US10061887B2
Described herein are methods for identifying a modulator of a biological system. Some methods include establishing a model for the biological system comprising cells, obtaining a first data set representing global proteomic in the cells, and obtaining a second data set representing one or more functional activities or cellular responses of the cells including global enzymatic activity and/or an effect of the global enzyme activity on the enzyme metabolites or substrates in the cells. The method also includes generating a consensus causal relationship network among the global proteomic changes and the one or more functional activities or cellular responses based solely on the first and second data sets using a programmed computing device, and identifying a causal relationship unique in the biological system from the consensus causal relationship network, wherein at least one enzyme associated with the unique causal relationship is identified as a modulator of the biological system.
US10061884B2
A dummy pattern filling method, including: Step I, determining the rule of filling dummy patterns, in accordance with required DR values and isolation rules of patterns; Step II, finding out blank Fields within said layout that need to be filled with dummy patterns; Step III, by following said rule of filling dummy patterns, filling dummy patterns within blank Fields on layouts. Implementing a Smart Dummy Pattern Filling, which enables the Data Ratio (DR) of dummy patterns to come infinitely close the required DR value after completing the filling of dummy patterns.
US10061868B2
A method and system of selecting a surface finish for a computer designed component associated with an anatomical area of a specific patient. A computer designed component is created. The component includes at least one surface. An interface of finishing software displays an image of the component and the at least one surface. A plurality of finishes available for the at least one surface is displayed. A selection of one of the plurality of finishes for the at least one surface is input by a user. The component data and finishing data may then be sent to a computer aided manufacturing system to manufacture the computer designed component.
US10061867B2
A method for tracking known topics in a plurality of interactions includes: extracting, by a processor, a plurality of fragments from the plurality of interactions; initializing, by the processor, a collection of tracked topics to an empty collection; computing, by the processor, a similarity between each fragment of the fragments and each of the known topics; and adding, by the processor, a known topic of the known topics to the tracked topics in response to the similarity between a fragment and the known topic exceeding a threshold value.
US10061861B2
A method for providing application content including obtaining, by a declarative content engine executing on a computer processor, an initial application content from a content repository and expressing the initial application content in a declarative programming language to obtain declarative content and transmitting the declarative content to a user experience player (UXP). The UXP processes the declarative content to obtain the initial application content, binds the initial application content to first platform-specific templates and first platform-specific navigation patterns, and renders the initial application content in a first platform-specific user display format. Additionally, the method includes receiving a user action from the UXP in response to the transmission of the declarative content, storing the user action associated with the declarative content in a user data instance repository, determining, using an interaction module and the received user action, a next application content, and obtaining the next application content from the content repository.
US10061860B2
Method and system for generating personalizing website layout. The method and system monitors a user's behaviors and assigns a user to a user group, which has an assigned personalized template. The templates are personalized in response to the user's behaviors and arranges content to be displayed to the user based on that behavior.
US10061859B2
A method of retrieval of items of particular relevance from a particular domain. A processor receives from a remote computing device a resource-identifying string that has a combination of a predefined notation and a resource-related sub-string. The processor uses the resource-identifying string to retrieve a subset of data items from within a data set, the subset of data items relating to a subset of resources within a set of resources available to be served by the particular domain over a distributed network. The processor uses the subset of data items to generate a list of the subset of resources and serves the list to the remote computing device.
US10061855B2
A social networking system obtains user pronunciations of terms whose pronunciations might vary among different users, such as names of users. The social networking system additionally obtains demographic information about the users from whom the pronunciations were obtained, as well as social graph information for those users, such as information about connections of those users in the social graph. Based on the obtained pronunciations, the demographic information, and the social graph information, the social networking system determines, for a user having that name (or other term in question), one or more suggested pronunciations for the name that are likely to be the pronunciations that that user would use.
US10061853B2
In a computerized search system, a document corpus is searched according to a query and results of the search are presentable as an ordered search result set comprising one or more search hits, a search hit being a document of the document corpus or reference thereto. Based on content of the search result set, a number of suggested queries and/or parameter options are presented to a querier, thereby allowing the querier to select a suggested query and/or provide values for the parameters and those selections can be used to reorder the hits of the search result set. The particular suggested queries and/or parameters presented depend on the page elements of the search result set's documents and their categorization. The categorization might be done using concept networks.
US10061849B2
An override of automatically shared meta-data of media method and apparatus are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a server device includes automatically populating a hierarchy using a play-list history data associated with a media data of a client device, and modifying the hierarchy based on a user override. The hierarchy may be a hierarchy of the play-list history data of certain items associated with the media data of the client device. A modified hierarchy may be generated based on an addition, deletion and/or an adjust modifying operation of the user override on the hierarchy, and may be automatically populated on a new mark-up language file. A new compatibility rating may be determined between the user and the other users based on the similar attributes between the modified hierarchy and the other hierarchies, and each user may be enabled to view mark-up language files of the other users.
US10061845B2
Methods and apparatuses are described for analyzing unstructured computer text for theme generation to determine sentiment. A computer store stores unstructured text that is delimited, a searched phrases log, and a phrase click log. A computer server extracts phrases from the unstructured delimited text by splitting each line of the unstructured delimited text into one or more phrases. The computer server generates tokens from the unstructured delimited text, where the tokens comprise segments of the unstructured delimited text. The computer server determines one or more themes present in the unstructured delimited text.
US10061836B2
A computerized method for pooling objects in a computerized system having a storage for objects, comprising identifying in the computerized system objects having an at least one common metadata entity associated with the objects, and including the identified objects in a pool of objects, and an apparatus for performing the same.
US10061828B2
A system and method providing cross-ontology multi-master replication is described. In a first embodiment a method for cross-ontology multi-master replication comprising the steps of: obtaining, at an importing site, an exporting site ontology and a set of one or more database changes; wherein the exporting site ontology defines a set of one or more data types; and after mapping the exporting site ontology to an importing site ontology, incorporating the set of one or more database changes into a database including mapping each of one or more data types of the set of data types to a data type defined by the importing site ontology using an ontology map.
US10061821B2
A method, system, and processor-readable storage medium are directed towards generating a report derived from data, such as event data, stored on a plurality of distributed nodes. In one embodiment the analysis is generated using a “divide and conquer” algorithm, such that each distributed node analyzes locally stored event data while an aggregating node combines these analysis results to generate the report. In one embodiment, each distributed node also transmits a list of event data references associated with the analysis result to the aggregating node. The aggregating node may then generate a global ordered list of data references based on the list of event data references received from each distributed node. Subsequently, in response to a user selection of a range of global event data, the report may dynamically retrieve event data from one or more distributed nodes for display according to the global order.
US10061817B1
According to an implementation, an application distribution system may receive a search query from a user and generate indicators of a set of applications based on the search query. The system may determine an influence rating for an entity that provided social media posts associated with one of the applications. The system may determine a sentiment rating for the content of the posts and determine a reliability rating for the entity. The reliability rating may be based the number of posts and the number of the entity's social media relationships. The system may determine an application rating for the application based on the influence rating, the sentiment rating, and the reliability rating. The system may rank the application within a list of the set of applications based on the application rating and provide the list to the device associated with the user.
US10061815B1
A disclosed computer-implemented method for displaying search results may include (1) receiving a query to search a document database that stores a document family containing a parent document and a child document embedded within the parent document, (2) in response to receiving the search query, identifying (a) an individual relevance score that quantifies the relevance of the parent document to the search query and (b) a family relevance score that quantifies the overall relevance of the entire document family to the search query, and (3) simultaneously depicting both the individual relevance score and the family relevance score in response to the search query. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10061811B2
Embodiments of the preset disclosure include a method, a system, and a computer program product for rearranging a set of filters within a data streams environment. The method includes setting a first filter ordering of two or more filter processing elements. The method includes determining a filtering efficiency of the first filter ordering. The determining of the filtering efficiency includes monitoring a runtime, one or more tuples, and an amount of tuples retained after filtering of the first filter ordering. The method includes creating a second filter ordering of the two or more filter processing elements. The method includes comparing the filtering efficiency of the second filter ordering to the first filter ordering. The method includes selecting the second filter ordering in response to comparing the filtering efficiency of the second filter ordering to the filtering efficiency of the first filter ordering.
US10061807B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for generating an inverted index in accordance with a user generated collection query. The method comprises providing a field searchable data store that comprises a plurality of event records, each event record comprising a time-stamped portion of raw machine data. The method further comprises receiving a collection query that references a field name. Further, responsive to the collection query, an inverted index is generated by: a) determining an extraction rule associated with the field name; b) extracting a field value corresponding to the field name from one or more event records in the field searchable data store using the extraction rule; and c) populating the inverted index responsive to each extracted field value, wherein each entry comprises the field name, the corresponding field value and a reference value that identifies a location in the field searchable data store where an associated event record is stored.
US10061800B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for embedding database procedures in data-driven software applications written in a language different from the database-procedure language. For example, in some embodiments, the hosting application may be written in ABAP whereas the database procedure may be written in SQLScript. In various embodiments, the database procedures are encapsulated in specially marked methods of the host application, which, when called at runtime, cause the database procedures to be created in a database catalog and executed on a database server.
US10061798B2
A system and method for managing tables in a storage system is described.
US10061794B2
A method for collecting monitoring data on a set of monitored computers. The method comprises providing definitions for collection methods for a set of monitoring data, wherein the monitoring data is collected from agents running at monitoring computers, wherein each item of monitoring data has at least one respective collection method. The method further comprises determining a subset of monitoring data to be updated. The method further comprises identifying collection methods corresponding to the subset of monitoring data and triggering the agents running at the monitoring computers to collect monitoring data using the identified collection methods.
US10061792B2
Disclosed herein are methods for retrieving data from a database. An embodiment operates searching for a key in a first index. The method determines that the searching will require a storage access request and issues the storage access request. The method continues searching for the key in a second index.
US10061790B2
A technique is applied to eventually converge on a single data storage strategy for any set of object data which had an inconsistent data storage strategy applied during storage while there was a network partition. This state could occur in instances of a highly available distributed object storage system which can store objects according to multiple data storage strategies. Upon the healing of a network partition, the technique discovers if multiple data storage strategies were applied to the object data stored during a network partition, deterministically identifies which data storage strategy represents the correct strategy, for example based on the log of state transitions requested by the client according to the API contract, and ensures that this strategy is consistently applied to all object data in the collection.
US10061789B2
A system and method for database storage may be dynamically optimized for entity-attribute-value (EAV) data. In one embodiment, this dynamic EAV database may include one column for the entity identification (“ID”) and a second column for the serialized data for that ID (each attribute and the values for those attributes). The database may be dynamically updated to move or copy certain attributes to a separate column. The dynamic updating of one or more attributes may be based on certain factors (seasonal, temporal, usage, etc.), such as frequent requests for a particular attribute. This dynamic updating and indexing of particular attributes may improve certain queries and data requests.
US10061788B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for processing data in an application platform. The method may include receiving at runtime a request for data about contributors to at least one document. Data may be determined for a set of contributors to the at least one document. The data for the set of contributors may be transformed based on at least one transformation rule. The transformed data for the set of contributors may be communicated in response to the request. The request may include context data indicating one or more of a user of a computing device, a user session of the computing device, a currently active application on the computing device, and an active screen of the computing device. The determining the data may include identifying, using at least some of the context data, a document associated with the currently active application.
US10061781B2
A storage system provides shared storage by utilizing dispersed storage devices while optimizing both the placement of data across the dispersed storage devices and the method for accessing the stored data. The storage system enables high level of scalability and performance while minimizing resource consumption.
US10061780B2
An illustrative method for providing a job to an information management system may include monitoring, by a command processing device such as a command processing tool operating on one or more computing devices, operation of a series of commands communicated to at least one information management system via a communication link. The command processing device may determine a status associated with one or more commands of the series of commands based on the operation of the command in the information management system. The command processing device may be configured for controlling a rate at which the series of commands is communicated to the information management system based, at least in part, on the status of one or more of the commands.
US10061779B2
A method and computing device for allowing synchronized access to a cloud storage system (CSS) based on stub tracking. The computing device comprises: a processing unit; a storage system, wherein the storage system is configured to maintain objects, each object having a state, wherein each state is any one of: a synchronized state, and a stub state; and a memory, the memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processing unit, configure the computing device to: receive a request from a client to access an object maintained in the storage system; change the state of the requested object from a stub state to a synchronized state upon receiving the request; and synchronize data of the requested object having a synchronized state with the CSS.
US10061767B1
Methods and apparatus are described herein for classifying user reviews or portions thereof as being related to various entities, and for associating extracted descriptive segments of text contained in those user reviews or portions thereof with entities based on the classifications. In various implementations, one or more categories of observed user interest may be identified based on a corpus of user queries. One or more segments of text related to the one or more categories of observed user interest may be detected in one or more user reviews associated with a product. Based on the detecting, the product may be indexed on the one or more categories of observed user interest in a searchable database. In some implementations, the searchable database may be accessible to one or more remote client devices, and may be searchable by the one or more categories of observed user interest to provide search results to be rendered by the one or more remote client devices.
US10061760B2
A digital magazine server generates pages presenting content items to a user in slots of a page template describing a relative positioning of content regions presenting content items. A page template may include a limited number of slots that limits the number of content regions presented to a user. If a number of content items selected for presentation to the user exceeds the limited number of slots in a page template, a plurality of content items are selected and used to generate a combined content item. The combined content item identifies each of the selected plurality of content items and allows a user to view information from various content items used to generate the combined content item.
US10061748B2
According to some embodiments, matrix A data may be loaded into a temporary, unordered starting representation that contains coordinates and values for each element of matrix A. Z-curve ordering of matrix A may be performed to create a two-dimensional density map of matrix A by counting matrix elements that are contained in logical two-dimensional block cells of a given size. A quad-tree recursion may be executed on the two-dimensional density map structure in reduced Z-space to identify areas of different densities in the two dimensional matrix space. An adaptive tile matrix representation of input matrix A may then be created. According to some embodiments, an adaptive tile matrix multiplication operation may perform dynamic tile-granular optimization based on density estimates and a cost model.
US10061746B2
A processor includes a front end to fetch an instruction. The instruction is to calculate a data point using inputs from a plurality of adjacent source data in a plurality of dimensions. The processor includes a decoder to decode the instruction. The processor also includes a core to, based on the decoded instruction, perform a plurality of tabular vector read operations to read the plurality of adjacent source data and perform a tabular vector calculation to execute the instruction. The tabular vector calculation is based upon results of performing the plurality of tabular vector read operations. The core is further to write results of the tabular vector calculation.
US10061736B2
Embodiments described are generally directed to a mass storage unit possessing a plurality of non-volatile data storage devices each possessing non-transitory mass storage memory hardware, a drive message router possessing with a plurality of different light sequence instructions retained therein, a motherboard that is connected to each of the non-volatile data storage devices and the drive message router via a bus that is adapted to transfer data via a data storage protocol arranged for mass data storage, a bezel electrically connected to the drive message router via an electrical cable that is adapted to transfer signals in a non-data storage protocol, a plurality of lights visibly disposed on the bezel. The drive message router is adapted to receive a data packet in the data storage protocol from the motherboard via the bus. Once received, an execution instruction is extracted from the message to carry out a subset of the light sequence instructions in a particular order. A sequence of electrical signals is transmitted from the drive message router to the plurality of lights based on the subset of the light instructions via the electrical cable. The plurality of lights are illuminated as dictated in the sequence of electrical signals.
US10061728B2
A device for selecting requests to be serviced in a data processing apparatus has an arbitration stage for selecting an arbitrated request from a plurality of candidate requests and a hazard detection stage for performing hazard detection to predict whether the arbitrated request selected by the arbitration stage meets a hazard condition. If the arbitrated request meets the hazard condition, the hazard detection stage returns the arbitration request to the arbitration stage for a later arbitration and sets a hazard indication for the returned request. Also, the hazard detection stage controls at least one other arbitration request to be returned if it conflicts with a candidate request having the hazard indication set. This approach prevents denial of service to requests that were hazarded.
US10061726B2
A system and method of conducting precision time management in a universal serial bus system with a retimer. The method includes initiating, from the retimer, a link delay management request on an upstream-facing port of the retimer. The method further includes receiving, at a downstream-facing port of the retimer, a link delay management request and responding to the request received on the downstream-facing port.
US10061724B2
Latency reduction for direct memory access operations involving address translation is disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein to perform direct memory access (DMA) operations include initializing a ring of descriptors, the descriptors to index respective buffers for storing received data in a first memory. Such example methods also include causing prefetching of a first address translation associated with a second descriptor in the ring of descriptors to be performed after a first DMA operation is performed to store first received data in a first buffer indexed by a first descriptor in the ring of descriptors and before second received data to be stored in the first memory is received, the first address translation being associated with a second DMA operation for storing the second received data in the first memory.
US10061722B2
Techniques for handling concurrent fatal events in a multicore execution environment are described. An example method for handling interrupts in a processor controlled device includes receiving an indication of a first fatal interrupt, determining if additional interrupts have occurred, serializing the handling of the first fatal interrupt and the additional interrupts, storing a serialized diagnostic information corresponding to each of the first fatal interrupt and the additional interrupts, and resetting the processor controlled device after storing the serialized diagnostic information corresponding to each of the first fatal interrupt and the additional interrupts.
US10061719B2
A plurality of completed writes to memory are identified corresponding to a plurality of write requests from a host device received over a buffered memory interface. A completion packet is sent to the host device that includes a plurality of write completions to correspond to the plurality of completed writes.
US10061705B2
A technique for processing instructions includes examining instructions in an instruction stream of a processor to determine properties of the instructions. The properties indicate whether the instructions may belong in an instruction sequence subject to decode-time instruction optimization (DTIO). Whether the properties of multiple ones of the instructions are compatible for inclusion within an instruction sequence of a same group is determined. The instructions with compatible ones of the properties are grouped into a first instruction group. The instructions of the first instruction group are decoded subsequent to formation of the first instruction group. Whether the first instruction group actually includes a DTIO sequence is verified based on the decoding. Based on the verifying, DTIO is performed on the instructions of the first instruction group or is not performed on the instructions of the first instruction group.
US10061702B2
Various embodiments for data management across a multiple-tiered storage organization by a processor. Data operations performed across the multiple-tiered storage organization are analyzed over a period of time sufficient to determine usage patterns of the data. Predictive analytics is applied to the usage patterns. Based on the predictive analytics, segments of the data are moved between the multiple-tiered storage organization according to a determined priority account for available system resources, to optimize storage characteristics of the data in the multiple-tiered storage organization.
US10061700B1
A method for writing data, the method may include: receiving or generating, by an interfacing module, a data unit coherent write request for performing a coherent write operation of a data unit to a first address; receiving, by the interfacing module and from a circuit that comprises a cache and a cache controller, a cache coherency indicator that indicates that a most updated version of the content stored at the first address is stored in the cache; and instructing, by the interfacing module, the cache controller to invalidate a cache line of the cache that stored the most updated version of the first address without sending the most updated version of the content stored at the first address from the cache to a memory module that differs from the cache if a length of the data unit equals a length of the cache line.
US10061692B1
Example embodiments of the present invention include a method, a system, and a computer-program product for storage automation. The method includes receiving a request for storage, determining a storage allocation for provisioning according to the request for storage and available storage resources, and provisioning storage according to the determined storage allocation.
US10061686B2
The present disclosure provides a method for automated testing of an application user interface, being implemented in an electronic apparatus, including: dividing a frame of a testing software application of an application user interface into a business requirement layer, a method definition layer, and a method implementation layer; when receiving a name modification request of modifying a name of one of the function controls, determining the process definition corresponding to the modified name according to the business requirement layer and the method definition layer; searching for a block of instructions corresponding to the determined process definition according to the method implantation layer; and searching for another name belonging to the same synonymous name set as the modified name in the found block of instructions, and replacing the found another name with the modified name.
US10061685B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for High Volume Test Automation (HVTA) utilizing recorded automation building blocks. In operation, a testing system identifies at least one HVTA test to perform on a system under test as part of a testing project based on an existing set of tests. The testing system identifies a plurality of generic test functions in an automation repository that are applicable to the at least one HVTA test that has been identified by the testing system as relevant. Additionally, the testing system identifies dependency rules associated with the plurality of generic test functions. Further, the testing system generates at least one test flow utilizing the plurality of generic test functions, based on the dependency rules associated with the plurality of generic test functions. In addition, the testing system organizes an overall test sequence for the at least one HVTA test including the at least one test flow, based on a type of HVTA test to be performed. Moreover, the testing system executes the overall test sequence while monitoring a testing environment of the system under test in real time. The testing system reports anomalies resulting from monitoring the testing environment of the system under test during the execution of the overall test sequence.
US10061683B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method for collecting error data to troubleshoot product errors may include (1) monitoring Internet searches submitted by a user of a computing device to a search engine executing within a browser installed on the computing device, (2) identifying, while monitoring the Internet searches, a search including a description of an error in a product installed on the computing device, (3) in response to identifying the search, automatically enabling debug logging for the product on the computing device, and (4) maintaining an event log including information collected from the debug logging that may be used to diagnose the error. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10061677B2
A processing system receives a time series of values of a first metric corresponding to computing system performance. A computation module calculates an autocorrelation function (ACF) based on the time series of values across a set of values of tau. The spacing between each consecutive pair of values in the set of values of tau increases as tau increases. A local maxima extraction module identifies local maxima of the calculated ACF. A period determination module determines a significant period based on spacing between the local maxima and selectively outputs the significant period as a periodicity profile. A baseline profile indicating normal behavior of the first metric is generated based on the periodicity profile. An anomaly identification module selectively identifies an anomaly in present values of the first metric in response to the present values deviating outside the baseline profile.
US10061675B2
This invention is a streaming engine employed in a digital signal processor. A fixed data stream sequence is specified by a control register. The streaming engine fetches stream data ahead of use by a central processing unit and stores it in a stream buffer. Upon occurrence of a fault reading data from memory, the streaming engine identifies the data element triggering the fault preferably storing this address in a fault address register. The streaming engine defers signaling the fault to the central processing unit until this data element is used as an operand. If the data element is never used by the central processing unit, the streaming engine never signals the fault. The streaming engine preferably stores data identifying the fault in a fault source register. The fault address register and the fault source register are preferably extended control registers accessible only via a debugger.
US10061665B2
Preserving management services with self-contained metadata through the disaster recovery life cycle
During normal operation, at a first site, of a disaster recovery management unit, at least one customer workload machine, at least one management service machine, and metadata for the at least one management service machine are replicated to a remote disaster recovery site. After a disaster at the first site, a replicated version of the at least one customer workload machine and a replicated version of the at least one management service machine are brought up at the remote disaster recovery site. A replicated version of the metadata for the at least one management service machine is reconfigured by executing, on the replicated version of the at least one management service machine, a failover script, to obtain reconfigured replicated metadata for the replicated version of the at least one management service machine. When the first site comes back up, failback is carried out, essentially in the reverse order.
US10061651B2
A failure to load a primary operating system at a data processing device is identified. A partition in a volatile random access memory is allocated to store a second operating system. The second OS is stored at the partition. Information identifying the partition is stored at a first location accessible to a basic input output system executing at the data processing device.
US10061648B2
A method includes dispersed storage error encoding, by a device of the dispersed storage network (DSN), a data segment of a data object into a set of encoded data slices. The method further includes sending, by the device, a set of write fan out with redundancy sharing requests to a set of storage units of the DSN. The method further includes, in response to the set of write fan out with redundancy sharing requests, storing, by the set of storage units, a number of copies of a decode threshold number of encoded data slices of the set of encoded data slices. The method further includes storing, by the set of storage units, a single copy of a redundancy number of encoded data slices of the set of encoded data slices.
US10061646B2
A wear leveling method and apparatus and a storage medium are disclosed, the method including: performing error correction on data read from a physical block to obtain corrected data, and counting corrected bits in the corrected data to obtain the number of the corrected bits, where the data as read may be previously written to the physical block in a dynamic wear leveling manner and/or a static wear leveling manner, and the number of the corrected bits is negatively correlated with a residual service life of the physical block; detecting whether the obtained number of the corrected bits is more than a preset bit-number threshold value; and transferring data stored in the physical block, if the number of corrected bits is detected as more than the preset bit-number threshold value.
US10061642B2
An on-chip logic block may include a host ECC circuit configured to correct an error based on host parity. The on-chip logic block may include a memory ECC circuit configured to correct an error based on memory parity.
US10061638B2
Methods, computing systems and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include configuring, at a first time, a clustered storage system comprising multiple modules to store and process storage requests for respective sets of data objects. While processing the storage requests, respective subsets of the data objects having one or more data errors are identified, and at a second time subsequent to the first time, respective modules storing each of the data objects having at least one data error are identified. computing, based on the identified modules, a frequency distribution of the identified data errors in the data objects over the multiple modules. Based on the frequency distribution, a failure in a given module is identified, and the identified module is removed from the storage system. In some embodiments, prior to the second time, the data objects can be redistributed among the modules of the storage system.
US10061632B2
A system includes a normal behavior characterization module configured to receive values for a first metric of a plurality of metrics and generate a baseline profile indicating normal behavior of the first metric based on the received values. The system also includes an anomaly identification module configured to identify an anomaly in response to present values of the metric deviating outside the baseline profile. The system also includes an anomaly behavior characterization module configured to analyze a plurality of prior anomalies identified by the anomaly identification module and develop a model of the anomalies of the first metric. The system also includes an anomaly scoring module configured to determine a first score for a present anomaly detected by the anomaly identification module for the first metric. The first score is based on characteristics of the present anomaly and the model of the anomalies of the first metric.
US10061629B2
Logging includes: obtaining an event designating message (EDM) comprising: a set of keys, or a type of designation corresponding to the set of keys, or both; looking up a set of values associated with the set of keys in a key-value store storing a plurality of keys and their corresponding values; constructing an event using the set of keys and values corresponding to the set of keys; and outputting the constructed event.
US10061624B2
A parallel-computing system includes: computation nodes connected in a mesh or torus connection and configured to perform parallel-computation; and a job management node including a computer, being coupled to the computation nodes, and being configured to: manage a plurality of jobs, select a first job from the jobs being executed by any of the computation nodes, search for a second area adjoining a first area occupied by a first computation node of the computation nodes executing the first job, the second area being occupied by a free computation node not executing any job, determine a fourth area of a same size as the first area at a location contacting an end in a predetermined direction in a third area comprising the first area and the second area, determine a fifth area of a predetermined shape in a range not overlapping the fourth area in the third area.
US10061622B2
Systems and methods for providing dynamic topology information to virtual machines hosted by a multi-processor computer system supporting non-uniform memory access (NUMA). An example method may comprise assigning, by a hypervisor executing on a computer system, unique identifiers to a plurality of memory blocks residing on a plurality of physical nodes; determining that a memory block has been moved from a first physical node to a second physical node; determining memory access latency values to the second physical node by a plurality of virtual processors of the computer system; and updating, using a unique identifier of the memory block, a data structure storing memory access latency information, with the memory access latency values for the memory block.
US10061621B1
In one example, a system can receive configuration data indicating how resources can be combined, identify availability data indicating the total number of various resources that are available, and determine maximum-capacity data using the availability data and the configuration data. The system can also receive distribution data having probability distributions for jobs to be implemented using the resources, determine capacity valuations using the distribution data and the availability data, and determine a configuration of resources using the capacity valuations and the maximum-capacity data. Thereafter, the system can receive a job and determine that a valuation for the job exceeds a predefined threshold associated with using the configuration of resources. In response to determining that the valuation exceeds the predefined threshold, the system can assign the resources to the job in the configuration. The system can then cause the job to be performed using the configuration of resources assigned to the job.
US10061618B2
Aspects include computation systems that can identify computation instances that are not capable of being reentrant, or are not reentrant capable on a target architecture, or are non-reentrant as a result of having a memory conflict in a particular execution situation. A system can have a plurality of computation units, each with an independently schedulable SIMD vector. Computation instances can be defined by a program module, and a data element(s) that may be stored in a local cache for a particular computation unit. Each local cache does not maintain coherency controls for such data elements. During scheduling, a scheduler can maintain a list of running (or runnable) instances, and attempt to schedule new computation instances by determining whether any new computation instance conflicts with a running instance and responsively defer scheduling. Memory conflict checks can be conditioned on a flag or other indication of the potential for non-reentrancy.
US10061614B2
Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for resource management of untrusted programs. In some embodiments, a first request to process an asynchronous event by an untrusted application may be received. The first request may include a host memory address. A counter may be incremented in response to receiving the first request. A device memory address may be retrieved from a device translation table using the host memory address. Processing the first request by a device using the device memory address may be facilitated. A second request to unregister the host memory address may be received. The counter may be determined to be non-zero. An action may be implemented in response to determining that the counter is non-zero.
US10061609B2
A method and system uses exceptions for code specialization in a system that supports transactions. The method and system includes inserting one or more branchless instructions into a sequence of computer instructions. The branchless instructions include one or more instructions that are executable if a commonly occurring condition is satisfied and include one or more instructions that are configured to raise an exception if the commonly occurring condition is not satisfied.
US10061607B2
A system and method can provide high throughput transactions in a transactional system. A system and method can, via a transaction manager, obtain information on a plurality of resource managers. The transaction manager can further manage a plurality of transaction branches, where each of the plurality of transaction branches can be associated with a different one of the plurality of resource managers. The methods and systems can associate a transaction identifier with each of the plurality of transaction branches, which can result in a plurality of transaction identifiers, where each of the plurality of transaction identifiers can include a branch identifier for each of the plurality of transaction branches. The methods and systems can perform one or more transactional operations on the plurality of transaction branches based on the different transaction identifiers.
US10061605B2
A server-based desktop-virtual machines architecture may be extended to a client machine. In one embodiment, a user desktop is remotely accessed from a client system. The remote desktop is generated by a first virtual machine running on a server system, which may comprise one or more server computers. During execution of the first virtual machine, writes to a corresponding virtual disk are directed to a delta disk file or redo log. A copy of the virtual disk is created on the client system. When a user decides to “check out” his or her desktop, the first virtual machine is terminated (if it is running) and a copy of the delta disk is created on the client system. Once the delta disk is present on the client system, a second virtual machine can be started on the client system using the virtual disk and delta disk to provide local access to the user's desktop at the client system. This allows the user to then access his or her desktop without being connected to a network.
US10061602B2
A system and method for providing a virtual assembly builder for use with a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, the system can include a virtual assembly builder component which maintains a repository of virtual assembly archives, wherein each virtual assembly can include a metadata and one or more virtual machine templates that can be used to instantiate an instance of the assembly; and a virtual assembly builder deployer provided as a web service or other interface, which enables operations for uploading virtual assemblies to the repository, registering virtual assemblies with cloud components, and/or managing deployment instances defined by an assembly.
US10061599B1
Firmware determines during a boot of a computer, if a bus enumeration is needed or if the computer can be booted quicker by skipping a bus enumeration. The firmware performs a bus enumeration if this a first boot or if the bus has had it infrastructure changed since the previous boot. For buses that have only fixed resources coupled to it, then the bus configuration cannot change. Also, for buses that do not have only fixed resources, the infrastructure may be probed to determine if the bus configuration has changed. If there is no change, bus enumeration is not needed. Metadata is created, updated and stored in flash memory involving the bus infrastructure. Since the metadata is stored, a bus enumeration is not needed to gather information about the bus when no change has occurred.
US10061597B2
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a computing device utilizes a basic input/output system (BIOS) to program a chipset to generate an interrupt, loads a first and an operating system, receives the interrupt from the chipset; and causes aspects of one operating system to be stored in a partition within a storage device.
US10061596B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a method may include during boot of the information handling system, in response to one of a system management request received by a management controller or user input indicative of a task received during boot, downloading, by a basic input/output system (BIOS), from a network database communicatively coupled to the network interface, one or more executable modules for completing a system management request or a task. The method may also include executing the one or more downloaded modules.
US10061587B2
A processor includes a front end, a decoder, an allocator, and a retirement unit. The decoder includes logic to identify an end-of-live-range (EOLR) indicator. The EOLR indicator specifies an architectural register and a location in code for which the architectural register is unused. The allocator includes logic to scan for a mapping of the architectural register to a physical register, based upon the EOLR indicator. The allocator also includes logic to generate a request to disassociate the architectural register from the physical register. The retirement unit includes logic to disassociate the architectural register from the physical register.
US10061584B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for nullifying memory store instructions identified in a target field of a nullification instruction. In some examples of the disclosed technology, an apparatus can include memory and one or more block-based processor cores configured to fetch and execute a plurality of instruction blocks. One of the cores can include a control unit configured, based at least in part on receiving a nullification instruction, to obtain an instruction identification for a memory access instruction of a plurality of memory access instructions, based on a target field of the nullification instruction. The memory access instruction associated with the instruction identification is nullified. The memory access instruction is in a first instruction block of the plurality of instruction blocks. Based on the nullified memory access instruction, a subsequent memory access instruction from the first instruction block is executed.
US10061581B2
Systems and methods for performing on-the-fly format conversion on data vectors during load/store operations are described herein. In one embodiment, a method for loading a data vector from a memory into a vector unit comprises reading a plurality of samples from the memory, wherein the plurality of samples are packed in the memory. The method also comprises unpacking the samples to obtain a plurality of unpacked samples, performing format conversion on the unpacked samples in parallel, and sending at least a portion of the format-converted samples to the vector unit.
US10061580B2
A computer program product for implementing a received add program counter immediate shift (ADDPCIS) instruction using a micro-coded or cracked sequence is provided. The computer program product includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are readable and executable by a processing circuit to cause the processing circuit to recognize register operand and integer terms associated with the ADDPCIS instruction, set a value of a target register associated with the ADDPCIS instruction in accordance with the integer term summed with another term by obtaining a next instruction address (NIA), moving an architecturally defined register file from a first temporary register to a general purpose register and adding a shifted immediate constant to a value stored in a second temporary register.
US10061578B2
Described herein are methods and systems for configuring a data store for tracking and auditing real time events associated with an end-to-end development lifecycle of a software product across different types of software development tools in Agile development environments. The data store stores vast numbers of records containing metadata that describe different types of real time events using different types of tools. Each record includes a set of defined fields that enable the records to be linked across the various tools and events throughout the end-to-end development lifecycle of a software product. Where the event is a compilation event detected in a compiler, the event metadata defining the compilation event is embedded in the compiled code as text for tracking of the development process even after the product is compiled into a binary form.
US10061564B2
Aspects of present disclosure relate to random number generator, a method and a computer program product of improving entropy quality of the random number generator. The method may include: receiving, at an input/output interface module of the random number generator, a request to generate a random number having a predetermined number of random bits, and starting a random bit generating loop to generate each of the random bits of the random number to be generated. In certain embodiments, random bit generating loop may include: incorporating a CPU Time as a randomness factor in generating random number to improve entropy quality, including non-deterministic memory-subsystem latencies in entropy extraction, such as those introduced by unpredictable cache movements, generating a Candidate Bit by using a Clock Time, and generating a random bit for random number by using a von Neumann unbiasing analysis module, until every random bits of the random number is generated.
US10061548B1
Provided is information processing apparatus with possibly-making an optimal printing for an image forming apparatus perform. A job property acquiring part acquires a job property. A driver-settings acquiring part acquires driver settings at time of a job being outputted. A throughput time estimating part calculates estimated throughput time from a job property and driver settings. An optimized-settings calculating part calculates an optimized driver settings in which an output is possible in time shorter than estimated throughput time for the job property. A job output part makes a job output to the image forming apparatus by the calculated optimized driver settings.
US10061534B2
Method, apparatus and systems for performing hardware-based memory migration and copy operations. Under the method, a first portion of memory in a computer system accessed via a first memory controller is migrated or copied to a second portion of memory accessed via a second memory controller using a hardware-based scheme that is implemented independent of and transparent to software running on a computer system. The memory migration and/or copy operations can be used to initialize a memory mirror configuration under which data in first and second portions of memory are mirrored, and to perform memory migration operations in which data in a first portion of memory is migrated to a second portion of memory under the control of hardware in a manner in which the memory migration can be performed during run-time without a significant reduction in performance. In addition, poison data indicating failed cache lines may be migrated or copied such that data corresponding to migrated or copied poisoned cache lines are not used.
US10061528B2
Example methods are provided to perform disk assignment for multiple distributed computing clusters in a virtualized computing environment. The method may include determining whether disk assignment is required for a host to support a first virtualized computing instance from a first distributed computing cluster and a second virtualized computing instance from a second distributed computing cluster. The method may also include migrating first data placed on one or more second disks to one or more first disks, reassigning the one or more second disks from the first virtualized computing instance to the second virtualized computing instance, and placing second data on the one or more second disks. The first data may be for access by the first virtualized computing instance to execute a first distributed computing application, and the second data may be for access by the second virtualized computing instance to execute a second distributed computing application.
US10061525B1
A method, computer program product, and computing system for determining a load value for each of a plurality of storage targets included within a RAID group, thus defining a plurality of load values. The plurality of load values are compared to determine if the RAID group is load balanced. If the RAID group is not load balanced, data is repositioned between the plurality of storage targets.
US10061524B2
A method for execution by one or more processing modules of one or more computing devices of a dispersed storage network (DSN) begins by tracking a number of reads and writes to a memory device within DSN memory. The method continues by mapping the tracked number of reads and writes to a counter that tracks a physical region of the memory device that is impacted by the reads and writes. The method continues by determining a highest-to-lowest ranking of memory device wear based on the mapping. The method continues by moving data located at a highly ranked data location to a new location with a lower ranking.
US10061520B1
Systems and methods are provided for implementing accelerated data access operations. For example, a method for accessing data includes loading an image into a memory, wherein the image comprises a plurality of image layers, and wherein each image layer references one or more data blocks. A request is received for a target data block from an active process operating on the image. Data structures associated with the target data bock are then accessed, wherein the data structures comprise metadata of a previous lookup path that was performed across one or more of the image layers of the image to access the target data block. The metadata of the data structures is utilized to access an existing in-memory copy of the target data block without having to traverse the previous lookup path, and the in-memory copy of target data block is returned to the active process.
US10061518B2
In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes building an available frame header queue (AFHQ). The AFHQ includes one or more headers, each header including one or more frame references being no more than a maximum count of frame references. Each of the one or more frame references of each of the one or more headers refers to an available frame. A frame request is received for one or more requested frames. One or more frame references are extracted, by a computer processor, from the AFHQ in response to the frame request. The extracting includes extracting from the AFHQ one or more requested headers including the one or more frame references referring to at least a portion of the one or more requested frames.
US10061514B2
System and method to encode and decode raw data. The method to encode includes receiving a block of uncoded data, decomposing the block of uncoded data into a plurality of data vectors, mapping each of the plurality of data vectors to a bit marker; and storing the bit marker in a memory to produce an encoded representation of the uncoded data. Encoding may further include decomposing the block of uncoded data into default data and non-default data, and mapping only the non-default data. In some embodiments, bit markers may include a seed value and replication rule, or a fractalized pattern.
US10061508B2
A user interface and a method for adapting a view on a display unit of a user interface wherein the method includes calling up a configuration mode for allocating a range of functions to at least one tile displayed on the display unit, displaying first operating areas representing a respective range of functions, receiving a first user input for the first operating area and, in response thereto, displaying second operating areas thematically associated with the first operating area.
US10061502B2
The present invention relates to an electronic device that may provide a slideshow function to a drafted message, in addition to merely drafting, transmitting, receiving, and checking a message.
US10061489B2
A method includes displaying, at a client device of a first user, first content associated with a first application on a user interface of the client device. The first content may be related to an entity associated with an online social network. The method then includes presenting for persistent display a first interactive element associated with a second application on the user interface, and then accessing, upon receiving the first user input selecting the first interactive element, a deep-link index of the online social network to retrieve a deep link to the second application indexed with the entity. The deep link to the second application includes instructions for accessing a display state of the second application associated with the entity. The method further includes executing, at the client device of the first user, the retrieved deep link to present the display state of the second application associated with the entity.
US10061483B2
The invention relates to methods and devices to define and control the design of a configurable chip module, instrument or systems, for example, for measurement, control and communication systems or any portion thereof. The module may include one or more chip elements. This can be achieved using, for example, a Graphical User interface (GUI), that transforms selections made by the user to a hardware and/or software configuration for the system in a process transparent to the user. This enables implementation of a plurality of devices and larger subsystems on a chip or chip module without specific semiconductor design knowledge from the user. This transformation process is thus accomplished transparently to the user, who operates the GUI to define the measurement or action which needs to be performed thereby resulting in an automatic combination of hardware and/or software elements available to create a specific configuration.
US10061478B2
In a portable multimedia device, a method, apparatus, and system for providing user supplied configuration data are described. In one embodiment, a hierarchically ordered graphical user interface is provided. A first order, or home, interface provides a highest order of user selectable items each of which, when selected, results in an automatic transition to a lower order user interface associated with the selected item. In one of the described embodiments, the lower order interface includes other user selectable items associated with the previously selected item from the higher order user interface.
US10061470B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for an unmanned aerial system inspection system. One of the methods is performed by a UAV and includes receiving, by the UAV, flight information describing a job to perform an inspection of a rooftop. A particular altitude is ascended to, and an inspection of the rooftop is performed including obtaining sensor information describing the rooftop. Location information identifying a damaged area of the rooftop is received. The damaged area of the rooftop is traveled to. An inspection of the damaged area of the rooftop is performed including obtaining detailed sensor information describing the damaged area. A safe landing location is traveled to.
US10061464B2
A computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and system are provided. In one embodiment, a rollback checkpoint for a step in an executable process is established, and the executable process is executed. A change request is received, and the step with the established rollback checkpoint is adjusted. Any subsequent steps of the executable process are also adjusted.
US10061462B2
A method and apparatus are provided for a touch sensor made from a combination of conductive and non-conductive fibers. The fibers are woven into a fabric wherein non-conductive fibers keep horizontal conductive fibers from contacting vertical conducting fibers unless a touch is applied. The conductive fibers are grouped into horizontal and vertical strips and the fibers in a strip are connected together throughout the fabric. The ends of the strips are connected to control electronics that drive signals to the sensor fabric and measure signals from the sensor fabric to determine touch locations and touch contact areas.
US10061457B2
Systems and methods associated with modular computing environments are provided. For instance, a modular computing environment can include a control entity including one or more processing devices. The modular computing environment can include one or more modular components directly or indirectly coupled to the control entity. The one or more modular components can be configured to receive a module specifying one or more instructions to be performed by an external device. The one or more modular components include one or more processing devices. Each modular component is configured to determine state data associated with the modular component based at least in part on the received module and to provide the state data to the control entity. The state data includes an identification signature of the received module and a configuration context of the modular component within the modular computing environment.
US10061453B2
Determining a touch contact location is disclosed. A signal that has been disturbed by a touch input on a surface is received. The received signal is transformed to determine a spatial domain signal. The spatial domain signal is compared with an expected signal associated with a potential location of a source of a disturbance caused by the touch input. The touch contact location of the touch input is determined based at least in part on the comparison.
US10061450B2
Power consumption of touch sensing operations for touch sensitive devices can be reduced by implementing a coarse scan (e.g., banked common mode scan) to coarsely detect the presence or absence of an object touching or proximate to a touch sensor panel and the results of the coarse scan can be used to dynamically adjust the operation of the touch sensitive device to perform or not perform a fine scan (e.g., targeted active mode scan). In some examples, the results of the coarse scan can be used to program a touch controller for the next touch sensing frame to idle when no touch event is detected or to perform a fine scan when one or more touch events are detected. In some examples, the results of the coarse scan can be used to abort a scheduled fine scan during the current touch sensing frame when no touch event is detected.
US10061443B2
A touch-screen monitor is described. The monitor includes an ultrasonic sensor for detecting motion of an object that is placed in contact with the monitor.
US10061428B2
The input devices described herein include force sensor electrodes that use capacitive sensing to measure the force with which an input object (e.g., a finger or stylus) presses down on the input device. To measure this force, the input device includes a compressible layer disposed between a backlight of a display in the input device and a cover window of the display. In one embodiment, the compressible layer is disposed between the backlight and a transparent thin-film transistor (TFT) layer in the display. In one embodiment, the compressible layer includes an air gap which has a thickness defined by adhesive material disposed on at least two edges of the display.
US10061424B2
Technologies for dynamic display include a mobile compute device that comprises a display transformable between at least two different physical topologies. The mobile compute device determines a current physical topology of the display and retrieves a policy based on the determined current physical topology. The policy identifies a corresponding action to occur in response to each of one or more user inputs to the mobile compute device while the display has the current physical topology. The mobile compute device processes a user input based on the retrieved policy.
US10061411B2
The systems, methods, and techniques described herein provide for an improved stylus incorporating a dual-function switch as part of the tail eraser mechanism. A conductive resilient body, when compressed, deforms to contact one or more pairs of electrodes on a printed circuit board, thus creating electrical continuity between the electrodes. A first force causes electrical continuity between a first pair of electrodes which may initiate a first mode of the stylus, such as erase mode. A second force, greater than the first force, causes electrical continuity between a second pair of electrodes which may initiate a second mode of the stylus, such as causing a microcontroller unit to issue a command to a computing device to launch one or more applications or services.
US10061405B2
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for subdividing a touch-sensitive interface of a mouse accessory into a first plurality of sectors for defining a first plurality of mouse buttons, where each sector of the first plurality of sectors corresponds to a distinct mouse button. The method can further include receiving a first signal from the touch-sensitive interface of the mouse accessory, detecting, from the first signal a selection of a sector of the first plurality of sectors, and generating a second signal indicating the selection of the sector. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US10061404B2
The present disclosure illustrates an optical navigation chip. The optical navigation chip is disposed on an optical navigation module. The optical navigation module includes a light-emitting unit. The light-emitting unit provides a light beam to irradiate a surface of a displacement generating unit. The light beam has a low divergence angle to reduce scattering. The optical navigation chip includes a sensing array and a displacement calculating unit. The sensing array is disposed corresponding to the surface. The sensing array receives a reflected light beam which the surface reflects, and captures an image once every capturing interval based upon the reflected light beam. The displacement calculating unit calculates a relative displacement between the optical navigation chip and the surface according to the images.
US10061387B2
An apparatus, method, and computer program product are provided for generating a projected user interface. The apparatus may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code may be configured, with the processor, to cause the apparatus to receive information regarding a detected position of the user's body and to determine whether the detected position is an activation position, in which case the projection of a user interface may be provided. The user interface may be projected on an area on the user's body, such as a hand or a forearm, or on the surface of an object. The activation position may thus be a predefined position of the user's body in which effective projection of the user interface onto the surface and user interaction with the user interface is facilitated.
US10061382B2
A method of calibration for a head-mounted display device including an camera, an inertial sensor and a processor causes the processor to realize functions of: acquiring a first image and a second image that are captured by imaging a first real marker with the camera when the inertial sensor is respectively at a first pose and a second pose; acquiring a difference in pose between the first pose and the second pose based on output of the inertial sensor; and deriving a spatial relationship between the camera and the inertial sensor based at least on the first image, the second image and the difference in pose.
US10061381B2
This invention relates to computer technology, and more particularly to input devices, and can be used in computer games, for controlling objects in spaces simulated on an electronic computer, and is intended to provide more reliable and accurate control of a motion system by means of a device, comprising buttons, and a body having a pivot with a stem which is rigidly connected to an operator's seat by an arm with clamps. The body is rigidly connected to a control element in the form of an H-shaped frame with clamps and with curved supporting surfaces for the forearms of the operator, said control element being capable of movement by virtue of the pivot, the rigidity of movement of which can be adjusted with the aid of a regulator, disposed inside the body; buttons, pivoting buttons, multi-contact buttons and rollers are situated on the front parts of the control element, opposite one another along the side edges of said front parts.
US10061380B2
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to reporting a first updated threshold level related to a battery. A parameter related to power to be drawn by the computing device for the first OS to enter a hibernate state is monitored. The first updated threshold level are set based on the parameter. The first updated threshold level is reported to the first OS. The first OS is to vary the first battery level threshold based on the first updated threshold level.
US10061379B2
Techniques for controlling one or more audio amplifiers in or associated with a device coupled on a local area network are disclosed. The device receives at least one selected source from other devices also coupled on the network According to one aspect of the techniques, an automatic shutdown control module is provided in the device to power down the audio amplifiers when there is no audio data flow coming to the device or power up the audio amplifiers when there is audio data flow coming to the device. In one embodiment, the procedure to power down or power up the amplifiers is in accordance with a hysteresis, wherein the hysteresis, being lagging of an effect behind its cause, protects the amplifiers and makes the powering-down or powering-up procedure unnoticeable to a user.
US10061365B2
A temperature management system includes a detection unit for detecting a temperature of a heat generator, power consumption, and an intake air temperature of the electronics device; a control unit for controlling a manipulated variable to be given to the cooling device so that the temperature of the heat generator becomes close to a target value, wherein the control unit includes controllers assigned respectively to operating ranges of the electronics device and each controller includes a prediction model for predicting a future temperature of the heat generator under conditions set for the corresponding operating range, and a vector distance between a first vector for a current state of the electronic device and a second vector for conditions included in the prediction model is calculated to select the controller that corresponds to the prediction model of the shortest vector distance.
US10061362B2
A server device includes a tray having a lug, a hard disk unit removably disposed on the tray, and a handle pivotally connected to two opposite sides of the hard disk unit. The lug is formed with a slot thereon to define two inner edges opposite to each other. The handle is provided with a protrusion arranged in the slot. When the handle is rotated towards one end of the hard disk unit, the protrusion is rotated along with the handle to contact and push one of the inner edges of the lug, such that the hard disk unit is restrained by the tray after the hard disk unit is slid in relative to the tray.
US10061359B2
A hinge assembly for a multi-part electronic device comprises a pair of opposing living hinge elements for connecting first and second parts of the multi-part electronic device. Each hinge element has a first segment, an intermediate segment and a second segment, and comprises a first hinged joint positioned at a junction of the first segment and the intermediate segment and defining a first hinge axis, and a second hinged joint positioned at a junction of the second segment and the intermediate segment and defining a second hinge axis. The second hinged joint is spaced apart from the first hinged joint by a length of the intermediate segment. Each of the first and second hinged joints is configured to permit 180 degrees of rotation. A multi-part electronic device having a double-acting hinge arrangement is also described.
US10061358B2
A mobile terminal is disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a body including a first body and a second body fastened to the first body, the second body separable from the first body, a flexible display including a first flexible display connected to the second body and located on a front surface of the body and a second flexible display connected to the first flexible display and located on a rear surface of the body, and a guide sheet positioned in a rear surface of the flexible display and providing the flexible display with an elastic force. At least a portion of the second flexible display is located on the front surface of the body when the second body is separated from the first body.
US10061354B2
A docking station for a portable electronic device includes a cradle portion for supporting a first edge of the portable electronic device, a body portion extending away from the cradle portion, and a latching portion coupled to the body portion for securing a second edge of the portable electronic device when the portable electronic device is supported in the docking station. The latching portion includes a first latch movable relative to the body portion between a latched position and an unlatched position, a second latch spaced from the first latch and movable relative to the body portion between a latched position and an unlatched position, and a control bar coupled to each of the first and second latches such that movement of the control bar by a user simultaneously moves both the first and second latches to the unlatched positions.
US10061349B2
Head mountable camera devices, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US10061347B2
A protective jacket for enclosing a portable computer device in accordance with one example included an electronic reader to receive an electronic device, and a cover movably attached to the jacket. The cover is to the electronic reader when the cover is in a closed position and to function as a kickstand to support the device in a plurality of viewing angles when the cover is in an open position.
US10061340B1
A bandgap reference voltage generator, comprises: a bias circuit configured to generate a start signal; a startup circuit having at least two serially-connected transistors configured to receive the start signal; a proportional-to-absolute-temperature (“PTAT”) generation circuit having a first current mirror, an amplifier, a resistor, and transistors; and a complementary-to-absolute-temperature (“CTAT”) generation circuit having a second current mirror, a passive network of resistors, and at least one transistor. The at least two serially-connected transistors are connected across a first input of the amplifier and a second input of the amplifier. An output of the amplifier is coupled to the first current mirror and the second current mirror. The passive network of resistors is coupled across outputs of the second current mirror. The CTAT generation circuit has an output node for outputting a bandgap reference voltage.
US10061336B1
A bandgap reference (BGREF) circuit includes at least one switch capacitor impedance element including a capacitor coupled with switches that receive a reference frequency. The at least one switch capacitor element is coupled with at least one diode. The BGREF circuit is operative to create a voltage reference.
US10061334B2
A voltage regulator includes an output transistor controlled by an error amplifier, first and second resistors connected in series between an output terminal and a ground terminal via a first node, third and fourth resistors connected in series between a load voltage monitoring terminal and the ground terminal via a second node, and a fifth resistor and a switching transistor connected in series between the first node and the ground terminal. When a voltage which is supplied to a load connected to the output terminal drops due to a parasitic resistance, a voltage at the second node falls below that of the first node. The switching transistor, then, turns on to connect the fifth resistor in parallel to the second resistor to lower the voltage at the first node. Feedback of this voltage to the error amplifier raises the voltage at the output terminal to a desired value.
US10061332B2
An initial operating speed of a cooling fan at an information handling system is determined. A microphone is located at the system to favor acquisition of ambient sound relative to acquisition of sound emanating from the cooling fan. An audio signal is received from the microphone. The operating speed of the cooling fan is adjusted based on a level of the audio signal.
US10061330B2
In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a controller for a HVAC system having an economizer with a damper and pressure sensors on opposing sides of the economizer. The controller comprise a diagnostics controller having a program configured to use pressure difference sensor data to determine if a pressure difference across the economizer is outside an operational design parameter of the HVAC system, and generate an error signal when the pressure difference is outside the operational design parameter.
US10061325B2
An example method includes receiving instructions to pick up an object with one or more lift elements of an autonomous vehicle. Based on a current positioning of the vehicle, the method further includes identifying the object to be picked up and a particular side of the object under which to place the one or more lift elements of the vehicle. The method additionally includes determining an approach path toward the object for the vehicle to follow to place the lift elements of the vehicle under the particular side of the object. The method further includes causing the vehicle to move along the determined approach path toward the object. The method additionally includes determining that the lift elements of the vehicle are placed under the particular side of the object. The method also includes causing the vehicle to lift the object with the lift elements.
US10061312B1
Sensor management systems for computer assisted or autonomous driving vehicles are disclosed herein. A computer assisted or autonomous driving vehicle may be provided with a plurality of sensors and a sensor management system configured to predictively maintain effectiveness of the plurality of sensors, based at least in part on predicted cleaning needs of the sensors, predicted obstruction or destruction events of the sensors, or predicted environmental or operating conditions. In embodiments, the sensor management system may be coupled to a navigation system of the vehicle, and may, in response to a predicted sensor obstruction or destruction event, change a navigation parameter of the vehicle to avoid the event. Alternatively, if the predicted event is determined to be within an acceptable risk tolerance threshold, the sensor management system may follow an original navigational route but implement event avoidance actions. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.
US10061309B1
In an approach to creating a press-fit force analysis, one or more computer processors retrieve a force press-fit data from a press-fit machine based on a press cycle. One or more computer processors calculate a deformation force of the press cycle based on the press-fit data and storing the deformation force. One or more computer processors create a predictive control model based on the deformation force and determine if a corrective action is required based on at least one of a raw material quality data, machine setting data, a completed lot quality data or the predictive control model. One or more computer processors determine if a corrective action is required and alert a downstream process to take the corrective action. One or more computer processors schedule a material kitting.
US10061298B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include methods, systems, and program products for controlling a machine. Methods according to the present disclosure can include: calculating, using a performance model of the machine, a set of inter-stage conditions of the machine corresponding to one of a set of input conditions and a set of output conditions during an operation of the machine, wherein the machine includes a turbine component having a fluid path therein traversing a plurality of turbine stages and a plurality of inter-stage positions; calibrating the performance model of the machine based on a difference between a predicted value in the performance model of the machine and one of the set of input conditions and the set of output conditions; and adjusting an operating parameter of the machine based on the calibrated performance model and the calculated set of inter-stage conditions of the machine.
US10061296B2
A machine control system includes an operation terminal which includes a communication unit and a touch panel unit and outputs machine operation information for operating a machine via the communication unit, a controller which controls the operation of the machine based on the received machine operation information, and a safety switch device which is mounted on the operation terminal and includes a switch unit which outputs a stop instruction signal for issuing an instruction to stop the machine, and a packet generation unit which converts the output stop instruction signal into a packet and outputs the packet to the operation terminal, wherein the operation terminal transfers the packet received from the safety switch device to the controller, and the controller restores a stop instruction signal from the packet received from the operation terminal and stops the machine based on the restored stop instruction signal.
US10061283B2
An integrated microgrid management system includes hardware operating as a node on an electrical power network. The node includes memory storing program code, a communications channel operatively connected to a plurality of controllable power devices, and a processor. In an embodiment, the processor is configured to implement a three-phase AC unbalanced model of a microgrid network, for both low and medium voltage networks. The processor is further configured to implement a topology processor that creates a map identifying controllable power devices that are connected to the network and how said controllable power devices are connected. The processor also implements an online power flow engine that uses the map and the three-phase AC unbalanced model of the network to generate commands to control the plurality of controllable power devices. Adaptive self-configuration logic and an optimization engine that performs multi-objective optimization are further disclosed.
US10061281B2
A controller support program causes an arithmetic unit to execute total execution time acquisition processing of acquiring a total execution time and output processing of outputting the total execution time. The total execution time is an elapsed time until execution of a control program is ended in an execution cycle since the execution cycle is started when a controller executes the control program according to an execution priority and the execution cycle, and the total execution time is also a time measured in the controller or a time estimated in a controller support device.
US10061278B2
A method and an arrangement of controlling simulation of a coupled hybrid dynamic system comprising a component under test and a virtual model includes driving the physical component under test of the system on a test rig over a period of time to conduct a test by applying an initial test drive signal input to the test rig to generate a test rig response. At least a portion of the test rig response is inputted into the virtual model of the system to obtain a model response of the system. A condition of the physical component under test is assessed during at least a portion of the period of time to conduct the test based on comparing another portion of the test rig response with the model response where an output relating to the assessment is recorded or rendered.
US10061276B2
A machine learning system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a state observer for observing the winding temperature, winding resistance, current value, and rotor magnetic flux density of a magnetization unit having a magnetizing yoke and windings; a reward calculator for calculating a reward from the rotor magnetic flux density obtained by the state observer; and a learning unit for updating an action value table based on a magnetization rate calculated from the rotor magnetic flux density and a target magnetic flux density, the winding temperature, and the winding resistance.
US10061275B2
A system for tuning a control system uses a simplified tuning procedure to generate robustly stabilizing tuning parameters that reduce or eliminate undesired system oscillations in the presence of long system dead times or phase lag. A control method is used to establish a relationship between the plant parameters of a controlled system and the tuning parameters of a parameterized active disturbance rejection controller determined to be optimal or substantially optimal for the control system. The plant parameters include the system gain, time constant, and dead time. Corresponding tuning parameters include the controller bandwidth and a system gain estimate. Using the system gain estimate as a tuning parameter can alleviate the influence of large dead times or phase lags on system response. Once established, these fixed relationships can be used to determine suitable tuning parameters for specific motion or process control applications based on the system gain and dominant constraints of the system.
US10061259B2
A toner guide member includes a toner discharge port that is located above and faces a toner introduction port of a waste toner container, and the toner guide member forms, in its inside, a passage of waste toner from an end portion of a drum cleaning device to a toner discharge port. A first paddle conveyance member including a plurality of first blade portions rotates in a first rotation direction in the toner guide member. A second paddle conveyance member including a plurality of second blade portions rotates in a second rotation direction that is opposite to the first rotation direction, at a position lower than the first paddle conveyance member. A pivotal trajectory of the plurality of first blade portions partially overlaps with a pivotal trajectory of the plurality of second blade portions.
US10061256B2
A driving system comprises a driving gear, a first one-way transmission assembly, a second one-way transmission assembly. The driving gear configured to rotate forward or backward. The first one-way transmission assembly comprises a first gear and a second gear coaxially coupled with the first gear. The first gear is configured to join the second gear in a rotating process in a first direction to drive the second gear to rotate in the first direction. The first gear is disconnected with the second gear in a rotating process in a direction opposite to the first direction. The second one-way transmission assembly comprises a third gear and a fourth gear coaxially coupled with the third gear. The third gear is configured to join the fourth gear in a rotating process in a second direction to drive the second gear to rotate in the second direction.
US10061251B2
An image forming apparatus includes a controller, a transmitter, a receiver, and an input receiving device. Upon the controller detecting a replacement unit that needs to be replaced, the transmitter transmits, to an external device, unit information indicating the replacement unit. The receiver receives, from the external device via a network, replacement procedure information of the replacement unit detected by the controller and identification information of a worker who is to replace the replacement unit. Upon the input receiving device receiving input of identification information that matches the identification information of the worker received by the receiver, the controller shifts an operation state of the image forming apparatus from a normal power supply mode to a unit replacement mode in which power is supplied only to predetermined components of the image forming apparatus other than the replacement unit.
US10061246B2
An image forming device includes: an image forming unit configured to form a plurality of images on continuous paper based on a job; an image pattern creation unit configured to interrupt execution of the job and create an image pattern for consuming toner; a determination unit configured to determine necessity of creating the image pattern based on coverages of the images included in the job; and a calculation unit configured to, when the determination unit determines that it is necessary to create the image pattern, calculate a conveyance distance or a conveyance time of the continuous paper until creation of the image pattern, as interruption timing.
US10061237B2
An apparatus includes a fuser assembly including a heater member. The heater member includes at least one heating element and at least one temperature sensor to sense a temperature of the heating element. A first power control unit is coupled to the at least one temperature sensor and operative to calculate at least one power level for the at least one heating element based upon at least one set-point temperature therefor and the temperature sensed by the at least one temperature sensor. A second power control unit is coupled to the first power control unit, receives the calculated at least one power level and selects, based upon the calculated power level, at least one actual power level from a stored plurality of predetermined power levels. The second power control unit controls a power for the at least one heating element based upon the selected at least one actual power level.
US10061235B2
A fixing device includes an endless fixing belt that is multilayered, an opposing rotator disposed opposite the fixing belt and pressed to the fixing belt to form a nip, a heater disposed inside the fixing belt, and a safety device including a contactless temperature sensor disposed outside the fixing belt and apart from an outer face of the fixing. The fixing belt is to rotate and thermally expand. The contactless temperature sensor detects a temperature of the fixing belt. The safety device stops heating by the heater when the temperature detected by the contactless temperature sensor is at or higher than a predetermined temperature. As the outer face of the fixing belt shifts outward in the radial direction due to thermal, a proportion of the outer face of the fixing belt in a viewing angle of the contactless temperature sensor increases.
US10061232B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, an endless intermediate transfer belt, a primary transfer member, a secondary transfer member, a displacement amount detecting device, and a control unit. The displacement amount detecting device detects displacement amounts of a reference image in a main-scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction. The reference image is formed on the intermediate transfer belt. The displacement amount detecting device includes a density detecting sensor and a surface potential sensor. The density detecting sensor detects a print density of the reference image formed on the intermediate transfer belt. The surface potential sensor detects a surface potential of the reference image. The displacement amount detecting device simultaneously detects the identical reference image using the density detecting sensor and the surface potential sensor to ensure simultaneous detections of displacement amounts in the main-scanning direction and the sub-scanning direction.
US10061230B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main casing, a developing roller, a connecting tube, and a toner container. The main casing includes a sheet supply tray. The developing roller is provided in the main casing. The connecting tube has one end portion and another end portion inside the main casing. The toner container is for accommodating toner. The one end portion of the connecting tube is connected to the toner container. The toner container has an inlet opening for replenishing toner. The toner container is pivotally movable between a first position and a second position about the connecting tube. A position of the inlet opening at the second position is higher than a position of the inlet opening at the first position.
US10061226B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer, a toner image forming device, a plurality of image density detectors, and a controller. The plurality of image density detectors are disposed at predetermined intervals opposite the image bearer in a width direction of the image bearer. The controller causes the toner image forming device to form toner image patterns having an identical density at the plurality of positions on the image bearer and the plurality of image density detectors detects a density of the toner image patterns. Based on the detected density of the toner image patterns, the controller identifies multiple cyclic fluctuations of the density of the toner image patterns and adjusts an image forming condition based on the multiple cyclic fluctuations of the density of the toner image patterns to decrease an amplitude caused by the multiple cyclic fluctuations of the density of the toner image patterns.
US10061205B2
A reflective optical element, in particular for a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus has a substrate (101), a reflection layer system (110) and a defect structure (120) of channel-shaped defects (121) which extend inward from the optical effective surface (100a), or from an interface oriented toward the substrate as far as the reflection layer system, and permit egress of hydrogen from the reflection layer system. The channel-shaped defects (121) increase a diffusion coefficient that is characteristic for the egress of the hydrogen from the reflection layer system (110) by at least 20%, in comparison to a similar layer construction without these channel-shaped defects.
US10061204B2
A mirror, in particular for a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus has an optically effective surface, wherein the mirror has a reflectivity of at least 0.5 for electromagnetic radiation which has a prescribed working wavelength and impinges on the optically effective surface at an angle of incidence based on the respective surface normal of at least 65°, wherein the mirror has at least one layer (160, 170, 320) which comprises a compound of an element of the second period and an element of the 4d transition group, wherein the mirror has a protective layer (430, 530, 630, 730) arranged on top in the direction of the optically effective surface, wherein the material of the layer (420, 510, 620, 705) arranged in each case underneath the protective layer in the direction of the optically effective surface has a lower absorption than the material of the protective layer (430, 530, 630, 730).
US10061198B2
A medical device with structure elements is made by providing a substrate; optionally depositing a layer of a sacrificial material on the substrate; and applying of a photoresist layer to the substrate. The layer of sacrificial material and structuring of the photoresist layer according to the shape of the structure elements are produced such that first free spaces are formed which are open on the side facing away from the substrate and are delimited by side faces of the photoresist layer. An angle is set between the side faces and the substrate. Sacrificial material is deposited in the first free spaces so first mask elements from sacrificial material are adapted to the inner contour of the first free spaces. The photoresist layer is removed so that second free spaces are formed between the first mask elements.
US10061197B2
Disclosed herein a vacuum ultra violet light source device that is capable of suppressing an amount of ozone generation when the vacuum ultra violet light is emitted into an atmosphere containing oxygen, a light irradiation device incorporating the vacuum ultra violet light device, and a method of patterning a self-assembled monolayer employing the light irradiation device. The light irradiation device is configured to irradiate a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) formed on a workpiece with light containing vacuum ultra violet light through a mask M on which a prescribed pattern is formed so as to perform a patterning process of the SAM. The light containing the vacuum ultra violet light to be irradiated onto the SAM is light that is pulsed light and has a duty ratio of light emission equal to or greater than 0.00001 and equal to or less than 0.01.
US10061193B2
A method includes loading a mask having a defect into a chamber. The defect of the mask is repaired by forming a repair feature in a repair region of the mask. The forming the repair feature includes irradiating the repair region of the mask with a radiation beam. The forming the repair feature further includes while irradiating the repair region, injecting a precursor gas into the chamber to form a first film of the repair feature on the repair region, and while irradiating the repair region, injecting a cleaning gas into the chamber. The cleaning gas reacts with an impurity material in the first film to transform the first film into a first cleaned film.
US10061189B2
Systems and methods for automatically generating three-dimensional panoramic images for use in various virtual reality settings are disclosed. One embodiment of the system includes a stereo camera capture device (SCD), a programmable camera controller (PCC) that rotates, orients, and controls the SCD, a robotic maneuvering platform (RMP), and a path and adaptation controller (PAC). In that embodiment, the PAC determines the movement of the system based on an original desired path and input gathered from the SCD during an image capture process.
US10061182B2
Method and systems for autofocus triggering focusing are disclosed herein. In one example, a system may include a lens, a memory component configured to store lens parameters of the lens and regions of focus corresponding to the lens parameters, and a processor coupled to the memory and the lens. The processor may be configured to focus the lens on a target object at a first instance of time, receive information indicative of distances from an imaging device to the target object over a period of time, obtain lens parameters of the lens, and determine a region of focus, and trigger the lens to re-focus on the target object if the distance to the target object indicates the target object is outside of the region of focus and the distance to the target object is unchanged for a designated time period.
US10061175B2
EC film stacks and different layers within the EC film stacks are disclosed. Methods of manufacturing these layers are also disclosed. In one embodiment, an EC layer comprises nanostructured EC layer. These layers may be manufactured by various methods, including, including, but not limited to glancing angle deposition, oblique angle deposition, electrophoresis, electrolyte deposition, and atomic layer deposition. The nanostructured EC layers have a high specific surface area, improved response times, and higher color efficiency.
US10061169B2
An array substrate(6), a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display, and the array substrate(6), corresponding to a plurality of pixel regions, each of which comprises a second electrode(2) and a third electrode(3) on a side close to a liquid crystal layer(30), the second electrode(2) comprising at least one second electrode strip, the third electrode(3) comprising at least one third electrode strip; each of the pixel regions of the array substrate(6) further comprising a fourth electrode(4) on the side close to the liquid crystal layer(30), the fourth electrode(4) comprising at least one fourth electrode strip located between the second electrode strip and the third electrode strip that are adjacent; and an electric potential of the fourth electrode(4) falling between an electric potential of the second electrode(2) and an electric potential of the third electrode(3).
US10061165B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a scanning line, a first relay electrode, a second relay electrode, a first contact portion opposed to the first relay electrode, and a second contact portion opposed to the second relay electrode, and a spacer, a first contact hole for connecting the first relay electrode and the first contact portion being located on one side with respect to the scanning line, a second contact hole for connecting the second relay electrode and the second contact portion being located on the other side with respect to the scanning line, the spacer being located between the first contact hole and the second contact hole.
US10061162B2
The present disclosure relates to a liquid crystal display device and a fabricating method thereof. The device includes a thin film transistor formed on a lower substrate, a pixel electrode formed on the lower substrate, a planarization layer formed on an entire surface of the lower substrate, a black matrix formed on the upper substrate, a color filter layer formed on a upper substrate, partition walls formed on the upper substrate and forming a space corresponding to a seal pattern insertion groove, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, and a seal pattern inserted between the seal pattern insertion groove located on the non-display region of the lower substrate and the upper substrate and the partition walls.
US10061161B2
An embodiment of the present disclose provides a method for manufacturing alignment film, including: providing a mixture of a liquid crystal material and an alignment film precursor material; filling the mixture of the liquid crystal material and the alignment film precursor material between an upper substrate and a lower substrate to form a mixed liquid crystal layer; sealing the mixed liquid crystal layer in a liquid crystal cell; aligning the liquid crystal material in the mixed liquid crystal layer in a first predetermined direction; gathering the alignment film precursor material in the mixed liquid crystal layer onto at least one the upper substrate and the lower substrate; and curing the alignment film precursor material gathered on the at least one of the upper substrate and the lower substrate to form an alignment film, wherein an alignment channel in a second predetermined direction is formed in the alignment film.
US10061156B2
Provided is a technique for controlling the hue of an image when the image is displayed on a display panel so that the image should not be displayed with a hue different from the actual hue. The display device includes a display panel that includes an active matrix substrate 11a and a counter substrate 11b, and a reflection unit 12. The active matrix substrate 11a includes gate lines and source lines 24, and includes a plurality of pixel areas that are defined by the gate lines and the source lines 24. The counter substrate 11b includes color filters 31R, 31G, 31B of R, G, B at positions corresponding to the pixel areas. The reflection unit 12 transmits light from the light source 14, and reflects light from the active matrix substrate 11a. The pixel areas of R, G, B have reflection areas that reflect light from the reflection unit 12 so that the respective amounts of light outgoing from the above-described pixel areas are approximately uniform.
US10061151B2
Disclosed is a display device that may include a plurality of pixels on a substrate; and a light shielding layer on the substrate that defines or partitions the plurality of pixels, wherein the light shielding layer includes a plurality of nanoparticles, each comprising a core and a shell outside the core, and wherein the core includes a metal oxide, and the shell includes an insulating material.
US10061149B2
Disclosed is a nanocapsule liquid crystal display device. The display includes a liquid crystal panel having a substrate and a nanocapsule liquid crystal layer over the substrate; a first polarizing plate on an outer surface of the substrate and including a first polarizing layer; and a second polarizing plate directly on an outer surface of the nanocapsule liquid crystal layer and including a second polarizing layer and a phase difference layer, wherein a retardation of the nanocapsule liquid crystal layer is compensated by the phase difference layer.
US10061141B2
A hinge for a spectacles frame, comprising a front-face element, a side element and a connecting element connecting said front-face element to said side element, said connecting element comprising a base member, mounted in the side element, and a head member, housed in the front-face element, the base member being articulated directly to said head member about a vertical first axis of articulation, the head member of the connecting element being articulated directly to the front-face element about a horizontal second axis of articulation.
US10061139B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to optical devices comprising planar lenses. In one aspect, an optical device includes two or more planar lenses, and one or more dielectric layers. Each planar lens includes a non-periodic, sub-wavelength grating layer, and each dielectric layer is disposed adjacent to at least one planar lens to form a solid structure. The two or more planar lenses are substantially parallel and arranged to have a common optical axis so that light transmitted through the optical device substantially parallel to the optical axis is refracted by the two or more planar lenses.
US10061134B2
A multi-view display comprises a display panel comprising a regular array of pixels, each pixel comprising a rectangular array of sub-pixels of at least three colors, with a sub-pixel pitch in the row direction of r and a sub-pixel pitch in the column direction of c. A view forming arrangement is formed over the display panel and provides a view forming function in two directions. The view forming elements are arranged in grid of unit cells with a vector translation between adjacent unit cells which is designed such that the distribution of primary colors is equal for each view.
US10061132B2
A beam scanning device includes a variable-wavelength laser that emits a laser beam, a plane-wave converting unit that converts the laser beam into a plane-wave laser beam, a light-intensity-distribution converting unit including a first light-intensity-distribution converting unit set to be obliquely tilted with respect to an emitting direction of the laser beam within a horizontal plane and a second light-intensity-distribution converting unit set to be obliquely tilted with respect to the emitting direction of the laser beam within a plane perpendicular to the horizontal plane and parallel to the emitting direction of the laser beam, the light-intensity-distribution converting unit converting a peak position of light intensity of the plane-wave laser beam according to a wavelength of the plane-wave laser beam, and a spherical-wave converting unit that converts the plane-wave laser beam, the peak position of the light intensity of which is converted, into a spherical-wave laser beam.
US10061125B2
An optical phased array (OPA) receiver selectively detects, measures and differentiates between the amplitudes and directions of signals received from different directions. Because the OPA changes the direction that it looks toward electronically and without the use of any mechanical movements, the OPA is fast, has an enhanced sensitivity, and can be used in a wide variety applications, such as lens-free imaging systems. The OPA is adapted to dynamically control the array of optical elements and focus on the area of interest. The OPA achieves a higher numerical aperture compared to imaging systems that use conventional lens, thereby effectively maintaining a relatively large field of view and collection area concurrently. The OPA may be readily scaled by increasing its array size. Furthermore, because the OPA is relatively flat, it is ideally suited for small form factor applications such as cell phones and tablets.
US10061124B2
A diffractive beam expander for use in an augmented-reality display is disclosed. The device can include a optical substrate with a first diffractive optical element having a first diffractive grating disposed on one surface and a second diffractive grating disposed on the opposing surface. Portions of the first and second diffractive gratings overlap to define an in-coupling area configured to receive a beam of incoming light. The first diffractive optical element expands at least part of the received light beam by odd-order diffraction expansion in a first region and a second region and expands at least part of the received light beam by even-order diffraction expansion in a third region. The light components by the first diffractive optical element are then coupled into a second diffractive optical element, which is configured to out-couple at least part of the expanded diffracted light components to exit the substrate by diffraction.
US10061123B2
Methods for improving the performance of electrophoretic media with the addition of acetylene surfactants comprising hydroxyl groups. In particular, the described acetylene surfactants reduce ghosting while improving the contrast ratio in electrophoretic displays.
US10061122B2
An optimized design method for manufacturing a Fresnel grating is disclosed, including the following steps: (1) making a Fresnel surface type of the Fresnel grating equivalent to a curved surface type, and determining, based on the curved surface type to which the Fresnel surface type is equivalent, an optical path difference function of the Fresnel grating: Φ (λ)=
US10061120B2
An optical scanner comprises a light source and an MEMS mirror. The light source emits a light beam. The MEMS mirror has a reflecting surface for reflecting the light beam coming from the light source. The light source is configured in such a manner that the optical axis of the light beam vertically irradiates the reflecting surface of the MEMS mirror at a specific position.
US10061112B1
An apparatus is provided which may be selectively used in a variety of different ways. In one example the apparatus may be attached to one or more preexisting optical accessories to allow a user to view external environmental information concurrently when looking through the ocular lens of an optical device. Advantageously, such an implementation may permit a user to effectively obtain environmental data without moving away from an optical device. In another example, an optical system may be used to selectively attach an external device to an optical device to transmit environmental data recorded by the external device in order to superimpose an image through an ocular lens to be displayed concurrently with a target scene.
US10061107B2
Systems and techniques for an optical scanning microscope and/or other appropriate imaging system includes components for scanning and collecting focused images of a tissue sample and/or other object disposed on a slide. The focusing system described herein provides for determining best focus for each snapshot as a snapshot is captured, which may be referred to as “on-the-fly focusing.” The devices and techniques provided herein lead to significant reductions in the time required for forming a digital image of an area in a pathology slide and provide for the creation of high quality digital images of a specimen at high throughput.
US10061098B2
A system includes a dome-shaped optical component having a substantially circular edge and a mounting base for the optical component. A recess is in an outer surface of the optical component. A projection on an inner surface of the mounting base and is configured to engage the recess. An adhesive material is between the optical component and the mounting base. The adhesive material forms an upper band and a lower band with a void between the upper band and the lower band. The void is positioned relative to the recess in the outer surface of the optical component such that a bending stress in the optical component at the recess is less than what the bending stress would be without the void. A heater is inside and thermally coupled to the optical component.
US10061091B2
A cable sealing device including an attaching part securable to the cable; a fixation part adapted to be mountable on the attaching part; and a sealing part. The attaching part includes outer locking faces. The fixation part has inner abutment faces adapted to co-operate with the outer locking faces to axially and rotationally lock the fixation part relative to the attaching part. The sealing part includes an inner seal and an outer seal. The sealing part also includes a second securing arrangement that is configured to engage a first securing arrangement of the fixation part to axially and rotationally lock the sealing part to the fixation part.
US10061088B1
A first waveguide portion receives light from an energy source in a fundamental transverse electric (TE00) mode. A mode converter converts a portion of the light to higher-order transverse electric (TE10) mode. A second waveguide portion receives the light at the TE10 mode and delivers the light to a near-field transducer that heats a recording medium in response thereto. An optical spatial mode filter prevents remnant light in the TE00 mode from affecting the recording medium while passing the light at the TE10 mode.
US10061074B1
A light directing apparatus is disclosed. The light directing apparatus includes light directing structures that are configured to receive light from a light emitting apparatus, a first plurality of spaces that separate the light directing structures in a first direction and a second plurality of spaces that separate the light directing structures in a second direction. A dimension of the first plurality of spaces and a dimension of the second plurality of spaces increases with distance from the light emitting apparatus.
US10061069B2
A method for design and fabrication of holographic optical elements for a compact holographic sight is proposed. The method includes use of ray-trace software to design holographic elements having optical power using an intermediate hologram with parameters obtained through minimization of the merit function defining image quality.
US10061067B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a polarizing plate which has high productivity and can suppress water-induced unevenness, and a method for producing the same. A polarizing plate includes: a retardation film provided on one surface of a polarizer with an adhesive layer interposed therebetween; and a protective film provided on the other surface of the polarizer with an adhesive layer interposed therebetween. The retardation film contains a cellulose resin. After the polarizing plate is immersed in water at 23° C. for 24 hours in a state where the polarizing plate is bonded to a glass plate, and taken out from the water, the polarizing plate has a dimensional change rate of 0.1% or less after 1 minute under an atmosphere of a temperature of 23° C. and humidity of 55%.
US10061058B2
A dynamic signal to noise ratio tracking system enables detection and tracking of amusement park equipment within the field of view of the tracking system. The tracking system may include an emitter configured to emit electromagnetic radiation within an area, a detector configured to detect electromagnetic radiation reflected back from vehicles within the area, and a control unit configured to evaluate signals from the detector to survey the amusement park equipment to determine whether the equipment has degraded or shifted.
US10061057B2
A method for forming a molded proximity sensor with an optical resin lens and the structure formed thereby. A light sensor chip is placed on a substrate, such as a printed circuit board, and a diode, such as a laser diode, is positioned on top of the light sensor chip and electrically connected to a bonding pad on the light sensor chip. Transparent, optical resin in liquid form is applied as a drop over the light sensor array on the light sensor chip as well as over the light-emitting diode. After the optical resin is cured, a molding compound is applied to an entire assembly, after which the assembly is polished to expose the lenses and have a top surface flush with the top surface of the molding compound.
US10061053B2
A method for estimating a property of a subsurface material includes conveying a carrier through a borehole penetrating the subsurface material and performing an NMR measurement in a volume of interest in the subsurface material using an NMR tool having an antenna disposed at the carrier. The method further includes receiving with the antenna a short build-up signal due to a short magnetization build-up time of the NMR measurement, an echo-train signal with short polarization time due to the NMR measurement, and an echo-train signal with long polarization time due to the NMR measurement. The method further includes inverting, simultaneously, the short build-up signal, the short-polarization-time echo-train signal, and the long-polarization-time echo-train signal using a processor to estimate the property; and transmitting a signal comprising the property to a signal receiving device.
US10061052B2
Systems, methods, and software for modeling subterranean formation viscosity are described. In some aspects, a method of training a subterranean fluid viscosity model based on NMR data includes accessing multiple relaxation-time distributions generated from NMR measurements of a fluid, normalizing each relaxation-time distribution to a common normalizing value, computing parameters for a plurality of weighted radial basis functions from the normalized relaxation-time distributions, and producing a subterranean fluid viscosity model that includes the weighted radial basis functions and the computed parameters.
US10061045B2
Methods and apparatuses for obtaining and/or processing slip sweep seismic survey data. The methods compute harmonic weight ratios using two types of data: 1) direct survey data where a harmonic sweep does not overlap with the fundamental component of responses of Earth interior and 2) another set of data representative of fundamental component of responses of Earth interior where the harmonic sweep does overlap with the fundamental component of responses of Earth interior. The set of data representative fundamental component of responses of Earth interior can be extracted from ground force measurements or a different sweep. The harmonic weight ratios using ground force measurements at overlapped frequencies may be calibrated with one or more harmonic weight ratios at non-overlapped frequencies.
US10061040B2
Disclosed herein is a method of making an apparatus suitable for detecting x-ray, the method comprising: obtaining a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, wherein the substrate comprises an electronics system in or on the substrate, wherein the substrate comprises a plurality of electric contacts are on the first surface; obtaining a first chip comprising a first X-ray absorption layer, wherein the first X-ray absorption layer comprises an electrode; bonding the first chip to the substrate such that the electrode of the first X-ray absorption layer is electrically connected to at least one of the electrical contacts.
US10061039B2
An apparatus includes a plurality of first groups having same configurations and arranged in a row direction and a column direction, each of the first groups including a plurality of pixels for obtaining a radiation image and at least one detection section for detecting an amount of incident radiation, and a plurality of detection signal lines connected to the plurality of detection sections. Two of the plurality of first groups which are arranged in the column direction are shifted from each other in the row direction, and the detection sections included in the two groups are connected to different detection signal lines in the plurality of detection signal lines.
US10061036B2
A radiation detector includes a substrate, a plurality of device sections each disposed separately from the substrate and each including a photoelectric conversion device, a buried layer formed in a region between the device sections, and a wavelength conversion layer that is formed on the plurality of device sections and converts entered radiation into light. Any of the device sections includes a first surface that faces the wavelength conversion layer, and a second surface that faces the substrate, and an upper end of the buried layer is disposed at a position higher than the second surface of the any of the device sections.
US10061022B2
A sonar system to image the seabed, comprises at least one emission antenna to emit an acoustic beam covering a useful angular sector delimited by a first direction and a second direction, the distance between the antenna and the seabed being more significant in the first direction than in the second direction. The emission device is configured to form an emission pattern whose maximum is situated substantially in the first direction and which decreases from the first direction to the second direction and from the first direction in the sense opposite to the second direction, the energy attenuation being faster in the sense opposite to the second direction than toward the second direction.
US10061016B2
A cascaded radar system is provided that includes a master radar system-on-a-chip (SOC) with transmission signal generation circuitry and a slave radar SOC coupled to an output of the master radar SOC to receive a signal from the transmission signal generation circuitry of the master SOC. In this system, the slave radar SOC is operable to measure phase noise in the signal received from the transmission signal generation circuitry of the master SOC.
US10061012B2
A ranging and tracking system and method employs a Coherent Array Reconciliation Tomography (CART) approach that benefits from a series of samples gathered from deployed receivers in an area of interest, and applies a sequence of matrix operations and transformations to data defining locations in a Cartesian grid space for summing constructive characteristics in a received waveform for identifying a leading edge indicative of a time of arrival (TOA) from a signal source, and computing a metric based on the distance to the signal source. Sampled waveform information (data) from multiple locations in the area of interest allows computation of a likelihood metric for each location in the grid space of containing the signal source. Rendering of the grid space location having the highest likelihood metric illustrates a position of the signal source, and may be graphically depicted clustering of the locations depicting a high likelihood.
US10061010B2
A method for determining a distance between a device and an object, the method comprising: emitting an acoustic reference signal from a speaker of the device; receiving an acoustic input signal at a microphone of the device, the acoustic input signal including a measurement portion including a reflection of the acoustic reference signal off the object; cross correlating at least the measurement portion with the emitted acoustic reference signal to provide a cross correlated signal; receiving information relating to the object; extracting a section of the cross correlated signal corresponding to reflection of the acoustic reference signal by the object, based on the received information; analyzing the extracted section of the cross correlated signal to determine a time of flight between emitting the acoustic reference signal and receiving the reflection; and determining the distance between the device and the object based on the determined time of flight and known characteristics of the acoustic reference signal. A chipset for performing the method is also disclosed.
US10061006B2
A magnetic resonance method and system are provided for projection MR imaging of vascular structures within a subject, with scan times that are shorter than those needed for conventional techniques. Image acquisition sequences are synchronized with heartbeat cycles of the subject, and are configured to generate image data having a reduced spatial resolution in the projection direction perpendicular to a preselected projection plane. A reduction factor F quantifies this reduced resolution, such that the number of data acquisition sequences provided within each heartbeat cycle is F times as many as a comparable imaging protocol that generates full-resolution data. The total scan time can be reduced by a factor of F with negligible degradation in the projection image quality.
US10061003B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a method for acquiring MR data at resolutions down to tens of microns for application in in vivo diagnosis and monitoring of pathology for which changes in fine tissue textures can be used as markers of disease onset and progression. Bone diseases, tumors, neurologic diseases, and diseases involving fibrotic growth and/or destruction are all target pathologies. Further the technique can be used in any biologic or physical system for which very high-resolution characterization of fine scale morphology is needed. The method provides rapid acquisition of signal at selected values in k-space, with multiple successive acquisitions at individual k-values taken on a time scale on the order of microseconds, within a defined tissue volume, and subsequent combination of the multiple measurements in such a way as to maximize SNR. The reduced acquisition volume, and acquisition of only signal values at select places in k-space, along selected directions, enables much higher in vivo resolution than is obtainable with current MRI techniques.
US10060998B2
An arrangement for setting the spatial profile of a magnetic field in a working volume of a main field magnet (2), in particular a superconducting main field magnet, of a magnetic resonance installation. The main field magnet is arranged in a cryostat (1) and the spatial profile is set by a passive shim apparatus (3) with magnetic field forming elements which are arranged within the cryostat during operation and which have cryogenic temperatures. The magnetic resonance installation contains a room temperature tube (4), in which the sample volume is situated during operation. The passive shim apparatus is introduced into or removed from the cold region of the cryostat via a vacuum lock (5), without needing to ventilate the cold region of the cryostat. This provides a relatively simple, cost effective, and time-efficient method to carry out a stable field homogenization using a passive shim apparatus.
US10060997B2
To prevent image quality deterioration of an image due to a variable magnetic field generated by a fan motor provided in a position where a measuring magnetic field leaks, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus has a gantry including a static magnetic field generating magnet; a gradient magnetic field generating coil; and an irradiation coil, a table for placing the object, and an input/output device including a display device and is provided with at least a pair of cooling fan motors arranged almost symmetrically to the central axis that extends along the long-axis direction of the cylindrical space and is located in the center in the horizontal direction of the static magnetic field generating magnet or the vertical plane passing through the central axis.
US10060996B2
A gradient magnetic field coil device has a main coil arrangement formed by embedding into first resin multiple main coils for generating a gradient magnetic field and a leakage magnetic field, and a shield coil arrangement formed by embedding into second resin multiple shield coils for suppressing the leakage magnetic field, wherein the shield coil arrangement includes a facing area that faces the main coil arrangement and is fixed to the main coil arrangement, and a protruding area that protrudes beyond the main coil arrangement, wherein insulated reinforcing members are embedded into the second resin in the protruding area. Multiple reinforcing members are arranged in a circumferential direction of the shield coil arrangement, and the second resin is preferably filled between the adjacent-to-each-other reinforcing members. The reinforcing members are preferably arranged toward the main coil arrangement with respect to the shield coils.
US10060995B2
Systems and methods for rapidly ramping the magnetic field of a superconducting magnet, such as a superconducting magnet adapted for use in a magnetic resonance imaging system, are provided. The magnetic field can be rapidly ramped up or down by changing the current density in the superconducting magnet while monitoring and controlling the superconducting magnet's temperature to remain below a transition temperature. A superconducting switch is used to connect the superconducting magnet and a power supply in a connected circuit. The current generated by the power supply is then adjusted to increase or decrease the current density in the superconducting magnet to respectively ramp up or ramp down the magnetic field strength in a controlled manner. The ramp rate at which the magnetic field strength is changed is determined and optimized based on the operating parameters of the superconducting magnet and the current being generated by the power supply.
US10060988B2
A semiconductor device is performed a cell voltage measurement control for measuring each cell voltage of each target battery cell among a plurality of battery cells connected in series, using a difference voltage output circuit having first and second input terminals. In the measurement control, first and second connection states are formed with respect to each target battery cell so that each cell voltage is sequentially measured. Anode and cathode of each target battery cell are connected to the first and second input terminals in the first connection state, respectively, and the anode and cathode are connected to the second and first input terminal in a second connection state, respectively. Among the first and second connection states, a connection state that is first formed for a current target battery cell is the same as a connection state that has been last formed for a previous target battery cell.
US10060978B2
A method and circuits are provided for implementing enhanced scan data testing using an XOR network to prioritize faults to be simulated during diagnostic isolation, and reducing the number of faults requiring re-simulation. A test is run, scan data are applied to scan channels using the XOR network and the output scan data are unloaded. A list of possible faults is identified based on pin flips, and the possible faults to be simulated during diagnostic isolation are prioritized by a number of occurrences in the list, and possible faults are further graded to reduce the number of possible faults requiring re-simulation.
US10060976B1
Systems and methods disclosed herein provide for automatically diagnosing mis-compares detected during simulation of Automatic Test Pattern Generation (“ATPG”) generated test patterns. Embodiments of the systems and methods provide for determining the origin of a mis-compare based on an analysis of the generated test patterns with a structural simulator and a behavioral simulator.
US10060973B1
Described herein are various technologies pertaining to identifying counterfeit integrated circuits (ICs) by way of allowing the origin of fabrication to be verified. An IC comprises a main circuit and a test circuit that is independent of the main circuit. The test circuit comprises at least one ring oscillator (RO) signal that, when energized, is configured to output a signal that is indicative of a semiconductor fabrication facility where the IC was manufactured.
US10060971B2
Embodiments herein describe the design of a scan cell within an integrated circuit. The scan cell comprises a memory element, e.g., a flip-flop, and a plurality of output buffer stages. The scan cell also comprises selection logic, e.g., a plurality of transistors. The selection logic selectively activates and deactivates one or more of the plurality of output buffer stages in response to a scan enable signal to change an output latency of the scan cell. The scan cell operates in either a test mode or a normal functional mode according to the scan enable signal. The output latency of the scan cell is changed to mitigate or prevent hold violations.
US10060962B2
A system and method for tuning a transformer is provided. A transformer fixture may connect a switching network to a plurality of inductors of a transformer. At least one computing device may calculate a target number of turns for a primary coil and a secondary coil of the transformer based on a frequency response of the transformer. The switching network may connect the inductors of the transformer together in a pattern that results in the primary coil and secondary coil having the target number of turns.
US10060952B2
A sensor includes a core, first and second windings, an integrating amplifier circuit and a DC stabilization circuit. The first and second windings are wrapped around the core. The integrating amplifier circuit has a first input coupled to receive a sensed current from the first winding, and an output operably coupled to provide a current the second winding. The integrating amplifier circuit is configured to generate a phase shift from an input current received at the first input and the current provided to the second winding. The DC stabilization circuit includes a first resistive path coupled between the output of the integrating amplifier circuit and the first input of the integrating amplifier circuit, and a second resistive path coupled between the first winding and the first input of the integrating amplifier circuit.
US10060947B2
The invention refers to a method for analyzing a defect of an optical element for the extreme ultra-violet wavelength range comprising at least one substrate and at least one multi-layer structure, the method comprising the steps: (a) determining first data by exposing the defect to ultra-violet radiation, (b) determining second data by scanning the defect with a scanning probe microscope, (c) determining third data by scanning the defect with a scanning particle microscope, and (d) com-bining the first, the second and the third data.
US10060946B2
An electron vibrometer includes: an electron source providing a beam of primary electrons; a cantilever including: a receiver portion including: a gradient in thickness, a gradient in mass, atomic number of constituent atoms, or a combination thereof, the cantilever being disposed relative to the electron source such that the receiver portion of the cantilever receives the beam of primary electrons, and produces a plurality of scattered electrons from the receiver portion in response to receipt of the beam of primary electrons; and a charged particle detector that receives the plurality of scattered electrons from the receiver portion, and produces a detector signal comprising an amplitude that varies in relation to the gradient subject to receipt of the primary electrons, and the detector signal providing determination of the displacement of the cantilever.
US10060943B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to maximizing a signal to noise ratio of an accelerometer by inhibiting signals arising from movements of a proofmass in directions perpendicular to a direction of intended sensitivity. The direction of intended sensitivity of the accelerometer is along an axis of the proofmass. The accelerometer is rendered substantially insensitive to lateral accelerations of the proofmass by making the accelerometer axially symmetric. Two axially-asymmetric acceleration sensing devices are axially engaged in such a manner as to render the coupled sensing devices substantially axially-symmetric. In some embodiments, each acceleration sensor has an axially-thin membrane portion extending from a proofmass portion. The two acceleration sensors can be engaged in an antiparallel fashion at projecting ends of the proofmass portions. An engagement surface will be located about halfway between the axially-thin membrane portions of the two acceleration sensors, thereby causing mechanical symmetry about the engagement surface.
US10060939B2
A system and method are described that allow the autonomous collection of relevant data and samples from a patient during a clinical trial or during routine care. Sampling is accomplished by drawing multiple samples into tubing, such as microfluidic tubing, and using a pump to move the samples through the tubing. A spacer fluid is provided to separate each sample and to prevent contamination between each. A microcontroller is used to control the operation of the pump and to gather data about the patient from the electronic medical record or other alternative inputs, and the sampling, including data from onboard sensors.
US10060937B2
This disclosure describes the design and function of a bead-based lab-on-a-chip portable analyzer for analyzing biomarker assay cards used in point-of-care testing.
US10060929B2
A novel imaging reagent and gel-based method for analyzing and comparing phosphoproteomes on the same gel are disclosed herein.
US10060926B2
Provided are a composition, a kit, and a method of predicting prognosis of ovarian cancer or a risk of recurrence of ovarian cancer. Provided are a composition for treating ovarian cancer or preventing recurrence of ovarian cancer and a method of screening a material for treating ovarian cancer or preventing recurrence of ovarian cancer. According to the present disclosure, prognosis or recurrence of ovarian cancer can be efficiently diagnosed, and a candidate material that can treat ovarian cancer or prevent recurrence of ovarian cancer can be efficiently screened.
US10060918B2
Dual-functional nonfouling surfaces and materials, methods for making dual-functional nonfouling surfaces and materials, and devices that include dual-functional nonfouling surfaces and materials. The dual-functional surfaces are nonfouling surfaces that resist non-specific protein adsorption and cell adhesion. The dual-functional surfaces and materials include covalently coupled biomolecules (e.g., target binding partners) that impart specific biological activity thereto. The surfaces and materials are useful in medical diagnostics, biomaterials and bioprocessing, tissue engineering, and drug delivery.
US10060910B2
Provided is a composition comprising an analyte bound to a polymer where the analyte is less than about 2000 MW and the polymer further comprises more than one signal or first member of a second binding pair. Also provided is an assay for an analyte comprising combining a sample suspected of containing the analyte with the above-described composition and a binding agent that binds to the analyte; and detecting the signal or the first member of the second binding pair that is bound to the binding agent. Additionally provided is a multisignal labeling reagent comprising a first polymer covalently bound to (a) a reactive group or a first member of a first binding pair, and (b) more than one digoxigenin molecule.
US10060908B2
Low levels of antibodies reactive with oxidized Cardiolipin (oxCL) in mammals are related to an increased risk of developing cardiovascular diseases, auto-immune diseases or inflammatory conditions. High levels can have a protective function and in general there is a negative association between manifestations of these conditions and antibodies against oxCL. Thus, based on their relations methods of monitoring, determining and diagnosing as well as methods of immunization and therapy of these diseases and conditions are provided.
US10060907B2
The present invention relates to a chemical compound or a salt or solvate thereof being a phenazine-, phenanthridine-, phenanthroline-, quinoline-, quinoxaline-, acridine-isoquinoline-, pyrazine- or pyridine-derivative comprising a conjugated π-system and a π-acceptor group, and to uses thereof. The present invention further relates to a chemistry matrix and to a test element comprising the chemical compound of the present invention. The present invention also relates to a method of determining the amount of an analyte in a test sample, comprising contacting said test sample with a chemical compound, with a chemistry matrix, or with a test element of the invention and estimating the amount of redox equivalents liberated or consumed by the chemical compound, by the chemical compound comprised in said chemistry matrix, or by the chemical compound comprised in said test element, in the presence of said test sample, thereby determining the amount of an analyte in said test sample. Moreover, the present invention relates to a system comprising a test element according to the present invention and a device comprising a sensor for measuring the amount of redox equivalents liberated or consumed.
US10060897B2
This tank device comprises a fuel gas tank that stores fuel gas to be supplied to a gas consuming device, a first pressure sensor that detects the gas pressure when the fuel gas tank is filled with gas, a second pressure sensor that detects the pressure of the fuel gas supplied from the fuel gas tank to the gas consuming device, and a sensor output evaluation unit. The sensor output evaluation unit determines the gas pressure differential between the gas pressure detected by the first pressure sensor when the fuel gas tanks is filled with gas and the gas pressure detected by the second pressure sensor when the fuel gas is first supplied from the fuel gas tank to the gas consuming device after the gas filling, makes a judgment that there is not an output abnormality is any of the first and second pressure sensors if the gas pressure differential is within a given threshold value, and makes a judgement that there is an output abnormality in either of the first and second pressure sensors if the gas pressure differential is beyond the given threshold value.
US10060893B2
A dual-function heat indicator for monitoring two or more modes of heat exposure is described. A manufacturing process for the dual-function heat indicator is also described. Dual-function heat indicators as described may be useful for monitoring the exposure of host products, with which the dual-function heat indicators may be associated, to cumulative ambient heat exposure and to a peak ambient heat exposure, and for other purposes.
US10060891B1
A system and method for the substantially continuous measurement of the total alkalinity of a sample solution, which includes, equilibrating a sample solution and a gas at a chosen CO2 fugacity across a gas permeable membrane, measuring the equilibrium pH of the equilibrated solution in an optical cell using a spectrophotometric pH indicator and calculating the total alkalinity of the solution from the equilibrium pH measurement of the solution and a known partial pressure of CO2.
US10060888B2
A micro gas chromatograph includes one or more separator columns formed within a device layer. The separator columns have small channel cross sections and long channel lengths with atomic-smooth channel sidewalls enabling a high channel packaging density, multiple channels positioned on top of each other, and channel segments that are thermally decoupled from the substrates. The micro gas-chromatograph also enables electrostatic and thermal actuators to be positioned in close proximity to the separator columns such that the material passing through the columns is one or more of locally heated, locally cooled, and electrically biased.
US10060886B2
Described is a method of generating a flow having a composition gradient such as a mobile phase gradient for liquid chromatography. A pair of pumps is operated such that the initiations of pump strokes for one pump are controlled to occur between the initiations of pump strokes for the other pump so that the sequences of pump strokes fort the two pumps are interspersed in time. Initiations of the pump strokes of the second pump are offset in time relative to initiations of the pump strokes of the first pump such that variations in the flow rates of the first and second pumps due to initiation do not overlap in time. The volume of liquid contributed by a pump stroke is controlled according to the relative contribution of the respective pump to the composition gradient.
US10060878B2
An improved staining method and system is described for staining a biopolymer such as a peptide, a protein, an RNA, a DNA, an oligosaccharide or a complex containing a peptide, a protein, an RNA, a DNA, or an oligosaccharide in a matrix. The method includes the step of moving a staining reagent into the matrix using an electric force. The staining time can be dramatically reduced relative to conventional technologies. The improved staining method can particularly be used, for example, to stain proteins after gel separation. Other related methods, related kits and related systems for carrying out the staining method are also described.
US10060875B2
A method of co-functionalizing single-walled carbon nanotubes for gas sensors, which includes the steps of: fabricating single-walled carbon nanotube interconnects; synthesizing tin oxide onto the single-walled carbon nanotube interconnects; and synthesizing metal nanoparticles onto the tin oxide coated single-walled carbon nanotube interconnects.
US10060873B2
A sensor housing having a body for housing a soil moisture sensor arrangement with sensors arranged within and along the length of the housing, the body is shaped so that there is a continuous taper from the head end having the larger outer diameter to the inserted end having the smaller outer diameter, and the volume of the opening created by an auger in the ground will provide a matching volume for the sensor housing of a predetermined volume such that the entire tapered outer surface of the sensor is adjacent the ground along the full length of the created opening. The sensors include at least a first capacitive element, and a second capacitive element that has a maximum outer diameter smaller than the maximum outer diameter of the first capacitive element.
US10060865B2
The manufactured structure is illuminated with an x-ray beam. The manufactured structure is positioned at a selected grazing angle and a selected rotation angle with respect to the x-ray beam. The selected rotation angle has been selected to enhance in-plane diffraction of reflections of the x-ray beam by the manufactured structure. A grazing in-plane diffraction beam produced by interference with the periodic feature is detected. A property of the grazing in-plane diffraction beam is determined by the critical dimension.
US10060864B2
The disclosure provides a receiver with reduced noise. The receiver includes a photodiode that generates an input signal in response to received light pulses. A pixel switch is coupled to the photodiode. An operational amplifier is coupled to the photodiode through the pixel switch. A feedback capacitor and a reset switch are coupled between a first input port and an output port of the operational amplifier. A switched resistor network is coupled to the output port of the operational amplifier. A first switched capacitor network is coupled to the switched resistor network and samples a reset voltage. A second switched capacitor network is coupled to the switched resistor network and samples a signal voltage. A subtractor receives the reset voltage and the signal voltage, and generates a sample voltage. The second switched network comprises two or more capacitors.
US10060854B2
Non-invasive device for determining the fertility and/or the sex of an egg, and corresponding method
A non-invasive device for determining the fertility and/or sex of an egg. This device obtains a spectral response, specific to the shell, to an incident light signal. The device has a focusing element configured to focus the incident light signal on a surface portion and/or an internal portion of at least one layer of the shell, and elements for determining the fertility and/or sex of the egg as a function of the spectral response specific to the shell.
US10060849B2
A device and method for identifying solid and liquid materials use near-infrared transmission spectroscopy combined with multivariate calibration methods for analysis of the spectral data. Near-infrared transmission spectroscopy is employed within either the 700-1100 nm or the 900-1700 nm wavelength range to identify solid or liquid materials and determine whether they match specific known materials. Uses include identifying solid (including powdered) and liquid materials with a fast measurement cycle time of about 2 to 15 seconds and with a method that requires no sample preparation, as well as quantitative analysis to determine the concentration of one or more chemical components in a solid or liquid sample that consists of a mixture of components. A primary application of such analysis includes detection of counterfeit drug tablets, capsules and liquid medications.
US10060837B2
Disclosed is a differential pressure volume flow air sampler that measures temperature in a collection cavity, differential pressure between the measured ambient pressure and air pressure in a collection cavity. These parameters are used to calculate the volume air flow across a collection disk using a processor which adjusts a blower to maintain a substantially constant volume air flow through said air sampler from the surrounding atmosphere.
US10060835B1
In one embodiment, a technique is provided for optimizing selection of hydrants for flow test in a water distribution system. An impact database is built that indicates whether a flow test at each hydrant in the water distribution system has an impact on each pipe of the water distribution system. When a user supplies a number of hydrants to be subject to flow test, a hydrant selection solver application may search for an optimized set of hydrants for flow test that includes the user-supplied number, the searching to include generating candidate sets of hydrants and evaluating the candidate sets of hydrants based on fitness values calculated using the impact database, each fitness value to evaluate performance of a candidate set of hydrants based on flow velocity or hydraulic gradient change in pipes.
US10060817B2
Disclosed is an integrated circuit, comprising a semiconductor substrate carrying a plurality of circuit elements; and a pressure sensor including a cavity on said semiconductor substrate, said cavity comprising a pair of electrodes laterally separated from each other; and a flexible membrane over and spatially separated from said electrodes such that said membrane interferes with a fringe field between said electrodes, said membrane comprising at least one aperture. A method of manufacturing such an IC is also disclosed.
US10060816B2
Embodiments relate to sensors and more particularly to structures for and methods of forming sensors that are easier to manufacture as integrated components and provide improved deflection of a sensor membrane, lamella or other movable element. In embodiments, a sensor comprises a support structure for a lamella, membrane or other movable element. The support structure comprises a plurality of support elements that hold or carry the movable element. The support elements can comprise individual points or feet-like elements, rather than a conventional interconnected frame, that enable improved motion of the movable element, easier removal of a sacrificial layer between the movable element and substrate during manufacture and a more favorable deflection ratio, among other benefits.
US10060814B2
A pressure sensor includes an elongate body which deforms in response to an applied pressure having a cavity formed therein. An isolation diaphragm seals the cavity from a process fluid and is configured to deflect in response to applied process pressure from the process fluid. An isolation fill fluid in the cavity applies pressure to the elongate body in response to deflection of the isolation diaphragm thereby causing deflection of the elongate body. A deformation sensor is coupled to the elongate body and provides a sensor output in response to deformation of the elongate body which is indicative of the process pressure.
US10060809B1
Friction stabilizer pull tester apparatus and method for testing friction stabilizer type rock bolts including a pull tester toolhead comprising a tension rod with a radially expanding collet device inserted and expanded in a friction stabilizer steel tube. A confining collar on the tension rod for restricting longitudinal movement of the expanding device and outward deformation of the friction stabilizer tube at a friction stabilizer ring flange. A pre-tensioning device applies an initial force to seat apparatus and a pulling apparatus applies a greater load force to the tension rod to determine load capacity of the friction stabilizer.
US10060808B2
There is provided a torque detector configured such that a magnetic shield is fixed to a holder without the need for a component for fixation of the magnetic shield, and no backlash is caused between the magnetic shield and the holder after the magnetic shield is fixed to the holder. The torque detector has engagement grooves into which a magnetic shield is to be inserted when the magnetic shield is fitted onto outer peripheral surfaces of a first holder and a second holder. The magnetic shield has end portions to be inserted into the engagement grooves, and each of the end portions is provided with engaging members that are always engaged with inner surfaces of the engagement grooves, respectively, while being inserted into the engagement grooves, to restrict movement of the end portions in the counter-insertion direction.
US10060807B2
A system and method for monitoring bend radius and torque force exerted on a drill string. A sensor system is supported within a pipe section of the drill string and has a light source supported within the pipe section to emit a light beam within the pipe section. An optical sensing device is supported within the pipe section and spaced apart from the light source. The optical sensing device transmits a detection signal indicative of the position of the light beam on a surface of the optical sensing device to a processor that determines the bend radius and torque force exerted on the pipe section.
US10060801B2
A testing device is provided for use with a wireless power transmitter device having a wireless power transmitter coil. The testing device has a housing, the housing having a bottom side adapted for placement on a surface of the wireless power transmitter device, and a top side opposite to the bottom side. A wireless power receiver coil is provided in the housing. The testing device also has thermo sensory means and an interface to provide measurement data from the thermo sensory means. The thermo sensory means includes at least a first temperature sensor adapted to measure a temperature at a first position inside the housing, and a second temperature sensor adapted to measure a temperature at a second position external to the housing.
US10060791B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to an integrated spectral unit including a micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) interferometer fabricated within a first substrate and a light redirecting structure integrated on a second substrate, where the second substrate is coupled to the first substrate. The light redirecting structure includes at least one mirror for receiving an input light beam propagating in an out-of-plane direction with respect to the first substrate and redirecting the input light beam to an in-plane direction with respect to the first substrate towards the MEMS interferometer.
US10060784B2
A balance with a load changing device (14) that has a magazine table, mounted to be horizontally movable and having a plurality of vertical openings (26) arranged in groups. The balance (12) has a load cell (34) and a load receptor (42) with a carrier arrangement (44) corresponding to each of the groups of openings. The magazine table and the balance are height adjustable relative to each other. In a weighing position, a group of openings above the load receptor is penetrated by the carrier arrangement. In a changing position, the carrier arrangement is positioned lower than the openings in the magazine table. The magazine table is mounted at a fixed height relative to a base (16), and the balance is height adjustable relative to the base. The travel of the balance is upwardly limited by a stop (32), which is at a fixed height relative to the base.
US10060776B2
A spool, including a substantially cylindrical flange portion and a substantially cylindrical front end portion which is thinner than the flange portion and whose center axis is substantially coincident with the center axis of the flange portion, is provided in a manner capable of slidingly moving in a cavity formed in a casing. The flange portion is inserted in a first cavity which has a center axis substantially coincident with the center axis of the casing and which has an inner diameter that is substantially the same as the diameter of the flange portion in length. The front end portion is inserted in a second cavity which is formed with its center axis being substantially coincident with the center axis of the casing, and which has an inner diameter greater than the diameter of the front end portion and less than the inner diameter of the first cavity in length. The rotation limiting portion, which has a rod-like shape thinner than the front end portion and which is provided along the front end portion in a manner contacting the side surface of the front end portion, is inserted in a groove portion formed on the side face of the second cavity. When the flange portion slidingly moves along the first cavity, the rotation limiting portion slidingly moves along the groove portion.
US10060774B1
An in-line, impeller type flowmeter having an inlet flow taper section to converge flow to a measurement chamber and an outlet flow taper section after the measurement chamber, and further exhibiting a high turn-down ratio above about 30:1, and being suitable for use with a pipe having a nominal inner diameter no greater than one inch.
US10060766B2
An apparatus is disclosed for capturing image information. The apparatus includes a waveguide having opposed planar input and output faces. A diffractive optical element (DOE) is formed across the waveguide. The DOE is configured to couple a portion of the light passing through the waveguide into the waveguide. The light coupled into the waveguide is directed via total internal reflection to an exit location on the waveguide. The apparatus further includes a light sensor having an input positioned adjacent the exit location of the waveguide to capture light exiting therefrom and generate output signals corresponding thereto. A processor determines the angle and position of the coupled light with respect to the input face of the waveguide based on the output signals.
US10060761B2
Safety mat for safeguarding a technical installation, comprising a sensor, a rigid supporting body and an evaluation unit. The sensor has an active sensor area and a flexible connection region for contacting the sensor area. The flexible connection region is formed at a border of the active sensor area. The supporting body has a base with a top side and a side face which adjoins the said top side. The evaluation unit is arranged in the interior of the supporting body below the active sensor area and is configured to generate an output signal depending on the actuation of the active sensor area. The active sensor area covers the top side of the base of the supporting body completely, and the connection region of the sensor is folded around the side face through 180° and guided into the interior of the supporting body.
US10060758B2
A syringe for use with a powered injector to inject a fluid into a patient that includes a length of material adapted to transmit or propagate electromagnetic energy therethrough. The length of material includes at least a first indicator positioned along the length of material. The first indicator is adapted to interact with at least a portion of the energy being propagated through the length of material in a manner that is detectable. The presence (or absence) of the first indicator provides or corresponds to information about the syringe configuration. The indicator(s) of the present invention can, for example, provide information about syringe configuration by the number and/or position thereof. A plurality or set of such syringes can be provided, with the configuration of each such syringe being represented by the presence or absence of indicator(s) of that syringe.
US10060753B2
Computing shortcuts for cells used in cell-based routing in a mobile navigation system re-computes shortcuts based on updated traffic conditions and estimated time of arrival (ETA) at an entry to the cell. Shortcuts are computed on demand and stored in a last recently used (LRU) cache. Shortcuts are computed using cost functions stored in the LRU cache. Shortcuts are computed in accordance with metadata stored in the LRU cache. Shortcuts are optionally based on predicted ETA and future traffic conditions to provide accurate estimates of best cost routes.
US10060752B2
A mobile computing device is provided that includes a processor configured to determine a recommended route for a user of the mobile computing device to travel from a first location to a second location, the recommended route including at least a public transportation segment. The processor is further configured to detect position information for the user of the mobile computing device, detect an off-route condition during the public transportation segment based on the position information, the off-route condition indicating that the user has deviated from the recommended route during the public transportation segment by a predetermined threshold, and based on at least detecting the off-route condition during the public transportation segment, programmatically determine a new route to the second location.
US10060744B2
When one direction of plane directions of a substrate is a first direction and a direction of the plane directions of the substrate perpendicular to the first direction is a second direction, a vibrating member is supported at an outer peripheral section via a plurality of beam sections having first beam-configuring members that can displace at least in the first direction and second beam-configuring members that are joined to the first beam-configuring members and that can displace at least in the second direction. In at least a subset of the plurality of beam sections, beam-configuring members on a side of the outer peripheral section among the first beam-configuring members and the second beam-configuring members are integrated with each other.
US10060738B2
An adhesively coupled power-meter measures one or more of force, torque, power, and velocity of a mechanical arm. The power meter includes a plate with a first surface prepared for adhesively coupling to the mechanical arm. At least one strain gauge is physically coupled with a second surface, opposite the first, of the plate and with an orientation corresponding to an orientation of the adhesively coupled power meter such that mechanical forces are transferred from mechanical arm to the at least one strain gauge when the plate is adhesively coupled to the mechanical arm. The power meter also includes electronics for receiving a signal from the at least one strain gauge and for determining one or more of force, torque, power and velocity from the signal, and a wireless transmitter for transmitting one or more of force, torque, power and velocity to a receiving device.
US10060720B2
Frequency domain optical coherence imaging systems have an optical source, an optical detector and an optical transmission path between the optical source and the optical detector. The optical transmission path between the optical source and the optical detector reduces an effective linewidth of the imaging system. The optical source may be a broadband source and the optical transmission path may include a periodic optical filter.
US10060716B2
The instant application discloses, among other things, devices and techniques for using high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for detonation of explosives. In one embodiment, a device configured to hold small, disposable, ultrasonic transducer arrays suitable for disposal, detonation, or other manipulation of explosives and hazardous materials is provided.
US10060706B2
A trajectory correcting device includes a first trajectory adjustment mechanism and a second trajectory adjustment mechanism. The first trajectory adjustment mechanism is configured to change an angle between a mounting member and a sight or a second mounting member. The second trajectory adjustment mechanism is configured to rotate the sight or mounting member about an axis different than the adjustment axis of the first trajectory adjustment mechanism.
US10060691B2
A follower for use in a firearm magazine includes an elongate body defining a first plane extending between a first end portion and a second, opposite end portion. The first and second end portions define grooves therein that are disposed on respective planes oriented parallel to the elongate body.
US10060668B2
A temperature chamber in which a device is tested is connected to a temperature-controlled air source for controlling temperature of the chamber. The temperature chamber includes thermal insulation formed on side surfaces of the chamber. A universal manifold adaptor for directing the temperature-controlled air directly to a device being tested is connected to the chamber. The temperature chamber also includes an exhaust system. A self-closing cable feed-through module is connected to an outer surface of the chamber. The feed-through module includes a first portion and a second portion, wherein cables are fed through the first and second portions into the chamber in a first position and the first and second portions form a leak tight seal around the cables in a second position.
US10060664B2
The present invention relates to an ice making apparatus suitable for use in a refrigerator including a freezer compartment. The ice making apparatus includes a casing which includes an ice tray for forming ice, wherein the ice tray has one or more than one pocket for filling with water. The ice making apparatus further includes a portable refillable cartridge which has an opening for dispensing water into the ice tray and a port for releasably mounting the cartridge.
US10060657B2
A ventilation or air-conditioning device includes a first component for generating heat or cold, a programmer second component, a power supply circuit shared by the first and second components, and a controller for the power supply circuit. The first and the second components cooperate to output air at a selected temperature. The device includes a relay for cutting off the supply of power to the first component. The relay is activated separately from the controller, and is arranged in the circuit such that the supply of power to the second component is independent of the state of activation of the relay.
US10060656B2
In a pulse tube refrigerator, a gas flow passage is connected to a high-temperature end of a low-temperature side pulse tube and a compressor, such that a working gas flows in the gas flow passage. The gas flow passage includes: a first flow passage connected to the high-temperature end of the low-temperature side pulse tube; a second flow passage connected to the compressor and having an outlet facing an outlet of the first flow passage; and a housing that gastightly accommodates the outlet of the first flow passage and the outlet of the second flow passage. The housing has a gastight space communicating with the outlet of the first flow passage and the outlet of the second flow passage, the gastight space located on a side of the low-temperature side pulse tube with respect to the outlet of the first flow passage.
US10060655B2
A system includes a multi-stage cryocooler having multiple stages and a temperature control system configured to regulate temperatures of the multiple stages of the multi-stage cryocooler. The temperature control system includes an input interface configured to receive (i) temperature setpoints for the stages of the multi-stage cryocooler and (ii) temperature information corresponding to temperatures measured at the stages of the multi-stage cryocooler. The temperature control system also includes processing circuitry configured to determine temperature errors and calculate at least one of a compressor stroke error and a pressure-volume phase error. The temperature control system further includes at least one controller configured to adjust at least one of a compressor setting and a pressure-volume phase of the multi-stage cryocooler.
US10060654B2
Heat pump type heating apparatus capable of performing a continuous dual-stage operation without stopping a high stage side compressor even when a return temperature of a heating medium reaches a prescribed high temperature and, thereby, improving a sense of being insufficiently warmed due to stoppage of the high stage side compressor or a sense of being insufficiently warmed due to execution of frequent defrosting operations. The heat pump type heating apparatus includes an internal heat exchanger (a second internal heat exchanger) that performs heat exchange between a low-temperature refrigerant on a low-pressure side of a low stage side refrigeration circuit and a high-temperature refrigerant on a high-pressure side of a high stage side refrigerant circuit, a bypass pipe bypassing the internal heat exchanger, and flow path control means that controls a refrigerant flow to each of the internal heat exchanger and the bypass pipe.
US10060652B2
A geothermal heat exchanger includes a water injection pipe installed underground and receiving water supplied from above ground and a steam extraction pipe installed underground and contiguous to the water injection pipe. The steam extraction pipe has a plurality of gushing ports at its lower part, and pressure in the steam extraction pipe is decreased approximately to pressure required by a turbine. The steam extraction pipe is formed such that the diameter of the steam extraction pipe becomes smaller from the lower side of the geothermal region toward the upper side of a ground surface. Water supplied to the water injection pipe becomes high-temperature pressurized water by heat supplied from the geothermal region, and gushes from the gushing ports into the steam extraction pipe in an atomized state, and is then converted into a steam single-phase flow, and allows a power generator to conduct power generation.
US10060651B2
The present invention relates to a heat exchanger comprising a plurality of exchange tubes (1) mounted joined longitudinally in such a way as to create a front surface portion (4) creating an obstacle to an incident heat flow and at least one heat flow sensor (5) disposed in a support (12) located between two adjacent exchange tubes (1), characterized in that the support (12) of the heat flow sensor (5) is brazed to at least one of the two tubes (1) and is flattened on the side that is to be disposed at the front (4), with reference to the incident heat flow, in such a way as to be able to be inserted between the two adjacent tubes (1) at the location of said local deformations (11).
US10060650B2
The invention relates to a method for managing the heating of water in a tank of a water heater which comprises a device for electrically heating the water in the tank, characterized in that it comprises, when a water heating phase is actuated: activation of heating by the heating device, determination of a variation of the temperature in the tank over time and determination of at least one water filling state in the tank according to the variation over time.
US10060649B2
A hybrid heater includes a heater core portion connected to a cooling water inflow tube and a cooling water outflow tube at one side and having an inside through which cooling water circulates, and a PTC heater portion fastened to a front of the heater core portion, inside of which a plurality of plate-type PTC rods arranged in parallel in a horizontal direction are provided, and provided at one side with a connector that is connected electrically to the plurality of PTC rods.
US10060648B2
An conditioner including a compressor that compresses refrigerant, an outdoor unit fan that blows out the air heat-exchanged by an outdoor heat exchanger, a noise sensor that measures noise, a data part that saves noise data measured by the noise sensor, a control part that performs a low noise operation by distinguishing between ambient noise and noise made by the air conditioner based on noise measurements from the noise sensor, wherein the control part sets a target noise level according to the ambient noise, changes the operational settings of the compressor and outdoor unit fan, and controls the operation to ensure that the noise from the air conditioner does not exceed an environmental noise regulatory value.
US10060638B2
Multiple-zone chilled beam air conditioning systems for cooling multiple-zone spaces, methods of controlling chilled beams in multi-zone air conditioning systems, and chilled-beam pump modules for controlling zones of a chilled-beam heating and air conditioning system. Embodiments include a pump serving each zone that both recirculates water within the module and chilled beam and circulates water in and out of a chilled water distribution system through one or more valves to control the temperature of the water delivered to the chilled beams. Different embodiments adjust the temperature of the beam to avoid condensation, change pump speed to save energy or increase capacity, provide heating as well as cooling, use check valves to reduce the number of control valves required, can be used in two- or four-pipe systems, or a combination thereof.
US10060626B2
A gas turbine combustion chamber with a combustion chamber wall and with at least one shingle that is fastened to the combustion chamber wall at a distance from the same, wherein the shingle has a shingle edge that abuts the combustion chamber wall, wherein the combustion chamber wall and the combustion chamber shingle respectively have at least one mixed air hole, and wherein a tubular fastening element provided with a ring flange is inserted through the mixed air hole of the combustion chamber wall, abutting the side of the combustion chamber wall that is facing away from the combustion chamber shingle with the ring flange, characterized in that, at its exterior side, the fastening element is provided with first snap-in means that are in mesh with second snap-in means that are formed at a tubular snap-in element that braces the combustion chamber shingle against the combustion chamber wall.
US10060614B2
A lighting control console controls a lighting system, wherein digital adjusting commands are generated in the lighting control console, which commands can be transmitted to the lighting devices of the lighting system via data links. The lighting control console includes at least one digital processor and at least one digital memory for generating, managing and storing the adjusting commands, and wherein the lighting control console includes at least one display device for electronically displaying image elements, and wherein at least one rotary control is disposed in the operating panel of the lighting control console. The rotary control allows users to enter operating commands by rotating the rotary control. An electronic display field is disposed at the visible side of the rotary control visible to the user displays image contents related to the rotary control.
US10060613B2
An outdoor laser lamp includes a housing, a laser and a circuit board disposed inside the housing, and a lower mounting plate. A periphery of the lower mounting plate is in contact with an inner wall of the housing, a laser and a circuit board are located between the lower mounting plate and the top of the housing. Air vents are on the bottom of the housing; through holes are on the lower mounting plate, a raised ring wall surrounds each through hole and extends towards the bottom of the housing. The laser lamp realizes air circulation between outside air and the interior of the housing, realizes rapid heat dispersion of the laser lamp to ensure the functionality of the laser lamp. Additionally, it prevents water entering the space where the circuit board is arranged, to avoid the influence on the internal circuits by water.
US10060609B2
A modular lighting system for providing light in various areas includes one or more canopies, a set of bars, a set of hangers for supporting the bars from canopies and, optionally other supports, a set of pendants with light emitting elements and a set of hangers for supporting the pendants from the bars. The bars include two segments with conductive rails disposed or imbedded in their inner surfaces. The hangers have one or two rods and bases shaped and sized for mounting on the bars with the rods contacting the conductive rails. The hangers and bars cooperate to allow the hangers to be placed anywhere along the bars. Pendants can be hanged on the bars singly, or in clusters. In this manner systems can be formed easily and quickly to achieve systems having various esthetic and utilitarian configurations.
US10060606B2
A detachable rod-like decorative lighting, comprises a rod and a fancy lamp detachably connected to the top of the rod, wherein the rod comprises an outer pipe and an inner shell adapted to be inside the outer pipe; the outer pipe is a single body or consists of at least two pipes integrally formed with one another by axial connection; the inner shell is provided at the top thereof with a coaxial hole; the fancy lamp is provided at the bottom thereof with a plug connected to the top of the outer pipe by insertion and the plug is provided with a coaxial column corresponding to the coaxial hole for electric connection; and the outer pipe is provided at the top and the bottom thereof with connecting structures, respectively, for quickly matching and being fixed to the fancy lamp and the inner shell.
US10060603B2
A safety end cap assembly includes an end cap base element to be arranged at one end thereof on an end of the elongate housing, at least one connector pin extending along a longitudinal axis of the end cap base element, an electrical switch electrically connected to the connector pin and switchable between an open state and a closed state, and an end cap cover element arranged slidable on the end cap base element between a protracted position where the switch button is covered by the end cap cover element, and a retracted position, where the switch button is exposed. When protracted, the end cap cover element extends beyond the end of the end cap base element, and for sliding the end cap cover element from its protracted position to its retracted position, the end cap cover element is moved towards the end cap base element.
US10060595B1
The personalized lamp is a table lamp wherein the lampshade is able to rotate. The lampshade features a plurality of picture windows that encircle a lower portion of the lampshade. The plurality of picture windows enables pictures to be inserted therein, and rotate along with the lampshade when in use. The personalized lamp includes a base atop of which a pair of baby shoes is affixed. A vertical member of cylindrical construction extends upwardly from the base. A motor is housed where the vertical member extends from the base. The motor is in mechanical connection with a motor shaft that extends vertically within the vertical member. A rotating bushing is affixed to the motor shaft. The rotating bushing is atop of the vertical member. The rotating bushing is attached to shade arms that connect to the lampshade. A light socket is positioned above the rotating bushing.
US10060592B2
A vehicle lighting assembly that comprises: a single lens having a first and a second plurality of near-field lens elements, and an exit surface; and a first and a second LED source that directs light through the respective first and second plurality of lens elements. The first and the second plurality of lens elements are configured to transmit light in a respective spread pattern and a high-intensity pattern through the exit surface. The assemblies can be configured such that the spread pattern and the high-intensity pattern collectively meet the low beam headlight requirements set forth in any current global vehicular lighting regulation, e.g., the current U.S. NHTSA Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 108.
US10060582B2
A modular flashlight and a modular flashlight system are provided. In one example, the modular flashlight includes a base configuration that can be modified with a modular extension unit.
US10060576B2
Method, device, and apparatus for a gimbal parameter adjustment are provided. An exemplary method includes: controlling a supply of power to a motor upon detection of a gimbal parameter adjustment event, recording rotational angular velocity data of a gimbal axis controlled by the motor at respective time points, calculating angular acceleration data at the respective time points based on the rotational angular velocity data, determining a peak frequency within a predefined frequency band after performing a frequency conversion on the angular acceleration data, and configuring the peak frequency as a trap frequency of the motor to filter out a signal sending to the motor and having a frequency of the trap frequency.
US10060575B2
Road and curb partition bracket assembly comprise front and rear clamp brackets and a channel mounting bracket. Each partition bracket is drawn together by a bolt across a respective vehicle B-pillar for mounting a partition across an interior of a vehicle. The mounting of the partition bracket assembly with the partition attached is accomplished without disturbing an exterior or an interior of the B-pillars, or any contents therein on either side of the vehicle.
US10060569B2
A pipe pig is provided with linked wheels, and at least a central wheel of the linked wheels is pivotally linked to adjacent wheels through a spring loaded connection that biases the central wheel out of straight line alignment with the adjacent wheels. The pipe pig may be used to negotiate tight bends in a pipe and carry sensing electronics.
US10060566B2
A pulsation damper configured to reduce pressure peaks in a pipe system. The pulsation damper comprises an elastic pipe section arranged to be in a small volume state or a large volume state. A first volume held in the elastic pipe section in the large volume state is greater than a second volume held in the elastic pipe section in the small volume state. The elastic pipe section has an elliptical cross section in the small volume state. A ratio between a major axis and a minor axis of the elastic pipe section is in the range 1,05 to 10,0, such as 1,1 to 1,5.
US10060561B2
A connecting system connects two fluid-conducting components, such as first and second tubes, or a tube and a connecting part, or first and second pipes. The connecting system includes: a flange of a first component set back from a free end region of the first component; a flange of a second component formed at or behind a free end region of the second component; a securing device that engages a sleeve arranged at the second component so as to axially secure and align the first and second components with respect to one another; and a jacket that at least regionally covers the first component, the second component, and the securing device.
US10060558B2
A hose section (10) for a sea water suction hose (50) and a method of assembling a sea water suction hose (50) is provided. The hose section (10) comprising attachment means (18) for attaching an auxiliary hose section (20) thereto. The method of assembling the sea water suction hose (50) comprising the steps of providing at least two sea water hose sections (10) each having an attachment means (18) for attaching an auxiliary hose section (20) thereto, attaching an auxiliary hose section (20) to each sea water hose section (10), connecting the auxiliary hose sections (20) together and connecting the sea water hose sections (10) together.
US10060548B1
A torque reducer assembly including a ball screw assembly and a plunger gear assembly with a low torque allowing a single user to operate a hand wheel to open or close a valve under very high pressure without need of gear reduction and a balance stem. A gear shaft, ball screw, valve stem and gate are fixed from rotation with respect to each other but move axially together in response to rotation of a ball screw nut in the ball screw assembly. The plunger gear assembly rotates with the ball screw nut. In the engaged position, a plunger prevents rotation of the ball screw nut in the valve open direction but permits rotation of the ball screw nut in the valve close direction. In the disengaged position, the plunger permits rotation of the ball screw nut in the valve open direction and the valve close direction.
US10060545B2
In a valve closing device (4) including an emergency actuator (7, 8), the emergency actuator (7, 8) is energized by at least two independently, redundantly operable energy storage units (10, 11, 18), each of which includes charging electronics (22) that allow rechargeable batteries (19, 20) of the energy storage units (10, 11, 18) to be operated at least in a maintenance charging cycle and in a trickle charging cycle.
US10060544B2
Systems are provided for a noise attenuation device for a valve. In one example, a system may include a single noise attenuation device located below a base of a fill limit vent valve.
US10060541B1
A rotor, a valve assembly, and a method for using the rotor and valve assembly are described that provide a reversed flow path. In an implementation, a rotor that employs example techniques in accordance with the present disclosure includes a plurality of channels formed in a surface of the rotor, the surface configured to be adjacent to and interface with a stator having a plurality of ports, where at least one channel fluidically connects at least three of the plurality of ports.
US10060540B2
Disclosed is a dual flow switching device, comprising a valve body, a valve element, a spring, an inner valve seat and an outer valve seat, wherein the valve element is arranged through the valve body; the middle part of the valve element is provided with an axial liquid channel and a radial liquid channel; the valve element is provided with upper and lower sealing elements; the outlet of the radial liquid channel is located between the upper and lower sealing elements; the outer valve seat is provided in a corresponding position of the upper sealing element and the inner valve seat in a corresponding position of the lower sealing element; the spring is sleeved on the valve element, and a spring seat is provided on the valve element at the upper end of the upper sealing element. The present utility model boasts a dual-outflow channel and dual-flow outflow function.
US10060535B2
A non-contact seal assembly includes a plurality of seal shoes, a seal base and a plurality of spring elements. A first of the spring elements includes a first mount, a second mount and a spring beam. The spring beam extends a length longitudinally along a centerline from the first mount to the second mount. The spring beam includes opposing first and second surfaces. The first surface is disposed a first distance from the centerline, and the second surface is disposed a second distance from the centerline. The first distance and the second distance change as the spring beam extends longitudinally along the centerline to provide at least a portion of the spring beam with a tapered geometry. The portion of the spring beam has a longitudinal length that is at least about five percent of the length of the spring beam.
US10060533B2
The present disclosure relates to sealing systems for gas turbine engines. In one embodiment, a seal support structure for a gas turbine engine includes a seal support configured to retain a circumferential seal and an engine support configured for mounting the seal support structure to a gas turbine engine mount. The engine support includes at least one channel configured to provide radial movement of the seal support structure and circumferential retention of the seal support. Another embodiment is directed to a sealing system including a circumferential seal and seal support structure configured to provide radial movement.
US10060529B2
A method for repairing a cylinder liner includes: placing a cylinder liner having a first inner diameter and a first outer diameter into a cavity of a confinement, the cavity including a cavity inner diameter that is substantially the same as the first outer diameter of the cylinder liner; heating the cylinder liner to a temperature at which the cylinder liner undergoes plastic deformation, causing the first inner diameter of the cylinder liner to decrease; and cooling the cylinder liner. The cooled cylinder liner has a second inner diameter that is less than the first inner diameter. An apparatus for repairing a cylinder liner includes a confinement having a cavity and a fluid passageway for controlling the temperature of the confinement, and a heating block for heating the cylinder liner when the cylinder liner is inserted into the cavity.
US10060525B2
When the stop valve is in a first shifting position, a torque-transferring shift element is sealed tight against the rest of a hydraulic system by a stop valve, such that the actuating pressure enclosed in the shift element remains essentially constant or does not decrease. The stop valve is formed and arranged in the hydraulic system such that the stop valve is held in the first shifting position by the force of a barrier pressure generated by the pump, and, upon a standstill of the pump or falling below a certain value of the pressure generated by the pump, the stop valve is automatically displaceable at least through the action of the trapped shift element pressure into a second shifting position, in which the respective shift element is connected to the rest of the hydraulic system and the shift element is open.
US10060520B2
The transmission for a drive arrangement of a driven machine with an oil supply system has at least one oil collecting receptacle for supplying components of the transmission with oil for lubrication and/or cooling. The oil is supplied from the respective oil collecting receptacle via an oil supply line and an oil supply pump and is returned to the respective oil collecting receptacle subsequently via an oil return line. A vacuum pump is associated with at least one oil collecting receptacle for supplying components of the transmission with oil, and the respective oil collecting receptacle can be evacuated or partially evacuated via the vacuum pump and at least one partial interior of the transmission can be evacuated or partially evacuated indirectly via the oil collecting receptacle via the vacuum pump accompanied by the generation of a defined negative pressure.
US10060509B2
A gear motor for decreasing speed at a mechanical power output is provided with a housing; a supporting shaft disposed along an axis of the housing and fastened in the housing; a planetary gear train as a speed reducer which is rotatably supported by the supporting shaft; and an electric motor including an outer stator and an inner permanent magnet, the electric motor disposed around the planetary gear train and within the housing. The planetary gear train includes a stationary sun gear secured to the housing and coaxially disposed around the axis of the housing; a driving sun gear as a torque output; planet gear assemblies equally spaced around an outer surface of the stationary sun gear. Each planet gear assembly includes coaxial first and second gears; and a carrier pivotably supported by the supporting shaft and attached to the permanent magnet.
US10060498B2
A thrust bearing for a pressurized shock absorber has an inner sleeve, an outer sleeve and an elastomer body. The elastomer body connects the inner sleeve and the outer sleeve and is configured to delimit a pressurizable space of the shock absorber. The elastomer body has at least one sealing geometry on the inner sleeve and/or on the outer sleeve.
US10060497B2
A damping-force generating device included in a shock absorber includes: a main valve that opens and closes for controlling a flow of oil (working fluid) caused by sliding of a piston in a cylinder and thereby generates a damping force; a first pressure chamber and a second pressure chamber separated by the main valve; a compression-side inlet check valve and an extension-side inlet check valve that allow only inflow of the oil into the first pressure chamber; and a compression-side outlet check valve and an extension-side outlet check valve that allow only outflow of the oil from the second pressure chamber. The first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber are formed in a substantially double-ring structure.
US10060496B2
An air spring includes a rolling piston having a fastening section. An air spring bellows has at least a first one-sided bead portion and a buffer element. The first bead portion bears against an outer side of the fastening section. The buffer element is fixed onto the outer side of the fastening section via a snap-lock connection.
US10060494B2
A method and mount assembly comprising a screw mechanism including a sleeve rotatable relative to the first housing and defining an internal screw-thread for adjusting the stiffness in the mount assembly in a vehicle. A collar non-rotatably secured to the plate and extends axially into the sleeve and defines an external screw-thread engaging the internal screw-thread of the sleeve. The internal screw-thread and the external screw-thread are self-locking in a static condition and prevent relative rotation between the sleeve and the collar below a predetermined force therebetween. A fluid pressure in the first housing overcomes the predetermined force and causes the sleeve to rotate from the static condition for moving the collar and the plate axially to change the stiffness of the pad.
US10060489B2
A disc brake having a caliper, a piston, an operating shaft, a wear adjustment mechanism, and a transmission path. The caliper may straddle a rotor and may retain first and second brake pads. The piston may be slidable within the caliper. The operating shaft may apply an actuating force to advance the piston when the operating shaft is actuated. The transmission path of the wear adjustment mechanism may include a one-way clutch.
US10060488B2
An electromechanical brake includes a piston installed in a caliper housing so as to be movable forward and backward in an axial direction, and moves forward in the axial direction at the time of performing a braking operation so as to press a friction pad provided to clamp a disc; an actuator which provides rotational force for moving the piston; a spindle which is thread-coupled to the piston, and rotates by rotational force transmitted from the actuator to move the piston forward and backward in the axial direction; and a guide member which is provided to be integrally fixed to the caliper housing and coupled to the piston so as to restrict rotation of the piston and guide forward and backward axial movement of the piston, in which the guide member has a support portion which is coupled to the spindle and supports the spindle in the axial direction.
US10060483B2
A load limiter for a controllable air inlet of a motor vehicle and which includes a drive-side driver coupled to an engine of the motor vehicle, an output-side driver configured to relay torque from the engine to closing elements of the controllable air inlet, the output-side drive having contours configured to engage corresponding contours of the drive-side driver, the drive-side driver and the output-side driver being configured for positive interlocking contact with each other and also for axial movement relative to one another in order to disengage the positive interlock; and a bias mechanism configured to pivot the output-side driver when in the disengaged state relative to the drive-side driver.
US10060472B2
An outer peripheral surface of the small-diameter step portion is formed with an engagement groove extending in a circumferential direction. The retainer plate has a plurality of engagement claws protruding radially inward from an inner periphery of the retainer plate defining the fitting hole and configured to be engaged to the engagement groove. In a state that the fitting hole is fitted to the small-diameter step portion, the engagement claws are formed by axially pressing the inner periphery of the retainer plate, including at least thickness reduction parts formed in advance at a peripheral edge between an inner peripheral surface of the fitting hole and a side surface of the retainer plate, and plastically deforming the inner periphery of the retainer plate so as to protrude radially inward, and the engagement claws are engaged to the engagement groove.
US10060468B2
An adjustment coupler includes a first clutch member and a second clutch member. In embodiments, the first clutch member may be rotationally fixed with respect to the second clutch member when a torque applied thereto is less than a predetermined amount. When the torque is greater than or equal to the predetermined amount, the first clutch member may rotate with respect to the second clutch member. In other embodiments, the first clutch member may be rotationally fixed to the second clutch member.
US10060463B2
A clip is provided with a pin and a main body having an opening for inserting the pin. The pin has a flange and a shaft extending down from the flange. The outer circumference of the flange curves downward. The main body has a bottom, a pair of latching claws downward from the bottom through the opening, support legs extending downward from the bottom between the latching claws, an annular loop element on the top side of the bottom, a sloping element of gradually lowering height from the outside annular element and annular thin-walled flange from the underside of the bottom. In the primary joined state, the latching claws pushing on the pin shaft spread apart, and the claw tips engage the pin latching convex element of the pin shaft. The attached member is held between the base elements of the latching claws and contact element on the under side of the bottom of the main body. The edge of the outer circumference of the pin flange is in contact with the inclined element of the main body, improving watertightness.
US10060461B2
In some of the embodiments described, a display apparatus can be applied to a package to facilitate hanging of the package. The display apparatus may also seal the package. In some embodiments, the display apparatus has three flat panel-like branches, where an upper branch protrudes upwards and has a hole from which the display apparatus can be hung, a lower branch protrudes downwards and can be affixed to a tuck flap of a package top, and a closure branch can be rotated downwards to be affixed to an exterior face of the side of the package, thereby sealing it. When the upper branch is hung from a support, the lower branch and closure branch support the package by their affixation thereto, thereby facilitating its display.
US10060458B2
A fastening system for an agricultural system includes a first mounting plate coupled to a first component and a second mounting plate coupled to a second component. The second mounting plate aligns with the first mounting plate. The fastening system also includes a coupling assembly coupled to the first mounting plate by a retaining fastener. The coupling assembly comprises two clamping plates which move from a first position that facilitates alignment of the first and second mounting plates to a second position that at least partially sandwiches the first and second mounting plates between the two clamping plates. The retaining fastener extends through the two clamping plates. An alignment fastener also extends through the two clamping plates and is selectively tightened while the coupling assembly is in the second position to drive the two clamping plates to couple the first and second mounting plates to one another.
US10060454B2
A blocker apparatus (20) for blocking a stream (22) of high-pressure fluid includes a blocking member in the form of a sphere or ball (30), or a rod (160) receivable within a partially surrounding seat (34/162) at the forward end of a seat carrier (40) to rotate in the seat. The seat carrier (40) is extended and retracted by an actuator (32) to place the blocking member within the path of the stream (22) and/or remove the blocking member from the path of the high-pressure stream. The blocking member is replaced by simply lifting the blocking member (30/160) off of the seat (34/162) and lowering a new blocking member into the seat.
US10060453B2
A cylinder-piston unit including: at least one cylinder including a tubular body (2); at least one piston (5) liable with a respective rod (5a), said piston (5) and said rod (5a) being translatable longitudinally in said tubular body (2) of said cylinder, at least one reference codification (C) extending for at least a section (dC) on the surface of said rod (5a), along the longitudinal axis of the same; at least detecting means (7), movable anchorable to said tubular body (2), faced, in use, towards said rod (5a) and suitable to detect said at least one reference codification (C) and to emit at the output at least a corresponding output electrical signal (s7), at least a reference zone (7c) of amplitude (d7c) delimited from said detecting means (7), said at least one reference codification (C) being detectable in correspondence to said at least one detection zone (7c); said at least one reference codification (C) including at least one plurality of adjacent sectors ( . . . , Si−1, Si, Si+1, . . . ) extending along said longitudinal axis of said rod (5a), each of them for a section (dSi) of equal length; each sector (Si) includes a plurality of optical contrast zones (si1, si2, si3), each of them extending along said longitudinal axis of said rod (5a) for a respective section of extension (dsi1, dsi2, dsi3) such as the sum of the extensions of said sections of extensions (dsi1+dsi2 . . . ), in each sector (Si) is lower or equal to said amplitude (d7c) of said detecting zone (7c); said optical contrast zones (si1, si2, si3) being arranged in each sector (Si) according to the same sequence; and wherein in each sector (Si) at least one optical contrast zone (si1, si2, si3) shows said at least one respective section of extension (ds1, ds2, ds3) of different length compared to the length of the same section of extension in the other sectors (Si−2, Si−1, Si+1, Si+2, . . . ), therefore each sector (Si) remains univocally definable from the length of said at least one section of extension (dsi1, dsi2, dsi3) of said optical contrast zones (si1, si2, si3) in it included.
US10060440B2
A centrifugal fan includes: a casing having an upper casing with an air suction opening, a lower casing, and a plurality of support members disposed between the lower casing and the upper casing with air discharge openings provided between the support members; an impeller disposed between the upper and lower casings, and including an annular upper shroud provided on an upper casing side, a base plate integrally formed with the annular upper shroud, and a plurality of blades arranged along a circumferential direction between the annular upper shroud and the base plate; and a fan motor which rotates the impeller. A plurality of recesses are provided on the upper surface of the upper casing, and formed to surround the air suction opening, and a plurality of ribs are radially provided around the air suction opening and between the adjacent recesses.
US10060426B2
A system for supplementing the electric power needed by a pump jack electric motor, thereby reducing the electric power purchased from the local utility or power supplier. The system comprises a solar photovoltaic system, or other forms of renewable energy, and regenerated power from the electric motor or drive. The system can be both “on-grid” and “off-grid.” Battery banks and capacitor banks may be used to store and provide energy.
US10060425B2
A peristaltic pump includes a housing in which a tube mounting case is formed in which a pump head is rotatably supported. The pump includes a tube unit provided as a replacement part consisting of a flexible tube and a tube fixture which holds the tube at two positions. The tube unit is insertible in the tube mounting case so that by displacing the tube fixture, the tube enters into tensioning engagement with the pump head. A tensioning device is arranged on the housing or on the tube mounting case in the form of a lever mechanism for tensioning displacement of the tube fixture by at least one lever element. A locking or clamping mechanism forms an undercut which upon reaching a tube tensioning position engages in a counter-locking/clamping mechanism arranged on the tube fixture for locking the tube fixture and the tensioning device in the tube tensioning position.
US10060421B2
A cryogenic fluid pump includes a plurality of pumping elements, each of the plurality of pumping elements having an actuator portion that is associated with and configured to selectively activate one end of a pushrod in response to a command by an electronic controller, an activation portion associated with an opposite end of the pushrod, and a pumping portion associated with the activation portion. For each of the plurality of pumping elements, the pumping portion is activated for pumping a fluid by the activation portion, which activation portion is activated by the actuator portion. The electronic controller is configured to selectively activate each of the plurality of pumping elements such that a flow of fluid from the cryogenic fluid pump results from continuous activations of the plurality of pumping elements at selected dwell times between activations of successive pumping elements.
US10060412B2
The invention regards an apparatus for adjusting the yaw of a wind turbine adapted for mounting on a wind turbine comprising, a system for measuring the wind direction adapted, via a control signal, to control the yaw angle of the wind turbine based on the wind direction, and a wind sensor system adapted to determine the yaw error of the wind turbine, and means for modifying the control signal based on the yaw error determined by the wind sensor system.
US10060409B2
A Pulsed Locomotor (120), for propelling media, fluids and crafts, in fluids and on land, comprising a blade (124) securely connected to a drive shaft (122). Upon reciprocation, the ambient medium is forced towards the trailing edge of the blade (124) thereby causing a reactive locomotion of the apparatus, substantially along the plane of the blade. Apparatus is secured to motor M by fastening through aperture (130). The apparatus can be operated directly by motor M, and indirectly by the reaction momentum imparted to a supporting platform P. Thrust is directed by steering handle (128) about a bearing (126), rotatably coupling to platform P and base C. Lubricant L is supplied to outlets (134) via conduit (136) and inlet (132), to coat the apparatus with a lubricant cavity, for drag reduction. The blade (124) planes along a figure 8 reciprocation path s1e1s2e2s1. Crafts are embodied.
US10060408B2
A turbine comprises a shaft (20), a mass (10) eccentrically mounted for rotation about shaft (20), having its center of gravity at a distance from the shaft (20) and a motion base (15). Motion base (15) rigidly supports the shaft (20), and is configured for moving the shaft (20) in any direction of at least two degrees of movement freedom, except for heave.A floating vessel-turbine (120), encloses entirely the eccentrically rotating mass (10) and the motion base (15). The turbine converts ocean wave energy into useful energy, very efficiently.
US10060399B2
An electromagnetically-activated actuator includes an electrical coil, an armature moveable between rest and actuated positions, and a bi-directional driver. A method for controlling an actuator event includes applying a supply voltage at a first polarity across the coil for a first duration to drive a forward current through the coil effective to move the armature away from the rest position. The forward current has a forward current peak at the end of the first duration. After the first duration, the supply voltage is applied at a second polarity across the coil for a second duration to drive a reverse current through the coil. The second duration terminates when the reverse current attains a predetermined reverse current peak, wherein the predetermined reverse current peak is coincident with the armature returning to the rest position.
US10060396B2
In this air intake apparatus, a plurality of respective air intake ports include sealing surfaces that include inner wall surfaces with which valve bodies come into contact at the closed positions of the valve bodies, and the rotation angles of valve bodies located on a side relatively close to a drive source from their open positions to their closed positions are larger than the rotation angles of valve bodies located on a side relatively opposite to the drive source when a plurality of valve bodies are rotated from their open positions to their closed positions.
US10060390B2
A gas turbine engine includes an engine core outer casing and a fan nacelle spaced radially outwardly relative to the engine core outer casing to define a bypass duct. A plurality of drag links is used to pivot blocker doors into a flow blocking position in the bypass duct when a thrust reverser is deployed. The plurality of drag links is located within the bypass duct in an area of non-uniform flow defined by a plurality of local airflow angles. Each drag link is individually configured to align with one of the local flow angles.
US10060384B2
Methods and systems are provided for forming an air-fuel mixture in a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. In one example, a system may include an adjustable intake line coupled to an inlet opening of the cylinder. The system may adjust turbulence formed in the cylinder in response to engine operating conditions by controlling a pivoting angle between a first section of the intake line and a second section of the intake line.
US10060372B2
A PCM (60) as an engine control device comprises a torque controlling unit (65) configured to control an engine torque based on an accelerator actuated amount. The torque controlling unit (65) is configured, after the accelerator actuated amount is started to increase, and when a power train (PT) which includes at least an engine (E) fixed to a vehicle body by an engine mount (Mt) is started to conduct the rolling movement, to control to limit increase in the engine torque so as to make an actual increase rate of the engine torque smaller than a nominal increase rate of the engine torque according to an increase in the accelerator actuated amount, in order to control an initial speed of the rolling movement.
US10060366B1
Systems and methods for operating an engine that includes an electrically driven compressor are disclosed. In one example, a vehicle operating mode is determined and speed of an electrically driven compressor is adjusted responsive to the vehicle operating mode so that an engine may supply torque sooner in response to an increasing torque command.
US10060362B2
Methods and systems are provided for synergizing the benefits of a multi-fuel engine in a hybrid vehicle system. During engine operation, in response to a change in driver demand, the controller may opt to switch fuels or maintain a current fuel while using stored power assist. The selection may be based on the combination of fuel and stored power offset that provides the highest engine efficiency at the lowest fuel cost.
US10060358B2
In one example embodiment, a gas turbine system includes a gas turbine, a compressor bleed valve, various sensors, and a valve health assessment system. The compressor bleed valve bleeds a portion of air received by the compressor during certain operating modes. The valve health assessment system includes a processor that uses a neural network model to generate a first failure mode predictor of the compressor bleed valve by processing operational data provided by the various sensors. The processor also generates a second failure mode predictor of the compressor bleed valve by using empirical data and a valve transfer function. The processor further generates a third failure mode predictor of the compressor bleed valve by using predictive data and a prediction model. The processor then applies a holistic procedure to the three failure mode predictors to derive a probability of occurrence of a failure in the compressor bleed valve.
US10060354B2
A method for mounting a gas turbine engine having a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section, a pylon and a rear mount bracket, includes positioning the mounting bracket between the gas turbine engine and the pylon. The mounting bracket is connected to the turbine case reacting a least a vertical load, a side load, a thrust load, and a torque load from the gas turbine engine through the mounting bracket. The mounting bracket is attached to the pylon reacting the same loads from the gas turbine engine.
US10060352B2
An impingement cooled wall arrangement includes a flow diverter arranged in the cooling flow path between the cooled wall and a sleeve to divert a cross flow away from a second aperture. The flow diverter extends in downstream direction of the cross flow beyond the second aperture with a first leg extending along one side of the second aperture in downstream direction of the cross flow and a second leg extending along the other side of the second aperture. No impingement cooling aperture is arranged in a first convective cooling section of the wall between the upstream end and downstream end of the flow diverter outside the section shielded by the diverter.
US10060349B2
A system includes a turbine having one or more turbine stages and a turbine support system, which may include a turbine support component, a motor coupled to the turbine support component, an auxiliary component, and a first cable interface coupled to the motor and the auxiliary component, and a motor control system. The motor control system includes a controller, a power source coupled to the controller, a second cable interface coupled to the power source, and a cable having a first plug removably coupled to the first cable interface and a second plug removably coupled to the second cable interface. The cable includes a plurality of insulated conductors. The first plug and the first cable interface include a first set of mating motor connectors and mating auxiliary connectors, and the second plug and the second cable interface include a second set of mating motor connectors and mating auxiliary connectors.
US10060348B2
Carbon dioxide is separated from natural gas using a single stage membrane separation system to produce a retentate gas that typically meets the specification for pipeline distribution of natural gas, and a permeate gas comprising methane that is combusted to generate power and/or heat, e.g. for use in providing the utility requirements of the process itself or for export to an integrated process. Advantages include an overall reduction in power consumption and improvement in process efficiency.
US10060326B2
A cooling apparatus for an engine includes an oil warmer, an engine internal passage, a warmer passage, a water pump, and a thermostat. The warmer passage connects an outlet of the internal passage to an inlet of the internal passage. The thermostat regulates an amount of coolant that flows into the oil warmer. The thermostat includes a valve member, a body, and a plurality of types of wax. The thermostat determines a degree of opening of the valve member in accordance with amounts of expansion of the respective types of wax caused by melting of the respective types of wax. The types of wax include a first wax, which melts at a first temperature, and a second wax, which melts at a second temperature which is higher than the first temperature.
US10060310B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to an active noise system, a controller for an active noise system, a method and a hybrid electric vehicle. The invention relates to use of an active noise system for providing noise when an ICE is not active.
US10060308B2
A modularized multifunctional variable valve actuation system for use in a six-cylinder internal combustion engine. The system includes two fuel supply modules that cooperate with two two-way two-position valves for implementing a continuously variable valve event, and that cooperate with two three-way two-position valves and one two-way two-position valve for implementing a fully variable valve event.
US10060296B2
Provided is a consumer to industrial scale renewable energy based quintuple-generation systems and energy storage facility. The present invention has both mobile and stationary embodiments. The present invention includes energy recovery, energy production, energy processing, pyrolysis, byproduct process utilization systems, separation process systems and handling and storage systems, as well as an open architecture for integration and development of additional processes, systems and applications. The system of the present invention primarily uses adaptive metrics, biometrics and thermal imaging sensory analysis (including additional input sensors for analysis) for monitoring and control with the utilization of an integrated artificial intelligence and automation control system, thus providing a balanced, environmentally-friendly ecosystem.
US10060291B2
A turbine section of a gas turbine engine includes a first turbine supported for rotation about an axis, a second turbine spaced axially aft of the for first turbine section for rotation about the axis, and a mid-turbine frame disposed between the first turbine and the second turbine defining a passage between the first turbine and the second turbine. A first case surrounds the first turbine and a second case surrounding the second turbine and attached to the first case. The mid-turbine frame is disposed between the first turbine section and the second turbine section and includes at least one support structure extending through an interface between the first turbine case and the second turbine case.
US10060289B2
A gas turbine engine has a fan drive turbine for driving a gear reduction. The gear reduction drives a fan rotor. A lubrication system supplies oil to the gear reduction, and includes a lubricant pump to supply an air/oil mixture to an inlet of a deaerator. The deaerator includes a separator for separating oil and air, delivering separated air to an air outlet, and delivering separated oil back into an oil tank. The separated oil is first delivered into a pipe outwardly of the oil tank, and then into a location beneath a minimum oil level in the tank. Air within the oil tank moves outwardly through an air exit into the deaerator. A method of designing a gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
US10060288B2
A cooling chamber in a gas turbine engine includes a first side surface, a second side surface, a bottom surface, and a top surface defining a chamber therein. The second side surface is angled at a first angle with respect to the first side surface, the chamber having an inlet end and an exit located downstream of the inlet end, wherein the chamber has a width that narrows from the inlet end toward the exit. An inlet is located in one of the top surface or the bottom surface at the inlet end of the chamber. At least one divider is located within the chamber, the at least one divider configured to separate an airflow flowing from the inlet to the exit into a first airflow and a second airflow. The at least one divider is angled at a second angle with respect to the first side surface.
US10060278B2
A guide vane (300) for a turbomachine, having a sealing device (27, 27′) at the radially inner end region of the guide vane (300) for sealing leakage flows (25) between the guide vane (300) and an inner ring (7) joined thereto. The sealing device (27, 27′) is movably configured relative to the guide vane (300). The sealing device (27, 27′) is positionable in at least one open or in a closed configuration for sealing the leakage flows (25). Also, a guide vane (100), as well as a turbomachine.
US10060275B2
The present invention relates to a turbomachine blade (100; 200) with a base element, which has a blade part (1) for flow diversion and a blade root (2), a first guide (110; 210), fixed on the base element, in which a first element (111; 211) is movably guided, and a second guide (120; 220), fixed on the base element, in which a second element (121; 221) is movably guided, wherein a dynamic of the first element in the first guide and a dynamic of the second element in the second guide are designed differently, and the first guide (110; 210) is arranged in a half, nearer to the base root, of a radial height (H) of the base element, and the second guide is arranged in a half, more remote from the blade root, of the radial height of the base element.
US10060274B2
A rotor blade for a wind turbine having a blade root, a transition piece and an aerodynamic part, wherein the blade root essentially is optimized for fixation of the blade to the hub and the aerodynamic part essentially is optimized to extract energy from the wind and wherein the transition part realizes a beneficial transition between the blade root and the aerodynamic part. The rotor blade can perform better both aerodynamically and structurally compared to a classic design when the blade part located near the axis, approximately the part between 0% L and 50% L is provided with one or more of the following characteristics: more twist than usual, attached flow stimulating measures at the suction side, flow blocking measures at the pressure side, thicker profiles than usual, a triangular shape of the profile back and back twist.
US10060273B2
A component for a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil section including a free end and an abrasive coating sprayed onto the free end, the abrasive coating including a polymer matrix and an abrasive filler, the abrasive filler between about 50%-75% by volume of the abrasive coating.
US10060267B2
A gas turbine engine component includes a structure that provides a cooling passage. The structure has a turbulator with a pedestal joining opposing first and second surfaces. The turbulator includes first and second legs spaced apart from one another and adjoining the pedestal. The first leg adjoins the second surface, and the second leg adjoins the first surface.
US10060266B2
Hollow fan blades for gas turbine engines are disclosed. The hollow fan blades include a body having a convex side and a concave side wherein the convex side has a cavity formed therein. The cavity is covered by two covers including an inner cover that may be adhered to the body of the fan blade assembly and an outer cover that may be adhered to the inner cover and/or the body of the fan blade assembly. The covers may be made of titanium, more than two covers may be employed and more than one cavity may be employed.
US10060265B2
The cooling effectiveness of a turbine blade that a gas turbine engine or the like is provided with is further increased by providing a convex portion that is arranged in the inner portion of a cooling air hole and that is provided projecting out from the inner wall surface of the cooling air hole.
US10060263B2
A gas turbine engine component is described. The gas turbine engine component includes an inner diameter edge, an outer diameter edge, a trailing edge and a leading edge. The leading edge has a positive (aft) aerodynamic sweep across substantially an entire span of the leading edge. The gas turbine engine component has a camber angle greater than 50 degrees across substantially an entire span of the component. The gas turbine engine component may have asymmetrical tangential stacking of the component in the radial direction.
US10060255B2
A downhole repeater network timing system for a drilling rig including a drillstring extending subsurface downwardly from a surface wellhead. The system includes a node located at the drillstring lower end and including a sensor adapted for providing a signal data set output corresponding to downhole drilling conditions. Multiple nodes are located downhole between the Bottom Hole Assembly (BHA) and the wellhead and are associated with the drillstring. The nodes are adapted for receiving and transmitting the signals. The timing control system is adapted for controlling all times within a timeframe according to pre-configured constants known to all nodes. A downhole low rate linear repeater network timing method uses the system.
US10060246B2
An example method includes receiving a data set containing combinations of drilling parameter values and operating condition values for a drilling system corresponding to each combination of drilling parameter values. At least one of a frequency and a duration of use may be determined for each of the combinations of drilling parameter values in the data set. For at least some of the combinations of drilling parameter values, a contour map identifying the combinations of drilling parameter values, the operating condition values corresponding to the combinations of drilling parameter values, and at least one of the frequency and the duration of use may be displayed for at least some of the combinations of drilling parameter values.
US10060245B2
Systems and methods for automatically and optimally planning multiple well locations within a reservoir simulator. The systems and methods use dynamic production criteria to create and optimize well target completion intervals and the associated well geometries for new wells dynamically, and directly within a reservoir simulator.
US10060243B2
The invention relates to a multistage high pressure fracturing system and tubular hydraulic valve (THV) system for connection to a completion string to enable isolation of a zone of interest within a well. In particular, the system enables access to a downhole formation for fracturing the zone of interest and for hydrocarbon production. The system generally includes an electronic plug counting system, a plug capture system and a valve system wherein dropping a series of plugs down the completion string enables successive capture of individual plugs within individual THVs for subsequent fracturing operations.
US10060236B1
A rod pump plunger is so constructed to collect oil from a produced fluid from an oil well and use it to lubricate the plunger inside of a pump barrel. The plunger has a first sealing structure, a second sealing structure, and penetrating ports in between the sealing structures. A fluid trap which captures oil from the produced fluid flowing through the plunger is formed interior to the body of the plunger and is connected to the port. The trap is connected to a penetrating port such that the trapped oil will flow into the first and second sealing structures. The trap is sized to capture sufficient oil to exceed oil slippage from a pump during each stroke. The oil lubricates the plunger to increase pump efficiency and run life.
US10060232B2
In a completion for producing methane the bottom hole assembly has a base pipe with porous media surrounding it for equalizing flow along the base pipe. A shape memory polymer foam surrounds the porous media. The borehole can be reamed to reduce produced methane velocities. Surrounding the shape memory polymer is an exterior layer of consolidated proppant or sand that can self-adhere and/or stick to the polymer foam. The proppant or sand can be circulated or squeezed into position although, circulation is preferred. The borehole may enlarge due to shifting sands in an unconsolidated formation as the methane is produced. The bottom hole assembly helps in fluid flow equalization and protects the foam and layers below from high fluid velocities during production.
US10060228B2
The disclosed embodiments include a method, apparatus, and computer program product for approximating multiphase flow reservoir production simulation for ranking multiple petro-physical realizations. One embodiment is a system that includes at least one processor and memory coupled to the at least one processor, the memory storing instructions that when executed by the at least one processor performs operations that includes generating a set of pseudo-phase production relative permeability curves; receiving production rate history data; receiving minimal simulation configuration parameters; performing flow simulation using the set of pseudo-phase production relative permeability curves for a set of petro-physical realizations; determining an optimal matching pseudo-phase production simulation result that best matches the production rate history data; and determining a ranking for the petro-physical realizations within the set of petro-physical realizations based on an area between a composite rate curve for a petro-physical realization and a historical rate curve.
US10060225B2
A technique utilizes a Y-block which is coupled with a lateral tubing string and a main tubing string. The Y-block comprises features which facilitate service and/or production operations. In well applications, the Y-block may comprise a pressure housing and a recessed bypass slot disposed along an exterior of the Y-block. A control line is positioned in the recessed bypass slot to facilitate control functions along the lateral tubing string. The recessed bypass slot enables routing of a control line without forming a splice along the control line. In other applications, the Y-block may utilize additional or other features which facilitate the desired operations.
US10060222B2
The invention relates to an insulation device for wells by controlled supply of the internal volume of an expandable sleeve placed on a casing, comprising a non-return valve placed in a passage which connects the internal volumes of the casing and of the sleeve and a three-way valve which switches a single time between an initial state in which a link connects the internal volumes of the casing and of the sleeve to expand the sleeve and a final state in which the link between the internal volumes of the casing and of the sleeve is interrupted, whereas a link is set up between the internal volume of the sleeve and an annular volume of the well, the three-way valve and the non-return valve forming, after switching, two non-return valves mounted in series and in opposite directions on the passage connecting the internal volumes of the casing and of the sleeve.
US10060220B2
A subsea wellbore protection (SWP) system. The SWP system includes a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation beneath a sea floor and a SWP structure positioned below-grade with respect to the sea floor. The SWP structure comprises a caisson that encloses a first wellbore equipment component. The first wellbore equipment component is in fluid communication with the wellbore.
US10060219B2
An improved cementing tool is presented which allows for relatively easy removal and insertion of the tool through the use of non-threaded low-torque connections. The cementing tool uses a combination of threaded connections and non-threaded, low-torque connections configured to create a stack of components including plug launchers, ball launchers and plug launch indicator/counters. Use of non-threaded low-torque connections allows for breaking down the tool by hand, requiring no special torquing equipment.
US10060218B2
Methods of formulating a cement slurry for use in a subterranean salt formation, including methods for formulating a cement slurry capable of providing long-term zonal isolation within a subterranean salt formation. The methods also take into account the effects of treatment fluids on the cement slurry, such as drilling fluids, spacer fluids, flush fluids, or other relevant fluids used to perform a subterranean formation operation.
US10060208B2
Controlled pressure drilling of a borehole with a drilling system detects events and identifies the events as being one of a gas-at-surface event, a kick event, a high-pressure low-volume depletion event, and a gas expansion event. Parameters including flow-in, flow-out, density, and standpipe pressure are monitored. A volume increase is detected between the flow-in and flow-out, and an initiation point of the detected volume increase is identified. At this point, an event from the initiation point is identified based on the monitored parameters from the initiation point. To identify a kick event, for example, the standpipe pressure is determined to have increased from the initiation point without the density decreasing since the initiation point, and a cumulative volume value from the initiation point is determined to be above a first threshold. In response to the identified event, an action is initiated in the drilling system.
US10060196B2
Methods of coupling a control line including axially aligning a first connector with a second connector, the first connector having a first housing and a pin connector, and the second connector having a second housing and a box connector. And angularly rotating one or both of the first and second connectors with respect to each other and thereby angularly aligning a pin mating face provided on the pin connector with a box mating face provided on the box connector, mating the pin connector to the box connector by further angularly rotating one or both of the first and second connectors. And communicably coupling one or more first communication media in the pin connector with one or more second communication media in the box connector.
US10060192B1
Embodiments of the invention are disclosed for methods of making polycrystalline diamond compacts having substrates including bonding features thereon and polycrystalline diamond bodies including complementary configurations, as well as embodiments of polycrystalline diamond compacts made using the same.
US10060191B2
Continuous fiber-reinforced hard composites may be useful in mitigating crack propagation in downhole tools. In some instances, a wellbore tool may be formed at least in part by a continuous fiber-reinforced hard composite portion. The continuous fiber-reinforced hard composite portion includes a binder material continuous phase with reinforcing particles and continuous fibers contained therein, wherein the continuous fibers have an aspect ratio at least 15 times greater than a critical aspect ratio (Ac). The critical aspect ratio can be determined using the equation Ac=σf/(2τc), σf is an ultimate tensile strength of the continuous fibers, and τC is a lower of (1) an interfacial shear bond strength between the continuous fibers and the binder material and (2) a yield stress of the binder material.
US10060184B2
A looped zebra blind with height compensation and a height compensation method of the same are revealed. The looped zebra blind includes an upper rod, a lower rod and a height compensable looped fabric. The looped fabric consists of a zebra fabric part and at least one compensation part connected to form a loop wound around the upper and lower rods vertically. The loop includes a front fabric and a rear fabric with the same height. The zebra fabric part includes zebra fabric units arranged vertically and periodically. The net length or/height of the compensation part is preset to make total length of the looped fabric become equal to the sum of the total length of the zebra fabric part and the net length of the compensation part. Thereby the height of the front/rear fabric matches up to the preset height of a preset covered area of a window.
US10060179B2
The glass panel unit includes a first glass panel, a second glass panel, a seal, an evacuated space, and at least one spacer. The second glass panel is placed opposite the first glass panel. The seal with a frame shape hermetically bonds the first glass panel and the second glass panel to each other. The evacuated space is enclosed by the first glass panel, the second glass panel, and the seal. The at least one spacer is placed between the first glass panel and the second glass panel. The at least one spacer has a height H1 smaller than a height H2 of the seal between the first glass panel and the second glass panel.
US10060178B2
A sill for a window or door has a frame and a panel with a sill frame section defining at least one hollow chamber. A fastener extends through a wall of a hollow chamber and is secured to an adjacent structural member. A plastic element is secured to an interior surface of the sill frame section. The plastic element is disposed between the head of the fastener and a first opening through which the fastener passes to resist passage of water, air and sound through the first opening and into the window and doors. A plastic element is preferably coextruded with the sill frame section. A related method is a similar jamb frame section and a head frame section.
US10060173B2
Barrier operator systems and methods of operation include a mechanical drive subsystem with a segmented and self-locking rail unit, rail mounting supports, belt and chain drive tensioning, and drive assembly carriage and interface; electronics and software routines for controlling operation of the various barrier operator functions; wall console communicating with the barrier operator; encryption and decryption of access codes; establishment and monitoring of travel limits and barrier speed and force profiles; thermal protection of barrier operator drive motors; and establishment and control of wireless communications from the barrier operator to accessories.
US10060169B2
A furniture hinge includes an arm member, a casing, an inner link, an outer link, and a resilient device. The arm member includes at least one wall. The at least one wall includes a first mounting structure. The casing can be opened and closed with respect to the arm member. Each of the inner link and the outer link has two end portions respectively and pivotally connected to the arm member and the casing via shafts. The resilient device provides a resilient force acting between the casing and the arm member and includes a second mounting structure to be mounted to the first mounting structure.
US10060168B2
A shower door hinge assembly includes a guide member including a generally cylindrical body, the body defining a plurality of diametrically opposed circumferential slots. The shower door hinge assembly further includes a clamp configured to receive a portion of a shower door, the clamp defining a recess configured to receive a first side of the guide member. The shower door hinge assembly further includes a base defining a plurality of openings and a spacer comprising a generally cylindrical body defining a plurality of through holes at an outer periphery thereof, a first side of the spacer configured to be rotatively received in a corresponding recess in a second side of the guide member. The shower door hinge assembly further includes a plurality of pins configured to be received in the plurality of openings of the base, extend through the plurality of through holes of the spacer, and engage a portion of the plurality of circumferential slots.
US10060167B2
A deadbolt latch assembly is provided which includes a housing, bolt, slide, and a pivot member. The bolt is movable, at least partially, into and out of the housing. The slide is located inside the housing and coupled to the bolt to move the bolt, at least partially, into and out of the housing. The slide also includes a plurality of slots. The pivot member includes a plurality of cam members extending therefrom. Each cam member is configured to engage one of the plurality of slots on the slide.
US10060165B2
A door lock device has a high degree of freedom in the disposition of an open link for switching between a locked state and an unlocked state and has low operational resistance when being put into the locked state. When there is a malfunction in which the open link is jammed by the dust and therefore does not move from a lock waiting position to an unlock waiting position even when an unlock action is performed, when an outside handle interlock lever is turned, a sliding-contact tilt guide provided on a support body slides and makes sliding-contact with the open link and forcibly tilts the open link, and as a result, it becomes unnecessary to increase an energizing force of a torsion coil spring as a precaution against such malfunction. This makes it possible to reduce the operational resistance when the door lock device is put into the locked state.
US10060163B2
A door lock system includes a trunk partitioned from a passenger compartment of a vehicle, a hood that opens and closes the trunk, a door lock mechanism that locks a door of the vehicle independently from locking of the hood, a control unit that controls driving of the door lock mechanism in response to predetermined communication performed with an electronic key carried by a user, and an opening detection unit that detects whether the hood is open. If the opening detection unit detects that the hood is open, the control unit inhibits the door lock mechanism from locking the door even when the predetermined communication is performed.
US10060160B2
A latch assembly disposed in an anti-fire door includes a tube, a blocking pin, an elastic member and a wedging member, wherein the tube comprises a main body and an accommodating space. The main body comprises a constraining slot communicating with the accommodating space, wherein the blocking pin, the elastic member and the wedging member are disposed in the accommodating space. The elastic member is used for pushing the blocking pin and the wedging member to move and making the blocking pin protruding to the tube and lodging in a door frame. The wedging member lodged in the constraining slot is used for blocking the blocking pin protruded to the tube therefore preventing the blocking pin from retracting back into the accommodating space.
US10060158B2
An exit device employs a pair of projectable latches which are retractable by depressing a push pad. A latch actuator is mounted between the latches and is actuatable to retract the latches. In one embodiment, the actuator comprises a pair of solenoids controlled from a remote location. In another embodiment, the actuator comprises a motor which is activatable from a remote location for unlatching the door. In addition an exterior operator is mountable and connectable to the latch actuator to provide controlled access from the exterior of the door.
US10060156B1
The sanitizer door knob system has a door knob assembly that emits sanitizing liquid when turned in either direction. In a set, only one knob will emit the sanitizer fluid. The inside of the knob that does emit the liquid has a pull rod that pulls an internal pump upon the turning of the knob and cause the sanitizing liquid to be projected from its reservoir tube. A slider cap on the exterior of the knob opens to allow the sanitizer to be emitted. Door knob assembly may comprise a recoil spring on both the first and second door knob.
US10060153B2
The utility model discloses a clamping and supporting structure of tent support, including a tube piece, a tube holder, and a handle arranged under the tube holder. The bottom of the tube piece passes through the tube holder and the handle and can extend oppositely. A locking sleeve is fixed with the tube holder and provides an inner wall of the locking sleeve is provided with a boss including a guide inclined surface is formed on a first side and ascends spirally from the bottom to the top. The tube piece is provided with a first locking pin and a second locking pin and can move opposite to the tube holder and the handle in the vertical direction and keep the trend of extending oppositely: the first locking pin is propped against the guiding inclined surface, and the second locking pin keeps the trend of propping against the stop piece.
US10060151B2
A shelter system includes a shelter. A shelter includes a number of vertical support legs and a collapsible truss section interconnecting the vertical support legs. The shelter system includes a canopy secured to the shelter. The shelter system includes a connection member connecting the canopy to a separate self-supporting tent structure.
US10060150B1
An anchoring device for supporting a post from a support surface. The anchoring device comprises a base, at least one stanchion extending from the base, and a plate attached to the stanchion opposite the base. A plurality of side supports is included with each side support attached to and extending from the base. The side supports are also attached to the plate and extend past the plate. First and second guides are included with each guide attached to the plate and each side support. Each guide extends away from the base.
US10060148B2
A system for limiting the flow from a dispensing valve when a dispensing cartridge is replaced with the system including a dispenser cartridge with a cam and a water socket with a flow limiter therein that is activeable in response to the position of the dispenser cartridge in the dispensing valve and operable in response to an upstream fluid pressure in the dispensing valve.
US10060142B2
A mobile lifting apparatus includes (a) a bottom tower section having a first bottom sidewall and an opposed second bottom sidewall; (b) a top tower section coupled to and vertically translatable relative to the bottom tower section; (c) a work platform coupled to and vertically translatable with the top tower section; and (d) an elevating assembly operable to translate the top tower section relative to the bottom tower section between a raised position in which a work surface of the work platform is at an elevation above the bottom tower section, and a lowered position in which the top tower section and the work surface are at least partially nested within the bottom tower section with the work surface at an elevation below upper edges of the first and second bottom sidewalls for reducing the entry and exit height of the work platform.
US10060131B2
Herein disclosed is a centrifugally cast pole having a substantially uniform wall thickness along the long axis of the pole. During centrifugal casting, molten metal is poured inside a rotating, tapered mold. As chilled liquid is poured over the outside of the rotating mold, the metal forms, or paints, to the contour of the mold interior creating a metal pole. By precisely controlling casting gyrations such as the spin, travel, pitch, and yaw of the rotating mold and the calibration and physical mechanisms of the casting machine, hollow, tapered, tubular metal poles are produced with previously unknown uniformity of wall thickness. The controlling principles, designs, and mechanisms of this centrifugal casting method enable wall uniformity to extremely high tolerances. By extension, the ability to precisely control the metal volume painted inside the mold allows, as a design choice, wall thickness variation in any embodiment if so desired.
US10060129B2
A system and method for controlling light shading and thermal insulation in a light transmissive structure is disclosed. An array of adjacently-positioned, inflatable first tubes is provided, each of the first tubes being inflatable to abut an inflated adjacent first tube. Each of an array of inflatable second tubes is nested within, and inflatable independent of one of the first tubes. Each of the second tubes is connected to one of the first tubes such that when not inflated, each of the second tubes is flattened within the one of the first tubes. When inflated, each of the second tubes abut an inflated adjacent second tube via first tubes. The first tubes are preferably clear, while the second tubes are made of a reflective material.
US10060127B2
A prefabricated wall (100) being modular is described, comprising at least one module (1) comprising at least one sheet layer (2) adapted to mount at least one panel (5) by means of fixing means (6) and a supporting frame (3), which supports said at least one module (1), said supporting frame (3) is a frame delimiting a through opening (30) which mounts said at least one sheet layer (2) which is a plate sheet comprising a multiplicity of through openings (20) and a multiplicity of through slots (25) adapted to be traversed by a fixing mean (6) up to an engagement position of said fixing mean (6) with said at least one sheet layer (2) in order to mount said at least one panel (5).
US10060117B1
A hydraulic separation and collection system applicable to linear street curb-inlet type drainage-chambers, independent or connected to a storm drainage network. The FIRST FLUSH COLLECTOR™ is a pollutant separation and collection apparatus that can be integrated into an existing storm drain network, or be retrofitted as a component into a new or existing curb-inlet type drainage-chamber. The outfall from the FIRST FLUSH COLLECTOR™ can be redirected to a conventional stormwater pollutant BMP, or be diverted to a sanitary sewer, storm drain, or combined collection system for treatment downstream. The apparatus is envisaged as a simple, easy to install prefabricated-kit utilizing a basic build-in-place separation and collection apparatus. The apparatus can be readily adapted to the needs of a given curb-inlet type drainage-chamber with minor alterations to the chambers, or to the connected existing storm drainage network. The uniquely adaptative capability of the apparatus enables selective structuring based on the retrofitting requirements of a curb-inlet type drainage-chamber. The system is designed to handle a variety of ecosystem-contaminants, ranging from basic street-refuse and floatable objects, to coarse sediment, finer silt, and comparatively minute environmentally-hazardous petrochemicals, heavy-metals, phosphates, and nitrates. The system is design to refuse floatables and debris which will continue to the existing curb-inlet type drainage-chamber. Other pollutants contained in the first flush are readily collected from the apparatus and transferred to a selected outfall facility. The system has no moving or mechanical components and is designed to function on fluid hydraulic principles.
US10060115B2
A toilet fastening system includes a bolt, a nut, and a cap, the bolt and nut each configured with ratchet or ratchet-like portions that define a ratchet or ratchet-like constructs between the bolt and nut to provide controlled tightening (rotation) of the nut onto the bolt, audible confirmation of nut tightening, and tactile user feedback while aiding in preventing back off of the nut relative to the bolt, the cap joining with the nut such that the cap becomes the tightening and loosening tool for the nut as well as the finished beauty cap for the toilet fastening system. The bolt has an offset foot with curved inner and outer surfaces for positive orientation and seating of the bolt into the toilet flange.
US10060105B2
A combination showerhead with press button switching includes a fixing holder mounted to a supporting arm and including an inlet passage and at least two diversion passages; a first showerhead mounted to the fixing holder and connected to at least one diversion passage; a second showerhead connected to another diversion passage; and a switching mechanism including a diversion plate movable relative to the fixing holder and cooperating with passages to switch waterways by a predetermined angle of rotation; a sliding block slidably connected to the fixing holder; a transmission mechanism connected between the sliding block and the diversion plate to drive the diversion plate to rotate by back-and-forth sliding of the sliding block; and a press button movably connected to the fixing holder and connected to the sliding block to drive the sliding block to slide. The transmission mechanism includes a valve core and a shaft.
US10060098B2
In a method of displaying a dead zone of a construction machine, actual images with respect to omnidirectional views of a cabin in the construction machine may be obtained. A virtual image with respect to the dead zone generated by a working tool, which may be connected to the cabin, may be obtained from the actual images. The virtual image may be displayed on a monitor in the cabin. Thus, a worker in the cabin may accurately acknowledge whether a man or a fixture may exist or not in a region in front of a rotation direction of a boom by seeing the virtual image. Thus, a negligent accident caused by the rotation of the boom may be prevented.
US10060096B2
A shovel according to embodiments of the present invention includes a lower travelling body, an upper swivel body, an operation attachment, an engine, a motor generator which is connected to the engine, a hydraulic pump which is connected to the motor generator and supplies hydraulic oil to the operation attachment, a swiveling electric motor which is mounted on the upper swivel body, a power storage device, a DC bus which electrically connects the power storage device and the swiveling electric motor to each other, and a control device, in which the control device decreases a charging/discharging limit value of the power storage device and changes a discharging requirement value which is the maximum value of power which is supplied from the power storage device to the swiveling electric motor, according to a decrease of temperature.
US10060095B2
A hybrid work machine includes a controller and a temperature sensor that detects an electric storage device temperature. In a case where (Tp+Tc)≥Te_min, the controller carries out a first comparison in which the controller compares a value of [(Tp+Tc)−Te_min] with a value of Ta_SOC, and the controller then selects a lower value of the first comparison. The controller then carries out a second comparison in which the controller compares the selected lower value of the first comparison with a value of [(Tp+Tc)−Te_max)]. The controller then sets a higher value of the second comparison as the torque of the assist motor Ta, wherein Tc is an accessory torque, Ta_SOC is an adjustment assist motor torque based on a current state of charge of the electric storage device, Ta is the torque of the assist motor, and Te_max is an engine maximum torque.
US10060089B2
A transportable wave suppressor and sediment collection system for suppressing wave action along the shore of a body of water, which includes a plurality of interconnected sections, each section including a base, a forward wall, and a rear wall, and having a plurality of flow pipes extending from the forward wall to the rear wall, and further including a plurality of shelves on the forward wall for dispersing wave energy, while redirecting and using the wave energy to allow water and sediment to flow into the flow pipes and for collecting sediment that is not carried into the flow pipes and settles on the shelves for being contacted by a following wave to carry the sediment into the flow pipes. In some deeper water embodiments, the sections may include a base portion, a top portion and one or more spacer portions to enable raising or changing the height of the system.
US10060088B2
A driving arrangement for a snow blower device that includes a power source and an impeller, comprises a main body and a drive train within and about the main body. The drive train comprises a right angle gear box in driving engagement with both the power source and the impeller of the snow blower device for transferring torque from the power source to the impeller, thereby driving the impeller of the snow blower device. A cooling system for cooling a main power source configured to drive a snow blower of the snow blower device, comprises an auxiliary power source operatively coupled to the main power source and a fan operatively coupled to the auxiliary power source for cooling the main power source.
US10060087B2
A wall module for a modular wall structure integrates a wall panel portion with a post portion having bottom extensions and at least one groove for receiving a distal end portion of a wall panel portion of an adjacent module. The bottom post extension may be suspended in a post hole and anchored with a material such as concrete.
US10060086B2
A tamping beam device of a paving screed, in particular of a road paver, is provided with a tamping beam arranged on a connecting rod, with a drive shaft connected to the connecting rod via an eccentric device, the eccentric device being configured such that a first and a second stroke adjustment position of the connecting rod can be adjusted depending on the direction of rotation of the drive shaft. Stroke adjustment is effected via an eccentric device with a thrust member comprising an inclined sliding surface and with an eccentric ring and a slide guidance. A method for changing the stroke of a tamping beam includes changing the direction of rotation of the eccentric device.
US10060083B2
A spring tension system for a floor tile has spring loop with a base portion and a hoop portion. The base portion has two arms extending outwardly at a first angle from a center-point which together to form the hoop portion. The spring loop is formed into a first side of a first floor tile. A tapered recess is formed into a second side of a second floor tile. The tapered recess includes an opening which forms two tapered walls which extend inwardly toward a center of the second floor tile at a second angle. The second angle is smaller than the first angle. The spring loop formed into the first side of the first floor tile is received into the tapered recess formed into the second side of the second floor tile, the spring loop contacting the walls of the tapered recess to form a friction fit.
US10060079B2
A movable mat is formed from a plurality of elongate beams arranged in side-by-side relationship. The mat features a recessed area formed from a pair of adjacent notched beams. An elongate connector passes through both of the adjacent notched beams at the recessed area. A portion of the connector within the notch is surrounded by a rigid sleeve. At least one pocket is formed in an upper surface of one of the beams. A rotatable coupler is situated within the pocket. The mat may be moved by attaching lifting equipment to the connector at one of the recesses or to the coupler. To form a flooring system, a plurality of mats may be arranged adjacent each other on a surface of the ground.
US10060075B2
The present disclosure relates to producing paper or paperboard having improved stiffness and strength, compared to the conventional paperboard at the same basis weight. It also discloses a method of wood pulping having a significantly increased yield and providing fiber pulps with enhanced properties such as strength and stiffness. Wood chips are chemically pulped to a high kappa number, providing a rejects component and an accepts component. The rejects component is subjected to a substantially mechanical pulping process, optionally in a presence of bleaching agent, prior to blending back into the accepts component. The resulting fiber blend is washed, optionally bleached, and subjected to a papermaking process to provide paper or paperboard with enhanced strength and stiffness at low basis weight.
US10060063B2
The present invention relates to a laundry machine and a controlling method, which can remove allergens on the laundry. A controlling method of a laundry machine includes a mite-killing step of supplying seam to a drum to make laundry exposed to a hot environment at or over a temperature and for or over a duration of time, wherein the temperature and the duration are predetermined enough to kill house dust mites on the laundry; a rinsing step of rinsing the laundry; and a spin-drying step of spin-drying the rinsed laundry. The present invention has an advantageous effect of removing allergens including house dust mites, animal hair and pollens efficiently. In addition, if the house dust mites are killed by using steam, energy efficiency is high and an effect of mite-killing is great.
US10060055B2
A knit product includes a compression region and is formed by a circular knitting machine knitting first and second stitches having different stitch sizes in the same course. The second stitch has a smaller stitch size. The second stitch is selectively provided on a stitch-by-stitch basis. The knitting needles have a density of 14 to 24 per inch in a circumferential direction. A face yarn of a knitting yarn has a cotton count larger than 10. A back yarn of the knitting yarn is a covering yarn having a core yarn of polyurethane of 70 denier or less or a man-made fiber of 140 denier or less subjected to texturing. The size difference between the first and second stitches is 0.1 mm to 2.0 mm. The elongation difference between a first-stitch region of the first stitch and a second-stitch region of the second stitch is 20% to 100%.
US10060047B2
A nitride semiconductor crystal producing method, includes growing a nitride semiconductor crystal over a seed crystal substrate, while applying an etching action to an outer end of the seed crystal substrate during the growing of the nitride semiconductor crystal.
US10060045B2
A method of growing a monocrystalline silicon ingot is described. The method includes the steps of providing a monocrystalline ingot growing apparatus including a chamber having an internal pressure, and a crucible disposed within the chamber, preparing a silicon melt in the crucible, introducing an inert gas into the chamber from a gas inlet above the silicon melt, wherein the inert gas flows over the surface of the silicon melt and has a flow rate, introducing a volatile dopant including indium into the silicon melt, growing an indium-doped monocrystalline silicon ingot, and controlling the indium dopant concentration in the ingot by adjusting the ratio of the inert gas flow rate and the internal pressure of the chamber.
US10060040B2
Reagent compositions, methods and systems for reducing concentrations of impurity metals during metallurgic processes. Certain methods and systems in particular pertain to control of iron concentration in copper electrowinning electrolyte solutions.
US10060038B2
An anti-corrosion composition containing at least one fatty acid ester, at least one glycol, at least one ethylene oxide/propylene oxide (EO/PO) alkoxylate, at least one polyethylene glycol ester, and at least one modified lecithin is provided. An anti-corrosion composition also is provided which contains at least one fatty acid ester, at least one glycol, at least one sorbate, and at least one modified lecithin. A method of preparing an anti-corrosion composition is also provided. At least one modified lecithin can be blended with at least one fatty acid ester, at least one glycol, at least one EO/PO alkoxylate, or at least one polyethylene glycol ester, or any combination thereof. A method of inhibiting corrosion of a metal surface including applying an anti-corrosion composition to the metal surface in an amount effective to inhibit corrosion of the metal surface is further provided.
US10060033B2
The present invention relates to novel precursors in the form of metal complexes with 2-substituted 1,3-diketones and to a process for the preparation thereof. The invention furthermore relates to the use thereof for the production of thin metal-oxide layers. The latter are constituents in a very wide variety of electronic components and devices having various functions.
US10060017B2
On part of a surface of a metal sheet that is to be heated by radiant heat transfer with a near-infrared ray, a region where reflectance for a radiant ray is made lower than that of the original surface of the metal sheet is formed. As reflectance reducing treatment, painting or thermal spraying in a blackish color, plating in a blackish color, treatment for increasing roughness of the surface of the metal sheet, blasting, etching, blackening, surface layer quality changing treatment of the metal sheet, or the like can be adopted. The metal sheet is turned into a heated metal sheet partially having a different temperature by being heated by radiant heat transfer, and thereafter, the heated metal sheet is subjected to thermal processing accompanied by cooling, for example, by hot stamping.
US10060011B2
In alternative embodiments, the invention provides processes and methods for the recovery, removal or extracting of, and subsequent purification of uranium from a wet-process phosphoric acid using a continuous ion exchange processing approach, where the uranium is recovered from a phosphoric acid, or a phos-acid feedstock using either a dual or a single stage extraction methodology. In both cases an intermediate ammonium uranyl-tricarbonate solution is formed. In alternative embodiments, in the dual cycle approach, this solution is contacted in a second continuous ion exchange system with a strong anion exchange resin then subsequently recovered as an acidic uranyl solution that is further treated to produce an intermediate uranyl peroxide compound which is ultimately calcined to produce the final uranium oxide product. In alternative embodiments, in the single cycle case, the intermediate ammonium uranyl-tricarbonate solution is evaporated to decompose the ammonium carbonate and produce an intermediate uranium carbonate/oxide solid material. These solids are digested in an acid medium, and then processed in the same manner as the secondary regeneration solution from the dual cycle process to produce an intermediate uranyl peroxide that is calcined to produce a final uranium oxide product.
US10060009B2
Provided is a method for preparing rutile from acid-soluble titanium slag, including: grinding acid-soluble titanium slag; adding a sodium carbonate modifier, and performing microwave irradiation treatment in a microwave device; adding an ammonium bifluoride additive; and performing acid purification and calcination to obtain rutile. By means of a microwave heating mode, the equipment investment needed by the method is low, and the energy consumption is low. The purity of artificial rutile is more than 91%, byproducts are fewer, and the environmental pollution is low.
US10060002B2
An H-section steel has a predetermined chemical composition in which Ti oxides having a grain size of 0.01 μm to 3.0 μm are included at a density of 30 pieces/mm2 or more, a thickness of a flange is 100 mm to 150 mm, an area fraction of bainite at a ⅙ position from a surface of the flange in a length direction and at a ¼ position from the surface thereof in a thickness direction is 80% or more, a yield strength or 0.2% proof stress is 450 MPa or more, and a tensile strength is 550 MPa or more, a Charpy absorbed energy at 21° C. at a ½ position from the surface of the flange in the length direction and at a ¾ position from the surface thereof in the thickness direction is 100 J or more, and an average austenite grain size is 50 μm to 200 μm.
US10059978B2
Methods for determining whether certain compounds, in particular crystals, are present in a sample of a biological fluid that indicates an individual has a particular disease or condition, such as but not limited to gout, pseudogout or urinary tract stones. In some embodiments, the methods include the steps of digestion and filtration of a sample of synovial fluid in order to isolate, if present, monosodium urate monohydrate (MSU), calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD), or calcium phosphate crystals from the sample, wherein the filtrate is analyzed with a Raman device to ascertain the presence and type of the crystals. Devices for performing steps of the method are disclosed.
US10059977B2
Spore carriers suitable for use in biological indicators are described. The spore carriers include a substrate such as polymeric film or non-woven web with a hydrophilic nanostructured layer bonded to it. Spores are bonded to the nanostructured layer. Nanostructured layers including nanoparticles, such as acid-sintered silica nanoparticles are described. Biological indicators including such spore carriers are also described.
US10059974B2
Provided herein are recombinant cells (e.g., recombinant bacteria or plant, insect, mammalian, and yeast cells) containing a nucleic acid encoding a CYP97A protein or a nucleic acid encoding a CYP97B protein; a nucleic acid encoding a CYP97C protein; a nucleic acid encoding a geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthase protein; a nucleic acid encoding a phytoene synthase protein; a nucleic acid encoding a phytoene desaturase protein; a nucleic acid encoding a lycopene β-cyclase protein; and a nucleic acid encoding a lycopene ε-cyclase protein. Also provided are methods of producing lutein that include culturing these recombinant cells (e.g., recombinant bacteria and yeast cells), and methods of generating these recombinant cells (e.g., recombinant bacteria and yeast cells). Also provided is lutein produced by these methods, and pharmaceutical compositions, food supplements, food products, and cosmetic compositions that contain lutein produced by these methods.
US10059967B2
The invention provides non-naturally occurring microbial organisms having a (2-hydroxy-3-methyl-4-oxobutoxy) phosphonate (2H3M40P) pathway, p-toluate pathway, and/or terephthalate pathway. The invention additionally provides methods of using such organisms to produce 2H3M40P, p-toluate or terephthalate. Also provided herein are processes for isolating bio-based aromatic carboxylic acid, in particular, p-toluic acid or terephthalic acid, from a culture medium, wherein the processes involve contacting the culture medium with sufficient carbon dioxide (CO2) to lower the pH of the culture medium to produce a precipitate comprised of the aromatic carboxylic acid.
US10059966B2
Processes and systems for recovering products from a fermentation mash. In some examples, a process for recovering products from a fermentation mash can include processing a ground corn product to produce a fermentation mash that can include ethanol. At least a portion of the ethanol can be separated from the fermentation mash to produce a whole stillage. The whole stillage can be separated to produce a fiber rich product and a filtrate. The fiber rich product can be hydrolyzed to produce a saccharification mash. The saccharification mash can be processed to produce additional ethanol and a stillage protein product.
US10059963B2
The present disclosure generally relates to microorganisms that comprise one or more polynucleotides coding for enzymes in one or more pathways that catalyze a conversion of a fermentable carbon source to butadiene. Also provided are methods of using the microorganisms in industrial processes including, for use in the production of butadiene and products derived therefrom.
US10059956B2
Provided is a polynucleotide encoding a protein having activity that transfers a sugar to the hydroxyl group at the 4′-position of a flavone, wherein the polynucleotide is selected from the group consisting of: (a) a polynucleotide composed of the base sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1; (b) a polynucleotide that hybridizes under stringent conditions with a polynucleotide composed of a base sequence complementary to the base sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1; (c) a polynucleotide encoding a protein composed of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; and, (d) a polynucleotide encoding a protein composed of an amino acid sequence in which one or a plurality of amino acids have been deleted, substituted, inserted and/or added in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2.
US10059954B2
The invention provides novel recombinant DNA molecules and constructs useful for modulating gene expression in plants, plant cells, seeds, and progeny plants. Plant regulatory elements comprising sequences from a ubiquitin gene from Bouteloua gracilis, as well as variants and fragments thereof having gene-regulatory activity, are provided. The invention also provides transgenic plants, plant cells, plant parts, seeds, and progeny plants comprising the recombinant DNA molecules of the invention, along with methods of their use.
US10059943B2
The present invention relates to new triphosphate-modified oligonucleotides which may act as RIG-I ligands as well as a new method allowing the synthesis and purification in high yield and purity suitable for pharmaceutical applications.
US10059940B2
Provided herein are chemically ligated guide RNA oligonucleotides (lgRNA) which comprise two functional RNA modules (crgRNA and tracrgRNA) joined by non-nucleotide chemical linkers (nNt-linker), their complexes with CRISPR-Cas9, preparation methods of Cas9-lgRNA complexes, and their uses for treatments of viral infections in humans. Also disclosed are processes and methods for preparation of these compounds.
US10059938B2
The present invention is directed to methods and kits for gene analysis. The methods of the invention comprise the steps of providing nucleic acid; synthesis of a single-stranded DNA that is complementary to said nucleic acid molecule by contacting the nucleic acid with a DNA polymerase, a primer and a mixture of dNTPs under conditions that allow the generation of the DNA, wherein the primer comprises a target-complementary region and wherein the dNTP mixture comprises dATP, dGTP, dCTP, dTTP and dUTP; cleaving the DNA 5′ to dU sites by (i) contacting the DNA with an uracil deglycosylase to generate a basic sites at positions of dUTP incorporation in the DNA; and (ii) contacting the DNA with an apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonuclease; contacting the DNA comprising at its 5′-end the nucleotide sequence of the primer with a ssDNA ligase to circularize the DNA; and sequencing the circularized cDNA. The kits comprise the components necessary to perform the methods of the invention.
US10059935B2
This invention provided a preparation method of the composite which was immobilized Paracoccus denitrificans on modified graphene oxide and its application. The composite was obtained by following the steps below: 1) Synthesis of graphene oxide; 2) Synthesis of modified graphene oxide; 3) Acclimatization and immobilization of Paracoccus denitrificans. In this invention, the raw materials were low-cost and easily obtained used in the preparation process; easy operation, convenient, and no expensive instruments during the whole process; this invention of the composite could remove DMF from wastewater completely, and with the advantages of high efficiency, good recycle performance, economical, environmentally friendly, better feasibility.
US10059929B2
The invention includes methods for identifying polymerases, such as modified terminal nucleotidyl transferases (TdT), that are capable of binding nucleotides comprising removable 3′-O-blocking moieties to a nucleic acid initiator, without the use of a template. The invention further includes the identified polymerases, and methods of using the polymerases for de novo synthesis of predetermined oligonucleotide sequences.
US10059927B2
Provided are modified microorganisms which are modified such that their growth can be controlled using exogenously provided compounds. The microorganisms can be modified by genetic alterations that include a promoter inducible by a first exogenously supplied compound. The promoter can be configured to drive expression of an RNA coding sequence that may be essential to growth of the microorganism. The microorganisms may also be modified to include site specific recombinase recognition sites flanking or within the RNA coding sequence so that expression of the corresponding site specific recombinase will disrupt transcription of the RNA. The site specific recombinase can be configured such that it expression and/or activity is suppressed by a second exogenously supplied compound. Methods of making the modified microorganisms and kits that contain reagents for making and using the modified microorganisms are also provided.
US10059925B2
The invention provides a composition useful to prepare high titer influenza viruses, e.g., in the absence of helper virus, which includes internal genes from an influenza virus vaccine strain or isolate, e.g., one that is safe in humans, for instance, one that does not result in significant disease, and genes from vaccine seed virus isolates which include a HA gene segment with a HA2 sequence encoding a HA2 that confers enhanced growth in cells in culture, such as Vero cells.
US10059918B2
Some embodiments include a method. The method can include: inoculating a bioreactor with one or more first microorganisms and a first fluidic support medium, the bioreactor having one or more bioreactor walls at least partially enclosing a bioreactor cavity, being configured to be at least one of folded up or rolled up, and being sterile when the bioreactor is inoculated with the one or more first microorganisms, the one or more bioreactor walls having at least one bioreactor wall material, and the at least one bioreactor wall material being flexible and at least partially transparent; and vitally supporting the one or more first microorganisms with the bioreactor, a supply of light, and a supply of organic carbon. Other embodiments of related systems and methods are also disclosed.
US10059914B2
In one embodiment, a disposable bioreactor including a headplate and a stirrer. The headplate has at least one inlet port aperture and one outlet port aperture formed therein and is adapted to couple sealingly with a bag capable of receiving a culture medium. The stirrer is coupled to and extends from the headplate and is adapted to stir the culture medium when the headplate is coupled to the bag. The bioreactor is adapted to fit within the upper opening of the stand of an existing conventional glass bioreactor, so that the bag is suspended within the vessel.
US10059913B2
Presented is an airway organ bioreactor apparatus, and methods of use thereof, as well as bioartificial airway organs produced using the methods, and methods of treating subjects using the bioartificial airway organs.
US10059911B2
A method of producing washing hydrogen water in an embodiment, includes: a step of storing ammonia water in a first tank; a step of transferring the ammonia water from the first tank to a second tank; a step of diluting the transferred ammonia water with ultrapure water in the second tank; a step of mixing the diluted ammonia water into hydrogen water; and a washing step of washing an inside of the first tank by ultrapure water to remove fine particles derived from ammonia generated in the first tank.
US10059910B2
Methods for use of enzymes for sustainable wash water maintenance are disclosed. The invention relates to use of enzymes for removing soils from wash water sources in a variety of cleaning applications. The invention cleans wash water sources, prevents the re-deposition of soils on treated surfaces and enhances detergency. Methods of wash water maintenance according to the invention provide sustainable practices by improving water quality and minimizing water and energy consumption in wash systems.
US10059908B2
Suggested is a method for masking odoriferous incorrect notes in oleochemical preparations, by adding to said compositions specific lactones.
US10059901B2
The present invention relates to lubricating compositions comprising a compound of Formula I: wherein R1-R4 and R5-R8 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrocarbyl groups and hydrocarbyl groups containing heteroatoms, such that the total carbon atoms from counterions Q1 and Q2 is from 8 to 76, and molybdate anion (Y) is a binuclear sulfur-containing dianion selected from the group consisting of [Mo2S8O2]2−, [Mo2S9O]2−, [Mo2S10]2−, and mixtures thereof, and are present in the lubricating composition in an amount sufficient to provide about 100-15,000 ppm molybdenum.
US10059897B2
ProblemA detergent friction modifying agent having both a detergent performance that ameliorates and prevents degradation over time that is caused by deposits in the engine, and a friction reducing effect that lowers frictional resistance in the engine; a fuel additive that improves drivability with a good balance over the entire range of engine speeds, and provides engine characteristics such that, over the entire range of driving speeds, the engine-braking characteristics are such that the feeling of free running will be strongly produced, such that a fuel consumption improvement effect is produced in actual vehicles that is greater than the values produced on the test bench, and which also has storage stability; and a fuel composition containing the same.SolutionThe present invention is characterized by containing a polyetheramine carboxylic acid salt; the fuel additive of the present invention is added to fuel at 0.5 wt % or less.
US10059896B2
An inactivation treatment apparatus includes a rotary kiln main body in which coal flows from an end side toward a tip side; a cooling tube arranged rotatably in conjunction with the rotary kiln main body and extends in the direction of the length of the rotary kiln main body, and in which cooling water can flow; and a treatment gas supply tube arranged rotatably in conjunction with the rotary kiln main body, and extends in the direction of the length of the rotary kiln main body, and can supply a treatment gas into the rotary kiln main body. In the apparatus, each of the cooling tube and the treatment gas supply tube is arranged to move past through a coal layer, which is a layer formed as the result of the sedimentation of the coal, in the rotary kiln main body when the rotary kiln main body rotates.
US10059895B2
A process and system for recovering natural gas liquids (NGL) using a combination of J-T cooling and membrane separation. The process involves compressing, separating, and cooling a flare gas stream comprising at least methane and C3+ hydrocarbons prior to being introduced to a J-T valve. The cooled stream exiting the J-T valve is further separated, producing a NGL product stream and an uncondensed gas stream. The uncondensed gas stream is directed to a membrane separation step, which results in a C3+ hydrocarbon enriched stream and a C3+ hydrocarbon depleted stream. The C3+ hydrocarbon enriched stream may be recycled back to the process to recover more NGL.
US10059894B2
Gasifiers are disclosed that include multiple chambers, multiple microwave sources and multiple arc plasma torches. Such gasifiers may be configured to have a drain, an exhaust port and a path of fluid communication between the exhaust port and the drain. Under appropriate conditions, the gasifiers may eliminate undesired waste while at the same time delivering a significant net energy benefit to the operator of the gasifier.
US10059890B2
Hydroprocessing can be performed at low pressure using acoustic energy. For example, hydroprocessing a feedstock having one or more hydrocarbon compounds carried in, or mixed with, a transport gas involves flowing the feedstock through a reaction zone in a reactor that has a bulk pressure less than 68 atm and applying acoustic energy through the reaction zone. The hydrocarbon compounds are chemically reacted with a hydrogen source in the presence of a catalyst, wherein the reacting occurs in the reaction zone.
US10059889B2
A process for the removal of residual sulfur compounds from rich liquid caustic is disclosed where a single column containing two reaction zones catalytically oxidizes mercaptans to disulfide oils. The second reaction zone utilizes a bundle of vertical hanging fibers and is maintained as a gas continuous phase comprising from about 20% to about 100% by volume vapor. This process is especially useful as part of a hydrocarbon desulfurization process flow scheme.
US10059888B2
The invention relates to removing contaminants from oil using solid sorbents that are comprised primarily of carbon and preferably of coke particles. The coke particles have an affinity for contaminants in oil and are sized to be filtered from oil without plugging. Most contaminants have such a small size that they tend to plug up filters. As the contaminants agglomerate onto the solid sorbent, the resulting particles form a filter cake on conventional filter materials in such a way as to allow the oil to pass on through without significant pressure drop or delay.
US10059883B2
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for producing a pyrolysis product, in which raw material are fed to the pyrolysis reactor and gaseous pyrolysis product fractions and by-product fractions are formed from raw material by pyrolysis in a pyrolysis reactor. According to the invention the method comprising steps: combusting at least one by-product fraction from the pyrolysis reactor in at least two combustors, and recovering energy formed in the combustor.
US10059881B2
An aspect of the present invention provides a monomer from which a polymer layer capable of keeping high display quality even in high temperature and high humidity environments can be formed. The monomer in an aspect of the present invention is a compound represented by P-Sp1-Z2-A1-(Z1-A2)n1-Z3-Sp2-P: in the formula, P denotes the same or different radical polymerizable group; and at least one of Z1, Z2, and Z3 denotes —NRCO— or —CONR— group.
US10059875B2
A perovskite-based photoelectric functional material having a general formula MzAyBXz+y+2. The matrix of the photoelectric functional material is a perovskite material ABX3, M is an organic amphipathic molecule used as a modification component of the matrix, 0
US10059867B2
A method for degrading a downhole article includes exposing the downhole article comprising a controlled electrolytic material to a composition that comprises a reducing agent. The method also includes contacting the downhole article with the reducing agent to degrade the downhole article. Additionally, a composition for degrading a downhole article includes water, chelant, metal ions, and a reducing agent that includes ascorbic acid, erythorbic acid, a derivative thereof, a salt thereof, or a combination thereof.
US10059866B2
An epoxy resin composition is provided. The epoxy resin composition includes a first aromatic epoxy resin represented by formula (I), and an amino compound selected from a group that includes 4,4′-methylenedianiline, 4,4′-ethylenedianiline, 4,4′-bis(4-aminophenoxy)biphenyl and 1,4-bis(4-aminophenoxy)benzene, wherein the ratio between the epoxy groups of the first aromatic epoxy resin and the amino groups of the amino compound ranges from 1:1 to 2:1.
US10059865B2
This invention generally relates to phase-change materials (PCM) comprising colloidally-protected wax-based microstructures and optionally, an absorbent material such as activated carbon. This invention also relates to such PCMs configured in various physical forms. This invention further relates to a process of configuring such PCMs for a variety of end-use applications in which dampening of temperature fluctuations by absorption and desorption of heat is desired. This invention also relates to PCM with reduced leaking of paraffin from the CPWB microstructures. This invention further relates to preparing colloidally-protected wax-based microstructures in particulate form that function as PCMs.
US10059861B2
A method of repairing or reinforcing a target structure includes preparing an adhesive sheet having at least an adhesive layer and a repairing or reinforcing material, irradiating the adhesive sheet with ionizing radiation, and attaching the adhesive layer to the target structure after the irradiation with the ionizing radiation.
US10059849B2
A method of bonding two surfaces by delivering to at least one of the surfaces an adhesive composition comprising: (a) at least one active bonding component; and (b) a carrier in an amount effective to at least partially solvate or at least partially emulsify said active bonding component, said carrier comprising monochlorotrifluoropropene, and then forming a bond between the surfaces.
US10059846B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing an aqueous suspension comprising a mineral pigment material and a depolymerized carboxymethylcellulose having a degree of carboxylation in the range from 0.2 to 2.2, a molecular weight in the range from 5000 to 40000 g/mol, and a polydispersity index in the range from 2 to 10.
US10059844B2
The novel yellow metal azo pigments based on at least two metal azo compounds which differ at least in the type of metal have both improved dispersion properties and improved color strengths and are of excellent suitability for pigmentation of pigment preparations for a broad field of use.
US10059841B2
A resin composition is provided. The resin composition comprises: (a) a resin of formula (I): and (b) a solvent, wherein, X, Y, R1 to R4, A1, A2, m and n are as defined in the specification.
US10059836B1
Disclosed is an eco-friendly infill for artificial turf, which is made of eco-friendly components to have insect-repellent, antimicrobial, and water purification properties. Further disclosed is a method of preparing the eco-friendly infill. The eco-friendly infill is installed on a base layer of an artificial turf system to fill gaps between pile-fibers of the artificial turf system, thereby forming an infill layer having a predetermined thickness. The eco-friendly infill includes 8 to 15 wt % of bark powder excluding cinnamon powder, 8 to 15 wt % of zeolite, 3 to 8 wt % of lacquer powder or lacquer, 3 to 10 wt % of cinnamon powder, 15 to 25 wt % of calcium carbonate, 15 to 25 wt % of polyethylene, 15 to 25 wt % of at least one elastic material selected from the group consisting of SEBS, latex, and silicone rubber, and 5 to 15 wt % of oil.
US10059833B2
The invention relates to a rubber composition based on at least one diene elastomer, a reinforcing filler including at least carbon black, having a specific surface area CTAB greater than or equal to 130 m2/g, a plasticizing hydrocarbon resin, the vitreous transition temperature of which, Tg, is greater than 20° C. and the softening point of which is less than 170° C., and a cross linking system, the dispersion of the filler in the elastomeric matrix having a Z score greater than or equal to 70.
US10059828B2
A moisture-curing composition containing a) 5 to 20 wt. % of at least one isocyanate-functional polymer, b) 7 to 20 wt. % of rapeseed oil methyl ester and c) 70 to 88 wt. % of at least one filler, based on the total composition. Compositions are suitable in particular as adhesive, sealant or coating, and preferably as a parquet adhesive or joint sealing material.
US10059819B2
The present invention relates to a biaxially stretched article obtained by stretching a thermoplastic composition in a machine direction and a transverse direction at elevated temperature, said thermoplastic composition comprising a polyolefin phase containing at least one polyolefin, a starch phase containing thermoplastic starch, and at least one compatibiliser, wherein the article has a layered morphology with alternating layers of starch phase and polyolefin phase, said layers of starch phase and polyolefin phase extending in machine direction and transverse direction.
US10059812B2
Method for producing a gel having a desired strength, by performing a step of removing a part or all of a solvent. Method for producing a gel containing a water-soluble organic polymer (A), a silicate salt (B), and a dispersant (C) for the silicate salt, including a desolvation step of removing a part or all of one or more solvents selected from the group consisting of water and a water-soluble organic solvent in the gel, or gelling a gel-forming composition containing the water-soluble organic polymer (A), the silicate salt (B), the dispersant (C) for the silicate salt, and one or more solvents selected from the group consisting of water and a water-soluble organic solvent and removing a part or all of the solvent in the composition.
US10059805B2
A composition for preparing a polyimide-inorganic particle composite, including a tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride represented by Chemical Formula 1, a diamine represented by Chemical Formula 2, and an inorganic particle having an amino group on its surface: wherein the definitions of groups R1 and R2 in Chemical Formula 1 and Chemical Formula 2 are the same as described in the detailed description.
US10059798B2
An active ester resin having a molecular structure represented by Structural Formula (1) where X represents a benzene ring or a naphthalene ring, each R1 independently represents a methyl group or a hydrogen atom, k is 0 or 1, n is 1 or 2, l is 1 or 2, and m is the average of a repeating unit and from 0.25 to 1.5. The active ester resin, as a curing agent, can be combined with an epoxy resin to form at least an epoxy resin composition, a cured product, a prepreg, a circuit board and a build-up film.
US10059778B2
The present invention is directed toward a process for making a poly alpha-1,3-glucan film. These films can be transparent or translucent and used in packaging applications.
US10059775B2
The present invention is directed to antibodies binding to MUC1-C/extracellular domain (MUC1-C/ECD) and methods of using such antibodies to treat cancers that express the MUC1 antigen.
US10059772B2
The present invention provides antagonizing antibodies that bind to interleukin-7 receptor (IL-7R). The invention further provides a method of obtaining such antibodies and antibody-encoding nucleic acids. The invention further relates to therapeutic methods for use of these antibodies and antigen-binding portions thereof for the treatment and/or prevention of type 2 diabetes and immunological disorders, including type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, graft-versus-host disease, and lupus.
US10059770B2
Provided is a method for producing glycoprotein composition with an increased percentage of Man5 and/or afucosylated glycans. Use of manganese for increasing the percentage of Man5 and afucosylated glycans in glycoprotein composition is further provided.
US10059753B2
The present invention provides a mutant chicken interleukin-1β protein as a chicken interleukin-1β antagonist, which has a substituted peptide at position 117 and/or 118 of wild-type chicken interleukin-1β peptides. The mutant chicken interleukin-1β protein is created by using point mutation in a method genetic engineering; it can significantly inhibit proliferation of avian virus, such as avian influenza virus, avian reovirus and Marek's disease virus, and avian inflammation response. Therefore, the mutant chicken interleukin-1β protein of the present invention can be used as antiviral and anti-inflammatory medication.
US10059744B2
The invention relates to thioether monomer and dimer peptide molecules which inhibit binding of α4β7 to the mucosal addressing cell adhesion molecule (MAdCAM) in vivo.
US10059737B1
This invention is for a new molecular recognition system, where DNA-like molecules comprising segments built from nucleotides that carry only a small which comprises process by which one molecule interacts with a specific second molecule, or by which a portion of a single molecule interacts specifically with another portion of the same molecule. Further, this invention relates to molecular recognition that follows simple rules. Further, this invention relates to molecular systems that are linear biopolymers that are analogs of DNA and RNA, in that they are built from a small set of building blocks that are linked together by phosphate groups, where the building blocks comprise a sugar (ribose, 2′-deoxyribose, or an analog) attached to a heterocycle. The molecular recognition that they display differs from that displayed by DNA and RNA, in that the rules governing molecular recognition break the rules of size complementarity followed in molecular recognition displayed between and within strands of DNA and RNA.
US10059731B2
A method for depolymerization of lignin includes oxidizing non-phenolic lignin by putting into presence, in at least one solvent, non-phenolic lignin, laccase, redox mediator and a source of oxygen, whereby a mixture including oxidized non-phenolic lignin is obtained, and further includes depolymerization of the oxidized non-phenolic lignin thereby obtained, by adding an oxidizer. The non-phenolic lignin is obtained from phenolic lignin by functionalization of phenol functions of the phenolic lignin.
US10059725B2
The invention provides a light emitting layer host compound and an electron-blocking compound that have high excited triplet levels, and can completely confine the triplet excitons of phosphorescent material, for use as the material of a high-efficient organic electroluminescent device. The invention also provides a high-efficient, high-luminance organic electroluminescent device with the use of the compounds.The compound of the general formula (1) below has a triphenylsilyl group and a triarylamine structure, and the organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes and at least one organic layer interposed between the pair of electrodes, wherein the compound of the general formula (1) having a triphenylsilyl group and a triarylamine structure is used as constituent material of the at least one organic layer.
US10059724B2
Pyridine complex of zirconium having general formula (I): Said pyridine complex of zirconium having general formula (I) may advantageously be used in a catalytic system for the (co)polymerization of conjugated dienes.
US10059719B1
A process is provided for making isoidide, wherein a dextrose feed is first converted by a combination of epimerization and hydrogenation to an iditol-enriched mixture of hexitols in the presence of hydrogen and in the further presence of a single, dual purpose catalyst, and the iditol is then conventionally fully dehydrated to provide isoidide. In one general embodiment, the dehydration is performed on the iditol-enriched mixture of hexitols to provide an isohexides product mixture including isoidide, and the isoidide is recovered therefrom. In another general embodiment, iditol is separated from the iditol-enriched mixture of hexitols, and at least a portion of this iditol is then dehydrated to provide an isoidide product.
US10059716B2
Provided herein are formulations, methods and substituted tetrahydrofuranyl-pyrrolo[1,2-f][1,2,4]triazine-4-amine compounds of Formula (I) for treating Pneumovirinae virus infections, including respiratory syncytial virus infections, as well as methods and intermediates for synthesis of tetrahydrofuranyl-pyrrolo[1,2-f][1,2,4]triazine-4-amine compounds.
US10059710B2
The invention is directed towards stable formulations of 5,10-methylene-(6R)-tetrahydrofolic acid and its hemisulfate salt as well as pharmaceutical compositions and uses thereof in therapy, preferably chemotherapy.
US10059704B2
A compound having the following general formula (I): wherein: X is a nitrogen atom and Y is a carbon atom; or X is a carbon atom and Y is a nitrogen atom; the Ar group is an aryl or heteroaryl group; and the RN and RN′ groups, together with the carbon atoms to which they are bound, form a monocyclic or bicyclic azacycloalkane group. The pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, the hydrates or polymorphic crystalline structures thereof, and to the racemates, diastereoisomers, or enantiomers thereof are also described.
US10059703B2
This present disclosure is related to the field of 3-alkyl-5-fluoro-4-substituted-imino-3,4-5 dihydropyrimidin-2(1H)-ones and their derivatives and to the use of these compounds as fungicides. Also provided are methods of controlling a fungal disease such as Septoria tritici, comprising administering an effective amount of the fungicide compound to at lease one surface associated with the plant, seed or soil.
US10059695B2
The present disclosure relates generally to modulators of Cot (cancer Osaka thyroid) and methods of use and manufacture thereof.
US10059693B2
The present invention provides novel compounds of any one of Formulae (I)-(III), and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Also provided are particles (e.g., nanoparticles) comprising compounds of Formula (I)-(III) and pharmaceutical compositions thereof that are mucus penetrating. The invention also provides methods and kits for using the inventive compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, for treating and/or preventing diseases associated with abnormal or pathological angiogenesis and/or aberrant signaling of a growth factor (e.g., vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)), such as proliferative diseases (e.g., cancers, benign neoplasms, inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases) and ocular diseases (e.g., macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, retinoblastoma, edema, uveitis, dry eye, blepharitis, and post-surgical inflammation) in a subject in need thereof.
US10059691B2
The present invention relates to processes for preparing pyrazole derivatives of Formula (I) and salts and pharmaceutical compositions of the salts thereof, useful as modulators of 5-HT2A serotonin receptor activity. The present invention also relates to intermediates used in the processes, and their preparation. The present invention also relates to salts of compounds of Formula (I) and pharmaceutical compositions thereof.
US10059684B2
Δ9-THC acid is extracted from cannabis flowers using a first organic solvent, then separated using a second aqueous solvent. Δ9-THC acid is converted to Δ9-THC carboxylic salt before being extracted by a third organic solvent and converted back to Δ9-THC carboxylic acid. Using a solvent swap, Δ9-THC carboxylic acid is decarboxylated and extracted again with an organic solvent prior to purification to give Δ9-THC.
US10059681B2
We describe anhydride compounds suitable for physiologically labile modification of amine-containing molecules. The described anhydrides form reversible linkages having desirable kinetics for in vivo delivery of biologically active molecules. Also described are endosomolytic polymers formed by modification of membrane active polyamines with the described anhydrides.
US10059676B2
A crystalline form of iodosulfuron-methyl-sodium of formula (I), the crystal preparation process, the analyses of the crystal through various analytical methods and using the crystal to prepare stable agrochemical formulation. The invention also describes the use of various solvents towards the crystalline form preparation conditions.
US10059663B2
Provided is a compound showing a bone formation promoting action (and/or bone resorption suppressive action). A compound of the formula (I) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt: [wherein each substituent is as defined in the DESCRIPTION], has low toxicity, shows good pharmacokinetics, has an action to promote bone formation, and is useful for the prophylaxis or treatment of metabolic bone diseases (osteoporosis, fibrous osteitis (hyperparathyroidism), osteomalacia, Paget's disease that influences the systemic bone metabolism parameter etc.) associated with a decrease in the bone formation ability as compared to the bone resorption capacity.
US10059659B2
The present invention relates to compounds 1, 1a (S-enantiomer) and 1b (R-enantiomer) of the following formula 1, and a method for preparing the same. [formula 1] The novel compound of the formula 1 is used as an important intermediate for preparing compounds 6, 6a (S-enantiomer) and 6b (R-enantiomer) of the following formula 6, which are 2,2′-binaphthol-3-aldehyde derivatives. Also, the present invention provides a method for preparing the compound of formula 1 with a very safe method at low cost. [formula 6]
US10059658B2
Method for preparation of 5-alkylsalicylaldoximes with formula 1, where R is a C6-C16 alkyl group, consisting in that into a water-alcohol solvent system, p-alkylphenol, sodium hydroxide, chloroform and hydroxylamine are introduced, while in relation to the alkylphenol used, sodium hydroxide and chloroform are used in amounts from the stoichiometric amount to a 100% excess, and hydroxylamine is used in amounts from the stoichiometric amount to a 60% excess, and the reaction is carried out at a temperature of 60-75° C. for 1.5-4 h, and then, at a temperature of 20-30° C., the post-reaction mixture is acidified till the pH of the aqueous phase <7.0 is obtained, and next, an alcohol-water azeotrope is distilled off with an admixture of unreacted chloroform, the residue is mixed with a neutral C5-C10 hydrocarbon solvent, the layers are separated, and the solvent is distilled off from the organic phase.
US10059657B2
HDAC inhibitors of the general formula (I) and (II) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, as described herein, are useful as inhibitors of histone deacetylases or other deacetylases, and thus are useful for the treatment of various diseases and disorders associated with acetylase/deacetylase activity as described herein (e.g., cancer). In certain embodiments, the compounds of the invention selectively target either a class or isoform of the HDAC family. Another aspect of the invention provides an assay for determining the inhibitory effect of a test compound on an HDAC protein comprising: incubating the HDAC protein with a substrate of general formula (IIIc) in the presence of a test compound; and determining the activity of the HDAC protein.
US10059655B2
This invention provides for a compound of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1-R4, n and p are defined herein. The compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are cationic lipids useful in the delivery of biologically active agents to cells and tissues.
US10059654B2
There is provided a method for producing, at a high yield, a composition containing 3-chloro-4-methoxybenzylamine hydrochloride (CMBA-HCl) in which the purity of CMBA-HCl is high. This method comprises a chlorination step involving a chlorination reaction that generates CMBA-HCl from 4-methoxybenzylamine hydrochloride using hydrogen peroxide and hydrochloric acid. There is also provided a CMBA-HCl-containing composition which is produced by the aforementioned production method and in which the purity of CMBA-HCl is high.
US10059645B2
According to one embodiment described in this disclosure, a process for producing propylene may comprise at least partially metathesizing a first stream comprising at least about 10 wt. % butene to form a metathesis-reaction product, at least partially cracking the metathesis-reaction product to form a cracking-reaction product comprising propylene, and at least partially separating propylene from the cracking-reaction product to form a product stream comprising at least about 80 wt. % propylene.
US10059640B2
An apparatus (10) for the preparation of acetylene and synthesis gas by partial oxidation of hydrocarbons with oxygen is proposed. The apparatus (10) comprises a reactor (12), wherein the reactor (12) comprises a burner block (14) with a furnace chamber for the preparation of a composition C1 comprising at least acetylene and substituted acetylene, a first scrubber (22) which is constructed for adding a solvent to the composition C1 to obtain a composition C2, a second scrubber (26) which is constructed for adding the solvent to the composition C2 to obtain a composition C3, a first stripper (36) which is constructed for stripping the composition C3 to obtain a composition C4 comprising the substituted acetylene, acetylene and the solvent and for separating off the acetylene, a first column (46) which is constructed for partial degassing of the composition C4 under a pressure of from 1.0 bar to 1.5 bar to obtain a composition C5 and a first amount A1 of the solvent, a second stripper (56) to which the composition C5 can be fed for stripping a composition C9 to obtain a second amount A2 of the solvent and a composition C6, a third stripper (68) which is constructed for stripping the solvent from the first scrubber (22) to obtain a composition C9, wherein the third striper (68) is connected to the second stripper (56) for feeding the composition C9 to the second stripper (56), an apparatus (72) for adding a diluting gas to the composition C5, which is arranged between the first column (46) and the second stripper (56), a second column (76) which is constructed for adding water to the composition C6 to obtain a composition C7 comprising a third amount A3 of the solvent and water and to obtain a composition C8 comprising the substituted acetylene, and a mixing condenser (82) which is constructed for adding water to the composition C8 to obtain a composition C11 comprising the substituted acetylene.A process for the preparation of acetylene and synthesis gas by partial oxidation of hydrocarbons with oxygen is further proposed.
US10059637B2
An in-situ process for synthesizing highly pyrophoric foam materials using metal and carbon precursors wherein the precursors serve as foaming and activating agents to disperse and lock nano-sized metal particles within a rigid porous carbon matrix. The resulting carbon matrix is also pyrophoric.
US10059635B2
The invention is directed towards methods and compositions for preventing dusting problems in mineral supplement. The method involves treating the mineral supplement or a dust releasing material with a composition comprising polymerized organic acid.
US10059630B2
The object of the present invention is to provide the dielectric ceramic composition having good characteristics even under the high electric field intensity, and particularly good IR characteristic and the high temperature accelerated lifetime. The dielectric ceramic composition according to the present invention comprises a main component comprising a perovskite type compound shown by a compositional formula (Ba1-x-ySrxCay)m(Ti1-zZrz)O3 (note that, said “m”, “x”, “y” and “z” all show a mol ratio, and each satisfies 0.94≤m≤1.1, 0≤x≤0.2, 0≤y≤0.2, 0.06≤z<0.2), a first sub component comprising oxides of a rare earth element R (note that, R is any one selected from the group consisting of Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu), a second sub component comprising oxides of Mg, a third sub component comprising oxides at least one element M selected from the group consisting of Mn, Cr, Co and Fe, a fourth sub component as a sintering agent, a ratio of the first sub component in terms of oxides (RO3/2) is 8 to 20 mol, a ratio of the second sub component in terms of oxides (MgO) is 3 to 15 mol, a ratio of the third sub component in terms of oxides (MO) is 0.6 to 2.0 mol, with respect to 100 mol of said main component; and when a content of the first sub component is R mol, a content of the second sub component is M mol, and a content of the third sub component is N mol with respect to 100 mol of said main component, then 1.0≤R/(M+N)<2.4 is satisfied.
US10059626B2
Crumb Rubber augmented masonry blocks including cement, aggregate, water, and crumb rubber. Crumb rubber is extracted from scrape tires after being processed and then mixed in specified percentages with aggregate, cement and water. In the present disclosure sand, which is used in the formation of conventional blocks, is replaced with crumb rubber to produce a sand-free masonry block containing crumb rubber. The developed crumb rubber masonry blocks satisfied the ASTM non-load bearing requirements in addition to satisfying the water absorption test.
US10059619B2
An electric glass hot shop system is described herein that has at least one electrically powered heating unit (e.g., electric furnace, electric glory hole, electric pipe warmer, electric color box, electric annealer, electric crucible kiln) used in the processing of glass.
US10059616B2
A shape measuring device includes: a predetermined pattern; an image pick-up section that captures reflected images of the predetermined pattern on the front face and back face of a transparent measurement object; a calculating section that calculates an inclination angle of at least the front face or the back face from the reflected images; and a determining section that determines a shape of at least the front face or the back face. The predetermined pattern includes a plurality of elements, and one end and the other end of each element of the plurality of elements, which are formed in a direction perpendicular to the extension direction, are deviated from each other in the extension direction.
US10059603B2
Water filtration apparatus with compostable filters are disclosed herein. A water filtration apparatus in accordance with one embodiment of the disclosure includes a fluid containment vessel having a conically shaped upper chamber and a conically shaped lower chamber. A filter assembly is seated within the upper chamber and carries a compostable filter device that fits within a filter cavity of the filter assembly.
US10059601B1
The synthesis of silver nanoparticles from plant extract includes providing a solution including silver nitrate; providing an aqueous extract of the Abelmoschus esculentus (Okra) plant or plant part; mixing the silver nitrate solution and the extract solution to form an aqueous mixture; and resting the aqueous mixture for a period of time to form silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). The resulting silver nanoparticles demonstrate antimicrobial activity against both gram-positive and gram-negative pathogens.
US10059597B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an aerogel sheet. The method for manufacturing an aerogel sheet includes: a step (a) of immersing a blanket in an impregnation vessel in which silica sol is stored to impregnate the silica sol; and a step (b) of injecting a gelling catalyst to a surface of the blanket in which the silica sol is impregnated to gelate the silica sol.
US10059595B1
A general method of manufacturing high strength ultrafine grained nanostructured carbon and carbide materials that combines densification of nanoparticles with heat treatments or other means of supplying energy to cause fusion of structures that interlink and weld the nanoparticles together. Coatings films, nanopaper, nanopaper laminates, fibers, and extended objects can be manufactured by applying the disclosed methods. The nanomaterials are useful for additive manufacturing of rapid prototyped objects. A variety of nanoparticle starting materials are divulged including but not limited to double walled carbon nanotubes, fluorinated graphene nanosheets, silicon nanowires, and boron nanoplatelets. Articles can be manufactured with spark plasma synthesis, capacitive discharge sintering, hot press apparatus and green bodies can be processed in furnaces. The nanomaterials and ultra high strength articles manufactured from them will have applications including laparoscopic instruments, structural composites, heat sinks, EMI shielding, ballistic protection and aerospace components.
US10059594B2
In an embodiment, a method of producing phosgene in a tube reactor comprises introducing a feed comprising carbon monoxide and chlorine to a tube of the reactor, the tube having a particulate catalyst disposed therein, wherein a thermally conductive material separate from the tube contacts at least a portion of the particulate catalyst; to produce a product composition comprising phosgene, and carbon tetrachloride in an amount of 0 to 10 ppm by volume based on the volume of the phosgene.
US10059592B1
A process for producing a highly oriented graphene film, comprising: (a) preparing a pristine graphene dispersion having oxygen-free pristine graphene sheets dispersed in a fluid medium; (b) dispensing and depositing the dispersion onto a supporting substrate to form a layer of oriented pristine graphene, including subjecting the pristine graphene dispersion to an orientation-inducing stress; (c) removing the fluid medium to form a dried layer of pristine graphene; (d) stacking at least two layers of dried pristine graphene to form a mass of multiple layers of dried pristine graphene; and (e) heat treating the mass of multiple layers of dried pristine graphene at a first heat treatment temperature higher than 2,000° C. under a compressive stress for a sufficient period of time to produce the highly oriented graphene film.
US10059587B2
An ozone generator is contained in a housing having a fan for inducing air flow through the housing and over an ozone generating plate where atmospheric oxygen is electrochemically converted to ozone, which flows out of the housing through a grid opening. The ozone generating plate is defined by a glass plate having electrically conductive grids on both sides thereof and each grid is electrically powered to create corona discharge from the conductor; as air and oxygen in the air flows over the plate it is converted to ozone.
US10059579B1
A system for manually dispensing liquid from bulk container assembly into a smaller container using a manually operated pump assembly comprising a bulk container for maintaining liquid being pumped from a sealed bulk container, a metering pump assembly having a fluid interconnection with the bulk container, a rack and pinion gear drive assembly for moving an interconnected handle between operating positions for filling and emptying a metering chamber with the accurate amount of the predetermined desired volume of fluid to be pumped. A nozzle is provided for emptying the metering chamber to a second container having a size comparable to the amount of desired liquid being pumped. A method for dispensing liquid from a bulk container to a smaller container is also provided.
US10059576B2
Wireless portable vehicle lift system incorporating one or more enhanced communication and/or control features. The lift system can incorporate enhanced touch screen-enabled functionalities and/or enhanced wireless communication features.
US10059572B2
Provided is a core grasping method of grasping a core using a core grasping apparatus. The core grasping apparatus includes grasping devices respectively having expandable and contractible grasping parts. The core includes holes, and at least one of the holes has an inside diameter that decreases in the opposite direction from a direction of a turning moment occurring on the core. The core grasping method involves, when grasping the core, expanding the grasping parts inserted in the holes so as to bring the grasping parts into contact with inner walls of the holes of the core, and grasping the core and applying a force that suppresses the turning moment to the core.
US10059568B2
A system of hexagonal building units is provided herein. The building units may be configured in a honeycomb configuration. The building units may be configured for a variety of different uses, including any of the following: residential, commercial, entertainment, community, government, retail, parking, storage, and office space. An escalator or moving walkway is also provided herein. The escalator or moving walkway may contain multiple lanes operating at varying speeds and may have a circular, oval, curved or straight shape. The escalator or moving walkway may also include at least one lane having segments that operate at different speeds.
US10059564B2
A method for determining moving mass of a door system, actuated by a motor, wherein a) the motor electrical output, which is converted into mechanical output, is measured, b) the electrical output is summed during opening and/or closure, starting from the beginning of the actuation of the mass by the motor from initial rest until an end rest position is reached following completion of the actuation to determine energy losses, c) measurement of the maximum speed of the mass of the door system is measured during opening and/or closure, d) the electrical output provided by the motor from the initial rest position of the mass of the door system until achieving the maximum speed v thereof is summed, and the obtained energy value is reduced by the energy losses occurring up to this time point to determine the mass of the door system from the obtained kinetic energy.
US10059558B2
A sheet processing device includes a conveying unit, a presser, an end detector, and a setting unit. The conveying unit conveys a sheet having a crease formed therein. The presser presses the crease in the sheet. The end detector detects an end in a conveying direction of the sheet at a position upstream of the presser in the conveying direction. The setting unit sets a crease position where the crease is to be formed. Upon detection of the end in the conveying direction, the conveying unit conveys the sheet to a position where the crease faces the presser, on the basis of the crease position set by the setting unit. The presser presses the crease in the conveyed sheet.
US10059556B2
A system and a method for automatically processing a plurality of sheets. The method includes receiving printing instructions, receiving finishing instructions, after printing, in order to form a stack of printed and finished sheets, the finishing instructions includes an instruction to create a new target stack edge extending in a direction of a stack height on each of the plurality of sheets, printing a mark on each sheet of a group of sheets of the plurality of sheets, the mark intended to hit the new target stack edge in a group of at least one target hit point, and finishing the plurality of printed sheets according to the finishing instructions to create a new actual stack edge. A plurality of actual hit points form a pattern on the new actual stack edge and comprises a continuous proportional indication for a degree of correctness of the printing and/or finishing operation.
US10059551B2
A transporting device includes a first driving roller which transports the base material; a second driving roller which is disposed to be closer to a downstream side of the transporting direction than the first driving roller, and transports the base material; a driven roller which nips the base material between the second driving roller and the driven roller, and rotates together with the second driving roller; and an inter-roller transporting path which is provided between the first driving roller and the second driving roller, and through which the base material is transported in a state where the base material is suspended in a direction of gravity and bent. The second driving roller starts winding the base material at a position which is closer to an upstream side of the transporting direction than a position where the driven roller is in contact with the base material.
US10059544B2
A media conveyor mechanism for a printing apparatus includes an endless conveyor belt (BT) conveying a medium (M) in a Y direction; a belt driving unit having a first roller and a second roller which are arranged at an interval in the Y direction and parallel to an X direction, on which the conveyor belt (BT) is wrapped, and at least one of which drives the conveyor belt (BT), the first roller being fixed at a predetermined position in the Y direction, and second roller being switchable between a movable state and a fixed state; and an applying unit which applies constant equal force to both ends of the second roller in the X direction in a −Y direction.
US10059541B2
A sheet tray, including a tray body having a bottom plate, and a sheet guide, is provided. The sheet guide includes a guide plate to align sheets at a predetermined position, a lever, a swingable device having a boss and a guide groove, and a stopper pivotably connected with a hinge. The boss guided in the guide groove moves the lever between a first position, wherein the boss is in a first section in the guide groove and the stopper is lowered to an engaged position, with an engageable part being engaged with the bottom plate; and a second position, wherein the boss is in a second section in the guide groove and the stopper is uplifted to a separated position with the engageable part being separated from the bottom plate. When the lever moves from the first position to the second position, the lever tilts by ascending and pivoting.
US10059535B2
A bulk storage and dispensing system has transportable silos releasably secured at bottom ends thereof to a fixed silo location on a site surface. A conveyor assembly is releasably secured to a fixed conveyor location on the site surface adjacent to the silos and includes a lower output conveyor, an upper input conveyor, a rigid upper frame, and a conveyor raising mechanism operative to raise the conveyor assembly from a lowered transport position to a raised operating position. The lower output conveyor receives granular material from each silo and discharges same at a desired location. The upper input conveyor receives granular material when in the raised operating position and directs same into each silo. Upper silo locks lock upper portions of the silos to the rigid upper frame of the conveyor assembly when the rigid upper frame is in the raised operating position.
US10059531B2
A sheet processing system comprising: a plurality of sheet processing apparatuses; a conveying unit conveying a container containing a plurality of sheets; a distribution unit for distributing the container to any one of the plurality of sheet processing apparatuses; an identification information reading unit for obtaining identification information from the container; a communication unit for receiving information about the paper sheets contained in the container; and a controller for controlling a distribution destination of the container, on the basis of information about processing situations of the plurality of sheet processing apparatuses, the identification information about the container, and the information about the sheets contained in the container.
US10059529B1
A support pad including a body and a washer for supporting a leg is provided. The body includes a bottom and an opposed top defining a top external surface. The body has a central portion defining a spherically shaped pocket formed in the top of the body. The central portion receives a spherically shaped end of the leg and defines a central axis of the body. The body also has a dome shaped intermediate portion extending radially outward from the central portion. The body further has an outer portion extending radially outward from the central portion. The bottom includes a support pad support surface. The dome shaped intermediate portion has a uniform wall thickness. The washer is positioned adjacent the top external surface of the body and has an inner surface defining a central opening in the washer.
US10059526B2
A guide unit for a container-handling system includes a basic body portion having a format part, a railing support, and a railing crosspiece that are all integrated into a unitary piece. A container guide railing is arranged on the railing support. The railing crosspiece connects the basic body portion to the railing support.
US10059524B2
A conveyor lift assembly adapted for use on a conveyor assembly having a frame, and at least one main conveyor cylinder for moving the frame between a substantially horizontal position and an elevated position. The conveyor lift assembly includes a lower member disposed on the undercarriage of the conveyor assembly, an upper member adapted to be moved substantially vertically relative to the frame, and an actuator having a first end and a second end and being adapted to move between a retracted position and an extended position. The first end of the actuator is attached to the lower member and the second end is attached to the upper member, the actuator is adapted to move the upper member relative to the lower member, and the upper member is adapted contact the frame. A method for moving the frame between the substantially horizontal position and the elevated position.
US10059514B2
Methods and apparatus for maintaining a sanitary disposal and storage bin for consumed medical products using a storage bin with a liner bag and an attached shielding grommet in the shape of a circle flattened on one end which, when soiled, may itself be placed in the liner bag within the container.
US10059513B1
A gate control system that provides repeatable and reliable gate position sensing in a fully open position, a fully closed position, or both. In various embodiments, proximity sensors are maintained in biased contact (continuously or intermittently) with the gate panel throughout the travel range of the gate panel. The system may also include anti-fouling or “self-cleaning” of the proximity sensor(s), whereby the proximity sensors are cleared of materials that would otherwise interfere with the repeatability of the position sensing.
US10059509B2
An assembly box for transportation is disclosed. The assembly box for transportation may comprise: a vertical corner frame arranged at a corner portion; first and second horizontal frames arranged perpendicularly, with the vertical corner frame interposed therebetween, so as to constitute upper and lower edge portions of a side wall; and corner brackets connecting the upper and lower ends of the vertical corner frames with ends of the first and second horizontal frames, respectively.
US10059506B2
A blank for forming an inner packaging container of a pack for consumer goods including an outer packaging container and the inner packaging container. The inner packaging container includes a dispensing opening with a resealable closure, a front panel, a back panel, a top panel, a bottom panel, and opposing side panels; each side panel having an inner panel and an outer panel, the inner panel having a first width defining a width of the inner packaging container, and the outer panel including at least a portion having a second width defining flanges having a width greater than the first width. The inner packaging container is insertable within the outer packaging container such that the flanges extending from the back panel of the inner packaging container exert a biasing force on the hinged lid of the outer packaging container to assure lid closure is maintained.
US10059491B2
The present invention provides a lid connected to a container, comprising a lid body adapted to be removably attached to the opening of the container, a spout unit comprising a spout and a passage in fluid communication with the spout and with the opening of the container, and a cover member pivotably mounted on the lid body and pivotal between a locked position wherein the cover member acts on the spout unit, thereby causing twistable turning of the passage of the spout unit to prevent a fluid contained in the container from being dispensed through the opening of the container, and an unlocked position wherein the action on the spout unit is released, thereby allowing untwisting of the twisted passage to resume the fluid communication of the passage with the spout and the opening of the container. The invention also provides a container assembly comprising the lid.
US10059486B2
A shipping container for transporting bulk particulate material includes an outer container and an inner container with tapered sides that taper or narrow downward towards a bottom portion of the inner container. As a vacuum removes particulate material from at the bottom portion of the inner container, material higher up in the outer container and/or inner container funnels downward towards a central region at the bottom portion of the inner container and near the mouth of the vacuum tube or hose, filling a void created by the extracted material that is drawn up the tube or hose. The inner container provides a continuous flow of material to the vacuum hose or tube and a more complete emptying of the container, without having to tilt the shipping container or move the vacuum hose or tube in the shipping container.
US10059474B2
A packaging device for medications includes a packaging material supply and a folding and guiding unit. The folding and guiding unit folds a packaging material web in the longitudinal direction so that the edges of the packaging material web are guided along packaging material web folding regions and a folding section establishes a folded region in the packaging material web. The folding and guiding unit includes an impact region for medications to be packaged, a first joining unit and a second joining unit. The folding and guiding unit also includes a medication supply section spaced apart from the folding section and via which medications are conducted vertically spaced apart from the folded region into the folded packaging material web.
US10059472B2
A mass acceleration system for launching objects, such as a projectile or launch vehicle, via rotational acceleration is disclosed. The system may comprise a chamber maintained at near vacuum pressure, a motor that rotates a hub attached to a tethered projectile in a circular motion inside the vacuum chamber, accelerating the projectile until the projectile reaches a desired launch speed. The projectile may be released from the tether upon reaching the desired launch speed and may exit the chamber through an exit port that is opened briefly to allow the projectile to exit. In various embodiments, the circular mass acceleration system can be used to launch a projectile into space orbit. By employing rotational acceleration via a mechanical approach, the acceleration system provides a cost-effective reusable system for launching objects.
US10059460B2
A method and architecture to optimize an entire traction system available on a helicopter by using an auxiliary engine to provide energy to equipment and accessories of the helicopter connected to the engines. Main engines and an APU unit, as an auxiliary engine, include a gas generator connected to, for the main engines, a reduction gearbox and an accessory gearbox for mechanical, electrical, and/or hydraulic power take-off and connected to, for the APU unit, at least one power conversion member. The power conversion member of the APU unit is connected to the equipment and accessories by the reduction gearbox and/or the accessory gearbox of the main engines.
US10059456B2
Tubular bodies for use in frames for seats of vehicles such as aircraft are described. A tube can include a sidewall that has a variable thickness along the length of the tube. The variable thickness of the sidewalls can result in the tube having a variable inner diameter along the length of the tube. The tube may also include a variable outer diameter.
US10059453B2
A detachable seat mounted audio-visual entertainment system. The system has locally storable, selectable, and updatable content. The passenger in-flight entertainment device terminal has passenger selectable controls, a video display, an audio output, storage media such as a magnetic or “hard disk”, and a payment interface device such as a card swipe, all located in a seat which has been wired with power, local network, and audio wiring. A local, transport vehicle mounted local host computer provides supports the local network, and may be used to collect revenue slips resulting from passenger input to the payment interface device. Revenue slips may be posted to a remote server during a trip segment via satellite or direct radio frequency communication to receiving facilities providing connection to the internet, or alternately collected and posted batchwise.
US10059450B2
Cargo handling systems and methods for a freight deck of an aircraft are provided, as well as mobile transport apparatus. In at least one example, the system includes a support structure, at least one mobile transport apparatus, and a plurality of locking devices. The support structure is configured for at least partially supporting at least one cargo unit on the support structure, Each mobile transport apparatus is configured for selectively moving over the freight deck to a plurality of locations on the freight deck, for selectively engaging to the at least one cargo unit, for selectively propelling said at least one cargo unit over said freight deck while the apparatus is engaged to the at least one cargo unit, for enabling said at least one cargo unit to be deposited at a desired said location supported on said support structure, and for selectively disengaging from the at least one cargo unit. Each locking device is configured for selectively releasably locking the at least one cargo unit with respect to the freight deck at said desired location.
