to be received in the recess, and a biasing device configured to bias the shaft against the cutting blade. In addition, the apparatus may include a tether, a first portion of which is affixed to the cutting blade and a second portion of which passes through the bore.
US10045785B2
A double-balloon inferior vena cava (IVC) shunt for use in controlling blood loss and simultaneously maintaining venous return is disclosed. The IVC shunt comprises a first balloon-catheter unit and second balloon-catheter unit that are slidably coupled to one another to form an adjustable shunt. The first and second balloons in the shunt are independently inflatable. The double-balloon shunt is readily adjustable to fit the dimensions of the injured region.
US10045782B2
A surgical loading unit for use with a handle assembly includes an elongate outer frame, an end effector mounted to a distal end of the outer frame, a drive at least partially disposed within the outer frame and operatively coupled to the end effector, and a rotatable counter mounted to the outer frame and adapted for rotational movement about the longitudinal axis. A counter actuator is mounted to the drive and dimensioned to engage the rotatable counter to cause rotational movement of the rotatable counter through an arc segment of rotation during each firing stroke of the drive.
US10045779B2
An apparatus is disclosed which comprises, one, a handle module that is attachable to a detachable shaft module for collectively performing a surgical procedure and, two, an inspection station for connection to the handle module when the handle module is not being used in a surgical procedure. The handle module comprises a rotary drive system for driving the detachable shaft module, an electric motor coupled to the rotary drive system for powering the rotary drive system, and a handle module processor circuit in communication with the motor. The inspection station comprises an inspection station processor circuit that communicates with the handle module processor circuit via a data connection when the handle module is connected to the inspection station. The inspection station further comprises a display in communication with the inspection station processor circuit for displaying information about handle module.
US10045778B2
A surgical tool for use with a surgical system is disclosed. The surgical tool comprises a housing containing three drive motors and three non-concentric rotatable output members, a modular shaft assembly comprising three rotatable drive shafts coupled to the three non-concentric rotatable output members, an end effector comprising a first jaw and a second jaw, and a motion conversion assembly. The motion conversion assembly is operably coupled to one of the drive motors and an axial drive assembly. The motion conversion assembly is configured to convert a rotational motion of one of the three rotatable drive shafts to an axial motion. The application of the axial motion to the axial drive assembly approximates the first jaw from an open position to a closed position and performs an actuation stroke within the end effector.
US10045774B2
An apparatus and a method for surgical fastening is disclosed. An illustrative apparatus for tissue suturing includes a cartridge having a suturing needle having a pointed end and a blunt end, the suturing needle capable of rotating about an axis, a reciprocating needle drive, and an actuator capable of releasably engaging the needle drive to rotate the needle. A method for suturing tissue is provided that includes placing a suturing device having a cartridge containing a suturing needle to span at least one tissue segment, activating an actuator to cause rotational movement of the suturing needle through the at least one tissue segment, and deactivating the actuator to stop an advancing movement of the suturing needle to cause a suturing material to be pulled through the at least one tissue segment forming a stitch.
US10045771B2
A suture anchor comprises a shell and an anchor member. The shell comprises a body having a distal end, a proximal end and sidewalls therebetween defining an axial cannulation therethrough. The anchor member comprises a body having a distal end and a proximal end which is sized to fit within the cannulation. The sidewalls define a lateral cut-out such that with the anchor member received within the cannulation a first lateral portion of the anchor member is exposed laterally and a second, laterally opposite, lateral portion of the anchor member is enclosed by the sidewalls. A friction enhancement on the first lateral portion frictionally engages a bone surface when the suture anchor is disposed within a bone tunnel defined by the bone surface. Suture is trapped between the shell and the anchor and also between the anchor and the bone surface.
US10045768B2
Devices, systems and surgical methods for achieving surgical access to a site within the body, particularly the spine. The system includes a modular retractor with a body and hood that are independently operable at their proximal ends to manipulate soft tissue at their distal ends, and may be adjustably and releasably coupled to form an open channel to a target tissue. On insertion, the hood is at least partially compressed against the retractor body. When coupled, the retractors are displaced from one another and constrained to one or more of at least three degrees of freedom, movable pivotally around a proximal end pivot axis that is perpendicular to the channel to adjust displacement of the retractors at their distal ends, displaceable vertically to adjust the distance between the retractors at their proximal ends, and slidable horizontally along the channel axis.
US10045755B2
A perfusion analysis system includes a perfusion modeller and a user interface. The perfusion modeller generates a patient specific perfusion model based on medical imaging perfusion data for the patient, a general perfusion model, and a quantification of one or more identified pathologies of the patient that affect perfusion in the patient. The user interface accepts an input indicative of a modification to the quantification of the one or more identified pathologies. In response, the perfusion modeller updates the patient specific perfusion model based on the medical imaging perfusion data for the patient, the general perfusion model, and the quantification of the one or more identified pathologies of the patient, including the modification thereto.
US10045751B2
A console device of a portable type for retrieving a radiation image created by a radiographic imaging device is provided. A registration unit registers plural user menu options for retrieving the radiation image. A radiation image retrieving unit retrieves the radiation image respectively according to the registered user menu options. A display controller is operated while the radiation image retrieved according to a current user menu option among the user menu options is displayed on a display unit, for display processing to display a part of the user menu options inclusive of a succeeding user menu option for retrieving at least a further radiation image among the user menu options. Preferably, the succeeding user menu option is displayed inside an image display area of the radiation image. Also, the display controller further performs display processing to display the current user menu option.
US10045734B2
A console includes a weighing subsystem responsive to a first fluid source and a urine collection chamber. A pump infuses fluid from the first fluid source into a patient. A processing subsystem is responsive to the weighing subsystem. Based on the weight of the first fluid source and of the urine collection chamber, urine output and amount of fluid infused into the patient from the first fluid source are determined. A user can set a desired fluid balance and the amount of at least one additional fluid delivered. An actual fluid balance is calculated based on the determined urine output, the determined amount of fluid infused from the first fluid source, and the set amount of the additional fluid delivered. The pump is controlled based on actual fluid balance and set desired fluid balance so actual fluid balance becomes the same or approximately the same as the desired fluid balance.
US10045733B2
According to one embodiment, a sleep sensor which is attached to a user who is sleeping when it is to be used is provided. The sleep sensor includes a first detector, an estimation module, a second detector and a control module. The first detector is configured to detect an acceleration signal representing acceleration that is obtained from the sleep sensor. The estimation module is configured to estimate the user's body position based on the detected acceleration signal. The second detector is configured to detect a signal for estimating a state other than the user's body position. The control module is configured to operate the second detector when the estimated user's body position is at least one of predefined body positions.
US10045726B2
Described herein are systems and methods for selecting a stressor based on thermal measurements. In one embodiment, a system includes an inward-facing head-mounted thermal camera (CAM) and a computer. CAM takes thermal measurements of a region on a periorbital area (THROI1) of the user. The computer detects extents of stress based on THROI1, receives indications of potential stressors to which the user was exposed while THROI1 were taken, and selects the stressor, from among the potential stressors, based on the indications and the extents. Optionally, during most of the time the user was affected by the stressor, the effect of the stressor, as manifested via changes to THROI1, was higher than the effects of most of the potential stressors. Optionally, thermal measurements of other regions on the face may also be utilized to detect the extents of stress.
US10045725B2
A capillary chamber for performing chemical and physical analysis using a plurality of whole blood samples is presented. Following a loading of the whole blood samples into a plastic tube, the whole blood samples are distributed into a collection chamber and the capillary chamber has means of adding respective vaccines or similar biological products into each capillary tubes. The whole blood is then analyzed using standard microscopic techniques with sufficient resolution and contrast to record the chemical and physical properties of the blood immediately after withdrawal.
US10045720B2
Methods and apparatus for providing data processing and control for use in a medical communication system are provided.
US10045716B2
Various patient monitoring systems can include a sensor configured to collect three dimensional information. The systems can identify a location of a patient support surface based on the three dimensional information. The systems can set a two dimensional planar threshold based on the patient support surface. The systems can identify a patient location above the patient support surface based on the three dimensional information and compare the patient location to the two dimensional planar threshold. Exceeding the threshold can be indicative of a high risk of a patient fall. An alert can be generated based on the threshold being exceeded. The systems can repeat the identification of the patient support surface location and the setting of the threshold to account for changes in the patient area.
US10045713B2
Systems and methods described herein use near field communications to locate a radiating transponder, such as a pill swallowed by a patient. The system can be triggered to turn on and transmit a waveform to a set of antennas attached to, coupled with, or near the patient. The magnetic field emitted by the transponder can be measured by the receiving antennas, for example, using principles of mutual inductance. The differential phase and/or time shifts between the antennas can contain sufficient information to find the location of the transponder and optionally its orientation relative to body coordinates. The system can display the location and/or orientation of the transponder. Further, the pill can include a reservoir to deliver a payload at a particular site of the patient's body based at least in part on the determined location.
US10045712B2
A patient table adapted for use in association with an MR scanner for neonatal infants is provided. The patient table has an extendable patient bed attached to and extendable from the patient table. The patient bed may be at least partially inserted into an MR scanner without requiring the patient table to enter the MR scanner. A transport mechanism is on the underside of the patient table so that it may be readily moved over the floor on which it rests. The patient table includes a latching mechanism that may operate to releasably attach the patient table to a patient table docking assembly. The docking assembly is operative to selectively move the patient table towards, into and away from the MR scanner.
US10045710B2
A medical device is configured to detect an atrial tachyarrhythmia episode. The device senses a cardiac signal, identifies R-waves in the cardiac signal attendant ventricular depolarizations and determines classification factors from the R-waves identified over a predetermined time period. The device classifies the predetermined time period as one of unclassified, atrial tachyarrhythmia and non-atrial tachyarrhythmia by comparing the determined classification factors to classification criteria. A classification criterion is adjusted from a first classification criterion to a second classification criterion after at least one time period being classified as atrial tachyarrhythmia. An atrial tachyarrhythmia episode is detected by the device in response to at least one subsequent time period being classified as atrial tachyarrhythmia based on the adjusted classification criterion.
US10045705B2
Disclosed is a hand-held, medical, multi-channel biological information acquisition mobile terminal system, comprising two signal sensing gloves RL with a cable end embedded therein, for use in acquiring a variety of biological signals comprising multi-channel interconnected ECG, heart sounds, finger blood volume pulse, and skin impedance etc., the signal sensing gloves RL also comprising a signal acquisition device S, a signal transmission device C connected to the signal acquisition device S, and a mobile terminal T connected wirelessly or with a wired connection. The system has the characteristics of low power consumption, small size, low cost and fewer control channels needed for multi-channel connection; and the system can achieve on-site acquisition of a variety of biological information and the mobile function of electronic health records.
US10045703B2
An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides a system and method for imaging living tissue and processing laser speckle data anisotropically to calculate laser speckle contrast preferentially along the direction of blood flow. In the present invention, raw laser speckle images are obtained and processed resulting in the anisotropic laser speckle images. The system and method involve the determination of the direction of blood flow for every pixel within the region of interest (primary pixel) and subsequent extraction of a set of secondary pixels in the spatio-temporal neighborhood of the primary pixel that is anisotropic in the direction of blood flow. Speckle contrast is then calculated for every primary pixel as the ratio of standard deviation and mean of all secondary pixels in this anisotropic neighborhood and collectively plotted using a suitable color mapping scheme to obtain an anisotropic laser speckle contrast image of the region of interest.
US10045697B2
A system for measuring and converting to an observer intelligible form an internal physiological parameter of a patient. The invention allows transcutaneous telemetry of intracranial pressure via a system which includes a patient implanted sensor module and an external processing module, optically coupled to the sensor module via an external coupling module. A sensor within the sensor module transduces the measured pressure and a near infrared emitter transmits the telemetry when interrogated by the external coupling module. A set of tuned inductor-crystal circuits comprised in part of a cylindrical crystal oscillator whose resonant frequency is sensed by a dipper circuit arrangement is provided. Power for the sensor module is derived inductively through rectification of a transcutaneously-applied high-frequency alternating electromagnetic field generated within the external coupling module. A computer within the processing module calculates the physiological parameter from the telemetry signal and represents this data in numerical, graphical, or analog format.
US10045693B2
An ophthalmologic observation apparatus of an embodiment includes a photographing optical system, measuring optical system, optical-path coupler, first and second drivers and controller. The photographing optical system includes a first focusing lens and performs photography for acquiring a front image of an eye. The measuring optical system includes a second focusing lens and performs OCT for acquiring a cross-sectional image of the eye. The optical-path coupler couples optical paths of the photographing optical system and measuring optical system at a location on the eye side than the first and second focusing lenses. The first driver moves the first focusing lens along an optical axis of the photographing optical system. The second driver moves the second focusing lens along an optical axis of the measuring optical system. The controller controls the first and second drivers individually.
US10045688B1
Accessory for laryngoscopes, combination laryngoscope and accessory, and/or method of using the same
An accessory for laryngoscopes configured for being detachably affixed to laryngoscopes, a combination laryngoscope and accessory, and/or methods of use of the accessory and/or combination laryngoscope and accessory. The accessory, combination laryngoscope and accessory, and/or method is preferably configured to increase comfort, safety, and the efficiency of use of laryngoscopes in the medical profession.
US10045685B2
An endoscope includes an insertion tube having a distal end and an imaging device with a steerable extension. The proximal end of the extension is attached to the distal end of the insertion tube. An endoscope includes an insertion tube having a distal end region and a rear-viewing imaging device at least partially disposed inside the distal end region. An endoscope includes an insertion tube having a distal end cap, an imaging device, and a link that couples the imaging device to the distal end cap of the insertion tube.
US10045683B2
A device for display of medical vision images and video may include a portable display screen and housing. The device may also include a mounting mechanism located on the back of the housing. The mounting mechanism may be configured to removably engage a complementary mounting mechanism on a structure for removably mounting the portable display screen and housing to the structure. The device may also include means for communicatively coupling the portable display screen to one or more optoelectronic vision and illumination modules for control and processing of information.
US10045682B2
A lifting device for a holder for items to be washed in a dishwasher is configured to lift the holder for items to be washed from an initial position into an end position or lower it from the end position into the initial position. The lifting device includes a guide apparatus for guiding the holder in a horizontal direction. Arranged on the guide apparatus in a swivelable manner are a first swivel arm and a second swivel arm. A connecting element connects a first end section of the first swivel arm and a first end section of the second swivel arm, and is configured to couple a swivel movement of the first swivel arm and a swivel movement of the second swivel arm to one another in a positively driven manner.
US10045679B2
A dishwasher includes a washing container having a plurality of walls and enclosing a washing chamber. At least one of the walls of the washing container has at least two apertures which are covered by planar lighting elements, respectively. The apertures are separated from one another by a reinforcing member, with the planar lighting elements having a total surface area that equals at least 20% of a wall surface area of the at least one wall.
US10045659B2
A lid for a container for cooking food, the lid for resting on a free edge of the container, the lid including a covering element, a shaped element and connector for connecting the two elements, the shaped and covering elements configured to allow them to move between: a first closure operating position of the lid, in which the two elements of the lid combine to close the cooking container on which the lid rests, and a second opening operating position of the lid, for allowing venting of the container when the lid rests thereon and to prevent escape from the container. The lid includes at least one thermal actuator, on reaching a first pre-set temperature, for automatically moving the covering element with respect to the shaped element to bring the latter into the opening position, to allow venting of the container when the lid is placed upon it.
US10045654B2
The brewing system disclosed herein includes a moving inlet nozzle for use in intermixing hot water and coffee in a coffee cartridge. The inlet nozzle may include one or more flow ports that inject hot water into an inner chamber of the coffee cartridge at select angles, locations and pressures to create the desired fluidized mixture of hot water and beverage medium.
US10045652B2
A filter insert (1) for insertion into an insert opening (91) of a vessel (9) for the purpose of extracting beverages has a base body (3), which has filter openings (51), and a sleeve. A circumferential region of the sleeve has a corrugated elastic outer contour (21) which serves to flexibly match said filter insert to an internal dimension of the insert opening (91) of the vessel (9).
US10045648B1
An interior mailbox, hard-mounted to the exterior door or window, designed to capture and to hold the mail dropped by the mail carrier from the outside in, through the cutout in said exterior door or window, comprising of two primary components, the container and the adjustment part, made to adjust the width of the bottom of the mailbox to accommodate the varying mounting surfaces and to prevent the mail from falling out of the mailbox.
US10045647B2
A shaped standing mat or base providing a trampoline-like rebounding surface that is a highly responsive and dynamic support surface for a standing person where that person is able to maintain a proper stance relative to their foot angle, and to engage in mild exercise movement and foot rotation and stretching without undue interruption of mental concentration in a work or other environment.
US10045640B2
A product management display system for merchandising product on a shelf includes using a trackless pusher mechanism that travels along a surface on which product is placed and one or more dividers for separating product into rows. The one or more dividers may be engaged to a front rail in two different conditions, locked and unlocked. In a locked condition, the relationship between the divider and the front rail resists alteration in any direction with respect to each other. In the unlocked condition, the dividers may be freely slid laterally along the front rail, while remaining perpendicular to the front rail. The one or more dividers may lock to the front rail through the use of corresponding teeth, resilient surfaces, a locking tab, a locking bar and/or a cam.
US10045638B2
The invention features a refrigerator cabinet door frame. The frame includes a thermally conductive outer frame, a thermally insulating inner frame member, and a sealing plate. The outer frame member includes a forward end having an outer surface that is disposed outside of a refrigerated cabinet with the frame mounted, and a rearward end defining a joint. The inner frame member includes a first end retained in the joint, and a second end. The sealing plate includes a first edge coupled to the outer frame member at the rearward end, forward of the joint, a second edge supported by the second end of the inner frame member, and a thermally conductive sealing surface. The first edge of the sealing plate is coupled to the outer frame member such that the sealing surface and the outer surface of the outer frame member together form a continuous heat transfer path.
US10045633B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include cushioning assemblies with thermoplastic elements encapsulated in thermoset providing customizable support and airflow. A cushioning assembly for a cushion provides cushioning and support for a user. Thermoplastic elements are encapsulated within a thermoset matrix to provide additional support at specific sections of the cushion. The shape and location of the thermoplastic elements may be configured to provide the support and cushioning characteristics desired by a user. The thermoplastic elements may include air passageways in communication with the outside. In this manner, support is provided precisely where needed for the user, the weight and expense of the cushion is reduced by eliminating expensive redundant support, and the heat and humidity that can cause user discomfort is reduced.
US10045630B2
A personal comfort system, for use with a bedding assembly having a mattress, includes an air conditioning system configured to condition air within an air flow and a delivery system to receive and provide the conditioned air to a mattress. The air conditioning system includes a housing coupled with a fan and a thermal transfer device having a thermoelectric engine operable for conditioning air within the air flow.
US10045626B1
An elbow rest is configured to secure at least one of a user's elbow in a retained position while in a seated position. A user can then support their head with their hand or hands without their elbow or elbows slipping, sliding or moving. The elbow rest includes at least one support panel and a flexible strap attached thereto. In one embodiment, an elbow rest has a first and a second support panel with a flexible strap extending therebetween. In this embodiment, a person can rest their right and left elbows on the flexible strap proximal to the opposing support panels. The user can then support their head with both hands. The flexible strap may be detachably attached to the support panel to allow an adjustment of the flexible strap length between the support panels. A flexible strap may include non-slip surfaces to further prevent elbow and/or strap slippage.
US10045624B2
The invention relates to a lumbar support (1) for a chair with a backrest comprising backrest carriers (7) which are pivotable independently of each other, wherein the lumbar support comprises support regions (10a, 10b) which are each mounted on a spring element (2). The spring action of each spring element (2) is individually adjustable. In this arrangement, the spring elements (2) are arranged on a carrier (5), which can be articulated to the backrest carriers (7) of the backrest of the chair, which are pivotable independently of each other. The invention further relates to a chair with a backrest, which is formed from backrest carriers (7) which are pivotable independently of each other and which also comprises the aforementioned lumbar support (1). In this case, the lumbar support (1) is articulated to the backrest carriers (7) which are pivotable independently of each other.
US10045614B2
An assembled frame structure including a hollow frame and a plurality of covers is provided. The hollow frame has a plurality of first assembling openings. The covers are detachably assembled to the hollow frame through the first assembling openings respectively, so as to form the assembled frame structure into a multi-function package module.
US10045613B2
A combined table-umbrella includes a table and an umbrella. The umbrella includes an umbrella canopy, an umbrella pole and an umbrella skeleton connecting the umbrella pole and the umbrella canopy to hold up the umbrella canopy. The umbrella also includes a light source disposed at the umbrella skeleton for lighting. The table includes a circuit hub, an energy storage device, a wireless charging module, a USB charging port and a WiFi signal enhancement module, wherein the circuit hub is electrically connected to the energy storage device, and the wireless charging module, the USB charging port and the WiFi signal enhancement module are electrically connected to the circuit hub, respectively. The combined table-umbrella of the present invention has multiple functions such as lighting, wireless and cable charging, and WiFi signal sources enhancing for electronic products.
US10045612B2
An ergonomic computer accessory for use with hand operated computer peripherals, such as computer mice, touchpads or trackpads, comprising a base and two hinged, multi-angle, reversible, opposing surfaces, one for a working surface and the other for wrist support. During operation, the working surface is positioned so the user's hand is at a more natural angle to provide ergonomic benefits such as reducing muscular and skeletal strain on the user's hand and wrist. The opposing adjustable wrist support surface is oriented such that the user's wrist rests at an ergonomic angle without compressing the carpal tunnel on the flat surface of the wrist. Both the working surface and wrist support surface may be reversed to be oriented for either left and/or right handed users by flipping the base, wrist and working surfaces over to their appropriate positions. The base, wrist and support surfaces may be adjusted to lie flat for transporting the accessory.
US10045609B1
A table that can be divided into separate sections, each section capable of being hung on a wall as a picture frame. When the sections are combined a table is defined that can be folded along a partition. The table further includes retractable, telescopic legs. A plurality of clamp members are used to hold a backing member in place, which provides support for a graphic mounted within the table top assembly.
US10045599B1
A security system for luggage, such as suitcases, carrying bags and so forth, wherein a sensor (3) placed inside a piece of luggage (2) proximate to an opening of the piece of luggage. When the piece of luggage is opened or closed an alert with a time stamp is sent to notify an owner of the piece of luggage of the event.
US10045596B2
A utility bag with a main body having a plurality of walls that form a main storage space, an opening formed at a top portion of the main body and exposing the main storage space, and a hard top body pivotally connected to the main body to cover or expose the opening of the main body. The hard top body includes a base comprised of a plastic material and shaped to cover the opening of the main body, the base having one or more storage compartments, and one or more hatches pivotally connected to the base to cover the one or more storage compartments. A zipper is attached to the main body and the hard top body, wherein the zipper is stitched directly to the plastic material of the base.
US10045594B1
A seatbelt tongue protector is provided comprising a stretchable polymer flat tubing, a first hole at a top end of the tubing configured to promote placement of the tubing over a tongue of a seatbelt, and a second hole at a bottom end of the tubing configured to allow the tongue to protrude when engaging with a locking mechanism. The tongue protector is configured to prevent the tongue from becoming one of excessively hot and cold. Flexibility of the polymer allows the tongue protector to fold when the tongue has been engaged with the locking mechanism. The tongue protector folds to avoid interference with the locking mechanism. The tongue protector contains a third hole on a back surface of the protector to accommodate oddly shaped seatbelt tongues.
US10045593B2
A method and kit for custom fitting an article of footwear is disclosed. A container holding the article of footwear includes a steaming apparatus that allows a customer to subject the article of footwear to steam. The article of footwear is placed within the steaming apparatus to subject the article of footwear to steam. The method can include cooling the article of footwear on the customer's foot to custom fit the article of footwear.
US10045588B2
Sole structures for articles of footwear (e.g., outsole components) have one or more of: a base plate having a V-shaped support structure with lateral and medial support members extending forward from a base support area located in a heel or rear midfoot area of the outsole component; a base plate having a matrix structure with recesses or openings formed between rib elements that make up the matrix structure; and/or a base plate having a rear heel support. The base plates may be made, at least in part, as unitary, one-piece constructions, using selective laser sintering or other three-dimensional printing and/or rapid manufacturing additive fabrication techniques.
US10045586B2
The invention relates to a one-piece protective toe cap for safety footwear, forming a concave frame consisting of a front wall with connected side walls, the upper edges of which are joined by a concave surface along the profile of the last. The contour or edge of the flange of the toe cap is provided with a recess in order to house a tab and provide comfort, as well as improving the appearance of the footwear (not shown in these documents). The design withstands impact tests of approximately 101.7 to 146.7 Joules (10.4 to 14.95 kgf-m), leaving clearance of approximately 11 mm to 14 mm in the capped shoe and not only at the tip of the cap.
US10045579B2
An article may include a base structure with a strand and an adjustment member. The adjustment member may include a course with a plurality of loops, and the strand of the base structure may be inlaid within the course of the adjustment member adjacent to a first loop and a second loop of the plurality of loops. The adjustment member may be configured to slide along the base structure from a first state to a second state such that the first loop and the second loop define a first loop distance in the first state, and the first loop and the second loop define a second loop distance in the second state. The first loop distance may be greater than the second loop distance.
US10045578B2
A brassiere disclosed herein includes at least one cup, at least one strap extending from the cup, and a strip of material or fastener attached to the interior surface of the at least one strap. The fastener may be coupled to the interior surface of the at least one strap at each of the ends of the fastener. Thus, the fastener, together with the at least one strap, may be manipulated to form an opening through which items may be placed or threaded. Furthermore, the at least one strap and the fastener may be constructed from a resilient material.
US10045575B2
An accessory for cheering in sports or other entertainment and outdoor activities, such as a new and improved arm-ware assembly which can be mounted on an individual's arm and wrist so as not to restrict an individual's hands/arm in cheerleading or similar recreational activities. The armware assembly is made of flexible material and is washable and reusable and is multifunctional.
US10045568B2
Vaporizer devices and apparatuses are provided. In some implementations, a cartridge for use with a vaporization device comprises a flattened body, a mouthpiece, a reservoir within the flattened body, a heater, and a pair of flat contact tabs. The flattened body comprises a proximal end, a distal end opposite the proximal end, a longitudinal axis between the proximal end and the distal end, and a transverse axis that is perpendicular to and shorter than the longitudinal axis. The mouthpiece is proximate to the proximal end of the flattened body, and the heater comprises of a pair of plates, a wick, and a resistive heating element. The pair of flat contact tabs are integrally formed from the plates and folded over an outer surface of the flattened body proximate to the distal end of the flattened body.
US10045566B2
A portable, personal storage and carrying case for an e-liquid e-cigarette PV in which the case includes: an electrical power source for re-charging a rechargeable battery in the PV; a user-replaceable reservoir for holding e-liquid; and an electrical or electronic pump adapted to transfer e-liquid from the reservoir to a chamber in the PV, the pump delivering a pre-defined or variable quantity of e-liquid from the reservoir; in which the e-liquid capacity of the user replaceable reservoir is at least three times greater than the e-liquid capacity of the chamber in the PV.
US10045555B2
The invention refers to a shelf-stable spreadable cream comprising, in dry weight percent, based on the total dry weight of the spreadable cream, 5-45% legumes and 5-55% nuts.The invention also refers to a method for the production of the shelf-stable spreadable cream of the invention comprising the steps of: a) mixing the ingredients of a spreadable cream composition comprising, in dry weight percent, based on the total dry weight of the spreadable cream composition, 5-45% legumes and 5-55% nuts, thus obtaining an emulsified spreadable cream composition; b) heat treating the spreadable cream composition of step a); and c) packaging the emulsified spreadable cream composition.The invention also refers to the shelf-stable spreadable cream obtainable by the method of the invention.
US10045551B2
A compound of Formula (I) or of a mixture comprising two, three, four, five, six or a plurality of different compounds of Formula (I) for the superadditive enhancement of an olfactory impression. The invention also relates to novel fragrance and/or flavor material compositions which, in addition to a compound of Formula (I) or a mixture thereof, further contains one, two, three or a plurality of further fragrance and/or flavor materials, the fragrance and/or flavor material or the further fragrance and/or flavor materials not being compound of Formula (I).
US10045548B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing a whole soybean milk with superior storage stability which shows almost no change in viscosity when stored for a long time, and a whole soybean milk prepared thereby. As a method of the present invention provides a whole soybean milk having small particle sizes based on a procedure simpler than pre-existing methods, time for preparing a whole soybean milk can be shortened. Further, as the whole soybean milk obtained by this method shows almost no change in viscosity when stored for a long time, its shelf life can be extended dramatically as compared to pre-existing whole soybean milk containing both soybean milk residue and soybean liquid, which shows viscosity increase over time.
US10045543B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing a food based on leavened dough, leavened puff pastry dough or puff pastry dough, comprising the following steps: (i) preparing a leavened dough, leavened puff pastry dough or puff pastry dough comprising flour and water, (ii) kneading the dough, (iii) fashioning the dough to obtain the raw food, characterized in that it comprises the following steps: (iv) shaping at least one surface of the raw food in a curved or corrugated shape, preferably in the shape of a single arch, or in the form of multiple, tandemly arranged arches, (v) freezing and/or deep-freezing the raw food in said arch or multiple arch shape. The present invention relates also to frozen or deep-frozen food products based on leavened dough, leavened puff pastry dough or puff pastry dough, produced according to this process, said foods preferably being chosen, among others, from Viennese pastries, croissants, chocolate rolls, breads.
US10045541B2
An anti-microbial composition includes an extract of at least one of Aucklandia lappa Decne and Punica granatum. The extract can be an aqueous ethanol extract. The extract can be formed using the peel of the pomegranate and the root of the Aucklandia lappa Decne. A weight ratio of the Aucklandia lappa Decne and Punica granatum in the composition can range from about 4:1 to about 1:1.
US10045533B2
A fungicidal composition containing a fungicidally effective amount of the compound of Formula I: 5-fluoro-4-imino-3-methyl-1-tosyl-3,4-dihydropyrimidin-2(1H)-one, and at least one fungicide to provide synergistic control of selected fungi wherein the at least one fungicide is a fungicidal sterol biosynthesis-inhibitor.
US10045529B2
The present invention relates to sanitizing compositions containing glycerin ether ethoxylate solfactant compounds and cationic active antimicrobial agents containing quaternary ammonium groups. Beneficially the compositions provide sanitizing efficacy without diminished performance requiring either increased concentrations of sanitizing agent and/or increased contact time for surfaces treated with the compositions. The compositions are suitable for use as antimicrobials and/or sanitizing agents in various formulations and methods of employing the same.
US10045520B2
The present disclosure provides an apparatus for indicating pest activity that includes an activity indicator and an activity sensor. The activity sensor includes a substrate that is a material attractive to a target pest species, and a sensing element formed on and/or within the substrate. The sensing element is couplable to a power source and the activity indicator, and outputs a signal to the activity indicator. The signal is influenced by pest activity on and/or within the substrate, and the activity indicator indicates a state of the signal received from the sensing element. The state of the signal changes responsive to deposit of a pest excretion on the sensing element. The present disclosure also provides a pest activity reporting system incorporating the apparatus that conveys a state of the signal to a remote location. The present disclosure also provides an activity sensor for use in the apparatus.
US10045513B2
A cranial protection system for a terrestrial animal, the protection system Cranial protectors, including cranial protection systems for terrestrial animals are described herein. In some examples, the system includes plates and panels that work in concert. In some further examples the system includes a face shield. In still some further examples, the system is configured to work with accessories such as audio visual transmitters and oxygen masks.
US10045508B2
The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 79-150 RZ, which exhibits a combination of traits including resistance to downy mildew (Bremia lactucae) races Bl:1-32 and Ca-I to Ca-VIII, resistance to currant-lettuce aphid (Nasonovia ribisnigri), a multi-leaf trait, and dark to very dark green mature leaves. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 79-150 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 79-150 RZ.
US10045507B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01064406. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01064406. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01064406 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01064406 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10045506B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01064415. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01064415. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01064415 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01064415 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10045502B1
Disclosed is the seed of a novel soybean variety, designated 17G14P6241, a sample of which is deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-125035. Also disclosed are plants, or parts thereof, grown from the seed of the variety, plants having the morphological and physiological characteristics of the 17G14P6241 variety, and methods of using the plant or parts thereof in a soybean breeding program.
US10045492B2
Containers for cultivating plants, especially herbs. The containers distinguish themselves, in particular, by the fact that plants can be supplied with water over a longer period of time without the culture substrate becoming waterlogged. In addition, the container is comprised of at least one pot in the form of a first part and a second part made of ceramic with at least one step. The second part has, one after the other, an unglazed base, a first pipe section that is not glazed, at least on the inside, a glazed disk with a hole and a glazed second pipe section; the cross section of the first pipe section is smaller than the cross section of the second pipe section.
US10045487B1
The present invention comprises a removable cover plate assembly, which may be quickly attached, detached and adjusted to the exterior of a concave grate of a combine harvester in order to adjust the flow characteristics of the concave or separator grate assemblies. The cover plate assembly improves the threshing capability of the rasp bar threshing cylinder while simultaneously capturing additional threshed grain. Moreover, the cover plate assembly of the present invention enables a single set of concave grate assemblies to better harvest a wider variety of crop types.
US10045484B2
A shaped conveyor assembly configured for use in association with a harvester comprising a first side lower conveyor sub-assembly and a second lower conveyor sub-assembly. One or both of the sub-assemblies having a frame structure, a discharge assembly and a conveyor assembly. The frame structure has a gathering portion, an outward portion and a terminating portion. The gathering portion is positioned proximate the first end and spaced apart from the second end. The terminating portion is positioned proximate the second end and spaced apart from the first end. The outward portion extends therebetween, the outward portion being inclined in an upward direction relative to the gathering portion, and directed in an outward direction, thereby extending away from the channel, and away from the other one of the first side and the second side lower conveyor sub-assemblies.
US10045480B2
An agricultural machine including at least one working tool which can be driven by a drive mechanism which can have a variable drive speed, at least one movable shield which can be moved at least between operational and non-operational positions, and a device for moving the at least one shield, including at least one adjusting actuator and a device for locking the shield. The movement device includes a circuit for controlling the actuator which includes the locking device, which circuit automatically converts a variable input quantity into a control quantity which can adopt a first control value used to prevent the adjusting actuator from being moved out of a first configuration, the input quantity being a value which is a function of or dependent on the drive speed of the drive mechanism or on the working speed of the at least one tool.
US10045479B2
A seed planter and seed meter for planting different seed varieties based on the location of the machine in a field. A movable gate switches between seed varieties. The gate in one embodiment has three positions; one position opening a first seed passage to the meter and closing a second seed passage, a second position opening the second seed passage and closing the first seed passage and a third position closing both the first and second seed passages. Two other gate embodiments have only two positions, each position opening one seed passage and closing the other.
US10045478B2
A metering system for an agricultural system includes a singulator. The singulator includes a hopper configured to provide a flow of plantlet casings from a storage tank of the agricultural system, a pair of counter-rotating rods configured to receive the plantlet casings from the hopper at a feed rate, where the pair of counter-rotating rods are spaced apart from one another to form a gap, and where the gap is configured to direct the plantlet casings from a first end of the pair of counter-rotating rods to a second end of the pair of counter-rotating rods, and a drive assembly configured to drive rotation of the pair of counter-rotating rods.
US10051767B2
A method and apparatus for covering a fastener system. In one illustrative embodiment, an apparatus comprises a cover. The cover is configured to be placed over a fastener system at a surface of an object in which the fastener system is installed. The cover is comprised of a number of composite materials selected such that the cover is configured to reduce an effect of an electrical discharge, which occurs around the fastener system, on an environment outside the cover.
US10051759B1
A server sliding rail assembly front bracket quick release structure includes a front bracket connected to an outer sliding rail of a server sliding rail assembly, a connecting seat connected to the front bracket, a plurality of sockets supported on respective coil springs in the connecting seat, a plurality of locating pins respectively inserted through the sockets and the coil springs, a swivel buckle pivotally connected to the front bracket and biasable to hook a hook plate thereof on a rack wall of a server rack after insertion of the sockets or locating pins into respective locating holes on the rack wall of the server, and a torsion spring with one side thereof stopped against the swivel buckle and an opposite side thereof stopped against the connecting seat.
US10051753B2
A cover glass article includes a glass body having a three-dimensional shape, an inside surface, and an outside surface. Each of the inside and outside surfaces has a surface roughness (Ra) less than 1 nm and is free of indentations having diameters larger than 150 μm.
US10051734B2
A wiring board includes a substrate, a surface protection film laminated on the substrate and having an opening portion, and a conductor block embedded in the substrate and having a pad portion exposed by the opening portion of the surface protection film. The conductor block has an annular groove formed such that the annular groove is surrounding the pad portion of the conductor block, and the surface protection film is formed such that a portion of the surface protection film is extending into the annular groove.
US10051729B2
A printed circuit board assembly includes a printed circuit board having a plurality of signal lanes. The PCBA also includes at least one application-specific integrated circuit operatively mounted to the printed circuit board and connected with the plurality of signal lanes. The PCBA includes a first configuration element operatively mounted to the printed circuit board in a first orientation and at a first location and having a first bridging element for providing an electrical connection between at least a first pair of signal lanes selected from the plurality of signal lanes. The first configuration element also includes a second bridging element so that if the first configuration element were operatively mounted to the printed circuit board in a different, second orientation relative to the printed circuit board, the second bridging element would provide an electrical connection between at least a second pair of signal lanes.
US10051728B2
A rollable display device includes a rollable structure including a plurality of unit structures, the rollable structure being configured to be rolled and unrolled based on the unit structures, and a display panel structure attached to the rollable structure, wherein respective widths of the unit structures increase in a first direction from a first side of the rollable structure to an opposite second side of the rollable structure.
US10051721B2
A compact radio-frequency quadrupole ‘RFQ’ accelerator for accelerating charged particles, the RFQ accelerator comprising: a bunching section configured to have a narrow radio-frequency ‘rf’ acceptance such that only a portion of a particle beam incident on the bunching section is captured, and wherein the bunching section bunches the portion of the particle beam; an accelerating section for accelerating the bunched portion of the particle beam to an output energy; and, a means for supplying radio-frequency power.
US10051719B2
In particular embodiments, the present disclosure provides targets including a metal layer and defining a hollow inner surface. The hollow inner surface has an internal apex. The distance between at least two opposing points of the internal apex is less than about 15 μm. In particular examples, the distance is less than about 1 μm. Particular implementations of the targets are free standing. The targets have a number of disclosed shaped, including cones, pyramids, hemispheres, and capped structures. The present disclosure also provides arrays of such targets. Also provided are methods of forming targets, such as the disclosed targets, using lithographic techniques, such as photolithographic techniques. In particular examples, a target mold is formed from a silicon wafer and then one or more sides of the mold are coated with a target material, such as one or more metals.
US10051716B2
A lighting control apparatus (106) may include an accelerometer (118), a wireless communication interface (112), and a secure connection (125) for securing the lighting control apparatus to a surface. The secure connection may be configured to transfer motion imparted on the surface to the accelerometer. A controller (108) may be coupled with the accelerometer and the wireless communication interface. The controller may be configured to: receive, from the accelerometer, a signal representative of motion sensed by the accelerometer; determine, based on the signal from the accelerometer, that the sensed motion satisfies a motion criterion; and transmit, over the wireless communication interface to a lighting unit (104) or a lighting system bridge (102), data configured to cause one or more lighting units to emit light having one or more selected properties.
US10051714B2
An LED light and communication system is in communication with a broadband over power line communications system. The LED light and communication system includes at least one optical transceiver light fixture. The optical transceiver light fixture includes a plurality of light emitting diodes, at least one photodetector, and a processor. A facility control unit is in communication with the light emitting diode light fixtures and a control server. The facility control unit is constructed and arranged to control the operation of the optical transceiver light fixtures.
US10051711B2
An energy measurement system for a lighting system is disclosed. The lighting system may comprise multiple lighting units arranged in multiple lighting zones, multiple sensors associated with the lighting zones, and an energy measurement device. The lighting system may be arranged to switch on a lighting zone depending on at least a sensor associated with the lighting zone.Power-on energy uses of the multiple lighting zones associated with the multiple sensors is obtained from sensor data from the multiple sensors, and energy use data from the energy measurement device, the energy use data indicating an aggregated energy use of the multiple lighting zones at different times, and a processor circuit.
US10051710B2
An LED driver, comprising: an inductive switch mode converter having an inductive component (16,22), an LED output (30) for an LED load and a main converter switch (18) for controlling a current flowing through the inductive component; a sensor (32) for generating a sensor signal indicative of the output current or voltage provided to the LED output; a feedback element (34) which provides a feedback path for feeding back the sensor signal for control of the main converter switch (18); and a processing circuit (50) for processing the sensor signal which has been fed back, wherein the processing circuit is adapted to generate an output when there is no sensor signal so as to limit the current flowing through the main converter switch when no sensor signal is present.
US10051705B2
A backlight unit includes a backlight module with a printed circuit board including blocks and MJT LEDs disposed on the blocks, respectively and a backlight control module generating a signal for drive control of each of the blocks, wherein each of the blocks comprises at least one MJT LED, and the backlight control module includes a drive controller for On/Off control and dimming control of each of the blocks.
US10051702B2
Disclosed herein are a driving circuit and a lighting apparatus for a light emitting diode capable of improving a flicker, light efficiency, and electrical characteristics. The disclosed driving circuit for a light emitting diode includes: a dimmer modulating an AC voltage input depending on a selected dimming level; a rectifier full-wave rectifying the modulated AC voltage output from the dimmer to generate and output a driving voltage; and a driving module receiving the driving voltage of the rectifier to detect the selected dimming level and controlling a driving mode of a plurality of light emitting diode groups depending on the detected dimming level, in which the driving module selects one of a resistance driving mode driving all the plurality of light emitting diode groups and a sequential driving mode sequentially driving the plurality of light emitting diode groups to improve light efficiency and electrical characteristics.
US10051697B2
A free voltage LED driving device with a high luminous uniformity ratio includes a rectifying device for rectifying an AC voltage applied thereto from outside and outputting a DC voltage; a plurality of LED array parts to have the DC voltage applied thereto to emit light emitting diodes; a plurality of current drain switching devices to have current that is output from each of the plurality of LED array parts applied thereto, outputting a plurality of currents having a drain current value; a series type switching device controlling a transfer of current according to an opening and closing of a plurality of built-in transistors; a current control variable resistance part for varying and adjusting a resistance value so that power is output in a constant manner when the applied AC voltage changes; and a voltage detecting circuit part to detect the DC voltage.
US10051694B2
An electric arc furnace (EAF) including a set of mast hydraulics, a current transformer, a voltage transformer, a legacy control system and a set-point modifier. The legacy control system is in control of the set of mast hydraulics of the EAF, and receives information from the current transformer relative to current being supplied to the EAF and from the voltage transformer relative to voltage being applied to the EAF. The legacy control system using a set of set-points for the control of the set of mast hydraulics, the voltage and the current of the EAF. The set-point modifier communicates with the legacy control system, and executes the steps of: evaluating a cost function of key performance indicators of a previous heat of the EAF, the key performance indicators including electrical energy use and/or electrode consumption; and altering the set of set-points dependent upon the cost function.
US10051687B2
The present document relates to a wireless communication system and, more particularly, to a method for transmitting a frame in a high-density wireless LAN system, and a station device for performing the method. To this end, a station for transmitting a frame is comprised of a radio frame for a second type station comprising a frame portion for a first type station and a frame portion for the second type station, wherein the frame portion for the first type station comprises a first OFDM symbol for transmitting a signaling field (L-SIG) for the first type station, and the frame portion for the second type station comprises one or more second OFDM symbols for transmitting a signaling field (HE-SIG) for the second type station. Additionally, the radio frame for the second type station further comprises one or more third OFDM symbols for transmitting the L-SIG and the HE-SIG repeatedly.
US10051685B1
Examples described herein relate to adapting a radio of a millimeter-wave device. In some such examples, the millimeter-wave device is to include a first radio to operate at a first beam direction based on a first set of channel state information (CSI). The millimeter-wave device is also to include a second radio to measure a second set of CSI. The millimeter-wave device is then to include a set of instructions to adapt the first radio to operate at an adapted beam direction based on a third set of CSI. The third set of CSI is to include a signal strength at the adapted beam direction that the millimeter-wave device is to determine based on the first set of CSI and the second set of CSI.
US10051684B2
Techniques for providing uncompensated barometric pressure (UBP) to a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) are disclosed. An example of an apparatus for providing UBP between a user equipment (UE) and the PSAP includes a location server and a gateway. The location server is configured to receive an uncompensated barometric pressure (UBP) from the UE, generate a civic or a geographic location record containing the UBP, and provide the civic or geographic location record containing the UBP to the gateway. The gateway is configured to receive the civic or geographic location record containing the UBP from the location server and either transfer the civic location record containing the UBP to the PSAP or extract the UBP from the civic or geographic location record, and provide the UBP separately to the PSAP.
US10051672B2
[Object] To propose an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program through which it is possible to easily switch a connection mode in an external device having a function of switching a connection mode.[Solution] An information processing device includes a control unit configured to, in a communication form in which a plurality of slave units are connected to one master unit through a wireless communication channel, instruct an external device to switch a mode from one mode to the other mode between a first mode in which an operation of the master unit is performed and a second mode in which an operation of the slave unit is performed, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a connection state between the external device and a connection destination of the external device according to switching of the mode.
US10051669B2
A communication duration configuring method is used in a mobile communication system including a mobile relay station for relaying a wireless communication between a base station and a mobile station. The method includes: configuring at least any of a downlink communication duration where the relay station receives a transmission signal from the base station by restricting a transmission of a signal from the relay station to the mobile station and an uplink communication duration where the relay station transmits a transmission signal to the base station by restricting a transmission of a signal from the mobile station to the relay station; and restricting a transmission of a signal with the mobile station in a first period from detection of a handover until when the communication duration is configured between the relay station and a target base station, and using a desired duration within the first period.
US10051664B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of communicating during a discovery window. For example, an apparatus may include logic and circuitry configured to cause a wireless station to select an access window from a plurality of access windows within a discovery window, the discovery window being configured to communicate awareness networking messages according to a contention mechanism; and contend to transmit a service discovery frame during the selected access window.
US10051657B2
The present invention is designed to implement dynamic TDD that does not rely on TDD-FDD CA-based TDD UL-DL configurations. A user terminal executes radio communication with a plurality of cells by employing carrier aggregation, and has a receiving section that, when a connection is established with a secondary cell serving as a dynamic TDD cell, receives control information, which is transmitted from a primary cell and which includes a dynamic command with respect to a subframe configuration of the dynamic TDD cell, and a control section that decides whether or not one or a plurality of subframes in the dynamic TDD cell are uplink subframes or downlink subframes based on the control information, and, furthermore, controls operations pertaining to the dynamic TDD cell.
US10051655B2
A method includes receiving information at a base station for a plurality of user equipment, said information including respective data for a plurality of user equipment, said respective data to be transmitted in a same scheduling interval, and causing said respective data to be transmitted in the same scheduling interval.
US10051653B2
Embodiments of techniques and systems for extended discontinuous reception (DRX) are described herein. In some embodiments, a user equipment (UE) configured for extended DRX may include receiver circuitry and paging circuitry. The receiver circuitry may be configured to receive a system frame number from an eNB and receive extension data from the eNB. The paging circuitry may be configured to determine an augmented system frame number based on the system frame number and the extension data, determine a paging frame number based on the extension data, and monitor for paging occasions when the augmented system frame number is equal to the paging frame number. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10051645B2
The disclosure provides a method 30 for sector selection performed in a communication system 1 providing wireless communication to a communication device. The communication system 1 is configured for shared cell deployment, the shared cell 9 comprising at least two sectors 2, 3, 4. The communication system (1) is configured for link adaptation of a radio link between the communication device and the shared cell 9. The method 30 comprises: selecting 31, for the communication device 5, a set of sectors 2, 3, 4 for use in downlink transmissions to the communication device 5; determining 32, for the communication device 5, a link adaptation parameter value relating to the link adaptation; adapting 33, for a link adaptation parameter value that is higher than a threshold value, the set of sectors by adding a sector. The disclosure provides corresponding system, computer program and computer program products.
US10051641B2
A terminal apparatus that communicates with a base station apparatus includes: a higher layer on which NAICS information is configured from the base station apparatus; and a control unit that, in a case where the NAICS information has been configured, determines the number of layers, antenna port numbers, and scrambling identities of a signal addressed to the terminal apparatus and an interfering signal. The terminal apparatus further includes a receiving unit that receives downlink control information, and the control unit determines at least one of the number of layers, antenna port number, and scrambling identity of the interfering signal on the basis of the downlink control information.
US10051640B2
A method and a device for preventing interference in an overlapping service area are disclosed. The method for preventing interference in an overlapping service area of a wireless LAN can comprise the steps of: receiving, by an interference AP, a beacon frame broadcasted by an AP, wherein the beacon frame includes an interference prevention information element; receiving, by the interference AP, a sounding PPDU indicated on the basis of the interference prevention information element from the AP; determining, by the interference AP, a transmission control matrix on the basis of the sounding PPDU; and transmitting, by the interference AP, data through a beam generated on the basis of the transmission control matrix.
US10051639B2
The present invention discloses a method, an apparatus and a wireless terminal for channel switch, and the method includes: sending information on the target channel and a first channel within the preset channel soft switch time interval after a channel switch announcement instruction is sent on the first channel when the first channel needs to be switched, and stopping sending information on the first channel if the preset channel soft switch time interval ends. By means of above method, the probability of switch failure for the user may be reduced in a scenario with frequent channel switch.
US10051635B2
In one aspect, a device includes a processor and storage accessible to the processor. The storage bears instructions executable by the processor to determine that power from a secondary power source at least one of is being received and will be received. The instructions are also executable to, responsive to the determination that power from the secondary power source at least one of is being received and will be received, perform a first action regarding operating an apparatus using the secondary power source.
US10051632B2
In described embodiments, a channel allocation system, such as a white space channel allocation system, employs a server processor and database to record communication characteristics of incumbent service providers licensed or otherwise registered to operate within certain frequency spectrum. The channel allocation system allows registration of licensed service providers, or access to existing licensed service provider databases, to obtain required information of communication characteristics to form protected service contours. Based on the protected service contours, the availability of channels in areas is pre-computed. In addition, unlicensed or unregistered users, such as TV band devices (TVBDs), register with the channel allocation system and request channel lists of channels to operate on with a query. The system performs an iterative search of areas with successively finer resolution and identifies channels that might be included in a channel list in response to the query.
US10051622B2
Disclosed in the present invention is a method for a terminal to transmit/receive a signal from a base station in a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving through a physical control channel for receiving from the base station an indicator for changing a specific subframe set for one of the uses from a downlink resource and an uplink resource to another one of the uses; and according to the indicator, transmitting a signal to the base station from the specific subframe, or receiving a signal from the base station.
US10051621B2
A method and apparatus provide for low latency transmissions. A first control channel can be transmitted in a first temporal portion of a subframe. The subframe can include a plurality of OFDM symbols in a time domain and a plurality of subcarriers in a frequency domain. The first control channel can occupy a first portion of subcarriers less than the plurality of subcarriers. The first control channel can assign first data resources only in the first temporal portion of the subframe. A second control channel can be transmitted in a second temporal portion of a subframe. The first temporal portion can occupy at least one different first OFDM symbol in the subframe from the second temporal portion. The second temporal portion can occupy at least one different second OFDM symbol in the subframe from the first temporal portion. The second control channel can occupy a second portion of subcarriers that is less than the plurality of subcarriers. The second control channel can assign second data resources only in the second temporal portion of the subframe.
US10051612B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for transmitting uplink control information and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: forming a plurality of serving cells each having different UL-DL configurations; receiving one or more signals requiring a HARQ-ACK response from M(M≥1) number of subframes; and executing the process for transmitting the HARQ-ACK response to the one or more signals in a specific subframe corresponding to the M number of subframes, wherein, only when the specific subframe is set as an uplink in all of the plurality of serving cells, the HARQ-ACK response to the one or more signals are transmitted through the specific subframe.
US10051600B1
Systems and methods are disclosed related to determining a likelihood that a user is present in physical proximity to one or more computing devices based on factors such as detecting the user's voice, receiving beaconing signals from a user's mobile device, location information sent from other devices, input received via a camera, and/or other input at various devices that are geographically dispersed. Based on user presence information, which may include interaction timestamps, a system may determine confidence levels regarding which of a number of computing devices are in physical proximity of the user at a current time. The confidence scores may be used to determine whether to broadcast a meeting notification or other notification for the user to a given device for audible or visual presentation by the device.
US10051595B2
Techniques are provided for placing wireless access points on a site model. An indication of a newly detected wireless access point is received. Perceived signal strengths are received from the newly detected wireless access point or located wireless access points. A site model is selected based on the received perceived signal strengths. The newly detected wireless access point is placed on the selected site model.
US10051592B2
A wireless communications system includes a packet core network and a wireless access network that includes a base station and a terminal. The wireless communications system is capable of communications between terminals through a first path that includes the packet core network and communications between terminals through a second path that does not include the packet core network. The wireless communications system includes plural terminals; and a control station configured to be capable of processing related to proximity-based communications services between the plural terminals, obtaining identifiers of the plural terminals and position information related to positions of the plural terminals, by the processing related to the proximity-based communications services, and causing communication between the plural terminals to be executed by the second path, based on the identifiers of the plural terminals and the position information related to the positions of the plural terminals.
US10051579B2
Provided is a control method for a channel simulator, capable of expanding a processable dynamic range of an uplink signal receiving unit while adopting an A/D converter (ADC) having low resolution by adjusting an attenuation amount of the uplink signal receiving unit in a large-capacity channel simulator having P base stations and Q terminal interfaces. In a control method for a channel simulator that includes P base station interface cards (BS I/F cards) (P>2; P is an integer), a link processor block, and Q user equipment interface cards (UE I/F cards) (Q>2; Q is an integer) to form channels with respect to all paths between P base stations and Q terminals, the control method for the channel simulator according to the present invention includes: (a) establishing a table representing an attenuation amount offset in an uplink signal receiving unit of the UE I/F card over a path loss based on log data with respect to terminal transmission power over the path loss for eliminating change of the path loss exerting an influence upon the terminal transmission power; (b) searching for a specified path loss value from the table established in step (a) to determine an attenuation amount corresponding to the specified path loss value when a path loss value with respect to an uplink signal processing process is specified; and (c) adjusting an attenuation amount in the uplink signal receiving unit of the UE I/F card based on the attenuation amount determined in step (b).
US10051577B2
A communication apparatus detects a communication partner apparatus and transmits a first signal. Then, in the case where the partner apparatus is detected and a response to the transmitted first signal has not been received from the partner apparatus, the communication apparatus transmits a second signal having a higher power level than the first signal.
US10051575B2
In some implementations, a method in a user equipment (UE) for adaptively determining a wakeup period includes determining a power level of a Downlink (DL) transmission from a base station during a first wakeup period within a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) inactive time. The UE deactivates a RF receiver in response to the determination of the second wakeup period. The UE activates the RF receiver at a beginning of the second wakeup period prior to a DRX active time. The UE receives a DL paging channel transmission during the DRX active time.
US10051574B2
The base station of the present invention is a base station that wirelessly communicates with a terminal device. The base station includes: a reception unit for receiving first information relating to mobility of the terminal device; a determination unit for determining second information relating to scanning of base stations based on the first information; and a transmission unit for transmitting the second information to the terminal device.
US10051570B2
A method and apparatus for communicating system information in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises generating and sending by a base station, for example an eNB, a system information block (SIB) which includes at least one correlation enhancement bit. This SIB is received by the terminal, for example a MTC UE, and this SIB is subsequently correlated with a previously received SIB. Further, upon the correlation of the SIB and the previously received SIB, a determination is made whether the SIB has in fact changed. Upon determining if the SIB has changed, the terminal selects the correct SIB which is to be used for configuring communication with the base station.
US10051568B2
According to discontinuous reception (DRX), data communication by a communication device occurs at periodic intervals. Between those periodic intervals, the communication device may enter a low-power state. Due to this periodic communication of data, some data may be delayed. Such a delay may be undesirable in various instances. Thus, an apparatus may be configured to determine that the apparatus is scheduled to transition from a first power state to a second power state in association with a DRX cycle. The second power state may be lower than the first power state. The apparatus may be further configured to determine that the first power state of the apparatus is to be extended. The apparatus may be configured to autonomously extend the first power state through transmission of a transaction based on the determination that the first power state of the apparatus is to be extended.
US10051566B2
A method for operating a first station configured for transmitting data includes generating a first frame including an identifier associated with a second station and a first timing information associated with a first time period for transmitting the data to the second station, the first time period occurring after a paging window. The method includes while within the paging window, attempting to obtain access to a channel, when the first station has not obtained access to the channel, modifying the first time period and the first timing information if the first station has received a second frame including a second timing information associated with a second time period, when the first station has obtained access to the channel, transmitting the first frame; and after the paging window, transmitting the data during the first time period if the first station was able to transmit the first frame.
US10051552B2
The embodiment of present document discloses a method for implementing resource attribute notification and a common service entity. The method includes that: the common service (CSE) entity receives a resource update request, the resource update request containing an original resource address parameter and a parameter of an attribute able to be notified; and the CSE finds a corresponding original resource and an attribute thereof created locally according to the original resource address parameter; if it is judged that the parameter of an attribute able to be notified contains an attribute name of an attribute able to be notified, and the original resource has been notified to a remote CSE, but the original resource has not created “an attribute that has been notified”, the CSE sends the resource update request to the remote CSE and carries a notification resource address of the original resource on the remote CSE, the attribute name of the attribute able to be notified, and the attribute value stored locally.
US10051551B2
An approach includes a method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied in a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions. The approach further includes the programming instructions configured to collect at least one broadcast control channel allocation list from base stations in a surrounding area. The approach further includes the programming instructions configured to generate a list of power signals which correspond to all broadcast control channel carriers based on the at least one broadcast control channel allocation list. The approach further includes the programming instructions configured to transmit information of a highest carrier power in the list to all virtual base stations in a convoy.
US10051550B2
A method and apparatus for performing autonomous denial for dual connectivity in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives an autonomous denial rate from a network, and applies the received autonomous denial rate to at least one of a master cell group (MCG) or a secondary cell group (SCG). The UE is connected to both a master evolved NodeB (MeNB), associated with the MCG, and a secondary eNB (SeNB), associated with the SCG, in dual connectivity.
US10051549B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for managing access to a femtocell coverage area. An exemplary method includes storing in a memory component a first identifier corresponding to a subscribed service of a communication device and a second identifier corresponding to a user of the communication device, and granting access to the femtocell coverage area using the second identifier.
US10051548B1
A wireless relay controls wireless scanning in a wireless data communication network. The wireless relay performs a 360-degree wireless signal scan, and attaches to a source wireless access point responsive to the wireless signal scan. The wireless relay reports results from the wireless signal scan to a relay information server responsive to the attachment. The wireless relay receives attachment data from the relay information server responsive to the reporting. If the wireless relay loses connectivity to the source wireless access point, then the wireless relay determines reattachment attributes based on the attachment data, and performs another wireless signal scan based on the reattachment attributes.
US10051544B2
The present invention discloses methods and systems for selecting at least one SIM card for data communication at a wireless communication device which is capable of housing a plurality of SIM cards. When a switching condition is satisfied, the wireless communication device selects a second SIM card group, and disconnects one or more connections established using any non-second group SIM card. Non-second group SIM cards are SIM cards that are not in the second SIM card group. A selected SIM card from the second SIM card group is then used for data communications. The steps are repeated until (i) the switching condition is no longer satisfied, (ii) no more SIM cards selected from the second SIM card group can be used for data communications or (iii) no more connection is made using non-second group SIM cards.
US10051543B2
A mobile small station including a transceiver, a processor, and a memory having instructions for execution by the processor to exchange measurement information with a macro station, provide a wide area network connection and act as a relay for a small station moving network with the mobile small station, and perform handover of relay responsibilities to another mobile small station in the small station moving network.
US10051534B2
A mobile station wirelessly communicates with a plurality of wireless base stations using multiple access. A first wireless base station in the multiple access controls a control plane of a second wireless base station in the multiple access to control a connection between the mobile station and the second wireless base station.
US10051523B2
An apparatus that uses a method for processing handover by a terminal linked to a wireless network included in heterogeneous wireless networks and conducting a voice call service is provided. The method includes determining whether the terminal is required to perform handover of another wireless network included in the heterogeneous wireless networks, and upon determining that the handover is required, performing handover to the another wireless network, wherein the handover is determined by applying at least one handover condition to each of predetermined operation modes in the terminal conducting the voice call service.
US10051521B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may comprise an interface configured to communicate data via a first device while an association is maintained with the first device and a processing system configured to perform pre-association operations, via the interface, to initiate association with a second device, while maintaining the association with the first device, and to decide to complete association with the second device and communicate data with the second device, based on a first one or more conditions.
US10051520B2
The present invention relates to a method for network capacity control for use in controlling use by a MVNO of MNO network capacity. The method of the present invention comprises: an MNO-PCRF receives an IP-CAN session establishment instruction message and, on the basis of the user identifier therein, determines the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) to which a UE belongs and forwards the IP-CAN session establishment instruction message to the MVNO-PCRF unit; an IP-CAN session establishment confirmation message is received from the MVNO-PCRF carrying the policy and charging control (PCC) rules of the UE, and the PCC rules of the UE are then used; when it is confirmed that the MVNO to which the UE belongs has not exceeded the authorized capacity of said MVNO, an IP-CAN session establishment confirmation.
US10051512B2
Provided is a method for transmitting traffic control information by an Evolved Node B (ENB) in a wireless communication system. The method includes transmitting congestion state information a traffic control node. The congestion state information is used to control traffic for a User Equipment (UE) that is accessing the ENB. And, the congestion state information includes information about a congestion state of the ENB, and is included in a packet header transmitted from the UE.
US10051496B2
To solve the above-mentioned problem, a method in which a terminal reports channel state information comprises the following steps: receiving, plurality from a base station, information on a plurality of patterns to be used in a channel state measurement; receiving, from the base station, selection information for selecting a pattern from among the plurality of patterns that is to be used in the channel state information to be reported to the base station; measuring a channel state using the information on the plurality of patterns; and selecting a portion of the measured channel state based on the selection information, and reporting the selected portion to the base station. The above-described solution enables the efficient reporting of channel state information including CQIICSI, thus improving communication efficiency.
US10051495B2
Embodiments of systems and techniques for identifying coverage holes in a radio access technology (RAT) are described. In some embodiments, a network management (NM) apparatus may receive a first report, including one or more measurements taken by a first user equipment (UE), in response to an event related to a handover of the first UE between a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT different from the first RAT. The NM apparatus may receive a second report including one or more measurements taken by a second UE in response to an event related to a handover of the second UE between the first RAT and a third RAT different from the first RAT. The NM apparatus may identify a hole in a coverage area of the first RAT based at least in part on the first and second reports. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10051494B2
Systems and methods for optimization of access points in a Wi-Fi system by a cloud controller include receiving inputs related to operation of the Wi-Fi system; performing an optimization based on the inputs to maximize an objective function which maximizes excess capacity for a load ratio considering a load desired by each Wi-Fi client device; and providing outputs comprising operational parameters for the Wi-Fi system based on the optimization. The optimization chooses which access point each Wi-Fi client device connects to in the Wi-Fi system.
US10051479B2
Systems and method to improve performance of a radio frequency system while operating in compliance with wireless transmission regulations are provided. One embodiment describes a radio frequency system including an antenna that wirelessly transmits an analog electrical signal at a transmission frequency and receives a first network signaling value from a wireless network. The radio frequency system further includes a controller that determines operational constraints on the radio frequency system based on a region of operation; determines a second network signaling value based on the operational constraints, in which the second network signaling value overrides the first network signaling value; determines operational parameters based on the second network signaling value; and instructs the radio frequency system to implement the operational parameters to facilitate the radio frequency system operating in compliance with the operational constraints.
US10051470B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for wireless communication are provided. In one aspect, an apparatus is configured to determine a multicast schedule for communicating data associated with a service over an NDL and to transmit the multicast schedule to at least one other wireless device.
US10051462B2
The systems, devices, and methods discussed herein are directed to a network for delivering to portable communication devices, or user equipment (UEs) subscribed to the network, an update for an install service, such as software and firmware, via a hybrid transport mechanism. The hybrid transport mechanism comprises initially broadcasting the update to multiple UEs simultaneously, then re-broadcasting, multicasting, multiple unicasting, and/or transmitting via a wireless local area network (WLAN), the update to a group of UEs that missed the initial broadcast and/or needing file repairs.
US10051456B2
The present disclosure discloses a near field communication discovery method, apparatus and system. Herein, the method includes: a discovery terminal receiving discovery information allocated by a network side to a discovered terminal, herein the discovery information includes a discovery identity, and the discovery information is transmitted by the network side to the discovered terminal; the discovery terminal performing paging or broadcasting using the discovery identity; and the discovery terminal receiving a response returned by the discovered terminal to determine that the discovered terminal is discovered.
US10051451B1
Locating a mobile device in the event of an emergency may be based on common location techniques, such as GPS and geolocation. Additional location techniques may be performed in a sample method of operation which may include determining location information and environmental factor information at a mobile device, recording the location information and the environmental factor information, calculating deviations for the location information and the environmental factor information based on pre-stored location information and pre-stored environmental information, and calculating a confidence factor based on the calculated deviations, determining the mobile device location based on the confidence factor.
US10051450B1
A Bluetooth (BT) device includes a host processor and a BT controller coupled by a Host Controller Interface (HCI) including a Host Controller Transport Layer and a HCI Driver. The host processor implements an applications layer and includes HCI firmware for communicating via the Host Controller Transport Layer with the BT controller. The BT controller includes a processor coupled to a memory and to a transceiver, and a RF driver. The HCI firmware also includes HCI command code for a user to define a topology of the BT network including configuring the BT device in a current chain including a plurality of BT devices including configuring from which BT device it receives data from and which BT device it forwards data to. For communicating data across the BT network the BT device forwards the data without host processor involvement in at least resending the data back to its BT controller.
US10051441B2
A device in a peer-to-peer (P2P) group has the role of group owner. A different device in the P2P group may take on the role of group owner without ending the P2P group and create a new P2P group. Multiple P2P groups may be merged into a single P2P group. A single P2P group may be split into multiple independent P2P groups, each with its own group owner. A group owner of a P2P group may notify the client devices in the P2P group that it is about to leave the P2P group. A client device in a P2P group may be appointed in a new role of backup group owner, to take on the role of group owner in the event of a departure of the group owner, thereby providing continuity. Techniques for maintaining upper layer continuity through changes in topology of P2P groups are disclosed.
US10051434B2
Example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed herein that may be utilized, in whole or in part, to facilitate and/or support one or more operations and/or techniques for selective crowdsourcing for multi-level positioning, such as positioning in a multi-level structure, for example.
US10051432B2
A method and apparatus for use in a mobile device telemetry system is disclosed. The method and apparatus relate to a telematics furtherance visualization system. The system can sense mobile device remote observation misalignment risk and reconcile mobile device remote observation alignment by communicating a subsequent log of mobile device vector data for rendering a sequence of next positions in the furtherance of a mobile device. The system can also provide an adaptive rendering based upon a phase shift, a log of mobile device vector data, or predictive rendering until receipt of the next subsequent log of mobile device vector data.
US10051430B2
According to an embodiment a determination device through a clustering analysis of position history data incudes an estimation unit that, by conducting a clustering analysis on history data of pieces of geographical position information on Earth of a plurality of movable bodies that is obtained by a positioning device, based, on a horizontal position constituted of a latitude and a longitude and a lapse of time, acquires pieces of area information indicating a characteristic of geographical area in which there is a tendency for the movable bodies to be positioned, the history data being accumulated sequentially in a storage device with pieces of movable body identification information and pieces of timestamp information, and a determination unit that determines whether the movable body is present in a specified point in time and the geographical area, based on the pieces of area information acquired for one of the movable bodies.
US10051419B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for selecting location data provided by communicatively coupled electronic devices. In one example process, a first electronic device can select one of a first location determined by the first electronic device and a second location determined by a second electronic device for use as the location of the first electronic device. The selection can be made based on one or more of the times the first and second locations were determined, accuracies of the first and second location determinations, whether or not the first and second locations intersect, priorities associated with source used to determine the first and second locations, and previous location determinations made by the first electronic device. The selected location can be used as the location of the first electronic device to execute an application on the first electronic device.
US10051417B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for forming and tracking a location-sharing group are disclosed. The location-sharing group can be performed ad hoc without the assistance of a central server. A geofence can be defined that encloses the current locations of the participating devices in the location-sharing group. The geographic location of the location-sharing group as a whole can be tracked and provided to the participating devices in the location-sharing group. Group-level location-sharing can be enabled. Departure of a participating device from the location-sharing group can be detected based on the current location and the coverage radius of each device in the location-sharing group. Entry of points of interest into the geofence of the location-sharing group can be detected and notified to the participating devices in the location-sharing group.
US10051403B2
A method comprising: displaying a spatio-temporal graph that visually indicates the positions of a sound object at each time in a range of times and, in addition, simultaneously indicates a state of the sound object over the range of times; enabling user adaptation of the spatio-temporal graph to change a position of the sound object during at least a portion of the range of times and/or a state of the sound object over at least a portion of the range of times; and enabling rendering of spatial audio output using the position and state of the sound object indicated by the adapted spatio-temporal graph.
US10051383B2
A hearing aid comprising a receiver assembly is disclosed. The receiver assembly includes a receiver and suspension member arranged in a housing. The suspension member comprises vibration dampers protruding from an outer periphery of the suspension member, and one or more cushions or one or more enclosed structures containing a material are provided between the receiver and the suspension member.
US10051382B2
A method performs noise suppression in hearing aids. A step of the method involves a first audio signal being split into a plurality of essentially disjunct frequency bands. A further step of the method involves a reference band being selected from the plurality of frequency bands, which reference band has an establishable first component of a speech signal. Another step involves a correlation between the reference band and a first frequency band being ascertained. A further step involves a value that indicates a second component of a speech signal in the first frequency band being ascertained on the basis of the correlation. Another step of the method involves a noise suppression being set in the first frequency band on the basis of the ascertained value.
US10051367B2
In one example, a portable speaker is provided. The portable speaker includes a communication interface to receive an audio file from a portable computing device, a machine-readable storage medium to store the audio file, a speaker to output sound corresponding to the audio file, and a management module. The management module is to (i) add the audio file to a queue to be output by the speaker; (ii) analyze the audio file to determine a baseline audio level for the audio file, and utilize the determined baseline audio level to normalize an audio level of another audio file subsequently added to the queue; and (iii) in response to the number of audio files in the queue decreasing below a threshold, analyze metadata from audio files previously or currently in the queue to determine attribute information, and request audio content from an Internet service provider based on the attribute information.
US10051365B2
Methods and devices for processing and voice operated control are provided. The method can include performing a non-difference comparison between a first received sound and a second received sound, determining if speech exists based on the comparison, and transmitting or providing a decision that the speech is present to at least one among the device, a cell phone, a media player, or a portable computing device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10051361B2
An apparatus comprises an electronic device having at least one speaker and a passive sound proliferation device comprising an audio cavity. The audio cavity is configured to proliferate acoustic waves therefrom and is defined by at least a substantially planar back wall, a substantially planar side wall, an arcuate surface between the substantially planar side wall and the substantially planar back wall, and a substantially planar inner bottom surface. The passive sound proliferation device may further include a substantially planar outer side surface and a substantially planar outer bottom surface substantially perpendicular to the substantially planar outer side surface. The electronic device may be disposed within the audio cavity. Related methods of directing audio from a passive sound proliferation device are disclosed.
US10051355B2
Measures are described by which the back volume of a microphone component can be realized regardless of its packaging. Within the framework of a microphone module, a circuit board is used for the 2nd-level mounting of at least one microphone component part, in whose surface at least one connection opening is formed, which terminates in a cavity in the layer structure of the circuit board. In addition, the circuit board surface having the connection opening is configured for a sealing mounting of the microphone component part above the connection opening, so that the microphone component is acoustically connected to the cavity in the circuit board via the connection opening in the circuit board surface, and this cavity functions as backside volume for the microphone component part.
US10051354B2
An apparatus for comprehensive perception of sound, preferably a cushion, where vibration and sound is produced with a mechanical device wrapped inside a padding, wherein (a) the device radiates sound by generating mechanical vibration directly to the padding that can be felt and listened on the outer surface of the padding, (b) the device radiates airborne sound through the padding, (c) in order to avoid acoustical and mechanical resonances, the padding includes an acoustically denser and lossy layer and a layer that is acoustically less dense and porous, and (d) the device includes at least one board, and the vibration of the boards is generated using at least one vibrating mechanical actuator.
US10051346B2
Examples of data communication using a private preamble are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a data stream is detected. It is then determined whether the received data stream includes a private preamble known to the computing node. If it is determined that the data stream includes a private preamble known to the computing node, a targeted data stream intended for the computing node is received by the computing node.
US10051344B2
In certain embodiments, training of a neural network or other prediction model may be facilitated via live stream concept association. In some embodiments, a live video stream may be loaded on a user interface for presentation to a user. A user selection related to a frame of the live video stream may be received via the user interface during the presentation of the live video stream on the user interface, where the user selection indicates a presence of a concept in the frame of the live video stream. In response to the user selection related to the frame, an association of at least a portion of the frame of the live video stream and the concept may be generated, and the neural network or other prediction model may be trained based on the association of at least the portion of the frame with the concept.
US10051337B2
A system and method for managing an encryption key are provided, which include receiving, from a DRM agent, an RO request message for receiving content; generating a KSP including a first key and a second key; applying hash chains with different directions to the first key and to the second key to generate an encryption key for the content; and transmitting, to the DRM agent, a response message including a context element having an identifier of the content and a key information element. The key information element includes a first encryption key element; a rights encryption key information element; and an encryption data element.
US10051325B2
A television system that provides an on screen display menu system that allows a user to select from available input source using a graphical user interface. The television system also automatically adapts to the type on input signal selected for display. The television system and on screen display menu also support interaction between the television system and attached devices to unify the control of such devices including attached personal computers through the remote control of the television system.
US10051324B2
The present invention refers to an apparatus for providing at least one joint outgoing IP data stream, the apparatus comprises: (a) at least one receiver adapted to receive a stream of digital TV data, the stream simultaneously containing digital data of a plurality of TV channels, (b) at least one transceiver adapted to receive a downlink stream of IP data and to transmit an uplink stream of IP data via a satellite link, (c) at least one processing unit adapted to convert the digital TV data received from the receiver into a first outgoing IP data stream and to convert the IP data received from the transceiver into a second outgoing IP data stream, and (d) at least one switching unit adapted to combine the first outgoing IP data stream and the second outgoing IP data stream in at least one joint outgoing IP data stream.
US10051320B2
A particular method includes identifying a request to record media programming at a media recorder. The request specifies a recording resolution. The method includes determining a resolution of the media programming and comparing whether the resolution matches the recording resolution. The method includes converting the media programming at the resolution to the recording resolution with in response to determining that the resolution is different than the recording resolution, wherein the media programming is stored at the recording resolution at a storage device.
US10051310B2
A terminal identification method which acquires then decodes multimedia temporal content to generate a multimedia stream in unscrambled form with at least one temporal succession of time intervals. A set of information bits for displaying an image or playing a sound being transmitted during a single time interval. The terminal identification device transmits an identification command to the terminal and the terminal triggers and alternately inhibits a predetermined modification of at least some of the information bits necessary for playing a sound or displaying an image contained in the multimedia stream to obtain a modified multimedia stream and transmits the stream as a multimedia. The device acquires the modified stream transmitted by the terminal and determines the identifier of the terminal to which it belongs on the basis of the transmitted command and the presence or absence of the predetermined modification in the acquired stream.
US10051301B2
Mechanisms for initiating a unicast video stream in response to a triggering event from a client node receiving a multicast video stream are disclosed. A distribution node communicatively coupled to a plurality of client nodes multicasts a first video stream of a program encoded in a first format to the plurality of client nodes. The distribution node detects a triggering event associated with a first client node of the plurality of client nodes that is receiving the first video stream. In response to the triggering event, a second video stream of the program encoded in a second format is unicasted.
US10051300B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for an application that tracks the progress of presentation of network content. The application facilitates storing, in a memory accessible to at least one computing device, at least one universal resource locator for facilitating access to multimedia network content. The application also stores, in the memory, a time marker associated with a progress of a presentation of the multimedia network content. Furthermore, the application links, in the at least one computing device, the time marker to at least one universal resource locator for resuming the presentation of the multimedia network content at a last point of progress.
US10051293B2
A temporary video or multimedia distribution system set up in a venue receives multiple video streams and transcodes them into a single stream of data packets with each of the plurality of video data packets for respective ones of the video streams being assigned a port number corresponding to the respective video stream. The data packets are routed to a plurality of Access Points (APs) for transmission. At least a portion of the APs may be temporarily installed before an event and removed following the event. A User Equipment (UE) communicates with the APs and selects one of the video streams for viewing on the UE by selecting the port number corresponding to the desired video stream. The UE can “change channels” to view other video streams by changing the port number to the port number of the desired video stream.
US10051292B1
An apparatus includes a circuit and a processor. The circuit may be configured to (i) generate a plurality of sets of coefficients by compressing a tile in a picture in a video signal at each of a plurality of different sizes of a plurality of coding units in a coding tree unit and (ii) reconstruct the tile based on a particular one of the sets of coefficients. The sets of coefficients may be generated at two or more of the different sizes of the coding units in parallel. Each of the sets of coefficients may be generated in a corresponding one of a plurality of pipelines that operate in parallel. Each of the sets of coefficients may have a same number of the coefficients. The processor may be configured to select the particular set of coefficients in response to the compression of the tile.
US10051289B2
A video coder configured to perform sample adaptive offset filtering can determine a center value for a set of pixels based on values of pixels in the set, divide bands of pixels values into groups based on the center value, and determine offset values for the bands based on the groups.
US10051281B2
A video coder, responsive to detection of a zooming transition in source video, estimates a scale factor and a zooming rectangle for a reference frame, scales content of the reference frame within the zooming rectangle according to the scaling factor, codes content of a new frame of the source video predictively using the scaled reference frame as a basis of prediction, and transmits coded video data obtained from the predictive coding to a decoder along with an indication of the scaling factor and zooming rectangle.
US10051277B2
A method of palette coding to apply the palette coding to sub-blocks of a coding unit and to allow each sub-block to use an individual palette table is disclosed. If the current coding block is not partitioned, the palette coding is applied to the current coding block using a first palette. If the current coding block is partitioned into multiple sub-blocks, the palette coding is applied to each sub-block using an individual second palette. Each sub-block may correspond to one prediction unit (PU). In another embodiment of the present invention, a method is disclosed that skips update of palette predictor such as last coded palette table, last coded palette size and palette predictor size associated with the current coding block if the current palette size is smaller than or equal to palette update size.
US10051273B2
A video decoder decoding an encoded stream includes a parallel entropy decoding part to entropy decode the stream of blocks in block lines in parallel, a parallel QP prediction part to compute prediction values of the blocks in the block lines in parallel, and a parallel decoding processing part to generate decoded pixels of the blocks in the block lines in parallel, the decoded pixel being obtained utilizing data decoded by the parallel entropy decoding part and the prediction value. When performing computing processing in parallel per unit of N block lines, the processing is performed on a processing block in a (K−1)th block line preceding a processing block in a Kth block line by at least one block in a horizontal position to compute the prediction value of the processing block by referring to a block already processed corresponding to the processing block.
US10051270B2
In an intra-picture, a predetermined region is set as a normal encoding region, and a region other than the predetermined region is set as a simplified encoding region. In a subsequent picture, the normal encoding region is set as a larger region including a normal encoding region of a previous picture, and a region other than the normal encoding region is set as a simplified encoding region. In each picture, normal encoding is performed on a block of the normal encoding region, and simplified encoding in which a generated code amount and a computation amount are smaller than in the normal encoding is performed on a block of the simplified encoding region.
US10051267B2
A method for decoding a multi-layer video signal, according to the present invention, determines whether a corresponding picture in a lower layer is used as an inter-layer reference picture for a current picture in an upper layer, on the basis of a time level identifier of the lower layer, and restrictively performs inter-layer prediction for the current picture on the basis of a tile boundary alignment flag indicating whether tile alignment is performed between the upper layer and the lower layer if the corresponding picture in the lower layer is used as the inter-layer reference picture for the current picture in the upper layer.
US10051248B2
An optical device and an image projection apparatus including the same are disclosed. The optical device includes a laser diode for outputting a laser light having a predetermined wavelength, a polarization separator for transmitting a first polarized light of the laser light and reflecting a second polarized light of the laser light, a wheel including a wavelength conversion unit for converting a wavelength of the second polarized light of the laser light reflected by the polarization separator such that the second polarized light of the laser light corresponds to one selected from among a blue light, a green light, and a red light and a transmission unit for transmitting the other lights, a polarization converter for converting the light transmitted through the wheel into the first polarized light and outputting the converted first polarized light to the wheel, and an optical output unit for outputting the first polarized light from the polarization converter and the light converted in wavelength and reflected by the wheel. Consequently, it is possible to provide a compact optical device that is capable of achieving highly efficient light output.
US10051245B2
The display system includes a display system including an image-capturing apparatus including an image-capturing element; an image processing apparatus that performs image processing on the image; and a display apparatus including a display device that displays the image resulting from the image processing. The image processing apparatus includes an image processor that performs the image processing on a predetermined number of line images corresponding to a part of a frame image captured by the image-capturing element, sequentially outputs the image to the display apparatus per the predetermined number of line images, and causes the display apparatus to display the frame image; and a storage device that stores the predetermined number of line images until the frame image is completed. The image processor is configured to perform the image processing including frame unit processing on the predetermined number of line images associated with the frame image to be output.
US10051244B2
A display image formation device enables, in an intuitive manner, designation of a location which the user wishes to see when multiple panoramic images obtained by multiple panoramic cameras are present, and enables display of the image for a designated site in a suitable state. One panoramic camera is selected from multiple panoramic cameras on the basis of the positional relationship between a designated position on a planar map and the multiple panoramic cameras. An extracted image region, which is extracted from the image photographed by the selected panoramic camera, is determined. A display image is generated such that the extracted image is arranged on the planar map.
US10051242B2
A visualization system is provided for permitting a driver of a vehicle to observe a 180 degree rearward view of his or her vehicle and surroundings. The visualization system can include a display device which provides a 180 degree substantially rearward view. The 180 degree substantially rearward view can be seamless and/or undistorted. The display device can be positioned within the vehicle in front of the driver. The display device can be mounted on the inside surface of a windshield of the vehicle. At least a portion of the display device can be positioned above the eyes of the driver of the vehicle when the driver is seated in the driver's seat of the vehicle.
US10051240B2
An apparatus includes a light source configured for generating a coherent light beam having a wavelength, λ, a light detector, and beam-forming optics configured for receiving the generated light beam and for generating a plurality of substantially parallel Bessel-like beams directed into a sample in a first direction. Each of the Bessel-like beams has a fixed phase relative to the other Bessel-like beams. Imaging optics are configured for receiving light from a position within the sample that is illuminated by the Bessel-like beams and for imaging the received light onto the detector. The imaging optics include a detection objective having an axis oriented in a second direction that is non-parallel to the first direction, where the detector is configured for detecting light received by the imaging optics. A processor configured to generate an image of the sample based on the detected light.
US10051239B2
A hierarchical publish/subscribe network is employed to produce and distribute special effects to users to complement displayed video information. A top level broker in the network receives a plurality of data streams corresponding to a respective plurality of primary special. A service provider makes a subscription request for one of said primary special effects and receives the corresponding selected data stream. The selected data stream is transformed into at least one further data stream, corresponding to a further special effect. The further data stream is published to a lower level broker associated with the service provider. In response to a user subscription request for the further special effect, the lower level broker publishes the further data stream to a user interface for presentation to the user in association with the displayed video information.
US10051238B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for licensing service providers to process video, audio and/or multimedia content using a video processing device. A license key indicative of a license for an amount of bandwidth is generated. The license key is used at the video processing device to enforce the license based on whether there is sufficient licensed bandwidth available to accommodate a newly created output transport stream. If there is sufficient licensed bandwidth available, processing of the newly created output transport stream is allowed. If there is insufficient licensed bandwidth available, processing of the newly created output transport stream is denied. The service providers are charged a license fee to use the video processing equipment based on the licensed bandwidth.
US10051237B2
A conference support apparatus includes: a conference management section that stores screen information obtained by the object operation to manage screen transition in the conference; a branch management section that stores branch information for discriminating a branch point in association with the screen on which a branching operation is performed to manage a branch point of the conference when the branching operation is performed to branch the discussion; and a digest creation section that refers to branch information to specify the digest part that connects the start point and the end point from which a branch is excluded when the branch is included between the start point and the end point and extracts screen information about a screen included in the specified digest part to create a conference digest on the basis of the screen information corresponding to the specified digest part when a digest creation operation is performed.
US10051230B2
A method for connecting an external apparatus and a multimedia replaying apparatus using the same. The method includes determining whether a command for displaying menus is input while multimedia content is replayed, determining a multimedia content replay state indicating whether a part or the whole of the multimedia contents is being replayed at an external apparatus if it is determined that the command for displaying menus is input, and displaying the menus comprising the multimedia content replay state on an area displaying a video of the multimedia contents. Therefore, a part or entire of replayed multimedia contents is readily transmitted to an external apparatus for wireless communication.
US10051224B2
An image processing circuit includes a first dual sample-and-hold circuit that samples a first data and a second data from a first pixel, a second dual sample-and-hold circuit that samples a third data and a fourth data from a second pixel, a voltage-to-current circuit including a resistor and a current source, that receives the first data and the second data to output a first difference data, and that receives the third data and the fourth data to output a second difference data; and an analog-to-digital converter that converts the first and second difference data from an analog form to a digital form.
US10051219B2
An imaging device having unit pixel cells including a first unit pixel cell, the first unit pixel cell including a first electrode, a second electrode, a first photoelectric conversion layer for generating a first signal charge, and a first signal detection circuit connected to the first electrode for detecting the first signal charge. The imaging device further includes a voltage supply circuit which supplies a first voltage to the second electrode in a first period when the first unit pixel cell accumulates the first signal charge, a voltage of the second electrode on the basis of a voltage of the first electrode being positive in the first period, and the voltage supply circuit supplies a second voltage to at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode in a second period, the second period including a third period when a voltage of the second electrode is negative.
US10051218B1
A pixel cell has a photodiode, a readout circuit, a vertical transfer transistor and a reflective structure. The photodiode is disposed within a first substrate of a first semiconductor chip for accumulating an image charge in response to light incident upon the photodiode. The readout circuit is disposed within a second substrate of a second semiconductor chip. The vertical transfer transistor is coupled between the photodiode and the readout circuitry to transfer the image charge from the photodiode to the readout circuitry. The reflective structure is positioned between the readout circuit and the photodiode to reflect incident light, that passes through the photodiode without being absorbed, back towards the photodiode for a second chance at being absorbed.
US10051215B2
A pixel biasing device includes a ramp ground noise unit, a bias current generation unit, and a pixel biasing unit; the ramp ground noise unit being suitable for generating a ramp ground noise and for transferring the ramp ground noise to the bias current generation unit; the bias current generation unit being suitable for generating a bias current by combining an inputted reference current with the ramp ground noise received from the ramp ground noise unit; and the pixel biasing unit being suitable for performing a biasing operation on an inputted pixel signal based on the bias current.
US10051209B2
A projection display system includes a visible light source coupled to project a visible image onto a screen. An infrared (IR) light source is coupled to project a non-visible IR image onto the screen. The non-visible IR image on the screen is independent of the visible image on the screen. The visible image and the non-visible IR image are overlapped and are displayed simultaneously on the screen.
US10051206B2
A processing device generates composite images from a sequence of images. The composite images may be used as frames of video. A foreground/background segmentation is performed at selected frames to extract a plurality of foreground object images depicting a foreground object at different locations as it moves across a scene. The foreground object images are stored to a foreground object list. The foreground object images in the foreground object list are overlaid onto subsequent video frames that follow the respective frames from which they were extracted, thereby generating a composite video.
US10051205B1
Extension devices such as upstream facing port devices (UFP devices) and downstream facing port devices (DFP devices) connect via an extension medium. When a UFP device and a DFP device pair with each other, DisplayPort video and/or audio information from a DisplayPort source device can be presented by a DisplayPort sink device, which are coupled to the UFP device and DFP device, respectively. In some embodiments, the DFP device may train a DisplayPort link to the DisplayPort sink device regardless of whether it is receiving actual data from a UFP device, and may provide placeholder data to the DisplayPort sink device in order to keep the link active. The DFP device may then replace the placeholder data with the actual data from the UFP device, once received, and may thereby seamlessly switch the DisplayPort sink device from presenting placeholder data to presenting data from the DisplayPort source device.
US10051204B2
Embodiments described herein enable a switching device to automatically select AV port(s) coupled to electronic device(s) that a user would like to use to watch and/or listen to content. The AV port(s) may be automatically selected based on receiving a command, determining that a particular remote control device is being used, and/or determining that a particular piece of content has been selected. Upon detection of such events, a source device for providing content is identified from among a plurality of source devices. Thereafter, an AV port from among a plurality of AV ports to which the identified source device is connected is identified. The identified AV port is then selected so that the identified source device becomes connected to an AV port to which a sink device is connected. In this way, the switching device can provide content from the identified source device to the sink device for presentation thereby.
US10051199B2
An information handling system includes a multi-camera mounting apparatus. The multi-camera mounting apparatus accommodates a plurality of camera modules in order to capture a three dimensional image. The multi-camera mounting apparatus is comprised of a uni-body bracket made of a combination of materials that have a near net-zero thermal expansion in order to maintain the cameras' locations relative to each other. Additionally, the camera modules may be affixed to the multi-camera mounting apparatus using UV-activated adhesive.
US10051188B2
[Object] To display a captured image on a display unit in accordance with the intention of a user.[Solution] An information processing device according to the present technology includes a reception unit configured to receive operation information on a user, and a control unit configured to decide, on the basis of a state of a flexible display unit pulled out from a body of an image shooting device, a corresponding range corresponding to a displayable area of the pulled-out display unit from an entire image range acquired by an image shooting unit, the state being received by the reception unit, the flexible display unit being capable of being pulled out from the body.
US10051186B2
A distance measurement device includes a detection unit, an optical path forming unit, a first reduction unit that reduces, based on a detection result of the detection unit, influence of variation of the optical axis of the image formation optical system, a second reduction unit that is disposed in a different part from the common optical path and reduces variation of the optical axis of the directional light based on the detection result of the detection unit, and a control unit that, in the case of operating the first reduction unit and the second reduction unit at the same time, controls the first reduction unit and the second reduction unit to reduce variation of an irradiation position of the directional light in the subject image received as light by the light receiving section.
US10051183B2
There is provided an image-capturing device including an image-capturing unit that captures a subject to output the captured image, a detection unit that physically detects a shake angle when the image-capturing unit has shaken, and a correction processing unit that calculates a correction amount based on an arrangement position of a pixel constituting the image outputted by the image-capturing unit and the shake angle detected by the detection unit, to correct the image according to the correction amount.
US10051182B2
Methods and apparatus for compensating for motion and/or changing light conditions during image capture, e.g., in video, through use of multiple camera modules and/or images captured by multiple camera modules are described. During image capture time periods a plurality of camera modules capture images. During a first image capture time period a first camera module captures an image including a complete image of a user selected scene area of interest. During an additional image capture time period the first camera module captures an image including a portion of the scene area of interest; however, a portion of the scene area image is missing from the captured image, e.g., due to camera motion, occlusion and/or lighting conditions. Captured images from other camera modules and/or from during different image capture time periods which include the missing portion are identified and ranked; the highest ranked image is used in generating a composite image.
US10051177B2
A method is provided. The method includes executing a camera application at an electronic device; activating a heart rate monitor (HRM) sensor operatively coupled with a first surface of the electronic device in response to the execution of the camera application; receiving an input signal via the HRM sensor; and capturing, using a processor operatively coupled with the electronic device, an image via an image sensor operatively coupled with a second surface of the electronic device based at least in part on the input signal.
US10051172B2
The invention is directed to a radio unit contained within a housing of a wireless communication device or system, the radio unit including: a signal processing unit for performing one or more wireless protocol processing functions; a radio-frequency (RF) front end unit coupled to the signal processing unit; and a power unit coupled to the RF front end unit, wherein the power unit completely powers down the RF front end unit when the signal processing unit is in a sleep mode, and powers up the RF front end unit at a predetermined time before an anticipated reception of a RF signal transmitted by an external device.
US10051169B2
An apparatus estimates control features of remote controls comprising cameras for detecting light points from beacons located at or near devices that are to be controlled via the remote controls by letting the cameras further detect light points from non-beacons. Processors estimate the control features in response to information from the detections of the light points. The non-beacons comprise noise sources or any other sources different from the beacons. Memories store per time-interval the information per detection. The light coming from the beacons may be modulated light and the light coming from the non-beacons may be other light. The information may comprise coordinates, sizes and intensities of light points per detection and per time-interval. The control feature may comprise a pointing position, a distance, a rotation, a tilt, a location, a speed, an acceleration, a movement and/or a zoom of the remote control.
US10051168B2
A method of automatically activating a camera application implemented in a mobile device in locked mode starts with the processor receiving a first signal from an accelerometer. The device's processor activates the camera application when the processor determines that the mobile device has remained in a stationary portrait or landscape position for a period of time based on the first signal. Activating the camera application includes signaling by the processor to the display device to display a camera screen from a locked screen. The processor may also receive a second signal from a proximity sensor that detects presence of a nearby object to the mobile device. When the processor determines that there is presence of the nearby object to the mobile device based on the second signal, the mobile device remains in locked mode and the processor does not activate the camera application.
US10051161B2
Disclosed is an electronic device having a display unit exposed on a front surface and a lens module disposed on a rear surface. The electronic device includes: a motor unit positioned at one side of the lens module and configured to provide a driving force to the lens module; and a side key positioned at the other side of the lens module which is opposite to the one side of the lens module, the side key being positioned on any one of side end parts of the electronic device. The lens module may be positioned between the side key and the motor unit.
US10051159B2
An imaging apparatus comprises a lens optical system including a lens and having first through nth optical regions (n is an integer equal to or greater than 2), an image sensor including pixel groups each including first through nth pixels, an optical element array disposed between the lens optical system and the image sensor and including optical components each guiding light that has passed through the first through nth optical regions to the respective first through nth pixels in each of the pixel groups, and an optical absorption member on which light reflected by the imaging surface of the image sensor is incident. The optical absorptance of the optical absorption member is substantially uniform across the entire wavelength bands of light that passes through the first through nth optical regions and is substantially uniform across the entire optical absorption member.
US10051158B2
Provided is a control apparatus for an image pickup apparatus that can synchronize an image sensor with a frame period from an external device, such as a display apparatus, without use of any frame buffer, while optimizing the frequency of a clock signal used for the operation of the image sensor. An image sensor (11) receives a trigger signal from an external device (2), such as a display apparatus, and image data from an image sensor (11); calculates, for each frame, information of a time difference from the trigger signal to a time at which to start the output of the image data; and establishes, on the basis of the information of the time difference, a frame period of the image sensor (11) such that the time difference is accommodated within a given range, thereby allowing the image data to be supplied to the external device (2) within a given time difference relative to the trigger signal, though some degree of variation occurring in each frame.
US10051156B2
A method and system create an image-based pattern color space for use in conjunction with rendering a print job. The pattern color space is defined, in a page description language, by a variable portion, a fixed portion, and a bounding shape. A procedure is defined for painting the variable and fixed portions within the bounding shape. The variable portion is based upon variable data associated with the print job and the fixed portion is an image associated with the print job such that a gloss mark is created in rendering the print job by painting a gloss mark font text symbol with the image of the print job, and a correlation mark is created in rendering the print job by painting a correlation mark font text symbol with the image of the print job.
US10051142B1
Implementations relate to adaptive display of image capacity for an image capture device. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method to display available image capacity for an image capture device includes determining local storage capacity of local storage accessible to the image capture device and determining whether secondary storage is accessible to the image capture device over a network. The method includes determining total storage capacity based at least in part on the determining whether the secondary storage is accessible. The method determines image capture settings of the image capture device, calculates the available image capacity based on the total storage capacity and the image capture settings, and causes the available image capacity to be displayed.
US10051130B2
A method, system, and computer program product for managing a pool of conference lines for telephone conferences. In embodiments of the invention, the method comprises receiving a request for a telephone conference at a given time and for a specified duration; reviewing conference lines in a pool of conference lines to determine if one of the conference lines is available for the telephone conference; when one of the conference lines in the pool is available, allocating the one conference line to the requested telephone conference; issuing one or more unique pass codes for access to the allocated conference line; and distributing the one or more unique pass codes to a group of persons. In embodiments of the invention, the method further comprises if the telephone conference reaches a given time before a specified end time, offering to extend the end time of the telephone conference.
US10051120B2
A method for setting tones on an assisted user's communication device where the assisted user is hearing impaired, the method comprising the steps of (a) storing a sample voice recording in a memory of an assisted user's device, (b) presenting tone setting tools via a display screen on an assisted user's device, (c) receiving tone setting parameters via the assisted user's device, (d) playing the sample voice recording via a speaker on the assisted user's device where the sample voice recording is broadcast using the tone specified by the tone setting parameters, (e) repeating steps (b) through (d) until the tone of the sample voice recording is optimized; and (f) storing the optimized tone setting parameters for subsequent use as well as a method by which a proxy can help an assisted user enter manage contact and other information on an assisted user's device.
US10051117B2
In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there are provided apparatus, systems, and methods for identifying cable-level faults in a copper plant of a DSL system. For example, such means may include identifying a group of Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL lines) within a common cable; determining a baseline of physical line characteristics for each of the DSL lines in the group; collecting current physical line characteristics for each of the DSL lines in the group; determining a physical line characteristics delta for each of the DSL lines in the group by comparing the current physical line characteristics to the baseline of physical line characteristics for each of the respective DSL lines; and indicating a defect in the common cable based on a quantity of the DSL lines in the group for which the respective DSL line's physical line characteristics delta exceeds a threshold. Other related embodiments are disclosed.
US10051115B2
A terminal for use in a communications network for calling a called party includes a capture buffer for storing a media stream, including a voice command, received from the caller. A session controller in the terminal controls call handling and launches the call from the caller to the called party in accordance with the voice command. Responsive to the session manager, a stream controller will transmit the media stream from the capture buffer to the called party following set up of the call. In this way the called party may identify the caller voice and screen the call. Silence intervals in the media stream are detected and suppressed.
US10051109B2
Measurements can be obtained from sensors to determine a state of a device. The state can be used to determine whether to provide an alert. For example, after a first alert is provided, it can be determined that the device is not accessible to the user based on the determined state, and a second alert can be suppressed at a specified time after providing the first alert. The sensor measurements can be monitored after suppressing the second alert, and a state engine can detect a change in a state based on subsequent sensor measurements. If the state change indicates that the device is accessible to the user the second alert can be provided to the user. Alerts can be dismissed based on a change in state. A first device can coordinate alerts sent to or to be provided by a second device by suppressing or dismissing such alerts.
US10051108B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing contextual information for a notification. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a user device in response to the user device obtaining a notification in response to an occurrence of a trigger event, a query-independent request for contextual information relevant to the notification, identifying multiple search items from content in the notification, determining a relevance score for each of the multiple search items, selecting one or more of the multiple search items based on the relevance scores, and providing, to the user device for each of the selected one or more multiple search items, a respective user interface element for display with the notification, wherein each user interface element includes contextual information regarding the respective search item.
US10051096B2
Disclosed is a portable electronic device that includes: a front glass cover that forms a front face of the electronic device; a rear cover that forms a rear face of the electronic device; a side portion that surrounds a space formed by the front glass cover and the rear cover; a display module embedded in the space and including a screen region that is exposed through the front glass cover; a printed circuit board (PCB) interposed between the display module and the rear cover, and including an opening that is at least partially closed; a battery installed within the opening and interposed between the display module and the rear cover; and a power control module (PCM) interposed between the PCB and the display module, and arranged adjacent to a side of the battery when viewed from a position above the PCB.
US10051093B2
Systems and methods for packet classification hardware acceleration are provided. According to one embodiment, a packet classification hardware accelerator system includes multiple packet classification hardware units, a memory and a cache subsystem. The packet classification hardware units are each capable of operation in parallel on a corresponding decision tree of multiple decision trees that have been derived from respective subsets of a common ruleset defining packet classification rules based on header fields of packets. The memory has stored therein non-leaf nodes, leaf nodes and rules associated with the decision trees. The cache subsystem is coupled in communication with packet classification hardware units and the memory and has stored therein (i) a cached portion of the non-leaf nodes distributed among multiple non-leaf node caches, (ii) a cached set of the leaf nodes in a leaf node cache and (iii) a cached set of the rules.
US10051092B2
A method and device is provided for managing data transmission on a network. The device includes Transparent Interceptor for transparently intercepting socket connections from first parties to one or more second parties. A signal socket connection is established to each second party. When one or more first parties request a data stream to a second party, the device distributes the data stream obtained from the second party through the single socket connection to one or more first parties. Data processor of the device may operate on data contents from the first or second party. A customized protocol may be used for the data transmission.
US10051080B2
A first message resilience client device receives a message and a request to deliver the message, on behalf of a remote client/server-based client application that originated the message, to a client/server-based server application that provides outgoing client/server messaging services to the remote client/server-based client application that originated the message. In response to determining that the connection to the server device that executes the client/server-based server application is not currently possible with any available connection, the message is stored locally for one of later delivery to the client/server-based server application and propagation of the message to another message resilience client device on behalf of the remote client/server-based client application.
US10051072B2
Implementations generally relate to increasing engagement among users in a social network system. In some implementations, a method includes determining at least one social activity associated with an initiator user in a social network system. The method also includes enabling a token to be sent from an initiator device to one or more nearby devices, wherein the initiator device is associated with the initiator user, and wherein the one or more nearby devices are associated with one or more nearby users. The method also includes sending one or more invitations to one or more of the nearby users in association with the token. The method also includes performing one or more predetermined actions in association with the one or more nearby users based on one or more responses to the invitations.
US10051070B2
There is provided an information processing device including an activity acquiring unit configured to acquire an activity of a first user in a first scene of content, a scene extracting unit configured to extract a second scene similar to the first scene from the content or another content, and a feedback diverting unit configured to divert a feedback that arises in the first scene in response to the activity of the first user, to the second scene provided to a second user.
US10051068B2
The disclosure relates to mechanisms that may be used to route notifications in an Internet of Things (IoT) environment according to user activity and/or proximity detection. More particularly, in various embodiments, an entity that manages the IoT environment may receive one or more messages, actions, or responses that indicate detected activity or detected proximity associated with one or more users from one or more IoT devices in the IoT environment. The management entity may then establish an activity and proximity trail from the one or more messages, actions, or responses that indicate the detected activity or the detected proximity, whereby in response to an IoT device reporting one or more notifications, an IoT device in proximity to at least one of the one or more users may be identified and the one or more notifications may be routed to the identified IoT device.
US10051067B2
In order to provide a more realistic system activity score, an activity monitor gathers activity scores from a plurality of processes on one or more communication systems. An activity score defines an activity level of a particular process. For example, how many cache hits per second are occurring in a communication system or how may a HTTP sessions a web server is handling per second. Because the activity scores are gathered from individual processes within the communication system(s), a more realistic understanding of the overall activity of the communication system(s) can be determined. The gathered activity scores are summed to produce a system activity score. The system activity score is then sent to a user. The user can then utilize the system activity score to better manage the communication system(s).
US10051066B1
A system and method for sharing panelist information without providing cookie information are provided. The system includes a panel information receiver to receive information from a panel, the information being defined by each of the panelist's access to cookie information sourced from an online shared content network; a log correlation module to create a log based on a correlation of the information and accesses to the cookies via the online shared content network; a log transmitter to transmit the log to the panel; and a panelist data receiver to receive data from panel, the data being defined as content accesses by each of the panelists.
US10051062B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for handling multi-pipe connections is provided. A primary pipe request for a connection between a client and a server is received. The connection includes a plurality of pipes between the client and the server. The primary pipe request includes a number corresponding to the amount of pipes required for the connection. A first response acknowledging the receipt of the primary pipe request is transmitted. The first response includes a token. A plurality of subsequent pipe requests are received for the connection between the client and the server. Each subsequent pipe request includes the token. A subsequent response to each subsequent pipe request is transmitted. A count of the number of pipe requests received is maintained. The established pipes are released after a period of time has elapsed when the number of pipe requests received doesn't reach the number of pipes required for the connection.
US10051060B2
A utilization by at least one virtual sensor of sensor data provided by at least one sensor can be monitored. A utilization of virtual sensor data by at least one application can be monitored. The virtual sensor data can generated by the at least one virtual sensor based on the sensor data. At least a first sensor data use parameter indicating the utilization of the virtual sensor data by the at least one application can be generated.
US10051046B1
Individualized connectivity based request handling is disclosed. For example, a content source is accessed by a client device and a load balancer executes on a processor to receive a first request based on the client device accessing the content source. A first session variable is set to a first value in a first session and a first latency to the client device is measured. A first plurality of target nodes is selected based on the first session variable. A first plurality of messages is sent to the first plurality of target nodes. A second request is received from the client device after the first session expires, starting a second session. The first session variable is set to a different second value in the second session. A second plurality of messages is sent to a second plurality of target nodes different from the first plurality of target nodes.
US10051036B1
Systems and methods for facilitating the sharing of digital media items between source computing platforms and end computing platforms based on information associated with and/or derived from the media items are presented herein. Automatic routing of a media item to one or more users may be in response to obtaining digital media items, such as a photo, a video, an audio file, or text file, from one or more media item source computing platforms, obtaining information associated with individual ones of the media items, and associating one or more media items with one or more groups based on the obtained information. Other aspects of the disclosure may be related to making media items easy to locate, generating notifications to one or more users who have indicated interest in a media item and/or media item group, suggesting that a media item be shared with one or more users, and/or other features.
US10051035B2
An approach is provided for enabling the transmission of files independent of a file transfer application or the throughput capabilities of the sending or receiving devices. A segmentation platform receives a user input for specifying a data file to be transferred from a server to a receiving device. The segmentation platform also initiates a segmenting of the data file at the server based on the user input and generates one or more instructions, at least one error detection parameter, or a combination thereof for initiating an assembly of segments of the data file at the receiving device, validating the assembly of the segments of the data file, or a combination thereof. The segmentation platform further stores the segments, the one or more instructions, the at least one error detection parameter, or a combination thereof to the server for retrieval by a user of the receiving device.
US10051031B2
Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments enable a receiver device to use a modified segment availability time. In various embodiments, a receiver device may be enabled to modify availability start times for segments in a segment availability timeline, such as a Media Presentation Description (MPD), to account for the actual times when segments will be available to a DASH client.
US10051019B1
A client device generates a plurality of application windows. For example, a first application window may be provided by a first application that has a first session established with a server system, and a second application window may be provided by a second application that has a second session established with the server system. The client device detects user activity in the first window. Based on the user activity in the first window, the client device sends a message to the server system. The message providing an indication of user activity in one or more of the plurality of windows. The message causes the server system to maintain the second session as active despite inactivity in the second application window.
US10051017B2
In instances where a user equipment (UE) encounters an issue during an attempt to register for Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) service, the UE is configured with improved logic for handling the encountered issue. For instance, the UE may transmit a multiple unprotected registration requests to multiple different IMS nodes, and may receive multiple registration responses from the multiple different IMS nodes that each specify a type of error in a particular error category, all the while evaluating whether a criterion is met. Upon the criterion being met, the UE can refrain from transmitting any additional unprotected registration requests, thereby alleviating network bandwidth consumption, yet giving the UE a fair chance to successfully register for IMS service.
US10051016B2
Method for accessing a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server from a user equipment. The method comprises the steps of transmitting, by the user equipment, an HTTP message destined for that HTTP server to an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) server with which the user equipment is in a connection, determining, by the IMS server, on the basis of the HTTP message whether a trust relation exists between the IMS server and the HTTP server, and if a trust relation exists transmitting the HTTP message from the IMS server to the HTTP server.
US10051008B2
Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or memory access. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a instruction execution detection/interception mechanism (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it). The instruction execution detection/interception mechanism may perform processing, inter alia, for detection and/or notification of, and actions upon by a monitoring guest, code execution by a monitored guest involving predetermined physical memory locations, such as API calls. Such actions may include interception of API calls within the monitored guest and simulation thereof by the monitoring guest or another authorized guest.
US10051007B2
A network traffic control device, and a security policy configuration method. The network traffic control device identifies a source, a destination, and an application type of an input data stream; executes, based a predetermined enterprise organizational structure, first upward tracing processing to obtain a first source upward tracing point and a first destination upward tracing point; and generating a first security policy, where a source in a match condition of the first security policy is configured to the first source upward tracing point, a destination in the match condition of the first security policy is configured to the first destination upward tracing point. According to the security policy configuration method implemented by the network traffic control device, a security policy can be automatically generated, which reduces difficulty in configuring the security policy and increases a configuration success rate.
US10051002B2
Some embodiments provide novel methods for processing remote-device data messages in a network based on data-message attributes from a remote device management (RDM) system. For instance, the method of some embodiments identifies a set of RDM attributes associated with a data message, and then performs one or more service operations based on identified RDM attribute set.
US10050996B1
A method of verifying an account login request may include identifying one or more Internet Protocol (IP) addresses as potentially malicious and, for each identified IP address, determining a first value equal to a number of times over a period of time that the IP address was identified by the computing device as potentially malicious, determining a second value equal to a number of times over the period of time that the IP address was confirmed to be potentially malicious by one or more account users, determining a proportion value associated with the IP address by determining a ratio of the second value to the first value, labeling the IP address as safe or unsafe based on at least the proportion value associated with the IP address, and maintaining, by the computing device, a list of the IP addresses and corresponding labels.
US10050994B2
Disclosed is a method for processing data, which includes: obtaining grade of a plug-in; assigning the plug-in into one of a plurality of categories according to the grade of the plug-in; and displaying at least one operation indication and recommended operation information based on the category the plug-in belongs to. A computing device for processing data is also disclosed.
US10050992B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for mitigating the impact from Internet attacks in a Radio Access Network, RAN, using Internet transport. This object is obtained by a method performed in network node in a Core network, CN, of mitigating the impact from Internet attacks in a Radio Access Network, RAN, using Internet transport. The method comprises receiving, from at least a network node in a Radio Access Network, RAN, an intrusion detection report, the intrusion detection report comprises information about an Internet attack in the RAN. The method further comprises selecting based on the information, a mitigation action, the mitigation action mitigating the impact of the attack on the RAN service level. Further the method comprises performing the selected mitigation action to mitigate the impact on the RAN service level.
US10050984B2
An illustrative embodiment of a computer-implemented process for identifying a request invalidating a session excludes all marked logout requests of a Web application, crawls an identified next portion of the Web application and responsive to a determination, in one instance, that the state of the crawl is out of session, logs in to the Web application. The computer-implemented process further selects all crawl requests sent since a last time the crawl was in-session, excluding all marked logout requests and responsive to a determination that requests remain, crawls a selected next unprocessed request. Responsive to a determination, in the next instance, that state of the crawl is out of session and the selected request meets logout request criteria, the computer-implemented process marks the selected request as a logout request.
US10050973B2
The disclosure relates to a system and a method for implementing user-specified transaction parameters for transferring digital content items amongst users. The method includes: receiving a request from a first user to transfer a right of possession to a first digital content item, wherein the first digital content item includes a content portion and a metadata portion for displaying a visual representation of the first digital content item; in response to receiving the request, precluding user access to at least the content portion of the first digital content item on one or more computing devices associated with an account of the first user; and providing the visual representation of the first digital content item on a display of at least one of the one or more computing devices based on the metadata portion of the first digital content item.
US10050972B2
A storage device of an example shop server stores, with respect to each of users of an information processing apparatus, user authority information indicating authority given to the user, together with user identification information for identifying the user. The user authority information is associated with the information processing apparatus used by the user corresponding to the user authority information. When the shop server has received from an information processing apparatus through a communication apparatus the user identification information of a first user who uses the information processing apparatus, a processor of the shop server performs, on the basis of the user authority information of the first user and the user authority information of a second user associated with the same information processing apparatus, information processing based on the authority indicated by the user authority information of the first user and the user authority information of the second user.
US10050970B2
A data center security system and method are provided that leverage server systems on a chip (SOCs) and/or server fabrics. In more detail, server interconnect fabrics may be leveraged and extended to dramatically improve security within a data center.
US10050968B2
A method for access control of shared data includes a data access requester transmitting a request for accessing a shared data to a data storage dealer, obtaining a cipher text of the shared data, a cipher text of an encryption key, an access strategy, and a cipher text attribute component from the data storage dealer, and transmitting a request for obtaining the user attribute component of the data access requester respectively to the attribute authorizers. The attribute authorizers generate the user attribute components of the data access requester respectively and transmit the user attribute components of the data access requester to the data access requester. The data access requester restores the encryption key, and decrypts the cipher text of the shared data according to the encryption key for obtaining the shared data requested to be accessed.
US10050958B2
To validate a user's identity a network validation server receives a smartphone image of a preexisting user credential, including both a user biometric and a unique identifier associated with the credential and stores them in a database. The validation server also receives the unique identifier from a registrar network device seeking to validate the user, and in response transmits a validation code to the user's smartphone for display by the user's smartphone and/or the registrar's network device for display by the registrar's network device. The validation server additionally receives confirmation from the registrar's network device that a validation code displayed on the user's smartphone is the transmitted validation, thereby confirming that the user has been validated by the registrar.
US10050957B1
A processing device of a server executing an application establishes a network connection to a client device having a smart card, detects a program call directed to a smart card application programming interface (API) to authenticate a user of the client device for accessing the application, and determines, based on the program call, whether the smart card is a remote smart card for the server. Responsive to determining that the smart card is the remote smart card, the processing device redirects the program call to the client device via a separate communication channel of the network connection and authenticates, by the server, the user of the client device in view of data returned by the program call, as if the remote smart card were local to the server.
US10050950B2
A method for managing a session between a local computing device and a remote computing device, in which a session is established between a local computing device and a remote computing device, a lock session signal is transmitted from the remote computing device to the local computing device, a lock session signal is received at the local computing device, and the session is locked, at the local computing device. Furthermore, the user is prompted for identification information at the remote computing device, and the identification information is transmitted from the remote computing device to the local computing device. Moreover, the identification information is received at the local computing device, the identification information is authenticated at the local computing device, and the session is unlocked, at the local computing device.
US10050948B2
Methods, systems, and devices for updating access permissions of users in an access control system are described. The access permissions are capable of being updated based on rules and thresholds that include as at least one variable presence or contextual information associated with a user. The presence or contextual information associated with a user may be analyzed to trigger a credential update process for that user or other users within the access control system.
US10050942B2
A method for two factor authentication is described. The method comprises a server receiving an activation code for verification from a mobile device. The server generates an encrypted secret key using the activation code The secret key is encrypted and sent to the mobile device. The server receives a first token generated by the mobile device. The server generates a second token using the secret key, determines whether the first token is identical to the second token, and syncs information with the mobile device.
US10050935B2
An API call filtering system filters responses to API call requests received, via a network, from UEs. The API call filtering system is configured to require personalized API call requests wherein each API call (except for some minor exceptions) includes a unique UE identifier (“UEIN”) of the UE making the request. Using the UEIN, the web service or other service protected by the API call filtering system can be secured against excessive request iterations from a set of rogue UEs while allowing for ordinary volumes of requests of requests the UEs, wherein one or more boundaries between what is deemed to be an ordinary volume of requests and what is deemed to be excessive request iterations are determined by predetermined criteria.
US10050934B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for redirecting a web browser application for secure web browsing are described herein. In various embodiments, a user web browser application executing within a secure network may request the content of a website outside of the secure network. In response to the request, an address translation service may redirect the user web browser application to a redirector service to respond to the request. In response to the request, the redirector service may request a hosted web browser application that may be able to navigate to the requested website. In further response to the request, the redirector service may send, to the user web browser application, a client agent which may display the output generated by a hosted web browser application within the user web browser application.
US10050932B2
A method for releasing an address, a user node and a remote access server are disclosed. The method includes: when releasing an Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) address, a user node notifying the released IPv6 address to nodes within a scope of a local link. In the above technical scheme, when releasing the IPv6 address generated through a prefix, the user node notifies the released IPv6 address to the nodes within the scope of the local link, which enhances the accuracy of charging, improves the user experience, and plays a role of address resource recovery within the scope of the local link, thereby being able to reuse address resources released by the user in the network.
US10050925B1
Messages sent on behalf of a user through an intermediary service message are assigned a unique sender address including unique message identification data unique to each message being sent. The unique sender address further includes message delivery system domain data identifying the actual domain of the intermediary service. The unique message identification data is also mapped to a user routing address. The unique sender address is then used to populate the “From” field of the message. Consequently, any message response sent to the “From” field of the message can be automatically analyzed to identify the user identification data in the unique sender address and automatically mapped to the user notification routing address. A notification of the response message can then be automatically relayed to the user using the user notification routing address.
US10050918B2
A method for creating at least one new thread associated with an online conversation is provided. The method may include monitoring the online conversation to detect a new or updated element of the online conversation. The method may also include extracting the detected new or updated element. The method may further include analyzing the online conversation and the extracted detected new or updated element to determine if a new online conversation has started. The method may include extracting a plurality of members associated with the online conversation. The method may also include extracting a plurality of content associated with the extracted detected new or updated element. The method additionally include prompting a user to determine if a new online conversation should be created. The method may also include creating the new online conversation. The method may further include notifying the plurality of extracted members about the created new online conversation.
US10050916B2
An interstitial message server system selects a like interstitial message that corresponds to a like user event generated by a user, a skip interstitial message corresponding to a skip user event generated by the user and a playthrough interstitial message corresponding to a play through user event. The like, skip and playthrough interstitial messages can be selected based upon an identifier of a media object that can be presented to the user. At least one each of the like, skip and playthrough interstitial messages can be sent to a user computer before or during the presentation of a media object. While or after the media object is presented to the user at the user computer, the user computer can be caused to detect a like, skip or playthrough user event with respect to the media object. The user computer can be caused to present the like, skip or playthrough interstitial message that was received by the computer and that corresponds to the detected like, skip or playthrough user event with minimal delay from the time the user event is detected.
US10050915B2
A plurality of word groups that satisfy at least one criterion, each word group comprising at least one word, can be identified in an electronic message. For each word group that satisfies the at least one criterion, at least a first image corresponding to a meaning of the word group can be automatically selected from a plurality of images. Each image selected for each respective word group that satisfies the at least one criterion can be presented with the electronic message.
US10050914B2
Disclosed are a method and device for parsing MMS information. The method includes: determining the storage location information corresponding to a first keyword of the received MMS information; determining keyword information in the storage location corresponding to the storage location information; when the first keyword is identical to a second keyword in the determined keyword information, taking the keyword attribute of the keyword information as the keyword attribute corresponding to the first keyword; and parsing the MMS according to the keyword attribute corresponding to the first keyword. There is no need to conduct a large amount of comparisons when determining the keyword attribute corresponding to the keyword in MMS information according to the correlation between the storage location information and the keyword information, thus the parsing speed and response speed are increased, and the parsing efficiency improved.
US10050891B1
Exemplary embodiments described herein include systems, methods, and nodes for distributing relay wireless devices across an access node. Network identification numbers associated with at least two wireless devices may be determined. At an access node, a traffic class identifier and frequency band may be assigned to the at least two wireless devices, wherein each frequency band available for communication at the access node is assigned at most a maximum number of wireless devices comprising a network identification number that meets the criteria. Data may then be communicated between the access node and the at least two wireless devices according to the assigned traffic class identifiers and frequency bands, wherein the wireless devices comprise relay wireless devices that relay data between the access node and one or more small cells.
US10050890B2
A method for managing computer communication between a plurality of electronic devices and a vehicle in a vehicle network includes establishing connections between each of the plurality of electronic devices and the vehicle, and communicating one or more data types that each electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices is capable of transmitting to the vehicle via each of the connections between each electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices and the vehicle. The method includes determining a current context of the vehicle based on information received from one or more vehicle systems, and assigning a priority to each electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices based on the current context, the one or more data types of each electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices, and a priority rules set.
US10050884B1
Described embodiments improve the performance of a computer network via optimization of connection redirection or redistribution based on link characteristics such as latency. In some implementations, a high priority connection may be initially established via an available link having a lowest latency or highest throughput. If the connection is not particularly latency-sensitive, then once the connection has ramped up to a highest throughput (e.g. largest congestion window size, etc.), the connection may be moved to a higher latency link, freeing the lower latency link for new connections to similarly ramp up throughput.
US10050883B2
Methods, devices, and systems for managing a wireless mesh network are described herein. One method includes monitoring an outgoing data queue length of a node of a wireless network, determining that the outgoing data queue length exceeds a particular threshold, reducing a video quality associated with the outgoing data queue, and sending a notification to an additional node of the wireless network to reduce a video quality associated with an outgoing data queue of the additional node.
US10050881B2
Disclosed is a technology for a sensor network, Machine to Machine (M2M), Machine Type Communication (MTC), and Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure can be used for intelligent services (for example, services related to smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars, connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, security, and safety) based on the technology. A method of transmitting data in a communication system includes: generating a hash value by applying a hash function to original data; generating a message including at least one of the original data and the generated hash value based on whether there is an existing hash value equal to the generated hash value; and transmitting the message.
US10050878B2
A method of communicating a packet between a first node and a second node, the packet comprising a data payload and a portion of information preceding the data payload. The method comprises: (i) first, identifying a quality of a channel between the first node and the second node; (ii) second, in response to the quality of the channel, selecting a manner of communication of the information preceding the data payload; (iii) third, encoding the selected manner of communication in the portion of information preceding data payload; and (iv) fourth, transmitting the packet from the first node to the second node.
US10050876B2
In one embodiment, a method includes importing a route target for a remote Virtual Routing and Forwarding instance (VRF) at a leaf node in an overlay network, the leaf node comprising at least one local VRF configured thereon, processing routes received for the route target at the leaf node, and installing the routes for the remote VRF at the local VRF at the leaf node to enable inter-VRF communication via the leaf node. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.
US10050875B2
A network service processing method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: partitioning a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) or a network processor (NP) into multiple mutually isolated service processing resources; receiving a first configuration instruction, where the first configuration instruction includes a first service configuration execution file; performing service configuration on a service processing resource according to the first service configuration execution file, so that the service processing resource performs service processing on a to-be-processed service packet; receiving a forwarding rule used when service forwarding is to be performed on the to-be-processed service packet; and receiving the to-be-processed service packet sent by a user terminal, and distributing the to-be-processed service packet to the service processing resource by using the forwarding rule, so that the service processing resource performs service processing on the to-be-processed service packet.
US10050874B2
Certain embodiments described herein are generally directed to media access control (MAC) address learning for packets sent between end points (EPs) in a network (e.g., overlay network). For example, in some embodiments, VTEPs may be used to provide packet forwarding services, load balancing services, gateway services, etc., to EPs in the network. In certain embodiments, the VTEPs may be assigned unique labels, which are used by the VTEPs to map MAC addresses of packets to destination addresses for the packets.
US10050870B2
A service classifier network device receives a subflow and identifies that the subflow is one of at least two subflows in a multipath data flow. Related data packets are sent from a source node to a destination node in the multipath data flow. The service classifier generates a multipath flow identifier and encapsulates the subflow with a header to produce an encapsulated first subflow. The header identifies a service function path and includes metadata with the multipath flow identifier.
US10050859B2
A network packet processing apparatus using a service function chaining and a method of controlling the same are provided. The network packet processing apparatus includes a plurality of service function modules configuring the service function chaining, each of the plurality of service function modules being one of a stateful service function module and a stateless service function module. Also the network packet processing apparatus includes an input logger and an output logger used to perform fault-recovery, and a service function forwarder module forwarding a packet to the plurality of service function modules, the input logger, and the output logger through a path specified in the packet.
US10050856B2
Provided is a communication apparatus including: data transmission-reception unit that is communicably connected to at least one terminal apparatus via a communication line; and bandwidth estimation unit. The bandwidth estimation unit is configured to generate particular information to be used to estimate an available bandwidth on the communication line, determine whether to transmit in series or in parallel the particular information for a particular one of the terminal apparatuses and the particular information for another one of the terminal apparatuses, and estimate the available bandwidth of the communication line between the communication apparatus and terminal apparatuses, by transmitting, based at least part on the determination, the particular information for the particular terminal apparatus and the particular information for the another terminal apparatus, with uses of the data transmission-reception unit.
US10050847B2
Network tool optimizer devices and related methods are disclosed that provide selective scanning of network packet traffic using cloud-based virtual machine tool platforms. Rather than require local network analysis tool resources, the disclosed embodiments identify subsets of packet traffic of interest, and these subsets are forwarded to a cloud-based server system where cloud-based virtual machine tool platforms are used to process the subsets of traffic of interest. Results from this processing are then provided back to adjust the operation of the network tool optimizers. Some further embodiments use local capture buffers and remote cloud replay buffers to stored subsets of traffic locally for later communication to cloud server systems where cloud-based tools analyze replays of the captured network traffic. Some further embodiments also use results from cloud-based tools to initiate local virtual machine tool platforms that are used to further analyze traffic of interest.
US10050844B2
Techniques for dynamic network optimization using geolocation and network modeling are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a system for network optimization. The system may comprise a data collection system configured to collect geolocated subscriber records from a plurality of mobile devices. The system may also comprise a SON optimization system communicatively coupled to the data collection system via a network. The SON optimization system may comprise at least one pre-processor configured to receive and process geolocated subscriber records from the data collection system. The SON optimization system may further comprise a network simulator configured to perform network simulation analysis based on the processed geolocated subscriber records, and provide a new network configuration based on the network simulation analysis, wherein the new network configuration is estimated to improve network performance.
US10050841B2
Applying an MSTP configuration can include instructing a plurality of network devices to disable non-MSTP links in response to a verification of receipt of the MSTP configuration and instructing the plurality of network devices to apply the MSTP configuration in response to a verification that each of the plurality of network devices disabled the non-MSTP links.
US10050836B2
Methods and apparatuses for SON and/or non-SON function coordination control have been provided. Specifically, embodiments have provided solutions for a second-party (e.g., operator), via an OAM interface like Itf-N or human interface, to control and manage a first-party (e.g., vendor) SCF, to ensure that the SCF makes coordination decisions on interacting SON functions according to the operator's requirements, even if the internal logic of the SCF is still not visible to the operator.
US10050834B1
A facility for distributing a template recording a past state of a virtual computing environment is described. The facility accesses a list of physical data centers at which the template is to be available for immediate use to instantiate a new virtual computing environments. The facility causes the template to be stored at each physical data center on the list.
US10050826B2
The invention comprises a method for controlling an outage of a network element (300) in a cellular network (40) using an outage database (130), the outage database containing for each of a plurality of the network elements (300) controlled by the cellular network at least the following network element dependent information: first operating parameters describing an error free operation of the corresponding network element, outage detection rules indicating when a outage for the corresponding network element is present, outage compensation rules indicating how the outage of the corresponding network element should be compensated, the outage compensation rules including compensation parameters to be used by compensating network elements (300b-300g) in order to compensate the outage of one of the network elements (300a). The method comprises the steps of: continuously receiving current operating parameters for a plurality of network elements (300), updating the first operating parameters and the outage detection rules for the plurality of network elements taking into account the current operating parameters, detecting an outage for one of the network elements by comparing the received current operating parameters to the outage detection rules for said one network element, wherein if an outage is detected for said one network element, determining and applying the outage compensation rules for said one network element (300a), wherein applying the compensation rules includes optimizing the compensation parameters in order to calculate optimized operating parameters for the compensating network elements (300b-300g) used to compensate for the outage of said one network element, evaluating the application of the compensation rules, and storing the optimized operating parameters in the compensation rules as starting parameters for a future optimization of the compensation parameters in case of an outage of said one network element in dependence on the evaluation.
US10050806B2
A method implemented in a parent controller including receiving a request to compute a shortest end-to-end (E2E) path from source to destination through network domains managed by child controllers, receiving path segments and costs computed by the child controllers, wherein the path segments identify in-edge nodes, out-edge nodes, and inter-domain links, generating a candidate list using the path segments and costs received from the child controllers, constructing a shortest path tree (SPT) from the source to the destination through the network domains by repeatedly removing one of the out-edge nodes corresponding to the path segment in the candidate list having a lowest cost and adding the one of the out-edge nodes to the SPT until the destination is reached, determining the shortest E2E path based on the SPT, and transmitting tunnel creation messages to the child controllers to create a tunnel along the shortest E2E path.
US10050803B2
A method for providing USB power including the steps of running a POE cable from a power source to an adapter, the adapter having a POE connector for receiving electrical power from the power lines of the POE cable, a transformer circuit and a USB connector where the data lines of the POE cable terminate prior to the data lines reaching the USB connector and the power lines of the POE cable provide power to the USB powered device, adapting the POE power from the POE cable to USB power and making the USB power available to the USB connector.
US10050794B2
The present invention relates to a method (500) performed at an IP network node for IPSec establishment with other IP network nodes in a network. The method comprises collecting (S1) information about the other IP network nodes in the network using a dynamic routing protocol, the information comprising an IP address associated with the respective other IP network node, and establishing (S2) an IPSec relationship with a predetermined set of the other IP network nodes in the network based on the collected information and based on Internet Key Exchange (IKE) using a certification protocol and the identity of the IP network node, wherein the identity of the IP network node is determined by a pre-stored node certificate.
US10050792B1
A request from a computing device for accessing a resource is received by an edge server, where the request includes a cookie containing a first token value and a second token value. The edge server validates the first token value and a second token value using a third token value generated using hashing algorithm with a secret key and one or more other values. The edge server then compares the received token values with the third token value. When the request is validated, the edge server retrieves the request resource.
US10050788B2
The invention creates a method for the contactless readout of an electronic identification document by means of a terminal, wherein in a data reading step encrypted identification data from a data memory are transmitted to the terminal, and in a key reading step the data key with which the identification data can be decrypted is transmitted to the terminal, and in the terminal the identification data are decrypted with the data key. The data reading step is carried out employing a long-range radio connection, and the key reading step is carried out employing a short-range radio connection.
US10050782B2
A decryption condition addition device (300) acquires an original ciphertext cts in which a secret distribution matrix M is set as information specifying a decryption condition and acquires an additional access structure S+ which is a restriction condition to restrict the decryption condition of the original ciphertext cts. The decryption condition addition device (300) adds a row and a column which are indicated in the additional access structure S+ to the secret distribution matrix M set in the original ciphertext cts, and thereby generates an updated ciphertext cts, for which the decryption condition of the original ciphertext cts is restricted.
US10050778B2
Implementations of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption and decryption processes are disclosed. In one embodiment of S-box processing, a block of 16 byte values is converted, each byte value being converted from a polynomial representation in GF(256) to a polynomial representation in GF((22)4). Multiplicative inverse polynomial representations in GF((22)4) are computed for each of the corresponding polynomial representations in GF((22)4). Finally corresponding multiplicative inverse polynomial representations in GF((22)4) are converted and an affine transformation is applied to generate corresponding polynomial representations in GF(256). In an alternative embodiment of S-box processing, powers of the polynomial representations are computed and multiplied together in GF(256) to generate multiplicative inverse polynomial representations in GF(256). In an embodiment of inverse-columns-mixing, the 16 byte values are converted from a polynomial representation in GF(256) to a polynomial representation in GF((24)2). A four-by-four matrix is applied to the transformed polynomial representation in GF((24)2) to implement the inverse-columns-mixing.
US10050771B2
This disclosure provides a clock recovery circuit for a multi-lane communication system. Local clocks are recovered from the input signals using respective local CDR circuits, and associated CDR error signals are aggregated or otherwise combined. A global recovered clock for shared use by the local CDR circuits is generated at a controllable oscillation frequency as a function of a combination of the error signals from the plurality of receivers. A voltage- or current-controlled delay line can also be used to phase adjust the global recovered clock to mitigate band-limited, lane-correlated, high frequency jitter.
US10050765B2
Systems and methods for providing an efficient and configurable port interface in an avionics data transfer system are provided. For instance, in one embodiment a set of virtual ports associated with an avionics data transfer system can be defined. At least as a subset of the virtual ports can be mapped to one or more addresses in a memory space associated with the data transfer system, such that each virtual port has a fixed definition in the memory space. One or more of the virtual ports can then be associated with one or more physical ports associated with an interface between a host computing device and an end system in the data transfer system by specifying for the one or more virtual ports a plurality of port parameters that define the respective one or more physical ports.
US10050761B2
Methods that are performed by a user equipment (UE) and corresponding methods of base stations that allow a UE to determine whether the UE is in a carrier aggregation enabled or disabled state. One exemplary embodiment of a method performed by a UE determines a first artificial value for a first parameter and a second artificial value for a power headroom (PHR) for a secondary component carrier (SCC), the first and second artificial values being substantially low relative to a configuration of the network, generates an artificial report including the first and second artificial values, transmits the artificial report to a primary cell providing a primary component carrier (PCC) and receives an indication that the UE is placed in a carrier aggregation disabled state.
US10050759B2
A mobile station (MS) receives, from a base station (BS), information which is used to assign a PUSCH resource; transmits uplink control information using a single PUCCH resource in case that the PUSCH resource is not assigned and a plurality of PUCCH resources is assigned; transmits the uplink control information using the PUSCH resource assigned on a first uplink component carrier (UCC) in case that the PUSCH resource is assigned on the first UCC, the first UCC is used for transmitting the uplink control information using the single PUCCH resource in case that the PUSCH resource is not assigned and the plurality of PUCCH resources is assigned; and receives the uplink control information using the PUSCH resource assigned on a second UCC in case that the PUSCH resource is not assigned on the first UCC but the PUSCH resource is assigned on the second UCC.
US10050756B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a terminal receives, from a base station, a discovery signal configuration comprising a first CSI-RS configuration, and takes RRM measurements of the discovery signal on based on the discovery signal configuration, wherein if the discovery signal corresponds to a first CSI-RS received on based on the first CSI-RS configuration, and if a first cell ID included in the first CSI-RS configuration corresponds to a cell-specific reference signal, the first CSI-RS and cell-specific reference signal are assumed to be quasi co-located (QCL), and at least one from among the characteristics of the wireless channel, assumed to be QCL between the first CSI-RS for making RRM measurements and the cell-specific reference signal, is different from the characteristics of the wireless channel assumed to be QCL between a second CSI-RS for CSI measurements and the cell-specific reference signal.
US10050750B2
A method of wirelessly communicating a packet can include generating, at a wireless device, a packet including a training field based on a training field tone plan. The method further includes populating training tones in the training field tone plan by duplicating tone positions from a base training field one or more times, and adding one or more additional sub-band direct current (DC) tones or edge tones. The method further includes transmitting the packet.
US10050745B2
A wireless communications system includes a terminal configured to adjust a transmission count of consecutive transmissions of a same data to a base station, based on a radio resource count of radio resources assigned to the terminal, among plural radio resources of a control channel received from the base station; and the base station configured to identify the transmission count based on the radio resource count of the radio resources assigned to the terminal among the plural radio resources of the transmitted control channel, and receive the same data consecutively transmitted by the terminal, based on the identified transmission count.
US10050738B1
Methods and systems for implementing a low noise CDC ROADM include incorporating individual stages of an optical PSA before and after WSSs included in the CDC ROADM. The WSSs may be used to route the pump and idler signals, as well as to perform phase tuning for optimal phase-sensitive amplification.
US10050736B2
An integrated apparatus with optical/electrical interfaces and protocol converter on a single silicon substrate. The apparatus includes an optical module comprising one or more modulators respectively coupled with one or more laser devices for producing a first optical signal to an optical interface and one or more photodetectors for detecting a second optical signal from the optical interface to generate a current signal. Additionally, the apparatus includes a transmit lane module coupled between the optical module and an electrical interface to receive a first electric signal from the electrical interface and provide a framing protocol for driving the one or more modulators. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a receive lane module coupled between the optical module and the electrical interface to process the current signal to send a second electric signal to the electrical interface.
US10050733B2
An interference canceller comprises a composite interference vector (CIV) generator configured to produce a CIV by combining soft and/or hard estimates of interference, an interference-cancelling operator configured for generating a soft projection operator, and a soft-projection canceller configured for performing a soft projection of the received baseband signal to output an interference-cancelled signal. Weights used in the soft-projection operator are selected to maximize a post-processing SINR.
US10050732B2
A method and a device are provided for processing data in an optical network. The method includes the steps of events of a login scan are recorded by a first optical network element; the events are conveyed to a second optical network element; and the events are processed by the second optical network element. A communication system is described that includes the device.
US10050731B1
The disclosure provides an apparatus and method for the detection of multi-homed hosts on a computer network utilizing a network comprising a plurality of host computers and a central host. Each host computer has one or more network interfaces and transmits TCP packets over the network to the other hosts and the central host. The central host monitors exchanged traffic and sorts received timestamped TCP packets by source address, and utilizes the sorted packets to determine a clock skew associated with each source address. Generally the host computer conducts this process over multiple iterations and provides a representative clock skew, with the representative clock skew typically bounded by a confidence interval determined through probability distribution fitting. The apparatus and method compares the representative clock skews to determine similarity and identify potentially multi-homed hosts.
US10050725B2
A Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Management Center (DMC) coupled to a DSL network includes a data collection module that receives information regarding the DSL network from a plurality of sources. An analysis module is coupled to the data collection module to analyze the received information and issue a command for one or more of a plurality of DSL performance enhancement devices to optimize their operation. A command signal generation module is coupled to the analysis module to receive the issued command from the analysis module and generate a corresponding command signal for transmission to one or more of the DSL performance enhancement devices.
US10050708B2
A carrier office includes an optical line terminal, a first transmit-erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA), and a second transmit-EDFA. The OLT is configured to transmit first and second optical signals. The first transmit-EDFA is optically coupled to the OLT and a first feeder fiber, and the first feeder fiber is optically coupled to a first remote node (RN). The first transmit-EDFA is operable between a respective enabled state and a respective disabled state. The second transmit-EDFA is optically coupled to the OLT and a second feeder fiber, and the second feeder fiber is optically coupled to a second RN. The second transmit-EDFA is operable between a respective enabled state and a respective disabled state.
US10050700B2
Systems and methods for managing communication strategies between implanted medical devices. Methods include temporal optimization relative to one or more identified conditions in the body. A selected characteristic, such as a signal representative or linked to a biological function, is assessed to determine its likely impact on communication capabilities, and one or more communication strategies may be developed to optimize intra-body communication.
US10050697B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a host node device having a terminal interface that receives downstream channel signals from a communication network and sends upstream channel signals to the communication network. An access point repeater launches the downstream channel signals as guided electromagnetic waves on a guided wave communication system and to extract a first subset of the upstream channel signals from the guided wave communication system. A radio wirelessly transmits the downstream channel signals to at least one client node device and to wirelessly receive a second subset of the upstream channel signals from the at least one client node device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10050696B2
A directional repeater system is presented with a simple architecture composed of wideband receive and transmit antennas, a high gain low-power amplifier and a bandpass filter suitable for use in the 2450 MHz ISM band. Close to 70 dB of isolation between transmit and receive antennas over the entire band is achieved for a compact structure. The isolation between the transmit and receive antennas is achieved using polarization mismatch between orthogonal double-stack patch antennas and a two-element receive antenna whose elements are appropriately located with respect to the edge of the substrate ground plane and the transmit antenna to cancel the signal leakage from the transmit antenna to the individual receive antennas. A major advantage of this invention is that the entire bandwidth can be used going through a chain of repeaters whereas for conventional repeaters the available bandwidth is halved for every repeater in the chain.
US10050695B1
The disclosure provides a method for beamforming and a control apparatus using the same. An embodiment of the method includes: adjusting a first amplitude magnification of a first baseband signal, and adjusting a second amplitude magnification of the first baseband signal; generating a first signal according to the first baseband signal and the first amplitude magnification, and generating a second signal according to the first baseband signal and the second amplitude magnification; inserting a phase difference between the first signal and the second signal; and converting the first signal and the second signal having the phase difference therebetween into a beamformed signal to control an antenna.
US10050690B1
A multi-beam module and method of performing an adaptive beam sweep in a multi-beam module of a vehicle includes obtaining information about the vehicle. The information relates to a motion state of the vehicle. The method also includes determining whether a sector sweep by the multi-beam module should be a limited sector sweep that covers less than a 360 degree span collectively based on applying a rule to the information about the vehicle, and performing the limited sector sweep with beams that cover less than the 360 degree span collectively based on determining that the sector sweep should be the limited sector sweep.
US10050685B2
Provided is a precoding method for generating, from a plurality of baseband signals, a plurality of precoded signals to be transmitted over the same frequency bandwidth at the same time, including the steps of selecting a matrix F[i] from among N matrices, which define precoding performed on the plurality of baseband signals, while switching between the N matrices, i being an integer from 0 to N−1, and N being an integer at least two, generating a first precoded signal z1 and a second precoded signal z2, generating a first encoded block and a second encoded block using a predetermined error correction block encoding method, generating a baseband signal with M symbols from the first encoded block and a baseband signal with M symbols the second encoded block, and precoding a combination of the generated baseband signals to generate a precoded signal having M slots.
US10050683B2
A method of modulating and demodulating superposed signals for MUST scheme is proposed. A transmitter takes bit sequences intended for multiple receivers under MUST scheme to go through a “bit sequence to constellation points” mapper before entering the modulators to satisfy the Gray coding rule and to achieve high demodulation performance for the receivers. In a first method, each bit sequence is assigned for each constellation point on the constellation map to satisfy one or more conditions under different power split factors. In a second method, the constellation map is divided into sub-regions according to the clustering of the constellation points for bit sequence assignment. A near-UE may use an ML receiver for demodulation and decoding the superposed signal. A far-UE may use an ML receiver or an MMSE receiver for demodulation and decoding the superposed signal.
US10050682B2
A method and an apparatus are provided for transmitting channel state information of a terminal is provided. A first Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) and a second CSI-RS are received. Channel State Information (CSI) is generated based on both the first CSI-RS and the second CSI-RS. The CSI is transmitted.
US10050679B2
A multi-mode transceiver arrangement configured to provide for transmission and reception of signalling of a plurality of wireless sensor network protocols, the transceiver comprising; a single transmission path and a plurality of parallel receive paths; said transmission path including a modulator element configured to modulate, at any one time, a signal for transmission in accordance with a particular one of the plurality of wireless standards and a frequency reference element configured to provide a reference frequency to generate signalling for the antenna at a predetermined frequency; said receive paths each configured to receive signalling over a different, predetermined frequency band and including a demodulator to provide a demodulated signal for processing by a controller configured to provide signals to the transmission path and receive signals from the demodulators for symbol recognition thereby enabling the multi-mode transceiver to communicate with a plurality of wireless sensor networks simultaneously.
US10050665B2
According to one embodiment, a wireless device includes a receiver configured to receive a first beacon signal via a first channel; and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to: analyze the first beacon signal to obtain channel information for specifying a second channel, change an operation channel of the receiver from the first channel to the second channel, and change, in a case of not receiving a second beacon signal via the second channel during a predetermined period of time, the operation channel of the receiver from the second channel to the first channel. The receiver is further configured to receive a third beacon signal via the first channel after the operation channel is changed from the second channel to the first channel.
US10050664B1
A system for enhanced linearity mixing includes an input-source signal coupler; a local oscillator (LO) signal coupler; a primary mixer that combines, via heterodyning, the primary-mixer-input signal and the primary-mixer-LO signal to generate a primary-mixer-output signal; a distortion-source mixer that combines, via heterodyning, the distortion-mixer-input signal and the distortion-mixer-LO signal to generate a distortion-mixer-output signal; and an output signal coupler that combines the primary-mixer-output signal and the distortion-mixer-output signal to generate an output signal with reduced non-linearity.
US10050660B2
A method and a device for selecting a radio in an electronic device with a hybrid radio function. The method includes detecting an entrance to a hybrid radio function; determining a default radio mode to be executed as a default in response to a preconfigured mode determination condition; and receiving and reproducing a radio broadcast in a radio mode corresponding to the determined default radio mode. The present disclosure can be applied to various other embodiments based on the aforementioned embodiment.
US10050656B1
A small form-factor pluggable (SFP) transceiver provided for being inserted into an electrical connection slot includes a housing, two electrical signal connectors, a circuit board, and two flexible assemblies. The housing defines an accommodating space. Each electrical signal connector has an inserting end arranged outside a front end of the housing and an opposite connecting end arranged in the accommodating space. The circuit board is fixed to the housing and is arranged in the accommodating space. Each flexible assembly has an end detachably connected to the circuit board and an opposite end detachably connected to the respective electrical signal connector. The SFP transceiver is configured to receive a signal, and the signal travels from the each electrical signal connector to the circuit board through the corresponding flexible assembly. Each flexible assembly, the corresponding electrical signal connector, and the circuit board are configured to be independently tested.
US10050654B2
A method for suppressing a parasite signal received with a useful signal by a network of elementary antennas of a payload of a satellite. The suppression method includes an analogue formation step for forming analog beams and a digital formation step for forming a digital beam. The analog formation step includes forming of an useful analog beam in which the parasite signal is attenuated with respect to the useful signal and of an auxiliary analog beam in which the useful signal is attenuated with respect to the parasite signal. The digital formation step includes forming of a digital beam in which the parasite signal has been suppressed, by combining the signals obtained by digitizing the auxiliary beam and the useful beam.
US10050647B2
A power amplification module includes a first amplification transistor that receives a first signal outputs an amplified second signal from the collector thereof; and a bias circuit that supplies a bias current to the base of the first amplification transistor. The first bias circuit includes a first transistor that is diode connected and is supplied with a bias control current; a second transistor that is diode connected, the collector thereof being connected to the emitter of the first transistor; a third transistor, the base thereof being connected to the base of the first transistor, and the bias current being output from the emitter thereof; a fourth transistor, the collector thereof being connected to the emitter of the third transistor and the base thereof being connected to the base of the second transistor; and a first capacitor between the base and the emitter of the third transistor.
US10050637B2
A system to convert between analog and digital signals, in some embodiments, comprises: a differentiator to produce a differentiated signal based on an input signal and a feedback signal; an integrator, coupled to the differentiator, to integrate the differentiated signal; a quantizer, coupled to the integrator, to quantize the integrated signal; and a low-pass feedback filter, coupled between an output of the quantizer and an input of the differentiator, to generate said feedback signal using the quantized signal, wherein the low-pass feedback filter pushes at least some noise of the quantized signal downward in the frequency spectrum.
US10050625B2
Techniques and devices for level-shifting a signal are described. A level-shifting circuit may include an input terminal and components. The input terminal may be configured to receive a logical signal compatible with a first power domain. The components may be configured to convert the logical signal to a second power domain and to provide the converted logical signal at an output terminal. The components may include a resistive device coupled between the output terminal and the input terminal, and/or a capacitive device coupled between the resistive device and the input terminal.
US10050615B2
An over-voltage protection circuit for a transistor switch has an error detecting circuit, a dummy load circuit and a driving circuit. The error detecting circuit has a first input terminal; and a second input terminal configured to receive a reference signal. The dummy load circuit is configured to establish a conductive path between the output terminal of the transistor switch and ground. The driving circuit is configured to increase the on-resistance of the transistor switch if the voltage difference between the second terminal of the error detecting circuit and the first terminal of the error detecting circuit is smaller than a calculated value.
US10050614B2
Methods and systems for reliable bootstrapping switches may comprise sampling a received signal with a bootstrapping switch, where the bootstrapping switch comprises a switching metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor having a pull-down path coupled to a gate terminal of the switching MOS transistor, wherein: source terminals of both a diode-connected transistor and a second MOS transistor are coupled to the gate terminal of the switching MOS transistor; drain terminals of both the diode-connected transistor and the second MOS transistor are coupled to a source terminal of a third MOS transistor, the third MOS transistor coupled in series with a fourth MOS transistor; and a drain terminal of the fourth MOS transistor is coupled to ground. The third and fourth MOS transistors may be in series with the second MOS transistor. A gate terminal of the fourth transistor may be switched from ground to a supply voltage to activate the pull-down path.
US10050611B2
An oscillation circuit includes: an oscillator configured to generate N phase clocks (where N is an integer of 2 or more) including a first phase clock to Nth phase clock whose phases are shifted by 360°/N at regular intervals; a pulse generating part configured to receive a plurality of the N phase clocks and generate a plurality of intermediate pulses each having a duty ratio of 25%; and a clock synthesizing part configured to synthesize the plurality of intermediate pulses to generate a single phase output clock or multi-phase output clocks, the single phase output clock and the multi-phase output clocks having a frequency that is twice an oscillation frequency of the oscillator.
US10050602B2
A tunable Q resonator using a capacitive-piezoelectric transducer provides a flexible top electrode above an AlN resonator. The top electrode can be pulled electrostatically towards the resonator and substrate, forming a frictional contact with either the resonator or the combined resonator-electrode structure to the substrate, allowing for electrical tuning the Q of the resonator. With a sufficient electrostatic bias voltage Vb, the resonator may be completely turned OFF, allowing for an integrated switchable AlN resonator. Such switchable resonator may be integrated into a radio frequency (RF) front end as a digitally selectable band pass filter element, obviating the need for ancillary micromechanical switches in the signal path. The device has been demonstrated with a Q approaching 9,000, together with ON/OFF switchability and electromechanical coupling up to 0.63%. Flexible positioning of the top electrode allows for actively controlling the series resonant frequency of the resonator through changes in capacitive coupling.
US10050598B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an adaptive impedance matching network having an RF matching network coupled to at least one RF input port and at least one RF output port and comprising one or more controllable variable reactive elements. The RF matching network can be adapted to reduce a level of reflected power transferred from said at least one input port by varying signals applied to said controllable variable reactive elements. The one or more controllable variable reactive elements can be coupled to a circuit adapted to map one or more control signals that are output from a controller to a signal range that is compatible with said one or more controllable variable reactive elements. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US10050597B2
A time delay filter comprising a substrate; four coupled LC resonators, each having a coupling point; a first capacitor that electrically couples the first coupling point to the second coupling point; a second capacitor that electrically couples the second coupling point to the third coupling point; and a third capacitor that electrically couples the third coupling point to the fourth coupling point; the filter group delaying a signal output at the fourth coupling point relative to a signal input at the first coupling point.
US10050591B2
An amplifier is configured to amplify an RF signal as between an input terminal and an output terminal across a wideband frequency range. A first LC network is connected to the input terminal and has first and second reactive components. A first switching device is connected between the first and second reactive components and couples both the first and second reactive components to the input terminal in an ON state, and disconnects the second reactive component from the input terminal in an OFF state. A second LC network is connected to the output terminal and has third and fourth reactive components. A second switching device is connected between the third and fourth reactive components and couples both the third and fourth reactive components to the output terminal in an ON state and disconnects the fourth reactive component from the output terminal in an OFF state.
US10050580B2
A supporting structure for waterborne photovoltaic power generation is provided. The supporting structure includes at least one floating bracket. The floating bracket includes a floating platform and a plurality of supporting members provided on an upper surface of the floating platform, a ventilation space is provided between at least two adjacent supporting members, whereby the plurality of supporting members is configured to fix a photovoltaic cell panel thereon with a lower surface of the photovoltaic cell panel being separated from the upper surface of the floating platform.
US10050574B2
A method and apparatus for controlling regeneration for a motor. An instantaneous voltage provided by a power supply to the motor is identified using a voltage signal received from a voltage sensor. A new average voltage is computed for the motor using the instantaneous voltage, a previously computed average voltage, and a weight factor for the instantaneous voltage. A difference between the new average voltage and the instantaneous voltage is compared to a selected threshold to determine whether a regeneration condition exists. Operation of the motor is controlled such that a duty cycle of the motor does not decrease in response to a determination that the regeneration condition exists.
US10050570B2
A motor control circuit is provided, including a first circuit, a second circuit, and a microcontroller. The first circuit is configured to conduct an analog tachometer output signal. The second circuit is configured to conduct an analog control input signal. The microcontroller is coupled to the first circuit and the second circuit, and is configured to transmit and receive serial data over a serial channel including the first circuit and the second circuit.
US10050569B2
An inverter control device that controls a multiple of inverters configured to use the same positive and negative direct current voltage bus lines connected to a power supply and driving a corresponding multiple of motors, the inverter control device including smoothing control means that controls an inverter outflow current so that voltage of the power supply is smoothed by a smoothing capacitor connected to the positive and negative direct current voltage bus lines, and two-phase modulation operation means that fixes a predetermined one phase of a three-phase modulated wave at either a maximum voltage or minimum voltage the inverter can output determined by a voltage between the positive and negative direct current voltage bus lines, and calculates a modulated wave that causes the other two phases to switch.
US10050551B1
An arrangement, method and computer program product are provided for limiting circulating currents in a converter converting between AC and DC. The converter has a number of AC and DC terminals and includes a number of converter arms, where a first and a second converter arm are connected in parallel between a first DC terminal and a first AC terminal. Each converter arm includes a string of series-connected converter cells. The arrangement includes a control unit that obtains a current of the first converter arm and a current of the second converter arm, forms an average of the two converter arm currents, forms a first and a second voltage control signal based on the average and uses the first and second voltage control signal in the control of the voltage provided by the first and second converter arm.
US10050548B2
A method and apparatus for transferring power to a load. An AC-to-DC converter output for an AC-to-DC converter is connected to a filter circuit input in a DC-to-DC converter via a connector such that a no-break power transfer occurs when transferring between providing power for the load by the AC-to-DC converter and providing power for the load by the DC-to-DC converter. The topology of the AC-to-DC converter needs only 21 windings for achieving a 24-pulse transformer rectifier unit.
US10050541B2
A synchronous rectifier controller includes an exception timer, one or more blanking timers, and control logic. The control logic may detect a beginning of a conduction phase using a current sense signal. In response to detecting the beginning of the conduction phase, the control logic commences the exception timer, commences a first blanking interval, and asserts the drive signal. In response to an OFF condition being detected, the first blanking interval being elapsed, and the exception timer being running, the control logic de-asserts the drive signal and commences a second blanking interval. In response to an ON condition being detected, the second blanking interval being elapsed, and the exception timer being running, the control logic commences a third blanking interval and asserts the drive signal. The control logic may assert and de-assert the drive signal multiple times while the exception timer is running.
US10050530B2
A semi-resonant voltage converter has a synchronous rectification (SR) switch through which a half-cycle sinusoidal-like current is conducted when turned on. An embodiment of a method of controlling operation of the semi-resonant voltage converter includes switching the SR switch and other switches of the semi-resonant voltage converter via a linear controller so as to supply output power to a load, the semi-resonant voltage converter having a DC gain that increases when load current increases, and scaling downward an output of the linear controller used to control the switching of the SR switch responsive to the load current exceeding a first threshold, so as to at least partly counteract an increase in the DC gain of the semi-resonant voltage converter. Other control adaptation methods are also described.
US10050524B1
A voltage multiplier circuit operates in response to a received clock signal to perform a voltage multiplication operation on an input voltage to generate an output voltage. The voltage multiplier circuit includes a pair of intermediate nodes that are capacitively coupled to receive, respectively, opposite phases of a clock signal. A first CMOS driver circuit is coupled to one of the intermediate nodes and has an output configured to generate one phase of a level shifted output clock signal. A second CMOS driver circuit is coupled to another one of the intermediate nodes and has an output configured to generate another phase of the level shifted output clock signal.
US10050520B2
The present disclosure illustrates a charge pump circuit. The charge pump circuit includes an input voltage module and a switching transistor module. The input voltage module is configured for providing an input voltage. The switching transistor module is configured for receiving a supply voltage and the input voltage. There is a voltage difference between the supply voltage and the input voltage. During a first charging period, the switching transistor module charges a first capacitor, and a voltage across the first capacitor is the voltage difference. During a second charging period, the switching transistor module charges a second capacitor, and a voltage across the second capacitor is a sum of the supply voltage and the voltage difference. A frequency which the switching transistor module charges the second capacitor is higher than a frequency which the second capacitor provides voltage to a bridge circuit.
US10050519B2
An improved power distribution architecture includes a voltage regulator configured to operate with its output voltage approximately equal to its input voltage for most of the time. The regulator set point can be set to follow the input voltage within a limited range and set to a minimum or maximum set point outside the range. An improved ZVSBB controller adaptively extends the I-O phase of the converter while the input to output voltage ratio is close to one and responds to changes in input-output voltage differential within a short response time. The controller may respond asymmetrically to voltage changes with a steep response to voltage differentials in the boost range and a shallow response to voltage differentials in the buck range. An improved ZVSBB converter may achieve a peak converter efficiency greater than 99% owing to substantial reductions in switching and inductor losses within a narrow input range.
US10050516B2
An ACF power converter uses a soft start operation to reduce overheating and stress on components. The power converter includes a first transistor and second transistor. A high side driver controls the first transistor, and low side driver controls the second transistor. A first operating potential is provided to the low side driver during a first period of time. The second transistor switches based on an oscillator signal having a first rate of frequency change to generate a second operating potential for the high side driver, while attempting to hold the first transistor in the non-conductive state during a second time period. The first and second transistors switch based on the oscillator signal having a second rate of frequency change during a third time period. The power converter is held in ACF mode and inhibited from changing state for a period of time post soft start.
US10050504B2
A motor structure for varying a counter electromotive force is provided. The motor structure includes a rotor that is fixed annularly and concentrically to a radially outside from an exterior circumferential surface of a shaft of an electric motor and has a permanent magnet, and a stator that has coils positioned on the interior side of a motor housing and on the concentrically exterior side with the permanent magnet of the rotor. Further, the coils are positioned spaced apart from each other at predetermined intervals. A drive unit moves the stator in the axial direction of the shaft to vary the interlinkage flux, by varying an area that the magnetic flux of the permanent magnet of the rotor passes through the coils of the stator.
US10050498B2
An apparatus for manufacturing stators of dynamoelectric machines, the stators being formed as an assembly of pole segments; the apparatus comprising a seat where the assembly of pole segments are seated. An engagement assembly engages first ends of the pole segments for translation of the pole segments from the seat to a transfer device. A first holding assembly comprises a first plurality of holding members for clamping the pole segments to hold the pole segments as an assembly of pole segments. The first holding assembly being arranged on the transfer device moveable to transfer the assembly of pole segments from a first position to a second position. A containing assembly is located at the second position and provided with a second plurality of holding members for holding the assembly of pole segments. The second plurality of holding members are positioned on the containing assembly to surround the assembly of pole segments that are located at the containing assembly.
US10050496B2
An induced draft fan, including: a housing, a wind wheel, an AC motor, and a controller. The controller includes: an AC-DC conversion circuit, a microprocessor, a Hall sensor, a drive circuit, and a relay. The input end of the AC-DC conversion circuit is connected to an external AC input, and the output end of the AC-DC conversion circuit supplies a DC current to each circuit part. The input end of the relay is connected to the external AC input, and the output end of the relay supplies power for corresponding parts. A magnetic ring is disposed on a rotating shaft of the AC motor. The Hall sensor is disposed close to the magnetic ring for detecting a signal of a rotational speed of the AC motor and inputting the signal of the rotational speed into the microprocessor. The microprocessor controls energization or deenergization of the relay.
US10050489B2
A brush-holder for a motor vehicle starter comprising at least one first electrically conductive cage receiving a first brush having a first polarity, at least one second cage receiving a second brush having a second polarity different to the first polarity, at least one support plate on which the first cage and the second cage are attached, the support plate being electrically connected to the second polarity, and a deformable heat-sensitive member that is deformable from a pre-defined temperature, wherein the deformable member is arranged so as to electrically insulate the first cage relative to the support plate and wherein it further comprises a means for moving the first cage or the support plate in such a way as to establish contact between the first cage and the support plate following a deformation of the deformable member.
US10050488B2
The invention relates to a slot sealing material (7) for an electric machine, which for accommodating an electric conductor arrangement (3) comprises at least one slot (2) having a slot opening (5). Said slot sealing material contains a magnetic filler, especially a soft-magnetic filler, and a reaction resin mixture comprising at least one resin component and a curing agent component. To improve the temperature resistance and mechanical strength of the slot sealing material, a dianhydride is used as curing agent component.
US10050471B2
An inductive power transfer circuit or inductive rotary joint has an inductive rotating coupler with a primary side and a primary winding rotatably arranged against a secondary side and a secondary winding. The secondary side is connected via a rectifier to a load. The stray inductance of the coupler together with a resonance capacitor a series resonance circuit having a series resonance frequency. An inverter in a full bridge circuit is provided for converting a DC input voltage into an AC voltage. The inverter is operable in a full bridge mode to deliver a high power level and in a half bridge mode to deliver a low power level. This results in a broad dynamic range, soft power on and improved safety, as switching between the modes may be controlled by a simple hardware.
US10050469B2
An uninterruptible power supply device (U1) includes a converter (40), an inverter (41), a bidirectional chopper (24), and a controller (53). The bidirectional chopper (24) includes first to fourth transistors (Q11-Q14), first to fourth diodes (D11-D14), and first and second, coils (51, 52). In a charging mode, the controller (53) causes the first and fourth transistors (Q11, Q14) to be complementarily turned on and controls the ON period of each of the first and fourth transistors (Q11, Q14) so as to cause respective detected values of first current and second current (11, 12) flowing through the first coil and the second coil (51, 52) to be equal to each other.
US10050467B2
This disclosure generally relates to a system, apparatus, and method for diagnosing a vehicle battery for further charging purposes. A battery diagnostic tool is provided to receive temperature information on the vehicle battery during a vehicle battery charging operation. The temperature information is referenced to generate a temperature gradient that will be further referenced to identify temperature changes to the vehicle battery over a period of time.
US10050462B1
The present disclosure provides a method for wirelessly sharing power among multiple mobile devices connected to a power sharing community network using a mobile device application. This method may provide an easy and effective way to wirelessly share power from a group of mobile devices to one or more mobile devices in need of charge, located within the same area, such as a train station, bus station, food courts, airport terminals, etc. The method may include wireless power transmission through suitable techniques such as pocket-forming.
US10050455B2
A structure with detachable battery for an electronic device includes an electronic device casing, a guiding structure, and a sliding tongue. The electronic device casing has a chamber for receiving a battery. The guiding structure is disposed on an outer sidewall of a battery. The guiding structure includes a guiding groove. The guiding groove and the chamber are open toward each other. An engaging groove is laterally disposed in the guiding groove. The engaging groove is open in a transverse direction of the chamber. A releasing-guiding slope opposite the engaging groove is disposed in the guiding groove to extend from the opening of the guiding groove and tilt toward the engaging groove. The sliding tongue is disposed slidably on an inner sidewall of the chamber such that battery becomes fixed inside the chamber or slidably abuts against the releasing-guiding slope, thereby ejecting the battery out of the chamber.
US10050449B2
A wireless rail system for providing power and control to auxiliary devices on the rail is disclosed. Such a system includes a one or more channels mounted to a structural building component forming a rail. Auxiliary devices on the rail communicate with each other and user devices. Each of the auxiliary devices are addressable either wirelessly or by a parallel bus within the rail. The auxiliary devices are connected and disconnected from the rail by rotating approximately 90 degrees.
US10050448B2
Power rail control systems that include power multiplexing circuits that include cross-current conduction protection are disclosed. Power multiplexing circuit includes supply selection circuits each coupled between a respective supply power rail and an output power rail coupled to a powered circuit. To maintain power to the powered circuit during switching coupling of the output power rail, but while also avoiding current cross-conduction path between supply power rails, diode drop control circuits are provided in supply selection circuits. In diode drop operation mode, the diode drop control circuit associated with a higher voltage supply power rail is configured to regulate voltage supplied by such supply power rail to the output power rail to power the powered circuit. A current cross-conduction path is not created, because diode drop control circuits associated with lower voltage supply power rails are reverse biased to prevent current from flowing through their associated supply selection circuits.
US10050447B2
A multi-farm wind power dispatch management system is provided which includes wind turbine dispatch controllers for controlling wind power dispatch of respective wind farm components and wind farm dispatch management systems for receiving respective wind farm component operating parameters and generating respective farm-level operating parameters. The system also includes group dispatch management systems for receiving the farm-level operating parameters and generating respective group level operating parameters. The system also includes a master dispatch management system for receiving the group-level operating parameters; computing a real time output power generated by the wind farm components; determining a difference between the real time output power and a committed output power; and generating reference commands, based on the difference, for controlling at least one of, the wind farm component operating parameters, the farm-level operating parameters, the group level operating parameters, or combinations thereof to reduce the difference and dispatch the committed output power.
US10050446B2
A device, system, and method for global maximum power point tracking comprises monitoring an output power of a DC power source while executing a maximum power point tracking algorithm and adjusting a maximum power point tracking command signal in response to the output power being less than a reference output power. The command signal is adjusted until the output power exceeds a previous output power by a reference amount. The command signal may be a voltage command signal, a current command signal, an impedance command signal, a duty ratio command signal, or the like.
US10050438B2
An antenna-based modular power system includes a prime power supply configured to generate a first alternating current (AC) power signal having a first AC voltage level. At least one transformer is configured to convert the first AC signal into a second AC signal having a second AC voltage level less than the first AC voltage level. At least one Transmit or Receive Integrated Microwave Module (T/RIMM) dual power converter antenna array is in signal communication with the at least one transformer. The at least one T/RIMM dual power converter antenna array includes at least one load, and an AC/DC converter is embedded therein to convert the second AC signal into a DC power drive signal to energize the at least one load.
US10050435B2
A driver circuit comprises a mains input and a switch mode power converter for delivering an output derived from the mains input by switching using a pulse width modulation signal. The switch mode power converter comprises a pulse width controller for controlling the pulse width of the pulse width modulation signal. A monitor is used for monitoring the pulse width of the pulse width modulation signal and for detecting a surge event from the pulse width, wherein the monitor is for detecting the surge event from changes in the pulse width and/or duty cycle over time, and comprises a monitor circuit for detecting a surge event based on the pulse width and/or duty cycle reducing to correspond to a first pulse from a second pulse, remaining at the first pulse for a time period falling within a first threshold range and then returning to the second pulse, wherein the width of the first pulse is narrower than the second pulse.
US10050426B2
A cable routing structure includes a plurality of cables that are superposed on one another and that are movable relatively to one another in length directions thereof, and a line length difference housing case that contains parts of the plurality of cables and is movable in a reciprocating direction. The line length difference housing case absorbs differences in line length among the plurality of cables generated in accordance with a moving position of the line length difference housing case.
US10050420B1
An apparatus is configured for use with a switchgear assembly having a frame that defines at least one switchgear cell, stationary disconnects oriented vertically on the frame, and horizontal draw-out disconnects remote from the frame. In a given example, the apparatus includes an adapter assembly including vertical disconnects, horizontal disconnects, and bus work connecting the vertical disconnects with the horizontal disconnects. The adapter assembly is configured to take an installed position in the switchgear cell, with the vertical disconnects in the adapter assembly projecting upward into engagement with the stationary disconnects on the frame. The adapter assembly is further configured for the horizontal disconnects in the adapter assembly to engage and disengage from the horizontal draw-out disconnects upon movement of the horizontal draw-out disconnects horizontally into and out of engagement with the adapter assembly when the adapter assembly is in the installed position.
US10050413B2
A semiconductor laser apparatus is provided and has a substrate, a first type cladding layer, a first type waveguide layer, an active layer, a second type waveguide layer, a second type cladding layer, and a capping layer disposed in sequence. The active layer has a light producing portion and a light emitting portion. A laser produced by the light producing portion, emits along a direction from the light producing portion toward the light emitting portion. The light emitting portion includes a first inactive region, a light emitting region, and a second inactive region. A refractive index of the light emitting region is lower than a refractive index of the first inactive region, the refractive index of the light emitting region is lower than a refractive index of the second inactive region, and width of a first part of the light emitting region continuously increases along the direction.
US10050406B2
The present invention relates to an external cavity tunable laser and a cavity mode locking method thereof. In an embodiment, an external cavity tunable laser comprises a semiconductor amplifier having a partial reflective film provided on one end and an anti-reflective film provided on the other end, a cavity mirror provided at the anti-reflective end to define an external cavity therebetween, a large-range phasing assembly and a quick phasing assembly provided to adjust the optical length of the external cavity independently, an optical power detector provided to detect the optical power of the light output from the semiconductor amplifier, and a control unit in communication with the optical power detector, the large-range phasing assembly, and the quick phasing assembly.
