US10133412B2
In the present invention a touch screen display optionally connected to a piece of monitoring equipment is configured with a calibration procedure that can be initiated directly through the screen of the touch screen display by the operator performing a predetermined pattern of points of contact with the screen. The calibration procedure uses the pattern of points of contact with the screen to calibrate the touch screen display, as well as to initiate the procedure.
US10133411B2
A mobile station and unattached work area is used with an electronic pen, which includes a transmitter, such as an acoustic transmitter. The mobile station includes a receiver that receives signals from the transmitter and orientation sensors that detect movement of the mobile station. The position of the receiver is calibrated with respect to the unattached work area. Data from the orientation sensors is received when the mobile station, and thus, the receiver is moved with respect to the work area. A transformation matrix is generated based on the data from the orientation sensors, which can be used to correct for the movement of the receiver. The position of the transmitter in the electronic pen is calculated and mapped based on received signals and the transformation matrix and the mapped position is then displayed.
US10133409B2
An array substrate, a fabricating method thereof and a touch panel are disclosed. The array substrate comprises a TFT, a common electrode layer, a touch line, a touch connection terminal and a connection electrode. The touch connection terminal and the touch line are arranged in different layers. The connection electrode comprises a first connection electrode arranged in a same layer as the touch line and a second connection electrode arranged in a same layer as the common electrode layer. The touch line is connected with the touch connection terminal through the first connection electrode, and the common electrode layer is connected with the touch connection terminal through the second connection electrode. The common electrode layer is connected indirectly with the touch line through the touch connection terminal. This reduces resistance between the common electrode layer and the touch line, and avoids defects in display and touch control.
US10133408B2
A method, electronic device and computer program product are disclosed. The method includes detecting an operation made on a device, determining a frame of video, and sends the frame of video to a second device. The device includes a processor, a display, a playing unit, and a signal transmitting unit. The processor detects an operation made on the device while the playing unit is playing a video, determines a frame of video, and controls the signal transmitting unit to send the frame of video to a second device. The computer program product includes executable code to perform: detecting an operation made on a device, determining a frame of video and sending the frame of video to a second device.
US10133402B2
The present disclosure discloses a display panel, a method for driving the same and a display device. The display panel includes a display panel including a first substrate and a second substrate arranged opposite to each other. The first substrate includes: a first base, and voltage-fixed electrodes that are arranged on the first base at a side facing the second substrate. A fixed voltage is applied to each of the voltage-fixed electrodes. The second substrate includes: a second base, and pressure sensing electrodes that are arranged on the second base at a side facing the first substrate. The pressure sensing electrodes are arranged opposite to the voltage-fixed electrodes respectively, and configured to detect a pressure applied at a touch position on the display panel according to capacitances between the pressure sensing electrodes and the corresponding voltage-fixed electrodes at a pressure detection stage.
US10133401B2
An electronic interactive device having a user interface with a flexible surface, a sensor configured to sense a flex gesture applied to the flexible surface, a haptic device configured to generate a haptic effect in response to the flex gesture, and a controller in signal communication with the sensor and the haptic device. The controller is configured to trigger the haptic device to provide haptic confirmation of the flex gesture and to trigger an application action associated with the flex gesture.
US10133400B2
In an embodiment, a touch sensitive device includes touch interface having rows and columns and a signal generator for generating unique orthogonal signals on a plurality of the rows, respectively. A touch processor identifies touch on the touch interface by processing touch signals present on the columns, and outputting a stream of touch events. A decimator receives the stream of touch events including information as to a pressure of the touch event or the contact area of the touch event, selectively identifies one or more of the touch events in the stream, and outputs a modified stream of touch events for use by the touch sensitive device.
US10133398B2
An array substrate, a touch display device and a driving method thereof are provided by the present disclosure. The array substrate includes a gate driving circuit and a touch driving circuit provided in a non-display area. The touch driving circuit includes multiple groups of touch selective output modules. Every group of touch selective output module includes two strobe signal input terminals for which the strobe signals are provided by secondary trigger signal output terminals of two adjacent shift registers in the gate driving circuit.
US10133394B2
Disclosed is a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes at least one display unit disposed on a front surface and lateral surface of a terminal body, and a controller for, upon receiving a preset touch input through a first display region disposed on the front surface of the terminal body in a sleep mode, enabling a predetermined second display region according to a position of the received touch input and controlling the display unit to display a preset operation image on the enabled second display region.
US10133383B2
A touch display panel, a touch display device and a driving method are provided. The touch display panel includes an array substrate, an opposite substrate arranged opposite to the array substrate, a touch electrode arranged at a side of the array substrate facing the opposite substrate, and an antistatic layer arranged inside the touch display panel. The antistatic layer is located at a side of the opposite substrate facing the touch electrode, and the antistatic layer and the touch electrode are capable of forming a capacitive force sensor in the case that the antistatic layer is applied with a force scanning signal.
US10133382B2
A touch screen is disclosed. The touch screen can comprise a substrate having a first surface upon which a touch or proximity event is to be detected, and a second surface that opposes the first surface, and a touch sensor electrode and a first display pixel including a first display pixel TFT formed on the second surface of the substrate. The first touch sensor electrode can be disposed between the second surface of the substrate and the first display pixel TFT, and the first touch sensor electrode can be configured to detect the touch or proximity event. In some examples, the substrate can comprise a TFT glass substrate. In some examples, the touch screen can comprise a first touch sensor routing electrically coupled to the first touch sensor electrode, wherein the first touch sensor routing is disposed between the second surface of the substrate and the first display pixel TFT.
US10133372B2
In one aspect of the exemplary embodiments of this invention an apparatus includes a user interface that contains a plurality of input modalities and a plurality of output modalities, and a data processor coupled with the user interface and configurable to present a user with a content item that includes a plurality of attributes. In response to user input that data processor is operable to partition at least some of the attributes into a plurality of presentation tokens, where an individual presentation token comprises at least one attribute. The data processor is further configurable to respond to further user input to define one of the plurality of input modalities to generate a trigger condition for individual ones of the presentation tokens, where generation of a trigger condition results in an associated presentation token being made manifest to the user. The plurality of input modalities may include two or more of physical or virtual keys, an input acoustic transducer, a speech recognition unit, and a gesture detection unit, and where the plurality of output modalities may include two or more of an output acoustic transducer, a speech synthesis unit, a vibro-tactile transducer, and a display screen.
US10133370B2
One embodiment relates to a haptic stylus includes: a stylus housing; a stylus tip attached to one end of the stylus housing, so as to be in contact with an interaction surface, such as a touchscreen; a stylus covering attached to a circumference of the stylus housing, so as to be movable with respect to the stylus housing along a longitudinal direction of the haptic stylus and so as to be gripped/held by user's fingers; and a first actuator configured to activate the stylus housing to thereby cause a stick-slip phenomenon between the stylus covering and the user's fingers gripping/holding the stylus covering thereby allowing the user's fingers to grip/hold the stylus covering while moving along the longitudinal direction of the haptic stylus.
US10133366B2
An interactive projector includes a projection section, a first detection light irradiation section and a second detection light irradiation section, an imaging section, and a position detection section adapted to detect a position of the pointing element based on an image, which is taken by the imaging section and includes the pointing element. The first and second detection light irradiation sections are disposed so that at least one of the following (i) and (ii) becomes higher than a threshold value: (i) a first contrast between the pointing element in a first image in a case in which the detection light is emitted only from the first detection light irradiation section and the projected screen, and (ii) a second contrast between the pointing element in a second image in a case in which the detection light is emitted only from the second detection light irradiation section and the projected screen.
US10133362B2
The present invention relates to a method to type a phonetic language without the use of a timer. The present invention also relates to keyboards associated with typing a phonetic language where the number of characters for the language exceed the number of keys possible on a keyboard.
US10133357B2
A gesture recognition apparatus may execute a command by recognizing a user's gesture. The gesture recognition apparatus includes a gesture sensor that detects a position and movement of an object in space, and a cover that includes a contact surface which is positioned away from the gesture sensor by a predetermined distance and is brought into contact with the object.
US10133355B2
Projected input and output devices adapt to a desktop environment by sensing objects at the desktop environment and altering projected light in response to the sensed objects. For instance, projection of input and output devices is altered to limit illumination against and end user's hands or other objects disposed at a projection surface. End user hand positions and motions are detected to provide gesture support for adapting a projection work space, and configurations of projected devices are stored so that an end user can rapidly recreate a projected desktop. A projector scan adjusts to limit traces across inactive portions of the display surface and to increase traces at predetermined areas, such as video windows.
US10133352B2
Provided is a contact sensitive device. The contact sensitive device includes an electroactive layer, a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, and a bonding layer. The plurality of first electrodes is disposed on one surface of the electroactive layer and the plurality of second electrodes is disposed on the other surface of the electroactive layer. The bonding layer covers one surface of the electroactive layer and consists of a first part corresponding to the plurality of first electrodes and a second part excluding the first part. The first part and the second part of the bonding layer have different elastic moduli.
US10133340B2
A biological information monitoring system includes: a first monitoring device which includes a first displaying section and a first connector; a second monitoring device which includes a second connector; and a cable. The second monitoring device includes: a signal receiving section configured to receive a measurement signal related to biological information; and a second displaying section on which information corresponding to the measurement signal is displayed. When communication between the first and second connectors via the cable is established, the second displaying section is set to a non-display state, and the information corresponding to the measurement signal is displayed on the first displaying section.
US10133336B2
Systems and methods may provide for identifying runtime information associated with an active workload of a platform, and making an active idle state determination for the platform based on at least in part the runtime information. In addition, a low power state of a shared resource on the platform may be controlled concurrently with an execution of the active workload based on at least in part the active idle state determination.
US10133319B2
Technology is provided for a pivoting memory drive adapter. The memory drive adapter is used for adapting memory drives for insertion into a drive bay that is larger than the memory drives. The memory drive adapter includes an adapter frame and a memory carrier. The adapter frame has an envelope compatible with a hard disc drive (HDD) drive bay, for example, and includes a pair of spaced apart sidewalls each including a slot. The memory carrier includes a pair of pins extending from opposite sides of the memory carrier engaging a corresponding one of the pair of slots. Thus, the memory carrier can pivot with respect to the adapter frame. A pair of spaced apart ledges divides the memory carrier into two memory drive locations, each sized to receive a memory drive, such as a solid state drive (SSD).
US10133313B2
A tablet information handling system processes information with processing components disposed in a planar housing for presentation as images at a display disposed at the upper surface of the planar housing. Support members extend at the lower surface of the planar housing to support the planar housing in an upright configuration having the housing in a first orientation or an inclined configuration having the housing in a second orientation. A cooling fan controller manages cooling airflow direction through the planar housing based upon the orientation of the planar housing to blow hot air exiting the housing in a direction away from the likely location of an end user relative to the planar housing.
US10133310B2
Disclosed is a mobile terminal using a display unit and a control method thereof. The mobile terminal includes a controller which displays first screen information corresponding to a first application on a first display region disposed on an inner surface when the mobile terminal is open, and converts the first screen information into second screen information when a folding event is generated. Further, the controller converts the first screen information or the second screen information into third screen information which is different from the second screen information when an angle between first and second regions of the first display region corresponding to the folding event is less than a reference value.
US10133308B2
A module for use with an electronic device includes a housing including a processor and a memory and an electronic cable coupled to a retracting spool disposed in the housing. The electronic cable includes a plurality of retention tabs disposed on the electronic cable. The module also includes a cable retention aperture passing through a side of the housing and including a wide portion and a narrow portion adjacent the wide portion. The plurality of retention tabs contact the narrow portion of the cable retention aperture to prevent retraction of the electronic cable into the housing.
US10133307B2
Systems and methods for providing a dock that extends the utility of an electronic device are provided. In some embodiments, responsive to detecting an electronic device, a dock may cause an establishment of a connection between the dock and the electronic device. The dock may obtain one or more interface requirements for the electronic device that enable the dock to interact with the electronic device. The dock may obtain, via the established connection, based on the interface requirements, a request from an application of the electronic device for content stored at a source external to the dock and the electronic device. The dock may cause the requested content to be presented via at least one of the output devices responsive to obtaining the requested content from the external source.
US10133305B1
A detachable head-mounted-display cushion may include a cushion layer having a user-side surface dimensioned to abut a facial portion of a user and a display-side surface dimensioned to abut a mounting surface of a facial-interface system for a head-mounted display. The detachable head-mounted-display cushion may also include a magnetic-coupling mechanism configured to removably attach the cushion layer to the mounting surface of the facial-interface system. A corresponding head-mounted-display system may include a head-mounted display, a facial-interface mounting member for the head-mounted display, a cushion layer abutting the facial-interface mounting member, and a magnetic-coupling mechanism removably attaching the cushion layer to the facial-interface mounting member. A method may include positioning a cushion layer abutting a facial-interface mounting member for a head-mounted display and removably attaching the cushion layer to the facial-interface mounting member with a magnetic-coupling mechanism. Various other head-mounted-display cushions, head-mounted-display systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10133301B2
Source-synchronous communications between networked devices can be hindered by differing clock rates and data interface formats among the devices. By implementing a plurality of clock converters, a data interface format of a transmitting device is converted to a data interface format compatible with a receiving device. The clock converters provide a clock signal based on the source-synchronous data clock, and having a phase controlled with respect to an associated data signal. As a result, data exchange between devices operating at different clock rates is made possible.
US10133297B2
A method for transmitting a plurality of data bits and a clock signal on a return to zero (RZ) signal includes: transmitting a first voltage that is greater than a first threshold, the first voltage being decodable to first order of data bits; transmitting a second voltage that is between a second threshold and the first threshold, the second voltage being decodable to a second order of data bits; transmitting a third voltage that is between a third threshold and a fourth threshold, the third voltage being decodable to a third order of data bits; transmitting a fourth voltage that is greater in magnitude than the fourth threshold, the fourth voltage being decodable to a fourth order of data bits; and transitioning the clock signal in response to the RZ signal being between the second threshold and the third threshold.
US10133296B2
A multidirectional operating device includes an operational knob including a knob body and plural ribs, and a bezel portion disposed around a rotational axis of the operational knob. The bezel portion includes plural limiting portions formed standing from a top surface side so as to limit the inclination operation of the operational knob by being opposite to a contact surface of the ribs when the operational knob is located at a neutral position, and plural permitting portions arranged between the limiting portions so as to permit the inclination operation of the operational knob while avoiding a contact with the contact surface of the ribs when the operational knob is located at an operational position that allows the inclination operation by being rotated from the neutral position to a right or left position.
US10133294B2
A bearing member includes: a large-diameter tubular portion having an external diameter larger than a diameter of a mounting hole formed in a pedal arm and having a cylindrical inner peripheral face; a small-diameter tubular portion formed continuously with the large-diameter tubular portion, having a cylindrical outer peripheral face with a diameter smaller than that of the mounting hole, and having the cylindrical inner peripheral face; and a thin-wall tubular portion formed continuously with the small-diameter tubular portion, having an inner diameter larger than a diameter of the cylindrical inner peripheral face, and having the cylindrical outer peripheral face, and in a condition that the bearing member is inserted into the mounting hole such that the thin-wall tubular portion is protected, and the thin-wall tubular portion is swaged, the mounting hole is held between a swaged portion bulged radially outward and the large-diameter tubular portion.
US10133292B1
Systems disclosed herein provide for a low-noise current mirror operable under low power supply requirements. Embodiments of the systems provide for a low input current path and a high input current path, wherein the current in the low current input path sees a higher voltage and the current in the high input current path sees a lower voltage. Embodiments of the system also provide for a cascode transistor in the high input current path.
US10133291B2
An image forming apparatus includes a power supply controller that selects either commercial power or a secondary battery as a power supply and a main controller that controls the power supply controller. The main controller includes a power supply availability determination unit that determines whether or not both the commercial power and the secondary battery are available and a power supply selection unit that instructs the power supply controller to select the secondary battery as the power supply during a predetermined secondary battery usage period and instructs the power supply controller to select the commercial power as the power supply at times other than the secondary battery usage period in case both the commercial power and the secondary battery are available.
US10133288B2
An output circuit at the output of an LDO regulator has two FETs (Field-Effect Transistors), a current source and a capacitor. The first FET is connected to the LDO output and a second voltage supply. The second FET is connected in series with the current source between the LDO output and the second voltage supply. The second FET is connected to the first FET in such a matter that a bias voltage is supplied to the first FET so that in static conditions the first FET draws predetermined amounts of current from the LDO output and to divert the predetermined amounts of current to the LDO output or to draw additional amounts of current from the LDO output to compensate for transient currents on the LDO output and to reduce variations in the output voltage of the LDO regulator. The capacitor with the current source defines a time constant to control the recovery of the output circuit from sudden drops or rises in voltage at the LDO regulator output to allow the LDO regulator to respond without adverse effect to the LDO output voltage.
US10133286B2
A device determines a first voltage measurement of an output of a first brick. The device further determines a second voltage measurement associated with a second brick. The first brick is larger in size than the second brick. The device ramps up an output voltage of the second brick when the second voltage measurement is less than the first voltage measurement.
US10133276B1
A robot equipped with an object detection system and an object identification system is used to move inventory holders throughout a warehouse or other environment. The robot can detect objects in its path using the object detection system, which can include one or more sensors for this purpose. The robot can then classify the object using the object identification system to determine an appropriate course of action. The robot can classify the object as an inventory item, warehouse equipment, or a person, among other things. The robot can take action based on the object classification. The robot can reroute around inventory items and warehouse equipment. When encountering people or objects that cannot be classified, the robot can stop and await further instructions. In some cases, the robot may wait for a manual reset before continuing along its path.
US10133267B2
A method for transporting inventory items includes moving a mobile drive unit to a first point within a workspace. The first point is a location of an inventory holder. The method further includes docking the mobile drive unit with the inventory holder and moving the mobile drive unit and the inventory holder to a second point within the workspace. The second point is associated with conveyance equipment. The method further includes moving the inventory holder to a third point within the workspace using the conveyance equipment.
US10133260B2
A method for cutter path planning is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining a first and a second programmed path of a workpiece, computing for a corresponding first cutter path based on the first programmed path and a radius of the cutter, and computing for a corresponding second cutter path based on the second programmed path and the radius of the cutter; and computing for a transition path connecting an end point of the first cutter path and a start point of the second cutter path based on the first and second cutter paths, wherein the distance from any one point on the transition path to either the first or second programmed path would be greater than or equal to the radius of the cutter. An apparatus for cutter path planning, a method and an apparatus for workpiece machining are also disclosed.
US10133249B2
A servomotor controller includes a first and a second converter circuit that perform conversion between AC power of a power supply and DC power, a first inverter circuit that performs conversion between the DC power on the DC side of the first converter circuit and AC power on the side of a first motor, a second inverter circuit that performs conversion between the DC power on the DC side of the second converter circuit and AC power on the side of a second motor, and a power calculation unit that calculates an amount of power of the first motor, wherein control is performed so that the regenerative power of the first motor is supplied to the second motor through the power supply or the regenerative power of the second motor is supplied to the first motor through the power supply, on the basis of the amount of power.
US10133246B2
A position control device includes a position detector that detects a position of an object to be controlled; a target generator that outputs a target velocity and a target position of the object to be controlled; a first calculator that calculates a control amount for causing the object to be controlled to track the target position; a second calculator that calculates a control amount for controlling the velocity of the object to be controlled, to be at the target velocity; a control signal output unit that outputs a control signal according to a total control amount obtained by the first and the second calculators; and a storage unit that stores an attitudinal change correction amount. The second calculator acquires the attitudinal change correction amount stored in the storage unit, adds the attitudinal change correction amount to the control amount to correct the control amount, and outputs the corrected control amount.
US10133240B2
The invention concerns an oscillator for a timepiece movement, comprising a staff rigidly connected to a balance carrying first and second bipolar magnets spaced apart from the staff and capable, depending on the angular position of the balance, of being positioned alternately within range of a magnetic field produced by a fixed bipolar magnet, the latter being located on the trajectory of the first and second bipolar magnets and being arranged in such a way that, when one of the bipolar magnets approaches the fixed bipolar magnet, identical polarities are located opposite each other in order to produce a repulsive force. The oscillator further comprises a pallet assembly and an escape wheel for establishing a kinematic connection between a source of energy of the timepiece movement and the balance staff, and arranged in such a way that the balance is capable of having a sustained periodic oscillating movement of an amplitude greater than 90 degrees.
US10133237B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier; a developing device; a transfer section; a fixing section; a conveyance path through which a recording sheet is conveyed; an air path guiding air taken from an outside of the apparatus to the conveyance path and the developing device; an adjustment member arranged at an outlet port of the air path, branching the air flowing through the air path into directions toward the conveyance path and the developing device, and adjusting volume of the air flowing toward each direction; and a control section controlling the adjustment member in accordance with conveyance status of the recording sheet in the conveyance path, and when no recording sheet exists in the conveyance path, causing the adjustment member to branch the air flowing through the air path so that more air flows toward the developing device than the conveyance path.
US10133233B2
An image forming apparatus includes a toner replenishing portion, a waste toner collecting portion, and a toner container. The toner container is attachable to the toner replenishing portion and the waste toner collecting portion. The toner container includes a first lever switchable between first and second positions, and a second lever switchable between third and fourth positions. The toner replenishing portion includes a first actuating portion configured to, while the toner container is being attached to the toner replenishing portion, prohibit an attachment of the toner container, and a second actuating portion configured to switch the second lever to the fourth position. The waste toner collecting portion includes a third actuating portion configured to, while the toner container is being attached to the waste toner collecting portion, prohibit an attachment of the toner container, and a fourth actuating portion configured to switch the first lever to the second position.
US10133215B2
A developer container includes a developer storage chamber that stores developer and includes an opening, a sealing member that seals the opening, an unsealing member that opens the opening by rotating such that the sealing member, a part of which is attached to the unsealing member, is peeled away, a stirring member that is attached to the unsealing member; and a regulating portion that regulates rotation of the unsealing member by contacting the stirring member. The regulating portion is provided to regulate the rotation of the unsealing member when the developer container receives an external force, and allow the unsealing member to rotate such that the opening is opened when the unsealing member receives driving power.
US10133212B2
In a developing apparatus, a housing has a first opening. A shutter is movable between an open position and a closed position. A locking member is movable between a lock position and a release position. The locking member is located between the housing and the shutter in a cartridge-attachment direction. The locking member is located at the lock position in a case where the toner cartridge is detached from the developing apparatus. The locking member is in contact with the toner cartridge, thereby moving from the lock position to the release position in a case where the toner cartridge is attached to the developing apparatus. A cover having a second opening that is in communication with the first opening in a state where the shutter is at the open position is located at an opposite side of the locking member with respect to the shutter in the cartridge-attachment direction.
US10133211B2
A shutter has two engagement portions projecting from a shielding portion, and extending in an attachment direction of the shutter. A lock portion is formed elastically deformably, and a lock claw portion is provided on a tip portion of each lock portion. The lock claw portion is projected toward an outer side in a width direction intersecting an attachment direction of the shutter. Two different inclined surfaces, a second inclined surface and a first inclined surface, are formed on a tip side of the lock claw portion. According to this arrangement, it becomes possible to realize both weakened sliding resistance between the second inclined surface and the attachment contact portion by minimizing an inclination angle of the second inclined surface, and increased sliding resistance between the first inclined surface and a return contact portion by maximizing the inclination angle of the first inclined surface. Thereby, both shutter attachment and return of the shutter to the initial position can be realized.
US10133206B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus, including a photosensitive member, a latent image forming unit configured to form an electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive member, a developing unit configured to store developer containing toner and to develop the electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive member using the developer, a detector configured to detect an amount of the toner stored in the developing unit, and a supplying unit configured to supply toner to the developing unit.
US10133205B2
An imaging device has a photoconductor with a surface that is selectively discharged by a light from a laser diode to create a latent electrostatic image for attracting toner for transfer to a media. A circuit drives the laser diode. The circuit has a switch for turning on and off the light, a resistor complementary to the laser diode selectively connectable to the switch, and a passive circuit component coupled to the laser diode. The passive circuit component is a delay line, inductor, choke, coiled wire, or ferrite bead is contemplated. It may also typify a length of copper tracing on a printed circuit board that supports the laser diode. The circuit causes an initial overshoot voltage spike in an on voltage pulse that is about 20% or more than the settled on voltage. The voltage spike dampens out in about one-fourth of a total voltage on time of the pulse.
US10133190B2
A fluid handling structure for a lithographic apparatus, the fluid handling structure having, at a boundary from a space configured to contain immersion fluid to a region external to the fluid handling structure: a meniscus pinning feature to resist passage of immersion fluid in a radially outward direction from the space; a plurality of gas supply openings in a linear array at least partly surrounding and radially outward of the meniscus pinning feature; and a gas recovery opening radially outward of the plurality of gas supply openings in a linear array.
US10133187B2
A light irradiation apparatus (31) includes a light source unit (40) and an irradiation optical system (5). In the light source unit, light source parts (4) arrayed in a plane emit laser light toward the irradiation optical system from different directions along the plane, and by the irradiation optical system, the laser light is guided along an optical axis (J1) to an irradiation plane (320). The irradiation optical system includes a division lens part (62), an optical path length difference generation part (61), and a condensing lens part (63). The division lens part includes element lenses (620) that divide light incident from the light source parts. The optical path length difference generation part includes transparent parts (610) having different optical path lengths from each other, and light that has passed through the element lenses respectively enters the transparent parts. The condensing lens part superimposes irradiation regions (50) of the light from the transparent parts on each other on the irradiation plane. Accordingly, the irradiation plane can be irradiated with high-intensity light having a uniform intensity distribution.
US10133175B2
Provided are a photosensitive resin composition from which a cured product having a thin film thickness, excellent light-shielding properties, and a high surface hardness is obtained; as well as a cured product obtained by curing the photosensitive resin composition, a cured film and a method for producing the same, a method for producing a resin pattern, and a liquid crystal display device, an organic EL display device, an infrared cut filter, or a solid-state imaging device, each having the cured film. The photosensitive resin composition of the present invention includes (Component A) a polymer having a constitutional unit containing a group in which an acid group is protected by an acid-decomposable group; (Component B) a photoacid generator; (Component C) a solvent; (Component D) a compound having a crosslinkable group and a molecular weight in the range of 100 to 2,000; and (Component S) titanium black.
US10133173B2
A processing liquid supplying apparatus is arranged to discharge a processing liquid from a discharge port to supply the processing liquid to a processing object, and the processing liquid supplying apparatus includes a first piping, through the interior of which the processing liquid can flow, the interior of the first piping being in communication with the discharge port, and an X-ray irradiating means irradiating X-rays onto the processing liquid present inside the first piping. The first piping has an opening in its pipe wall and the opening is closed by a window member formed using a material that can transmit the X-rays, and the X-ray irradiating means irradiates the X-rays onto the processing liquid present inside the first piping via the window member.
US10133168B1
A compact light projection system. The light projection system includes a light source, an anamorphic reflector assembly, and a correction element that is configured to mitigate aberration. The light source is configured to emit image light. The anamorphic reflector assembly includes a first surface and a second surface. The first surface is configured to reflect the image light toward the second surface which reflects the reflected image light to output it from the anamorphic reflector assembly. And the first surface and the second surface are both curved and non-rotationally symmetric such that the light output from the anamorphic reflector assembly is collimated image light. The collimated image light is optically corrected based in part on mitigation of aberration by the correction element.
US10133161B2
A projection display device includes a first substrate on which a red light source is mounted, a second substrate on which a green light source is mounted, a third substrate on which a blue light source is mounted, a housing to which the first through third substrates are attached, an optical member accommodated inside the housing, and a light modulating element; light emitted inside the housing from the red light source, the green light source, and the blue light source being distributed by the optical member, the distributed light being converted to a prescribed display image by the light modulating element, and the light being projected outside the housing. The first through third substrates are made of metal or of filler-containing plastic compounded with a filler having high thermal conductivity, and the housing is made of metal or a filler-containing plastic compounded a filler having high thermal conductivity.
US10133158B2
An electronic device includes: an electronic part; an external case that covers the electronic part and constitutes an exterior; and a heat dissipation frame that transmits heat generated from the electronic part to the external case. The external case includes a top case, a front case, and a rear case, while the heat dissipation frame includes a first heat dissipation frame, a second heat dissipation frame, and a third heat dissipation frame provided independently from each other. Mechanical fixation is made to combine the top case and the first heat dissipation frame into one body, to combine the front case and the second heat dissipation frame into one body, and to combine the rear case and the third heat dissipation frame into one body.
US10133146B2
An apparatus (10) for structured illumination microscopy (SIM) comprises a pulsed femtosecond MiTai laser (11) operable to generate a pulsed beam. The beam pulses are directed on to a specimen (12) via an optical arrangement including a beam steering apparatus comprising a pair of acousto-optic deflectors AODx, AODy, each operable to vary the deflection angle of the beam in response to variation in the frequency of an applied acoustic deflection signal, and an acousto-optic modulator AOM. The frequency of the acoustic deflection signals applied to the AODs and/or the frequency of the acoustic compensation signal applied to the AOM in the present invention is dynamically modulated. This dynamic modulation can increase the effective AODxy scan angle in each direction by about 4 mrads (equivalent to a 15% increase in the area of the field of view). Furthermore, dynamic modulation of the compensation frequency also improves the evenness of the illumination over the field of view.
US10133144B2
An optical scanning device comprises a waveguide array, a first adjusting element, a plurality of phase shifters, a second adjusting element, and a control circuit. When light emitted from the waveguide array forms a light spot on a virtual plane that is spaced apart from the waveguide array, the control circuit causes the light spot to move in first and second directions such that the distance of movement of the light spot from start to finish of scanning of a target region is greater in first one of the first and second directions than in second one of the first and second directions.
US10133136B2
An array substrate includes a thin film transistor (1) and a pixel electrode (2) disposed on the thin film transistor; an insulation layer is disposed between the pixel electrode and the thin film transistor, the pixel electrode (2) is connected to a drain electrode (11) of the thin film transistor via a through hole (3) disposed in the insulation layer, the pixel electrode (2) partially covers an edge of the through hole (3) in an orthographic projection direction. The array substrate not only avoids a short circuit between the pixel electrodes, but also properly increases an area of a pixel electrode and the number of and numbers, so that an aperture ratio and a resolution of a display product can be enhanced.
US10133127B2
A display device including: a first substrate; a first electrode layer disposed on an edge of the first substrate; a second electrode layer disposed on the first electrode layer; the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer defining a space in between; a metal sludge disposed in the space; and a connection electrode configured to cover a side surface of the first substrate, and disposed in the space to contact the first electrode layer, the second electrode layer, and the metal sludge.
US10133113B2
According to one embodiment, a display device comprises a display panel and a polarizing plate. The display panel comprises a display area, a non-display area surrounding the display area, and a light-shielding layer arranged in the display area and the non-display area. The polarizing plate is provided on a surface of the display panel, and including an end portion located in the non-display area. In this display device, the light-shielding layer opposite to the end portion of the polarizing plate is at least partially removed.
US10133112B2
A liquid crystal display having a curved structure includes a plurality of pixels and a liquid crystal layer interposed between a first display substrate and a second display substrate. The first display substrate includes a first substrate, gate lines, data lines, a first subpixel electrode and a second subpixel electrode disposed in a pixel area, a first thin film transistor, and a second thin film transistor. The second display substrate includes a second substrate, a light blocking member, and a common electrode. Each pixel has a quadrangular shape including a long side and a short side. The long side of each pixel is extended in a first direction that is parallel to a direction in which the liquid crystal display is bent, and the short side of each pixel is extended in a second direction that is vertical to the first direction.
US10133106B2
An image quality of a display device is improved. The display device includes: a display unit having a display functional layer; a cover member having a front surface and a back surface positioned on an opposite side of the front surface and covering the display unit; and a polarizing plate having a front surface so as to oppose the back surface of the cover member through a space spreading along the back surface of the cover member. Also, a reflection suppressing layer reducing reflected light which is visually recognized on the display surface side is formed on either one of the back surface of the cover member and the front surface of the polarizing plate.
US10133105B2
A display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, lead wirings provided on the first substrate or the second substrate and a first insulator part provided on an upper surface of the second substrate. The lead wirings are arranged in a peripheral region when seen in a plan view and the first insulator part is arranged so as to overlap a display region when seen in a plan view. Second insulator parts or spaces with a permittivity lower than a permittivity of the first insulator part are provided at sides of the first insulator part. The second insulator parts or the spaces are arranged so as to overlap the lead wirings in the peripheral region when seen in a plan view.
US10133103B2
A LCD device having a large pixel holding capacitance includes opposedly facing first and second substrates, and liquid crystal between them. The first substrate includes a video signal line, a pixel electrode, a thin film transistor having a first electrode connected to the video signal line and a second electrode connected to the pixel electrode, a first silicon nitride film formed above the second electrode, an organic insulation film above the first silicon nitride film, a capacitance electrode above the organic insulation film, and a second silicon nitride film above the capacitance electrode and below the pixel electrode. A contact hole etched in both the first and second silicon nitride films connects the second electrode and the pixel electrode to each other. A holding capacitance is formed by the pixel electrode, the second silicon nitride film and the capacitance electrode.
US10133101B2
Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device that may include a backlight unit including a light guiding plate with a light-incidence portion and an optical sheet portion disposed on the light guiding plate; and a panel support member for supporting a rear edge portion of a liquid crystal display panel, and preparing an air gap between the light guiding plate and one edge portion of the optical sheet portion disposed on the light-incidence portion, wherein it is possible to prevent defects of front luminance in the light-incidence portion with a small bezel width, and to improve mechanical reliability.
US10133096B2
The present invention provides an array substrate comprising a transparent substrate and a polarizer attached on the transparent substrate, the polarizer comprises a first protective layer in contact with the transparent substrate, and a relational expression is satisfied between the first protective layer and the transparent substrate, 0≤|C|≤1.0×10−13, wherein C is defined by the equation C = C 100 ρ 100 d 100 ρ 100 d 100 + ρ 200 d 200 + C 200 ρ 200 d 200 ρ 100 d 100 + ρ 200 d 200 . When designing an array substrate provided by this invention, it is not required to consider the improvement of the material of the polarizer, and it may be ensured that the change of photoelastic birefringence of a finally formed array substrate is zero (or close to zero) in the case of being subjected to stress by only adjusting the thickness of a first protective layer or the material of the first protective layer, such that the phenomenon of light leakage of a finally formed liquid crystal display panel generated due to photoelastic birefringence may be eliminated or reduced. This invention further provides a display panel, a display apparatus, and a method for producing an array substrate.
US10133095B2
A quantum interference device (atomic oscillator) includes: an atom cell that encapsulates an alkali metal; a first light source portion that emits light including a resonance light pair, the resonance light pair being circularly polarized in the same direction and causing the alkali metal to resonate; a second light source portion that emits light including adjustment light, the adjustment light being circularly polarized in a direction opposite to the resonance light pair and causing the alkali metal to resonate; and a light receiving portion that receives the resonance light pair having passed through the atom cell, in which the adjustment light is FM-modulated.
US10133092B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a myopia prevention device. A myopia prevention device of the present invention comprises a light transmission part selected from a group consisting of an eyesight correcting tool, an eye protection tool, a face protection tool, a sunshade, a display device, a window, a wall, a light source covering, and a coating material. The light transmission part of the device transmits light having a wavelength within a range of 350 nm to 400 nm inclusive and thus suppresses the occurrence and progression of myopia. Further, a myopia prevention device comprises a light emission part selected from a group consisting of lighting equipment, a display device, and a light irradiation device. The light emission part of the device emits light having a wavelength within a range of 350 nm to 400 nm inclusive and thus suppresses the occurrence and progression of myopia.
US10133087B2
Embodiments provide a lens moving apparatus including a bobbin in which a lens is mounted, a first coil and a magnet configured to electromagnetically interact with each other so as to move the bobbin, a housing configured to accommodate the bobbin therein, an elastic member including an inner frame coupled to the bobbin, an outer frame coupled to the housing, and a frame connection portion configured to connect the inner frame and the outer frame to each other, and a support member connected to the elastic member and configured to support the housing, and the outer frame includes a first coupling portion coupled to the housing, a second coupling portion coupled to the support member, the second coupling portion being spaced apart from the first coupling portion, and a single connection portion configured to connect the first coupling portion and the second coupling portion to each other.
US10133083B1
A non-mechanical beamsteerer can be provided to adjust an angle of a light beam, such as to scan the light beam over a field of regard. The non-mechanical beamsteerer can include a first collection of steering elements that are smaller than a size of a light beam. The first collection of steering elements can adjust the angle of the light beam by diffracting the light beam. The non-mechanical beamsteerer can also include a second collection of steering elements that are larger than a size of the light beam. The second collection of steering elements can adjust an angle of the light beam by refracting the light beam. The non-mechanical beamsteerer can operate without a compensation plate, such as to provide a reduced size of the beamsteerer and an increased acceptance angle of the beamsteerer.
US10133076B2
A lens defined by a first lens surface and a second lens surface opposite to the first lens surface is disclosed. A first portion of the first lens surface is defined by a smooth surface profile function, and a second portion of the first lens surface is defined by a Fresnel surface profile function. The second portion of the first lens surface is around the first portion of the first lens surface. Also disclosed is a display device that includes the lens and an array of light emitting devices coupled with the lens for outputting light through the lens.
US10133074B2
Systems and methods are described for receiving image content from an emissive display toward a first filter stack, the first filter stack adapted to be oriented in a first direction from an optical axis of a first lens, and toward the first lens, transmitting the image content through a curved lens parallel to the optical axis of the first lens, wherein the curved lens transmits a portion of the image content to at least one optical element and to a second filter stack, the second filter stack being adapted to be oriented in a second direction from the optical axis of the first lens, and receiving the portion from the second filter stack and providing at least some of the portion to the first lens for viewing by a user.
US10133060B2
An electro-optical device includes a mirror being positioned above a surface of a substrate and modulating light, a torsion hinge being positioned between the mirror and the substrate, and supporting the mirror via a mirror support post such that the mirror is pivotable about an axis, and address electrodes being positioned between the mirror and the substrate, and supplying electrostatic forces between the address electrodes and the mirror. Each of the address electrodes includes a first address electrode that is positioned on a side of the axis in plan view, and a second address electrode that is positioned on the opposite side of the axis with respect to the first address electrode in plan view. The first address electrode and the second address electrode are driven independently of each other.
US10133046B2
An optical arrangement for being positioned in a beam path of a light microscope, having at least a first and a second optical assembly for providing structured illumination light from incident light. The optical arrangement provides for light to be guided over different beam paths to the various optical assemblies and in the direction of a sample. Electronic control means are provided and designed to illuminate, in each case, a beam path from the different beam paths to different optical assemblies at a point in time, in that at least a first beam combination mirror is provided for guiding light coming from various optical assemblies to a common beam path in the direction of a sample. The first beam combination mirror has reflective areas on which only light from one of the two optical assemblies is incident and has the light-permeable areas of the beam combination mirror in which only light from the other of the optical assemblies is incident. The invention further relates to a light microscope having an optical arrangement according to the invention.
US10133044B2
A light-concentrating lens assembly for a solar energy system, the assembly comprising a primary off-axis quarter-section parabolic reflector for reflecting incident light, a secondary off-axis quarter-section parabolic reflector for receiving light reflected from the primary off-axis quarter-section parabolic reflector, a compound paraboloid concentrator (CPC) for receiving light reflected from the secondary off-axis quarter-section parabolic reflector and a housing for holding the primary and secondary off-axis parabolic reflectors as well as the CPC.
US10133035B2
A compact high-resolution imaging lens which provides a wide field of view of 80 degrees or more and corrects various aberrations properly. Designed for a solid-state image sensor, the imaging lens includes constituent lenses arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first positive (refractive power) lens having a convex object-side surface; a second negative lens having a concave image-side surface; a third positive lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a convex object-side surface; a fourth positive lens having a convex image-side surface; a fifth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface; and a sixth negative lens having a concave image-side surface. The image-side surface of the sixth lens has an aspheric shape with a pole-change point in a position off an optical axis.
US10133031B2
Present embodiments provide for an optical imaging lens. The optical imaging lens includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and seven lens element positioned in an order from an object side to an image side. Through the arrangement of convex or concave surfaces of the seven lens elements, the length of the optical imaging lens may be shortened while providing better optical characteristics and imaging quality.
US10133027B2
A zoom lens is constituted by, in order from the object side: a positive first lens group; a negative second lens group; a positive third lens group; a positive fourth lens group; a negative fifth lens group, and a positive sixth lens group. The distances among adjacent lens groups change when changing magnification from the wide angle end to the telephoto end. The first lens group is constituted by, in order from the object side, a negative lens, a positive lens, and a positive lens. The third lens group has a positive lens at the most object side thereof. A predetermined conditional formula is satisfied.
US10133025B2
The present invention provides an optical apparatus, which is configured to output image information and comprises a housing; a light source; an optical device; an optical device carrier, wherein the optical device is mounted on the optical device carrier and positioned on one side of the optical device carrier; a support plate positioned on the other side of the optical device carrier and being one part of the housing; and a connecting piece, wherein one end of the connecting piece penetrates the support plate and then is connected with the optical device carrier, and the relative positions of the connecting piece and the support plate are fixed.
US10133024B2
An optical element holding device adjusts an optical element about a first and second axis and includes a main support, and a first plate-shaped support mounted on the main support via a first flexure bearing. The first support can pivot about the first axis. A second support is mounted on the first support via a second flexure bearing and can pivot about the second axis and fasten to the optical element. A first and second actuating element are actuated from a same side of the optical element holding device. A transmission device connected to the first and the second supports transmits the second actuating element movement acting on the transmission device into a pivoting movement of the second support about the second axis. The pivoting positions of the first and second supports can be set by the actuating elements and the second axis is oriented substantially perpendicularly to the plate-shaped first support.
US10133019B2
The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications connection device. The device including a housing, a plurality of single-fiber connectorized pigtails that extend outwardly from the housing and a multi-fiber connectorized pigtail that extends outwardly from the housing. The multi-fiber connectorized pigtail can be optically coupled with the single fiber connectorized pigtails. The device can include optical fibers routed from the multi-fiber connectorized pigtail through the housing to the single-fiber connectorized pigtails. The single-fiber connectorized pigtails can be more flexible than the multi-fiber connectorized pigtail.
US10133012B1
The optical fiber adapter of the present disclosure includes an outer housing and an inner housing. The outer housing has a chamber surrounded by four walls. A first plate, a first alignment cylinder and two stop blocks are formed in the chamber. The first alignment cylinder extends from the first plate, and the two stop blocks are respectively formed on two of the four walls. The inner housing includes a second plate, a second alignment cylinder and two retaining clips. The second alignment cylinder extends in a longitudinal direction from the second plate. The two retaining clips are formed on the second plate, and each of the retaining clips includes a bending part, an extending part and a hooking part. The bending part has an arcuate cross-section and extends from the second plate. The extending part extends out from the rear end of the bending part in a direction parallel to the longitudinal direction. The hooking part has a wedge shape and is formed on an outer surface of the rear end of the extending part. The hooking parts of the two retaining clips are respectively hooked onto the two stop blocks, thereby preventing the inner housing from being pulled out of the outer housing.
US10133010B2
A cap apparatus is mounted to a fiber optic connector having a ferrule supporting optical fiber(s). A sealing apparatus is cooperatively configured with the cap apparatus for protecting an end face of the ferrule. The cap apparatus includes a body having opposite ends between which a cavity extends. The opposite ends of the body respectively define first and second openings to the cavity. A portion of the fiber optic connector extends through the first opening and into the cavity. The cap apparatus includes a cover mounted to the body and at least partially obstructing the second opening, wherein the end face of the ferrule is positioned within the cavity at a location spaced from the cover. The sealing apparatus is positioned between at least a portion of the cover and the end face of the ferrule.
US10133008B2
A connector mating system that can enable the coupling and decoupling of electrical or optical power and communications channels, while in a harsh or submerged environment during which time the contacting interfaces of the power and communication channels remain fully protected from the destructive effects of the said environment. The system features a hybrid optic and/or electric connector that provides a means for electrical, optical and hybrid inter connection within an extremely hostile environment across a broad market range of applications with a novel end-seal concept in a scalable form factor with minimal actuation stresses and designed for high volume commodity manufacturing.
US10133007B2
A laser interference lithography device using all-fiber-optic components is disclosed. In the said all-fiber laser interference lithography device, an input coupling fiber receives the coherent laser beam from a laser source and sends it to an optical fiber splitter. The optical fiber splitter splits the input laser beam into at least two sub-beams and outputs the multiple sub-beams through multiple output optical fiber. Adjustable fiber holders, each carrying one output fiber, tune the position and angle of output optical fibers to achieve desired interference patterns on a substrate.
US10132998B2
This method for manufacturing a germanium slow light waveguide includes: producing, in a silicon plate, a cavity the cross section of which, parallel to the plane of the plate, is identical to the horizontal cross section of the slow light waveguide and the bottom of which is located inside the silicon plate; then carrying out an operation of vapor phase epitaxial growth of germanium on the bottom of the cavity until this cavity is completely filled with germanium; and before implementing said epitaxial growth operation, a protective layer is deposited on an upper face of the silicon plate or, after implementing said epitaxial growth operation, the germanium that has grown on said upper face is removed.
US10132995B2
A sensing system that includes an optical fiber disposed helically around an outer surface of a structure along a longitudinal axis of the structure is provided. The optical fiber is disposed such that at least one complete helical turn of the optical fiber covers the length of the structure. Further, the sensing system also includes a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) set comprising a plurality of FBGs in the optical fiber. Each FBG in the set is configured to generate reflected light that is indicative of strain values at a location of each respective FBG on the optical fiber. Furthermore, the system also includes a processing system coupled to the optical fiber. The processing system is configured to determine location coordinates of each FBG and values of one or more of bending moment, tensile force, and torsional moment acting at each FBG location on the optical fiber.
US10132989B2
The present disclosure provides a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes a back plate, a light guide plate (LGP) arranged on the back plate and including a central region and a peripheral region, and an optical sheet arranged on a light-exiting surface of the LGP. The LGP includes a supporting part arranged on the peripheral region and configured to support a display panel.
US10132987B2
The embodiments of the present invention provide a backlight module, a liquid crystal display device and a display; laser is used as the light source of the backlight module, improving the utilization of light and realizing high color gamut display. The backlight module comprises a laser light source and several light guide devices provided on a light output side of the laser light source; the several light guide devices are arranged in a first direction; each light guide device comprises several light guide elements and transflective films arranged alternately in a second direction; the transflective films are configured to reflect laser from the laser light source into a third direction; the third direction is perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction.
US10132981B2
Disclosed are a light guide plate, a backlight module of a liquid crystal display device, and a device for manufacturing the light guide plate. The light guide plate comprises a first surface and a second surface parallel with each other, wherein the first surface is formed with parallel columnar projections, and the second surface is formed with light guide ports. The light guide plate has a better light convergence effect compared with an existing light guide plate. As a result, light crosstalk in the light guide plate can be significantly attenuated.
US10132975B2
A polarizer having a maximum absorbance at wavelengths from 280 to 320 nm is less than or equal to 0.70. A polarizing plate including the polarizer and a protective film disposed on the polarizer with an adhesive layer of a cured product of a light-transmitting adhesive being interposed. A polarizing laminated film including a substrate film and the polarizer provided on each of opposing surfaces of the substrate film.
US10132974B2
The present invention provides a circularly polarizing plate that improves the visibility of black color in an oblique direction when being applied to a display device and having a small thickness, the display device including a circularly polarizing plate. The circularly polarizing plate is a circularly polarizing plate including, in this order, a polarizer, a λ/2 plate, and a λ/4 plate, in which the λ/2 plate is a laminate of a first A-plate and a first C-plate, the λ/4 plate is a laminate of a second A-plate and a second C-plate, one of the first C-plate and the second C-plate is a cellulose acylate film having a predetermined Rth, and the other of the first C-plate and the second C-plate is an optically anisotropic layer including a liquid crystal compound having a predetermined Rth or a cellulose acylate film having a predetermined Rth.
US10132966B2
An optical element includes a light transmitting substrate which includes a first surface having strip-shaped prisms arranged parallel to each other. In a direction along which the prisms are arranged, a side of each prism close to a center of the light transmitting substrate has a refractive surface; from an end of the refracting surface close to a center of the light transmitting substrate to another end of the refracting surface close to an edge of the light transmitting substrate, the refracting surface inclines gradually along a direction away from the first surface. From the prism nearest to the center of the light transmitting substrate to the prism farthest to the center of the light transmitting substrate, an angle between the refracting surface and a normal of the first surface is gradually increased. A light guide plate, a prism, a backlight module and a display device are further provided.
US10132957B2
Optomechanical device for actuating and/or detecting movement of a mechanical element, in particular for gravimetric detection. It includes a support with a mechanical element anchored to the support which is designed to move relative to the element, and a device for actuating and/or detecting movement or of variations in frequency of movement of the element. A portion of the device is arranged beneath at least part of the element, between the element and the support. The device includes a fixed optical device with at least one optical waveguide arranged beneath all or part of the element at a determined distance from the element, and which is designed to propagate at least one optical wave having a given wavelength designed to interact with the element. The optical waveguide is at a determined distance from the mechanical element so that the evanescent field of the optical waveguide interacts with the mechanical element.
US10132946B2
Systems and methods to correct source responses and perform source deghosting of a pressure or particle motion wavefield recorded using near-continuous recording of seismic data along a vessel track with generalize source activation times. The methods and systems receive a near-continuously recorded seismic data and generate a near-continuous wavefield for approximately stationary-receiver locations. Time windows of different temporal lengths are applied to traces of the near-continuous wavefield in approximately stationary-receiver locations in order to compute common-receiver gathers. The common-receiver gathers are corrected source wavefield response and source ghost effects and are combined in weighted sums to generate broadband seismic data.
US10132939B2
To suppress a decrease in optical output of a scintillator. A scintillator includes a sintered body of 1 mm3 or less that contains a rare earth oxysulfide. In a composition image obtained by observing a cross-section of the sintered body under a scanning electron microscope, the sum of the number of oxide regions that contain at least one of a rare earth oxide different from the rare earth oxysulfide and an impurity metal oxide and the number of sulfide regions that contain at least one of a rare earth sulfide different from the rare earth oxysulfide and an impurity metal sulfide, which exist in a unit area of 500 μm×500 μm, is zero or more and five or less. Each of the oxide regions and the sulfide regions has a major axis of zero or more and 100 μm or less.
US10132938B2
An integrated nuclear sensor includes a scintillator connected directly to the photocathode of a photomultiplier tube. The scintillator may be thermally fused to the photocathode. The scintillator can be supported within a scintillator housing by a potting layer that is formed from an elastomer. The scintillator can include a reflector or a reflective coating applied to the outside surface of the scintillator. The reflective coating can be a vapor deposition coating applied to the scintillator.
US10132936B2
Disclosed in an alpha particle detection apparatus using a dual probe structured ionization chamber and a differential amplifier, the apparatus including: an ionization chamber forming electric field thereinside by bias power applied to a surface thereof; a main probe unit absorbing ionic charges generated in an occurrence of alpha (α) decay in the ionization chamber; a guard ring unit absorbing leakage current generated between the ionization chamber and the main probe unit and flowing the leakage current to a ground; an auxiliary probe allowing surrounding noise to be introduced therein; first and second preamplifiers amplifying fine electrical signals to a predetermined magnitude; and a differential canceling a noise signal and outputting an alpha particle detection signal by amplifying a voltage difference between the preamplified electrical signals. As such, it is possible to effectively detect alpha (α) particles which are a type of radiation.
US10132931B2
An extremely small, simple, digitally controlled tracking device provides greater transceiver functionality by being programmable across a wide frequency range and various modulation formats with the same circuit components. Additionally, the programmable nature of the tracking device provides reliable scheduling functionality.
US10132929B2
A light scanner in accordance with the principle of the time of flight having at least one light transmitter (2) which transmits consecutive light pulses (3) into a measured zone (5) and having at least one light receiver (4) which receives the light pulses (3) reflected at an object (6) in the measured zone (5) and supplies them in the form of received electrical signals to a control and evaluation unit (7) which determines a distance signal representative of the distance (8) of the object (6) from the light scanner (1) while taking account of the speed of light between the transmission and reception of the light pulse (3), wherein the light receiver (4) has at least one single photon avalanche diode (9).
US10132927B2
A distance measurement device according to one aspect of the present invention includes a photoelectric conversion device which includes a light receiving unit, a charge storage unit, a charge discharge unit, and a gate electrode, a controller which controls an irradiation timing of pulse light having a pulse width which is sufficiently shorter than response time of the light receiving unit to an object and performs control to generate control pulse voltages having at least two kinds of phases based on the irradiation timing and to apply it to the gate electrode, a charge reading unit which reads a first and second charges stored in the charge storage unit according to the applications of the respective control pulse voltages having two kinds of phases as a first and second electrical signals, and a calculation unit which calculates a distance to the object based on the first and second electrical signals.
US10132909B2
Provided are a terminal positioning method, device and system, the method comprising: receiving three-dimensional positioning measurement information transmitted by a terminal; and acquiring the three-dimensional position information of the terminal according to the three-dimensional positioning measurement information.
US10132908B2
A method according to the present disclosure for the controlled connection of a calibration standard in an associated calibration module to a port to be calibrated of a network analyzer connects the port to be calibrated of the network analyzer to a high-frequency port of the calibration module. It transmits a high-frequency signal generated in the network analyzer with an information signalling the calibration standard to be used to the high-frequency port of the calibration module. Within the calibration module, the information signalling the calibration standard to be used is detected from the high-frequency signal received in the calibration module, and the calibration standard to be used is connected to the high-frequency port of the calibration module by a control unit integrated in the calibration module.
US10132904B2
A method for creating a magnetic resonance (MR) image with prospective motion correction with a recording of navigation signals and navigator reference signals for the determination of motion information is provided. During the determination of the motion information, the partial volumes of the navigator volume are not all treated equally. Different weightings are used.
US10132899B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising a measurement parameter-setting unit for setting measurement parameters that determine the strength and timing of the high frequency magnetic field and the gradient magnetic field, and a measuring unit for applying the high frequency magnetic field and the gradient magnetic field on a subject placed in the static magnetic field according to the measurement parameters and detecting the nuclear magnetic resonance signal generated from the subject as a complex signal. The measurement parameter-setting unit is equipped with: a basic parameter-inputting section for setting the imaging parameters and imaging cross-section; a limiting condition-inputting section for setting limiting conditions that apply limits on the setting of the voxel size; a voxel size-calculating section for setting the voxel size according to the limiting conditions; and a voxel size-displaying section for displaying the set voxel size to the user.
US10132883B2
In one example, an RF coil array includes a first RF coil configured to generate a magnetic field along a first axis, the first RF coil having a first surface, a second RF coil configured to generate a magnetic field along a second axis, orthogonal to the first axis, the second RF coil having a second surface, and a first foldable interconnect coupling the first RF coil to the second RF coil. The first foldable interconnect may be adjusted to couple the first RF coil to the second RF coil with a first amount of overlap and with the first surface and second surface facing a common direction, or couple the first RF coil to the second RF coil with a second amount of overlap, larger than the first amount of overlap, and with the first surface in face to face position with the second surface.
US10132880B2
A method for directly electrically generating and detecting spin polarization in topological insulators comprising depositing a first and fourth contact on a layer of Bi2Se3 and applying a current between the contacts, which creates a net spin polarization due to spin-momentum locking. A second (comprising ferromagnet/tunnel barrier) and third contact are deposited for detecting the spin polarization. A device for directly electrically generating and detecting the current-generated spin polarization in topological insulators, comprising a first and fourth contact on a layer of Bi2Se3 and a second contact comprising a ferromagnet/oxide tunnel barrier contact as a detector, and a third contact comprising nonmagnetic metal as a reference contact, a current to the first and fourth contact to produce a net spin polarization, and the spin polarization manifesting as a voltage between the second (magnetic) and third (reference) contacts.
US10132873B2
A method applied into an electronic device and capable of measuring at least one resistance parameter includes: launching a program/application on the electronic device; and using the program/application to measure the at least one resistance parameter that is at least associated with a battery cell connected to and used for providing power to the electronic device.
US10132864B2
The present disclosure describes a novel method and apparatus for using a device's power and ground terminals as a test and/or debug interface for the device. According to the present disclosure, messages are modulated over DC voltages applied to the power terminals of a device to input test/debug messages to the device and output test/debug messages from the device. The present disclosure advantageously allows a device to be tested and/or debugged without the device having any shared or dedicated test or debug interface terminals.
US10132860B2
A method for stress testing a device under test (DUT) having a plurality of pins includes generating a stress test pattern which independently stresses each pin of the plurality of pins, wherein the stress test pattern includes a plurality of test vector, and applying each test vector to the plurality of pins for a predetermined amount of time. The method further includes, after applying all the test vectors of the stress test pattern, applying a programmable load to each pin independently and after applying each programmable load, comparing an output voltage of each pin to a predetermined voltage range to form an output vector for each pin.
US10132849B1
A power and data communication system includes an inboard computer, an outboard computer, and first and second wires. The first and second wires connect a first isolation transformer of the inboard computer to a second isolation transformer of the outboard computer. The inboard computer drives a driven voltage through the first isolation transformer. The outboard computer is configured to receive the driven voltage through the second isolation transformer to power the outboard computer. The outboard computer incudes a load that is selectively connected across the second isolation transformer to transmit data to the inboard computer. The inboard computer receives the data through the first isolation transformer.
US10132848B2
A system and method for tuning a transformer is provided. A transformer fixture may connect a switching network to a plurality of inductors of a transformer. At least one computing device may calculate a target number of turns for a primary coil and a secondary coil of the transformer based on a frequency response of the transformer. The switching network may connect the inductors of the transformer together in a pattern that results in the primary coil and secondary coil having the target number of turns.
US10132836B2
A method of forming surface protrusions on an article, and the article with the protrusions attached. The article may be an Integrated Circuit (IC) chip, a test probe for the IC chip or any suitable substrate or nanostructure. The surface protrusions are electroplated to a template or mold wafer, transferred to the article and easily separated from the template wafer. Thus, the attached protrusions may be, e.g., micro-bumps or micro pillars on an IC chip or substrate, test probes on a probe head, or one or more cantilevered membranes in a micro-machine or micro-sensor or other micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) formed without undercutting the MEMS structure.
US10132825B2
A moving speed estimation device which includes a vibration component information estimation unit 4 which estimates the vibration cycle or vibration frequency of the periodic vibration component included in instantaneous moving speed of a mobile body A along with a periodic moving action of the mobile body A. The moving speed estimation device also includes a speed estimated value adjustment processing unit 5 which sequentially generates speed values as estimated values of the moving speed of the mobile body A, where the speed value is obtained by performing at least processing of removing a vibration component corresponding to the estimated value of the vibration cycle or vibration frequency for the time series of the instantaneous moving speed estimated from the time series of the measured value of the position of the mobile body A.
US10132819B2
Disclosed is a method for measuring a clotting time, including: a mixing step of mixing a blood sample, an activator, a phospholipid, and a manganese ion-forming compound to obtain a specimen; and a measurement step of mixing the specimen obtained in the mixing step with a calcium salt to prepare a measurement specimen and measuring the clotting time of the measurement specimen, wherein the blood sample is mixed with the manganese ion-forming compound separately from the activator and the phospholipid in the mixing step.
US10132808B2
A method uses flow cytometry to prepare surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates for obtaining SERS spectra of bacteria. The method involves using a flow cytometer to sort bacterial cells into populations of bacterial cells based upon their biophysical characteristics. The cells may then be washed with a borate buffer to remove any chemical species that degrade the SERS response. A colloid-coated bacteria suspension is then created by mixing one of the populations of bacterial cells with SERS-active colloidal particles. The colloid-coated bacteria suspension is incubated until the SERS-active colloidal particles partition through the capsule and bind to the cell wall for each bacterial cell in the colloid-coated bacteria suspension. The colloid-coated bacteria suspension is then disposed onto a filter and a SERS spectra of the colloid-coated bacteria suspension is obtained using a Raman spectrometer.
US10132798B2
The present invention relates to a microcolumn device for selecting nucleic acid aptamers for single and multiple target molecules, as well as a method for making the microcolumn device. The present invention also relates to a system for selecting nucleic acid aptamers for single and multiple target molecules. The present invention further relates to methods of using the microcolumn device for selecting nucleic acid aptamers for multiple target molecules. Kits that include one or more microcolumn device and/or system of the present invention are also disclosed.
US10132793B2
Methods, devices, and systems are provided for identifying dropouts in analyte monitoring system sensor data including segmenting sensor data into a plurality of time series wherein each time series is associated with a different instance of a repeating event, selecting a first time series to analyze for dropouts from the plurality of time series; comparing the selected first time series to a second time series among the plurality of time series, determining whether the selected first time series includes a portion that is more than a predefined threshold lower than a corresponding portion of the second time series, and displaying, on a computer system display, an indication that the selected first time series includes a dropout if the selected first time series includes a portion that is more than the predefined threshold lower than the corresponding portion of the second time series.
US10132790B2
A method for receiving data and providing calculated adjustments to a paint application process can comprise receiving at the server a first operating parameter associated with a first paint processing machine at a first painting facility. The method can also comprise receiving at the server a first quality control measurement from an analysis of a finished first paint product. Additionally, the method can comprise accessing from a database a set of historical operating parameters associated with the first painting processing machine. Further, the method can comprise automatically identifying a deficiency in the finished first paint product based upon the first quality control measurement. Further still, the method can comprise transmitting to a mobile computing device screen a proposed adjustment to the first operating parameter that will correct the deficiency.
US10132787B2
Disclosed is a device for optically determining a concentration of alcohol and carbohydrates in a liquid sample. The device includes at least a first and a second light source arranged for exposing the liquid sample in a wavelength range between 750 nm and 1000 nm, a spectrometer arranged to determine a first and a second light intensity by measuring the light from the first and the second light source, a processing unit which is connected to the spectrometer and which is arranged to determine an absorption value of the liquid sample from a comparison of the first and the second light intensity with a reference value. In certain aspects, the device may further include a processing unit that calculates concentrations of alcohol and/or carbohydrates and at least two polarization filters.
US10132775B2
Techniques for enhanced isotachophoresis assays using additives with spatial gradients include forming a concentration gradient of an additive along a channel from an input port to an output port. The channel is used for isotachophoresis with ions of a leading electrolyte having a first mobility greater than a mobility of an analyte, and ions of a trailing electrolyte having a second mobility less than the mobility of the analyte. The additive is different from both the leading electrolyte and the trailing electrolyte; and the additive has a third mobility that assures the analyte will encounter the additive. The method further comprises introducing a mixture of the trailing electrolyte and a sample including the analyte. The method further comprises applying an electric field to the channel; and, measuring the analyte.
US10132770B2
A flame rod analysis system, methods for determining a condition of a flame and a flame rod, and circuits for determining a condition of a flame and a flame rod. The flame rod analysis system comprises energy storage connectable to a flame rod, a pulsed source connected to the energy storage and providing a voltage pulse or a current pulse, and a buffer to allow a processor to measure a buffered voltage at various time points. Flame rod analysis systems can distinguish between various flame conditions (no flame, low flame, etc.) while simultaneously characterizing the condition of the flame rod (shorted to ground, contaminated, etc.). Some flame rod analysis systems can directly measure the resistance of the flame rod.
US10132767B2
A method for in-situ measuring electrical properties of carbon nanotubes includes placing a first electrode in a chamber, wherein the first electrode defines a cavity. A growth substrate is suspend inside of the cavity, and a catalyst layer is located on the growth substrate. A measuring meter having a first terminal and a second terminal opposite to the first terminal is provided. The first terminal is electrically connected to the first electrode, and the second terminal is electrically connected to the growth substrate. A carbon source gas, a protective gas, and hydrogen are supplied to the cavity, to grow the carbon nanotubes on the catalyst layer. The electrical properties of the carbon nanotubes are obtained by the measuring meter.
US10132757B2
Image data pertaining to substrate transfer is efficiently collected and stored for use in analyzing transfer errors. A substrate processing device includes a first control part for stopping a transfer part upon detecting a transfer error in the transfer part for transferring a substrate; a storage part for storing substrate transfer operations of the transfer part as image data; and a second control part for accumulating the image data in an accumulation part at a predetermined period. The first control part obtains information indicating a state of the substrate from the transfer part or a processing part, and notifies the second control part that the transfer part is stopped due to the transfer error. The second control part retrieves image data of a predetermined period of time including the time that the transfer error occurs from the accumulation part, and converts the image data into a file.
US10132756B2
The disclosure relates to a method for making a carrier for single molecule detection. The method includes: providing a substrate; providing a carbon nanotube composite structure having a number of micropores, wherein a number of carbon nanotubes are successively aligned and intersected to form the number of micropores; setting the carbon nanotube composite structure on a surface of the substrate; dry etching the substrate by using the carbon nanotube composite structure as a mask to form a patterned surface, wherein the patterned surface comprises a number of strip-shaped bulges intersected with each other; and applying a metal layer on the patterned surface. The method is simple and has high efficiency.
US10132755B2
A SERS element 2 comprises a substrate 21 having a front face 21a; a fine structure part 24, formed on the front face 21a, having a plurality of pillars 27; a first conductor layer 31 formed on the front face 21a and fine structure part 24 so as to cover the front face 21a and fine structure part 24 continuously; and a second conductor layer 32 formed on the first conductor layer 31 so as to form a plurality of gaps G1, G2 for surface-enhanced Raman scattering; while the first and second conductor layers 31, 32 are constituted by the same material.
US10132750B2
An apparatus that detects a material within a sample includes signal generation circuitry that generates a first light beam having at least one fractional orbital angular momentum applied thereto and applies the first light beam to the sample. The at least one fractional orbital angular momentum imparts a phase factor to the first light beam. The orbital angular momentum generation circuitry includes a spiral phase plate having fraction step height to impart the at least one angular momentum to the first light beam. A detector receives the first light beam after the first light beam passes through the sample and detects the material responsive to a detection of a predetermined phase factor within the first light beam received from the sample.
US10132748B2
An optical sensor device which measures in a spatially resolving manner is disclosed. In order to devise such a sensor device with which a contacting measurement of the article to be measured can be carried out and which can be mass-produced, the sensor device is designed such that a transfer of the calibration onto individual sensor devices is possible with high accuracy. According to certain embodiments of the design of the sensor device and of the evaluation methods, interferences with the measurement of the amount of the target substance are minimized.
US10132745B2
Implementations described herein comprise systems, apparatus and methods for calibration of imaging, radio frequency or spectroscopic instruments that can be used to validate, calibrate or confirm the calibration thereof. In one aspect, a calibration target is provided. The calibration target has a tissue interface and an instrument interface. The instrument interface has a first storage means having a first set of calibration data encoded therein and a second storage means having a second set of calibration data encoded therein. The first storage means and the second storage means are selected to comprise different storage modalities. Both the first and second set of calibration data are necessary to perform calibration of the instrument.
US10132744B2
A management method of a lubricating oil of the invention is a method of managing a lubricating oil by determining a degradation degree of the lubricating oil containing an antioxidant, specifically, according to determination methods a and b below. The determination method a includes: measuring an infrared ray absorption spectrum of the lubricating oil using a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer; and calculating a total content of the antioxidant and an altered substance having an antioxidant function to determine a deterioration degree of the lubricating oil from the obtained content. The determination method b includes: filtrating the lubricating oil with a filter; subsequently measuring a color difference of substances captured by the filter using a colorimeter, or measuring a color difference of the lubricating oil using the colorimeter; and determining a degradation degree of the lubricating oil and a mixture degree of foreign substances based on the obtained color difference.
US10132743B2
Disclosed is a low-cost, portable photo thermal spectroscopy (PTS) reader for use in detecting the presence of diseases in the bodily fluid of affected patients. The PTS reader is designed to be durable, easy to use and provide readings from the Lateral Flow Assay (LFA) with rapid results. Also provided are methods of use.
US10132741B2
An integrated sampling and detecting device is provided. The device has a detector; a test strip holder, detachably provided in the detector; a collector, detachably contained in the detector; a faeces sample piece and a cushion block, for detachably sealing the collector; and a piercing part, provided on a bottom surface of the detector and configured to pierce the collector. The test strip holder and the collector are contained in the detector side by side. The collector is located between the test strip holder and the detector. A first outer side face of the collector is adjacent to an inner side wall of the detector. A second outer side face of the collector is adjacent to the test strip holder. A horizontal cross-section of the piercing part adapts to a bottom surface of the collector.
US10132728B2
A biological sample processing apparatus having an enclosure. A plurality of sample processing modules are held by the enclosure. Each sample processing module is configured to hold a removable sample cartridge and to only perform sample processing on a sample within the corresponding removable sample cartridge. Each sample processing module is configured to perform at least one of a plurality of testing processes on the sample within the removable sample cartridge. At least one module in the apparatus is configured to perform nucleic acid amplification and detection.
US10132716B2
The present invention discloses a method for measuring a mode field diameter (MFD) of a single-mode fiber using an optical integration technique employing a gradually variable aperture. The method transforms, according to Petermann II definition, an integral operation in a formula of an MFD of a single-mode fiber into elementary arithmetic operations to be performed on a mean square value of the numerical aperture of the fiber. By using an optical integrator having a gradually variable aperture, the mean square value of the numerical aperture of the single-mode fiber can be precisely measured by one of the following three methods: translation, rotation and beam splitting, thus accordingly solving the MFD of the test fiber. The aforementioned measurement an MFD of a single-mode fiber is characterized by precision, high speed and convenience, and can be widely applied in various applications, such as measurement standards, automated test equipment, and engineering instruments.
US10132712B1
A sensor assembly for determining whether a hermetically sealed cavity between opposing substrate wafers in a wafer level packaged (WLP) chip is leaking. The sensor assembly includes a thermal insulating layer provided within the cavity, and a heater and temperature sensor deposited on the insulation layer. The thermal insulating layer is made of a suitable dielectric that is compatible with WLP and MMIC fabrication processes and can be, for example, benzocyclobutene (BCB) or polyimide. The sensor is responsive to a current that heats the thermal insulation layer so that heat dissipated by the thermal insulation layer is drawn away by gas between the layer and the substrate that determines the temperature of the sensor, which is detected.
US10132710B2
A shaft precision automatic measurement device for motors is provided that is able to automatically measure shaft precision of a motor. A shaft precision automatic measurement device (1) for a motor (9) includes: a gripping mechanism (3) that grips the shaft (7); a first contact-type displacement sensor (41) that is able to measure a position of the flange face (82) by contacting to follow the flange face (82); a second contact-type displacement sensor (42) that is able to measure a position of the fitting face (81) by contacting to follow the fitting face (81); a rotary mechanism (5) that causes the device main body (2) to rotate in a state gripping the shaft (7) by the gripping mechanism (3) and executing measurement by way of the respective displacement sensors; a displacement data acquisition part (63) that acquires displacement data of the flange face (82) and displacement data of the fitting face (81); and a measurement part (64) that measures center runout and face deflection of the shaft (7) based on the respective displacement data acquired by the displacement data acquisition part (63).
US10132703B2
A torque sensor terminal block structure includes an electric motor (1) which outputs driving force for driving a load (8), a strain body (3) interposed on a way of a power transmission system from the electric motor (1) to the load (8), a plurality of power detectors (4) which output a detection signal according to strain of the strain body (3) as a signal indicating the driving force, and a terminal block (6) which acquires the detection signal of the power detectors (4) and transmits the output result to a signal processing circuit section (10). The wirings to the signal processing circuit section (10) are twisted spirally as a single stranded wire, and an opening degree between single wirings when the stranded wire extending from the power detectors (4) to the terminal block (6) is unwound, is set to be same for each of the power detectors (4).
US10132696B2
A semiconductor die includes a discrete semiconductor device and at least one diode. The temperature of the discrete semiconductor device is determined by measuring a first forward voltage drop of the at least one diode under a first test condition, measuring a second forward voltage drop of the at least one diode under a second test condition and estimating the temperature of the discrete semiconductor device based on the difference between the first and second forward voltage drop measurements.
US10132695B2
A device for determining an extreme temperature location from a plurality of locations connects along a daisy chain of devices each of which mounts to a respective location from the plurality of locations. The device includes an input terminal operably connected to a remote device at a remote location from the plurality of locations via the daisy chain. The input terminal receives a remote temperature signal indicative of a remote temperature corresponding to the remote location and a remote location signal indicative of the remote location. The device also includes a local temperature determining logic that generates a local temperature signal indicative of a local temperature corresponding to the location of the device, and at least one comparator operably connected to the input terminal and to the local temperature determining logic and configured to compare the local temperature signal to the remote temperature signal.
US10132689B2
The invention relates to a temperature sensor system comprising a temperature probe element and a first ceramic housing part. The temperature probe element comprises a sensor element and electrical feed lines. The first ceramic housing part comprises a sleeve-shaped lower part with a closed lower end and an open upper end, and an upper part connected to the open upper end. The sensor element is arranged in the sleeve-shaped lower part. The upper part has recesses in which the electrical feed lines are partially arranged and guided. The lower part and the upper part form one piece. Also disclosed is a method for producing a temperature sensor system.
US10132683B2
A spectrometer includes a support having a bottom wall part in which a depression and a peripheral part are provided, and a side wall part, a light detection element supported by the side wall part while opposing the depression, and a dispersive part disposed on an inner surface of the depression. A length of the depression in a second direction in which a plurality of grating grooves included in the dispersive part is aligned is larger than a length of the depression in a third direction orthogonal to the second direction when viewed in a first direction in which the depression and the light detection element oppose each other. An area of the peripheral part adjacent to the depression in the second direction is larger than an area of the peripheral part adjacent to the depression in the third direction when viewed in the first direction.
US10132678B2
A filter mask for use in a flow cytometer includes light blocking features and light passing apertures. The flow cytometer operates to evaluate one or more characteristics of a sample by illuminating the sample and a carrier fluid and collecting light rays that are radiated from the sample and the carrier fluid. The light rays are passed through the filter mask. The light blocking features of the filter mask are arranged to selectively block radiated light at certain radiation angles, while permit light rays having other radiation angles to pass therethrough. A sensor analyzer receives the light rays that pass through to evaluate at least one characteristic of the sample. The light rays can also be separated into two beams, which can be independently filtered using different filter masks. The results can then be compared to provide even more information regarding characteristics of the sample.
US10132671B2
A pulsed radar level gauge for determining the filling level of a product contained in a tank, comprising a frequency generator for generating a Tx frequency signal and a Rx frequency signal. The frequency generator includes one single oscillating crystal for providing an oscillator frequency fosc and frequency modifying circuitry. The frequency modifying circuitry comprises a path including a PLL configured to receive said oscillator frequency fosc as input frequency and deliver a regulated output frequency being equal to the oscillator frequency fosc multiplied M/N, and a frequency divider connected to receive the regulated output frequency and deliver an output frequency equal to the regulated output frequency divided by an integer factor P. A PLL combined with an integer frequency divider is used to generate at least one of the Tx and Rx frequencies based on an oscillator frequency provided by one single oscillator.
US10132670B2
The invention relates to a measuring device for measuring a level of a fluid in a container for holding a fluid, specifically a level sensor. The container is provided with a conduit for at least one of the supply and the removal of the fluid. A dynamic pressure probe, such as a pitot tube, is arranged in the conduit. The dynamic pressure probe is connected to a pressure sensor for measuring the pressure in the dynamic pressure probe. The fluid level in the container can be determined by using the measured pressure.
US10132667B2
The invention relates to a method of manufacturing an element sensitive to at least one physical parameter of a flow of fluid, comprising a step consisting in a single cycle of immersing, in molten glass, a core of a preassembled sensitive element, said core comprising at least two longitudinal channels along which there pass longitudinally at least two conducting connecting wires which are connected to an at least two-wire winding, said winding being suited to forming a resistive or inductive circuit for detecting said physical parameter, said immersion allowing the connecting wires to be sealed into the channels, allowing said channels to be filled and allowing the outside of the core to be coated in a single immersion, the core, at the end of said single immersion cycle, being sealed and coated in such a way as to obtain an assembled sensitive element. Advantageously, the winding may be “corkscrew” wound inside the longitudinal channels, immersion allowing the connecting wires to be held on the winding and controlling the space between the turns of the winding.
US10132663B2
A calibration system includes an excitation module that introduces an excitation signal to a primary coil of a differential transformer, a measurement module that measures, at a first phase shift, a positive value of an induced signal. The induced signal is caused by the excitation signal on a secondary coil of the differential transformer. The system further includes a calculation module that compares the positive value to a last positive value to form a compared positive value, and a calibration module that changes the first phase shift based on the compared positive value.
US10132659B2
The invention relates to a system (100) for processing measurement data and/or measurement parameter data which are read from a calibratable tool. The invention is characterized in that said system comprises a data conversion device (11) or protocol conversion device which, on the one hand, can be connected to a tool (10) via an interface in order to read the measurement data from the tool (10), and which, on the other hand, can be connected to a data processing device (12) via the same interface or an additional interface, wherein the data conversion device (11) performs a protocol conversion and/or a check of the measurement values so that measurement data from the different tools (10b, 10c, 10d) can be read with the aid of different interfaces and/or protocols by the data conversion device (11), the system thus allowing the use of tools with different protocols.
US10132657B2
A position encoder apparatus, including a scale having a series of position features; and a readhead configured to read the series of position features via a snapshot capture process. The snapshot capture process is adaptable so as to compensate for the relative speed between the scale and readhead.
US10132651B2
A capacitance measurement circuit for determining a sense current of a capacitive sensor which includes at least one electrically conductive sense electrode and at least one electrically conductive guard electrode. The measurement circuit includes at least one switch member that is remotely controllable by a switch remote control unit, wherein the at least one switch member in at least one closed state is configured to provide an additional electrical path between the at least one guard electrode and a reference potential.
US10132644B2
A system for determining a road frustration index value includes a vehicle and a user computing device within the vehicle and a remote computing system, where a telematics system associated with the vehicle senses a speed of the vehicle. The computing device calculates, in near real-time and based on vehicle speed information and the road class of one or more route segments of a travel route, a first frustration level value associated with the driver of the vehicle and identify, based on whether the first frustration level value meets a criterion, an alternate route segment having second frustration level value predicted to be less than the first frustration level value. The remote computing system receives information associated with the first route segment and the alternate route segment and calculates insurance cost based on the road frustration index values associated with a route traveled in the vehicle.
US10132642B2
A unit setting apparatus sets a unit of distance used in a vehicle. A unit is set, which is indicated by map unit information, as a unit to be used, when a map unit acquisition section has acquired the map unit information. A unit is set, which is indicated by operation unit information, as a unit to be used, when the map unit acquisition section has not acquired the map unit information, and an operation unit acquisition section has acquired operation unit information. A unit is set, which is indicated by sign unit information, as a unit to be used, when the map unit acquisition section has not acquired the map unit information, the operation unit acquisition section has not acquired the operation unit information, and a sign unit acquisition section has acquired the sign unit information.
US10132639B2
In one aspect, a first device includes a processor, a display accessible to the processor, and storage accessible to the processor. The storage bears instructions executable by the processor to provide directions to a destination on the display, repetitively receive location information that pertains to a location of a second device traveling to the destination, and provide updates on the location of the second device on the display with the directions.
US10132633B2
The technology causes disappearance of a real object in a field of view of a see-through, mixed reality display device system based on user disappearance criteria. Image data is tracked to the real object in the field of view of the see-through display for implementing an alteration technique on the real object causing its disappearance from the display. A real object may satisfy user disappearance criteria by being associated with subject matter that the user does not wish to see or by not satisfying relevance criteria for a current subject matter of interest to the user. In some embodiments, based on a 3D model of a location of the display device system, an alteration technique may be selected for a real object based on a visibility level associated with the position within the location. Image data for alteration may be prefetched based on a location of the display device system.
US10132626B2
Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide adaptive distance estimation for imaging devices and systems. Distance estimation may be based on phase delays in reflected light. Reference phases used to determine phase delay values may be changed for subsequent frame events. Multiple frame events may be selected for some distance calculations based on whether object movement is detected within a predetermined area.
US10132625B2
The present invention belongs to the technical field of irrigation and water conservancy, and discloses a method for acquiring anisotropic basin surface roughness and use thereof. The method includes: preselecting two experimental strip fields respectively parallel to length direction and width direction of a target basin, to respectively acquire first surface water flow advancing process data of the two experimental strip fields, where the target basin may be regarded as a square-shaped field; acquiring two pieces of isotropic basin surface roughness respectively by using one-dimensional complete hydrodynamic model for basin irrigation according to the surface water flow advancing process data; and substituting the isotropic basin surface roughness into an elliptic equation that anisotropic basin surface roughness satisfies, to solve anisotropic basin surface roughness of the target basin, the anisotropic basin surface roughness including basin surface roughness components parallel to and perpendicular to shallow furrows on basin surface and crop planting direction in the target basin. The anisotropic basin surface roughness can truly reflect the resistance of the basin surface against the water flow, thereby improving simulation precision of surface irrigation hydrodynamics, and acquiring more accurate irrigation performance indexes.
US10132618B2
The present invention provides a method for inspecting a crankshaft, which enables accurate detection of defects which occur partially in the crankshaft, such as underfills and dent flaws, by discriminating these defects from bending and torsion over an entire length of the crankshaft. The present invention includes steps of: acquiring three-dimensional point cloud data over an entire length of a measurement object region of a crankshaft S by an optical three-dimensional shape measurement device 1; dividing the acquired three-dimensional point cloud data to create a plurality of subregion three-dimensional point cloud data, each of the subregion three-dimensional point cloud data respectively corresponding to each of a plurality of subregions of the crankshaft along a direction parallel to the rotational center axis L of the crankshaft; translating and rotating each of the created subregion three-dimensional point cloud data to superpose each of the subregion three-dimensional point cloud data on a surface shape model of the crankshaft, such that a distance between each of the subregion three-dimensional point cloud data and the surface shape model becomes minimum; and detecting a partial defect such as an underfill of the crankshaft based on a distance between each of the subregion three-dimensional point cloud data after being superposed and the surface shape model.
US10132617B2
A method for measuring geometric surface characteristics of a flange surface positioned at an end of a tubular object, such as sections of a wind power generation tower. Also, a corresponding system. The method includes optically measuring, in each of a plurality of rotational positions of the tubular object, a set of measurement points at the surface of the flange, each set of measurement points being arranged in a sector along an arc at a first distance from the central axis of the tubular object, and being separated in a circumference direction of the flange, wherein said sectors are at least partly overlapping, so that at least two measurement points of each set essentially correspond to measurement points of at least one other set of measurement points, and wherein the arcs together extend over the entire circumference of the flange.
US10132615B2
Data acquisition devices for analyzing reference objects and systems for monitoring turbine component deformation are provided. A data acquisition device has a longitudinal axis and includes a lens assembly and an image capture device in communication with the lens assembly for receiving and processing light from the lens assembly to generate images. The data acquisition device further includes a light source and a light tube coupled at a rear end to the light source. The light tube extends along the longitudinal axis between a front end and the rear end, and is operable to transport light from the light source therethrough and emit the light from the front end. The data acquisition device further includes an actuator operable to activate the image capture device and the light source.
US10132610B2
Disclosed herein are optical integration technologies, designs, systems and methods directed toward Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and other interferometric optical sensor, ranging, and imaging systems wherein such systems, methods and structures employ tunable optical sources, coherent detection and other structures on a single or multichip monolithic integration. In contrast to contemporary, prior-art OCT systems and structures that employ simple, miniature optical bench technology using small optical components positioned on a substrate, systems and methods according to the present disclosure employ one or more photonic integrated circuits (PICs), use swept-source techniques, and employ a widely tunable optical source(s).
US10132607B2
A device configured to provide a faster and more accurate measurement of depths of holes for placement of bone screws and fastener for bone implant fixation procedures. The device includes a combination of a bone probe for physical examination of a hole drilled in a bone and a depth gauge member for determining a depth of the hole and providing digital measurement of the depth via a display on the instrument and/or via a wireless exchange of measurement data to a remote computing device, such as a tablet or smartphone. The device may further be connected to a separate neuromonitoring device and be used for nerve sensing and/or nerve stimulation by way of the bone probe. For example, the bone probe may include a conductive material such that the distal probe tip acts as an extension of the neuromonitoring device and may be used to sense and/or stimulate nerves.
US10132606B2
A tape measure having a housing, a marking device for applying a mark to a surface to be marked, and a carriage member connected to a constant force spring for advancing a marking substance against a marking wheel configured for applying a mark to a surface to be measured and marked.
US10132600B2
A collapsible target is disclosed. The target comprises a frame that is collapsible from an open, unfolded configuration, to a closed, folded configuration. A fabric housing is mounted on the frame using a series of capped connectors and grommets. The housing comprises a plurality of panels joined together to from an inner compartment. The front panel of the compartment is formed with a window. A target assembly comprising a self-resetting spinner and a base is mounted in the compartment behind the window. The spinner may be mounted on an illuminated axle. The base is dimensioned for alternately holding a breakable clay target. The target is highly portable and easy to setup and take down. The target may be conveniently stored in a bag when not in use.
US10132583B2
A universal chassis for a firearm includes sidewalls. The sidewalls define a trigger well that is configured to receive a trigger mechanism. One of the sidewalls may define a cutout adjacent the trigger well. The chassis is configured to interchangeably receive a bolt action and a barrel for a shotgun, a muzzle loader, and a rifle. The cutout is sized and dimensioned to receive a lever arm of the bolt action.
US10132582B1
A reloading system and method for reloading cartridges into an ammunition magazine. The reloading system has a storage container for holding a supply of cartridges. The internal chamber supplies a set number of cartridges to a loading chamber. A first spring-loaded plunger extends into the loading chamber from a first end. The first spring loaded plunger biases the set number of cartridges in the loading chamber toward the second end. A magazine receptacle is offset from the second end of the loading chamber. A second spring loaded plunger is provided that extends into the loading chamber proximate the second end. The second spring loaded plunger advances one of the cartridges from the loading chamber into the ammunition magazine that is engaged with the magazine receptacle. A new cartridge is loaded each time the second spring loaded plunger is manually advanced.
US10132576B2
A method for operating a heat exchanger, through which a heat transfer medium flows on a primary side, entering the heat exchanger with a first temperature and exiting the heat exchanger with a second temperature. The heat transfer medium emits on a secondary side a heat flow to a secondary medium flowing through the heat exchanger in the case of heating or, in the case of cooling, absorbs a heat flow from the secondary medium which enters the heat exchanger with a third temperature and exits the heat exchanger again with a fourth temperature. The heat exchanger is capable of transferring a maximum heat flow. At least three of the four temperatures are measured and the respective saturation level of the heat exchanger is determined from these measured temperatures and is used for controlling the operation of the heat exchanger.
US10132575B2
The heat conduction member comprises a laminate formed by laminating a resin layer and a metal layer. The resin layer is formed from a thermally conductive resin material. The thickness of the laminate is smaller at the peripheral edge of the laminate than in the center portion of the laminate, and the thickness of the laminate is greater in the intermediate portion of the laminate than in the center portion of the laminate. An inclined surface is formed on the laminate so as to form a falling gradient from the intermediate portion toward the peripheral edge.
US10132570B2
A heat exchanger having a primary flow path arranged to contain a first heat exchanging medium. A secondary flow path arranged to contain a secondary heat exchanging medium, wherein the primary flow path surrounds the secondary flow path for exchanging heat between the two paths.
US10132562B2
In a process for the cryogenic separation of a methane-rich feed stream containing between 3 and 35% of oxygen and also nitrogen, the feed stream is cooled in order to produce a cooled stream, at least one portion of the cooled stream is sent to a distillation column, a bottom stream is withdrawn from the distillation column, the bottom stream being enriched in methane compared to the feed stream, a stream enriched in oxygen compared to the feed stream is withdrawn from the distillation column, and a nitrogen-rich stream is sent to the column.
US10132560B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device (1) for cooling an arrangement (2) using a cold head (3), with a thermal cooling of the unit (2) to be cooled by means of the thermosiphon principle. At the same time, heat is conducted via a mechanical heat bridge (5), which provides a direct thermal connection from the cold head (3) to the unit (2) to be cooled.
US10132559B2
A system and method for determining and reporting refrigeration equipment operating metrics using only sensed interior air temperature is taught. By repeatedly sensing interior air temperature an average food temperature metric, a runtime metric, a compressor cycle metric, and a door opening count metric is determined and reported.
US10132553B2
A drainage system comprising a first bracket having a horizontal structure and one or more vertical structures, a second bracket having a horizontal structure and one or more vertical structures and a drain pan having a plurality of locking mechanisms, each configured to interlock with one of the vertical structures of the first bracket or the second bracket.
US10132550B2
An air-conditioning unit including an air circuit with an air inlet, a main fan and an air outlet designed to be connected to a chamber, preferably via one or more flexible ducts, and a refrigerant circuit including a heat exchanger/evaporator positioned in the air circuit to cool the air by evaporating the refrigerant, a compressor and a condenser for condensing the refrigerant before it is returned to the heat exchanger/evaporator. The heat exchanger/evaporator includes several parallel circuits each having at least one regulator valve. The air circuit also includes a temperature probe downstream of the heat exchanger/evaporator and connected to a controller which controls the regulator valves to regulate the flow of refrigerant, and a pressure probe at the air outlet and connected to a regulator for regulating the speed and/or the power of the main fan so as not to exceed a maximum raised pressure at air outlet.
US10132543B2
A climate-control system includes a variable-capacity compressor unit operable in a first capacity mode and in a second capacity mode that is higher than the first capacity mode and a control module configured to (i) switch the variable-capacity compressor unit between the first capacity mode and the second capacity mode based on a demand signal, a current outdoor air temperature, and an outdoor-air-temperature slope, (ii) select a region based on a first comparison of at least one outdoor-air-temperature value with a predetermined outdoor-air-temperature range and a second comparison of at least one outdoor-relative-humidity value with a predetermined outdoor-relative-humidity range, and (iii) set at least one system operating parameter based on the selected region, the at least one system operating parameter including at least one of a high-capacity runtime of the variable-capacity compressor unit, a low-capacity runtime of the variable-capacity compressor unit, and a fan speed.
US10132538B2
A heat exchanger assembly includes a plurality of tubes, each having an inlet end and an outlet end. An inlet header is configured to receive a cooling fluid and to distribute the cooling fluid to the inlet ends of the plurality of tubes. An outlet header includes an outer shell and defines an outlet chamber. The outlet chamber is configured to receive cooling fluid discharged from the outlet ends of the plurality of tube. A supply conduit supplies the cooling fluid to the inlet header. The supply conduit includes a conduit portion extending through the outlet header.
US10132524B2
An apparatus and system and method for mixing airflow and draining condensate in a duct exposed to sub-freezing air are disclosed. An example mixing duct apparatus includes a recirculation duct and a pack duct having a first end and a second end. The first end of the pack duct is coupled to a side of the recirculation duct. The pack duct has a lip that extends into an airflow passage defined by the recirculation duct. This lip defines a flow channel for condensate in the recirculation duct to flow beneath sub-freezing air entering the recirculation duct from the pack duct to decrease ice build-up in the pack duct.
US10132519B2
An air conditioning system includes a collector that obtains user's voice data; a voice recognizer that generates character-string data on the basis of the voice data; a memory that stores therein a search table having a standard keyword that indicates the type of sensitivity to the environment inside a room and derivative keywords that indicate a same type of sensitivity as the standard keyword, while indicating different sensitivity levels; an analyzer that determines the type and level of user's sensitivity on the basis of the character-string data and the search table; and a controller that outputs a control signal to an adjustment device in an indoor device, the adjustment device adjusting the environment inside a room on the basis of the type and level of sensitivity, which are determined by the analyzer.
US10132505B2
A cooking appliance includes a cooking chamber in which food is accommodated, a machine room separated from the cooking chamber, an exhaust assembly configured to discharge fluids inside the machine room to the outside, and a sensor assembly provided in the machine room and configured to measure the amount of steam of fluids which flow from the cooking chamber to the machine room by driving of the exhaust assembly.
US10132497B2
Technologies are described for vent extension systems. The systems may comprise a first extension attached to an intake vent, a second extension attached to an exhaust vent, and a third extension attached to an alternator vent of a generator housing. The first and second extensions may include a first upper section including a first and second end and a bend; and a first lower section including a first and second end and a bend. The first end of the first lower section may be configured to connect to the second end of the first upper section. The third extension may include a second upper section including a first and second end and a bend; and a second lower section including a first and second end and a bend. The first end of the second lower section may be configured to connect to the second end of the second upper section.
US10132485B2
Deterrent device attachments are provided each having a light emitting thermal source positioned by a support board to emit light from within a housing of the deterrent device, with the support board bent to provide surface areas to dissipate heat generated by the light emitter.
US10132484B2
Disclosed herein is an improved dental operatory lamp having an LED light source that directs light to a reflector that in turn reflects the light to illuminate a treatment area. In one embodiment, the lamp is adapted for efficient transfer of heat from the light source and into the environment. In another embodiment, the lamp is adapted to generate a predetermined pattern of light optimal for the treatment area. In other embodiments, the lamp includes structural features that enable the lamp to maintain optimum light intensity and/or temperature. Also, disclosed herein are unique reflector embodiments that intentionally provide a generally smooth surface, without facets, that reflect light at all visible and infrared wavelengths.
US10132479B2
A flipping installation device for LED strip lighting includes an installation frame, a house, at least one link mechanism, and at least one clamping mechanism. Each of the at least one link mechanism includes a first link mounted on the installation frame, a second link disposed on the house, and a third link rotatably connected between the first and second links. The first and second and third links is perpendicular to each other in the cross section perpendicular to the axial direction of the house when the house has been installed into the installation frame. Each of the at least one clamping mechanism includes a catch head disposed on the installation frame, and a resilient lock disposed on the house and coupled to the catch head. The link mechanism and the clamping mechanism are located on the opposite side of the house.
US10132468B2
A high power LED lighting device is provided that includes a case, a substrate disposed in the case and including a plurality of LED chips are mounted thereon, and a reflection module connected to the substrate and including a plurality of light reflection semi-spheres protruding from a plate body. The device provides improved heat discharging properties, among others.
US10132463B2
The present invention relates to LED lamps suitable for forming automotive lighting systems, made of high power lambertian LEDs and a TIR collimator lens. In the present invention, a novel TIR collimator lens is developed to collect the light emitted from the LED source and through a pillow lens array; redistribution occurs to form a light pattern meeting ECE requirements.
US10132456B2
An automated luminaire with dual over-sized graphic wheels that can be inserted and positioned into or out of the light path of the luminaire together as a unit and each graphic wheel can be rotated independent of the other wheel.
US10132454B2
An electronic fountain candle, comprising a transparent or semitransparent outer cylinder (9), a battery compartment, a flow-guiding cover (10), an LED/water pump assembly (4), and a control board (3). A water storage chamber is located at the interior wall of the outer cylinder (9), above the bottom of the battery compartment. The LED/water pump assembly (4) is mounted inside the water storage chamber, and comprises: an LED-PCB board (42) for an LED, as well as a water pump (43) and a water drainage pipe (41). The LED-PCB board (42) is waterproofed, and the water outlet of the water pump (43) is connected to the water drainage pipe (41). The flow-guiding cover (10) is provided with a flow-guiding hole, and the water drainage pipe (41) is in communication with the flow-guiding hole. The peripheral edge of the flow-guiding cover (10) is lower than the upper end face of the outer cylinder (9), and there is a gap, used for draining water, between the flow-guiding cover (10) and the inner wall of the outer cylinder (9). The control board (3) is mounted inside the battery compartment, and the LED/water pump assembly (4) is electrically connected to the control board (3).
US10132451B2
According to an embodiment of the present technology, there is provided a bulb-type light source apparatus including a light source unit, a translucent cover, and a base unit. The translucent cover includes a first area including a convex lens function and a second area including a concave lens function. The base unit supports the light source unit and the translucent cover such that the second area is positioned closer to the light source unit than the first area.
US10132443B2
A system and method is provided whereby a mounting is configured for attachment to a paintbrush, wherein the paintbrush has a first end having bristles and a second end bristle free, a hanger having a first end is attached to said mounting cap and a second end having a hanging system for hanging said brush, and a support is configured for receiving said hanging system.
US10132441B2
Insulated pipe systems or assemblies include a particulate, composite or monolithic insulating aerogel material. Techniques for installing or manufacturing such systems or assemblies are described, as are components useful in the installation or manufacture processes.
US10132432B2
A ferrule coupling is easy to mount onto members to be coupled such as pipe conduits and apparatuses and can reliably maintain the sealability even when subjected to temperature rises and falls due to a sterilization process etc. A ferrule coupling has an annular male screw member which is provided on one of members to be coupled and has a thread formed on the outer peripheral surface, and an annular female screw member which is provided on the other of the members to be coupled and has a thread formed on the inner peripheral surface. The male screw member and the female screw member are screw-engaged with each other to thereby couple the members to be coupled with each other. The male screw member has a cut section at one part in the circumferential direction, and can be opened or closed such that the cut section widens or narrows.
US10132431B2
A pipe-connecting device includes: an inner ring having: an outer circumferential portion having a tip-contracted outer-circumferential flared surface that is to be press-inserted into an end portion of a tube to flare the tube, and an inner circumferential portion constituting a fluid transfer path; a pipe joint body that has a tubular screwing portion having an external thread; and a union nut having an internal thread that is screwed with the external thread. The inner ring including the tube is inserted into the tubular screwing portion, and the tip-contracted outer-circumferential flared surface is pressed through the tube by a pressing portion of the union nut. The pressing portion of the union nut is formed into an inclined inner circumferential surface that is inclined in the same direction as the tip-contracted outer-circumferential flared surface with respect to the axis of the tubular screwing portion.
US10132428B1
Technology is provided for a cable management clip. The cable management clip includes a base portion and one or more cable control fingers. The base portion includes a first side configured to confront a mounting surface and a second side opposite the first side. One or more apertures are formed through the base portion and positioned to receive a corresponding mounting feature of the mounting surface, such as a bridge lance. The cable control fingers each include an arcuate first end portion extending away from the second side of the base portion, a middle portion extending parallel to the base portion, and a second end portion positioned to retain one or more cables between the cable control fingers and the mounting surface.
US10132424B2
A variable flow valve assembly is disclosed, and includes a main body, a piston, a position sensor, a controller, a solenoid, and a cover. The main body defines a chamber, an inlet port, an outlet port, and a wall located between the inlet port and the outlet port. The wall defines a metering orifice for selectively allowing a medium to flow from the inlet port to the outlet port. The chamber of the main body includes a pressurized chamber. The piston is moveable within the chamber of the main body in a plurality of partially open positions to vary the amount of medium flowing through the modulation orifice. The piston separates the pressurized chamber from the inlet port. The position sensor determines the position of the piston within the chamber of the main body, and the controller is in signal communication with the position sensor.
US10132416B2
The invention relates to pipeline control valves, in particular to manufacturing of ball gates on the basis of TiC. The cermet structure consists of a homogeneous metal matrix and uniformly arranged TiC grains in it, and has fragments with a matrix, matrix-framework and framework structures. TiC powder is placed in the mold with preliminary placed porous TiC inserts in it and sintered in the heating furnace in the chamber with non-oxidizing environment. The mold with the carbide semi-product is removed from the heating furnace after sintering. The infiltrate is placed and melted in the crucible located in the same chamber and cast in the mold till contacting the carbide semi-product ensuring its complete infiltration with the molten metal. The invention enables combining the structure and properties over the zones and improving the quality of cermet items.
US10132402B2
A drive transmitter includes a group of gears to which grease is applied, at least one gear of the group of gears being an internally toothed gear, multiple pulleys, and a drive belt wound around the multiple pulleys to drive the group of gears. An image forming apparatus includes the drive transmitter.
US10132401B2
A thermostatic bypass valve has an intentional flow resistance through a bypass passageway when fluid is at a normal operating temperature. This flow resistance, of between 10 and 20 psi at a flow rate of 10 liters per minute, is achieved by limiting a radial clearance within the bypass passageway to less than 1.0 mm. The flow rate through the bypass passageway is at least half of the flow resistance of the cooler. This bypass flow resistance is beneficial because it limits the flow rate of lubrication fluid during bypass, reducing the parasitic losses of the gearbox.
US10132400B2
According to one embodiment, a vehicle powertrain includes an engine having a first locking feature defining first mating surfaces, and a differential coupled to a transfer case via a driveshaft. The differential includes a second locking feature defining second mating surfaces. The first and second locking features are engaged such that the first and second mating surfaces are disposed against each other connecting the engine and the differential. A fastener is disposed within the engine and the differential.
US10132394B2
A differential assembly with at least a first gear ratio and a second gear ratio that can be integrated with an automatic transmission system thereby increasing the total number of available gear ratios is presented. A method of shifting to improve engine efficiency is also provided.
US10132390B2
A drive arrangement is provided which includes: a first and second rotatable members; an endless loop member, extending around the first and second rotatable members, arranged to convey drive from the first rotatable member to the second rotatable member; a first support, arranged to support the first rotatable member and the second rotatable member, having at least one aperture therein; a guide member, defining at least part of a path of the endless loop member between the first rotatable member and the second rotatable member; and a second support, arranged to support the guide member, the second support being connected to the guide member through the at least one aperture in the first support such that guide member is movable, via the at least one aperture, to engage and disengage drive from the first rotatable member to the second rotatable member.
US10132384B2
A centrifugal pendulum vibration absorbing device includes a flange that is coupled to a driven member that is a rotary element that rotates using power from an engine and a mass body that is coupled to the flange so as to oscillate about a pendulum fulcrum PF and is designed so as to have an effective order qeff that is greater by a correction amount Δq that is at least associated with the non-linearity of an order q of vibration of the flange and the mass body that is dependent on an oscillation angle ϕ of the mass body than an order qtag of vibration that is generated in the engine to be damped.
US10132381B2
A damping assembly is described herein for use in a device having moving aerodynamic surfaces including a first component comprising a back iron and at least one permanent magnet, said at least one permanent magnet providing a first magnetic field, and an electrically conductive second component, said electrically conductive second component and said first component being positioned coaxially about a central axis with said at least one permanent magnet being positioned between said back iron of said first component and said electrically conductive second component; the assembly further comprising means for rotating one or both of said at least one permanent magnet of said first component and said electrically conductive second component about said central axis to cause relative rotational movement between the at least one permanent magnet and second component, to thereby induce a variable magnetic flux in said electrically conductive second component and cause eddy currents to develop.
US10132377B2
An attachment arrangement for holding together end portions of a plurality of leaf springs of a leaf-spring compound used in a release system for soil-working implements includes a coupling element, a clamping bolt, a stop element, and a supporting element. The coupling element supports the end portions of the plurality of leaf springs. The clamping bolt attaches the end portions of the plurality of leaf springs to the coupling element. The supporting element creates a clearance to an inner leaf spring. The supporting element is positioned at least partially over a cut-out provided in the plurality of leaf springs.
US10132375B2
A friction material for a clutch pad comprising: a plurality of fibers; and, a filler material including at least 0.1% and at most 100% silica rich carrier particles by weight based on total weight of the filler; the silica rich carrier particles having: a median particle size of at least 0.1 μm and at most 50 μm; and, a median pore diameter of at least 0.1 and at most 10 μm.
US10132355B2
A grease for a rolling bearing of an information recording and reproducing apparatus contains a base oil, a thickener, and at least one kind of an antioxidant selected from an amine-based antioxidant expressed by the General Formula (1), and a phenol-based antioxidant expressed by the General Formula (2). The base oil contains a refined mineral oil classified as Group III in a base oil category defined by the American Petroleum Institute, and the flash point of the refined mineral oil is 240° C. or higher.
US10132354B2
This sliding bearing comprises a pair of semicircular half bearings formed into a cylindrical shape by bringing both circumferential ends thereof into contact with each other. The axial width of the half bearings is narrower in both circumferential ends and the circumferential center, and wider in the quarter parts located therebetween. During manufacturing of the half bearings, finishing by cutting processing is first performed on the parts of a flat-plate material which after formation are to become the two axial-direction end faces and the two circumferential-direction end faces of the half bearings, and thereafter, the flat-plate material is deformed into a semicircle.
US10132350B2
A bearing assembly is disclosed for an exhaust gas turbocharger for rotatably supporting a rotor shaft on a bearing housing, having at least one bearing outer ring of a radial bearing, which at least one bearing outer ring is placed in a bearing bore of the bearing housing and consists of at least one part, and at least one securing element, which consists of at least one part and by which the bearing outer ring is axially fastened in relation to the bearing housing. In order to simplify the assembly of a corresponding bearing assembly and to reduce the production costs thereof, at least one circumferential groove, according to the invention, is arranged on an outer lateral surface of a compressor-side end section of the bearing outer ring, in which at least one groove the securing element engages, and the securing element is arranged outside of the bearing bore on the compressor side and is supported at least indirectly on a compressor-side end of the bearing housing.
US10132337B2
A modular actuator assembly which can be used for partial stroke testing of a valve, the assembly having a force module and a tandem piston module. The force module has a primary piston and piston rod interconnected to a shaft which is movably mounted therein. The tandem piston module is connected to the force module and has a tandem piston and piston rod. An indicator plate is connected to the piston rod and is selectively positionable on the tandem piston rod. The tandem piston rod extends into the force module and acts as a pneumatically engaged hard stop for preventing spurious travel of the primary piston and hence spurious valve travel.
US10132308B2
Metering systems and methods are disclosed. A metering system is part of a larger fluidics sub-system that includes a flexible reservoir for storing insulin and a cannula assembly for delivering the insulin into sub-cutaneous tissue. The metering system draws a small dose of fluid from the reservoir and then pushes it down the cannula line and into the patient. The fluid dose is small relative to the reservoir volume, such that many pump strokes are required to completely empty the reservoir.
US10132305B2
Apparatus features a signal processor or processing module configured to respond to signaling containing information about a set point and a speed related to one or more pumps in a pump system, e.g., including a variable speed multiple pump booster system, operating at a substantially constant discharge pressure; and determine an adjustment to the set point to compensate for system friction loss and maintain the substantially constant discharge pressure of the variable speed multiple pump booster system for flow variation, based at least partly on the signaling received. The signal processor or processing module 10a provides corresponding signaling containing information to control the one or more pumps in the variable speed multiple pump booster system.
US10132302B2
An infusion pump for transferring fluid through tubing of an administration set connected to the pump, where the pump includes a housing and a pumping mechanism mounted to the housing. The pumping mechanism includes a plurality of pumping fingers, a motor for sequentially, reciprocally moving the plurality of pumping fingers, and an occlusion sensor configured to detect reverse loading of the tubing to the pumping mechanism. In operation, the occlusion sensor causes at least one of a triggering of an alarm and prevention of the operation of the pumping mechanism when the sensor detects that the administration set tubing is reverse loaded to the pumping mechanism.
US10132300B2
A device is described wherein a pair of thermal or electrothermal actuators (3, 4; 103, 104) actuate a member, such as a pinion (5), between two stable positions. The actuators are alternately activated for moving the pinion between the stable positions. For this purpose, they are arranged close to each other, so that they can act upon the pinion on opposite sides, the pinion being held in the stable positions by a releasable engagement element. The device of the invention ensures low energy consumption because the actuators (3, 4) operate only for moving the pinion from one stable position to the other.
US10132288B2
A method is described for setting a temperature of a glow plug, in particular for igniting a fuel/air mixture in an internal combustion engine in which the temperature of the glow plug is set as a function of a resistance of the glow plug with the aid of a control. To prevent temperature overshoots from occurring during the preheating phase of the glow plug, the temperature is controlled with the aid of a predictive model during a preheating phase during which an overvoltage is applied to the glow plug.
US10132286B2
The ignition system has an electromagnetic wave oscillator which oscillates electromagnetic waves, a control device that controls the electromagnetic wave oscillator, a plasma generator which integrates a booster circuit containing a resonant circuit capacitive coupled with the electromagnetic wave oscillator, and a discharge electrode which discharges a high voltage generated by the booster circuit. The plasma generator includes a plurality of discharge electrodes arranged so as to be exposed within the combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine.
US10132280B2
Disclosed is a method for limiting fuel leakage from at least one injector in an engine of a motor vehicle, the engine being stopped and the motor vehicle ignition circuit being switched off, the injector being supplied with fuel via a fuel rail which is pressurized during operation, the pressurization persisting for a certain period when the engine has been stopped and the ignition circuit switched off, leading to leakage of fuel through the injector. The injection rail is subjected to forced cooling following the stoppage of the engine with the motor vehicle ignition circuit switched off, which is sufficient to reduce the pressure, the forced cooling continuing until the pressure in the rail is close to atmospheric pressure.
US10132268B2
This piston includes a piston main body made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy, used in an internal combustion and a modified layer formed on a surface of a strength reinforced portion of the piston main body, having a surface made of aluminum oxide by plasma oxidation, to which compressive residual stress is applied.
US10132266B2
A controller is provided that performs first injection that executes fuel injection with lower injection rate and subsequently performs second injection with higher injection rate. The controller configured to determine a target value for fuel pressure drop amount or difference between pressure of fuel within a fuel injection valve at starting point of the first injection and pressure of fuel within the fuel injection valve while the first injection is performed, and stop supply of command signal to the fuel injection valve once fuel pressure drop amount in the first injection becomes greater than target value for the fuel pressure drop amount, and supply command signal once the fuel pressure drop amount in the first injection becomes smaller than the target value for the fuel pressure drop amount.
US10132264B2
A method for controlling an electric motor of a vehicle pump used to deliver a medium. According to the method, a period required for at least one partial revolution of a rotor of the electric motor is determined. The fluctuations during the period can represent a measurement of the true running of the electric motor. The speed of the electric motor can be altered depending on the deviation of the period from a comparative value. As a result, the true running of the electric motor can be guaranteed once again.
US10132258B2
A control device for an internal combustion engine is provided. The internal combustion engine includes a plurality of cylinders. The internal combustion engine is configured such that when an intake valve of one cylinder on a compression stroke among the plurality of cylinders is open, an intake valve of each of the remainder of the plurality of cylinders is closed. The control device includes an electronic control unit configured to: (i) determine an open-closed state of the intake valve of each of the plurality of cylinders; and (ii) adjust an opening degree of a throttle valve to a first opening degree that is larger than a second opening degree corresponding to an idling operation, when the electronic control unit determines that the intake valve of any one of the plurality of cylinders is open at the time of startup of the internal combustion engine, to reduce compression torque and vibrations.
US10132250B2
The system comprises a fuel description module structured to provide a first signal, and a control circuit operable to receive the first signal. The fuel description module comprises a fuel consumption detection package. The fuel consumption detection package an intake manifold temperature sensor and an exhaust temperature sensor, wherein the first signal corresponds to a difference between the exhaust manifold temperature (EMT) and the intake manifold temperature (IMT). The control circuit is responsive to the first signal to produce a second signal indicating a total energy content (Efuel) of fuel supplied to the dual-fuel engine. The Efuel value indicating the total energy content provided to the engine from a first fuel and a second fuel.
US10132235B2
Methods and systems are provided for operating a split exhaust engine system that provides blowthrough air and exhaust gas recirculation to an intake passage via a first exhaust manifold and exhaust gas to an exhaust passage via a second exhaust manifold. In one example, the split exhaust engine system may include a first set of exhaust valves fluidly coupled to the exhaust passage, upstream of a turbocharger turbine, a first emission control device (ECD), and a second ECD disposed within the exhaust passage, the second ECD positioned downstream of the first ECD. The system may further include a second set of exhaust valves fluidly coupled to the intake passage and the exhaust passage, between the first ECD and the second ECD.
US10132232B2
A supercharging device for an engine includes an electric supercharger which supercharges intake air, an intercooler which cools intake air discharged from the electric supercharger; and an intake manifold which is disposed substantially horizontally, and is configured to communicate between a downstream end of the intercooler in an intake air flow direction, and intake ports. The downstream end of the intercooler is located on a lower end of the intercooler. The downstream end of the intercooler is disposed substantially at the same height as an upstream end of the intake ports. The electric supercharger is disposed below the intercooler along a surface of the engine on an intake side where the intake ports are opened.
US10132227B2
Upon a valve rotation angle of a flow rate control valve exceeding a radiator-flow-path closed position during changing of the valve rotation angle of the flow rate control valve in an opening direction of a radiator flow path from a closed state of the radiator flow path, a cooling water starts to circulate through the radiator flow path, and an outlet water temperature or an inlet water temperature of an engine starts to drop. The radiator-flow-path closed position is learned as a valve rotation angle of the flow rate control valve immediately before the outlet water temperature or the inlet water temperature starts to drop during changing of the valve rotation angle of the flow rate control valve in the opening direction of the radiator flow path from the closed state of the radiator flow path.
US10132224B2
An exhaust pipe mounted heat duct in an electrical generator includes an exhaust pipe coupleable to an internal combustion engine of the electrical generator to receive exhaust therefrom, the exhaust pipe having a first support member and a second support member extending outwards from the exhaust pipe. The exhaust pipe mounted heat duct also includes a heat duct assembly comprising a first component and a second component, the first component mounted to the first support member and a second component mounted to the second support member, the first component coupled to the second component to substantially surround the exhaust pipe.
US10132212B2
A cam phaser including a rotor; and a stator, wherein the rotor is rotatable relative to the stator, wherein a lobe of the rotor is arrangeable between two bars of the stator, wherein the lobe divides an intermediary space formed between the two bars into a first pressure cavity and a second pressure cavity, wherein a locking device including a spring loaded locking bolt and a locking disc is configured to lock the stator relative to the rotor in an end position, wherein the locking provides a locking clearance for moving the rotor relative to the stator, wherein the locking disc includes a contact element for adjusting the end position.
US10132208B2
An engine roller lifter for use in a valve train of an internal combustion engine and constructed in accordance to another example of the present disclosure includes a body having an outer peripheral surface configured for sliding movement in a bore provided in the engine. The bore is supplied by an oil passage communicating therewith. The body can define a transverse passage. A groove can be formed around the body and inset from the outer peripheral surface. A connecting channel can be formed in the body and inset from the outer peripheral surface, the connecting channel fluidly connects the groove and the transverse passage. A roller bearing can be rotatably mounted to the body and configured for rolling contact with an engine camshaft. Oil received at the groove from the bore flows along the connecting channel, into the transverse passage and onto the roller bearing.
US10132207B2
The variable valve actuating device (20) comprises a valve lifter (24) interposed between a swing end of a rocker arm 22 and a stem end of an engine valve (17), and a switch pin (53) slidably received in the valve lifter (24) so as to selectively abut the end surface of the valve stem as the valve lifter is actuated by a cam (21a). The swing end of the rocker arm abuts an upper end of a projection (55) projecting from the upper end of the valve lifter via an engagement feature (26b, 55a) that prevents a rotational movement of the valve lifter relative to the swing end around the axial line of the valve stem.
US10132206B1
A rocker arm for an engine valve actuator assembly is disclosed. The rocker arm may include a rocker arm body disposed between a first and second arm end. Furthermore, a rocker arm bore and an adjuster compartment may be defined proximal to the second arm end. The rocker arm may further include a roller positioned at the first arm end and operably coupled to a cam, the cam configured to actuate the rocker arm between a first and second position. The rocker arm may further include a shaft inserted through a shaft mounting aperture and the rocker arm is configured to rotate about the shaft between the first and second positions. Furthermore, a fluid passage may be defined within the rocker arm body extending between a first passage opening formed in a bearing surface of the shaft mounting aperture and a second passage opening that opens into the adjuster compartment.
US10132204B2
A rocker arm assembly includes an outer arm having a first outer side arm and a second outer side arm, each of the first and second outer side arms having a low lift lobe contacting surface, an inner arm having a high lift lobe contacting surface and disposed between the first and second outer side arms, the inner arm having a first end and a second end operably associated with a lash adjuster and defining a latch bore, and a latch assembly arranged at least partially within the latch bore. The latch assembly is movable between a first configuration and a second configuration. In the first configuration, the latch assembly engages the outer arm such that the outer arm rotates with the inner arm, and in the second configuration, the latch assembly disengages the outer arm such that the outer arm rotates independently from the inner arm.
US10132203B2
An internal combustion engine optimizing small-size arrangement of the valve drive mechanism, considering that the exhaust valve diameter is smaller than the intake valve diameter.Intake and exhaust valves are in a radial arrangement, intake and exhaust cam surfaces are inclined relative to intake and exhaust cam axes, intake and exhaust rocker arm support members are inclined correspondingly in the same way and disposed between an intake camshaft and an exhaust camshaft. Pivotal support base portions of intake rocker arms and pivotal support base portions of exhaust rocker arms are disposed such that the distances thereof from a joining surface joining a cylinder head and a cylinder body are different.
US10132199B2
The invention relates to a thermal to energy conversion method and system using a Rankine cycle equipped with a heat pump, wherein heat pump (2) is integrated in the Rankine cycle.
US10132194B2
A turbine shroud adapted for use in a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of metallic carrier segments and a plurality of blade track segments mounted to corresponding metallic carrier segments. Cooling flow inserts direct cooling air onto the blade track segments to cool the blade track segments when exposed to high temperatures in a gas turbine engine.
US10132188B2
The present application relates to an axial turbomachine gaseous flow-guiding element, such as a compressor inner shroud or vane. The element includes a plasma generator including: a layer of dielectric material with a guiding surface in contact with the gaseous flow, a first electrode placed in the guiding surface, and a second electrode electrically isolated from the first electrode by means of the dielectric layer. The plasma generator drives the gaseous flow along the guiding surface from the first electrode to the second electrode and includes a third electrode covered by the dielectric layer and electrically connected to the second electrode, so as to participate in the generation of the plasma in combination with the first electrode and the second electrode, the second electrode being closer to the guiding surface than the third electrode.
US10132177B2
A hollow vane, includes a main portion, of which the cavity is closed by a cover, that is produced by expanding the main portion relative to the cover, for example by means of differential thermal expansion, then by placing the cover at the bottom of the opening of the cavity, before allowing the main portion to close again, closing a nesting between a protrusion at the bottom of the cover and a widening at the bottom of the opening. The disadvantages linked to the use of welding, glue or even assembly parts are as such avoided.
US10132174B2
The present disclosure provides devices related to aircraft engine fan assemblies and blade lock retainers. In various embodiments, a blade lock retainer is formed from sheet metal and comprises an annular ring portion, an outer retainer tab portion, and an inner tab portion. In various embodiments, the outer retainer tab portion is disposed on an outer circumference of the annular ring portion, oriented substantially perpendicular to the annular ring portion, and extends in an aft direction from the annular ring portion. In various embodiments, the inner retainer tab portion is disposed on an inner circumference of the annular ring portion and radially aligned with the outer retainer tab portion, oriented substantially perpendicular to the annular ring portion, and extends in a forward direction from the annular ring portion.
US10132172B2
It is disclosed an arrangement of a rotor and at least a blade. The blade includes a root, a platform and an airfoil. The rotor includes a seat for the root. The root has side walls which complement side walls of the seat and axial walls between the side walls. A chamber is provided between the root and the rotor. A shank cavity is provided between the root and the platform. A lock plate facing at least an axial wall is connected to the rotor and the blade. The lock plate has at least a slot on a side facing the root.
US10132170B2
A system includes a turbomachine blade segment including an airfoil with an exterior surface, and a platform coupled to the airfoil having a first side and a second side. The system also includes a concave fillet transition extending between the airfoil and the platform. The concave fillet transition includes one or more interface ply segments extending across the exterior surface of the airfoil and the first or the second side of the platform to form a continuous surface between the airfoil and the platform.
US10132166B2
An engine component for a gas turbine engine includes a film-cooled substrate having a hot surface facing hot combustion gas flow and a cooling surface facing a cooling fluid flow. A film hole extends through the substrate to an outlet on the hot surface. A flow conditioning structure is provided upstream of the outlet.
US10132153B2
An oil recovery process includes recovering an oil-water mixture from an oil-bearing formation and separating the produced water from the oil-water mixture. The produced water includes dissolved gases and the method includes heating and pressurizing the produced water. After the produced water is heated and pressurized, it is flash vaporized through a lesser pressure which produces a vapor and residual produced water. The flash vaporization of the produced water evaporates dissolved gases and the dissolved gases are vented away with the vapor.
US10132150B2
A well tool includes a body defining an enclosed fluid passage. A bipolar electrode is provided in the well tool, changeable between a first, energized state, and a second, different state. The bipolar electrode in the first state produces an ion depletion zone that presents a flow restriction to saline fluids in the fluid passage.
US10132146B2
An adjustable fracturing system is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a fracturing manifold coupled to a fracturing tree having a fracturing head. The fracturing head includes an adjustable body that enables variation of a dimension of the body and facilitates connection of the fracturing manifold to the fracturing tree. Additional systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.
US10132144B2
Described herein are methods and techniques that utilize molecular geochemistry and isotopic signatures to monitor microbial enhanced gas and oil recovery operations. The methods and techniques utilize multiply substituted isotopologue signatures, clumped isotope signatures, and/or position-specific isotope signatures of one or more byproducts of the microbial stimulation techniques to determine the effectiveness of a microbial stimulation technique.
US10132143B2
A system for deploying and powering an electric submersible pump within a subterranean well. The system includes a tubing string having a wall forming a hollow interior, one end of the tubing string connected to the electric submersible pump; a flowable conductive material at least partially filling the hollow interior of the tubing string, the flowable conductive material forming a first conductive path; and a second conductive path, wherein the first conductive path and the second conductive path form a circuit for supplying power to the electric submersible pump. A method for deploying and powering an electric submersible pump within a subterranean well is also provided.
US10132142B2
A subsea pump is used in applications such as deep-water boosting of fluid produced from a wellbore. The process pressure variation is mostly related to the pump suction side in such applications. The barrier fluid system for the pump regulates its pressure according to the pump discharge pressure. A balance piston is positioned in a location close to the pump inlet such that both mechanical seals are exposed to the pump discharge pressure on the process side.
US10132139B1
A wiper plug that includes an elongated body member having a forward end, a rearward end, and an open central bore; spaced radially outwardly projecting wiping flanges made of flexible material and configured to extend beyond the inner diameter of the pipe to be cleaned but that deform to apply contact wiping pressure to the inner diameter of the pipe as the wiper plug travels through the pipe; and shearing elements that extend from the rearward end of the elongated body member by a distance that is greater than the inner diameter of the pipe to be cleaned. The shearing elements hold the wiper plug in position in between two connected pipe sections while the open central bore allows cement to flow therethrough. Also, a carrier pipe for the wiper plug and method of use thereof for cleaning cement from the wellbore annulus of long casing strings.
US10132138B2
A downhole actuator (30) comprises a tubular housing (34) which includes an indexing profile (42) on an inner surface thereof, and an indexing sleeve (46) mounted within the housing (34). The indexing sleeve (46) comprises an engaging arrangement including first and second axially spaced engagement members (52, 54) which cooperate with the indexing profile (42) of the housing (34) to be sequentially engaged by an actuation object (48) passing through a central bore (50) of the indexing sleeve (46) to drive the indexing sleeve (46) one discrete step of movement through the housing (34) towards an actuation site.
US10132132B2
A system, in certain embodiments, includes a housing running tool including an inner sleeve having a first mating surface configured to engage a second mating surface of a housing to rigidly couple the inner sleeve to the housing. The housing running tool also includes an outer sleeve disposed about the inner sleeve and configured to support the inner sleeve in an axial direction. The outer sleeve includes a first mounting feature configured to engage a second mounting feature of the housing such that substantially all torque applied to the housing running tool in a circumferential direction is transferred to the housing via the outer sleeve.
US10132127B2
The laterally rotating height of a fill up and circulating tool that is mounted on one of the bails supporting an elevator is made shorter with integration of design components. A power cylinder features a hollow piston which incorporates the positioning system for the fill up and circulation tool. An interior slot with a longitudinal and spiral component receives a pin extending that is supported by the cylinder. The mud line is connected below the positioning system. As the mud line descends the fill up tool moves initially axially and rotationally and then axially to align with a sting for connection thereto. Raising the mud line reverses the movement pattern. The tool is cantilevered from the mud line for sole support. Height savings allows tool use with bails of varying lengths without interference. A selectable clutch and valve allow this tool to provide additional features beneficial to operators.
US10132126B2
A modular top drive for construction of a wellbore includes a rail for connection to at least one of: a floor and a derrick of a drilling rig; and a motor unit. The motor unit includes: a first body; a drive motor having a stator connected to the first body; a trolley connecting the first body to the rail; and a first latch for selectively connecting either a drilling unit or a casing unit to the motor unit. The top drive further includes a bracket for holding any one of the drilling, casing, and cementing units and movable relative to the rail between a standby position and a connection position. The unit held by the bracket is aligned with the motor unit in the connection position and clear of the motor unit in the standby position.
US10132125B2
Disclosed is a torque limiter having driver mandrel and driven axially aligned mandrels, a piston movable into and out of an engaged position wherein the driver and driven mandrels are coupled together to transmit torque there between. Hydraulically locking the movable piston in an engaged position. Disengaging the hydraulic lock when during rotation when a specified torque magnitude is exceeded to allow relative rotation between the mandrels. Resetting the torque limiter by hydraulically locking the piston in the engaging position when relative rotation ceases or is reduced.
US10132119B2
A method for predicting a path of a borehole that will be drilled in a rock formation by a bottomhole assembly (BHA) having a drill bit includes: constructing a model of the BHA; calculating confined compressive strength of the rock formation using an axial motion drill bit model that receives drilling parameter, drill bit design and lithology information; calculating lateral motion of the drill bit using a lateral motion drill bit model; calculating a ratio of lateral motion to axial motion using the lateral motion drill bit model; calculating an inclination angle and an azimuthal direction of the BHA using a BHA steering model that receives the ratio; and iterating the above steps by updating the BHA model to include extending the borehole an incremental distance in the direction of the inclination angle and the azimuthal direction and displacing the BHA the incremental distance in the extended borehole.
US10132117B2
A flexible sunscreen is provided intended for use in a sunshade assembly of the type comprising a flexible sunscreen having a central part and two opposed inwardly folded longitudinal edges connected to the central part by means of folding lines, and two opposed longitudinal guides for receiving therein and guiding corresponding ones of the inwardly folded longitudinal edges of the flexible sunscreen, which guides are provided with locking members for engaging an outer end of the inwardly folded longitudinal edges for preventing these edges from moving out of the longitudinal guides. The central part of the flexible sunscreen mainly is manufactured from a first material with a first stiffness wherein of the inwardly folded longitudinal edges and of the parts of the central part adjacent the edges at least part is made of a second material with a second higher stiffness.
US10132114B2
A spacer profile adapted to be used in a spacer frame of an insulating glass unit includes a hollow profile body made of a first synthetic material and a chamber for accommodating hydroscopic material, the hollow profile body having an inner wall that is, in an assembled state of the insulating glass unit, directed to the intervening space between panes of the insulating glass unit, an outer wall on the opposite side of the inner wall, a first side wall and a second side wall on the opposite side to the first side wall, the walls being connected to form the chamber, and a diffusion barrier portion made of a second synthetic material with sheet silicates and being formed as at least a part of the outer wall.
US10132111B2
A bump stop assembly is provided for an access door. The assembly comprises a bump stop configured to couple to the access door or a door frame and a door closure gauge movably coupled to the bump stop. A closure pad couples the bump top to one of the door frame or the access door. The closure pad engages the other side of the access door and door frame when the door is closed. The thickness of a selected closure pad is determined based upon the extent that the door closure gauge protrudes relative to the bump stop.
US10132106B2
A motor vehicle lock arrangement having a motor vehicle lock, wherein the motor vehicle lock has the locking elements of lock latch and pawl, wherein the lock latch is0 adjustable into an open position, into a main locked position and optionally into a pre-locked position, wherein the pawl is adjustable into a lowered position in which it retains the lock latch in a locked position, and into a raised position in which it is disengaged from the lock latch, wherein provision is made of an actuating lever for raising the pawl, wherein a switchable clutch arrangement is arranged between the actuating lever and the pawl, via which clutch arrangement a drive connection between the actuating lever and the pawl is establishable in the engaged state, and in the disengaged state the drive connection between the actuating lever and the pawl is severable.
US10132098B1
A technique for reinforcing a telecommunication tower includes attaching a temporary structure to a vertical portion of the tower, transferring antenna equipment from the vertical portion of the tower to the temporary structure, and reinforcing the vertical portion of the tower while the transferred antenna equipment continues to operate. Once the vertical portion of the tower has been reinforced, the antenna equipment is transferred from the temporary structure back to the vertical portion of the tower. The temporary structure may then be moved to any other vertical portion of the tower, where the above acts may be repeated.
US10132090B2
A device for laying floor and wall covering for outside corners includes two portions, namely a rigid “central” first portion that is substantially in the shape of a hollow tetrahedron or of a quarter of a truncated cone, and a flexible “peripheral” second portion that is substantially triangular in shape and that extends from the periphery of the central portion. The peripheral portion comes to bear against the floor portion and against the wall portions that are disposed facing the device.
US10132087B2
A panel for a surface covering system of a plurality of like panels, the panel comprising: a base layer; a first joint extrusion attached along a first edge of the base layer; a second joint extrusion attached along a second edge of the base layer, opposite the first edge; a covering layer covering at least part of the first joint extrusion and at least part of the second joint extrusion; wherein the first extrusion is configured to join to a second extrusion of an adjacent like panel, and the covering layer substantially conceals the first extrusion and the second extrusion when installed.
US10132086B2
A wall surface covering system comprising: a wall surface covering for covering an underlying vertical support surface constituted by a wall, said wall surface covering comprising a rigid body; a first component of a hook-and-loop fastener fixable to the rigid body of the wall surface covering; and a second component of the hook-and-loop fastener that is fixable to the underlying vertical surface. The first and second components are cooperable such that, when the first component is fixed to the surface covering and the second component is fixed to the underlying vertical surface, the first and second components can be engaged to cause the wall surface covering to grip the wall. The first and second components are configured to cooperate to provide a fastening having a pull strength and a shear strength that are high enough to hold the surface covering in position on the vertical support surface, and a peel strength that is low enough to allow removal of the surface covering from the underlying surface by peeling the rigid body away from the wall.
US10132084B2
A duct flashing panel configured to provide weatherproofing for single wall ducts extending through the walls of a structure and having a terminal end extending outside of the structure. The duct flashing panel includes a panel body and an elastomeric collar sized and configured to circumferentially engage the exterior surface of the duct to form a fluid-tight seal between the duct and the collar to prevent fluid migration along the exterior of the duct. The collar includes an annular bead which provides rigidity and strength to the collar to urge the collar into compressive engagement with the exterior surface of the duct.
US10132071B1
The present invention comprises a modular connector pipe screen for a catch basin having a plurality of screen segments and a deflector screen. The screen segments may be stacked and adjoined side-by-side wherein the segments are secured together with only fasteners and without any separate frame structure for connection or support. Accordingly, each screen segment is comprised of a single perforated panel having a bottom flange, and at least one of an upper flange, and a side flange which provide integrated structure support as well as surfaces to which the single segments can be fixed together. When stacked, the bottom flange of a first screen segment may be connected to the upper flange of a second screen segment through a fastener or screen segments may be adjoined side-by-side and fastened at the side flanges. Additional screen segments may then be added to create different shapes for various installation needs.
US10132067B2
A major water leak prevention apparatus for a water inlet valve, in which a water receptacle tray is mounted on a water inlet valve body and includes an overflow port. The water receptacle tray has a bottom in which an opening is formed. A counterweight float is mounted on the water inlet valve body and includes a water compartment and a buoyance compartment arranged at a lower end of the water inlet valve body. The bottom opening of the water receptacle tray is connected via a passageway pipe to the counterweight float. The water compartment selectively blocks a lower end opening of the passageway pipe or opens the lower end opening of the passageway pipe. This arrangement helps stop water ingress through the water inlet valve when major water leakage occurs in a water tank.
US10132066B2
A tubular strainer having a wall defining interior and exterior surfaces, and a first flange on the upper end of the wall, a tubular insert having a cylindrical wall sized for reception by the tubular strainer, and a second flange carried by the insert wall, an elastomeric seal having a tubular body fittingly sealingly carried by the insert cylindrical wall, the seal body configured for progressive compressive radial sealing engagement with the strainer wall interior surface when endwise inserted by the insert within said tubular strainer.
US10132061B1
A water supply regulating system includes a housing having a water line input conduit and a water line output conduit located downstream therefrom, and in fluid communication with an existing water supply source providing incoming water ingressing the housing. Advantageously, a first mechanism is configured to detect a water leak in the existing plumbing system located downstream of the water line output conduit. Notably, a second mechanism configured to automatically shut off outgoing water egressing the housing via the water line output conduit. A first controller is in operable communication with the first mechanism and the second mechanism. An external host server is located external of the housing and in operable communication with the first controller. Advantageously, a second controller is located external of the housing and in operable communication with the first controller and the external host server.
US10132057B2
The present invention relates to a traveling working machine, in particular a hydraulic excavator, with a traveling gear and with a hydraulic service brake system for the traveling gear, which is supplied with brake pressure via at least one brake valve. In accordance with the invention, the brake valve can be actuated electrically, wherein it is connected with a control element via an electric control line, by means of which an operator can brake the traveling working machine.
US10132056B2
A shovel that performs excavation in accordance with an arm excavation operation including an arm closing operation includes an excavation operation detection part, a position detection part, a maximum allowable pressure calculation part, and an arm cylinder pressure control part. The excavation operation detection part detects that the arm excavation operation has been performed. The position detection part detects the position of the shovel. The maximum allowable pressure calculation part calculates the pressure of the expansion-side oil chamber of an arm cylinder corresponding to an excavation reaction force at a time when the shovel is dragged by the excavation reaction force as a maximum allowable pressure, based on the position of the shovel. The arm cylinder pressure control part controls the pressure of the expansion-side oil chamber not to exceed the maximum allowable pressure when the arm excavation operation is performed.
US10132055B2
A front-mounted clamshell scoop or shovel arrangement mounts onto the snowplow mounting bracket of the frame of a snowplow assembly when the blade has been removed. The scoop can be closed and lowered to scoop and pick up work-site debris or other materials, raised so the materials can be transported to a collection site, and the jaw portion is rocked to an open position to allow the material to drop from the clamshell scoop. In controls for the snowplow assembly serve to raise and lower the scoop and to open and close it.
US10132053B1
A manhole cover including: a frame located at the edges of the manhole cover which completely surrounds the manhole cover; a plurality of slats that are spaced apart and parallel to each other; a plurality of lateral bracings that are spaced apart and parallel to each other, wherein the lateral bracings are perpendicular to the slats; and a hinged access portion located in the center of the manhole cover that is connected to a main portion of the manhole cover by a hinge, and all edges of the hinged access portion are spaced away from the frame.
US10132050B1
A Variable Geometry Bucket for material handling, such as plowing snow. The Variable Geometry Bucket generally includes four bucket members pivotally attached to each other. A pair of double-acting hydraulic cylinders can cause the outer bucket members to rotate on a frame, which in turn moves the inner bucket members. Due to the location of the pivotal connections, the bucket members can be moved into different positions, resulting in a single attachment that can be used as a V-blade, a box plow, and a bucket.
US10132047B2
Methods and systems for making and using a wide swath offset concrete screed apparatus for screeding wet concrete slurry. The apparatus includes a cross support bar, an attachment mechanism for attaching the cross support bar to a liftable arm of a motorized vehicle, and lateral support bars for attaching a screed bar to the cross support bar. The screed bar is positioned offset from the motorized vehicle used to operate the screed, allowing the motorized vehicle to drive outside the forms.
US10132038B2
The present invention is related to sizing agent formulations, especially to stabilizing a sizing formulation by a modified non-food polysaccharide. The method for preparation of the modified non-food polysaccharide is further provided.
US10132036B2
The invention relates to tissue products comprising hesperaloe fibers and methods of producing the same. Preferably the hesperaloe fibers are high yield hesperaloe pulp fibers, which have demonstrated the ability to replace substantially all of the long fiber fraction of the papermaking furnish without negatively effecting important tissue product properties such as CD Stretch, CD Durability and bulk. Thus, the tissue product may comprise greater than about 90 weight percent hesperaloe fiber and more preferably greater than about 95 weight percent.
US10132032B2
An imitation leather including a three-dimensional textile supporting material and a PVC-based covering that is applied to one side of the supporting material and includes three successively applied layers. The first layer of which is applied directly to the supporting material without an adhesion-promoting glue layer, the second layer of which is embodied as an intermediate layer and applied directly to the first layer and the third layer of which serves as a top layer and is applied directly to the second layer. This invention also discloses a method for producing such an imitation leather and an interior component of a motor vehicle having a visible surface that is composed of such an imitation leather.
US10132026B2
The invention relates to a fabric sensor (1) for determining a fabric type. The fabric sensor (1) comprises a first structural component (2) comprising a first sensing surface (3), and a second structural component (4) comprising a second sensing surface (5). The first structural component (2) and the second structural component (4) are movable relative to each other to form a closed arrangement wherein the first sensing surface (3) and the second sensing surface (5) hold the fabric. The fabric sensor (1) also comprises a thickness measurement mechanism (6) for measuring a thickness of the fabric when the fabric is held between the first sensing surface (3) and the second sensing surface (5). The fabric sensor (1) also comprises a processing unit (7) coupled to the thickness measurement mechanism (6) and at least one of the first sensing surface (3) and the second sensing surface (5). At least one of the first sensing surface (3) and the second sensing surface (5) is adapted to sense a characteristic of the fabric. The processing unit (7) is configured to determine the fabric type based on the thickness of the fabric and the characteristic of the fabric.
US10132021B2
A laundry treating appliance door assembly comprises a plastic fishbowl. Typically, laundry treating appliances, such as dryers, have door assemblies comprising glass fishbowls. Utilizing plastic enables a fishbowl to have a sharper radius of curvature than that of a glass fishbowl due to manufacturing constraints of glass. A shaper radius of curvature allows for greater capacity in the treating chamber in a laundry treating appliance.
US10132015B2
A warp knit textile sleeve is provided. The sleeve has an elongate, wrappable wall extending along a longitudinal axis between opposite ends. The wall has opposite free edges extending lengthwise along the longitudinal axis between the opposite ends. The wall is knit from at least one warp yarn extending lengthwise between the opposite ends and a plurality of weft yarns extending circumferentially between the opposite free edges. The weft yarns form a plurality of discrete, annular bands alternating in adjacent relation along the longitudinal axis. The weft yarn of one of the adjacent bands has a first diameter and the weft yarn of the other of the adjacent bands has a second diameter, wherein the first diameter is less than the second diameter.
US10132003B2
Embodiments disclosed herein generally related to a processing chamber, and more specifically a heat modulator assembly for use in a processing chamber. The heat modulator assembly includes a heat modulator housing and a plurality of heat modulators. The heat modulator housing includes a housing member defining a housing plane, a sidewall, and an annular extension. The sidewall extends perpendicular to the housing plane. The annular extension extends outward from the sidewall. The plurality of heat modulators is positioned in the housing member.
US10131994B2
A plasma reactor for processing a workpiece includes a reactor chamber having a ceiling and a sidewall and a workpiece support facing the ceiling and defining a processing region, and a pair of concentric independently excited RF coil antennas overlying the ceiling and a side RF coil concentric with the side wall and facing the side wall below the ceiling, and being excited independently.
US10131989B2
A method includes providing a substrate including a tube with a first opening a second opening, depositing a metal film onto a portion of the tube near the first opening, and growing a carbon nanotube by passing a carbon-based gas through the tube and metal film. The gas enters the tube through the second opening and exits the tube through the first opening.
US10131973B2
The present invention provides spring steel used for spring steel wire achieving both high strength and cold coilability and spring steel wire, that is, spring steel containing, by mass %, C: 0.45 to 0.70%, Si: 1.0 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.05 to 2.0%, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.015% or less, N: 0.0015 to 0.0200%, and t-O: 0.0002 to 0.01 and further limiting Al≤0.01% and Ti≤0.003%. Further, it is characterized by satisfying the following regarding the cementite-based spherical carbides present at an observed plane, an occupied area ratio of grains with a circle equivalent diameter of 0.2 μm or more of 7% or less, a density of presence of grains with a circle equivalent diameter of 0.2 to 3 μm of 1/μm2 or less, and a density of presence of grains with a circle equivalent diameter 3 μm or more of 0.001/μm2 or less, having an prior austenite grain size number of #10 or higher and a residual austenite of 15 mass % or less, and having an area ratio of poor regions with a small density of presence of cementite-based carbides of a circle equivalent diameter of 2 μm or more of 3% or less.
US10131971B2
An aluminum alloy sheet which is high in strength and excellent in heat conductivity, and which can be given an anodic oxide coating with a white color and a suitable yellowishness is provided. An aluminum alloy ingot containing Mg: 0.80 to 1.8 mass %, Fe: 0.05 to 0.30 mass %, Si: 0.20 mass % or less, Cu: 0.03 to 0.15 mass %, Mn: 0.05 to 0.20 mass %, and Cr: 0.05 to 0.15 mass %, restricts Zn to less than 0.15 mass %, and balance of Al and unavoidable impurities is treated by holding it at 560 to 620° C. for 1 to 5 hours, then hot rolled and, either through or not through process annealing, and cold rolled by a final cold rolling reduction of 15 to 95% to obtain an aluminum alloy sheet which has a 0.2% yield strength of 180 MPa or more and a conductivity of 40 (IACS %) or more.
US10131963B2
The invention relates to a pneumatic needling device for the local surface treatment, more particularly fastening, of components, comprising a first and a second needle (2) that can move in a needle direction; a first and a second piston chamber (3) for applying pneumatic pressure to the first and second needles in the needle direction; a pressure supply (1) that can be connected to and disconnected from the piston chambers, more particularly as a result of a movement of the needles in the needling device; a pressure recording means (5) for measuring pressure fluctuations in the piston chambers; and a control means (6) designed to carry out a reaction on the basis of the measured pressure fluctuations.
US10131962B2
A seamless steel pipe has a carbon equivalent Ceq of 0.50% to 0.58%, and contains specified carbides containing Mo at a ratio of 50 mass % or more, V, and at least one selected from the group consisting of Ti and Nb, and having a size of 20 nm or more.
US10131959B2
A method of diagnosing bacterial vaginosis in a woman, which involves determining an amount of each of more than one BV-associated bacterium in a vaginal sample obtained from the female and assessing a BV status of the female based on the amount of each of the more than one BV-associated bacterium in the sample.
US10131954B2
Methods and kits for detection and quantification of EGFRvIII in the peripheral blood for monitoring the therapy of a GBM patients.
US10131953B2
A method of detecting the presence of a prostate cancer field defect in a human subject comprising the step of (a) obtaining genomic DNA from the human subject and (b) quantitating methylation in at least one target region selected from the group consisting of CAV1, EVX1, MCF2L, FGF1, NCR2 and WNT2 and EXT1 and SPAG4 target, wherein significant methylation changes indicate the presence of prostate cancer or a prostate cancer field defect, wherein the change is relative to tissue from a second human subject who does not have prostate cancer.
US10131952B2
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for monitoring hematopoietic reconstitution or suppression in a subject. Also disclosed are compositions and methods for reconstituting the hematopoietic compartment of a subject in need thereof. Also disclosed is a method for monitoring the effect of ionizing radiation on the lung in a subject. Also disclosed is the ability to use detection of the one or more microRNA indicative of radiation-induced lung injury to guide therapy of the subject. Also disclosed is the ability to use detection of the one or more microRNA indicative of radiation-induced lung injury to evaluate the efficacy of a lung treatment following radiation exposure.
US10131947B2
The present invention provides assay systems and methods for determining the percent fetal contribution of cell-free DNA in a maternal sample from a pregnant female with an egg donor pregnancy. Further provided, are assay systems and methods for determining a statistical likelihood of the presence or absence of a fetal aneuploidy in a maternal sample using a determined percent fetal cell-free DNA in the sample.
US10131946B1
A method is provided for characterizing a lipofilling agent causing increased lipofilling activity in adipose tissue from a target body area. Such a method can include obtaining a plurality of distinct preadipocyte cultures taken from a plurality of distinct body areas of an individual, exposing the plurality of distinct preadipocyte cultures to a plurality of potential lipofilling agents, culturing the plurality of distinct preadipocyte cultures through differentiation to form a plurality of distinct adipocyte cultures, measuring a degree of lipofilling activity of adipocytes from each of the plurality of distinct adipocyte cultures, and quantifying the measured lipofilling activity across the plurality of distinct adipocyte cultures to identify a lipofilling agent causing increased lipofilling activity in adipose tissue from the target body area as compared to adipose tissue in the non-target body area.
US10131944B2
The invention also encompasses novel structures and methods comprising providing a molecular adapter for capture and manipulation of transfer RNA. The adaptor is bound to a tRNA molecule. The adaptor may be a cholesterol-linked DNA adapter oligonucleotide. The invention is useful in sequencing, identification, manipulation and modification of tRNA.
US10131942B2
Disclosed herein are methods for treating Barrett's metaplasia and esophageal adenocarcinoma and methods for determining mutational load as a predictor of the risk of disease progression from Barrett's metaplasia to esophageal adenocarcinoma.
US10131941B2
An application of thiolated single-stranded DNA enhances specific amplification of polymerase chain reaction, namely a method for enhancing specific amplification of polymerase chain reaction by utilizing thiolated single-stranded DNA, which includes the following step: adding an appropriate amount of the thiolated single-stranded DNA into a PCR system to perform PCR amplification, wherein the appropriate amount means that the final concentration of the thiolated single-stranded DNA in a 20 μL reaction system is not less than 15 μM. The thiolated single-stranded DNA meets the following conditions: the thiolated single-stranded DNA is one segment of any sequence which is non-complementary and non-homologous to a target sequence; the Tm value is not less than 37.7° C.; and at least one end contains a thiolalkyl group SH—C6H12—.
US10131937B2
The present invention provides assays systems and methods for detection of chromosomal abnormalities and status of single loci associated with monogenic or polygenic traits in a sample containing nucleic acids from a maternal and a fetal source.
US10131930B2
A method of filtering a liquid sample that includes passing a sample comprising at least one biological organism through a filter membrane at a passive water volume flux of at least 10 L/m2·h·psi, wherein the filter membrane comprises a Bubble Point pore size of no more than 1.0 μm, thereby retaining at least one biological organism on the surface of the membrane; and detecting the at least one biological organism retained on the surface of the filter membrane.
US10131927B2
The present invention discloses an industrial scale method to obtain 1-kestose by the use of a recombinant fructosyltransferase (FTF), isolated from Festuca arundinacea, expressed constitutively in a non-saccharolytic yeast. In this invention, the recombinant FTF type sucrose:sucrose 1-fructosyltransferase (1-SSTrec) is produced constitutively, stable and at high yield, both in the culture supernatant and in intact cells of the host Pichia pastoris. Hence, the invention additionally provides a method for 1-SST production at industrial scale. The recombinant enzyme is then used for mass production of short-chain fructooligosaccharides (FOS), specifically 1-kestose, from sucrose. The method of the present invention establishes conditions that allow conversion rates where the synthesized FOS constitute above 55% (w/w) of the total sugars in the reaction mixture and the 1-kestose content reaches values higher than 90% (w/w) of the total FOS fraction.
US10131924B2
A process of producing an organic compound and/or an intermediary compound by feeding carbon dioxide to a culture of Cyanobacteria cells and subjecting the culture to light, wherein the cells are capable of expressing a nucleic acid molecule that confers the ability to convert a glycolytic intermediate into said organic/intermediary compound. The expression of the nucleic acid molecule is under the control of a regulatory system which responds to a change in the concentration of a nutrient in the culture.
US10131923B2
The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a fermentation product from ligno-cellulosic material, comprising the following steps: a) optionally pre-treatment of the ligno-cellulosic material; b) optionally washing of the optionally pre-treated ligno-cellulosic material; c) enzymatic hydrolysis of the optionally washed and/or optionally pre-treated ligno-cellulosic material using an enzyme composition comprising at least two cellulase and whereby the enzyme composition at least comprises GH61; d) whereby less than 7.5 mg enzyme composition/g glucan (on dry matter and enzyme as protein) or less than 3.0 mg enzyme composition/g feedstock (on dry matter and enzyme as protein) is used; and e) fermentation of the hydrolyzed ligno-cellulosic material to produce a fermentation product; and f) optionally recovery of a fermentation product; wherein before and/or during the enzymatic hydrolysis oxygen is added to the ligno-cellulosic material.
US10131922B2
The invention is for an increased isoprenoid production by carotenoid optimization in an expression system and the carotegenic gene for optimization may be geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase (GGPPS), phytoene synthase (PSY1), conserved CRTI or mutated CRT1A393T, BT1 of S. cerevisae. The carotogenic gene from red yeast which includes Rhodosporidium spp. Rhodotorula spp, Sporidiobolus spp., Leucosporidium spp., Sporobolomyes spp. is selected.
US10131920B2
There is provided inter alia a DNA construct which comprises a tRNApyl coding sequence and a RNA polymerase III promoter sequence which is capable of acting to express functional tRNApyl sufficiently to support nonsense suppression in a eukaryotic expression system.
US10131917B2
An object of the present invention is to obtain a fermentative yeast having a highly efficient ethanol production without introducing a foreign gene. A further object is to obtain a fermentative yeast that is resistant to proliferation inhibitors such as organic acids, which prevent the proliferation of the fermentative yeast. A yeast having an improved ethanol production ability was generated by introducing transaldolase and alcohol dehydrogenase genes by self-cloning to Meyerozyma guilliermondii that can produce ethanol effectively from pentose and hexose obtained by breeding, and further breeding the resultant yeast.
US10131915B2
The present invention is directed to the improved methods for the temporal induction of proteins using the condensed single protein production (cSPP) system.
US10131909B2
The present invention relates to a composition for improving memory including a Cyclin Y (CCNY) inhibitor as an active ingredient. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for improving memory in a subject comprising administering the composition for improving memory to the subject.The present invention may reveal a CCNY-oriented molecular mechanism with respect to learning and memory, help understand causes of brain diseases associated with memory problems, and ultimately be applied in the treatment and diagnosis of brain memory disorders such as dementia.
US10131906B2
The present invention relates to the specific silencing of the α (alpha), β (beta), γ (gamma) and ω (omega)-gliadins of hard wheat for flour by RNA interference (RNAi) through employment of a polynucleotide which is transcribed into an hpRNA (hairpin RNA). Furthermore the present invention additionally relates to a vector, cell, plant or seed comprising the polynucleotide, the expression whereof is specifically directed in particular tissues of wheat seeds through gene expression-regulating sequences such as, for example, the promoter of a gene of γ-gliadins or the promoter of the gene encoding for a D-hordein.
US10131898B2
Amplification reaction mixtures comprising a cationic surfactant and an anionic surfactant are provided.
US10131894B2
The present invention relates to compositions comprising an aglycosylated polypeptide having cellobiase activity, and methods for producing and using the same.
US10131891B2
The present invention relates to a method for controlling a glycosylation pattern of a recombinant glycoprotein, comprising culturing a cell comprising polynucleotide encoding a recombinant glycoprotein in a culture medium comprising insulin.
US10131885B2
The present invention provides PiggyBac transposase proteins, nucleic acids encoding the same, compositions comprising the same, kits comprising the same, non-human transgenic animals comprising the same, and methods of using the same.
US10131883B2
The application provides a Diketoreductase (DKR) mutant, its nucleotide coding sequence, and an expression cassette, recombinant vector and host cell containing the sequence, as well as a method for application of the mutant to the preparation of 3R,5S-dicarbonyl compound. An ee value of the obtained 3R,5S-dicarbonyl compound is higher than 99%, and a de value is about 90%. The DKR mutant is a key pharmaceutical intermediate, and particularly provides an efficient catalyst for synthesis of a chiral dicarbonyl hexanoic acid chain of a statin drug.
US10131881B2
The present invention relates to a medium composition for the dedifferentiation of induced pluripotency stem cells, containing a phlorotannin fraction extracted and isolated from one type of brown algae selected from the group consisting of Ecklonia cava, Dictyopteris prolifera, Dictyota coriacea, Sargassum horneri, Ishige okamurai and the like. In addition, the present invention relates to a method for preparing induced pluripotency stem cells by using the medium composition. Induced pluripotency stem cells can be safely, easily and effectively prepared by using mesenchymal stem cells by using the medium composition of the present invention, and the prepared induced pluripotency stem cells can be differentiated into various cells, and thus can be useful as a cell therapeutic agent.
US10131880B2
Methods for the efficient isolation and use of pluripotent adipose-derived stem cells (PASCs) are provided. In certain embodiments the methods involve providing an adipose tissue sample from which the stromal vascular fraction is co-cultured with the adipocyte fraction. PASCs can be isolated with a high degree of purification without requiring an additional cell enrichment process (e.g. cell sorting). PASCs and their conditioned media can be used for tissue regeneration within hours of harvesting the adipose tissue, and without requiring cell expansion. PASCs can grow as floating individual cells, as clusters of cells, or attached to surface(s) of the culture vessel. PASCs do not produce teratomas in vivo, nor do they induce immunorejection upon transplantation, and they achieve a high efficiency in grafting. The cells and compositions can be used for cell therapy and to screen new drugs.
US10131878B2
Methods for generating high-yield, high-purity epicardial cells are described. Wnt/β-catenin signaling is first activated in human cardiac progenitor cells, by, for example, inhibiting Gsk-3 to induce differentiation into epicardial cells. Methods for long-term in vitro maintenance of human cardiac progenitor cell-derived epicardial cells and method comprising chemically defined, xeno-free, and albumin-free culture conditions are also provided.
US10131866B2
The present technology relates to novel mycotoxin binder and the use in animal feed. The present disclosure relates also to the use of enzymes for improving the mycotoxin binding ability of by-products derived from a fermentative production process and to compositions comprising enzymes capable of degrading components in the fermented mash in the fermentation process.
US10131856B2
A system including a quench system that may cool a syngas generated in a gasification chamber. The quench system includes a quench chamber, a dip tube that may direct the syngas from the gasification chamber into a quench liquid to cool the syngas to generate a cooled syngas, and a draft tube disposed circumferentially about the dip tube and that may receive the cooled syngas. A passage is disposed between a first wall of the dip tube and a second wall of the draft tube, and the draft tube includes a tapered configuration in a flow direction along the passage.
US10131842B2
A liquid crystal alignment agent allowing formation of an LCD element having good reliability and less residual image, a liquid crystal alignment film, and an LCD element having the liquid crystal alignment film are shown. The liquid crystal alignment agent includes a polymer (A), a photosensitive polysiloxane (B), and a solvent (C). The polymer (A) is obtained by reacting a mixture that includes a tetracarboxylic dianhydride component (a-1) and a diamine component (a-2). The photosensitive polysiloxane (B) is obtained by reacting a polysiloxane (b-1) having an epoxy group with a cinnamic acid derivative (b-2) and an aromatic heterocyclic derivative (b-3) containing nitride, oxide or sulfide.
US10131834B2
Self-suspending proppants including proppant particles coated with a CO2-philic coating are provided. The CO2-philic coating may be lightly crosslinked and may have a physical structure that constrains CO2 molecules. Methods of making self-suspending proppants may include coating a proppant particle with a polymerizable precursor material of a CO2-philic material and polymerizing the polymerizable precursor material to form a self-suspending proppant are also provided. Additionally, hydraulic fracturing fluids that may include a CO2-based fluid and the self-suspending proppants and methods of treating subterranean formations by contacting a subterranean formation with hydraulic fracturing fluid and propagating at least one subterranean fracture are provided.
US10131833B2
Self-suspending proppants including proppant particles coated with a CO2-philic coating are provided. The CO2-philic coating may be lightly crosslinked and may have a physical structure that constrains CO2 molecules. Methods of making self-suspending proppants may include coating a proppant particle with a polymerizable precursor material of a CO2-philic material and polymerizing the polymerizable precursor material to form a self-suspending proppant are also provided. Additionally, hydraulic fracturing fluids that may include a CO2-based fluid and the self-suspending proppants and methods of treating subterranean formations by contacting a subterranean formation with hydraulic fracturing fluid and propagating at least one subterranean fracture are provided.
US10131827B2
To provide a working fluid which has cycle performance sufficient as an alternative to R410A while the influence over global warming is sufficiently suppressed, which does not significantly increase the load to an apparatus as compared with a case where R410A is used, and which can be stably used continuously without any special measures, a composition for a heat cycle system contains the working fluid, and a heat cycle system employs the composition. A working fluid for heat cycle, wherein the global warming potential is less than 300; the product of the relative coefficient of performance and the relative refrigerating capacity is at least 0.820 relative to R410A in a standard refrigerating cycle under conditions of an evaporation temperature of 0° C., a condensing temperature of 40° C., a supercoiling degree of 5° C. and a degree of superheat of 5° C.; the relative compressor discharge gas pressure is at most 1.100; the lower limit of the combustion range by method A in High Pressure Gas Safety Act is at least 5 vol %; and the pressure will not exceed 2.00 MPaG in a combustion test by method A in High Pressure Gas Safety act under 0.98 MPaG at 250° C.
US10131809B2
The present invention provides an optical layered body having excellent antistatic properties, optical characteristics, hardness, adhesion, and interference fringe prevention performance, which can be produced at a low cost.An optical layered body having a hard coat layer provided on a triacetylcellulose substrate, wherein a resin composition used for forming the hard coat layer contains a quaternary ammonium salt-containing polymer, a binder resin, and a solvent; the quaternary ammonium salt-containing polymer has a higher hydrophilicity than the binder resin; and the binder resin contains two or more resin components having different hydrophilicities.
US10131807B2
The present disclosure provides ink-jet inks incorporating dimeric fluorosurfactants. As such, an ink-jet ink can include a liquid vehicle; a non-ionic fluorosurfactant dimer having the structure CF3(CF2)x(CH2)y(CR2CR2O)z-A-(OCR2CR2)a(CH2)b(CF2)cCF3, where R is independently H or methyl, A is a bridging unit containing aliphatic or aromatic functionality, x is 3 to 18, y is 0 to 8, z is 0 to 100, a is 0 to 100, b is 0 to 8, and c is 3 to 18; and a polymer.
US10131793B2
Provided are modified hybrid sol-gel precursor solutions and coatings formed from such solutions. A modified hybrid sol-gel precursor solution includes an inorganic precursor, cross-linkable inorganic-organic precursor, cross-linkable organic precursor, protic solvent, and aprotic solvent. The inorganic precursor may include a metal or metalloid and two or more hydrolysable groups. The cross-linkable inorganic-organic precursor may include a metal, hydrolysable group, and organic molecule. The cross-linkable organic precursor has another organic molecule with two or more second cross-linking groups. A combination of protic and aprotic solvents in the same solution may be used to control properties of the solutions, thermodynamics, and other processing aspects. The solution may also include nanoparticles. The nanoparticles may include functionalized surface to form covalent bonds with one or more precursors of the solution, such as a plasma treated surface. The nanoparticles may be sized to fit into the sol-gel network without substantially disturbing this network.
US10131792B2
A method for producing surface-treated particles includes surface treatment of titanium dioxide, barium sulfate, zinc sulfide or lithopone particles, and to mixtures of the particles with alkoxylated siloxanes and phthalate-free plasticizers for improving dispersion in plastics.
US10131785B2
A polyester resin composition and a molded article produced using the same. The polyester resin composition includes: (A) two polyester resins including an aliphatic ring structure and having different trans/cis isomer ratios in the aliphatic ring; (B) a white pigment; and (C) an inorganic filler, wherein the polyester resin composition has a crystallization temperature (Tc) of about 230° C. to about 250° C., as measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) while cooling the resin composition at a cooling rate of −100° C./min. Exemplary compositions include a first poly(1,4-cyclohexylene dimethylene terephthalate) and a second poly(1,4-cyclohexylene dimethylene terephthalate) having different trans/cis isomer ratios in the cyclohexylene rings thereof, titanium oxide, glass fiber, and wollastonite.
US10131783B2
The invention relates to a polymer compound which, based on the total weight of the polymer compound, comprises at least the following components: (a) 5 to 50 wgt.-% destructed starch and/or starch derivative, (b) 20 to 70 wgt.-% aliphatic-aromatic copolymer, (c) 10 to 50 wgt.-% polyhydroxyalkanoate and (d) 3 to 25 wgt.-% polyactic acid. Such polymer compounds are characterized by a high ratio of bio-based carbon and exhibit no significant embrittlement or worsening of the mechanical properties profile, despite the presence of increased volumes of polyhydroxyalkanoate, even after storage. The invention further relates to production methods for the polymer compound according to the invention, and use thereof in the production of films, molded parts or fibers.
US10131780B2
This thermoplastic elastomer composition comprises: 100 parts by mass of a hydrogenated block copolymer (a); from 3 to 50 parts by mass of a polypropylene-based resin (b), from 5 to 100 parts by mass of a polyphenylene ether resin (c), and from 50 to 200 parts by mass of a non-aromatic softener (d), the hydrogenated block copolymer (a) is able to be formed by hydrogenating a block copolymer that comprises at least one polymer block A comprising a vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon compound monomer unit as a primary component and at least one polymer block B comprising a conjugated diene compound monomer unit as a primary component, and a weight average molecular weight of the hydrogenated block copolymer (a) is from 100,000 to 350,000.
US10131772B2
Provided are a rubber composition for a base tread capable of improving fuel efficiency, handling stability, and durability (flex crack growth resistance) in a balanced manner, and a pneumatic tire formed from the rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition for a base tread, including: a rubber component and a reinforcing agent, the rubber component including natural rubber, a butadiene rubber (1) containing 1,2-syndiotactic polybutadiene crystals, a butadiene rubber (2) synthesized in the presence of a rare earth catalyst, and a modified butadiene rubber (3) having a cis content of not more than 50% by mass.
US10131768B2
The present invention relates to a liquid (meth)acrylic syrup for impregnating a fibrous substrate. The present invention relates in particular to a viscous liquid syrup mainly containing methacrylic or acrylic components. The invention also relates to a process for manufacturing such a syrup. The invention also relates to a process for impregnating a fibrous substrate or long fibers with said viscous liquid syrup. The invention also relates to a fibrous substrate preimpregnated with said syrup, which is useful for manufacturing mechanical or structured parts or products.The present invention also relates to a manufacturing process for manufacturing mechanical or structured parts or articles and to three-dimensional mechanical or structured parts obtained by this process.The invention applies to the preparation of mechanical parts or structural elements made of fire-resistant thermoplastic composite material.
US10131758B2
Disclosed are polyurethane foam-forming compositions with a phase stable isocyanate-reactive composition that includes a halogenated olefin blowing agent that has low or no ozone depletion potential and low global warming potential. Such polyurethane foam-forming compositions are suitable for spray application to produce polyurethane foams that are believed to exhibit good fire resistance properties, low smoke generation and low or no scorch due to reduced exotherm, thereby making them particularly suitable for use, for example, as relatively thick wall and/or roof insulation.
US10131753B2
A multi-layered nanocomposite film for use in packaging is provided. More particularly, the film contains at least one core layer positioned adjacent to at least one outer layer. For example, in one embodiment, the film contains a core layer that is positioned between two outer layers. The core layer(s) and/or outer layer(s) may be formed from a polymer composition that contains an ethylene polymer, nanoclay having an organic surface treatment, and a compatibilizer that includes an olefin component and a polar component.
US10131738B2
The invention relates to a two-component polyurethane composition containing i) 10 to 80 wt. % of at least one polyol with an average molecular weight of 200 g/mol to 3000 g/mol, ii) 5 to 60 wt. % of at least one aromatic polyisocyanate, and iii) 0 to 15 wt. % of an additive. The composition has an NCO:OH ratio of 2:1 to 1:2, and the composition has a viscosity of 20 to 3000 mPas (EN ISO 2555, Brookfield viscometer, 25° C.) and displays a phase incompatibility after the mixing process. The functionality of the polyol mixture is greater than 2.3.
US10131737B2
The present disclosure provides a method for reducing the aldehyde content in an amine catalyst by treating the amine catalyst with a treating agent selected from a cyclic urea substituted with at least one isocyanate reactive group, a free radical scavenger and a mixture thereof. The treated amine catalyst may then be used in the production of polyurethane materials which exhibit reduced aldehyde emissions.
US10131729B2
A comb copolymer with a polymer backbone having grafted lateral macromonomer segments, the method of preparing, and the use thereof as a thickener in cosmetics. The polymer backbone is more than 55% and up to 90% molar ATBS, between 1% and 20% molar cationic monomer or monomer of formula (I): CH2═C(R1)—C(═O)—Y—(CH2)m-N(R2) (R3), where m is between 1 and 4, Y is O or NH, R1 is H or CH2, and R2 and R3 are each a methyl or ethyl radical, and optionally 0.005% to 1% molar of at least one cross-linking monomer with at least two C═C bonds. The lateral macromonomer segments are polymerized from 9% to 30% molar of N-alkyl acrylamide or N,N-dialkyl acrylamide of formula (II): CH2═C(R4)—C(═O)—N(R5) (R6), where R4 is H or CH2 and R5 and R6 are H or a C1 to C3 alkyl radical, with at least one of R5 or R6 not being H.
US10131721B2
Polymers including acidic monomers and ionic monomers connected to form a polymeric backbone are disclosed. The polymers may also include, e.g., acidic-ionic monomers within the polymeric backbone. Each acidic monomer may independently include at least one Bronsted-Lowry acid, and each ionic monomer may independently include at least one nitrogen-containing cationic group or phosphorous-containing cationic group. The acidic monomers and ionic monomers may make up, e.g., at least about 30% of the monomers of the polymer, based on the ratio of the number of acidic monomers and ionic monomers to the total number of monomers present in the polymer. The total number of ionic monomers may, e.g., exceed the total number of acidic monomers in the polymer. The polymer may be substantially insoluble in water.
US10131718B2
A hyaluronic acid product is comprising a cross-linked hyaluronic acid and one or more dextran molecules. The hyaluronic acid is cross-linked by ether bonds, and the one or more dextran molecules are covalently grafted to the cross-linked hyaluronic acid.
US10131717B2
The present invention relates to topical glycosaminoglycan compositions, particularly hyaluronan compositions, that facilitate the penetration of modified glycosaminoglycans through the skin barrier into the epidermal and dermal layers of the skin, thereby allowing for the dermal administration of a glycosaminoglycan, such as hyaluronan, without requiring an injection. Through their ability to deliver hyaluronan to the epidermal and dermal layers, the present formulations are therefore suitable for use in dermal rejuvenation, enhancement, hyaluronan replenishment and protection therapy. The glycosaminoglycan compositions are also useful as delivery devices to facilitate the dermal and transdermal delivery of cosmetically and pharmaceutically active substances, including pharmaceuticals, polypeptides, proteins and similarly sized biomacromolecules, through the skin barrier.
US10131715B2
The invention relates to plant-derived cellulose-containing particles useful as rheology modifiers and to a process for preparing cellulose-containing particles from plant material, which process involves treating said plant material with a peroxide reagent. The process can be controlled to produce cellulose-containing particle having a viscosity up to about 7500 or 8000 cps.
US10131707B2
The technology described herein is directed to the treatment of sepsis and/or septic shock by, e.g. administering an agent that can reduce the level of circulating citrullated histones.
US10131705B2
The present invention concerns VLPT immunoreactive compositions for E. chaffeensis and compositions related thereto, including vaccines, antibodies, polypeptides, peptides, and polynucleotides. In particular, epitopes for E. chaffeensis VLPT are disclosed.
US10131695B2
Provided herein are flu hemagglutinin polypeptides, including chimeric influenza virus hemagglutinin polypeptides, and flu hemagglutinin polypeptides comprising modified glycosylation sites and non-naturally glycosylation sites, compositions comprising the same, vaccines comprising the same and methods of their use.
US10131692B2
Vasopressin-2 receptor agonists, pharmaceutical compositions thereof and methods for using the foregoing for treating diabetes insipidus, primary nocturnal enuresis, and nocturia.
US10131683B2
The present invention provides a new method for making TH-302 and solid forms thereof. The compound in its solid form is an effective anti-cancer agent and may be used in various pharmaceutical compositions, and are particularly effective for the treatment of cancer. The invention also provides a method for preparing such compounds and forms and for treating cancer in a mammal comprising the step of administering a therapeutically effective amount of a solid form of TH-302 thereof.
US10131680B1
The present disclosure provides a Group 4 metal element-containing novel alkoxy compound, a method of preparing the Group 4 metal element-containing alkoxy compound, a precursor composition including the Group 4 metal element-containing alkoxy compound for depositing a film, and a method of depositing a Group 4 metal element-containing film using the precursor composition.
US10131676B2
The present disclosure relates generally to compounds and compositions, and their use as kinase inhibitors.
US10131672B2
A therapeutic or prophylactic agent for biliary tract diseases includes as an effective component a specific compound having a morphinan skeleton represented by Compound 1, or a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt thereof:
US10131670B2
The present invention relates to 1,3-disubstituted-1H-pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidin-4-amine derivatives, 5,7-disubstituted-pyrrolo[2,1-f][1,2,4]triazin-4-amine derivatives or 5,7-disubstituted-imidazo[5,1-f][1,2,4]triazine-4-amine derivatives, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds are potentiators of Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane conductance Regulator (CFTR). The invention also discloses pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, optionally in combination with additional therapeutic agents, and methods of potentiating, in mammals, including humans, CFTR by administration of the compounds. These compounds are useful for the treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF), asthma, bronchiectasis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), constipation, Diabetes mellitus, dry eye disease, pancreatitis, rhinosinusitis, Sjögren's Syndrome, and other CFTR associated disorders.
US10131667B2
The present invention relates to tricyclic compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions of the same, that are inhibitors of one or more FGFR enzymes and are useful in the treatment of FGFR-associated diseases such as cancer.
US10131665B2
A crystalline form of a diazabicyclooctane derivative represented by the following Formula (VII), and processes for producing the same:
US10131664B2
The present invention relates generally to compositions and methods for treating cancer and neoplastic disease. Provided herein are substituted heterocyclic derivative compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds. The subject compounds and compositions are useful for inhibition of lysine specific demethylase-1. Furthermore, the subject compounds and compositions are useful for the treatment of cancer, such as prostate cancer, breast cancer, bladder cancer, lung cancer and/or melanoma and the like.
US10131663B2
The specification relates to compounds of Formula (I): and to pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, to processes and intermediates used for their preparation, to pharmaceutical compositions containing them and to their use in the treatment of cell proliferative disorders.
US10131662B2
Compounds of formula (I), wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, and the agrochemically acceptable salts, stereoisomers, enantiomers, tautomers and N-oxides of those compounds, can be used as insecticides and can be prepared in a manner known per se.
US10131656B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an organic thin film transistor that has an organic semiconductor film manufactured by using a compound having excellent solubility to an organic solvent and that has excellent carrier mobility, a novel compound, an organic thin film transistor material, an organic semiconductor film, an organic thin film transistor composition, and a method of manufacturing an organic thin film transistor using this. The organic thin film transistor according to the present invention has an organic semiconductor film containing a compound represented by Formula (1).
US10131655B2
The present invention relates to a series of substituted compounds having the general formula (I), including their stereoisomers and/or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts. wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are as defined herein. This invention also relates to methods of making these compounds including intermediates. The compounds of this invention are effective at the kappa (κ) opioid receptor (KOR) site. Therefore, the compounds of this invention are useful as pharmaceutical agents, especially in the treatment and/or prevention of a variety of central nervous system disorders (CNS), including but not limited to acute and chronic pain, and associated disorders, particularly functioning peripherally at the CNS.
US10131645B2
Compounds of Formula (I), including their salts, as well as compositions and methods of using the compounds are set forth. The compounds have activity against hepatitis C virus (HCV) and are useful in treating those infected with HCV.
US10131639B2
Provided are pharmaceutical compositions and dosage forms of 2-(tert-butylamino)-4-((1R,3R,4R)-3-hydroxy-4-methylcyclohexylamino)-pyrimidine-5-carboxamide, or a pharmaceutically acceptable stereoisomer, tautomer, solid form, polymorph, salt, hydrate, clathrate, or solvate thereof. Also provided are methods of treating, managing, or preventing various disorders, such as diseases or disorders treatable or preventable by inhibition of a JNK pathway in mammals using such pharmaceutical compositions or dosage forms. Further provided are salts of 2-(tert-butylamino)-4-((1R,3R,4R)-3-hydroxy-4-methylcyclohexylamino)-pyrimidine-5-carboxamide and methods of preparation of such salts.
US10131635B2
Disclosed herein is a compound for use in a composition applied to a blood vessel, wherein the compound softens and/or disrupts the crystalline matrix of calcified plaque. Methods of treatment comprising applying the disclosed composition are also disclosed. Plaque-softening compounds are also disclosed.
US10131627B2
Compounds of Formula (Ia) wherein R is a C6-C12 substituted or unsubstituted aryl, a C6-C12 substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl, a C1-C6 substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or —NR′R′, Q is C(O), O, NR′, S, S(O)2, C(O)2 (CH2)p Y is C(O), O, NR′, S, S(O)2, C(O)2 (CH2)p Z is H or C1-C4 alkyl, R′ is H, C(O), S(O)2, C(O)2, a C6-C12 substituted or unsubstituted aryl, a C6-C12 substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl or a C1-C6 substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, when substituted, aryl, heteroaryl and alkyl are substituted with halogen, C6-C12 heteroaryl, —NR′R′ or COOZ, which have diagnostic and therapeutic properties, such as the treatment and management of prostate cancer and other diseases related to NAALADase inhibition. Radiolabels can be incorporated into the structure through a variety of prosthetic groups attached at the X amino acid side chain via a carbon or hetero atom linkage.
US10131625B2
The present invention provides a method for recycling 3-carbamoylmethyl-5-methylhexanoic acid from 3-carba carbamoylmethyl moymethyl-5-methylhexanoic acid chiral resolving mother liquor. The method comprises the following steps: (a) distilling 3-carbamoylmethyl-5-methylhexanoic acid chiral resolving mother liquor, adding aromatic hydrocarbon, heating to dissolve, keeping the temperature and stirring; (b) after completing the reaction in step (a), cooling the reaction solution to 30-60° C., then adding alkali liquor dropwise, keeping the temperature and reacting; and (c) after completing the reaction in step (b), cooling the reactant to 20-30° C., layering, adjusting the pH of the separated water layer to 1 to 2, performing extraction by using an organic solvent, distilling an organic phase under a reduced pressure, and crystallizing at 0±5° C. to obtain 3-carbamoylmethyl-5-methylhexanoic acid. The method provided in the present invention is convenient to operate, and the recycled product is high in purity (≥99.8%) and yield.
US10131621B2
There is disclosed an extraction process for recovering aminoalcohols and glycols from aqueous streams of taurine production. The aqueous streams which contain aminoalcohols and/or glycols are first mixed with a base to increase pH and then extracted with C3-C6 alcohols, ketones, and ethers. The aqueous streams are then returned to their respective cyclic process for the production of taurine.
US10131619B2
The present invention relates to α-asary-laldehyde ester. The chemical structure of the related α-asary-laldehyde ester is of formula I.
US10131614B2
The invention relates to an esterification unit (150) and esterification process for producing crude methyl methacrylate (MMA) from methacrylamide (MAM), which enable particularly to improve the yield, meaning that the organics spent acids are low; and at the same time, providing crude MMA with rather good quality, meaning that MMA concentration in crude MMA is rather high and preferably from 50 wt % to 80 wt %. According to the invention, the esterification unit comprises esterification reactors (1, . . . , 5 (or 6) set up in a serial way so that there is a counter current flow between gaseous phase and liquid phase, the liquid phase flowing from first reactor (1) of the series to last reactor (5 (or 6)), and the gaseous phase flowing from reactor to first reactor (1).
US10131613B2
The present disclosure relates to a process of esterification in presence of a catalyst. The catalyst of the present disclosure is an aryloxy based phosphoric acid having general formula [{ArO}2P(O)OH] and is represented by the structure: wherein, Ar represents aryl compounds. The process of esterification is carried out by the reaction of a carboxylic acid and an alcohol in a fluid medium in the presence of the aryloxy based phosphoric acid catalyst resulting in the corresponding ester. The process of the present disclosure is simple and results in a product having a comparatively higher purity.
US10131606B2
A compound having formula C{Ph(R1)i(OR2)j}2{Ph(R3)m(OR4)n}{Ph(R5)o(OR6)p}, wherein Ph represents a benzene ring, R1, R3 and R5 independently are C1-C18 alkyl; R2, R4 and R6 independently are C4-C12 alkyl, i, m, n, o, and p independently are zero, one or two; j is one or two.
US10131601B1
A method of forming methanol by irradiating a mixture comprising water, carbon dioxide, and a photocatalyst with UV light to photo-catalytically reduce the carbon dioxide thereby forming methanol, wherein the photocatalyst comprises non-templated indium-oxide nanoparticles and/or templated indium-oxide nanoparticles. Various combinations of the embodiments of the templated indium-oxide nanoparticles and the non-templated indium-oxide nanoparticles photocatalyst as well as the method of forming methanol are provided.
US10131593B2
To reduce the emission of carbon dioxide and improve the energy efficiency in a hydrogen supply system. The hydrogen supply system (1) comprises: a reformer (5) for performing steam reforming of a hydrocarbon; a shift reaction unit (6) for producing a gas containing hydrogen and carbon dioxide by causing a water gas shift reaction of a gas obtained from the reformer; a first absorber (36) for absorbing the carbon dioxide contained in the gas obtained from the shift reaction unit in an absorption liquid; a hydrogenation reaction unit (8) for producing a hydrogenated aromatic compound by causing a hydrogenation reaction of an aromatic compound with a gas that has passed through the first absorber; and a regenerator (37) for separating the carbon dioxide from the absorption liquid by re-circulating the absorption liquid from the first absorber and heating the absorption liquid with heat generated from the hydrogenation reaction.
US10131591B2
Processes using mid-column reboilers in at least one benzene separation columns to reduce the heat duty in alkylation processes are provided. The feed to the aromatics removal zone may exchange heat in a mid-column reboiler in the benzene separation column in the alkylbenzene separation zone followed by exchanging heat in a mid-column reboiler in the benzene separation column in the aromatics removal zone. This arrangement minimizes the hot oil duty on the reboilers in both benzene separation columns.
US10131586B2
The invention relates to a solid inoculum carried in a superabsorbent agro-pellet with a variable volume, operating in a natural mini fermenter preloaded with an anhydrous nutritive medium, encouraging rapid regrowth of the viable micro-organisms and the continuous multiplication thereof. The liquid inoculum incorporated into the carrier at a low density of microbial cells is preferably comprised between 1/500e and 1/10e of the density recommended by the norm for a liquid inoculum of the same strain. The bioaugmentation of the microbial population is between 104 and 106 additional microbial cells. The solid inoculum according to the invention allows the preservation of the microorganisms and the handling thereof in advantageous conditions. It is not exposed to soil leaching caused by water. Said inoculum is used for the biological treatment of crops for the development and/or the preservation thereof from parasite attacks.
US10131583B2
Optical analysis devices may be configured for optically interacting a material of interest with a chemical filter and a detector that together are configured to detect a characteristic of the material of interest, wherein optically interacting the material of interest with the chemical filter comprises absorbing, by the chemical filter, at least a portion of an electromagnetic radiation having optically interacted with the material of interest. Relative to dry cements, such optical analysis devices may be useful in classifying and/or grading dry cements and determining the composition and/or concentration of cement slurry additives to enhance the implementation efficacy of the dry cement.
US10131572B2
A coated glass pane comprising at least the following layers: a glass substrate; and at least one absorbing layer based on at least one metal silicide and/or metal silicide nitride wherein the at least one absorbing layer is embedded between and contacts two layers based on an (oxi) nitride of Si and/or an (oxi) nitride of Al and/or alloys thereof.
US10131565B2
Preform for an optical waveguide containing a core with a non-circular geometry and at least one cladding layer, in which the dopand concentration of the cladding layer is increased compared to the dopand concentration of a preform with circular core geometry and identical NA. A method for the production of a preform for an optical fiber is provided. An optical waveguide with a nominal dopand concentration of c(eff)×F≤c(nom) in at least one cladding layer is also provided.
US10131560B2
A system and method includes an aeration subsystem that excites enzymes in the liquid waste passing through the septic system along with a bypass system that directs liquid waste during power outages. The bypass system utilizes a mechanically activated bypass valve moved by a float. The aeration subsystem includes a compressor section that compresses the liquid waste. The method includes mixing enzymes into the fluid waste material, compressing the fluid waste material with the compressor, injecting air into the compressed fluid waste material, and determining whether the fluid waste material is at a desired cleanliness, and if not, recirculating the fluid waste material through the compressor.
US10131542B2
Embodiments of the invention include a method for degassing liquid sulphur in a container, a first area of the container being flooded with liquid sulphur and a second area of the container being flooded with a gas, and a gas flow being injected into the first area, wherein liquid sulphur is sprayed into the second area. Embodiments of the invention include a device for degassing liquid sulphur having a container comprising two adjacent areas, the first area being flooded with liquid sulphur and the second area being flooded with gas, and having at least one device for injecting a gas flow into the first area, characterized by a device for spraying liquid sulphur opening into the second area. Other embodiments are also included herein.
US10131536B2
The present disclosure relates to a MEMs package having a heating element configured to adjust a pressure within a hermetically sealed chamber by inducing out-gassing of into the chamber, and an associated method. In some embodiments, the MEMs package has a CMOS substrate having one or more semiconductor devices arranged within a semiconductor body. A MEMs structure is connected to the CMOS substrate and has a micro-electromechanical (MEMs) device. The CMOS substrate and the MEMs structure form a hermetically sealed chamber abutting the MEMs device. A heating element is electrically coupled to the one or more semiconductor devices and is separated from the hermetically sealed chamber by an out-gassing layer arranged along an interior surface of the hermetically sealed chamber. By operating the heating element to cause the out-gassing layer to release a gas, the pressure of the hermetically sealed chamber can be adjusted after it is formed.
US10131526B2
An apparatus for filling containers with a liquid filling material includes a container treatment unit, a weighing unit, container carriers, weighing cells, a conveying element, filling positions, container receptacles, and a container-conveying section. As the conveying element, on which the filling positions are formed, rotates, it introduces filling material into the containers. The conveying element includes the container-conveying section, which moves the containers in a container-conveying direction. The weighing unit, which is made in the conveying element, weighs containers on the container-conveying section. Each container receptacle forms a weighing position with an associated container carrier and weighing cell.
US10131524B2
A gear reduction assembly may include a main input shaft, a carrier coupled to the main input shaft, and at least one carrier shaft coupled to the carrier and spaced from the main input shaft. The gear reduction assembly may also include at least one spur gear pair including a first spur gear coupled to the carrier shaft, and a second spur gear, wherein the first and second spur gears are coupled to one another such that they rotate together. The gear reduction assembly also includes a first internal gear engaged with the first spur gear, a second internal gear engaged with the second spur gear, and a hub associated with the first internal gear. The first internal gear has a first number of teeth, the second internal gear has a second number of teeth, and the first and second numbers of teeth differ by from one to five teeth.
US10131518B2
The invention relates to a method in allocation of an elevator for a passenger of an elevator system, including a step of allocating an elevator for a passenger in a lobby of the elevator system, and thereafter a step of signaling the allocated elevator to the passenger before the arrival of the car of the allocated elevator at said lobby. The method includes the steps of obtaining traffic data describing traffic in said elevator lobby, and determining the signaling moment based on said traffic data, and thereafter signaling the allocated elevator to the passenger at the determined moment. The invention relates also to an elevator system implementing the method.
US10131516B1
A method of splicing a rope where the ends of the rope are taped and then cut, leaving a fresh face on both ends of the rope. A length of shrink-wrap tubing is placed over one of the rope ends and slid up out of the way. Next, epoxy is applied to the fresh cut ends, and the ends of the rope are brought together and clamped in a jig. The splice is wrapped in tape while the epoxy cures. Once cured, the tape is removed and the joint cleaned so that the diameter of the splice is the same thickness as the rope. Next, additional epoxy is added to the joint and the shrink-wrap tubing is slid over the splice. A heat gun is used to shrink the tubing. Any excess epoxy is removed with a small knife to complete the splice. The rope is then ready for use.
US10131503B2
A rotary to linearly reciprocating motion converter includes a case, a closure member engaging an opening of the case to dispose a pinion gear rotatably coupled to the closure member, the pinion gear having half the diameter as an interior ring gear of the case, and further includes a pinion shaft connected to the pinion gear on a first side of the closure member and to an inboard end of a crank arm on a second side of the closure member, the outboard end of the crank arm having a force transfer member aligned with a point on the periphery of the pinion gear. Rotation of the closure member relative to the case results in the force transfer member moving in a linearly reciprocating mode. The force transfer member may be coupled to a conveyor to reciprocate the conveyor as the closure member rotates.
US10131501B1
A guide that fits over a paddle link in a paddle-type elevator in a harvester combine grain elevator. The plastic guide provides a wide, low-friction surface that rides on the intermediate wall of a grain elevator, thereby keeping the paddle links from rubbing against and causing wear to the intermediate wall. The guide also serves to inhibit the paddle from tipping back, thereby preventing the concentration of force by one corner of a paddle link against the intermediate wall. The guide al so helps maintain the correct orientation of flexible paddle against the inside of the elevator housing, thereby inhibiting the paddle from tipping back and leaking grain back into the upward path of the conveyor. The plastic guide also reduces noise caused by the metal parts of a paddle-type elevator from coming into contact.
US10131496B2
Safe transport of bulk materials is assured by a lashing system that suspends a flexible end face panel adjacent to rear doors of a shipping container, and that restrains the end face panel during loading and subsequent transport, so that the adjacent container door may be opened and closed without difficulty. The lashing may for instance be done by threading a strap through a ring in a central part of the panel and several cargo rings in the corners of a door opening of the container, and after tightening the strap, the strap is secured by passing a clasp through two holes in the strap that are aligned when under the desired tension. A triangular shaped strap may be sewn into the panel with a ring at the apex as an embodiment.
US10131485B2
A means of suspending items within a transportable container, such as an environmental enclosure like a common “cooler” or “ice-chest”. Inside the container, items are supported by resting on top of a shelf or platform that may be rigid, semi-rigid, inflatable, pleated, telescoping, floating, cushioned, or flexible. The shelf may be supported by straps that may exit the container and are fastened to, or encircle, the interior and/or exterior of the container. The mechanism for attachment to the outside of the container may be a simple loop over an external anchor point affixed to the outside of the container, or a latch or latches, or a magnetic device, or a continuous loop or loops that encircle the container such that no external anchor is required.
US10131480B2
An apparatus includes a box including one or more side walls, each of which defines an inside surface. A bag is disposed in an internal region defined by the box. Drinking water is contained in the bag, the water being non-alcoholic. The bag is adapted to protect the water from contaminants, tastes, and odors, each of which originates from either the bag itself or a source external to the bag. A water-resistant coating may be applied to the respective inside surfaces. When condensate forms on the bag, the water-resistant coating at least resists absorption of the condensate into the one or more side walls. The apparatus may include a spout, which permits the water to be dispensed from the bag for human consumption. In an exemplary embodiment, the water is treated with a sanitizing additive such as, for example, ozone. The apparatus mitigates the environmental impacts of drinking water packaging.
US10131471B2
A closure for a bottle includes a wooden head portion and a stopper portion. The wooden head portion has a recess formed therein. The stopper portion has a polymer inner member and a polymer outer member. The polymer inner member includes a first part embedded in the recess in the wooden head and a second part extending away from the wooden head and substantially covered by the polymer outer member.
US10131465B2
The present invention relates to a container including a container body with a removable tray wherein the container can house at least two materials that must be kept separate until use. The container also may have upwardly extending fingers in the removable tray for securing a material.
US10131463B1
A container having a base, with a bottom surface, a first support tube fixed to the base at a first level below and substantially parallel to the bottom surface of the base; a second support tube fixed to the base at the first level below and substantially parallel to the bottom surface of the base, and spaced apart from, substantially parallel to the first support tube; a third support tube fixed to the base, at a second level below and substantially parallel to the bottom surface, and below and substantially parallel to the first level; and a fourth support tube fixed to the base, at the second level below and substantially parallel to the bottom surface of the base, and spaced apart from, and substantially parallel to the third support tube. The first and second support tubes may be substantially perpendicular to the third and fourth support tubes.
US10131448B2
A coupling module forms an interface between a cabin of a passenger bridge and an aircraft. The coupling module has a projecting roof and a floor arrangement overspanned by the projecting roof. The floor arrangement is pivotable about a horizontal pivot axis relative to the cabin. At least the floor arrangement and the projecting roof have a common pivot axis that is arranged in or beneath the floor arrangement, with the floor arrangement at least indirectly and substantially supporting the projecting roof.
US10131446B1
An apparatus comprises a time-of-flight ranging sensor that scans in two or more directions relative to the apparatus over a series of scanning cycles. A processor computes, and to communicates to the time-of-flight ranging sensor, a pulse repetition rate (PRR) for the time-of-flight ranging sensor for each of the two or more directions based on information about surrounding terrain of the apparatus and a sensor pointing schedule for the time-of-flight ranging sensor that indicates directions that the time-of-flight ranging sensor is scheduled to point at time during the scanning cycles. In addition or lieu of computing the PRR, the processor(s) matches returns from pulses of the time-of-flight ranging sensor to the pulses probabilistically based on a current map of the vehicle's surroundings and scan coherence analysis for shapes in the returns. The current map can then be updated based on the matched returns for the next iteration.
US10131436B1
An apparatus, method for making, and product by process for a parachute, the parachute having a conductive network and a set of fabrics; the conductive network including a set of conductive elements and a set of devices; wherein a first subset of conductive elements of the set of conductive elements is incorporated with a second subset of fabrics of the set of fabrics and third subset of devices of the set of devices incorporated is incorporated with a fourth subset of fabrics of the set of fabrics.
US10131435B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a controlled temperature in a control volume. Such systems include a main chamber (defining the control volume), a mixing chamber and a gasflow source. The mixing chamber is in selective fluid communication with the main chamber, and has at least one mixing chamber inlet, and a ram air inlet for allowing ram airflow at a first temperature to be channeled into the mixing chamber. The gasflow source provides a source gasflow at a greater, second temperature to the mixing chamber. The mixing chamber provides the mixing chamber outflow at a third temperature by selectively allowing the ram airflow and the source gasflow in the mixing chamber to mix therein, or, by selectively allowing the ram airflow in the mixing chamber to flow to the main chamber (in absence of source gasflow). A controller is operative to provide a desired level for the third temperature.
US10131433B2
A system and method for aircraft passenger seating allows traditional passenger seats, which have fixed configurations, to meet new specifications. A bottom frame and backrest frame from a traditional passenger seat is used to form a new passenger seat. Features, such as improved cushioning, telescopic or fixed headrests, rotatable or fixed footrests and improve armrest assemblies may be added as part of the new passenger seat.
US10131427B2
A system includes a first mast torque transfer system, a second mast torque transfer system coupled to the first mast torque transfer system, and a torque limiting system. The torque limiting system includes a first sensor configured to determine a torque of the first mast torque transfer system, a second sensor configured to determine a torque of the second mast torque transfer system, and a processor configured to determine a differential torque between the torque of the first mast torque transfer system and the torque of the second mast torque transfer system and configured to control at least one of a torque input and a torque output to at least one of the first and second mast torque transfer systems as a function of the determined differential torque.
US10131418B2
A flow body for an aircraft with a leading edge and a trailing edge includes a first spar, a second spar, and an external skin that spans from the leading edge to the trailing edge and on both sides rests on the spars. At least one of the first spar and the second spar includes a web and two spaced-apart flanges that enclose the web, on which flanges the skin that spans the respective spar is arranged. At least one of the first spar and the second spar includes at least one load introduction fin that forms an integral component with the web and extends outwards by way of one of the flanges and the skin that rests on the spars.
US10131413B2
A self-contained marine propulsion impeller system, whereby, the impeller is driven from an outer perimeter of a cylinder, thereby, creating thrust. The impeller is connected to an inner wall of the cylinder. The cylinder has a primary end located opposite a secondary end. The primary end of the cylinder has a primary sealing member and a primary bearing member. The secondary end of the cylinder has a secondary sealing member and a secondary bearing member. A plurality of magnets are connected to an outer perimeter wall of the cylinder. The plurality of magnets are located between the first bearing member and the second bearing member. The cylinder is surrounded by a housing. At least one coil winding is connected to an inner wall surface of the housing. The rotating cylinder is suspended within the housing by the first bearing member and the secondary bearing member.
US10131411B1
An arm rescue device with a long rigid grab handle, a short rigid grab handle, a first and second attachment strap designed to be attached to the forearm of a person. The long grab handle terminates at both ends in a downward disposed extension post which each terminate in an attachment plate. The short grab handle is attached in a perpendicular orientation to the long grab handle. The first and second attachment straps each include a double layer allowing each attachment plate to reside between the double layers causing the attachment plates to be fixed to the attachment straps. A preferred embodiment includes the grab handles having resilient rubber-like coverings that provide a more secure grip for a rescuer when in the process rescuing a person wearing the arm rescue device.
US10131408B2
A towing assembly comprising a towing and handling device intended to tow a faired elongate element, the towing device comprises a winch allowing the faired elongate element to be wound in and paid out through a guide device that allows the elongate element to be guided, the guide device comprising a first groove the bottom of which is formed by the bottom of the groove of a pulley, the first groove being delimited by a first surface having a profile that is concave in a radial plane of the pulley, the width of the first groove and the curvature of the profile of the first curved surface in the radial plane being determined in such a way as to allow the fairing element, under the effect of the rotation of the fairing element about the axis of the elongate element under the effect of the traction of the elongate element with respect to the guide device along the longitudinal axis thereof, to flip from a turned-over position in which the fairing element is oriented with its trailing edge toward the bottom of the first groove into an acceptable position in which it is oriented with the leading edge toward the bottom of the first groove.
US10131396B2
A saddled vehicle includes a rear fender that is arranged along an outer circumferential side of a rear wheel, a chamber portion that is arranged on a front side of the rear wheel and is provided on the outer circumferential side of the rear wheel from a mudguard surface of the rear fender facing the rear wheel, and an atmospheric air introduction pipe that is connected to the chamber portion and introduces atmospheric air to a canister.
US10131389B1
A workpiece transport assembly, a material handling assembly and a method of operating a cart within a material handling environment. An automated guided cart includes two independently-operable workpiece-securing devices to selectively permit retention of a workpiece or a workpiece-holding pallet while disposed on a mounting surface of the cart. The second workpiece-securing device is mounted to the cart in such a way as to be cooperative with the mounting surface to selectively permit workpiece or pallet retention regardless of whether the first workpiece-securing device is securing the workpiece to the cart. The second workpiece-securing device may be actuated either manually by operational personnel or automatically by controller or in response to movement by a cooperating conveyor.
US10131386B2
The present invention relates to a method for controlling a suspension system of a motor vehicle comprising a vehicle body and a plurality of wheel pairs (2a/2b, 2c/2d), wherein the suspension system comprises spring members arranged for resilient connection between the wheels of the vehicle and said vehicle body. The method comprises the step of: monitoring at least one first parameter indicating braking of thee motor vehicle, and when said parameter indicates braking of the motor vehicle, preventing compression of the spring members of at least one wheel pair (2a/2b, 2c/2d) of the motor vehicle for counteracting a rotation of the vehicle body in connection to braking.
US10131385B2
An aerodynamic device provided as a plate-shaped body attached to a roof or a side wall of a vehicle includes means configured to selectively raise ribs arranged in two directions from a surface portion of the plate-shaped body in a switching manner between the two directions.
US10131373B1
A utility cart system for a motor vehicle includes a support frame, a base, a folding wall assembly and a folding leg assembly. A method of transporting goods to and from a motor vehicle utilizing a utility cart system is also described.
US10131371B2
A cart is disclosed which is capable of being wheeled to a vehicle and mounted thereon through a mount secure coupling attached to the cart and a secure receiver attached to the vehicle. Upon secure attachment to the vehicle, the carts undercarriage assembly including wheels are capable of being retracted into the top deck assembly of the cart. Therefore, the vehicle maintains clearance from the road even after the cart is attached. Upon reaching a destination, the undercarriage of the cart is lowered and the cart is detached from the vehicle. The cart is then able to be wheeled away. The cart allows for transportation of loads without the need for the operator to actually carry either the load or the cart at any stage from start to finish or perform any additional steps to safe and securely attach the cart to the vehicle.
US10131366B2
A hybrid-vehicle power generator control apparatus includes an integrated control unit that issues a driving command and a control command to an engine control unit and an electric-power conversion system control unit, respectively, based on requested electric power requested by a load apparatus, and a limiter that limits the control command from the integrated control unit such that when rotation frequency of an electric power generator is same as or lower than a predetermined value, the value of torque generated by the electric power generator becomes smaller than the value of torque generated by an engine. A limitation of the control command by the limiter prevents torques of the engine and the electric power generator from stepping out of the stable operating points.
US10131363B2
A vehicle includes: a motor, sensors, steering, a suspension, a terrain mode switch, processor(s) configured to: implement a selected terrain mode by tuning at least one of the motor, steering, and suspension; record selected terrain modes; compute a confidence factor based on the recorded selections; determine a road condition based on the sensors; display guidance based on the confidence factor and the road condition.
US10131360B2
Methods and systems are provided for determining a road surface friction coefficient and controlling a feature of the vehicle based thereon. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving signals from an electronic power steering system and an inertial measurement unit; estimating parameters associated with an electronic power steering system model using an iterative optimization method; calculating an electronic power steering system variable using the electronic power steering system model, the estimated parameters and one or more of the received signals; determining whether the calculated electronic power steering system variable satisfies a fitness criterion; and when the calculated electronic power steering system variable does satisfy the fitness criterion, determining a road surface friction coefficient based on at least one of the estimated parameters.
US10131359B2
A communication system for a vehicle, with a processor designed to determine a driving situation of the vehicle, and a communication interface designed to receive V2X communication data of a first additional vehicle, wherein the V2X communication data defines a driving situation of the first additional vehicle, wherein the processor is designed to detect a second additional vehicle which is located between the vehicle and the first additional vehicle on the basis of the determined driving situation of the vehicle and the driving situation of the first additional vehicle.
US10131347B2
A parking assistance apparatus for a vehicle, and including a camera configured to photograph surroundings of the vehicle; an interface configured to receive sensor information from the vehicle; a display configured to display a graphic image about an automatic parking function of the vehicle; and a processor configured to initiate the automatic parking function by controlling the vehicle to travel to a target parking position, detect a traveling resistance of the vehicle from the sensor information while the vehicle is traveling to the target parking position, determine a factor causing the traveling resistance, continue controlling the vehicle to travel to the target parking position when the detected traveling resistance is less than a predetermined resistance, and change the controlling of the vehicle to travel to the target parking position to offset the factor causing the traveling resistance, when the detected traveling resistance is equal to or greater than the predetermined resistance.
US10131346B2
A method for diagnosing demagnetization of a motor of a vehicle can accurately diagnose an irreversible demagnetization state of a permanent magnet of a traction motor or a hybrid starter-generator (HSG) without additional hardware, while minimizing influence of irreversible demagnetization of the permanent magnet of the traction motor or the HSG on vehicle performance. The method includes acquiring operating state information of the motor, determining whether a diagnosis entrance condition including a state in which the motor performs an electricity generating operation is satisfied based on the acquired operating state information of the motor, acquiring a direct current (DC) value in diagnosis, and determining whether irreversible demagnetization occurs by comparing the acquired DC value in diagnosis with a pre-stored DC current value in a normal state of the permanent magnet.
US10131345B2
An object of the invention is to provide a hybrid vehicle control device capable of shortening the time from an engine start request to the engine start. The hybrid vehicle control device is provided with an integrated controller configured to execute processing for starting an engine by bringing a first clutch into engagement, while slipping a second clutch, and by increasing a torque of a motor generator, when it has been determined that an engine start request is present, and a first clutch engagement control section, which is included in the integrated controller and configured to command a start of engagement of the first clutch once the difference between the torque of the motor generator and a second clutch transmitted torque capacity command value becomes greater than or equal to a preset slip prediction determination threshold value after having been determined that the engine start request is present.
US10131344B2
A hybrid vehicle and method for reducing fuel consumption include upper and lower engine speed limits set based upon whether the state of charge of a battery electrically connected to an electric machine, which may be implemented by an integrated starter-generator is sufficiently high to permit the electric machine to provide a temporary torque boost to an engine of the motor vehicle. If the state of charge of the battery is sufficiently high to permit temporary torque boosting, then the upper and lower engine speed limits are reduced from baseline upper and lower limits to adjusted upper and lower limits to reduce fuel consumption of the engine without adversely affecting NVH.
US10131341B2
The present invention provides a novel system and method for a power management strategy for series hybrid power systems, such as for vehicles, with limited electrical energy storage capacity that distributes instantaneous power between a source of chemical energy and a small energy storage system (ESS) efficiently. The invention provides for minimizing the energy storage system while simultaneously allowing the chemical to electrical energy converter, e.g., an internal combustion motor/engine paired with an electrical generator and/or a fuel cell power source, to operate in pre-defined efficient regions of the power user's, or vehicle's, fuel efficiency map.
US10131332B1
A controller for a brake may comprise a tangible, non-transitory memory configured to communicate with the controller, the tangible, non-transitory memory having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the controller, cause the controller to perform operations comprising receiving, by the controller, a three-phase signal indicating a first duty cycle for a first phase signal, a second duty cycle for a second phase signal, and a third duty cycle for a third phase signal, determining, by the controller, a minimum value based upon the first phase signal, the second phase signal, and the third phase signal, and converting, by the controller, the minimum value to a zero value.
US10131325B2
A wiper assembly for a window of a vehicle and a method of cleaning a window are provided. The wiper assembly includes a wiper blade having a fluid extraction opening, a fluid discharge outlet remote from the wiper blade and a fluid tight conduit connecting the fluid extraction opening to the fluid discharge outlet. The wiper assembly may further include a suction pump configured to draw air and water into the fluid extraction opening and through the fluid tight conduit of the wiper assembly, thereby reducing the amount of water left of the window following wiping and improving visibility for the driver.
US10131322B2
Systems and methods are provided for authorizing a user to access an access-controlled environment. The system includes a system server platform that communicates with mobile devices (e.g., smartphones) and on-board vehicle computing devices accessed by users. The embodiments enable a series of operations whereby a user accessing a vehicle is prompted to biometrically authenticate using the user's smartphone or on-board vehicle computer. In addition, the system can further authorize the user and electronically facilitate access to the vehicle as well as perform other authorized operations relating to the use of the vehicle. In addition the vehicle access system integrates with various computing devices and computer-based services accessible to the user. The systems and methods also facilitate active monitoring of the vehicle occupants and environmental conditions using optical sensors and the like so as to enhance security, convenience and safety of the occupants during use of the vehicle.
US10131314B2
A curtain airbag for a vehicle may include a curtain airbag cushion; a venting chamber that fills a space between an end portion of a frontal airbag on the door window side and an A pillar; and a first vent opening formed in a portion of the venting chamber, the portion being near the door window.
US10131309B2
An apparatus and a method for controlling an airbag are provided. The apparatus includes an imaging device that includes cameras and lights and an image processor that performs an image processing for an image obtained by the imaging device. A collision sensor senses a collision of a vehicle and an airbag driver operates the airbag. A controller extracts face information of a passenger from the image of which the image processing is performed by the image processor, determines airbag control information based on the extracted face information, and then operates the airbag driver based on the determined airbag control information when the collision of the vehicle is predicted.
US10131308B2
A safety on-board vehicle multi-force restraint self-controlling system improves the security of the air bags for children and light women passengers according requirements of the final rule of Section § 571.208 Standard No. 208; “Occupant crash protection” by employing the accurate weight occupant KEF technology. The system also provides, in case of an accident, different forces applied to the occupant bodies of different weight categories by employing an original occupant's weight, measured at the beginning of a trip by innovative weighing KEF technology, which is eventually modified during the trip according to the current values of the morphological and driving factors. The system provides secure personalization of the occupants' weight by a finger print sensor. From beginning and during the trip, an extracting unit continuously monitors the needed combination of openings that gives an access for the extra gas to move from inflator to the atmosphere by a signal from the crash sensor, and the combination satisfies the code of the accurate original weight of the occupant, modified according to the current morphological and the car trip situation parameters: car crash severity, position of the occupant, seat belt state, and other possible parameters of the current trip situation. The multi-force restraint system provides a self-control and prevents the inflator from rupturing when an excessive internal pressure is produced.
US10131303B2
A bumper assembly includes a bumper cover, a bumper reinforcement beam spaced apart from the bumper cover, and a low speed bumper energy absorber that extends along a front surface of the bumper reinforcement beam between the bumper cover and the bumper reinforcement beam. The low speed bumper energy absorber includes a body portion extending along the front surface of the bumper reinforcement beam, wherein at least a portion of the body portion is space apart from the bumper cover, and one or more air deflectors extending between the body portion and the bumper cover, wherein the one or more air deflectors substantially isolate a portion of the bumper assembly from air leakage through the bumper assembly.
US10131293B2
An automobile power supply device includes plate-shaped metal wirings and is configured to supply electric power from a battery that is installed in an engine room of a vehicle body to a vehicle interior. The metal wiring may extend in a central portion of a floor surface in the vehicle interior, and the automobile power supply device may include wire harnesses that respectively connect multiple electric devices that are installed in the vehicle body to the metal wiring in the vehicle interior. The metal wiring may be formed by coupling a plurality of wiring materials.
US10131291B2
An assembly-type vehicle component 1A, 1B used by assembling one of functional members 3A, 3B having predetermined functions to a mounting member 2 to be mounted to a vehicle body side is configured to allow two types of functional members 3B, 3A to be assembled to the fitting portion 20 of the mounting member 2 so as to be in a detachment-prevented state, and the mounting member 2 has a rattling preventing protrusion 25U for pressing the assembled functional member 3A, and a rattling preventing protrusion 25D for pressing the assembled functional member 3B. Each functional member 3A, 3B has a reception portion 36A, 36B (i.e., gap 37A, 37B) for receiving the rattling preventing protrusion 25D, 25U that is irrelevant to the functional member, so as not to cause pressing.
US10131285B1
A cylinder holder is provided for supporting a cylinder while the assembly rests on a generally horizontally oriented transport surface. A tank contacting area is provided which has a tank contacting surface radially disposed therein which contacts a lower tank outer surface of the cylindrical tank in close proximity to a sealed end. The tank contacting chamber also has an extension disposed therein to extend outward from a lower extent of the tank contacting surface. This extension contacts the transport surface while the cylindrical tank is positioned within the tank contacting chamber. Connection means are provided to position the support surface relative to the tank contacting chamber. Binding means are provided to produce a compression contact between at least a portion of the tank contacting surface of the tank contacting chamber and the lower tank outer surface of the cylindrical tank while the cylindrical tank is positioned within the tank contacting chamber. This combination provides for the cylinder holder to be transported on a vehicle while allowing for the cylindrical tank to be unattendedly positioned in a vertically oriented position on the vehicle surface.
US10131284B2
The present invention provides an object holding device used in a vehicle seat. The object holding device comprises an object holder coupled to an extendable device via a deployment rod and is extended and retracted in and out a map pocket of the vehicle seat. An extendable rod of the extendable device is pivotably connected with the deployment rod and lockable with the deployment rod. At a first position where the deployment rod forms a first angle with the extendable rod, the object holder is changeable at a slanted position and a leveled position to hold an object.
US10131272B2
A warning light system that is provided for a motor vehicle includes a warning light assembly and a heating element carried on a windshield of the motor vehicle, vehicle forward of the warning light assembly. The heating element is dedicated to providing a clear sight path to the warning light and thereby increasing its effectiveness. A related method is also provided.
US10131264B2
A hooklift mounted on heavy duty trucks or trailers that allows for lifting, re-positioning, transporting, and unloading various containers. A hooklift assembly having a frame. A lift arm having lift linkages rotatably mounted at a hinge end to at least one position on the frame. A hook arm rotatably coupled at a hook end of the lift arm. The hook arm configured for loading or unloading a container from the frame. A hydraulic actuator coupled at one end to the frame and at the other end to the lift linkage. The hydraulic actuator simultaneously lifting the lift linkage from a storage position into an extended position and adjusting an angle between the hook arm and the lift linkage.
US10131262B2
An armrest assembly with a cup holder includes an armrest frame with a cup holder frame. The assembly also includes a bezel with a bezel cup holder opening. The bezel cup holder opening is adjacent the cup holder frame. The bezel is retained on the armrest frame by a plurality of bracket latches. The assembly also includes a cup holder base. The cup holder base includes a base opening which is adapted to accommodate a beverage container. A base projection substantially surrounds the base opening. At least a portion of the base projection is located in the cup holder frame. The cup holder base is retained on the bezel by a plurality of base latches.
US10131256B2
Provided is a new back frame for a vehicle seat that takes into consideration a case where a large load acts on the back frame from a seat width direction. The back frame comprises a first side frame, a second side frame, a transmission rod, and a resin-made pressure-receiving spacer. The transmission rod extends in an extending direction from the first side frame toward the second side frame and comprises a leading end closest to the second side frame in the extending direction. The pressure-receiving spacer is coupled to the second side frame at a position facing the leading end. The transmission rod transmits a load acting on the first side frame to the leading end. The pressure-receiving spacer is configured to receive the load from the leading end.
US10131247B2
An underbody unit for a motor vehicle body has a floor body (12) connectable to the motor vehicle body for dissipating static and/or dynamic loads. Reinforcing ribs (14) protrude up from the floor body (12). The reinforcing ribs (14) together with the floor body (12) delimit receiving pockets (16) for receiving battery cell units (18) of a traction battery for driving the motor vehicle. First and second connections (34, 36) supply and remove a refrigerating agent for cooling the floor body (12). The battery cell units (18) are above the floor body (12) and can be inserted into the underbody unit (10). Thus, the underbody unit (10), the reinforcing ribs (14) and the connections (34, 36) for the refrigerating agent define a supporting plate that can support the heavy battery cell units (18), form armor plating for protection and a heat exchanger for active and/or passive cooling.
US10131242B2
Methods, systems, and products charge a battery in a vehicle. A charging station and the vehicle negotiate charging parameters. When the vehicle receives electrical power from the charging station, the vehicle checks the electrical power for the parameters. Should the electrical power fail to exhibit the parameters, charging is terminated.
US10131227B2
A method for an economical cruise control and an economical cruise control which demands from a vehicle engine system a reference speed vref, which may differ from a chosen set speed vset. Adjustment of at least the set speed vset is allowed when the reference speed vref differs from the set speed vset. The adjustment is based at least partly on input from a user of the economical cruise control. A user of the economical cruise control is thus provided with an increased feeling of control over the vehicle's speed.
US10131226B1
The present invention provides a human perception test system, which performs a human perception test. The human perception test program and presents on the display module a human perception test interface; the human perception test interface is configured to display a graphic box and an arbitrarily moving graphic; a user operates the control unit to control the graphic box, so that the graphic box and the graphic perform synchronous displacement; when the period of time of the synchronous displacement is equal to a preset time value, two moving speeds of the graphic box within the period of time of the synchronous displacement are acquired; and the micro control unit determines, according to an absolute value of a difference between the two moving speeds, whether the user succeeds in the human perception test.
US10131223B2
A baffle clip shield for protecting a clip attaching a baffle to a fuel tank to protect the fuel tank from heat from an exhaust chamber located near the fuel tank is disclosed. The clip shield includes a spring foot extending from the rear side of the clip shield, the spring foot having a hook distal end that is pushed radially inward by the inclined wall as the clip shield is installed, the hook distal end of the spring foot being insertable into a hole in the inclined wall of the clip receiving portion, the hook distal end moving radially outward when installed in the hold, the hook distal end creating an interference fit with the inclined wall to prevent removal of the clip shield.
US10131221B2
A power train for a hybrid electric vehicle includes only one motor and an engine, and further includes a structure capable of reducing a capacity of the motor. The power train may high-efficiently implement various driving modes such as a high-efficiency EV mode, an engine and motor parallel HEV mode, and an engine connecting mode using only the one motor and engine, in order to achieve a reduced manufacturing cost as compared to a conventional power train in which two motors are used.
US10131213B2
The invention relates to a tarpaulin structure for a substructure, such as a lorry, trailer, semi-trailer, railway car, dump truck or container, comprising a covering frame and a tarpaulin consisting of weather-resistant material, wherein the covering frame has a plurality of struts (34) which each have on the end sides thereof a carriage (32) that is displaceable along a guide (20), wherein at least one bow (36) is pivotally connected at each pair of opposed carriages (32; 32′), said bow forming with a bow (36) of an adjacent carriage pair (32) a tarpaulin folding aid, the bows (36) of the tarpaulin folding aid being connected to each other. A tarpaulin structure that allows a reliable covering of a substructure while having a low intrinsic weight is achieved according to the invention in that the connected bows (36) comprise a pivot angle limiter (38) that allows only a limited pivoting of the bows (36).
US10131208B2
There is disclosed a vehicle air-conditioning device in which a heating qualification by gas injection can sufficiently be obtained. The vehicle air-conditioning device comprises a compressor 2 which compresses a refrigerant, an air flow passage 3 through which air to be supplied into a vehicle interior flows, a radiator 4 disposed in the air flow passage to let the refrigerant radiate heat, a heat absorber 9 disposed in the air flow passage to let the refrigerant absorb heat, an outdoor heat exchanger 7 disposed outside the vehicle interior to let the refrigerant radiate or absorb heat, and a controller. The controller executes a heating mode in which the refrigerant discharged from the compressor 2 radiates heat in the radiator 4 and the refrigerant by which heat has been radiated is decompressed and then absorbs heat in the outdoor heat exchanger 7. The vehicle air-conditioning device comprises an injection circuit 40 which distributes a part of the refrigerant flowing out from the radiator 4 to return the refrigerant to the middle of compression by the compressor 2, and the injection circuit 40 has an expansion valve 30, and a discharge side heat exchanger 35 which performs heat exchange between the refrigerant decompressed by the expansion valve 30 and the refrigerant discharged from the compressor 2 before flowing into the radiator 4.
US10131206B1
A vehicle includes a body mounted with a chassis, the body having a passenger compartment, a seat in the passenger compartment for supporting an occupant in a sitting position, and a roll over protection structure for the passenger compartment. The roll over protection structure includes an inlet coupled in gaseous communication to an air source, an outlet coupled in gaseous communication to a vehicle occupant wearable, and an airflow pathway through the roll over protection structure coupling the inlet to the outlet in gaseous communication.
US10131203B2
An ejector draws a refrigerant on a downstream side of an exterior heat exchanger serving as an evaporator, from a refrigerant suction port by a suction effect of an injection refrigerant injected from a nozzle portion for decompressing a part of the refrigerant discharged from a compressor, and mixes the injection refrigerant with the suction refrigerant to pressurize the mixed refrigerant at a diffuser. The refrigerant flowing out of the diffuser is drawn into the compressor. In this way, the density of the refrigerant drawn into the compressor can be increased, thereby suppressing reduction in flow amount of the refrigerant flowing into an interior condenser serving as a radiator. Thus, even if the temperature of the outside air (heat-absorption target fluid) is decreased, the interior condenser is prevented from degrading its heating capacity for the ventilation air (heating target fluid).
US10131195B2
A base unit for a vehicle such as a mobile work platform includes a chassis and multiple wheels, at least one of the wheels being mounted on the chassis by a suspension mechanism including a suspension element. The suspension element pivots relative to the chassis about a substantially horizontal pivot axis between an upper position and a lower position, and a stop member engages the suspension element in the upper position to limit its upwards movement. A biasing mechanism exerts a biasing force on the suspension element to urge the suspension element upwards towards the upper position. The biasing mechanism includes an actuator which adjusts the biasing force so that, in a first operating condition, the biasing force is greater than the force needed to maintain the suspension element in engagement with the stop member when the wheel is suspended, and in a second operating condition the biasing force is less than the force needed to maintain the suspension element in engagement with the stop member when the wheel is suspended.
US10131190B2
This vehicle wheel includes: a first vertical wall surface defined by one rising part of a rim that forms a well part and a second vertical wall surface defined by another rising part are provided; an auxiliary air chamber member has a main body part with an auxiliary air chamber on the inside and has edge parts extending from each of both sides of the main body part in the wheel width direction; each of the edge parts of the auxiliary air chamber member fits into a groove formed in each of the first vertical wall surface and second vertical wall surface, and the auxiliary air chamber member is thereby attached atop the outer circumferential surface of the well part.
US10131185B1
A removable caster system includes a roller, a roller frame and a roller seat, the roller being positioned on the frame via a horizontal axis, the frame being inserted into the vertical shaft hole of the seat through the vertical shaft to form a detachable position; wherein a chute is installed on the upper surface with a trapezoidal stopper; a wire retainer is placed in the chute and is controlled by the movement of its narrowing section or the vertical axis to achieve removable function.
US10131184B2
In one or more embodiments, a resonator device includes a first chamber including a first leg portion extending in a longitudinal direction and a first shoulder extending in a transverse direction, and a second chamber positioned next to the first chamber at least partially along the longitudinal direction. The second chamber may include a second shoulder portion positioned next to the first leg portion and a second leg portion positioned next to the first shoulder portion.
US10131182B2
A motorcycle wheel is provided, in particular a motorcycle wheel suitable for use on an enduro motorcycle. The wheel includes a cast or forged rim having integrally spokes which extend toward a central hub connection region. The central hub connection region is configured to receive a hub element in a detachably fastened manner. The hub element forms a hub of the motorcycle wheel which is connectable to a motorcycle.
US10131179B2
A writing utensil puzzle kit for amusement and advertising purposes. The writing utensil puzzle kit includes a shaft, a writing member affixed to the shaft, a front housing piece securable to the writing member, a rear housing piece having a front end and rear end, wherein the rear end is securable to an end cap. A plurality of central housing pieces having a central channel that can receive the shaft, wherein each of the central housing pieces are securable to one another in a particular order via a threaded protrusion disposed on a front end thereof that can removably secure to a recessed channel disposed on a back end of an adjacent central housing piece. A gripping member is mountable to the housing piece. In an additional embodiment, the gripping member includes a plurality of interlocking gripping members with indicia thereon for indicating the particular order of connection thereof.
US10131178B2
The present invention relates to a layer structure having improved properties for laser engraving, to particular embodiments of said layer structures in the form of co-extrusion films, and to security documents, preferably identification documents having said layer structures.
US10131177B2
A barrier film, a document including a barrier coating, and a method for producing a document are described. A document includes a substrate, printed data on a surface of the substrate, and a barrier coating. The barrier coating is disposed between a portion of the printed data and a portion of an adhesive. The portion of the adhesive is disposed between a portion of a protective layer and a portion of the substrate.
US10131169B2
A heat-sensitive recording material including a web-shaped substrate having a front side and an opposite reverse side, and at least one heat-sensitive recording layer on either or both of the sides of the web-shaped substrate. The heat-sensitive recording layer contains at least one dye precursor at least one salicylic acid derivative as a (color) developer reactive with this at least one dye precursor, and polyvinylpyrrolidone as auxiliary component augmenting the (color) developer the at least one salicylic acid derivative is 3,5-di(α-methylbenzyl)salicylic acid.
US10131160B2
A hybrid printing machine is described having both silk screening stations and a direct-to-garment digital printing station with a raster image processor to control a portion of a printing process.
US10131156B2
An image processing apparatus provides image processing which realizes a representation of a low gloss while preventing a decrease in a density range of an image to be formed which can be represented on a recording medium. The image processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to input image data representing an image, a first determination unit configured to determine, based on the image data, a first recording amount for use in recording by arranging the colored ink side by side on the recording medium and a second recording amount for use in recording by stacking the colored ink in discrete positions on the recording medium, and an output unit configured to output layout data indicating a layout of the colored ink on the recording medium, based on the first recording amount and the second recording amount.
US10131155B2
An inkjet printhead including: an elongate fluid manifold having a plurality of fluid outlets positioned longitudinally along a base of the fluid manifold, each neighboring pair of fluid outlets being separated by a support web; and a plurality of butting printhead chips arranged in a row and attached to the base of the fluid manifold, each printhead chip receiving a printing fluid from one or more fluid outlets. Each butting pair of printhead chips has respective butting end portions commonly supported by one of the support webs.
US10131152B2
An inkjet printer includes a printer body, an ink container and a cover member. The cover member is pivotable about a pivot shaft. The ink container includes an ink containing portion, a sealing member, a frame portion and a cover portion. A top portion of the ink containing portion includes a port. The cover portion is pivotable about a first pivot axis between a maximum opened position and a closed position. One of a first opposing surface of the cover member and a second opposing surface of the cover portion is provided with a protrusion, and the other is provided with a recess portion. When the cover portion is in the closed position and the cover member is in the second position, a distance between the protrusion and the pivot shaft is equal to a distance between the recess portion and the pivot shaft.
US10131149B2
A printing assembly has at least one frame, which frame has at least two side walls, between which two side walls a transport path, provided for the transport of printing material, at least partially extends. At least one transport direction is defined by the transport path provided for the transport of printing material. The printing assembly has at least two cross members which are spaced apart from each other in the transport direction and which each extend from one of the side walls to another of the side walls. Each of the at least two cross members has at least one first cross beam and at least one second cross beam spaced apart therefrom, which jointly bound at least one interior of the particular cross member at least partially in and against the transport direction. At least one component of one of a gas transport device and at least one additional device for supplying at least one printing head with one of energy and operating media and printing fluid and data and at least one gas and at least one inner device for one of cleaning and maintaining and covering at least one printing head is arranged in the at least one interior in each case. The printing assembly has at least one supporting body which can be moved, in relation to the frame, in at least one parking direction and which extends at least in a transverse direction between side walls. At least one printing head is arranged on the at least one supporting body and can be moved jointly with the at least one supporting body.
US10131145B2
The present invention relates to a nozzle plate having small-diameter nozzle holes and large-diameter nozzle holes that are larger in diameter than the small-diameter nozzle holes and communicate with the small-diameter nozzle holes on the downstream side along the direction of ink flow.
US10131139B2
There is provided a liquid discharging apparatus configured to discharge liquid, including: a liquid discharging head including a driving element; a driving device configured to drive the driving element; a power unit; a switch configured to perform switching of voltage supply; and a controller. When the power unit is switched on, the controller causes a power supply voltage of the power unit to be raised up to a first voltage while checking the power supply voltage; and the controller controls the switch to start the voltage supply from the power unit to the driving device while the power supply voltage is being raised up to the first voltage; and under a condition that the voltage supply is started while the power supply voltage is being raised up to the first voltage, the controller controls the driving device to apply the voltage to the driving element.
US10131138B2
A modular decorator ink temperature control system for use with a blanket wheel, the blanket wheel having inker station configured with an inker station panel and at least one roller operatively mounted thereto. The modular decorator ink temperature control system includes a thermal transfer fluid conduit having an entry end distal to the blanket wheel and an exit end proximate to the blanket wheel with the thermal transfer fluid conduit in contact with the at least one roller and configured to convey at least one thermal transfer fluid therethrough. The modular decorator ink temperature control system also includes at least one control manifold device mounted on the inker station panel in operative communication with the thermal transfer fluid conduit.
US10131135B2
An imprint apparatus according to one embodiment includes a contact processing unit and a defect determination unit. The contact processing unit brings a template pattern formed on a front surface of a template into contact with resist placed on a substrate. The defect determination unit determines a defect in an imprint process, on the basis of force which is generated from at least one of the template, the resist, and the substrate, during the imprint process.
US10131133B2
Methods for forming optically heterogeneous phantom structures and phantom structures formed thereby
An optically heterogeneous phantom structure for use in optical imaging techniques. The phantom structure includes an external shape simulating an object to be subjected to an optical imaging technique, the external shape defining an external surface that encloses an internal volume of the external shape; and an optically heterogeneous material filling the internal volume and having heterogeneous optical properties for simulating at least one optical parameter of at least one region within the object. A method of producing the optically heterogeneous phantom structure. The method includes selectively depositing precursors of a first material and a second material by 3D printing so that the precursor of the second material is surrounded by the precursor of the first material within a predetermined internal region of the precursor of the first material, and forming the phantom structure. Variations of the method include additives to the materials.
US10131126B2
Methods for fabricating and refurbishing an assembly are disclosed herein. The method begins by applying an adhesive layer onto a first substrate. A second substrate is placed onto the adhesive layer, thereby securing the two substrates together, the adhesive layer bounding at least one side of a channel that extends laterally between the substrates to an exterior of the assembly. And, the substrates and the adhesive layer are subjected to a bonding procedure and allowing outgassing of volatiles from the adhesive layer to escape from between the substrates through the channel, wherein the substrates bonded by the adhesive layer form a component for a semiconductor vacuum processing chamber.
US10131120B2
A transparent laminated film is described, which has excellent chemical resistance and surface hardness, is glossy even after heating and which has a low haze value, and a laminated molded article that uses the film.
US10131112B2
A carbon composite component composed of a plastics-carbon-fiber composite material. The carbon composite component is made up of individual regions, in which at least one ply is composed, in at least a first region, of carbon fibers, and at least one additional region and/or the first region includes a ply which is composed of metal cords which are arranged spaced apart from one another and spatially oriented in at least one direction.
US10131106B2
A former shoulder (10) for a packing machine. The former shoulder (10) includes a former (12) having an external surface (13) over which strip bag material passes to be reconfigured into a tubular configuration. The bag material passes downwardly through a central opening (14) in the former shoulder (10). The former shoulder (10) includes a pair of pivoted guides (22, 23) that engage edge portions of the tubular bag material to form a fold (29) in the bag configuration (26) of the tubular bag material.
US10131099B2
A system and method for feeding a composite fluid to a mold for casting a reinforced composite structure, such as a rotor blade for a wind turbine are provided. The system includes a first feeding unit for feeding a first flow of composite fluid to the mold through a first mold inlet, and a second feeding unit for feeding a second flow of composite fluid to the mold through a second mold inlet. The first flow of composite fluid and the second flow of composite fluid are individually controllable.
US10131094B2
An exemplary air cushion inflation machine includes: a first terminal connected to a direct current input; a second terminal; a reference resistor powered by the direct current input; an op-amp; and a transistor. The first terminal of the op-amp is connected to a variable voltage source and the second terminal of the op-amp is connected to the reference resistor. The transistor has a base connected to an output of the op-amp, an emitter connected to the reference resistor, and a collector connected to a first terminal of a sealing band apparatus having first and second terminals. A meltable material placed between the first and second terminals is melted by resistance of current flowing between the first and second terminals. The variable voltage source changes voltage based on a voltage drop measured across the first and second terminals by a voltage measurement device and the constant current.
US10131091B2
A yarn or thread may include a plurality of substantially aligned filaments, with at least ninety-five percent of a material of the filaments being a thermoplastic polymer material. Various woven textiles and knitted textiles may be formed from the yarn or thread. The woven textiles or knitted textiles may be thermal bonded to other elements to form seams. A strand that is at least partially formed from a thermoplastic polymer material may extend through the seam, and the strand may be thermal bonded at the seam. The woven textiles or knitted textiles may be shaped or molded, incorporated into products, and recycled to form other products.
US10131080B2
A molding method of a liquid elastomer can reduce an amount of disposal of a molding material, and can prevent a metal mold from being enlarged in size on a plane when a plurality of molded articles are simultaneously molded by using the metal mold, thereby achieving a good manufacturing efficiency. The molding method of the liquid elastomer molds a molded article constructed by a liquid elastomer by using a metal mold, the metal mold is a metal mold for an injection molding, a plurality of product cavity spaces are provided side by side in a mold clamping and mold opening direction of the metal mold, and a plurality of molded articles are simultaneously molded by using the metal mold. The metal mold has a sprue, runners and gates which are communicated with a plurality of product cavity spaces. The runners have orthogonal runner portions and parallel runner portions.
US10131077B2
A device for molding a semiconductor package including an upper mold configured to retain a substrate thereon, the substrate having semiconductor chips thereon, a lower mold defining a cavity and including a plurality of moving blocks, a bottom surface of the cavity defined by the moving blocks, the cavity configured to contain a molding resin, the moving blocks movably arranged under the cavity, a driving unit configured to movably drive the moving blocks, and a controller configured to control an raising order of the moving blocks by controlling the driving unit may be provided.
US10131076B2
A bulk-density measuring device includes a first vessel in which contracted pre-expanded particles are swollen and recovered from contraction in a pressure-reduced state where a vessel internal pressure is lower than atmospheric pressure; a second vessel filled with the pre-expanded particles after being swollen in the first vessel in the pressure-reduced state where a vessel internal pressure is lower than the atmospheric pressure, and into which the pre-expanded particles of a constant volume are collected fractionally; a pressure-reducing unit that adjusts the vessel internal pressures of the first vessel and the second vessel to be lower than the atmospheric pressure; and a scale that measures a weight of the pre-expanded particles filled in the second vessel.
US10131069B2
A hand-held slicing device having a handle connected to a slicing tray. The slicing tray includes a ramp leading to a fixed blade. The ramp is readily adjustable such that the height of the edge of the ramp most closely adjacent the blade can be raised or lowered. In one version, the ramp can be raised or lowered by sliding a support structure connected to a knob that can be slideably adjusted by the user's thumb. The device may include a series of julienne blades that are selectively extendable above the slicing ramp or retractable below the ramp.
US10131062B1
A safety razor removes hair from skin using the cutting blade comprising a sharp edge along an elongated side of a planar surface. An outer comb has a row of outer teeth running along the planar surface on an outside of the cutting blade, each outer tooth is substantially perpendicular to the sharp edge and spaced with a gap between the row of the outer teeth and the planar surface of the cutting blade. Ends of the row of outer teeth comprise outer teeth tips. An inner guard runs along the planar surface on an inside of the cutting blade. The sharp edge of cutting blade is recessed up to a skin surface contour, the skin surface contour defined by the outer teeth tips and an edge of the inner guard. The sharp edge of cutting blade longitudinally bends to cause further recess relative to the skin surface contour.
US10131050B1
The rotary tool workbench cradle embodiment is a structural configuration that uniquely provides dual panel support to the collar and the housing of the rotary tool, utilizing a V-notched, slidable and ratcheted back panel to incrementally elevate the housing of the rotary tool for horizontal positioning. Accessories mounted in the collet of the rotary tool are aligned parallel to the workbench or table top providing a more effective means for a horizontal placement of the cutting tool surface to be sharpened. The parallel alignment of the grinding surface of the rotary tool accessory and the workbench surface to which a tool to be sharpened (chisel, knife, scissors) can be held or mounted, provides for sharpening with more precision. Moreover, the device facilitates the horizontal seating of the rotary tool for the young and for amateurs. Both hands are freed to more safely and effectively secure the workpiece.
US10131048B2
The present invention provides a connection device or tool (10, 110, 210, 310, 410, 510, 610, 1110, 2110, 3110, 4110) to connect a first tool (80, 90) to a second tool (90,80), the connection device or tool (10, 110, 210, 310, 410, 510, 610, 1110, 2110, 3110, 4110) comprising at least one shell member 30 which clamps a first end to said first tool (80, 90) and a second end of said at least one shell member 30 to engage with said second tool (90,80), whereby relative rotation between said first tool and second tool is prevented, and axial separation of said first tool (80, 90) and second tool (90,80) is prevented or is assisted in being prevented. This results in a safer combination of the first tool (80, 90) and second tool (90,80), and allows for a one handed operation of the combination.
US10131044B2
A fork seal driver tool includes two half-cylindrical pieces and a rotating retaining ring which rotates to hold the half-cylindrical pieces together.
US10131039B2
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for driving an implant and applying counter torque. For example, a driver can include a handle, a driver shaft, and a counter torque shaft, the counter torque shaft being laterally offset from the driver shaft. A distal end of each shaft can mate with a specific type of implant and/or anatomy. The shafts can be removed and replaced from the device, allowing a user to select shafts having particular lengths and/or mating tips. In use, distal ends of the shafts can be fixed or constrained relative to one another and to an implant such that the counter torque shaft cannot orbit around the driver shaft. Rotating the handle can rotate the driver shaft, driving the implant. This can cause the counter torque shaft to try to orbit around the driver shaft, but the fixed/constrained ends restrict this motion, applying the counter torque.
US10131032B2
The present invention relates to a rapid-replacing structure of multifunctional saw, including a head housing, a tool rest and an output device, wherein the output device comprises an output shaft. It also includes a quick-change device that consists of a rapid-replacing buckle, an eccentric block, a movable rod, a collet chuck, a tensioning rod and a compression spring. The rapid-replacing buckle and the eccentric block are connected with the top of the head housing through a straight pin. The movable rod is arranged in the output shaft, with its top end closely connected to the eccentric block and its bottom end connected to the tensioning rod by screw thread. The rapid-replacing structure of the multifunctional saw can realize the purpose of blade removal and replacement simply by shifting the rapid-replacing buckle on the upper side of the head housing, without using other auxiliary means, so it is simple and fast to operate.
US10131026B2
The present invention provides a device and method for measuring dimensions of a back boring cutter. The device is formed by a measuring portion (1), a connecting portion (2) and a clamping portion (6). The measuring portion (1) has a first horizontal through hole (7), a horizontal hole (5) and a vertical hole (4). The clamping portion (6) comprises a second horizontal through hole (7′), a side wall of the second horizontal through hole (7′) is provided with a bolt hole (8), and a bolt (3) passes through the bolt hole (8) to install and fix a to-be-measured back boring cutter. One end of the connecting portion (2) is fixed on the measuring portion (1), while the other end is fixed on the clamping portion (6). The device and the method of the present invention have the advantages that simple measurement of important dimensions of the back boring cutter is realized, and dimension detection of the back boring cutter is simpler and more accurate.
US10131021B2
In a method for manufacturing a forging die with improved wear resistance, hot-work tool steel is obtained in which Al is added as a de-oxidizing agent during manufacture of the hot-work tool steel in a sufficient quantity such that it is only partially consumed during the de-oxidizing process, leaving Al in a range of greater than 0.015 weight percent after the de-oxidizing process. The forging die is shaped from the hot-work tool steel. By a subsequent nitriding process, a hardened surface is created on the forging die by heating in a nitriding atmosphere by interaction with the Al to improve a hardened surface on the hot-work forging die resulting in an improvement in wear resistance.
US10131015B2
A recoater that is two-dimensionally driven is cooled by a simple structure. A three-dimensional laminating and shaping apparatus includes at least one material spreader that spreads a material of a three-dimensional laminated and shaped object, a temperature measurer that measures a temperature of the material spreader, at least one cooler that cools the material spreader and is provided at a standby position at which the material spreader stands by while the material is not spread, and a controller that controls the material spreader. The controller moves the material spreader to the standby position to bring the material spreader and the cooler into contact with each other.
US10131011B2
A method for joining a first metal part (11) with a second metal part (12), the metal parts (11,12) having a solidus temperature above 1100 QC. The method comprises: applying a melting depressant composition (14) on a surface (15) of the first metal part (11), the melting depressant composition (14) comprising a melting depressant component that comprises at least 25 wt % boron and silicon for decreasing a melting temperature of the first metal part (11); bringing (202) the second metal part (12) into contact with the melting depressant composition (14) at a contact point (16) on said surface (15); heating the first and second metal parts (11,12) to a temperature above 1100 QC; and allowing a melted metal layer (210) of the first metal component (11) to solidify, such that a joint (25) is obtained at the contact point (16). The melting depressant composition and related products are also described.
US10131007B2
A cutting tool (2) is specified with a cutting region (4) that comprises a substrate (12) onto which a coating (10) is applied, which coating (10) is subsequently processed, whereby a sharp cutting edge (8) is formed. Furthermore, a corresponding method for the manufacture of the cutting tool (2) is specified. By means of the sharpening of the cutting edge (8) after the coating rather than before, a particularly sharp cutting edge (8) is formed, whereby the precision of the cutting tool (2) as well as its service life is improved.
US10131005B2
A cutting tool includes a cartridge-receiving pocket, and an adjustable cartridge assembly mounted in the cartridge-receiving pocket. The adjustable cartridge assembly includes a cartridge with an insert-receiving pocket and a wedge. The wedge has planar surfaces formed at taper angles of between greater than zero degrees and less than or equal to about five degrees that contact the bottom wall of the cartridge to move a cutting insert mounted in the insert-receiving pocket of the cartridge in a direction of a central axis of the cutting tool. The planar surfaces are at different distances from a central axis of the wedge to place the wedge in a minus, nominal or plus orientation, respectively.
US10131004B1
A cutting insert has opposing front and back end surfaces with a peripheral side surface extending therebetween and a first axis extending therethrough, and a median plane perpendicular to the first axis located between the front and back end surfaces. Each of the front and back end surfaces has a rectangular shape in a respective end view thereof, and two diagonally opposed raised corners and two diagonally opposed lowered corners with respect to the median plane. The front end surface has a front major cutting edge associated therewith, and in a cross-section taken in a first plane containing the first axis, the front end surface has a concave shape and the back end surface has a convex shape. The cutting insert is removably secured in an insert receiving pocket of a cutting tool with the peripheral side surface and back end surface making contact with pocket support walls.
US10130996B2
A frictional drive railway wheel truing system comprising a master lift and drive arm spaced from a slave lift and drive arm extending from within a railway pit for lifting a pair of opposed railway wheels off railway rails. Each master and slave drive assembly comprising frictional drums to turn a railway wheel from a wheel flange. A master and slave lathe assembly moveable along an axis parallel to a rotational axis of the frictional drums; each master and slave lathe assembly having a cutting bit positioned to engage a tread and a flange of a railway wheel in a cut mode at a location superior to the contact area of said frictional drums and railway wheel; and a hold down device fixing rotation of a railway wheel to a predetermined axis during a wheel truing operation.
US10130989B2
An opening is provided in a foam pattern, and a coating agent is applied to the opening. The coating agent applied to the opening is taken as a beam having a sectional secondary moment I (mm4), a vertical plate thickness h (mm), and a length L (mm). It is assumed that a volume of a cavity part in the foam pattern is V (mm3), a bulk density of the casting sand filling the cavity part is ρs (kg/mm3), a gravitational acceleration is g (mm/sec2), a density of the melt is ρm (kg/mm3), an angle of the opening with respect to a vertical direction is θ, and a transverse strength of the coating agent at the highest temperature during pouring of the melt is σb (MPa). A sectional shape of the opening, the angle θ of the opening, and the transverse strength σb of the coating agent are selected to satisfy the expression: σbI>V(ρm−ρs)g{(hL/2)sin θ−cos θ}.
US10130988B2
A form-rolling die structure with die members which are pressed against a material to be threaded and which have rigid surfaces that are relatively displaced. The die members are equipped with a plurality of independent concave portions which form a substantially parallelogram shape when viewed from the normal of a virtual surface obtained by connecting the outermost portions of each of the rigid surfaces, and which are recessed from the virtual surface. Two of the corners at the sites corresponding to the four corners of the substantially parallelogram-shape of the concave portions are rounded. The periphery of each concave portion in the cross-section along the direction of the normal is rounded along the periphery of the substantially parallelogram shape. The concave portions form a substantially truncated-pyramid shape.
US10130983B2
A power bender may be provided. The power bender may comprise a cart, a bender mechanism, and a scissor mechanism. The cart may have a zero turn radius. The bender mechanism may be configured to bend conduit. The scissor mechanism may be disposed between the cart and the bender mechanism. The scissor mechanism may be configured adjust a working height of the bender mechanism above the cart. The bender mechanism may be configured to rotate about a pivot point.
US10130964B2
An adjustable pump includes a ring connected to an open end of a container, a cap rectilinearly movable relative to the ring to dispense fluid from the container, and a quantity-adjusting unit that includes a limiting element and a knob. The limiting element is adapted for contacting the cap and hence limiting the rectilinear movement of the cap relative to the ring. The limiting element is rectilinearly movable relative to the ring to adjust a stroke of the movement of the cap relative to the ring. The limiting element includes at least one boss. The knob is rotatable relative to the ring around the limiting element. The knob includes at least one helical groove that receives the boss so that the limiting element is moved relative to the ring as the knob is rotated relative to the ring.
US10130962B2
A pressure washer includes a prime mover, a pump driven by the prime mover, and a spray gun fluidly coupled to the pump. The spray gun includes a flow-control valve movable between an open position and a closed position to control a fluid flow from the spray gun, a user interface for controlling the flow-control valve, a sensor configured to detect the state of the user interface, and a first wireless system electrically coupled to the sensor. In a first state of the user interface, the flow-control valve is in the closed position. In a second state of the user interface, the flow-control valve is in the open position. The pressure washer further includes a second wireless system electrically coupled to the prime mover. The second wireless system signals the prime mover to start to drive the pump to provide fluid to the spray gun upon receiving a start signal from the first wireless system indicating that the sensor detects the user interface in the second state.
US10130957B2
A flow element, for a separation device, of simple construction and stably connectable to similarly constructed flow elements, includes a disc-shaped base body including a first side and a second side opposite the first side, wherein the first and/or second side includes a plurality of channels through which, in the mounted condition of the flow element in the separation device, a fluid is guidable outwards from a central opening in the base body, which is arranged centrally in the disc-shaped base body, or from the outside towards the centrally arranged central opening, wherein the base body includes a plurality of receiving portions at least on the first side and a plurality of projections at least on the second side, wherein, in the mounted condition of the flow element, the projections are engageable with the receiving portions of a further, similarly constructed flow element that is placed on the flow element.
US10130956B2
Methods of enhancing recovery of value sulfide and/or precious-metal minerals from an ore containing said minerals and a Mg-silicate, slime forming mineral, and/or clay, and which is subjected to a froth flotation process, by adding to one or more stage of the froth flotation process a froth phase modifier having a polymer containing one or more functional groups, and optionally a monovalent ion modifier enhancing agent, thereby enhancing recovery of a value sulfide mineral and/or a precious metal-bearing mineral.
US10130954B2
A device for separating components of a mixture, particularly industrial fluids but also gases including air, allows for targeted components of the mixture to be attached onto a separating bar and removed from the mixture. The separating bars traverse a track formed within the body of the separating device and through respective tank, cleaning, free roll, and compression regions in a controlled cleaning system. The separating bars are detached from one another and allowed to move through the separating device independently of one another. The device removes the use of chains to connect cleaning bars traversing through a cleaning system.
US10130947B2
The invention relates to a microfluidic system for processing biological samples comprising a holding chamber adapted for holding a fluid and to be rotated on a platform, said holding chamber comprising an outlet through which fluid flow is controlled by an acceleration-primed valve system, wherein the acceleration-primed valve system comprises a capillary valve and an outlet channel. The invention provides a novel valving system, which retains fluids at low angular velocities, removes the need for hydrophilic surfaces, minimizes disc real-estate and optimizes certain microfluidic processes done in the holding chamber.
US10130939B2
A process of forming a direct NOx catalyst includes the steps of providing a palladium salt, providing a silicon oxide support material, mixing the palladium salt and silicon oxide support material in an aqueous solution, evaporating the aqueous solution forming a solid, calcining the solid, and then exposing the calcined solid to a pretreatment gas at a specified temperature to form a desired direct NOx catalyst. When the process includes exposing the calcined solid to helium gas at a temperature of from 650 to 1000° C. the catalyst may include a mixture of palladium and palladium oxide having a particle size of from 5 to 150 nm where the palladium particles are discrete particles without sintering and the mixture may include 41% by weight palladium oxide and 51% by weight palladium metal.
US10130938B2
A method of producing a hydrogenation catalyst, for example, a phthalate hydrogenation catalyst, comprising contacting a silica support having a medium pore size of at least about 10 nm with an acid to produce a treated silica support, and depositing a noble metal, preferably ruthenium, on the treated silica support to produce a noble metal-containing silica support, and optionally contacting the noble metal-containing silica support with a chelating agent to form the hydrogenation catalyst; a hydrogenation catalyst prepared by that method; and a method of hydrogenating unsaturated hydrocarbons, such as, phthalates, in which an unsaturated hydrocarbon is contacted with hydrogen gas in the presence of the hydrogenation catalyst of the invention.
US10130935B2
Improved catalysts including two-dimensional metal oxide species highly dispersed on a silica support are disclosed, as well methods of making and using such catalysts. The catalysts are substantially free of metal oxide nanoparticles. The higher than expected maximum dispersion densities are obtained in the catalysts by introducing dispersion-promoting sodium ions, and optionally, aluminum ions, onto the silica support. The improved catalysts may be used in a variety of chemical processes, including, without limitation, in dehydrogenation, oxidation, and metathesis reactions.
US10130932B2
The invention relates to an organic-inorganic hybrid material which comprises an inorganic solid support on which are grafted organic molecules of the general formula (I) hereafter: and relates to methods allowing preparation of this hybrid material as well as to the uses of the hybrid material for extracting uranium(VI) from an aqueous medium comprising phosphoric acid.
US10130931B2
Disclosed are a granular super absorbent polymer, including particles (A) having an average diameter of 150 to 850 μm, wherein the particles (A) includes particles (a1) having an average diameter of 500 to 850 μm; and particles (a2) having an average diameter of 150 to 250 μm, and the particles (a1 and a2) have a water-solubility index of 0.08 to 2.0 (represented by Equation 1), thereby it is possible to maintain a proper amount of extractables in a resin, and to exhibit excellent flow conductivity and water absorption ability in a case of being actually applied to products, without inducing any skin problem when, as well as a preparation method thereof.
US10130923B2
A method for stirring resin pellets, which includes stirring adhesive resin pellets in a liquid in a stirring tank equipped with a stirring impeller, under the condition satisfying the following relational expression (I): ρ ( Np 1 / 3 nD ) 2 Δ pgdp ≧ 10 ( I ) wherein ρ is the density of the liquid (kg/m3), Np is the power number of the stirring impeller, n is the rotational speed (1/s), D is the diameter of the stirring impeller (m), Δρ is the difference in density between the resin pellets and the liquid (kg/m3), g is the gravitational acceleration (m/s2), and dp is the particle diameter of the resin pellets (m).
US10130922B2
A receptacle has a wall defining a receptacle interior and a shaft housing for guiding a shaft through the wall into the receptacle interior. The shaft housing defines an annular cap with spaced apart inner and outer walls connected by an inner end face facing the receptacle interior. A shaft guide part has an end facing the receptacle interior and an outer surface that defines a gap relative to the inner wall of the shaft housing. The shaft guide part has an annular wall spaced apart from and parallel to its outer surface. The annular wall extends over the free end of the inner wall of the shaft housing and is sealed to the inner and outer walls of the shaft housing by at least one seal each. The shaft guide part is mounted in the shaft housing by a radial ball bearing and by an axial ball bearing.
US10130921B2
A stirring body has a hyperboloid-like or truncated cone-like form and a central connector piece for connection to a stirring shaft. To simplify the production of the stirring body and to reduce the transport outlay, it is proposed for the stirring body to be formed from a plurality of segments which are interconnected along joining zones extending from a peripheral edge in the direction of the connector piece.
US10130920B2
A mixing impeller has first and second subassemblies. A magnet is accommodated in the first subassembly and is adapted to be magnetically coupled to a drive device to be driven. The second subassembly has at least one impeller blade for mixing components when rotating the mixing impeller. The first and second subassemblies are formed as separate entities which are selectively engageable. A method of manufacturing the first subassembly and a method of assembling the mixing impeller also are provided.
US10130909B2
A method of drying a fluid comprising a fluoropropene, which method comprises the step of contacting the fluid with a desiccant comprising molecular sieve having openings which have a size across their largest dimension of from about 3 Å to about 5 Å. A heat transfer device comprising a heat transfer fluid comprising a fluoropropene, and a desiccant comprising a molecular sieve having openings which have a size across their largest dimension of from about 3 Å to about 5 Å. Preferably, the fluoropropene is R134yf or R-1225ye.
US10130905B2
Adsorbent materials are disclosed, along with filter elements containing the adsorbent materials methods of using adsorbents to remove siloxane contaminants from a gas stream. The method includes providing an adsorbent material that has been washed with an acid and passing a gas through the adsorbent material so as to reduce siloxane levels in the gas. A filter element for reducing siloxane levels in a gas includes a first adsorbent material, the first adsorbent material comprising an acid-washed adsorbent; and a second adsorbent material, the second adsorbent material comprising an acid-impregnated adsorbent.
US10130903B2
A fluid filter apparatus comprising an upper housing shell; a lower housing shell; a pleat pack element comprising a peripheral frame and a folded pleated media. The frame is at least partially molded over the media to secure the media in the frame, and the media comprises two or more types of media of different densities from each other.
US10130901B2
An example system includes an auger assembly that is attachable to a vacuum system, in which the auger assembly includes a hose, an auger, and an auger motor. The hose includes an inlet at a distal end and an outlet at a proximal end. The auger includes a shaftless helical blade having a portion that is radially enveloped by the hose. The vacuum system is adapted to suck material from the septic tank or pit latrine via the hose. The auger motor is adapted to rotate the auger about a helical axis in a first direction, in which the rotation about the helical axis in the first direction causes the shaftless helical blade of the auger to translate along the helical axis from the outlet of the hose towards the inlet of the hose.
US10130892B2
A modular construction system and method of assembly designed to provide the user with the flexibility to build a wide array of customized buildings and other similar items, while offering lifelike detail of construction materials in those items. The system and method include a number of stackable unique part shapes which may be used in different orientations to construct a building, partial building, sculpture, or other item. The pieces have an integrated system for attaching to one another, which is designed so that pieces may be oriented a number of different ways relative to one another, for example, in order to minimize the chance of pattern repetition in the texture of the walls of the final structure. The structural pieces of the product may contain only female receptacles for attachment. Attachment may be accomplished by inserting a double ended male piece into each of two abutting female receptacles.
US10130890B2
Provided is a user interface having improved usability when, in a period in which information relating to a state of a game which is being executed by a game device is being distributed to another game device, users exchange messages regarding the game being distributed. The game device executes a game application, distributes the information relating to the state of the game being executed to the another game device, receives from a distribution-destination game device a message input by the user of the distribution-destination game device regarding the distributed information, and controls display means to display a game image representing the state of the game along with the received message.
US10130883B2
An information processing device communicates with a block set assembled by a user, and thereby obtains information on the structure of the block set. In addition, a corresponding position setting screen including an image of an object corresponding to the block set is displayed on a display device. The user moves a joint of the block set which joint is desired to be associated, by for example bending and stretching the joint. Next, the user indicates a joint to be associated on a 3D object side in the image of the 3D object by a cursor, and performs a determination input. The joint of the block set and the joint of the 3D object are thereby associated with each other. The block set and the object are interlocked with each other bidirectionally by thus setting the corresponding positions of the block set and the object.
US10130876B2
A joystick module includes a base, a joystick body, a joystick cover and a second protruding edge. The base includes a casing and a first protruding edge. A top part of the casing has an opening. The first protruding edge is formed on a periphery of the opening of the casing. The joystick body is installed in the base. A first end of the joystick body is protruded through the opening so as to be rotated. The joystick cover is installed in the base and connected with the joystick body. In response to a rotation of the joystick body, the joystick cover is correspondingly rotated. During the rotation of the joystick body, a part of the second protruding edge is contacted with an inner surface of the casing. When the part of the second protruding edge is contacted with a part of the first protruding edge, the rotation of the joystick body is limited.
