US10139885B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus to facilitate wireless device monitoring and control are provided. A first device controller may be adapted to be disposed within a power connector, in series with conductors of the power connector. The power connector may be adapted to provide power from a power source to a device. The first device controller may include two terminals to electrically couple the first device controller with the conductors of the power connector. The first device controller may further include a power component to power the first device controller. The first device controller may be configured to monitor one or more conditions of the device, control one or more functions of the device, and wirelessly communicate with a system controller that is remote from the power connector and the device. The power connector may correspond to a power plug and/or a terminal block.
US10139881B2
An information handling system allocates power for internal use and to support peripheral device operations by managing bi-directional power transfer at plural cable ports. A motion detector disposed in a port detects motion of a cable disconnecting from the port and communicates the motion to a power controller that coordinates termination of power draw from the cable before the power connection between the cable and port is lost.
US10139877B2
A method for managing an energy consuming load in a group of energy consuming loads and a method for managing the group of energy consuming loads. The method includes generating sets of load state data from the loads, making enablement state decisions for one or more loads using the sets of load state data, and implementing the enablement state decisions. Each of the enablement state decisions reflects an enablement state of a load, wherein the enablement state is either a load enabled state where the load is capable of operating even when the load is not actually operating or a load disabled state where the load is not capable of operating. A computer readable medium may include computer readable instructions for directing a processor to perform the methods and make the enablement state decision. Further, an apparatus comprised of a processor may be programmed to perform the methods.
US10139876B2
A computer system is rebooted after updating a boot image without running platform firmware with its power-on self-test of system hardware devices and without retrieving all of the modules included in a boot image from an external source and reloading them into system memory. The reboot process includes the steps of loading one or more updated modules of the boot image into the system memory, executing the boot loader module to load for execution modules of the boot image including a system software kernel and the updated modules, and transferring execution control to the system software kernel.
US10139874B2
The present disclosure involves a heat dissipater for a storage and the corresponding storage. The storage comprises a drawer chassis including at least one baffle arranged in a direction perpendicular to a pulling direction of the drawer chassis. The drawer chassis accommodates disks organized in a plurality of rows and placed against the corresponding baffle. The heat dissipater comprises: venting holes arranged on the baffle and corresponding to disks placed against the respective baffle; and flyers arranged on the baffle and corresponding to the venting holes respectively, the flyers being arranged to block the corresponding venting holes and to expose the corresponding venting holes in response to the attraction of the magnetic winding.
US10139870B2
A touch sensing device is disclosed. The touch sensing device includes one or more multifunctional nodes each of which represents a single touch pixel. Each multifunctional node includes a touch sensor with one or more integrated I/O mechanisms. The touch sensor and integrated I/O mechanisms share the same communication lines and I/O pins of a controller during operation of the touch sensing device.
US10139857B2
An accessory includes a main body including a communication module that is configured to communicate with a predetermined network, and a container including a main body-coupling portion that is located at an upper portion of the container and configured to separably couple to the main body. The main body includes an upper edge extending along a circumference of a first predetermined figure, and the container includes a lower edge extending along a circumference of a third predetermined figure. Based on the main body being coupled to the container, one of the upper edge of the main body and the lower edge of the container is located closer to a central axis passing the main body in a vertical direction than the other of the upper edge of the main body and the lower edge of the container.
US10139850B2
A current mirror includes an input transistor and an output transistor, wherein the sources of the input and output transistor are connected to a supply voltage node. The gates of the input and output transistors are connected through a switch. A first current source is coupled to the input transistor to provide an input current. A copy transistor has a source connected to the supply node and a gate connected to the gate of the input transistor at a mirror node. A second current source is coupled to the copy transistor to provide a copy current. A source-follower transistor has its source connected to the mirror node and its gate connected to the drain of the copy transistor. Charge sharing at the mirror node occurs in response to actuation of the switch and the source-follower transistor is turned on in response thereto to discharge the mirror node.
US10139845B2
A system and method for the software and hardware-based management and control of overall energy consumption in a telecommunications network is described. The energy consumption management in broadband telecommunications networks is accomplished via an adaptive power system interface and network energy controller that has access to the energy management systems, subsystems, features, individual components and configurations of equipment and services within the network, and provides energy consumption control of an entire network or a portion thereof using a plethora of different types of equipment, equipment or software features, equipment cards, ports, devices, systems, and entire facilities within a network.
US10139838B2
Embodiments for managing drones by a processor are described. A plurality of drones are detachably coupled to each other at a first location. While the plurality of drones are detachably coupled to each other, the plurality of drones travel from the first location to a second location. At least one of the plurality of drones detaches from the others of the plurality of drones at the second location. The at least one detached drone travels from the second location to a third location.
US10139837B2
An aerial system and method of operating an aerial system is provided. The aerial system includes a body, a lift mechanism, a processing system, a camera, and a sensor module. The lift mechanism is coupled to the body and configured to controllably provide lift and/or thrust. The processing system is configured to control the lift mechanism to provide flight to the aerial system. The camera is coupled to the body and is configured to obtain images of an environment proximate the aerial system. The sensor module is coupled to the body and includes an emitter and a receiver. The receiver is configured to sense data related to an ambient environment associated with the aerial system. The processing system controls a controllable parameter of the lift mechanism or the emitter as a function of the sensed data.
US10139824B2
An automatic driving vehicle has an automatic driving mode in which autonomous traveling is carried out, the automatic driving vehicle including: behavior setup receiving means configured to receive a setup for a behavior after getting out from the automatic driving vehicle, the setup being to be inputted when a driver or passenger gets out from the automatic driving vehicle; and control means configured to control conduct of the behavior on the basis of the setup. A program is provided for the automatic driving vehicle which includes a computer, the program causing the computer to function as: behavior setup receiving means configured to receive a setup for a behavior after getting out from the automatic driving vehicle, the setup being inputted by a driver or passenger who gets out from the automatic driving vehicle; and control means configured to control conduct of the behavior on the basis of the setup.
US10139823B2
A method and device for effecting vehicle control is presented. The method includes receiving driving map data, which includes vehicle target data relative to a vehicle location data. The driving map data is processed to produce desired vehicle operational data, the desired vehicle operational data facilitates a vehicle to traverse a travel route. From the desired vehicle operational data vehicle, corresponding actuator control data is produced, and transmitted to effect vehicle control in either of the autonomous or driver-assisted modes.
US10139818B2
Described is a system that provides the ability for an autonomous driving vehicle to visually communicate with other traffic entities such as other autonomous driving vehicles, non-autonomous driving vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists, and the like. To provide such an ability, the system allows autonomous driving vehicles to communicate using a lighting mechanism. For example, the lighting mechanism may include one or more specialized lights that are provided in addition to any mandated lighting systems required for a vehicle (e.g. brake lights, headlights, turn signals, etc.). Accordingly, the autonomous driving vehicle may communicate with traffic entities to provide additional cues such as intended driving maneuvers, and to provide a mechanism for two-way communication with other autonomous driving vehicles.
US10139807B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products for customized arthroplasty cutting guides or jigs. In particular, the present disclosure provides for a method of creating a customized arthroplasty cutting jig from one or more two-dimensional (2D) images of the patient's joint. The method includes receiving the 2D images of the joint from an imaging device, reformatting the images, and creating a customized jig template from the images. One or more landmarks are electronically marked on one or more of the series of 2D images of the patient's joint through a computing device. Once the template for the cutting jig is created utilizing one or more of the electronic markers on the 2D images, a cutting or milling program is generated by the computing device that may then be provided to a milling machine to create the cutting jig corresponding to the milling program.
US10139805B2
A ladder diagram monitoring device displays an operation situation of a ladder program executed on a programmable controller built in a CNC on a monitor. A comment added to a circuit of the ladder program is provided with a region for displaying information on an operation situation of the CNC, the operation situation of the ladder program is reflected in the region, and display data in which the operation situation of the CNC is displayed is displayed.
US10139798B2
A production machine or machine tool has a memory into which a part program incorporating HMI instructions in the form of script segments is loaded, wherein the HMI instructions are evaluated by a processing component during the execution of the part program and wherein a display unit is controlled by the processing component for displaying HMI outputs. A corresponding method and a computer program for executing the method are also disclosed.
US10139797B2
An irrigation modeling framework in precision agriculture utilizes a combination of weather data, crop data, and other agricultural inputs to create customized agronomic models for diagnosing and predicting a moisture state in a field, and a corresponding need for, and timing of, irrigation activities. Specific combinations of various agricultural inputs can be applied, together with weather information to identify or adjust water-related characteristics of crops and soils, to model optimal irrigation activities and provide advisories, recommendations, and scheduling guidance for targeted application of artificial precipitation to address specific moisture conditions in a soil system of a field.
US10139796B2
A controller and method for state-transition-based processing of objects following a state-structured process flow with plural process states. For each process state, one or more tasks are selected to process a transition of a selected object from one process state to a subsequent process state. State parameters of the object are captured. The current process state of the object is determined based on the captured state parameters. The tasks are generated for a specific process state in dependence on assigned task parameters of a process task. Operating tags are expendably assigned to a process task by an assigner unit or assignee unit, the operating tags including dynamically alterable operating parameters adding operational constraints to processing the process task. The state-structured process flow is dynamically generated and processed by triggering defined threshold and/or trigger values and/or steering the processing of the process tasks based on the operating parameters of the operating-tags.
US10139795B2
A method to provide prognosis and diagnosis of environmental control system maintenance. The method including imaging, with at least one imaging unit, in real time at least one portion of an environmental control system in operation, wherein real time images register a dynamic feature of a dynamic predetermined characteristic of the at least one portion of the environmental control system, comparing, with a controller, the real time images of the at least one portion of the environmental control system with stored images of the at least one portion of the environmental control system in operation to identify a change in the dynamic feature of the dynamic predetermined characteristic of the at least one portion of the environmental control system, and determining, with the controller, whether an abnormality exists in the at least one portion of the environmental control system based on the identified change in the dynamic feature between the real time images and the stored images of the at least one portion of the environmental control system.
US10139790B2
Methods and systems for operating a security and/or automation system using one or more powered faceplates are disclosed. The methods may include identifying an active communication connection with a first powered faceplate, receiving a first set of automation data, receiving a second set of automation data, analyzing the first set of automation data and the second set of automation data, and initiating an operation relating to at least one of a first powered faceplate, one or more other powered faceplates, an automation sensor, an automation system component, a user device, or a combination thereof based at least in part on the analyzing.
US10139784B2
The present invention proposes an electronic watch including a display device comprising a time dial, a first hand and a second hand which pivot coaxially, independently driven by two drive members, and in a first display mode, one hand indicates the hour and the other indicates the minutes of the current time in reference to their respective positions on the time dial. In an original manner, the watch further includes a control member able to activate a second display mode, in which the first and second hands are positioned in reference to the time dial so as to respectively indicate the tens and units of the date.
US10139782B2
A bidirectional correction mechanism for correcting the position of a first and of a second gear train, via a setting device driving a corrector pinion, including a correction lever pivoting on an arbor of the corrector pinion, which carries, meshing with the corrector pinion, a first wheel set for driving the first gear train, and a second wheel set for driving the second gear train. This mechanism includes an elastic element which, in the absence of action on the setting device, returns the correction lever to a neutral position wherein the wheel sets are uncoupled from the first and second wheel trains, and either a friction connection between the correction lever and the arbor, or a friction connection between the elastic element on the one hand, and the first wheel set and the second wheel set on the other hand.
US10139777B2
A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, includes a rotatable photosensitive drum; a rotatable developing roller configured to develop image formed on the drum, the developing roller being capable of contacting to and spacing from the drum; an urging force receiving portion configured to receive, from a main assembly side urging member, an urging force for spacing the developing roller from the drum; a cartridge side drive transmission member capable of the coupling with a main assembly side drive transmission member and configured to receive, from the main assembly side drive transmission member, a rotational force for rotating the developing roller; and a decoupling member capable of urging the cartridge side drive transmission member by the urging force received by the urging force receiving portion to decouple the cartridge side drive transmission member from the main assembly side drive transmission member.
US10139769B2
An image forming apparatus that avoids adverse effects after the next start-up when the snapshot acquisition process is performed in a power saving state. The image forming apparatus executes a first snapshot acquisition process storing save target information for a first device group, and executes a second snapshot acquisition process storing save target information for a second device group.
US10139764B2
To suppress the wrong detection of the image pattern, an image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming units respectively configured to form images of different colors, an intermediate transfer member to which a pattern to detect an amount of color misregistration of an image formed by the plurality of image forming units is transferred, a sensor configured to assure reflected light from the pattern on the intermediate transfer member to output an output value in accordance with a measurement result, a comparator configured to compare the output value output from the sensor with a threshold, and a controller configured to control the plurality of image forming units to respectively form a plurality of patterns of different colors on the intermediate transfer member, to control the sensor to measure reflected light from the plurality of patterns.
US10139760B2
Provided is a fixing belt including a base layer, an elastic layer, and a release layer. The release layer has surface geometry including a first uneven profile and a second uneven profile formed on the surface of the first uneven profile. The first uneven profile is represented as a maximum height roughness, Rz, of 5.0 to 100 μm. The second uneven profile is represented as Rz of 0.5 to 0.9 μm.
US10139755B2
A developing device includes: a plurality of development sections arranged in an axis direction of a developer bearing member; a communication section disposed at a boundary of adjacent two development sections of the development sections, and configured to communicate between the two development sections; and a control section configured to perform an operation of moving the developer between the two development sections through the communication section to equalize degradation states of the developer in the two development sections.
US10139745B2
A toner according to the present disclosure maintains high transfer efficiency for the long term and obtains images which are not affected by toner base particles easily, which exhibit excellent charge stability, and which exhibit less fogging, wherein the toner is obtained by making inorganic fine particles and charge control particles, which satisfy specific conditions, present on the surfaces of toner base particles so as to satisfy a specific coverage relationship.
US10139742B2
An electrophotographic varnish composition that comprises, in a liquid carrier, a polymeric resin; an epoxy-based cross-linking agent, a mono-epoxy diluent and a metal catalyst and/or a photo-initiator. Also described herein is a method for making such electrophotographic varnish composition.
US10139741B2
The present invention is to provide a charge transport substance having high resistance to stress within electrophotographic processes, an electrophotographic photoreceptor which has excellent high-speed responsiveness, shows a sufficient residual potential, and has high resistance to stress within electrophotographic processes, an electrophotographic cartridge, and an image-forming apparatus. The invention provides a charge transport substance having a specific structure. The invention further provides an electrophotographic photoreceptor including a photosensitive layer which contains the charge transport substance having a specific structure, an electrophotographic cartridge, and an image-forming apparatus, equipped with this electrophotographic photoreceptor.
US10139740B2
A lithographic apparatus is described, the apparatus comprising: an illumination system configured to condition a radiation beam; a support constructed to support a patterning device, the patterning device being capable of imparting the radiation beam with a pattern in its cross-section to form a patterned radiation beam; a substrate table constructed to hold a substrate; and a projection system configured to project the patterned radiation beam onto a target portion of the substrate, wherein the apparatus further comprises an alignment system configured to perform, for one or more alignment marks that are present on the substrate: —a plurality of alignment mark position measurements for the alignment mark by applying a respective plurality of different alignment measurement parameters, thereby obtaining a plurality of measured alignment mark positions for the alignment mark; the apparatus further comprising a processing unit, the processing unit being configured to: —determine, for each of the plurality of alignment mark position measurements, a positional deviation as a difference between an expected alignment mark position and a measured alignment mark position, the measured alignment mark position being determined based on the respective alignment mark position measurement; —define a set of functions as possible causes for the positional deviations, the set of functions including a substrate deformation function representing a deformation of the substrate, and at least one mark deformation function representing a deformation of the one or more alignment marks; —generating a matrix equation PD=M*F whereby a vector PD comprising the positional deviations is set equal to a weighted combination, represented by a weight coefficient matrix M, of a vector F comprising the substrate deformation function and the at least one mark deformation function, whereby weight coefficients associated with the at least one mark deformation function vary depending on applied alignment measurement; —determining a value for the weight coefficients of the matrix M; —determining an inverse or pseudo-inverse matrix of the matrix M, thereby obtaining a value for the substrate deformation function as a weighted combination of the positional deviations. —applying the value of the substrate deformation function to perform an alignment of the target portion with the patterned radiation beam.
US10139737B2
When a transition from a first state where one stage is positioned at a first area directly below projection optical system to which liquid is supplied to a state where the other stage-is positioned at the first area, both stages are simultaneously driven while a state where both stages are close together in the X-axis direction is maintained. Therefore, it becomes possible to make a transition from the first state to the second state in a state where liquid is supplied in the space between the projection optical system and the specific stage directly under the projection optical system. Accordingly, the time from the completion of exposure operation on one stage side until the exposure operation begins on the other stage side can be reduced, which allows processing with high throughput. Further, because the liquid can constantly exist on the image plane side of the projection optical system, generation of water marks on optical members of the projection optical system on the image plane side is prevented.
US10139727B2
A chemical amplification resist composition according to the present invention includes (A) a compound including a triarylsulfonium cation having one or more fluorine atoms and capable of generating an acid with a volume of 240 Å3 or higher by irradiation of active rays or radiation; and (B) a compound including a phenolic hydroxyl group.
US10139725B2
The present invention is concerned with an apparatus for shielding a reticle for EUV lithography. The apparatus comprises a pellicle, and at least one actuator in communication with the pellicle, the actuator being configured to induce, in use, movement of the pellicle with respect to a reticle.
US10139724B2
The concepts described herein involve the use of random copolymer top coats that can be spin coated onto block copolymer thin films and used to control the interfacial energy of the top coat-block copolymer interface. The top coats are soluble in aqueous weak base and can change surface energy once they are deposited onto the block copolymer thin film. The use of self-assembled block copolymers to produce advanced lithographic patterns relies on their orientation control in thin films. Top coats potentially allow for the facile orientation control of block copolymers which would otherwise be quite challenging.
US10139718B2
An image projection apparatus includes an illumination device, an optical-path forming section, an image forming element, a projection optical section, and an optical component. The illumination device includes a fluorescence generator; a wavelength selector having a first area and a second area; and a polarization converter; and an optical-path switcher. The wavelength selector alternately sets the first area and the second area in an optical path of the first light in a temporal manner. The illumination device switches a first optical path and a second optical path based on a setting of the wavelength selector.
US10139708B2
A camera mount for mounting a camera inside a windshield of a vehicle. The camera includes a lens mount and a camera housing. The front tip of the lens mount is constrained to be in close proximity to or constrained to contact the inside of the windshield for different rake angles of the windshield.
US10139699B2
A communications device may include a local device, a remote device, and a multi-mode optical fiber coupled between the local device and the remote device. The local device may include a local spatial optical mux/demux coupled to the multi-mode optical fiber and having first and second local optical outputs and first and second local optical inputs, and a local electro-optic E/O modulator coupled to the second local optical input. The remote device may include a remote spatial optical mux/demux coupled to the multi-mode optical fiber, and a remote E/O modulator configured to generate a modulated signal onto a first remote optical output based upon modulating the first optical carrier signal from a first remote optical input responsive to a radio frequency (RF) electrical input signal.
US10139698B2
An electrophoretic display (EPD) and a driving method thereof. The electrophoretic display (EPD) includes: an upper substrate and a lower substrate arranged opposite to each other, and an electrophoretic medium disposed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate; the EPD is provided with a plurality of pixels; each pixel includes at least two sub-pixels; colored charged particles of different colors are disposed in different sub-pixels of each pixel; and a first wall electrode and a second wall electrode are respectively disposed on two opposite sides of each sub-pixel.
US10139697B2
This disclosure provides connectors for smart windows. A smart window may incorporate an optically switchable pane. In one aspect, a window unit includes an insulated glass unit including an optically switchable pane. A wire assembly may be attached to the edge of the insulated glass unit and may include wires in electrical communication with electrodes of the optically switchable pane. A floating connector may be attached to a distal end of the wire assembly. The floating connector may include a flange and a nose, with two holes in the flange for affixing the floating connector to a first frame. The nose may include a terminal face that present two exposed contacts of opposite polarity.
US10139696B2
This disclosure provides connectors for smart windows. A smart window may incorporate an optically switchable pane. In one aspect, a window unit includes an insulated glass unit including an optically switchable pane. A wire assembly may be attached to the edge of the insulated glass unit and may include wires in electrical communication with electrodes of the optically switchable pane. A floating connector may be attached to a distal end of the wire assembly. The floating connector may include a flange and a nose, with two holes in the flange for affixing the floating connector to a first frame. The nose may include a terminal face that present two exposed contacts of opposite polarity. Pre-wired spacers improve fabrication efficiency and seal integrity of insulated glass units. Electrical connection systems include those embedded in the secondary seal of the insulated glass unit.
US10139695B2
A self-powered variable transmittance optical device, such as a smart window or other device, and associated method are provided. The device comprises one or more transparent substrates, with a switching material disposed thereon or therebetween. The switching material may be a hybrid photochromic/electrochromic material capable of transitioning from a first transmittance state to a second transmittance state with application of electricity, and from second state to first state due to another stimulus, such as UV radiation. Electrodes are coupled to the switching material for applying electricity. An electrical system provides for controllable application of the electricity, and may store energy. Energy is provided by an energy-harvesting power source such as a solar cell or other photovoltaic source, or array thereof, or another device for harvesting vibrational or thermal energy. Energy harvesting, energy storage capacity and/or switching material may be configured to provide at least a predetermined level of device operability.
US10139689B2
A pixel structure and a liquid crystal panel are disclosed. The pixel structure comprises a data line (1), a pixel electrode (3), a gate line (2), and at least two thin film transistors (4, 5) connected in series between the pixel electrode (3) and the data line (1). The gates of the at least two thin film transistors (4, 5) are connected to the gate line. In the above mentioned pixel structure and the liquid crystal panel, using two thin film transistors (4, 5) connected in series effectively reduces OFF state current, improves the afterimage problem and enhances the display quality of the liquid crystal panel.
US10139680B2
A method of manufacturing a display panel, a display panel, and a display device are disclosed. The method includes: forming an alignment film over an entire surface of an array substrate motherboard, wherein the array substrate motherboard comprises at least one array substrate provided with a pad area on each of the array substrate; cell-assembling the array substrate motherboard with a color filter substrate motherboard to form a display panel motherboard, wherein the color filter substrate motherboard comprises at least one color filter substrate corresponding to the array substrate on the array substrate motherboard; cutting the display panel motherboard to obtain at least one display panel, wherein the display panel comprises the array substrate and the color filter substrate; and removing the alignment film on the pad area.
US10139677B2
A backlight module includes at least one light source, a light reflecting member, and a cabinet. The light reflecting member includes a center reflecting part, and four peripheral reflecting parts. The center reflecting part and the peripheral reflecting parts are integrally formed as a one-piece, unitary member. The peripheral reflecting parts are slanted with respect to the center reflecting part, respectively, while the light reflecting member is attached to the cabinet.
US10139675B2
According to an aspect, a display apparatus includes: an image display panel that displays an image thereon; a planar light source that includes a plurality of light sources and irradiates a plurality of divided areas of the image display panel with light from the back side of the image display panel; and a signal processor that drives the light sources individually based on input signals of the image to control brightness of the individual divided areas. The signal processor performs image display on the image display panel using output signals obtained by lowering brightness of a dark region in the image represented by the input signals.
US10139667B2
Provided are a color filter substrate provided with an inorganic cover layer and a display panel including the same. The color filter (CF) substrate includes a base substrate; a black matrix and a pixel resin layer both formed on the base substrate; a planarization layer formed on the black matrix and the pixel resin layer; and an inorganic cover layer formed on the planarization layer.
US10139661B2
A display device includes a display panel having a display area which displays an image and a non-display area positioned around the display area. The display device further includes a backlight assembly which emits light towards the display panel, and a housing member which houses the backlight assembly. The display device additionally includes a cover member having an opening portion corresponding to the display area, and which covers a portion of the display panel, and a mold frame coupled to the housing member. The display panel is bonded to the cover member, and at least a portion of the cover member is disposed in a space between the housing member and the mold frame, to couple the cover member to the housing member and the mold frame.
US10139659B2
The present disclosure provides a buffer structure and a display device. The buffer structure includes a deformable sealed capsule, and a flowable filler in a hollow part of the sealed capsule. For the buffer structure according to the present disclosure, the hollow part of the deformable sealed capsule is provided with the flowable filler, when the display device suffers uneven internal forces resulting from deformation of the liquid crystal panel or the backboard, the flowable filler in the hollow part of the buffer structure flows to a position suffering a smaller force from a position suffering a larger force until achieving the force balance, thereby to reduce difference of forces at different positions in the display device and further improve light leakage phenomenon caused by uneven forces.
US10139652B2
Eyeluminators will provide the illumination needed when working in dim or dark places. They are basically state-of-the-art flashlights for your eyes! When the LED lights in the frames of these glasses are switched on, the user will have bright light wherever they look, and without the inconvenience of having to hold a flashlight and eliminating shadows caused by any other light source. Tiny LED light bulbs are embedded across the top of the frames of these glasses, with the power switches located on the earpieces. They have cushioned nose pads and frames to provide greater comfort when wearing them for extended periods of time. When the lights are switched on, bright light will illuminate whatever is in front of the person's face, so they have a very clear view ahead and shadows will not be a hindrance.
US10139626B2
An imaging optical system for a display device that can be fitted on the head of a user and generate an image, with an optical element, which includes an entry surface, and a spectacle lens, which includes a coupling-out section. The imaging optical system is configured to guide the generated image fed to the optical element via the entry surface in the optical element, and to couple it from the latter into the spectacle lens, in which it is guided to the coupling-out section and coupled out via the coupling-out section to generate a virtual image. The optical element includes, in addition to the entry surface, at least one reflecting surface, on which the generated image is reflected for guiding in the optical element, and in that the optical element and the spectacle lens are formed together as a one-piece optical part.
US10139620B2
Provided is a head-up display capable of displaying a plurality of virtual images presented at different distances while increasing the design flexibility in the display device for creating the virtual images. The head-up display comprises: a first display surface disposed to extend the light path of first image light emitted toward a viewer and a second display surface disposed to make the light path of second image light emitted shorter than that of the first image light; a first concave reflector for reflecting the first image light and the second image light; and a second concave reflector for reflecting the image light reflected from the first concave reflector. The first concave reflector is configured such that the first image light and the second image light intersect with each other in the vertical direction between the first concave reflector and the second concave reflector.
US10139618B2
A multi-mirror array including displaceable mirror elements includes a passive electric damping mechanism for damping disturbances of the displacement positions of the mirror elements.
US10139607B2
A lightweight 3D stereoscopic surgical microscope has a body, a robot set, an image set, and an operating set. The body has a wheel seat, a housing mounted on the wheel seat, and a host computer mounted in the housing. The robot set is connected to the body and has a base mounted on the housing, a transversal lever mounted on the base, a lifting arm connected to the transversal lever, and a rotating arm connected to the lifting arm. The image set is connected to the robot set and has an outer casing connected to the rotating arm, at least one objective lens mounted in the outer casing, a main display screen mounted on the outer casing, an auxiliary display screen mounted beside the body. The operating set is connected to the robot set, is connected to the body and the image set and has two operating bars.
US10139605B2
A zoom lens comprises in order from an object side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and the third unit having a positive refractive power comprises in order from the object side, a first lens component having a positive refractive power, and a second lens component having a negative refractive power in which, a lens having a positive refractive power and a lens having a negative refractive power are cemented, and the zoom lens satisfies the following conditional expressions (1), (2), and (3) 1.4<|f3_2p/f3_2n|<2.6 (1) nd3_2p−nd3_2n≥0 (2) nd3_2n≥1.8 (3).
US10139603B2
An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. At least one lens among the first to the fifth lenses has positive refractive force. The fifth lens can have negative refractive force. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the fifth lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
US10139594B2
An optical imaging lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The fourth lens element has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein at least one of the object-side surface and an image-side surface of the fourth lens element has at least one inflection point. The optical imaging lens system has a total of four lens elements.
US10139592B2
An ocular optical system includes a first lens element, a second lens element, and a third lens element from an eye-side to a display-side in order along an optical axis. The first lens element, the second lens element, and the third lens element each include an eye-side surface and a display-side surface. The first lens element has refracting power. The display-side surface of the second lens element has a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis. The third lens element has refracting power. The ocular optical system satisfies: T3/G23≤4.3; and G3D/T3≤3.51, where T3 is a thickness of the third lens element along the optical axis, G23 is an air gap from the second lens element to the third lens element along the optical axis, and G3D is a distance from the third lens element to the display screen along the optical axis.
US10139584B2
The lens apparatus includes a lens holder holding a first lens, and a base member supporting the lens holder. The lens holder and the base member are connected to each other at connecting portions each including first and second contacting portions provided in the lens holder and first and second receiving portions provided in the base member. The first receiving portion contacts the first contacting portion in a circumferential direction, and the second receiving portion contacts the second contacting portion in an optical axis direction. The first contacting portion is constituted by a rotatable eccentric member including an eccentric portion contacting the first receiving portion. The eccentric member rotates to change a position of the lens holder in an orthogonal-to-optical axis plane. The first and second contacting portions and the first and second receiving portions are respectively circumferentially adjacent.
US10139583B2
An optical fiber cable includes: a cable main body including a core that includes optical fibers, at least a pair of tension members that face each other with the core interposed therebetween, and an inner sheath that covers the core and the tension members; a cylindrical outer sheath that accommodates the cable main body; a reinforcing sheet provided between the cable main body and the outer sheath; and a rip cord provided between the reinforcing sheet and the cable main body. The reinforcing sheet surrounds an entire circumference of the cable main body, the reinforcing sheet includes an overlapping portion in which portions of the reinforcing sheet overlap each other in a portion in a circumferential direction of the cable main body, and the reinforcing sheet is formed of a metal.
US10139576B2
A plug connector has a cylindrical housing body having at least one step, which forms two different regions each having different housing diameters, wherein the region having the smaller diameter forms a plug-in region and the region having the larger diameter forms a socket region, wherein the plug connector has a lock, which is captively connected to the housing body, wherein the plug connector has an actuator, which is operatively connected to the lock, wherein the plug connector has a plugging positioner, which at least partially surrounds the plug-in region. An attachment flange fits the plug connector and has an insertion region designed as a hollow cylinder, wherein the inner region of the hollow cylinder has at least one step, which forms two different regions each having different inside diameters, wherein the inner region of the insertion region is unthreaded.
US10139571B2
A connector is disclosed that includes a light coupling unit designed to receive light from an input side of the light coupling unit and transmit the received light to a mating connector from an output side of the light coupling unit along a direction different than the mating direction of the connector. The light coupling unit rotates when the connector mates with the mating connector.
US10139570B2
An adapter structure for use with a telecommunications module that is configured to be slidably inserted into a first type of telecommunications chassis comprises a body configured to be mounted to the telecommunications module. The body of the adapter structure is configured for mounting the telecommunications module to a second type of telecommunications chassis that is different than the first type of telecommunications chassis, wherein the telecommunications module is not configured to be mounted to the second type of telecommunications chassis without the adapter structure. The adapter structure includes at least one fiber optic connector protruding outwardly from the body for receiving a fiber optic signal to be relayed to fiber optic equipment of the telecommunications module.
US10139569B2
A connector assembly for a hybrid cable includes: a housing, comprising a base; at least one discrete connector mounted in the base or at least one connector that is at least partially integrated in the base, configured to receive at least one fiber from the hybrid cable; and at least one electrical interface, configured to receive at least one wire from the hybrid cable.
US10139561B2
A single-mode fiber with low loss and low bend loss is disclosed. The fiber is single mode and has a central core (10), an inner cladding (20) and an outer cladding (30). The central core (10) has a radius r1 and relative refractive index with a maximum value of Δ1max and a core alpha greater than 1 and less than 10, and a Ge02 dopant concentration of greater than 1 wt. % and less than or equal to 5 wt. %. The inner cladding (20) has an outer radius r2>9 micrometers and a relative refractive index Δ2 where Δ2 is less then −0.15%. The outer cladding (30) has a refractive index Δ3, wherein Δ1>Δ3>Δ2. The difference Δ3−Δ2>0.005%. The inner cladding includes fluorine having a concentration of greater than or equal to 0.5 wt. % and the outer cladding is updoped with respect to inner cladding.
US10139560B2
An anti-resonant hollow-core fiber comprising a first tubular, cladding element which defines an internal cladding surface, a plurality of second tubular elements which are attached to the cladding surface and together define a core with an effective radius, the second tubular elements being arranged in spaced relation and adjacent ones of the second tubular elements having a spacing therebetween, and a plurality of third tubular elements, each nested within a respective one of the second tubular elements.
US10139554B2
A backlight module and a display device are provided. The backlight module includes a plastic frame and a light guiding plate provided within the plastic frame. For each non-incident side of two parallel non-incident sides of the plastic frame, a respective space-keeping structure is provided at an end of a side edge on the non-incident side, with the end of the side edge on the non-incident side being close to a side edge of an incident side; and a side of the space-keeping structure that is away from an end surface of the light guiding plate is sealed with a cover structure. The present arrangement can effectively reduce bright lines at side edges occurring in the backlight module, and thus improve image-display quality of the backlight module.
US10139532B2
A camera module includes a cover window, an infrared cut-off filter, and an anti-reflection coating. The anti-reflection coating is on at least one surface, through which light passes, of the optical protection window, or the anti-reflection coating is on at least one surface, through which light passes, of the infrared cut-off filter. The anti-reflection coating includes conical anti-reflection structures. A bottom diameter of the conical anti-reflection structure is 40 nm to 150 nm. A top diameter of the conical anti-reflection structure is 0% to 30% of the bottom diameter. A height of the conical anti-reflection structure is 150 nm to 300 nm. A spacing between two adjacent conical anti-reflection structures is ⅕ to ⅓ of a wavelength in a visible light band.
US10139519B2
A computer-implemented method for automated rock physics modeling. The method includes the steps of (a) pre-processing data obtained from a suite of logging tools over a range of depths; (b) using an automated, computer-implemented procedure to determine a solution to an inverse problem associated with the rock physics model using the data from step (a), the solution including a list of optimal parameters; (c) performing a forward run of the rock physics model; and (d) computing a set of rock mechanical properties using the optimal parameters obtained in step (b). A computer program product for automated rock physics modeling is also provided.
US10139518B2
A method for determining a corrected neutron gamma density of a formation includes emitting neutrons into a formation using a neutron source to generate gamma-rays. Additionally, the method includes detecting a first count rate of gamma-rays and a gamma-ray spectrum using at least a gamma-ray detector of the downhole tool. The method also includes detecting a second count rate of neutrons using a neutron detector. The method includes using a processor to perform a gamma-ray spectroscopy analysis on the formation based on the gamma-ray spectrum and determining a correction based on results of the gamma-ray spectroscopy analysis. The method includes applying the correction to the first count rate or the second count rate and determining a neutron gamma density of the formation based on a first corrected count rate of gamma-rays or a second corrected count rate of neutrons. The method also includes outputting the determined density of the formation.
US10139513B2
A multitude of seismic sources are formed into a linear array which can be permanently cemented within a wellbore. The seismic sources can be orbital vibrators that are electrically connected and protected from the cementing by use of pieces of drill pipe and tubing that are interconnected and provide a container for electrical connection of the seismic sources and provide surface access through a surface vault.
US10139512B2
A method for controlling trajectory in a resonant marine seismic source comprises: controlling the source frequency and controlling the motion trajectory. Controlling the source frequency includes: estimating the source frequency from its internal state and the state of its environment; deriving a frequency error as the difference between the estimated frequency and the frequency of the desired trajectory; and driving the frequency error to zero. Controlling the motion trajectory includes: detecting a motion trajectory of the source; deriving a motion trajectory error as the difference between the desired motion trajectory and detected motion trajectory; and driving the motion trajectory error to zero.
US10139500B2
Disclosed herein is a method to measure an intensity distribution of X-ray using an X-ray detector, the method comprising: determining values of dark current at at least three locations on the X-ray detector, wherein the three locations are not on a straight line; determining a spatial variation of absorptance of the X-ray using the values of the dark current; measuring an apparent intensity distribution of the X-ray; determining the intensity distribution by removing a contribution of the spatial variation the absorptance from the apparent intensity distribution.
US10139499B2
A radiation imaging apparatus has a sensor that converts irradiated radiation into a charge in accordance with a radiation dose, a switching power supply for supplying power to at least the sensor, and a readout unit that reads out a signal corresponding to the charge from the sensor. The radiation imaging apparatus synchronizes the imaging synchronization signal and a control clock for a switching operation of the switching power supply, causes a readout of signal from the sensor by the readout unit to be executed, and adjusts the phase of the control clock in each cycle of the imaging synchronization signal so that a timing of the imaging synchronization signal that occurs cyclically is at the same phase of the control clock.
US10139497B2
A device configured to read an exposed imaging plate, comprises a light-source that generates read-out light. A deflection unit directs the read-out light in a scanning movement over the imaging plate. The deflection unit comprises a micromirror that deflects impinging read-out light towards the imaging plate. The micromirror swivels about a first swivel axis and about a different second swivel axis. The micromirror oscillates with a first frequency about the first swivel axis and simultaneously with a different second frequency about the second swivel axis. A detector unit detects fluorescent light which is emitted from the imaging plate at locations where the read-out light impinges.
US10139493B1
Piloted or autonomous rotorcraft includes a rotor safety system. The rotor safety system comprises a lidar scanner toward a rotor of the rotorcraft, e.g., the tail rotor, that scans the 3D space in the vicinity of the rotor. Objects in the vicinity of the rotor are detected from the lidar point data. In a piloted rotorcraft, predictive warnings can be provided to the helicopter's flight crew when a detected object presents a hazard to the rotor of the rotorcraft.
US10139492B2
Laser radar systems include a pentaprism configured to scan a measurement beam with respect to a target surface. A focusing optical assembly includes a corner cube that is used to adjust measurement beam focus. Target distance is estimated based on heterodyne frequencies between a return beam and a local oscillator beam. The local oscillator beam is configured to propagate to and from the focusing optical assembly before mixing with the return beam. In some examples, heterodyne frequencies are calibrated with respect to target distance using a Fabry-Perot interferometer having mirrors fixed to a lithium aluminosilicate glass-ceramic tube.
US10139484B2
The present disclosure relates to a sensor network, Machine Type Communication (MTC), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, and technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. An apparatus and method for measuring a distance between wireless devices using a first signal transmitted/received between the wireless devices in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes: receiving the first signal for distance measurement transmitted from a first of the wireless devices; receiving a signal reflected by a reflector after being transmitted from the first of the wireless devices; and based on the received first signal and the received reflected signal, estimating a distance between the second of the wireless devices and the reflector.
US10139482B2
A communication terminal (200) propagates a distance packet, and the distance packet is transmitted to a location identification apparatus (300) via an access point (110). The distance packet includes a start-point distance, an end-point distance, and a terminal distance. The start-point distance is a distance between a start-point terminal and a start-point point, which is an access point detected by the start-point terminal. The end-point distance is a distance between an end-point terminal and an end-point point, which is an access point detected by the end-point terminal. The terminal distance is a distance between each other of communication terminals. The location identification apparatus identifies a location of each communication terminal based on distances included in the distance packet, coordinate values of the start-point point, and coordinate values of the end-point point.
US10139481B2
A radio communication system, in which radio communication is carried out between an in-vehicle communication device, mounted in a vehicle, and a radio communication terminal to detect a relative distance therebetween, includes an output control unit that controls a radio wave intensity of a measuring signal, which is sent from one of the in-vehicle communication device and the radio communication terminal, at a pre-set predetermined value; and a measuring unit that performs distance measuring on a vehicle side based on the radio wave intensity of the measuring signal controlled at the predetermined value or on a signal to which a value of the radio wave intensity of the measuring signal is added as information.
US10139480B2
A transducer for an ultrasound imaging system includes an array of transducer elements and an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert analog signals produced by the transducer elements into corresponding digital samples that are encoded with a first number of bits. One or more memories are used to store digital samples associated with frames of ultrasound data. A processor or logic circuit in the transducer is configured to compress the digital ultrasound data by calculating differences between the samples and encoding the differences with a second number of bits that is less than the first number of bits. In addition, the logic circuit is configured to transmit a packet that includes the differences encoded with the second number of bits and an overflow portion that encodes the differences that are too large to be encoded with the second number of bits.
US10139477B2
In a laser range finder, each reflected light reflected by at least one object of pulsed laser light emitted by a light emitting element reaches a light receiving element, and distance information to the at least one object is acquired based on an amount of time from a light emission starting time for the pulsed laser light to an output starting time from the light receiving element. An erroneous detection reducing circuit for the laser range finder includes: a comparator receiving as inputs a threshold and a light-reception output from the light receiving element; a time measuring section measuring time elapsed since the light emission starting time for the pulsed laser light; and a setting changing section changing either one or both of the threshold and an amplification factor of the comparator for the light-reception output in accordance with a time measurement value obtained by the time measuring section.
US10139476B2
A rotary scanner is described. The rotary scanner includes a housing; a motor fixedly mounted relative to the housing; a structure mounted to the housing so as to be rotatable about a rotation axis by the motor; and a reflector assembly mounted to the structure via a pivot joint so as to be pivotable around a pivot axis between a rest angle and at least one other angle. The reflector assembly is biased to the rest angle and has a reflector plane parallel to the pivot axis. The rotary scanner also includes an optical source fixedly mounted relative to the housing and operable to emit an optical beam along the rotation axis and towards the reflector assembly during use; and a control interface allowing to control the rotation speed of the motor between a first rotation speed and at least one other rotation speed.
US10139468B2
A low cost planar transmission line sensor and simple calibration method for measuring the complex permittivity of materials with minimal sample preparation over a wide band of radio- and microwave frequencies. The sensor is also used for measuring anisotropic dielectric properties of materials with a defined grain.
US10139465B2
A method for imaging a subject with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system using controlled aliasing is provided. A radio frequency (RF) excitation field is applied to excite the spins in a volume-of-interest that may include multiple slice locations. Using the MRI system, a readout magnetic field gradient is established following the application of the RF excitation field to form echo signals. These echo signal receive a differential encoding by way of establishing, while the readout gradient is established, alternating magnetic field gradients along two directions, such as the partition-encoding and phase-encoding directions. Image data is acquired from the formed echo signals and images of the subject are reconstructed from the acquired image data.
US10139464B2
According to some aspects, a method of suppressing noise in an environment of a magnetic resonance imaging system is provided. The method comprising estimating a transfer function based on multiple calibration measurements obtained from the environment by at least one primary coil and at least one auxiliary sensor, respectively, estimating noise present in a magnetic resonance signal received by the at least one primary coil based at least in part on the transfer function, and suppressing noise in the magnetic resonance signal using the noise estimate.
US10139457B2
A dielectric member includes a first bobbin, which is located on a radially outer side of a first core, a holder, which receives a magnet, and a second bobbin, which is located on a radially outer side of a second core. A first terminal and a second terminal are fixed to a terminal fixing portion. A wire continuously forms a first connecting portion, which is connected to the first terminal, a first coil portion, which is wound around the first bobbin, a first crossover portion, which traverses from the first coil to the second bobbin over the holder, a second coil portion, which is wound around the second bobbin, a second crossover portion, which traverses from the second coil portion to the first coil portion over the holder, and a second connecting portion, which is connected to the second terminal.
US10139456B2
A MEMS sensor according to the present invention includes a base substrate including a displaceably supported movable portion and a lid substrate covering the movable portion and functioning as a magnetic sensor that detects magnetism by making use of the Hall effect.
US10139452B2
State based full and empty control for rechargeable batteries that will assure a uniform battery empty condition, even in the presence of a load on the battery. A fuel gauge provides a prediction of the open circuit voltage of the battery, and when the predicted open circuit voltage of the battery reaches the predetermined open circuit voltage of an empty battery, the load is terminated, after which the battery will relax back to the predetermined open circuit voltage of an empty battery. A similar technique is disclosed for battery charging, allowing faster battery charging without overcharging. Preferably an RC battery model is used as the fuel gauge to provide the prediction, but as an alternative, a coulomb counter may be used to provide the prediction, with error correction between successive charge discharge cycles.
US10139448B2
An integrated circuitry includes a first logic block coupled between a first power supply terminal and a second power supply terminal. The first logic block includes a first scan chain and a configurable defect coupled to a scan output node of the first scan chain. The configurable defect has a logic node and a conductive element coupled between the logic node and the first or the second power supply terminal. The configurable defect is configured to, during a quiescent current testing mode, place a predetermined logic state on the logic node such that a current flows through the conductive element. The current can be detected by external equipment.
US10139441B2
A film structure includes a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and an insulation layer located between the first metal layer and the second metal layer. In at least a portion of an edge region of the film structure, the first metal layer extends outwards relative to an edge of the insulation layer by a first predetermined length, and the insulation layer extends outwards relative to an edge of the second metal layer by a second predetermined length. In this way, when the film structure is measured, a fall value between the surface, adjacent to the second metal layer, of the insulation layer and the surface, adjacent to the insulation layer, of the first metal layer is measured by means of a motion trajectory of the measuring probe at the time of ascending or descending, thereby obtaining a more accurate thickness value of the insulation layer.
US10139421B2
Provided is a method of selecting a stent for implantation in the circulatory system of a human being. The method comprises obtaining a blood sample from a patient who requires implantation of a stent and testing said blood sample to determine a platelet coagulability level. The determined platelet coagulability level of said blood sample is compared with a threshold level of blood platelet coagulability. A determined platelet coagulability level above said threshold level indicates that a risk of restenosis is relatively high. If the determined platelet coagulability level is below said threshold level, a bare metal stent is selected. If the determined platelet coagulability level is at or above said threshold level, a drug-eluting stent is selected.
US10139405B2
The invention provides methods and systems for detecting a biomarker in a synovial fluid wherein the system also includes a control to ensure that the test sample is indeed synovial fluid. The biomarkers and the control for synovial fluid can be identified using proteomic methods, including but not limited to antibody based methods, such as an enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA), a radioimmunoassay (RIA), or a lateral flow immunoassay.
US10139404B2
The present invention relates to the use of a control marker for implementing analysis methods on spots, in particular in the context of multiplex analyses. The present invention thus relates to solid supports containing said control marker, their preparation method and their use in analysis methods. The present invention makes it possible to verify the presence, location and/or integrity of the spots at the end of the analysis method, and thus to secure the obtained results while guaranteeing that the yielded result indeed results from a present, intact and localized spot.
US10139395B2
Disclosed are: a method for activating a helper T cell, which comprises the step of adding a WT1 peptide to an antigen-presenting cell to activate the helper T cell, wherein the WT1 peptide is capable of binding to any one selected from an HLA-DRB1*1501 molecule, an HLA-DPB1*0901 molecule and an HLA-DPB1*0501 molecule; a composition for use in the method; a therapeutic and/or prophylactic method for cancer by activating a helper T cell; a pharmaceutical composition for use in the therapeutic and/or prophylactic method; and others.
US10139388B2
The invention relates to a method to determine the wavelength dependent absorption coefficient of a turbid medium using overlapping illumination-detection areas comprising the steps of a) retrieving a calibration spectrum (CA) from a reference measurement using a reference sample; b) carrying out a measurement on an actual sample for determining the absolute reflection spectrum (Rabs) using a raw spectrum measured on the sample (Smedium) and the calibration spectrum (CΛ); C) using the absolute reflection spectrum (Rabs) for determining the wavelength dependent absorption coefficient by minimizing the difference between the measured absolute reflection spectrum (Rabs) and a model function (Rabsmodel). wherein the model function (Rabsmodel) is modelled using a predetermined equation based on prior knowledge of the combination of a dependence of the effective photon path length (LPF) on a scattering phase function (PF); a dependence of the absolute reflectance in the absence of absorption (Rabs0) on scattering phase function (PF). The invention further relates to a system and a computer program product for determining the wavelength dependent absorption coefficient of a turbid medium.
US10139385B2
The invention provides methods and compositions for utilizing encapsulated tracer dyes in difficult liquids such as wastewater or with highly reactive treatment chemicals such as aluminum-based coagulants. In difficult liquids or highly reactive treatment chemicals even so-called “inert” tracers end up reacting and their fluorescence changes. As a result they are inconsistent and cannot be used to measure the amount of treatment chemical present. But by encapsulating the tracer dyes, even non inert tracer dyes become inert and they can reliably be used to measure the amount of treatment chemical present even if highly reactive or in a difficult liquid.
US10139380B2
A method and an apparatus are disclosed for detecting occupancy of a closed space based on Carbon Dioxide gas (CO2) concentration or change of such concentration. In various embodiments, a Base CO2 Concentration (BCC) may be measured to establish CO2 concentration in an empty closed space. An Average CO2 Concentration (ACC) may also be measured for a single average sized person. If at any time the Total CO2 Concentration (TCC) is measured to be higher than the sum of BCC and ACC, then it is determined that the presence of a person in the closed space is detected. In some embodiments, if TCC is measured to be more than BCC plus N times ACC, then it is determined that N people are present in the closed space, where N is an integer. Such determinations may be indicated by generating an alarm or alert.
US10139377B1
The invention provides a SEC method for the separation of thiol-capped Cd(Se,S) quantum dots (QDs) synthesized in the aqueous phase. Nanocrystals-HPLC column interactions were suppressed using thioglycolic acid (TGA) as an ion pair agent. The SEC method of the invention allows a fast and reproducible separation of water-stable Cd(Se,S) QDs.
US10139368B2
The present disclosure relates to a process for facilitating the identification of target chemicals which may be detected by means of an ion mobility spectrometer and a system for implementing the same. In an aspect of the disclosure, there is provided a process for determining the ratio of CI″ to CI″.OOH reactant ion species formed in a pentachloroethane doped ion mobility spectrometer operating in negative mode, said process comprising: i) introducing a sample comprising or consisting essentially of isoflurane into a pentachloroethane doped ion mobility spectrometer; ii) collecting data relevant to the detection of two isoflurane monomer ions formed following reaction with CI″ and CI″.OOH reactant ion species present in the pentachloroethane doped ion mobility spectrometer; and iii) determining the ratio of CI″ to CI″.OOH reactant ion species formed in the pentachloroethane doped ion mobility spectrometer based on an evaluation of the data collected.
US10139367B2
Ion modification An ion mobility spectrometer (100) comprising a sample inlet (108) comprising an aperture arranged to allow a sample of gaseous fluid to flow from an ambient pressure region to a low pressure region of the ion mobility spectrometer to be ionized; a controller (200) arranged to control gas pressure in the low pressure region to be lower than ambient pressure; and an ion modifier (126, 127, 202) configured to modify ions in the low pressure region, wherein the ions are obtained from the sample of gas.
US10139364B2
A device layer of an integrated circuit device includes a semiconductor active layer spanning a plurality of device regions. Each of the device regions has a heating element, a temperature sensor, and bioFETs in the device layer. The bioFETs have source/drain regions and channel regions in the semiconductor active layer and fluid gates exposed on a surface for fluid interfacing on one side of the device layer. A multilayer metal interconnect structure is disposed on the opposite side of the device layer. This structure places the heating elements in proximity to the fluid gates enabling localized heating, precision heating, and multiplexed temperature control for multiplexed bio-sensing applications.
US10139363B2
In order to make it possible to accurately measure the HF concentration in a BHF solution in a low concentration region using a simple structure, there are provided a relationship storage unit that stores relationships between a pH of a BHF solution and an HF concentration, a pH meter that measures the pH of the BHF solution, and a concentration calculation unit that refers to relationships stored in the relationship storage unit, and calculates the HF concentration from the pH values measured by the pH meter.
US10139362B2
There is provided a sensor head which includes a mounting surface having insulation property. A first electrode and a second electrode are arranged on the mounting surface in a spaced-apart manner from each other. A liquid retaining material is arranged on the mounting surface in a state where the liquid retaining material covers the first electrode and the second electrode integrally. The liquid retaining material is impregnated with a standard liquid which is used as a reference in the electrochemical measurement.
US10139359B2
In a sensor control apparatus of a gas detection system, a multiplexer having received an instruction from a digital computation section outputs analog signals in the order of, for example, “signal 1, signal 2, signal 1, signal 3, signal 1, signal 4.” By outputting the analog signals while classifying each of them as a high occurrence-frequency signal which is high in output frequency or a low occurrence-frequency signal which is low in output frequency, the multiplexer can increase the sampling frequency of signal (analog signal of Vs+-COM voltage) which is the high occurrence-frequency signal. The sensor control apparatus can increase the sampling frequency in AD conversion of signal to a digital value, while suppressing an increase in the cost of an AD conversion section.
US10139357B2
Disclosed is method of determining one or more unit cells of a polycrystalline sample and indexing a set DV of 3D diffraction vectors. The method comprising obtaining a plurality of candidate first lattice plane normal vectors and a plurality of candidate second lattice plane normal vectors for a particular unknown grain; using said plurality of candidate first lattice plane normal vectors and said plurality of candidate second lattice plane normal vectors to select a plurality of subsets SSDV_n of the set DV of 3D diffraction vectors and processing said plurality of subsets SSDV_n of 3D diffraction vectors to determine a primary candidate unit cell PCUC defined by three lattice vectors; wherein the primary candidate unit cell PCUC is validated by evaluating the fit of the PCUC with the full set DV of 3D diffraction vectors.
US10139352B2
Methods and systems for measuring metrology targets smaller than the illumination spot size employed to perform the measurement are described herein. Collected measurement signals contaminated with information from structures surrounding the target area are reconstructed to eliminate the contamination. In some examples, measurement signals associated one or more small targets and one or more large targets located in close proximity to one another are used to train a signal reconstruction model. The model is subsequently used to reconstruct measurement signals from other small targets. In some other examples, multiple measurements of a small target at different locations within the target are de-convolved to estimate target area intensity. Reconstructed measurement signals are determined by a convolution of the illumination spot profile and the target area intensity. In a further aspect, the reconstructed signals are used to estimate values of parameters of interest associated with the measured structures.
US10139341B2
The present disclosure includes systems and methods for calibration of an optical sensor package, including setting an initial detection threshold of a detector, gradually increasing a power level of a signal generator that is in communication with a detector to cause a detected power at the detector to exceed the initial detection threshold, storing in a memory a first power level of the signal generator at which the detected power at the detector exceeds the initial detection threshold, and adjusting the initial detection threshold of the detector to an adjusted detection threshold to include a detection buffer amount within the adjusted detection threshold.
US10139336B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for cable inspection, which inspects an aerial cable used in electric power transmission, the apparatus including: first and second plates spaced apart from each other; a lower clamp disposed on the first plate; an upper clamp disposed on the second plate to face the lower clamp and having a through hole in a vertical direction; a distance adjustment unit configured to adjust a separation distance between the first and second plates; an indenter indented in a coating of the cable through the through hole; a first load cell configured to measure an indentation force of the indenter and to output a signal corresponding to the measured indentation force; a second load cell disposed under the lower clamp and configured to measure pressure applied to the cable and to output a signal corresponding to the measured pressure; and an indenter moving unit configured to control movement of the indenter. According to the present invention, deterioration of a cable is measured using a plurality of sensors so that measurement accuracy can be improved and measurement of deterioration of the cable can be performed in a state in which the cable is disposed.
US10139332B2
The inventors have improved mass cytometer to facilitate its use for the analysis of particles.
US10139331B2
A filtration membrane fouling index measuring method including: (a) serially connecting two filtration membranes having the same membrane properties, and sequentially passing influent water therethrough; (b) measuring the flow volume that has passed through the first of the filtration membranes; (c) measuring the flow volume that has passed through the second of the filtration membranes; (d) measuring the cumulative pass-through volume that has passed through the first or the second filtration membrane; and (e) determining the fouling index of the filtration membrane, based on the flow volume that has passed through the first filtration membrane, the flow volume that has passed through the second filtration membrane and the cumulative pass-through volume. The method eliminates pore-blocking-induced measurement errors that occur with measurement methods involving Modified Fouling Index which is a fouling index for filtration membranes.
US10139329B2
The present disclosure is directed to a method of particle size determination for particles suspended within a light-transmissive medium. The method includes directing a monochromatic light source into the medium and collecting from the medium a Raman-scattered light spectrum. The method includes analyzing the Raman spectrum to determine an amount of Tyndall scattering of the Raman spectrum caused by particles within the medium, and thus determine the size and the number of particles mediating the Tyndall scattering.
US10139324B2
The disclosed embodiment is an extensometer to measure transverse strain with a passive vertical system making use of a linear optical encoder. The sensor arms are mounted on respective carriages which traverse on respective linear tracks. The carriages are spring-loaded so as to bias the sensor arms toward a closing direction. In order to separate the sensor arms and act against the force of the springs, the carriages are responsive to or pushed by upper and lower drive brackets which are affixed to respective upper and lower portions of a looped timing belt. The extensometer makes use of a low-friction design to minimize rolling friction in the movement of the two sensor arms. One carriage includes an encoder read-head which directly faces an encoder scale on the other carriage. In this configuration, the exact relative position of the two carriages, and hence the two sensor arms, can be read.
US10139314B2
A rotation acquisition unit acquires a rotation signal correlated with a rotational state of an internal combustion engine. An analysis unit performs frequency analysis of the rotation signal acquired with the rotation acquisition unit. An inter-cylinder determination unit determines whether an inter-cylinder component is smaller than an inter-cylinder threshold representing occurrence of misfire. The inter-cylinder component is a frequency component of an inter-cylinder cycle. The inter-cylinder cycle is computed by dividing an ignition cycle, which is one burning cycle of the internal combustion engine, by a number of cylinders of the internal combustion engine.
US10139313B2
A capacitive pressure sensor for an internal combustion engine is provided having a housing having a bottom surface, variable capacitor and circuitry. The variable capacitor is formed by a stationary electrode and an elastically bendable electrode. Pressure exerted on the bottom surface acts to bend the elastically bendable electrode. This bending alters the capacitance of the variable capacitor. The circuitry is configured to generate a signal based on the variable capacitance of the variable capacitor. This capacitance is representative of the pressure exerted on the bottom surface.
US10139310B2
The present invention relates to an optical time domain reflectometer using, as a optical source, a polymer wavelength tunable laser which tunes the wavelength of an optical signal by using polymer grating. The optical time domain reflectometer of the present invention tunes the wavelength of a polymer wavelength tunable laser that outputs a constant optical signal and inspects cutting, reflection, and damage of an optical line by separating an optical signal returning from the optical line by an optical filter having a specific central wavelength. Since a optical source having a constant light intensity is used, the present invention has an effect of reducing the nonlinear effect generated in an optical line.
US10139308B2
A detecting element unit of a physical quantity detection apparatus includes a detection part and a supporting part. The detection part has a base part, a movable part coupled to the base part via a joint part, and a vibrator provided over the base part and the movable part, and the supporting part includes a fixing portion to be fixed to a base for supporting the base part. A processing unit of the physical quantity detection apparatus extracts vibration response signals at a resonance frequency of the detecting element unit from output of the vibrator.
US10139306B2
Methods and systems for bridge damage detection using, for example, one or more strain range methods are provided. One exemplary embodiment provides a computer-implemented methods and systems for determining bridge damage from strain sensor data, for example, by collecting a batch of strain data from one or more sensor pairs. From the batch of strain data one or more sets of strain data may be extracted comprising a quasi-static response of the bridge under ambient traffic loads. A relationship may be established between the one or more sets of strain data extracted from the one or more sensor pairs by orthogonal regression. Bridge damage may be detected by generally isolating a damage indicator between the one or more sensor pairs by monitoring changes in a statistical Fshm value over time.
US10139305B2
The invention is directed to a canister for packaging and delivering a product such as, but not limited to, infant formula. The canister of the invention includes a container and cover. The cover includes a base and a lid with the base including an easy-open sealing material and/or a utensil for dispensing the product and docking station for holding the utensil when not in use. This invention is further directed to an apparatus and method for the in-line sterilization of the cover during the manufacture thereof. The invention is further directed to an apparatus and method for the in-line detection of leaks in the canister for quality assurance.
US10139303B2
A calibrating device, for measuring and calibrating a center of gravity of a remote control aircraft or an airfoil thereof, includes a crossbar, a first support, a second support and a control unit. The crossbar is arranged along a longitudinal axis, and includes a longitudinal rail and a slider. The slider is movably engaged with the longitudinal rail. The crossbar includes a drive member coupled with the longitudinal rail or the slider. The slider includes a pointer. The first support includes a seat and two receiving portions which are arranged on the seat and are movable along a transverse axis. The receiving portions are aligned with each other. Each receiving portion includes a load cell. The second support includes a base and a supporting portion, and the supporting portion includes a load cell. The control unit is coupled with the drive member and the three load cells.
US10139300B2
Provided is a pressure measuring device that can stably bond a strain detection element even to a diaphragm made of metal having a large coefficient of thermal expansion. In order to achieve the above object, the pressure measuring device of the present invention includes: a metal housing including a pressure introduction unit and a diaphragm deformed by a pressure introduced via the pressure introduction unit; and a strain detection element for detecting strain generated in the diaphragm, wherein a base made of a first brittle material is provided on the metal housing, and the strain detection element is bonded to the base via a second brittle material having a melting point lower than a melting point of the base.
US10139299B2
Electronic device for measuring the characteristics of fastening devices, comprising a box-shaped body (2) traversed by at least one cylinder (21), rotating with respect to the box-shaped body that transmits the rotary motion received by such a fastening device and a sensor capable of measuring the rotary torque and the rotation angle on said cylinder.Such a device comprises means for detecting the relative rotation between box-shaped body (2) and rotation driving cylinder (21).
US10139290B2
Provided is an optical temperature sensor including a temperature sensing element having light transmission characteristics that vary with temperature, a hollow holding member that holds the temperature sensing element, and an optical fiber that is arranged inside the holding member, the optical fiber including a tip face that is disposed to face the temperature sensing element at a position separated from the temperature sensing element by a predetermined distance. The temperature sensing element allows light emitted from the tip face of the optical fiber to be incident thereon, allows the incident light to be transmitted therethrough, and allows reflected light of the transmitted light that has been reflected by a measuring object to be transmitted therethrough.
US10139280B2
An integrated circuit for an imaging system is disclosed. In one aspect, an integrated circuit has an array of optical sensors, an array of optical filters integrated with the sensors and configured to pass a band of wavelengths onto one or more of the sensors, and read out circuitry to read out pixel values from the sensors to represent an image. Different ones of the optical filters are configured to have a different thickness, to pass different bands of wavelengths by means of interference, and to allow detection of a spectrum of wavelengths. The read out circuitry can enable multiple pixels under one optical filter to be read out in parallel. The thicknesses may vary non-monotonically across the array. The read out, or later image processing, may involve selection or interpolation between wavelengths, to carry out spectral sampling or shifting, to compensate for thickness errors.
US10139273B2
One variation of a method for measuring ambient ultraviolet light radiation including: calculating a target direct orientation of a light exposure device based on a location, a current date and time, and a direct solar position model; calculating a target diffuse orientation of the light exposure device based on the location, the current date and time, and a diffuse solar position model; in response to detecting alignment between orientation of the light exposure device and the target direct orientation, recording a direct ultraviolet value; in response to detecting alignment between orientation of the light exposure device and the target diffuse orientation, recording a diffuse ultraviolet value; in response to detecting alignment between orientation of the light exposure device and a target global orientation, recording a global ultraviolet value; and calculating an ultraviolet index based on the global ultraviolet value, the direct ultraviolet value, and the diffuse ultraviolet value.
US10139272B2
A compact high power laser calibration and testing system includes an active intracavity laser system that amplifies the laser power by recycling photons through a thin disk gain medium that is positioned between two or more highly reflective mirrors. The system is configured for calibration and testing of the high power lasers and optics that can be inserted into or positioned at the end of the intracavity. In another embodiment, the system is configured for characterization of high power laser beam propagation in operation-relevant atmospheres. The intracavity high power laser beam is configured to simulate high power laser beams with orders-of-magnitude reduced size, weight and operation power for calibrating laser powers and testing optical components. In applications that require an extra small footing or high portability, thermal management systems are configured to absorb large amounts of heat from the system for fixed time durations with the use of exchangeable cartridges made of phase change materials. The portability of the invention can be further increased and the system footing can be decreased by powering the system with disposable or rechargeable battery cartridges that can be rapidly replaced.
US10139266B2
A gravimetric measuring instrument (10) includes a housing (103) and a weighing cell (120), wherein the latter is arranged inside the housing and includes a load-transmitting member (108). The load-transmitting member reaches through a passage opening (111) of the housing and is releasably connectable to a load receiver (401, 501, 1001). The invention has the distinguishing feature that the load receiver includes a fastening element (450), a weighing pan element (440, 540, 1040) and a snap-locking device (460, 1060) for the releasable seating of the weighing pan element on the fastening element, wherein the snap-locking device includes a detent element (461, 1061) and a spring element (462) which engages the detent element when the weighing pan element is seated in place.
US10139262B2
A method and system for determining the depth to a water level, particularly depth to a ground water table below Earth's surface. The method can be used to measure the depth to a water table when the only access to the aquifer is a slender tube. A measured quantity of gas is injected into a sealed volume, while recording the pressure change in that volume, allowing a deduction of the size of the sealed volume. Using measurements of the sealed volume and the dimension of the tube containing that volume, the depth to the water level can be calculated.
US10139260B2
A method for controlling pipetting operations done by a pipetting device having a system for measuring the flow rate of the liquid suctioned or dispensed and electronics to communicate with a computer. The method is based on detection of flow rate variations and the moments at which those variations occur. The method includes obtaining a curve of liquid flow rate by the pipette as a function of time, computing the first deviation of the curve, identifying and recording the maximum and minimum values of the first deviation and the moments at which the maximum and minimum values occur, comparing the maximum and minimum values and the moments at which the maximum and minimum values occur with predetermined references for the values and the moments at which they occur, and based on the result of the comparison, providing a validation or error message.
US10139247B2
A number n of Hall elements of a position detecting device output analog detection signals responsive to magnetism from a magnet of a piston. A number n of AD converters carry out analog to digital conversion to convert the analog detection signals into digital detection signals. A ladder circuit receives, as an n-bit digital signal, the digital detection signals output from a number n of magnetic detectors, and performs digital to analog conversion thereof into a single analog output signal. A control IC detects an approximate position of the piston on the basis of the single analog output signal that is input thereto.
US10139242B2
A navigation system provides lane guidance for a navigation route. The navigation route specifies actions for a user to navigate a route from an originating point to a destination along a set of road segments. The lane guidance at a position along the navigation route scores the lanes and provides the lane scoring for the user. To score the lanes, the navigation system determines a lane distance for each lane indicating how far along the navigation route a user may continue to use this lane, without shifting to another lane. The lane distance may be measured up to a look-ahead distance. The lane distance includes distance along subsequent road segments of the route, such that when a lane turns onto a lane on another road segment according to the navigation route, the distance along the other road may be included in the lane distance.
US10139239B2
A method and system for selecting a subset of cloud stored data related to locations within a road network and sending it to a vehicle. A current position of the vehicle is determined. A most probable path of the vehicle is determined as a set of possible paths ahead of the vehicle that the vehicle is most probable to travel along, and a subset of data is selected related to a location that is along this most probable path. Alternatively, a respective inverse most probable path up to each respective location related to a respective subset of data is determined as a respective set of possible paths leading up to each respective location. If the current position of the vehicle is included in an inverse most probable path, the related subset of data selected. The selected subset of data is sent to the vehicle.
US10139236B2
In a route generation method, a computer executes: a step of generating cells based on data about a floor plan that contains information indicating a type of a constituent element of a house and setting the information indicating the type of the constituent element in each of the cells; a step of reading the information indicating the type of the constituent element set in the cell, specifying an outer edge of a passable region based on whether the constituent element is passable, and generating data about a pathway in which the passable region is thinned, whether the constituent element is passable being determined in advance in association with the type of the constituent element; a step of generating a graph based on the data about the pathway; and a route search step of searching a path from the starting point to the ending point, using the graph.
US10139235B2
A fuel oil information providing server device acquires a reference fuel oil price at bunkering locations on a sailing route specified by a voyage ID input to a terminal device by a user or at which a ship is able to call from the sailing route, and data indicating conditions for correcting the reference fuel oil price, and specifies a fuel oil price obtained by correcting the reference fuel oil price indicated by the acquired data in accordance with the conditions. Fuel oil information providing server device generates display instruction data for instructing that a specified fuel oil price be displayed as a list along with determination rules for a bunkering amount at one or more bunkering locations, and outputs the data to a terminal device that displays information to be used for formulating a bunkering plan.
US10139227B2
A micro-electro-mechanical system includes a proof mass, an anchor, an amplifier, a sense element, a reference element, and a feedback element. The proof mass is configured to move in response to a stimulus. The anchor is coupled to the proof mass via a spring. The amplifier is configured to receive a proof mass signal from the proof mass via the spring and the anchor. The amplifier may be configured to amplify the received proof mass signal to generate an output signal. The sense element may be connected between the proof mass and a first input signal. The reference element may be connected between the anchor and a second input signal. The feedback element may be connected between the proof mass and the output signal. The feedback element and the sense element may change in response to proof mass displacement.
US10139223B2
A sensing element includes a plurality of sensing pixel areas arranged in matrix, wherein each of the plurality of sensing pixel areas includes a first pixel, a second pixel, a first shielding layer, a second shielding layer and at least one micro lens. The second pixel is adjacent to the first pixel in a predetermined direction. The first shielding layer is disposed on the first pixel and has a first opening, wherein an aperture of the first opening increases along the predetermined direction from a center of the first pixel. The second shielding layer is disposed on the second pixel and has a second opening, wherein a shape of the second opening is mirror symmetrical with that of the first opening in the predetermined direction. The at least one micro lens is disposed on the first shielding layer and the second shielding layer.
US10139219B2
An optical distance measuring apparatus includes: a scanning element scanning a coherent irradiation light from a light source and sending it to an object under measurement; a photo detector receiving the irradiation light modulated by being passed through the object under measurement in accordance with the scanning, and performing photoelectric conversion on the irradiation light; and a measuring unit obtaining phase information of the object under measurement based on a signal photoelectrically converted by the photo detector and a signal to be a reference for the scanning by the scanning element, and obtaining a measurement value regarding the object under measurement based on the phase information.
US10139218B2
An image processing apparatus and an image processing method that allow a user to easily use distance information of a subject of a captured image for image processing are disclosed. The disclosed image processing apparatus generates, from the captured image, a plurality of images, which respectively corresponds to ranges of individual subject distances, based on the distance information of the subject. Furthermore, the image processing apparatus selectably displays the generated plurality of images, and applies image processing to the selected image.
US10139213B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device for adjusting the wheel alignment parameters of the wheels of a vehicle, wherein at least one vehicle axle is gripped by one gripping device per wheel axle, near the wheel flanges of the corresponding axle. According to the present invention, the gripping devices are moved by means of controllable drive means in such a way that the wheel alignment parameters of the wheels are adjusted via the orientation of the gripping devices.
US10139209B1
The present invention relates to a missile or aircraft with a hierarchical, modular, closed-loop flow control system and more particularly to aircraft or missile with a flow control system for enhanced aerodynamic control, maneuverability and stabilization and methods of operating the flow control system. Various embodiments of the flow control system of the present invention involve flow sensors, active flow control device or activatable flow effectors and/or logic devices with closed loop control architecture. The sensors are used to estimate or determine flow conditions on surfaces of a missile or aircraft. The active flow control device or activatable flow effectors of these various embodiments create on-demand flow disturbances, preferably micro-disturbances, at different points along various aerodynamic surfaces of the missile or aircraft to achieve a desired stabilization or maneuverability effect. The logic devices are embedded with a hierarchical control structure allowing for rapid, real-time control at the flow surface.
US10139204B2
A method of producing a concussion device including providing a structure including a cavity, the cavity having a top opening; providing a first energetic charge disposed in a bottom portion of the cavity; providing an elongated member having a length, a width, and a thickness, with the length being greater than both the width and the thickness of the elongated member, the elongated member removably secured to the structure within the cavity and at least partially overlying the first energetic charge.
US10139203B1
The remotely resettable target system is a set of practice targets for use when shooting a firearm. One or more non-resetting targets and a resetting target start in a vertical position where they are visible from uprange. When struck by a fired round, the one or more non-resetting targets 300 pivot to a horizontal position and disappear from sight. When struck by a fired round, the resetting target pivots to a non-vertical position and then returns to the vertical position. While in the non-vertical position, the resetting target releases the one or more non-resetting targets, causing the one or more non-resetting targets to pivot back to the vertical position.
US10139201B2
A pre-stressed curved plate comprising a curved plate having at least one concave surface, the curved plate being enveloped and adhesively bonded with tensioned reinforcing fibers, whereby the reinforcing fibers are first wound around the plate under tension being spaced apart from the concave surface and subsequently subjected to pressure to stretch and bond the reinforcing fibers to the surfaces of the plate, where upon bonding, the tensile strain of the fiber introduces stress in the plate.
US10139198B2
A precise photoelectric sighting system that is simple in shooting calibration, quick and accurate in sighting, adapts to any environmental factor, and may greatly reduce the use of sensors and realize binocular sighting. The system includes a field-of-view acquisition unit, a display unit, a ranging unit and a sighting circuit unit; and precise shooting under any environment is realized by applying the integrated precise photoelectric sighting system. The calibration method of the photoelectric sighting system enables quick and precise calibration.
US10139196B2
An effector launching system includes an environment that has external components located within the environment. The effector launching system may include a modular controller located in the environment of an effector launching system and the external components may be located in the environment externally to the modular controller for executing an effector launching sequence. The modular controller may include a core processor module that is configured to execute a plurality of different effector launching sequences using the external components and a plurality of converting modules that each have an electro-mechanical interface and is connectable between the core processor module and one of the external components. The plurality of converting modules are configured to send and receive data with the core processor module and the plurality of external components.
US10139194B2
A gas valve that can be opened using a trigger mechanism. When triggered, the valve is preferably configured to deliver a rapid release of air and then reset itself in the closed state. Once in the closed state, pressure may again be built on the upstream side of the valve until another release is desired.
US10139192B1
An airsoft magazine that provides an automated feed mechanism of pellets housed in the magazine. The airsoft magazine includes an outer shell housing an inner shell, the inner shell constructed of two symmetrical, half shells. The inner shell includes a feed mechanism operated by a motor powered by a battery. The feed mechanism includes a spinning gear mechanism rotated by the motor to transfer the pellets from a loading chamber to an exit chamber from which the pellets are ejected from the magazine. A first sensor is disposed in the inner shell to output a signal when the sensor detects the pellets passing through the exit chamber and ejected from the magazine. A circuit board for receiving the signal from the sensor turns on the motor and transfers the pellets from the loading chamber to the exit chamber from which the pellets are ejected from the magazine.
US10139191B1
An extreme reverse style crossbow, a reverse style crossbow or a reverse style crossbow with a single stirrup includes two cams, one string, two pulleys and two cables. The pulleys are rotatably retained on the limbs, adjacent the two cams. A dual stirrup crossbow includes two cams, one string, two pulleys and one cable. The two pulleys are rotatably retained on two cam axles. A second dual stirrup crossbow includes two cams, one string, two pulleys and two cables. The two pulleys are rotatably retained on two cam axles. A non-conventional crossbow includes two cams, one string, two pulleys and one cable. The two cams are rotatably retained on limbs between the proximal and distal ends thereof. The two pulleys are rotatably retained on two cam axles. A vertical bow includes two cams, one string, two pulleys and one cable. The two pulleys are rotatably retained on two cam axles.
US10139171B2
The invention relates to a heat exchanger, particularly for cooling a fluid, comprising a plurality of tubes through which a fluid can flow, an end face of each tube terminating in a collector chamber, said collector chambers being fluidically interconnected by means of the tubes and at least one of said tubes comprising at least one wall section formed from a selectively-permeable membrane. The invention also relates to a tube for a heat exchanger.
US10139165B2
Disclosed herein is a nanoparticle generator, comprising a body defining an internal space, with an electric insulator inserted into the internal space from a side of the body; a heat-insulating tube, internally inserted into the body, wherein the electric insulator and a local heating unit which is mounted on the electric insulator are internally inserted into the heat-insulating tube along a central axis thereof; a first inlet, provided at a side of the body, for introducing external air into the heat-insulating tube; a second inlet, provided at a side of the body, for introducing external air between the heat-insulating tube and the body; and an outlet, provided at a side of the body, for evacuating the air introduced through the heat-insulating tube into the body.
US10139160B2
An apparatus 20 for microwave vacuum-drying organic materials such as foods and bioactives has a plurality of microwave generators 50 actuated so as to cause interference between their respective microwave streams and evenly distribute the microwave energy across the vacuum chamber 34. The microwave-transparent window 36 in the chamber is arranged so the organic material to be dried is moved across it on a conveyor belt 60 and the microwave energy passing into the chamber 34 immediately encounters the organic materials, thus attenuating the energy and reducing arcing.
US10139151B2
A refrigerator that has a fresh food compartment, a freezer compartment, and a door that provides access to the fresh food compartment is disclosed. An icemaker is mounted remotely from the freezer compartment. The icemaker includes an ice mold. A thermoelectric device is provided and includes a warm side and an opposite cold side. A flow pathway is connected in communication between the cold side of the thermoelectric device and the icemaker. A fan is operatively positioned to move air from the fresh food compartment across the warm side of the thermoelectric device. A pump moves fluid from the cold side of the thermoelectric device to the icemaker. Cold air, such as from the refrigerator compartment, is used to dissipate heat from the warm side of the thermoelectric device for providing cold fluid to and for cooling the ice mold of the icemaker.
US10139149B2
A refrigerant recovery operation method for use in a refrigerator in which a freezing chamber and a refrigerating chamber are independently cooled is disclosed. The refrigerator and the method for controlling the same provide for performing the refrigerant recovery operation not only when the compressor starts operation but also before the compressor stops operation. The refrigerator increases the refrigerant recovery amount within a predetermined pressure range in which the compressor can operate, and controls the refrigerant recovery operation time according to the outdoor air temperature.
US10139130B2
Urea tank and base plate with an integrated heating element in which the heating element comprising at least one resistive track affixed to one flexible film and/or placed between two flexible films.
US10139122B2
A diagnostic data collection device and a diagnostic data bus are disclosed. In an embodiment, the diagnostic data collection device includes a diagnostic communication interface and a flexible interface module. The interface module is configurable to measure one or more electrical properties associated with an HVAC component, such as voltage, current, resistance. Electrical properties may include a sensor output and may include analog and digital signals. The diagnostic data collection device generates an exception message if the sensed property is out of specification. Evaluation rules are provided to detect various types of failures, including transient failures, steady state failures, and trending failures. The diagnostic data collection device self-calibrates by recording electrical properties during normal operation of the HVAC equipment. A plurality of diagnostic data collection devices may be coupled by a diagnostic data bug independent of the HVAC system's control bus, to ensure operational integrity of the diagnostic system.
US10139115B2
An air handling unit has an interior shell, an exterior skin associated with the interior shell to form a wall space at least partially bound by each of the interior shell and the exterior skin, and a control component at least partially carried within the wall space. A cabinet for an air handling unit has at least one wall comprising an interior shell and an exterior skin associated with the interior shell to form a wall space at least partially bound by each of the interior shell and the exterior skin. The at least one wall at least partially defines a fluid duct of the cabinet and a control component is at least partially disposed within the wall space.
US10139114B2
The method of construction of a wall heating panel and a wall heating panel consists in constructing an aluminium multi-channel collector, preferably with one phase transition channel, connecting it inseparably with vertical aluminium heating elements, arranging the heating elements in the grooves of a dry wall construction board, preferably magnesium, and filling the space between the grooves and the heating elements with elastic compound, and then applying paper—aluminium foil laminate onto the whole surface of the board. A wall heating panel consists of an aluminium collector (1) with stub pipes (2), inside the collector there are horizontal parallel phase transition channels (3) and a water channel (4), the phase transition channel (3) is inseparably connected with the vertical aluminium heating elements (5) which are inserted into the grooves of the dry wall construction board (6), spaces between the grooves and the heating elements are filled with elastic compound (7) and sealed with paper—aluminium foil laminate (8), whereas the top part of the collector (1) adjoins the bottom surface of the board (6).
US10139112B2
The invention relates to an annular combustion chamber of a gas turbine having a machine axis. The combustion chamber includes at least two zones. A first zone receives the fuel/air mixture of a plurality of burners. A second zone guides the hot gases being produced by the burners from the first zone to an entrance of a turbine section of said gas turbine. An annular transition liner includes a plurality of liner segments located at the transition between said first zone and second zone. Each of the liner segments includes with respect to the axial hot gas flow a leading edge, a trailing edge, and two sidewalls, and is provided with axial mounting means at the leading and trailing edges, such that the liner segment can be installed in axial direction and is axially fixed by respective segments of the neighboring first zone. Local spacer ribs are provided at the leading edge of the liner segments in order to establish a gap of minimum width between the liner segments and the fixing segments of the neighboring first zone.
US10139108B2
A combustor basket assembly for a gas turbine engine that includes a combustor basket having a basket liner including an input end and an output end. An integrated exit cone and splash plate member is affixed to the output end of the basket liner and includes a base portion, an exit cone portion and a splash plate portion. The base portion includes an annular cooling channel that receives a cooling air flow and the exit cone portion and the splash plate portion each include an array of cooling feed holes in fluid communication with the cooling channel. The spacing between the feed holes and the size of the feed holes can be optimized to provide more cooling for hotter regions.
US10139106B2
A method for controlling the operation of a burner, the burner including a control board with a first control unit and a first memory, which stores first values of operating parameters of the burner, and a display device, which displays one or more items of data relating to the functioning of the burner, the display device including a second memory, which stores second values of operating parameters of the burner, each first and second operating parameters being capable of being changed over time. The method includes setting for each operating parameter at least one first value in the first memory, and at least one second value in the second memory; comparing, for each operating parameter, a corresponding first value and second value; if the first value and the second value are different, changing one of the first or second values, so that the first and second values are the same.
US10139103B2
A ceiling mounted airway device with illumination, which includes a main housing, a lamp and a lamp fixing part to detachably fix the lamp to an inner wall of the main housing. The main housing includes: a first opening for exhausting air out of the main housing; and a second opening for sucking air into the main housing. The lamp includes: an electrically conductive contact terminal located at an upper end of the lamp and electrically powered via the lamp fixing part; and a flange protruding from a surface of the lamp and located below the electrically conductive contact terminal. The device further includes a shield for supporting the flange which is substantially in form of a cylinder and surrounds the electrically conductive contact terminal and the lamp fixing part.
US10139102B2
A golf hole illumination device is provided which when positioned in an as used position in the bottom of a cup descending below the golf hole, will illuminate the golf hole with light emitters. The light emitters can be positioned within the material forming the transparent body which forms a barrier to protect them from moisture and dirt.
US10139097B2
The invention proposes a solid-state light heat dissipation metal shell (1) and a light-source engine, a. using the shell as a heat sink and adopting a metal plate to process and shape; b. optimizing the wall thickness of the heat dissipation metal shell (1); c. the side wall (2) is made by the stretch of the metal plate from a rear shell (9) or/and a front shell (4), and provided with a ventilation window (3) with a louver type or staggered structure; d. a reflecting cup (26) is provided to solve the glare problem. The invention also proposes a production method and a mold thereof.
US10139096B2
The light irradiating device includes a substrate; a plurality of light emitting diode elements disposed on a surface of the substrate; a cooling unit which is disposed on a rear surface of the substrate; an inner wall which is disposed to enclose a light passage area through which light of the plurality of light emitting diode elements passes; a housing which accommodates the substrate, the plurality of light emitting diode elements, the cooling unit, and the inner wall and generates a space between the inner wall and the housing; an air inlet which introduces air in the light passage area onto the rear surface of the substrate; a flow channel which passes through the rear surface of the substrate and connects the air inlet and the space; and a circulation port which is provided to discharge the air in the space to the light passage area.
US10139095B2
Embodiments of a lamp that utilizes a reflector and a light source with light-emitting diode (LED) devices to generate an optical intensity distribution substantially similar to that of a conventional incandescent light bulb. These embodiments utilize an operation configuration with parameters that define relationships between components of the lamp to generate the optical intensity distribution. These parameters can, in one example, set out the position of the reflector relative to the light source as well as the ratio between dimensions of the reflector and the light source. In one embodiment, the reflector is in position relative to the light source to form a blocking area proximate the light source that defines a part of the lamp that does not diffuse light.
US10139087B2
A lighting device for an automotive vehicle includes a printed circuit board having one or more electronic components, and a support joined, or capable of being joined, to the printed circuit board. The lighting device included a first joining device for joining the printed circuit board to the support, the first device permitting the printed circuit board to rotate, with respect to the support, about an axis and perpendicularly to the axis. Also included is second joining device for joining the printed circuit board to the support, located at a distance from the first joining device and capable of blocking the rotations of the printed circuit board with respect to the support, in an assembled configuration of the printed circuit board and the support.
US10139083B2
A light device and package is disclosed including a light device with a diffuser and a light emitting element arranged so as to generate light through the diffuser which receives electrical power from an electrical power storage device recharged by a photovoltaic device with control circuitry arranged to control power supplied from the electrical power storage device. A test device is included having two conductors connected across a test switch. A device package is included having an opaque and light transmissive package portions and contains the light device and the two conductors. In a first configuration, the test switch is connected between the electrical storage device and the light emitting element via the two conductors, and in a second configuration, the test switch and the two conductors are disconnected from the light device. The test device can be used with multiple light devices and may be secured by a pull-tab.
US10139082B2
The present invention discloses a planar OLED lamp module, containing a planar OLED lamp and a lamp module. The planar OLED lamp module adopts the separable design which has electrical connecting function through elastic metal units. The planar OLED lamp can be removed or dismantled during production assembly and maintenance more easily and quickly, therefore the cost can be significantly down.
US10139079B2
An LED optical assembly includes an optic having first and second light entry surfaces configured to cooperate respectively with a first light emission surface and an internal reflective surface to redirect substantially all light emitted from an LED into a direction substantially parallel with the optical axis. A polygonal periphery extends from the internal reflecting surface to a second light emission surface. Substantially all of the light emitted from the LED incident on the second light entry surface is incident on the internal reflecting surface. The first light entry surface and the second light entry surface cooperate to prevent the light emitted from the LED from contacting the polygonal periphery.
US10139077B2
An optical lens and a light emitting module having the optical lens is provided. The optical lens may include a bottom surface, a recess upwardly convex at a central region of the bottom surface, a light input surface at a circumference of the recess, a first light output surface having a convexly curved surface at opposite sides of the bottom surface and the light input surface, and a second light output surface at a lower circumference of the first light output surface, wherein the bottom surface includes a first edge adjacent to the recess and a second edge adjacent to the second light output surface, a region of the bottom surface more adjacent to the first edge gradually approaches a first axis that is horizontal to a center of a bottom of the recess, and the first light output surface has a convex central region.
US10139075B2
A reflective light guide includes a cylinder enclosed by more than three reflecting plates which connected with each other in turn. The reflecting plate includes a plate body and a reflecting layer arranged on the plate body, along the exit direction of light. The cylinder includes a light inlet part, a light reflecting part and a light outlet part in turn, wherein the light outlet part larger than the light inlet part such that the cylinder being cone shaped. The LED light source with a reflective light guide tube includes a LED light source and a reflective light guide tube. The optical system includes a reflective light guide tube, a LED light source and an optical assembly.
US10139068B2
The invention relates to a lighting device (20, 30) for a headlight, in particular a motor-vehicle headlight, comprising a plurality of light sources (200, 300), which are arranged adjacent to each other in rows (201, 202, 203, 301, 302, 303) and which form a lighting field (209, 309), and comprising a light-guiding device (204, 304) having a plurality of light-guiding elements (201a, 202a, 203a, 301a, 302a, 303a), wherein each light-guiding element (201a, 202a, 203a, 301a, 302a, 303a) is associated with one light source (200, 300), wherein each light-guiding element (201a, 202a, 203a, 301a, 302a, 303a) has a light incoupling surface (201b, 202b, 203b, 301b, 302b, 303b) for coupling in light emitted by the particular light source and a light outlet surface, wherein the light-guiding elements (201a, 202a, 203a, 301a, 302a, 303a) are arranged in at least two linear rows (211, 212, 213, 311, 312, 313) arranged one over the other, and wherein the light-guiding elements (203a, 303a) of the lowest row (213, 313) are designed as high-beam light-guiding elements (201a, 301a) and form a high-beam row (213, 313), wherein the vertical distance between the light sources (200, 300) of the high-beam row (213, 313) and the light sources (200, 300) of the row (212, 312) arranged adjacent in the upward direction is smaller in at least one lateral edge region (208, 308) of the lighting field (209, 309) than in a central region (207, 307) of the lighting field (209, 309).
US10139063B2
A system for suspending and powering an electrically-powered fixture, such as a luminaire, with a coaxial suspension cable, and for attaching the fixture to the cable and to a structure, such as a ceiling, using at least one cable gripping devices, such that the height of the fixture may be adjusted. The suspension cable may comprise an inner cable, which may include a plurality of strength strands wound around a conductive strand; and an outer conductor, such as a copper mesh, separated from the inner cable by an insulator layer. The system may include an assembly mounted to the structure and an assembly mounted to the fixture, each assembly configured to grip the inner cable at one end of the suspension cable and to allow a first conductive path to the inner cable and a second conductive path, insulated from the first conductive path, along the outer conductor.
US10139062B2
A lighting fixture includes a first housing portion and a second housing portion. The first housing portion includes a base and a wall extending outwardly from substantially the perimeter of the base. A top portion of the wall includes one or more hinges extending outwardly therefrom. The second housing portion includes a front panel and a side panel extending outwardly from substantially the perimeter of the front panel. A top portion of the front panel includes at least one slot. The second housing is coupled to the first housing in an open position when the hinge is inserted into the slot and the front panel is disposed elevationally above the base. The second housing is coupled to the first housing in an operational position when the hinge is inserted into the slot and the front panel covers the base.
US10139060B1
The present invention relates to LED related lighting methods and apparatus. An exemplary light assembly in accordance with the invention includes a first reflector, an LED downlight for emitting light in a downward direction through a cavity formed by the first reflector, and an LED uplight for emitting light in an upward direction, the first reflector being positioned above the LED uplight. In some embodiments, the light assembly also includes a second reflector positioned below said first reflector, said second reflector having a larger diameter than said first reflector. In some embodiments, the light assembly also includes a diffuser ring positioned above said LED up light for diffusing light emitted from said LED up light as it travels up towards reflective surfaces of said first and second reflectors. In some embodiments, the LED up light is a ring shaped assembly positioned inside a bottom portion of said second reflector.
US10139059B2
A compact recessed lighting system is provided. The recessed lighting system includes a light source module and a driver coupled to a unified casting and within a shared junction box. The junction box may be coupled to a set of hangar holders that are movably coupled to a corresponding set of hangar bars. The junction box, including the light source module and driver installed therein, may move both 1) along the hangar bars and 2) along an axis perpendicular to the hangar bars. Accordingly, the junction box may be moved to rest in preferred location between a set of joists or beams in a structure. By being configured such that the junction box, along with the light source module and driver, is coupled to a unified set of moveable elements that position the combined structure, the recessed lighting system eliminates the added bulk and size of traditional recessed lighting systems.
US10139049B2
The present invention provides a sub-frame (10) for a valve body (12) having two or more location surfaces (14, 16), said sub-frame (10) comprising a first and a second portion (10a, 10b) having mutually confronting contact surfaces (18a, 18b), sides (20a, 20b) and front and back surfaces (22a, 22b) and mutually confronting engagement surfaces (24a, 24b and 26a, 26b) wherein said mutually confronting contact surfaces (18a, 18b) are shaped to engage with each other upon placement together of the two portions (10a, 10b) and said mutually confronting engagement surfaces (24a, 24b and 26a, 26b) are shaped to engage with one or other of said one or more location surfaces (14, 16) on the valve body (12).
US10139042B2
A crane apparatus for shooting is provided that achieves good operability and does not catch the hand. According to the crane apparatus for shooting of the present invention, the sub jibs are configured to be built in the main jib or a gap between the main jib and the sub jib is configured not to expose to the outside, and the hand of a cameraman is not caught between the main jib and the sub jib.
US10139033B2
A resin coating layer according to the present invention is formed by curing a thermo-setting resin composition on an inner wall of a heat transfer tube. Forming the resin coating layer allows the heat transfer tube to be easily repaired without involving a cutting process of the heat transfer tube.
US10139024B2
A cheek plate for producing a non-detachable pipe joint having an upper cheek half and a lower cheek half, at least one swivel pin which pivotally mounts at least one cheek half, and a receiving region formed between the upper cheek half and the lower cheek half and having a receiving region axis, the at least one cheek half being able to pivot between an open position and a closed position substantially transversely with respect to the receiving region axis. The problem of providing a cheek plate such that the cheek plate permits pressing transverse to the receiving region axis and at the same time a reduction in workpiece size is permitted is solved in that at least one pushing unit is provided, the pushing unit being displaceable at least partially in parallel with the receiving region axis.
US10139021B2
Apparatus for providing a predetermined fluid in a void space (450) of an annulus (320) of a flexible pipe and a method for providing a predetermined fluid in a void space of an annulus are disclosed. The method comprises introducing a predetermined fluid into at least one fluid communication passageway (120), e.g. an elongated conduit, in an annulus (320) of a flexible pipe and, via the passageway (120), communicating the fluid into a void space (450) of the annulus at a plurality of axially spaced apart locations, e.g. via a plurality of spaced apart openings in the wall of the elongated conduit, and at a pressure of less than about around 80 psi.
US10139020B2
A low temperature fluid dual structure pipe includes: an inner pipe through which a low temperature fluid flows; and an outer pipe externally fitted to the inner pipe with a sealed tubular space therebetween. An inactive gas having a melting point and a boiling point each of which is equal to or higher than a temperature of the low temperature fluid is filled in the tubular space between the inner pipe and the outer pipe. When the low temperature fluid flows through the inner pipe, the inactive gas is liquefied or solidified, and therefore, at least one of a liquefied inactive gas layer and a solidified inactive gas layer is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the inner pipe. As a result, a pseudo vacuum layer that is in a substantially vacuum state is formed in the tubular space.
US10139004B2
A solenoid valve includes a housing having a valve passage; a spool configured to switch between an open and closed state of the valve passage; a coil part configured to generate magnetic force when electric current flows therethrough; a yoke surrounding the coil part; a fluid passage provided on an outer side of the coil part, through which the working fluid passes; an introduction passage communicating with the fluid passage to guide the working fluid inside the housing to the fluid passage; and a discharge passage communicating with the fluid passage to discharge the working fluid passed through the fluid passage outside the yoke.
US10138995B2
A fluid arrangement including apparatus and a method for fluid actuation of at least one motor vehicle drive train component, such as a transmission or a clutch. The fluid arrangement has at least one fluid actuation system and a fluid energy source. The fluid energy source includes a fluid pump having a first fluid transport direction for actuating the motor vehicle component, and having a second fluid transport direction that is opposite the first fluid transport direction and in which second fluid transport direction the fluid pump provides a stream of fluid to cool the motor vehicle component.
US10138994B2
A gearbox for a gear motor assembly has a housing defining a chamber and an opening in communication with the chamber. A stationary shaft has one end mounted to a bottom of the chamber and the other end extends toward the opening. A worm wheel is rotatably mounted on the stationary shaft and disposed in the chamber. An output gear connected to the worm wheel protrudes out of the chamber. A cover seals the opening of the chamber. The cover has an annular cover plate with an inner bore and an inner flange extending from an edge of the inner bore towards the bottom of the chamber. The worm wheel has a cylindrical boss that is supported by the inner flange against lateral movement.
US10138992B2
A damper pulley assembly for a vehicle is provided and includes a crank shaft of an engine of the vehicle, a hub that is coupled to the crank shaft and configured to be rotated, a pulley that is coupled to an exterior surface of the hub and configured to be integrally rotated with the hub and an oil seal that is disposed between the hub and an interior of a cylinder block configured to prevent engine oil leakage in the cylinder block. The hub has an abrasion prevention component formed on an exterior circumference surface on which the oil seal is disposed, and the abrasion prevention component prevents separation of the oil seal. Thus, a friction coefficient of a portion where a contact with the oil seal is concentrated is reduced and abrasion of a shaft is reduced by applying an anti-abrasion coating to improve hardness.
US10138984B2
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle includes an input shaft, an output shaft, a first planetary gear set including first, second and third rotation elements, a second planetary gear set including fourth, fifth and sixth rotation elements, a third planetary gear set including seventh, eighth and ninth rotation elements, a fourth planetary gear set including tenth, eleventh and twelfth rotational elements, a first shaft, a second shaft, a third shaft, a fourth shaft, a fifth shaft connecting the sixth rotational element to the seventh rotational element and selectively connected to the input shaft or the third shaft, a sixth shaft connecting the eighth rotational element to the twelfth rotational element, a seventh shaft connected to the ninth rotational element, and an eighth shaft connected to the eleventh rotational element, selectively connected to the fourth shaft and directly connected to the output shaft.
US10138980B2
Embodiments of the subject invention are directed to a flywheel rotor that includes two or more sub-rotors stacked one on top of another, in which each sub-rotor is rotationally symmetric and disk shaped, where the axial centers of each sub-rotor in the stack are rotationally aligned, and each sub-rotor has an upper and a lower journal that extends outward from the origin of the center section of the primary rotational mass of the sub-rotor. Each pair of adjacent sub-rotors in the stack has a lower journal of an upper sub-rotor that is disposed above an upper journal of a lower sub-rotor. Also, there is a joining mechanism between each pair of adjacent sub-rotors that fixedly connects the lower journal of the upper sub-rotor to the upper journal of the lower sub-rotor.
US10138976B2
A valve includes a valve disc that partitions one chamber and another chamber. The valve disc includes annular bosses and seats at each of the one chamber side and the other chamber side, and an auxiliary seat at the other chamber side. The boss is formed to support leaf valves. The seats are formed on outer peripheral sides of the respective bosses. At least one of the seats is disposed to project with respect to the boss of the corresponding chamber side. An outer peripheral end of the seat on the one chamber side is disposed on an outer peripheral side with respect to an outer peripheral end of the seat on the other chamber side. The auxiliary seat is formed on an outer peripheral side of the seat, and have a height equal to or greater than that of the seat on the other chamber side.
US10138975B2
One embodiment provides a pressure buffer device including: a cylinder that stores fluid; a flow path forming portion that forms a flow path; and an opening-closing portion that opens and closes the flow path of the flow path forming portion. The fluid flows through the flow path forming portion in accordance with relative movement of a rod with respect to the cylinder in an axial direction of the cylinder. The flow path forming portion includes an annular first protruded portion and an annular second protruded portion protruded in the axial direction in opposite sides respectively. The second protruded portion has an axial end located at a radially outer side of the first protruded portion, and a tilt portion formed at least at a part of a radially-inner part of the second protruded portion.
US10138971B1
A dispensing pump includes a polymer compression spring assembly. The dispensing pump includes a pump base, and a dispensing head having a piston stem. The polymer compression spring assembly includes a slotted tubular spring element and first and second loading cones received at opposing ends of the slotted tubular spring element. The first loading cone is fixed relative to the pump base while the second loading cone is axially movable with the piston stem and dispensing head. The tubular spring element is disposed coaxially about the piston stem between the cones. When the dispensing head is compressed, the loading cones axially compress toward each other whereby the slotted tubular spring element radially expands to create an opposing contraction force, and in turn, an axial extension force. When released, the spring element elastically contracts to its at rest shape, returning the loading cones and dispensing head to their at rest positions.
US10138961B2
A disk brake, in particular for a vehicle, comprising a brake lining arrangement with a friction lining and a pad back plate. The friction lining can interact with a brake disk in order to achieve a braking effect. The disc brake also comprises a vibration damping device which is arranged on a brake caliper or on a brake support, comprising at least one additional mass which is designed as a separate component. The vibration damping device further comprises a receiving pin which is secured to the brake caliper or to the brake support and via which the additional mass can be fixed to the brake caliper or to the brake support.
US10138959B2
Disclosed is a hydraulic damper comprising a rotor (1), a stator (2) and a drive shaft (3) for driving the rotor (1), the rotor (1) and the stator (2) being mutually forming a working chamber (4) in which liquid medium is accommodated, wherein the stator (2) is provided in turn with an outlet (21), a nozzle (22), an exhaust channel (23), an ejector channel (24) and an inlet (25); the outlet (21), the exhaust channel (23) and the inlet (25) are communicated with the working chamber (4) respectively; the ejector channel (24) is in communication with the outlet (21), the exhaust channel (23) and the inlet (25) respectively; the nozzle (22) is arranged at the junction where the outlet (21) is connected with the exhaust channel (23) and the ejector channel (24); the nozzle (22) is extended along the lead-out direction of the outlet (21) to the junction where the exhaust channel (23) is connected with the ejector channel (24), and the channel width of the nozzle (22) at the extension is smaller than that of the outlet (21) and that of the ejector channel (24) respectively. With the Bernoulli's principle, hydraulic damper proposed in the present application can effectively avoid the loss of the liquid medium in the working chamber (4).
US10138957B2
A clutch control method for a vehicle includes steps of: calculating, by a controller, an estimated clutch torque by substituting a plurality of parameters, and a sensed stroke of a clutch actuator into a predetermined characteristic function; updating, by the controller, the parameters as new values by a prediction error method using a torque error, which is a difference between a reference clutch torque and the estimated clutch torque; calculating a desired stroke by substituting a desired clutch torque and the updated parameters into a predetermined characteristic inverse function; and driving the clutch actuator based on the calculated desired stroke to control the clutch by the controller. The plurality parameters represent physical properties of a clutch, and the predetermined characteristic function represents characteristics of a clutch transmission torque to a clutch actuator stroke. In addition, the predetermined characteristic inverse function represents a clutch actuator stroke to a clutch transmission torque.
US10138948B2
A disc (1, 2) for a friction clutch (3), including an annular plate (4, 5) having friction surfaces on both faces (6, 7) and at least one seat (8, 9) for at least one spring (10, 11), wherein the at least one spring is configured to space adjacent discs in a friction clutch by at least one seat, and wherein the at least one spring is integral with the disc. Using the disc proposed here for a friction clutch, it is possible without additional components, or with an integrated use of existing components, to ensure a reliable spacing of the discs relative to one another.
US10138943B2
A vehicle includes a first drivetrain component and a second drivetrain component. The first drivetrain component defines a splined orifice. The second drivetrain component has a shaft that includes splines that are configured to clearance-fit the splined orifice upon engagement up to a first length and interference-fit the splined orifice upon engagement beyond the first length. Engagement of the splines and the splined orifice at substantially the first length counteracts loads perpendicular to an axis of the shaft preventing disengagement of the first and second drivetrain components.
US10138942B2
Disclosed herein is a shaft seal system comprising a first ball bearing, a second ball bearing, a primary shaft seal, and a secondary shaft seal. The secondary shaft seal may be inboard with respect to said primary shaft seal. The shaft seal system can define a leak chamber of a first diameter between said primary shaft seal and a secondary shaft seal. A plurality of O-rings may be further provided between an outer surface of said shaft seal system and said shaft system.
US10138929B2
An assembly structure of a roller which includes a shaft, a ring unit, and a fixing unit. When the shaft and the ring unit are combined, the center of the bearing unit of the shaft and the center of the outer circumferential surface of the ring unit coincide, the center of the ring mounting unit of the shaft and the center of the inner circumferential surface of the ring unit coincide, the center of the bearing unit of the shaft and the center of the ring mounting unit are spaced apart, the diameter of the bearing unit is shorter than the diameter of the ring mounting unit, and a distance between the centers of the bearing unit of the shaft and the ring mounting unit is equal to or shorter than the distance between the diameter of the ring mounting unit and the diameter of the bearing unit.
US10138924B2
The present invention relates to a fitting member (1) including an insertion portion (11) that fits a long member (Ia) therein and has a space through which the long member (Ia) is insertable, a movement restriction portion (14) that restricts movement that the long member (Ia) comes out of the insertion portion (11), the movement restriction portion (14) being capable of being scraped with a tool, and a guide portion (16) that guides the tool to the movement restriction portion (14) when the movement restriction portion (14) is scraped with the tool, the fitting member (1) including the movement restriction portion (14) that can be scraped with the tool to release the restriction of the movement that the long member (Ia) comes out of the insertion portion (11).
US10138922B2
A fastener clip assembly including a cap configured to be secured to a chassis through a chassis slot. The cap comprises one or more wings configured to collapse upon inserting the cap into the chassis slot and to expand upon full insertion. The cap is further configured to be secured to the chassis slot at least upon the wings expanding into the chassis slot. The clip further includes a pin configured to be secured to a body panel. The pin is configured to be secured to the cap. The cap comprises one or more releases. The releases are accessible from a side of the cap configured to receive the pin. The releases are configured, upon release, to collapse the one or more wings. The cap is configured to be extracted from the chassis based at least upon releasing the releases.
US10138914B2
A sensor attachment tool is provided with a rail-shaped sensor holder having a sensor insertion groove for accommodatably holding a position sensor so that the position of the position sensor can be adjusted, a band part linkable at both ends to the sensor holder and configured so as to be fitted over the outer peripheral surface of a cylinder tube along the peripheral direction, and a tightening mechanism for tightening the band part, the tightening mechanism being arranged on the outer peripheral surface of the cylinder tube in a different peripheral position than the sensor holder.
US10138913B2
A cartridge assembly having a chamber for containing hydraulic fluid, an intensifier element capable of reciprocating in the chamber and displacing the hydraulic fluid responsive to a drive system acting on the intensifier element, and a piston capable of reciprocating in the chamber and being displaceable responsive to a change in the pressure of the hydraulic fluid. The cartridge assembly is configured so that when the pressure in the fluid increases responsive to a first force being applied by the drive system on the intensifier, the hydraulic fluid will exert a second force on the piston, the second force being greater than the first force; the mass of the hydraulic fluid being substantially conserved within the cartridge assembly.
US10138907B2
A rotary energy recovery device (11) wherein a multi-channel cylindrical rotor (15) revolves with its end faces (32) juxtaposed in sealing relationship with end surfaces (33) of a pair of flanking end covers (19, 21), and wherein inlet and outlet fluid passageways (27, 29) are provided in each end cover. Fluid may be directed into the rotor channels (16) and allowed to exit therefrom in an axial direction parallel to the axis of the rotor; however, rotor revolution is self-driven as a result of the interior design of the channels (16) which extend axially through the rotor and are shaped so that fluid flow therethrough creates a torque.
US10138897B2
The invention relates to a compressor blade, defined at each one of the points of its surface by a sweep angle and a dihedral angle, comprising: a root, a tip, the distance between the root and the tip, measured along an axis referred to as the radial axis, perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the compressor, being referred to as radial height (h), a zone, between the root and the tip, of which a first portion has a strictly positive leading edge dihedral angle, and a second portion has a strictly negative leading edge dihedral angle, the zone of maximum dihedral angle being, along the radial axis, between r=0.25 h and r=0.7 h.
US10138893B2
A single suction type centrifugal fan includes a casing, an impeller, and a main plate. The casing includes a side plate and a motor fixing side plate, and the side plate and the motor fixing side plate are arranged in parallel. A rectifying plate is provided between the motor fixing side plate and the main plate, and the rectifying plate is formed from an inclined surface in which an area of a cross section orthogonal to a rotation shaft is reduced toward the impeller around the rotation shaft of a motor. A first rectifying plate diameter at another side of the rectifying plate closer to the impeller is smaller than an impeller diameter of the impeller.
US10138888B2
A rotor for a vane cell pump—in particular, for a vacuum pump—with a base body that is made of plastic and can be driven by rotation, and that rotates about an axis of rotation during operation, wherein the base body comprises a guiding section for slidably receiving a pump vane and wherein the base body is flanked in the direction of the axis of rotation by a first bearing surface and a second bearing surface, wherein the second bearing surface comprises bearing sections that are at a distance from one another and that lie on a circular path that is arranged concentrically to the axis of rotation.
US10138885B2
A gerotor pump includes an inner rotor comprising multiple teeth, the inner rotor configured to rotate about a first longitudinal gerotor pump axis. The gerotor pump also includes a hollow outer rotor including an outer surface and an inner surface having substantially identical contours, the inner surface configured to engage with the multiple teeth and to rotate about a second longitudinal gerotor pump axis. The pump includes a pump housing within which the inner rotor and the outer rotor are disposed, wherein the outer surface of the outer rotor defines gaps between the pump housing and the outer rotor.
US10138881B2
This specification describes technologies relating to a pump for dispensing precise quantities of fluids. In some implementations, a pump includes a pump head including one or more recesses configured to receive one or more corresponding roller elements; and a pump body including an input port, and output port, a first fluid channel, and a second fluid channel, wherein the first fluid channel is formed in part from rigid walls of the pump body and in part from a semi-rigid membrane positioned on at least a portion of the pump body; wherein the pump head is rotatably coupled to the pump body such that the one or more roller elements interface with the semi-rigid membrane such that during rotation the roller elements compress the semi-rigid membrane to push fluid trapped within the first fluid channel in the direction of rotation.
US10138880B2
A vehicle inductor assembly includes an inductor, a thermal plate, an emitter, and a controller. The inductor is secured within a housing. The thermal plate supports the inductor and includes a channel having a flexible wall with actionable particles. The emitter is located adjacent the channel. The controller is programmed to activate the emitter to impart a force upon the particles to move the wall such that a cross-sectional area of the channel is adjusted to influence a flow rate of coolant flowing therethrough. The wall may be a membrane partially secured to an interior of the channel and include the actionable particles. The actionable particles may be one of dielectric and magnetic particles and the emitter may selectively output one of a voltage, an electric field, or a magnetic field to move the dielectric or magnetic particles such that the membrane moves to adjust the cross-sectional area of the channel to influence a flow rate of coolant flowing therethrough.
US10138879B2
This housing is a cylindrical housing including a bearing-member mounting portion provided at least one position on the inner circumferential surface, on which bearing-member mounting portion a bearing member is mounted; mounting legs provided at least two vertical positions on the outer circumferential surface; and chucking portions to be chucked by a chuck mechanism of a machining apparatus during machining, provided on the outer circumferential surface, at least three positions in the circumferential direction, corresponding to the position where the bearing-member mounting portion is provided.
US10138867B2
Methods for assembling rotor blades are provided. A method includes receiving a first portion of a rotor blade at an erection site. The method further includes receiving a second portion of the rotor blade at the erection site. The method further includes aligning the first portion and the second portion at the erection site, the first portion and the second portion supported on a fixture system when aligned. The method further includes connecting a blade component of the first portion and a blade component of the second portion together at the erection site.
US10138864B2
A floatable turbine (10) is described, which is movable on a substantially vertically oriented guide (20) so that the turbine (10) may move downwards along the guide (20) under gravitational force. The turbine equipment (10) is of negative buoyancy to facilitate it sinking, but is further provided with adjustable buoyancy means to allow the turbine arrangement to be imparted with a positive buoyancy when required. When imparted with a positive buoyancy the turbine equipment (10) floats back up the vertically oriented guide (20) under the buoyancy force. When moving down the guide (20) under gravity, and back up the guide (20) under buoyancy force an effective artificial current is generated by the movement through the turbine blades, turning the blades which in turn cause a generator to produce electricity, typically by suitable gearing.
US10138857B2
A rotor of a starter that employs an SR motor is directly connected to a crank shaft of an engine. The rotor and the crank shaft are set in such a way that when a piston is positioned at a top dead center or the like, salient poles and of the rotor face U-phase poles, so that an output torque of the starter comes to its maximum at a maximum pass-over torque position of the engine. When the engine is stopped, electricity is supplied through U-phase coils, thereby making the salient poles and the U-phase poles stop so as to face each other. In this manner, the piston is stopped at the maximum pass-over torque position. When the engine is started, electricity is supplied to W-phase coils which are adjacent to the U-phase coils, thereby making it possible to overcome a maximum friction torque with maximum outputs.
US10138856B2
A method for manufacturing an injector having an extrusion coating, including the following steps: providing an injection module, pushing a disk-shaped alignment element onto a part of the injection module, the alignment element having a slot in order to have sufficient flexibility, welding the alignment element onto the part of the injection module, at least part of the slot also being welded shut at the same time during the welding-on step in order to stiffen the alignment element, and molding the extrusion coating onto the injection module.
US10138855B2
Various technologies presented herein relate to enhancing mixing inside a combustion chamber to form one or more locally premixed mixtures comprising fuel and charge-gas to enable minimal, or no, generation of soot and/or other undesired emissions during ignition and subsequent combustion of the locally premixed mixtures. To enable sufficient mixing of the fuel and charge-gas, a jet of fuel can be directed to pass through a bore of a duct causing charge-gas to be drawn into the bore creating turbulence to mix the fuel and the drawn charge-gas. The duct can be located proximate to an opening in a tip of a fuel injector. An ignition assist component can be located downstream of the duct to facilitate ignition of the fuel/charge-gas mixture.
US10138852B2
The invention relates to a filter element (10), comprising a filter body (12) in concentric form having a longitudinal axis (L), a first end disk (16) situated on one end face (15), and a second end disk (18) situated on the opposite end face (17), and a support tube (14) situated concentrically around the longitudinal axis (L) between the first and the second end disks (16, 18). At least one of the end disks (18) may have support knobs arranged in a circular arrangement about the longitudinal axis and extending in axial direction outwardly. The at least one end disk may have a centering element (22) that is situated around the longitudinal axis (L), as a result of which the filter element (10) can be radially centered during installation in the housing (108). A support structure (20) may be provided on the at least one end disk (18) which is concentric with respect the centering element (22) and is provided for at least axially supporting the filter element (10) in the housing (108). The invention further relates to a filter system (100) for exchangeably installing such a filter element (10).
US10138851B2
An automobile air filtration system including an air intake housing configured to house an air filter assembly. The air filter assembly includes filter media having a first end and a second end, and a base member including a locating member having a first width coupled to the second end. The air intake housing includes at least one sidewall defining an interior chamber, an inlet opening and an outlet opening defined in the sidewall, an outlet passageway defined by a portion of the sidewall extending to the outlet opening along an outlet axis, and a slip region having a second width defined in the portion of the sidewall defining the outlet passageway. When the air filter assembly is received in the interior chamber of the air intake housing, the locating member of the air filter assembly is received in the slip region of the air intake housing.
US10138843B2
A thrust reverser operable within a flowpath defined in-part by a surface carried by a fixed structure includes a translating sleeve constructed and arranged to move between first and second positions and a blocker door pivotally engaged to the translating sleeve for pivotal movement between a first state and a second state. A drag link assembly of the thrust reverser includes a base joint, a mid joint, and a distal joint. A base link extends between the base and mid joints, and a drag link extends between the mid and distal joints. The base joint operably connects the base link to the fixed structure, the mid joint operably connects the base link to the drag link, and the distal joint operably connects the drag link to the blocker door. The base joint and the mid joint are disposed beneath the surface when the blocker door is in the first state.
US10138841B2
A cam cover cap plug for use with a cylinder head assembly to fill the opening that remains when an accessory unit such as a READ utility pump is not utilized. The cam cover cap plug is preferably a one-piece, molded component formed from a plastic or a metal. The cam cover cap plug includes a back, a front, an upper surface and a lower surface. The upper surface is arched and defines a half-round configuration. The lower surface is flat and includes integrated cylinder head fasteners extending from the flat surface. The arched, half-round configuration of the upper surface provides a full and complete sealing area with the half-round opening of the cam cover formed to receive the accessory unit. The fasteners of the lower surface are preferably integrated dowels. The integrated dowels locate the cam cover cap plug base to the cylinder head of the cylinder head assembly.
US10138822B2
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, a flow of exhaust (e.g., exhaust gas recirculation) from engine cylinders to the intake passage, upstream of a compressor, via an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) passage and the first exhaust manifold may be adjusted by adjusting a timing of a first set of cylinder exhaust valves coupled to the first exhaust manifold. Additionally, the first set of cylinder exhaust valves open at a different time than a second set of cylinder exhaust valves coupled to the exhaust passage.
US10138817B2
A booster assembly for a gas turbine engine having a first rotor assembly comprising a low pressure turbine drivingly connected to a fan via a first shaft and a second rotor assembly comprising a second turbine drivingly connected to a high pressure compressor via a second shaft. The booster assembly comprises a further compressor arranged to be disposed about said common axis between the fan and high-pressure compressor in a direction of flow and a gearing having first and second input rotors and an output rotor. The first input rotor is arranged to be driven by the first rotor assembly and the second input rotor is arranged to be driven by the second rotor assembly such that the output rotor drives the further compressor in dependence upon the difference in rotational speed between the first and second rotor assemblies.
US10138814B2
A heat management system of a gas turbine engine for cooling oil and heating fuel, includes an oil circuit having parallel connected first and second branches. The first branch includes a fuel/oil heat exchanger and a first fixed restrictor in series and the second branch includes an air cooled oil cooler and a second fixed restrictor. The first and second fixed restrictors limit respective oil flows through the first and second branch differently, in response to viscosity changes of the oil caused by temperature changes of the oil during engine operation to modify oil distribution between the first and second branches.
US10138813B2
An oil bearing to support a rotor of a turbine, especially of a gas turbine, wherein the rotor extends along a rotor axis coinciding with a bearing axis, has at least one oil bearing pad being lubricated by oil, including an oil sump suitable and located to collect the oil from the bearing pads by forces of gravity, including a drain system of the oil sump to conduct the oil away from the oil sump. The drain system includes at least three drain openings of the oil sump, wherein a first drain opening joining a first drain line is located between 4 o'clock and 5 o'clock according to the bearing axis, wherein a second drain opening joining a second drain line is located between 5:30 and 6:30, wherein a third drain opening joining a third drain line is located between 7 o'clock and 8 o'clock.
US10138807B2
According to one embodiment, a drive device includes a first piston reciprocatively along a first direction within a first mount plane, a first crankshaft orthogonal to the first mount plane, a first XY separation crank mechanism between the first piston and the first crankshaft, which converts reciprocating motion of the first piston and rotary motion of the first crankshaft into each other, a second piston reciprocatively along a second direction symmetrical to the first direction within a second mount plane symmetrical to the first mount plane about a central reference plane, a second crankshaft orthogonal to the second mount plane, a second XY separation crank mechanism between the second piston and the second crankshaft, which converts reciprocating motion of the second piston and rotary motion of the second crankshaft into each other, and a coupler-synchronizing mechanism which rotates the first and second crankshafts in synchronous with each other.
US10138802B2
Techniques for learning endstop position(s) of an actuator for a wastegate valve include detecting a learn condition and, in response to detecting the learn condition, performing a learn procedure for the actuator endstop position(s). The learn procedure includes commanding the actuator to a desired position past the endstop position corresponding to a fully-closed wastegate valve while rate-limiting a velocity of the actuator. When the difference reaches its maximum allowed value and the velocity falls below a fraction of its rate limit, the endstop position is learned. When the wastegate valve is requested open, the actuator is then controlled using the learned endstop position. Reference stiffness for a fully-closed wastegate valve could be obtained, and subsequent stiffness checks could then be periodically performed and, if less than the reference stiffness, a duty cycle of the actuator could be increased during open-loop control.
US10138795B2
A vehicle exhaust system component assembly includes a first exhaust component defining a first center axis and a second exhaust component downstream of the first exhaust component and defining a second center axis that is spaced apart from and generally parallel to the first center axis. The first and second exhaust components are spaced apart from each other by an area. A plenum is positioned substantially within the area, and has a first end connected to the first exhaust component and a second end connected to the second exhaust component. The plenum is defined by a non-uniform cross-sectional shape as the plenum extends along a length from the first end to the second end. A doser is mounted to the plenum and is configured to inject a reducing agent to mix with exhaust gases within the plenum.
US10138790B2
A heat recovery device comprises a coolant path segment and a thermal expansion bracket. The thermal expansion bracket has two end portions supported by the coolant path segment and a middle portion supported by an exhaust gas path segment that is spaced a distance away from the coolant path segment. The thermal expansion bracket is configured to deform in response to an increase in temperature to increase the distance and decrease heat transfer between the segments.
US10138788B2
A lattice board is obliquely arranged in a bent portion halfway in an exhaust pipe where exhaust gas flows curvedly so as to bisect an angle made by inflow and outflow directions the exhaust gas entered upstream of and discharged downstream of the bent portion, respectively. An injector is arranged in the outflow direction of the exhaust gas to inject urea water to an entry side of the lattice board such that flow passage walls of the lattice board on which hit is the exhaust gas from upstream has rear surfaces on which hit is a spray of urea water from the injector.
US10138785B2
An arrangement for feeding ammonia containing fluid into an exhaust gas passage of a combustion plant includes a first fluid line connectable in flow connection with a source of an ammonia containing fluid. A second fluid line is in flow connection with a source of a dilution fluid. A control unit controls multiple valve members of a valve unit, each of the valve members having a first inlet in flow connection with the first fluid line, a second inlet in flow connection with the second fluid line and an outlet in flow connection with an outlet channel connected to the exhaust gas passage. The valve members are connected in parallel so that the outlet of each of the valve members is in flow connection with a common outlet channel.
US10138784B2
A PCV valve that ventilates a crankcase is provided. A three-way catalyst and a NOx storage/reduction catalyst are provided in an exhaust passage. An electronic control unit performs a stoichiometric control and a lean control. When a crankcase ventilation request is issued, a relationship between a ventilation amount of ventilation achieved by the PCV valve and a fuel consumption resulting from the ventilation is calculated. Furthermore, an operational condition under which the ventilation amount meets a required ventilation amount and the fuel consumption is minimized is calculated. The operational condition is calculated so that a constant engine torque is maintained and the air-fuel ratio falls within a range that ensures purification.
US10138781B2
Methods and systems are provided for expediting light-off of a catalyst during engine cold-start conditions by inhibiting rotation of the turbocharger shaft. In one example, a method may include inhibiting rotation of the turbocharger shaft during engine cold-start conditions until the catalyst is operating at a desired efficiency. The rotation of the shaft may be inhibited via either a passive or an active shaft locking mechanism.
US10138779B2
Selective catalytic reduction filter (SCRF) devices and systems incorporating the same are provided. Systems can include an exhaust gas source, an exhaust gas conduit capable of receiving an exhaust gas stream from the exhaust gas source, and an SCRF device in fluid communication therewith. The SCRF device can include a filter, a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst disposed on at least portion of the filter, and a NOx storage coating on at least a portion of the filter. The NOx storage coating can include one or more of palladium, barium, or cerium. The NOx storage coating can be biased towards the upstream side of the filter. The NOx storage coating can overlap a portion of the SCR catalyst. The system can further include a water-absorbing alkali oxide. The water-absorbing alkali oxide can be disposed within the SCRF device, the exhaust gas conduit, or in an upstream oxidation catalyst device.
US10138766B2
An iron-based alloy includes, in weight percent, carbon from about 2 to about 3 percent; manganese from about 0.1 to about 0.4 percent; silicon from about 0.3 to about 0.8 percent; chromium from about 11.5 to about 14.5 percent; nickel from about 0.05 to about 0.6 percent; vanadium from about 0.8 to about 2.2 percent; molybdenum from about 4 to about 7 percent; tungsten from about 3 to about 5 percent; niobium from about 1 to about 3 percent; cobalt from about 3 to about 5 percent; boron from zero to about 0.2 percent; and the balance containing iron and incidental impurities. The alloy is suitable for use in elevated temperature applications such as in valve seat inserts for combustion engines.
US10138759B2
A closed loop performing a Rankine cycle for a motor vehicle includes a circulation and compression pump for a working fluid, a heat exchanger swept by a hot source for heating said working fluid, expansion means for expanding the hot fluid and a cooling exchanger-swept by a cooling fluid for cooling this working fluid.A method of controlling the closed loop performing a Rankine cycle for a motor vehicle includes, after detecting a vehicle accident situation, in communicating the inside of the loop with the ambient air.
US10138757B2
A bearing system is provided for a gas turbine engine. This bearing system includes a spring defined about an axis of rotation. The spring has a multiple of beams which extend between a flange and a damper attachment. A damper defined about the axis of rotation and mounted to the spring to at least partially axially overlap the multiple of beams.
US10138756B2
A turbine wheel with optimal-mass dampers to dampen a predetermined resonance in context of vibration of a turbine, particularly a low-speed turbine, while assisting in flexibility of adapting to bearing surfaces of recesses of the dampers, by separating mass and flexibility functions by a flexible portion for clamping against the platform, and a mass portion for controlling frictional forces. A damper includes a plate and a counterweight. The plate is stamped from a metal sheet that is substantially thinner than that of the counterweight. The plate includes a wall configured to flexibly contact a platform of the blade of the wheel, while at least partially surrounding a surface of the counterweight. The damper can be used in particular for a wheel of a turbine of a turbine engine, of a fan, or of a BP compressor having mounted blades.
US10138747B2
Various embodiments include gas turbine seals and methods of forming such seals. In some cases, a turbine includes: a first arcuate component adjacent to a second arcuate component, each arcuate component including one or more slots having a seal assembly disposed therein. The seal assembly including an intersegment seal including a plurality of seal segments defining one or more end regions. One or more of the plurality of seal segments including at the one or more end regions a plurality of jet holes and a channel having a wire disposed therein, wherein the intersegment seal provides sealing of one or more end gaps defined proximate the one or more end regions in response to the thrust of a flow of pressurized air through the plurality of jet holes.
US10138722B2
The systems, devices, and methods described herein describe a control system that automatically determines a trip speed for a surge operation or a swab operation. The control system is used to automatically adjust the trip speed during the respective surge or swab operation in order to optimize the trip speed according to the changing environment of the wellbore that the bottom hole assembly traverses without exceeding the fracture gradient in the wellbore location. A well plan identifies formations along the wellbore route, dynamic real-time tracking of the tubulars added to the drill string and removed therefrom identifies the current location of the BHA in the wellbore, and pressure and fractional gradient at the location of the BHA, and in some embodiments a real-time pressure measurement from the BHA, together are used to automatically determine the maximum tripping speed possible for the formation that the BHA is traversing.
US10138718B2
At least one crack designator for a perforating gun, wherein the gun includes a longitudinal direction, a lateral direction, and at least one scallop, wherein each crack designator is capable of redirecting crack growth from the lateral direction to the longitudinal direction of the gun. The designator may be located in one of the scallops, extend from an expected exit hole in the gun to an edge of one of the scallops, and be capable of redirecting crack growth from a lateral direction to a longitudinal direction of the gun. In preferred embodiments, the designator in each scallop is arranged in a spider pattern or concentric circles. The designator is preferably formed by machining, etching, or laser ablation. The designator may have a lower fracture toughness or lesser stiffness than surrounding material of the gun.
US10138717B1
A first set of input features related to wells and a set of output characteristics related to the wells may be obtained. For each of a plurality of operational wells, input factor values for the input features of the respective operational wells and output characteristic values for the output characteristics of the respective operational wells may also be obtained. At least some of the input factor values and output characteristic values may be compared. Based on the comparison, a second set of input features that influence the output characteristics may be determined. The second set may be a subset of the first set.
US10138716B2
An apparatus for controlling a flow of fluid downhole comprises a removable fluid nozzle in fluid communication with a production tubular disposed in a borehole penetrating the earth. The removable fluid nozzle is configured for bi-directional flow, wherein a pressure drop of fluid flow in one direction is greater than the pressure drop of fluid flow in the other direction.
US10138714B2
A system and method of exploiting an offshore oil and gas reservoir, comprising installing a drilling structure in a body of water; drilling a plurality of wells from the drilling structure; and providing a plurality of buoyant, flexible structures adjacent to the well.
US10138706B2
A technique includes running a seat assembly on a conveyance line into a tubing string, which has previously been installed in a well. The seat assembly includes a seat, which is adapted to receive an untethered object. The technique includes attaching the seat assembly to the string at a location downhole in the well; receiving the object to create a fluid barrier; and diverting fluid using the fluid barrier.
US10138705B2
A flow restriction device for restricting flow through a conduit.
US10138703B2
A drainage device is for a tubular, telescopic pipe-landing unit having a through pipe bore partially formed of a center pipe extending from an upper end portion of an outer pipe-landing section and with a free end in through an upper end portion of an inner pipe-landing section, which is axially movable in the outer pipe-landing section. The center pipe has a fluid-communication opening arranged for pressure equalization between the pipe bore and an annulus between the center pipe and the outer pipe-landing section. The annulus has a drain passage arranged to be opened by the axial movement of the inner pipe-landing section into the outer pipe-landing section away from an extended, operative position, in which an abutment portion on the upper end portion of the inner pipe-landing section is resting sealingly against a seat portion on a lower end portion of the outer pipe-landing section.
US10138689B2
A tool for use in suspending operation of an oil or gas well driven by an artificial lift with a polished rod connected to a sucker rod in a tubing string includes a body having a lower narrow portion dimensioned to fit within the interior cavity of a tubing string inlet or an upper extension thereof; an upper wide diameter portion defining a substantially horizontal landing surface dimensioned to rest upon the top edge of the tubing string inlet or the upper extension thereof; one or more sucker rod-engaging structures; and one or more longitudinal slots extending through the lower narrow portion and the upper wide diameter portion to allow passage of fluid or gas through the tool when the tool is supported on the top edge of the tubing string inlet or the upper extension thereof.
US10138686B2
One example of a downhole self-isolating wellbore drilling system to pulverize formation cuttings includes a cutting grinder tool and an isolation tool. The cutting grinder tool can be attached to a drill string uphole relative to a drill bit attached to a downhole end of the drill string. The cutting grinder tool can receive and pulverize formation cuttings resulting from drilling a formation using the drill bit. The isolation tool can be attached to the drill string uphole relative to the cutting grinder tool. The isolation tool can control flow of the pulverized formation cuttings mixed with a drilling mud uphole through the drill string.
US10138684B2
An under-reaming tool comprises a body and a plurality of extendable cutters mounted on the body. The under-reaming tool is configured to be cycled between a first configuration in which the cutters are retracted and a second configuration in which the cutters are movable between retracted and extended positions. The under-reaming tool is configured to prevent extension of the cutters by an external fluid in the first and/or second configuration/s.
US10138677B2
A torsion assembly has a connection member and a torsion spring. The connection member has a connection segment and a holding protrusion. The connection segment has a connection hole. The holding protrusion is formed in the connection hole. The torsion spring has a spring body and a connection leg. The connection leg is connected with the connection segment of the connection member, and has a rod segment, a bent segment, and a hook segment. The connection leg is kept from escaping out of the connection hole by the holding protrusion.
US10138673B1
A hinge mounted assembly for existing door constructions for supporting articles between a door and a door jamb in a door construction that has upper and lower hinges; including a first “U” shaped bracket mounted above one of the hinges to prevent downward movement of the hinge mounted assembly, and a second “U” shaped bracket mounted below one of the hinges to prevent upward movement of the hinge mounted assembly, and a vertically running support rod connected to the two brackets, such that it abuts closely against the protruding portion of both hinges on the back side of the door, to prevent lateral movement of the hinge mounted assembly.
US10138664B2
An adjustable hinge assembly for connecting a moving part to a frame includes a first part secured to the frame and including an insert channel, and a second part secured to the moving part and including a shaft. An eccentric insert is positioned in the insert channel and is rotatable in the insert channel. The eccentric insert includes an offset channel at an end facing the second part, and the shaft of the second part is disposed in the offset channel. By rotating the eccentric part in the insert channel, a relative position of the moving part to the frame can be adjusted.
US10138663B2
A locking device includes a locking cover that is opened and closed when a toner container is attached and detached, an engagement part that is engaged with the locking cover in a closed state, a tension member that pulls the engagement part, thereby allowing the engagement part to be engaged with the locking cover, a movement part that moves the engagement part in an opposite direction to release an engagement state between the engagement part and the locking cover, and a mounting member that is mountable at an image forming apparatus body at two postures, and limits movement of the movement part in the opposite direction to maintain the engagement state when the mounting member is mounted at one posture while permitting the movement of the movement part in the opposite direction to allow the engagement state to be releasable when the mounting member is mounted at the other posture.
US10138658B2
A fenestration assembly includes a frame assembly, a movable sash assembly and a lock assembly. The lock assembly includes a first lock and a second side lock. The first lock operatively locks and unlocks the moveable sash to the frame assembly in a first direction only when the movable sash is in a fully closed position. The first side lock operatively locks and unlocks the movable sash in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction both when the movable sash is in the fully closed position and a partially open position.
US10138653B1
A collapsible tent with quilted reflective covering fabric is formed from a plurality of hubs that connect outward extending struts. The struts define the shape of the walls and roof by supporting an expanse of at least translucent fabric extending from a hub are disposed in the center of each sidewall of the tent and a polygonal slanted roof. The strut ends from the slanted roof panels are held in stitched elongated pockets at the roof corners which are adjacent the stitched pockets that support sidewall struts. The tent has sealable vents and portal for one or more of power cords, ventilations ducts and water or drains hoses.
US10138640B2
An adjustable form having at least two elongated form parts which are capable of being attachable to each other in an adjustable manner relative to each other. A kit for an adjustable form having a package for containing at least two elongated form parts which are either or both adapted for or capable of being attachable to each other in an adjustable manner. A method for use of a form unit including assembling a form unit; disposing the form unit in the creation of an overall structure form for the creation of the ultimate structure; creating the ultimate structure.
US10138638B1
A deck covering system is provided. The deck covering system is designed to be installed on existing decks to provide a new working surface for decks that have begun to deteriorate, to provide additional protection to existing decks, to provide enhanced function and appearance to decks, and the like.
US10138632B2
A roof system includes a roof panel formed of concrete and an architectural surface such as a corrugated surface. A first layer of reinforcing material is disposed along and spaced inwardly from a first surface of the roof panel, and an optional second layer of reinforcing material is disposed along and spaced inwardly from a second surface of the roof panel. The first layer of reinforcing material is spaced from the second layer of reinforcing material. The reinforcing material may be formed of fiber-reinforced polymer mesh, made with carbon fibers or glass fibers. FRP rebar may be used in conjunction with FRP mesh to provide added structural strength. The roof panel may include one or more elongated ribs having a thickness greater than adjacent portions of the roof panel. In other aspects, concrete structures with reinforcing material may be used for either roof panels or wall applications.
US10138631B2
A roofing system of the present disclosure has a first shingle layer and an overlaid layer a portion of which overlays the first shingle layer. Additionally, the roofing system has a first shingle in the first shingle layer, the first shingle having a first channel and a first protrusion in an upward-facing surface and the channel is contiguous with the protrusion, the channel and the protrusion formed on an interlocking end of the first shingle. Further, the roofing system has a second shingle in the overlaid layer, the second shingle having a second channel and a second protrusion in a downward-facing surface and the second channel is contiguous with the second protrusion such that the first channel is configured for receiving the second protrusion and the second channel is configured for receiving the first protrusion.
US10138630B1
A shearwall assembly includes a first concrete and a second concrete column and a protrusion extending from a connection end of the respective concrete columns. Each protrusion has two side surfaces and a center surface. A pair of horizontal slab panels are positioned between the respective connecting ends of the first and second concrete columns and abutting the two side surfaces of the respective protrusions. A horizontal reinforcement extends from the center surface of the respective protrusions and between the respective trusses. Concrete is poured at a volume formed between the pair of horizontal slab panels and the first and second concrete columns.
US10138628B2
A method of installing an insulation batt can include expanding an insulation layer of insulation batt between a first stiffening layer and a second stiffening layer of the insulation batt; and placing the insulation batt in an insulation cavity. A connector can couple the first stiffening layer to the second stiffening layer. The connector can include a first elongated connection panel and a second elongated connection panel, and expanding the insulation can include folding the first elongated connection panel relative to the first stiffening layer and folding the second elongated connection panel relative to the second stiffening layer. The method can further include engaging a mounting tab of the insulation batt with a wall of the insulation cavity to position the insulation batt in the insulation cavity.
US10138624B1
The present invention is an actuation apparatus that is adapted such that when a water level sensor senses water at above a predetermined level by means of a float of a float valve “floating” or rising to a predetermined level based on a corresponding increase in a water level, a diaphragm valve “turns on” or repositions such that water is allowed to flow from a pressurized water source to an actuator and the actuator actuates. The apparatus may be used in conjunction with a toilet having auxiliary discharge path and valve in preventing the toilet from overflowing.
US10138617B2
A work machine is formed from a self-propelled land travel vehicle and an attachment. The vehicle and attachment have interlocking coupling assemblies. The attachment has a positioning arm, a pivot fixture and a ground-engageable frame. The positioning arm and frame allow the attachment to pivot about the pivot fixture to couple and decouple with the vehicle. Coupling and decoupling of the vehicle and apparatus can be achieved without the use of separate lifting equipment.
US10138610B2
A process for forming an artificial reef includes forming a form having a geometric shape, applying at least one blockout onto a surface of the form such that the blockout extends outwardly of the surface of the form, applying a sprayable concrete over the form and over a portion of the blockout, curing the sprayable concrete on the form for a period of time so that the sprayable concrete adheres to the blockout, and removing the cured sprayable concrete and the adhered blockout together from the surface of the form. The sprayable concrete is applied over the form until the depth of the sprayable concrete is approximately equal to a depth of the blockout. The blockout is a cinder block.
US10138605B2
The purpose of the invention is a railway track (3) sleeper (2) squaring device and the machine which carries this device. The device comprises a first and a second positioning element (1) adapted to be located between pairs of sleepers (2) and for locating at opposite ends of the sleepers (2) and parallel to the direction of the railway track (3) where these positioning elements (1) can be extended in that direction with the first and second positioning element (1) being configured such that on extending them simultaneously to a pre-set value they push the sleepers (2) so as to produce squaring of these sleepers (2).
US10138603B2
An autonomous ballast consist for unloading ballast along a railway and methods for unloading ballast thereby. The consist includes a plurality of ballast cars and at least one control car. The control car includes a controller, a navigation system, and electric, hydraulic, or pneumatic generators that power the hopper cars. The controller employs the navigation system to determine the location of the consist relative to a track survey indicating locations and amounts of ballast to be unloaded. The controller instructs the hopper cars to open/close ballast doors to dump appropriate amounts of ballast in desired locations. The controller also monitors the status of the hopper cars and the accuracy of the navigation system to automatically adjust the operational state of the consist relative thereto. The unloading operation is carried out automatically, without need for operator intervention, and without risk of damage to railroad facilities.
US10138585B2
A laundry treatment apparatus includes a cabinet having an introduction/discharge opening, a drawer configured so as to be discharged from the cabinet through the introduction/discharge opening, a through-hole formed in an upper surface of the drawer, a tub that is located inside the drawer and that defines a space that is configured to receive water, an introduction aperture formed in an upper surface of the tub, the introduction aperture being located under the through-hole, a drum rotatably provided inside the tub for receiving laundry supplied to the introduction aperture, a door that is configured to open and close the introduction aperture, the door being coupled to one of the drawer or the tub, and a door sensing unit that is configured to determine whether the door is opened during a state in which the drawer is inserted into the cabinet.
US10138583B2
A cloth clamping device includes a clamping mechanism that comes into contact with a cloth and an up-and-down movement mechanism that moves the clamping mechanism up and down. The clamping mechanism includes a support portion, a leg portion, a foot portion, and a clamping portion. The clamping portion has a leading end portion facing the foot portion in a sideway direction and a base end portion being pivotally supported by the support portion. When the leg portion is lowered with respect to the support portion, the leading end portion pivots downward and is positioned in a sideway direction with respect to the foot portion, and when the leg portion is raised with respect to the support portion, the clamping portion comes into contact with the upper surface of the cloth and the leading end portion is positioned above the foot portion, and the clamping mechanism draw up the cloth.
US10138581B2
A woven fabric that includes a plurality of warp yarns and a plurality of stretch weft yarns. In one embodiment, all of the weft yarns have the same shrinkage ratio and same size of yarn count, and the repeat intersection points on the weft yarns are either 6×1 or 13×1. The weft yarns in the 6×1 pattern alternate with the weft yarns in the 13×1 pattern, with two 6×1 weft yarns followed by one 13×1 weft yarn. This results in a woven fabric that performs like a knitted fabric but with the look of woven denim when the warp yarns are indigo dyed.
US10138579B2
In one embodiment, a fiber treatment system includes a rotatable nubbed roller including an axis of rotation, a surface, and a number of spaced apart nubs projecting away from the surface, the number of spaced apart nubs imparting a number of spaced apart openings in a fiber tow. In another embodiment, the fiber treatment system further includes an optionally rotatable spreader roller for flattening the fiber tow. In yet another embodiment, the loosened, but still continuous fiber tow is chopped by a downstream chopper to form short fibers with reduced tow sizes.
US10138578B2
The present invention concerns a method for the recovery of solvent in a process for preparation of regenerated cellulosic fibers using sodium hydroxide as solvent for cellulose dissolving in the manufacturing of a cellulose spinning dope wherein sodium hydroxide present in the spinning dope is at least partially recovered and recycled as sodium hydroxide from a cellulose fiber regeneration or cellulose coagulation step and wherein said cellulose fiber regeneration or cellulose coagulation step consists of a bath into which cellulose spinning dope is injected. Recovered sodium hydroxide may be directly or indirectly recycled from a cellulose fiber regeneration or cellulose coagulation step to a cellulose dissolving step.
US10138570B2
A crystal growth apparatus includes a pressure-resistant vessel; a plurality of support tables arranged inside the pressure-resistant vessel; inner vessels each placed over the support tables, respectively; growth vessels contained the inner vessels, respectively; a heating means for heating the growth vessels; and a central rotating shaft connected to the support tables. The central rotating shaft is distant from central axes of the inner vessels, respectively. A seed crystal, a raw material of the Group 13 element and a flux are charged in each of the growth vessels, and the growth vessels are heated to form a melt and a nitrogen-containing gas is supplied to the melt to grow a crystal of a nitride of said Group 13 element while the central rotating shaft is rotated.
US10138569B2
The invention relates to a weld cleaning fluid, and method of cleaning weld or discoloration especially on stainless steel. Stainless steel welds, such as those done by TIG welding, require cleaning to remove the resulting surface discoloration and also to passivate the steel. This is often done using an electro-cleaning apparatus with the assistance of electrolyte cleaning fluids. A new cleaning fluid has been developed that has a generally neutral pH, instead of the highly acidic nature of previously used fluids, which avoids environmental and safety issues. The cleaning fluid composition preferably has potassium or sodium orthophosphate salts as the main active ingredient, or similar such salts, and has a pH of around 7. It may also include a sequestering or chelating agent such as a sodium and/or potassium salt of EDTA, and coloring and fragrance.
US10138568B2
A plating product fabrication method includes forming a first concentrate. The concentrate includes a Tin (Sn) species and a trace amount of Polonium (Po) species. The plating product fabrication method also includes creating a circuit between a filtering anode and a filtering cathode and reducing the Po species from the concentrate by plating Po upon the filtering cathode. In this manner, a purified Sn concentrate is formed. The purified Sn concentrate may be utilized to plate Sn upon a plating cathode. The purified Sn concentrate may be utilized to form purified Sn.
US10138566B2
The inventive two-step process operates at low temperature, without any toxic heavy metals, to provide excellent sealing on anodized aluminum substrates, especially those aluminum substrates comprising silicon. The first step of the process seals the anodized surface and the second step passivates the anodized surface. The process allows for corrosion resistance in anodized aluminum and anodized aluminum alloys to be achieved that is comparable to traditional nickel based sealants, without the toxicity of nickel. The process additionally does not require any excessive temperatures, as required by hot water sealing processes. The composition used for the sealing step comprises soluble lithium ions, fluoride ions, and preferably, a complexing agent comprising phosphines, phosphonates and/or polymers of acrylic acid. The composition used for the passivation step comprises metal ions and preferably a complexing agent comprising phosphines, phosphonates and/or polymers of acrylic acid.
US10138563B2
A hydrogen energy supply system including 10 or more water wheel impeller type power generation devices that are supported to float in water by first floating bodies and generate electric power by using ocean currents; a second floating body on which a seawater electrolysis device, a hydrogen liquefaction device, and a liquid hydrogen tank are arranged; a hydrogen transporting ship that accommodates the liquid hydrogen stored in the liquid hydrogen tank and transports it by sea to land; an overland liquid hydrogen tank that stores the liquid hydrogen supplied from the hydrogen transporting ship; a small cylinder that accommodates the liquid hydrogen supplied from the overland liquid hydrogen tank; and a hydrogen transporting vehicle that transports the small cylinder to a consumer on land.
US10138559B2
Provided is a chemical conversion agent that, with respect to an aluminum metal material, etc., contributes to superior corrosion and moisture resistance, contributes to superior adhesion with a laminate film, and contributes to superior hydrofluoric acid and alkali resistance. The chemical conversion agent includes: one or more type of metal element (A) selected from a group comprising of zirconium, titanium, and hafnium; vanadium element (B); and a resin (C). The resin (C) includes a polyvinyl alcohol resin (C1). The ratio (Wa/Wb) of the weight-based total content (Wa) of the metal element (A) relative to the weight-based content (Wb) of vanadium element (B) is 0.1-15, and the ratio ((Wa+Wb)/Wc1) of the weight-based total content (Wa+Wb) of the metal element (A) and the vanadium element (B) relative to the weight-based total content (Wc1) of the polyvinyl alcohol resin (C1) is 0.25-15.
US10138555B2
A gas control system includes: a first valve that is provided in a carrier gas line or in a gas supply line; a flow rate control mechanism that is provided in a diluent gas line and includes a flow rate sensor and a second valve; a contactless type first concentration sensor; a first valve control part; a diluent gas setting flow rate calculation part adapted to, on the basis of a preset setting total flow rate of a post-dilution mixed gas and a post-dilution measured concentration, calculate a diluent gas setting flow rate that is a flow rate of a diluent gas to be flowed through the diluent gas line; and a second valve control part adapted to control the opening level of the second valve so as to decrease the deviation between the diluent gas setting flow rate and a measured flow rate measured by the flow rate sensor.
US10138549B2
A scanning optical apparatus includes: a deflection unit configured to deflect a light flux from a light source in a main scanning direction; an incident optical system configured to introduce the light flux from the light source to the deflection unit; a condensing optical system configured to condense the light flux from the deflection unit onto a scanned surface; and a reflection member arranged in a light path of the light flux deflected in the main scanning direction by the deflection unit and configured to reflect a part of the deflected light flux. The reflection member has a reflection surface configured to reflect the deflected light flux, a first end surface formed in the main scanning direction, and a second end surface formed in a sub-scanning direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction, and the second end surface has a higher degree of corrosion resistance than the first end surface.
US10138546B2
A chucking apparatus and methods for coating a glass substrate using a vacuum deposition process are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the chucking apparatus includes an ESC (ESC), a carrier disposed on the ESC, wherein the carrier comprises a first surface adjacent to the ESC and an opposing second surface for forming a Van der Waals bond with a third surface of a glass substrate, without application of a mechanical force on a fourth surface of the glass substrate opposing the third surface. In one or more embodiments, the method includes disposing a carrier and a glass substrate on an ESC, such that the carrier is between the glass substrate and the ESC to form a chucking assembly, forming a Van der Waals bond between the carrier and the glass substrate, and vacuum depositing a coating on the glass substrate.
US10138542B2
Strain-gated logic devices are important for the development of advanced flexible electronics. Using a dual-monolayer-promoted film-transfer technique, a flexible multilayer structure capable of undergoing large compressive deformation was prepared. Formation of a crease in the gap between electrodes at a geometrically tunable strain leads to formation of an electrical connection in a reversible and reproducible fashion. A strain-gated electrical switch includes at least two conductive electrodes disposed on a surface of an elastomer substrate, the at least two conductive electrodes forming a gap between the at least two electrodes in an off-state of the strain-gated electrical switch, the gap diminishing under compressive strain to form a crease, the compressive strain pressing the at least two electrodes into contact with each other in an on-state of the strain-gated electrical switch.
US10138537B2
An aluminum alloy member resistant to cracking and having high strengths and excellent stress corrosion cracking resistance is manufactured by crushing a 7xxx aluminum alloy extrudate. Specifically, a 7xxx aluminum alloy extrudate containing Zn of 3.0-8.0%, Mg of 0.4-2.5%, Cu of 0.05-2.0%, and Ti of 0.005-0.2%, in mass percent, and prepared through press quenching is subjected to a reversion treatment, to crushing within 72 hours after the reversion treatment, and then to aging. The reversion treatment includes heating at a temperature use rate of 0.4° C./second or more, holding in a temperature range of 200-550° C. for longer than 0 second, and cooling at a rate of 0.5° C./second or more. The ratio of the tensile residual stress σrs to the 0.2% yield stress σ0.2 after aging and the total content X of Mg and Zn satisfy a condition specified by Expression (1): Y≤−0.1X+1.4 (1).
US10138531B2
An induction apparatus including a hardening control unit for controlling an induction hardening apparatus based on setup conditions data; a hardening monitoring unit that measures, as measurement data, the electric quantity in an electric circuit and that monitors an induction hardening status; and a data collecting unit that collects the data from various sensors in the induction hardening apparatus obtained when the induction hardening apparatus subjects the work to an induction hardening based on the setup conditions data outputted from the hardening control unit and that collects the measurement data from the hardening monitoring unit to store the collected data from the various sensors and the measurement data so that the collected data are associated to each other.
US10138529B2
Method for fabrication of an antiferromagnetic and temperature compensated timepiece balance spring, including the steps of: selecting an amagnetic iron-chromium-nickel-manganese-beryllium compensating alloy, comprising, by mass percent, between and including: from 21.0% to 25.0% of manganese, from 9.0% to 13.0% of nickel, from 6.0% to 15.0% of chromium, from 0.2% to 2.0% of beryllium, the remainder iron, the total of nickel and manganese being higher than or equal to 33.0%, working the alloy to obtain a blank, shaping the blank by casting and/or forging and/or wire drawing and/or rolling and/or drawing, to obtain a blank of spring wire; winding the wire on a winder to obtain a balance spring, subjecting the spiral spring to at least a heat setting treatment, by annealing at a temperature comprised between 540° C. and 650° C., for a duration of 30 to 200 minutes, to obtain a balance spring.
US10138524B2
The present invention provides synthetic DNA strands that find use as controls or in nucleic acid testing methods. In particular, provided herein are synthetic DNA strands of known composition for use as control molecules in stool DNA testing, e.g., of mutations and/or methylation of DNA isolated from stool samples.
US10138518B2
The present invention relates to an annealing control primer for improving annealing specificity in nucleic acid amplification and its applications to all fields of nucleic acid amplification-involved technology. The present primer comprises (a) a 3′-end portion having a hybridizing nucleotide sequence substantially complementary to a site on a template nucleic acid to hybridize therewith; (b) a 5′-end portion having a pre-selected arbitrary nucleotide sequence; and (c) a regulator portion positioned between said 3′-end portion and said 5′-end portion comprising at least one universal base or non-discriminatory base analog, whereby said regulator portion is capable of regulating an annealing portion of said primer in association with annealing temperature.
US10138511B2
This invention provides high unit density arrays of microparticles and methods of assembling such arrays. The microparticles in the arrays may be functionalized with chemical or biological entities specific to a given target analyte. The high unit density arrays of this invention are formed on chips which may be combined to form multichip arrays according to the methods described herein. The chips and/or multichip arrays of this invention are useful for chemical and biological assays.
US10138499B2
The present disclosure is directed, in a first aspect, to the use of inverting beta-xylosidase enzymes to reduce byproduct formation and increase the yield of fermentation products, as well as, in a second aspect, to the use of retaining beta-xylosidase enzymes to improve production of alkyl-beta-xylopyranoside compounds, in a simultaneous saccharification and fermentation reactions.
US10138493B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide artificial expression systems comprising the zinc-finger containing transcription factors and engineered promoters to modulate expression of genes of interest. Engineered zinc-finger transcription factors that interact with engineered promoters constitute synthetic and regulatable expression systems which facilitate the modulation of gene expression as desired.
US10138486B2
The present invention provides methods of treatment using inhibitors of DEK protein and DEK activity. Such methods include, but are not limited to, methods of preventing, treating, and/or ameliorating inflammatory diseases, infections, autoimmune diseases, malignant diseases, and other diseases or conditions in which DEK has been implicated. Such inhibitors of DEK protein include, but are not limited to, pharmaceutical compositions including single stranded DNA or RNA aptamers capable of binding to DEK. In some embodiments, such aptamers are useful for diagnosing DEK related diseases or conditions. Related kits and compositions are further provided.
US10138484B2
Described herein are compounds comprising modified oligonucleotides that are complementary to miR-103 and/or miR-107 and methods of treating diseases and disorders using the compounds.
US10138456B2
A device which automatically performs a step in which expanded and cultured cells are diluted to a desired cell concentration and re-inoculated using a cell-concentration adjustment device having an inlet for taking in a cell suspension; an outlet for discharging a diluted cell suspension; and a flow path which is provided between the inlet and the outlet and is capable of holding a cell suspension, the flow path being provided with: a liquid delivery pump for causing a cell suspension inside to flow; a cell-concentration measurement instrument for collecting data related to a cell concentration per unit amount of the cell suspension; and a dilution-liquid container for holding a dilution liquid which is supplied to the flow path to dilute the cell suspension. The device further includes a control unit for controlling at least the liquid delivery pump on the basis of the data obtained by the cell-concentration measurement instrument, wherein the control unit determines, on the basis of the data obtained by the cell-concentration measurement instrument, an amount of the dilution liquid required to bring the cell concentration to the desired concentration, and drives the liquid delivery pump so as to take in the required amount of the dilution liquid into the flow path and mix the cell suspension and the dilution liquid.
US10138455B2
A incubator chamber comprises a base, lid and plurality of trays, each of which are stackable upon one another in an open or closed configuration. A clamp could be provided having an interior cavity sized and dimensioned to simultaneously receive a portion of a perimeter of each of a base and a lid.
US10138451B2
The present invention relates to a novel culturing apparatus (assembly) which can be termed a cell culture dish. More particularly, the present invention is a “combined cell culture dish” or “dish-in-dish” apparatus comprising at least one smaller cell culture dish fixedly positioned within a larger cell culture dish, and the number of such fixated cell culture dishes can include a multiple number of fixated cell culture dishes within one another, either concentric or eccentric, in any number of geometric shapes, and without limitation to the number of petri dishes included. An alternate embodiment of this invention can include a plurality of cell culture dishes juxtaposed side-by-side having common interior well walls, and the well walls may or may not be different in height depending on the application.
US10138450B2
An automatic culture device which employs closed-system culture vessels and in which, when a passage part (2) and a rotational valve mechanism (3) are configured, the multiple culture vessels in a culture vessel part (1) can be rendered equal in liquid-feeding conditions by, for example, regulating the length of each passage. As a result, the evenness in quality of cells incubated in the multiple culture vessels is rendered possible. Furthermore, by providing a mechanism which enables a user to normally set passages in the device, the evenness in quality of the cells is rendered possible likewise.
US10138449B2
The invention relates to a process for preparing a reduced calorie beverage or food product employing fermentation of a plant-derived juice or liquid and removing the ethanol therefrom. The process involves first converting at least some of the sugar in a plant-derived juice or liquid by fermenting it with yeast to produce a fermentation product containing ethanol and subsequently removing at least some of the ethanol from the fermentation product, while maintaining the fermentation product at a temperature of less than fifty-five degrees Celsius to produce the reduced calorie beverage or food product. The alcohol removal step is performed at temperatures of less than seventy-five degrees in order to reduce the impact upon flavor and nutritional properties, relative to conventional alcohol removal at or near boiling temperatures. This invention also relates to an apparatus for performing the process for preparing a reduced calorie beverage or food product and to the reduced calorie juices and juice products created using this process and apparatus.
US10138444B2
A bacteria referred to here as Bacillus subtilis 6A-1 is provided, compositions thereof and processes for use of the bacteria, spores, cells, extracts and enzymes. The compositions which comprise the bacteria, spores, cells, extracts and/or enzymes are capable of degrading polysaccharides. Such compositions are capable of degrading cellulose, including plant-produced cellulose, microcrystalline cellulose and carboxymethyl cellulose. The bacteria produces at least two cellulose-degrading protein fractions. Cellulose degrading activity continues across pH2 to pH13.
US10138433B2
The present invention relates to a method for fractionating a crude mixture comprising at least one oil and at least one wax, which comprises the following steps: (a) mixing the crude mixture with a solvent to obtain a crude solvent-mixture, (b) carrying out at least one crystallization stage with the solvent-mixture obtained in step (a) to prepare a first fraction containing dewaxed oil and a second fraction containing slack wax, (c) carrying out at least one crystallization stage with the second fraction obtained in step (b) in a layer crystallizer, wherein to the second fraction prior to the crystallization in step (c) no solvent or at most 100% by weight of solvent relative to the weight of the second fraction are added, to prepare a third fraction containing hard wax having an oil content of at most 1.5% by weight and a fourth fraction containing soft wax having an oil content of more than 1.5% by weight and (d) circulating at least a part of the fourth fraction into at least one of the at least one crystallization stage of step (b).
US10138430B2
A method of converting lipids to useful olefins includes reacting a mixture of lipids and a reactant olefin with microwave irradiation in the presence of ruthenium metathesis catalysts. The lipids may be unsaturated triacylglycerols or alkyl esters of fatty acids. The lipids may be sourced from renewable sources such as vegetable oil, waste cooking oil, or waste animal products.
US10138403B2
There are provided a composition for a heat cycle system containing a working medium for heat cycle that has a low global warming potential and high stability, which can be used as a substitute for HFC-134a and HFC-245fa, and a heat cycle system using this composition. The composition for a heat cycle system contains: a working medium for heat cycle containing 1-chloro-2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene; and a stabilizer suppressing deterioration of the working medium for heat cycle such as an oxidation resistance improver, a heat resistance improver, or a metal deactivator, and the heat cycle system uses this composition for a heat cycle system.
US10138397B2
The present invention relates to a single-crystal silicon-carbide substrate provided with a principal surface having an atomic step-and-terrace structure containing atomic steps and terraces derived from a crystal structure, in which the atomic step-and-terrace structure has a proportion of an average line roughness of a front edge portion of the atomic step to a height of the atomic step being 20% or less.
US10138381B2
A silicon based coating composition for a wide range of surfaces, which composition is formed from a mixture of constituents comprising appropriate portions of silazane, siloxane, and silane, and optionally organic solvent and additives, and the composition results in a coating having a thickness between 0.4 mil and 1.5 mil, a hardness of 4-9H and an endurance to continuous temperature above 1600° F.
US10138379B2
The present invention is a composition and method for making and using a rechargeable multifunctional additive that reduce the formation of biofilms on a surface, the additive can also remain photo and thermally stable by synthesizing one or more N-halamine compounds and adding one or more N-halamine biocidal compounds to a target material prior, during or after the target material is made. The resultant material can be used directly to provide antimicrobial functions and control biofilm formation, or the material can be further processed into an article.
US10138377B2
A lignin derivative that is extracted from biomass and is used for rubber reinforcement or for use in a molding material is provided. Such a lignin derivative has a number average molecular weight of 300 to 2,000, and contains a component that is soluble in a polar organic solvent, in an amount of 80% by mass or more. When such a lignin derivative is incorporated, a lignin resin composition, a rubber composition, or a molding material, all of which have excellent low hysteresis loss characteristics, elastic modulus, or tensile properties, can be obtained. Furthermore, when a component that is thermofusible is used as the soluble component, a lignin resin composition, a rubber composition, or a molding material, all of which have superior aforementioned characteristics, can be obtained.
US10138375B2
A method for producing an asphaltic sheet having expandable graphite dispersed in one or more asphaltic components thereof, the method comprising: (i) preparing a masterbatch by combining asphalt binder and polymeric modifier at a first temperature; (ii) cooling the masterbatch to a second temperature, where the second temperature is lower than the first temperature; (iii) adding, after said step of cooling, expandable graphite to the masterbatch to thereby form an asphaltic composition including expandable graphite; and (iv) fabricating a sheet with the asphaltic composition including expandable graphite.
US10138373B2
A polyurethane foam, a polyurethane/polyorganosiloxane foam, and a polyurethane foam polyurethane/polyorganosiloxane foam material are disclosed and described herein. The materials are formed in the presence of a polymerization reaction initiator (an isoprenoid compound), and a polymerization reaction accelerator. The polyurethane foam is formed from an isocyanate and a polyol. The polyurethane foam polyurethane/polyorganosiloxane foam material comprises the polyurethane foam which is cross-linked to the polyurethane backbone to a polyurethane/polyorganosiloxane foam. Optional gelling agents, emulsification control agents, reinforcement fillers, cross-linkers, reinforcement polymers, rubber reinforcers, silk proteins, emollients, stabilizers and colorants are also described. The polyurethane and polyurethane-polyorganosiloxane foam materials exhibit a high degree of flexibility, resilience and excellent impact absorption.
US10138368B2
A block copolymer composition including: 10% by mass or more and 90% by mass or less of a component (a), and 10% by mass or more and 90% by mass or less of a component (b), wherein the component (a) is a block copolymer containing a polymer block (A) primarily including a vinyl aromatic monomer unit and a polymer block (B) primarily including a conjugated diene monomer unit, wherein the block copolymer has a weight average molecular weight of 30,000 or higher and 150,000 or lower; and the component (b) is a block copolymer containing a polymer block (A) primarily including a vinyl aromatic monomer unit and a polymer block (B) primarily including a conjugated diene monomer unit.
US10138359B2
The present invention aims to provide rubber compositions for tires that contain a natural rubber achieving a balanced improvement in abrasion resistance, breaking performance, and processability to achieve a balanced improvement in abrasion resistance, breaking performance, and processability, and also provide pneumatic tires containing such rubber compositions for tires. Included is a rubber composition for tires comprising a modified natural rubber prepared by treating natural rubber latex with a proteolytic enzyme, and then treating the treated natural rubber latex with a lipolytic enzyme and/or a phospholipid degrading enzyme. Also included is a rubber composition for tires, comprising a modified natural rubber prepared by centrifuging natural rubber latex to recover a latex fraction comprising latex particles having an average particle size of 0.25 μm or less.
US10138351B2
The present disclosure is directed to rubber compositions containing a chemical additive capable of generating or enhancing strain-induced crystallization into the compositions, and tires containing the rubber compositions in one or more components such as sidewalls or treads. The chemical additive is at least one nucleating agent of formula (I) or formula (II). As well, certain embodiments relate to methods for achieving reduced wear or improved durability in a tire tread or tire sidewall by using the chemical additives.
US10138348B2
The present invention provides a resin composition which can be cured in a short time without a heat load on an adherend and with which a cured product having stable quality can be obtained. The resin composition in accordance with the present invention contains (i) a bisphenol A epoxy resin, (ii) an encapsulated curing agent including a core that contains a curing agent and a shell that covers the core, (iii) a filler, and (iv) a color material.
US10138346B2
A polysaccharide based aerogel comprising a network of polysaccharide fibers with pores therebetween, wherein the sizes of the pores are in the micrometer range.
US10138342B2
Foamable aqueous compositions can be foamed and applied to porous substrates to make light-blocking dry opacifying elements. Such compositions have 0.05-15 weight % of porous particles; at least 20 weight % of a binder; at least 0.0001 weight % of additives (including a surfactant); water; and at least 0.001 weight % of an opacifying colorant. Each porous particle includes a continuous polymeric phase and discrete pores; a mode particle size of 2-50 μm; and a porosity of 20-70 volume %. The continuous polymeric phase Tg is >80° C. and has a polymer viscosity of 80-500 centipoises at an ethyl acetate shear rate of 100 sec−1 at a concentration of 20 weight % at 25° C. The dry opacifying element light blocking value is at least 4 and has a luminous reflectance >40% as measured by the Y tristimulus value. The foamed aqueous composition has a foam density of 0.1-0.5 g/cm3.
US10138337B2
This present invention discloses a polymer/potassium permanganate composite film obtainable by a process comprising the steps of using silane coupling agent for surface treatment of potassium permanganate, mixing 0.15-0.75 g of modified potassium permanganate with 10-20 g of polymers together to obtain a mixture, and coating the mixture to obtain a composite film. The composite film can absorb ethylene generated by fruit, thus extending fruit ripening time, keeping fruit fresh. It can be widely used as food packaging materials. The composite film also has a good oxygen barrier property and has a good efficiency to remove bacteria. Therefore it can be widely used in the pharmaceutical industry. The preparation method is scientifically sound, simple, and has high level of operability, thus making it possible for batch preparation.
US10138329B2
This disclosure relates to a zinc complex formula (I), as defined herein, to the use of this zinc complex as a catalyst, in particular for the catalysis of a condensation reaction of organosilicon compounds. This disclosure also relates to preparations containing said compounds and to the use thereof.
US10138326B2
A method of producing copolyester material with peptide and is disclosed. The method includes: putting ethylene glycol, collagen peptide and Benzenedicarboxylic acid into a container, and mixing them to form a mixture; heating the mixture for executing an esterification reaction, to product esters and water; heating the esters to a first temperature, and stirring the esters via a mixer; in a specific period, decreasing the pressure in the container to a first pressure for executing a polycondensation reaction; decreasing the pressure in the container to a second pressure, and stirring the esters via the mixer, to produce a copolyester material with peptide.
US10138322B2
Methods, compounds, and compositions described herein generally relate to polyalkylamines and syntheses thereof. In some embodiments, a chemical compound has the formula: Each instance of R is independently selected from the group consisting of aryl, alkyl, and polyether. Each instance of R′ is independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, cycloalkyl, polyether, and alcohol. Each instance of Q and Z is independently a covalent bond or selected from the group consisting of alkyl and aralkyl.
US10138314B2
The present invention relates to a thermoplastic resin composition comprising a rubber graft copolymer comprising a core layer containing a rubber copolymer and a shell layer grafted on the core layer and a thermoplastic resin comprising a polycarbonate resin and an aliphatic polyester resin in the mass ratio of the rubber graft copolymer/the thermoplastic resin of 3/100 or more, wherein the shell layer is obtained by polymerizing or copolymerizing a (meth)acrylate monomer having an epoxy group, and the amount of the (meth)acrylate monomer having an epoxy group is 3 parts by mass or more and less than 29 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber graft copolymer. The thermoplastic resin composition of the present invention can be utilized in various applications.
US10138313B2
The use of a polymeric composition as an encapsulant in a photovoltaic module, said polymeric composition including a copolymer that comprises an ethylene monomer and a carboxylic acid vinyl ester comonomer, in particular an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer, and the polymeric composition having a Brookfield viscosity measured at 120° C. of between 10,000 mPa·s and 25,000 mPa·s. Further, a method for encapsulating a photovoltaic module using this polymeric composition.
US10138312B2
To provide an inhibitor for inhibiting protein adhesion capable of easily forming a coating layer which is excellent in water resistance, from which coating components are less likely to be eluted, on which protein is less likely to be adsorbed and which is excellent in biocompatibility; a coating solution; a medical device having a coating layer employing this inhibitor for inhibiting protein adhesion; a method for producing the same; and a fluoropolymer to be used in this inhibitor for inhibiting protein adhesion. A compound for inhibiting protein adhesion comprising a fluoropolymer that has units having a biocompatible group, a fluorine atom content of from 5 to 60 mass % and a proportion P represented by the following formula of from 0.1 to 4.5%. (Proportion P)=((proportion (mass %) of units having a biocompatible group to all units of the fluoropolymer))/(fluorine atom content (mass %) of the fluoropolymer))×100.
US10138299B2
The disclosure provides a method for immunotherapy of a subject afflicted with cancer, comprises administering to the subject a composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of an antibody that inhibits signaling from the PD-1/PD-L1 signaling pathway. This disclosure also provides a method for immunotherapy of a subject afflicted with cancer comprising selecting a subject that is a suitable candidate for immunotherapy based on an assessment that the proportion of cells in a test tissue sample from the subject that express PD-L1 on the cell surface exceeds a predetermined threshold level, and administering a therapeutically effective amount of an anti-PD-1 antibody to the selected subject. The invention additionally provides rabbit mAbs that bind specifically to a cell surface-expressed PD-L1 antigen in a FFPE tissue sample, and an automated IHC method for assessing cell surface expression in FFPE tissues using the provided anti-PD-L1 Abs.
US10138293B2
The present invention relates to nucleic acids which encode the heavy chains and light chains of a novel domain exchanged, bivalent, bispecific antibody, and vectors comprising the same.
US10138283B2
Modified bovine G-CSF polypeptides and uses thereof are provided.
US10138282B2
This disclosure is related to the peptide antagonist of LL-37, an antimicrobial peptide that has multiple functions in both innate and adaptive immune response. Specifically, the identified peptide antagonists of LL-37 provide inhibition to detrimental autoimmune inflammatory response, whereas at the same time retain LL-37's antibacterial activity.
US10138276B2
The present invention provides compositions comprising peptides derived from amino acid sequences (or from combinations thereof) of fusion and other protein regions of various viruses, including but not limited to, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus, herpesvirus saimiri, human herpesvirus 6, Lassa virus, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, Mopeia virus, Tacaribe virus, Friend murine leukemia virus; human T lymphotropic virus type 1; herpesvirus ateles; Marburg virus; Sudan Ebola virus; Zaire Ebola virus, and comprising L- and/or D-amino acids and combinations thereof, which affect T cells by acting on the T cell antigen receptor (TCR). More specifically, the peptides act on the TCRαβ-CD3δε-CD3γε-ζζ signaling complex. Yet more specifically, the peptides act on the TCRα/CD3δε/ζζ signaling module of TCR. The present invention further relates to the prevention and therapy of various T cell-related disease states involving the use of these compositions. Specifically, the compositions are useful in the treatment and/or prevention of a disease or condition where T cells are involved or recruited. The compositions of the present invention also are useful in the production of medical devices comprising peptide matrices (for example, medical implants and implantable devices).
US10138275B2
Disclosed is a crystalline powder of a cyclic peptide compound, represented by formula I is the structure of same, and, also disclosed are a preparation method for same and uses thereof.
US10138272B2
The invention relates generally to polypeptides that include a cleavable moiety that is a substrate for at least one protease selected from matriptase and u-plasminogen activator (uPA), to activatable antibodies and other larger molecules that include the cleavable moiety that is a substrate for at least one protease selected from matriptase and u-plasminogen activator, and to methods of making and using these polypeptides that include a cleavable moiety that is a substrate for at least one protease selected from matriptase and u-plasminogen activator in a variety of therapeutic, diagnostic and prophylactic indications.
US10138268B2
The invention relates to a method for enzymatically synthesizing an (oligo)peptide, comprising coupling (a) an (oligo)peptide C-terminal ester or thioester and (b) an (oligo)peptide nucleophile having an N-terminally unprotected amine, wherein the coupling is carried out in a fluid comprising water, and wherein the coupling is catalyzed by a subtilisin BPN′ variant or a homo-log thereof, which comprises the following mutations compared to subtilisin BPN′ represented by SEQUENCE ID NO: 2 or a homolog sequence thereof: a deletion of the amino acids corresponding to positions 75-83; a mutation at the amino acid position corresponding to S221, the mutation being S221C or S221 selenocysteine; preferably a mutation at the amino acid position corresponding to P225 wherein the amino acid positions are defined according to the sequence of subtilisin BPN′ represented by SEQUENCE ID NO: 2. Further, the invention relates to an enzyme suitable for use as a catalyst in a method of the invention.
US10138258B2
A composition comprises a plurality of cyclic siloxane compounds. At least a portion of the cyclic siloxane compounds comprise first and second siloxane moieties having specified structures. A cyclic siloxane compound comprises a first siloxane moiety having a specified structure and a second siloxane moiety having a specified structure. An epoxy composition is made by reacting a composition comprising a plurality of cyclic siloxane compounds, an epoxy resin, and a curative. An epoxy composition is made by reacting a cyclic siloxane compound, an epoxy resin, and a curative.
US10138253B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formula I, including pharmaceutically acceptable salts, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, methods for making the compounds and their use in inhibiting HIV integrase and treating those infected with HIV or AIDS.
US10138249B2
The present invention is directed to [1,2,4]triazolo[4,3-a]pyridine and [1,2,4]triazolo[4,3-a]pyrazine derivatives which are LSD1 inhibitors useful in the treatment of diseases such as cancer.
US10138246B2
The invention is directed to a triazolopyridazine compound of formula (I), N-oxides, pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof, wherein D represents deuterium, the use of such compounds as protein tyrosine kinase modulators, particularly inhibitors of c-Met, and the use of such compounds to reduce or inhibit kinase activity of c-Met in a cell or a subject, and modulate c-Met expression in a cell or subject, and the use of such compounds for preventing or treating in a subject a cell proliferative disorder and/or disorders related to c-Met. The present invention is further directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the present invention and to methods for treating conditions such as cancers and other cell proliferative disorders.
US10138245B2
Compounds of the general formula (I), wherein one of X1 and X2 represents N, and the other one of X1 and X2 represents —C(CH3), A represents unsubstituted or substituted 5-, 6- or 10-membered aryl or heteroaryl, n is 0 or 1 and B is a bicyclic heteromoiety defined in the specification. Compounds are phosphodiesterase 10A inhibitors and can find use in medicine in the treatment psychotic, neurological and cognitive functions diseases and disorders. (I)
US10138243B2
Provided herein are compounds of the General Formula I: and stereoisomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof, in which A, B, D, E, X1, X2, X3 and X4 have the meanings given in the specification, which are inhibitors of RET kinase and are useful in the treatment and prevention of diseases which can be treated with a RET kinase inhibitor, including diseases or disorders mediated by a RET kinase.
US10138236B2
The invention relates to substituted pyridobenzazepine and pyridobenzazocine derivatives and to processes for preparation thereof, and also to the use thereof for production of medicaments for treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, especially of cardiovascular disorders, preferably thrombotic or thromboembolic disorders, and oedemas, and also ophthalmic disorders.
US10138230B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4a, R4b, R4C, R4d, L, A, Q, W and HET are each as defined herein. The compounds of the present invention are inhibitors of autotaxin (ATX) enzyme activity. The present invention also relates to processes for the preparation of these compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and to their use in the treatment of proliferative disorders, such as cancer, as well as other diseases or conditions (e.g. fibrosis) in which ATX activity is implicated.
US10138226B2
The present invention relates to benzimidazol-2-amines of general formula (I) in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11 and R12 are as defined herein, to methods of preparing said compounds, to intermediate compounds useful for preparing said compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions and combinations comprising said compounds and to the use of said compounds for manufacturing a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment or prophylaxis of a disease, in particular of neoplasms, as a sole agent or in combination with other active ingredients.
US10138225B2
Compounds, methods of use, and processes for making inhibitors of complement Factor D comprising Formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or composition thereof wherein R12 or R13 on the A group is an amide substituent (R32) are provided. The inhibitors described herein target Factor D and inhibit or regulate the complement cascade. The inhibitors of Factor D described herein are capable of reducing the excessive activation of complement.
US10138218B2
Furfural is produced from biomass material containing pentosan, in high yields, in a production process comprising treating the biomass with a solution containing at least one α-hydroxysulfonic acid thereby hydrolyzing the biomass to produce a product stream containing at least one C5-carbohydrate compound in monomeric and/or oligomeric form, and dehydrating the C5-carbohydrate compound in the presence of a heterogeneous solid acid catalyst, in a biphasic reaction medium comprising an aqueous phase and a water-immiscible organic phase, at a temperature in the range of from about 100° C. to about 250° C. to produce a dehydration product stream containing furfural. An aqueous stream is separated from the dehydration product, which can be optionally recycled to the hydrolysis step.
US10138216B2
Described herein are analogues of 2-methyl-3-(2-ethynylthiazol-4-yl)cyclopent-2-enol and the corresponding ketone 3-(2-ethynylthiazol-4-yl)-2-methylcyclopent-2-enone, the analogues having terminal alkyne groups at the 2-position of the thiazole ring. These drug-like molecules, referred to as CETZOLE compounds, are useful to treat non-small cell lung cancer and other forms of cancer. Methods of making and using the compounds, methods of treating various diseases, pharmaceutical compositions, and kits are also disclosed.
US10138211B2
In certain aspects, the invention provides crystalline forms of olaparib (4-[(3-[(4-cyclopropylcarbonyl)piperazin-4-yl]carbonyl)-4-fluorophenyl]methyl(2H)phthalazin-1-one). In related aspects, the invention provides processes for preparing the crystalline forms of olaparib. The processes include: forming a solution comprising crude olaparib and an organic solvent; adding an anti-solvent to the solution to form a slurry comprising a precipitate; isolating the precipitate; and drying the precipitate to obtain a crystalline form I of olaparib or a crystalline form II of olaparib.
US10138209B2
The invention relates to a process for purifying an ionic liquid comprising dialkylimidazolium ions by means of stripping, wherein water vapor is used at a particular temperature. The process according to the invention is characterized in that the decomposition of the ionic liquid is minimized during the procedure of the process.
US10138207B2
The present invention is directed to Benzomorphan Analog compounds of the Formula I″, Formula IA″, Formula IB″, Formula IC″, or Formula ID″ as shown below; and related Formula I′, Formula IA′, Formula IB′, Formula IC′, or Formula ID′; Formula I, Formula IA, Formula IB, Formula IC, or Formula ID; wherein R1, R2a, R2b, R3 and R4 are as defined herein. Compounds of the Invention are useful for treating pain, constipation, and other conditions modulated by activity of opioid and ORL-1 receptors.
US10138197B2
This disclosure describes a new route to acrylate esters via direct catalytic partial oxidation of allyl ether using heterogeneous manganese oxide catalysts. The method involves forming allyl acrylate by contacting allyl ether, where the allyl ether is in solution with a solvent, with one or more oxidants in the presence of a mesoporous manganese oxide (MnOx) catalyst. Oxygen or peroxide can be used as the oxidant. The yield of and selectivity for acrylate ester can be very high, and process efficiency is improved over current processes.
US10138194B2
A method of producing thymoquinone and/or thymohydroquinone in Monarda by growing Monarda with elevated levels of carvacrol and/or thymol in the fresh plant tissue and vigorous growth, harvesting the Monarda, leaving the Monarda to senesce in the presence of oxygen and extracting the thymoquinone and/or thymohydroquinone from the senesced tissue.
US10138190B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of ospemifene and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which comprises the step of recycling the undesired E-4-(4-hydroxy-1,2-diphenylbut-1-enyl)phenol to generate an isomeric mixture of Z,E-4-(4-hydroxy-1,2-diphenylbut-1-enyl)phenol.
US10138185B1
The present invention relates to a method for preparing mannitol which includes performing the hydrogenation of fructose in the presence of a Cu-based nanocomposite catalyst, for example, a nanocomposite catalyst of CuO(x)/SiO2(100-x) (wherein x is a real number from 20 to 90), using butanol as a solvent.
US10138183B2
A process for inhibiting the polymerization of cyclopentadiene compounds (B) by contacting the cyclopentadiene compound with a quinone methide compound (A) of structure (I), Compositions (AB) comprising (A) and (B) are also provided.
US10138180B2
In a process for producing styrene, benzene is alkylated with ethylene to produce ethylbenzene and at least some of the ethylbenzene is dehydrogenated to produce styrene, together with benzene and toluene as by-products. At least part of the benzene by-product is passed through a bed of an adsorbent comprising at least one of an acidic clay, alumina, an acidic ion exchange resin and an acidic molecular sieve to remove basic nitrogenous impurities therefrom and produce a purified benzene by-product, which is then recycled to the alkylation step.
US10138177B2
The present invention relates to an integrated process to convert crude oil into petrochemical products comprising crude oil distillation, aromatic ring opening, and olefins synthesis, which process comprises subjecting a hydrocarbon feed to aromatic ring opening to produce LPG and subjecting the LPG produced in the integrated process to olefins synthesis. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a process installation to convert crude oil into petrochemical products comprising a crude distillation unit comprising an inlet for crude oil and at least one outlet for kerosene and/or gasoil; an aromatic ring opening unit comprising an inlet for a hydrocarbon feed to aromatic ring opening and an outlet for LPG; and a unit for the olefins synthesis comprising an inlet for LPG produced by the integrated petrochemical process installation and an outlet for olefins. The hydrocarbon feed subjected to aromatic ring opening comprises kerosene and/or gasoil produced by crude oil distillation in the process; and refinery unit-derived middle-distillate produced in the process. The process and the process installation of the present invention have an increased production of petrochemicals at the expense of the production of fuels and an improved propylene yield.
US10138167B2
This invention provides a thermal spray material capable of forming a thermal spray coating excellent in plasma erosion resistance as well as in properties such as porosity and hardness. The thermal spray material comprises a rare earth element oxyhalide (RE-O—X) which comprises a rare earth element (RE), oxygen (O) and a halogen atom (X) as its elemental constituents. The rare earth element oxyhalide has a halogen to rare earth element molar ratio (X/RE) of 1.1 or greater.
US10138166B2
An alumina sintered body according to the present invention has a degree of c-plane orientation of 90% or more as determined by Lotgering's method from an X-ray diffraction profile obtained by irradiating a plate surface with X-rays in a range of 2θ=20° to 70°. The alumina sintered body has no pores when a cross-sectional surface formed in a direction perpendicular to the plate surface is polished using an Ar+ ion beam and a mask and is examined under a scanning electron microscope at a magnification of 5,000 times. The alumina sintered body has a total mass fraction of impurity elements other than Mg and C of 100 ppm or less. This alumina sintered body has a high degree of orientation, high density, and high purity and thus has a higher optical translucency than those known in the art.
US10138159B2
A coated article includes a low emissivity (low-E) coating having at least one infrared (IR) reflecting layer of a material such as silver, gold, or the like, and at least one high refractive index dielectric multilayer film. The high index dielectric multilayer film may be of or include a first high index layer of or including ZrSiN and/or ZrSiAlN, and a second high index layer of or including titanium oxide (e.g., TiO2). The first high index layer of or including ZrSiN and/or ZrSiAlN may be amorphous or substantially amorphous, and the second high index layer of or including titanium oxide may be substantially crystalline in certain example embodiments. The low-E coating may be used in applications such as monolithic or insulating glass (IG) window units, vehicle windows, or the like.
US10138151B2
Submerged combustion burners having a burner body, a burner tip connected thereto, and a protective cap and/or cladding layer. Submerged combustion melters including the burners and methods of using them to produce molten glass. The burner body has an external conduit and first and second internal conduits substantially concentric therewith, forming first and second annuli for passing a cooling fluid therethrough. The burner tip body is connected to the burner body at ends of the external and second internal conduits. The burner tip and protective cap and/or cladding layer include a generally central flow passage for a combustible mixture, the flow passage defined by an inner wall of the burner tip and protective cap.
US10138146B2
A brine filtration device disposable at a bottom portion of a brine storage tank has inner and outer tubes having a plurality of fine slits in order to mechanically trap any large undissolved salt crystals that may be entrained within a sodium chloride solution. A plurality of beads are disposed between the inner and outer tubes to cause the sodium chloride solution to change direction (i.e., cause turbulence) which further promotes or facilitates dissolution of any undissolved salt crystals entrained within the sodium chloride solution. The sodium chloride solution continues to flow through the slits of the inner tube which further traps or catches any undissolved salt crystals. Additional changes in flow direction of the sodium chloride solution are also contemplated to further increase or facilitate dissolution of undissolved salt crystals entrained in the sodium chloride solution.
US10138143B1
An ammonia adsorption product is described which may be used for fresh caught fish and bait. The product may comprise functionalized tectosilicate compound and a buffer. High concentrations of ammonia produced by fish waste can be lethal, even though oxygen availability is rich enough to keep fish breathing. The product is a user-friendly, sustainable, affordable product which is able to extend the life of the fish by safely removing ammonia by an ion-exchange mechanism. This product can convert toxic ammonia into ammonium and uptake ammonium by releasing sodium ions in the water.
US10138141B2
The invention relates to a method for blowing off gaseous contaminants from crude water in the production of drinking water, comprising the step of introducing the water to be treated to the top of a shielded aerator and letting it pass through stacks of tubular elements interspersed with perforated sheets, while subjected to counter current suction. In a second aspect a device is provided for blowing off gaseous contaminants from crude water according to said method.
US10138135B1
Synthesis of titanium dioxide nanoparticles using Origanum majorana (O. majorana) herbal extracts may be achieved by mixing Titanium (IV) isopropoxide (TTIP) with O. majorana extracts. The O. majorana herbal extracts may be extracts obtained using boiled water. The TTIP may be mixed with the O. majorana extract at a ratio of 2:1. The resulting paste may be heated and pounded into a powder. The powder may then be calcinated in a muffle furnace, producing O. majorana titanium dioxide nanoparticles. The O. majorana titanium dioxide nanoparticles may be efficient photocatalysts.
US10138129B2
Carbon particles are disclosed, as well as methods and systems for forming the particles. In one embodiment, the system may include a receiving vessel configured to receive a liquid carbon precursor and at least one orifice at a bottom of the receiving vessel and configured to release droplets of the precursor. A cooling vessel may be positioned below the receiving vessel to receive the droplets and configured to hold a coolant for solidifying the droplets into carbon precursor particles. The method may include introducing a liquid carbon precursor into a tank having a plurality of orifices defined therein such that droplets of the precursor are released from the orifices and solidifying the droplets in a cooling vessel positioned to receive the droplets from the orifices. The method may then include carbonizing the solidified droplets to form carbon particles. The particles may be solid or hollow.
US10138128B2
A system for synthesizing carbon nanotubes (CNT) on a fiber material includes a surface treatment system adapted to modify the surface of the fiber material to receive a barrier coating upon which carbon nanotubes are to be grown, a barrier coating application system downstream of the surface treatment system adapted to apply the barrier coating to the treated fiber material surface, and a barrier coating curing system downstream of the barrier coating application systems for partially curing the applied barrier coating to enhance reception of CNT growth catalyst nanoparticles.
US10138126B2
Systems and methods are provided for producing graphene from graphene oxide in an environmentally friendly, cost effective and simple process, which uses microorganisms as a reducing agent to achieve the desired result. The systems and methods avoid the use of toxic or environmentally harmful reducing agents commonly used as reducing agents in the chemical reduction of GO to obtain graphene.
US10138114B2
A powder dispensing apparatus for dispensing a powder either with or without a liquid is presented. The apparatus includes a base, dispenser, and tower. The base is adapted for receiving a container. The dispenser includes a rotatable or slidable carriage. The carriage includes at least one compartment horizontally disposed above an optional funnel. The carriage is rotatable about a central axis or translatable parallel to and below the hopper. A hopper is disposed above the carriage and communicates with less than all compartments. Each compartment is capable of separately dispensing a powder from the hopper into the funnel and thereafter into the container resting on the base. The tower is disposed between and attached at opposing ends to the base and the dispenser. The apparatus is useful, for example, in preparing baby formula and other food for infants, as well as in preparing food and drink for children and adults.
US10138110B2
A system for mixing and dispensing solution, such as a cleaning solution, includes a body with a first flow passage extending between a diluent inlet and an outlet, and a second flow passage extending between a concentrate inlet and the first flow passage. The system further includes a container for concentrate, with a container including a container valve. Moving the body axially toward the container to seat the body on the container opens the container valve for a flow of concentrate from the container to the first flow passage via the second flow passage. Further, moving the body axially away from the container to unseat the body from the container closes the container valve to the flow of concentrate.
US10138109B2
A system for wirelessly charging an illuminated tap handle includes a tap handle and a wireless power unit. The tap handle includes a receiver coupling device, at least one light-emitting diode (LED) light, a transparent body, handle attachment, a handle chipset, and a personal-area network module. The handle attachment attaches the tap handle to existing beer tower opposite of the transparent body so that the existing beer tower can be operated through the tap handle. The transparent body is illuminated by the LED light that is communicably coupled to the handle chipset along with the personal-area network module. A transmitter coupling device of the wireless power unit communicably coupled with the receiver coupling device so that the handle chipset, the LED light, and the personal-area network module can be electrically powered as the transmitter coupling device is electrically connected to an external electrical outlet.
US10138107B2
A beverage machine includes a valve that receives a base fluid and dispenses a mixed beverage comprising the base fluid and an additive fluid. The valve has a bore through which the base fluid flows, and the bore has a perimetral surface that defines a plurality of ports through which the additive fluid is injected to thereby mix with the base fluid. An injector is coupled to the valve and configured to radially inject the additive fluid into the base fluid through the plurality of ports as the base fluid flows through the bore such that the additive fluid mixes into the base fluid to form the mixed beverage.
US10138093B2
The passenger conveyor step flow adjusting apparatus includes: guiding pads that are disposed on two sides in a width direction of steps, and that contact facing wall surfaces of return path driving rails that are spaced apart in a width direction of a main frame, to suppress movement of the steps in the width direction; and a return path driving rail position adjusting portion that adjusts a position of each of the return path driving rails that are spaced apart in the width direction of the main frame in the width direction relative to rail supporting members.
US10138092B2
A transportation element (7; 8; 9) for a people conveyor (70), which is configured to be moved in a conveying direction, comprises a lower flange (24); an upper flange (22); and an intermediate element (26) connecting the upper the flange (22) with the lower flange (24).
US10138085B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for sensing clear or transparent media in printers. In one embodiment, a media conveyance apparatus is provided comprising a light sensor positioned on a first side of a media conveyance path; a light source positioned on a second side of the media conveyance path; and presence determination circuitry. The media conveyance apparatus is configured such that the light sensor and the light source are positioned such that media may pass between the light sensor and the light source along the media conveyance path. The media conveyance apparatus is further configured such that the light sensor provides signals to the presence determination circuitry indicating an amount of light received from the light source and the presence determination circuitry determines a reflection loss based on the signals received from the light sensor and further determines whether the reflection loss satisfies a loss threshold. The media conveyance apparatus is further configured so that if the presence determination circuitry determines the reflection loss satisfies the loss threshold, the presence determination circuitry outputs a media present indication.
US10138081B2
A feeding roller for a document conveying apparatus includes a plurality of groove portions arranged with a regular interval in a width direction of the feeding roller on a surface of the feeding roller, and a projection portion provided between each pair of adjacent groove portions to scrape off paper particles on the external peripheral. The projection portion has a regular pattern extending in the width direction of the feeding roller.
US10138072B2
A conveyor includes a conveyor belt, a sensor and a controller, wherein the sensor includes a light ray generator, a light ray receiver and at least one baffle. The controller is connected with the light ray receiver for controlling the conveyor belt to stop moving in response to a signal fed back by the light ray receiver that the conveyed product has been conveyed to the end of the conveyor belt. The baffle has a light transmission hole to let the light ray emitted from the light ray generator pass through. The gap between a lower edge of the baffle and the conveyor belt is smaller than the thickness of the conveyed product. When the baffle is impinged by the conveyed product, the baffle will move along the conveying direction of the conveyor belt so as to block the light ray emitted from the light ray generator.
US10138064B2
An apparatus for conveying an article in a conveying direction is provided. A conveyor includes a plurality of modular links and one or more removable connectors for interconnecting adjacent links of the plurality of modular links to form an endless chain for conveying the article in the conveying direction, at least one of the links comprising an upper link surface sloping in both the conveying direction and a transverse direction, thereby forming an apical region for contacting and supporting the article for conveyance along at least a forward run in the conveying direction.
US10138056B2
A securing device for securing trash bags within a trash receptacle includes a belt member for securing a trash bag within a trash receptacle; and at least one resilient member coupled to the belt member at a first end of the at least one resilient member and operably configured to couple to an inner wall of the trash receptacle at a second end of the at least one resilient member, the at least one resilient member further operably configured to apply a biasing force against the inner wall of the trash receptacle to clamp the trash bag, without any other external forces, against the inner wall between the belt member and the inner wall.
US10138052B2
Floating roof tank for a volatile liquid have an outer roof and an internal floating roof with a primary seal with a support such that when the tank is empty, the floating roof will rest on the support whether the tank is in a vertical or horizontal position. The support enables the tank to be transported in a horizontal position without damage to the seal. The floating roof tank with support can be configured as a conical tank, flat bottom tank or slant bottom tank. The floating roof tank can also include a cleaning system and a flush mounted manway cover.
US10138039B2
A twist-tie dispenser refill comprises a twist-tie cluster and a base. The twist-tie cluster includes a top cluster portion. The base includes a top portion, which is generally U-shaped and forms an opening configured and arranged to receive the top cluster portion of the twist-tie cluster. The base also includes a rear portion that defines mounting members used for mounting the base to a fixture.
US10138032B2
A fastener assembly disposed at a lateral edge of a container includes: a first fixing member, two second fixing members, and a retaining member. The second fixing members each includes a fixing seat which includes a pivot recess and a restricting recess, and a pivot ear which includes a pivot end and an engaging recess, and the pivot ends are pivoted in the pivot recesses. The retaining member includes two restricting ribs and two push ribs, the restricting ribs are restricted in the restricting recesses of the fixing seats, and the push ribs are pushed against the two pivot ears, so as to prevent the pivot ears from pivoting outward. In addition to being used as a lock on a single container to lock the upper and lower covers, the fastener assembly can also be used to assemble a plurality of containers together in desired patterns.
US10138024B2
A flexible laminate for a package is described that includes an integrated one-way valve that allows gas generated within the package (e.g., carbon dioxide outgas) to be released to the external environment, while at the same time preventing environmental elements from entering the package. The valve is defined by the layers that form the flexible laminate, as opposed to being a separate structure that is attached to the flexible laminate. In particular, first and second cut lines are defined in a valve area of the first and second film layers of the flexible laminate structure in an offset manner. Oil is pattern-applied to one or both film layers in the valve area, and an opposing surface of one or both of the film layers further includes a surface treatment that decreases the amount of surface energy between the film layers to allow the valve to open at the desired pressure.
US10138016B2
A coated box with anti-stain coating on portions of exterior surfaces of the coated box, which also has uncoated exterior surfaces to which a water-based adhesive is applied to adhere to portions of an interior facing surface to form a box shape that includes folds at creases at scored lines.
US10138014B2
An automated packaging line for C- or U-shaped profiles are related methods are disclosed. An example method includes transferring a first profile and a second profile to a first location, each of the first and second profiles having a u-shaped or c-shaped cross-section defining an external convex side and an internal concave side. The example method also includes rotating a first blade and a second blade about a horizontal central axis, where the first blade and the second blade are coupled to opposite ends of a pair of rotor arms including a first rotor arm and a second rotor arm. The first and second rotor arms rotate about axes that are parallel to and offset from each other. The example method also includes inserting the first profile into the first blade with the internal concave side of the first profile facing upwards as the first blade moves upward through its rotation. In addition, the example method includes rotating the second profile by engaging the first blade with the external convex side of the second profile to position the second profile with the internal concave side of the second profile facing downwards over of the internal concave side of the first profile to form a first duplex within the first blade.
US10137994B2
An airfoil comprises a skin, comprising an external surface and an internal surface. The skin has a controlled region. The airfoil also comprises an interior space, formed by the skin. The airfoil additionally comprises a hybrid acoustic induction-heating system, configured to impede formation of ice on the external surface. The hybrid acoustic induction-heating system comprises induction coils and a control system. Each one of the induction coils has a portion, arranged sufficiently close to the internal surface to produce an eddy current within the controlled region. The control system is configured to generate inductive heat and traveling-wave acoustic pressure in the controlled region by supplying different phases of the alternating electrical current to the induction coils based, at least in part, on an ambient temperature of a layer of fluid flowing over the external surface.
US10137991B2
In an illustrative embodiment, a tray table for mounting to a lower seatback region of an aircraft passenger seat includes a tray table support bracket stowable to a position approximately parallel with the lower seatback region, and pivotably deployable to provide access to a tray table slideably coupled to the support bracket and configured to provide a substantially horizontal work surface when in a deployed state. In the stowed position, the tray table may be substantially positioned below a tray table deployment height such that additional clearance is provided on the seatback above the tray table for one or more accessory items such as a larger monitor in portrait orientation.
US10137976B2
An airfoil for a rotor blade of a rotary wing aircraft, the airfoil having a predetermined maximum thickness to chord ratio and comprising, between a leading edge and a trailing edge, an extrados and an intrados, the intrados being defined by predetermined intrados coordinate value pairs and the extrados being defined by predetermined extrados coordinate value pairs, wherein a maximum error of each one of the predetermined intrados coordinate value pairs and the predetermined extrados coordinate value pairs amounts to ±3%.
US10137970B2
A first stage pressure regulator is provided. A valve body has an inlet and an outlet that define a pressure chamber therebetween. The valve body defines a pressure compensation chamber having an opening fluidly communicating the pressure compensation chamber with the surrounding water. The first stage pressure regulator comprises an inlet tubular union removably received into the inlet. A removable high pressure orifice body defines an orifice therethrough. The orifice body is carried by the valve body proximate the inlet. A valve seat is within the valve body.
US10137966B1
Embodiments described herein provide recirculation-based alternating blowdown sea chest. The sea chest has a cover assembly with a plurality of grates thereon. Each grate is connected with a pipe in fluid communication with a pump. The pump provides suction while a plurality of valves modulate the flow of water through the system. A recirculation pipe promotes the blowdown of fluids within the system and permits tandem function of water intake and expulsion resulting in maximum efficiency of the sea chest with continuous functionality while in use.
US10137961B2
A bicycle drive unit has a planetary gear mechanism, a switching mechanism, a motor and a housing. The planetary gear mechanism includes an input body, an output body and a plurality of transmission paths having different transmission ratios between the input body and the output body. The switching mechanism is configured to switch between the plurality of transmission paths. The motor is configured to transmit rotational force to the input body. The housing rotatably supports a crankshaft and on which are provided the planetary gear mechanism, the switching mechanism and the motor. A manual drive force that is input to the crankshaft joins with a rotational force that is output from the output body of the planetary gear mechanism in a transmission path of a driving force from the output body of the planetary gear mechanism to a wheel.
US10137957B2
A bicycle operating device comprises a base member, a cable control body, an operating member, a supporting structure, and an adjusting structure. The cable control body is configured to be pivotably mounted to the base member about a pivot axis to control a control cable. The operating member is configured to be movably mounted to the base member from a rest position to an operated position to move the cable control body. The supporting structure is configured to pivotably support the cable control body relative to the base member. The supporting structure is provided to the base member so as to at least partly intersect with the pivot axis. The adjusting structure is configured to adjustably position the supporting structure relative to the base member such that the rest position of the operating member is adjusted relative to the base member.
US10137956B2
Provided is an inverted pendulum vehicle including a display unit for providing a guide on an operation for putting the vehicle body into the tilted position from the upright position or into the upright position from the tilted position according to a state of the vehicle. In particular, the display unit indicates a direction in which the vehicle body is required to be moved when placing the vehicle body from the tilted position to the upright position and from the upright position to the tilted position.
US10137951B2
A trailer has a frame having frame-members configured to support a container, at least a pair of traction devices rotatably mounted on the frame, and a tongue configured to be mounted on a transportation device or an implement being towed by a transportation device. The frame-members may have a three-point mount configured to support a container. The container may be configured to be interchangeable with another container. The container may be an element of a seeding apparatus, the seeding apparatus mountable on the frame-members of the frame. The trailer may have a steering mechanism for the traction devices, and may be convertible between steerable and non-steerable modes. The steering mechanism may be guidance controlled. A transverse distance between the traction devices may be adjustable and/or height of the frame in relation to the ground may be adjustable. The trailer provides greater flexibility of operation under a greater variety of conditions.
US10137949B2
A track assembly includes an elongated main frame supported for pivotal movement on a transverse axis and having opposite end portions supporting a set of end wheels. An endless flexible belt extends around the end wheels and has an upper run and a lower run for engaging the ground. A plurality of longitudinally spaced bogie wheels are positioned below the main frame and engage the lower run of the belt. The bogie wheels are carried by bogie frames supported for vertical movement and also for tilting movement relative to a plane defined by the axes of the end wheels. The bogie frames are urged or biased downwardly against the lower run of the belt by compression members extending from the main frame and preferably in the form of annular rubber spring members.
US10137947B2
A vehicle includes a frame, load floor, subfloor, spare tire, jack, and a tow-eye. The frame defines a trunk. The load floor and the subfloor are each secured to the frame and disposed within the trunk. The load floor and the subfloor define a spare tire receptacle therebetween. The spare tire and the jack each define orifices and are disposed within the receptacle. The tow-eye has a fastening portion extending therefrom. The fastening portion extends through the orifices and engages the subfloor to secure the spare tire and jack to the subfloor.
US10137946B2
A vehicle includes a vehicle body having an underside and a mesh underbody panel. The mesh underbody panel is attached to the underside of the vehicle body, thereby, shielding vehicle components from a ground surface. The vehicle is situated such that the mesh underbody panel and the ground surface define a pathway through which air flows while the vehicle is in motion. The mesh underbody panel includes apertures extending therethrough that allow airflow through the mesh underbody panel while the vehicle is stopped or traveling within a low-speed range and restrict airflow through the mesh underbody panel while the vehicle is traveling within a high-speed range.
US10137937B1
A roof assembly for a vehicle has a roof panel and includes a bow having an upper surface for supporting the panel. The bow may define a hole extending in a lengthwise direction. The bow assembly may further include a cable extending through the hole that is adapted to be coupled to spaced-apart roof frame members. The cable is axially tensioned to support the bow and panel.
US10137936B2
A vehicle includes a body structure, a side bracket secured to the body structure, and a spacer bracket secured to the side bracket. The spacer bracket extends in a lateral direction toward an interior of the vehicle. The vehicle further includes a roof bow secured to the spacer bracket. The roof bow extends in the lateral direction toward the interior of the vehicle. The roof bow may be secured to the spacer bracket through at least one fastener adapted to shear under a predetermined shear stress. The roof bow may be secured to the spacer bracket such that a distal end of the roof bow is disposed in spaced relation relative to a distal end of the of the spacer bracket. The roof bow may be secured to a K-brace which extends toward roof rails.
US10137925B2
A telescopic steering column assembly includes at least one support bearing assembly that comprises an inner bearing race which is located on the steering shaft, an outer bearing race that is located on an inner face of a shroud, and a set of ball bearings that are located between the inner bearing race and the outer bearing race and are free to roll along bearing surfaces defined by the bearing races. Each of the bearing races comprises a pair of annular bearing race parts, defining a circumferentially extending bearing surface arranged coaxially and spaced apart from each other axially such that varying the spacing between the two parts varies the effective radius of the bearing race. The support bearing assembly further comprising an inner annular support sleeve that is located between the inner bearing race and the inner shaft, an outer annular support sleeve that is located between the outer bearing race and the shroud, and a biasing means that in use applies an axially directed thrust between a first one of the annular support sleeves and one of the respective bearing race parts, and the bearing assembly is arranged such that the axial thrust applied by the biasing means is converted into a radial thrust that is applied to the inner bearing race and outer bearing race to force them into engagement with the inner and outer sleeves respectively.
US10137923B2
A steering column assembly comprises a telescopic shroud having an upper shroud portion and a lower shroud portion, a support bracket having at least one arm which extends down from the bracket on one side of the lower shroud portion, a clamp mechanism which comprises a clamp pin that passes through an opening in the arm and an opening in the lower shroud portion or an opening in a rail secured to the lower shroud portion, the clamp mechanism further comprising a primary cam mechanism which is operable by a lever, whereby the clamp mechanism is arranged so that when in the clamped condition the at least one arm is clamped to the lower shroud portion or rail and the lower shroud portion is squeezed onto the upper shroud portion to fix the upper shroud portion relative to the lower shroud portion. The assembly further comprises a release mechanism such as a cam mechanism which is operable to partially reduce the force with which the outer shroud portion is squeezed onto the inner shroud portion in the event of a crash.
US10137921B2
The present invention relates to an electric stroller and provides an electric stroller which is enabled to driven a stroller with an electric board and makes the electric board be folded to be kept and moved so as to more effectively use the stroller.
US10137910B2
A rail vehicle bogie traction device is provided, which includes a center pin and two traction rubber bag assemblies. Each of the traction rubber bag assemblies includes a traction rubber stack and a rubber bag, the rubber bag is filled with fluid, and a pressure of the rubber bag is settable. The traction rubber stack is connected to the rubber bag. The center pin is fixed on a lower surface of a vehicle body chassis bolster. Each of the two traction rubber bag assemblies has one end connected to the center pin, and another end connected to a cross beam of a rail vehicle frame. The rail vehicle bogie traction device has nonlinear characteristics, which may effectively transmit a longitudinal load, and may also prevent high-frequency vibration of the frame from transmitting to the vehicle chassis bolster and the vehicle body via the traction device.
US10137904B2
A driver assistance system of a vehicle includes a camera and a non-imaging sensor sensing forward of the equipped vehicle. The control, responsive to processing of captured image data and to processing of sensed sensor data, is operable to provide a driver assistance function. The control, responsive to processing of captured image data, detects the presence of a vehicle and determines a vision-based angle of the detected vehicle relative to the equipped vehicle. The control, responsive to processing of captured sensor data, detects the presence of the detected vehicle and determines a sensor-based angle of the determined vehicle relative to the equipped vehicle. The control determines an angle difference between the vision-based angle and the sensor-based angle. The control disables the driver assistance function at least in part responsive to the determined angle difference being greater than a disable threshold level.
US10137898B2
A vehicle includes an ignition, selector, and controller. The ignition is configured to start and shutdown the vehicle. The selector is configured to transition the vehicle between a standard driving mode and an economy driving mode. The controller is programmed to, in response starting the vehicle after a prior shutdown with the economy mode selected, generate a notification that the vehicle was operating in the economy mode upon the prior shutdown.
US10137894B2
A driving assistance system includes an electronic control unit and a notifying unit. The electronic control unit detects an inter-vehicle distance and relative velocity, controls the subject vehicle, performs a first notification operation when the inter-vehicle distance becomes equal to or larger than a first distance and the relative velocity becomes equal to or higher than a first velocity, or equal to or larger than a second distance, sets an inter-vehicle distance when the forward vehicle and the subject vehicle are stopped as a reference inter-vehicle distance and performs a second notification operation when a difference between the reference inter-vehicle distance and the inter-vehicle distance becomes equal to or larger than a third distance. The electronic control unit does not perform the second notification operation at least until after the first notification operation is performed.
US10137889B2
A method and system for detecting an accident of a vehicle, the method including: receiving a movement dataset collected at least at one of a location sensor and a motion sensor arranged within the vehicle, during a time period of movement of the vehicle, extracting a set of movement features associated with at least one of a position, a velocity, and an acceleration characterizing the movement of the vehicle during the time period, detecting a vehicular accident event from processing the set of movement features with an accident detection model, and in response to detecting the vehicular accident event, automatically initiating an accident response action.
US10137888B2
A method for guiding a parking mode in a remote automatic parking support system is provided. The remote automatic parking support system includes a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, automatic parking is performed based on a parking request from a smart key or a smartphone of a driver positioned extraneous to a vehicle and in the second mode, automatic parking is performed based on a parking request from a switch mounted within the vehicle. The vehicle is guided in first mode or the second mode based on a surrounding environment, thereby providing optimal convenience to the driver.
US10137882B2
Disclosed are a hybrid electric vehicle, which may be effectively launched when an engine clutch to connect an engine and an electric motor for driving is fixed in a lock-up state, and a method of controlling the same. A method of controlling launch of a the hybrid electric vehicle provided with an engine clutch disposed between a first motor and an engine includes determining whether or not the engine clutch is in a lock-up state, securing running of the engine, upon determining that the engine clutch is in the lock-up state, executing slip launch of the hybrid electric vehicle using power of the engine, and launching the hybrid electric vehicle using power of the first motor, if first conditions by stall of the engine are satisfied. Execution of slip launch of the hybrid electric vehicle includes charging a main battery using a second motor connected to the engine.
US10137880B2
A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle determines a scheduled travel route. The control apparatus further determines a downhill section included in the scheduled travel route by using gradient information acquired for a road section at a time when the vehicle has traveled on the road section and using gradient information stored in a navigation database for a road section on which the vehicle travels for a first time. The control apparatus determines a section from a downhill control start point to an end point of the target downhill section as a downhill control section. The downhill control start point is a point located a predetermined first distance closer to the vehicle from a start point of the target downhill section. When the vehicle travels on the downhill control section, the control apparatus executes downhill control.
US10137872B2
An acceleration/deceleration control apparatus includes a mode switching portion configured to switch a normal mode of performing acceleration control in response to an operation on an accelerator pedal and also performing deceleration control in response to an operation on a brake pedal, and a one-pedal mode of performing both the acceleration control and the deceleration control in response to the operation on the accelerator pedal according to a switching operation performed by a driver. Where a mode is switched from the normal mode to the one-pedal mode, one-pedal instruction switching portion (35B) of the acceleration/deceleration control apparatus outputs such one-pedal acceleration/deceleration instruction value A(Xa) that a result of adding a non-one-pedal acceleration instruction value B1(Xb) for the one-pedal mode and a one-pedal acceleration instruction value Ab(Xa) for the one-pedal mode after the mode is switched matches non-one-pedal deceleration instruction value Bn(xb) for the normal mode before the mode is switched.
US10137869B2
A transportation vehicle has an autohold selector, such as a push button switch or other human-machine interface (HMI). A gear selector in the vehicle includes forward and reverse gear positions. A brake pedal can be depressed by a driver to actuate a brake actuator when slowing or stopping the vehicle. A control circuit is configured to initiate a brake hold event of the brake actuator in response to predetermined conditions including the autohold selector being on and the vehicle braking to a stop with the brake pedal depressed, wherein initiating the brake hold event is prevented if the gear selector is in the reverse position. If a brake hold event is in progress, then shifting the gear selector to reverse terminates the brake hold event. Low speed maneuvers, such as parking the vehicle, can be performed without a need for manually canceling the autohold feature.
US10137862B2
An anti-fraud method for use in an in-vehicle network system including a plurality of electronic control units that exchange, in an in-vehicle network, data frames, each having added thereto a message authentication code (MAC). The method includes generating a first MAC by using a MAC key and a value of a counter that counts a number of times a data frame having added thereto a MAC is transmitted to the in-vehicle network. The method also includes performing verification that the data frame received has added thereto the generated first MAC and incrementing a number of error occurrences when the verification has failed for the data frame, the data frame including a predetermined ID. When the number of error occurrences exceeds a predetermined threshold, a process associated in advance with the predetermined ID is executed.
US10137860B2
Method and apparatus are disclosed for remote keyless entry authentication. An example remote keyless entry system includes a key fob and a vehicle. The key fob generates a secured message with a plaintext space and a ciphertext space. The vehicle (i) determines whether the key fob may be authorized based on first information in the plaintext space, (ii) decrypts an encrypted value in the ciphertext space based on a predicted full counter value, and (iii) determines whether the key fob is authorized based on second information in the encrypted value.
US10137849B2
An arrangement is provided for facilitating selection and activation of a voice control system by a vehicle operator. The arrangement may include a switch selectively switchable between a first switch position (P1) and a second switch position (P2) and arranged to emit a signal when switched between the switch positions (P1, P2). The arrangement may further include a processing unit arranged to select, based on an interpretation of the signal, one of the vehicle voice control system or a voice control system of an external communication device and to communicate an activation signal to the selected one of the vehicle voice control system and the external communication device voice control system.
US10137841B1
An automotive vehicle has an expandable underseat storage compartment. An elongated seat support member supports a row of vehicle seats and has a middle portion and right and left end pedestals. A front panel assembly extends laterally across the vehicle in front of the right and left end pedestals and is movable between retracted and extended positions position wherein when the front panel assembly is in the extended position the storage space of the storage compartment is larger than when the front panel assembly is in the retracted position.
US10137840B2
A component for a vehicle interior is disclosed. The component may comprise a housing comprising a tab and a cover coupled to the housing for movement between a closed position and an open position. The tab may exert a force against the cover when closed. The tab may be integrally formed with the housing. The tab may comprise a first portion coupled to the housing and a second portion comprising an arcuate protrusion to exert the force against the cover. The component may comprise a latch to secure the cover to the housing when closed. The tab may prevent latch disengagement. The tab may comprise a leaf spring. The component may comprise a biasing member coupled to the housing to exert a force against the cover through the tab when the cover is closed. The component may comprise a storage assembly, a sunglass bin or a console.
US10137829B2
A lighting system is provided herein. The lighting system includes a number of lights and a portable electronic device carried by a vehicle occupant. A controller is in communication with a sensing system and configured to detect a cabin location of the electronic device, assign a seating area to the electronic device, and operate only the lights associated with the seating area based on information indicative of an impending departure of the vehicle occupant from the vehicle.
US10137827B2
There is provided a position lighting device configured to emit at least one road irradiation beam from a vehicle onto a road, thereby making the other moving object which is positioned behind the vehicle or at a side of the vehicle recognize an existence of the vehicle. A lighting unit is configured to emit the at least one road irradiation beam onto at least a portion of areas on the road behind and at the side of the vehicle. A distance detecting unit is configured to detect a distance between the vehicle and the other moving object. A lighting control unit is configured to control the lighting unit on the basis of the distance between the vehicle and the other moving object detected by the distance detecting unit, thereby changing a state of the at least one road irradiation beam.
US10137823B2
An adaptive cornering light system for a motor vehicle includes an exterior mirror head, housing at least one lighting module that having a plurality of LEDs arranged in sectors to provide different lighting functionalities. One LED or light sector is provided for adaptively illuminating a cornering area that extends along the side of the vehicle toward the front of the exterior mirror head. This “cornering LED” is adaptively activated if the speed of the vehicle is below a threshold speed, or in response to additional optional parameters such as steering angle, turn-signal blinker activation, and running lights activation. Another LED or light sector may be used as a security light to illuminate or display a message on the ground in the door area adjacent the side of the vehicle. Interior lights are also disclosed. User input may also control options for illumination.
US10137822B2
A headlamp fastening system for a vehicle is provided herein. The headlamp fastening system includes a support structure, a headlamp structure, and an alignment element. The alignment element is configured to align and fix the headlamp structure with the support structure with respect to the z-direction of the vehicle. The alignment element holds the sup port structure and the headlamp in an alignment position. In the alignment position the support structure and the headlamp structure are relatively displaceable in the x-, y-, and z-direction relative to one another. The alignment element fixes the support structure and the headlamp in the fixed position, wherein, upon the alignment element fixing the support structure and the headlamp structure relative to one another with respect to the z-direction, the support structure and the headlamp structure simultaneously become fixed relative to one another in the x- and y-direction.
US10137817B1
The dispensing device and system pivotally attach to a hopper bottom trailer to deliver seed from the trailer to planters located throughout the farm. A main conduit inserts into a housing installed at the hopper of the trailer. A gate opens that allows seed to flow through the hopper into the housing. A main conduit inserts into the housing to collect seed and lift the seed both vertically and horizontally. An auger directs the seed upwards through the main conduit towards the dispensing conduit. The seed then gravitationally feeds downward from the dispensing conduit. A flexible conduit enables the user to direct the seed to different planters without moving the trailer.
US10137812B2
The invention relates to a seat-back frame for a vehicle seat, which seat-back frame has a frame region extending transversely and two frame regions extending vertically and is of a U-shaped form. The object to provide a seat-back frame of the generic kind which has a minimum of components and at the same time allows a seat-back frame for belt-integrated vehicle seats to be provided easily is met in that there is provided a first half-shell made of a metal, which first half-shell forms a sub-region of each of the vertically extending frame regions of the seat-back frame and forms a sub-region of the transversely extending frame region of the seat-back frame, and there is provided a second sheet-metal half-shell which is connected to the first half-shell by bonding and which reinforces at least the transversely extending frame region of the seat-back frame.
US10137809B2
A flexible tank is used to transport bulk liquids or semi-liquid materials inside of a multi-modal shipping container. It has water proof inner layers and an outer layer, which are formed and welded together to have seams at both ends of the flexible tank. A discharge valve is provided at one end of the flexible tank and an additional piece of material, referred to as a cape, is attached at the other end of the flexible tank. The flexitable tank is situated in the container so that the end with the discharge valve is at the container opening and the end with the attached cape is at the rear of the container. The cape can be used by equipment positionable at the opening of the container to completely discharge the bulk liquids or semi-liquid materials from the flexible tank by pulling and winding up the cape and the layers of the flexible tank from the rear of the container.
US10137803B2
A longitudinal adjustment mechanism (3) for a vehicle seat, in particular for a motor vehicle seat, includes at least one first seat rail (5) and at least one second seat rail (7) that is movable relative to the first seat rail (5). A spindle (11) is associated with the first seat rail (5) and cooperates with a gear mechanism (55) associated with the second seat rail (7). At least one spindle holder (20, 40, 80) secures the spindle (11) relative to the first seat rail (5). At least one floor attachment connects the first seat rail (5) to a vehicle structure. The floor attachment and the at least one spindle holder (20, 40, 80) are separate components.
US10137798B2
A vehicle power module assembly is provided. The assembly many include an array of stacked frames, a power stage housed within each of the frames, and busbars. Each of the power stages may include a pair of opposite polarity terminals extending therefrom. The busbars may be dispersed along the array to electrically connect like polarity terminals. The power stages may be arranged with one another such that like polarity terminals are adjacent one another and the busbars define an alternating sequence corresponding to the polarity of the terminals. The terminals may be located on the respective power stages such that the busbars are alternately dispersed in a linear sequence along a side face defined by portions of the frames.
US10137793B2
A wiper ring provided includes a ring body and a number of brushes. The ring body has an outer side surface and an inner side surface opposite to the outer side surface. The wiper ring includes a mounting portion located on the outer side surface. The ring body is mounted to a cable through-hole of a charging pile via the mounting portion. The number of brushes are arranged on the inner side surface. Each of the number of brushes has an end fixed to the inner side surface of the ring body and the other end, opposite to the end, faces a center of the ring body or a defined point of the ring body. The number of brushes cooperatively form a through-hole having a diameter less than that of the cable for allowing a cable to pass through. A charging pile using same is also provided.
US10137790B2
An electric machine is configured with at least two sets of phase windings. A plurality of power switches is configured to selectively couple voltage terminals to each of the phase windings. A controller is programmed to operate the power switches according to a switching pattern, for each of the sets, updated at intervals defined by a switching frequency such that the switching patterns are different during each one of the intervals.
US10137787B2
A regenerative controller for an electric motor includes: a wheel rotation detection unit provided on a vehicle and detecting a rotation amount of a wheel that is driven via a crank rotated by human power; a crank rotation detection unit that detects a rotation amount of the crank; and a controller that calculates a first value based on the rotation amount of the wheel, a second value based on the rotation amount of the crank, and a control parameter based on at least the second value among the first value and the second value for regenerative control of a power storage device regeneratively charged by an electric motor that supplies driving power to the wheel, the controller controlling a regeneration amount of the electric motor in accordance with the control parameter.
US10137783B2
A high-voltage motor vehicle electric system contains a high-voltage battery and a consumer network which are interconnected by an electric cable, and a quick-break switch for disconnecting the high-voltage battery from the consumer network. The quick-break switch receives an airbag signal. The airbag signal is used for actuating the quick-break switch to sever the electric cable supplying power to the consumer network.
US10137782B2
A vehicular power distribution system includes a first and second power control boxes which are configured to distribute the power, and a main connection cable which electrically connects the first power control box and the second power control box. At least the second power control box includes at least one voltage converter which generates output power of second voltage from input power of first voltage determined in advance. A number of kinds of voltage of power passing the main connection cable is smaller than each of a number of kinds of voltage outputted from the first power control box and a number of kinds of voltage outputted from the second power control box.
US10137775B2
A vehicle includes a driveshaft, first axle, second axle, first clutch, second clutch, and controller. The driveshaft is selectively coupled to outputs of the first and second axles by the first and second clutches, respectively. The controller is programmed to, in response to a command to reconnect the driveshaft to the outputs of the first and second axles, close the second clutch to transfer loads from the second axle to the driveshaft, adjust the slip speed of the first clutch to within a target range, and close the first clutch.
US10137771B2
A canister includes a canister case. The canister case includes a tank port, a purge port, and an atmospheric port. An adsorbent (14) is disposed in the canister case. The canister case also includes a case body having a peripheral wall portion and an end wall portion, and a cover having an end wall portion closing the open end of the case body. The tank port and the purge port are formed to be arranged side-by-side on the end wall portion of the case body. The atmospheric port, a holding tube portion configured to receive an OBD module for communicating with the atmospheric port, and a mount piece configured to mount to a vehicle are formed on the end wall portion of the cover.
US10137770B2
An exhaust device for a saddle-type vehicle having a pipe section with respect to a vehicle body and housing a catalyzer therein, and a muffler connected to a rear end of the pipe section includes an upstream oxygen sensor positioned upstream of the catalyzer and a downstream oxygen sensor positioned downstream of the catalyzer. The downstream oxygen sensor is disposed in either a position overlapping a main stand for supporting a motorcycle as viewed from below the vehicle body when the main stand is stored, or a position overlapping a stand receiver for abutting against the main stand as viewed from below the vehicle body when the main stand is stored. The pipe section includes a larger-diameter portion having an increased diameter for housing the catalyzer therein.
US10137766B2
A retractable truck bed cover having an array of parallel aluminum slats joined together by connective hinges including leading and trailing edge configuration for improving the security of the cover by covering and concealing the seam between adjacent slats while improving the connective hinge's resistance to the effects of aging and/or exposure to temperature fluctuations. The truck bed cover connective hinge slat is designed to be in an array of discrete slats, which are joined to one another by means of joiner members secured at each end to slat end caps. The distal ends of the joiner members are attached to slat end caps at the distal ends of the slats, thereby preventing the joiner members from shrinking in relationship to the slats due to aging and/or exposure to temperature fluctuations.
US10137762B2
A vehicular adsorption type air conditioning device including: a heater core and an interior heat exchanger that perform heat exchange between air inside a vehicle cabin and a heating medium; an exterior heat exchanger that performs heat exchange between air outside the vehicle cabin and the heating medium; a heating flow path section that circulates the heating medium between a high temperature heat source of the vehicle and the heater core; a plurality of adsorption vessels each including an adsorption section and an evaporation-condensation section, with an adsorbent and a refrigerant sealed within the adsorption vessels; and a flow path system; the flow path system being capable of switching between a cooling mode, a first heating mode, and a second heating mode.
US10137760B2
Disclosed herein is a PTC heater for a vehicle, which includes a plurality of cores, such as a first core and a second core, disposed independently and respectively arranged in a first passageway and a second passageway of an air-conditioning case to be controlled independently, thereby reducing manufacturing costs and weight of the air conditioner, enhancing vehicle fuel efficiency and productivity, being easily applicable to other vehicles using PTC heaters because one PTC heater is used for independent control at the right and the left.
US10137758B2
A vehicle air conditioner includes a heat pump cycle and a refrigerant-circuit controller. The heat pump cycle includes an inside heat exchanger and a refrigerant-circuit switching device. The inside heat exchanger performs heat exchange between a refrigerant and a blown air that is to be blown into a vehicle compartment. The refrigerant-circuit switching device switches between a refrigerant circuit of a cooling mode and a refrigerant circuit of a non-cooling mode. The refrigerant-circuit controller selects the cooling mode or the non-cooling mode based on an air-conditioning load, the refrigerant-circuit controller controlling an operation of the refrigerant-circuit switching device. Upon selecting the non-cooling mode, the refrigerant-circuit controller starts performing a cooling-mode unallowable control in which the refrigerant circuit of the cooling mode is prohibited from being selected regardless of the air-conditioning load.
US10137750B2
A trailer having a liftable first axle and an air suspended second axle includes a controller, a first valve coupled to the first axle and a second valve coupled to the second axle. The controller receives an air suspension exhaust request signal and a pressure signal from an air suspension bellows coupled to the second axle. The controller transmits an air suspension control signal to the second valve in response to the air suspension exhaust request signal and transmits a lift axle control signal to the first valve to lower the first axle in response to the pressure signal being less than a predetermined pressure value.
US10137746B2
An actuator for a tire inflation system, the actuator having a first component that has a first fluid passage and a second component having a second fluid passage and a sealing surface for sealing engagement with a rotatable component of a wheel assembly. The second component is movable relative to the first component between a first position, in which the first fluid passage is isolated from the second fluid passage and the sealing surface is spaced from the rotatable component, and a second position, in which the first fluid passage is in fluid communication with the second fluid passage and the sealing surface is in sealing engagement with a rotatable component.
US10137736B2
A wheel assembly includes a rigid wheel and an airless flexible tire with certain performance characteristics of a pneumatic tire. The rigid wheel includes a central portion and a plurality of circumferentially spaced mounting elements removably attached to a radially outer margin of the central portion. The tire is mounted on the wheel and engages the mounting elements such that portions of the tire not engaging the mounting elements are separated radially from the wheel by a space. The tire is configured such that portions of the tire not engaging the mounting elements flex inwardly toward the wheel when subject to ground engaging pressure, thereby minimizing ground penetration and soil disruption. The tire may include one or more tension elements embedded in the tire to increase the tire's strength and resilience.
US10137733B2
Provided is a pneumatic tire including a tread formed from a predetermined rubber composition to achieve greatly improved abrasion resistance while maintaining good wet-grip performance and good durability. The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire including a tread formed from a rubber composition, the rubber composition containing predetermined amounts of a specific oil-extended polybutadiene rubber, of an isoprene-based diene rubber and/or a styrene-butadiene rubber, of a specific carbon black, and of stearic acid, the oil-extended polybutadiene rubber being synthesized using a rare earth catalyst, the rubber composition having an amount of process oil of a predetermined value or less.
US10137730B2
The invention is directed to a tool for handling of a wheel, which tool includes a supporting part having a first end and a second end; at least one holder arranged on the supporting part, which holder is arranged to be used in connection with a pushing means; a first compression part having a compression end and a tension end, arranged at the first end of the supporting part pivotally in a plane; a second compression part having a compression end and a tension end, arranged at the second end of the supporting part pivotally in a plane and moving means for moving the first compression part and the second compression part in relation to the supporting part, which means are arranged between the first compression part and the second compression part and into direct connection with the first compression part and the second compression part.
US10137728B2
Embodiments described herein provide aerodynamic bicycle rims and wheels. Embodiments can include a bicycle rim that is wider than the width of the tire proximate to the outer edge of the rim and is shaped so that there is a tangent line tangent to the rim and the tire. The tangent line can be tangent to the rim on the sidewall or elsewhere on the rim. The widest part of the rim can be radially inward from the outer edge of the rim or elsewhere on the rim and the tangent line can be tangent at the widest part of the rim or elsewhere on the rim.
US10137725B2
A telescoping writing implement that retracts the writing point when in the collapsed position. An external pen body is mechanically connected to a writing cartridge through at least one aperture in a guide tube. Movement of the external pen body downward draws the writing cartridge down inside the guide tube until the writing end of the writing cartridge is exposed and the connecting means such as a clip, screw or pin contacts the lower edge of the aperture. When the outer pen body is moved upward, it draws the writing cartridge with it inside the guide tube until the writing end is protected inside the guide tube. The limits of travel are governed by the dimensions of the aperture when the connecting means contacts the edge of the aperture. Additional elements may include an upper pen body with a pocket retainer clip and internal position detents.
US10137724B1
A method for assembling a single-detent binder includes assembling ring shaped components and first and second baseplates to a housing. The first and second baseplates are longitudinally adjacent and parallelly arranged and connected to each other. The first and second baseplates include adjacent longitudinal edges and non-adjacent longitudinal edges. The first and second baseplates are so assembled as to pivot around the adjacent longitudinal edges in order to open or close the ring shaped components. The ring shaped components each include two half ring shaped elements. The half ring shaped elements each are fixed on the first and second baseplates and pass through the housing. The half ring shaped elements occlude to form a closed ring, and the half ring shaped elements disjoin to form an opened ring. The method further includes assembling the control component to the housing, rotatively connecting at least one rotary locking piece to a pull rod, rotatively connecting the rotary locking piece to one of the first and second baseplates, and operatively connecting the pull rod to the control component. The control component includes a handle, which enables the control component to rotate relative to the housing. Assembling the ring shaped components and the first and second baseplates to the housing are performed simultaneously with rotatively connecting the rotary locking piece to the pull rod.
US10137723B2
A greeting card having a transparent and flexible pouch enclosing a deformable object is disclosed. The transparent and flexible pouch is vacuum sealed with the deformable object inside, such that the deformable object compresses. A transparent insert may be placed inside of the transparent and flexible pouch, in order to minimize disfiguration of the deformable object during the compression process.
US10137721B2
An illuminated assembly, and methods of making and using such an illuminated assembly, whereby the illuminated assembly includes a panel and at least one sheet coupled to the panel, the sheet capable of overlaying engagement with the panel. The sheet can include a sheet front surface opposite a sheet back surface, and at least one light transmission portion disposed therein, whereby the light transmission portion can communicate between the sheet front and back surfaces. Further, the illuminated assembly can include a light source operatively coupled to the panel, whereby in an activated condition, the light source can provide light to the panel. Following, the light can be transmitted from the panel through the light transmission portion of the sheet such that the light can be viewable by a viewer of the sheet front surface.
US10137714B2
A printer includes a printing head that includes a plurality of heating elements arranged in a first direction and a processor, wherein printing data representing an image to be printed on a printing medium are divided into a plurality of line data, each of the plurality of line data representing a corresponding line segment of the image, extending in the first direction, by a series of dots constituted of printing dots to be printed on the printing medium and non-printing dots that are not printed on the printing medium, and wherein, for each of the line data, the processor obtains distribution information of the printing dots in the line data, and sets an energizing time, during which the selected heating elements are energized continuously, or intermittently by pulses, to print the corresponding printing dots, in accordance with the distribution information of the printing dots in the line data.
US10137708B2
A printer that partially cuts roll paper to leave an uncut portion prevents paper jams from reversing the roll paper. A printer 1 has a print unit 41 for printing images on roll paper R; a cutter unit 46 disposed downstream in the conveyance direction from the print unit for cutting the roll paper and leaving an uncut portion; a conveyance unit 42 for conveying the roll paper in the conveyance direction or a reverse direction that is the opposite of the conveyance direction; and a controller 40 that executes a reversing process conveying the roll paper in reverse by the conveyance unit 42 when the roll paper is separated from the paper roll at the uncut portion after the cutter unit 46 cuts the roll paper, and not executing the reversing process in specific circumstances in which the roll paper remains connected through the uncut portion.
US10137707B2
A second inkjet head, a second platen, and a second pair of conveyance rollers configured to convey a sheet toward the second platen downward with respect to a horizontal direction are arranged at lower positions than a first inkjet head arranged upstream of the second inkjet head, a first platen arranged upstream of the second platen, a first pair of conveyance rollers arranged upstream of the second pair of conveyance rollers and configured to convey the sheet toward the first plates downward with respect to the horizontal direction, respectively.
US10137698B2
A mixer system for use with a non-contact liquid printer comprises: a printing liquid reservoir (103) and an expansion volume (105); and an aspirator element (111; 311; 411), configured to reduce the pressure in the expansion volume (105), thereby to displace printing liquid (L) from the reservoir (103) to the expansion volume (105), and restore the pressure in the expansion volume (105), thereby to return the printing liquid (L) to the reservoir (103) so as to mix the printing liquid (L) therein.
US10137696B2
An inkjet recording apparatus includes a tank forming an ink chamber and including an injection inlet, a recording head, a cover, a monitor, a cover sensor, an operation panel, and a controller. The controller controls operation of the recording head and the monitor. The controller performs decision processing deciding whether ink injection into the ink chamber after complement of an initial process is completed, and counts an amount of ink discharged from the recording head. The controller controls the monitor to display notification depending on the decision processing and the counted amount of discharged ink.
US10137689B2
A supporting section is disposed to confront an ejection surface and supports a recording medium. A first tank is mounted on a first-tank mount section. A liquid conveying section conveys liquid to a liquid ejecting head. A receiving section receives liquid ejected from the liquid ejecting head. A waste-liquid conveying section conveys liquid to the waste-liquid tank. A first casing holds the liquid ejecting head, the first-tank mount section, and the liquid conveying section. A second casing holds the supporting section, the receiving section, the waste-liquid tank, and the waste-liquid conveying section. The first casing is connected with the second casing such that the first casing is movable relative to the second casing. The first casing takes a first position at which the ejection surface confronts the supporting section and a second position at which the ejection surface is farther away from the supporting section than at the first position.
US10137673B2
The present invention relates to methods and systems for cell lysis in a microfluidic device. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems for rapid continuous flow mechanical cell lysis. In one embodiment, a microfluidic device includes one or more microfluidic channels, each channel comprising constricted regions and non-constricted regions separating the constricted regions, wherein the constricted regions are configured to disrupt the cellular membranes of cells in fluid flowing through the one or more microfluidic channels.
US10137666B2
Disclosed is a noise-absorbent fabric having a superior heat-insulation property and sound-insulating property and a method for manufacturing the same. The noise-absorbent fabric includes a noise-absorbing layer comprising a nonwoven fabric formed of a heat-resistant fiber and impregnated with a binder; and a metal film stacked thereon. As such, the noise-absorbent fabric having superior sound-absorbing property, heat-insulating property and sound-insulating property can be obtained and be applicable to parts maintained at high temperatures of 300° C. or greater. In addition, the noise-absorbent fabric can be moldable using the binder in a desired three-dimensional shape.
US10137661B2
A structural body which comprises a base and a microrelief structure layer having a microrelief structure. The microrelief structure layer is laminated on the base so as to form the surface layer of this structural body, and the microrelief structure layer has at least one physical property selected from the group consisting of (A) and (B) described below. (A) The elastic modulus at 25° C. is 50 MPa or more, and the elastic modulus at 80° C. is 30 MPa or less. (B) The tensile elongation at break at 80° C. is from 20% to 100% (inclusive).
US10137659B2
Floorboards with a surface of flexible fibers for laying a mechanically joined floating floor, and methods for manufacturing and providing floorings containing such floorboards. For example, floorboards including a surface layer and a core, for making a floating flooring, which floorboards are mechanically lockable and which along their edge portions have pairs of opposing connectors for locking similar, adjoining floorboards to each other both vertically and horizontally, wherein the surface layer comprises flexible resilient fibers.
US10137646B2
A computer-implemented method of preparing a polygon mesh for printing by a process of additive manufacturing includes the steps of receiving a model of an object to be printed in the form of a polygon mesh, converting the polygon mesh into a signed distance field which comprises voxels identified as interior or exterior to the object, the conversion including a process for resolving degeneracies in the model so that the signed distance field defines an outer surface that is an orientable manifold, and thus may exist in reality and an output step which converts the signed distance field to a format that facilitates additive manufacturing of the object.
US10137643B2
Systems and methods for process simulation are described. The methods may use a reference model identifying sensitivity of a reference scanner to a set of tunable parameters. Chip fabrication from a chip design may be simulated using the reference model, wherein the chip design is expressed as one or more masks. An iterative retuning and simulation process may be used to optimize critical dimension in the simulated chip and to obtain convergence of the simulated chip with an expected chip. Additionally, a designer may be provided with a set of results from which an updated chip design is created.
US10137640B2
A method is provided of bonding together at least two parts. The method includes assembling together at least two parts and at least one adhesive layer, the adhesive being configured so that its adhesive power increases on heating as a result of it polymerizing, at least one of the parts being made of composite material or of metal, the adhesive layer being present, after assembly, between the parts, the assembled together parts and the adhesive being present in a chamber defined by a wall, the wall having an inside face situated facing a first part present between the adhesive layer and the wall, the first part being intended to be bonded to a second part and only a fraction of the second part being present inside the chamber; and applying a liquid against the wall on its side opposite from the chamber.
US10137639B2
A mat unit is formed from at least two layers ultrasonically welded together. Each layer is individually formed from non-vinyl nontoxic thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) material. In ultrasonically joining the two layers together, there is no need to use additional materials, such as adhesive (i.e., chemical attachment) or stitched thread (i.e., mechanical attachment) to form the joint/weld point. Once formed from the two layers, the mat unit has four quadrants and a plurality of longitudinal ribs integrally formed in the first layer positioned in the first and third quadrants, and a plurality of transverse ribs integrally formed in the first layer positioned in the second and fourth quadrants. Additionally, there are a plurality of longitudinal ribs integrally formed in the second layer positioned in the second and fourth quadrants, and a plurality of transverse ribs integrally formed in the second layer positioned in the first and third quadrants.
US10137638B2
A method for bonding fibers includes providing a first fiber layer and a second fiber layer positioned below the first fiber layer to bond the first fiber layer with the second fiber layer. The method may also include providing a first additive layer. The first additive layer is located between the first fiber layer and the second fiber layer. Then, the method may further include activating the first additive layer by directing energy at the first additive layer.
US10137632B2
A method of manufacturing a three-dimensional object is disclosed. The method includes operating a first ejector of a three-dimensional object printer to eject a first material towards a platen to form an object. The method further includes operating a second ejector of the three-dimensional object printer to eject a second material towards the platen to form support for portions of the object, the support being configured to provide support for portions of the object during the operation of the first ejector to form the object, at least one portion of the support having a body with at least one fluid path that connects at least one opening in the body to at least one other opening in the body. The method further includes connecting a fluid source to the at least one fluid path of the support to enable fluid to flow through the at least one fluid path to remove at least an inner portion the support from the object.
US10137620B2
The present invention comprises: a base layer molding step that injection-fills a mold cavity with a base layer resin to mold a base layer; a first expansion step that causes the volume of the mold cavity to expand to a specified quantity such that a certain space is formed between an outer surface of the base layer molded by the base layer molding step and an inner surface of the mold; a first injection-filling step that injection-fills the space formed by the first expansion step with a first resin; a second expansion step that, after the start of the first injection-filling step, causes the mold cavity to expand to a specified quantity such that the space is expanded; and a second injection-filling step that, after completion of the first injection-filling step and after the start of the second expansion step, injection-fills a second resin into the first resin.
US10137616B2
A method of fabricating a skin system or its elements using a laser cutter. The laser cutter is controlled to perform multiple passes to selectively cut away layers of material on a surface of a sheet of cellular foam materials. Each layer of material to be removed is defined by a cut or texture pattern. The laser cutter is operated to cut deeper with each layer of material removed by setting a different resolution for the laser cutter for each layer. For example, a laser cutter may be selectively controlled to operate within a resolution range, and each layer defined by the same or different cut pattern is cut using a different resolution. The method includes associating lower resolution settings for the first or outer layers to remove a first depth of material from the skin sheet's surface and associating higher and higher resolution settings for additional layers.
US10137602B2
A method for fabricating an artificial skin system such as skin for use with a robotics assembly. The method includes forming or accessing a digital three dimensional (3D) model of an object. The digital 3D model defines a topography of an exterior surface of the object. The method includes processing the 3D model to generate a 3D model of a core, including defining an exterior surface of the core with a topography that is an inverse copy of the topography of the exterior surface of the object. The method includes fabricating the core based on the core model, whereby the core has an exterior surface corresponding to the exterior surface of the core model. The core is used in dipping processes or injection molding processes to form a skin in which the exterior surface is formed of material that abutted the inverse topography of the exterior surface of the core.
US10137599B2
An extrudate transport apparatus comprises a free floating roller assembly, wherein the roller assembly controls a rotational pitch of a cylindrical green ceramic extrudate as the green ceramic extrudate moves longitudinally from a first location to a second location within the extrudate transport apparatus. The free floating roller assembly has a predetermined effective weight and comprises a contact roller having a deformable outer surface for frictionally contacting an outer surface of the green ceramic extrudate in motion adjacent thereto, while maintaining a constant contact force upon said green ceramic extrudate.
US10137598B2
A formliner, sheet, system, and methods of use and manufacture are provided in order to provide a product that can minimize and/or eliminate visible seaming between interconnected formliners during fabrication of a pattern on a curable material. In some embodiments, the formliner can comprise raised sections that define interrelated inner and outer dimensions. Thus, a plurality of formliners can be interconnected by overlaying raised sections thereof. Further, the formliner can comprise one or more detents and one or more protrusions to enable engagement between interconnected formliners without requiring adhesives. In this manner, formliners can be interconnected in a nested manner such that visible seaming between the interconnected formliners is reduced and/or eliminated.
US10137597B2
A sprayed article is prepared by thermally spraying ceramic particles of rare earth oxide or fluoride or metal particles of W, Mo or Ta onto an outer or inner surface of a cylindrical carbon substrate to form a sprayed coating, and burning out the carbon substrate, thus leaving the ceramic or metal-base sprayed coating of cylindrical shape having a wall thickness of 0.5-5 mm.
US10137593B2
A miter box includes, in a first direction, a through opening having a shape adapted to the cross-section of an element to be cut.
US10137591B2
Disclosed are a method of weakening an outline in a thin plastic card and tooling for performing the method. The method may include several operations, including a go punching step by means of a go punch presenting a solid shape substantially identical to the outline and suitable for punching the thin plastic card along a go direction against a die presenting a hollow shape substantially identical to the outline and in alignment with the go punch in order to be able to receive material pushed by the go punch, and a return punching step by means of a return punch presenting a solid shape substantially identical to the outline in alignment with the go punch and suitable for punching the thin plastic card along a return direction opposite to the go direction. Also disclosed is a thin plastic card including at least one outline weakened by such a method.
US10137582B2
A pivot motor has a stator and an armature. The armature has an assembly of two spaced permanent magnets and a triangular flux bridge on one end. Magnetic flux is generated by passing alternating current through an electrical coil in the stator. The flux flows through the permanent magnets to generate electromotive force that vibrates the armature. The triangular flux bridge adjacent the magnets facilitates the flux flow, increasing motor power under typical load conditions and motor efficiency.
US10137551B2
A sanding apparatus for sanding a vicinity of a drywall seam is provided comprising a housing structure including guide structures, a sanding roller, and a motor for driving the sanding roller such that the guide structures guide a sanding depth during sanding. The sanding apparatus further includes a vacuuming mechanism for capturing particles that result from sanding.
US10137543B2
A compound optical assembly is constructed from a plurality of stacking elements for spacing, aligning, and retaining optical elements within the assembly. Stacking faces of the stacking elements are measured and low-order surface errors are extracted, represented by mathematical approximations having a primary angular frequency. The stacking elements including the optic holders are relatively oriented to promote complementarity between the low-order surface errors of mating stacking faces.
US10137542B2
An apparatus is disclosed for storing, tapering, cutting and dispensing preform layers of material includes a device for storing coiled lengths of the preform layers of material and a device for receiving coiled lengths of the preform layers of material. The device includes a grinding device to grind portions of the preform layers of material and a cutter to cut the grinded portions of material. A programmable controller is configured to control the operations of at least one of the device and mechanism.
US10137541B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a bearing ring member, whereby processing cost can be reduced and a high degree of freedom in design is obtained, by disposing a metal material of a raw material (13a), the metal material having excellent metal characteristics such as fatigue strength and wear resistance and excellent processing characteristics such as hardenability, in a portion that flows to a portion (raceway surface, etc.) where the characteristics of the metal material are required during use or forging of a bearing ring member. The present invention is configured from a first metal part (23) in which the raw material (13a) is formed in a cylindrical shape, and a second metal part (24) formed in a columnar shape by a metal material having more excellent metal characteristics or processing characteristics than the first metal part (23). For example, the second metal part (24) is disposed in a portion on an inside diameter side of the first metal part (23), which is a portion of the raw material (13a) that flows to an outer raceway (5a, 5b) of an outer ring (2) during forging.
US10137538B2
In the flux applying device, a control portion controls conveying rollers or the like so that thickness of flux applied to solder is controlled. The winding roller rotates so that the solder is conveyed at the conveying speed. The drawing-out roller applies any load (back tension) to the solder backward along the conveying direction of the solder when drawing out the solder. The solder is conveyed at the predetermined speed and dipped into the flux tank containing flux. The solder is pulled up from the flux tank at the conveying speed vertically. By pulling up the solder from the flux tank at the constant conveying speed vertically, the interfacial tension acts on the solder 9a and the flux, so that the flux having a uniform thickness according to the conveying speed remains on the surface and back surface of the solder.
US10137533B2
A multi-functional apparatus for testing and etching a substrate capable of increasing spatial efficiency and manufacturing efficiency by performing testing and etching operations in a same chamber body and a substrate processing apparatus including the same, the multi-functional apparatus including a chamber body having an entrance into which the substrate is injected in one of its sides and an exit from which the substrate is ejected in another one of its sides; a transfer unit disposed inside of the chamber body and for transferring the injected substrate in a direction from the entrance to the exit; a laser etching unit disposed on an upper portion of the transfer unit and for etching a part of the substrate disposed on the transfer unit; and a testing unit for testing the substrate disposed on the transfer unit.
US10137515B2
A scraper tool for deburring an edge of an aircraft turboshaft engine casing is arranged to be mounted in a milling device. The scraper tool includes a body including, on a first end, a connection for the milling device and, on a second end, a deburring module including a turning lathe platelet including at least one cutting edge arranged so as to deburr the casing edge. The deburring module includes a guide adapted to contact the edge to be deburred so as to follow the profile of the edge to be deburred without modifying the orientation of the turning lathe platelet.
US10137510B1
A rotary cutting tool has a cutting body and a plurality of cutting inserts, including a first insert removably secured in a first pocket and a second insert removably secured in a second pocket. The first pocket opens out at a forward end surface of the cutting body, having a seat surface with an axial support wall transverse thereto, and the second pocket is located axially rearward of the first pocket. The first insert has opposing front and back end surfaces, with a peripheral side surface extending therebetween which is in contact with the seat surface and the axial support wall. A first major cutting edge of the first insert axially overlaps with a second major cutting edge of the second insert, and in a side view of the cutting tool, a raised shoulder surface adjacent the axial support wall is at least partially obscured by the second insert.
US10137499B2
A method of forming a component having an internal passage defined therein is provided. The method includes positioning a jacketed core with respect to a mold. The jacketed core includes a hollow structure formed at least partially by an additive manufacturing process, and an inner core disposed within the hollow structure. The method also includes introducing a component material in a molten state into a cavity of the mold, and cooling the component material in the cavity to form the component. The inner core is positioned to define the internal passage within the component.
US10137496B2
The present invention provides a metal wire rod composed of iridium or an iridium alloy, wherein the number of crystal grains on any cross-section in a longitudinal direction is 2 to 20 per 0.25 mm2, and the Vickers hardness at any part is 200 Hv or more and less than 400 Hv. The iridium wire rod is a material which is produced by a μ-PD method, and has low residual stress and which has a small change in the number of crystal grains and hardness even when heated to a temperature equal to or higher than a recrystallization temperature (1200° C. to 1500° C.). The metal wire rod of the present invention is excellent in oxidative consumption resistance under a high-temperature atmosphere, and mechanical properties.
US10137495B2
A machine for forming metal bars, in particular for producing ingots made of precious metal such as gold, silver, precious alloys, as well as other pure metals or different alloys, in the form of solid metal powder, grits or swarf of various sizes, having an ingot mold and a cover for closing the ingot mold when filled, the ingot mold has a dimension in height such that the cover passes from a first position to a second position when the volume occupied by the mass of metal that fills the ingot mold reduces gradually up to one third of the initial solid volume. In the first position the cover rests on the metal that fills the ingot mold and remains raised with respect to an abutting edge of the ingot mold, in such a manner that the bottom of the cover compresses and thus uniformly compacts the powders, the grits or the swarf so that, during the melting step, in the second position, the cover lowers progressively as the metal melts, until it rests on the abutting edge of the ingot mold, thus hermetically closing the ingot mold.
US10137494B2
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a foundry body including the preparation of a granular mixture including a polycondensed resin having modified formaldehyde, optionally incorporating an aromatic or polyaromatic during the synthesis thereof, a hardening agent, a formaldehyde sensor compound, water and optionally at least one resin selected from the group comprising tannins, natural polyphenols, and lignins, placing said granular mixture in contact with the surface of a forming tool, and insufflating a flow of gas at 50° C. to 380° C. into the granular mixture for 1 to 300 seconds, in order to ensure at least partial hardening of said mixture. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing a molded foundry piece made of metal or a metal alloy, which includes pouring metal into at least one body (mold and/or core) thus produced; and to a foundry piece thus manufactured.
US10137492B2
A method is provided for connecting a first component to a second component, wherein the first component has a deformation region. The deformation region is at least partially heated in a first step. In a second step an inner die, having an optical component for plastic deformation, is provided. In a third step the first component is plastically deformed in the deformation region in order to connect the first component to the second component. Light for heating the first component is directed at the deformation region by means of the optical component of the inner die in the first and/or third step.
US10137484B2
The present techniques are directed to systems and methods for displacing a structure in a fluid handling system with a displacement fluid. A system includes a plurality of storage conduits that can hold a treatment fluid or a barrier fluid. The treatment and barrier fluids are transferred from the storage conduits by a displacement fluid using a driver.
US10137481B2
Some embodiments include methods of removing particles from over surfaces of semiconductor substrates. Liquid may be flowed across the surfaces and the particles. While the liquid is flowing, electrophoresis and/or electroosmosis may be utilized to enhance transport of the particles from the surfaces and into the liquid. In some embodiments, temperature, pH and/or ionic strength within the liquid may be altered to assist in the removal of the particles from over the surfaces of the substrates.
US10137478B2
A classifier for classifying granular feedstock has a rotary cage rotating about a rotor axis and an air-guiding system arranged around the rotary cage, wherein a classifying zone is formed between the rotary cage and the air-guiding system. In the classifying zone one or more baffles are arranged such that the torque acting on the rotary cage is increased—for the same rotational speed—by at least 20% with respect to an embodiment without baffles and/or the separation between the air-guiding system and the rotary cage is chosen such that the torque acting on the rotary cage is increased—for the same rotational speed—by at least 20% with respect to an embodiment wherein the separation of the air-guiding system is without influence on the torque of the rotary cage.
US10137475B2
Coating system, a method of applying the coating system and an article comprising the coating system
A coating system comprising an epoxy coating layer prepared from an epoxy formulation which comprises an epoxy resin; a curing agent with no more than 4.5 wt % free amine based on a weight solids of the curing agent; and an adjacent layer prepared from a non-isocyanate polyurethane formulation wherein the epoxy formulation and/or non-isocyanate polyurethane formulation optionally further comprise one or more additives selected from the group consisting of solvent, reactive diluent, plasticizer, pigment, filler; rheology modifiers, dispersants, surfactants, UV stabilizers, and corrosion inhibitors is provided. Also provided are a method of applying a multi-layer coating system and an article comprising a coating system.
US10137468B2
A device for supplying a sprayer with a liquid coating comprises a one valve having a moving needle, a valve body defining a circulation volume for the coating and a seat for supporting the needle. A pneumatic drive for translating the needle along an axis away from or towards the seat comprises a piston constrained to move with the needle and sliding within a guide body. A head and the guide body define a variable volume chamber. The head is constrained to rotate with the volume via slots on the head and corresponding protruding elements on the guide body. The guide body is screwed onto the valve body along the axis. The head includes driving reliefs for rotation of the head around the axis for screwing onto the valve body. A tool for mounting/dismounting the device comprises a maneuvering handle and an end-piece having reliefs complementary to the driving reliefs.
US10137464B2
The invention provides a hydrocarbon-fueled device for heating and dispensing a volatile substance, such as an insect repellent. The device provides a long-lasting 48-hour fuel system, multiple fuel canisters that can be exchanged without interrupting the operation of the device, an illuminated indicator that provides a visible indication of the operating state of the device from any viewing angle, and a flame-extinguishing safety lid. During the warm-up phase, the indicator indicates this state by pulsing. Once the device reaches operating temperature, the indicator emits a steady light, indicating proper operation. In the event that the device cools below the operating temperature, the light will pulse, alerting the user to check the flame and/or fuel supply. The user can initiate complete, properly-controlled operation of all functions of the device via the operation of a single on-off switch.
US10137462B2
A centrifugal debris separator for removing debris from a gas turbine engine fuel system comprises a debris separator inlet, a debris separator outlet and a separating chamber with a centerline extending in an axial direction and defined by an outer wall formed around the centerline. The separating chamber comprises a separating chamber inlet for receiving fluid, a first separator outlet to the separating chamber, a second separator outlet to the separating chamber provided to the outer wall of the separating chamber and a third separator outlet to the separating chamber defined by a third separator outlet wall formed around the centerline of the separating chamber. The debris separator inlet is fluidly connected to the separating chamber inlet. The debris separator outlet is fluidly connected to the first separator outlet.
US10137461B2
A flotation machine includes a stator positioned in a tank adjacent a rotor. The stator has a plurality of vanes. Each of the vanes has a plurality of slots formed therein. Each of the slots has a shape that is elongated in a direction along the width of the vane in which the slot is formed. Each of the vanes is spaced apart from the other vanes to which that vane is adjacent. The vanes are positioned in series adjacent a periphery of the stator to define a central opening within the stator that is sized such that the rotor of a flotation machine may be positioned therein. The stator may be retrofitted onto a prior flotation machine installation. For instance, a stator may be offered for sale and then installed onto a flotation machine. A previous stator may be removed before the installation of the new stator.
US10137457B2
A crushing machine that includes a crusher, a feed conveyor for feeding material to the crusher, a detector for detecting metal in the material on the feed conveyor, and a bypass chute for the crusher. The feed conveyor being movable between a normal operating position in which the material is fed to the crusher and a bypass position in which the material is fed to the bypass chute. Upon detection of metal in the material, the feed conveyor is stopped and moved from the normal operating position to the bypass position so that the material with the metal is discharged into the bypass chute.
US10137453B2
Provided in part herein are static-defeating apparatus for use in multipipettor systems. Multiple pipette tips can be retained by a static-defeating sheet of material. A multipipettor, having multiple pipettes or nozzles, can engage the pipette tips retained by the sheet. After use, the multipipettor can eject the pipette tips, which sometimes are ejected as a single unit due to the pipette tips being retained by the sheet. In certain embodiments, an apparatus includes a snap plate having one or more holes, and a base rack for ease of mounting.
US10137452B2
A method for performing polymerase chain reactions (PCR) for improving thermal non-uniformity is provided. The method includes measuring a first temperature, by a first sensor, of a first sample block sector of a sample block and measuring a second temperature, by a second sensor, of a second sample block sector of the sample block that is adjacent to the first sample block sector. The method further includes calculating, by a thermoelectric controller, a difference in temperature between the first temperature and the second temperature and adjusting, by the thermoelectric controller, the first temperature of the first sample block sector based on the difference in temperature by using one or more thermoelectric coolers. The one or more thermoelectric coolers is configured to heat or cool the first sample block sector by adjusting power output from the thermoelectric controller.
US10137450B2
A disposable cartridge configured as a digital microfluidics system for manipulating samples in liquid portions having a cartridge accommodation site and a central control unit for controlling selection of individual electrodes of an electrode array located at the site and for providing plural electrodes with individual voltage pulses for manipulating liquid portions by electrowetting. The cartridge has a hydrophobic working surface and a rigid cover with a second hydrophobic surface, the hydrophobic surfaces facing each other and being separated in parallel planes by a gap. The cartridge has plural pipetting guides for safe entering/withdrawing liquids into/from the gap with a pipette tip. At least one of the pipetting guides provides an abutting surface sealingly admittable by a counter surface of a pipette tip, located at a pipetting orifice that reaches through the rigid cover, and configured to prevent a pipette tip from touching the hydrophobic working surface.
US10137445B2
A single use capillary micropipette and a method of use for dispensing a defined volume of a liquid are disclosed. The capillary micropipette includes a housing, a piston disposed therein and a capillary tube connected to the housing. The housing has a holding chamber including chamber snap fit elements on the chamber wall, piston stop(s) and a bottom having a central opening with a tubular member extending therefrom. The piston includes a push cap having snap fit arms extending downward and a piston rod. In the assembled position, a venting space between the piston head and the central opening permits venting during aspiration of a liquid into capillary tube by capillary force. In response to an applied downward force, the snap fit arms of the push cap snap over chamber snap fit elements and piston rod slides in the tubular member, thereby dispensing a defined volume of the liquid.
US10137435B2
The present invention concerns a method for the preparation of a catalyst onto a solid support of a (semi-)conductive material consisting in depositing said catalyst onto said support from a near-neutral aqueous solution containing at least one nickel or cobalt organic complex and at least one basic oxoanion, by a method selected in the group consisting of reductive electrodeposition, photochemical electrodeposition and photoelectrochemical deposition. The present invention also concerns said catalyst and uses thereof.
US10137433B2
A catalyst with a porous, ceramic support body having a porosity which is formed by pores in at least a part of the ceramic support body, and which furthermore has a catalytically active washcoat coating applied to the ceramic support body, which catalytically active washcoat coating having a layer thickness, comprises a permanent catalytically inactive impregnation comprising at least one catalytically inactive inorganic component, and wherein the permanent inactive impregnation has a layer thickness and is present at least partially between a surface of the porous ceramic support body and the catalytically active washcoat coating is present in the pores of the ceramic support body in a region with reduced porosity underneath the surface of the ceramic support body.
US10137427B2
The present invention relates to a nanoparticle preparation device using laser, and more particularly, the nanoparticle preparation device using the laser wherein the nanoparticles prepared by irradiating the laser beam to the source material gas within the reaction chamber are recovered without being oxidized by blocking the air or moisture within the glove box in which the nitrogen atmosphere is maintained, and thus the nanoparticles are efficiently collected without oxidation.
US10137426B2
Screening assays and methods of performing such assays are provided. In certain examples, the assays and methods may be designed to determine whether or not two or more species can associate with each other. In some examples, the assays and methods may be used to determine if a known antigen binds to an unknown monoclonal antibody.
US10137423B2
Disclosed herein are devices and methods for the detection, quantification and/or monitoring of analytes. The systems and methods can be used, for example, to rapidly monitor gases downhole in a well.
US10137420B2
A mixer and method for mixing are provided. The mixer includes a housing having a fluid inlet, an additive inlet, and an outlet, with the housing defining a mixing chamber in fluid communication with the fluid inlet, the additive inlet, and the outlet. The mixer also includes an impeller disposed in the mixing chamber, wherein, when rotated, the impeller draws fluid through the fluid inlet. The mixer also includes a slinger disposed in the mixing chamber and configured to receive the fluid from the impeller and to receive an additive from the additive inlet. When rotated, the slinger slings the fluid and the additive radially outwards. The mixer further includes a stator disposed at least partially around the slinger, with the stator including vanes spaced circumferentially apart so as to define flowpaths therebetween.
US10137410B2
The invention is a method for deacidizing a gaseous effluent comprising acid compounds, such as CO2 and/or H2S, and a device for implementing the method, through contact with a demixing absorbent solution. Regeneration is performed by vapor injection into the liquid guard (202) formed by the regenerated absorbent solution in the bottom of regeneration column (G). The vapor is generated within a reboiler (203) from a fraction of the regenerated absorbent solution withdrawn from the regeneration column. Vapor injection enables convective movement of the liquid for preventing any decantation phenomenon in the bottom of the regeneration column bottom which is harmful to the smooth operation of the deacidizing process.
US10137406B2
A nitrogen generation system includes a heat exchanger for receiving supply air and cooling air and providing temperature conditioned supply air, a flow control valve for controlling a flow of the cooling air through the heat exchanger, and an air separation module for receiving the temperature conditioned supply air and generating nitrogen-enriched air. The nitrogen generation system also includes a sensor for measuring a parameter of the nitrogen-enriched air selected from the group consisting of a temperature, a flow rate, an oxygen concentration, and combinations thereof, and a controller connected to the sensor and the flow control valve for controlling the flow of the cooling air through the heat exchanger based on the parameter of the nitrogen-enriched air measured by the sensor.
US10137401B2
The invention relates to an oxygen separator for generating a flow of oxygen-enriched gas, said oxygen separator comprising at least two oxygen separation devices arranged to separate oxygen from an oxygen comprising gas, said at least two oxygen separation devices each comprising a first end for receiving the oxygen comprising gas and a second end for delivering an oxygen-enriched gas. The oxygen separator further comprising an equalization duct fluidically coupled to the respective second end of said at least two oxygen separation devices, a first gas sensor is provided in the equalization duct such that the first gas sensor is arranged to monitor at least one component of the oxygen-enriched gas in the equalization duct; and control device arranged to control the oxygen separator based on the monitoring by the first gas sensor.
