US10071504B2
A method and system for performing work from a suspension work platform incorporating a work tool attached to an articulating arm system.
US10071502B2
Process for the manufacture of a mesoporous product comprising the following successive steps: a) preparation of a slip comprising: a solvent, an additive, more than 4%, as percentage by volume based on the slip, of a powder formed of ceramic particles, b) oriented freezing of the slip, so as to form a block comprising ice crystals separated by walls, c) removal of the ice crystals from said frozen slip block, optionally removed from the mold, so as to obtain a porous preform, d) removal of the additive, so as to obtain a preformed mesoporous product, the additive and the amount of additive being chosen so that the additive is present in a mesopore-forming micellar phase in said walls, more than 25% by volume of said ceramic particles exhibiting a size less than twice the size of the micelles of said mesopore-forming micellar phase.
US10071500B2
Systems and methods for a chainsaw safety device are described. In some embodiments, a method comprises activating a chainsaw, receiving a first acceleration value associated with acceleration of the chainsaw, comparing the first acceleration value to a predetermined acceleration threshold, and deactivating the chainsaw based on the comparison.
US10071497B2
Lengths of an optical fiber may be broken apart from one another while a cross-sectional region of the optical fiber is in a state of multi-axial compressive stress, and the multi-axial compressive stress extends across the optical fiber. The breaking can include propagating a crack across the optical fiber. The crack can be positioned in sufficiently close proximity to the cross-sectional region so that the multi-axial compressive stress restricts the crack from penetrating the cross-sectional region. At least a portion of the optical fiber may be in tension during the breaking.
US10071486B2
The invention relates to an articulated apparatus for guiding a relative movement of components into a target position, which may be the operating position of a micromanipulator arrangement. The articulated apparatus has multiple parts, which are movable with respect to each other. Two stop devices are used which, in combination, imitate the “latching-in” of a conventional latching device, but offer a considerably greater level of precision. A combined stop position is settable as said target position in which the first stop position and the second stop position are both present. The invention uses two stop devices in order to imitate the leaving of the “latched” target position in two directions as in the case of latching. Such articulated apparatus may be typically used with a micromanipulator arrangement of a cytobiological or microbiological workstation.
US10071485B2
Provided is a hand controller device for detecting movement of one or more fingers of a user holding the device. The device includes: a support structure and opposing first and second finger supporting means, at least one of the finger supporting means being movably coupled to the support structure so that a movement of the movable supporting means increases or reduces an opening angle and/or distance between the opposing first and second finger supporting means; and a force and/or torque generation means that generates a force and/or torque between the first and second finger supporting means. The first and second finger supporting means include a finger detecting means to detect if the user's finger is in contact with a surface of the first and/or second finger supporting means, independently of whether or not the movable supporting means is moved.
US10071481B2
A system to secure people's safety in places such as a factory wherein people and industrial robot collaborate with each other in a state that a physical fence surrounding the preferred industrial robot's working region is excluded. The system is capable of acquiring respective distances between robot and a plurality of people. Furthermore, a critical distance of each person is set on the basis of at least one of personal information that each person individually has and environment information to be set depending on the robot's setting environment. A mounted-type monitor is respectively mounted on the plurality of people and is capable of displaying information within a view of each person, and a control unit is capable of controlling display content thereon. According to the display control, when a distance between robot and each person becomes less than a critical distance, the distance state is displayed on the mounted-type monitor.
US10071475B2
Methods and systems are described for communicating action instructions between a home automation system and a mobile robotic device. In some embodiments, the action instructions may be communicated by receiving, at the home automation system, input data, and processing the input data to obtain action instructions. In some embodiments, the action instructions may be communicated to the mobile robotic device, and the mobile robotic device may execute the received action instructions.
US10071474B2
A cutting guide serves to adjust a length of an exhaust tube introduced in an exhaust pipe so as to adapt to combination of the exhaust pipe communicating from the inside to the outside of a building with an exhaust terminal attached to an end portion of the exhaust pipe on an outdoor side. The cutting guide has a reference site for alignment with an exhaust pipe unit including the exhaust pipe, and has an indication of a cutting position of the exhaust tube for adjusting a length of the exhaust tube protruding from the end portion of the exhaust pipe portion on the outdoor side to a length adapted to a type of the exhaust terminal.
US10071469B2
A generally continuous cylindrical body where a first set of tools and a second set of tools are arranged at the proximate and distal ends of the body to rotate in a specific alternating 180 degree sequence in either an “L” mode or “screwdriver” mode for use. The tools are configured to be positioned at one or more hinge points by screws and shoulder screws. At a proximal end of the tool body, and at the tangent of the circumference of the body at the distal end of each tool; each tool is configured to rotate away from the body to a plurality of angles. The general cylindrical body also provides angled channels or walls with varying angular depths or tool slots where the tools are arranged and retained within the general cylindrical body.
US10071468B2
A hand-power tool includes at least one oscillation-damping device that has at least one damping spring, a damping mass, and a mechanism housing. The oscillation-damping device has at least two retaining parts that at least partly enclose the damping mass.
US10071465B2
A grindstone tool is provided with a shaft part which has a tubular shape having a connection hole therein, a head part which has a cylindrical shape coaxially and integrally connected to the leading end of the shaft part and having a hollow section therein, and abrasive grains which adhere to the entire outer peripheral surface of the head part via a bonding material. A grinding fluid is supplied to the hollow section of the head part from one end side of the head part, the other end side of the head part is blocked by a lid member, and in the head part, a plurality of communication holes through which the hollow section and the outer peripheral surface communicate with each other, and which each have a taper shape with a diameter size on the outer peripheral surface side larger than a diameter size of the shaft center side are formed.
US10071457B2
A cam grinding method using a cam grinding device includes: an intermediate-cam lift-data generating step of, based on first lift data of a first cam and second lift data of a second cam, generating imaginary intermediate cam lift data of a spline curve that contains profiles of both cams; a first cam grinding step of grinding the first cam; a second cam grinding step of grinding the second cam; and an intermediate-cam grinding step of removing an unground portion generated at a boundary portion between the first cam and the second cam by plunge grinding or spark-out grinding on the basis of the intermediate-cam lift data after the second cam grinding step.
US10071448B1
A blade configured for use in a blending apparatus includes a body portion and a pair of wing portions extending from the body portion. At least a leading edge of the blade is forged to increase a hardness property. The leading edge may have a minimum thickness that provides a relatively blunt leading edge. The wing portions of the blade may be formed after forging the blade.
US10071444B2
A laser cladding apparatus includes a powder supplier to supply metal powder to a portion to be processed, a laser to irradiate the portion to be processed with laser so as to melt the metal powder for cladding, and a controller. The powder supplier includes a gas pressure gauge, and the controller stores, as an initial value, a gas pressure value measured by the gas pressure gauge when the metal powder supplied by the gas pressure reaches the portion to be cladding-processed. In operation after storing the initial value, the controller sets, as a reference time, timing when the gas pressure gauge measures a same pressure as the initial value, and outputs a start signal for laser irradiation to the laser based on the reference time.
US10071443B2
A laser sintering device and a laser sintering method are provided. The laser sintering device includes a laser source and a sintering platform. The laser source projects a laser beam on a plane, and by changing directions of the laser beam an action area on the plane is defined. The sintering platform provides a sintering area. The sintering platform is arranged in such a way that at least a first region of the sintering area is located within the action area and at least a second region of the sintering area is located outside the action area. The sintering platform is movable such that at least a part of the second region replaces at least a part of the first region within the action area.
US10071438B2
A method of forming a shank comprises arranging first structures in a first set of the first structures and second structures in a second set of the second structures such that the first structures and the second structures extend away from a longitudinal central axis in a direction normal to the longitudinal central axis and such that ends of the first structures and the second structures, farthest away from the longitudinal central axis, form cylindrical surfaces, parallel to the longitudinal central axis and equidistant from the longitudinal central axis. The method further comprises indirectly bonding the first set of the first structures to the second set of the second structures, thereby forming the shank. At least one of the first structures consists of a first material. At least one of the second structures consists of a second material, such that the first material is different from the second material.
US10071429B2
A magnet sensing portable autonomous device includes a platform. A plurality of wheel sets is coupled to the platform. A drive system is used for driving the plurality of wheels. An attachment mechanism is positioned on an underside of the platform for securing the device to a surface. A control board is used for controlling the operation of the device. In some embodiments, a drill spindle assembly is coupled to the platform. A drill feed assembly is coupled to the drill spindle assembly for raising and lowering the drill spindle assembly. A plurality of sensors are operable to sense one or more magnets disposed below the surface. A drive table is used for positioning the drill spindle assembly in an XY plane based on an output of said plurality of sensors.
US10071421B2
The flaky magnetic metal particles of the embodiments include a plurality of flaky magnetic metal particles, each of the flaky magnetic metal particles including a first magnetic particle including a flat surface, at least one first element selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co and Ni, an average ratio between the maximum length and the minimum length in the flat surface being between 1 and 5 inclusive, an average thickness of the first magnetic particles being between 10 nm and 100 μm inclusive, an average aspect ratio of the first magnetic particles being between 5 and 10000 inclusive; and a plurality of second magnetic particles disposed on the flat surface, an average number of the second magnetic particles being five or more, an average diameter of the second magnetic particles being between 10 nm and 1 μm inclusive.
US10071419B2
A dispersion comprising at least metallic copper particles with gelatin provided on the surface thereof, a polymeric dispersant, and an organic solvent. The dispersion is produced by reducing copper oxide in an aqueous solvent in the presence of gelatin having an amine number and an acid number wherein the difference (amine number−acid number) is 0 or less, then subjecting the reaction solution to solid-liquid separation, and then mixing the resultant metallic copper particles with gelatin provided on the surface thereof and a polymeric dispersant having an amine number and an acid number wherein the difference (amine number−acid number) is 0 to 50, into an organic solvent. The dispersion maintains dispersion stability of the metallic copper particles for a long time, is suitable for inkjet printing and spray coating and can be used to make microelectrodes and circuit wiring patterns.
US10071418B2
The damage to devices are avoided, by performing operation control of a hydraulic operating means and an electric servomotor, that are adapted as drive sources in an injection step, separately and not performing coordinate control. A die casting machine 1 includes a tubular injection sleeve 12, an injection plunger 13, an electric servomotor 17 and a hydraulic operating means 21 which are used as a drive source of an injection step, and a control means 30 which controls the electric servomotor 17 and the hydraulic operating means separately, when injecting and filling the cavity of the mold, which has been closed, with the molten metal by the advancing of the injection plunger 13, during a low-speed injection step and a high-speed injection step which is performed at a higher speed than the low-speed injection step, in the injection step.
US10071415B1
An ergonomic bucking bar is disclosed herein. The ergonomic bucking bar includes a bar body having a proximal end and a distal end. The proximal end includes a plurality of apertures formed therein for reducing weight of the bar body at the proximal end. The ergonomic bucking bar includes a compliant hand grip positioned over the proximal end of the bar body for reducing vibrations transmitted through the bar body during a riveting operation using the bucking bar. Optionally, the distal end includes at least one aperture formed therein for receiving an insert to increase the weight of the bar body at the distal end.
US10071413B2
The present invention discloses a device for assembling products in a die. The device comprises a pushing portion and an assembling portion. The pushing portion comprises a pushing block (11), a pushing spring (10) and a pushing wedge (9) wherein the pushing block (11) is connected with the pushing spring (10), the pushing wedge (9) is arranged above the pushing block (11) and is in wedge-shaped connection with the pushing block (11). The assembling portion comprises an assembling wedge (6), a transmission wedge (4) and an assembling male die (5), wherein the transmission wedge (4) is arranged above the assembling male die (5) in wedge-shaped connection and both of them are arranged in the lower die base (2), the assembling wedge (6) is arranged above the transmission wedge (4) in wedge-shaped connection while in contact.
US10071406B2
In a steel sheet pile according to the present invention, a carbon equivalent CEN is 0.260 to 0.500, a structure includes a ferrite, a pearlite, a Widmanstätten ferrite, and a precipitate, the precipitate is one or both of Nb carbonitride and V carbonitride, a total number density of the precipitate is 0.10 to 0.30 pieces/μm2, a total area ratio of the ferrite and the pearlite is 70% or more, an area ratio of the Widmanstätten ferrite is 1% or more, an average grain size of the ferrite and the pearlite is 10 to 80 μm, and a yield strength is 460 MPa or more.
US10071390B2
A fluidized bed coating apparatus for coating liquid onto the surfaces of particles directed into a coating chamber. A liquid spray nozzle assembly disposed below a hollow separator within the coating chamber includes an ultrasonic atomizer for atomizing coating liquid into a fine liquid particle cloud and a pressurized air directing air cap for forming the ultrasonically atomized fine liquid particle cloud into a cone shaped spray pattern and propelling the liquid particles through the separator into an upbed region of the coating chamber for recirculation in an outbed region, and through the separator. A cooling air passageway system is provided within the spray nozzle assembly for cooing the ultrasonic atomizer during operation.
US10071386B2
To provide a spout apparatus whereby expansion and deformation of the inner wall surface of the vortex generating portion such that a desired Karman vortex cannot be generated are prevented, even when the port portion is formed of an elastically deformable soft member. A spout apparatus for discharging hot or cold water with reciprocal motion, having a spout apparatus body and a vortex generating passage; whereby the oscillating element has a supply passage, a vortex generating passage, and a spout port passage, and the spout port passage is formed by an elastically deformable soft member, and is attached to the spout apparatus body so that a user can manipulate and deform the spout port passage, and the vortex generating passage is formed so as not to expand and deform even if internal pressure rises due to the supply of hot or cold water from the supply passage.
US10071379B2
Microfluidic structures and methods for manipulating fluids and reactions are provided. Such structures and methods may involve positioning fluid samples, e.g., in the form of droplets, in a carrier fluid (e.g., an oil, which may be immiscible with the fluid sample) in predetermined regions in a microfluidic network. In some embodiments, positioning of the droplets can take place in the order in which they are introduced into the microfluidic network (e.g., sequentially) without significant physical contact between the droplets. Because of the little or no contact between the droplets, there may be little or no coalescence between the droplets. Accordingly, in some such embodiments, surfactants are not required in either the fluid sample or the carrier fluid to prevent coalescence of the droplets. Structures and methods described herein also enable droplets to be removed sequentially from the predetermined regions.
US10071359B2
Methods and devices for the formation and/or merging of droplets in microfluidic systems are provided. In certain embodiments a microfluidic droplet merger component is provided that comprises a central channel comprising a plurality of elements disposed and spaced to create a plurality of lateral passages that drain a carrier fluid out of a fluid stream comprising droplets of a first fluid contained in the carrier fluid; and a deformable lateral membrane valve disposed to control the width of said center channel.
US10071346B2
The present invention relates to the production of a hydroxyl polyimide-co-polyimide membrane, the fabrication of a thermally rearranged poly(benzoxazole-co-imide) membrane by thermally treating the hydroxyl polyimide-co-polyimide membrane, and the application of the thermally rearranged poly(benzoxazole-co-imide) membrane to membrane distillation. The thermally rearranged poly(benzoxazole-co-imide) separation membrane has high liquid entry pressure, low thermal conductivity, high permeate flux, and good long-term stability, as well as excellent thermal and chemical properties. Due to these advantages, the copolymer separation membrane can be applied to membrane distillation processes.
US10071345B2
This disclosure concerns methods for formation of a novel PBI asymmetric hollow fiber membrane and its application for gas separations, gas/vapor separations, gas/liquid separations (i.e., pervaporation), and liquid separations including solute molecule removal from organic solvents and water.
US10071344B2
A system and related method for controlling reductant dosing in a selective catalyst reduction system includes a chamber containing a catalyst, and a controllable reductant dosing system that includes a controllable injector connected to a reservoir of reductant, and a controller that obtains inlet exhaust temperature, speed, and composition information, for example, from one or more sensors in the exhaust stream. The controller solves a set of coupled equations comprising (i) one-dimensional, steady ammonia mass balance equations and (ii) one-dimensional, steady species mass transfer equations, to calculate a one-dimensional distribution of ammonia storage in the catalyst and a one-dimensional distribution of exhaust species concentrations through the SCR system including a concentration of ammonia and a concentration of one or more nitrogen oxides at the SCR outlet; and uses the solution to control the injector. The method has been found to anticipate ammonia and NOx slip.
US10071340B2
Filter bag assembly for use in cleaning of process gas comprising an outer tubular filter bag and one or more inner tubular filter bags separately arranged within the outer tubular filter bag, and said one or more inner tubular filter bags also separately arranged within each other, the one or more inner tubular filter bags and the outer tubular filter bags having an open end and a closed end, and at least one of the inner tubular filter bags and/or the outer tubular filter bag being provided with catalytically active material.
US10071330B2
A filter element has a curved filter medium body, which at least partially encloses a flow chamber, and a carrier connector that is guided through the filter medium body. The carrier connector is a carrier of a sealing element for sealing the contact with a flow channel, wherein a section of the sealing element is arranged between the carrier connector and the filter medium body.
US10071322B2
A high-rate hydrothermal cleanup (HCU) process and system is disclosed for the rapid hydrolysis of renewable oils and reduction of inorganic and organic contaminants, such as salts, minerals, metals, asphaltenes, polymers, and coke precursors in both renewable oils and petroleum fractions. The process and system is characterized by a very short residence time, high-temperature, high-pressure, turbulent flow, hydrothermal operation. The HCU and integrated vapor-liquid separation system and process results in high yields of oil product that contains significantly reduced concentrations of inorganic and organic contaminants. The process may be operated to produce a concentrated clean glycerin byproduct and short-chain and long-chain free fatty acid product streams. The integrated vapor-liquid separation system and process performs at near atmospheric pressure by taking advantage of the water employed in the cleanup process and the energy imparted by the HCU reactor and eliminates the need for vacuum distillation.
US10071321B2
The method serves to control substances present in a liquid; a liquid mass is brought to temperature and pressure conditions such as to give rise to an appreciable evaporation of the liquid mass; at least one solid surface is arranged, in part inside the liquid mass and in part outside the liquid mass so as to establish at least a meniscus of the liquid on this solid surface; the shape and/or the size and/or the extension and/or the position and/or the temperature of this meniscus is controlled so that the evaporation of the liquid through said meniscus is controlled; any deposition of these substances is also controlled.
US10071320B2
A multi-configurable toy vehicle is described. The multi-configurable toy vehicle comprises a cab and a vehicle body. The cab comprises a first set of one or more wheels and the vehicle body comprises a second set of one or more wheels. The vehicle body is slidably coupled to the cab between a collapsed and expanded configuration. The vehicle body comprises a floor and a platform pivotally coupled to the floor between an upright position and an open position. A trailer may be coupled to the multi-configurable toy vehicle.
US10071313B2
The present disclosure provides a novel game apparatus on which a plurality of characters are controlled in a virtual space. An example game apparatus 10 executing a game in which each of a plurality of players controls his/her plurality of characters in a virtual space includes a first input unit 11 and a second input unit 12 for receiving a command from a first player and a second player respectively, and an information processing unit 14 causing the characters controlled by the first player to act according to a first player's command and causing the characters controlled by the second player to act according to a second player's command, wherein the plurality of characters controlled by the first player are on an equality with each other and the plurality of characters controlled by the second player are on an equality with each other.
US10071307B1
A display housing for a head mounted image display apparatus, said display housing being configured to be mounted to the head of a user with a pair of optical visual units adapted to present a virtual image to the user and a pair of earphones for providing sound to the user, each of the earphones attached to a respective side of the housing via a respective wire. The display housing comprises a linear wire retraction assembly situated thereacross, the wire retraction assembly configured to control the amount that a respective wire is pulled from the housing to allow each earphone to be selectably movable between a first, retracted state and a second, extended state.
US10071306B2
A virtual reality tracking system accurately determines one or more controller orientations using data from tracking cameras and/or an inertial measurement unit (IMU) embedded in each controller. Each controller has two or more distinctive light-emitting tracking markers. The tracking system determines the locations of the tracking markers based on the location of tracking markers in tracking camera's images. The tracking system determines the controller orientation using the locations of the tracking markers and orientation data from the IMU. When the camera views of the markers are obstructed the tracking system relies solely on the less-accurate orientation data from the IMU.
US10071305B2
A system and method are provided for conducting a primary lottery game in conjunction with a televised game show and a play-at-home version of the show. In the primary lottery game, players purchase lottery tickets, with each ticket having a unique web code. Players of the primary lottery game become eligible to be a contestant in the show by accumulating a predefined set of game symbols in the lottery game. During broadcast of the game show, a plurality of game symbol codes are provided to at-home viewers of the show who are also players of the primary lottery game. The at-home viewers are able to access a website, enter the web code from their lottery ticket, enter one the game symbol codes broadcast with the game show, and play a web-based game to win a game symbol associated with the entered game symbol code.
US10071302B2
A foldable longboard composed of a deck split in multiple sections connected on their lower surface with a folding assembly having an indivisible flexible element capable of bending near the interface between the different sections of the deck, allowing therefore said sections to be rotated in one direction to a folded position where the bottom surfaces of each section face each other, while inhibiting said sections to rotate in the other direction, against each other's top surface, when the longboard is in its elongated configuration.
US10071298B1
A workout apparatus for use by a user to simulate core movement patterns of bike riding is provided. The workout apparatus includes a base deck disposed on a ground surface, a frame assembly pivotably mounted to the base deck and comprising a front portion and a rear portion, a handle bar coupled to the front portion of the frame assembly, and a pair of hydraulic damper units coupled to the frame assembly and base deck, the first hydraulic damper unit coupled to the base deck and front portion of the frame assembly, the second hydraulic damper unit coupled to the base deck and rear portion of the frame assembly. The user on the base deck grabs the handle bar to perform a pushing or pulling motion, thereby enabling the first hydraulic damper unit or second hydraulic damper unit to provide resistance to movement of the frame assembly.
US10071297B2
A training apparatus for ball-playing sports comprising a tether having a first end affixed to a connector module and a second end affixed to a ball securing device. The ball securing device is configured to secure a ball therein. A belt may be configured to have the connector module engaged therewith where the belt is to be worn around a waist of a user. The connector module operable to traverse a length of the belt in response to a throwing force applied to the ball.
US10071289B1
An underwater propulsion system is disclosed comprising a foot board with one or more battery-powered propulsion units. A throttle control system may be enabled in the foot board such that a movement of the user's foot controls the throttle. Flattened Lithium batteries allow thin lightweight construction of the foot board. Use of trolling motors as propulsion units provides thrust advantages over pre-existing underwater scooters.
US10071287B2
A balance board system may include a platform, a pivot member, a first bodily engagement member, and a second bodily engagement member. The platform may include a planar body with upper and lower sides and that extends between a first end and a second end. The platform may have a central portion between the first and second ends. The pivot member may be located on the lower side and the central portion of the platform. The first bodily engagement member may be located on the upper side and adjacent the first end of the platform. The second bodily engagement member may be located on the upper side and adjacent the second end of the platform. The first and second bodily engagement members may be configured with respective incline angles relative to the platform.
US10071285B2
A dumbbell assembly includes a selection mechanism including a selector arranged to adjust a connection of the weight connected to an adjustable dumbbell and a processor and memory where the memory includes a programmed code executable by the processor to receive a message from a remote device.
US10071284B1
Disclosed are systems, devices, and methods for providing feedback regarding an impact between a sporting implement and a ball, an example system comprising a glove worn by a player, the glove including a sensor for detecting vibrations caused by an impact between the sporting implement and the ball and determining whether a level of the vibrations is within a predetermined range, and a speaker within audible range of the player, the speaker configured to emit an audible tone in response to receiving a signal from the sensor indicating that the level of the vibrations is determined to be within the predetermined range.
US10071283B2
A variable-color region (106) of a sports-playing structure of an information-presentation structure extends to an exposed surface (102) at a surface zone (112), normally appears along it as a principal color, and includes impact-sensitive and color-change components (182 and 184). A boundary line (1306/1308 or 1386/1388) extends along an in-bounds area (1302 or 1382) of the surface. A segment (192) of the impact-sensitive component responds to an object (104) impacting the zone at an object-contact area (116) by providing an impact effect if the impact meets threshold impact criteria. A segment (194) of the color-change component responds to the impact effect by causing an impact-dependent portion (138) of the region to temporarily appear along a print area (118) of the zone as changed color materially different from the principal color. The zone typically adjoins the boundary line or an internal line (1334 or 1396).
US10071271B1
A fire-hose carrier includes a wearable frame formed of a horizontal chest bar with a pair of pivotal shoulder cuffs upwardly extending therefrom. Depending from the chest bar is a vertical spine having an arcuate abdomen plate at a distal end. Removably attached to the abdomen plate is a flow-control module having an inlet connected to a fire hose and an outlet connected to a fire-hose nozzle. The frame is supported on a wearer's shoulders with the abdomen plate encompassing a front portion of the wearer's waist. When high-pressure water is discharged through the nozzle, the resulting force is distributed throughout the wearer's body, allowing the nozzle to be more easily controlled.
US10071266B2
A medical imaging and therapy device is provided that may include any of a number of features. The device may include a Histotripsy transducer, a generator and controller configured to deliver Histotripsy energy from the transducer to target tissue, and an imaging system. In some embodiments, a method of treating tissue with Histotripsy energy comprises positioning a focus of a histotripsy transducer on a target tissue, delivering histotripsy energy from the histotripsy transducer through a bone aberrator, forming a histotripsy bubble cloud on the focus, and preventing the formation of secondary histotripsy bubble clouds without implementing an aberration correction algorithm.
US10071263B1
A radiation apparatus includes a source operable to generate a radiation beam, a multileaf collimator operable to shape of the radiation beam, and a pivoting mechanism configured to pivot the multileaf collimator about the source. The radiation apparatus may further include a rotating mechanism configured to rotate the multileaf collimator about an axis passing through the source and the multileaf collimator.
US10071256B2
Several defibrillators, defibrillator architectures, defibrillator components and methods of operating defibrillators are described. In one aspect, a defibrillator (as for example an automated external defibrillator) that can be powered by a mobile communication device such as a smart cellular phone or a tablet computer is described. Utilizing a phone (or other mobile communication device) as the power supply for an external defibrillator allows the external defibrillator to be smaller and, in some circumstance, removes the need for a battery that stores sufficient energy for shock delivery—which would need to be checked and/or replaced on a regular basis. Additionally, when desired, certain control functionality, computation, data processing, and user instructions can be handled/presented by the mobile communications device thereby further simplifying the defibrillator design and improving the user experience. This architecture takes advantage of the nearly ubiquitous availability of smart phones, tablet computers and other mobile communication devices.
US10071254B2
Devices, systems, and methods for neuromodulation are provided. For example, a neuromodulation system is disclosed that comprises an implantable neuromodulation module having a photodiode configured to generate electrical current in response to receiving light from an optical fiber; an optical transceiver; and at least one electrode configured to provide electrical stimulation to a nerve utilizing the electrical current generated by the photodiode. As another example, a method of neuromodulation is disclosed that comprises receiving light at a photodiode of a neuromodulation module and generating electrical current in response to receiving the light; and providing, via at least one electrode of the module positioned within the patient, electrical stimulation to a nerve of the patient utilizing the electrical current generated by the photodiode.
US10071249B2
A method includes displaying, on a display coupled to a computer processor, a two-dimensional representation of an arrangement of electrodes of a lead having one or more segmented electrodes; displaying, by the computer processor and on the display, a three-dimensional clinical effects map with two of the dimensions of the clinical effects map corresponding to the two-dimensional representation of the arrangement of the electrode and a third dimension corresponding to a stimulation parameter; and displaying, by the computer processor and on the display, at least one marking on the clinical effects map. Each marking represents a stimulation instance and is displayed at a position corresponding to the electrode used for stimulation in the stimulation instance and a value of the stimulation parameter used for stimulation in the stimulation instance. Each marking has a graphical characteristic representing a therapeutic effect or a side-effect resulting from the stimulation instance.
US10071240B2
This invention provides a device for implantation directly into the spinal cord for the purpose of treating back pain. Electrodes on a backing that conforms directly to the spinal cord are installed as a source of electrical stimulation and pain relief. The floating electrodes can be flexibly mounted to the substrate such that when the electrode array is implanted into the subject, individual electrodes float or move resiliently relative to the substrate to an extent sufficient to accommodate pulsations of the surface of the spinal cord within the dura.
US10071235B1
A catheter connector device is provided including a device housing having a first port and a second port. A fixed sleeve support portion and a flexible, cantilevered sleeve cover extend longitudinally within a housing interior, to carry a flexible tubular sleeve having a sleeve through bore extending from the first port to the second port, for removable insertion of a catheter. The sleeve cover has a first portion, a second portion extending from the first portion and a third portion narrower than the first portion extending from the second portion. A slidable catheter lock switch, or slide button, is positional between a catheter-unlocking position adjacent to the third portion of the sleeve cover and a catheter-locking position engaging the first portion of the sleeve cover and flexing the tubular sleeve cover to crimp the tubular sleeve and retain the catheter within.
US10071231B2
A medical instrument is that the first holding portion or the second holding portion is capable of moving so that a distance between a distal end of the first holding portion and a distal end of the second holding portion changes from a first dimension which is larger than a diameter of the wire to a second dimension which is smaller than the diameter of the wire and the space is formed by the first holding portion and the second holding portion such that the wire is capable of rotating about a line connecting a first contact point where the first protrusion portion contacts with the wire with a second contact point where the second protrusion portion contacts with the wire.
US10071229B2
The present disclosure is directed to multi-segment intraluminal guide wires including an elongate distal portion comprising a first metallic material (e.g., nitinol), an elongate proximal portion comprising a second metallic material (e.g., stainless steel). The distal and proximal portions may be directly joined together end to end by a solid-state weld joint. A diameter of the weld region surrounding the weld joint on either side of the weld joint may be reduced (e.g., ground down) relative to the diameter of the distal and proximal portions of the guide wire on either side of the weld region. A stiffness adjusting sleeve may be disposed over the weld joint so that a transition profile of bending stiffness across the weld region is gradual, rather than abrupt across the distal portion of the guide wire to the proximal portion of the guide wire. A polymer jacket may cover the sleeve and distal portion.
US10071228B2
Preformed guiding stylet for introducing a septal lead in contact with the septum or other intra-corporal device in contact with body tissue. This stylet includes a flexible wire to be introduced by its distal end in a central lumen of the lead, and a control handle. The wire is elastically deformable in bending and has sufficient rigidity in torsion to enable transmission by the handle rotation of a rotational movement over the entire length of the wire. Unstressed, the wire comprises successively in its distal part a first curvilinear portion a first straight portion a second curvilinear portion and optionally a second straight portion. The first and second curvilinear portions extend in respective planes making an angle between them defining a dihedral which axis comprises the first straight portion. The total length of the first curvilinear portion coincides with the anatomical curvature of the venous system.
US10071219B1
An anesthetic tank includes an insertion mouth for inserting an injection adapter of an anesthetic container, and a storage portion communicating with the insertion mouth. A volatile anesthetic inside of the anesthetic container is injected into the storage portion. An identifying member is arranged on the outside of the insertion mouth and is rotatable around the center axis of the insertion mouth. The identifying member has key groove formed in the internal surface of an insertion hole for inserting the injection adapter. The key groove are used for identifying the type of the volatile anesthetic in collaboration with keys formed in the injection adapter. A cover member has an opening formed in the position facing the insertion mouth and the insertion hole and presses the peripheral part of the identifying member.
US10071215B2
A medical device system is provided. The medical device system includes a positioning apparatus having a body section and an upper section, the upper section slidably coupled to the body section such that the upper section slidably moves relative to the body section. The medical device also includes a flexible guide rod extending through the positioning apparatus and configured to be inserted into a passage of a respiratory system of a subject. The flexible guide rod includes a visible light emitter configured to emit visible light within the passage of the respiratory system and is visible outside the subject.
US10071206B2
An injector device includes an injector body that receives a syringe; and an injection assembly being configured to dispense medicament from the syringe in a dispensation step. Certain types of injector devices include a sudden completion indicator that indicates when the injection is completed. Certain types of injector devices are configured to dispense two different medicament formulations having different viscosities from syringes without making any changes to the injector devices other than to switch out the syringes. Certain types of injector devices include safety arrangements that inhibit firing of the injector device until front and rear housing assemblies are disposed in predetermined rotational and axial positions relative to each other.
US10071205B2
Apparatus for determining information associated with reflection characteristics of a surface comprising a sensor (60) configured to generate sensor output dependent on an intensity of light incident on the sensor and having a field of view directed at an external surface (57) in use; an illumination source (58) configured to emit light onto the external surface in use; an optically transparent window (61) located such as to allow light to pass from the illumination source to the external surface and to allow light to pass to the sensor from the external surface in use; a light concentrator (66) fixed to or integral with the window, the light concentrator being configured to concentrate at least some light from the illumination source onto the external surface in use such that the concentrated light may be reflected from the external surface onto the sensor via the window; and a processor (40) configured to use the sensor output to determine information associated with reflection characteristics of the external surface.
US10071195B2
A method for supplying rinsing solution during endoscopic interventions. The method including: conveying a rinsing solution by means of a rinsing solution pump from a rinsing solution supply to an endoscopic instrument to be introduced into the body cavity of a patient; and detecting at least one material characteristic of the rinsing solution by means of a measuring apparatus.
US10071191B2
An apparatus comprises a body and a conduit. The body comprises an absorbent material. The conduit is in fluid communication with the body. The conduit has a suction opening positioned within the absorbent material. The conduit is operable to draw fluid away from the absorbent material. The apparatus may be positioned within the posterior choana or the nasopharynx of a patient using a deployment instrument. The apparatus may prevent fluids from draining from the nasal cavity into the patient's throat. In some instances, the apparatus is used as a plug during a sinus irrigation procedure to prevent irrigation fluid from traveling down the patient's throat.
US10071189B2
The present disclosure provides a medical instrument with a coating that provides excellent lubricity when wet. The medical instrument possesses a coating including a wet lubricating film with high peel durability and anti-eluting properties. In embodiments, an intermediate film made of bisphenol A type epoxy resin is coated on a base material of a medical instrument made of metal, and a wet lubricant coating produced by alkaline processing of a polymer alloy containing a methyl vinyl ether maleic anhydride copolymer and a polyether block amide is then applied thereto. Methods for making these medical instruments are also provided.
US10071187B2
Described are methods, cell growth substrates, and devices that are useful in preparing cell-containing graft materials for administration to patients. Tubular passages can be defined in cell growth substrates to promote distribution of cells into the substrates. Also described are methods and devices for preparing cell-seeded graft compositions, methods and devices for preconditioning cell growth substrates prior to application of cells, and cell seeded grafts having novel substrates, and uses thereof.
US10071186B2
Provided herein is a composite, comprising: a polymer host selected from the group consisting of low-density polyethylene (LDPE), linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), and polypropylene (PP), polyurethane, polycaprolactone (PCL), polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), and polyoxymethylene (POM); and a guest molecule comprising hyaluronic acid; wherein the guest molecule is disposed within the polymer host, and wherein the guest molecule is covalently bonded to at least one other guest molecule. Also provided herein are methods for forming the composite, and blood-contracting devices made from the composite, such as heart valves and vascular grafts.
US10071185B2
The present invention concerns biologically-active cell-free scaffolds composed of extracts of cellular and/or extracellular compartments for use in tissue regeneration. The present invention also contemplates the novel concept of redesigning the biological scaffold by seeding cells thereon followed by cell elimination. Cells are seeded on the scaffold for a period of time during which a dynamic interaction occurs between the scaffold and the seeded cells, resulting in reshaping of the scaffold architecture and integration of newly synthesized matrix elements. Redesigning may improve the physical and biological characteristics of the scaffold, and also improve the matching of the scaffold to treat a specific target tissue or a specific patient, by seeding tissue-specific cells or by seeding cells which are autologous to a patient, respectively.
US10071184B2
A collagen-coated tissue-based membrane that is smooth on both sides so as to inhibit cell and tissue adhesion. The tissue-based membrane is a serous membrane having a fibrous surface and a smooth surface and the collagen is coated on the fibrous surface. Also provided are methods for making the collagen-coated tissue-based membrane.
US10071178B2
A sealable decontamination holding vessel configured to isolate contaminated items being held therein until safe opening of the vessel occurs during a high pressure and temperature sterilization cycle in an autoclave. The vessel basically includes an outer container, a perforated inner receptacle, containment bag and cover lid. The inner receptacle fits into the outer container. The containment bag fits within the inner receptacle with an open end of the bag draped over an open top lip of the inner receptacle. The cover lid is secured and sealed over the open top of the outer container. Patches of self-adhering sealing materials are placed over vent holes in the outer container and cover lid so as to seal the same until they unseal in response to contact with sterilizing steam in the autoclave allowing flow of the steam through the outer container into the inner receptacle and containment bag.
US10071175B2
A sterilization filter includes a synthetic polymer film, the synthetic polymer film having a surface which has a plurality of first raised portions, a two-dimensional size of the plurality of first raised portions being more than 20 nm and less than 500 μm when viewed in a normal direction. The synthetic polymer film is arranged in a predetermined shape. In the arrangement of the predetermined shape, an inclination of a normal to the surface varies depending on a position over the surface, and an inclination of a normal to a surface opposite to the surface varies depending on a position over the opposite surface. At least part of the surface is capable of coming into contact with a gas or liquid.
US10071171B2
Disclosed is a protein complex, comprising a physiologically active polypeptide, a dimeric protein and a non-peptidyl polymer having three functional ends (3-arm), with the linkage of both the physiologically active polypeptide and the dimeric protein to the 3-arm non-peptidyl polymer via respective covalent bonds. The protein complex guarantees the long acting activity and biostability of a physiologically active polypeptide. Having the ability to maintain the bioactivity of physiologically active polypeptides or peptides highly and to significantly improve the serum half life of the polypeptides or peptides, the protein complex can be applied to the development of sustained release formulations of various physiologically active polypeptide drugs. Also, it utilizes raw materials including the physiologically active polypeptides without significant loss, thereby increasing the production yield. Further, it can be easily purified.
US10071164B2
The present invention relates to bifunctional compounds, which find utility as modulators of targeted ubiquitination, especially inhibitors of a variety of polypeptides and other proteins which are degraded and/or otherwise inhibited by bifunctional compounds according to the present invention. In particular, the present invention is directed to compounds, which contain on one end a VHL ligand which binds to the ubiquitin ligase and on the other end a moiety which binds a target protein such that the target protein is placed in proximity to the ubiquitin ligase to effect degradation (and inhibition) of that protein. The present invention exhibits a broad range of pharmacological activities associated with compounds according to the present invention, consistent with the degradation/inhibition of targeted polypeptides.
US10071160B2
Herein are provided derivatized hyperbranched polyglycerols (“dHPGs”). The dHPG comprises a core comprising a hyperbranched polyglycerol derivatized with C1C20 alkyl chains and a shell comprising at least one hydrophilic substituent bound to hydroxyl groups of the core, wherein the hyperbranched polyglycerol comprises from about 1 to about 200 moles of the at least one hydrophilic substituent. The dHPGs are for use as agents for the delivery of a drug or other biologically active moiety to the urinary tract, the digestive tract, the airways, the vaginal cavity and cervix and the peritoneal cavity to treat indications such as cancer, which may be useful in the treatment of or the manufacture of a medicament, in the preparation, of a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of cancer, as a pre-treatment or co-treatment to improve drug uptake in a tissue. Furthermore, there are provided methods of making dHPGs.
US10071158B2
The present invention relates to methods for reducing or eliminating the non-specific release of a cytokine associated with a disease comprising administering at least one glucocorticoid and an immunostimulating antibody. Additionally, the present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition that contains at least one immunostimulating antibody and at least one glucocorticoid.
US10071157B2
The present invention relates generally to the field of allergies. More particularly, the present invention provides a method for treating an allergy in a subject by inducing tolerance to an allergen associated with the allergy. Medicinal kits useful in protocols to induce tolerance or reduce intolerance in a subject also form part of the present invention.
US10071146B2
This invention provides a cancer antigen peptide that can be administered to a wide range of cancer patients in the form of a peptide vaccine for cancer without the need for HLA typing and regardless of the HLA types of patients. Such peptide having 4 linked CTL epitopes is obtained by linking 4 CTL epitope peptides selected from among CTL epitope peptides derived from tumor antigen molecules that are reported to have the capacity for CTL induction via linkers.
US10071142B2
Provided herein are deglycosylating enzymes that remove a broad range of N-glycans from N-glycosylated proteins. Further provided are methods of recombinantly producing and expressing the deglycosylating enzymes. The presently described deglycosylating enzymes can be used to produce free glycans for characterization, and for prebiotic and immunostimulatory uses. In addition, the presently described deglycosylating enzymes can be used to produce deglycosylated proteins for characterization, to improve digestion, and to reduce immunogenicity.
US10071141B2
A non-covalent complex of an albumin molecule and a hydrophobic ligand, compositions containing the same, and methods of use thereof are provided. The present complex may find use in delivering the hydrophobic ligand to microorganisms that have albumin-binding outer surfaces, such as a cell wall.
US10071140B2
The present invention relates to amylin analogues and to their use in the treatment or prevention of a variety of diseases, conditions or disorders, including obesity, excess food intake and associated metabolic diseases such as diabetes. The analogues have good physical and chemical stability, good solubility, and a long duration of action, and are well suited for use in the form of a liquid formulation.
US10071139B2
Methods and compositions for reducing one or more of triglyceride levels, total cholesterol levels and LDL cholesterol levels in a subject are provided. The methods include administering a fragment of ANGPTL8 to a subject having or at risk of developing elevated triglyceride levels, elevated total cholesterol levels and/or elevated LDL cholesterol levels.
US10071135B2
In certain aspects, the present invention provides compositions and methods for promoting bone growth and increasing bone density.
US10071122B2
Disclosed herein are compositions including an extract of mammalian omentum wherein the extract is a liquid portion of the mammalian omentum, such as an oil, extracted when the omentum is heated to a temperature of between 210 and 240 degrees Fahrenheit. Also disclosed are methods of making a composition including an extract of mammalian omentum wherein the method includes heating mammalian omentum to a temperature of between 212 degrees Fahrenheit and 225 degrees Fahrenheit, such as 215 degrees Fahrenheit and 220 degrees Fahrenheit. Methods of use of the disclosed extracts and compositions are provided including methods of inducing or enhancing angiogenesis, methods of improving skin quality and methods of promoting hair growth and/or inhibiting hair loss.
US10071114B2
Provided herein are methods and related compositions for administering viral transfer vectors and antigen-presenting cell targeted immunosuppressants.
US10071111B1
The present invention relates to nanoemulsion type synthetic red blood cells having a calcium phosphate coating of controllable thickness, and to a preparation method thereof. According to the present invention, Ca2+ and PO42− coating layers are uniformly and sequentially formed using a layer-by-layer (LBL) coating method while controlling the thicknesses of the coating layers. Thus, the oxygen capacity and oxygen release rate of the synthetic red blood cells can be controlled, and the synthetic red blood cells can be retrieved and reused.
US10071106B2
The invention relates to neuroprotective, antioxidant steroidal nitrones to which the blood-brain barrier is highly permeable, as potential drugs for the treatment of a cerebral stroke or ischaemia, Alzheimer and Parkinson disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
US10071102B2
Described herein is a method of administering mirtazapine via the parenteral route to treat the decrease or loss of appetite and/or other disorders induced by undernutrition in cats.
US10071100B2
The present disclosure generally relates to nanoparticles comprising a substantially hydrophobic acid and a therapeutic agent (1-(4-{[4-(dimethylamino)piperidin-1-yl]carbonyl}phenyl)-3-[4-(4,6-dimorpholin-4-yl-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl)phenyl]urea), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and a polymer. Other aspects include methods of making and using such nanoparticles.
US10071094B2
Disclosed are methods for treating a myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) in a subject that involves administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) inhibitor.
US10071090B2
The present invention relates to a transdermal patch comprising oxymorphone. The present invention also relates to processes for the preparation of the transdermal patches defined herein, as well as to the use of these patches for the treatment of pain.
US10071089B2
The present invention is concerned with an oral pharmaceutical dosage form comprising oxycodone or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and naloxone or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for use in the treatment of pain in patients suffering from i) pain and at least one further disease ii), wherein said at least one further disease ii) results in intestinal dysbiosis, or for use in the treatment of pain in patients suffering from i) pain and at least one further disease iii), wherein said at least one further disease iii) increases the risk for intestinal bacterial translocation and thus for peritonitis, SIRS and/or sepsis.
US10071088B2
Methods and compositions are disclosed for reducing Post Operative Nausea and/or Vomiting (PONV) in a human patient in need of general anesthesia. Such methods may include scheduling surgery for the human patient and administering to the patient one or more series of prescribed medicines days during a regimen preceding general anesthesia to condition receptors involved in the nausea and/or vomiting reflex.
US10071063B2
The invention relates to novel uses of specific mTOR inhibitors as a medicament, in particular for the treatment of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD). The invention also relates to a method for identifying a compound potentially useful for the treatment and/or prevention of X-ALD.
US10071053B2
This invention concerns an enhanced green tea based product for oral use whereby the nutritional and health benefits of green tea, and additives which shall include some combination of flavoring, preservatives, caffeine, humectants, and water, can be ingested and absorbed by the user.
US10071045B2
The present invention relates to compositions for making up and/or caring for the skin and/or the lips, comprising at least one fatty phase comprising:—at least one hydrocarbon-based resin with a number-average molecular weight of less than or equal to 10 000 g/mol,—at least one hydrocarbon-based block polymer,—from 11% to 80% by weight of non volatile non phenylated silicone oil(s) having at least a dimethicone part, relative to the total weight of the composition, and—from 1% to 80% by total weight of non volatile hydrocarbonated apolar oil(s), relative to the total weight of the composition.
US10071038B2
The present invention relates to a composition for dyeing keratin fibres, comprising: a) one or more liquid fatty substances; b) one or more amphoteric surfactants of formula (I) below: R a′-C(O)—NH—CH2—(CH2)n—N(B)(B′)(I) in which: B represents the group —CH2—CH2—O—X′; B′ represents the group —(CH2)ZY′< with z=1 or 2; X′ represents the group —CH2—C(O)OH, —CH2—C(O)OZ′, —CH2—CH2—C(O)OH or —CH2—CH2—C(O)OZ′, or a hydrogen atom; Y′ represents the group —C(O)OH, —C(O)OZ″, —CH2—CH(OH)—SO3H or the group —CH2-CH(OH)—SO3-Z″; Z′ and Z″ represent, independently of each other, a cationic counterion derived from an alkali metal or alkaline-earth metal, such as sodium, an ammonium ion or an ion derived from an organic amine; Ra′ represents a C10-C30 alkyl or alkenyl group derived from an acid Ra′—C(O)OH, which is preferably present in copra oil or in hydrolysed linseed oil, an alkyl group, especially a C17 group and its iso form, or an unsaturated C17 group and n represents an integer ranging from 1 to 10 and preferably from 1 to 5, or quaternized forms thereof; c) one or more thickening polymers chosen from polymers bearing sulfonic unit(s), polymers bearing sugar unit(s) and mixture thereof; d) one or more oxidation dye precursors and e) one or more chemical oxidizing agents, The present invention also relates to a process using this composition. The present invention relates to a composition for dyeing keratin fibres, comprising: a) one or more liquid fatty substances; b) one or more amphoteric surfactants of formula (I) below: Ra′—C(O)—NH—CH2—(CH2)n—N(B)(B′)(I) in which: B represents the group —CH2—CH2—O—X′; B′ represents the group —(CH2)ZY′, with z=1 or 2; X′ represents the group —CH2—C(O)OH, —CH2—C(O)OZ′, —CH2—CH2—C(O)OH or —CH2—CH2—C(O)OZ′, or a hydrogen atom; Y′ represents the group —C(O)OH, —C(O)OZ″, —CH2—CH(OH)—SO3H or the group —CH2—CH(OH)—SO3—Z″; Z′ and Z″ represent, independently of each other, a cationic counterion derived from an alkali metal or alkaline-earth metal, such as sodium, an ammonium ion or an ion derived from an organic amine; Ra′ represents a C10-C30 alkyl or alkenyl group derived from an acid Ra′—C(O)OH, which is preferably present in copra oil or in hydrolysed linseed oil, an alkyl group, especially a C17 group and its iso form, or an unsaturated C17 group and n represents an integer ranging from 1 to 10 and preferably from 1 to 5, or quaternized forms thereof; c) one or more thickening polymers chosen from polymers bearing sulfonic unit(s), polymers bearing sugar unit(s) and mixture thereof; d) one or more oxidation dye precursors and e) one or more chemical oxidizing agents, the composition comprising at least 10% by weight of liquid fatty substances, relative to the total weight of the composition. The present invention also relates to a process using this composition and to a multi-compartment device that is suitable for performing the said process.
US10071029B2
A cosmetic composition is disclosed comprising particle active; opacifying particles having a refractive index of at least 1.7 and cosmetically acceptable carrier. The particle active comprises (i) water-insoluble shell component comprising inorganic material and having a refractive index of from 1.3 to 1.8; and (ii) core component comprising volatile liquid and having a refractive index of at least 1.2.
US10071028B2
The present invention provides a dental adhesive exhibiting excellent initial bond strength and bond durability to both enamel and dentin. The present invention relates to a dental adhesive containing: an asymmetric acrylamide-methacrylic acid ester compound (a); an acid group-containing (meth)acrylic polymerizable monomer (b); and a water-soluble polymerizable monomer (c). The asymmetric acrylamide-methacrylic acid ester compound (a) is represented by the following general formula (1): where X is an optionally substituted, linear or branched C1 to C6 aliphatic group or an optionally substituted aromatic group, the aliphatic group is optionally interrupted by at least one linking group selected from the group consisting of —O—, —S—, —CO—, —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —NR1—, —CO—NR1—, —NR1—CO—, —CO—O—NR1—, —O—CO—NR1—, and —NR1—CO—NR1—, and R1 is a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted, linear or branched C1 to C6 aliphatic group.
US10071023B2
Systems and methods are provided for determining whether and/or when a patient is taking his or her medication and, when appropriate, providing reminders and/or alerts to the patient to improve adherence to a medication regimen. In some embodiments, a medication container is provided that includes a capacitance sensor for sensing the contents of the medication container (e.g., pill count or quantity of liquid medication). The capacitance sensor may include interleaved or interdigitated electrodes oriented vertically, horizontally, or angularly (e.g., diagonally) relative to an axis of the medication container. Reminders and/or alerts to the patient may be triggered based at least in part on the contents of the medication container, when a cap of the container was last opened and/or closed, the location of the medication container, and/or the container's surroundings.
US10071015B2
A method increases a tactile sensitivity of a fingertip of a user with a wearable device. The wearable device includes a vibrating element, an actuator for receiving user input, and a control circuitry. The method includes positioning the vibrating element on one of a user's arm, wrist, hand, or proximal finger segment and activating the vibrating element to apply a vibrating force at a first magnitude. The method also includes receiving user input indicating that the user detected movement of the vibrating element at the first magnitude and applying the vibrating force at a second magnitude, the second magnitude being lower than the first magnitude, to increase the tactile sensitivity of at least one fingertip of the user.
US10071012B2
The proposed device includes two segments adapted to enclose a body part in a form-fitting manner. Each segment contains an electroactive-material-based actuator, which is adapted to receive an electrical control signal and in response thereto adjust the actuator's morphology, so as to cause the segment to apply a basic pressure profile to the body part. A pressure transition is adapted to redistribute the basic pressure profiles between the first and second segments. A control signal in respect of the first segment causes the pressure transition system to apply a first adjusted pressure profile to at least part of the second portion of the body part, and vice versa, a control signal in respect of the second segment causes the pressure transition system to apply a second adjusted pressure profile to at least a part of the first portion of the body part.
US10071010B2
The present invention is a method for performing on-site mobile dentistry utilizing a mobile dental chair and mobile dental lamp in combination. The mobile dental chair can be wheeled to a site and can elevate and recline a patient to a comfortable position for the patient and dentist or dental care provider. The mobile dental chair is driven onto and parked on the flat support base of mobile dental lamp, thereby holding the mobile dental lamp in a safe and stable position. The mobile dental lamp provides high intensity illumination suitable for providing modern dental care. The mobile dental lamp may be provided with removable wheels to aid in transporting the lamp to and from a site.
US10071007B2
Slings for rotation of individuals are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, a sling includes a central support section supporting at least a torso of the individual, a superior support section disposed along a first side of the central support section, an inferior support section disposed along a second side of the central support section opposing the superior support section, and straps extending from each lateral side of the central support section. The superior support section includes an anterior support flap and a posterior support flap, and at least a portion of the posterior support flap is separated from at least a portion of the anterior support flap. A central axis bisects the superior support section, the central support section, and the inferior support section such that the sling is foldable about the central axis, and the central axis acts as a fulcrum for rotating the individual.
US10071003B2
A disposable treatment article or disposable cleaning article that includes a hydrophobic nanoporous material. The disposable treatment or cleaning article is configured to contact and apply the nanoporous material to a surface. The nanoporous material is configured to form hydrophobic nanostructures on a surface upon the application of an activation stimulus. The nanostructures provide an anti-contamination benefit to the surface upon which the nanostructures are disposed.
US10071001B2
An objective of the present invention is to provide an absorbent article having an excellent absorption speed of body fluid and excellent dryness after absorbing body fluid. The absorbent article of the present invention comprises: an absorbent body where a water absorbent resin powder meeting the following requirements (a) to (c) is disposed, (a) an absorption speed measured by a vortex method: 20 seconds to 50 seconds, (b) a liquid passing speed under load: 10 seconds or less, (c) a moisture absorption blocking ratio: 5% or less; and a diffusion layer composed of a synthetic fiber assembly substantially having no water absorption.
US10070999B2
An absorbent article having improved handling of body exudates. The absorbent article can minimize the amount of body exudates in contact with a wearer's skin and can minimize the incidence of leakage of body exudates from the absorbent article.
US10070997B2
A disposable absorbent pant having a belt structure and a longitudinally channeled absorbent core structure is disclosed. The channels include at least one shorter, at least partially transversely-oriented secondary channel in the front and/or rear, to provide a hinge structure in the core, enabling the core to flex laterally and reduce the likelihood of undesirable bulging in the front and/or rear of the pant while it is worn, after the core has absorbed liquid and stiffened longitudinally as a result of the channeled structure.
US10070995B2
An adhesive dressing that reduces the leakage of wound exudate from the dressing, comprising an adhesive-coated backing sheet; and an absorbent island adhered to said adhesive-coated backing sheet by said adhesive, having a first end and a second end, wherein the absorption capacity of the absorbent island is higher at the first end than at the second end. The adhesive dressing of the invention provides extended wear time for the dressing when it is applied to wounds.
US10070994B2
Some arrangements disclosed herein relate to devices and methods for treating a wound, comprising applying negative pressure to the wound through a cover applied over a wound, monitoring the internal pressure in the wound, and controlling the closure of the wound by controlling the amount that a wound packing material positioned under the cover collapses within the wound based on the monitored internal pressure. The wound packing material collapse can be controlled to ensure that the monitored internal pressure does not exceed a threshold value. Additionally, some embodiments or arrangements disclosed herein relate to a visualization element to visualize a location of a wound surface. The visualization element can comprise a radiopaque member that is configured to be positioned on or adjacent to a surface of an open wound.
US10070986B1
Described are restraints, and methods of using and making the restraints, for restraining a man's testicular retraction response to sexual stimulation. It is believed that the restraints and methods of use thereby tend to slow or postpone the onset of the man's climax, with the potential to prolong the pleasure of the man and/or his sexual partner. More particularly, clip restraints and loop restraints are described and illustrated. The clip restraints are configured to grip a portion of the scrotum and to present deflection or obstruction features above the reposed positions of each of the man's testicles, configured to deflect or obstruct the movement of the testicles toward a retracted position associated with the onset of the man's sexual climax. Advantageously, clips according to the invention may fold to a narrow thickness, convenient for carrying in a pocket or wallet. Clip members of the restraints may be attracted by magnets, biased by springs, or manually adjusted to a stable gripping position. The loop restraints comprise left-hand and right-hand loops configured to extend around a portion of the scrotum and to define a restraint opening, confining at least a restrained portion of the respective testicle to one side of the restrained opening to limit retraction of the respective testicle through the opening in a direction toward the respective vas deferens.
US10070983B2
A hinge for a brace comprises a tensioning element such as an inelastic cord for applying a restorative force to the hinge. A tensioning mechanism, preferably a hydraulic spring, tensions the cord as the hinge is moved from a rest position to a loaded condition. A tensioning member having a peripheral cam surface applies a tensioning force to the cord as the hinge is moved out of the rest position. The tensioning block and the anchoring block may be operatively geared together along an arc of motion so as to provide a generally symmetrical motion of the tensioning and anchoring portions relative to the gusset. When an external force is applied to move the hinge from the rest position the tension on the cord loads the spring, and when the external force is removed the spring applies a restorative force to move the hinge back to the rest position. Optionally the tensioning member may be configured to be disengaged and reengaged by an external actuator.
US10070979B2
The present invention relates to a device for implementing an explorable stomach gastric bypass apt to be implanted in a patient who needs it. In particular, such device comprises a main body having at least one elastic portion made of silicone material and a covering element of the main body itself that in turn comprises an extensible portion. The extensible portion is positioned at the elastic portion and characterizes in that it comprises an excess of material compared to the size of the elastic portion itself.
US10070969B2
A device for intervertebral disc repair includes a cannulated screw having a head and a shaft, a plug defining an aperture, and an intervertebral spacer. The screw is configured to be placed through the aperture and into engagement with the spacer. A kit includes the device, a guide wire connectable with the spacer, and a bone tamp. Methods of using the device and kit are provided.
US10070968B2
Devices and methods for orthopedic support are disclosed. The device can have a first rigid section hingedly attached to a second rigid section. The device can be curved or rotated around obstructions along an access path to a target site. The device can be delivered to an intervertebral location in a patient.
US10070965B2
The invention relates to a knee joint endoprosthesis has a tibia part, a femur part, a meniscus part arranged on the tibia part in mutually non-rotatable manner and a connecting device for connecting the tibia part to the femur part in articulated manner. Said femur part comprises at least one femur condyle having a femur condyle surface. Said meniscus part comprises at least one upper surface which faces the femur part and has at least one meniscus joint surface which touches the femur condyle surface of the at least one femur condyle. Said femur part and the tibia part are mounted such as to be rotatable relative to each other about a rotational axis.
US10070964B2
A system and method for sharing and absorbing energy between body parts. In one aspect, the method involves identifying link pivot locations, fixing base components and minimally invasive insertion techniques. In one particular aspect, the system facilitates absorbing energy between members forming a joint such as between articulating bones.
US10070960B2
The exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are described and illustrated below to encompass methods and devices for designing patient specific prosthetic cutting jigs and, more specifically, to devices and methods for segmenting bone of the knee and the resulting cutting guides themselves. Moreover, the present disclosure relates to systems and methods for manufacturing customized surgical devices, more specifically, the present disclosure relates to automated systems and methods of arthroplasty cutting guides, systems and methods for image segmentation in generating computer models of knee joint.
US10070958B2
Methods for the prevention, or delayed onset or progression of, bone marrow edema or bone marrow lesion, and subchondral treatment to prevail the progression of osteoarthritis of a joint are disclosed. The methods involve treating the subchondral bone, while preserving, as much as possible, the joint's articular and cartilage surface. The methods could be performed before, during, or after an initial arthroscopic surgery to repair the joint. Associated devices and instruments for treatment of the subchondral bone are also disclosed.
US10070957B2
For a membrane encapsulated joint implant sealed under vacuum, a joint implant includes an outer cup, an inner cup, a joint head, a joint membrane, a lubricant, and an implant stem. The outer cup attached at a proximal bone. The nests within the outer cup and receives a joint head, the inner cup comprising an inner cup rim. The joint head is disposed within the inner cup and forms a bearing that rotates within the inner cup. The joint membrane sealed to the inner cup rim and vacuum seals the joint head within the inner cup to form a capsular space. The lubricant is disposed within the capsular space. The implant stem that is attached to a distal bone and that attaches through the joint head through the joint membrane.
US10070944B2
A resin MMF/reimplantation device is provided with a dental arch bar that includes an elongated pliable splint and a plurality of individual spaced apart attachment members. The pliable splint includes an interiorly facing side surface and an exteriorly facing side surface. The pliable splint includes a curable component that cures from a moldable state to a rigid state in less than one minute upon being activated. Each of the attachment members is partially embedded in the pliable splint with each of the attachment members having a protuberance portion extending outwardly from the exteriorly facing side surface of the pliable splint.
US10070940B2
An end effector is provided for connecting to a positioning arm of a positioning device of a medical navigation system. The end effector comprises a mating component for connecting to an output flange of the positioning arm, a handle portion having a first end and a second end, the first end extending from the mating component, the handle portion including a cable cut-out at the first end, and a camera mount connected to the second end of the handle portion.
US10070938B2
A wire stabilization device and method for stabilizing a localization wire during a tissue diagnostic procedure are disclosed. The wire stabilization device includes a device body and a device base. The device body is joined to the device base. The device body includes a base portion, a cover portion, a cover hinge, and a gripping feature. The cover hinge connects the base portion to the cover portion and allows the cover portion to rotate between open and closed positions. The gripping feature holds the localization wire between the base portion and the cover portion. The device base attaches to a patient's skin to stabilize the device body while the localization wire is held between the base portion and the cover portion.
US10070933B2
A custom procedure kit is provided, which comprises a plurality of medical-procedure tools and a cover that is wrapped around the plurality of medical-procedure tools to form wrapped tools. An outer container is fully disposed about the wrapped tools, and at least one sheet is disposed between the outer container and the wrapped tools. The sheet includes a listing of the plurality of medical-procedure tools and, for at least some of the medical-procedure tools, an unselected end-user selectable field.
US10070917B2
Disposable electrosurgical probes for treating tissue, and surgical procedures that make use of such probes. Such a probe includes a working element, an elongate sheath secured to the working element, and a core member within the sheath. At least one active electrode and conductor are disposed in a first of a plurality of internal longitudinal channels within the core member. The electrode is adapted to extend from a distal end of the sheath and configured to perform cutting, coagulation, or ablation of tissue with radio frequency current. The probe further includes a fluid passage defined by at least a second of the internal longitudinal channels within the core member. At least the working element, the sheath, and the core member are formed of a disposable material.
US10070915B2
A hernia repair system includes a surgical mesh, one or more electrosurgical instruments, and one or more return electrodes. The one or more electrosurgical instruments are configured to position the surgical mesh adjacent tissue in an underlying tissue site. The one or more return electrodes are positionable adjacent the tissue and externally relative to the underlying tissue site. The one or more electrosurgical instruments and the one or more return electrodes are configured to selectively apply an effective amount of pressure and electrosurgical energy to the surgical mesh such that upon the application of electrosurgical energy and pressure, the surgical mesh seals to one side of the tissue at the underlying tissue site.
US10070909B2
Devices and methods for bending or cutting implants are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an instrument can include a rotatable drive shaft that urges first and second portions of a modular bending or cutting template toward one another to bend or cut an implant disposed between the template portions. A linkage assembly can be included to provide a mechanical advantage in urging the template portions toward one another. In some embodiments, an instrument can include a rotatable drive shaft that, depending on direction of rotation, pushes or pulls a first modular template portion with respect to a second modular template portion to bend an implant disposed between the template portions in one direction or another direction. In some embodiments, an instrument can include a worm drive that rotates a cutting wheel with respect to a cutting plate to cut an implant inserted through openings formed in the cutting wheel and the cutting plate.
US10070904B2
A plating system is described that uses various configurations of bone fixation implants that are configured to be attached to one or more portions of bone. The bone fixation implant may include at least one structural portion (e.g., a wire, plate, mesh, etc.) that includes metal and a polymer body at least partially surrounding the at least one structural portion. The polymer body may define an engaging surface that is configured to engage an attachment member that is applied to the bone fixation implant to fix the bone fixation implant to the bone, such that direct contact between the metal of the structural portion and the attachment member is prevented. Overlying muscle and tissue may be secured to the bone fixation implant to encourage incorporation of the tissue structure into the implant and promote stabilization and healing.
US10070902B2
A spinal implant comprises a body including an inner surface that defines a cavity. The inner surface includes a baffle. The body is disposable between a contracted configuration and an in vivo expandable configuration. Systems and methods are disclosed.
US10070900B2
An instrument for obtaining spinal rod measurements in situ includes a measurement member, a first indicating member, and a second indicating member. The measurement member measures a length between two spinal implants. The first indicating member couples with the measurement member and includes a first measurement scale coupled with a first shaft for engaging a first spinal implant of the two spinal implants. The second indicating member couples with the measurement member and includes a second measurement scale coupled with a second shaft for engaging a second spinal implant of the two spinal implants.
US10070899B2
Interspinous process implants are disclosed. Also disclosed are systems and kits including such implants, methods of inserting such implants, and methods of alleviating pain or discomfort associated with the spinal column.
US10070888B2
The present invention comprises methods and devices for providing contrast medium for sonography of structures such as ducts and cavities. The invention provides for creation of detectable acoustic variations between two generated phases of a gas and a liquid to make a contrast medium. Sonography is the primary means of imaging but other conventional detection modalities may also be employed with the present invention.
US10070887B2
In accordance with aspects of the present invention, an instrument is provided. An instrument seal according to some embodiments includes a seal body that can be captured between an upper part and a lower part of an instrument guide; and openings in the seal body that align with channels on the instrument guide, wherein the seal body seals against doors in the lower part and an instrument shaft inserted through the openings.
US10070883B2
A non-invasive ultra-high frequency ultrasound treatment method and system are provided. An exemplary method and system comprise a high-frequency ultrasound transducer system configured for providing ultrasound treatment to a patient such that the superficial and/or subcutaneous regions of the patient can be treated. An exemplary high-frequency ultrasound transducer system comprises a control system and a transducer configured to provide treatment to the superficial and/or subcutaneous regions of interest. The high-frequency ultrasound transducer may be configured to operate at higher frequencies and controlled power levels to provide treatment to the superficial and/or subcutaneous regions of interest. For example, higher frequencies within the range from approximately 20 MHz to 500 MHz or more may be utilized.
US10070881B2
The devices and methods shown provide for the minimization of extravasation during arthroscopic surgery. The extravasation minimization device allows a surgeon to drain excess fluids from the soft tissue surrounding the surgical field while also providing a stable surgical portal for arthroscopic surgical instruments.
US10070874B2
A drill pin and a method of fixating tissue to bone is described herein. A method of fixating tissue to a bone with a fixation button is described that includes advancing a drill pin from a first surface of a bone to a second surface of the bone to form a tunnel.
US10070871B2
A battery pack for a use with a powered surgical tool. The battery pack may include a housing with an outer wall and opposing first and second ends. The housing may include an elongated shape that extends between the first and second ends. A first member may extend across the first end of the housing and include a first aperture, and a second end member may extend across the second end of the housing and may include a second aperture. A passage may extend through the housing with a first end that aligns with the first aperture and a second end that aligns with the second aperture. The housing may be sized for a plurality of storage locations positioned between the first and second members and around the passage, and each of the storage locations may be configured to store a power cell.
US10070863B2
A surgical system is disclosed. The surgical system comprises an elongated shaft and an end effector comprising an open configuration, a closed configuration, an anvil, and a staple cartridge. The staple cartridge comprises a plurality of first staple drivers movable from an unactuated position to an actuated position. Each first staple driver defining a first staple support cradle for supporting a staple. Each first staple support cradle is located a first staple forming distance from a portion of the anvil when the end effector is in the closed configuration. The staple cartridge further comprises a plurality of second staple drivers laterally positioned with respect to the first staple drivers. Each second staple driver defining a second staple support cradle for supporting a staple. Each second staple support cradle is located a second staple forming distance from another portion of the anvil when the end effector is in the closed configuration.
US10070858B2
A packaging for a surgical needle comprises a cartridge. The cartridge comprises a surgical needle and a needle driver configured to engage and move the needle relative to the cartridge. The packaging further comprises a spool comprising a helical channel and a length of suture connected to the needle. At least a portion of the length of suture is wound around the spool. At least a portion of the length of suture is positioned within the helical channel. The suture may include a plurality of barbs.
US10070856B1
In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, soft suture anchors are provided that are made entirely of biocompatible suture material. In accordance with embodiments, soft suture anchors are provided that when deployed, an anchor engages a pilot hole.
US10070854B2
An auxiliary apparatus for MIS including an in vivo device and an in vitro device to stretch a surgery target is provided. The in vitro device comprises an in vitro magnet field-generating element. The in vivo device comprises an in vivo magnet-anchoring element to the surgery target. The in vivo magnet moves and/or rotates according to the direction change of the external magnetic field, which is generated by the in vitro magnet field-generating element, and thereby the surgery target can move in a controlled speed and/or rotate in a controlled angle according to the direction change of the external magnetic field. A method to control the auxiliary apparatus is also provided.
US10070841B2
In order to provide an arithmetic device, an X-ray CT apparatus, and an image reconstruction method, capable of reducing processing time while maintaining a noise reduction effect, in a successive approximation image reconstruction method (separable paraboloidal surrogate (SPS) method) of the related art, updated images are forward-projected, whenever images are repeatedly updated, a difference between forward projection data and original object projection data is back-projected so that a difference image is obtained, and a forward projection process and a back projection process are repeatedly performed, but, in the present invention, a forward projection process and a back projection process requiring calculation time are replaced with a process requiring a relatively small calculation amount, such as a difference between an updated image and a reference image, and, as a result, it is possible to considerably reduce a calculation amount in a successive approximation image reconstruction process and to reduce processing time.
US10070830B2
An x-ray/gamma ray imaging apparatus includes a pixilated x-ray/gamma ray detector (3) including a member configured to detect incident x-ray/gamma ray wavelength photons, a position for a body under test (2), an x-ray or gamma ray source (1), and a structure configured to perturb the energy spectrum (6), each lying on a common axis. The source is arranged to direct an x-ray gamma ray energy spectrum along the common axis to impinge upon a structure configured to perturb the x-ray energy spectrum and a positioned body/object under test. The structure and the position for the body under test lie between the source and the detector member, and the structure includes at least three adjacent regions, each region different to immediately adjacent regions and configured to perturb the x-ray energy spectrum differently. Detected photons are subject to a random noise reduction algorithm.
US10070827B2
The invention relates to systems and methods for three dimensional imaging of tissue. Systems and methods of the invention receive a three dimensional data set and display a series of coaxial longitudinal images (i.e., each rotationally offset from another around an axis) in sequence, creating a video effect as if the view were scrolling around the tissue.
US10070819B2
A clip (10) is provided with a body (12,14) that can house a device (16) such as a breathing monitor and that can attach to a garment. The body (12,14) forms a fixed jaw (18) and has a pivot jaw (24) that can pivot to grip the garment between fixed jaw(18) and pivot jaw (24). The clip (10) also has a pivoting lock (38) with a detent (42) that locks the pivot jaw (24) in a closed position, when the lock (38) is in a lock position.
US10070813B2
A system for imaging a biological sample including a tubular body having a side wall defining an interior shaped and sized for receiving the biological sample, an electromagnetic source positioned at one end of the tubular body interior for directing electromagnetic energy into the biological sample in the body interior, and an ultrasonic transducer positioned along said side wall of the body for receiving ultrasonic energy induced by the electromagnetic energy and transmitted through the biological sample.
US10070808B2
A device for in vivo detecting and quantifying a concentration of an analyte in a peritoneal fluid of a subject. The device includes (a) a catheter having an open proximal end configured to be disposed external to the subject, an open distal end configured to be disposed within the peritoneal cavity comprising the peritoneal fluid, an anchor portion, an outer wall, and an inner wall, (b) a sensor disposed adjacent to the open distal end and configured to detect and quantify the concentration of the analyte in the peritoneal fluid, and (c) a main control unit disposed external to the subject, connected to the sensor via a wire, and configured to control the sensor, receive and store detection and quantification data from the sensor, and transmit the data to a second device. A portion of the wire is disposed between the inner wall and the outer wall of the catheter.
US10070803B2
Spirometer apparatus comprising main inhale-exhale tube having first end, main interior, and second open end, a plurality of smaller tubes intersecting said main-inhale exhale tube at first and second respective locations and having a plurality of smaller interiors respectively, the first location being closer to the first end than is the second location, wherein each of the smaller interiors are in fluid communication with the main interior solely via at least one aperture formed in each of the intersecting tubes at locations facing said second end, the intersecting tubes having first and second external cross-sections, the main tube having first and second internal cross-sections, wherein said first external cross-section is smaller than said first internal cross-section, said second external cross-section is smaller than said second internal cross-section, and wherein said second external cross-section is smaller than said first external cross-section, and a differential pressure sensor sensing the pressure drop.
US10070796B2
A method in one embodiment includes acquiring optical image information with a detection unit configured to be operably coupled to a patient. The optical image information corresponds to microcirculation of the patient. The method also includes generating a microcirculation map of microvasculature of the patient using the optical image information. Further, the method includes generating a quantitative microcirculation index based on the microcirculation map, the quantitative microcirculation index corresponding to a condition of the patient.
US10070795B2
An example system and method of defining a rotational source associated with a heart rhythm disorder are disclosed. A plurality of center locations of wave fronts are calculated at a plurality of time points associated with the heart rhythm disorder. A rotational path that connects the plurality of center locations is then determined. Thereafter, a clinical representation that identifies a region of heart tissue associated with the rotational path is generated. The system and method can also determine a likely core associated with the rotational path. A plurality of relative diffusion shapes associated with the plurality of the center locations is calculated. A plurality of intersecting points of a smallest relative diffusion shape and other relative diffusion shapes is determined within the rotational path. A bounded polygon of the intersecting points is defined as the likely core.
US10070792B2
In an acoustic wave detection probe provided with a light guide section that guides measuring light such that the measuring light is outputted toward a subject and an acoustic wave transducer that detects a photoacoustic wave generated in the subject by the projection of the measuring light, the light guide section includes a homogenizer that flat-tops an energy profile of the measuring light entered from the upstream side of the optical system, a light condensing member that condenses the measuring light transmitted through the homogenizer, and a bundle fiber which includes a plurality of optical fibers and is disposed such that the measuring light transmitted through the light condensing member enters from an entrance end of the bundle fiber.
US10070790B2
Systems and methods for the diagnosis of chronic pain are disclosed. An algometer comprising a pressure sensor and electrode is disclosed. The algometer may be used to measure pressure applied by a clinician at a location on a patient's body, along with EMG signals emanating from the same location of the patient. Further, a pain trigger operable by the patient may be used in coordination with the algometer. Data from the algometer and pain trigger are transmitted to a computing device and display for rendering and analysis of patient data, leading to improved diagnosis.
US10070789B2
A hospital bed is programmable with new firmware that is downloaded to the bed over a network. The firmware is downloaded to the bed automatically from a remote computer device. The remote computer device receives a message from the hospital bed which includes data regarding the version number of the bed's current firmware, and if the version number indicates that the firmware is an outdated version, the remote computer device downloads a new version of the firmware to the bed.
US10070787B2
A system and method are provided for detecting and monitoring Pupillary Light Reflex responses and physical conditions using a portable video capture device (PVCD) for the purpose of diagnosing or monitoring impairment due to consumption of intoxicating substance or neurological disorder due to trauma or illness. In one embodiment, the PVCD is placed in an opaque enclosure, and positioned over one or both eyes. Video of the eyes is captured over a predetermined time using a video camera of the PVCD, and the video processed to measure changes in a feature of at least one eye. Data from the measured changes is analyzed together with additional physical data collected on a condition of the user, to estimate a degree of impairment. The degree of impairment and additional physical data is output to the user through a user interface in the PVCD and stored in local and remote memory for monitoring.
US10070782B2
The present disclosure provides an adaptive optical retina imaging apparatus and method. The adaptive optical retina imaging apparatus comprises an optical processing unit, an adaptive optical unit, a two-dimensional scanning unit and a primary aberration correcting unit, in which an imaging unit included in the optical processing unit is imaging based on the signal after high order aberration compensation and low order aberration compensation. By combining the adaptive optical technique, a con-focal scanning technique and the optical coherence tomography technique, two wave front sensors are utilized to detect wave front aberrations between the con-focal scanning optical path and the optical coherence tomography optical path and two wave front correctors are utilized to correct low order aberration and high order aberration of human's eyes, so as to implement low order aberration and high order aberration for the two optical paths and to implement imaging of human's eyes in a higher transverse resolution and a higher longitudinal resolution.
US10070773B2
In a medical device that includes a tip-side device to be brought into contact with or inserted into an object to be observed and a root end-side device connected to the tip-side device, the leakage of radiation noise generated in the root end-side device to the outside and the entry of disturbance noise into the root end-side device are prevented. A connection structure includes a plug provided at a root end of a tip-side device, and a receptacle provided in the root end-side device and configured to hold the plug by insertion. At least one of the plug and the receptacle contains an electrically non-conductive magnetic material in a portion crossing an opening formed in the outer casing in a state where the plug is inserted in the receptacle.
US10070762B2
A head for a surface cleaning device, the head includes an inlet for receiving dirt-laden fluid from a surface and an inlet extension member. The inlet extension member is movable with respect to the inlet between first and second positions.
US10070758B2
A soap grip for a bar of soap provides a flexible fabric gripping body that extends through a medial portion of a bar of soap so as to extend from a first end and a second end thereof, the gripping body provides finger holes extending outwardly from the ends of the bar of soap to allow for secure gripping of the bar of soap while bathing.
US10070756B2
A kitchen appliance has a power switch for controlling supply of power to a motor and a separate control circuit (18) for controlling the speed. A button (14) for control by the user is provided for controlling both the actuation and speed. A carrier (40) carries the button, and also carries a first actuator (44, 86) for mechanically actuating the power switch when the button is first moved. When the button is further moved, the motor speed is controlled.
US10070754B2
A fuel efficient grill that permits effective direct and indirect cooking, permits movement of the fuel grate and has uniquely shaped air intake slots is provided. Also provided is a hinged deflector or diffuser plate and an adjustable top vent assembly.
US10070752B2
The invention relates to a pan lid made of glass having a lid handle attached on the surface thereof directed outwards, the lid handle being connected to the glass surface via an adhesive connection.
US10070743B2
A grommet of resilient material having a top and bottom circumferential surfaces, wherein the body defining a central passage therethrough and defining a plurality of flanges forming an integral part of the grommet and extending inwardly from the body. The body further comprising an external holding groove extending longitudinally from the rear toward the front and extending completely around the outer periphery thereof to engage edges of the circular aperture of a beverage container. The flanges, when not engaged, forming a closed barrier across the grommet to frictionally create a hermetic seal against the passage of heat, moisture, and vapor therethrough. The flanges, when engaged, bending in a downwardly extending position against the outer surface of a straw and frictionally forming a hermetic seal between the flange and the straw.
US10070738B1
A human carrying device with a first and second material unit that are joined together about a first side via an adhesion material; two straps disposed on said first material opposite said adhesion material; and two straps disposed on said second material opposite said adhesion material.
US10070722B2
A sliding storage compartment assembly for a motor vehicle includes a storage bin slidably received in a storage bin holder by a dual track assembly defined by opposed sets of rails and opposed sets of cooperating tracks. Each of the opposed sets of rails and opposed sets of cooperating tracks are vertically and laterally offset one from another. Each of the opposed sets of rails and each of the opposed sets of cooperating tracks may be vertically offset one from another in a vehicle z-axis direction and laterally offset from one another in a vehicle x-axis direction. The opposed sets of cooperating tracks may be disposed on opposed side walls of the storage bin holder and the opposed sets of rails may be disposed on opposed side walls of the storage bin, or vice-versa. Console assemblies including the sliding storage compartment assembly are described.
US10070718B2
A foldable table having a deployment condition and a folded condition. The table includes a tabletop consisting of three equal-sized sectors, where the first and second sectors, the second and third sectors are rotatably joined together along adjacent side edges. In one example, the tabletop has a groove along the periphery of the sectors and a leg support for each of the sectors, where each leg support includes an outer leg component having an upper arcuate portion dimensioned and shaped to be accommodated at least partially into the groove when the table is in the folded condition. In another example, each leg support includes a depressed area configured to accommodate a portion of a respective sector and engage a side edge of the sector when the table is in the folded condition.
US10070714B2
An attachment system can include a plurality of apertures or openings in an attachment platform. The openings can be arranged in a pattern corresponding to a hexagon so that an attachment member for a MOLLE-compatible accessory may be passed through one or more of the openings so as to attach the accessory in a variety of different directions.
US10070712B2
A utility backpack is provided with the functionality to simultaneously accommodate and carry bulky and elongated unwieldy items, especially when the elongated items have a pointy end. The utility backpack provides a bottom wall, at least one sidewall, a rear wall and front wall forming a main enclosure dimensioned and adapted for accommodating the bulky unwieldy items. The rear wall provides a sleeve that extends to the bottom wall, whereat a bottom mesh provides the floor for the sleeve as well as at least a portion of the main enclosure. The sleeve is dimensioned and adapted to accommodate the elongated unwieldy items having a pointy end, wherein the pointy end(s) protrude(s) through the bottom mesh, further accommodating the unwieldy items as well as preventing puncture damage to the utility backpack.
US10070711B2
The present invention relates to a cosmetic material compact container provided with a dome-shaped refill container cover coupled to a refill container, wherein the refill container cover has a dome shape to minimize the amount of cosmetic material evaporation. Also, a sealing protrusion is provided in all directions at the bottom end of the of the refill container cover to effectively seal a cosmetic material accommodating space in the refill container, thereby allowing the cosmetic material to function effectively for a long time. In addition, a stopper protrusion is formed on a hinge-coupling part on the refill container cover and a stopper hook is formed on a hinge-coupling part on the refill container so that east fixing and coupling is enabled without requiring connection by a hinge pin, thereby reducing the number of parts, and in turn, reducing manufacturing cost and man hours, and ultimately improving production quantity.
US10070709B1
A briefcase has a body with a unitary, open frame construction having an interior space and panels that removably attach to body to complete the exterior of the briefcase. The panels provide a selective decorative appearance to the briefcase and may also provide functional elements to the briefcase.
US10070698B1
A cuff link may releasably secure two cuffs of a French cuff shirt, and is configured to interchangeably receive any of a plurality of decorative cover plates to easily/quickly change its appearance. The decorative cover plate is formed with a magnetic material. A base of the cuff link has a post extending therefrom, with a cross-member. The base also includes an opening with a peripheral side wall shaped to correspond to the decorative cover plate, and a bottom wall. The bottom wall has a flat first portion formed of a magnetic material, to magnetically couple the cover plate thereto. A second portion of the bottom wall is also flat, but formed at an angle to the first portion to permit pivotal movement of the decorative plate within the recess, to unsecure the magnetic coupling of the magnetic material of the decorative plate from the magnetic material of the first portion.
US10070692B2
A heeled footwear such as a shoe or boot includes a sole assembly and a heel part, wherein the heel part includes an insert formed in a first material. The insert includes a core body delimited by an upper surface, a lower bottom surface, and an outer surface connecting the upper and lower surfaces. At least a part of the outer surface is encased/enclosed in a second material different from the first material. The outer material forms an outer contour layer of the heel part. The sole assembly includes an outsole formed in the second material, and the second material is softer than the first material. The outsole and the outer contour layer are designed to be formed in one piece providing an outer sole unit being one component.
US10070683B2
An article of footwear with a dynamic support system that controls arrays of tiles in the upper of the footwear to adjust the level of support provided in different regions of the upper. Sensors in the sole of the footwear, in the upper of the footwear and/or in an article worn by the wearer of the footwear measure the level of stress or other characteristics and provide input to one or more microprocessors that control motors located in the sole or in the upper of the footwear. When the motors are activated, they may compress or loosen arrays of tiles to adjust the stiffness of the upper in one or more regions of the upper.
US10070678B2
An eye protector includes a lens configured to protect the wearer from projectiles, and an optically clear stack attached to the lens. The stack can have one or more removable layers. The eye protector also includes an optically clear dry mount adhesive layer attaching the stack to the lens. The dry mount adhesive may be self-wetting to attach the stack to the lens so that air between the stack and the lens can be removed after the stack is attached and/or adhered to the lens, for example, by applying pressure across the surface of the stack. The refractive indices of the lens, the dry mount adhesive, and each removable layer are matched to within about 0.2.
US10070675B2
A lighted artificial tree includes a first tree portion including a first trunk portion, first branches joined to the first trunk portion, and a first light string. The first trunk portion has a trunk connector and a first trunk wiring assembly, the first trunk wiring assembly is electrically connectable to the first light string and the trunk connector, and at least a portion of the first wiring assembly is located inside the first portion. The second tree portion includes a second trunk portion, second branches, and a second light string. The second trunk portion has a trunk connector and a second trunk wiring assembly, the second trunk wiring assembly electrically connectable to the second lighting string and the trunk connector. The second tree portion may be mechanically coupled and electrically connected to the first tree portion by coaxially coupling the first trunk portion to the second trunk portion.
US10070660B2
Pet food palatability enhancers based on organic acids and showing antimicrobial efficacy are described.
US10070656B2
A meat grinding reclamation system is disclosed herein. The system uses a plate having a plurality of holes through which meat is processed, and a smaller number of waste material indentations that feed waste material away from the meat into separate uniform curved openings. The center of the plate is provided with a shaft opening, which allows use of a center drive shaft across the plate.
US10070643B2
It has been discovered that isolated organs and tissues perfused/reperfused in perfusion buffer to which omega-3 glyceride oil had been added retain higher levels of function than if perfused/reperfused without the omega-3 glycerides. Isolated hearts reperfused ex vivo after induced ischemia in n-3 triglyceride perfusion emulsion maintained a normal heart rate and normal LVDP and showed a dramatically reduced frequency of arrhythmias compared to control hearts. Further, test hearts reperfused with n-3 oil triglyceride emulsion showed a decrease in creatine kinase and upregulation of certain beneficial proteins including the anti-apoptotic gene marker Bcl-2.
US10070637B2
A twist clip and method for use wherein the twist clip includes a body having a rotating clamp head having at least one slot, a stationary clamp head having at least one slot, a core pin, the slots being arranged to retain an elongate object during use.
US10070634B2
A lace line for forming structures including netting, such as codends, trawl nets, seines and fish pens, The lace line includes at least several distinct loop tails that are interlaced and/or interconnected with one another so as to form several lacing loops, In other aspects, the present disclosure teaches a codend including at least four hung-in riblines having at least four netting panels formed mainly and preferably entirely of T90 mesh, where the T90 mesh mainly and preferably entirely includes a mesh size of between one hundred sixty and one hundred ninety five millimeters, in combination with a hang percentage of between ten and twenty four percent.
US10070633B2
The invention has a curved board. The curved board is formed into a shape that curves in a curving direction corresponding to an expanding direction of a net opening in a towing state, from a front-side end section that is a front side in a towing direction in the towing state towards a rear-side end section that is a rear side in the towing direction in the towing state. At least one of a projecting structure having a projecting surface, a top board, and a bottom board is formed in the curved board.
US10070622B2
A cat face scratcher and relaxation center. The invention is used for by a pet or cat to scratch their face and claws independently while utilizing an area on the product to relax. The present invention consists of two poles, each in a vertical position that will be attached and secured on a base. The base will also serve as a relaxation lounge area where it will have an appearance of a natural garden and lawn that is attached. The poles will have attached to them the main component which is the face scratcher. There will be multiple face scratchers attached to the poles ranging from top to bottom giving different levels of scratching. To add to the nature feeling of the product, leaves and vines will be wrapped around the poles and also serve as an additional scratcher.
US10070621B1
A pet anxiety apparatus is provided. The pet anxiety apparatus embodies a compression vest providing scent, vibrational and audio therapeutic delivery components. The compression vest may be moved between a disengaged, unwrapped condition and an engaged, wrapped condition imparting the sensation of a hug to the pet animal wearing the pet anxiety apparatus. In the engaged, wrapped condition, a scent emitter is disposed directly downward of the pet's nose, while an audio output device is disposed along the animal's spinal near its ears, thereby providing tactile, scent, and audio therapy to a pet suffering from anxiety.
US10070617B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01063975. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01063975. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01063975 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01063975 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10070615B1
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety CL1463739 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety CL1463739 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using CL1463739 in a breeding program.
US10070610B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH625414. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH625414, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH625414 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH625414.
US10070607B1
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety CL1463761 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety CL1463761 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using CL1463761 in a breeding program.
US10070604B1
The invention provides seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated X12546. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety X12546, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety X12546 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety X12546.
US10070602B2
Methods for conveying soybean rust (SBR) resistance into non-resistant soybean germplasm are provided. In some embodiments, the methods include introgressing SBR resistance into a non-resistant soybean using one or more nucleic acid markers for marker-assisted breeding among soybean lines to be used in a soybean breeding program, wherein the markers are linked to and/or associated with SBR resistance. Also provided are single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with resistance to SBR; soybean plants, seeds, and tissue cultures produced by any of the disclosed methods; seed produced by the disclosed soybean plants; and compositions including amplification primer pairs capable of initiating DNA polymerization by a DNA polymerase on soybean nucleic acid templates to generate soybean marker amplicons.
US10070601B2
The invention provides a plant cell, part, tissue culture or whole plant comprising at least one disrupted KRP gene of the present invention. The present invention also provides methods of increasing weight, size, and/or number of one or more organs, and/or yield of a plant by utilizing the disrupted KRP genes of the present invention. Furthermore, methods of breeding plants to produce new plants having increased weight, size, and/or number of one or more organs, and/or yield are provided. The present invention provides isolated Kinase inhibitor Protein (KIP) Related Protein (KRP) polynucleotide sequences and isolated KRP polypeptide sequences and methods of their use. Exemplary plants include wheat, rice and soy bean.
US10070598B2
An agricultural data collection system may include a plurality of self-powered agricultural data collection devices disposed across an agricultural area. The agricultural data collection system may also include a plurality of self-powered agricultural output devices that control the distribution of one or more agricultural resources across at least a portion of the agricultural area. The plurality of self-powered agricultural data collection devices and the plurality of self-powered agricultural output devices may communicate wirelessly to selectively implement an agricultural management method that uses data collected by the self-powered agricultural data collection devices to provide agricultural resources where needed within localized agricultural areas within a larger agricultural area. At times, the agricultural management method may include an adaptive method that employs machine learning principles to optimize agricultural production within the agricultural area.
US10070591B2
A bale wrapping device is described for a round baler. The bale wrapping device may include a supply reel for the wrapping material and a pressing device wherein the pressing device in an engagement position stands in engagement with the supply reel and for a standby position can be pivoted away from the supply reel, wherein the pressing device is connected at a contact point positioned on the pressing device to power means which generate via the contact point a controlling torque which acts on the pressing device. In order to facilitate the replacement of the supply reel and more particularly the pivoting of the pressing device out from an engagement position into a standby position, an adjusting means may be provided through which the contact point can be shifted and thus the controlling torque can be altered.
US10070585B2
An air system (50) for an agricultural harvester (10) includes an air flow splitter component (52) configured to be coupled to the agricultural harvester (10). The air flow splitter component (52) has an inlet (56) configured to receive air and a plurality of air outlets (58) configured to distribute the air. The air system also includes a plurality of air flow paths (60). Each air flow path of the plurality of air flow paths extends from a respective one of the plurality of air outlets and is configured to extend to a corresponding drum (12) of the agricultural harvester. Additionally, each air flow path includes a discharge outlet (80) that is configured to be disposed between a bottom surface (81) of the corresponding drum (12) and a bottom disc (85) of a doffer (42) of the corresponding drum (12) while the air system (50) is coupled to the agricultural harvester.
US10070576B2
Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for entraining seed into a plurality of seed supply lines. Some embodiments enable selective prevention of seeds from entering a subset of seed supply lines. Some embodiments enable improved flow of seed through an entrainer by angled surfaces provided on blocking members disposed to selectively block seed from entering seed supply lines.
US10076069B2
An electronic circuit module includes a circuit board and a metal cover. The metal cover includes a top plate and attachment legs. Electrode lands are provided on the circuit board, each of the electrode lands being joined to a corresponding one of the attachment legs. Each of the attachment legs includes a fixing portion joined to a corresponding one of the electrode lands, an insertion portion that extends so as to project from the fixing portion, a clearance portion provided near a base of the insertion portion, and a contact portion that is in contact with a surface of the circuit board. An insertion hole in which the insertion portion is inserted is provided in each of the electrode lands and in the circuit board, and the circuit board includes a non-electrode portion at a location at which the contact portion is in contact with the circuit board.
US10076067B2
A system and method of controlling a cooling fan in an information handling system is disclosed. A fan request signal is received from a component of an information handling system and a determination is made regarding whether the component is configured to operate with a cooling fan. If the component is configured to operate with the cooling fan, the fan request signal is transmitted to the cooling fan. If, on the other hand, the component is not configured to operate with the cooling fan, a revised fan request signal is generated and transmitted to the cooling fan.
US10076057B2
A cooling device for cooling at least one electronic component, as well as an electronic assembly with a cooling device and an electronic component. The cooling device has at least one cooling body through which a cooling medium flows. The cooling device further includes a cooling plate defining a through recess in which the cooling body is arranged at least in part. A through recess is particularly easy to produce, so that the complete cooling device can be manufactured very cost effectively. At least one cooling pipe in direct contact with the cooling plate and/or the electronic component to be cooled transports cooling medium from and to the cooling body, so that the cooling device can effectively absorb heat generated at the electronic component.
US10076050B2
A storage and management assembly for a plurality of portable electronic devices is provided. The assembly includes a tower assembly to define a vertical channel along a first side of the tower assembly. A plurality of shelves are removably coupled to a second side of the tower assembly, wherein the second side is opposite the first side, each of the shelves includes a storage bay defined by a bottom portion provided perpendicular to the first member, and opposing raised edge portions provided about a portion of the perimeter of the bottom portion, the plurality of shelves provided in a stacked vertical arrangement along the tower assembly.
US10076049B2
A cable management system for a network cabinet has first and second server equipment rails, first and second air dams, and a front cable support. The server equipment rails are mounted to a base frame of the network cabinet such that the server equipment rails extend from the base frame towards a front of the network cabinet. The air dams are mounted to the base frame of the network cabinet such that the air dams extend from the base frame towards opposing sides of the network cabinet. The front cable support has a generally U-shaped tray that is connected to the first and second server equipment rails such that the tray extends across a front of the network cabinet, transverse to the server equipment rails.
US10076042B2
Structures, materials, and methods to control the spread of a solder material or other flowable conductive material in electronic and/or electromagnetic devices are provided.
US10076038B2
There is provided a printed circuit board including: a first insulating layer; a first circuit pattern formed on a first surface of the first insulating layer; an adhesive layer provided on a second surface of the first insulating layer; and an electronic component disposed on the adhesive layer and enclosed by the first insulating layer and a second insulating layer formed on the first insulating layer.
US10076035B2
A component includes a carrier and a functional structure on the carrier. A thin-film cover covers the functional structure and is used as a mounting base for a circuit part, which is arranged over the thin-film cover. The circuit part is connected to the functional structure by means of a lead.
US10076032B2
A substrate for a printed circuit board includes a base film having an insulating property; a first conductive layer formed on at least one of surfaces of the base film by application of a conductive ink containing metal particles; and a second conductive layer formed, by plating, on a surface of the first conductive layer, the surface being on a side opposite to the base film, wherein a region near an interface between the base film and the first conductive layer contains a metal oxide species based on a metal of the metal particles and a metal hydroxide species based on the metal of the metal particles, the metal oxide species in the region near the interface between the base film and the first conductive layer has a mass per unit area of 0.1 μg/cm2 or more and 10 μg/cm2 or less, and a mass ratio of the metal oxide species to the metal hydroxide species is 0.1 or more.
US10076031B2
An electronic device includes an insulating base substrate having a through electrode, an electronic element provided on one surface of the insulating base substrate and connected to the through electrode, a lid provided on the one surface of the insulating base substrate, and an external electrode covering an end face of the through electrode that is exposed on another surface of the insulating base substrate different from the one surface thereof. The external electrode has a conductive film, a first electrolytic plating film provided on the conductive film, and a second electrolytic plating film provided on the first electrolytic plating film. The conductive film is provided on the exposed end face of the through electrode and on portions of the another surface of the insulating base substrate in the vicinity of the exposed end face of the through electrode.
US10076028B2
A substrate for a printed circuit board according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a base film having insulating properties and a sintered layer formed of a plurality of metal particles, the sintered layer being stacked on at least one surface of the base film, in which a region of the sintered layer extending from an interface between the sintered layer and the base film to a position 500 nm or less from the interface has a porosity of 1% or more and 50% or less.
US10076026B2
Articles comprising a substrate having a first major surface; an electrical conductor pattern on the first major surface of the substrate, the electrical conductor pattern comprising a plurality of separated pairs of separated first and second electrically conductive metallic traces. Optionally the articles further comprise a first electrically conductive layer. Embodiments of articles described herein are useful in, for example, displays, touch sensors, lighting elements, photovoltaic cells, electrochromic windows and displays, and electroluminescent lamps and displays.
US10076023B2
A compartment EMI shield for use inside of a system module package is provided that comprises at least a first set of electrically-conductive wires that surrounds and extends over circuitry of the module package. Adjacent wires of the first set are spaced apart from one another by a predetermined distance selected to ensure that the compartment EMI shield attenuates a frequency or frequency range of interest. First and second ends of each of the wires are connected to an electrical ground structure. A length of each wire that is located in between the first and second ends of the respective wire extends above the circuitry and is spaced apart from the components of the circuitry so as not to be in contact with the components of the circuitry.
US10076022B2
A noise reducing electronic component is used as mounted on a circuit board. The noise reducing electronic component includes: a floating electrode disposed so as to be capacitively coupled to a ground conductor of the circuit board; a radiation element connected to the floating electrode; and a shielding member to shield electromagnetic waves radiated from the radiation element. With this noise reducing electronic component, noise in a printed circuit board and the like can be reduced.
US10076020B2
Methods and apparatus for igniting a process plasma within a plasma chamber are provided. One or more self-resonating devices are positioned within a plasma chamber relative to a plasma generation volume within the plasma chamber. The plasma generation volume is defined by the plasma chamber. Each of the self-resonating devices generates an ignition plasma. The ignition plasmas cause a partial ionization of an ignition gas. The partially ionized ignition gas allows for ignition of a process plasma by applying an electric field to the plasma generation volume.
US10076011B1
A method of adjusting a correlated color temperature (CCT) of a light provided by a lighting fixture includes receiving, by a DALI command converter device, a DALI dim level command indicating a dim level for the light provided by the lighting fixture. The method further includes providing a first output signal to adjust a dim level of a first light emitted by a first light emitting diode (LED) light source to a first dim level. The method also includes providing a second output signal to adjust a dim level of a second light emitted by a second LED light source to a second dim level that is different from the first dim level. The light provided by the lighting fixture is a combination of the first light and the second light. The DALI command converter device generates the first output signal and the second output signal based on the DALI dim level command.
US10076002B2
An electric cartridge type heater (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000) has at least one the tubular metallic jacket (101, 201, 301, 401, 501, 601, 701, 801, 901, 1001), at least one electric resistance wire (102, 202, 302, 402, 502, 602, 702, 802, 902, 1002) arranged in the interior space of the tubular metallic jacket with two ends for electrically contacting the electric resistance wire, wherein the at least one electric resistance wire is electrically isolated from the tubular metallic jacket by an electrically insulating material (103, 203, 303, 403, 503, 603, 703, 903) arranged in the interior space of the tubular metallic jacket (101, 201, 301, 401, 501, 601, 701, 801, 901, 1001). The electric resistance wire is self-supporting. A method is also provided for manufacturing such an electric cartridge type heater.
US10075996B2
An apparatus and method for performing a radio network deployment state test process in a mobile communication system are provided. In the method, a User Equipment (UE) receives an equivalent Minimization of Drive Test (MDT)_Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) list from a Mobility Management Entity (MME) or an enhanced Node B (eNB), wherein a PLMN of the MME is an MDT_PLMN of the UE, the MDT_PLMN is a PLMN in which the UE performs an MDT process as a radio network deployment state test process using an MDT scheme, the equivalent MDT_PLMNs are equivalent PLMNs of the MDT_PLMN, and the equivalent MDT_PLMN Identifiers (IDs) represent PLMN IDs of equivalent PLMNs of the PLMN of the MME.
US10075992B2
Techniques to enable Wi-Fi Direct Services (WFDS) application service platform (ASP) capability negotiation are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to send a probe request message for a service seeker and receive a probe response message in response to the probe request message, the probe response message to identify an advertised service and comprise a WFDS ASP capability attribute, the logic to determine whether to use a WFDS ASP connection setup procedure to establish a connection with an advertiser of the advertised service, based on the WFDS ASP capability attribute. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10075983B2
The embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus and a method for adjusting a control parameter. The method in the embodiment of the present invention includes: obtaining, by a base station, random access information reported by multiple user equipment (UEs), where the random access information includes a contention conflict indication and a number of times of sending a preamble; collecting, by the base station, statistics on the random access information including contention conflict indication indicating a non-contention conflict; determining, by the base station, a first random access probability according to the random access information including contention conflict indication indicating a non-contention conflict; and adjusting, by the base station, a first random access power control parameter according to the first random access probability, where the first random access power control parameter is a preamble-initial-received-target-power.
US10075965B2
A network relaying device facilitates communication among a plurality of network nodes. When the network relaying device receives a data packet from a first network node, it determines whether a historical transmission rate of the first network node exceeds a threshold rate. Based on this determination, the network relaying device determines whether to associate the data packet with a first queue or a second queue for transmission to a second network node.
US10075964B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may be communicating on a radio frequency spectrum band of a first radio access technology (RAT) using a set of antennas. The UE may reconfigure at least one antenna of the set of antennas to perform a first scan on the radio frequency spectrum band of a second RAT. The UE may determine, based on the first scan, whether to reconfigure a remaining portion of the antennas of the set of antennas to perform a second scan on the radio frequency spectrum band of the second RAT.
US10075959B2
A method and an apparatus for controlling coverage of a base station in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes determining a coverage control target terminal among terminals within a service radius of the base station and increasing a coverage of the coverage control target terminal.
US10075954B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for using band-limited subframes in wireless communication networks are provided. During the band-limited subframes, the macro cell base station may mute its transmission or transmit at a low power over some frequency sub-band, while transmitting at a normal or higher power over other frequency sub-band. Correspondingly, the small cell base station may communicate with UEs within its coverage at the frequency sub-band that the macro cell base station transmits at a low power. The band-limited subframe enables the small cell base station to communicate with the UE with reduced interference, and in the meantime, increases the throughput of macro cell base station as it does not require the macro cell base station to completely mute its transmission during the band-limited subframe.
US10075945B2
Provided is a receiver device that can switch between transmission methods, while minimizing increase in the number of blind decryption iterations and the amount of signaling needed for acknowledgement. In this device, a receiver part (201) receives a signal mapped to any of a plurality of mapping candidates; and according to application levels established for each of the plurality of mapping candidates, a control signal processor (205) performs blind decryption of the plurality of mapping candidates, employing either a first transmission method using a single antenna port to carry out precoding based on feedback information from the receiver device, or a second transmission method involving transmission diversity employing multiple antenna ports.
US10075935B1
A method and system for detecting a transition in positioning state of a mobile device relative to an indoor facility. The method, executed in a processor of the mobile device, comprises monitoring, based at least in part on global positioning system (GPS) data, for a positioning state of the mobile device as one of an indoor and an outside location relative to an indoor facility, determining a set of probabilistic weightings for respective ones of ambient data and the GPS data, the ambient data including one or more of received signal strength data, signal connectivity data, magnetic data, ambient lighting data and barometric data, and detecting a transition in positioning state of the mobile device from one of the indoor and the outside locations to another of the indoor and the outside locations when a weighted sum value based at least in part on the set of probabilistic weightings is one of above and below a predetermined state transition value.
US10075932B2
A method for matching time synchronization between UEs during Device-to-Device (hereinafter referred to as “D2D”) communication in a radio communication system without involving an Evolved Node B (ENB) is proposed. Using the proposed method, all the UEs can operate to match the time synchronization without malfunction in accordance with a synchronization signal of the ENB even if the UE inside an ENB area and the UE outside the ENB area coexist.
US10075929B2
A method and an apparatus for network synchronization are provided. The apparatus comprises a radio frequency (RF) unit for transmitting and receiving a radio signal and a processor operatively coupled to the RF unit, wherein the processor is configured for transmitting signals via the RF unit, wherein the processor performs network synchronization with neighboring cells.
US10075928B2
The base station that is configured to transmit in a beamformed manner may set different transmission rates for different directions of the beams. During an initial access stage, the base station may determine how densely user equipments are located in various regions surrounding the base station, and may assign more beams for transmission of an initial access signal in an area with more UEs. The apparatus may be a base station. The base station divides a region surrounding the base station into a plurality of sub-regions, where one region of the plurality of sub-regions covers a greater area than at least one other region of the plurality of sub-regions. The base station assigns each beam of a plurality of beams of the base station to a respective sub-region of the plurality of sub-regions. The base station transmits at least one initial access signal in each direction of the plurality of beams using a respective beam of the plurality of beams, each direction of the plurality of beams corresponding to a respective sub-region of the plurality of sub-regions.
US10075924B2
A wireless system has a high rate data channel for time multiplexed communications to multiple mobile stations (MSs). Control channels include a forward link common power control channel and reverse link feedback channels for pilot, forward channel quality, and data acknowledgements from each MS. An MS can have an active state for data communications, for which these control channels are used at the full (time slot) rate, or a control hold state, in which acknowledgements are not needed and the others of these control channels can be shared among a plurality of MSs in the control hold state and each using a reduced rate such as ½, ¼, or ⅛ of the full rate. The arrangement can support an increased number of active MSs, facilitating an increased total throughput on the high rate data channel, without increasing system resources for the control channels.
US10075918B2
A wireless telecommunications system including a base station and a terminal device and employing a radio interface having a downlink radio frame structure including radio subframes including an arrangement of reference symbols for channel estimation. The base station is configured to determine a period of time for which certain terminal device specific data are not scheduled for transmission to the terminal device and to communicate this information to the terminal device through selective suppression of at least one reference symbol. Different reference symbol(s) may be suppressed to indicate different periods of time. The terminal device is configured to monitor the reference symbols transmitted by a base station to identify where reference symbols are suppressed, to determine a period of time for which the terminal device is not expected to receive certain types of data and enter a reduced activity mode for that period to conserve processing and power resources.
US10075917B2
A method and an apparatus of transmitting power saving-poll (PS-Pall) for use in a wireless network are provided. The method includes a terminal in a wireless communication system determining PS-Poll transmission priorities of terminals based on identifiers of the terminals having downlink data to receive, monitoring to detect the PS-Polls of the terminals having downlink data to receive, and transmitting, when the PS-Poll of the terminal with a priority followed right by the priority of the terminal is received, the PS-Poll after expiry of an arbitrary backoff timer.
US10075912B2
A method and system for dynamically adjusting Discontinuous Reception (DRX) settings of user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The method dynamically adjusts DRX settings based on network operator provided service or location of the UE and converged services supported by the network and so on. The UE indicates the network for adjusting DRX settings when DRX settings needs to be changed based on above parameters. Further, the wireless network provides the DRX settings to UE based on parameters. The method provides subscription information of the UE to access network. The method dynamically adjusts the DRX settings when the UE is in a Femtocell area or the UE associated with features like One Number. The UE can initiate a inter UE session transfer to the other UEs. The UE indicates the network that the sessions have been transferred. The network applies possible signaling optimizations to the UE.
US10075911B2
A wireless sensor network comprises at least one sensor unit which comprises a sensor for sensing a parameter and at least one interrogating node. The interrogating node is arranged to transmit an interrogation message periodically to said sensor unit and to receive a reply message from said sensor unit. The sensor unit is arranged to transmit said reply message after a predetermined deliberate delay unless the sensor unit determines that an alarm condition has been met, in which case the sensor unit is arranged to transmit said reply message before the end of the deliberate delay.
US10075907B2
Methods and apparatus for management of network slices in a communication network such as a 5th generation wireless communication network are provided. Management planes may be provided which are separate from the plurality of network slices. A connection manager residing in a management plane receives an indication that a mobile device is to be associated with the communication network. The connection manager may reside at an access node or in the core network. A network slice is determined, and the connection manager transmits instructions, to one or more network nodes, to associate the mobile device with the network slice. The instructions may be provided to a local connection manager. The slice may be requested explicitly by the mobile device, or determined based on device and/or network requirements.
US10075903B2
A method and apparatus for receiving system information in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives a system information modification from an eNodeB (eNB) on a UE-dedicated channel via a radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message, and receives at least one system information block from the enB according to system information modification.
US10075902B2
Application category-level access control for random access and traffic ingress using a joint control signal. The joint control signal may include application category access controls as well as an indication of applicability, which may indicate the connection states for which the access controls apply. The indication of applicability may also indicate the cause of access control. The indication of applicability may apply to all application category access controls, groups of application category access controls, or there may be separate indication of applicability for each application category access control. Resources may be conserved by using a single set of application category access controls for UEs in multiple connection states. The joint access controls may be transmitted to the UEs using signals such as SIBs.
US10075899B2
A system and a method that employs Extended Access Barring (EAB) when a Machine Type Communication (MTC) device performs an attempt to access an evolved Node B (eNB) in a wireless communication system are provided. When User Equipment (UE) supporting MTC, an MTC device, performs an attempt to access a network, the system and method determines whether it can access the network and performs the access procedure. The system and method can control the operations of UE that performs an attempt to access a network, thereby preventing excessive access.
US10075873B2
Methods and apparatus for channel state information sounding and feedback are provided. In an aspects, a first message is transmitted to one or more wireless communication devices requesting channel state information. In accordance with this aspects, the first message comprises a header and a payload, the header comprising a plurality of fields of a first field type which are useable to determine the channel state information, and the payload comprising parameters for estimating the channel state information. In certain aspects, the channel state information parameters are also provided in the header of the first message. In various aspects a second message comprising the channel state information is received from the one or more wireless communication devices. In one aspect, the first message is a physical layer convergence protocol data unit (PPDU), and the first field type is a long training field (LTF).
US10075868B2
Various aspects of the disclosure relate to controlling reporting operations based on the timing of certain reporting events. In some aspects, the manner in which an apparatus performs reporting operations may depend on how far apart in time two reporting events occur. As one example, if the timing of an event-triggered report closely follows the timing of a request-triggered report, the apparatus may skip or otherwise alter the event-triggered reporting.
US10075864B2
A UE may signal, to an eNB, a capability of the UE to communicate in an unlicensed band. The UE may communicate one or more measurements to the eNB associated with the unlicensed band. Based on the one or more measurements, the eNB may activate and configure communication with the UE through the unlicensed band.
US10075861B2
A method, computer readable medium for diagnosing wireless network performance via a customer endpoint device are disclosed. For example, the method receives a request to perform a wireless network performance diagnostic test that is initiated by a customer endpoint device, establishes a session with the customer endpoint device, performs the wireless network performance diagnostic test in response to the request via the session using a packet generated by the customer endpoint device and provides diagnostic test data gathered from the wireless network performance diagnostic test to the customer endpoint device.
US10075851B1
A base station provides service on a host carrier, the host carrier having a host-carrier frequency range that defines a host-carrier bandwidth. Further, the base station provides service on a guest carrier concurrently with the base station providing service on the host carrier, the guest carrier having a guest-carrier frequency range that is defined fully within and as a portion of the host-carrier frequency range and that defines a guest-carrier bandwidth narrower than the host-carrier bandwidth. And the base station dynamically varies the guest-carrier bandwidth based at least on variation in quantity of client devices connected with the base station on the host carrier.
US10075847B1
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for implementing tiered authentication using position-based credentials. A system for authenticating a user with position-based credentials may include one or more memories storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include receiving a login request associated with the user from a first user interface device; receiving a first location associated with the first user interface device; receiving a second location associated with a second user interface device; when a Lebesgue distance between the first location and the second location is below a first threshold, authenticating the user; when the Lebesgue distance is above the first threshold and below a second, larger threshold, prompting the first interface device for a first credential; and when the Lebesgue distance is above the second threshold, prompting the first interface device for a second credential.
US10075846B1
Systems and methods for continuous and transparent verification, authentication, and identification of individuals are provided. A method can include detecting a signal from a sensor embedded in a wearable device, determining a set of features unique to the wearer of the wearable device, creating a user profile of that individual, detecting a signal from a sensor of an unknown individual, determining a set of features unique to the unknown individual, and comparing the features of the unknown individual to the previously created user profile.
US10075837B2
A communication apparatus has a communication function capable of transmitting/receiving a wireless signal to/from another communication apparatus during a period of a predetermined length which comes at a predetermined time interval, and can execute at least one of transmission processing and reception processing of the wireless signal during the period as a proxy of another apparatus. In accordance with whether to execute the processing as the proxy, the communication apparatus sets a frequency at which the communication apparatus enters in a state in which the wireless signal can be transmitted/received during the periods.
US10075831B2
Disclosed herein are a method for performing, by a first node, a relay function in a Bluetooth mesh network and an apparatus performing the method. The method includes transmitting a first message for activating or deactivating the relay function of the first node to a plurality of neighboring nodes when a specific event is generated and activating or deactivating the relay function depending on whether a first indication message to request the activation of the relay function is received or not in a response to the first message within a first specific time from at least one of the plurality of neighboring nodes. The specific event is one of receiving a command indicating the setting of the relay function, a specific cycle, or receiving a second message for activating or deactivating the relay function from the neighboring nodes.
US10075826B2
A user protection method using a smart phone case includes: installing a screen-lock application driven with electric signals of at least one of a fingerprint recognition sensor and the case of the smart phone and a reporting application running in conjunction with the screen-lock application, and setting a predetermined option; unlocking the smart phone and simultaneously running the reporting application, if a registered fingerprint is recognized in the fingerprint recognition sensor or if the smart phone receives an electric signal; sending a designated server report data created by capturing and recording a field situation through a camera and microphone of the smart phone that work in conjunction with the reporting application; and linking report data to a predetermined website, converting an address of the website and position information of the smart phone into text message formats, and sending the conversion results to a guardian's smart phone.
US10075817B1
Some embodiments relate to a user equipment device (UE), and associated methods for enabling the UE to estimate motion of the UE based on cell type. In some embodiments, in response to determining that a serving cell of the UE is not a macro cell, a motion estimation algorithm may be disabled for at least a first time period and when the first time period lapses, the motion estimation algorithm may be partially enabled to estimate speed of the UE for at least a second time period. In response to the speed of the UE remaining above a speed threshold for at least the second time period, the motion estimation algorithm may be fully enabled. In response to the speed of the UE not remaining above the speed threshold for at least the second time period, the motion estimation algorithm may be disabled for at least a third time period.
US10075814B2
Based upon the present location and historical usage at that location, the technologies disclosed herein select a wireless peripheral device (e.g., a printer, monitor, keyboard) for wireless connection with a portable device (e.g., a laptop computer or tablet). This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US10075813B1
A network node for monitoring a mobile asset in a geographical area. The network node is among a number of network nodes disposed in the geographical area that are configured to receive an Internet-of-things (IoT) signal from the mobile asset, and send respective time stamps, each representing a time-of-arrival (TOA) of the IoT signal, to a network aggregation system to generate a time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) from which a geolocation of the mobile asset is generated.
US10075799B2
The invention discloses rendering sound field signals, such as Higher-Order Ambisonics (HOA), for arbitrary loudspeaker setups, where the rendering results in highly improved localization properties and is energy preserving. This is obtained by a new type of decode matrix for sound field data, and a new way to obtain the decode matrix. In a method for rendering an audio sound field representation for arbitrary spatial loudspeaker setups, the decode matrix (D) for the rendering to a given arrangement of target loudspeakers is obtained by steps of obtaining a number (L) of target speakers, their positions (L), positions (S) of a spherical modeling grid and a HOA order (N), generating (141) a mix matrix (G) from the positions (S) of the modeling grid and the positions (L) of the speakers, generating (142) a mode matrix ({tilde over (Ψ)}) from the positions (S) of the spherical modeling grid and the HOA order, calculating (143) a first decode matrix ({circumflex over (D)}) from the mix matrix (G) and the mode matrix ({tilde over (Ψ)}), and smoothing and scaling (144,145) the first decode matrix ({circumflex over (D)}) with smoothing and scaling coefficients.
US10075797B2
A constant-power pairwise panning upmixing system and method for upmixing from a two-channel stereo signal to a multi-channel surround sound (having more than two channels). Each output channel is some combination of the two input channels. Closed-form solutions are used to calculate dematrixing coefficients that are used to weight each input channel. The dematrixing coefficients are computed based on an inter-channel level difference and an inter-channel phase difference between the two input signals. The weighted input channels then are mixed uniquely for each output channel to generate a surround sound output from the stereo input signal. Each dematrixing coefficient has an in-phase component and an out-of-phase component. The phase coefficients for each component vary in time and are based on the phase difference between the input signals. The resultant surround sound output faithfully simulates the audio content as originally mixed.
US10075796B2
The present disclosure relates to a file generation device, a file generation method, a file reproduction device, and a file reproduction method that enable reproduction of multi-channel liner PCM audio data in a file format. AudioSampleEntry is extended and a box specifying ORG LPCM (ORGLPCMSpecificBox) is assigned immediately thereafter. The box specifying ORG LPCM (ORGLPCMSpecificBox) is configured of fields, namely, from the top, audio data size (the number of bytes) (audio_data_payload_size), channel assignment (channel_assignment), sampling frequency (sampling_frequency), number of bits of the sample (quantization bitrate) (bits_per_sample), and reservation area (reserved). The present disclosure can be applied to a signal processing system including a file generation device and a file reproduction device, for example.
US10075794B2
A signal processing device includes phase rotation units which rotate a phase of a signal A and generate two signals having a phase difference of θ, and a control unit which performs transition of θ over time. The control unit controls phases so that θ is approximately 0 degrees at a time point T0 and θ is approximately 180 degrees at a time point T1.
US10075786B2
Described herein is a headphone earpiece cover for covering an earpiece of a headphone, the headphone earpiece including a first portion, second portion, and third portion. The headphone earpiece cover includes a first fabric configured to overlay the first portion of the earpiece, a second fabric configured to overlay the second portion of the earpiece, and a third fabric configured to overlay the third portion of the earpiece. The first fabric, second fabric, and third fabric are different from each other.
US10075784B2
A method of manufacturing elastic headphone wire, having steps of: manufacturing an elastic core wire, weaving the conductive layer around an outer surface of the elastic core wire, and manufacturing an elastic insulating protective layer which sleeves on a periphery of the conductive layer to form the elastic headphone wire. The elastic headphone wire has excellent flexibility and longer extension length, extending the service life, and broadening the use way of the headphone wire.
US10075771B1
Methods, systems, and media for presenting media content in response to a channel change request are provided. In some implementations, methods for presenting media content in response to a channel change request are provided, the methods comprising: causing media content provided on a first channel to be presented in a first display area on a first screen; receiving, at a hardware processor, a request to switch to a second channel; in response to receiving the request to switch to the second channel, causing thumbnail content corresponding to the second channel to be presented in the first display area; determining whether media content provided on the second channel is ready for presentation; and in response to determining that the media content provided on the second channel is ready for presentation, causing the media content provided on the second channel to be presented in the first display area.
US10075767B2
An online system analyzes broadcast content viewed by individuals in a household. Each individual in the household is associated with a client device on which a software application module is executed. When the software application module detects one or more broadcasting signals of a content item broadcasted to the household, the software application module records the ambient audio, including audio from the broadcasting device. The software application module sends an identifier of the individual associated with the client device, an ambient audio fingerprint derived from the recorded ambient audio, and time information for the recorded ambient audio to the online system. The online system, based on the ambient audio data, identifies the corresponding individual and content item and logs an impression for the content item upon determination that there was an impression of the identified content item by the identified individual.
US10075764B2
Enables data mining of monitored information, activities, and agreements associated with a throttling system. An agreement includes one or more conditions to satisfy the agreement, such as one or more tasks or activities to be performed by an agreement performer or events that may be detected, and actions performed to enforce or assert the agreement such as controlling the electronic device and/or enabling or disabling or otherwise limiting, reducing or increasing the amount or type of information allowed with respect to any or all electronic devices associated with the agreement performer.
US10075758B2
Synchronizing an augmented reality video stream with a displayed video stream includes: accessing an augmented reality video stream which corresponds to a displayed video stream and accessing synchronizing metadata associated with the augmented reality video stream for synchronizing the augmented reality video stream to the displayed video stream; the synchronizing metadata includes processed key frames of the displayed video stream. Processed key frames are selected frames from the displayed video stream which have been processed to provide data usable to compare images of frames. The displayed video stream is tracked by capturing and processing a frame of the displayed video stream. The augmented reality video stream is synchronized to the displayed video stream by matching the captured and processed frame of the displayed video stream with a processed key frame of the metadata at a known location in the augmented reality video stream.
US10075757B2
A system is disclosed that relates to a system for creating a multi-sensory environment room and more particularly to a system that enables the environment of a room to be selectively controlled to provide an integrated multi-sensory experience which includes video, sound and ambient scent technology which are all directed to a common theme which can be selectively customized. The multi-sensory environment room provides a calming and memorable setting that can showcase the decedent's life in a refreshing, upbeat setting. For example, a visual of waves crashing at the shore paired with the smell of fresh, salty air and the sounds of seagulls and surf of a special place shared with the decedent. Alternately, the environment can be personalized with sounds and scents that recreate the family memories or a patriotic theme that can highlight your loved one's values and devotion to country. A custom or stock video can be displayed using the ‘picture within a picture’ feature to customize the experience even more. The multi-sensory environment system overcomes formal stoic environment, for example, of a funeral home and lowers the anxiety of the decedent's family members and guests in attendance.
US10075754B2
Assets of broadcast network content are targeted to network users of interest based on location information regarding user equipment devices. Asset providers can specify location targeting criteria via a graphical user interface displaying mapping information. This location targeting criteria can then be compared to location information regarding user equipment devices so that assets are delivered to appropriate devices. The comparison of the location targeting criteria to the device location information can be performed at the user equipment devices or at another location. In the latter case, the assets can be addressed to appropriate user equipment devices or appropriate user equipment devices can be directed to select the asset, which is broadcast via the network. In this manner, assets can be targeted to individual network users on a basis independent of network topology.
US10075750B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for porting locally processed media data with low latency to a remote client device via various wireless links are provided. In one example embodiment, a transceiver module may include a local network interface and a controller that may receive a client control signal from a client device over a wireless local area network via the local network interface, transmit a media control signal based on the client control signal to a media device, receive media data based on the media control signal from the media device, and transmit to the client device over the wireless local area network via the local network interface client data based on the media data and a low-latency compression technique. The receipt of the media data and transmission of the client data may be accomplished with substantially no detectable latency. Additional embodiments are also provided.
US10075742B2
A system for extracting and monitoring media tags within video content includes at least one server in communication with a plurality of content sources, the server receiving video content from the content sources, a recorder saving the video content, a detector receiving at least one frame of the video content, the detector detecting one or more unknown text within the frame and creating one or more images, each image associated with one of the one or more unknown text, the detector generating metadata associated with the one or more unknown text appearing in the frame, and an optical character recognition engine scanning the one or more images and converting the one or more images into one or more known text. The server further determines that the one or more known text is a media tag.
US10075741B2
A system for layered local caching of downstream shared media in a hierarchical tree network arrangement includes a first network node on a first distribution network having a first caching controller. The first network node configured to store a video segment transmitted on the first distribution network based on a first instruction received by the first caching controller from a central caching controller communicatively coupled to the first distribution network. The central caching controller is located upstream from the first network node. The system includes a second network node on a second distribution network having a second caching controller and communicatively coupled to the first network node. The second network node configured to store a video segment transmitted on the second distribution network based on a second instruction received by the second caching controller from the first caching controller.
US10075738B2
Encoding a high dynamic range image (M_HDR), comprising: 1. converting the high dynamic range image to an image of lower luminance dynamic range (LDR_o) by applying the acts of: a) scaling the high dynamic range image to a predetermined scale of the luma axis such as [0,1], b) a sensitivity tone mapping which changes the brightnesses of pixel colors falling within at least a subrange comprising the darker colors in the high dynamic range image, c) a gamma function, and d) applying an arbitrary monotonically increasing function mapping the lumas resulting from performing the acts b and c to output lumas of the lower dynamic range image (LDR_o); and 2. outputting in an image signal (S_im) a codification of the pixel colors of the lower luminance dynamic range image (LDR_o), and 3. outputting in the image signal (S_im) values encoding the functional behavior of the above color conversions as metadata, or values for the inverse functions, which metadata allows to reconstruct a high dynamic range image (Rec_HDR) from the lower luminance dynamic range image (LDR_o).
US10075730B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for intra predicting an image, which generate a prediction value via linear interpolation in horizontal and vertical directions of a current prediction unit. The method includes: generating first and second virtual pixels by using at least one adjacent pixel located upper right and lower left to a current prediction unit; obtaining a first prediction value of a current pixel via linear interpolation using an adjacent left pixel located on the same line as the first virtual pixel and the current pixel; obtaining a second prediction value of the current pixel via linear interpolation using an adjacent upper pixel located on the same column as the second virtual pixel and the current pixel; and obtaining a prediction value of the current pixel by using the first and second prediction values.
US10075725B2
When a randomly-accessible inter picture is encoded, a prediction image generator sets a reference picture from among a plurality of randomly-accessible intra pictures, and performs a motion-compensated prediction using the set reference picture for a prediction process, and a variable length encoding unit 13 encodes both picture position information showing the position of the reference picture, and identification information showing that the randomly-accessible inter picture is randomly accessible, and multiplexes encoded data about both the picture position information and the identification information into a bitstream.
US10075722B1
A multi-core video decoder system includes a plurality of video decoder cores and a storage device. The video decoder cores are used to decode a picture, wherein each of the video decoder cores decodes a portion of the picture. The storage device has at least one shared storage space accessed by different video decoder cores of the video decoder cores. In addition, an associated video decoding method includes: performing a plurality of video decoding operations to decode a picture, wherein each of the video decoding operations decodes a portion of the picture; and controlling different video decoding operations of the video decoding operations to access at least one shared storage space.
US10075718B2
A video encoding method and apparatus, and a video decoding method and apparatus for generating a reconstructed image having a minimized error between an original image and the reconstructed image. The video decoding method accompanied by a sample adaptive offset (SAO) adjustment, the method includes: obtaining 5 slice SAO parameters with respect to a current slice from a slice header of a received bitstream; obtaining luma SAO use information for a luma component of the current slice and chroma SAO use information for chroma components thereof from among the slice SAO parameters; determining whether to perform a SAO operation on the luma component of 10 the current slice based on the obtained luma SAO use information; and equally determining whether to perform the SAO adjustment on a first chroma component and a second chroma component of the current slice based on the obtained chroma SAO use information.
US10075705B2
An image processing apparatus includes a controller which controls candidates for an inter prediction mode in which motion compensation is performed based on accuracy of a motion vector, a motion search unit which performs a motion search only in the inter prediction modes allowed by the controller to be the candidates to generate a motion vector, and a motion compensation unit which performs the motion compensation in the inter prediction mode selected from the candidates in each of which the motion vector is generated by the motion search unit to generate a predicted image. The present disclosure is applicable to the image processing apparatus.
US10075699B2
Multi-layer display of content on a flexible display is provided. A roll profile of a rolled transparent flexible display is detected, the rolled transparent flexible display forming a plurality of overlapping display layers of the transparent flexible display. Content is then displayed on the plurality of overlapping display layers, where different portions of the content are displayed on different display layers of the plurality of display layers to present the content as three-dimensional content.
US10075689B2
Systems, apparatus, articles, and methods are described including operations for region-of-interest based 3D video coding.
US10075686B2
The deterioration of image quality due to the mixture of light during pixel mixture is prevented. A filter that transmits a green light component is formed on a light receiving surface of a photoelectric conversion element and a filter that transmits a red light component is formed on a light receiving surface of a photoelectric conversion element. Light which is vertically incident on the filter is incident on the corresponding photoelectric conversion element. However, light which is obliquely incident on the filter is mixed with a photoelectric conversion element adjacent to the corresponding photoelectric conversion element. When pixel mixture is performed, mixed pixel data is reduced from the data of a mixed pixel to perform mixture correction.
US10075678B2
Disclosed is a satellite payload device, including a plurality of sensors configured to detect images of a satellite, a video distribution and storage unit configured to collect, compress, store, and transmit the images, and a control computer configured to request a portion of the plurality of sensors from which to receive sensor data that is routed to the video distribution and storage unit.
US10075671B2
In a method for transmitting video for a display panel between a transmitter in electronic communication with a receiver over a wireless communication channel, the method includes: receiving, by a transmitter, a data signal from a data source; receiving, by the transmitter, a return signal from a receiver; selecting, by the transmitter based on at least one of channel quality, video quality, codec requirements, or data rate requirements, a profile from among a plurality of profiles each comprising one or more parameters for transmitting the data signal to the receiver, the plurality of profiles comprising one or more profiles corresponding to transmission of uncompressed video data and one or more profiles corresponding to transmission of compressed video data; and transmitting, by the transmitter, the data signal to the receiver according to the selected profile for display on the display panel.
US10075649B2
The present technology relates to an image capturing apparatus and an image capturing method that a high dynamic range synthesized image can be subjected to exposure compensation desired by a user. There is provided an image capturing apparatus including an image capturing unit that captures an image of an object and generates a captured-image data item; an exposure compensation amount setting unit that sets an exposure compensation amount for compensating an exposure amount of the image capturing unit; an exposure control unit that controls exposure of the image capturing unit on the basis of the exposure compensation amount set by the exposure compensation amount setting unit; a signal synthesizing unit that synthesizes a plurality of the captured-image data items captured by the image capturing unit at a plurality of different exposure amounts set by the exposure control unit and generates a synthesized data item; a gradation conversion unit that converts gradation of the synthesized data item generated by the signal synthesizing unit; and a gradation control unit that controls gradation conversion by the gradation conversion unit on the basis of the exposure compensation amount set by the exposure compensation amount setting unit. The present technology is applicable to an image capturing apparatus such as a digital still camera including an exposure compensation function.
US10075647B2
A control apparatus and method that captures video image includes acquiring a parameter for recognition processing with respect to acquired image data and changing the acquired parameter according to a change in zoom magnification of an image capturing unit.
US10075646B2
An imaging system includes a housing having a lens that defines a first optical axis. A sensor is within the housing offset from the first optical axis. A digital display is within the housing offset from the first optical axis opposite from the sensor across the first optical axis. A second optical axis is defined between the sensor and the digital display. A polarized beam splitter is within the housing at an intersection of the first and second optical axes to allow a portion of incoming photons to pass and continue along the first optical axis for direct-eye viewing and to redirect another portion of incoming photons to the sensor along the second optical axis.
US10075645B2
There is provided a display control device including a display control unit configured to display a plurality of items at least including a function name on a display screen, and a selection receiving unit configured to receive selection of one item among the plurality of displayed items. When a predetermined operation input is performed on the display screen, the display control unit displays both associated information associated with a function of the one selected item and associated information associated with functions of other items not selected.
US10075641B2
A lens drive apparatus that displaces a lens holder in a direction of an optical axis and a direction orthogonal to the optical axis comprises: an assembly that is formed by assembling the lens holder together with a magnet disposed around the lens holder; a housing that has a base and a cover that are configured to house the assembly; and a planar coil that is attached inside of the housing such that a coil plane thereof facing the magnet is in parallel with the optical axis, the planar coil being configured to displace the assembly in the direction orthogonal to the optical axis in collaboration with the magnet, wherein the base has an aperture having a size greater than a displacement range of the optical axis resulting from displacement of the assembly in the direction orthogonal to the optical axis.
US10075625B2
Method for jamming or affecting the quality of photo and video recording, the method comprising illuminating the area, collecting light reflected or scattered from optical components such as camera lenses, amplifying them, and reversing the amplified beams back to the camera with phase conjugating mirror. The method may further comprise image acquisition and processing for identifying unwanted optical components and sensors, and electronically pointing and focusing a laser beam on said components and sensors.
US10075623B2
Techniques are provided to implement the display of synchronized sensor data and captured video signal. A mobile computing device receives a set of data points from a multi-sensor device. The set of data points may be assigned a timestamp value, obtained from an internal clock within the mobile computing device. Sets of data points and their assigned timestamp values are aggregated into an aggregated sensor dataset that represents the sets of data points over a particular period of time. Concurrent to receiving the sensor data, video frames are received. The video frames with an assigned timestamp value are stored in a video frame dataset that represents video frames over a particular period of time. The aggregated sensor dataset and the video frame dataset are synchronized and combined into a single combined video dataset based upon the assigned timestamp values of the sets of data points and the video frames.
US10075620B2
In a program including the first program layer with an instruction set to be interpreted and performed by a processor and the second program layer with an instruction set translated in advance by a unit other than the processor, image data to be processed, which is designated in the first program layer, is converted into image data in a format usable in the second program layer. Image processing including color conversion is performed for the converted image data.
US10075617B2
The present discloses methods and systems for preventing unauthorized usage of an electronic component. The method includes removing an electronic component from a first multi-function device by a user, the electronic component includes a logic device having a security code. The electronic component is received by a second multi-function device, the second multi-function device includes a controller and a user interface. A communication is established between the logic device and the controller of the second multi-function device. The user interface is provided to input the security code associated with the electronic component, for authorizing the usage of the electronic component in the second multi-function device. A security code is received via the user interface. The usage of the electronic component is authorized in the second multi-function device, if the security code input by the user matches with the security code stored in the logic device.
US10075615B2
Provided is a method of establishing, by an image forming apparatus, a connection to a mobile device, the method including transmitting temporary credential information to the mobile device in response to receiving a pairing request from the mobile device, receiving an encrypted personal identification number (PIN) code from the mobile device, determining whether a PIN code is valid by decrypting the encrypted PIN code using the temporary credential information to extract the PIN code, and transmitting permanent credential information to the mobile device when it is determined that the PIN code is valid.
US10075613B2
An information processing apparatus includes a presentation unit that, in response to receipt of an instruction to present a favorite destination of transmission, presents destination information designated as a favorite for the transmitting application of interest.
US10075604B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a rotation-angle detection device for detecting a rotation angle of a rotor includes: plural rotation detectors that output detection signals which vary with the rotation angle of the rotor; a rotation calculator that outputs a rotated vector by rotating a vector expressed by the detection signals; an amplitude detector that outputs an amplitude signal indicating amplitude of the detection signals by performing computation on at least one of signals expressing the rotated vector using a predetermined target amplitude; a drive-power adjuster that adjusts the amplitude of the detection signals by changing drive power applied to the rotation detectors according to the amplitude signal; a corrector that corrects the amplitude based on the amplitude signal and outputs a corrected detection signal; and a rotation angle detector that detects a rotation angle of the rotor based on the corrected detection signal.
US10075601B2
A document conveying device is used in common for a double-sided reading specification in which images on one face and the other face of a document conveyed along a conveying path are read and for a single-sided reading specification in which the image on the one face of the document is read. The document conveying device includes a recess, a cover member and a supporting part. In the recess, a member dedicated to the double-sided reading specification is supported at the double-sided reading specification. The member dedicated to the double-sided reading specification is used for reading the image on the other face. The cover member closes the recess at the single-sided reading specification. By the supporting part, the member dedicated to the double-sided reading specification is detachably supported at the double-sided reading specification and the cover member is detachably supported at the single-sided reading specification.
US10075583B2
Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for handling incoming communications. In an implementation, an application receives a notification of an incoming communication for which a related application may have also received a related notification of the incoming communication. Prior to surfacing an indication of the incoming communication in a user interface, the application ascertains whether or not the related application will surface a related indication. If so, the application suppresses its own indication in favor of the related application. If not, the application surfaces its own indication.
US10075582B2
A terminal control method and apparatus, and a terminal, where the method includes obtaining position distribution of a terminal held position on the terminal, and performing, according to a mapping relationship between position distribution and a terminal control operation, an operation corresponding to the position distribution in order to control the terminal. The apparatus includes a first obtaining module and a performing module. The terminal includes the apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. In the terminal control method and apparatus, and the terminal according to embodiments of the present disclosure, terminal information of a terminal is obtained, and therefore, intention of a user about controlling the terminal can be determined proactively, and a corresponding operation may be performed according to position distribution, thereby improving intelligence and automation levels of controlling a terminal, and improving user experience.
US10075580B2
In one aspect of the present invention, a mobile electronic device determines, when it is in a sleep state, a moving state of the mobile electronic device based on detection results of an acceleration sensor, a direction sensor, and a gyroscope. For example, the mobile electronic device determines whether a user is moving in a train, is moving on foot, or is moving in a car. The mobile electronic device displays information corresponding to the moving state (for example, in a train or a car, or on foot) on the display when returning from the sleep state to light up the display again.
US10075578B2
Provided are a system and method of providing a voice-message call service. A mobile device that performs a call with an external mobile device comprises a control unit configured to obtain text, the text converted from voice data that is exchanged between the mobile device and the external mobile device, during the call between the mobile device and the external mobile device, and obtain input text input to the mobile device and provided text that is received from the external mobile device; and a display unit configured to arrange the text, the input text, and the provided text and display the arranged text, input text, and provided text on a screen of the device, during the call between the mobile device and the external mobile device.
US10075572B2
An attachment for use with a mobile device with an imaging device or with a case for the mobile device can include one or more of an attachment base and an attachment body. The attachment base can be configured to be secured to at least one of the mobile device and the case. The attachment body can include at least one optical device for use with the imaging device and can be configured to be secured to the attachment base. The attachment base can removably secure the attachment body to the mobile device or the case when the attachment body is secured to the attachment base.
US10075570B2
According to one aspect, there is provided a wireless communication apparatus comprising an antenna configured to operate as an antenna and as an electrode, a reference part configured to provide a reference potential, and a sensor module connected to the electrode and to the reference potential, the sensor module being configured to measure a change in the potential between the electrode and the reference potential.
US10075568B2
A method for transmitting a broadcast signal proposes a system for supporting a next-generation broadcast service in an environment for supporting next-generation hybrid broadcast using a terrestrial broadcasting network and the Internet. In addition, the method proposes an effective signaling method for covering both a terrestrial broadcasting network and the Internet in an environment for supporting next-generation hybrid broadcast.
US10075567B1
A method of generating packets in the data plane of a forwarding element is provided. The method selects a configuration set from a plurality of configuration sets of based on a triggering event. The method generates a set of packets using a packet template that corresponds to the selected configuration set. The method sets values of a plurality of the packet fields to identify different information such as the destination of packets. The method places the generated set of packets into an ingress pipeline of the forwarding element.
US10075566B2
A packet transmitter includes a higher layer transmission block and a lower layer transmission block. The higher layer transmission block generates a higher layer data signal including payload data and a header for each packet of a plurality of packets based on an application layer data signal and an application layer control signal. The higher layer transmission block outputs the header after the payload data through the higher layer data signal. The lower layer transmission block generates a lower layer data signal including the header and the payload data for each packet based on the higher layer data signal and a higher layer control signal. The lower layer transmission block outputs the payload data after the header through the lower layer data signal.
US10075565B1
An apparatus is provided comprising: a server computer including: a non-transitory memory storing a network application; and one or more processors in communication with the non-transitory memory, wherein the one or more processors execute the network application to operate in accordance with a first protocol including a transmission control protocol (TCP), the apparatus, when operating in accordance with the first protocol to establish a TCP connection with a client computer, configured to: communicate a segment including at least one first synchronize bit; communicate a first acknowledgement of the segment, and at least one second synchronize bit; and communicate a second acknowledgement; said server computer, further configured to communicate, to the client computer, code that, when used by the client computer, causes the client computer to operate in accordance with a second protocol that is separate from the TCP, in order to establish a second protocol connection with another server computer, by: receiving a packet; detecting an idle time period parameter field in the packet; identifying metadata in the idle time period parameter field for an idle time period, where, after the idle time period is detected, the second protocol connection is deemed inactive; and creating or modifying, by the client computer and based on the metadata, a timeout attribute associated with the second protocol connection.
US10075563B2
A wireless network and video/audio system and method for gaming and virtual reality are provided. The system and method intelligently harnesses the computing power of network of local-devices and the cloud to make powerful computing possible, anywhere.
US10075555B2
Targeted content may be provided to a designated set of one or more interconnected resources. Programmatic operations are executed using resources that are private to the one or more interconnected devices. The operations, when executed, cause or result in (i) monitoring activities of one or more users of the designated set; (ii) developing profile information of the one or more users, where the profile information is based at least partially on information determined from monitoring activities of the one or more users; (iii) generating, from the profile information, a set of coded data that represent selection criteria; and (iv) communicating the set of coded data to a programmatic source external to the system, where the represented selection criteria enables programmatic selection of content resources from a content library for the system.
US10075550B2
A method of redirecting data streams exchanged by a mobile terminal associated with a “third-party” account, with a first telecommunications network. The method includes a prior stage including: the first network receiving from the mobile terminal a registration request, and recovering the profile of the third-party account; the first network sending a DNS request including a “redirection” access point name; the DNS system responding by supplying the IP address of a “stream redirection” server; the first network setting up a tunnel between the server and the mobile terminal, by providing the server with at least one identifier of the third-party account; the server supplying a second telecommunications network with which the user of the mobile terminal holds a personal account that is distinct from the third-party account, with at least one identifier of the personal account; and the stream redirection server setting up a tunnel with the second network.
US10075548B2
Techniques and systems for operating a device as a communication proxy for other devices are provided. For example, a method, computing device, or computer-program product may be provided, and may include receiving, on a computing device, a device communication using a first transceiver radio and using a connection with a first device, wherein the connection with the first device is established over a first channel of a frequency band, determining that the device communication is from the first device, wherein the computing device and the device are able to connect with a second device, and establishing a connection with the second device over a second channel of the frequency band, wherein the computing device operates as a communication proxy for the first device by using the connection with the second device to exchange communications with the second device for the first device, and wherein the computing device and the first device include Internet of Things devices and share a common cloud network service provider. The method, computing device, or computer-program product may further include transmitting the device communication using a second transceiver radio over the second channel of the frequency band using the connection with the second device.
US10075541B2
An application for a mobile or fixed device, where the device comprises a processor, a display, and communication capabilities, and wherein the application interfaces with a clearinghouse that integrates geospatial information including date and time information related to released criminal offenders. In some embodiments, the application includes a user interface which includes a field through which a user can submit a query.
US10075540B2
A wireless User Equipment (UE) comprises a Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) that has hardware-trusted circuitry to support a hardware-trusted wireless communication service. A Network Function Virtualization Management and Orchestration (NFV MANO) orchestrator executes in the hardware-trusted circuitry and exchanges hardware trust data with a wireless communication network to maintain hardware-trust. The NFV MANO orchestrator also exchanges network operations data for the hardware-trusted wireless communication service with the wireless network over an Os-Nfvo link. Responsive to the exchange of the network operations data, the NFV MANO orchestrator exchanges network service data with the hardware-trusted circuitry in the NFVI over an Nf-Vi link to execute an NFV Virtual Network Function (VNF) to support the hardware-trusted wireless communication service. Responsive to the exchange of the network service data, the hardware-trusted circuitry in the NFVI executes the NFV VNF to support the hardware-trusted wireless communication service.
US10075539B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for pairing a speech-enabled device with a display device. A determination may be made to pair a speech-enabled device with a display device of a particular type. A set of display devices that are associated with the speech-enabled device may be identified in response to determining to pair the speech-enabled device with the display device of the particular type. An instruction may be provided to each of the display devices. The instruction may cause the display device to determine (i) whether the display device is of the particular type and (ii) whether the display device and the speech-enabled device both share a local area network and display on the display device an indication regarding pairing with the speech-enabled device.
US10075528B2
Methods and registrar computers for negotiating communications between a virtual device and a virtual requestor device. The method includes receiving a data feed request at a registrar computer from a registered virtual requestor device. The data feed request includes information identifying a data feed and information enabling communication between a registered virtual device associated with the data feed and the virtual requestor device. The registrar sends a further data feed request comprising the information enabling communication between the devices to the virtual device. This causes the virtual device to provide the data feed to the virtual device using the information enabling communication between the devices.
US10075527B2
A method and system for providing information management of data from hosted services receives information management policies for a hosted account of a hosted service, requests data associated with the hosted account from the hosted service, receives data associated with the hosted account from the hosted service, and provides a preview version of the received data to a computing device. In some examples, the system indexes the received data to associate the received data with a user of an information management system, and/or provides index information related to the received data to the computing device.
US10075526B2
A data transfer controlling method for a plurality of nodes executed by a processor included in an information processing apparatus, the data transfer controlling method includes calculating an amount of data to be transmitted from a first process to a second process while the second process is moved from a second node to a third node, the first process being executed in a first node; determining buffer availability of a plurality of nodes on a first route that couples the first node to the second node; determining whether the buffer availability of the first route is greater than the calculated amount of data; and when the buffer availability of the first route is greater than the calculated amount of data, selecting the first route as a transfer route of the data.
US10075520B2
In one embodiment, a metric collection system may collect application metrics across multiple data centers in specific time intervals. A local collection point 108 may establish an absolute reference time for a local data center 102. The local collection point 108 may determine a source reporting interval for an application 106 based on the absolute reference time. The local collection point 108 may receive a source metric report 300 for the application 106 based on the source reporting interval.
US10075507B2
The disclosure relates to a portable computing device configured to selectably switch between a wired zero client mode in which the portable computing device operates as a terminal for a host computer via a wired communication channel, a wireless zero client mode in which the portable computing device operates as a terminal for the host computer via a wireless communication channel, and a local mode in which the portable computing device operates independently from the host computer. The portable computing device may include one or more zero client processors that facilitate operation in the wired or wireless zero client mode and one or more local control processors that facilitate operation in the local mode. The portable computing device may include input devices used to receive inputs for the host computer during the wireless or wired zero client modes or for the local control processors during the local mode.
US10075504B2
A method which performs an operation in a device on a network by sharing functions with at least one external device includes receiving, from a server, operation information defining an operation to be performed by executing a combination of at least one function of the device and at least one function of the at least one external device. The method may further include registering the operation defined by the operation information in the device and performing an operation selected from among one or more registered operations including the operation defined by the operation information. The operation may be performed by executing a combination of functions corresponding to the selected operation.
US10075502B2
A method of communication between devices is provided. The method comprises receiving a connection request, establishing a connection in response to the connection request, and receiving a first web API request on the connection. The method further comprises executing a first procedure in response to the first web API request, receiving a second web API request on the connection, and executing at least one of the first procedure or a second procedure in response to the second web API request.
US10075500B2
A service method and system using an instance interface of a virtualization object in an Internet of Things (IoT) environment is disclosed. A service method in an IoT environment may include: displaying a message to another instance using a feeder interface among interfaces included in an instance of a virtualization object about a thing; receiving a message displayed from a feeder interface of the other instance or the thing using a subscriber interface among the interfaces; transferring a message to the other instance or the thing using a controller interface among the interfaces; receiving a message transferred from a controller interface of the other instance using a receiver interface among the interfaces; and interacting with a 3rd party service using an authentication interface among the interfaces.
US10075488B2
A method for managing information relating to a deployment of changes in order to communicate some or all the information to users includes providing an interface to a plurality of users at a plurality of workstations accessible by one or more of the users, receiving information comprising initiative data corresponding to each of the plurality of changes, the initiative data comprising data relating to a plurality of parameters corresponding to each of the plurality of changes, initiating display of some or all the initiative data corresponding to some or all the plurality of changes, logging event data related to a plurality of events associated with the deployment of the plurality of changes, the event data comprising change status data indicating a status of at least one of the plurality of changes, and initiating display of at least some of the event data to the users via the interface.
US10075487B2
A method for managing information relating to a change deployment in order to communicate some or all the information to a plurality of users includes providing an interface to users at workstations accessible by the users, receiving information comprising a plurality of messages from users communicating via the workstations during a change deployment session, initiating display of at least one of the messages to the users via the interface, initiating display of task data to the users via the interface, the task data corresponding to at least one task necessary for completing the change deployment, logging event data related to a plurality of events associated with the change deployment conference session, the event data comprising task status data indicating the status of the at least one task necessary for completing the change deployment, and initiating display of at least some of the event data to the users via the interface.
US10075485B2
Current embodiments relate to generation/sharing of a snapshot of content that the user is viewing. Upon generation of a request for a snapshot of currently viewed content, the snapshot may be generated based at least in part upon one or more parameters and/or criteria included in the request and/or service generating the snapshot. Upon completion of the snapshot, a response that provides the snapshot or a location where the snapshot may be viewed is provided, such that the snapshot may be provided to particular sharing targets, such as social media platforms, electronic devices, email, etc.
US10075479B2
A method establishes a video telephone connection in a data network that includes a telephone network and an IP network based on the internet protocol. The expression video telephony connection is to be taken generally in this context and encompasses multimedia telephony in addition to pure video telephony.
US10075476B2
Implementations of the disclosed technology may respond to a discovery request according to the origination of the discovery request. In these implementations, a discovery request for a connection to a device assigned to a reusable zone may be obtained. If the discovery request does not originate from a local switch group, the discovery response may indicate that there is no device at the connection.
US10075472B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to a method for policy enforcement, a system for policy enforcement, and a computer program product for policy enforcement. A method for policy enforcement is provided. The method includes receiving a host information profile report from a client device, and enforcing a security policy for network access based on the host information profile report. The host information profile report includes device profile information associated with the client device.
US10075467B2
Embodiments relate to systems, devices, and computing-implemented methods for providing DoS mitigation using a list of persistent clients generated using network flow data. Daily flow counts can be incremented once per date for unique flow combinations in the network flow data that are associated with at least one network interaction that occurred on that date. A candidate list of persistent clients can be created based on the daily flow counts, and the candidate list of persistent clients can be filtered and ranked, and the list of persistent clients can be selected based on the rankings.
US10075459B1
A computing system that provides virtual computing services may generate and manage remote computing sessions between client computing devices and virtual desktop instances hosted on the service provider's network. Each virtual desktop instance may include a network interface for communication between the virtual desktop instance and client computing devices, and a second interface that connects the virtual desktop instance to entities on other networks (e.g., Internet destinations, or shared resources on an internal network). An administrative component or client application may detect a condition indicating that the second interface should be disconnected or its operation modified in order to prevent or curtail malicious use of the virtual desktop instance, such as inactivity, server type activity or other suspicious activity, suspension or closing of a remote computing session, or a timeout condition, or may proactively disconnect the interface or modify its operation based on observed or expected usage patterns.
US10075458B2
From a record of a packet in a Domain Name System (DNS) communication between a DNS client and a DNS server, an input feature is constructed. Using the packet, a metadata item supporting the input feature is computed. Using a processor and a memory to execute a trained cognitive classification model, and by supplying the input feature and the supporting metadata item as inputs to the cognitive classification model, a transmission of the packet is classified as malicious use of DNS tunneling between the DNS client and the DNS server. From the cognitive classification model, a classification of the packet as malicious, and a confidence value in the malicious classification are output. By generating a notification, the DNS client is caused to cease the malicious use of the DNS tunneling.
US10075453B2
A device may determine a first set of hash values corresponding to a first set of files stored by a plurality of client devices. The device may analyze information associated with the first set of hash values to determine a second set of hash values corresponding to a second set of files to be analyzed. The second set of hash values may be different from the first set of hash values. The device may prioritize the second set of hash values to form a prioritized set of hash values corresponding to a prioritized set of files, of the second set of files, to be analyzed. The device may request the prioritized set of files from one or more client devices of the plurality of client devices. The device may receive the prioritized set of files, and may cause the prioritized set of files to be analyzed.
US10075444B2
An information processing system, comprising a user terminal that sends a process target data designated by a user to a remote storage system via a network, the process target data stored by the storage system in association with authority information that indicates the process target data; an authentication device that receives a registration request from the first circuitry of the user terminal, the registration request including the authority information and user identification information of the user, and stores the user identification information in association with the authority information according to the registration request; and a data processing device that receives an authorization request input by the user, the authorization request including the user identification information, and transmits the authorization request to the authentication device.
US10075442B2
An example method to grant authorization to a user for accessing a cloud computing resource involves receiving a first message from a user via a social media interface. The first message includes a request to access a cloud computing resource. The example method involves determining whether the user is authorized to access the cloud computing resource. When the user is not authorized to access the cloud computing resource, the example method involves determining whether the authorization can be automatically granted without human intervention. When the authorization can be automatically granted without human intervention, the authorization is granted to the user. When the authorization cannot be automatically granted, a second message is sent to an administrator to request the human intervention to grant the user the authorization to access the cloud computing resource.
US10075435B1
A fulfillment service may securely register and deregister third party electronic devices within a fulfillment environment. The fulfillment service may receive a service request from an electronic device. The fulfillment service may determine that the service request includes a deregistration token. Further, the fulfillment service may identify the electronic device associated with deregistration token. In response, the fulfillment service may delete fulfillment service information associated with the electronic device in response to determining the electronic device has been deregistered. In addition, the fulfillment service may send a service response to the electronic device instructing the electronic device to delete the deregistration token. In some cases, the service request may include a registration attempt. As such, the service response may include a security token for the electronic device.
US10075431B1
A method, a system, and computer readable medium comprising instructions for image capture to enforce remote agent adherence. The method comprises a first computer receiving an authentication request. The method also comprises a client component executing on the first computer detecting the authentication request and the client component, based on detecting the authentication request, causing a digital image to be captured. The method also comprises the first computer transmitting the digital image to a second computer, the second computer analyzing the digital image, and the second computer authenticating the digital image based on the analysis.
US10075412B2
Managing DHCP address leases based on client properties. A DHCP server may allocate a short DHCP lease to a client device based on client properties. These client properties may include client device type, such as a type determined by OUI or OUI lookup, by client device characteristics, or by client position. Depending on client device properties, the client device is issued an address with a short lease time, or a long lease time. In the case of client activity, a DHCP server responds to initial requests for addresses by allocating an IP address with a short lease time. When the DHCP server receives a renewal request, it checks to see if the client has generated more than a predetermined amount of traffic. If the client has generated traffic exceeding this threshold level, the lease is renewed for a longer period. If the client traffic has not met the threshold level, the lease is renewed with the short lease time. Issuing addresses with short lease times removes inactive devices aggressively, returning addresses to the available lease pool. In an additional embodiment, a DHCP Relay mediates requests between clients and a DHCP server, rewriting lease times returned by the DHCP server to be short lease times. The DHCP Relay issues a DHCP Release to the DHCP server when a short lease to a client expires. The DHCP Relay mediates client DHCP Renew requests, renewing for a short lease time if the client has not generated traffic at the threshold level, and renewing for a long lease time if the client has generated traffic at or above the threshold level.
US10075408B2
A method of managing a multi participant messaging session among session participants. The method comprises detecting electronic mails and instant messaging (IM) messages exchanged among session participants participating during a multi participant messaging session, accessing a repository that manages for each of the session participants a user preference profile defining a preferred messaging protocol selected from an email protocol and an IM protocol, identifying, using the repository, first and second groups of the session participants, each member of the first group has an email protocol as the preferred messaging protocol and each member of the second group has an IM protocol as the preferred messaging protocol, formatting the electronic mails such that email content thereof is sent according to the email protocol to each member of the first group, and forwarding the email content for distribution according to the IM protocol for each member of the second group.
US10075404B1
A server has a processor and a memory storing instructions executed by the processor to maintain an ephemeral gallery of ephemeral messages, where each ephemeral message is a photograph or a video. An ephemeral message is posted to the ephemeral gallery. The ephemeral message has an associated message duration parameter and a gallery participation parameter. An ephemeral message is removed from the ephemeral gallery in response to the identification of an expired gallery participation parameter. The ephemeral gallery is eliminated upon expiration of either a gallery timer or upon expiration of the gallery participation parameter of a last message posted to the ephemeral gallery. The ephemeral gallery is preserved in response to a gesture applied to an indicium to save the ephemeral gallery to produce a preserved gallery.
US10075401B2
One embodiment provides a system that facilitates efficient aggregation of multiple interest messages for the same content from multiple predecessors. During operation, an intermediate node receives a first interest message from a predecessor node. The first interest indicates a name for a content object and a lifetime associated with the first interest. The intermediate node identifies an entry in a pending interest table that corresponds to the first interest and determines that the entry has not expired. The intermediate node determines whether a second interest message which indicates a same content object name as the first interest message has been received from the predecessor node. If so, it forwards the first interest. If not, it adds information associated with the predecessor node to the entry. The intermediate node determines a predecessor lifetime associated with the entry and also determines a maximum lifetime associated with the entry.
US10075399B2
The sharing of media contents between users is implemented in the context of a media content exchange whose topic is media content. Users may contribute by adding contribution media contents that forms a contribution to the topic relatively to a portion of the topic media content. The server application registers for each contribution association data representing the contribution and sends messages to the users participating to the media content exchange on the basis of the registered association data. The association data represent an association between the portion of the topic media content and the contribution media contents. The contribution of a user may be reproduced on the device of another user on the basis of contribution reproduction data received from the server application.
US10075398B2
Systems and methods for enabling a host system to use a network interface of a management controller
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system comprising may include a host system processor and a management controller communicatively coupled to the host system processor and configured to provide management of the information handling system via management traffic communicated between the management controller and a network external to the information handling system. The management controller may be further configured to couple to the external network via a first network interface integral to the management controller, emulate a second network interface to an operating system executing on the host system processor, and bridge the first network interface and the second network interface such that host system traffic may be communicated between the host system processor and the external network via the management controller.
US10075395B2
A communication method and an optical module are disclosed. In various embodiments the method includes generating, by an optical module, a first packet according to a service packet that passes through the optical module, wherein a source address of the first packet is the same as a source address of the service packet, and wherein a destination address of the first packet is the same as a destination address of the service packet; sending, the first packet in a transmission direction of the service packet; and receiving, a second packet sent by the network device, wherein the second packet indicates that the first transmission path from the optical module to the network device exists, and wherein the second packet instructs the optical module to communicate with a network management system by using the network device and the first transmission path.
US10075389B1
A method, computer program product and system uses a tiered priority system having three types of callout messages for use by a transaction processing system: (i) callout with a reserved path; (ii) callout with priority; and (iii) default priority callout with sharing mode. An online transaction program (OTP) issues a “reserve call” associated with a “callout with a reserved path”. In response, a reserve call processor initiates an asynchronous request to build an express socket path, and returns a special dispatchable unit of work identifier (special DUOW ID). The OTP subsequently issues any number of callouts to be sent on the express socket path using the special DUOW ID. A callout with priority dynamically allocates a path for sending a callout message, without queuing. A sharing mode combines a group of callout messages (types (i), (ii), and/or (iii) above) into a single TCP/IP send without queuing.
US10075385B1
A method for provisioning a managed node is described. The method includes obtaining data indicating a set of resources to be downloaded. The data corresponds to a designated configuration. The method also includes sending parallel resource existence requests to peer nodes for one or more resources in the set of resources. The resource existence requests are sent within a managed network. The method further includes determining if one or more responses from the peer nodes are received. The method additionally includes downloading at least one resource from at least one of the peer nodes if at least one response is received indicating that at least one peer node has a requested resource. The method also includes downloading any remaining resource from an administrative system.
US10075382B2
A communication device receives a first packet at a first receipt time, receives a plurality of packets after the first receipt time, the plurality of packets including a second packet, a third packet and a fourth packet, the second packet being received next to the first packet at a second receipt time, an interval between the first receipt time and the second receipt time exceeding a first time period, the plurality of packets being received at an interval shorter than the first time period, the third packet being received before an Nth packet among the plurality of packets, the fourth packet being any of the Nth and following packets among the plurality of packets, transmits a first acknowledgement for the third packet, hold a second acknowledgement for the fourth packet for a second time period, and transmits the second acknowledgement after holding the second acknowledgement for the second time period.
US10075381B2
Apparatus and methods are provided to enhance BSR and LCP procedures for the dual connectivity system. In one novel aspect, the BSR is handled for each MAC entity according to one or more allocation rules. In one embodiment, the allocation rule is configured by the network. In another embodiment, the allocation rule is determined by the UE based on historic statics. In yet another embodiment, the allocation rule is determined by the UE based on information from the network. In one embodiment, the allocation rule indicates percentage of traffic allocated to each MAC entity. In another novel aspect, LCP is performed independently for each MAC entity if the split bearer is configured and the prioritized bit rate (PBR) and the bucket size duration (BSD) are signaled for each eNB. In one embodiment, separate sets of LCG variables are maintained independently for each MAC entity.
US10075379B2
The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system to be provided in order to support a higher data transmission rate than a 4G communication system such as LTE. The present disclosure relates to a device and method for transmitting and/or receiving data in a wireless communication system. The present disclosure enables determining whether an access change occurs from a first node using a first Radio Access Technology (RAT) to a second node using a second RAT and enables transmitting information instructing to adjust the TCP transmission rate to a TCP transmission device when an access change occurs from the first node to the second node.
US10075378B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic apparatus, a central node apparatus and a network side apparatus, a transmission method and a configuration method. The electronic apparatus for user equipment UE side includes: a transmission mode determining device configured for determining, based on service type of uplink transmission data that is to be transmitted to a network side apparatus by the electronic apparatus for UE side, whether to adopt a transmission mode in which the uplink transmission data is transmitted to a central node apparatus such that the uplink transmission data is transmitted to the network side apparatus. The electronic apparatus, the central node apparatus and the network side apparatus, the transmission method and the configuration method according to the present disclosure can implement at least one of saving network resources, reducing signaling overhead, and reducing power loss.
US10075371B2
A control apparatus sets, in a node located at the start point of an aggregatable segment of two or more packet forwarding paths including the aggregatable segment, a packet handling operation for each flow, the packet handling operation being for writing a flow identifier for identifying the flow and a path identifier used for packet forwarding through the aggregatable segment in a region of each of packets to be matched against the matching rule and then causing the packet to be output. The packets respectively belong to the individual flows, and each of the packets is to be forwarded through a corresponding one of the two or more packet forwarding paths. Further, the control apparatus sets, in a node located intermediate on the aggregatable segment, a common packet handling operation for causing the packet that matches the path identifier to be forwarded according to the packet forwarding path. Then, the control apparatus sets, in a node located at the end point of the aggregatable segment, a packet handling operation for performing restoration and forwarding based on the flow identifier.
US10075369B2
Aspects of the present invention include directing traffic in data communications systems. In embodiments of the present invention the traffic is directed based on a Media Access Control (MAC) address table. In embodiments of the present invention traffic directed to an unknown port is blocked to all ports that are in the MAC address table.
US10075362B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose a method and an apparatus for determining a next hop and advertising routing information, which relate to the field of communications and are used for reducing operation complexity of a forwarding device and reducing network maintenance workload. The method for determining the next hop provided by the embodiments of the present application includes: receiving, by a control device, first routing information sent by a first forwarding device, where the first routing information includes an identifier of the first forwarding device; determining a first routing path according to the identifier of the first forwarding device, an identifier of a second forwarding device and a routing path group; and determining a next hop in second routing information for the second forwarding device according to the first routing path, where the second forwarding device is a receiver of the second routing information advertised by the control device.
US10075351B2
The disclosed embodiments include a system, method, and computer program product for improving network performance. For example, in one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for improving network performance includes determining network performance information data indicative of network transmission characteristics of a first set of data packets that are communicated, using a first data link layer protocol, over at least one link of a network. The method further includes the step of improving, using a processor, transmission of a second set of data packets over the network, which utilizes a second data link layer protocol, based on the network performance information data determined from the first set of data packets that are communicated using the first data link layer protocol.
US10075344B2
A dynamic resource management method for remote management of resources of resources devices by a cloud server is provided. The method includes: detecting resource-using-statuses of the resource devices to generate using-load parameters for the resources devices according to the resource-using-statuses of the resources devices by control devices installed on the resources devices; timely collecting, by the cloud server, the using-load parameters for the resources devices outputted by the control devices via a network; and upon receiving a using request corresponding to the resources devices from at least one smart device, performing, by the cloud server, a comparison according to the using-load parameters for the resources devices and the using request and performing resource using distribution on the resources devices to obtain resource-use planning based on the comparison result, thereby controlling the operation of the resource devices and replying to the using request of the smart device.
US10075343B2
Some embodiments provide a method for managing policies for a set of computing resources. The method imports several sets of resource management policy rules from several heterogeneous sources. The method stores each set of imported policy rules as a primitive policy. The primitive policies are (i) applicable to resources in the set of computing resources and (ii) combinable into composite policies that are applicable to resources in the set of computing resources. Composite policies are combinable into additional composite policies with primitive policies and other composite policies.
US10075338B2
Communication allowance determination means determines, using information of a packet received by a packet relay unit and based on a policy which is information associating a match condition with communicability information, whether to allow or not to allow communication to a destination unit for the packet that meets the match condition, the match condition being information identifying the packet, and the communicability information indicating whether to allow or not to allow the communication to the destination unit for the packet that meets the match condition. Rule setting means sets, at least in the packet relay unit receiving the packet, a rule of executing a process for suppressing forwarding of the packet to the destination unit, on condition that the communication allowance determination means determines not to allow the communication to the destination unit for the packet that meets the match condition.
US10075336B2
A parameter adjustment method and apparatus are provided. The parameter adjustment method for a communication device with a SerDes link includes: acquiring, by the communication device, a current ambient temperature of the communication device; and if according to a preset correspondence between a temperature range and a parameter, the current ambient temperature is determined to be not corresponding to a SerDes parameter of the communication device, adjusting the SerDes parameter of the communication device according to the correspondence. The SerDes parameter of the communication device is adjusted in real time, thereby improving reliability of a SerDes link of the communication device, and reducing a bit error rate of the SerDes link.
US10075335B1
In a software defined network, dataplane connectivity is established between a computing device in the network and a controller. The computing device receives a probe packet from the controller, and identifies a port of the computing device through which the probe packet was received. The computing device sets a local route for communication with the controller through the identified port. The computing device then establishes a connection with the controller through the local route. This procedure is reiterated to incrementally expand network connectivity to a plurality of network devices.
US10075334B1
This application discloses a method for commissioning an electronic device in a smart home environment. The electronic device receives from a client device one-way signals that are encoded with communication data. The client device is located in proximity, and executes a client-side application associated with a user account that generates the one-way signals. The encoded communication data includes at least one or more network credentials of a local area network, and an authentication token that provides sufficient information to identify the user account. The electronic device generates a link approval request including the authentication token, and device identification information that identifies the electronic device. The electronic device then accesses the local area network using the network credentials provided by the client device, and sends the link approval request to a server via the local area network for association with the user account and addition to the smart home environment.
US10075333B2
Systems and methods for admitting new nodes into an existing network, for example a MoCA network. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for adding a new node to an existing network without requiring on-site manual configuration, for example utilizing communication between the new node and a network coordinator of the existing network prior to admission of the new node to the existing network.
US10075320B2
The receiver comprises a demodulator configured to detect a signal representing the OFDM symbols and to generate a sampled digital version of the OFDM symbols in the time domain. A Fourier transform processor is configured to receive the time domain digital version of the OFDM symbols and to form a frequency domain version of the OFDM symbols, from which the pilot symbol bearing sub-carriers and the data symbol bearing sub-carriers can be recovered. A detector is configured to recover the data symbols from the data bearing sub-carriers of the OFDM symbols and to recover the pilot symbols from the pilot bearing sub-carriers of the OFDM symbols in accordance with the continuous pilot symbol pattern. The continuous pilot symbols are present at the same sub-carrier locations in first OFDM symbols and as second OFDM symbols. A transmitter is also provided.
US10075312B2
Constant-envelope phase-optimized transmission methods and apparatus are disclosed. An example method includes determining initial values of modulation phases in a first quadrant, the modulation phases associated with binary codes to be transmitted; and optimizing the initial values to second values to enable a product of an objective function to be within a threshold value.
US10075310B2
An adaptive linearizer system includes an adaptive linearizer circuit that is configured to pre-distort an input signal based on one or more control signals to generate a pre-distorted signal, and a non-linear high-power amplifier (HPA) having non-linear characteristics that is coupled to the adaptive linearizer circuit. The nonlinear HPA amplifies the pre-distorted signal. The pre-distortion characteristics of the adaptive linearizer circuit provide for countering the non-linear characteristics of the non-linear HPA and compensating a non-linearity of the non-linear HPA.
US10075297B2
Methods, systems, and products control presentation of media content within a networked environment of multiple devices. Interaction rules are used to determine which ones of the devices interact with each other. Further rules may define what media content is playable by each one of the devices in the networked environment.
US10075293B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus including a sensor data obtaining unit configured to obtain predetermined information from a sensor, the sensor obtaining the predetermined information by sensing, and a key generation unit configured to generate key information for use in an authentication process, based on the information which is obtained by the sensor data obtaining unit during a predetermined period of time.
US10075292B2
Systems and methods for quick start-up of playback in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. Media content may be encoded in a plurality of alternative streams and a quick start-up stream. The quick start-up stream may include media content that is encoded at a lower quality that the alternative streams and may be encrypted with a different, less secure encryption process than that of the alternative streams. During a start-up of playback, the playback device streams the media content from a quick start-up stream until a metric, such as a decryption key for the alternative streams is met. The device then streams the media content from the alternative streams in response to the metric being met.
US10075285B2
A bandwidth adjusting method for a phase-locked loop (PLL) unit of a phase recovery module includes: adjusting an operating bandwidth of the PLL unit to a first bandwidth; measuring multiple first phase errors between a compensated input signal, which is generated according to an input signal and a phase compensating signal that the PLL unit generates, and a reference clock signal, and obtaining a first statistical value of the first phase errors; adjusting the operating bandwidth of the PLL unit to a second bandwidth; measuring multiple second phase differences between the compensated input signal and the reference clock signal, and obtaining a second statistical value of the second phase differences; and adjusting the operating bandwidth according to the first statistical value and the second statistical value. The first bandwidth and the second bandwidth are obtained by interpolating an upper bandwidth limit and a lower bandwidth limit.
US10075274B2
An Access Point (AP) 402 and a method therein for Multi-User Clear-To-Send (MU CTS) signaling between the AP and at least one wireless station (STA) 404,406. The AP sends a Request To Send (RTS) packet directed to multiple STAs. The RTS packet is indicating at least two STAs, to which the AP would like to transmit, and a configuration of a CTS packet to be used by said at least two STAs when responding to the RTS packet. The configuration enables the AP to identify the at least two STAs when the at least two STAs are transmitting a respective CTS packet. Further the AP receives, from at least one STA, a respective CTS packet transmitted in accordance with the indicated configuration, thereby enabling the AP to identify the at least one STA transmitting the respective CTS packet.
US10075268B1
Systems and methods are described for performing carrier aggregation for a wireless device proximate to an antenna system. An uplink signal may be received at an access node from a wireless device in communication with the access node. It may be detected that the wireless device is proximate to an antenna system, wherein the antenna system does not comprise the access node. It may be then determined that carrier aggregation should be triggered for the wireless device based on the detecting. And carrier aggregation may be performed for the wireless device by transmitting data from the access node to the wireless device over a primary carrier and a secondary carrier.
US10075262B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting downlink control information in a wireless communication system configured with a plurality of serving cells. The method generates downlink control information scheduling frequency division duplex (FDD) cells by means of FDD frames (DCI_FDD) and downlink control information scheduling time division duplex (TDD) cells by means of TDD frames (DCI_TDD), and transmits the DCI_FDD and the DCI_TDD, wherein parts of the fields of DCI_FDD and DCI_TDD are generated to have equal bit sizes, and if the FDD or TDD cell is used exclusively, then said parts of the fields in the FDD and TDD cells have mutually different bit sizes.
US10075250B2
A system includes a pseudorandom binary sequence (PRBS) generator configured to generate a first PRBS and a second PRBS and an exclusive-OR logic configured to exclusive-OR the first PRBS and the second PRBS to compute a third PRBS. The system also includes an adder, a correlator and a corrector. The adder adds the third PRBS to input data to compute summed data for transmission of the summed data across the channel. The correlator computes the exclusive-OR of the first PRBS and the second PRBS to reproduce the third PRBS and correlates output data from the channel to the reproduced third PRBS to compute a channel gain error and a channel memory error. The corrector extracts the input data from the output data from the channel using the computed channel gain and memory errors.
US10075237B2
Disclosed are a visible light communication system and a visible light communication method. In this system, a signal transmitter sends a visible light signal, and a signal light receiver capture an image of the visible light signal to recover the visible light signal according to the captured image. The signal receiver includes an image capturing module, an image processing module and a signal recovery module. The method includes: capturing an image of a visible light signal; processing the captured image of the visible light signal; determining whether there is a complete packet according to the processed image; if yes, directly recovering the visible light signal according to the processed image; but if no, executing a packet recovery process according to the processed image of the visible light signal, then obtaining the complete packet and recovering the visible light signal transmitted from the signal transmitter.
US10075236B2
A coded light signal is embedded into visible light emitted from the light source, to be received by a rolling-shutter camera which captures frames (16) by exposing a plurality of lines (18, 24) of each frame in sequence, the camera having an exposure time with each line being exposed for the exposure time. The coded light signal is formatted according to a format whereby the coded light signal comprises at least one message and the message is repeated multiple times with a timing such that, when samples of the coded light signal are obtained from a substantially smaller number of lines (24) than exposed by the camera in each frame and the message is longer than this number of lines, a different part of the message is seen by the camera in each of a plurality of different ones said frames.
US10075223B1
Systems and methods are described for performing beamforming during carrier aggregation. It may be determined that conditions at an access node and a first wireless device meet a beamforming criteria, wherein the access node and the first wireless device communicate using carrier aggregation including a first frequency band comprising a primary carrier and a second frequency band comprising a component carrier. Data may be communicated between the access node and a second wireless device over the second frequency band, wherein the second wireless device is proximate to the first wireless device. Beamforming signal conditions may be determined for the first wireless device on the first frequency band and the second wireless device on the second frequency band. Beam formed signals may be transmitted to the first wireless device over the first frequency band using the beamforming signal conditions for the first wireless device and over the second frequency band using the beamforming signal conditions for the second wireless device.
US10075219B1
The present disclosure provides system and methods for calibrating a tunable metamaterial device. A sequence of port impedance vectors, (z(m), m), may be generated. Each of the port impedance vectors may be applied to the tunable metamaterial device, and measuring at least one S-parameter. A simulated S-Matrix may be generated by associating each of the port impedance vectors, z(m), with the unknown admittance matrix. The unknown admittance matrix may be solved for by determining a plurality of optimization variables by comparing each of the S-parameters, S(m), to the simulated S-Matrix for each port impedance vector, z(m), and generating an estimated admittance matrix by associating each of the optimization variables with the unknown admittance parameters. The estimated admittance matrix may be used for more accurate radiation patterning.
US10075218B2
A method for user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication network. The method comprises identifying a plurality of beams for a semi-open-loop PDSCH data transmission based on at least one of a plurality of precoder cycling types, wherein a precoder comprises a beam and a co-phase, and the plurality of precoder cycling types including at least one of a beam cycling from the plurality of beams or a co-phase cycling from a plurality of co-phases, receiving PDSCH data through the semi-open-loop PDSCH data transmission according to the at least one of the plurality of precoder cycling types, and identifying the plurality of beams based on the at least one of the plurality of precoder cycling types, wherein the precoder comprising the beam and co-phase, and the plurality of precoder cycling types is cycled across a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) using the at least one of the beam cycling or the co-phase cycling with at least one of a cycling period or granularity from at least one of a plurality of cycling periods or granularities including at least one of a single resource element (RE), a single RB, multiple REs, or multiple RBs.
US10075217B1
UEs capable of RF relay are enabled and disabled under certain conditions. The access node can control the on and off duration of the UE functioning as an RF relay. The access node may only enable RF relay when there is a need by another UE for the RF relay. The UEs selected to relay (or to not relay) may be selected based on their location (e.g., close to a UE that is experiencing poor signal strength). In an embodiment, the RF relay function of UEs are successively turned on by the access node. This causes these UEs to relay the access node's beacon signal. If, after a period of time, the wireless network performance is not improved, these UEs are commanded to disable their RF relays. If the wireless network performance is improved, the UE may be allowed to continue as an RF relay.
US10075210B2
In an ultra-wideband (“UWB”) receiver, a received UWB signal is periodically digitized as a series of ternary samples. During a carrier acquisition mode of operation, the samples are continuously correlated with a predetermined preamble sequence to develop a correlation value. When the value exceeds a predetermined threshold, indicating that the preamble sequence is being received, estimates of the channel impulse response (“CIR”) are developed. When a start-of-frame delimiter (“SFD”) is detected, the best CIR estimate is provided to a channel matched filter (“CMF”). During a data recovery mode of operation, the CMF filters channel-injected noise from the sample stream. Both carrier phase errors and data timing errors are continuously detected and corrected during both the carrier acquisition and data recovery modes of operation. The phase of the carrier can be determined by accumulating the correlator output before it is rotated by the carrier correction. By comparing the carrier phases of two receivers separated by a known distance, d, the angle of incidence, θ, of the signal can be determined.
US10075200B2
Antenna switching circuitry includes an antenna node, a number of signal path nodes, and a number of switching elements. Each one of the switching elements is coupled between a different one of the signal path nodes and the antenna node. At least two of the signal path nodes are coupled together in order to form a low distortion node, such that the switching elements between the low distortion node and the antenna node are used to pass a low-distortion radio frequency (RF) signal. By coupling two of the signal path nodes together, a low distortion signal path is created to the antenna. Creating a low distortion signal path using multiple switching elements allows for the size of the switching elements to remain small, which reduces the parasitic capacitance of each one of the switches and therefore the insertion loss of the antenna switching circuitry.
US10075199B2
Disclosed herein are front-end architectures for wireless communication that support a wide range of combinations of uplink carrier aggregation (UL CA) and simultaneous multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) functionality. Embodiments can include a separate mid-band power amplifier module and a separate high band power amplifier module, and can establish various numbers of antenna outputs from these modules to connect to available diplexers or triplexers in selected ways to cover all intended use cases. Duplication of filters, duplexers, and/or quadplexers is reduced or minimized by re-using filtering in a selectively designed MIMO receive module that supports switch-combined TX filters. A UL CA power amplifier module makes use of the MIMO receive module, as well as the re-use of available filters in the mid-band primary power amplifier module.
US10075188B2
A digital broadcasting system which is robust against an error when mobile service data is transmitted and a method of processing data are disclosed. The mobile service data is subjected to an additional coding process and the coded mobile service data is transmitted. Accordingly, it is possible to cope with a serious channel variation while applying robustness to the mobile service data.
US10075187B2
Bursty interference or puncturing may be identified, either by a user equipment (UE) or by a base station. In response, a protection scheme may be applied to protect communications from the bursty interference or puncturing. The protection scheme may include using both time and frequency interleaving of code blocks in the communications. The protection scheme may also include modifying the modulation and coding scheme (MCS), coding rate, precoding matrix index (PMI), or rank indicator (RI) used in the communications. The protection scheme may also include using a universal low-density parity check (LDPC) code in the transmission of the communications.
US10075180B2
Circuits and methods for inter-symbol interference compensation are described. These circuits and methods may be used in connection with delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter. During a sensing phase, a value indicative of the inter-symbol interference may be sensed. The value may be obtained by (1) causing the ADC to generate a first number of transitions during a first time interval; (2) causing the ADC to generate a second number of transitions during a second time interval; (3) sensing the number of logic-0s and logic-1s occurring in the first and second time intervals; and (4) computing the value based at least in part on the number of logic-0s and logic-1s occurring in the first and second time intervals. During a compensation phase, inter-symbol interference may be compensated based on the value obtained in the sensing phase.
US10075171B2
An oscillator includes a resonator element; an oscillation circuit which outputs an oscillation signal by oscillating the resonator element; and a temperature compensation circuit as a frequency control circuit which controls an oscillation frequency of the oscillation signal, wherein, if a resonance frequency of the resonator element is referred to as Fr (MHz) and an equivalent series capacitance is referred to as C1 (fF), a relationship of C1≥0.00279×Fr2−0.05684×Fr+2.69481 is satisfied.
US10075170B2
Circuits and methods for determining a majority vote from a plurality of inputs. An example circuit includes a voting input stage, a transfer stage, and an accumulating stage. The voting input stage includes at least three input switched capacitors. The transfer stage includes transfer switched capacitors corresponding to the input switched capacitors. The transfer switched capacitors charge a voting capacitor corresponding to each input switched capacitor during a state of a clock signal. The accumulating stage includes accumulating switched capacitors connecting the voting capacitors in series. The accumulating switched capacitors cause the charges of the voting capacitors to be accumulated during an alternate state of the clock signal. The accumulated charge of the voting capacitors represents a majority vote of the input switched capacitors.
US10075160B2
A switch circuit includes first and second switches. The first switch includes a first common terminal and at least two first selection terminals selectively connected to the first common terminal. The second switch includes at least one second common terminal and at least one second selection terminal selectively connected to the at least one second common terminal. One of the at least two first selection terminals and the at least one second common terminal are connected to each other via a path passing through a first multiplexer. Another one of the at least two first selection terminals and the at least one second common terminal are connected to each other via a bypass path bypassing the first multiplexer.
US10075153B2
A low-power synchronizer circuit, a data processing circuit that incorporates the synchronizer circuit, and a synchronization method are provided. The synchronizer circuit includes a delay circuit for receiving and delaying an asynchronous input signal, a first flip-flop having an input terminal connected to an output terminal of the delay circuit, a clock terminal for receiving the asynchronous input signal, and a reset terminal for receiving the asynchronous input signal, a synchronizer connected to an output terminal of the first flip-flop, and a clock-gating circuit for receiving a clock signal and determining whether to supply the clock signal to the synchronizer in response to one of a first output value of the delay circuit and a second output value of the first flip-flop and a third output value of the synchronizer.
US10075150B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to set-reset (SR) latch circuits and methods for manufacturing the same. In some of the disclosed examples, a SR latch circuit includes an inverter storage loop for storing state information and a set of p-channel field-effect transistors (PFETs) for control circuitry. The PFETs may include first and second PFETs connected to a first node of the inverter storage loop, and third and fourth PFETs connected to a second node of the inverter storage loop. Gate terminals of the first and fourth PFETs may be connected to a first control input, and gate terminals of the second and third PFETs may be connected to a second control input.
US10075145B2
Methods and apparatuses for measuring a phase noise level in an input signal are disclosed. An input signal can be delayed to generate a delayed version of the input signal. Next, a phase difference can be detected between the input signal and the delayed version of the input signal. A phase noise level in the input signal can then be determined based on the detected phase difference. The measured phase noise level can then be used to suppress phase noise in the input signal.
US10075143B2
Layer structures for RF filters can be fabricated using rare earth oxides and epitaxial aluminum nitride, and methods for growing the layer structures. A layer structure can include an epitaxial crystalline rare earth oxide (REO) layer over a substrate, a first epitaxial electrode layer over the crystalline REO layer, and an epitaxial piezoelectric layer over the first epitaxial electrode layer. The layer structure can further include a second electrode layer over the epitaxial piezoelectric layer. The first electrode layer can include an epitaxial metal. The epitaxial metal can be single-crystal. The first electrode layer can include one or more of a rare earth pnictide, and a rare earth silicide (RESi).
US10075135B2
In an embodiment an envelope modulator comprises a gain compensated lag-lead network or a gain compensated lead-lag network.
US10075125B2
A solar tracker apparatus includes an adjustable hanger assembly that has a clam shell hanger assembly. The clam shell hanger assembly may hold a torque tube comprising a plurality of torque tubes configured together in a continuous length from a first end to a second end. A center of mass of the solar tracker apparatus may be aligned with a center of rotation of the torque tubes, in order to reduce a load of a drive device operably coupled to the torque tube. Solar modules may be coupled to the torque tubes. The solar tracker includes an energy system that includes solar panel, a DC to DC converter, a battery, and a micro-controller. The energy system may facilitate full operation movement of the tracker apparatus without any external power lines.
US10075122B2
The disclosed embodiment relates to a method of controlling a system including at least one inverter with six switches, which is linked to a battery, and supervised by a processor. The method implements a vector modulation, so that it is able to prevent the current linking the battery from passing through zero amperes by means of appropriate control logic. The disclosed embodiment also relates to a device for controlling an electronic component.
US10075117B2
A multi-pulse transformer with multiple taps provides a constant magnitude voltage output to a variable speed chiller's compressor motor over a range of input voltages. The 3-phase transformer includes primary windings and a plurality of secondary windings. The secondary windings are electromagnetically coupled with the associated primary winding. The primary windings include taps for receiving multiple input AC voltages and the secondary windings have a single output terminal for supplying a predetermined output voltage which, after rectification produces a DC multi-pulse waveform for powering a DC link of a variable speed drive. Alternatively the 3-phase transformer includes multiple taps on the secondary windings. Each of the primary windings has a terminal for receiving an input AC voltage. The taps of the secondary windings provide an output voltage that is converted to a multi-pulse waveform for powering a DC link of a variable speed drive.
US10075113B2
A method and a circuit arrangement is described by means of which a stepper motor can be operated by an adaptive control over a large rotational speed range, including a standstill, in which the motor is electrically fixed in a specific rotational position, and with high precision and running smoothness corresponding to a specified motor current course. This is achieved essentially by the fact that the motor is operated in a low rotational speed range including a standstill with a voltage-controlled or voltage-regulated first operating mode and in a higher or high rotational speed range with a current-controlled second operating mode.
US10075109B2
A driving device for a brushless DC motor having at least one coil may include a voltage zero crossing detection unit to where an induced voltage becomes zero; a detection period setting unit to set at least one detection period synchronously with the voltage zero crossing point; a coil voltage detection comparator to compare a terminal voltage generated from one end of the coil with a threshold voltage, and generate a coil voltage detection signal indicating a comparison result; a current phase detection unit to generate a phase detection signal indicating a relationship between a phase of a coil current flowing through the coil and a phase of the induced voltage; a driving signal synthesis unit to generate a driving control signal based on the phase detection signal; and a driving circuit to drive the brushless DC motor based on the driving control signal.
US10075108B2
An integrated circuit, a motor component including the integrated circuit and an application device having the motor component are provided according to embodiments of the present disclosure. The integrated circuit includes a housing, an integrated circuit die arranged inside the housing and multiple pins extended out from the housing. The integrated circuit die has a conductive back plate and an electronic circuit arranged on the conductive back plate. The multiple pins include an input pin and an output pin, each of the multiple pins has a lead frame inside the housing. And the conductive back plate is fixed to the lead frame of at least one ungrounded pin of the multiple pins in a manner of electrical insulation, thereby avoiding an short circuit for the integrated circuit due to an electrical connection between the conductive back plate and the lead frame fixed to the conductive back plate.
US10075102B2
A system for converting thermal energy into electrical power includes a temperature-sensitive element held in a frame by its two ends between a heat source and a cold source producing a thermal gradient. A piezoelectric element is positioned between the frame and at least one end of the temperature-sensitive element. The temperature-sensitive element is configured to deform cyclically between two states under the action of the thermal gradient. With each cyclic deformation, a stress is applied to the piezoelectric element via the one end.
US10075099B2
A power generation apparatus and a touch apparatus with grain materials are provided. The power generation apparatus includes a grain material layer, a first electrode, an electric material layer, a second electrode and a conductive wire. The first electrode is electrically connected to the grain material layer. The electric material layer corresponds to the grain material layer, and a gap is formed between the grain material layer and the electric material layer. The second electrode is electrically connected to the electric material layer. The conductive wire is electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode. The grain material layer and the electric material layer interact with each other to generate a current or a voltage. Thereby, the present invention can generate power by utilizing a grain material.
US10075092B2
In a power converter a DC positive terminal of a DC power supply is connected to a switching element, the DC negative terminal of the DC power supply is connected to a switching element. A capacitor and a capacitor connected in series are connected in parallel with the DC power supply, and a DC neutral point divided by the capacitor and the capacitor is connected to a switching element and a switching element. The switching element is connected to the positive terminal of a chopper cell group circuit, and the switching element is connected to the negative terminal of a chopper cell group circuit. The negative terminal of the chopper cell group circuit is connected to the positive terminal of the chopper cell group circuit, and the connection node therebetween serves as an output AC terminal.
US10075090B1
The AC rectifier system includes an AC source having a positive half-cycle terminal and a negative half-cycle terminal, a first rectifier module along with a first resonance unit having a first terminal connected to the positive half-cycle terminal, a second rectifier module along with a second resonance unit having a first terminal connected to negative half-cycle terminal, a regulator module along with a load element having a first terminal respectively connected to a second terminal of the first rectifier module and a second terminal of the second rectifier module, and a current divider module connected to the positive and negative half-cycle terminals the first terminals of the first and second rectifier modules, and the second terminal of the regulator module. Therefore current would be repeatedly transformed through the current divider module, enhancing heat reduction and transformation efficiency. The resonance units may also function as a filter.
US10075089B2
A power-conversion device includes a power-converter converting power from the power-supply. A filter-capacitor part eliminates noise from power in the power-converter. A housing contains a power unit comprising the filter-capacitor part and the power-converter stacked on the filter-capacitor part and to enable the power unit to be taken in and out from an upper surface and a side surface thereof. A guide rail is located on a bottom surface of the housing to extend in a direction substantially perpendicular to the side surface and guides the power unit when the power unit is taken in and out from the side surface of the housing. A protrusion is located on the filter-capacitor part to fit upward into a hole or a concave portion formed on the power-converter and guides the power-converter when the power-converter is taken in and out from the upper surface of the housing.
US10075086B2
An IPT system for wireless power transfer is provided, in particular an IPT system capable of operating at high frequencies. In one aspect there is provided an IPT transmitter comprising a push-pull resonant converter having a resonant frequency and configured to operate at a switching frequency below the resonant frequency and dependent on a switching characteristic of a second converter configured to inductively couple to said transmitter.
US10075076B1
A voltage converter circuit includes a high side transistor, a high side driver coupled to a control input of the high side transistor, a low side transistor coupled to the high side transistor at a switch node, and a current steering circuit coupled to the control input of the high side and to the switch node. During transition of the high side transistor to an on state, a current from the high side driver initially divides between the control input of the high side transistor and the current steering circuit, and as a voltage on the switch node increases, less of the current from the high side driver flows through the current steering circuit and more of the current from the high side driver flows to the control input of the high side transistor.
US10075075B2
A buck-boost power converter and a mode transition control module. The mode transition control module includes a buck duty cycle sensing and comparison circuit and a boost duty cycle sensing and comparison circuit. The buck duty cycle sensing and comparison circuit can provide a first mode transition control signal through comparing a first signal indicative of a buck duty cycle with a first threshold signal indicative of a buck duty threshold to regulate the buck-boost power converter to transit between a buck mode and a buck-boost mode. The boost duty cycle sensing and comparison circuit can provide a second mode transition control signal through comparing a second signal indicative of a boost duty cycle with a second threshold signal indicative of a boost duty threshold to regulate the buck-boost power converter to transit between a the buck-boost mode and a boost mode.
US10075073B2
A DC/DC converter has: a soft-start circuit, a variable output current generator, a constant current source, an oscillator, a slope circuit, a PWM comparator, and a control circuit operable to turn ON and OFF first and second transistors alternately based on a pulse width modulation signal. Through the switching operation of the first and second transistors, an input voltage is converted into a output voltage.
US10075072B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes: a switch circuit connected between a first power supply terminal and an output terminal; a switching element connected between the output terminal and a second power supply terminal; and a control circuit that, when a predetermined period has elapsed since the entry of the switch circuit into an ON state in response to an enable signal, causes the switching element to start a switching operation to increase a power supply voltage supplied between the first power supply terminal and the second power supply terminal.
US10075068B2
A power source device has: a storage unit configured to receive a generated power and store as a storage power; a boost unit configured to generate, from a storage power supplied from the storage unit, a boosted power having a higher voltage than a voltage of the storage power, and supply the boosted power to a load; and a voltage detection unit configured to output a boost operation permission signal permitting a boost operation of the boost unit to the boost unit when the storage voltage of the boost unit increases to become a voltage equal to or higher than a minimum operation voltage of the boost unit. The boost unit is configured to start the boost operation by the storage power supplied from the storage unit and operates on the boosted power generated by the boost operation as an operation power source when the boost operation permission signal is output from the voltage detection unit.
US10075061B2
A first excess current protector directs a controller to limit an output current of a regulator when a current value detected by a current detector exceeds a first preset current value set to be higher than a rated current value of a power supply device. A second excess current protector directs the controller to limit the output current of the regulator when an average value of the current value detected by the current detector over a predetermined period of time exceeds a second preset current value set to correspond to the rated current value. A third excess current protector directs the controller to limit the output current of the regulator when the current value detected by the current detector exceeds a third preset current value set to be lower than the second preset current value.
US10075054B1
A power supply includes a DC to DC converter, a storage capacitor, a voltage detector, a bypass unit, and a voltage-multiplying unit. The DC to DC converter receives a capacitor voltage from the storage capacitor and generates an output voltage; the voltage detector is configured to detect an input voltage. The bypass unit electrically connected to the storage capacitor turns on when the input voltage is equal to or greater than the capacitor voltage and turns off when the input voltage is lower than the capacitor voltage. The voltage-multiplying unit electrically connected to the storage capacitor and the voltage detector includes a first winding and a second winding and performs a voltage-multiplying procedure by coupling the first winding to the second winding while the input voltage is lower than a threshold voltage to ensure that the DC to DC converter can generate the output voltage for a specific period.
US10075052B2
A voice coil motor includes a holder, a metal yoke, a carrier, a plurality of magnets, a coil and at least two spring plates. The holder includes a first opening and a cylindrical sidewall disposed around the first opening. The metal yoke coupled to the holder includes a second opening and a front end portion. The cylindrical sidewall extends from the first opening towards the second opening. The carrier movably disposed in the metal yoke includes a covering portion disposed on one side of the carrier towards the holder and correspondingly to the cylindrical sidewall, wherein the covering portion surrounds the cylindrical sidewall and farther from the first opening than the cylindrical sidewall. The magnets are disposed in the metal yoke. The coil is wound around the carrier and adjacent to the magnets. Each of the spring plates is flat sheet and coupled to the carrier.
US10075043B2
An electromagnetic power generator device and a method thereof for using balanced electromagnetic forces to drive one or more flywheel rotor assemblies on a fixed shaft and generating large amount of electrical power are provided. The electromagnetic power generator device includes a non-rotating shaft attached to a support frame, at least one flywheel rotor assembly, and at least one input driver plate assembly which is coupled to the flywheel rotor assembly via the non-rotating shaft penetrating through a first centered hole of a bearing of the flywheel assembly and a second centered hole of the input driver plate assembly.
US10075042B2
A tool for programming a controller of an electric motor by engaging a connection block of the motor and providing high voltage power and communicating programming signals to the controller. The tool includes a body having an interface for engaging the connection block, and internal wiring presenting tool terminals at the interface for making contact with corresponding motor terminals to allow for providing power and communicating signals between the tool and the controller. An energy-limited transformer having an isolated high impedance secondary winding provides both electrical isolation to protect against shock and low energy output to protect against arc flash. Redundant interlocks include a software interlock which allows the power to be present at the interface only during actual programming of the controller. A light ring encircling the body indicates the presence of high voltage and is visible from multiple directions.
US10075040B2
A rotary machine includes a rotor and a resin-molded stator which includes a stator core, a coil, a molded portion, a lead line, a bush and a bush supporting frame. The stator core is formed by laminating steel sheets. The coil is formed by winding a conducting wire around a tooth formed to the stator core. The molded portion covers the coil. The lead line is formed by the conducting wire continuing from an end portion of a power supply side of the coil. The bush is formed with a penetrated insert hole where the lead line is passed through. The bush supporting frame is supported by the molded portion and is formed with a penetrated attaching hole into which the bush is fitted in. The lead line is drawn out to the outside of the molded portion from the attaching hole.
US10075038B2
A power generation input device includes a rotational magnet body that has a magnet, an N-pole member placed near the N pole of the magnet, and an S-pole member placed near the S-pole of the magnet, the rotational magnet body being supported so as to be rotatable around a rotational center line; a magnetic member; coils; and a manipulation body. The N-pole member has an N-pole end, which extends in a direction more away from the rotational center line than the end of the magnet. The S-pole member has an S-pole end, which extends in a direction more away from the rotational center line than the end of the magnet. The N-pole end and S-pole end are oppositely disposed in a plane parallel to the rotational center line with a gap intervening between them, the gap extending in a direction inclined with respect to the rotational center line.
US10075036B2
The hole diameter of a shaft through hole formed in the rotor core is changed in the axial direction, thereby forming a concave portion whose hole diameter is large and a convex portion whose hole diameter is small in the inner circumferential surface of the shaft through hole; the convex portion is arranged at opening portions on both ends of the shaft through hole; a shaft having ridge-shaped convex portions on a press-fitting portion is press-fitted into the shaft through hole to assemble; the number of points of the concave portion is equal to or more than two; and respective diameter dimensions of the concave portion, the convex portion, and the shaft are set to be the diameter of a main body of the shaft
US10075032B2
The alternator is used in the motor vehicles and provides increased current output. It comprises ring (17) and (17a) connecting the second claw poles (16) and (16a), and its peripheral surface which is opposite to the second claw poles (16) and (16a) is profiled and protruded outwards, shaped by the adjacent surfaces of inner and outer truncated cones whose axes coincide with the axis of the shaft. On the peripheries of external side plates (23) and (23a) at diameters equal to the inner diameters of the carried pole configurations and axes coinciding with the axis of the shaft (1) stationary are fixed second magnetoconductive rings (26) and (26a) whose surfaces located on the side of the first magnetoconductive rings (17), (17a) are shaped like a groove whose shape corresponds to the shape of the profiled protruded outwards peripheral surface of the first magnetoconductive rings (17), (17a) comprising them with possibility for their free rotation in the corresponding groove.
US10075027B2
A method includes determining, by a first electronic device, whether a charging party is the first electronic device or a second electronic device according to charging reference information. The method also includes enabling, in response to a determination that the charging party is the first electronic device, an NFC wireless charging service of the first electronic device. The method further includes instructing, by the first electronic device, the second electronic device to enable an NFC wireless charging service in response to a determination that the charging party is the second electronic device.
US10075021B2
[OBJECT] There is provided a wireless power transmission system capable of transmitting power efficiently even when there is an obstacle or the like.[ORGANIZATION] A power transmission device has a first and a second electrode (111, 112), a first and a second connection line (115, 116), and a first inductor (113, 114). A power reception device has a third and a fourth electrode (121, 122), a third and a fourth connection line (125, 126), and a second inductor (123, 124). At least one of the first to the fourth electrode is housed in a conductive casing (310, 320) having an opening corresponding to an opposing electrode, and a resonance frequency of a power transmission coupler constituted of the first and the second electrode and the first inductor (113, 144) and a resonance frequency of a power reception coupler constituted of the third and the fourth electrode and the second inductor (123, 124) are set to be substantially equal.
US10075016B2
Systems and methods for governing a signal waveform of a signal flowing through a component of a power transmission system that includes a plurality of switch-mode power processors and may be a polyphase system. At least one of current and voltage is integrally monitored at each of a plurality of locations on the power system and is characterized relative to specified constraints. When a monitored voltage or current is outside of the specified constraints, the voltage or current is modified by changing at least one of the time delay or phase characteristics of at least one of the source, load and transmission elements on the power transmission system.
US10075014B2
A charging control system for charging a secondary battery from a solar battery, including a first path for transmitting power from the solar battery to the secondary battery, a second path for sensing the voltage of the secondary battery, and a comparison unit for comparing the solar battery voltage with the sensed voltage of the secondary battery. The first path includes a first interrupter, controlled by the comparison unit, which interrupts the first path to prevent discharge of the secondary battery through the solar battery when the solar battery voltage falls below the secondary battery voltage. The second path includes a second interrupter that interrupts the second path after the first path is interrupted, to prevent the secondary battery from discharging through the second path when not being charged through the first path.
US10075010B2
In one embodiment, the tablet connection system includes an attachment station configured to couple to a tablet, and a tablet attachment system configured to couple to the attachment station and the tablet. The attachment station includes a charging mechanism such that the attachment station is configured to charge the tablet and hold the tablet such that the tablet is positioned for viewing by a user. In one embodiment, the charging mechanism of the attachment station is configured to wirelessly charge the tablet that is coupled thereto. The tablet attachment system is configured to provide coupling between the tablet and the attachment station.
US10075002B2
An electricity storage system comprising: a plurality of cartridges connected together in parallel, each cartridge comprising a plurality of cells connected together, and a circuit for preventing cross current, which restricts the current in each cartridge so as to cause the current to flow in one direction selected from a discharge direction and a charge direction, wherein said cartridges connected together in parallel are simultaneously charged with a direct current voltage converted from a commercial voltage, or said cartridges connected together in parallel are caused to discharge simultaneously so that said electricity storage system outputs a commercial voltage.
US10075000B2
A safety circuit is provided for a portable charger having a charger battery operatively connected by a power supply to positive and negative jumper cable jacks capable of jump starting a 12V car battery as well as at least one USB port capable of charging 5V portable electronic devices. The safety circuit includes a jump start relay operatively connecting the power supply to the positive and negative jumper cable jacks; a microprocessor, and a voltage input analyzer operatively connected with the microprocessor to enable or disable the jump start relay.
US10074987B2
Provided is a storage battery management device (10) including a price information acquisition unit (11) that acquires power purchasing price information indicating a power purchasing price for each time period of power supplied from an electric power system, a remaining discharge capacity information acquisition unit (12) that acquires remaining discharge capacity information indicating the amount of power that can be discharged to a load from a storage battery, and a discharging schedule generation unit (13) that generates a discharging schedule in which an upper limit of the amount of power discharged from the storage battery is determined for each of a plurality of discharging time periods divided for each unit time, using the power purchasing price information and the remaining discharge capacity information.
US10074986B2
A system for providing a primary control power (PCP) for a power grid (PG) by at least one energy storage device (ESD) comprising an energy resource controller (ERC) connected to said energy storage device (ESD), wherein said energy resource controller (ERC) has a state of charge control unit (SOC-CU) adapted to perform a state of charge (SOC) power control of the energy storage device (ESD) to avoid inadmissible state of charge states of the energy storage device (ESD) caused by a stochastic demand for primary control power (PCP) by said power grid (PG).
US10074983B2
The technology is generally directed towards characterizing primary frequency response parameters (e.g., frequency response coefficient, inertia, damping, droop) for an interconnection, region, and power plant utilizing phasor measure unit (PMU) data captured during an event (e.g., a generation trip event) that causes an imbalance in the power grid system. Pre-processing of localized PMU based frequency measurements combined with system identification techniques fit the observed frequency response to estimate parameters such as system inertia, frequency response coefficient, turbine time constant, system damping and governor droop that characterize the interconnection-wide frequency response.
US10074980B2
A control apparatus includes a receiving unit, a demand-response unit, a power consumption fluctuation unit, and a setting unit. The receiving unit receives a demand relating to power consumption from an energy management apparatus. The demand-response unit executes a demand-response control in order to adjust power consumption of facility devices set up in a property in accordance with the demand when the demand is received by the receiving unit. The power consumption fluctuation unit executes a non-demand-response control in order to increase or decrease power consumption of the facility devices regardless of the demand. The setting unit sets the non-demand-response control to active or inactive.
US10074979B2
The present invention relates to a voltage source converter based DC connection method and a control method for implementing a system for maintaining respective different frequencies (multi-frequencies) by reflecting load quality levels of respective microgrids when multiple stand-alone microgrids are connected to each other in which voltage source converters (VSCs) installed at connection points of the microgrids for effectively controlling respective microgrids having different frequency control ranges present an effective control method based on a concept using normalizing frequencies of unit microgrids to be similarly applied in an islanded operation mode of multiple grid-connected microgrids as well as multiple stand-alone microgrids to avoid the same frequency criterion and enable an economic operation to which the load power quality level of the microgrid is reflected, thereby minimizing a transient to stably operate a microgrid system.
US10074971B2
According to one embodiment, an excitation inrush current suppressing apparatus comprising: bus voltage measurement equipment which measures each phase voltage of the single-phase AC-side bus; transformer voltage measurement equipment which measures a single-phase-side voltage of the transformer; phase detector which detects a cutoff phase when opening the circuit breaker by monitoring each phase voltage measured by the bus voltage measurement equipment and the single-phase-side voltage measured by the transformer voltage measurement equipment, holds the detected cutoff phase, and outputs the same phase as the held cutoff phase; and close command output device which closes the circuit breaker by the same voltage phase as the cutoff phase output from the phase detector.
US10074970B2
A CAN bus explosion proof node structure is disclosed which includes a physical parameter sensor, a physical parameter measurement circuit, a master controller, a data storage module, a communication interface module, and a power voltage and current limiting module. The master controller performs service processing of the digital signals, compares them with respective threshold levels to determine whether dangerous situations occur for the explosion proof node, and sends out an alarm when dangerous situations occur for the explosion proof node. The power voltage and current limiting module limits a maximum open circuit voltage and a maximum short circuit current of input power so that explosive gas and dust will not ignite when the nodes are in normal operation or experience failures.
US10074969B2
A mechanism for travelling wave protection of a transmission line and a method for acquiring information of both voltage and current polarities from two ends of a transmission line. The method includes comparing the voltage and current polarities of both ends of the transmission line to each other. The method also includes making a trip decision based on the comparison.
US10074964B2
A ventilation cover for an electrical enclosure having an aperture that includes a peripheral edge. The cover includes an inner shell having a plurality of inner slots, wherein each inner slot is separated from another inner slot by an inner wall portion. The cover also includes an outer shell for receiving the inner shell, wherein the outer shell includes a plurality of outer slots and each outer slot is aligned with an associated inner wall portion wherein each inner wall portion is adapted to divert water which enters an outer slot. In addition, the cover includes a lip formed around the peripheral edge for inhibiting the flow of water into the aperture.
US10074962B2
A grating element includes: a support substrate; an optical material layer; a ridge optical waveguide having an incidence surface on which a laser light is incident and an emission end from which an emission light with a desired wavelength is emitted; and a Bragg grating including concave and convex portions formed within the optical waveguide. The optical waveguide includes an incident portion between the incidence surface and the Bragg grating, and a tapered portion between the incident portion and the Bragg grating. In the Bragg grating, a propagation light propagates in single mode. The width Win of the optical waveguide in the incident portion is larger than the width Wgr of the optical waveguide in the Bragg grating. The width Wt of the optical waveguide in the tapered portion is decreased from the incident portion toward the Bragg grating. The relationships represented by formulas (1) to (3) are satisfied.
US10074955B2
The disclosed embodiments improve on the design of existing hybrid ring lasers by enabling a redundancy of one of the least reliable components, the III-V reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA). This allows a spare RSOA to be used to replace a failed RSOA while using the same ring mirror as the wavelength selective filter, thus reducing link down time, and eliminating the need for additional switching or multiplexing elements which add excess loss and require additional power. The result is a more reliable transmitter enabling greater scale in networking systems. In addition, this facilitates a widely tunable laser with the same outputs by utilizing two gain media comprised of different bandgap active material. Finally, multiple correlated wavelengths can be emitted from this device with two different gain materials using the same ring mirror element as reference.
US10074954B1
The present application relates to air-cooled electronic devices. An exemplary apparatus has an enclosure including one or more interior surfaces. The interior surfaces at least partially define a plenum. A support member is situated in the enclosure and defines a position reference plane, which can at least partially define the plenum. The apparatus further includes an air-to-fluid heat exchanger situated in the enclosure adjacent the support member, and one or more device bays configured to receive at least one corresponding electronic device. The device bays can be located adjacent the support member such that the position reference plane defines a boundary between the device bays and the plenum. The device bays, the plenum, and the air-to-fluid heat exchanger are in fluid communication with one another along a flow path defined within the enclosure, and the enclosure restricts an air flow along the flow path from exiting the enclosure.
US10074951B2
A commutator includes an insulating section that is formed in a tube shape including a shaft insertion hole through which a shaft is inserted, and that is formed with an indented portion in an end portion at one side in an axial direction of the shaft. The commutator also includes plural segments that are supported by an outer peripheral portion of the insulating section, that are arrayed around a circumferential direction of the insulating section with spacings therebetween, and that are each provided with an anchor portion at an end portion at the one side in the axial direction of the shaft. The commutator also includes a first, second, third short-circuit wires, each connecting the anchor portion of respective one segment to the anchor portion of respective another segment, and at least a portion being disposed inside the indented portion formed at the insulating section.
US10074948B2
A power receptacle with a housing having an inwardly extending chamber, the inwardly extending chamber having a depth dimension that is between 0.5 inches and 5 inches, more typically between 1 and 5 inches, sized and configured to releasably receive a portable power supply inside the chamber. The housing includes an internal electrical charging interface. When the portable power supply is in the chamber, the portable power supply electrically engages the electrical charging interface to thereby charge the portable power supply. The receptacles can be in-wall or in-floor units. The housings can be a “custom” housing size and/or may be configured to occupy a single gang box or a compartment of a multi-gang junction box.
US10074943B2
The invention relates to a plug device (10) which contains a first plug connector (12) having spring contacts (16), wherein at least one spring contact (16) is provided for the establishing of an electrical connection between a first and a second electrical circuit ground (18a, 18b), and which contains a second plug connector (14) having blade contacts (28), wherein at least one blade contact (28) is provided for the establishing of the connection of the two electrical circuit grounds (18a, 18b). The plug device (10) according to the invention is characterized by an ohmic resistor (34) being provided at least in one partial region (42) at the contact point (30, 40) at which the front end (36, 38) of at least one spring element (24a, 24b, 24c, 26) of a spring contact (16) of the first plug connector (12) is born on a blade contact (28) of the second plug connector (14), the resistor forming a series resistor during the connection of the first electrical circuit ground (18a) to the second electrical circuit ground (18b) between the spring contact (16) and the blade contact (28) in the partial region (42) at the contact point (30, 40).
US10074940B2
A conductive EMI shielding assembly for shielding the connection between a multi-wire cable and a corresponding circuit board connector is disclosed, and includes a housing portion for surrounding the circuit board connector and a coupling portion for mating with the housing portion and the cable. The housing portion has a base with a rectangular configuration and a collar portion that mates with a corresponding collar portion of the coupling portion. The coupling portion has an opposing end that slips over the end of the cable and attaches to the cable. The housing collar portion and coupling mating portion include associated tabs and openings arranged around them in a circular pattern at preselected angular intervals. The tabs and openings permit the coupling portion to be oriented with respect to the housing portion in a number of different patterns.
US10074938B2
Methods and systems for providing crosstalk compensation in a jack are disclosed. According to one method, the crosstalk compensation is adapted to compensate for undesired crosstalk generated at a capacitive coupling located at a plug inserted within the jack. The method includes positioning a first capacitive coupling a first time delay away from the capacitive coupling of the plug, the first capacitive coupling having a greater magnitude and an opposite polarity as compared to the capacitive coupling of the plug. The method also includes positioning a second capacitive coupling at a second time delay from the first capacitive coupling, the second time delay corresponding to an average time delay that optimizes near end crosstalk. The second capacitive coupling has generally the same overall magnitude but an opposite polarity as compared to the first capacitive coupling, and includes two capacitive elements spaced at different time delays from the first capacitive coupling.
US10074937B2
In a substrate-side housing of a plug connector and a housing of a socket connector, an abutment receiving portion and a columnar projection are provided to disable the socket connector from being inserted into the substrate-side housing when the socket connector is misaligned beyond a movable range of a fitting-side housing of the plug connector.
US10074935B2
{Problem} To provide a connector which includes two or more predetermined standard connectors and is capable of securely absorbing deviation in a position and a posture of the two or more predetermined standard connectors during mounting thereof.{Solution to Problem} A connector including a plurality of predetermined standard connectors 2a, 2b which connects with a partner connector; and covers 4, 5 having a first opening portion covering the plurality of predetermined standard connectors and allowing an engagement portion to be exposed, the engagement portion to be engaged with the partner connector of the predetermined standard connector, in which between an outer wall portion 33a of the predetermined standard connector and a wall portion forming the first opening portion, a predetermined space is formed such that the predetermined standard connector can move relative to the cover on a cross plane crossing an engagement direction of engagement with the partner connector, and a first control portion which controls, with respect to the first opening portion, at least either one of a position and a posture of at least one of the predetermined standard connectors.
US10074930B2
An electrical connector includes a terminal module, a shielding shell surrounding the terminal module to form a mating cavity opening forwardly and a waterproof member disposed at a rear side of the mating cavity. The terminal module has an insulative housing and a plurality of conductive terminals retained in the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a base portion and a mating portion extending forwardly from the base portion. The shielding shell has a metallic shell and a waterproof shell formed integrally with the metallic shell by insert molding. The mating portion extends into the mating cavity. The waterproof shell defines an opening to which the waterproof member is exposed.
US10074922B2
An actuator device includes: an actuator including first contacts arranged in a first direction; and a wire member including second contacts and joined to the actuator. The second contacts are arranged in the first direction and respectively connected to the first contacts. Each of particular contacts as the first contacts or the second contacts has a protruding and recessed portion including: at least two protrusions; and a recess between the at least two protrusions. The particular contacts include: at least one central-region contact disposed on a central region in the first direction; and at least one end-region contact disposed nearer to an end region than to the central region in the first direction. The protruding and recessed portion of each of the at least one central-region contact is different in shape from the protruding and recessed portion of each of the at least one end-region contact.
US10074917B1
A terminal block includes a state display portion which displays whether a conductor portion and a terminal electrode portion are in a connected state or a non-connected state at a third opening portion and a movable display member. The movable display member has a main body portion capable of reciprocating in a direction intersecting a terminal connection surface, a contact portion capable of coming into contact with a conductor portion inserted from a first opening portion into an accommodating portion, a force transmitting portion which moves the main body portion toward the terminal connection surface when the conductor portion is inserted from the first opening portion to the accommodating portion, and rotating mechanism portions which rotate the state display portion so that display of the state display portion can be changed between a connected state and a non-connected state in accordance with the reciprocating movement of the main body portion.
US10074916B2
A grounding block includes a conductive grounding surface configured to electrically ground a wire to a grounded structure, a retention member rotationally fixed about an axis orthogonal to the grounding surface and slidable toward and away from the conductive grounding surface in a direction parallel to the axis, and a biasing element configured to apply a first force to the retention member in the direction toward the conductive grounding surface to electrically ground the wire to the housing to satisfy a first regulatory requirement. A fastener is operative to apply a second force to the retention member in the direction toward the grounding surface to apply a mechanical load to satisfy a second regulatory requirement.
US10074913B1
A self-piercing connector comprising, a first body, a second body, the first body comprising a first cutting member for piercing a fluid conduit insulating layer to engage a fluid conduit first conductor, the second body comprising a second cutting member for piercing the fluid conduit insulating layer to engage a fluid conduit second conductor, the first cutting member having a semi-circular form and comprising portions that extend tangentially from each end of the first cutting member, the second cutting member having a semi-circular form and comprising portions that extend tangentially from each end of the second cutting member, the first cutting member and the second cutting member electrically isolated from each other, the first body comprising a first connection member for engaging a cooperating second connection member on the second body, a first body receiver for receiving an electrical conductor connectable to the first cutting member, and a second body receiver for receiving an electrical conductor connectable to the second cutting member.
US10074910B1
A fixed antenna includes multiple printed board panels, each containing an array of radiating elements where a subset of radiating elements receives a delayed signal from a feed layer. The number of panels is minimized by configuring each array to generate a shaped beam. The shaped beam is produced by non-uniformly spaced elements and non-uniform array element phase shifts.
US10074907B2
A radar system and method with reduced multipath effects include a first component of a radar sensor module on which at least one antenna element is formed, the at least one antenna element having a surface at which radar radiation is received or transmitted, the at least one antenna element having a radiation aperture. A second component in proximity to the antenna element such that a portion of the radar radiation impinges on the second component comprises an angled surface forming an angle with the surface of the antenna element. The angled surface of the second component comprises a texture such that when the portion of the radiation impinges on the angled surface, the amount of multipath signal propagating through the radiation aperture of the antenna element is reduced.
US10074904B2
An antenna device is provided with first and second substrates opposed to each other, one or more first wiring patterns provided on the first substrate, one or more second wiring patterns provided on the second substrate, and a plurality of connection conductors each connecting an end portion of its corresponding first wiring pattern and an end portion of its corresponding second wiring pattern. The first wiring patterns, second wiring patterns and the plurality of connection conductors constitute an antenna coil.
US10074902B2
An improved active, electronically scanned array antenna that employs programmable time delays in the transmission feed lines to form timed arrays is provided. A timed array can be implemented as a nested set of transmission lines, and the programmable time delay can be realized as or in each of the transmission lines such that each transmission line can have a fixed physical length and a programmable electrical length.
US10074899B2
An antenna system includes a system ground and two antenna units. The two antenna units are individually disposed on two opposite sides of the system ground and symmetrically mirrored with each other. Each antenna unit includes a circuit board, a first antenna pattern and a second antenna pattern. The first antenna pattern is disposed at one side of the circuit board. The first antenna pattern resonates to generate a first high resonant frequency. The second antenna pattern is disposed at the other side of the circuit board. The first antenna pattern resonates with part of the second antenna pattern to generate a low resonant frequency.
US10074896B1
An RV television antenna adaptor device includes a main body having a pair of elongated hollow channels for receiving and engaging a pair of support beams of an RV antenna system, and a curved tubular shaft that is positioned opposite to the pair of channels for engaging the circular-shaped opening of a pole-mountable television antenna.
US10074894B1
A transceiver antenna assembly for installation in a vehicle side-view mirror to enable communication with nearby vehicles, in which each transceiver antenna may have one or two antenna arrays implemented on a single printed circuit board, protected by an antenna housing used to mount the transceiver antenna inside the mirror assembly. Each antenna array in a dual-channel transceiver antenna may transmit and receive data over one of two DSRC channels. One channel may be used to transmit and receive vehicle data only and the other channel may be used to transmit and receive both vehicle data and audio/video (A/V) data. Each antenna array is connected to a radio in the vehicle that processes received signals and prepares signals for transmission. Such a transceiver antenna assembly, when mounted within the side view mirror assembly of a truck, may be especially useful for communication in truck platooning.
US10074890B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a communication device that includes an antenna array integrated with a light assembly having at least one light that illuminates an area about a light pole. The antenna array includes a plurality of dielectric antennas that are configured to transmit outbound wireless signals and receive inbound wireless signals. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10074889B2
A device comprising: a substrate; a semiconductor die mounted on the substrate; a transmit antenna fabricated on the substrate and configured to transmit radio-frequency (RF) signals at least at a first center frequency; a receive antenna fabricated on the substrate and configured to receive RF signals at least at a second center frequency different than the first center frequency; and circuitry integrated with the semiconductor die and configured to provide RF signals to the transmit antenna and to receive RF signals from the receive antenna.
US10074886B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a transmission medium that includes a dielectric core comprising a plurality of rigid dielectric members configured to propagate guided electromagnetic waves. A dielectric cladding is disposed on at least a portion of an outer surface of the first dielectric core. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10074880B2
A cooling structure of an electricity storage device includes a storage cell case, a plurality of storage cells, a plurality of cooling passages, an intake duct, an exhaust duct, a cooling air suction device, and a flow path resistance. The plurality of storage cells are accommodated in the storage cell case. The plurality of cooling passages are provided between the storage cells. The intake duct is connected to an upstream side of the storage cell case. The exhaust duct is connected to a downstream side of the storage cell case. The cooling air suction device is connected to the exhaust duct and configured to draw cooling air from the intake duct. The flow path resistance is provided between the plurality of cooling passages and the cooling air suction device to limit a flow of the cooling air from the intake duct to the cooling air suction device.
US10074874B2
A lithium ion battery that has a 5 V stabilized manganese cathode and a nonaqueous electrolyte comprising a phosphate additive is described. The lithium ion battery operates with a high voltage cathode (i.e. up to about 5 V) and has improved cycling performance at high temperature.
US10074872B2
A solid electrolyte includes an oxynitride that contains an alkaline-earth metal, phosphorus, oxygen, and nitrogen. A P2p spectrum obtained by an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurement of the oxynitride contains a peak component originating from a P—N bond.
US10074870B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to a continuous separator having perforations to help reduce or prevent wrinkling of the separator when producing curved electrode stacks. One example provides a battery comprising a plurality of discontinuous electrode layers, and a continuous separator separating the discontinuous electrode layers, the continuous separator having perforations extending at least partially through a depth of the continuous separator in a folded region of the continuous separator.
US10074867B2
Bioelectrochemical systems comprising a microbial fuel cell (MFC) or a microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) are provided. Either type of system is capable of fermenting insoluble or soluble biomass, with the MFC capable of using a consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) organism to also hydrolyze an insoluble biomass, and an electricigen to produce electricity. In contrast, the MEC relies on electricity input into the system, a fermentative organism and an electricigen to produce fermentative products such as ethanol and 1,3-propanediol from a polyol biomass (e.g., containing glycerol). Related methods are also provided.
US10074866B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a membrane-electrode-frame assembly which suppresses reductions in power generation properties due to gas cross leakage of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, which improves durability of a polymer electrolyte membrane and which exhibits superior productivity. In the membrane-electrode-frame assembly, an unwoven fabric which has two domains each having different pore sizes and which is formed with fibers of PVDF is disposed as a reinforcing membrane in a polymer electrolyte membrane for a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, and a domain having a smaller pore size and protruding from the polymer electrolyte membrane and a frame are formed into an integrated structure by welding, thereby improving a gas sealing capability.
US10074858B2
A fuel cell separator, a fuel cell stack having the fuel cell separator, and a reactant gas control method of the fuel cell stack are provided. That is, even when the fuel cell stack operates under the low load operation condition, a reactant gas is supplied to the reactant gas passages of the fuel cell separator, and thus, the length of the passage can be shortened by 50% as compared with the prior art having only one reactant gas passage. Therefore, the reactant gas can be effectively supplied without experiencing pressure loss. Further, in the high load operation of the fuel cell stack, the reactant gas is introduced into the first reactant gas passage of the fuel cell separator and utilized in half of the whole electrode area. Subsequently, the reactant gas is introduced into the second reactant gas passage and utilized in the remaining half of the electrode area. The flow rate of the reactant gas flowing along the passage channels is increased by two times, even when the reactant gas utilizing rate is identical as compared with the reactant gas flow in the low load operation. As a result, the moisture existing in the passage channels can be more effectively discharged and the flooding phenomenon occurring in the high load operation can be prevented. By controlling the reactant gas supply in accordance with an operation condition of the fuel cell stack without experiencing pressure loss and deterioration of the utilizing rate, the flooding phenomenon and concentration polarization phenomenon that occur in the fuel cell stack can be prevented.
US10074854B2
A main object of the present invention is to provide an anode active material capable of enhancing improvement of heat resistance in an all solid secondary battery. The present invention solves the problem by providing an anode active material comprising an active material particle having carbon as a main component, and a coating layer containing LixPOy (2≤x≤4, 3≤y≤5) and formed on a surface of the active material particle.
US10074848B2
A rechargeable lithium battery that includes: a negative electrode including a negative active material, and a positive electrode including a positive active material and activated carbon. When the positive active material includes a lithium iron phosphate-based compound, the average particle diameter of the activated carbon is greater than or equal to about 1000% and less than or equal to about 3000% of the average particle diameter of the positive active material.
US10074844B2
To connect a bus bar plate to a battery module, a plurality of recess portions provided on a plurality of holders so as to be spaced in the stacking direction are engaged with a plurality of projection portions provided on the bus bar plate to be spaced in the stacking direction. Since the lengths “a” of the plurality of projection portions are the same, and the plurality of recess portions are formed from a first recess portion having a length “a” and a second recess portion having a length “b” larger than the length “a,” the precision of positioning of the bus bar plate can be ensured by engagement between the projecting portion and the first recess portion, and even if the gap between the projecting portions or the recess portions is nonuniform, it is possible to assemble the bus bar plate onto the holder with high precision.
US10074833B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an electronic device body including a settling part located at a side of the electronic body, a battery member coupled to the settling part of the electronic device body, one or more hook joining part located at a side of the electronic device body, and one or more hook member located around the battery member and detachably coupled with the one or more hook joining part.
US10074792B1
Systems and methods are provided for a ZZZ coupler. A first tunable coupler is coupled to the first qubit and tunable via a first control signal. A second tunable coupler is coupled to the first tunable coupler to direct a flux of the first qubit into a tuning loop of the second tunable coupler, such that when a first coupling strength associated with the first tunable coupler is non-zero, a second coupling strength, associated with the second tunable coupler, is a function of a second control signal applied to the second tunable coupler and a state of the first qubit. The second qubit and the third qubit are coupled to one another through the second tunable coupler, such that, when the second coupling strength is non-zero it is energetically favorable for the states of the first and second qubits to assume a specific relationship with respect to the Z-axis.
US10074789B2
Provided herein are a thermoelectric material and a method for preparing the same, wherein the thermoelectric material has excellent thermoelectric performance and high mechanical properties (in particular, fracture toughness), and thus, when the thermoelectric material is applied to a thermoelectric module, the thermoelectric module has excellent performance and efficiency and a long lifespan.
US10074787B2
A light emitting diode is disclosed. The light emitting diode includes: a plurality of light emitting cells including a first light emitting cell and a second light emitting cell spaced apart from each other on a single substrate; a continuous passivation layer formed over the upper surface and one facet of the first light emitting cell, the upper surface and the other facet of the second light emitting cell, and the substrate; and an interconnection layer formed on the passivation layer to electrically connect the first light emitting cell to the second light emitting cell. The interconnection layer includes an edge lump portion formed around a first edge where the upper surface and the one facet of the first light emitting cell meet each other or a second edge where the upper surface and the other facet of the second light emitting cell meet each other.
US10074778B2
Disclosed herein are a light emitting diode package and a method of manufacturing the same. The light emitting diode package includes: a substrate, a light-emitting layer disposed on a surface of the substrate and including a first type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second type semiconductor layer, a first bump disposed on the first type semiconductor layer and a second bump disposed the second type semiconductor layer, a protective layer covering at least the light-emitting layer, and a first bump pad and a second bump pad disposed on the protective layer and connected to the first bump and the second bump, respectively.
US10074772B2
The surface of a light emitting device is roughened to enhance the light extraction efficiency of the surface, but the amount of roughened area is selected to achieve a desired level of light extraction efficiency. Photo-lithographic techniques may be used to create a mask that limits the roughening to select areas of the light emitting surface. Because the amount of roughened area can be precisely controlled, the light extraction efficiency can be precisely controlled, substantially independent of the particular process used to roughen the surface. Additionally, the selective roughening of the surface may be used to achieve a desired light emission output pattern.
US10074763B2
A solar cell is provided with: a crystal substrate having n-type conductivity type as one conductivity type; an n-type semiconductor layer—that is continuously laminated from a light receiving surface, i.e., one main surface of the crystal substrate, and a side surface of the crystal substrate; a p-type semiconductor layer, which is continuously laminated from a rear surface, i.e., the other main surface of the crystal substrate, and the side surface of the crystal substrate, and which has at least one part thereof overlapping, on the side surface of the crystal substrate, the n-type semiconductor layer; a light receiving surface-side transparent conductive film, which is, on the light receiving surface of the crystal substrate, laminated to the n-type semiconductor layer, and which has a smaller area than a planar shape of the crystal substrate; and a rear surface-side transparent conductive film laminated to the p-type semiconductor layer.
US10074761B2
The invention relates to a solar cell assembly comprising at least one first solar cell and at least one discrete protective diode (101) that is connected to the solar cell. The aim of the invention is to comprehensively protect a solar cell, a solar cell composite or a string of cells by means of one or more protective diodes, without resorting to the use of the material of the solar cells. To achieve this, in addition to a front and a rear contact (13, 15), the protective diode comprises an additional contact (14) that is placed at a distance from the front contact and is electrically connected to said contact via a p/n junction. A connector leads from the additional contact to a second solar cell, the latter in turn being connected to the first solar cell in a string.
US10074753B2
Methods and structures for forming a contact region on a solar cell are presented. The solar cell can have a front side which faces the sun during normal operation, and a back side opposite the front side and a silicon substrate. The silicon substrate can include at least one doped region a dielectric layer formed over the doped region. The solar cell can also include a first metal contact, such as an electrolessly plated metal contact, within a contact region through a first dielectric layer and on the doped region. The solar cell can include a printed metal, such as aluminum, formed or deposited on the first metal contact. The solar cell can include a first metal layer having a first metal contact and the first printed metal. The solar cell can include a second metal layer, such as an electrolytically electroplated metal layer, formed on the first metal layer.
US10074749B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device including: a semiconductor substrate; a source region and a drain region that are formed in the semiconductor substrate so as to be separated from each other and so as to define a channel region therebetween; a tunnel insulating film that is formed on the channel region; an insulative charge storage film that is formed on the tunnel insulating film; a conductive charge storage film that is formed on the insulative charge storage film so as to be shorter than the insulative charge storage film in a channel direction; an interlayer insulating film that is formed on the conductive charge storage film; and a gate electrode that is formed on the interlayer insulating film.
US10074748B2
A semiconductor device in which deterioration of electrical characteristics which becomes more noticeable as the transistor is miniaturized can be suppressed is provided. The semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor stack in which a first oxide semiconductor layer, a second oxide semiconductor layer, and a third oxide semiconductor layer are stacked in this order from the substrate side over a substrate; a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer which are in contact with the oxide semiconductor stack; a gate insulating film over the oxide semiconductor stack, the source electrode layer, and the drain electrode layer; and a gate electrode layer over the gate insulating film. The first oxide semiconductor layer includes a first region. The gate insulating film includes a second region. When the thickness of the first region is TS1 and the thickness of the second region is TG1, TS1≥TG1.
US10074746B2
A method and apparatus for use in improving linearity sensitivity of MOSFET devices having an accumulated charge sink (ACS) are disclosed. The method and apparatus are adapted to address degradation in second- and third-order intermodulation harmonic distortion at a desired range of operating voltage in devices employing an accumulated charge sink.
US10074741B2
A semiconductor device includes trench structures that extend from a first surface into a semiconductor body. The trench structures include a gate structure and a contact structure that extends through the gate structure, respectively. Transistor mesas are between the trench structures. Each transistor mesa includes a body zone forming a first pn junction with a drift structure and a second pn junction with a source zone. Diode regions directly adjoin one of the contact structures form a third pn junction with the drift structure, respectively.
US10074739B2
A semiconductor device includes a first nitride semiconductor layer, a second nitride semiconductor layer containing aluminum located on the first nitride semiconductor layer, one or more nitride layers containing aluminum located on the second nitride semiconductor layer, a source electrode located on the second nitride semiconductor layer, a drain electrode located on one of the second nitride semiconductor layer or the nitride layer, and a gate electrode located between the source electrode and the drain electrode. An end of the nitride layer on the source electrode side thereof is located between the gate electrode and the drain electrode.
US10074734B2
Semiconductor structure including germanium-on-insulator lateral bipolar junction transistors and methods of fabricating the same generally include formation of a silicon passivation layer at an interface between the insulator layer and a germanium layer.
US10074733B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device in which the threshold voltage is adjusted is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor, an electrode electrically connected to the first semiconductor, a gate electrode, and an electron trap layer between the gate electrode and the first semiconductor. By performing heat treatment at higher than or equal to 125° C. and lower than or equal to 450° C. and, at the same time, keeping a potential of the gate electrode higher than a potential of the electrode for 1 second or more, the threshold voltage is increased.
US10074730B2
A semiconductor device comprises a nanowire arranged over a substrate, a gate stack arranged around the nanowire, a spacer arranged along a sidewall of the gate stack, a cavity defined by a distal end of the nanowire and the spacer, and a source/drain region partially disposed in the cavity and in contact with the distal end of the nanowire.
US10074729B2
In one embodiment, a method for fabricating a III-Nitride transistor on a III-Nitride semiconductor body is disclosed. The method comprises etching dielectric trenches in a field dielectric overlying gate, source, and drain regions of the III-Nitride semiconductor body, and thereafter forming a gate dielectric over the gate, source and drain regions. The method further comprises forming a blanket diffusion barrier over the gate dielectric layer, and then removing respective portions of the blanket diffusion barrier from the source and drain regions. Thereafter, gate dielectric is removed from the source and drain regions to substantially expose the source and drain regions. Then, ohmic contacts are formed by depositing contact metal in the source and drain regions. The method results in highly conductive source/drain contacts that are particularly suitable for power transistors, for example, III-Nitride transistors, such as GaN transistors. In another embodiment, a structure for highly conductive source/drain contacts is disclosed.
US10074728B2
A semiconductor device comprises: a gate insulating film 190 stacked on a semiconductor layer 130; and a gate electrode layer 230 stacked on the gate insulating film 190 and provided to apply a voltage via the gate insulating film 190 for formation of a channel in the semiconductor layer 130. The gate insulating film 190 includes: a first insulation film 192 stacked on the semiconductor layer 130; and a second insulation film 194 between the first insulation film 192 and the gate electrode layer 230. When ε1 and ε2 respectively represent relative permittivities of the first and second insulation film 192, 194, d1 [nm] and d2 [nm] represent film thicknesses of the first and second insulation film 192, 194, and Vmax [V] represents a rated voltage applicable to the gate electrode layer 230, the semiconductor device is configured to satisfy ε1<ε2 and meet (C1): V max d 1 + ɛ 1 ɛ 2 · d 2 ≦ 21 [ MV / cm ] . ( C1 )
US10074727B2
Low resistivity, wrap-around contact structures are provided in nanosheet devices, vertical FETs, and FinFETs. Such contact structures are obtained by delivering dopants to source/drain regions using a highly conformal, doped metal layer. The conformal, doped metal layer may be formed by ALD or CVD using a titanium tetraiodide precursor. Dopants within the conformal, doped metal layer are delivered during the formation of wrap-around metal silicide or metal germano-silicide regions. Dopant segregation at silicide/silicon interfaces or germano-silicide/silicon interfaces reduces contact resistance in the wrap-around contact structures. A contact metal layer electrically communicates with the wrap-around contact structures.
US10074724B2
Apparatus having a processor and a memory device in communication with the processor, the memory device including an array of memory cells and a control logic to control access of the array of memory cells, wherein the array of memory cells includes a memory cell having a first dielectric adjacent a semiconductor, a control gate, a second dielectric between the control gate and the first dielectric, and a charge storage structure between the first dielectric and the second dielectric, and wherein the charge storage structure includes a charge-storage material and a gettering agent.
US10074719B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device in which an IGBT region and a diode region are formed on one semiconductor substrate. The IGBT region includes: a collector layer; an IGBT drift layer; a body layer; a gate electrode; and an emitter layer. The diode region includes: a cathode layer; a diode drift layer; an anode layer; a trench electrode; and an anode contact layer. The diode region is divided into unit diode regions by the gate electrode or the trench electrode. In a unit diode region adjacent to the IGBT region, when seen in a plan view of the front surface of the semiconductor substrate, the anode layer and the anode contact layer are mixedly placed, and the anode contact layer is placed at least in a location opposite to the emitter layer with the gate electrode interposed therebetween.
US10074701B2
A foldable, flexible display apparatus includes a flexible display panel which displays an image and includes a display side on which the image is displayed and of which portions thereof face each other in a folded state of the flexible display apparatus; a cover window on the display side of the flexible display panel and including: a window film comprising a transparent plastic film having a modulus of elasticity of about 6.3 gigapascals or more; and a coating layer on the window film, and configured to be transparent and to protect the window film from physical damage thereto; and an adhesive layer between the window film and the display side of the flexible display panel, and configured to have elasticity and bond the window film and the flexible display panel to each other.
US10074694B2
According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a first wiring extending in a first direction, a second wiring extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and a resistance change film provided between the first wiring and the second wiring. The second wiring includes a first conductive layer and a first intermediate layer including a first region provided between the first conductive layer and the resistance change film. The first intermediate layer includes a material having nonlinear resistance characteristics.
US10074693B2
Subject matter disclosed herein relates to an integrated circuit device having a socket interconnect region for connecting a plurality of conductive lines at a first vertical level to interconnect structures formed at a second vertical level different from the first vertical level. The conductive lines include a plurality of contacted lines that are vertically connected to the interconnect structures at the socket interconnect region, a plurality of terminating lines terminating at the socket interconnect region, and a plurality of pass-through lines that pass through the socket interconnect region without being vertically connected and without being terminated at the socket interconnect region.
US10074691B2
In a display panel, a first substrate has an active area and a peripheral area outside the active area. A plurality of first traces are located at the peripheral area. A first insulation layer is disposed on the first traces, and has an opening region located at the peripheral area and having a longest edge. The switch element is adjacent to the opening region, and has an active layer. The active layer has a first width in a direction perpendicular to the longest edge of the opening region, and a shortest distance between a projection of the longest edge of the opening region on the first substrate and a projection of the active layer on the first substrate in the direction perpendicular to the longest edge of the opening region is greater than zero and less than the first width.
US10074690B2
A semiconductor device including: a first member including a selection transistor on a front surface side of a first substrate; and a second member including a resistance change device and a connection layer that comes in contact with the resistance change device, the connection layer being bonded to a back surface of the first member.
US10074686B2
In a solid-state imaging device including a plurality of pixels each pixel including a plurality of photodiodes, it is prevented that an incidence angle of incident light on the solid-state imaging device becomes large in a pixel in an end of the solid-state imaging device, causing a difference in output between the two photodiodes in the pixel, and thus autofocus detection accuracy is deteriorated. Photodiodes extending in a longitudinal direction of a pixel allay section are provided in each pixel. The photodiodes in the pixel are arranged in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the pixel allay section.
US10074683B2
Imaging systems may include camera modules that include multiple image sensor pixel arrays. A transparent lens substrate may be formed over the image pixel arrays. Lenses may be formed in the lens substrate such that each lens transmits light to a corresponding image sensor pixel array. Total internal reflection mitigation structures such as groove structures may be formed in one or more surfaces of the lens substrate between each of the lenses. The groove structures may include concentric ring shaped grooves in a surface of the lens substrate so that each lens is surrounded by a respective group of concentric ring shaped grooves. The groove structures may have a depth, angle, shape, and spacing that prevents total internal reflection of image light between the lenses so that high incident angle image light incident on a given pixel array is not captured by an adjacent pixel array.
US10074677B2
A light absorption apparatus includes a substrate, a light absorption layer above the substrate on a first selected area, a silicon layer above the light absorption layer, a spacer surrounding at least part of the sidewall of the light absorption layer, an isolation layer surrounding at least part of the spacer, wherein the light absorption apparatus can achieve high bandwidth and low dark current.
US10074674B2
A display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a first electrode disposed on a first surface of the first substrate, the first surface facing the second substrate; a second electrode and a third electrode disposed along an edge of a second surface of the second substrate, the second surface facing the first surface of the first substrate; and a short electrode disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and between the first electrode and the third electrode, the short electrode electrically connecting the first electrode, the second electrode, and the third electrode, wherein the second electrode and the third electrode are physically separated.
US10074673B2
The present disclosure provides, for realization of a flexible display apparatus capable of implementing a slim bezel and a method of manufacturing the same, a flexible display apparatus including: a flexible substrate including a first area having a first hole, a second area having a second hole and arranged corresponding to the first area, and a third area between the first area and the second area; a first wiring covering the first hole and arranged in the first area; and a second wiring covering the second hole, arranged in the second area, and electrically connected to the first wiring via the first hole and the second hole.
US10074648B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: implanting charged particles into a first range and a second range in a semiconductor substrate from at least one of a first surface of the semiconductor substrate and a second surface of the semiconductor substrate located on an opposite side of the first surface so as to increase crystal defect densities in the first range and the second range; implanting n-type impurities into the first range from the first surface so as to make a region amorphous, the region being in the first range and disposed at the first surface; irradiating the first surface with first laser after the implantation of the charged particles and the implantation of the n-type impurities so as to heat the first range and the second range; and crystallizing the region which has been made amorphous in or after the irradiation of the first laser.
US10074644B2
An integrated semiconductor device includes a first transistor and a second transistor formed on a semiconductor substrate, and an isolation structure located adjacent to the transistors, including deep trenches, trapping regions formed between the deep trenches, and trench bottom doping regions formed at the end of each of the deep trenches, wherein each of the trapping regions includes a buried layer, a well region formed on the buried layer, and a highly doped region formed on the well region.
US10074641B2
Embodiments of mechanisms for forming power gating cells and virtual power circuits on multiple active device layers are described in the current disclosure. Power gating cells and virtual power circuits are formed on separate active device layers to allow interconnect structure for connecting with the power source be formed on a separate level from the interconnect structure for connecting the power gating cells and the virtual power circuits. Such separation prevents these two types of interconnect structures from competing for the same space. Routings for both types of interconnect structures become easier. As a result, metal lengths of interconnect structures are reduced and the metal widths are increased. Reduced metal lengths and increased metal widths reduce resistance, improves resistance-capacitance (RC) delay and electrical performance, and improves interconnect reliability, such as reducing electro-migration.
US10074640B2
A method is disclosed for defining a multiple patterned cell layout for use in an integrated circuit design. A layout is defined for a level of a cell in accordance with a dynamic array architecture so as to include a number of layout features. The number of layout features are linear-shaped and commonly oriented. The layout is split into a number of sub-layouts for the level of the cell. Each of the number of layout features in the layout is allocated to any one of the number of sub-layouts. Also, the layout is split such that each sub-layout is independently fabricatable. The sub-layouts for the level of the cell are stored on a computer readable medium.
US10074639B2
Disclosed examples include integrated circuits with a leadframe structure, a first circuit structure including a light source configured to generate a light signal along an optical path, a second circuit structure including a light sensor facing the optical path to receive the light signal, and a molded package structure enclosing portions of the leadframe structure, the molded package structure having a cavity defined by an interior surface of the molded package structure, the optical path extending in the cavity between the first and second circuit structures.
US10074626B2
A wafer laminate has an adhesive layer (2) sandwiched between a support (1) and a wafer (3), with a circuit-forming surface of the wafer facing the adhesive layer. The adhesive layer (2) includes a light-shielding resin layer (2a), an epoxy-containing siloxane skeleton resin layer (2b), and a non-silicone thermoplastic resin layer (2c).
US10074622B2
A semiconductor package device includes a substrate, a first package body, a permeable element and a coil. The substrate includes a first surface. The first package body encapsulates the first surface of the substrate. The permeable element includes a first portion disposed on the first surface of the substrate and a second portion disposed on the package body. The coil is within the first package body.
US10074619B2
An optoelectronic component device includes first and second electrodes; a first optoelectronic component electrically coupled to the first and second electrodes; and a first electrically conductive section electrically coupled to the first electrode, and a second electrically conductive section electrically coupled to the second electrode; wherein the first and second electrically conductive sections are arranged electrically in parallel with the first optoelectronic component; wherein the first and second electrically conductive sections are arranged and configured relative to one another such that, beyond a response voltage applied over the first and second conductive sections, a discharge path is formed between the first and second conductive sections; and wherein the response voltage has as its value a value formed greater than the threshold voltage value of the first optoelectronic component and less than or equal to the value of the breakdown voltage of the first optoelectronic component.
US10074616B2
In an embodiment, a chip protection envelope includes a first dielectric layer including at least one organic component having a decomposition temperature of at least 180° C., a semiconductor die embedded in the first dielectric layer, the semiconductor die having a first surface and a thickness t1. A second dielectric layer is arranged on a first surface of the first dielectric layer, the second dielectric layer including a photodefinable polymer composition, and a conductive layer is arranged on the first surface of the semiconductor die and is electrically coupled to the semiconductor die. The conductive layer has a thickness t2, wherein t2≥t1/3.
US10074613B2
A semiconductor package is provided, including: a substrate having opposing first and second surfaces; a plurality of semiconductor components disposed on and electrically connected to the first surface; an encapsulant encapsulating the first surface and the semiconductor components and having at least one first groove that partitions the substrate into a plurality of package units, each of which has at least one of the semiconductor components; and a metal layer formed on the substrate and the encapsulant and encapsulating a periphery of the package units, with the second surface exposed from the metal layer, wherein the metal layer is formed along a wall surface of the first groove, to form a second groove corresponding in position to the first groove and having a metal surface. Therefore, the package units are isolated and form a multilayer isolated structure, including metal layers and air layers, and are electromagnetically shielded from one another.
US10074611B1
A semiconductor substrate contains a plurality of openings extending partially into a surface of the semiconductor substrate. A conductive layer is formed with a first portion of the conductive layer over a remaining portion of the surface of the semiconductor substrate between the openings and a second portion of the conductive layer in the openings. The remaining portion of the surface of the semiconductor substrate is removed to lift-off the first portion of the conductive layer while leaving the second portion of the conductive layer in the openings. The semiconductor substrate is singulated to separate the semiconductor die leaving the second portion of the conductive layer over a surface of the semiconductor die. Alternatively, a plurality of openings is formed over each semiconductor die. A conductive layer is formed over a remaining portion of the surface of the semiconductor substrate between the openings and into the openings.
US10074609B2
A first interconnect on an interconnect level connects a first subset of PMOS drains together of a CMOS device. A second interconnect on the interconnect level connects a second subset of the PMOS drains together. The second subset of the PMOS drains is different than the first subset of the PMOS drains. The first interconnect and the second interconnect are disconnected on the interconnect level. A third interconnect on the interconnect level connects a first subset of NMOS drains together of the CMOS device. A fourth interconnect on the interconnect level connects a second subset of the NMOS drains together. The second subset of the NMOS drains is different than the first subset of the NMOS drains. The third interconnect and the fourth interconnect are disconnected on the interconnect level. The first, second, third, and fourth interconnects are coupled together though at least one other interconnect level.
US10074607B2
A semiconductor device structure and method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate and an interconnect structure formed over the substrate. The interconnect structure includes a first dielectric layer formed over the substrate, and a first graphene layer formed in and on the first dielectric layer. The first graphene layer includes a first portion in the first dielectric layer and a second portion on the first dielectric layer and a first insulating layer formed over the first portion of the first graphene layer.
US10074603B2
A semiconductor device includes a first well and a second well provided within a semiconductor substrate, an isolation region disposed between the first well and the second well within the semiconductor substrate, a first wiring disposed on the first well, a second wiring disposed on the second well, a concave third wiring disposed on the isolation region, a buried insulating film disposed on the third wiring so as to fill the concave portion thereof, a plurality of fourth wirings disposed on the buried insulating film, and a contact plug disposed so as to electrically connect to at least one of the first and second wells.
