US10074590B1
A package which comprises a chip carrier, at least one electronic chip mounted on the chip carrier, an electrically conductive contact structure electrically coupled with the at least one electronic chip, and a mold-type encapsulant encapsulating part of the electrically conductive contact structure, and at least part of the chip carrier and of the at least one electronic chip, wherein the chip carrier comprises a thermally conductive and electrically insulating core covered on both opposing main surfaces thereof by a respective brazed electrically conductive layer.
US10074588B2
An embodiment of a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate that includes a host substrate and an upper surface, an active area, a substrate opening in the semiconductor substrate that is partially defined by a recessed surface, and a thermally conductive layer disposed over the semiconductor substrate that extends between the recessed surface and a portion of the semiconductor substrate within the active area. A method for fabricating the semiconductor device includes defining an active area, forming a gate electrode over a channel in the active area, forming a source electrode and a drain electrode in the active area on opposite sides of the gate electrode, etching a substrate opening in the semiconductor substrate that is partially defined by the recessed surface, and depositing a thermally conductive layer over the semiconductor substrate that extends between the recessed surface and a portion of the semiconductor substrate over the channel.
US10074583B2
There is provided a circuit module where a sufficient amount of underfill resin may be supplied to corner portions of a semiconductor chip. A circuit module includes a circuit board provided with a plurality of electrode pads on a surface of the board, a semiconductor chip arranged on the board, the chip including a surface and a back surface, where each of a plurality of solder bumps and provided on the back surface is solder joined to a corresponding one of the plurality of electrode pads, and an underfill provided between the surface of the board and the back surface of the chip. Furthermore, the chip includes an eaves portion of a predetermined thickness at an outer periphery of the surface, and the underfill forms a fillet extending from a bottom surface of the eaves portion to the surface of the board along a side wall of the chip.
US10074580B2
A method for detecting a malicious circuit on an integrated circuit chip is provided, in which temperature sensors are thermally coupled to primary circuitry on the chip. Signals obtained from the temperature sensors are indicative of power dissipation by the primary circuity on the integrated circuit chip. Comparison with a baseline signal, or golden signature, can be used to determine the presence of a malicious circuit in the primary circuitry.
US10074578B2
Provided is a semiconductor device capable of measuring a depth of removal of a silicon carbide (SiC) wafer with high accuracy through simple steps, and a method for producing the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device according to an aspect of the present invention includes at least one evaluation element disposed on a SiC wafer. The evaluation element includes a doped region doped with a dopant on the SiC wafer, and an insulating film partially covering the doped region. The insulating film includes a plurality of partial insulating films. The doped region includes a plurality of regions sectioned by the plurality of partial insulating films in a plan view.
US10074572B2
An integrated circuit device includes first and second fin-type active regions having different conductive type channel regions, a first device isolation layer covering both sidewalls of the first fin-type active region, and a second device isolation layer covering both sidewalls of the second fin-type active region. The first device isolation layer and the second device isolation layer have different stack structures. To manufacture the integrated circuit device, the first device isolation layer covering both sidewalls of the first fin-type active region and the second device isolation layer covering both sidewalls of the second fin-type active region are formed after the first fin-type active region and the second fin-type active region are formed. The first device isolation layer and the second device isolation layer are formed to have different stack structure.
US10074569B2
Semiconductor structures and methods of forming such structures are disclosed. In an embodiment, the semiconductor structure comprises a substrate, a dielectric layer, and a plurality of gates, including a first gate and a pair of adjacent gates. The method comprises forming gate caps on the adjacent gates, including etching portions of the gate electrodes in the adjacent gates to recess the gate electrodes therein, and forming the caps above the recessed gate electrodes. Conductive metal trenches are formed in the dielectric layer, on the sides of the first gate; and after forming the trenches, a contact is formed over the gate electrode of the first gate and over and on one of the conductive trenches. In embodiments, the contact is a gate contact, and in other embodiments, the contact is a non-gate contact.
US10074566B2
A method for forming a plurality of semiconductor devices includes forming a plurality of trenches extending from a first lateral surface of a semiconductor wafer towards a second lateral surface of the semiconductor wafer. The method further includes filling a portion of the plurality of trenches with filler material. The method further includes thinning the semiconductor wafer from the second lateral surface of the semiconductor wafer to form a thinned semiconductor wafer. The method further includes forming a back side metallization layer structure on a plurality of semiconductor chip regions of the semiconductor wafer after thinning the semiconductor wafer. The method further includes removing a part of the filler material from the plurality of trenches after forming the back side metallization layer structure to obtain the plurality of semiconductor devices.
US10074561B2
A device structure is formed using a silicon-on-insulator substrate. The device structure includes a first switch and a second switch that are formed using a device layer of the silicon-on-insulator substrate. A trap-rich layer is between a substrate and a buried insulator layer of the silicon on-insulator substrate. An electrically-conducting connection is located in a trench extending from the device layer through the buried insulator layer to the trap-rich layer such that the electrically-conducting connection is coupled with the substrate. The electrically-conducting connection at least partially comprised of trap-rich material.
US10074557B2
A first film having a repetitive line pattern is formed on an under film. A second film is formed on a side surface of the first film. The second film has an etching selectivity different from that of the first film. A third film is formed on an upper surface and a side surface of the second film. The third film has an etching selectivity different from those of the first and second films. A resist pattern with an opening is formed on the third film. A recess that exposes upper surfaces of the first, second and third films is formed by etching the third film by using the resist pattern as an etching mask. An upper surface of the under film is exposed by etching the first and third films. A through hole that penetrates through the under film is formed by etching the under film.
US10074550B2
A method and apparatus for determining a stability of plasma in a plasma processing apparatus for performing a plasma processing by converting into plasma a processing gas supplied into a processing container. The method includes: detecting a light emission intensity of the plasma in the processing container while the plasma is generated in the processing container; generating a first function representing a relationship between time and the light emission intensity from a detection result of the light emission intensity; differentiating the first function with time to calculate a differential value, and generating a second function from a relationship between an absolute value of the differential value and time; and integrating the second function with time to calculate an integral value, and determining a stability of the plasma based on the calculated integral value. A related apparatus is also provided.
US10074534B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to deposition of a conformal carbon-based material. In one embodiment, the method comprises depositing a sacrificial dielectric layer over a substrate, forming patterned features on the substrate by removing portions of the sacrificial dielectric layer to expose an upper surface of the substrate, introducing a hydrocarbon source, a plasma-initiating gas, and a dilution gas into the processing chamber, generating a plasma in the processing chamber at a deposition temperature of about 80° C. to about 550° C. to deposit a conformal amorphous carbon layer on the patterned features and the exposed upper surface of the substrate, selectively removing the amorphous carbon layer from an upper surface of the patterned features and the upper surface of the substrate using an anisotropic etching process to provide the patterned features filled within sidewall spacers, and removing the patterned features formed from the sacrificial dielectric layer.
US10074529B2
An electron multiplier is positioned relative to at least one dynode to direct a beam of secondary particles from the at least one dynode to a collector area of the electron multiplier and not to a channel area of the electron multiplier for a range of electron multiplier voltages applied by one or more voltage sources to the electron multiplier and for a dynode voltage applied by the one or more voltage sources to the at least one dynode. The electron multiplier includes an aperture with an entrance cone and walls of the entrance cone comprise the collector area and an apex of the entrance cone comprises the channel area. An electron multiplier voltage of the range of electron multiplier voltages is applied to the electron multiplier and the dynode voltage is applied to the at least one dynode using the one or more voltage sources.
US10074525B2
Systems and methods are provided for selecting and fragmenting a first precursor ion in an MS3 experiment. One or more first excitation parameters are calculated that define a first dipole excitation using a processor. The first dipole excitation is used to select a first precursor ion and fragment the first precursor ion to produce a second precursor ion. The first dipole excitation is applied to the continuous beam of ions by sending a first set of data including the first excitation parameters to a mass spectrometer. The first set of data is sent so that a first quadrupole applies the first dipole excitation to a continuous beam of ions. The mass spectrometer includes an ion source that provides the continuous beam of ions and the first quadrupole that receives the continuous beam of ions and is adapted to apply dipole excitation to the continuous beam of ions.
US10074521B2
An upper chamber section of a plasma reaction chamber includes a ceramic window with blind bores in an upper surface for receipt of a thermal couple and a resistance temperature detector, a top chamber interface which comprises an upper surface which vacuum seals against the bottom of the window and a gas injection system comprising 8 side injectors mounted in the sidewall of the top chamber interface and a gas delivery system comprising tubing which provides symmetric gas flow to the 8 injectors from a single gas feed connection.
US10074512B2
A system that may include a chamber, a motorized system, a chuck, a controller, multiple temperature sensors and a cooling module; wherein the chuck is configured to support an object that is positioned within the chamber; wherein the motorized system is configured to move the chuck in relation to the chamber; wherein the multiple temperature sensors are configured to sense multiple temperatures of at least one point within the chamber; wherein the cooling module is configured to cool a unit of the motorized system; and wherein the controller is configured to control the cooling module in response to the multiple temperatures.
US10074509B2
A system for generating an electron beam array, comprising a light source, a first substrate having a plurality of plasmonic lenses mounted thereon, the plasmonic lenses configured to received light from the light source and produce an electron emission, and a plurality of electrostatic microlenses configured to focus the electron emissions into a beam for focusing on a wafer substrate. A light source modulator and digital micro mirror may be included which captures light from the light source and projects light beamlets on the plasmonic lenses.
US10074507B2
In one embodiment, an electron beam drawing apparatus includes an electron gun including a cathode and an anode, a current control circuit controlling a total emission current, a first detector detecting a first emission current from an outer peripheral portion of the cathode, a second detector detecting a second emission current from an central portion of the cathode, and a controller that determines a coefficient, which is a ratio of an emission current from the outer peripheral portion of the cathode to the first emission current. During a period in which a pattern is drawn on the substrate, the controller estimates a value of the second emission current by subtracting a value, which is resulted by multiplying the first emission current by the coefficient, from the total emission current, and controls the current control circuit in a manner of holding the estimated value constant.
US10074504B2
A liquid crystal display device that includes an array substrate, an opposite substrate and a liquid crystal display layer is described. The array substrate includes a pixel electrode and a lower alignment layer. The pixel electrode has a plurality of slit portions extending in different directions. The lower alignment layer includes a reactive mesogen (RM) diamine is formed on the pixel electrode to induce an alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules. An upper alignment layer is formed on a common electrode of the opposite substrate. The RM is cured at surfaces of the lower and upper alignment layers in response to ultraviolet (UV) light, so that liquid crystal molecules have a pretilt angle. Therefore, the aperture ratio and the response time may be improved, and afterimages may be decreased, so that display quality may be improved.
US10074498B2
A controllable electronic switch for, e.g., controlling power distribution comprises a deformable member such as a bimetal arm that can be deformed to break an electrical path. The deformable member may be anchored at one end and in controllable contact with an electrical conductor at the other end. A heating element, such as a coil, can be used to selectively heat the deformable member. The controllable electronic switch can alternatively comprise a deformable member that is terminated in a wedge-shaped member. When the deformable member bends in response to being heated, the wedge-shaped member forces apart a pair of contacts thus breaking an electrical path. The wedge-shaped member and/or associated structures may be configured as a cam mechanism with multiple latching positions.
US10074492B2
The invention relates to an electric motor-operated on-load tap changer (1) comprising an emergency drive. An electric motor (3) and a power store (13) of said on-load tap changer (1) are mechanically coupled by means of a gear (5) that is provided with a gear housing (90). The gear (5) comprises a gear shaft (61) on which a toothing (55) is designed. For manual emergency operation, the claimed gear shaft (61) has an extension (62) which comprises a free end (65) for attaching a tool (95). The invention also relates to a method for adjusting a defined switching position of an on-load tap changer (1) when in an emergency operation mode.
US10074491B2
[Object] To be capable of promptly performing a switching operation of a switch.[Solving Means] In a switching apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology, a movable electrode includes a first movable electrode piece, a second movable electrode piece, and a movable contact point. A first fixed electrode includes first and second fixed electrode pieces, the first and second fixed electrode pieces facing each other with the first movable electrode piece disposed between the first and second fixed electrode pieces, the first fixed electrode piece facing the first movable electrode piece with a gap narrower than a gap between the second fixed electrode piece and the first movable electrode piece. A second fixed electrode includes third and fourth fixed electrode pieces, the third and fourth fixed electrode pieces facing each other with the second movable electrode piece disposed between the third and fourth fixed electrode pieces, the third fixed electrode piece facing the second movable electrode piece with a gap narrower than a gap between the fourth fixed electrode piece and the second movable electrode piece. A first fixed contact point is in contact with the movable contact point, the movable contact point moving in a first direction by an electrostatic attractive force between the movable electrode and the first fixed electrode. A second fixed contact point is in contact with the movable contact point, the movable contact point moving in a second direction opposite to the first direction by an electrostatic attractive force between the movable electrode and the second fixed electrode.
US10074484B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor includes anode, dielectric layer formed on anode, and conductive polymer layer formed on dielectric layer. A surface of dielectric layer is dotted with coupling particles. Conductive polymer layer covers coupling particles and is also in contact with dielectric layer. This enables to increase a self-repair capability for reducing leak current between the anode and a cathode in the solid electrolytic capacitor having the conductive polymer layer as a solid electrolytic layer.
US10074482B2
There is provided a multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body, an end external electrode unit, a side face external electrode unit. The ceramic body includes a pair of end faces, a pair of first side faces, and a pair of second side faces all of which are faced each other, respectively. The ceramic body includes a plurality of ceramic layers and an internal electrode unit. A plurality of the ceramic layers extend along a pair of the first side faces, and are laminated along a pair of the second side faces. The internal electrode unit includes first and second internal electrodes disposed alternately between a plurality of the ceramic layers, the first internal electrodes are drawn to both ends of a pair of the end faces, and the second internal electrodes are dawn to both ends of a pair of the second side faces. The end external electrode unit is connected to the first internal electrodes. The side face external electrode unit goes around from one of a pair of the first and second side faces to the other and are connected directly or indirectly each other at the other. There is also provided a method of producing the same.
US10074468B2
Provided is a powder magnetic core for a reactor, whose electromagnetic properties are difficult to change with time, even when applied to a reactor used in a state that the core is exposed without being potted. The powder magnetic core for a reactor consists essentially of a compact composed of an insulation-coated iron-based soft magnetic powder that an insulating film is formed on the surface of an iron-based soft magnetic powder, and which has such a change with time of 500 hours at 180° C. that a ratio of decrease in effective magnetic permeability being 1% or less. In the compact, the content of gapping between two adjacent particles of the insulation-coated iron-based soft magnetic powder is 2 vol % or less.
US10074453B2
Polypyrrole/carbon (PPy/C) composite doped with organic anion p-toluenesulfonate (pTS) is utilized as an electrode in supercapacitor for energy storage application. The surface initiated in-situ chemical oxidative polymerization yields a composite material PPy/C in the presence of varying concentrations of pTS. The novelty of the present invention lies in the doping of PPy/C composite with organic anion pTS and consequent enhancement of its electrochemical activity and stability. The conjugation length and electrical conductivity of pTS doped PPy/C composites increase with the increase in dopant concentration. The pTS doped PPy/C composite synthesized using equimolar concentration (0.1 M) of pTS to pyrrole shows the maximum specific capacitance of ˜395 F/g in 0.5 M Na2SO4 aqueous solution with significant stability ˜95% capacitance retention after ˜500 cycles.
US10074449B2
A radiation-shielding attenuation structure and method of forming the attenuation structure, wherein the attenuation structure is made by additively manufacturing a concrete material that includes one or more attenuation dopants configured to enhance the radiation shielding of the concrete material. The one or more attenuation dopants may be configured in the concrete material to attenuate one or more types of radiation, such as electromagnetic radiation, gamma radiation, X-ray radiation, or neutron radiation. The attenuation structure formed by the concrete material may be additively manufactured on-site according to a model that has already been pre-certified for safe or secure use, thereby providing a repeatable and reproducible process that can reduce lead times and fabrication costs. The attenuation structure may be easily modified during the additive manufacturing process to have different concrete mixtures with different attenuation characteristics, which increases the tailorability and flexibility in design of the attenuation structure.
US10074446B2
A medical pump for delivering medicament through an IV line to a patient may provide for awareness of the operator and operator authority limiting access by any individual to particular tasks of procedure review, pump programming, pump loading, patient set up, pump operation, and the like associated with the treatment provided by the medical pump. Identifying the operator allows the assignment of particular authority levels to the operators to ensure proper operation of the medical pump, and/or proper operators have made the necessary review to perform the necessary set up of the medical pump facilitating collaborative healthcare delivery. A record of operator intervention and authority levels may be logged to permit an automatic checklist process by the medical pump. Authentication process and pump operation parameters can be communicated through Near Field Communication (NFC).
US10074445B1
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for analyzing data records using a touch screen interface. A touch event is received from the touch screen interface to relate a first data object with at least a second data object. In response to receiving the touch event, at least one data record of the first data object relating to the second data object is retrieved using a unique identifier of the first data object. A time chart of the first data object for the retrieved at least one data record is constructed based on a time parameter from the retrieved record of the first data object.
US10074440B2
An erase operation includes one or more erase depth checks to detect the occurrence of shallow erased memory cells at the end of an erase process. Memory cells are subjected to erase and erase verification until erase verification success is achieved. At the end of successful erase verification, a subset of memory cells is read to detect an erase depth or level of the memory cells. If the erase depth check indicates that the subset memory cells are in a shallow erased condition, additional erasing and verification is performed.
US10074439B2
Memory systems may include a memory including a plurality of wordlines, each wordline including a plurality of cells, and a controller suitable for obtaining an initial voltage threshold and a target state for each of the plurality of cells, applying a pulse based on a pulse value to the plurality of cells, and calculating at least one coupling effect to neighboring cells.
US10074434B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a first memory cell, a second memory cell above the first memory cell, a first word line electrically connected to a gate of the first memory cell, a second word line electrically connected to a gate of the second memory cell, and a control unit that performs an erasing operation on the first and second memory cells. During the erasing operation, the control unit applies a first voltage to a first word line and a second voltage higher than the first voltage to a second word line.
US10074430B2
Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods using a substrate, a first memory cell block including first memory cell strings located over the substrate, first data lines coupled to the first memory cell strings, a second memory cell block including second memory cell strings located over the first memory cell block, second data lines coupled to the second memory cell strings, first conductive paths located over the substrate and coupled between the first data lines and buffer circuitry of the apparatus, and second conductive paths located over the substrate and coupled between the second data lines and the buffer circuitry. No conductive path of the first and second conductive paths is shared by the first and second memory cell blocks.
US10074428B2
In a recording technique in which a plurality of light spots are simultaneously formed by using an ultra-short pulse laser and a spatial phase modulator, and a plurality of recording dots having refractive indexes different from those of the vicinities thereof are formed inside a recording medium, it is hard to make recording quality and a recording density compatible. Therefore, a plurality of dots are recorded at a predetermined dot pitch, and then other dots are recorded between the recorded dots.
US10074427B2
A method includes, in a data storage device including a resistive memory, receiving, from an external device, an erase command to erase a portion of the resistive memory. The method further includes storing shaped data at the portion of the resistive memory responsive to the erase command. Shaped data is configured to control an amount of leakage current during a read and/or write operation at one or more storage elements that are adjacent to at least one storage element of the portion of the resistive memory.
US10074424B1
A memory device includes a memory unit and a selector. The memory unit is configured to store data. The selector is coupled to the memory unit, and has a variable electrical parameter capable of being set to different levels. When the variable electrical parameter of the selector is set to a first level, the selector is turned on in response to an operation signal that is enabled, allowing the data stored in the memory unit to be accessed; when the variable electrical parameter of the selector is set to a second level, the selector remains turned off when receiving the operation signal that is enabled, prohibiting the data stored in the memory unit from being accessed.
US10074423B1
An apparatus may include a controller configured to communicate with a plurality of dies via a signal path. The controller may notify the dies of its desire to communicate with a target die. In response, the dies may set on-die termination resistances of two or more of the dies to a low resistance value, which in turn may set an overall termination resistance of the memory dies to be lower than the low resistance value. The lower overall termination resistance may be closer to a characteristic impedance of a portion of the signal path comprising packaging components of a packaging of the dies compared to the low resistance value, thereby reducing impedance mismatch between the characteristic impedance of the packaging components and the termination resistance.
US10074418B2
A SRAM module and a writing control method of the SRAM module are disclosed. The writing control method of the SRAM module is applied to a SRAM module that includes a plurality of memory cells and a bit line. The method includes: providing a first voltage as a supply voltage of the plurality of memory cells during a data retention time; decreasing a first voltage level corresponding to the data retention time of the memory cells to a second voltage level by discharging the memory cells; and performing a write process to the memory cells through the bit line. The discharge time from the first voltage level to the second voltage level is related to the number of the memory cells.
US10074415B2
Methods, systems, and devices for operating a ferroelectric memory cell or cells are described. The magnitude of a voltage applied across a ferroelectric capacitor may be dynamically increased during a write operation. For example, a memory cell may be selected for a write operation, and a voltage may be applied to a digit line corresponding to the memory cell during the write operation. An additional charge may be transferred to the digit line—e.g., from an energy storage component, such as a capacitor, that is in electronic communication with the digit line. In turn, the voltage across the ferroelectric capacitor of the memory cell may be increased.
US10074410B2
Various implementations described herein may refer to and may be directed to an integrated circuit using shaping and timing circuitries. In one implementation, an integrated circuit may include memory that is accessed based on a voltage level on a first control line, and may include a control driver circuitry coupled to the first and a second control line that drives a first and a second control signal toward first or second voltage levels. The integrated circuit may include a shaper circuitry coupled to the control lines that includes a first clamping transistor that couples the first control line to a timed supply node in response to the driving of the second control signal toward the first voltage. The integrated circuit may include a timing circuitry coupled to the first shaper circuitry that includes a header transistor that couples the timed supply node to a voltage supply source.
US10074408B2
A bit line sense amplifier with an enhanced sensing margin is provided. The bit line sense amplifier includes a sensing amplification circuit connected to a bit line and a complementary bit line and configured to sense a voltage change of the bit line and adjust voltages of a sensing bit line. Also provided is a complementary sensing bit line based on the sensed voltage change, wherein the sensing amplification circuit includes a first transistor connected between the complementary sensing bit line and a first high-voltage node and controlled by the voltage change of the bit line. A second transistor is connected between the sensing bit line and a second high-voltage node and controlled by a voltage change of the complementary bit line.
US10074395B2
A media recording element having capabilities to facilitate recording media for subsequent playback. The recording element further including features associated with limited operations of a hard drive of other similarly mechanical memory under certain operating conditions so as to limit power consumption and/or memory degradation.
US10074386B1
A slider is configured to interact with a magnetic recording medium and comprises an air bearing surface (ABS). A writer is provided on the slider and comprises a write pole terminating at or near the ABS, a return pole proximate the write pole, and a write coil arrangement provide around the write pole. The write coil arrangement comprises lower and upper write coils each having a generally circularly-shaped periphery, and a plurality of spaced-apart cooling fins connected to and projecting outwardly from the periphery of each of the lower and upper write coils.
US10074370B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide a wireless controller which shows a voice, motion, or an image complying with or not complying with a user's command and controls an external device in accordance with the user's command. According to an embodiment, a wireless controller includes a main body provided in a shape of a flowerpot, and includes a voice recognition unit, a control unit generating a signal for controlling an object to be controlled, which is designated by a voice recognized in the voice recognition unit, in accordance with the voice, and a communication unit outputting the control signal generated in the control unit to the object to be controlled; and an indicator provided at the main body in a shape of at least one of a stem, a leaf, a flower, and a tree, and showing a motion corresponding to the voice recognized in the voice recognition unit.
US10074366B2
There is provided an information processing device that leads the user to a state of being able to utter with a voice that is easy to voice-recognize in performing voice input, the information processing device including a processing unit configured to acquire a text content as an analysis result of an inputted voice and cause a display unit to display the text content. The processing unit acquires a first text content obtained by receiving and analyzing a first voice input and causes the display unit to display the first text content, acquires a second text content as an analysis result of a second voice input received in a state where the first text content is displayed and causes the display unit to display the second text content, and settles the second text content as an input text in accordance with an operation by a user or a prescribed condition.
US10074364B1
Systems and methods for generating sound profiles of artificial commands detected by multiple voice activated electronic devices is described herein. In some embodiments, numerous voice activated electronic devices may send audio data representing a phrase to a backend system at a substantially same time. Text data representing the phrase, and counts for instances of that text data, may be generated. If the number of counts exceeds a predefined threshold, the backend system may cause any remaining response generation functionality that particular command that is in excess of the predefined threshold to be stopped, and those devices returned to a sleep state. In some embodiments, a sound profile unique to the phrase that caused the excess of the predefined threshold may be generated such that future instances of the same phrase may be recognized prior to text data being generated, conserving the backend system's resources.
US10074359B2
A dynamic text-to-speech (TTS) process and system are described. In response to receiving a command to provide information to a user, a device retrieves information and determines user and environment attributes including: (i) a distance between the device and the user when the user uttered the query; and (ii) voice features of the user. Based on the user and environment attributes, the device determines a likely mood of the user, and a likely environment in which the user and user device are located in. An audio output template matching the likely mood and voice features of the user is selected. The audio output template is also compatible with the environment in which the user and device are located. The retrieved information is converted into an audio signal using the selected audio output template and output by the device.
US10074357B2
A system includes a processor and a phased array, coupled to the processor, having an arrayed waveguide for acoustic waves to enable directional sound communication.
US10074347B2
A curved display and a method for processing an image thereof are discussed. The curved display according to an embodiment includes a display panel selectively including a flat surface and a curved surface, and a controller including a signal processor for receiving image signal information from an external system, converting the image signal information into an image signal appropriate for the display panel, and distributing the image signal to the display panel, and a curved image generator for receiving the image signal and generating a curved image signal varied to correspond to a viewer's horopter surface corresponding to a curved surface when the display panel is a curved surface.
US10074338B2
Disclosed is a display device with an integrated touch screen. The display device includes a panel including a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of sensing electrodes and a display driver IC configured to apply a common voltage to the plurality of driving electrodes and the plurality of sensing electrodes during a display driving mode. The display driver IC is configured to apply a driving pulse to the plurality of driving electrodes during the touch driving mode of the panel and receive one or more sensing signals from the plurality of sensing electrodes responsive to a touch of the integrated touch screen during the touch driving mode. The display driver IC is configured to adjust a magnitude of the driving pulse from a first level to a second level and subsequently from the second level to a third level during the touch driving mode of the panel.
US10074332B2
A display panel includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of conductive lines, a plurality of data lines, a first pixel, a second pixel, a third pixel and a fourth pixel. The data lines and the conductive lines are parallel. Each of the conductive lines is electrically coupled to one of the scanning lines, so as to transmit at least one gate pulse. The first pixel and the second pixel are located between a first data line and a first conductive line. The first pixel is electrically coupled to the first data line and a first scanning line. The second pixel is electrically coupled to the first pixel and a second scanning line. The third pixel and the fourth pixel are located between the first data line and a second conductive line. The third pixel is electrically coupled to the first data line and a third scanning line. The fourth pixel is electrically coupled to the third pixel and a fourth scanning line.
US10074329B2
Disclosed is a shift register capable of preventing charges supplied to a Q node to turn on a pull-up transistor for outputting a scan pulse from leaking outwards. The shift register includes a plurality of stages connected to gate lines formed at a panel. Each stage includes a scan signal generator for generating a scan pulse or a turn-off signal, a scan pulse controller for generating a Q-node control signal for generation of the scan pulse, a Q-node adjuster for preventing the Q-node control signal from leaking outwards during supply of the Q-node control signal to a Q-node connected to the scan signal generator, and a turn-off signal controller for transferring a Qb-node control signal for generation of the turn-off signal to the scan signal generator via a Qb-node when no scan pulse is generated from the scan signal generator.
US10074324B2
A liquid crystal display device includes m gate lines, n data lines, and m×n pixels each connected to a corresponding gate line, each connected to a corresponding data line, and each including a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, wherein the first sub-pixel includes a first liquid crystal capacitor, and a first transistor configured to receive a data signal from the corresponding data line, and configured to apply the data signal to the first liquid crystal capacitor, and wherein the second sub-pixel includes a second liquid crystal capacitor, a second transistor configured to apply the data signal to the second liquid crystal capacitor, and a third transistor configured to apply a storage voltage, which is configured to swing between a first electric potential level and a second electric potential level that is greater than the first electric potential level, to the second liquid crystal capacitor.
US10074317B2
A method of displaying a three-dimensional image includes outputting a converted left image generated based on a left image to a pixel of a display panel during a first period, where the converted left image has a grayscale value less than a grayscale value of the left image, outputting the left image to the pixel of the display panel during a second period, outputting a converted right image generated based on a right image to the pixel of the display panel during a third period, where the converted right image has a grayscale value less than a grayscale value of the right image, and outputting the right image to the pixel of the display panel during a fourth period.
US10074312B2
A display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a first pixel disposed in an odd numbered pixel column and in a first pixel row, a second pixel disposed in an even numbered pixel column and in the first pixel row and a data line disposed between the odd and even numbered pixel columns and configured to apply a plurality of data voltages to the first and second pixels. The display device also includes a first odd number scan line configured to transmit a first odd number scan signal to the first pixel during a first data writing period, a first even number scan line configured to transmit a first even number scan signal to the second pixel during a second data writing period, and a second scan line configured to transmit a second scan signal to the first and second pixels during an initialization period.
US10074310B2
A display device includes a display pixel having: an organic EL element; a capacitor element; a drive transistor having a gate electrode connected to a first electrode of the capacitor element and a source electrode connected to a second electrode of the capacitor element and to an anode electrode of the organic EL element; a first switch element switching a state between a signal line supplying a voltage corresponding to a data signal and the first electrode of the capacitor element, between conducting and non-conducting states; and a resistance unit having a resistance, switching a state between a power line supplying an initialization voltage and the second electrode of the capacitor element between the conducting and non-conducting states, and disposed on a current path from a node that is a connection point of the second electrode and the anode electrode of the organic EL element to the power line.
US10074309B2
The present invention provides an AMOLED pixel driving circuit and an AMOLED pixel driving method. The AMOLED pixel driving circuit utilizes the 6T1C structure pixel driving circuit with a specific drive timing and can effectively compensate the threshold voltage of the drive thin film transistor and can stabilize the current flowing through the organic light emitting diode to ensure the uniform brightness of the organic light emitting diode and improve the display effect of the pictures. The organic light emitting diode can emit light only in the light emitting stage to avoid the unnecessary irradiance of the organic light emitting diode to reduce the electrical power consumption.
US10074300B2
A display panel includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, each of the pixels including a high sub-pixel and a low sub-pixel. A method of driving the display panel may include detecting a first pixel which corresponds to a first pattern in an image, and changing a gray scale value of the high or low sub-pixel of a second pixel which is adjacent to the first pixel.
US10074298B2
An image processing method and a display device thereof are provided. The method is adapted to a display panel with a display area. The image processing method includes the following steps. Whether original images to be displayed on a plurality of sub-areas of the display area are still is analyzed and determined. When the original image in a current sub-area is still, a time length of the original image being still is recorded. The current sub-area is one of the sub-areas. Processing levels corresponding to a plurality of image processing schemes are determined based on the time length. Overall or partial luminance (luma) of the original image in the current sub-area is gradually reduced by the image processing schemes with the determined processing levels, and a corresponding luma-reduced image is displayed on the current sub-area.
US10074292B2
Devices, systems, and methods appropriate for use in medical training using a patient simulator, various anatomical inserts, and an integrated camera and computer system are disclosed. In some instances, a surgical simulator is provided that includes a uterine assembly. The uterine assembly simulates the appearance and feel of natural tissue and includes a plurality of materials arranged and dimensioned to simulate anatomic structures such as a right fallopian tube, a left fallopian tube, a right ovary, a left ovary, a uterus having a cervix, a bladder, ureters, a peritoneum, a uterine artery, a uterine vein, a plurality of ligaments, an ovarian artery, an ovarian vein, a perineum, and a vagina. In some implementations, at least the uterine artery, uterine vein, ovarian artery, and ovarian vein are in communication with a fluid supply such that each is pressurized with a blood-like fluid to simulate natural arteries and veins.
US10074282B1
A system for providing flight interval management (FIM) instructions to a pilot of an aircraft includes a module coupled to a display device and configured to communicate with a FIM avionics device. The module generates a first output when input data from the FIM avionics device indicates that the aircraft is within 30 nautical miles of another aircraft, and a second input when a lack of valid input data indicates that the module has lost connectivity to the FIM avionics device. The first input is to the display device to present at least an indication of a paired mode of the module with the FIM avionics device, and a commanded speed reported by the FIM avionics device. The second output is to remove any information presented by the display device and present a blank screen, and then present a status message indicating the lost connectivity to the FIM avionics device.
US10074275B2
A determination processor, when determining a driving action of a subject vehicle traveling on a route, determines a scene which the subject vehicle encounters. The determination processor extracts a plurality of events which the subject vehicle encounters when traveling on a first route, and rearranges the extracted plurality of events in the order of encounters with the subject vehicle.
US10074266B2
A method is proposed for managing a geographical information system adapted for use with at least one pointing device. The geographical information system includes a central unit accessing a data base containing a plurality of digital objects. Each digital object possesses an identifier and is defined in the data base by a geometrical component defining a geographical position and by a descriptive component defining at least one descriptive attribute. The central unit is adapted for determining, as a function of the geometrical components of the digital objects and of information on the position and orientation of a given pointing device, whether the position of one of the digital objects is being pointed at by the given pointing device. The central unit carries out a step of creating an association between at least two digital objects contained in the data base, in order to form a group of associated digital objects.
US10074263B1
A method to notify a third party if a child is left behind in a vehicle includes securing a motion detector system within a vehicle, the motion detector being secured to a roof of an inner cabin of the vehicle and directed to a rear seat; detecting via the motion detector if a child is left behind in the rear seat after the vehicle is locked and after a driver exits; if the child is left behind, activating an air conditioner via a computer system operably associated with the motion detector; after activating the air conditioner, detecting if the driver has returned to the vehicle; if the driver has not returned, activating a car alarm via the computer system; after activating the car alarm for a predetermined time, determining if the driver has returned; and if the driver has not returned, notifying a third party via a transceiver operably associated with computer system.
US10074262B2
A computer-implemented method comprises: receiving (100) first information indicative of a tracking device being located in a particular place, for example by detecting that the tracking device is connected to a charging station for charging; receiving (102) second information, from a passive detecting means, indicative of the user of the tracking device leaving said place, for example based on sounds that the user has made in leaving; (104) determining, based on the first and second information, that a user of the tracking device leaves said place while the tracking device remains in said place; further to said determining, causing (106) at least one separation related action to be performed, for example sending a message to a remote server (14).
US10074251B2
Systems and methods for detecting personal distress and gesture commands in security video are provided. Some methods can include receiving a sequence of images from a video device monitoring a secured area, analyzing the sequence of images to detect a presence of a human in the sequence of images, when the presence of the human is detected in the sequence of images, analyzing the sequence of images to detect one of a plurality of contexts that requires an action in the sequence of images, and when the one of the plurality of contexts that requires the action is detected in the sequence of images, transmitting a signal to execute the action. Each of the plurality of contexts can include a respective act performed by the human or a respective condition of the human irrespective of the human being in motion or being stationary.
US10074246B2
A haptic conversion system is provided that analyzes an audio signal, generates a plurality of haptic signals based on the analysis of the audio signal, and plays the generated plurality of haptic signals through a plurality of actuators to produce one or more haptic effects. The haptic conversion system maps the generated plurality of haptic signals to the plurality of actuators based on one or more audio characteristics of the audio signal. Each generated haptic signal includes one or more haptic parameters, and is played at its mapped actuator to generate the one or more haptic effects.
US10074238B2
A ticketless system and method of managing casino patron money balances which eliminates paper media handling and reconciliation. The system includes a self-service computer for receiving a first amount of money from a casino patron during a first transaction. The self-service computer stores the first amount and a phone number of a mobile communication device of the patron in a record associated with the patron. The record is accessible to a gaming machine in response to a first message from the mobile communication device of the patron. The self-service computer retrieves a second amount of money from the record during a second transaction representing money transferred from the gaming machine in response to a second message from the mobile communication device of the patron, and transfers the second amount of money to the patron.
US10074233B2
In various embodiments a single reel on a gaming device contains multiple symbols.
US10074225B2
A secure short-distance-based communication and enforcement system validates users in a validation and enforcement area and can check if users in the validation and enforcement area have been validated. A flow of visual objects may be programmed into an enforcement computer, and used for the validations.
US10074223B2
Systems of an electrical vehicle and the operations thereof are provided. Within an autonomous vehicle fleet that can be optionally primarily used for ridesharing, how does an owner or first user of one of the vehicles prevent another customer or second user from approaching a vehicle and using it for their own purposes/trips? How does the first customer lock down the vehicle for their use exclusively? How does a user secure any personal data that they may have stored in the vehicle? As one example, software locking, portable device authentication, human identification, biometric, rolling code and/or a physical identification card can be utilized to secure and/or reserve the vehicle for the first user.
US10074221B2
Provided is a moving body control apparatus including a collection unit that collects date and time data, position data, and first operating data of a moving body and a controller that controls the moving body based on a result of comparison between reference operating data corresponding to the date and time data and the position data, and the first operating data, wherein, when a difference between second operating data in case of an accident and third operating data in case of no accident meets a predetermined condition, the reference operating data is generated based on the third operating data.
US10074217B2
A method includes acquiring a first image including a specific object and captured at an imaging position, generating first three-dimensional information based on a first shape of the specific object, the first three-dimensional information corresponding to the imaging position, generating second three-dimensional information based on a specific depth value and a designated position on the first image, generating first line information based on the first and the second three-dimensional information, acquiring a second image including the specific object and captured at another imaging position, generating third three-dimensional information based on a second shape of the specific object, the third three-dimensional information corresponding to the another imaging position, generating second line information based on the second and the third three-dimensional information, generating a fourth three-dimensional information based on the first and the second line information, and storing the fourth three-dimensional information associated with a content.
US10074215B2
A method for representing virtual information in a view of a real environment comprises providing a virtual object having a global position and orientation with respect to a geographic global coordinate system, with first pose data on the global position and orientation of the virtual object, in a database of a server, taking an image of a real environment by a mobile device and providing second pose data as to at which position and with which orientation with respect to the geographic global coordinate system the image was taken. The method further includes displaying the image on a display of the mobile device, accessing the virtual object in the database and positioning the virtual object in the image on the basis of the first and second pose data, manipulating the virtual object or adding a further virtual object, and providing the manipulated virtual object with modified first pose data or the further virtual object with third pose data in the database.
US10074206B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for a network-optimized graphics library for virtualized graphics processing are disclosed. An application is executed on a computing device having a virtual GPU attached over a network. The virtual GPU is implemented using a physical GPU in a GPU server. The computing device comprises an intermediate driver associated with an intermediate graphics library. In association with execution of the application, one or more calls to the intermediate graphics library are sent to the GPU server over the network. At the GPU server, the one or more calls are translated to one or more equivalent calls to a second graphics library. The one or more equivalent calls are executed on the virtual GPU using a driver associated with the second graphics library, and output is generated based (at least in part) on execution of the one or more equivalent calls.
US10074193B2
Examples of memory-efficient techniques for dynamically generating images having customizable image portions are disclosed herein. In particular embodiments, a collection of contributing images with different image information in the contributing image's channel layers is used to generate a composite result image. By combining the subimage data from each channel of the contributing image in accordance with a composite image function, a resultant composite image can be generated that has the desired customized properties selected by the user. To create the customized properties, one or more of the color channel subimages can have their values scaled (e.g., using matrix multiplication) according to the customization preferences of the user such that, when combined with the other contributing images, the desired customized result is presented to the user.
US10074189B2
An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a first calculation unit, a combination unit, a second calculation unit, and a correction unit. The acquisition unit acquires a plurality of pieces of image data captured sequentially in time series. The first calculation unit calculates a first displacement between one piece of image data among the plurality of pieces of image data and a piece of image data adjacent in time series to the one piece of image data. The combination unit combines a plurality of first displacements to obtain a second displacement between the one piece of image data and a piece of image data neighboring the one piece of image data in time series. The second calculation unit calculates a correction amount for the one piece of image data based on the second displacement. The one piece of image data is corrected based on the calculated correction amount.
US10074180B2
A method photo-based positioning includes obtaining a positioning photo taken by a mobile device within a predetermined space; comparing multiple feature elements exacted from sampling photos taken within the predetermined space in advance with the positioning photo to determine each feature element existing in the positioning photo; obtaining a first position coordinate of each feature element which is determined to exist in the positioning photo in a sampling photo corresponding to the positioning photo, and a second position coordinate of each feature element which is determined to exist in the positioning photo in the positioning photo; and calculating position parameters of the mobile device by using each of the obtained first position coordinate and second position coordinate, wherein the least number of feature elements existing in the positioning photo is determined according to the number of the position parameters.
US10074178B2
Systems and methods are presented for assisting in providing consistent alignment of a handheld intra-oral imaging device for a series of images. Live image data of the patient is received from the intra-oral image capture device and displayed on the display. A previously stored intra-oral image of the patient is accessed from the non-transitory memory and an alignment mask is generated based on the accessed previously stored intra-oral image. The alignment mask is displayed on the display overlaid onto the live image data. The system captures a new intra-oral image of the patient from the live image data and stores the new intra-oral image to the non-transitory memory.
US10074171B1
Methods, systems, and computer readable media are disclosed for determining a pixel-to-length ratio between a number of pixels disposed over a predetermined length of a reference object within an image of a siding sample and the predetermined length of the reference object. A first and second distance between respective first and second pairs of points within the image corresponding to respective first and second length measurements of the siding sample are determined, as well as a first and second number of pixels disposed between the first and second pair of points, respectively. Furthermore, the method, system, and computer readable medium disclose determining the first length measurement based on the pixel-to-length ratio and the first number of pixels, determining the second length measurement based on the pixel-to-length ratio and the second number of pixels, and identifying a siding product associated with the first and second length measurements.
US10074170B2
A method of producing a tablet in which an uncoated tablet is coated by a coating agent, the method including: a coating process of coating uncoated tablets with a coating agent by spray coating the coating agent onto tablets that are churned and tumbled inside a container, and drying the tablets inside the container by supplying drying air into the container and exhausting air from the container, wherein spray coating conditions, including air supply temperature, air supply rate, and spray speed, are controlled according to the weight of the coating agent with which the uncoated tablets are coated, such that the humidity of air exhausted during spray coating is within a range of from 14% RH to 30% RH.
US10074164B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for adjusting image brightness. The method includes: acquiring a single-channel brightness image based on grayscales of each channel of an image to be processed; performing Gaussian filtering on the single-channel brightness image to acquire a Gaussian filtered image; adjusting grayscales of the Gaussian filtered image based on the grayscales of the Gaussian filtered image and a preset proportion; acquiring a grayscale change rate of each pixel with respect to the Gaussian filtered image after adjustment and the Gaussian filtered image before adjustment; and processing the image to be processed based on the grayscale change rate of each pixel to acquire a processed image.
US10074155B2
Systems, methods, and computer readable media to promote a graphics context when rendering a digital image content with dynamic ranges and/or color gamut outside the current graphics context. Various embodiments render digital image content based on a graphics context that corresponds to an initial image rendering format. During the rendering process a determination is made that indicates the quality of the digital image content exceeds the graphics context's initial capabilities. The various embodiments can select an updated image rendering format based on the quality of the digital image and expand the graphic context's capabilities to correspond with the updated image rendering format.
US10074148B2
A medical kiosk designed to provide tele-med services, check-in services, and/or prescription services for a user. The medical kiosk can include a user video conferencing system that is designed to enable the user to have a real-time or near real-time tele-conference with a medical provider located remotely from the medical kiosk.
US10074146B2
An electronic negotiation system is set forth. The system includes a first processor adapted to generate and send at least one unsolicited electronic offer from a registered buyer electronic device via a subscriber network device to at least one of a registered seller electronic device and a seller electronic device. The subscriber network device is adapted for operative communication with the first processor and at least one of the registered seller electronic device and the seller electronic device adapted to receive the unsolicited electronic offer. The first processor selectively incorporates screenshot information from a seller URL, which includes any data from the seller URL, in which the unsolicited electronic offer is selectively incorporated and sent to the seller electronic device, or the at least one unsolicited electronic offer is sent to the registered seller electronic device having registered user data stored in the data storage device.
US10074142B1
Automatic control of an enterprise. A control vector is generated corresponding to a target allocation of resources between the plurality of products to be produced by the enterprise. An observation vector represents actual retained earnings attributed to each of the plurality of products during a first time period, the actual retained earnings being based on data representing the actual revenue and on data representing the actual cost. A dynamic matrix, a control matrix, a cost matrix, and an observation matrix are produced. Each matrix represents a corresponding dynamic relationship between a sets of different control parameters or measured or predicted values, and is revised at each subsequent time period to produce predicted values for each corresponding matrix. According to various embodiments, the revision can have two components: (a) vectorization; and (b) forecasting.
US10074139B2
A method is disclosed for mitigating the risks associated with driving by assigning risk values to road segments and using those risk values to select less risky travel routes. Various approaches to helping users mitigate risk are presented. A computing device is configured to generate a database of risk values. That device may receive accident information, geographic information, vehicle information, and other information from one or more data sources and calculate a risk value for the associated road segment. Subsequently, the computing device may provide the associated risk value to other devices. Furthermore, a personal navigation device may receive travel route information and use that information to retrieve risk values for the road segments in the travel route. An insurance company may use this information to determine whether to adjust a quote or premium of an insurance policy. This and other aspects relating to using geographically encoded information to promote and reward risk mitigation are disclosed.
US10074136B2
A method and apparatus for publishing market data for a financial instrument utilizes existing network layer acknowledgement feature to publish market data for the financial instrument to a client device at rates in which the client device is able to process the data. The publishing rate is dynamic, as opposed to being fixed, and is able to adjust “on-the-fly” so as to prevent message queue stagnation.
US10074135B2
Mechanisms are provided for performing an analysis of content based on a flow of property between entities. The mechanisms analyze a corpus of unstructured documents to identify one or more asset transfer flow relationships between entities. The mechanisms generate an asset transfer flow model defining a flow of an asset between entities based on the one or more asset transfer flow relationships between entities. The mechanisms input the asset transfer flow model into an analysis engine for use in analyzing content. The mechanisms analyze the content using the asset transfer flow model to generate results of the analysis and output the results of the analysis based on the asset transfer flow model.
US10074131B2
A method and system for the determination of optimal pricing and allocation of securities in an open, competitive environment. The method and system may also be used in developing pre-markets of other items that are difficult to price and allocate in a competitive manner, such as the underwriting/securitization of contracts for property; future revenue/earning streams from an asset and/or group of assets; underwritten insurance portfolios, intellectual property and other goods and services. The system of price optimization and allocation is accomplished by interactive feedback of information using a display and including competitive participation of individual members of the public (and/or their agents) or institutional buyers over a data network e.g., the Internet, uncovering the nature and identification of demand in a self-organizing fashion. Demand emerges through participants' interaction with the system and with each other, via a graphically-supported, interactive reservation process.
US10074130B2
A computing platform may receive a plurality of messages comprising data indicating physical presence of customers of a financial institution at a physical banking center location of the financial institution from an indoor positioning system located at the physical banking center location of the financial institution. Responsive to receiving the plurality of messages comprising the data indicating the physical presence of the customers of the financial institution at the physical banking center location of the financial institution, the computing platform may determine that at least one customer of the customers of the financial institution at the physical banking center location of the financial institution has flagged one or more items via an online-banking system of the financial institution.
US10074114B2
An order management system is provided. The order management system receives a modify order while the in-flight order is being executed. The order management system suspends a first orchestration plan that corresponds to the in-flight order. The order management system generates a second orchestration plan that corresponds to the modify order. The order management system generates a modify order orchestration plan using, in part, the second orchestration plan. The order management system executes the modify order orchestration plan.
US10074112B2
A computer-implemented system includes one or more mobile computers, a server, and digital data storage accessible by the server. The storage includes records describing automobiles in an inventory, such as vehicle identification numbers (VINs) referenced to automobile site availability and specific automotive features from a set of available automotive features. The mobile computer is programmed to perform machine-executable operations to present a guided, interactive automobile specific demonstration checklist.
US10074106B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, apparatuses, and methods for determining the location of a mobile merchant, and performing further processing based on the determined location. Transaction data for a transaction conducted by a mobile merchant is electronically received at a server computer. The server computer determines a location of the mobile merchant based on the transaction data, and performs further processing based on the location of the mobile merchant.
US10074093B2
A system and method to facilitate word-of-mouth advertising and sales support associated with displayed media objects on distributed networks is described. The system provides one or more advocates to a network user accessing advertising of a brand, product, or service. One or more of the advocates may be socially related to the user. User interactions with the advocates are facilitated through a real-time communication network, follow-on commercial activity is tracked, and the value of word-of-mouth advocacy is captured and distributed.
US10074092B2
A vehicle may communicate with a vendor interaction system of a vendor. The vehicle includes network interface hardware, a processor communicatively coupled to the network interface hardware, and at least one display communicatively coupled to the at least one processor. The processor executes logic to establish a communication link with the vendor interaction system, receive, with the network interface hardware, a vendor data signal from the vendor interaction system, the vendor data signal indicative of vendor information, receive, with the network interface hardware, a user preference data signal indicative of user order preferences for the vendor, display at least one of the user order preferences and the vendor information on the at least one display, and display an order prompt requesting a user to make an order selection from at least one of the vendor information or the user order preferences displayed on the at least one display.
US10074091B2
A dynamic personalizable automated finance management system that provides a financial management platform that enables users to easily generate a plurality of customized rules or conditions associated with one or more accounts thereby creating account plans that intelligently and passively execute the transfer of funds among accounts. The rules with a plan are able to define if, how much, when and where to transfer money to and from the accounts based on user entered criteria or triggers upon which the rules/conditions are based.
US10074084B1
In a method for advanced identification of a customer of a pharmacy, identification information of the customer is received at a first pharmacy computing device after an arrival of the customer at a pharmacy location and before an arrival of the customer at a pharmacy pick-up area of the pharmacy location. An identification of the customer is generated based on the received identification information. The identification of the customer is sent to a second pharmacy computing device. Using the second pharmacy computing device, and based on the second pharmacy computing device receiving the identification, an indication is provided to a pharmacy employee that the customer has arrived at the pharmacy location to pick up a previously prepared pharmacy order and that the pharmacy employee is to obtain the previously prepared pharmacy order for pick-up by the customer before the arrival of the customer at the pharmacy pick-up area.
US10074081B1
The methods and systems described herein attempt to provide a card where a consumer can reload the card with additional funds at a point of sale whereby no new or additional hardware is needed, the consumer can have access to the funds immediately, and the consumer does not need to perform any additional steps beyond conducting the transaction at a point of sale. In one embodiment, a method of reloading a prepaid card comprises receiving a prepaid card; receiving information transmitted from the prepaid card; receiving an amount to credit to the prepaid card; generating a request for the credit to the prepaid card, wherein the request comprises an account number of the prepaid card and an indicator in a discretionary field, wherein the indicator provides an instruction to credit the account number with the amount; transmitting the request to an acquirer for verification by the issuer the of the prepaid card; and receiving authorization to credit the prepaid card with the requested amount, wherein the prepaid card is credited with the requested amount at the point of sale terminal.
US10074077B2
A method and system for streamlining a voting process performed by a web application is provided. As the web application may require that a voting action is effectuated after the user is registered to vote and also has supplied valid credentials, a voting application may be configured to intercept a request from a user to effectuate voting process directed to the web application, access credentials of the user stored by the web-based social networking application, and provide these credentials to the web application, such that the web application can process the request to effectuate voting process by registering the user to vote and storing the vote information for the user.
US10074071B1
Embodiments herein described relate to methods for enabling the detection of inner pack receive errors at a receiving site for a marketplace by comparing quantities of predicted and received items by receiving a predicted quantity, determining a received quantity, performing a modulus division of the predicted and received quantities of items, and using the remainder to detect the presence of inner packs within received packages of items.
US10074069B2
Methods and systems are described for creating a hierarchical sensor network for enhanced monitoring of a grouped set of packages being shipped, the hierarchical sensor network using a wireless node network having a mobile master node, an ID node and a server. The mobile master node can communicate directly with the server over a first communication path, and is placed within a package in the grouped packages. The ID node can communicate directly with the master node over a second communication path but cannot communicate directly with the server over the first communication path. The ID node is placed within another package in the grouped packages. The mobile master node and the ID node are enabled with power, and the hierarchical sensor network for the grouped packages is activated by causing the server to associate the mobile master node with the ID node.
US10074068B2
Systems, devices and methods for storage, delivery, receipt, and/or other handling of an item in an electronically controllable storage receptacle are disclosed. The disclosure provides features for keyless access to the storage receptacle by use of user access information, such as a PIN or bar code. Further, features are disclosed for receiving and/or transmitting data related to the recipient and the item to facilitate the various handling actions of the item.
US10074066B2
A method, system and computer program product for managing an order in an Omni-channel order fulfillment system is disclosed. A stock-keeping unit (SKU) node level cost is predicted for a plurality of SKUs. The order is received containing one or more SKUs. A candidate list of fulfillment nodes is determined for fulfilling each of the one or more SKUs in the order using the predicted SKU node level cost and a fulfillment node-destination shipping distance. One or more fulfillment nodes are selected from the candidate list, and the order is fulfilled using the selected one or more fulfillment nodes.
US10074061B2
Embodiments are described herein including systems and methods for presenting vehicles available for wholesale purchase to retail consumers in order to generate a retail “lead” on a specific vehicle prior to acquisition of that vehicle by a dealer. The electronic lead, once generated, is made available to a licensed dealer before the dealer acquires the inventory corresponding to the lead. In contrast to known lead generation models, the lead is created on a specific vehicle that a retail dealer has the ability to purchase, but has not yet taken into inventory.
US10074057B2
The invention provides for a graphical user interface which provides for very simple and intuitive ways of changing single or multiple inspection parameters. The graphical display immediately shows what the monitoring or inspection result would have been if the effected change had been in place during the inspection of the last “N” parts. This retrospective graphical “look-back” invokes immediate re-inspection facilitating an estimation of what the future inspection or process monitoring results will be if future production looks similar to the recent past production. The re-inspection results are immediately shown with a combination of visualization for ease of understanding and settings optimization. The visualization also shows selected other associated data to each specific inspection for ease of tracking and optimizing production processes.
US10074049B2
In a tracking device, a crescent-shaped printed circuit board (PCB) partially encircles a battery to minimize thickness of the tracking device. A speaker and a light emitting diode (LED) emit alerts upon command of a control apparatus or in response to a motion or a temperature sensed by a sensor. A local network has one hub for tracking a plurality of tracking devices and a wider area network has multiple hubs for more detailed tracking of the plurality of tracking devices. The wide area network tracks the plurality of tracking devices anywhere and stores data of each tracking device including its last known position and its sensor data.
US10074047B2
The present disclosure provides for identification systems and related methods of use. The disclosed identification systems can include a first ink and a second ink, each of which can comprise one or more time-dependent properties. The first and second inks can be disposed in a spatial pattern on a substrate. Illustrative spatial patterns include, but are not limited to, QR codes and other barcodes, text, images, and icons. A time-dependent property of the first ink and a time-dependent property of the second ink can cause a characteristic of the spatial pattern to change over time. For example, the spatial pattern can change from a first state at a first time to a second state at a second time. Evaluation and/or interpretation of the state of the spatial pattern at a second time can provide information about a product.
US10074038B2
Methods and apparatus to automatically generate an image quality metric for an image are provided. An example method includes automatically processing a first medical image using a deployed learning network model to generate an image quality metric for the first medical image, the deployed learning network model generated from a digital learning and improvement factory including a training network, wherein the training network is tuned using a set of labeled reference medical images of a plurality of image types, and wherein a label associated with each of the labeled reference medical images indicates a central tendency metric associated with image quality of the image. The example method includes computing the image quality metric associated with the first medical image using the deployed learning network model by leveraging labels and associated central tendency metrics to determine the associated image quality metric for the first medical image.
US10074037B2
Systems and methods for determining optimized imaging parameters for imaging a patient include learning a model of a relationship between known imaging parameters and a quality measure, the known imaging parameters and the quality measure being determined from training data. Optimized imaging parameters are determined by optimizing the quality measure using the learned model. Images of the patient are acquired using the optimized imaging parameters.
US10074036B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for inspecting a photolithographic reticle. Modeled images of a plurality of target features of the reticle are obtained based on a design database for fabricating the reticle. An inspection tool is used to obtain a plurality of actual images of the target features of the reticle. The modelled and actual images are binned into a plurality of bins based on image properties of the modelled and actual images, and at least some of the image properties are affected by one or more neighbor features of the target features on the reticle in a same manner. The modelled and actual images from at least one of the bins are analyzed to generate a feature characteristic uniformity map for the reticle.
US10074027B2
Sampling data is disclosed. A region of a map to be rendered is determined. It is determined that a first subregion is included in the region. Data points associated with subregions in a neighborhood of the first subregion are analyzed to determine a regional density of points. Data points associated with the first subregion are sampled based on the regional density of points.
US10074017B2
A fusion based passenger tracking system includes one or more 2D/3D sensors for capturing 2D/3D data; one or more security sensors for capturing security data; and a processing module in communication with the one or more 2D/3D sensors to receive the 2D/3D data, and the one or more security sensors to receive the security data, the processing module uses the 2D/3D data and the security data to calculate passenger data to generate a passenger tracking list that tracks each individual passenger in the passenger data.
US10074014B2
Innovations in the identification or classification of features in a data set are described, such as a data set representing measurements taken by a scientific instrument. For example, a task-specific processing component, such as a video encoder, is used to generate task-specific metadata. When the data set includes video frames, metadata can include information regarding motion of image elements between frames, or other differences between frames. A feature of the data set, such as an event, can be identified or classified based on the metadata. For example, an event can be identified when metadata for one or more elements of the data set exceed one or more threshold values. When the feature is identified or classified, an output, such as a display or notification, can be generated. Although the metadata may be useable to generate a task-specific output, such as compressed video data, the identifying or classifying is not used solely in production of, or the creation of an association with, the task-specific output.
US10074011B2
This disclosure is directed to systems and methods for acquiring IR light and visible light images. A lens may be configured to operate in at least a first configuration and a second configuration. The lens may have a first filter over a first portion of the lens and a second filter over a second portion of the lens. In the first configuration, a third filter may operate with the lens and the second filter to allow visible light from a first object located beyond a predetermined distance from the lens to pass and be focused on a sensor for image acquisition. In the second configuration, a fourth filter may operate with the lens and the first filter to allow IR light from a second object located within the predetermined distance to pass and be focused on the sensor for image acquisition.
US10074010B2
An image processing method in accordance with this disclosure includes steps of obtaining an object image including an operating body, extracting the operating body from the object image, and calculating an orientation of the operating body in the object image. The method further includes determining whether the operating body is of an operator that operates an apparatus based on the orientation of the operation body.
US10074006B2
This invention describes methods and systems for use of computer vision systems for classification of biological cells as an aid in disease diagnostics. More particularly the present invention describes a process comprising employing a robust and discriminative color space which will help provide segmentation of the cells; employing a segmentation algorithm, such as a feature-based level set, that will be able to segment the cells using a different k-phase-segmentation process, which detect for example, if a while blood cell occurs for segmenting the internal components of the cell robustly; employing a combination of different type of features including shape, texture, and invariant information, and employing a classification step to associate abnormal cell characteristics with disease states.
US10073992B2
These teachings generally comprise interrogating RFID tags and receiving corresponding responses from various ones of these RFID tags while also receiving, from a remote source, surrogate response corresponding to at least some of the plurality of RFID tags that are not responding to the current interrogation. A corresponding plurality of end user-perceivable indications as correspond to both the responses from various ones of the plurality of RFID tags and the aforementioned surrogate responses are then provided to thereby ultimately inform an end user of the RFID tag reader with respect to a corresponding reading state as regards the plurality of RFID tags.
US10073980B1
Techniques determine and mitigate leakage of sensitive data into log data. The message is parsed to identify a first value and a first data classification tag indicative of sensitive data and that refers to the first value. Log data is accessed to determine whether the first value is present in the log data. One or more actions are performed based on the first value being present in the log data.
US10073969B1
An apparatus comprises an object store, back-end storage supporting the object store, and a file system associated with the back-end storage. Objects of the object store are mapped to files of the file system. The file system is configured to provide file system metadata extensions for respective ones of the files, with the file system metadata extension for a given one of the files comprising a plurality of sets of attributes characterizing respective ones of a plurality of accesses to the given file. The file system metadata extension for the given one of the files may be updated responsive to each of the plurality of accesses to that file to incorporate a corresponding one of the sets of attributes. Each of the sets of attributes may comprise, for example, at least one time-based attribute and at least one data integrity check attribute.
US10073959B2
A method for securely authenticating users of a device which uses pairings of a verbal passphrase and user interactions. The user interactions may be finger position on an interface of the device, number of taps on the interface of the device, or touching of the interface in a predefined area. Alternatively, the user can provide a verbal passphrase with inflection points.
US10073952B2
A method for at least one of characterizing, diagnosing, and treating an autoimmune disorder in at least a subject, the method comprising: receiving an aggregate set of biological samples from a population of subjects; generating at least one of a microbiome composition dataset and a microbiome functional diversity dataset for the population of subjects; generating a characterization of the autoimmune condition based upon features extracted from at least one of the microbiome composition dataset and the microbiome functional diversity dataset; based upon the characterization, generating a therapy model configured to correct the autoimmune condition; and at an output device associated with the subject, promoting a therapy to the subject based upon the characterization and the therapy model.
US10073950B2
A remote controlled robot with a head that supports a monitor and is coupled to a mobile platform. The mobile robot also includes an auxiliary camera coupled to the mobile platform by a boom. The mobile robot is controlled by a remote control station. By way of example, the robot can be remotely moved about an operating room. The auxiliary camera extends from the boom so that it provides a relatively close view of a patient or other item in the room. An assistant in the operating room may move the boom and the camera. The boom may be connected to a robot head that can be remotely moved by the remote control station.
US10073948B2
Systems and processes for managing data relating to one or more medical or biological conditions of a plurality of subjects (such as patients) over a wide area network, such as the Internet, may be employed for diabetes subjects or subjects with other medical conditions requiring monitoring and/or treatment over time. Such systems and processes provide various functions for several types of users, including patients or subject-users, healthcare provider-users and payor entity-users and combinations thereof, which allow for improved treatment and medical data management of individual subjects and groups of subjects and which allow collection and analysis of aggregate data from many subject sources, for improving overall healthcare practices of providers and subjects (e.g., patients).
US10073945B1
An instrumental approach enabling evaluation of efficacy of skin care products is disclosed. Common problems shared by existing methods include first the difficulty whether to test the entire human face, or just focus on the key locations (not determined yet); the difficulty in conducting a repeatable test when human face is hard to fix on and changes between different persons; and how many different skin attributes to test for making a reliable and complete judgment. The instrumental approach of the process tests a sample at once to obtain all the information needed. It shows good repeatability and sensitivity. It yields necessary yet sufficient information in numbers.
US10073944B2
Systems and techniques are described for context aware clock tree synthesis (CTS). A probability value can be computed for each clock sink in the set of clock sinks, wherein each probability value represents a probability that the corresponding clock sink has a critical clock latency. Next, the set of clock sinks can be clustered into a set of clock sink clusters based on the probability values. An optimization goal for each clock sink cluster can be selected, and an optimized subtree can be constructed for each clock sink cluster based on the selected optimization goal. The synthesized clock tree can be obtained by combining the optimized subtrees.
US10073940B1
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a first circuit design comprising a system of XOR gates, iteratively generating a plurality of candidate physical implementations of the system in adaptive logic modules included in logic array blocks of an integrated circuit, determining an overall metric for each of the plurality of candidate physical implementations using an objective function. The overall metric indicates at least an amount of the system that is implemented by each of the candidate physical implementations in a number of moves. The method also includes implementing an enhanced circuit design including a candidate physical implementation based at least in part on the overall metric of the candidate physical implementation on the integrated circuit.
US10073932B2
Disclosed is a method (or a system or a non-transitory computer readable medium) for recreating states of an embedded processing unit of a design under test (DUT). In one aspect, a host system configures an emulator to implement the DUT. The DUT includes the embedded processing unit and a memory unit. The host system configures the emulator to execute design instructions for testing an operation of the DUT through the embedded processing unit. The host system receives a stream of values stored by the memory unit of the DUT. The values indicate execution results of the design instructions executed by the embedded processing unit. The host system stores the stream of the values and generates a log file for recreating one or more states of the embedded processing unit based on the stored stream of the values.
US10073930B2
Disclosed is a computerized process and system for modeling aeraulic flows in an environment in particular for the evaluation of the risks of airborne contamination. The principle of the process consists in considering that in a given individual unit or mesh, defined as fairly small, the final values of the primitive variables (V, P, T) are the result of their primary values calculated in an irrotational field composed of a “pressure-velocity” coupling with a turbulence model adapted to Newtonian and incompressible fluids belonging to the range of validity of the process.
US10073925B2
A system for providing XML syndication content to an Internet advertisement panel rendered in a web browser is disclosed. The system includes a web content server, an Internet advertisement server, and a XML syndication content feed site server. Both the web content server and the Internet advertisement servers are in communications with the web browser. The web content server is configured to respond to requests from the web browser for a web page and to deliver the web page to the web browser. The Internet advertisement server is configured to choose and deliver an Internet advertisement panel, having embedded XML syndication content, to the web browser. The XML syndication content feed site server is in communications with the Internet advertisement server and is configured to send XML syndication content updates to the Internet advertisement server.
US10073922B2
In accordance with one or more aspects of the advertisement-controlled Web page customization discussed herein, functionality allowing an advertisement to set various presentation properties of a Web page is exposed. The advertisement invokes the functionality to set a particular presentation property of the Web page to a corresponding property value in order to customize the presentation of the Web page as desired by the advertisement.
US10073919B2
A method of validating results of a host search engine (50), the method including the steps of scanning all data objects deliverable via a web interface with a scanning engine (25) and executing a matching engine (35) to generate a report set containing content missed by the host search engine (50).
US10073913B2
There is provided a method and a system for conducting a search and presenting results. The method can be executed at a server. The method comprises receiving a search query from an electronic device associated with a user; responsive to the search query, generating a search query result set, the search query result set including a vertical search result; determining a confidence level that the vertical search result is the most relevant to the search query; responsive to the confidence level being above a pre-determined threshold, causing the electronic device to display exclusively the vertical search result.
US10073911B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automatically generating native application deep links and indexing content retrieved from the deep links.
US10073910B2
Provided are a system and a method for browsing a summary image. The method includes: tracking at least one object included in an input video image including a plurality of image frames, by controlling an image processing engine; selecting a representative image frame of each of the at least one object from the image frames, by controlling the image processing engine; and generating at least one summary still image comprising at least one object segment extracted from the representative image frame of each of the at least one object, by controlling a browsing engine.
US10073907B2
A computer implemented method of analyzing and graphically representing the correlation of a plurality of transaction items, the method comprising the steps of: retrieving data associated with groups of the transaction items, correlating a plurality of groups of transaction items in a dimensionally reduced manner, creating a tree hierarchy which classifies the groups of transaction items in a hierarchy according to a defined user understandable factor, wherein the tree hierarchy is linked to the groups of transaction items, and graphically representing the correlated groups of transaction items and tree hierarchy to enable interaction between the correlated groups of transaction items and the linked tree hierarchy.
US10073896B2
A nearby search method implemented with a computer includes verifying search request information entered through an electronic device, displaying a map screen on a screen of the electronic device, verifying a search result to be displayed on the map screen according to the verified search request information, dividing the map screen into a plurality of tiles, and displaying a search result, included in each of the divided tiles, as one search result icon corresponding to each of the divided tiles and distinguishably displaying search result icons to be displayed on each of the divided tiles according to the number of search results included in one tile.
US10073890B1
Systems and methods for patent reference comparison in a combined semantical-probabilistic algorithm
A comparison engine configured to utilize combined semantic-probabilistic algorithms to differentiate and compare an input to obtain enumerated results of similarity (items that are similar to other patent-related references), differences (items that are different from other patent-related references), and uniquenesses (how the input text is distinct from other patent-related references).
US10073887B2
A system and method enable a set of dataset objects that are K-nearest neighbors (K-NN), based on their Minimax distances to a test object, to be identified without computing the all-pair Minimax distances directly. A pairwise distance between the test object and each dataset object is computed. Iteratively, one of the dataset objects is selected to add to a K-NN set until the K-NN set includes a predefined number of nearest neighbors. The selected dataset object at each iteration is the one for which there is no other unselected dataset object which has a smaller pairwise distance to any of a current subset of objects than the selected dataset object. The current subset of objects includes the test object and the dataset objects currently in the K-NN set. After the K-NN set is identified it may be output or used to generate other information, such as a test object label.
US10073885B2
Techniques are provided for determining costs for alternative execution plans for a query, where at least a portion of the data items required by the query are in in-memory compression-units within volatile memory. The techniques involve maintaining in-memory statistics, such as statistics that indicate what fraction of a table is currently present in in-memory compression units, and the cost of decompressing in-memory compression units. Those statistics are used to determine, for example, the cost of a table scan that retrieves some or all of the necessary data items from the in-memory compression-units.
US10073873B2
A method of dynamically computing an optimal materialization schedule for each column in a column oriented RDBMS. Dynamic column-specific materialization scheduling in a distributed column oriented RDBMS is optimized by choosing a materialization strategy based on execution cost including central processing unit (CPU), disk, and network costs for each individual exchange operator. The dynamic programming approach is computationally feasible because the optimal schedule for a sub-plan is path independent.
US10073866B2
Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for prioritizing test cases for relational database systems. The method includes identifying one or more data tables within a relational database. The method further includes identifying an exclusivity value for each of the one or more identified data tables. The method further includes calculating a table weight for each of the one or more identified data tables. The method further includes prioritizing the one or more identified data tables based on the respective calculated table weights. The method further includes identifying one or more sequences of database statements corresponding to the prioritized data tables, wherein a database statement is a command executed on one of the prioritized data tables. The method further includes prioritizing the one or more identified sequences based on the corresponding database statements.
US10073864B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for automated aggregation of information-source metadata may include (1) receiving metadata of an information asset, the metadata of the information asset having been generated by a data-management system, (2) determining that the metadata of the information asset includes metadata of an information source that contains the information asset, (3) extracting the metadata of the information source from the metadata of the information asset, (4) storing the metadata of the information source in an information-source metadata repository such that the metadata of the information source is associated with the information source, and (5) providing access to the metadata of the information source stored in the information-source metadata repository to (a) the data-management system, (b) an additional data-management system, and/or (c) the entity. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10073851B2
In one embodiment, a new file creation cache is reserved on a fast storage device that is part of a composite storage device that also includes a slow storage device; the composite storage device is treated as a single logical volume (or a plurality of logical volumes) by a file system which maintains a mapping table that is used to determine whether the write operation is for a new file. If the write operation is for a new file, the file system attempts to write the new file to the fast storage device. If the write operation is not for a new file, the mapping table specifies which device is used for the write operation.
US10073846B2
Provided is a cloud-based document link system and a method that uses a processor to provide a method for connecting a document between services. The cloud-based document link system includes a storage unit configured to store, on a cross-clipboard, at least one first document associated with a first service provided through a first device, an identification unit configured to identify at least one second service linkable with each first document, and a providing unit configured to provide a list of each second service in response to an access of the cross-clipboard through a second device, and to provide the second device with a second document associated with the at least one second service in response to a selection of the at least one second service.
US10073841B2
A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for creating messages using generative grammar models is presented. Consistent with some embodiments, the method may include receiving a request to generate a message, which in an example embodiment is to be published to a social network platform. In response to receiving the request, a generative grammar model defining the structure of the message is accessed. The generative grammar model may include a number of blanks and may specify a source along with a grammatical constraint for a term to populate each blank. The method may further include generating the message in accordance with the generative grammar model, and causing the generated message to be published.
US10073839B2
Arrangements described herein relate to language enhancement. Source text can be automatically gathered from a plurality of text sources, the plurality of text sources including at least one social media website, and storing the source text to a thesaurus data infrastructure. Subject text being exposed to thesaurus processing can be received, a context of the subject text can be identified, and the thesaurus data infrastructure can be accessed while the thesaurus queries previously acquired source texts or documents having similar context to identify source text having context similar to the context of the subject text. The identified source text can be analyzed to identify at least one candidate word or phrase contained in the source text to recommend as a replacement for at least one word or phrase contained in the subject text. The identified at least one candidate word or phrase can be recommended as the replacement for the at least one word or phrase contained in the subject text.
US10073831B1
Large lists of domain-specific terms are classified as a particular kind of linguistic object, e.g., lexical answer type T versus canonical answer E, based on features from a domain-specific corpus which have been found to distinguish between the linguistic objects. The distinguishing features can be identified in the corpus based on sets of the linguistic objects derived from question-and-answer pairs. A classifier can be trained using the distinguishing features, and the classification carried out using that classifier. The distinguishing features can include one or more syntactic features or one or more lexical features. The linguistic objects (the T and E training sets) can be extracted from the question-and-answer pairs automatically via text analysis if manually curated lists are not available. The classified terms can be included in a domain-specific lexicon which facilitates a deep question answering system to yield an answer to a question.
US10073820B2
A method executed on an access device includes receiving a markup language file where the markup language file contains a portion of primary text and a portion of secondary text. The method also includes receiving a page number map and utilizing the page number map to render the portion of primary text associated with a print page and the portion of secondary text associated with the print page. Another exemplary method includes displaying the portion of primary text associated with a print page and the portion of secondary text associated with the print page. In yet another exemplary method, the page number map contains a first print page break lineage and a first character offset for the portion of primary text and a second print page break lineage and a second character offset for the portion of secondary text.
US10073811B2
A method for health monitoring of a damper associated with a landing gear is described which includes receiving sensor data from a pressure transducer and an accelerometer and optionally a thermal sensor operably mounted on or near the damper, a computer system, and applying, using the computer system, a diagnostic algorithm to the sensor data to induce and predict the health of the damper.
US10073799B1
The present disclosure pertains to a programmable data width converter device, system and method thereof. Programmable data width converter (pDWC) of the present disclosure can include a control Finite State Machine (FSM) that is configured to receive input values of m and n, and control any or a combination of L (Load Control Signal), S (Shift Control Signal), LL (Load Location Control Signal), and p (programmable shift value) based on the received values of m and n; and a loadable programmable shift register with programmable load location (pSRL) operatively coupled with the control FSM, wherein the pSRL is configured to perform loading and shifting functions based on the L, S, LL, and p values loaded by the control FSM. The pDWC can be configured to programmably convert width of m k-bit word input to n k-bit word output, and wherein 1≤m≤M and 1≤n≤N.
US10073793B2
A data processor includes an access target with the address assigned to a memory space, an access subject that gains access to the access target while specifying address, identifier, and access type, and a memory protection resource including an associative memory to perform an access control. The memory protection resource includes a plurality of entries, each including a region setting unit, an identifier determination information unit, and an attribute setting unit. When the address specified by the access subject at the access is included in the region set in the region setting unit in the entry, the identifier agrees with at least one of the identifiers specified according to the identifier determination information, and the specified access type agrees with the access type set in the attribute setting unit, the memory protection resource permits the access.
US10073792B2
A device includes: a storage medium control unit provided for each type of storage medium to at least read out information from the storage medium; a linkage unit that determines an application program corresponding to a type of a storage medium from which information is to be read out, through a first acquisition unit that acquires first correspondence information in which each application program is associated with a type of a storage medium from which the application program uses information, and determines a storage medium control unit corresponding to the type of the storage medium, through a second acquisition unit that acquires second correspondence information in which a storage medium control unit is associated with a type of a storage medium from which the storage medium control unit can read out information; and a management unit that enables the determined application program to use the determined storage medium control unit.
US10073790B2
An electronic system includes: a processor configured to access operation data; a high speed local memory, coupled to the processor, configured to store a limited amount of the operation data; and a memory subsystem, coupled to the high speed local memory, including: a module memory controller configured to access the operational data for the processor and the high speed local memory, a local cache controller, coupled to the module memory controller, including a fast control bus configured to store the operation data, with critical timing in a first tier memory, and a memory tier controller, coupled to the local cache controller, including a reduced performance control bus configured to store the operation data with non-critical timing in a second tier memory.
US10073786B2
The present application includes apparatuses and methods for compute enabled cache. An example apparatus includes a compute component, a memory and a controller coupled to the memory. The controller configured to operate on a block select and a subrow select as metadata to a cache line to control placement of the cache line in the memory to allow for a compute enabled cache.
US10073751B2
A method for determining cable connections identifies a plurality of cables connected to a link included in a first device. The method identifies a first cable connected to the link included in the first device. The method determines that a second cable connected to is connected to a link included in a second device The method further determines that only one of an inbound and an outbound channel of a signaling lane included in the first cable is operable. The method utilizes a second cable to perform one of disabling signal transmission or detecting loss of signal on the operable channel. The method enables and disables signal transmission on the operable channel to determine that the first cable is connected to the link included in the remote device.
US10073748B2
A failover system and a method of deciding master-slave relationship therefor are provided. The failover system includes a first electronic device, a second electronic device, a decision circuit and at least two isolation modules. The decision circuit is coupled to the first electronic device and the second electronic device and configured to determine operating states of the first electronic device and the second electronic device and output a first selecting signal and a second selecting signal. The at least two isolation modules are coupled to the first electronic device, the second electronic device, and the decision circuit and configured to switch a master-slave relationship between the first electronic device and the second electronic device according to the first selecting signal and the second selecting signal.
US10073747B2
The first computer receives a signal that a second computer is back online after being offline, wherein the second computer was offline because of a failure. The first computer takes a first snapshot of the storage, wherein data that has a higher access frequency is stored on a first drive and data that has a lower access frequency is stored on a second drive. The first computer determines a snapshot difference between the first snapshot and a second snapshot. The first computer transmits the snapshot difference to the second computer, and transmits the data stored on the first drive to the second computer. The first computer promotes the data stored on the second drive to be considered equivalent to data stored drive and transmits the promoted data stored on the second drive to the second computer at the same transmission rate as the data stored on the first drive.
US10073735B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for a seeding mechanism for error detection codes. An error detection code may be generated using specifically modified seed input and stored to data sectors not containing valid data. A data storage device may determine if read attempts are directed to an invalid sector by analysis of the stored error detection code. In some embodiments, an apparatus may determine a first error detection code stored to a target data storage sector does not match a second error detection code calculated for the target data storage sector, compare the first error detection code to a modified error code value to determine whether the target data storage sector contains valid data, and return an indication that the target data storage sector does not contain valid data when the error detection code matches the modified error code value.
US10073734B2
An apparatus comprising a memory and a controller. The memory may be configured to store data. The controller may process a plurality of input/output requests to read/write to/from the memory. The controller may generate read data by performing a hard-decision decode on a codeword received from the memory. If the hard-decision decode fails, the controller may enter an error-recovery process comprising a plurality of recovery procedures. At least one of the recovery procedures may apply an inter-cell interference cancellation technique. The error-recovery process may (a) determine parameters for a soft-decision decode by performing one of the recovery procedures on the codeword, (b) execute the soft-decision decode using the parameters from the recovery procedure performed to generate the read data and (c) if the soft-decision decode fails, repeat (a) and (b) using a next one of the recovery procedures.
US10073730B1
Techniques described and suggested herein include various methods and systems for verifying integrity of redundancy coded data, such as erasure coded data shards. In some embodiments, a quantity of redundancy coded data elements, hereafter referred to as data shards (e.g., erasure coded data shards), sufficient to reconstruct the original data element from which the redundancy coded data elements are derived, is used to generate reconstructed data shards to be used for checking the validity of analogous data shards stored for the original data element.
US10073728B2
Exemplary systems, methods and computer-accessible mediums can be provided that can, for example, determine a camouflaging location(s) of the logic gate(s) using a fault analysis procedure, and can camouflage the logic gate(s) at the location(s) based on the determination. The camouflaging procedure can be performed by replacing the logic gate(s) at the camouflaging location(s) with a further camouflaged gate, which can have a dummy contact(s) or a vias.
US10073725B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to distributed input/output (I/O) virtualization. A number of embodiments include an apparatus comprising a host computing device, a distributed virtualization controller (DVC) disposed on the host computing device, and a virtualized input/output (I/O) device in communication with the DVC.
US10073719B2
In one embodiment, a processor includes an execution unit and at least one last branch record (LBR) register to store address information of a branch taken during program execution. This register may further store a transaction indicator to indicate whether the branch was taken during a transactional memory (TM) transaction. This register may further store an abort indicator to indicate whether the branch was caused by a transaction abort. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10073717B2
The system and method generally relate to reducing heat dissipated within a data center, and more particularly, to a system and method for reducing heat dissipated within a data center through service level agreement analysis, and resultant reprioritization of jobs to maximize energy efficiency. A computer implemented method includes performing a service level agreement (SLA) analysis for one or more currently processing or scheduled processing jobs of a data center using a processor of a computer device. Additionally, the method includes identifying one or more candidate processing jobs for a schedule modification from amongst the one or more currently processing or scheduled processing jobs using the processor of the computer device. Further, the method includes performing the schedule modification for at least one of the one or more candidate processing jobs using the processor of the computer device.
US10073714B2
A data storage device may be configured to use multiple task queues to schedule tasks. The multiple task queues may be configured based on an architecture of the data storage device. In some implementations, the multiple task queues may be used to organize tasks received from an access device. In other implementations, the multiple task queues may be used to identify tasks, and identification of the tasks may be associated with an order of execution of the tasks.
US10073713B2
A source virtual machine (VM) hosted on a source server is migrated to a destination VM on a destination server without first powering down the source VM. After optional pre-copying of the source VM's memory to the destination VM, the source VM is suspended and its non-memory state is transferred to the destination VM; the destination VM is then resumed from the transferred state. In one embodiment, the source VM memory is either paged into the destination VM on demand, or is transferred asynchronously by pre-copying and write-protecting the source VM memory, and then later transferring only the modified pages after the destination VM is resumed. In one embodiment, the source and destination servers share common storage, in which the source VM's virtual disk is stored; this avoids the need to transfer the virtual disk contents.
US10073703B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for generating a list of files accessed during an operating system (OS) boot process to profile the OS boot process, and optimizing the list of files to generate an optimized file list for use in future OS boot processes, where the optimizing is according to a first optimization technique if the files were accessed from a solid state medium and according to a second optimization technique if the files were accessed from a rotating medium. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10073701B2
Systems and methods for implementing a scalable very-large-scale integration (VLSI) architecture to perform compressive sensing (CS) hardware reconstruction for data signals in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. The VLSI architecture is optimized for CS signal reconstruction by implementing a reformulation of the orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) process and utilizing architecture resource sharing techniques. Typically, the VLSI architecture is a CS reconstruction engine that includes a vector and scalar computation cores where the cores can be time-multiplexed (via dynamic configuration) to perform each task associated with OMP. The vector core includes configurable processing elements (PEs) connected in parallel. Further, the cores can be linked by data-path memories, where complex data flow of OMP can be customized utilizing local memory controllers synchronized by a top-level finite-state machine. The computing resources (cores and data-paths) can be reused across the entire OMP process resulting in optimal utilization of the PEs.
US10073695B2
A method of an aspect includes receiving a floating point round-off amount determination instruction. The instruction indicates a source of one or more floating point data elements, indicates a number of fraction bits after a radix point, and indicates a destination storage location. A result including one or more result floating point data elements is stored in the destination storage location in response to the floating point round-off amount determination instruction. Each of the one or more result floating point data elements includes a difference between a corresponding floating point data element of the source in a corresponding position, and a rounded version of the corresponding floating point data element of the source that has been rounded to the indicated number of the fraction bits. Other methods, apparatus, systems, and instructions are disclosed.
US10073691B2
Utilizing several passes of a token among the operating system level virtualization applications (OSLVAs) running on each of an ordered list of nodes selectively upgrade user applications in specific containers after determining that each OSVLA hosting a container to be upgraded is live. A failed liveness check can cause a revision to the list of nodes. Post-upgrade health checks of each application, and a list-wide notification of a completed upgrade of the application instances, can follow a successful upgrade. A roll back of the upgrade across all nodes can follow an unsuccessful upgrade.
US10073686B1
A system includes reception of a request from a first execution thread to post a message to a second execution thread, a payload of the message comprising an object including a function and serialized text of the function, and, in response to the request, deletion of the function from the object to create a modified object, and calling of a method to post a second message to the second execution thread, a payload of the second message comprising the modified object and the serialized text of the function. A request is received from the second execution thread to handle the second message, the serialized text of the function is deserialized, and the deserialized text of the function is inserted into the modified object to generate a fourth object.
US10073682B1
A local scope definition associated with a first node in a hierarchical application tree is received. A qualified hierarchical application tree, which is a pruned version of the hierarchical application tree, is determined for a set of one or more evaluated scopes, including by propagating the local scope definition to a second node which is a child of the first node. A qualified application is generated, including by evaluating application instructions included in the qualified hierarchical application tree using the set of evaluated scopes.
US10073681B2
The present disclosure contemplates a variety of improved methods and systems for enabling developers to program and control a variety of disparate devices coupled to the framework and/or ambient operating system. The Home API can expose operation of the devices in a natural and intuitive manner, facilitating control of unknown devices by high-level commands.
US10073675B2
A control unit for a motor vehicle includes a central processing unit, which is configured to execute one or more control programs. The control unit has a communication interface, and a memory for storing the program data of respective control programs. The control unit evaluates a program data update request, provided at the communication interface, for a control program that is to be updated. The program data update request includes an address of an external data source, which is independent of the control unit and from which the respective current program data of the control program to be updated can be requested. The control unit outputs a program data request to the external data source, reads in the program data of the respective control programs, which are present at the communication interface in response to the program data request, and stores the program data in the program memory.
US10073670B2
Ambient noise sampled by a mobile device from a local environment is used to automatically trigger actions associated with content currently playing on the mobile device. In some implementations, subtitles or closed captions associated with the currently playing content are automatically invoked and displayed on a user interface based on a level of ambient noise. In some implementations, audio associated with the currently playing content is adjusted or muted. Actions can be automatically triggered based on a comparison of the sampled ambient noise, or an audio fingerprint of the sampled ambient noise, with reference data, such as a reference volume level or a reference audio fingerprint. In some implementations, a reference volume level can be learned on the mobile device based on ambient noise samples.
US10073666B2
A notification manager is provided that manages notifications for a user. The notification manager detects a notification event and determines a context of the notification event. The notification manager determines a target device for the notification event based on the determined context and one or more available displays. The notification manager then generates a notification on one or more of the one or more available displays to direct the user's attention to the target device.
US10073665B2
An image forming apparatus includes a management application and a common application. The management application manages a counter. The common application is other than the management application. The management application causes the image forming apparatus to function as: a counter managing unit that manages the counter that counts a count of executions of specific processing by the common application; and an execution count unit that counts the count of executions using the counter managed by the counter managing unit.
US10073663B2
A network device that is capable of notifying of a factor of an error when reboot in response to an instruction cannot be performed due to an operating state. The network device is connected to a network. A receiving unit receives a reboot instruction through the network. A determination unit determines propriety of reboot based on an operating state of the network device when the receiving unit receives a reboot instruction. A reply unit replies information indicating no error when the determination unit determines that reboot is available, and replies information indicating an error together with information indicating a factor of unavailable reboot when the determination unit determines that reboot is unavailable.
US10073657B2
According to an embodiment, an update request reception unit receives a data update request to update data stored in a storage. A read request unit makes a read request to read data from the storage. A data reception unit receives the data from the storage. An update value calculator calculates an update value of the received data. A write request unit makes a write request to write the calculated update value into the storage. A data processing execution unit executes reading and writing on the storage. A history processing unit generates a history of the reading and deletes a history of reading corresponding to the writing. An update information estimator estimates, from the generated history, update information indicating how the data is to be updated. A data update unit updates the data read according to the estimated update information and output new updated data to the data reception unit.
US10073656B2
An I/O manager may be configured to service I/O requests pertaining to ephemeral data of a virtual machine using a storage device that is separate from and/or independent of a primary storage resource to which the I/O request is directed. Ephemeral data may be removed from ephemeral storage in response to a removal condition and/or trigger, such as a virtual machine reboot. The I/O manager may manage transfers of ephemeral virtual machine data in response to virtual machines migrating between host computing devices. The I/O manager may be further configured to cache virtual machine data, and/or manage shared file data that is common to two or more virtual machines operating on a host computing device.
US10073648B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for allocating, by a source of one or more sources, a segment of a data file of a transient memory for exclusive access by the source, the transient memory being a distributed in-memory file system that supports remote direct memory access; writing, by the source, data from an initial partition to one or more blocks within the allocated segment of the data file, wherein a portion of the initial partition is written to a first block of the one or more blocks; publishing, by the source, the segment of the data file of the transient memory to be accessible for reading by one or more sinks; and reading by a particular sink of the one or more sinks, a particular block of the published segment of the data file of the transient memory, wherein the particular block is associated with the particular sink.
US10073630B2
A storage module may be configured to perform log storage operations on a storage log maintained on a non-volatile storage medium. An I/O client may utilize storage services of the storage module to maintain an upper-level log. The storage module may be configured to coordinate log storage and/or management operations between the storage log and the upper-level log. The coordination may include adapting a segment size of the logs to reduce write amplification. The coordination may further include coordinating validity information between log layers, adapting log grooming operations to reduce storage recovery overhead, defragmenting upper-level log data within the storage address space, preventing fragmentation of upper-level log data, and so on. The storage module may coordinate log operations by use of log coordination messages communicated between log layers.
US10073626B2
Some implementations include a method of managing a hosted non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) based storage subsystem that includes NVRAM devices. The method includes: receiving, at a device driver on the host computing device, write requests each requesting to write a respective unit of data to the NVRAM-based storage subsystem; categorizing the write requests into subgroups of write requests, where write requests within respective subgroups are mutually exclusive; ascertaining a load condition of each of several of the NVRAM devices of the NVRAM-based storage subsystem; identifying a target location on at least one NVRAM device to service a particular subgroup of write requests according to the ascertained load conditions of the NVRAM devices of the NVRAM-based storage subsystem; and servicing the particular subgroup of write requests by writing the corresponding units of data to the identified target location on the at least one NVRAM device of the NVRAM-based storage subsystem.
US10073625B2
The present disclosure relates to a system and methods of controlling a system of storage devices. In particular, the present disclosure relates to methods of controlling peak power and energy consumption in storage systems due to storage devices while maintaining data availability. The system implements a method for maintaining data availability in a storage subsystem by determining a plurality of storage devices to include in a fixed set of storage devices based on a fault tolerance system. The storage devices included in the fixed set are prevented from transitioning between RPM spin modes. The method further involves controlling peak power and energy consumed by the storage subsystem which may include transitioning the storage devices not included in the fixed set from a high RPM operational mode to a low RPM operational mode to reduce peak power and energy consumption.
US10073623B2
A memory system, may include: a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks each including a plurality of stacked word lines; and a controller suitable for dividing the plurality of word lines into two or more word line groups according to heights thereof, programming data of a relatively high access frequency into a word line group having word lines of relatively low physical heights and data of a relatively low access frequency into a word line group having word lines of relatively high physical heights among the word line groups included in each of the memory blocks.
US10073619B2
An interface circuit may include a first FIFO circuit and a second FIFO circuit. The first FIFO circuit may generate first output data based on a first sampling signal and a second sampling signal. The second FIFO circuit may generate second output data based on a third sampling signal and a fourth sampling signal. The first FIFO circuit and the second FIFO circuit may be cross-reset.
US10073618B2
A method and system. A first computer device receives a selection of a form field in a web page from a second computer device that is displaying a virtual keyboard on a display screen in the second computer device. The first and second computer devices are different computer devices. The first computer device determines one or more candidate character keys. The first computer device removes one or more matching character keys from the one or more candidate character keys that match keys in the virtual keyboard. The first computer device determines one or more supplement character keys. The first computer device communicates the one or more supplement character keys to the second computer device. The first computer device causes the second computer device to simultaneously display, on the display screen in the second computer device, the virtual keyboard and the one or more supplement character keys.
US10073615B2
An electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface and a display, that includes one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface, displays a plurality of application icons, where the plurality of application icons include a respective application icon corresponding to a respective application. While a focus selector is over the respective application icon, the device detects a gesture that includes a contact on the touch-sensitive surface; and in response to detecting the gesture: when the contact had a maximum intensity during the gesture that was below a respective intensity threshold, the device displays an application window of the respective application; and when the contact reached an intensity during the gesture that was above the respective intensity threshold, the device displays a plurality of user interface objects that correspond to the respective application.
US10073613B2
The present invention is applicable to the field of terminal technologies, and provides a processing method and apparatus, and a terminal. The method includes: acquiring a sensing position on a sensitive screen of a screen; acquiring, according to the acquired sensing position on the sensitive screen and a preset correspondence between a sensing position on the sensitive screen and a display position on the screen, a display position, corresponding to the acquired sensing position on the sensitive screen, on the screen; displaying, when the display position is located in an operable area displayed on the screen, a touch button at the sensing position, corresponding to the operable area displayed on the screen, on the sensitive screen; and receiving an operation instruction for the touch button, where the operation instruction is used to instruct to perform an operation on the operable area.
US10073609B2
An exemplary information-processing device includes: an operation receiving unit that receives an operational input made by a user for moving a display area that has area that overlaps with a predetermined area; a display controlling unit that controls a display unit to display a graphic in the display area; a determining unit that determines a velocity of movement of the display area in accordance with a value derived from the operational input, and; an area managing unit that manages the display area to move the display area at the velocity of movement under a condition that, when a portion of the display area moves outside a predetermined portion of the predetermined area, a distance between the display area and the predetermined area does not exceed a threshold.
US10073606B2
A control method causing a computer of the information apparatus to: display a display screen on the display, the display screen representing a floor plan for one floor including at least two rooms; display device icons representing target devices on the display screen, the device icons including an illumination icon which represents illumination devices, the illumination icon being commonly used for the illumination devices installed in two or more rooms of the at least two rooms; and cause the floor plan represented by the display screen to function as an operation screen for controlling the illumination devices, and display a region of the floor plan with brightness less than specific brightness, when it is sensed that the illumination icon is selected, the region corresponding to a room in which an illumination device whose power is in an off state is installed.
US10073600B1
A computer-implemented method and system automatically adjusts the size of a selection area to aid in a selection of an object generated by a computerized system. The method and system detect a series of movements of a pointer, where the pointer is utilized to select an entity of the object. The series of movements are small and continuous. A set of entities that occupies the selection area is determined and the entities are analyzed for an indication of a level of difficulty in selecting one of the entities. The size of the selection area is reduced when the indication implies that the level of difficulty will be decreased after reducing the size of the selection area.
US10073594B2
An approach is provided for monitoring disk utilization at an object level. At a first time a first size of an object (i.e., integrated file system or library) in a System i computing platform is determined. At a second time a second size of the object is determined. A difference between the first and second sizes is determined. The difference is determined to be greater than a threshold. Based on the difference exceeding the threshold, an alert is sent indicating growth at the object level rather than at an auxiliary storage pool level. Sizes of System i libraries are monitored at multiple dates and stored in a repository. Sizes of the libraries at user-entered start and end dates are retrieved from the repository. Differences between the sizes of the libraries at the start and end dates are determined and presented.
US10073584B2
The present disclosure generally relates to retrieving and displaying contextually-relevant media content. In some embodiments, a device receives a request to display contextually-relevant media and, in response, displays a representation of a collection of media items relevant to a context of the device. In some embodiments, a device displays a visual media item of a sequence of items and, in response to receiving a swipe gesture, displays a detail user interface comprising related content for the media item. In some embodiments, a device, while displaying a first detail user interface, displays an affordance corresponding to a plurality of individuals identified as having attended a first event, that when selected, causes display of visual media corresponding to a plurality of events attended by the individuals. In some embodiments, a device, in response to user input, obtains an automatically-generated collection of visual media and displays a corresponding affordance.
US10073577B2
A current output circuit includes a separation circuit that separates a digital pseudo sine wave into first and second digital pseudo half-waves; a first digital-to-analog (DA) converter that converts the first digital pseudo half-wave into a first analog half-wave signal; a second DA converter that converts the second digital pseudo half-wave into a second analog half-wave signal; and a voltage-current conversion circuit that converts voltages of the first and second half-wave signals into currents and outputs a current obtained by combining the currents, wherein the pseudo sine wave is represented by a digital code having an n (n is a natural number) bit width, and the separation circuit includes: a plurality of OR circuits that output a logical OR between a value of a most significant bit representing a code in the digital code and values of bits other than the most significant bit as the first pseudo half-wave.
US10073574B2
Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise methods and apparatus for increased sensitivity of a capacitive proximity sensor. The method and apparatus may comprise additional external capacitors coupled in parallel with internal variable capacitors to increase the effective capacitance of a detection circuit allowing for a larger sensing element, and therefore a stronger sensing field, without increasing the applied voltage or the internal capacitance of the proximity sensor. In alternative embodiments, the methods and apparatus may be configured to operate as one of a transmission electrode and a reception electrode to increase the strength of the sensing field.
US10073567B2
Disclosed is an interactive display system, comprising a main control unit for processing information, a display unit for generating a display image, one or more remote control units, and a monitoring module assembly; the main control unit has a communication connection with the display unit and the monitoring module assembly; each remote control unit comprises an infrared emission module assembly used to emit infrared light of two different wavelengths to the display image to generate an infrared light spot; the monitoring module assembly comprises a monitoring lens for capturing the infrared light spot within the display image, a first light splitting element, and a first and a second infrared monitoring element with respect to the different wavelength from the remote control. This disclosure provides multiple-point interaction on a single display image. User can easily interact with the display image just like the touch-panel which helps enhance interactive experience.
US10073563B2
An electronic system includes a processing device and a trellis pattern of conductors coupled to the processing device. The trellis pattern of conductors forms a multiple capacitors and the processing device is configured to sense a capacitance of each of the capacitors. A host is coupled to the processing device. The host includes decision logic to determine a state of the trellis pattern of conductors responsive to a signal that indicates a capacitance of one or more capacitors sensed by the processing device.
US10073557B2
A force sensing structure and a force sensing device including the same are provided. The force sensing structure is configured to detect a proximity of an object to the force sensor from an upside and a force applied by the object to the force touch sensor. The force sensing structure includes a first electrode and a first capacitance material layer. The first capacitance material layer is disposed adjacent to the first electrode. When the object approaches the force touch sensor, the force touch sensor is configured to detect the proximity of the object according to a first capacitance variation, and when the object contacts the force sensor and deforms of the first capacitance material layer, the force touch sensor is configured to detect the force applied by the object according to a second capacitance variation.
US10073555B2
A sensing device includes a comparator, a first and a second variable capacitor units. The first and second variable capacitor units charge a first and a second comparator inputs, respectively, according to a first and a second driving signals, such that the first and second comparator inputs have a first and a second voltages, respectively, in which a voltage level of the first driving signal is higher than a voltage level of the second driving signal. The comparator is configured to compare the first voltage and the second voltage to generate a comparator output signal. The first variable capacitor unit is adjusted according to the comparator output signal to perform potential compensation for the first comparator input, or the second variable capacitor unit is adjusted according to the comparator output signal to perform potential compensation for the second comparator input.
US10073549B2
The present invention relates to the production of a layer structure, comprising the following process steps: i) coating a substrate with a composition at least comprising silver nanowires and a solvent; ii) at least partial removal of the solvent, thereby obtaining a substrate that is coated with an electrically conductive layer, the electrically conductive layer at least comprising the silver nanowires; iii) bringing into contact selected areas of the electrically conductive layer with an etching composition, thereby reducing the conductivity of the electrically conductive layer in these selected areas, wherein the etching composition comprises an organic compound capable of releasing chlorine, bromine or iodine, a compound containing hypochloride, a compound containing hypo-bromide or a mixture of at least two of these compounds. The invention also relates to a layer structure obtainable by this method, a layer structure, the use of a layer structure, an electronic component and the use of an organic compound.
US10073548B2
Various embodiments provide detection of a stylus at a large distance from a surface of a device, such as a tablet, by increasing the stylus' transmitted signal strength. In addition, signal strength transmitted by the stylus is lowered when the stylus is close to the surface of the device to avoid saturating of a receiving circuit of the device and conserve power. The distance between the stylus and the surface of the device is determined by measuring the strength of a signal received by the stylus and/or a signal received by the device.
US10073537B2
An electronic apparatus includes a user interface device to set and control a function of an electronic apparatus, including a display unit configured to display screens for option groups of the function, a knob configured to enable a manipulation by a user, a depth sensor unit configured to sense depth of the knob, and a control unit, if the function is selected, configured such that an option group transition of the selected function is performed based on depth information according to the manipulation by the user, and a screen of an option group to which the option group transition is made is displayed.
US10073535B2
A user, such as the driver of a vehicle, to retrieve information related to a point of interest (POI) near the vehicle by pointing at the POI or performing some other gesture to identify the POI. Gesture recognition is performed on the gesture to generate a target region that includes the POI that the user identified. After generating the target region, information about the POI can be retrieved by querying a server-based POI service with the target region or by searching in a micromap that is stored locally. The retrieved POI information can then be provided to the user via a display and/or speaker in the vehicle. This process beneficially allows a user to rapidly identify and retrieve information about a POI near the vehicle without having to navigate a user interface by manipulating a touchscreen or physical buttons.
US10073525B2
Systems and methods or a low profile haptic actuator are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system for a low profile haptic actuator includes: a moveable surface comprising a first coil, the moveable surface configured to move in a degree of freedom; a fixed surface beneath the moveable surface, the fixed surface comprising a second coil coupled underneath the first coil; a suspension coupled to the fixed surface and the moveable surface and configured to suspend the moveable surface; and a controller coupled to the first coil and the second coil.
US10073520B2
A method and system for displaying of a holographic image of an object in a predefined area. A positioning unit is configured for detecting positions of at least one viewer within the predefined area, a sensor is configured for detecting the environmental conditions within the predefined area, a processor is configured for collecting data including detected positions of viewers and detected environmental condition and calculating a location for displaying holographic image based on the collected data.
US10073517B1
A position tracking system includes an array of detection pixels coupled to a head-mounted display (HMD) configured to capture light signals reflected from an environment surrounding the HMD. The position tracking system maintains, in a database, signal data related to a plurality of positions of the HMD. The position tracking system determines signal data related to a position of the HMD, based on the light signals captured during a time instant of the position of the HMD. The position tracking system matches the determined signal data to the maintained signal data, determines a present position of the HMD based on the matching, updates position data of the HMD with the determined position, and provides the updated position data of the HMD.
US10073516B2
Inertial sensors within a head mounted display are used to track movement of the head mounted display. The tracked movement of the head mounted display is correlated to an action within a virtual reality scene that is currently displayed to a user wearing the head mounted display. The action within the virtual reality scene is based on a context of the virtual reality scene that is currently displayed. The detected movement of the head mounted display can be combined with other sensor data, such as gaze detection data, to determine the action within the virtual reality scene. In this manner, movements of the user as detected using the inertial sensors within the head mounted display are used as inputs to cause actions within the current context of the virtual reality scene as displayed within the head mounted display to the user.
US10073509B2
An electronic device includes a multi-input power system and a power management system. The multi-input power system is configured to combine a first power signal with a second power signal, and output a combined power signal. The power management system is configured to manage the combined power signal. The electronic device supports a standard of USB (Universal Serial Bus) Type-C Power Delivery.
US10073503B2
A portable electronic device including a first body, a second body, a cam, and a linking rod is provided. The first body has a reaming hole. The second body has a rotating shaft movably coupled to the reaming hole in pivoting and penetrating manner. The cam is assembled to a side surface of the rotating shaft to rotate along with the rotating shaft. The linking rod has a first end and a second end opposite to each other. The first end is pivoted to the cam, and the second end is pivoted to the first body. When the second body is pivoted relative to the first body via the rotating shaft, the cam rotates along with the rotating shaft and the linking rod drives the cam and the rotating shaft to move along the reaming hole so as to move the second body towards or away from the first body.
US10073502B2
The invention in at least one embodiment includes a system that includes a chassis having a frame present within a housing where the frame includes at least two plates having a base and two grills running widthwise along and on opposite ends of the base, a plurality of walls between the at least two plates, and at least one baffle running between the plates at an angle to the plates; at least one power supply; and a plurality of fans electrically connected to the at least one power supply; wherein there are at least two air flow paths through the chassis that pass through at least one fan and pass at least one baffle through a duct defined by the housing and the frame. In at least one embodiment, the chassis receives at least one storage drive.
US10073496B2
Examples disclosed herein provide a hinge for a foldable display unit. One example hinge includes a plurality of brackets. A bracket from the plurality of brackets is to operably couple to an adjacent bracket from the plurality of brackets, to be folded into an arcuate shape. The hinge further includes a plurality of links to operably couple the plurality of brackets to each other. A first end of a first link from the plurality of links is rotatably connected to an end of a second link from the plurality of links according to a first frictional value. A second end of the first link is rotatably connected to an end of a third link from the plurality of links according to a second frictional value less than the first frictional value.
US10073488B2
A joystick apparatus has a housing and a printed circuit board in the housing. A shaft is pivotably connected to a U-joint assembly to allow movement of the shaft relative to the center position within a circle. A concentric reduced power zone circle is associated with the circle. Operation of the joystick within the reduced power zone circle uses less power than operation outside of the reduced power zone. A knob and a magnet are located on the shaft. A Hall effect integrated circuit detects movement of the magnet in response to corresponding movement of the shaft by a user and generates a corresponding proportional joystick output signal indicative of a direction and an extent of rotation of the shaft. A multifunction joystick control system has a joystick configured to provide multiple operational modalities on a joystick. An electrical interface connects the joystick apparatus and the host central processing unit.
US10073487B2
A system and method is provided for an adjustable spring plunger bumper with high initial load and low final load. The spring plunger bumper includes an exterior body surrounding a plunger. The plunger has a plunger indent into which a displacement ball is induced by a ramp sleeve biased by a ramp sleeve spring. As the plunger is displaced relative to the exterior body, the displacement ball contacts a lower displacement ball inclined surface, which provides a high initial load resisting the displacement of the plunger. However, as the displacement of the plunger continues, the displacement ball comes into contact with a smooth lower displacement ball indent surface which provides a lower load. A return spring is positioned between the plunger and the exterior body to return them to their initial position relative to each other when the displacement of the plunger is removed.
US10073486B2
According to an embodiment, a device includes a power supply terminal configured to provide a power supply signal to a plurality of functional components and a power supply shaping circuit coupled to the power supply terminal. The power supply shaping circuit is configured to determine a variation signal of the power supply signal and shape changes in the power supply signal by controlling a dummy load coupled to the power supply terminal based on the variation signal.
US10073485B2
According to an embodiment, a method for compensating instantaneous power failure includes determining whether an input voltage of a plurality of power cells is less than or equal to a first threshold voltage, decreasing, when the input voltage is less than or equal to the first threshold voltage, an output frequency of the inverter, determining whether a voltage of a direct current (DC) link is greater than or equal to a second threshold voltage, and increasing, when the voltage of the DC link is greater than or equal to the second threshold voltage, the output frequency of the inverter. Overvoltage trip may be prevented at the power restoration time and overcurrent trip caused by increase in the slip frequency may be prevented. Thereby, reliability of a medium inverter may be enhanced, and a continuous operation time increased compared to the conventional cases may be ensured.
US10073478B1
A voltage regulator includes a first transistor including a first terminal to receive an input voltage and a second transistor including a first terminal coupled to a second terminal of the first transistor. A charge pump couples to the second transistor and to an output voltage node. An amplifier receives a feedback voltage derived from the output voltage and generates a control signal to gates of the transistors. Responsive to the input voltage being more than a threshold larger than the output voltage, the amplifier maintains the second transistor off and the first transistor on such that current flows through the first transistor to the output voltage node but not the second transistor. Responsive to the input voltage being less than the threshold amount, the amplifier operates the first transistor in a triode mode and turns on the second transistor to provide current to the charge pump.
US10073471B2
A pneumatic control and measuring device and seat comfort system with such a device. The pneumatic control and measuring device includes a valve and a pressure sensor, wherein the valve includes an input channel, a pressure channel, an output channel and a sealing element switched or switchable by an actuator. The sealing element is configured to connect the input channel with the pressure channel in that a supply pressure provided in the compressed air supply channel is or can be provided at an output connection of the valve fluidically communicating with the pressure channel. A pressure sensor for capturing a pressure present at the output connection is a printed-circuit-board-integrated pressure sensor.
US10073469B2
A flow meter includes an inlet side switching valve, an outlet side switching valve on a downstream of the inlet side valve, and a control valve on a downstream of the outlet side valve that are connected with each other by flow passages having internal volumes, a pressure sensor on an upstream side of the control valve, and a larger flow rate measuring section for calculating a flow rate based on a build-down volume of an internal volume of the passage between an outlet of the inlet side valve and an inlet of the control valve, and a smaller flow rate measuring section for calculating a flow rate based on a build-down volume of an inner capacity of the passage between an outlet of the outlet side valve and the inlet of the control valve.
US10073468B2
A sprinkler controller in a poultry house having a processor, a data storage device operatively connected to the processor, the data storage device having instructions for programming the processor, and an input/output module operatively connected to the processor. The input/output module is configured to communicate with at least one valve for controlling a flow of fluid between a fluid source and at least one sprinkler nozzle. The at least one valve has an open position permitting the flow of fluid, and a closed position inhibiting the flow of fluid, and the position of the valve being determined by the processor. The processor is programmed to set the valve in the open position at a start of an activity promotion interval, and to set the valve in the closed position at the end of the activity promotion interval. The duration of the activity promotion interval is selected such that a sufficient amount of fluid is dispersed through the sprinkler nozzle to promote physical activity in the poultry. The start of the activity promotion interval is predetermined based on a frequency of operation parameter indicative of a number of activity promotion intervals in a time period, and a value for the frequency of operation parameter being selected to promote growth of the poultry.
US10073467B2
A traveling control apparatus includes an operation amount calculating unit for calculating the amount of operations for controlling at least one of a driving mechanism and a braking mechanism of a vehicle to make the difference between a target position and the actual position of the vehicle small; a determining unit for determining whether the actual position follows the target position; and a target position setting unit for setting the target position that changes with time passage, when it is determined by the determining unit that the actual position follows the target position. The target position setting unit sets the target position so a change in the target position with the time passage becomes smaller than that in the case where it is determined that the actual position follows the target position, when it is determined by the determining unit that the actual position does not follow the target position.
US10073465B1
Provided herein are systems and methods for scanning an optical sensor on a platform required to operate within a medium having a different pressure than the internal pressure of the sensor, including both underwater and high-altitude applications. For the case of underwater platforms, portions of the vehicle may be pulled or driven by propulsive forces through the water, whereas other portions of the vehicle may carry the platform for optical scanning, attached and rotationally controlled with respect to the driven portion of the vehicle. The platform may be rotated with respect to the portion that is pulled or driven through the water or other fluid. In some embodiments, that driven portion remains rotationally fixed with respect to the water. Other embodiments of vehicles in different environments may interface with different fluids or gasses and may be driven through the fluids or gases in similar manners.
US10073457B2
A control system for an off-road vehicle configured to traverse an off-road vehicle through a field by determining whether a partial row exist or contour differences exist between opposite edges if a route of traversal is used. If a partial row or a contour difference exist adjust the route to increase overlap of rows of the off-road vehicle to distribute the width of the field evenly among the rows or incrementally adjust each row from a first contour of a first edge to a second contour of a second edge.
US10073447B2
In industrial machine abnormality diagnosis, if the machine is diagnosed to have abnormality, then sensor data from the machine needs to be sent to a management center for causal analysis. However, since machines operated at a remote site cannot always communicate with a management center, it has been found that, in some cases, sensor data that has failed to be sent from a machine remains in the memory of the machine, resulting in lack of available memory capacity. In view of this, the present invention determines beforehand whether the diagnosed machine will run out of available memory capacity before the completion of sending the amount of sensor data required for causal analysis for the machine, and instructs a maintenance person to recover memory. This determination as to whether the machine will run out of available memory capacity before the completion of sending the amount of sensor data required for the causal analysis for the machine, is made as follows: (1) first, the machine predicts the run-out date on which the machine will run out of memory capacity for storing sensor data generated in the machine, and sends a notification of the predicted run-out date to the management center for the machine; and (2) next, from the amount of sensor data required for the causal analysis and the reception rate of sensor data, the management center calculates the number of days required to retrieve the necessary data for the causal analysis and determines whether the management center can retrieve the data by the predicted run-out date.
US10073427B2
An operation detecting device of an opening and closing body for a vehicle, includes: a detecting section that detects an operation by a user with respect to an opening and closing body of a vehicle; an input section that receives an opening and closing body motion signal which indicates whether or not the opening and closing body is in motion or idle; a determination section that determines whether or not the operation is performed using different detection conditions for a case in which the opening and closing body is in motion and a case in which the opening and closing body is idle; and an output section that outputs a control signal which causes the opening and closing body to move or stop based on the determination result of the determination section.
US10073424B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for improving 3D printing systems and techniques include, in one aspect, a system including: three dimensional (3D) printer hardware; and at least one computer communicatively coupled with the 3D printer hardware, the at least one computer programed to receive 3D print type inputs for an object to be 3D printed and create a 3D print profile including parameters for 3D printing the object using the 3D printer hardware by matching the 3D print type inputs against a database.
US10073422B2
A demand response adaptor is provided such that, depending on the device connected to the demand response adapter, the demand response control system can be provided with the second constraints corresponding to the device connected to the demand response adapter, wherein the demand response control system comprises software components for making the decision based on the first constraints, the second constraints and the third constraints, wherein the controller comprises software components for detecting the start of a program by analyzing the amount of electrical power used by the device in function of time detected by the sensor and wherein the controller of the adaptor comprises software components for switching the relay to the nonconductive state when the start of the program is detected until, based on the decision of the demand response control system, the controller switches the relay switch to the conductive state.
US10073419B2
A computerized watch is described that includes a cover that forms an outer surface of the computerized watch, a screen configured to output graphical information for display, a set of physical watch hands positioned between the cover and the screen and configured to present a time of day. One or more computer processors and a memory comprising instructions. The instructions, when executed, cause the one or more computer processors to responsive to determining that the computerized watch is operating in a time display mode, manipulate the set of physical watch hands such that the set of physical watch hands present the time of day by obscuring a portion of a display region of the screen, and responsive to determining that the computerized watch is not operating in the time display mode, manipulate the set of physical watch hands such that the set of physical hands do not obscure the screen.
US10073417B2
A system for generating a light beam having a plurality of orthogonal function modes includes a light source for generating a plane wave light beam. A MicroElectroMechanical (MEM) system including an array of micro-mirrors for generating the light beam having the plurality of orthogonal function modes applied thereto responsive to the plane wave light beam and control signals for controlling the array of micro-mirrors. A controller generates the control signals to control a position of each of a plurality of micro-mirrors of the array of micro-mirrors. The controller controls the position of the micro-mirrors to generate a plurality of holograms for applying the plurality of orbital angular momentum modes to the plane wave light beam responsive to the control signals.
US10073406B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main body, a moving part supported movably relative to the main body, a support portion provided in the main body to support the moving part movably, a rack provided in one of the main body and the moving part and having a rack gear, a damper gear provided in the other of the main body and the moving part to be meshed with the rack gear, a damper configured to apply resistance force to rotation of the damper gear, and a restricting portion provided in the other of the main body and the moving part to be in contact with an abutting portion extending along the rack gear in the rack, the restricting portion restricting a position of the rack to prevent the rack gear from separating from the damper gear.
US10073400B2
An image formation device includes: an image formation section configured to develop, using toner, an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier based on job image information, thereby transferring a first image onto continuous paper; a hardware processor configured to determine whether or not a serial printing distance is equal to or shorter than a first threshold, wherein the serial printing distance is a distance at which the first image is printed on the continuous paper, and control the image formation section to print the first image on the continuous paper when the serial printing distance is equal to or shorter than a first threshold, and to decrease the proportion of deteriorated toner in a developer by printing the first image and a second image on the continuous paper when the serial printing distance exceeds a first threshold, wherein the second image is based on an image information.
US10073392B2
A fixing member includes a base material, an elastic layer, and a surface layer, all of which are laminated in the order in a thickness direction, wherein the surface layer has a porous structure formed by a plurality of pores, each of which has a pore size of less than 1 μm.
US10073381B2
In the image forming device, the main body has a loading port. The image bearing unit is configured to be detachably attached to the main body thorough the loading port. The toner unit is configured to be detachably attached to the main body thorough the loading port. The developer unit is configured to be detachably attached to the main body thorough the loading port. The toner unit, the developer unit, and the image bearing unit are located in this order from the loading port to an inside of the main body, when the toner unit, the developer unit, and the image bearing unit are attached in the main body. The toner unit is configured to be independently detached from the main body, when the image bearing unit and the developer unit are attached to the main body.
US10073377B2
A developing cartridge includes a developing roller, a developer bag, a housing, and a shaft. The developer bag stores a developer therein. The housing includes a developer storage chamber accommodating the developer bag therein. The housing supports the developing roller. The shaft is fixed to the developer bang and movable pull the developer bag theretoward.
US10073371B2
An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor, a light source, an optical scanning device, an image bearer, an image density sensor, an image processing circuit, and a light source driver. The plurality of images are formed with a plurality of light intensities and a plurality of image area rates on the image bearer. The image density sensor detects a plurality of image densities of the plurality of images at a plurality of positions in a main scanning direction. The image processing circuit determines a light intensity correction value to correct an image density of a target image in the main scanning direction based on the plurality of light intensities, image area rates, image densities, and positions, and the image area rate of the target image, and outputs a control signal to adjust a light intensity. The light source driver adjusts the light intensity based on the control signal.
US10073342B2
A substrate having a target material layer is provided. A first hard mask layer, a second hard mask layer, and a photoresist layer are formed on the target material layer. The photoresist layer is transferred into first patterns on the second hard mask layer. Regions of the second hard mask layer not protected by the first patterns are etched away, thereby forming second patterns. The first patterns are trimmed to form trimmed features. A conformal spacer material layer is deposited on the trimmed features, the second patterns, and the first hard mask. The spacer material layer is etched to form first spacers on sidewalls of the trimmed features, and second spacers on sidewalls of the second patterns. The trimmed features are removed. Regions of the second patterns not protected by the first spacers are removed, thereby forming patterns with a reduced, fine pitch.
US10073332B1
The patent discloses projection display equipment which comprises a shell and a detachable shell cover, wherein a light source device, an optical conversion device, a driver board provided with a video input interface, a power circuit board provided with a power interface, and a loudspeaker are arranged in the shell, a front air outlet and a rear air outlet are formed in the side faces of the shell, and supporting feet are arranged at the lower end of the shell; the light source device is connected with the driver board and the power circuit board through wires; the driver board and the power circuit board are connected through a wire; the loudspeaker is connected with the power circuit board through a wire; the light source device is connected with a radiator; a ventilating fan is arranged beside a light source lamp circuit board, the power circuit board and the loudspeaker.
US10073321B2
A generator of short optical pulses includes: a generator of optical pulses with a wavelength equal to λ/2 and a spectral width less than λ/3; a generator of optical pulses of a duration less than 10 picoseconds at a wavelength λ/3; a device for recombining the pulses from the generators; a parametric amplification device receiving the output of the recombination device as input; a filter extracting, from the output of the amplification device, a band centered about a wavelength λ; a second harmonic generator receiving the output of the filter and generating a band centered over a wavelength λ/2; and a programmable device making it possible to temporally adjust the pulses corresponding to the bands, in order to allow for the generation of a pulse with a wavelength equal to λ/3 and of a duration less than the period of the optical cycle.
US10073319B2
An optical signal transmitter produces optical signals comprising QAM modulated vector signals generated using a single external electro-optical modulator operated in conjunction with a wavelength selective switch. The transmission processing achieves adaptive photonic frequency multiplication and comprises QAM modulated signals with high order constellations such as 8-QAM, 16-QAM, 32-QAM and 64-QAM.
US10073315B2
A display device includes a polymer layer including dichroic dyes and a liquid crystal, which is not mixed or reacted with the polymer layer, dispersed in the polymer layer. The polymer and the liquid crystal have different refractive indices from each other.
US10073313B2
A provided is a liquid crystal display device with a high definition screen and less color mixture. On an array substrate, a pixel is formed between the adjacent video signal lines, a color filter is formed within the pixel, a flattening film is formed on the color filter, a lower layer is formed on the flattening film, and an upper layer having a slit is formed on the lower layer with an interlayer insulating film interposed therebetween; and on the array substrate, an opposite substrate is arranged with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween. When a distance from the top of the video signal line working as a light shielding film to the bottom of the liquid crystal layer is defined as d and a space between the centers of the video signal lines separating the pixel is defined as w, a relation of d≤0.3w is satisfied.
US10073312B2
The invention provides a structure for LCD panel, by disposing a first and a second common voltage buses (Com1, Com2) on the two sides of the active area (AA) of the LCD panel, and the first common voltage bus (Com1) carrying a first common voltage Vcoml different from a second common voltage Vcom2 carried on the second common voltage bus (Com2), in combination with different sub-pixel routings to achieve the inversion or dot inversion driving mode, solve the image sticking, crosstalk and flicker problems and improve display quality of the LCD panel.
US10073309B2
A lateral electric field type liquid crystal display device having a curved display surface, comprises: a curved first substrate including a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a pixel electrode, and a common electrode; a curved second substrate that is disposed opposite to the first substrate, the second substrate including a polarizing plate; a liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween; a sealing material bonding the first substrate and the second substrate together; and a driver that outputs a drive signal to at least the plurality of gate lines or the plurality of data lines. In the polarizing plate, at least a part of a side near the driver overlaps the sealing material or is disposed outside the sealing material in planar view.
US10073304B2
A display device includes: a lower substrate including a display area and a non-display area; an upper substrate facing the lower substrate; a sealing portion on the non-display area and between the lower substrate and the upper substrate; an optical transmittance layer between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, and surrounded by the sealing portion; a first light blocking portion on the display area of the lower substrate; and a second light blocking portion on the non-display area of the lower substrate. The second light blocking portion includes a base portion, a barrier wall protruding from the base portion and a protruding portion protruding from the barrier wall. A total height of the second light blocking portion at the base portion thereof is less than a total height of the second light blocking portion at the barrier wall and the protruding portion thereof.
US10073300B2
A liquid crystal medium composition is provided with a negative liquid crystal material; at least one polymerizable monomer which is polymerized under a UV irradiation; and at least one alignment assistant including a polar portion and a non-polar portion. The polar portion is connected with the non-polar portion by a bonding group. The liquid crystal medium composition can achieve the vertical alignment without the PI alignment layer by improving the liquid crystal material.
US10073299B2
An FFS (Fringe Field Switching) mode liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and a liquid crystal display device are provided. The FFS mode LCD panel includes a color film substrate including a first planar layer and an array substrate including a second planar layer. The inner surface of the first planar layer or the second planar layer, which is corresponding to non-overlapping regions, has a plurality of wedge structures thereon. The non-overlapping regions are regions located above the common electrode which is not overlapped with projective areas of the pixel electrode being projected on the common electrode.
US10073297B2
A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel having a first substrate and a second substrate. An upper polarizer is disposed on an outer surface of the first substrate. A viewing angle control film is disposed on the upper polarizer. The viewing angle control film includes a polarizing layer having a transmission axis substantially parallel to a transmission axis of the upper polarizer and a phase retardation layer including a birefringence material having an optical axis with a poloidal angle of about 40 degrees to about 75 degrees.
US10073295B2
The present invention relates to the field of display technologies and discloses a diffusion plate, a backlight module and a display device. The diffusion plate comprises a main body structure. An accommodating slot for accommodating a light source assembly is formed within the main body structure, a support surface for supporting a display panel is formed on the surface of a side of the bottom wall of the accommodating slot which faces outside of the slot, and the accommodating slot is provided with a fixing portion for fixing the light source assembly. The above diffusion plate not only diffuses the light emitted by the light source assembly homogeneously, but also enables mounting and supporting of the light source assembly and the display panel. Moreover, the backlight module of the diffusion plate omits the structures such as a support backboard and a rubber frame, and further achieves structure simplification. Thus, the backlight module of the diffusion plate has good structural stability.
US10073293B2
An optical microcavity for a high-contrast display comprises an enclosed cavity having a front wall and a back wall, where the front wall comprises a pinhole opening for emission of light from the cavity and the back wall is configured to generate or transmit light into the cavity. An outer surface of the front wall absorbs some or substantially all optical wavelengths of externally incident light so as to appear black or colored. An inner surface of the front wall comprises a light reflectivity of greater than 90% to promote photon recycling within the cavity and light emission through the pinhole opening.
US10073288B2
A liquid crystal module with fingerprint identification function includes an array glass substrate, a colored light filtering glass substrate, a liquid crystal material layer, a pixel display layer and a detection wire and sensation electrode layer. The liquid crystal material layer, the pixel display layer and the detection wire and sensation electrode layer are disposed between the array glass substrate and the colored light filtering glass substrate. The pixel display layer cooperates with the internal wiring and electrode structures of the detection wire and sensation electrode layer to achieve complex functions of displaying, fingerprint detection/identification and touch control.
US10073286B2
The substrate-type optical waveguide includes a rib-slab type core. A depletion layer exists in a rib part and, in any cross section of the core, a width of a first slab part is set to be greater than a width of a second slab part.
US10073284B2
There is provided a frame support member for eyewear having a frame, with the frame including a nose bridge. The frame support member includes an attachment portion at a first end thereof for coupling the frame support member to the nose bridge of the eyewear, and a nose engaging portion at a second end thereof. The frame support member is configured to position the nose engaging portion below and behind the nose bridge for supporting the eyewear on a user. There is also provided eyewear that includes a frame for supporting at least one lens, a nose bridge for supporting the frame on a user, and the frame support member as herein described. A frame support assembly is also provided, which includes the frame support member and an extender to be coupled to the eyewear frame.
US10073282B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include eyewear that provides controlled variable light attenuation and color enhancement based on an input received from a user, a sensor and/or a signal from a control circuit. In some embodiments, the eyewear includes an optical filter system with two or more defined filter states that are adapted to improve color vision in different environments. The optical filter system can be incorporated into a lens having any desired curvature, including, for example, cylindrical, spherical or toroidal. The lens can include one or more functional components. Examples of functional components include color enhancement filters, chroma enhancement filters, a laser attenuation filter, electrochromic filters, photoelectrochromic filters, variable attenuation filters, anti-reflection coatings, interference stacks, hard coatings, flash mirrors, anti-static coatings, anti-fog coatings, other functional layers, or a combination of functional layers.
US10073278B2
In an optical display system that includes a waveguide with multiple diffractive optical elements (DOEs), an in-coupling DOE couples light into the waveguide, an intermediate DOE provides exit pupil expansion in a first direction, and an out-coupling DOE provides exit pupil expansion in a second direction and couples light out of the waveguide. The in-coupling DOE is configured with two portions—a first portion includes a grating to rotate a polarization state of in-coupled light while a second portion couples light into the waveguide without modulation of the polarization state. The in-coupled light beams with different polarization states are combined in the waveguide after undergoing total internal reflection. However, as the difference in optical path lengths of the constituent light beams exceeds the coherence length, the combined light has random polarization (i.e., a degree of polarization equal to zero).
US10073277B2
A reticle for use in a firearm scope that compensates for the trajectory of a bullet, allowing the shooter to accurately engage the target despite the target's distance from the shooter. The reticle uses a number of trajectory arcs and distance markings that correspond to the target's size and distance to provide the shooter with an accurate aiming of the target. Once the outer edges of the target aligns with the trajectory arcs the target is ready to be engaged. Distance markings, windage markings, and reticle illumination provide for further accuracy of the shot. A milling tree integral to the reticle provides for a quick determination of the target's distance, particularly in instances when the target is not intended to be engaged.
US10073274B2
A grating, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are disclosed. The grating comprises: a substrate including a plurality of first view field regions (A1) and a plurality of second view field regions (A2) which are alternately distributed; a plurality of ridge structures formed on the substrate in each first view field region (A1) and each second view field region (A2); and a patterned light shield layer being formed on the ridge structures and including a plurality of light-blocking regions and a plurality of light-transmitting regions, wherein in each first view field region (A1), each light-transmitting region is formed on a sloping surface of a first side of each ridge structure; in each second view field region (A2), each light-transmitting region is formed on a sloping surface of a second side of each ridge structure; and the first side and the second side are two opposite sides.
US10073267B2
An eyepiece for projecting an image to an eye of a viewer includes a waveguide configured to propagate light therein, and a diffractive optical element optically coupled to the waveguide. The diffractive optical element includes a plurality of first ridges protruding from a surface of the waveguide. Each of the plurality of first ridges has a first height and a first width. The diffractive optical element further includes a plurality of second ridges. Each of the plurality of second ridges protrudes from a respective first ridge and has a second height greater than the first height and a second width less than the first width. The diffractive optical element is configured to diffract a first portion of the light propagating in the waveguide toward the eye, and to diffract a second portion of the light propagating in the waveguide away from the eye.
US10073264B2
An optical device includes a light waves-transmitting substrate having two major surfaces and edges, two electronic display sources, an optical surface for coupling light into the substrate by total internal reflection, and a plurality of partially reflecting surfaces carried by the substrate. The partially reflecting surfaces are parallel to each other and located at an angle to the major surfaces. At least two of the partially reflecting surfaces have major axes, mounted with the major axes in different directions. The major surfaces reflect light waves coupled into the substrate at least twice before the light waves are coupled out. The optical device has dual operational modes in see-through configuration. In a first mode, light waves are projected from a display source through the substrate to an eye of a viewer. In a second mode, the display source is shut off and only an external scene is viewable through the substrate.
US10073252B2
An optical system includes, in order from object side to image side, a negative front lens unit, an aperture stop, and a positive rear lens unit. The front lens unit consists of, in order from object side to image side, a negative first lens having a concave surface on image side, a negative second lens with a concave surface on image side, and a positive third lens. The rear lens unit consists of, in order from object side to image side, a positive fourth lens, and a cemented lens formed by cementing a positive lens and a negative lens together. Here, a distance on optical axis from a lens surface on object side of the first lens to a lens surface on image side of the third lens, a focal length of the third lens, and a focal length of the optical system are set to appropriate values.
US10073251B2
An imaging optical lens system includes six lens elements, the six lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The fifth lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface being both aspheric. The sixth lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element are both aspheric, and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element includes at least one convex critical point in an off-axial region thereof.
US10073243B2
An optical lens system comprises, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, and a fourth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region. The second lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region. The third lens element with positive refractive power has an aspheric object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region and an aspheric image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region. The fourth lens element with refractive power has an aspheric object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region and an aspheric image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region. There are a total of four lens elements with refractive power in the optical lens system.
US10073241B2
The invention discloses a three-piece optical lens for capturing image and a five-piece optical module for capturing image. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis comprises a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; and a third lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the three lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
US10073237B2
A lens barrel includes at least one lens, the optical axis of the lens; the first frame (the fixed frame 900) having the first restricting portion (901, 902) and having an approximately cylindrical shape about the optical axis; the second frame (1000) having the cam groove (1036) and having an approximately cylindrical shape about the optical axis; the third frame (510) having the guide portion (511) which restricts inclination thereof with respect to the first contact portion (514) and the optical axis and having an approximately cylindrical shape about the optical axis; the drive arm (520) having a cam follower (523), the second restricting portion (524, 525) and the second contact portion (526), and having an approximately arcuate shape constituted of a portion of a circular cylinder about the optical axis or an approximately plate shape; the guide shaft (601) for guiding the guide in a movable manner in the optical axis direction; and the spring (603). The first restricting portion engages with the second restricting portion. The cam engages with the cam groove (1036). The drive arm moves approximately parallel to the optical axis due to the relative rotation of the second with respect to the first frame, the third is biased by the thus bringing the first contact portion and the second contact portion into contact with each other, and the third frame moves in the optical axis direction in an interlocking manner with the drive with the inclination of the guide being restricted by the guide.
US10073234B2
A system (90) for routing a stack of fiber optic ribbons (100) includes a fiber optic cable (50) and a fiber guide tube (300). The fiber optic cable (50) includes a jacket (54) and a ribbon stack (110). The jacket (54) extends from a first end (56) to a second end (58). The ribbon stack (110) extends from a first end (112) to a second end (114). A jacketed portion (60) of the ribbon stack (110) is surrounded by the jacket (54) from the first end (56) of the jacket (54) to the second end (58) of the jacket (54). The fiber guide tube (300) extends from a first end (302) to a second end (304) along a central longitudinal axis (A1). The fiber guide tube (300) is positioned between the first end (56) of the jacket (54) and the first end (112) of the ribbon stack (110). The fiber guide tube (300) includes a round exterior (308) and an interior (310) with a rectangular cross-section (318). The rectangular cross-section (318) twists about the central longitudinal axis (A1) as the interior (310) extends from the first end (302) to the second end (304) of the fiber guide tube (300). A tubed portion (120) of the ribbon stack (110) is surrounded and twisted by the interior (310) of the fiber guide tube (300) from the first end (302) to the second end (304) of the fiber guide tube (300).
US10073229B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a transmitter optical subassembly (TOSA) module is disclosed with a base portion that provides one or more mounting surfaces to mount a laser diode and associated driver circuitry in close proximity to allow for direct coupling without the use of an intermediate interconnect device, such as a flexible printed circuit or other interconnect device. The TOSA module base further includes a cylindrical shaped portion with a passageway extending therethrough. The substantially cylindrical shaped portion allows the TOSA module base to mount to a multi-channel TOSA housing via a Z-ring or other suitable welding ring without the use of an intermediate device such as a welding cap.
US10073228B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing vertical optical coupling structures (1) between first optical or optoelectronic components (2) and second optical or optoelectronic components (3). Said vertical optical coupling structures are made by: (1) depositing a main layer (A) onto a substrate (25) including second optical or optoelectronic components; and (ii) lithography and/or physico-chemical etching of the main layer. Each vertical optical coupling structure is made such as to be located facing and making contact with a second optical component located in the substrate. The unitary main layer comprises generally frusto-conical coupling portions (12) consisting of a material having a refractive index greater than the refractive index of air. The coupling portions each have: a first transverse end surface (121) for making contact with the sending or receiving surface (21) of a first optical or optoelectronic component; and a second transverse end surface (122) that is in contact with the sending or receiving surface (31) of the second optical or optoelectronic component.
US10073224B2
The present disclosure provides an optical fiber connector, comprising an integrated ferrule assembly and an integrated outer housing assembly, the ferrule assembly being adapted to be fitted into the housing assembly. The ferrule assembly at least comprises an inner housing, a spring, a multi-hole ferrule, a multi-fiber optical cable, a sleeve and a thermal shrinkable tube. The housing assembly at least comprises an outer housing, an outer tail tube and an outer protection cap. In the present disclosure, a plurality of components such as the inner housing, the spring, the multi-hole ferrule, multi-fiber optical cable, the sleeve, the thermal shrinkable tube and the like can be preassembled into an integrated ferrule assembly, and a plurality of components such as the outer housing, the outer tail tube, the outer protection cap and the like can be preassembled into an integrated outer housing assembly; then, a worker only needs to insert the integrated ferrule assembly into the integrated outer housing assembly on site, thereby completing assembling operation of the whole optical fiber connector conveniently and quickly.
US10073222B2
Aspects of the disclosure include an optical fiber sensing system and apparatus that provide for free rotation of fiber optic cables containing multiple cores. For example, the disclosure presents a fiber optic rotary joint, comprising a stator housing a non-rotating portion of a dual-core fiber optic cable and a rotor housing a rotating portion of the dual-core fiber optic cable. In such an example, the rotor is mounted to the stator to allow rotation of at least a portion of the rotor about at least a portion of the stator. Further provided is an optical fiber sensing system, comprising one or more multiplexor/demultiplexors configured to multiplex and demultiplex one or more signals, a dual-core fiber optic cable communicatively coupled to the multiplexor/demultiplexor and configured to carry one or more signals on an inner core and an outer core disposed about the inner core, and a dual-core fiber optic rotary joint.
US10073221B2
Disclosed herein are various embodiments of an optical cross-connect switch in which optical beamforming is used to generate desired (e.g., technically beneficial) beam profiles at the beam-steering element of the switch. An example beam profile that can be generated in this manner is a substantially rectangular beam profile generated from an input optical beam having a substantially Gaussian beam profile. The use of rectangular beam profiles may be beneficial because such beam profiles can be used to increase the optical fill factor of the beam-steering element of the switch, thereby enabling the switch to have a higher number of optical ports and/or a lower cost per optical port than comparable conventional optical cross-connect switches. In an example embodiment, the disclosed optical cross-connect switch can be used to implement a wavelength-selective optical router.
US10073219B2
An integrated circuit includes an active device for confinement of a light flux that is formed in a semiconducting substrate. A confinement rib is separated from two doped zones by two trenches. Each doped zone includes a contacting zone on an upper face. Each trench widens from a bottom wall towards the upper face of the corresponding doped zone. The widening trenches present a sidewall having a tiered profile between the trench and the doped zone. An opposite sidewall presents a straight profile.
US10073217B2
A multicore optical fiber (1) includes a plurality of cores (11 to 16) and a cladding (20) surrounding the outer circumferential surfaces of the cores (11 to 16). In the plurality of cores of the multicore optical fiber (1), a skew value (S) between a pair of cores is expressed by a predetermined expression. The multicore optical fiber (1) is bent in a specific bending direction, in which in all of the combinations of the pairs of cores in the plurality of cores, the pair of cores has the maximum absolute value of the skew value found by the expression and the skew value of the pair of cores is a minimum value.
US10073212B1
The present invention relates to a lamp structure, which comprises a light guide plate, a lamp plate, and a lamp housing. The light guide plate includes an inner loop, an outer loop, and an annular tortuous structure. The annular tortuous structure includes a plurality of top recesses and a plurality of bottom recesses. The plurality of top recesses and the plurality of bottom recesses are interlaced to give a continuous concave-convex structure. The lamp plate is disposed inside the inner loop. The lamp housing includes a top housing member and a bottom housing member. The top and bottom housing members are located on both sides of the lamp plate and disposed on the two loop openings of the inner loop and opposing to each other. Thereby, the light of the lamp plate illuminates outward via the shape and structure of the light guide plate.
US10073211B1
Displays are described. One display having a light guide, and a multilayer structure. The light guide is disposed on a top side of the reflective display. The multilayer structure is disposed on the light guide. The multilayer structure includes: a first optically clear adhesive (OCA) layer disposed on the light guide; a black ink layer disposed on the first OCA layer; an first layer disposed on the black ink layer; a polymer layer disposed on the first layer; and a second OCA layer disposed on the polymer layer.
US10073210B2
Provided are a light source module capable of providing a line shaped beam with various effects using optical patterns of both sides of a light guide layer optical pattern, and a lighting device having the light source module. The light source module, including: a first optical layer having a first surface, a second opposite to the first surface, and a first optical pattern on the first surface or the second surface; a second optical layer having a third surface facing the second, a fourth surface opposite to the third surface, and a second optical pattern on the third surface or the fourth surface; a light guide layer on the first optical layer; and a light source part supplying an incident beam into the light guide layer.
US10073208B2
In one aspect, a light emitting device comprises a light source, a film-based lightguide with a light emitting region. The film may have a light mixing region positioned between a light input region and the light emitting region. In one aspect a ratio of a length of the light mixing region to a length of the light emitting region is greater than 0.1 in a first plane comprising the thickness direction. In one aspect the light emitting device comprises a guide element having a surface curved in a first plane positioned adjacent the inner surface of the film, wherein the film is folded along the curved surface at a first fold such that the first fold positions a portion of the light mixing region above or below the active area of the display and the light mixing region comprises the first fold.
US10073206B2
A system and an apparatus for connecting a fiber optic or rigid light guide to a light source are provided. The fiber optic or rigid light guide has one end connected to a ferrule with a contact surface. The system includes a connecting element connectable to the light source, into which the ferrule can be inserted. The connecting element has a number of radially movable fastening portions, wherein the fixing portions are radially biased and cooperate with the contact surface, when the ferrule is inserted into the connecting element, whereby a first retention force is applied to the contact surface, and a fixing element is positioned in such a way that it cooperates with the fastening portions so that a second retention force, which is greater than the first retention force, is applied to the contact surface.
US10073192B2
Provided are compositions comprising a block copolymer of the following formula: [A]-B-[Q], wherein [A] is a polymer that has an affinity for a substrate; B is a linking group comprising an optionally-substituted, polyvalent linking group having a molecular weight of no more than 1000 g/mole; and [Q] comprises a semi-crosslinked, ungelled polymer derived from copolymerization of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer with a poly-functional ethylenically unsaturated monomer. Such block copolymers are cross-linked via the [Q] segment, but not macroscopically gelled. The [Q] segment is hydrophilic and has a degree of polymerization in the range of about 10 to about 10,000. The [A] segment is located on at least one terminal end of said block copolymer, comprises between about 1 and about 200 repeating units. The block copolymer is associated, via the linear substrate associative segment with a surface comprising at least one hydrophobic site, such as a silicone hydrogel. The polymers may be incorporated into a formulation from which the silicone hydrogel is made or may be contacted with the silicone hydrogel post-formation.
US10073173B2
There are provided: a high-accuracy factor calculator for calculating, by a high-accuracy computation method, a distance R from a moving platform to a pixel position (a, b) within an observation target corresponding to an predicted position (xt, yt) and a phase factor A when a determination processor determines that an error is out of an allowable range; and a low-accuracy factor calculator for calculating, by a computation method with lower accuracy than that of the high-accuracy factor calculator (e.g., a computation method using an approximation algorithm), a distance R′ from the moving platform to the pixel position (a, b) corresponding to the predicted position (xt, yt) within the observation target and a phase factor A′ when the determination processor determines that the error is within the allowable range.
US10073172B2
Apparatus, vehicle, method, computer program and radio system for radio supply in a predefined space
An apparatus, a vehicle, a method, a computer program and a radio system for radio coverage in a predefined space. The method includes operating at least one transmission and/or reception antenna in the predefined space to cover at least one subregion of the predefined space using at least one element having an active area in the predefined space taking into consideration the subregion to be covered, wherein the active area of the element influences the propagation conditions of signals of the radio system.
US10073159B2
In order to maximize the SNR of an image in consideration of signal correction in a multi-echo sequence, flip angles of a plurality of refocus high frequency magnetic field pulses are determined in a multi-echo imaging sequence. Using an index that reflects the SNR of an image after signal correction of a plurality of acquired echo signals, a flip angle at which the SNR of the image becomes a maximum is determined by repeatedly calculating the index by changing information specifying the flip angle of each refocus RF pulse according to an optimization method set in advance.
US10073154B2
The invention provides for a multi-element transmit coil (100) for a magnetic resonance imaging system (300). The multi-element transmit coil comprises multiple surface coil elements (102) with a coil circuit (104) that has an integrated a radio-frequency sensor (106, 604, 704, 804). The multi-element transmit coil further comprises a power monitoring unit (108) with an analog-to-digital converter (808). The power monitoring unit comprises a processor connected to each analog to digital converter that is operable for receiving a radio-frequency measurement for generating specific absorption rate data (348) for each of the multiple surface coil elements. The multi-element transmit coil further comprises an optical data transmission system (110) connected to the processor. The optical data transmission system is operable for connecting to a magnetic resonance imaging system controller (312, 330). The optical data transmission system is operable for transferring the specific absorption rate data to the magnetic resonance imaging system controller.
US10073131B2
An apparatus for evaluating an electrical insulator includes: a frame having a base and a pair of spaced-apart resilient arms each having a distal end; and a flexible probe disposed between the arms, the flexible probe being generally U-shaped and having a pair of distal ends, each distal end of the probe being connected to a respective distal end of one of the arms.
US10073128B2
A leak detection device includes a pulse signal outputting portion that outputs predetermined pulse signals to a positive connecting wire connected to a positive side of a battery and a negative connecting wire connected to a negative side of the battery. A response waveform detecting portion of the leak detection device detects a positive response waveform for the pulse signal output to the positive connecting wire and a negative response waveform for the pulse signal output to the negative connecting wire. An amplitude ratio calculating portion calculates an amplitude ratio based on the positive response waveform and the negative response waveform, and a leak detecting portion detects a leak between the battery and a ground based on the amplitude ratio.
US10073122B2
A measuring transducer for converting an analog electrical input signal into an analog electrical output signal. The measuring transducer contains a detection apparatus for detecting an analog electrical input signal within a predetermined input measurement range, wherein the input measurement range of the measuring transducer is divided into n adjustable partial input measurement ranges and the output range of the measuring transducer is divided into n adjustable partial output ranges, where n is greater than 1. Further, an apparatus is provided for recognizing the partial input measurement range in which the detected analog electrical input signal lies. An imaging apparatus maps each partial input measurement range to a separate partial output measurement range of the n partial output measurement ranges. Another apparatus converts the detected analog electrical input signal into the associated analog electrical output signal depending on the recognized partial input measurement range.
US10073121B2
An input-voltage-off detection apparatus includes a voltage adjustment unit, a time delay unit, a voltage clamp unit, an auxiliary voltage discharge switch unit and an isolation notification unit. The voltage adjustment unit receives an input voltage. The time delay unit utilizes the input voltage to generate a direct current voltage. After the input voltage is cut off, the direct current voltage stored in the time delay unit discharges to the voltage adjustment unit. When the direct current voltage reduces to a predetermined voltage, the auxiliary voltage discharge switch unit is turned on, so that an auxiliary voltage winding sends a working voltage to the isolation notification unit. After the isolation notification unit receives the working voltage, the isolation notification unit notifies an electronic apparatus that the input voltage is cut off.
US10073108B2
The present invention provides a small and low running-cost device capable of minimizing the generation of contamination sources as much as possible while performing a series of all the desired manipulations. A device for manipulating a target component in a manipulation tube, comprising: a manipulation tube comprising a tube having an optionally-closeable open end for supplying a sample containing a target component at one end and a closed end at the other end, and a manipulation medium accommodated in the tube and having a gel layer and an aqueous liquid layer multilayered in a longitudinal direction of the tube; magnetic particles that should transport the target component; and magnetic field applying means capable of applying a magnetic field to the manipulation tube to move the magnetic particles in the longitudinal direction of the tube.
US10073100B2
The present invention relates to methods, kits, and compositions for detecting and/or diagnosing metastatic potential of cancer cells or for evaluating prognosis in a patient with cancer by detection of the protein expression level of an HLA class I molecule and/or the copy number variation of a polynucleotide encoding the HLA class I molecule. The present invention also relates to the use of the protein expression level of an HLA class I molecule and/or the copy number variation of a polynucleotide encoding the HLA class I molecule as a prognosis biomarker and metastasis predictive biomarker of cancer.
US10073091B2
A lateral flow assay device includes a substrate having a top surface, as well as a sample receiving area disposed upon the top surface. At least one fluid flow path extends along the substrate from the sample receiving area, wherein the sample receiving area can be placed in contact with a peripheral reservoir formed at a sample addition area to draw sample therefrom in a controlled manner. The device can further include a reagent area that is designed to promote uniform dissolution of a deposited detection material by a sample moved through the device along the fluid flow path as well, as a flow channel configure to promote mixing of sample and reagent and an absorbing or wicking zone configured to affect various flow characteristics.
US10073090B2
Provided herein are assays and kits useful for avoiding “prozone phenomenon” or “hook effect” and which expand the range of accurately measurable analyte concentrations.
US10073089B2
The présent invention relates to a method for manufacturing an analysis device including torpédo membrane fragments immobilized at the surface thereof, to the resulting analysis device, and to the use of said device for detecting, purifying, and characterizing molécules acting on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. The présent invention is useful in the field of monitoring seafood, monitoring neurotoxic phytoplankton for the shellfish industry, monitoring the quality of bathing waters along tourist beaches, the field of monitoring fresh water reserves, the field of médical research, the field of the biological analysis and characterization of molécules, e.g., non-radioactive assays of the movement of the ligand-receptor bond on an ELISA-type microplate, thereby enabling compétitive agonists and antagonists of targets to be detected, e.g., of highly sensitive receptors.
US10073087B2
Various aspects and embodiments provided herein are directed to compositions that include at least one nanoparticle linked to a first polypeptide, and a biologically synthesizable polymer linked to at least one second polypeptide that binds covalently to the first polypeptide. Other aspects and embodiments provided herein are directed to methods of producing the foregoing compositions and components therein.
US10073082B2
Assays that can measure the effect of proteasome inhibitors on target cells in a biological sample are provided. The assays include evaluation of the effects of proteasome inhibitors on proteasome activity in cells in a biological sample.
US10073080B2
A sample analyzing apparatus comprising a measurement unit configured to measure samples obtained from subjects, an obtaining unit configured to obtain the presence or absence of a disease regarding each sample, a memory in which a measurement result obtained by the measurement unit and the presence or absence of the disease obtained by the obtaining unit are stored in association with the sample, and a communication unit configured to transmit disease information based on the presence or absence of the disease stored in the memory to a receiving apparatus installed in an external facility.
US10073077B2
Provided is a test method for discriminating a liver injury type using as an indicator a level of lithocholic acid (hereinafter abbreviated as LCA) in a biological sample of a subject. That is, provided is a test method comprising measuring a level of LCA in a biological sample collected from a subject, and discriminating a liver injury type as hepatocellular injury type, cholestasis type, or a mixed type thereof using the measured level of LCA as an indicator.
US10073075B2
Methods are provided for quantifying the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2A protein (p16) p16 protein directly in biological samples that have been fixed in formalin by SRM/MRM mass spectrometry. A protein sample is prepared from the biological sample using, for example, the Liquid Tissue reagents and protocol and the p16 protein is quantitated in the resulting sample by quantitating in the protein sample at least one fragment peptide from p16. Peptides can be quantitated in modified or unmodified form. An example of a modified form of a p16 peptide is phosphorylation of a tyrosine, threonine, serine, and/or other amino acid residues within the peptide sequence.
US10073064B2
Device having element electrode connected to penetrating wire, and method for manufacturing the same
According to a method for manufacturing a device in which an electrode of an element is electrically connected to a penetrating wire in a substrate, a structure is prepared in which the element is arranged on the first substrate having a through hole formed therein: and a second substrate is prepared which has an electroconductive seed layer formed thereon. Then, a wall part is formed on the first substrate; a seed layer is joined to a face on an element side of the structure through a bonding layer; the bonding layer is removed; and the seed layer is exposed in the inside of the opening. The inside of the wall part and the through hole is filled with a conductor, with the use of the seed layer through electrolytic plating.
US10073056B2
The present invention relates to ion mobility spectrometers. In one embodiment, the ion mobility spectrometer of the present invention uses a simplified ion mobility spectrometer design having helical resistive material to form substantially constant electric fields that guide ion movements. The drift tube for ion mobility spectrometers described herein is constructed with a non-conductive structure. This configuration provides a robust ion mobility spectrometer that is simple to build. One feature of the present invention is that the drift tube design described herein enables the ion mobility spectrometer to be built with a lower weight, lower power consumption, lower manufacturing cost, and free of sealants.
US10073050B2
An assembly comprising an upstream pipe, a downstream pipe, and a system (1) for measuring variation in the gas content of a two-phase flow, the assembly including: an insulating sheath (6), an upstream ground (2), a measurement electrode (3), a guard electrode (7), and a downstream ground (4) arranged in succession in the insulating sheath (6) and each presenting an identical internal section defining an internal flow duct for a two-phase flow from the upstream ground (2) towards the downstream ground (4) in line with the upstream pipe and the downstream pipe, the guard electrode (7) being subjected to the same potential as the measurement electrode (3), the measurement electrode (3) measuring the capacitance of the two-phase flow relative to the upstream ground (2) and variation in that capacitance, the upstream ground (2) and the downstream ground (4) being electrically connected to the upstream pipe and to the downstream pipe, respectively.
US10073040B2
A method and a device or kit for detecting a nucleic acid, which enable simple and precise visual detection of a nucleic acid amplified by an nucleic acid amplification method, without necessity of special devices are provided. The method for detecting a nucleic acid in a sample comprises: contacting a sample with a dye to react with each other; and observing a substance produced by the reaction with visible light, and evaluating the presence or absence of a nucleic acid by eye. The device or kit for detecting a nucleic acid in a sample comprises: a carrier that holds a dye which can bind to a nucleic acid; a path for passing a sample through the carrier; and an evaluation part for observing a substance produced by the reaction between the sample and the dye with visible light, and evaluating the presence or absence of a nucleic acid by eye.
US10073036B2
The present invention relates to a system for conducting the identification and quantification of micro-organisms, e.g., bacteria in biological samples. More particularly, the invention relates to a system comprising a disposable cartridge and an optical cup or cuvette having a tapered surface; an optics system including an optical reader and a thermal controller; an optical analyzer; a cooling system; and an improved spectrometer. The system may utilize the disposable cartridge in the sample processor and the optical cup or cuvette in the optical analyzer.
US10073028B2
An optical head assembly for use in a spectrometer is provided that is configured to characterize one or more constituents within a sample gas. The assembly includes a thermoelectric cooler (TEC) having a cold side on one end and a hot side on an opposite end, a cold plate in thermal communication with the cold side of the TEC, a hot block in thermal communication with the hot side of the TEC, a light source in thermal communication with the cold plate such that a change in temperature of the TEC causes one or more properties of the light source (e.g., wavelength, etc.) to change, and an optical element in thermal communication with the cold plate positioned to collimate light emitted by the light source through the sample gas (such that properties of the optical element vary based on a change in temperature of the TEC).
US10073027B2
The invention relates to a device (1) for measuring friction on a cylinder-piston arrangement, wherein a reciprocating piston (3) is arranged in a cylinder liner (2) of a liner unit (23), said cylinder liner being decoupled from a cylinder head (9), and the liner unit (23) is arranged in a liner carrier (8) which is connected to a sensor carrier and which has a rotationally symmetrical receiving region (13) for the cylinder liner (2), said receiving region being concentric to the cylinder axis (21), wherein preferably at least one cooling jacket (12) is assigned to the cylinder liner (2). In order to enable easy replacement of the cylinder liner (2) it is provided that the liner unit (23) is mounted in the liner carrier (8) via a tapered seat (14), wherein preferably at least one tapered inner jacket surface of the receiving region (13) forms a first seat surface (14a) and a tapered outer jacket surface (19a, 19b) of the liner unit (23) that is shaped in a manner reciprocal to the first seat surface (14a) forms a second seat surface (14b) of the tapered seat (14) for receiving and centring the cylinder liner (2).
US10073023B2
A tomography duct for wind tunnels includes a plurality of light sources and sensors displaced around a support structure. The light sources are cycled and sensor measurements are made from sensors opposite the light sources. Tomographic algorithms are used to determine an extinction map from the sensor measurements. The extinction map provides details about particles in a cross-section of the air flow through the tomography duct.
US10073015B2
A sample smear apparatus of an embodiment includes: a slide feeder that feeds a slide glass before processing; a smear processor that smears a sample on the slide glass; and a slide transporter including a slide holder mechanism with an upper surface where to hold the slide glass and a transfer mechanism that moves the slide holder mechanism in a vertical direction and in a horizontal direction, the slide transporter arranged movably to the slide feeder and the smear processor.
US10073010B2
A torque steering angle sensor includes a ring magnet that rotates together with the first rotary member, a second magnetic field detecting element arranged opposite an outer peripheral surface of the ring magnet, a slide magnet arranged opposite the second magnetic field detecting element in the axial direction, and a slide mechanism moving the slide magnet in the axial direction depending on a rotation of the first rotary member; and wherein the steering angle computing portion includes a slide magnet distance computing portion calculating a migration length from a reference position of the slide magnet; and a steering angle correcting portion correcting an offset of the magnetic field strength in the radial direction based on the migration length and configures so as to compute the steering angle of the steering wheel using a magnetic field strength in the radial direction corrected by the steering angle correcting portion.
US10072988B2
A temperature-detecting device includes a thermally conductive sheet, a heat-generating body thermally connected to a first end portion of the thermally conductive sheet, and a temperature-detecting element thermally connected to a second end portion of the thermally conductive sheet. This temperature-detecting device is also provided with thermally insulating layers on the top and bottom faces of the thermally conductive sheet between the first and second end portions thereof.
US10072982B2
An apparatus for optically analyzing a sample may include an imaging subsystem that images the sample, one or more analyzing subsystems that analyze the sample, a temperature control subsystem that controls a temperature of the atmosphere within the apparatus, a gas control subsystem that controls a composition of the atmosphere within the apparatus, and a control module that controls the various subsystems of the apparatus.
US10072980B2
At least one light source is configured to emit at least one beam into a sample volume of an absorbing medium. In addition, at least one detector is positioned to detect at least a portion of the beam emitted by the at least one light source. Further, at least one beam modification element is positioned between the at least one detector and the at least one light source to selectively change at least one of (i) a power intensity of, or (ii) a shape of the beam emitted by the at least one light source as detected by the at least one detector. A control circuit is coupled to the beam modification element. Related apparatus methods, articles of manufacture, systems, and the like are described.
US10072978B2
The circuit of detection of light radiation includes a photodetector. The photodetector is coupled to three capacitors by means of three switches. The capacitors are parallel mounted to form a capacitive load whose value of electrical capacity changes as a function of the openings/closures of the switches. This configuration allows to stabilize the voltage present on the output terminal in the detection circuit for a wider range of illumination sustained by photodetector.
US10072972B2
A non-contact method of measuring an insertion loss of a DUT connector is disclosed. The DUT connector has a first ferrule with a first optical fiber and a first end face. The method utilizes a reference connector having a second ferrule with a second optical fiber and a second end face. The method includes: axially aligning the first and second ferrules so that the first and second end faces are confronting and spaced apart to define a gap with an axial gap distance d; measuring values of the insertion loss between the first and second optical fibers for different gap distances d>0; and estimating a value for the insertion loss for a gap distance of d=0 based on the measured values of the insertion loss when d>0.
US10072971B2
A beam delivery technology for high power laser systems, like laser peening systems, for work pieces which may have compound curvatures, includes placing an optical assembly having a receiving optic, beam formatting optics and a scanner mounted thereon, in a position to receive laser pulses from a laser source and within an operating range of the process area. Polarized laser pulses are delivered to the receiving optic while the position of the optical assembly remains unchanged. The pulses proceed through the beam formatting optics to the scanner, and are direct to respective impact areas having nominal shapes and locations on the work piece. The scanning process includes for each laser pulse, setting direction, divergence, polarization, rotation and aspect ratio of the laser pulses output from the scanner, to control the polarization, shape and location on respective impact areas.
US10072966B1
A method and system for removing and accounting for scrap removed from a facility by providing a plurality of collection bins for one or more customers to collect scraps, providing a weigh station having a scale to weigh the scrap collected, providing a computer to record and keep track of the total scrap collected by each customer, providing a plurality of waste bins to discard the scrap collected in the collection bin, and accounting for the total scrap collected for each customer on-site before the waste bins are removed for permanent disposal. The collection bins of each customer can be monitored using a tracking system, such as a tag and reader, GPS device, camera, and the like.
US10072965B2
A device for measuring weight on board may include a sensor mounter coupled to a shackle, a first motor mounted to have a same rotation center as a first rotation center of the shackle being connected to the vehicle body, a second motor mounted to have a same rotation center as a second rotation center of the shackle being connected to an eye of the spring, a first angle sensor rotating by receiving torque of the first motor, and a second angle sensor rotating by receiving torque of the second motor, in which a rotation angle of the shackle about the first rotation center may be measured by the first angle sensor, and a rotation angle of the shackle about the second rotation center may be measured by the second angle sensor, and weight on board may be measured depending on variation of the rotation angle of the shackle.
US10072962B2
An out-of-product alarm process includes initiating an out-of-product check by sending a signal to a controller from an optical sensor assembly connected to a fluid delivery medium for delivering a product to a fluid dispensing site, performing an out-of-product check, running an alarm cycle with the controller after receipt of an out-of-product signal, and executing a corrective action. Performing the out-of-product check includes directing light into the fluid delivery medium, generating a detector output based on detected light within the fluid delivery medium, determining an out-of-product state within the fluid delivery medium based on a comparison of the detector output to an out-of-product threshold, starting an out-of-product timer, when the out-of-product state is determined, and determining an out-of-product event when the out-of-product timer reaches a threshold out-of-product time period.
US10072960B2
A capacitive level gauge assembly for a pressurized or liquefied gas container comprises a body with a base capable of being fitted in an opening of said container and an electrical circuit arranged in the body; electrode-carrying means are fitted in leakproof manner in said body and connected to said electrical circuit, said electrode-carrying means being configured to support two electrodes fixedly with an annular measurement space therebetween. The electrode-carrying means comprise a metallic support fitted in leakproof manner in the valve body and electrically insulated therefrom, the first electrode being fixed to said metallic support, and the metallic support being connected to the electrical circuit. The metallic support comprises at its free end a coupling means for the first electrode.
US10072959B2
A system for sensing medicament delivery and transmitting an operation modification signal having at least two separable components is disclosed. The system includes a flow sensor having an inlet to couple to a fluid source, an outlet for delivering fluid from the fluid source to a patient, at least one sensor to characterize at least one attribute of the fluid, and at least one pin in in electrical communication with the sensor. The system includes a second component having a base having a contact, a controller in electrical communication with the contact that generates an operation modification signal in response to an attribute matching a condition specified by a rule, a transmitter for transmitting the operation modification signal to a device, the operation modification signal, when received by the device, causing the device to modify at least one operating parameter, and a cross-component electrical circuit.
US10072957B2
A system and method for providing a fluid flow strain gauge that may be mounted inside a pipe and connected to a base unit that uses capacitive or resistive technology to determine a direction and a rate of flow of a fluid through the pipe by measuring the force applied to the strain gauge by the flow of fluid.
US10072954B2
A module includes a sensor device, a mounting substrate that has a plurality of mounting faces, a portion between the mounting faces adjacent to each other being foldable, a supporting member having fixing faces, wherein the sensor device is mounted on at least one of the mounting faces, each of the mounting faces is disposed along each of the fixing faces, and the sensor device is disposed on the supporting member side.
US10072951B2
First sensor data generated by a first of a plurality of sensors and at least second sensor data generated by at least a second of the plurality of sensors can be received by a sensor data broker executed by a processor. The sensor data broker can publish to at least a first virtual sensor the first sensor data as first published sensor data. The sensor data broker can publish to at least a second virtual sensor the second sensor data as second published sensor data.
US10072948B2
An encoder includes a rotation position sensor, a first addition information generator, an identification information generator, and a sender. The rotation position detector is configured to detect a rotation position within one rotation of a rotation shaft of a motor. The first addition information generator is configured to generate first addition information for a period at least longer than a data sending period. The identification information generator is configured to generate identification information by which at least the first addition information is identifiable as information to be sent. The sender is configured to send, for the data sending period, sending data including the rotation position within one rotation. The sending data includes first sending data including the rotation position within one rotation, the identification information, and the first addition information.
US10072934B2
An identification marking is incorporated into a light fixture to provide a uniquely identifiable light fixture. The identification marking is humanly imperceptible. Location information for the uniquely identifiable light fixture is obtained by a mobile device after identifying the light fixture based on the identification marking. Location of the mobile device is estimated based on the obtained location information of the uniquely identifiable light fixture.
US10072929B2
A circuit device includes a clock signal generation circuit that generates a clock signal through an oscillation circuit, and a detection circuit including a circuit operating through an operation signal based on the clock signal. The clock signal generation circuit includes a first frequency adjustment unit which is capable of adjusting an oscillation frequency before an physical quantity transducer and the circuit device are connected to each other, and a second frequency adjustment unit which is capable of adjusting the oscillation frequency in a state where the physical quantity transducer and the circuit device are connected to each other.
US10072925B2
A method and device for detection of rotated segments in a continuous multi-segment rod transferred in a machine used in tobacco industry. A signal of an error of the shape of said continuous multi-segment rod is generated, the rod including a plurality of segments arranged one after another in a common wrapping, in which the rod that is transferred in a direction along its axis is simultaneously scanned by optical sensors, the directions of scanning of the optical sensors being oriented at an angle other than 90° to each other. The rod diameter is measured by repeated scans such that the shortest segment of the rod is scanned at least once, the results of the scans being compared with a predetermined reference value, and each difference between the results of the scans and the predetermined value is converted into the signal of the error of shape.
US10072924B2
A computer-implemented method for determining a quantification of the deformation of the sample is implemented using a computer device in communication with a memory. The method includes receiving, by the computer device, a first image of the sample and a second image of the sample. The method also includes registering the first image to the second image using a warping function. The warping function maps a plurality of pixels in the first image to a plurality of pixels in the second image. A first displacement field for the sample is determined based on the warping function, where the first displacement field includes at least a portion of the warping function. A first quantification of the deformation of the sample is determined based at least in part on the displacement field.
US10072923B2
The method for processing signals originating for example from several proximity sensors for the recognition of a movement of an object, comprises first respective samplings of the said signals delivered by the sensors so as to obtain a first set of first date-stamped samples, the generation, from the first set of first date-stamped samples, of new sampling times comprising a start of movement time, an end of movement time, and times regularly spaced between the start of movement time and the end of movement time, a re-sampling of the signal delivered by each sensor between the start of movement time and the end of movement time at the said new sampling times using the first samples, in such a manner as to generate a second set of second date-stamped samples, and a processing of the said second set of date-stamped samples by a movement recognition algorithm.
US10072922B2
Non-contacting caliper measurements of free standing sheets such as porous polymer and paper detect mid-IR interferometric fringes created by the reflection of light from the top and bottom surfaces of the sheet. The technique includes directing a laser beam at a selected angle of incidence onto a single spot on the exposed outer surface wherein the laser beam comprises radiation having a wavelength in the 3-50 micron range and scanning the laser beam through a selected angle range as the laser beam is directed onto the exposed outer surface and measuring the intensity of an interference pattern that forms from the superposition of radiation that is reflected from the exposed outer surface and from the inner surface. Thickness can be extracted from the fringe separation in the interference pattern. Rotating and focusing elements ensure that the spot position on the sheet remains the same while varying the incident angle.
US10072921B2
A spectroscopic beam profile metrology system simultaneously detects measurement signals over a large wavelength range and a large range of angles of incidence (AOI). In one aspect, a multiple wavelength illumination beam is reshaped to a narrow line shaped beam of light before projection onto a specimen by a high numerical aperture objective. After interaction with the specimen, the collected light is passes through a wavelength dispersive element that projects the range of AOIs along one direction and wavelength components along another direction of a two-dimensional detector. Thus, the measurement signals detected at each pixel of the detector each represent a scatterometry signal for a particular AOI and a particular wavelength. In another aspect, a hyperspectral detector is employed to simultaneously detect measurement signals over a large wavelength range, range of AOIs, and range of azimuth angles.
US10072917B2
Embodiments described herein include specialized barrel containers and methods for using the containers to safely transport and dispose of airbag inflators having ammonium-nitrate-based propellant. For example, a container is provided that can hold multiple airbag inflators and withstand up to 4 moles of matter being deployed from an inflator having ammonium-nitrate-based propellant. The container can contain the inflator and any shrapnel associated with the explosion while also venting gases expelled as a result of the explosion. Various container designs are provided, along with methods for using these containers.
US10072916B2
Methods of making molded objects, such as composite ammunition casings for firearms, are disclosed. Apparatus for performing methods of making molded objects, such as composite ammunition casings for firearms, are also disclosed. Molded objects, such as composite ammunition casings for firearms, are further disclosed.
US10072908B2
In a method of guiding a missile in flight to a target (FIG. 1), the location of the missile and the range to the target are measured at a plurality of moments during the flight of the missile (step 10). The location of the target is calculated from the measured ranges and the measured missile locations (step 20). A required velocity vector angle is calculated from the calculated location of the target and a guidance law (step 30). A lateral acceleration required to provide the missile with a velocity oriented to the target at the required velocity vector angle is calculated for the missile (step 40). The missile is caused to accelerate with the calculated lateral acceleration, so that the missile to follows a trajectory according to the guidance law (step 50).
US10072902B2
A valve apparatus for controlling the flow of two sources of a first fluid while preventing mixing of the two fluid sources is disclosed along with a system incorporating the same. The valve apparatus has a first valve chamber with a first valve mechanism for controlling the flow of a first fluid, such as a heated coolant, from a first source. A second valve chamber with a second valve mechanism controls the flow of a first fluid, such as a cooled coolant, from a second source, the first and second valve chambers being fluidly isolated from each other. At least one thermal actuator arranged within a control chamber or control manifold controls operation of the first and second valve mechanisms, the thermal actuator having a first activation temperature for controlling the first valve mechanism and a second activation temperature for controlling the second valve mechanism. A control fluid passing through the control chamber, or control manifold, dictates the operational settings of the first and second valve mechanisms, respectively. The control fluid may comprise a fluid to be heated and/or cooled, such as a transmission fluid.
US10072900B2
A heat exchanger includes a header, a plurality of tubes, and a distributor. The header is configured to define an inlet for the heat exchanger. The tubes extend away from and are fluidicly coupled to the header. The distributor is located within the header and is configured to distribute refrigerant flowing along a longitudinal axis from the inlet to the tubes via a plurality of openings defined by the distributor through a wall of the distributor. The openings include a first opening configured to direct refrigerant in a first direction, and a second opening configured to direct refrigerant in a second direction. The first direction and the second direction are selected such that refrigerant emitted from the first opening and the second opening substantially intersect each other.
US10072897B2
A heat exchanger for heating fresh water using heat from wastewater in a shower or bathtub. The heat exchanger has a drain pan, a heat exchanger unit that is arranged in the drain pan, and a distributing element for distributing draining wastewater over the heat exchanger unit. The heat exchanger unit has multiple tube portions that follow one another sequentially and are connected to one another by diverting portions. Each two horizontally running tube portions that follow one another and that are thus connected by a deflecting portion are arranged one over the other, and wastewater, which is dripping or flowing down, is sprinkled on or flows over the tube portions one after the other.
US10072892B2
A support ring for supporting a semiconductor wafer in a boat of a vertical furnace used in processing of the semiconductor wafer includes a semicircular segment. The semicircular segment has an upper surface, a lower surface opposite the upper surface, a radial inner wall defining an inner radius, and a radial outer wall defining an outer radius. The support ring further includes protrusions in the upper surface of the semicircular segment. The protrusions extend above the upper surface.
US10072887B2
An elongated non-metal, corrosion resistant compressor mounting base plate structure including (I) a base plate segment having a top surface and a bottom surface, wherein the base plate segment is generally rectangular in shape forming two elongated sides opposite each other and two transverse sides opposite each other; and wherein the base plate segment is adapted for receiving a compressor on the top surface of the base plate; (II) a means for receiving and removably affixing a compressor to the top surface of the base plate segment; and (III) a reinforcement means integral with said base plate segment; wherein said reinforcement means includes at least two elongated channel reinforcement segments integral with the base plate segment, one channel reinforcement member at each of the elongated sides of the base plate segment; said reinforcement means being adapted for providing the compressor mounting base plate structure with sufficient strength and rigidity such that the compressor mounting base plate structure can withstand deformation a load from the weight of the compressor; and wherein the compressor mounting base plate structure comprises a non-metal, corrosion resistant structure.
US10072886B2
Disclosed herein is an refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a body provided with a storage chamber, a door configured to open or close the storage chamber, a display unit provided on the door, and a heat radiating unit disposed adjacent to the display unit and configured to radiate a heat generated in the display unit via a heat radiating flow path formed inside the door, wherein one end of the heat radiating flow path is communicated with the outside via a first opening formed in an upper end portion of the door, and the other end of the heat radiating flow path is communicated with the outside via a second opening formed in a lower end portion of the door.
US10072884B2
A method for operating a defrost mode of a transport refrigerant vapor compression system includes initiating a defrost operation for the transport refrigerant vapor compression system by energizing heaters operatively coupled to a heat absorption heat exchanger operable to defrost the heat absorption heat exchanger. During the defrost operation, the method includes comparing the heat absorption heat exchanger pressure to the first predetermined limit; in response to the heat absorption heat exchanger pressure being less than the first predetermined limit, performing at least one operation to determine if the defrost operation should be exited; and in response to the heat absorption heat exchanger pressure being greater than the first predetermined limit, exiting the defrost operation.
US10072879B1
Methods and apparatus for removing heat from an object for the purpose of cooling or for the purpose of generating electrical power are disclosed. In an embodiment, at least two field-effect transistors (FETs) are operated under inversion. While the FETs are being operated, heat is conducted from the object through body portions of said FETs to an element configured for dissipating the conducted heat.
US10072873B1
A tankless water heater carrier having a pair of load supporting brackets, a slot formed through each load supporting bracket, and a pair of rigidity rails extending longitudinally along each side of each load supporting brackets. The tankless water heater carrier has a pair of side brackets connected between the pair of load supporting brackets, a pair of sliding brackets moveably mounted onto each load supporting bracket, and a plurality of removable threaded rough in guides positioned in the alignment holes of each sliding bracket and through the slots of the load supporting brackets. The tankless water heater carrier includes fasteners usable to connect the side brackets to the load supporting brackets and to connect the sliding brackets to the load supporting brackets creating a theft resistant tankless water heater that is versatile for all sizes.
US10072871B1
A corrosion inhibitor module for a packaged terminal air conditioner unit (PTAC) is provided. Condensate is pumped from a drain pan of the PTAC into a housing of the corrosion inhibitor module. The housing contains a corrosion inhibitor concentrate that is mixes with the condensate to form an inhibitor solution that is returned to the drain pan to prevent the corrosion of components that come in contact with the condensate.
US10072867B2
An air-conditioning control system, which controls a central-type air-conditioning system, includes a plurality of auxiliary controllers respectively set in a plurality of areas and a main controller capable of communicating with each auxiliary controller. Each auxiliary controller includes a sound wave receiving unit, which receive sound waves that are outputted from a portable apparatus capable of outputting sound waves, and a sound wave strength information transmitting unit which transmits, to the main controller, sound wave strength information indicating sound wave reception strength. By the main controller, a first operating mode is set for at least a single area in which the auxiliary controller of a transmission source for specific sound wave strength information, which indicates a sound wave strength that is a predetermined threshold or higher is set, and a second operating mode is set for at least one of the remaining areas.
US10072860B2
A centralized fresh air cooling system that operates with outside air that vents inside house air into the attic of a house or building. A damper redirects air from the output of the central air circulator to the attic area to blow the hot attic air out of an attic. A typical central air circulator can replace the air within a house or building five to ten times an hour. They system can be retrofit to most central air systems by replacing the thermostats and installing the damper between the air circulator and the house or building ducting. Outside cooler air is drawn in windows or other openings in house or building, into the air circulator returns and then into the attic. The system uses multiple sensors and control mechanism to ensure optimal energy savings.
US10072850B2
A heat exchanger (1) is specified having a housing (2), in which a primary side (3) having a primary-side flow path (5) is arranged between an upstream connector 6) and a downstream connector (7) and a secondary side (4) having a secondary-side flow path (10) is arranged between an inflow connector (11) and an outflow connector (12), wherein the primary side (3) and the secondary side (4) are in heat-transferring connection along a heat exchanger section (15) and a first temperature sensor (16) is arranged in the region of the outflow connector (12). The desire is to improve the ability to regulate and monitor the heat exchanger (1). To this end, there is provision for at least one second temperature sensor (18-20, 24, 25) to be arranged on the heat exchanger section (15) and for both temperature sensors (16; 18-20, 24, 25) to be connected to an evaluation device (21).
US10072849B2
Provided is a cooking top including a main body including a heating unit, and an air curtain device that generates an air curtain flow that blocks diffusion of air flow generated by the heating unit. The air curtain device may include an intake port formed at the main body, an exhaust port that extends laterally along an upper portion of the main body, a flow guide that extends from the intake port to the exhaust port, a drive unit installed inside the flow guide to generate airflow, and an airflow control device rotatably mounted at the main body to open and close the exhaust port and configured to operate the drive unit when the airflow control device is rotated to open the exhaust port so as to generate the air curtain flow.
US10072848B2
An apparatus for injecting premixed fuel and air through a center body and into the combustion zone of a gas turbine includes a fuel injector nozzle with a premix pilot nozzle having a plurality of premix passages in fluid communication with an air supply and a fuel supply that premixes air and fuel within the premix passages. The apparatus has either an active or passive fuel feed control. Fuel can be fed to the apparatus either conventionally or as a breech load circuit integrated into the oil cartridge. Fuel can be supplied passively via a fuel channel connecting the swozzle fuel plenum to the premix passages. Alternatively, fuel can be injected from the oil cartridge into the premix passages.
US10072836B2
Environmentally sealed optical systems, and methods for sealing them, are disclosed. Such optical systems include area lighting panels and other optical systems. For example, in one exemplary aspect of the invention, a sealed optical system includes a substrate having first and second light sources disposed thereon, and a light-shaping panel with first and second optics formed therein that are positioned (e.g., aligned) to receive light from the first and second light sources, respectively. A sealing membrane is disposed between the substrate and the light-shaping panel, with a first adhesive surface contacting the substrate and a second adhesive surface contacting the light-shaping panel. The sealing membrane has first and second openings formed therein that allow light to pass from the first and second light sources to the first and second optics, respectively, while allowing the sealing membrane to independently seal the light sources from one another and from the external environment.
US10072828B2
The present invention relates to a lighting device (100), which comprises a structure of interconnected sleeves (110) and a light emitting arrangement (140) arranged inside the sleeves. The structure forms a polygon mesh and light sources (116) on the light emitting arrangement (140) can be positioned by the structure so that the problem of glare can be reduced. The present invention also provides a sound-absorbing, flexible and collapsible structure which can be used in e.g. large scale architectural panels, horticulture and phototherapy devices. The lighting device (100) can be produced by connecting the sleeves (110) with thermoplastic material or by sewing.
US10072825B2
A lighting module (100) is disclosed, comprising an elongated member (110) having an inner surface (112) at least in part delimiting a light-guiding region (114) within the elongated member, wherein the elongated member has a first end (116) a second end (118) and is configured to permit passage of fluid through the light-guiding region (114) and into and out of the first end and the second end, respectively. Light can be out-coupled from the light-guiding region (114) via at least one of the first end (116) and the second end (118). The elongated member (110) includes a carrier which is at least in part flexible and has a first side (131) and a second side (132) opposite to the first side (131). At least one light-emitting element (120) is coupled to the first side (131) of the carrier on a first portion (151) of the carrier. The carrier is arranged such that the second side (132) of the first portion (151) of the carrier at least partially faces the second side (132) of a second portion (152) of the carrier, such that the first side (131) of the first portion (151) of the carrier at least in part constitutes the inner surface (112) of the elongated member (110). By way of such arrangement of the carrier, the at least one light-emitting element (120) can be arranged within the elongated member (110), and may hence emit light into the light-guiding region (114). A lighting device (200) comprising the lighting module (100) is also disclosed.
US10072807B2
Provided is a vehicular headlamp including: an excitation light source; a scanning mechanism configured to scan light emitted by the excitation light source toward a predetermined direction; a projection lens; and a phosphor provided between the scanning mechanism and the projection lens and configured to transmit light scanned by the scanning mechanism toward the projection lens. The phosphor is formed as a curved body that is curved in a direction opposite to a curved image plane of the projection lens.
US10072802B1
A mobile solar charged light source system includes a lighting apparatus to be secured to a pre-determined location within a user's yard or house, the lighting apparatus having a body; and a top attached to the body and to provide an opening to a cavity, the top having one or more solar panels secured to a top surface of the top; a removable light source having a housing to be removably secured within the cavity, the removable light source having a battery to receive charge from the one or more solar panels; and a light in electrical communication with the battery; the removable light source can be removed from the lighting apparatus to be used as an emergency light source.
US10072788B2
A track mounting system including a mount with a mounting plate with a back surface and a front surface, the back surface is opposite the front surface and at least one mounting stud coupled to the back surface of the mounting plate, each mounting stud includes a stem portion that extends outwardly from the back surface and an enlarged head portion disposed at a distal end of stem portion. The mount also includes a release mechanism coupled to the front surface to release the mount from a track. The track mounting system also includes an adaptor coupled to the front surface of the mounting plate wherein the adaptor releasably couples with an equipment interface of a piece of equipment.
US10072785B2
A conduit connector (1) having a housing (2), which has a first connection geometry (3) that can be connected to a fluid conduit, and a second connection geometry (4) that can be connected to a counter-element, wherein the first connection geometry and the second connection geometry are connected by a through channel (6) in the housing and the housing has an outlet opening (7) and a closing element (10) is provided, wherein the closing element can be fixed in a first position, in which a connection between the outlet opening and the through channel is blocked, and the closing element is displaceable into a second position, in which the outlet opening is connected to the through channel.
US10072780B2
Fluid delivery systems and methods for using fluid delivery systems are rotatable around two axes. In one embodiment, the fluid delivery system has a reduced swing radius and/or a reduced clearance area needed to rotate the fluid delivery device about one of the axes. The reduced swing radius and/or reduced clearance area allow for a more compact footprint of the fluid delivery system and a larger ratio of flow rate of fluid per unit of required clearance area.
US10072767B2
A check valve includes a housing including a septum separating at least two openings formed therein, the openings being defined by an outer edge and one or more petals pivotably coupled together along the septum to occupy respective open and closed positions in accordance with a pressure differential of a fluid flow across the check valve. In this aspect, a cut height of the septum is greater than a cut height of at least a portion of the outer edge.
US10072763B2
A double-piston-effect valve includes two valve seats symmetrically arranged in two valve endcaps at two sides, respectively. A piston ring is arranged on a rear of each of the valve seats, an inner O-ring groove is provided in the piston ring along an inner circumferential direction, an outer O-ring groove is arranged in the piston ring along an outer circumferential direction, an O-ring is fitted in each of the inner O-ring groove and the outer O-ring groove, and two semi-circular notches are symmetrically provided in a protruding portion of the piston ring.
US10072759B2
In an embodiment, a sliding part is provided with a mechanism to generate dynamic pressure by means of relative sliding of a pair of sealing faces of the sliding part, which is characterized in that one sealing face is provided with a land 10 for generating dynamic pressure facing the high-pressure fluid side and a seal area 11 facing the low-pressure fluid side, wherein the land 10 and seal area 11 are positioned away from each other in the radial direction and the areas of the sealing face other than the land 10 and seal area 11 are formed lower than these areas to constitute fluid communication paths 12. The lands 10 have different lengths in the radial direction. The fluid entering the grooves for generating dynamic pressure formed on the sealing face is allowed to circulate.
US10072753B2
A method for automatically controlling a shift stage may include a shift stage check operation of detecting a position of the shift stage of a vehicle, a driving and stopping sensing operation, of detecting driving state information of the vehicle to determine whether the vehicle is in a driving or a stopping condition, a learning preparing operation, of identifying whether the shift stage is shifted from a D stage to an N stage when it is determined that the shift stage enters the stopping condition at the D stage, a learning operation, of measuring a shifting time from when the shift stage enters the stopping condition at the D stage to when the shift stage is shifted to the N stage, and a learning execution operation, of automatically shifting the shift stage from the D stage to the N stage in the stored shifting time.
US10072750B2
A shifter apparatus for manually changing gear ratio in a planetary gear transmission, said planetary gear transmission being of the type which comprises a plurality of actuators, wherein the sequential actuation of said actuators progressively causes a change of gear ratio in said planetary gear transmission. The shifter apparatus advantageously provides a single lever which can be quickly and easily shifted by a user.
US10072747B2
A torque converter, including: a cover including: a first portion having a first surface facing at least partially in a first axial direction and a second portion extending past the first surface in the first axial direction; an impeller including: an impeller shell with a third portion: disposed radially outward of the second portion; overlapping the second portion in a radial direction such that a first line passes through the second and third portions and having a second surface: facing in a second axial direction and adjacent to and aligned with the first surface in the first axial direction such that a second line passes through the first and second surfaces; at least one blade connected to the impeller shell; and a weld fixedly securing the cover to the impeller and in contact with the first and third portions.
US10072743B1
Rotary-to-linear transmission systems are disclosed comprising a support, at least one pulley coupled to the support, a rotor having an axis of rotation, a carriage, at least one pulley coupled to the carriage, and at least one piece of flexible material coupled to the rotor, wound around the rotor, wrapped around at least one pulley coupled to the carriage, wrapped around at least one pulley coupled to the support, and wound around the rotor again.
US10072739B2
A multiple speed transmission having an input member, air output member, a plurality of planetary gearsets, a plurality of interconnecting members and a plurality of torque-transmitting mechanisms. The plurality of planetary gear sets includes first, second and ring gears. The input member is continuously interconnected with at least one member of one of the plurality of planetary gear sets, and the output member is continuously interconnected with another member of one of the plurality of planetary gear sets. At least eight forward speeds and one reverse speed are achieved by the selective engagement of the five torque-transmitting mechanisms.
US10072737B2
A multiple speed transmission having an input member, an output member, a plurality of planetary gearsets, a plurality of interconnecting members and a plurality of torque-transmitting mechanisms. The plurality of planetary gear sets includes first, second and ring gears. The input member is continuously interconnected with at least one member of one of the plurality of planetary gear sets, and the output member is continuously interconnected with another member of one of the plurality of planetary gear sets. At least eight forward speeds and one reverse speed are achieved by the selective engagement of the five torque-transmitting mechanisms.
US10072736B2
A multi-speed transmission including a plurality of planetary gearsets and a plurality of selective couplers to achieve at least nine forward speed ratios is disclosed. The plurality of planetary gearsets may include a first planetary gearset, a second planetary gearset, a third planetary gearset, and a fourth planetary gearset. The plurality of selective couplers may include a number of clutches and a number of brakes. The multi-speed transmission may have four planetary gearsets and six selective couplers. The six selective couplers may include three clutches and three brakes.
US10072734B2
A gearbox is provided comprising a planetary gearbox with a ring gear, sun wheel and planetary wheel carrier, on which at least one planetary wheel is mounted in a rotatable manner and is engaged via teeth with the ring gear and sun wheel; a first axially shiftable coupling sleeve, which in first gear position disconnects an input shaft to the gearbox from the planetary wheel carrier, and in a second gear position connects the input shaft with the planetary wheel carrier; and a second axially shiftable coupling sleeve, which in the first gear position connects a gearbox house surrounding the planetary gearbox with the ring gear, and in the second gear position disconnects the gearbox house from the ring gear. An axial stop, mounted on the planetary wheel carrier, abuts against and is connected with the ring gear and prevents the ring gear from shifting axially.
US10072727B2
A drive train is disclosed that includes an engine operable in a first engine operating state and a second engine operating state and a torsional-vibration damping system operatively connected to the engine. The torsional-vibration damping system includes a first torsional-vibration damper having a primary inertial mass and a secondary inertial mass, a second torsional-vibration damper, a first centrifugal pendulum arranged on the secondary inertial mass of the first torsional-vibration damper, and a second centrifugal pendulum arranged on the second torsional-vibration damper.
US10072715B2
A yaw brake mechanism is described for maintaining a yawing structure, such as a nacelle of a fluid turbine, at a desired orientation or azimuthal heading about a reference or yaw axis. The yaw brake mechanism uses one or more rotor locks and one or more receptacles that cooperate with one another to achieve the locking function. One of the rotor locks is actuatable so that a portion thereof can be engaged in one of the receptacles to lock the yawing structure. The number of rotor locks and receptacles can be selected to allow the yawing structure to achieve any azimuth heading around the full 360 degrees of the yaw axis with various degrees of accuracy. The yaw brake mechanism allows the yawing structure to maintain multiple headings while being subjected to extreme moment and force loads in a low mass, low height, low cost solution.
US10072710B2
A bearing device includes a rolling bearing having an outer ring and an inner ring, an outer ring spacer disposed adjacent to the outer ring, and an inner spacer disposed adjacent the inner ring. The outer ring and the outer ring spacer are fitted to a housing, and the inner ring and the inner ring spacer are fitted to a rotary shaft. The outer ring spacer is provided with a nozzle, which is configured to inject a cooling fluid (R) toward an outer circumferential surface of the inner ring, and is inclined so that an injection port thereof is inclined forwardly in a rotation direction of the inner ring. An inclination angle α of the nozzle with respect to an axial direction is set to a value within a range from 50° to 90°.
US10072699B2
The bearing apparatus 1 includes a crankshaft having multiple journals, main bearings supporting the crankshaft, and a bearing housing. The plurality of journals include a first journal with a lubricating oil passage and a second journal without a lubricating oil passage. The first and second journals are supported by first and second main bearings, respectively. The bearing housing is constituted by an Al-alloy upper housing and an Fe-alloy lower housing. The depth of the oil groove of the upper half bearing of the second main bearing at least in a ±45° region is equal to or smaller than a half of the depth of the oil groove of the upper half bearing of the first main bearing in the ±45° region.
US10072694B2
A fastener insertion system, for use with an assembly stack-up, includes a fastener and an end effector. The end effector includes a drill bit for drilling a hole through the stack-up, a probe for determining a stack-up parameter, and a fastener feed head for installing the fastener into the hole and applying rotational torque to complete fastener installation. The fastener insertion system also includes a processing device and an angle sensor communicatively coupled to the processing device and to the end effector. The processing device is programmed to measure, with the rotation angle sensor, the angular displacement required to complete fastener installation and to transmit a signal representative of the measured angular displacement from the angle sensor to the processing device. The processing device is also programmed to compare the measurement of angular displacement required to complete fastener installation to a range of angular displacement indicative of correct fastener installation.
US10072693B2
A bolt which extends into the first casing part, into the hole in the barrel nut, and into the second casing part, wherein the bolt engages with the barrel nut so as to join the first casing part to the second casing part; wherein the barrel nut includes a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion of the barrel nut is structurally weaker than the second portion of the barrel nut such that, if a predetermined load between the first casing part and the second casing part is exceeded, the first portion of the barrel nut becomes crushed while the second portion of the barrel nut remains engaged with the bolt. The casing assembly may be included in a gas turbine engine.
US10072679B2
A hydraulic system and method for using the same are provided. The hydraulic system includes a pump, a first actuator having a first head chamber and a first rod chamber, and a second actuator having a second head chamber and a second rod chamber. The hydraulic system further includes a first control valve and a second control valve. The second control valve to selectively provide regeneration fluid flow from the first rod chamber to the first head chamber in response to a first function command is less than a first function command limit, a second function command is greater than a second function command limit, and a second function load is greater than a second function load limit.
US10072676B2
A fluid system includes a variable-speed and/or a variable-torque pump to pump a fluid, at least one proportional control valve assembly, an actuator that is operated by the fluid to control a load, and a controller that establishes a speed and/or torque of the pump and a position of the at least one proportional control valve assembly. The pump includes at least one fluid driver that provides fluid to the actuator, which can be, e.g., a fluid-actuated cylinder, a fluid-driven motor or another type of fluid-driven actuator that controls a load. Each fluid driver includes a prime mover and a fluid displacement assembly. The fluid displacement assembly can be driven by the prime mover such that fluid is transferred from the inlet port to the outlet port of the pump.
US10072671B2
A diffuser (3) for a fan (2) of axial, radial or diagonal type of construction, has an inlet opening (10) and having an outlet opening (20) for a gaseous medium which flows through a diffuser interior (I), which is enclosed by an outer housing (30), in an axially oriented main flow direction (S) from the inlet opening (10) to the outlet opening (20). The cross section of the diffuser interior (I) increases from the cross section (11) of the inlet opening to the cross section (21) of the outlet opening (20), wherein the outer housing (30) forms an outer diffuser part (AD) which delimits the diffuser interior (I) to the outside. Along the main flow direction (S), the cross section of the outer diffuser part (AD) changes from a circular cross section (31) at the inlet opening (10) to a non-circular cross section (32) at the outlet opening (20).
US10072667B2
The present invention provides a supercharger with an electric motor having improved cooling performance for bearings, in the case of employing a grease lubrication system as a lubrication system of the bearings.A supercharger with an electric motor includes: a rotary shaft; a compressor wheel; a compressor housing for housing the compressor wheel; an electric motor including a motor rotor and a motor stator, and giving rotation force to the rotary shaft; a motor housing, for housing the electric motor; a first grease-sealed bearing for rotatably supporting the rotary shaft; and a bearing housing for housing the first grease-sealed bearing, and disposed between the compressor housing and the motor housing. Inside the bearing housing, a cooling passage through which a cooling medium flows is provided in a circumferential direction on an outer circumferential side of the first grease-sealed bearing.
US10072665B1
An engine using centrifugal pumps to form a centrifugal multistage reverse compressor with flow alternating inward and outward in series. It is fed, at either the periphery or the center of one of the pumps, by either compressed then heated air or by products of combustion. This invention also includes a set of related inventions, comprising a group of flow guides to convert radial flow to axial flow and a group to convert axial flow to radial flow and the combination of those flow guides. The invention also includes a multistage centrifugal compressor using combinations of centrifugal pumps with alternating pumps having inward flow of gas traveling from the periphery to the vicinity of the axle and having outward flow of gas traveling from the vicinity of the axle to the periphery. The invention also includes the using the above in an external heat engine or heat pump.
US10072662B2
Systems and methods of controlling the speed of a pump configured to move liquid through a pump system are described. The actual motor speed of the pump motor is controlled by adjusting a current applied to the motor based on the difference between the actual motor speed and the target motor speed according to a gain setting. A first gain value is applied as the gain setting when the difference between the actual motor speed and the target motor speed does not exceed a first threshold. However, a second, higher gain value is applied when the difference between the actual motor speed and the target motor speed exceeds the first threshold.
US10072661B2
A rotatory compressor and a refrigerating cycle device are provided. The rotatory compressor includes a lubricating oil in an interior of a hermetically sealed housing, and an electric motor and a rotatory compressing mechanism disposed in the housing. An internal pressure of the housing is substantially equal to a suction pressure of the compressing mechanism. The compressing mechanism includes a first bearing and a second bearing at least one of which includes an exhaust muffler. A refrigerant of the exhaust muffler flows through the sliding vane chamber and is discharged from an exhaust pipe of the compressing mechanism.
US10072659B2
A pressure control valve (100, 200) comprises a valve seat (140, 160) in which is formed a valve hole (142, 162), a first valve sheet member (110, 210) which covers the valve hole and is provided with a fluid passage (118, 218) thereon, and a second valve sheet member (120, 220) which is provided between the valve seat and the first valve sheet member and covers the fluid passage. Wherein, given that the direction directed from the second valve sheet member to the first valve sheet member is a first direction, when the pressure difference across two sides of the first valve sheet member and the second valve sheet member is directed to the first direction and is greater than or equal to a first preset value, the first valve sheet member is opened; when the pressure difference is directed to a second direction opposite to the first direction and is greater than or equal to a second preset value, the second valve sheet member is opened. Also disclosed is a scroll compressor comprising the pressure control valve. Also disclosed is a scroll compressor comprising a throttle valve for preventing or weakening the return flow from the back-pressure chamber to the pressure chamber.
US10072648B2
In a variable displacement type swash plate compressor, a connecting mechanism that connects a movable body and a swash plate includes a first arm having a first guide surface and a second arm having a second guide surface. The first and second arms extend from the movable body toward the swash plate and disposed on opposite sides of an imaginary plane that is defined to extend passing through a top dead center portion and an axis of rotation. The first arm and the second arm have a first opening and a second opening, respectively, that are open in a direction opposite to a direction in which a link pin moves on the first guide surface and the second guide surface with an increase of the inclination angle of the swash plate.
US10072646B2
The invention uses wind turbine and/or solar energy to enhance the efficiency of an underwater and/or underwater in-soil bed of a compressed air energy storage system. The apparatus comprises a wind turbine and/or a photovoltaic panel to drive an onshore compressor, which provides compressed air energy into an underwater pressure vessel. The buoyant rigid-wall pressure vessel will be located and restrained under water or in-soil underwater. The pressure vessel may be horizontal or in vertical configurations as well as parallel or in perpendicular orientation to the shoreline. The pressure vessel may be constructed of high compression strength reinforced concrete or reinforced fiber plastic material that need not have a high thermal capacitance or high thermal conductivity because the exhaust from the pressure vessel feed a near constant air temperature to the turboexpander on the surface via several long vertical small diameter pipes through the 50° to 70° F. water.
US10072645B2
The present disclosure provides a pump including a cylinder, a plunger, a spring seat, a spring, and a stopper. The cylinder defines therein a cylinder hole. The plunger includes a shaft portion, a seat receiver, and a step surface. The spring biases the plunger in a second direction opposite to a first direction through the spring seat. The stopper includes an engaging portion. The engaging portion restricts, by engaging with the step surface, a movable range of the plunger in the second direction. The stopper defines therein an eccentric hole that has an inner diameter greater than an outer diameter of the step surface. The eccentric hole is eccentric with the plunger and opens through a portion of the stopper other than the engaging portion.
US10072644B2
A modular pump system permits combining multiple discrete pump assemblies in serial and/or parallel configurations to tailor system output to user needs. The assemblies may be combined by hand quickly, without the needs for tools, to permit use in remote areas.
US10072639B2
A gravity power generation device comprises a geothermal well, a hollow heat conducting post, a power generating unit, a steam guiding unit, a condensing unit and a water distribution unit. By discharging and filling the water alternately and repetitively, a first tank and a second tank of the power generating unit can be continuously movable back and forth between a first and a second power generation positions so that a shaft of the power generating unit can continuously rotate to drive a generator of the power generating unit to generate electric power, thereby the heat energy of the geothermal steam can be converted into the potential energy of the water, and then be converted to electric energy so as to meet the demand for power generation by natural energy.
US10072620B2
An apparatus and a system is provided that may be utilized to determine air flow through an air filter and/or a plurality of air filters. The present invention utilizes a demonstration apparatus to illustrate the differences in air flow and air restriction between a plurality of different air filters and filtration media. The apparatus and system utilizes a common plenum which subjects the plurality of air filters to the same differential pressure. The air flows through a first side of the air filter and is measured on the second side of the air filter by utilizing a wind meter or similar device to gauge the amount of air flow velocity of the second side of the filter. Additionally, the apparatus and system utilizes a display means to illustrate the differing air velocity through the second side of the air filter.
US10072610B2
The invention relates to a feed device for feeding a thrust chamber (10) of a rocket engine (100) with first and second propellants. According to the invention, a first feed circuit (16) of the thrust chamber (10) comprises a turbopump (22) having at least one pump (22a) for pumping the first propellant from a first tank (12), and a turbine (22b) mechanically coupled to said pump (22a). The first feed circuit connects an outlet of the pump to an inlet of the turbine via a heat exchanger (24) configured to heat the first propellant with heat generated by the thrust chamber, in order to actuate the turbine. According to the invention, a second feed circuit (18) is configured to feed the thrust chamber with second propellant from a second tank (14) that is configured to be pressurized. The invention also provides a method of feeding a rocket engine thrust chamber with first and second propellants.
US10072609B2
In various embodiments, the thrust vectoring systems described herein create variable reverse thrust during a landing event. The reverse thrust may be varied based on manual inputs, dynamically changing operating events, or a landing duty cycle. In various embodiments, the thrust vectoring systems comprise a movable shelf that is capable of adjusting a directing a fluid flow to create a variable reverse thrust which may reduce the risk of foreign object ingestion in the engine at lower ground speeds.
US10072599B2
An internal combustion engine uses gaseous main fuel and liquid pilot fuel and has a plurality of cylinders and an engine controller capable of adjusting a burning state of each cylinder through fuel regulation, including fuel cut off, upon occurrence of abnormal combustion. A method of operating the internal combustion engine includes, upon occurrence of abnormal combustion in a cylinder in a gaseous mode, cutting off the main fuel into only the cylinder and the fuel injection is kept partially active with a pilot fuel injected by a pilot nozzle of the cylinder.
US10072596B2
A control unit (2) for a fuel injector (3) comprising a solenoid actuator (31) having an armature (33), the control unit configured to drive a current through an electromagnet coil (34) of the solenoid actuator in a voltage mode during at least a portion of an injection cycle.
US10072582B2
An in-line propeller gearbox of a turboprop gas turbine engine includes a lubricant reservoir disposed spaced radially offset from the engine's central axis of rotation and asymmetrically with respect to the central axis of rotation such that the central axis of rotation does not extend through the lubricant reservoir.
US10072579B2
An apparatus for discriminating ignition in a gas-turbine aeroengine is configured to discriminate that ignition occurred in a combustion chamber upon discriminating that a calculated high-pressure turbine rotational speed change rate at a detected high-pressure turbine rotational speed equal to or greater than a predetermined rotational speed threshold is equal to or greater than a predetermined rotational speed change rate threshold and that the change rate has been equal to or greater than the predetermined rotational speed change rate threshold continuously for a predetermined time period or longer, whereby whether or not ignition of an air-fuel mixture occurred in a combustion chamber can be accurately discriminated or determined without using a dedicated sensor or detector even when an EGT sensor or detector fails.
US10072577B2
A buffer air cooler system for gas turbine engines disposed in a bypass duct of the engine, includes a housing for containing the buffer air cooler therein and an inlet portion attached to the housing. In one embodiment, the inlet portion has a double-skin configuration in at least one region of a top, bottom and sides of the inlet portion.
US10072570B2
A gas turbine engine has a fan rotor for delivering air into a bypass duct and into a core airflow duct. Air in the core flow duct passes axially downstream from the fan and past a reverse core engine including a turbine section, a combustor section, and a compressor section. The core airflow duct reaches a turning duct which turns the airflow radially inwardly to communicate with an inlet for the compressor section. Air in the compressor section passes to the combustor section. Products of the combustion pass downstream across a turbine rotor. An exhaust turning duct communicates products of the combustion from a full cylindrical portion downstream of the turbine rotor through a plurality of circumferentially separated mixing lobe outlets to mix with the bypass air in the bypass duct. The bypass duct extends past the mixing lobe outlets, and is defined circumferentially intermediate the mixing lobe outlets.
US10072567B2
A linear electrical machine comprising a movable piston, an axially segmented cylinder having least one magnetically permeable segment and a bore configured to allow the piston to move within the cylinder, a cylinder housing having a bore for receiving the segmented cylinder, and means for securing the segmented cylinder in place within the cylinder housing. This arrangement permits the construction of it free piston engine linear with improved piston position control, more consistent combustion and improved electrical conversion efficiency.
US10072557B2
A heat exchanger system for a vehicle includes at least one heat exchanger, a centrifugal fan assembly for improving the flow of air through the at least one heat exchanger, the fan assembly including a rotatably mounted impeller with a plurality of impeller blades, and a rotatable inlet shroud for guiding the air flow entering the impeller; and a stationary inlet shroud located between the at least one heat exchanger and the fan assembly and configured for directing air exiting the at least one heat exchanger towards the rotatable inlet shroud of the fan assembly. The fan assembly further includes a stator with a plurality of stationary stator blades located radially or semi-radially outside the impeller for conversion of fluid dynamic pressure to fluid static pressure of the air flow.
US10072547B2
A pump for conveying a fluid includes a pump housing with an inlet, an outlet, an inner circumferential surface and a geometric axis. An eccentric is rotatable in the housing around the geometric axis. A deformable element is disposed in a pump gap between inner and outer surfaces of the eccentric. A conveying channel is formed from inlet to outlet by the deformable element and the inner circumferential surface. The deformable element is pressed in sections against the housing by the outer eccentric surface, forming a displaceable seal of the channel and a closed pump volume in the channel being displaceable by rotation of the eccentric for conveying the fluid along the channel from inlet to outlet. The deformable element has a protrusion on one or both sides towards the geometric axis extending over the outer eccentric surface and contacting the deformable element. A centering ring is inside the protrusion.
US10072546B2
The present invention is based on the application of heating resistors by a temperature regulation circuit in certain points of the catalyzer so that this comes into operation in the least time possible, reducing most of the amount of low molecular stability or environmentally harmful substances. Likewise, little tumult are added to each monolith duct to raise exhaust gas turbulence and increase the contact between the reduction and oxidation agent, whether it be platinum, palladium and rhodium.
US10072541B2
An oil pan assembly for a vehicle is provided which reduces and the movement of the oil pan relative to the engine block, and reduces the mechanical strain on the Room Temperature Vulcanizing (RTV) layer between the oil pan and the engine block. The oil pan assembly includes a brace and an oil pan having a base and sidewalls, and optionally an oil pan cover. The oil pan may include a peripheral flange operatively configured to be coupled to an engine block. The brace may be affixed to the oil pan about the peripheral area of the oil pan.
US10072528B2
An axial-flow exhaust turbine is capable of discharging water drops collected from a steam passage. The axial-flow exhaust turbine includes: a steam passage in which rotor blades and stator blades are arranged in rows; an exhaust chamber for discharging steam from the steam passage in a turbine axial direction, the exhaust chamber being positioned at a downstream side of the steam passage; a casing including the steam passage and the exhaust chamber inside the casing; an inner partition wall positioned on an inner circumferential side of the casing so as to face the exhaust chamber; and a drain flow channel defined between the casing and the inner partition wall. The water drops collected from the steam passage can pass through the drain flow channel.
US10072526B2
An apparatus for supporting a tool in an assembled apparatus. The apparatus includes a support structure, the support structure having a central member and a plurality of support members pivotally mounted on the central member. The support members are movable between a non-deployed position in which the support members extend a minimum distance from the central member and a deployed position in which the support members extend a maximum distance from the central member.
US10072518B2
An abradable liner suitable for a gas turbine engine fan stage, comprising a plurality of abradable layers that are bonded together, wherein at least one visual indicator is embedded in the plurality of abradable layers, the visual indicators can be coloured strips of material and may be at a given depth, and may be in an independent element or layer located in between other layers.
US10072517B2
A component for a gas turbine engine according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a mate face and a feather seal slot axially extending along the mate face, the feather seal slot having a variable width along a portion of its axial length.
US10072515B2
The disclosure relates Frame segment for a transition piece-turbine interface having a picture frame receptacle for axially receiving an aft end of a combustor transition piece. The frame segment can include an I-beam with an upper horizontal element, a lower horizontal element, and a vertical web, wherein the upper horizontal element has mounting face for fixation to a vane carrier. The vertical web has a downstream face, facing towards a first stage of a turbine when installed in a gas turbine. The vertical web includes a cooling gas duct for supplying cooling gas to the downstream face of the vertical web.
US10072512B2
A nozzle and shroud for use in an air cycle machine has a plate and a shroud curving in a first axial direction about a center axis of the shroud relative to the plate. A plurality of vanes extends in a second axial direction away from the plate. The plurality of vanes extends for a height away from the plate and a width defined as the closest distance between two adjacent vanes, with a ratio of the height to the width being between 1.7377 and 2.1612. An air cycle machine and a method of repair are also disclosed.
US10072510B2
A gas turbine engine is provided. The gas turbine engine includes a core and a variable pitch fan arranged in flow communication with the core. The variable pitch fan has a disk and at least nine fan blades coupled to the disk for rotation together with the disk. The gas turbine engine further includes a rotatable nacelle covering the disk such that the engine has a fan hub radius ratio of between about 0.1 and about 0.4.
US10072500B2
Methods, systems, and devices for characterizing a water-flooded zone in an earth formation resulting from injection of water to the formation through an injector well borehole intersecting the formation. The method includes estimating horizontal elongation of the water-flooded zone using a gravity field change in the injector well borehole. Estimating horizontal elongation may include predicting a gravity field change for each of a plurality of model water-flooded zones for the borehole, wherein each model water-flooded zone is an elliptical cylinder having finite height and semi-axes; and fitting the gravity field change to one of the predicted gravity field changes corresponding to one of the plurality of elliptical cylinder model water-flooded zones. The gravity field change may comprise a difference between a first estimated gravity field in the injector well borehole before injection and a second estimated gravity field in the injector well borehole after injection.
US10072498B2
The disclosed embodiments include a method and fiber optic cable to provide optical pulses for sensing, and an optical telemetry system. In one embodiment, the method includes sequentially transmitting a plurality of optical pulses through a first end of a first optical fiber disposed in a first section of a wellbore. The plurality of optical pulses is combined into a combined optical pulse at a distance from the first end of the first optical fiber. The method further includes transmitting the combined optical pulse through a second optical fiber disposed in a second section of the wellbore, and the second optical fiber includes a second dispersion value, where an absolute value of the first dispersion value is greater than an absolute value of the second dispersion value.
US10072494B2
A system for determining a characteristic of an oil well includes a signal source to generate an excitation signal during a first time duration and to generate a local oscillator signal during a second time duration. The system further includes a directional coupler, and a resonator disposed in an annulus of an oil well to receive the excitation signal through the directional coupler. The system also includes a mixer to receive a resonator signal from the resonator through the directional coupler, to receive the local oscillator signal, and to generate a mixer output signal based on the resonator signal and the local oscillator signal. The system further includes a filter to filter the mixer output signal to produce an intermediate frequency signal having an intermediate frequency, and a processor to determine a pressure or a temperature experienced by the resonator based on the intermediate frequency signal and the excitation signal.
US10072491B2
An assembly (100) for the illumination of a wellbore, pipeline, tank, vessel or other environment wherein light is diffused and transmitted through an optically transparent material and projected in and around a field of view of a camera lens (10). A light source is disposed within a cavity at the proximal end (102) of a cylindrical shaped, optically transparent material. Light from the source is received into the transparent material, diffused, and transmitted to the distal end of the light tube (30), where it is projected in front of and around a field of view of a camera. Control of light intensity may be variable, pre-set before operations, or fixed by component design.
US10072489B2
A transmitter is powered by a regulated battery voltage and is installable in one of a plurality of different housings, each housing is characterized by a different design and each can form part of an inground tool for performing an inground operation in which a drill string extends from a drill rig to the inground tool. An antenna driver drives an antenna based on the regulated voltage to emanate an electromagnetic signal for remote reception. A controller limits power consumption from the regulated voltage so as not to exceed a power consumption threshold, irrespective of installation of the transmitter in any one of the housings when the transmitter would otherwise exhibit a different power consumption for each housing design. A corresponding method is described. Features relating to power consumption threshold modification based on temperature as well as mechanical shock and vibration are described.
US10072474B2
Embodiments of cam lock pressure seals, a spring-driven ball race pressure seal and wedge pressure seals, each suitable to be deployed in multiple applications (such as wellhead pressure control applications, hydraulic fracturing applications and drilling applications) where it is advantageous to actuate a pressure seal remotely.
US10072471B2
A liner tube for a core barrel assembly includes a substantially cylindrical sleeve having an inner surface configured to be coupled to a layer of material that is configured to absorb or adsorb formation fluids or parts of formation fluids. At every longitudinal location of the sleeve with respect to a longitudinal axis of the sleeve, a transverse cross-section of a wall of the sleeve may include at least one gap extending radially through the entire wall of the sleeve, such that the at least one gap separates a portion of the sleeve wall on one circumferential side of the at least one gap from another portion of the sleeve wall on an opposite circumferential side of the at least one gap. The sleeve has flexibility in a circumferential direction greater than that of a sleeve without a gap extending radially through an entire wall of the sleeve at a transverse cross-section of the sleeve at every longitudinal location of the sleeve. The sleeve may include at least two circumferential segments in contact with an elastic element extending in a circumferential direction. Methods of forming a liner for a core barrel assembly, methods of building a coring tool with such a liner, and methods of coring a formation material are also disclosed.
US10072467B2
A removable riser hang-off connector is equipped with a flexible element that, in one embodiment, comprises rubber-encapsulated steel plates. The connector is designed for attachment to a hang-off collar provided on a steel catenary riser below the tapered stress joint or flex joint. Connection of the removable riser hang-off connector may be made by an ROV. With the removable riser hang-off connector attached, the tapered stress joint and/or flex joint may be raised out of the water (for inspection, maintenance, repair or replacement) by lifting the upper end of the SCR out of its porch receptacle with a chain jack (or other lifting device) and inserting the removable riser hang-off connector into the porch receptacle. This temporarily supports the SCR in an elevated state with the tapered stress joint and/or flex joint above the surface of the water.
US10072447B2
An outer handle device for a vehicle door is provided in which an actuator can drive the outer handle to a pop-up position where the operating portion of the outer handle projects outward from the outer panel, wherein in a state in which the outer handle is in a pop-up position, a drive lever of the actuator is held at an operated position by holding means, a release lever is pivoted by a handle lever pivoting with the outer handle when the outer handle pivots from the pop-up position to the full stroke position, the holding of the drive lever by the holding means is released by the pivoting of the release lever, and the drive lever is forcibly returned to the initial position. This enables an outer handle to be returned to a housed position even if there is a malfunction of an actuator-side electric drive source.
US10072444B2
A force adjustment mechanism configured for use with an exit device including a pushbar having an extended position and a retracted position. With the pushbar in the extended position, the pushbar resists movement toward the retracted position with a net resistive force. The force adjustment mechanism is operable to adjust the net resistive force.
US10072441B2
An electric strike assembly includes a housing formed with a recessed portion therein, a keeper assembly pivotably mounted in the recessed portion of the housing, a lock leg pivotably mounted in the recessed portion of the housing and configured to rotate independently of the rotation of the keeper assembly, a block assembly having a blocking element configured to engage and disengage the keeper assembly, and to control engagement and disengagement of the blocking element with the keeper assembly. A method of capturing and releasing a latch bolt mounted in a door includes mounting an electric strike assembly in an associated door jamb and controlling an actuator to rotate an actuator paddle to engage a blocking element such that the blocking element is engaged or disengaged from a keeper assembly.
US10072439B2
A collapsible canopy structure includes one or more eaves, one or more fixed eave mounts, one or more sliding eave mounts and one or more vertical poles. Each of the vertical poles has a top end and a bottom end. Each of the vertical poles is connected by at least one of the one or more eaves. At least one of the fixed eave mounts is coupled to at least one of the eaves and attached proximate to the top end of at least one of the vertical poles. At least one of the sliding eave mounts is coupled to at least one of the eaves and slidingly coupled to one of the vertical poles between its top end and its bottom end. One or more detent elements include a round or spherical detent surface that engages an opening of the one or more vertical poles.
US10072438B2
A grave bridge has a first horizontal frame member and a second horizontal frame member, each horizontal frame member telescopically adjustable; at least one plank interposed between the first and second horizontal frame members, the at least one plank secured to each frame member, and wherein the at least one plank has an extension frame longitudinally extendable from underneath a platform of the at least one plank; and a plurality of jacks for elevating the first and second horizontal frame members, the jacks placed at opposing ends of each horizontal frame member.
US10072427B2
An abrading device for abrading a floor structure comprises a first abrading assembly and a second abrading assembly. The first and second abrading assemblies each have a rotationally driven contact roll provided with a sleeve having a plurality of cutouts formed in a pattern thereon. An abrading belt is trained over the sleeve. A first oscillation assembly is connected to the first abrading assembly and oscillates the contact roll of the first abrading assembly in a first direction via a linear, reciprocating motion. A second oscillation assembly is connected to the second abrading assembly and oscillates the contact roll of the second abrading assembly in a second direction via a linear reciprocating motion. The first and second abrading assemblies consecutively abrade a top surface of the floor structure with the pattern formed by the cutouts on the respective sleeves to form a distressed visible pattern thereon.
US10072423B2
A compressible foam closure for roof panels includes a core having an elongate body defining a longitudinal axis. The elongate body has at least two opposing sides and defines a thickness. A plurality of slits are formed in the core, into the thickness, extending from the at least two opposing sides toward the longitudinal axis. A thin, flexible, water impermeable skin covers the core. The slits can be formed fully through the core to form slices of the core that are stacked together.
US10072420B2
A roof window comprising an insulation member for sealing a gap between at least part of a roof window frame and at least part of a frame of an aperture in a support structure for receiving the roof window frame. The insulation member having a first out of use configuration and a second in use insulating configuration and an arrangement for activating the insulation member between the out of use configuration and the in use insulating configuration.
US10072419B2
A scrim reinforced roofing membrane comprising a coated scrim layer having a first side and a second side and a first polyvinyl chloride layer on the first side of the coated scrim layer. The coated scrim layer contains a scrim fabric which contains a plurality of warp yarns in a first direction and a plurality of weft yarns in a second direction approximately perpendicular to the first direction. The warp yarns cross the weft yarns at crossing points. The scrim fabric has a polyvinyl acetate coating which is located along the length of the warp yarns and the weft yarns and between the warp and weft yarns at the crossing points. The coated scrim is at least partially embedded in the first polyvinyl chloride layer.
US10072409B2
A backflow prevention apparatus is provided with a check valve and a float-type backflow prevention valve, these being installed in this order as one proceeds from upstream to downstream. The check valve comprises a valve seat; a valve member that closes the valve at the valve seat due to an upwardly directed restoring force; and a restoring force exerting member that exerts an upwardly directed restoring force on the valve member. The float-type backflow prevention valve comprises an annular valve seat; a float that rises in accompaniment to a rise in a water level of wastewater to close the valve at the annular valve seat; a guide member that guides movement of the float in a vertical direction; and a constraining member that constrains a lowermost position to which the float can move.
US10072406B2
A quiet toilet apparatus disclosed. Microphones and circuitry are used to receive and detect one or more virtual point source locations and propagation directions of unwanted toilet noise. Speakers are used to create one or more synthesized wave fronts resulting in cancelation and reduction of unwanted toilet noise. The speakers, microphones and circuitry may be located within a toilet seat of a toilet or at a remote location. A user device or remote device may be connected to the noise reduction toilet apparatus for data recording, collection, reporting, and electronic noise filtering.
US10072400B2
A faucet assembly includes a bushing defining a cutout at a portion of a first end, and a control handle received on the first end of the bushing. The control handle includes an inner wall defining a set screw bore therein, and an outer wall spaced apart from the inner wall, the outer wall defining a visible bore therethrough. The control handle further includes a cavity at least partially defined between the inner wall and the outer wall. The cavity is configured to receive at least a portion of the cutout.
US10072395B2
A shovel includes a lower running body and an upper turning body that is turnably provided on the lower running body. An engine is mounted on the upper turning body. A hydraulic pump is driven by the engine to discharge an operating oil. A hydraulic actuator is mounted on the upper turning body. A control device controls operations of the shovel. An entering object detection device detects a position of an entering object in a monitoring area of said shovel and outputs a detection signal indicating the detection position of said entering object. The control device supplies, after a determination of an entry of the entering object into the monitoring area, the operating oil from the hydraulic pump to the hydraulic actuator.
US10072392B2
A boom and boom foot section for connection to a machine, where the boom includes a center section and a box section extending between the foot and center sections. The box section includes first and second side walls. The foot section includes a machine connection for connecting the boom to the machine, and first and second protruding flanges. The first flange couples to the first side wall, and the second flange couples to the second side wall. The foot section can include a bulkhead. The machine connection, bulkhead, and flanges can be formed by a single piece of material. The flanges can be coupled to the side walls by weld joints that do not have weld roots. The flanges can extend beyond the bulkhead to allow internal welds in the weld joint. The flanges and side walls can have double-beveled edges for the weld joints formed by fused groove welds.
US10072386B1
A vibration system for a compactor drum including a central support structure fixedly mounted within the compactor drum. The vibration system also includes a first vibratory exciter coupled to the central support structure. The vibration system further includes a second vibratory exciter coupled to the central support structure. The second vibratory exciter is longitudinally spaced apart from the first vibratory exciter. The vibration system includes a stabilizer element coupled to, and extending between, the first and second vibratory exciters. The stabilizer element is parallel to the central support structure.
US10072374B2
A wall-mounted drum-type washing machine includes a rear panel mounted on a wall surface; a tub containing wash water; a rotatable drum in the tub; a driving unit providing power to the drum; a coupling unit on the rear panel coupled to a rotatable driving shaft of the drum; and a disposition portion preventing the driving unit connected to the driving shaft from interfering with the wall surface.
US10072372B2
A control method of a washing machine including a wireless communicator communicating with an electronic device, includes: causing the washing machine to operate a washing tub of the washing machine as a preliminary operation, including a rotational operation of the washing tub; acquiring motion information regarding a motion of the electronic device during the preliminary operation; determining whether or not the electronic device is inside the washing tub based on the acquired motion information and information indicating the preliminary operation; and giving the washing machine a notification indicating that the electronic device is inside the washing tub if the determining determines that the electronic device is inside the washing tub. It is determined whether or not the electronic device is inside the washing tub, based on a comparison between characteristic operation information determined in advance with regard to the preliminary operation and the motion information acquired by a sensor.
US10072371B2
Disclosed herein is a washing machine including a time setting unit configured to set an operation time, and a controller configured to control the laundry treatment operation so as to be terminated before expiration of the operating time by adjusting at least one of a level of water supplied to a washing tub to execute at least one of the wash and the rinse, a number of times of executing the rinse and an execution time of the spin-dry, according to the operation time set through the time setting unit.
US10072369B2
A laundry treating appliance for treating laundry according to a cycle of operation includes a rotatable basket defining a laundry treating space and having a bottom wall and a side wall. The bottom wall of the rotatable basket includes at least one drain hole. A centrifugally actuated valve comprising a weighted ball is positioned to selectively open and close the at least one drain hole as the basket rotates.
US10072365B2
Knit fabrics and military apparel such as T-shirts made therefrom are disclosed. The fabrics are constructed from blended yarns made from an intimate combination of nylon and cotton staple fibers. Such fabrics comprise a weight ratio of cotton to nylon which ranges from about 55:45 to about 85:15, and these fabrics also have a weight ranging from about 3 to about 8 oz/yd2. Knit fabrics of this type possess a desirable combination of good thermal protective properties, provided the specified high level of staple fiber blend uniformity is achieved, along with very useful abrasion resistance, bursting strength and drying time characteristics.
US10072350B2
A method for manufacturing a silicon ingot having uniform phosphorus concentration. The method includes at least the steps of: (i) providing a quasi-uniform molten silicon bath containing at least phosphorus; and (ii) proceeding to the directional solidification of the silicon, wherein a speed (VI) for solidifying the silicon and a rate (JLV) of evaporation of the phosphorus at the liquid/vapor interface of the bath are controlled such that, at each moment of the directional solidification, the following equation is verified: VI=k′/(2−k) (E), wherein k′ is the phosphorus transfer coefficient, and k is the distribution coefficient of the phosphorus in the silicon. Also relates to a silicon ingot having uniform phosphorus concentration across a height of at least 20 cm.
US10072342B2
The present disclosure is directed to a compressed fuel storage system. The compressed fuel storage system may include an electrochemical compressor and one or more fuel dispensing units. The electrochemical compressor may be configured to compress a fuel source. Additionally, the compressed fuel storage system may include at least one low pressure compressed fuel reservoir fluidly connected to the electrochemical compressor and the fuel dispensing units and at least one high pressure compressed fuel reservoir fluidly connected to the electrochemical compressor and the fuel dispensing units.
US10072321B2
The copper alloy of the present invention contains 5% by mass to 25% by mass of Ni, 5% by mass to 10% by mass of Sn, 0.005% by mass to 0.5% by mass of element A (element A being at least one selected from the group consisting of Nb, Zr and Ti), and 0.005% by mass or more of carbon. In the copper alloy, the mole ratio of the carbon to the element A is 10.0 or less. The copper alloy may further contain 0.01% by mass to 1% by mass of Mn. In this copper alloy, the element A may be present as carbide.
US10072313B2
Provided is a smelting method capable of effectively promoting a reduction reaction on pellets formed using nickel oxide ore as starting material to obtain a ferronickel alloy with a high nickel grade of at least 4%. The present invention is a method for smelting nickel oxide ore wherein ferronickel alloy with a nickel grade of at least 4%, the method comprising a pellet-producing step S1 for producing pellets from nickel oxide ore, and a reducing step S2 for reduction-heating of the obtained pellets in a smelting furnace. In the pellet-producing step S1, the pellets are produced by mixing nickel oxide ore with a specified amount of a carbonaceous reducing agent as starting materials. In the reducing step S2, the produced pellets are charged in a smelting furnace in which a carbonaceous reducing agent (furnace bottom carbonaceous reducing agent) has been spread over the entire furnace bottom and reduction-heating is performed.
US10072310B2
The invention provides a process of preparing fermented milk beverage keeping high viable cell count at ambient temperature. The process includes the steps of adding regular yoghurt lactobacillus into milk for fermentation, fermenting until pH value to 3.8-4.8, diluting, mixing and sterilizing with conventional method, adding concentrated culture, concentrated frozen culture or freeze dried culture containing Lactobacillus rhamnosus ATCC 53103 into mixed milk beverage at aseptic condition. According to various pH value of finished product, it can be stored at ambient temperature for 1-6 months, and the viable cell count will not be less than 105 cfu/ml milk beverage. The indexes of storage period and viable cell count are much higher than fermented milk beverage produced by conventional process. Thereby the defect that fermented milk beverage has short shelf life and low viable cell count at ambient temperature is overcome efficiently.
US10072307B1
An isolation and detection method for viruses from large quantities of water or other aqueous media. The technology employs charged resins to isolate viral particles from liquid sources such as water, milk, juices, and homogenized food. Anionic resin beads are added to a sample liquid and suspended within the liquid. While in suspension the anionic beads complex with negatively charged virus particles of other pathogens. The complexed beads are then removed from the liquid, effecting the isolation of the virus. Detection techniques can then be performed directly on the complexed beads without resorting to additional steps to elute the virus or other pathogen from the bead. The methodology can be employed for the detection of bacteriophage in an aqueous medium where the bacteriophage serves as a surrogate for the presence of a pathogen or other contaminant, such as an enteric virus.
US10072292B2
The present invention relates to polypeptides capable of modulating odorant receptor activation. In particular, the present invention provides polypeptides (e.g., type 3 muscarinic actetylcholine receptor M3) capable of enhancing odorant receptor activation. The present invention further provides assays for the detection of ligands specific for various odorant receptors. Additionally, the present invention provides methods of screening for polypeptide polymorphisms and mutations associated with odorant receptor activation (e.g., polymorphisms and mutations associated with muscarinic actetylcholine receptor polypeptides (e.g., M1, M2, M3, M4, M5)), as well as methods of screening for therapeutic agents, ligands, and modulators of such proteins.
US10072282B2
Method for identifying a modulator of Sirt6, PfSir2a, or Sirt7 deacylase activity, wherein a fatty-acylated substrate containing an acyl-lysine moiety and an indicator moiety is contacted with Sirt6, PfSir2a, or Sirt7 in the presence of a candidate compound under conditions for Sirt6, PfSir2a, or Sirt7 to deacylate the substrate, wherein the acyl is a hydrophobic fatty acyl group containing a hydrocarbon group having at least three carbon atoms connected by carbon-carbon bonds; contacting the deacylated substrate with a cleavage agent that cleaves the linkage between the lysine and indicator moiety to generate a detectable signal; and correlating a quantified Sirt6, PfSir2a, or Sirt7 deacylase activity therefrom. Modulating compounds of Sirt6, PfSir2a, or Sirt7 deacylase activity are also described, as are pharmaceutical compositions thereof, methods of treatment by administration of the modulating compounds, and kits for practicing the method.
US10072279B2
The present invention concerns a method for producing terpenes in fungi comprising the steps of (a) providing a modified terpene biosynthetic gene cluster inside a host cell, wherein one or more of the naturally occurring genes or promoters of the cluster have been replaced, truncated or removed, (b) providing a transcription factor inside the host cell, the transcription factor activating the terpene biosynthetic gene cluster; (c) cultivating said host in conditions allowing the expression of the transcription factor activating the cluster; and optionally (d) recovering the thus produced terpene product.
US10072276B2
Provided is a genetically engineered yeast cell having increased NADPH production, a method of increasing a NADPH level in a yeast cell, a method of preparing the genetically engineered yeast cell, and a method of producing lactate using the genetically engineered yeast cell.
US10072268B2
This invention relates to systems, methods, and devices for inducing and/or repressing the expression of proteins. More particularly, the invention relates to systems, methods, and devices for inducing and/or repressing the expression of proteins in plastids. An exemplary embodiment involves the regulation of the expression of proteins involved in hydrogen production to stimulate the production of hydrogen gas using the methods, systems, and devices described herein.
US10072261B1
Aspects of the present disclosure include methods for double coupling a nucleoside phosphoramidite during synthesis of an oligonucleotide. The method can include coupling a free hydroxyl group of a nucleoside residue with a first sample of a protected nucleoside phosphoramidite via an internucleoside P(III) linkage, followed by exposure to an oxidizing agent prior to a second coupling step with a second sample of the protected nucleoside phosphoramidite, and further exposure to an oxidizing agent. The method finds use in synthesizing an oligonucleotide on a solid phase support, such as a planar surface. The double coupling method can be utilized at one or more nucleotide positions during oligonucleotide synthesis thereby reducing single base deletion rates. Oligonucleotide containing compositions synthesized according to the disclosed methods are also provided.
US10072256B2
Processes for separating an infectious viral load from a pancreatin sample and for quantitatively determining the viral load in a pancreatin sample are described herein.
US10072251B2
The disclosure in some aspects relates to recombinant adeno-associated viruses having distinct tissue targeting capabilities. In some aspects, the disclosure relates to gene transfer methods using the recombinant adeno-associate viruses. In some aspects, the disclosure relates to isolated AAV capsid proteins and isolated nucleic acids encoding the same.
US10072247B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising an ischemic serum for promoting the activation of a stem cell, to a method for promoting the activation of a stem cell and to a stem cell, the activation of which is promoted by the composition or the method. The ischemic serum according to the present invention may stimulate the stem cell to facilitate the secretion of a growth factor, improve survival rate, improve mobility to an injured part, improve proliferation rate and maintain characteristics of the stem cell, thus promoting an activation of the stem cell such that the stem cell becomes suitable for transplantation of the stem cell to a patient having a brain injury.
US10072245B2
The present invention provides a method for generation of a cell composition of mesencephalic dopaminergic progenitor cells from a starting cell composition comprising pluripotent and/or multipotent stem cells, the method comprising the steps of a) differentiating said pluripotent and/or multipotent stem cells into mesencephalic dopaminergic progenitor cells, thereby generating a cell population comprising mesencephalic dopaminergic progenitor cells and other cells, b) dissociating the differentiated cells of step a) into a single cell suspension, and c) enriching said mesencephalic dopaminergic progenitor cells by using an antigen binding molecule specific for the CD47 antigen for positive selection of said mesencephalic dopaminergic progenitor cells in said single cell suspension. Said method may be performed in a closed cell sample processing system and may be performed in an automated manner.
US10072227B2
There is described a processor for use in the microwave torrefaction of biomass material which comprises, a micronized biomass char material and a method of producing a biomass char material, and a method of producing L-glucosan.
US10072219B2
On-line detection of mesophase particles employs a laser diode light source to illuminate a target area with a pulsed laser linearly or circularly polarized probe beam. Analysis of images determines extent of presence the birefringent mesophase particles, which are precursors to coking in catalytic hydrocracking processes. The inherently polarized low-coherence, unfocused but sufficiently collimated, pulsed laser beam yield sharp imaging with high depth of field of very small mesophase particles that are present in a moving, dark reactor liquid environment.
US10072212B2
The invention relates to novel and improved halogen-free flame retardant compounds having the structure of Formula (I): wherein: R1 and R2 are independently hydrogen, C1-C6 alkyl, —P(O)(OR3)2, —P(O)OR3R4, or —P(O)R32, wherein R3 and R4 are independently C1-C4 alkyl, C6-C12 aryl, C7-C15 aralkyl or C7-C15 alkaryl; or R1 and R2 taken together form an unsaturated cyclic ring, which is optionally substituted by an alkyl group; each k is independently an integer from 1 to 2; each X is independently oxygen (O) or sulphur (S); v is 0 or 1; each Y is independently C1-C4 alkylene, C6 arylene, C7-C15 aralkylene, C7-C15 alkarylene, oxygen (O), nitrogen (NR), wherein R is H or C1-C4 alkyl; n is 0, 1 or 2 with the proviso that n is 1 when Y is oxygen (O) or nitrogen (NR); each Z is independently C1-C4 alkylene, C6 arylene, C7-C15 aralkylene or C7-C15 is alkarylene; m is independently 0, 1 or 2; with the proviso that when Y is oxygen (O) or nitrogen (N), m cannot be 0; each Q is independently C1-C4 alkylene; t is an integer from 1 to 2; W is oxygen (O) or sulphur (S). The compounds are particularly suited as flame retardant additives for thermoplastic polyesters.
US10072181B2
Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure includes intermediate transfer members, primer layer materials, methods of forming an intermediate transfer member layers having a base and an acrylic rubber layer, are disclosed.
US10072179B2
The invention relates to a vinyl functionalized urethane resin (VFUR) useful as a curing agent in thermosetting powder coating compositions, a process for making said vinyl functionalized urethane resin, a vinyl functionalized urethane resin composition (VFURC) useful as a curing agent in thermosetting powder coating compositions, a process for making vinyl functionalized urethane resin composition, a thermosetting powder coating composition (TPCC), a process for the preparation thereof, a cured thermosetting powder coating composition, processes for coating an article with said thermosetting powder coating composition and an article coated with said thermosetting powder coating composition as well as uses of the vinyl functionalized urethane resin or of the vinyl functionalized urethane resin composition or of the thermosetting powder coating composition or of the articles having coated and cured thereon said thermosetting powder coating composition. The invention relates also to thermosetting powder coating composition useful for powder-in-mold coating articles such as reinforced polymeric e.g. polyester resin articles and to powder-in-mold coating methods employing the thermosetting powder coating composition and use of the in-mold coated article.
US10072165B2
An ink composition for deflected continuous ink jet printing, liquid at room temperature, comprising: a solvent comprising, preferably consisting of, one or several organic solvent compound(s) and optionally water; a binder, comprising at least one polyester resin prepared by polymerization of terephthalic acid, isophthalic acid, neopentylglycol, and ethyleneglycol; optionally one or several dye(s) and/or pigment(s). A method for marking a substrate, support or object by projecting on a surface of this substrate, support, or object this ink composition. A substrate, support or object, notably a bottle, flask, tray, stopper, cable or pipe made of polyolefin, for example made of polyethylene or made of polypropylene, provided with a marking obtained by drying, and/or absorption into the substrate, support or object, of this ink composition.
US10072162B2
An illustrative method of making an elevator load bearing member having at least one elongated tension member at least partially covered by a jacket includes mixing a flame retardant with a polymer material. The flame retardant is selected from a group consisting of (i) a halogen-free melamine based intumescent comprising melamine cyanurate, melamine-phosphate, melamine pyrophosphate or melamine polyphosphate in an amount up to about 20% by weight of the thermoplastic polymer or (ii) a filled polymer having a nanoscale filler chemically bonded to a matrix phase. Applying the mixed flame retardant and polymer material to the tension member forms a jacket of a desired shape.
US10072141B2
A resin composition contains: polyolefin; a carbon fiber; a resin containing at least one of an amide bond and an imide bond; and a compatibilizer, the resin containing at least one of an amide bond and an imide bond forms a coating layer around the carbon fiber, and a thickness of the coating layer is from 50 nm to 700 nm.
US10072140B2
Polymer blend comprising components A, B and C: A: 1 to 19.5% by weight of an elastomeric block copolymer A based on styrene (S-TPE); B: 0.5 to 8% by weight of a compatibilizer component B; and C: 80 to 98.5% by weight of at least one semi-crystalline olefin homo- or copolymer C. The invention further relates to a composition comprising thermoplastic elastomers based on styrene (S-TPE) for use as compatibilizer of S-TPE block copolymers and polyolefins, a process for the preparation of the polymer blend, a master batch for the preparation of the polymer blend, and single- and multilayer films comprising said polymer blend and their use for food packaging and as shrink hood.
US10072133B2
The present invention relates to a plasticizer composition which comprises at least one furan derivative and at least one 1,2-cyclohexanedicarboxylate ester, molding compounds which comprise a thermoplastic polymer or an elastomer and such a plasticizer composition and the use of these plasticizer compositions and molding compounds.
US10072127B2
Certain films comprising polyethylene and poly(methyl 2-methylpropenoate) have unique aesthetic or performance properties.
US10072121B1
A process of forming a bottlebrush polymer includes forming a poly(methylidenelactide) (PML) material from an L-lactide molecule. The process also includes forming a lactide feedstock that includes a blend of a first amount of an L-lactide monomer and a second amount of the PML material. The process further includes polymerizing the lactide feedstock to form a bottlebrush polymer.
US10072110B2
Provided is a propylene-based elastomer having a narrow molecular weight distribution, a high density in the same comonomer content, and excellent mechanical properties. The propylene-based elastomer includes 50% by weight or more of a propylene-based repeating unit, and satisfies a particular relationship between an ethylene content and a molar ratio of a specific monomer sequence.
US10072109B2
The present technology relates to container comprising a propylene, ethylene, 1-butene terpolymer wherein in the terpolymer: i) the content of ethylene derived units ranges from 0.5 wt % to 1.8 wt %; ii) the content of 1-butene derived units ranges from 3.5 wt % to 6.5 wt %; iii) the ratio C2 wt %/C4 wt % ranges from 0.12 to 0.22; wherein C2 wt % is the weight percentage of ethylene derived units, and C4 wt % is the weight percentage of 1-butene derived units; iv) the total content of ethylene and 1-butene derived units is comprised between 4.2 wt % and 7.5 wt %; v) the melt flow rate (MFR measured according to ISO 1133, 230° C., 2.16 kg) ranges from 20 to 80 g/10 min; vi) the xylene soluble fraction at 25° C. is lower than 7.0 wt %; and vii) the melting point is higher than 140° C.
US10072106B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of decontamination and biocidal agents. More specifically, the invention relates to novel N-halamine melamine derivatives, compositions comprising them, processes for their production, and methods using the same.
US10072105B2
The present invention relates to a method for the manufacture of polypropylene having a target melt flow rate of from 10 to 200 g/10 min as determined in accordance with ISO 1133 (230° C., 2.16 kg) comprising the sequential steps of i) polymerizing propylene monomer, and optionally one or more alpha olefin co-monomers so as to form a polypropylene having an initial melt flow rate of from 0.5 to 20 g/10 min (ISO 1133, 230° C., 2.16 kg), ii) visbreaking said polypropylene to obtain polypropylene having said target melt flow rate and wherein the ratio of target to initial melt flow rate is more than 1 iii) maintaining the polypropylene obtained from step ii) at an elevated temperature for a time sufficient to reduce the FOG value of the polypropylene as determined in accordance with VDA 278. The method allows the time for FOG reduction to be reduced as compared to polypropylenes that have the same target melt flow rate, yet which have obtained said melt flow rate without the visbreaking step.
US10072104B2
Element tags based on novel metal-polymer conjugates are provided for elemental analysis of analytes, including ICP-MS. A polymer backbone is functionalized to irreversibly bind metals that are selected prior to use by the user. The polymer is further functionalized to attach a linker which allows for attachment to antibodies or other affinity reagents. The polymer format allows attachment of many copies of a given isotope, which linearly improves sensitivity. The metal-polymer conjugate tags enable multiplexed assay in two formats: bulk assay, where the average biomarker distribution in the sample is diagnostic, and single cell format to distinguish a rare (for example a diseased) cell in a complex sample (for example, blood).
US10072103B2
A system and method for startup of a polyolefin reactor temperature control system having a first reactor temperature control path, a second reactor temperature control path, and a shared temperature control path. In some embodiments, during startup the second reactor temperature control path is configured to allow the temperature of a second reactor to rise due to the heat of the exothermic polymerization reaction occurring within the reactor until reaching a predetermined setpoint temperature. In other embodiments, during startup a first reactor temperature control path is configured to include a heat exchanger used as a cooler, and a second reactor temperature control path is configured to include a heat exchanger used as a heater, to raise the temperature of the second reactor until reaching a predetermined setpoint temperature.
US10072101B2
A cycloolefin rubber having a weight average molecular weight of 100,000 to 800,000, having a silyl group at the polymer chain end, and containing a fatty acid ester of a polyvalent alcohol. A cycloolefin rubber excellent in processability at the time of blending and kneading and excellent in low heat buildup property can be provided.
US10072094B2
The invention relates to cancer therapeutics, in particular, the system of making cancer cells more susceptible to effector cells by introduction of cellular therapy targets into the cancer cells.
US10072092B2
Anti-CD19 B4 antibodies with modified variable regions are disclosed. The modified anti-CD19 variable region polypeptides have alterations to one or more framework regions or complementarity determining regions of the heavy chain variable region or light chain variable region, thereby to reduce a T-cell response.
US10072086B2
The present invention provides pharmaceutical formulations comprising a human antibody that specifically binds to human interleukin-6 receptor (hIL-6R). The formulations may contain, in addition to an anti-hIL-6R antibody, at least one amino acid, at least one sugar, and/or at least one non-ionic surfactant. The pharmaceutical formulations of the present invention exhibit a substantial degree of antibody stability after storage for several months.
US10072085B2
The present disclosure relates to ΛM-14 pharmaceutical formulations and therapeutic dosing regimens for the treatment of disease.
US10072079B2
The invention concerns pluri- or multipotent stem cells (SCs), e.g. human pluri- or multipotent stem cells (hSCs) engineered to express a multispecific antibody and which further express, on their surface, a human immune cell co-stimulatory ligand or an active fragment thereof.
US10072069B2
The invention relates to transgenic animals lacking endogenous Ig and capable of producing transgenic antibodies, as well as methods of making the same. The invention further relates to methods for producing transgenic antibodies in such animals, and transgenic antibodies so produced.
US10072066B2
Methods and compositions for treatment of a beta thalessemia are provided.
US10072063B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US10072049B2
The present invention discloses methods and materials for delivering a cargo compound into a brain cancer cell and/or across the blood-brain barrier. Delivery of the cargo compound is accomplished by the use of protein transport peptides derived from Neisseria outer membrane proteins, such as Laz. The invention also provides synthetic transit peptides comprised of the pentapeptide AAEAP. The invention further discloses methods for treating cancer, and specifically brain cancer, as well as other brain-related conditions. Further, the invention provides methods of imaging and diagnosing cancer, particular brain cancer.
US10072046B2
A non-naturally occurring porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is provided herein, and methods of making and using the non-naturally occurring PRRSV also are provided.
US10072037B2
The method is for separation of lignin from original black liquor (BLIN) that has a first precipitation stage (PR) for precipitation of lignin by a first acidification using acidifier AC1, preferably using CO2, at alkaline conditions, then separating a lignin cake with subsequent suspension of the lignin cake in a strong acid in order to leach our metals from the lignin followed by dewatering and obtaining a clean lignin product LP. The process further is improved by intensified hydrolysis of lignin cake such that most of the carbohydrates are broken down to dissolvable monomers that could be separated from the lignin in the filtrate from a filtering stage subsequent to the hydrolysis. The improved hydrolysis could reduce as much as 90% of the carbohydrate content using a moderately increased temperature and increased charge of acidifier while avoiding any larger lignin yield losses.
US10072036B2
The invention relates to an N-heterocyclic carbene complex of general formulas I to IV (I) (II) (III) (IV), according to which A1 stands for NR2 or PR2, A2 stands for CR2 R2′, NR2, PR2, 0 or S, A3 stands for N or P, and C stands for a carbene carbon atom, ring B is an unsubstituted or a mono or poly-substituted 5 to 7-membered ring, substituents R2 and R2′ stand, inter alia, for a linear or branched C1-Cw-alkyl group and, if N and N each stand for NR2 or PR2, are the same or different, M in formulas I, II, III or IV stands for Cr, Mo or W, X 1 or X2 in formulas I to IV are the same or different and represent, inter alia, C1-C1s carboxylates and C1-C1s-alkoxides, Y is inter alia oxygen or sulphur, Z is inter alia a linear or branched C1-Cw-alkylenoxy group, and R 1 and R1′ in formulas I to IV are, inter alia, an aliphatic or aromatic group. These compounds are particularly suitable for use as catalysts for olefin metathesis reactions and have the advantage, compared to known Schrock carbene complexes, of displaying clearly increased tolerance to functional groups such as, in particular, aldehydes, secondary amines, nitriles, carboxylic acids and alcohols.
US10072035B2
The present invention relates to a novel phenanthroline phosphonic acid compound and a pharmaceutical salt thereof, as well as an application of the compound and the pharmaceutical salt thereof as collagen prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors in the preparation of drugs for preventing or treating collagen prolyl-4-hydroxylase related disease.
US10072026B2
The invention provides a crystalline form of the compound of formula: that is an inhibitor of JAK kinases. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising such crystalline form and methods of using such crystalline form in mammals suffering from inflammatory bowel diseases.
US10072015B2
HIV replication inhibitors of formula wherein a1=a2-a3=a4- is —CH═CH—CH═CH—, —N═CH—CH═CH—, —N═CH—N═CH—, —N═CH—CH═N—, —N═N—CH═CH—; -b1=b2-b3=b4- is —CH═CH—CH═CH—, —N═CH—CH═CH—, —N═CH—N═CH—, —N═CH—CH═N—, —N═N—CH═CH—; n and m is 0-4, R1 is hydrogen; aryl; formyl; C1-6alkylcarbonyl; C1-6alkyl; C1-6alkyloxycarbonyl; R2 is OH; halo; C1-6alkyl, C2-6alkenyl or C2-6alkynyl; substituted carbonyl; carboxyl; CN; nitro; amino; polyhalomethyl; polyhalomethylthio; —S(═O)pR6; C(═NH)R6; R2a is CN; amino; substituted amino; C1-6alkyl; halo; C1-6alkyloxy; carbonyl; —CH═N—NH—C(═O)—R16; C1-6alkyloxyC1-6alkyl; C2-6alkenyl or C2-6alkynyl; —C(═N—O—R8)—C1-4alkyl; R7 or —X—R7; R3 is CN; amino; C1-6alkyl; halo; C1-6alkyloxy; substituted carbonyl; —CH═N—NH—C(═O)—R16; substituted C1-6alkyl; C1-6alkyloxyC1-6alkyl; substituted C2-6alkenyl or C2-6alkynyl; —C(═N—O—R8)—C1-4alkyl; R7; —X—R7; R4 is halo; OH; C1-6alkyl, C2-6alkenyl or C2-6alkynyl; C3-7cycloalkyl; C1-6alkyloxy; CN; nitro; polyhaloC1-6alkyl; polyhaloC1-6alkyloxy; substituted carbonyl; formyl; amino; mono- or di(C1-4alkyl)amino or R7; A-B- is —CR5═N—, —N═N—, —CH2—CH2—, —CS—NH—, —CO—NH—, —CH═CH—; and the use of these compounds for the prevention or the treatment of HIV infection.
US10072007B2
The present invention is directed to a compound represented by Structural Formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The variables for Structural Formula I are defined herein. Also described is a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound of Structural Formula I and its therapeutic use.
US10072005B2
4-Azaindole derivatives which are modulators of muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR) M1 and which may be effective for the prevention or disease modifying or symptomatic treatment of cognitive deficits associated with neurological disorders such as Alzheimer-type dementia (AD) or dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and a pharmaceutical composition comprising a 4-azaindole derivative as an active ingredient.
US10072004B2
Provided herein is a synthetic process for preparing a compound of Formula (1). The disclosure also provides useful intermediates and salts, amorphous and polymorph forms of the compound of Formula (1). These compounds are useful for various disease including cancer, abnormal cellular proliferation, angiogenesis, Alzheimer's disease, and osteoarthritis as well as Wnt-related diseases.
US10072002B2
The present invention relates to pyridinylaminopyrimidine derivatives represented by the following formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, preparation process and use thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, m and A are defined as in the description. Pyridinylaminopyrimidine derivatives of the present invention can selectively inhibit the activity of mutant-type epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), have a good inhibition for the cancer cell proliferation, and therefore can be used as a therapeutic agent for treating tumors and relevant diseases.
US10071993B2
An object is to provide a novel carbazole derivative that has an excellent carrier-transport property and can be suitably used for a transport layer or as a host material of a light-emitting element. Another object is to provide an organic semiconductor material and a light-emitting element material each using the carbazole derivative. As the carbazole derivative that can achieve the above objects, a carbazole derivative in which a carbazolyl group whose either 2- or 3-position of carbazole is substituted by the 4-position of a dibenzothiophene skeleton or a dibenzofuran skeleton is bonded to aromatic hydrocarbon that has 14 to 70 carbon atoms and includes a condensed tricyclic ring, a condensed tetracyclic ring, a condensed pentacyclic ring, a condensed hexacyclic ring, or a condensed heptacyclic ring has been able to be synthesized.
US10071990B2
A technique is provided to visualize microtubules in live cells that does not require genetic manipulation or microinjection. Moreover, this method also avoids perturbation of the endogenous microtubule network that occurs with taxol treatment. This technique exploits tyrosination and detyrosination of tubulin, a posttranslational modification cycle specific to the C-terminus of α-tubulin. Specifically, cells are grown in medium supplemented with a tyrosine derivative possessing a reactive functional group. The cellular enzyme tubulin tyrosine ligase attaches the unnatural amino acid to a single site on tubulin. Addition of fresh medium containing a suitably derivatized fluorophore then yields fluorescent tubulin, which incorporate into cellular microtubules. Importantly, the tubulin labeling approach demonstrated here does not detrimentally affect microtubule network or cell morphology. Thus we present a simple, robust labeling technique that allows microscopic analysis of microtubules in live cells.
US10071979B2
The present invention features processes for preparing compounds, such as (R)-1-(2,2-difluorobenzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-yl)-N-(1-(2,3-dihydroxypropyl)-6-fluoro-2-(1-hydroxy-2-methylpropan-2-yl)-1H-indol-5-yl)cyclopropanecarboxamide (Compound 1), useful for treating CFTR mediated diseases such as cystic fibrosis.
US10071969B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to improved methods for the synthesis of activated fumarate intermediates and their use in chemical synthesis. Disclosed embodiments describe the synthesis of activated fumarate esters including those derived from activating groups including: 4-nitrophenyl, diphenylphophoryl azide, pivaloyl chloride, chlorosulfonyl isocyanate, p-nitrophenol, MEF, trifluoroacetyl and chlorine, for example, ethyl fumaroyl chloride and the subsequent use of the activated ester in situ. Further embodiments describe the improved synthesis of substituted aminoalkyl-diketopiperazines from unisolated and unpurified intermediates allowing for improved yields and reactor throughput.
US10071967B2
The present invention relates to fungicidal N-cycloalkyl-N-{[2-(1-substitutedcycloalkyl)phenyl]methylene} carboxamide derivatives and their thiocarbonyl derivatives, their process of preparation and intermediate compounds for their preparation, their use as fungicides, particularly in the form of fungicidal compositions and methods for the control of phytopathogenic fungi of plants using these compounds or their compositions.
US10071955B1
The high-yield circular production method of taurine includes the following steps: S1, ethylene oxide reacts with sodium bisulfite solution to generate sodium hydroxyethyl sulfonate; S2, sodium hydroxyethyl sulfonate obtained in S1 is subjected to ammonolysis reaction in ammonia, and ammonia gas is recycled through flash evaporation upon completion of the reaction; S3, a reaction solution obtained after flash evaporation in S2 is sent to pass through an acidic cation exchange resin column, a material liquid containing taurine is collected, the inactivated resin column is subjected to regeneration with sulfur dioxide or carbon dioxide aqueous solution, and an eluent acquired during regeneration can be recycled directly or recycled after treated by sulfur dioxide; S4, the material liquid collected in S3 is subjected to post treatment to acquire taurine.
US10071939B2
The present invention relates to a method of forming mixed xylenes from a heavy reformate using a dealkylation-transalkylation system that includes the step of introducing a heavy reformate containing methyl ethyl benzenes and tri-methyl benzenes and sufficiently free of toluene into the dealkylation stage with a hydrogen-containing material such that the heavy reformate and the hydrogen-containing material intermingle and contact a hydrodealkylation catalyst. The dealkylation-transalkylation system includes dealkylation stages, non-aromatic product gas separations and transalkylation stages. The BTEX component toluene forms from the reaction of methyl ethyl benzenes and hydrogen in the presence of the hydrodealkylation catalyst. The method also includes the step of introducing a dealkylated heavy reformate into the transalkylation stage such that the dealkylated heavy reformate contacts a transalkylation catalyst, forming a transalkylation stage product mixture that includes mixed xylenes.
US10071938B2
The invention relates to the production of aromatic hydrocarbon by the conversion of a feed comprising C2+ non-aromatic hydrocarbon, e.g., natural gas. The invention is particularly useful in converting natural gas to liquid-phase aromatic hydrocarbon, which can be more easily transported away from remote natural gas production facilities. The conversion is carried out in the presence of a dehydrocyclization catalyst comprising dehydrogenation and molecular sieve components. The dehydrocyclization catalyst has an average residence time of 90 seconds or less.
US10071936B2
A method of forming a composite article includes impregnating an inorganic fiber preform with a slurry composition. The slurry composition includes a particulate, a solvent, and a pre-gellant material. Gelling of the pre-gellant material in the slurry composition is initiated to immobilize the particulate and yield a gelled article, and substantially all solvent is removed from the gelled article to form a green composite article. The green composite article is then infiltrated with a molten infiltrant to form the composite article.
US10071934B1
A high-workability, fire-resistant, anti-spalling concrete composition is provided. The concrete composition has a slump value of at least approximately 150 mm, a fire-resistant period of at least 4 hours, a compressive strength of at least 120 MPa at room temperature, and a compressive strength of at least 20 MPa at 700° C. The composition includes cement, fly ash, silica fume, aggregate particles having a particle size D90 of approximately 20 mm or less and superplasticizer. The composition includes fiber additives including steel fibers in an amount ranging between approximately 0.1% and approximately 0.4% by volume of the concrete composition and polypropylene fibers having a melting point of approximately 200° C. or less in an amount ranging between approximately 0.05% and 0.3% by volume of the concrete composition. Carbon nanotubes are also present in an amount ranging between approximately 0.1% and approximately 0.3% by volume of the concrete composition.
US10071932B2
[Problem] The aim of the present invention lies in providing a glass ceramic sintered compact in which dielectric loss in a high-frequency region is reduced, without any reduction in sintering density, and also in providing a wiring board employing same. [Solution] A glass ceramic sintered compact containing a glass component, a ceramic filler and a composite oxide, characterized in that the glass component is crystallized glass on which is deposited a diopside oxide crystal phase including at least Mg, Ca and Si, and the composite oxide includes at least Al and Co.
US10071924B2
A diffusion pipe is provided in which the air diffusion efficiency can be quickly recovered just after conducting a cleaning process for the diffusion pipe with a cleaning solution supplied into the membrane support body, and in which air diffusion is evenly and constantly provided. The diffusion pipe includes a membrane body made of a viscoelastic material and formed in a tubular shape having an inner surface and an outer surface, and a tubular membrane support body that supports the membrane body from inside of the membrane body. The membrane body has a plurality of diffusion slits cutting therethrough between the outer surface and the inner surface. The membrane support body has through-holes on an upper side and a lower side thereof. The diffusion slits are not provided in a region of the membrane body corresponding to the through-holes.
US10071921B2
An upright reactor body with a perforated interior tube member which extends for the length of the reactor body. A water inlet permits water to be treated into the perforated tube member. A fibrous metal anode surrounds the perforated tube member followed by a surrounding layer of dielectric and then a surrounding metal cathode layer, wherein water from the inlet passes radially through the perforations in the tube member, through the anode, dielectric and cathode members, emerging from the reactor body through an outlet. A DC voltage is imposed on the cathode and anode.
