US10144283B2
A cylindrical ring gear has first external teeth and a support portion in an axial direction of the cylindrical ring gear. An output shaft extends through the cylindrical ring gear and is supported to rotate concentrically with the cylindrical ring gear. A disconnect mechanism is configured to connect or disconnect an inner periphery of the cylindrical ring gear to an outer periphery of the output shaft based on a moved position of the movable engagement member. An actuator is disposed such that the first external teeth are located between the support portion and the actuator. The actuator is configured to move the movable engagement member between a connection position and a disconnection position. The cylindrical ring gear is coupled to the output shaft so as to be relatively non-rotatable in the connection position. Relative rotation between the cylindrical ring gear and the output shaft is allowed in the disconnection position.
US10144279B2
There is provided a closing device for a filler port. This closing device for the filler port comprises a fuel passage forming portion configured to include a first engagement element; a first open-close mechanism configured to include a first cover that is opened toward an upstream side; and a second open-close mechanism configured to open and close a second opening and include a second cover that is opened toward the upstream side. The first open-close mechanism further comprises a disengagement portion located on the upstream side of a second engagement element when the second engagement element is engaged with the first engagement element, and configured to disengage the second engagement element from the first engagement element when receiving a force in a closing direction from the second cover.
US10144277B2
A vehicle tank having an upper surface for mounting a fan and radiator to which is sloped between the fan and radiator mounting parts so that there is a difference in the relative height of the parts. The tank also has a horizontal lower surface that abuts the chassis or frame of a vehicle and the space between the upper and lower surfaces holds a fluid.
US10144270B2
A venting device for a vehicle has a frame which is made from a hard plastic material and can be fixed in place in an opening of the vehicle. The frame has recesses and a non-return flap member made from a flexible material. The non-return flap member extends substantially over the entire frame and, in the region of the recesses, has cutouts which are configured in one piece with the non-return flap member. In a closed position, the cutouts are in surface contact with support surfaces surrounding the recesses and, in an open position, can be moved away from the support surfaces.
US10144266B2
A tube (13) has a container of phase change material M for a heat exchange bundle (3) of a heat exchanger (1) of an air conditioning system of a passenger compartment of a vehicle. The tube (13) includes a first plate (15) configured to form a first outer surface (17) of the tube (13), a second plate (19) configured to be sealingly assembled with the first plate (15) and to form a second outer surface (21) opposite the first outer surface (17), and an intermediate plate (23) configured to be sealingly assembled with the first and second plates (15, 19), between the latter, and to define on either sides thereof at least one channel (9) for the flow of a coolant F into the bundle (3) and at least one recess (25) for the phase change material M. The invention also relates to a heat exchange bundle and to a method for assembling a heat exchanger including the tube (13).
US10144264B2
A stabilizer bar for a chassis of a motor vehicle comprises a torsion spring portion and two arms bent away from the torsion spring portion; wherein the arms each comprise a formed end portion with a through-opening and a tubular portion, wherein the torsion spring portion comprises a hardened structure with a strength of at least 1000 MPa; and wherein the formed end portions comprise a hardened structure with a strength of at least 800 MPa. A process of producing a corresponding stabilizer is further disclosed.
US10144259B2
A ball joint relocation kit including a ball stud having a ball end, a threaded end, and a shaft with a straight outer diameter, and a sleeve having a tapered outer diameter and a straight inner diameter, wherein the sleeve is adapted to be received in a tapered hole through a steering knuckle from a bottom side, and the ball stud is adapted to be received through the tapered hole and the sleeve from the top side. The ball joint relocation kit can be used to replace an OEM ball stud to relocate the ball joint from below the steering knuckle to above the steering knuckle in suspension lifted vehicles.
US10144252B2
Provided is a pneumatic tire where grooves and blocks defined by the grooves are formed on a tread portion, wherein the block includes: a ground contact surface; a hole portion formed in a center portion of the ground contact surface; and sipes extending radially from the hole portion which is the center of radial extension of the sipes, and the sipes are formed such that inner ends of the sipes in a radial direction terminate at a position away from the hole portion, and outer ends of the sipes in the radial direction terminate within the block.
US10144246B2
This invention is related to a convertible backpack capable of being converted from a regular backpack into a trolley case and vice versa according to a user preference. The convertible backpack of the invention comprises at least a rotatable wheels cover mechanism, for covering the outer side of each one of the wheels upon usage of the convertible backpack as a backpack and for uncovering the outer side of each one of the wheels upon usage of the convertible backpack as a trolley case.
US10144235B2
A RIP device which receives image data and print media designation from a PC performs a data generating process by adopting a process parameter corresponding to the designated print media among process parameters stored in a loop-up table (LUT). A printer performs a printing process by adopting a printing parameter corresponding to the designated print media among the printing parameters stored in the LUT. The process parameter and the printing parameter are associated by a media number which is applied by a management server.
US10144234B2
An example disclosed media processing device includes a consumable support assembly including a consumable support body, the consumable support body configured for manipulation between a first open position and a first closed position; a printhead assembly movable between an engaged position and a disengaged position, the printhead assembly positioned between a consumable supply spool and a consumable take-up spool in response to the consumable support body being in the closed position; and a lid movable between a second open position and a second closed position, wherein the lid is configured to, when in the closed position: engage the consumable support assembly in the first closed position; and preclude the consumable support assembly from being moved to the first open position.
US10144233B2
A gap adjustment method of an ink jet device includes a head unit with an ink discharge port that discharges ink, a carriage that is provided with the head unit and moves in a main scanning direction, a print medium provided with a gap with respect to the ink discharge port, and a gap driving unit that adjusts a length of the gap. The gap adjustment method includes a discharging process (step ST4) and a gap adjusting process (step ST5 to step ST56). In the discharging process (step ST4), ink is discharged in each of a forward path and a backward path while reciprocating the carriage in the main scanning direction. In the gap adjusting process, a forward path landing position and a backward path landing position, and an optimum landing position determined in advance are compared, and the length of the gap is adjusted with the gap driving unit.
US10144232B2
A printer includes: a media support defining a media feed path; and a pagewide printing unit for printing onto media fed along the media feed path. The printing unit includes: a maintenance chassis fixedly positioned over the media feed path, the maintenance chassis having a maintenance module fixedly mounted thereto; a print bar chassis movably mounted on the maintenance chassis, the print bar chassis including a print module having a printhead; and a lift mechanism for raising and lowering the print bar chassis relative to the maintenance chassis between a maintenance position a printing position. The printhead extends and retracts through a space defined by the maintenance module in the printing and maintenance positions, respectively.
US10144222B1
A printing system comprising two or more groups of ink, wherein each group of ink includes ink based upon a unique formulation. This enables a user to select an ink type for printing an image without requiring extra printers or replacement of printing components. Additionally, the user can print a single image using inks of two different base formulations. The system comprises at least two groups of ink storage containers, each group containing a group of ink volumes, each group of ink volumes having a unique ink base formulation. The system further comprises at least two groups of ink formulation specific print heads, each group being associated with the compatible ink formulation. A controller enables the user to selectively print an image using ink having one or more ink base formulations. The system can use any configuration of ink storage configurations and print heads arrangements.
US10144214B2
In a control device, a controller is configured to perform: acquiring target image data; and controlling a printer to execute a first forming process forming dots on a first scanning range and a second forming process forming dots on a second scanning range. The first scanning range overlaps the second scanning range at an overlapping area. The overlapping area includes a first position corresponding to a first pixel and a second position corresponding to a second pixel. In a case where both a first pixel value and a second pixel value indicate forming a dot and the target image data satisfies a condition requiring that density in a region including the first pixel is equal to or more than a reference, the first forming process forms a dot at the first position and the second forming process forms a dot at both the first position and the second position.
US10144206B2
A method of removing support material attached to an object printed with build material by a three-dimensional object printer achieves reliable removal of the support material in a short time. The method includes moving a first dry absorbent media into a volume within a vessel having at least one wall and moving the object into the volume of the vessel. The vessel is agitated to enable the first dry absorbent media to dislodge and absorb the support material from the object, and the first dry absorbent media is moved from the volume of the vessel.
US10144200B2
A fiber-reinforced composite material includes a bulk portion with a bulk matrix having reinforcing fibers embedded therein, and a surface portion with a plurality of laminated first layers serving as “expanding layers”, which expand and/or delaminate during fire impact. The surface portion also includes a plurality of laminated second layers different from the first layers and serving as “barrier layers”. The expanding layers and barrier layers can be arranged in an alternating sequence.
US10144191B2
The invention relates to a method, a device and packaging obtained by way of the method, for fitting at least one reinforcement at a given location on a cutout of cardboard sheet or corrugated cardboard suitable for forming the packaging. The blank is removed from a store with the aid of unstacking means comprising a longitudinal structure with a given shape, the blank is transferred horizontally above a template for forming said blank, the blank is compressed between the template and said longitudinal structure, the blank thus configured is transferred with glue being applied to the side edges and the blank thus glued is applied to the cutout at the given location so as to form the reinforcement of said packaging.
US10144179B2
An automated sealing process (100) for sealing a casing, the casing comprising a first casing portion (107) having a first sealing surface (115), and a second casing portion having a second sealing surface configured to engage the first sealing surface (115), the first casing portion (107) being assembled from at least two components such that the first sealing surface (115) comprises a joint (100) between the components, the process (100) comprising: applying a surface treatment to the joint (117) of the first sealing surface (115) using an automated treatment apparatus (101); and applying a sealant to at least one of the first sealing surface (115) and the second sealing surface prior to bringing the first and second sealing surfaces into engagement.
US10144162B2
A method of manufacturing a cable with resin molded body, wherein the cable with resin molded body includes a cable and a resin molded body formed by resin molding, wherein the resin molded body includes a main body to cover the tip portion of the cable and a flange integrally molded with the main body, and wherein the flange includes a bolt hole through which a bolt is inserted so as to fix the flange to the attachment object. The method includes molding the resin molded body by injecting a resin into a mold, the mold including a main body-molding portion for molding the main body, a flange-molding portion for molding the flange and an outlet formed behind the flange-molding portion in relation to the main body-molding portion, and draining the resin through the outlet during the molding of the resin molded body.
US10144160B2
A method for manufacturing a watertight zipper includes forming a waterproof tape by extruding a polymeric material in a melted state wrapping around a cloth tape, cutting a side of the waterproof tape that is covered by the thick waterproof layer to form a side surface of the thick waterproof layer as an abutting surface, forming a plurality of apertures in the waterproof tape that extends through the cloth tape and the thick waterproof layer, and forming a plurality of scoops spaced from the thin waterproof layer and corresponding to the apertures. The waterproof tape includes a thick waterproof layer and a thin waterproof layer both formed by the polymeric material. The thick waterproof layer covers an upper surface, a lower surface and an edge of the cloth tape. The thin waterproof layer connects with the thick waterproof layer. An end of each scoop extends beyond the abutting surface.
US10144156B2
An imprint apparatus for transferring a pattern to an imprint material using a mold includes a substrate holding mechanism and a control unit. The substrate holding mechanism is configured to be divided into a plurality of areas, capable of varying an attracting force for attracting the substrate in each of the areas and to hold the substrate. The control unit is configured to, when a plurality of shots is formed on the substrate, control an imprint operation of transferring the pattern to the plurality of shots which are not adjacent to one another, makes the attracting force in the area of the substrate holding mechanism corresponding to the shot to which the pattern is transferred among the plurality of areas smaller than the attracting force at the time of the imprint operation and suck the substrate.
US10144147B2
Provided is a system and method of making a door having first and second door skins and an internal frame. The top and bottom surfaces of the frame are coated with an adhesive and the frame is placed on a first door skin. The second door skin is then placed on the opposite surface of the frame. The assembled components are then pressed to bond the first and second door skins to the frame with a press having upper and lower dies configured to impart a larger compression force toward a central area of the door skins. Wear resistant belts or membranes are provided to protect the door skins from being marred by the upper and lower dies during the pressing process.
US10144140B2
A cutting hand tool with a blade slide and a lower front part of the housing that pivots down providing access to blade securing means if the blade slide is in the extended position with additional pivoting blade securing means connected to the blade slide providing access to the blade for replacement in the horizontal open position.
US10144138B2
A long-range sonar assembly for detecting objects approximately 2.5-9.5 meters from a robotic device. The assembly includes a printed circuit board including a local controller operably connected to a processing device and configured to receive instructions from the processing device, a transmit potentiometer operably connected to the local controller and configured to produce a first transmit frequency, and a receive potentiometer operably connected to the local controller and configured to produce a first receive sensitivity; a transducer operably connected to the receive potentiometer; and a flared bell configured to house the transducer and the printed circuit board, the flared bell comprising at least a first enclosure for receiving a sub-assembly comprising the printed circuit board and the transducer.
US10144124B2
A handheld tool carrying case having a carrying case base and a carrying case cover and at least one electronic system. The handheld tool carrying case has a lighting device and an orientation device, which are provided to fixate at least one part of the carrying case base or of the carrying case cover pivotably in various orientations relative to a resting plane of the carrying case base or of the carrying case cover.
US10144121B2
An apparatus and method is provided for holding fasteners (such as lag screws) while being driven into a work piece. The holder holds the fastener away from a worker's hand so that it may be driven into the work piece without the hand being close to the driving action of the driving tool (such as a hammer). The holder then releases the screw to be completely driven into the work piece. While the fastener is being set, the holder holds one or more other fasteners in reserve.
US10144120B2
A fastener driving tool with an improved nose chamber guide member is provided for driving fasteners of at least two different lengths. Multiple fasteners in a magazine are guided toward a driving bore to be driven by a driver blade. A nosepiece defines a passageway of the fasteners. The guide member is operatively connected to the nosepiece and is configured for transitioning between a first position and a second position relative to the nosepiece in a direction transverse to an operational flow direction of the fasteners. In the first position, the guide member is disposed to align with the driving bore for allowing driving of the fasteners having a first length. In the second position, the guide member is disposed out of alignment with respect to the driving bore for allowing driving of the fasteners having a second length, which is longer than the first length.
US10144115B2
A method of forming a chemical mechanical polishing pad polishing layer is provided, including: providing a mold having a base with a negative of a groove pattern; providing a poly side (P) liquid component; providing an iso side (I) liquid component; providing a pressurized gas; providing an axial mixing device; introducing the poly side (P) liquid component, the iso side (I) liquid component and the pressurized gas to the axial mixing device to form a combination; discharging the combination from the axial mixing device at a velocity of 5 to 1,000 m/sec toward the base; allowing the combination to solidify into a cake; deriving the chemical mechanical polishing pad polishing layer from the cake; wherein the chemical mechanical polishing pad polishing layer has a polishing surface with the groove pattern formed into the polishing surface; and wherein the polishing surface is adapted for polishing a substrate.
US10144113B2
Partially formed earth-boring rotary drill bits comprise a first less than fully sintered particle-matrix component having at least one recess, and at least a second less than fully sintered particle-matrix component disposed at least partially within the at least one recess. Each less than fully sintered particle-matrix component comprises a green or brown structure including compacted hard particles, particles comprising a metal alloy matrix material, and an organic binder material. The at least a second less than fully sintered particle-matrix component is configured to shrink at a slower rate than the first less than fully sintered particle-matrix component due to removal of organic binder material from the less than fully sintered particle-matrix components in a sintering process to be used to sinterbond the first less than fully sintered particle-matrix component to the at least a second less than fully sintered particle-matrix component. Earth-boring rotary drill bits comprise such components sinterbonded together.
US10144103B2
The present invention relates to a polishing apparatus and a polishing method for polishing a substrate, such as a wafer, and more particularly to a polishing apparatus and a polishing method for polishing an edge portion of a wafer with use of a polishing tape.The polishing apparatus includes a substrate holder (1) configured to hold and rotate a substrate (W), and a polishing unit (7) configured to polish an edge portion of the substrate (W) with use of a polishing tape (5). The polishing unit (7) includes: a disk head (12) having a circumferential surface for supporting the polishing tape (5); and a head moving device (50) configured to move the disk head (12) in a tangential direction of the substrate (W) and to bring the polishing tape (5) on the circumferential surface of the disk head (12) into contact with the edge portion of the substrate (W).
US10144097B2
A connection element consists of a longitudinally oriented support structure that is at least partially hollow and a sensor unit that is arranged in the inside of the support structure, is connected to a signal transmission device, and is non-positively connected to the support structure. The required force for the non-positive connection is produced by internal stresses after a plastic deformation of the support structure during a joining process of the support structure and the sensor unit. A method for manufacturing a connection element consisting of a support structure that is at least partially hollow and a sensor unit includes positioning the sensor unit in a region of the support structure and, using radially movable tool segments, exerting a force on the support structure in the radial direction and at the same time reducing the periphery of the support structure in the region in which the sensor unit is positioned.
US10144095B2
A mixture contains metal oxide particles that are coated with an organic compound. The organic compound is represented by Formula I: R1—COR2 (I), wherein R1 is an aliphatic residue having 8 to 32 carbon atoms, wherein R2 is either —OM or comprises the moiety —X—R3, wherein X is selected from the group consisting of O, S, N—R4, wherein R4 is a hydrogen atom or an aliphatic residue, wherein R3 is a hydrogen atom or an aliphatic residue, and wherein M is a cation. The mixture may be used to connect components and/or to produce a module. A method for producing the mixture is also provided.
US10144090B2
This invention provides a process and device for simultaneous laser welding; after using the moving lower die and the fixing upper die to make the base and the lens attached, by using the light pipe, for example, transparent substances or other cheap materials, to make the laser, which is emitted from the laser source, emit through the lens to a welding region of the base after being processed, to operate rapid and average heating to the welding region; meanwhile, using the welding cylinder to press the base and the lens together, to make base and the lens pressed and welded together in molten state, and when welding, it does not generate powder or other defects, and, at the same time, it can make the height H and the width w of the generated waste selvage between [0, 0.4] mm, which can improve the performance of welding object more efficiently.
US10144085B2
The present invention is directed to a remotely controlled welding machine. A remote control uses the welding circuit to transfer information to a welding power source. The information to be communicated to the power source includes welding power source output command information (amperage/voltage control), welding circuit on/off information (power source output contactor control), and power source mode control (constant voltage/constant current). A transmitter transmits the desired welding operational parameters to a receiver disposed in the power source. The transmitter is constructed to use only a small amount of power which, preferably, is supplied by one or two low voltage replaceable and/or rechargeable batteries. Additionally, an open circuit voltage is not created between the power source and an electrode holder when an arc is not present.
US10144078B2
A method for cleaning an electronic circuit board is disclosed. The electronic circuit board is provided with a substrate layer and a copper layer. A solder mask is applied to the electronic circuit board and a channel is formed in the solder mask. The channel includes an inlet and an outlet. A component is affixed to the electronic circuit board over the channel and cleaning fluid is passed through the channel to remove residual solder flux from between the component and the electronic circuit board.
US10144077B2
A wire electrical discharge apparatus includes a wire bobbin on which a wire electrode is wound, a straightening treatment unit to perform straightening treatment on the wire electrode fed from the wire bobbin, a machining power supply to apply a voltage between the wire electrode and a workpiece via a feed terminal set above the workpiece and contacting the wire electrode, and a control unit to control the straightening treatment unit and the machining power supply so as to apply a voltage between the workpiece and the wire electrode that has been subjected to the straightening treatment, to perform electrical discharge machining to form an initial hole in the workpiece.
US10144071B2
A cutting tool includes a tool holder, having a holder pocket with a pocket opening, and a cutting member releasably retained therein. The tool holder includes an adjustment cavity that includes circumferentially merging threaded and guiding bore portions. The tool holder further includes an adjustment arrangement that includes an adjustment member including a wedge adjustment portion and a guiding portion integrally formed therewith. The adjusting arrangement further includes an adjustment screw. The wedge adjustment portion is located in the pocket adjustment region and the guiding portion is located in the guiding bore portion and partially protrudes into the threaded bore portion. The adjustment screw is threadingly rotatable between a first rotated position and a second rotated position, and in the second rotated position the adjustment member, and thus the cutting member, is located closer to the pocket opening than in the first rotated position.
US10144060B2
In the present invention, a fine silver particle has a particle diameter of 65-80 nm and has, on the surface of the particle, a thin film comprising a hydrocarbon compound. The fine silver particle has an exothermic peal temperature of 140-155° C. in differential thermal analysis. If d denotes the particle diameter after firing at a temperature of 100° C. for one hour and D denotes the particle diameter before firing, it is preferable for the fine silver particle to have a particle growth rate, as represented by (d−D)/D (%), of 50% or higher.
US10144056B2
Teaching storage means stores teaching data created on the basis of signals from a first pulse generator, a first shaft detector, a second pulse generator, and a second shaft detector, in a storage unit as a sequence control program of molding operation of a self-hardening mold when teaching operation of throwing kneaded self-hardening foundry sand from a discharge port into a molding flask is performed by manually moving a conveyor arm and a kneading arm. Molding playback means reads out the sequence control program from the storage unit to control and drive a first pivot motor and a second pivot motor on the basis of the sequence control program to pivot the conveyor arm and the kneading arm, and then throws the self-hardening foundry sand from the discharge port of the kneading arm into the molding flask to reproduce the molding operation.
US10144050B2
A method of manufacturing a large- or medium-sized wheel disk including using a punch or die in a first step of ironing a blank of a flat plate to a first-stage product. The first-stage product having a cylindrical rising portion with an axially non-constant thickness. The rising portion includes a thick portion located at a tip portion of the rising portion and a thickness-reduced portion which is a remaining portion of the rising portion excluding the thick portion. During the first step, only a portion of the blank corresponding to the thickness-reduced portion is ironed.
US10144049B2
The invention relates to a tool for shaping a material, in particular for bending plate material, comprising a mounting part configured to be in any case partially received in a receiving space of an apparatus, and a shaping part extending from the mounting part. The tool is provided with means for displacing the mounting part in longitudinal direction through the receiving space. The tool can thus be handled and positioned easily even when it is relatively heavy. The displacing means can comprise one or more displacing members protruding from the tool, for instance rollers or wheels. The invention also relates to a combination of an apparatus and such a tool, wherein the apparatus has a receiving space in which the mounting part of the tool is received. The receiving space here comprises a wall part on which the displacing means engage. Finally, the invention further relates to a method for positioning a tool as described above in an apparatus.
US10144048B2
An tool for the incremental forming of material sheeting is disclosed. The tool comprises a forming tip, a shank, and an interface adapter positioned between the forming tip and the shank. The forming tip has a diameter and the shank has a diameter. The diameter of the forming tip is greater than the diameter of the shank. The forming tip may be of a variety of configurations. The forming tip may be donut-shaped. The donut-shaped tip may have a recessed area formed therein. The recessed area may be frustoconically shaped. As an alternative to the forming tip being donut-shaped, the forming tip may be made up of at least two forming spheres. An adapter is provided to which the spheres may be attached either directly or by arms. The diameters of the spheres may be the same or may be different diameters.
US10144027B2
A hand cleaning liquid dispenser including a fluid level gauging mechanism with a plurality, preferably three or more, vertically spaced optical sensors located closely adjacent an external of a side wall of the reservoir to each receive electromagnetic radiation transmitted through the side wall from within the reservoir with the electromagnetic radiation sensed originating from an emitter directing the electromagnetic radiation preferably through the reservoir downwardly.
US10144024B1
A single-hand pressed foam pump head comprises a pump filled with foam liquid or emulsion. A spring is provided inside the pump. The pump comprises a press head and a fixed outflow cap; the fixed outflow cap is provided with a vertical connecting tube and is connected to a connecting end of a bottle; the connecting tube has a foam or liquid channel. A top portion of the connecting tube is provided with a horizontal connecting channel. The horizontal connecting channel is connected to a vertical plugged-in tube. When the connecting tube is pressed downward such that the vertical plugged-in tube is inserted into an outflow chamber of the fixed outflow cap, the connecting tube and the outflow chamber are connected to each other to form a top outflow channel. The present invention is simple in structure, stable in function and convenient for people to use.
US10144021B2
A container comprises a receptacle, a manually-operated positive displacement dispensing nozzle, and a draw tube extending from the nozzle. The receptacle includes an upper body wall and an intermediate body wall connected by a first curved wall, and a lower sump wall connected with the intermediate body wall by a second curved wall. The lower sump wall and a bottom wall are connected by a third curved wall. The second curved wall, the lower sump wall, the third curved wall and the bottom wall form a sump into which the draw tube lower end extends to a midpoint. The volume of the sump below the midpoint is substantially equal to the volume of the sump above the midpoint, the draw tube end is spaced substantially equal distance from the surrounding lower sump wall, and the volume of the sump is about three times the volume of the draw tube.
US10144007B2
A catalyst is recovered from an aqueous reaction mixture comprising heterocyclic nitroxyl catalyst and oxidized cellulose, by: —separating the oxidized cellulose from the reaction mixture, —contacting the reaction mixture with solid hydrophobic adsorbent particles with particle sizes below 350, preferably below 200 μm, more preferably below 100 μm, said particles being silica particles provided with functionalized hydrophobicity, —adsorbing the catalyst to the hydrophobic adsorbent particles, and —eluting the catalyst from the adsorbent particles with an organic solvent.
US10144005B2
The present invention concerns the synthesis of dry powdered manganese complexes using spray-drying or freeze-drying methods.
US10144003B2
A method of using a heat generating catalyst in a hydrocarbon cracking process. The method includes providing a catalyst bed reactor which includes a catalyst bed of the heat generating catalyst disposed in the catalyst bed reactor. The heat generating catalyst includes at least one mordenite framework-inverted (MFI) zeolite catalyst having a Si/Al molar ratio of 15 or greater, and at least one metal oxide dispersed within a microstructure of the MFI zeolite catalyst. The method additionally includes introducing a hydrocarbon feed to the catalyst bed reactor and cracking the hydrocarbon feed to produce a cracking product. Additionally, an associated method of making the heat generating catalyst for hydrocarbon cracking is provided.
US10144001B2
This application is in the field of technologies for desulfurization and demercaptanization of raw gaseous hydrocarbons (including natural gas, tail gas, technological gas, etc, including gaseous media). It can be used for simultaneous dehydration and desulfurization/demercaptanization of any kind of raw gaseous hydrocarbons.
US10143993B2
A generator for processing gases to be delivered to a process chamber used to process a substrate includes a housing that encloses an internal volume. An ultraviolet (UV) bulb is disposed within the internal volume of the housing. The UV bulb has a bulb diameter that fits within the internal major dimension of the housing. A first region, which surrounds the UV bulb, channels a first gas around the UV bulb to cool the UV bulb. A second region, which surrounds the first region, channels a second gas between an input to and an output from the housing. The second region is oriented relative to the UV bulb such that UV energy therefrom interacts with the second gas as this gas flows through the second region. The interaction of the UV energy with the second gas results in the generation of a gas mix that is supplied from the output of the housing into the process chamber, where at least one component of the gas mix is to be used in processing of the semiconductor substrate.
US10143992B2
A light irradiation multi-sample parallel reaction device comprises: a base (1), a support disc (2) horizontally fixed and mounted above the base (1), a top disc (3) mounted above the support disc (2), a rotating disc (4) rotatably mounted below the support disc (2), and a plurality of reaction flasks (5), wherein a plurality of light transmission holes are circumferentially formed in the support disc (2); the plurality of reaction flasks (5) are placed on the light transmission holes in a one-to-one correspondence; a plurality of reaction flask through-holes for the reaction flasks (5) to pass through are formed in the top disc (3); a plurality of sets of stirrers (7) corresponding to the reaction flasks (5) are mounted between the top disc (3) and the support disc (2), and used for stirring liquids in the reaction flasks (5); the rotating disc (4) is arranged coaxially with the support disc (2); and a plurality of light sources (9) are arranged on an upper surface of the rotating disc (4). The device enables the irradiation intensity of light entering solutions to be consistent, improving experimental accuracy.
US10143984B2
An apparatus for dispensing a plurality of liquids, in particular colorants for paints, comprising a support, such as a turntable or a linear table, defining a plurality of positions and a plurality of containers holding a liquid, mounted on the support at the positions, and provided with a pump and/or a valve for dispensing the liquid from the container. At least some of the containers form, together with a respective liquid and pump and/or valve, a cartridge, which cartridge is releasably mounted in the apparatus.
US10143975B2
Disclosed are a graphene membrane and a method for manufacturing the same. The graphene membrane includes a graphene layer having a porous pattern including a plurality of pores having a size of 5 to 100 nm and a supporter configured to support the graphene layer and including a plurality of pores having a greater size than the pores of the graphene layer.
US10143972B2
The present invention provides an ultrafiltration membrane comprising a sulfone polymer membrane matrix with pores and an organic polymer sealing layer, wherein the pores are filled with nanoadsorbents. The present invention further provides a method for preparing the ultrafiltration membrane, which includes the following steps: (1) synthesizing nanoadsorbents; (2) preparing the sulfone polymer membrane matrix by immersion-precipitation phase inversion; and (3) immobilizing nanoadsorbents in the pores of the sulfone polymer membrane matrix by reverse filling, then sealing the pores with organic polymers to form a multifunctional ultrafiltration membrane. In the present invention, colloidal gold, polyethylene glycol molecules and Pb(II) ions (and so forth) are utilized as models of viruses, macromolecular organic pollutants, and small molecular pollutants, respectively. It is shown that the multifunctional ultrafiltration membrane allows for removal of multiple pollutants from water and can simultaneously remove multiple pollutants under low pressure.
US10143971B2
A system for crystallizing a material that is dissolved in a solvent includes: a crystallization device through which a solution that is to be concentrated flows, the solution including the solvent containing the material to be crystallized and dissolved in the solvent, and a liquid having a lower temperature than the solution to be concentrated. The system includes at least one flow channel guiding the solution to be concentrated and at least one flow channel guiding the liquid, where the inner space of each respective flow channel guiding the liquid is delimited at least in part by a membrane wall that is permeable for the vaporous solvent, where a vapor pressure difference enables the solvent to pass from the solution to be concentrated across the membrane wall.
US10143970B2
A system and method for generating power from waste heat, the system including (1) a forward osmosis module having an FO membrane a water inlet, a water outlet, a draw solution solute inlet and a diluted draw solution outlet; (2) a hydro-turbine using the diluted draw solution for generating power; (3) a CO2 absorption reactor to permit the introduction of compressed CO2 into the diluted draw solution to cause substantial separation of draw solution solute from the water, which water can be processed for subsequent recycling to the FO module, the CO2 absorption reactor configured to discharge a mixture of separate draw solution solute and absorbed CO2; and (4) a heat exchanger for transferring waste heat from an incoming heated fluid to the mixture of draw solution solute and CO2.
US10143956B2
A fountain is provided. The fountain includes: a drape; a catch basin located below the drape and oriented to catch a fluid flowing at least one of over and through the drape; a conduit fluidly connected to the catch basin forming a circuit to return the fluid in the catch basin to flow at least one of over and through the drape; a pump fluidly connected to the circuit and configured to pump the fluid through the conduit; and at least one of the drape, catch basin, conduit includes surface oriented to contact the fluid and the surface includes at least one of copper and silver.
US10143954B2
Industrial vacuum systems are disclosed, as are filter chambers for industrial vacuum systems and other filtration applications. The filter chambers in these systems use two distinct types of filtering elements within a single chamber, arranging the filter elements such that air cannot pass through a secondary filter element until the air has first passed through and been filtered by a number of primary filter elements. The airflow within the filter chamber may be essentially vertical, and the secondary filter element may be positioned above the primary filter elements. The filter chamber may also include an agitation system for cleaning the filtering elements. The agitation system may be constructed such that it can operate while the system is in use.
US10143948B2
In general, techniques are described for filter media monitoring within a filtration system. The filter media monitoring techniques described herein include, for example, direct contact with the filter media, e.g., a sensor may be located inside a boundary defined by a surface of the filter media, or indirect contact with the filter media, e.g., a sensor may be located outside the boundary defined by the surface of the filter media such that the sensor does not make direct physical contact with the filter media being monitored.
US10143930B2
A movable platform, comprising a structural element, a display structured and arranged to be coupled to the structural element, a first flexible support with a first end structured and arranged to be coupled to the structural element and a second end structured and arranged to be coupled to a support structure. The platform further comprises a sensor structured and arranged to provide data representative of movement of the display and at least one actuator, wherein the at least one actuator is structured and arranged to move the display based on at least one control signal. The platform further comprises a control module structured and arranged to send the at least one control signal to the at least one actuator, and operable to determine the at least one control signal based on the data representative of movement of the display and a reference signal.
US10143917B2
An example connected device includes a first battery for supplying electric power to a game controller, a first terminal electrically connected to the game controller, and a resistor connected to the first terminal. The game controller includes a controlled component, a second battery for supplying electric power to the controlled component, a second terminal electrically connected to the connected device, a voltage detecting circuit detecting a voltage value in accordance with a current which flows through the resistor when the first terminal and the second terminal are connected to each other, and a control circuit. The control circuit discriminates a device connected to the game controller based on the detected voltage value, and switches from the second battery to the first battery when the discriminated device is the connected device while electric power is supplied from the second battery to the controlled component.
US10143916B1
A system and method for facilitating user voting for potential future game content in an online game are disclosed. Multiple sets of the potential future game content may be presented to users for voting. A user vote for a given set of the potential future game content may cost an amount of voting power associated with the user. The user may earn voting power by engaging in gameplays, making in-game purchases, and/or undertaking any other game-related actions desired by the provider(s) of the online game. A set of potential future game content may be selected based on votes received from the users. In some examples, rewards may be determined for distribution to the users based on the voting for the potential future game content.
US10143909B2
According to the various features characteristics and embodiments of the present invention which will become apparent as the description thereof proceeds, the present invention provides partially fingered gloves intended to increase the overall performance in sports activities including but limited to football and golf. Primarily because of its unique finger configurations, and/or grip enhancers, and/or hand protective properties, the present invention makes a glove more operable in various sports activities.
US10143905B2
A baseball swing trainer. The baseball swing trainer includes a housing having a base, a rear wall, and a top portion defining an open center area. A plurality of resistance blades extend downward from the top portion such that they are positioned within the open center area. A fastener is disposed on the rear wall for securing the swing trainer to a vertical structure such as a pole or tree. When a user swings a bat through the open center area, the resistance blades resist the motion of the bat. This enables the user to develop the muscles that are activated during the swing, which helps to increase swing speed and strength. A resistance band removably affixed to the vertical structure can be connected to the end of a bat to accelerate the bat through the natural swing plane, which enhances the neurological firing rate related to swing musculature.
US10143902B1
A flexible grip of elastomeric material for a golf club is disclosed. The grip has a groove or pocket therealong on the inner surface and an aperture through the closed end of the grip coincident with the groove. Upon installation of the grip onto the club shaft, a rigid strip is inserted through the aperture and into the groove or pocket. The thickness of the strip is chosen to cause a raising of the outer surface of the grip to form a rib therealong. The interior groove or pocket is formed by a rib formed on a core or mandrel employed in molding of the grip. Upon removal of the mandrel after molding, the groove or pocket and aperture are left in the grip for receiving the rigid strip.
US10143898B2
A golf club with a multi-material face is disclosed herein. More specifically, the golf club head in accordance with the present invention has a multi-material striking face portion that can be comprised out of a metallic outer layer combined with a composite mid-section, all forming a face cup construction that can be connected to an aft body. The composite portion of the multi-material face disclosed in accordance with the present invention may generally have an inter laminar shear strength of greater than about 60 MPa, most preferably greater than about 60 MPa and less than about 145 MPa.
US10143895B2
Multi-piece golf balls having a multi-layered solid core and multi-layered cover are provided. In one version, a six-piece ball having a three-layered core and three-layered cover is formed. Preferably, the inner core is made of a thermoset rubber composition, the intermediate core layer is made of a thermoplastic composition, and the outer core layer is made of a highly neutralized polymer (HNP) composition. The cover includes inner, intermediate, and outer cover layers, wherein the outer cover is made of a composition comprising a polyurethane, polyurea, or copolymer or blend thereof. In a second version, a five-piece ball having a two-layered core and three-layered cover is produced. The finished balls have high resiliency and rebounding properties.
US10143893B2
Multi-piece golf balls having a solid core and cover are provided. The ball contains a small, heavy inner core and surrounding outer core layer. The inner core preferably contains metal powder such as copper, steel, brass, tungsten, titanium, nickel, iron, tin, and bronze particles dispersed in a thermoset or thermoplastic polymeric matrix. For example, a polybutadiene rubber matrix may be used. In one preferred embodiment, the inner core contains elemental iron powder. Preferably, the particles have a weight average size in the range of about 10 μm to about 450 μm. In one embodiment, the outer surface of the inner core has a structure with projecting members. For example, the outer surface may contain multiple projecting ribs with gaps located between the ribs. The ball includes a cover surrounding the core structure. The cover may be multi-layered.
US10143890B2
A method for configuring and operating one or more fitness studios each comprising a plurality of exercise stations at which users perform associated exercise routines, each station having an associated display, the method comprising, for each fitness studio, periodically retrieving, by a server from a database, fitness information for the studio in question for a specified period, from a multi-period fitness library; communicating, by the server to a studio computer, the retrieved fitness information over a communications network; periodically receiving, by the studio computer, the retrieved fitness information; configuring the exercise stations dependent upon the received fitness information; and communicating, by the studio computer to the exercise station displays, dependent upon the received fitness information, station directions to users exercising at the stations for performing an exercise.
US10143889B2
A positioning system includes a golf ball and a mobile terminal. The golf ball includes a battery and a transmitter configured to operate with electric power supplied from the battery and transmit a radio signal to outside of the golf ball. The mobile terminal includes a receiver configured to receive the radio signal from the golf ball and a processor configured to measure the position of the mobile terminal, and to measure the position of the golf ball based on the strength of the radio signal received by the receiver at two or more points at which the measured position of the mobile terminal differs.
US10143885B2
A portable exercise device comprising of a base with a plurality of apertures and at least one resistance member threaded through the apertures and with both ends of the resistance member available for gripping by the user during performance of resistance exercises. A device that is flexible, comfortable, light weight and with ease of use provides multiple strengthening, stretching or physical therapy resistance exercises for the chest, shoulders, back, arms, abdominal and leg muscles. The exercise device can be used at home, the office or in a hotel room and unattached on any couch, chair, bed, wheel chair or vehicle seat. With the portable exercise device of the present invention the user can get an upper body, abdominal or leg workout in a minimal amount of time.
US10143882B2
An exercise machine with multiple contact surfaces for providing secondary exercise support platforms positioned at various planes relative to the horizontal plane of the primary exercising platforms, the secondary platforms further serving as handles used during the performance of exercises. The exercise machine with multiple contact surfaces generally includes a frame, a carriage movably attached to the rail, and a first support structure and a second support structure attached to the frame near the first end. The support structures each include one or more platforms having an upper surface that is positioned above the base plane of the carriage.
US10143878B2
A movement resistance shirt for providing muscle toning to a user wearing the shirt. The shirt including a pair of semi-rigid shoulder anchors each configured to circle a shoulder of the user and a pair of long elastic bands each extending between first and second ends. A second end of at least one of said pair of long elastic band dangles out of a cuff of said shirt, and each one of the long elastic band is attached at its other first end to a respective one of the shoulder anchors.
US10143877B2
The present invention provides a bodyweight-bearing process and device for stair-stepping and climbing exercise, resolving an unmet need in the industry of climbing and stair-based exercise machines. It surpasses all previously patented and commercially available exercise and physical therapy equipment which aim to replicate the act of climbing, by achieving a more complete, correct and natural movement for the user. As indicated by the expanding body of knowledge and evolving recommendations of the exercise science community and health and fitness industries, full-body conditioning and bodyweight-bearing movements, as accomplished by the present invention, are the most effective exercises for weight-loss, strength-training and overall maintenance of health.
US10143867B2
The present invention is composed with a frame, a rotary drum, a rotor, and a turbination spring. The frame comprising a left upright board, a right upright board, and an upper bridging portion arranged on top of the left upright board and right upright board to define a chamber with front and back opening. The upper bridging portion comprises a first lifting lug coupled thereon. The frame comprises a second lifting lug arranged at a proper position thereof. The left upright board has a breaking frame having a foramen. An axis is arranged across the chamber at the center of the foramen. The axis is couple with a rotary drum that comprises a rescue cord circled therearound. The rotor is arranged on the left end of the rotary drum and comprises a bias component that is adapted to the foramen. The turbination spring is arranged between the right end of the rotary drum and the right upright board, so as to keep the rotary drum restoring to the axis. It mainly utilizes the overall arrangement of the first and second lifting lugs and the frame to satisfy the requirements of a dual-suspension anti-falling device and make it economically efficient and lighter.
US10143866B2
A lockable anti-fall catch connector includes a catch member, a locking shaft, and a locker unit. The catch member includes a retention arm and two sleeve members provided at two ends of the retention arm, wherein a first locking portion is provided at one of the sleeve members. The locking shaft is slidably extended between the sleeve members, wherein the locking shaft has a second locking portion detachably coupled with the first locking portion to lock up the locking shaft at the retention arm. The locker unit includes a locking element slidably coupled at one of the sleeve members to engage with the locking shaft, wherein after said locking element is disengaged with the locking shaft, the locking shaft is actuated to disengage the second locking portion with the first locking portion in order to slide the locking shaft with respect to the catch member.
US10143864B2
A respirator 10 that has a mask body 12 and a harness 16 has an exhalation valve 23 that includes a valve seat 36 and a flexible flap 42. The valve seat 36 has an orifice 38 and has a noncircular seal surface 40 surrounding the orifice 38. The flexible flap 42 is secured to the valve seat 36 at a centroid of the orifice and has a variable stiffness structure. The variable stiffness structure allows the flap to equally deflect under a given load at different distances from the centroid at the noncircular seal surface. An exhalation valve having this construction may beneficially optimize pressure drop and overall valve performance for applications where valve space may be limited.
US10143862B2
Aqueous silicone emulsions are disclosed comprising: A) an aminofunctional organopolysiloxane, B) a quaternary ammonium surfactant having a formula R1 R2 R3 R4 N+ X−, where R1 is an organofunctional group containing at least 10 carbon atoms, R2 is R1 or a hydrocarbyl containing 1 to 12 carbon atoms, R3 is R1, R2, or an alcohol group containing 2 to 10 carbon atoms, R4 is R1, R2, or R3, X− is a halide, sulfate, sulfonate, methosulfate, or ethosulfate, C) a nonionic surfactant, where the aqueous silicone emulsion contains less than 0.2 weight % of D4 and D5 cyclic siloxanes.
US10143861B2
This disclosure provides systems and methods for non-invasive treatment to a region of interest with improved efficiency. The systems and methods can include a treatment device having an energy source and a rolling member. The rolling member can include a wall disposed between the energy source and the region of interest. Treatment can be provided at a first location, followed by moving the treatment device, then energy transmission can be terminated if coupling between the energy source and the region of interest is interrupted or treatment can be provided at a second location if the coupling between the energy source and the region of interest is uninterrupted.
US10143860B2
A radiation therapy apparatus includes: an annular gantry; an irradiation unit which is provided on the gantry and configured to radiate radiation; a support which supports the gantry; a rotation-driving mechanism which is provided between the gantry and the support and rotates the gantry around a horizontal central axis of the gantry. The rotation-driving mechanism includes: annular rails that are provided on the gantry; and sliding members which are provided on regions of the support that correspond to a lower half of the gantry, slidably guide the rails, and receive at least a load of the gantry in a vertical direction.
US10143847B1
In some examples, this disclosure describes a method for identifying a position within a patient for a first implantable medical device (IMD) to be implanted to facilitate tissue conductive communication (TCC) between the first IMD and a second IMD implanted within the patient. In some examples, the method includes storing model data that associates patient parameter data and second IMD position data with first IMD positions based on TCC communication performance, receiving patient parameter data indicating one or more anatomical or physiological parameters of the patient, receiving second IMD position data, performing analysis by at least one of comparing the model data to the patient parameter data and the second IMD position data, performing real-time computer simulations, or a combination of comparing and performing simulations, and outputting to a user an indication of the position for the first IMD to be implanted within the patient based on the analysis.
US10143846B2
A stimulation system stimulates anatomical targets in a patient for treatment of dry eye. The system may include a controller and a microstimulator. The controller may be implemented externally to or internally within the microstimulator. The components of the controller and microstimulator may be implemented in a single unit or in separate devices. When implemented separately, the controller and microstimulator may communicate wirelessly or via a wired connection. The microstimulator may generate pulses from a controller signal and apply the signal via one or more electrodes to an anatomical target. The microstimulator may not have any intelligence or logic to shape or modify a signal. The microstimulator may be a passive device configured to generate a pulse based on a signal received from the controller. The microstimulator may shape or modify a signal. Waveforms having different frequency, amplitude and period characteristics may stimulate different anatomical targets in a patient.
US10143835B2
Provided is a biological electrode and a biological electrode-equipped wearing tool, in which a contact surface having a certain surface area is suitably brought into intimate contact with a living body, and a suitable electrical distribution is obtained. A biological electrode includes: an electrode sheet having a plurality of electrode bodies spaced apart from each other; and a conductive cloth portion superimposed on the electrode sheet. The electrode sheet includes stretching wires that link the neighboring electrode bodies, has a shape of a stretchable and flexible mesh sheet, and can follow a living body to be suitably deformed.
US10143833B1
An apparatus is used in a therapeutic process to provide relief of pain and swelling by dynamic electric stimulation at very low power levels at frequencies between about 2 to 100 Hz. in which the stimulation frequency is constantly offset from the detected dominant frequency by between about 2 to 20 Hz. The pain relief benefits can last weeks, even though the treatment duration is generally well under a minute.
US10143826B2
A deep vein intravenous introducer has a wheel located toward the front end of the device that can be rotated by the index finger of the user. After placement of the needle in the lumen of the vessel, the user rotates the wheel, which turns a drive wheel. The drive wheel has an outer surface that advances the guide wire through the center of the needle and into the patient. Once the guide wire is advanced into the vessel lumen the catheter can be advanced over the guide wire with a hub or finger tab on the catheter close to the index finger. The operation can be performed by one hand without moving the hand from its initial position.
US10143823B2
A system includes a delivery catheter and a separately-packaged implantable medical device assembly. The assembly includes a relatively compact implantable medical device, a support shaft, a tether, and a snare mandrel. The tether, which extends in the support shaft, has a distal portion coupled to the device, at a distal end of the support shaft, and a proximal portion protruding from a proximal end of the support shaft, for engagement by a hook of the snare mandrel. An operator may use the engaged snare mandrel to pull the support shaft into a lumen of an inner shaft of the catheter so that the coupled device comes into engagement with a flared end of the catheter inner shaft. Then, after locking the proximal portion of the tether within the catheter, the operator may advance a receptacle of the catheter over the device.
US10143819B2
Passive heating may be provided to a flexible tube (202) configured to deliver respiratory gas to a patient. A flexible sheathing body (206, 208, 210) may be removably attached to the flexible tube so as to surround the flexible tube and extend along the flexible tube. A passive heating element (218, 220, 222) integrated with the flexible sheathing body may store non-electrical energy and release the stored non-electrical energy as thermal energy to heat the flexible tube.
US10143811B2
An adipose tissue (AT) transfer system includes, on the aspiration side, an aspiration cannula, an aspiration pump, a container, and flexible tubing connecting the aspiration cannula to the container. On the reinjection side, the system includes a reinjection cannula, flexible tubing connecting the inlet of the reinjection cannula to the container, and a reinjection pump imposing positive-displacement pumping action on the flexible tubing and causing movement of AT in a pulsed mode. The aspiration pump operates to continually supply harvested AT to the second flexible tubing while the reinjection pumps causes continuous or pulsed deposition of the AT at injection site. To ensure that internal pressure and/or flow of the AT through a channel of delivery of the AT to the reinjection site does not exceed a predetermined value, the system contains an external pressure sensor configured to measure such internal pressure in absence of a part that is in direct contact with the AT.
US10143804B2
A stable biopolymer-based emulsion lubricant including Agar is provided to reduce the friction between a syringe barrel plunger and the interior surface of the syringe barrel. According to exemplary embodiments the emulsion has a friction of less than 4N, the emulsion is temperature stable in a range of 4-23 degrees Celsius and the emulsion is stable for a period of at least 60 days.
US10143797B2
An injection device is provided for delivering a liquid medicament. The injection device includes a housing with a first chamber for storing a supply of the medicament. The first and second chambers are coupled within the housing. The second chamber is in fluid communication with the first chamber. The injection device also includes an outlet port for dispensing the medicament outside the housing. The outlet port is coupled to the housing and in fluid communication with one of said first and second chambers.
US10143792B2
Medicament delivery devices for administration of opioid antagonists are described herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a housing, a medicament container disposed within the housing and an energy storage member disposed within the housing. The medicament container is filled with a naloxone composition that includes naloxone or salts thereof, a tonicity-adjusting agent, and a pH adjusting agent, whereby the osmolality of the naloxone composition ranges from about 250-350 mOsm and the pH ranges from about 3-5. The energy storage member is configured to produce a force to deliver the naloxone composition.
US10143786B2
A breast pump system includes a solenoid valve and a power source. The power source is arranged to supply electrical power to the solenoid valve so as enable the solenoid valve to move between first and second positions. The breast pump system also includes a controller configured to detect a change in inductance of the solenoid valve that is indicative of the solenoid valve moving from first to second position and a control action in which the vacuum pump is stopped.
US10143781B1
A chest drainage container for withdrawing and collecting certain body fluids from within a patient's chest cavity includes means for tolerating the container being accidentally tipped over. To provide such means, some example containers disclosed in this patent merely involve modifying the plastic injection mold of an existing chest drainage container. In some examples, certain partitions and vents are integrally formed in the container's main body. In the event of a tip-over occurrence, the partitions trap collected fluid within their appropriate collection chambers to help prevent inter-chamber mixing of fluid. During normal operation, the vents enable a pocket of otherwise trapped air to escape from within the enclosed collection chambers as incoming body fluid displaces the air. In some examples, under certain conditions, the vent releases gaseous fluid at a volumetric flow that is about 30 times greater than what the vent releases of liquid fluid during a tip-over event.
US10143780B2
Devices, methods and compositions for treating cardiovascular disorders are configured for sustained-release of leptin antagonist into a blood vessel in order to downregulate an expression or activity of leptin in a cardiovascular tissue that is affected by a disorder.
US10143776B2
Slow vascularization of functional blood limits the transplantation of tissue constructs and the recovery of ischemic and wounded tissues. Blood vessel ingrowth into polysaccharide-based hydrogel scaffolds remains a challenge. A synergistic effect of multiple angiogenic GFs was established; the co-encapsulation of VEGF plus other growth factors induced more and larger blood vessels than any individual GF, while the combination of all GFs dramatically increased the size and number of newly formed functional vessels. Rapid, efficient, and functional neovascularization may be achieved.
US10143771B2
A wound dressing material may include a polymeric substrate, a silver salt, and a dyestuff to photostabilize the silver salt. The substrate may include collagen and/or oxidized regenerated cellulose complexed to Ag+, and the dyestuff may, for example, be an aniline or acridine dye. Also disclosed are methods of making such materials, and wound dressings that include such materials.
US10143770B2
The present invention relates to a photocatalytic apparatus and a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment for a vehicle comprising the same and, more specifically, to a photocatalytic apparatus and HVAC equipment for a vehicle comprising the same, wherein the photocatalytic apparatus may sterilize and deodorize an evaporator in addition to purifying air introduced into an HVAC case and may continuously maintain sterilization and deodorization functions by efficiently radiating heat generated from the photocatalytic apparatus.
US10143764B2
A freshening composition is provided. The composition includes at least one particle, and an aqueous carrier. The composition includes a polysaccharide system having a first polysaccharide and a second polysaccharide. The first polysaccharide is xanthan gum and the second polysaccharide is selected from the group consisting of konjac gum, locust bean gum, and combinations thereof. The composition may include an unencapsulated perfume.
US10143755B2
The present disclosure relates to anhydrous hydrogels useful as mucoadhesive (oral compositions) or as topical agents and may be used to deliver an active agent such as active pharmaceutical agents (API's), coagulants, fragrances, flavors, and other actives and excipients.
US10143748B2
The present invention generally provides methods for B-cell reduction in an individual using CD37-specific binding molecules. In particular, the invention provides methods for B-cell reduction using CD37-specific binding molecules alone, or a combination of CD37-specific binding molecules and CD20-specific binding molecules, in some instances a synergistic combination. The invention further provides materials and methods for treatment of diseases involving aberrant B-cell activity. In addition, the invention provides humanized CD37-specific binding molecules.
US10143745B2
The present invention provides a human dose of an immunogenic composition comprising an antigen or antigenic preparation, in combination with an adjuvant which adjuvant comprises an immunologically active saponin fraction derived from the bark of Quillaja saponaria Molina presented in the form of a liposome and a lipopolysaccharide wherein said saponin fraction and said lipopolysaccharide are both present in said human dose at a level of below 30 μg. The present invention further provides an adjuvant composition in a human dose suitable volume comprising between 1 and 30 μg of a lipopolysaccharide and between 1 and 30 μg of an immunologically active saponin fraction presented in the form of a liposome.
US10143744B2
Essentially pure compounds of the formulas (I) to (XX) are provided. Compositions and methods for enhancing or stimulating an immune response are also provided. The compounds, provided are advantageous in that the compounds are essentially pure and free from contaminants encountered when such compounds are purified from natural sources.
US10143743B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for the secretion and the translocation of a compound of interest by a bacterial minicell. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a bacterial minicell comprising at least one component of the type III secretion system (T3SS), which provides a safe and efficient system for secretion and translocation. In one embodiment, the invention allows for the delivery of an antigen to a cell or subject in order to induce an immune response.
US10143739B2
Isolated porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-121847, and attenuated strains generated by serial passage in culture of the deposited strain. Immunogenic compositions for reducing the incidence or severity of clinical symptoms from PEDV infection, and methods of making and using the same.
US10143734B2
This invention provides methods and compositions for using evaluating biomarker expression in a disease and providing a multi-targeted Listeria-based immunotherapeutic approach against said disease. In a related aspect, the invention relates to a method of treating a disease in a subject, the method comprising the steps of: a. obtaining a biological sample from said subject; b. evaluating the expression of a predetermined number of biomarkers in said biological sample; c. administering to said subject a composition comprising a recombinant Listeria strain, said strain comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding at least one fusion protein, wherein said fusion protein comprises a biomarker identified in said biological sample, wherein said biomarker is associated with said disease, wherein said biomarker is fused to a PEST-containing polypeptide, and wherein each fusion protein within said Listeria comprises a different biomarker, thereby treating said disease in said subject.
US10143728B2
The invention relates to the use of an animal-protein-free botulinum toxin composition to treat a disease, disorder or condition in a patient in need thereof whereby the animal-protein-free botulinum toxin composition exhibits a longer lasting effect in the patient compared to an animal-protein-containing botulinum toxin composition.
US10143702B2
Oral administration of a solid dosage form of the present invention comprising an effective amount of rifabutin, an effective amount of clarithromycin, an effective amount of clofazimine, and an effective amount of an absorption enhancer, is used to treat a subject suffering from, or susceptible to, Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis infection. In an embodiment, the solid dosage form is sufficiently designed to result in a reduction in the increased metabolism of clarithromycin caused by rifabutin. In an embodiment, the solid dosage form is sufficiently designed to result in a reduction in the metabolism of rifabutin caused by clarithromycin. In an embodiment, the solid dosage form is sufficiently designed to result in a reduction in risk of a subject developing leucopenia or uveitis as a result of rifabutin.
US10143699B2
The invention relates to methods of treating cancer, with a combination of an arginase inhibitor and a chemotherapeutic agent. The invention further relates to methods of assessing efficacy of a cancer treatment by measuring arginine levels in a tumor.
US10143689B2
The present invention provides SN-38 compositions for treating cancer.
US10143685B2
This invention provides compositions, kits containing compositions, and methods for their use in treating subjects with pain. Instant compositions comprise two or more long acting aminoamide local anesthetics, at least one NSAID, at least one corticosteroid, at least one alpha-2 (α2) adrenergic receptor agonist, at least one N-methyl-D aspartate receptor antagonist, and optionally, epinephrine. Instant compositions are useful for infiltration anesthesia, field block anesthesia, regional anesthesia, peripheral nerve block, plexus anesthesia, epidural (or extradural) anesthesia, spinal anesthesia, local anesthesia, and transincision catheter anesthesia. The instant compositions have one or more superior properties of analgesia, duration of analgesia, safety, narcotic sparing, and motor sparing properties.
US10143683B2
The present invention relates to the field of methods for providing pharmaceutical compositions comprising poorly water-soluble drugs. In particular the present invention relates to compositions comprising stable, amorphous hybrid nanoparticles, comprising at least one protein kinase inhibitor and at least one polymeric stabilizing and matrix-forming component, useful in pharmaceutical compositions and in therapy.
US10143681B2
The present invention provides a compound of Formula I and pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more said compounds, and methods for using said compounds for treating or preventing thromboses, embolisms, hypercoagulability or fibrotic changes. The compounds are selective Factor XIa inhibitors or dual inhibitors of Factor XIa and plasma kallikrein.
US10143670B2
This disclosure provides generally for antimicrobial compositions and methods of use comprising an anthocyanin, an anthocyanidin or metabolites thereof. Methods for promoting healing of a wound using these compositions are also disclosed. These compositions have broad spectrum antimicrobial activity and are safe for human and animal uses. Further, these compositions are safe for medical uses and industrial uses as antiseptic preparations to reduce or prevent microbial growth, including killing bacterial biofilms.
US10143663B2
The invention relates to a food additive which includes at least one clay interspersed with volatile antimicrobial agents. Such an additive can be added to the feed of certain animals, in particular poultry and ruminants, in order to act as a growth promoter and to reduce the risks of infection, as well as the risks of intoxication by mycotoxins.
US10143647B2
A gel polish composition forming a nail gel film on a keratinous material of mammals comprises a film-forming polymer selected from the group consisting of polyurethane resin, acrylic resin, and mixtures thereof and a method of forming a nail gel film on a keratinous material of mammals comprises: (i) cleansing the keratinous material; (ii) painting a gel polish composition on the keratinous material to form a first layer, wherein the gel polish composition comprises an film-forming polymer, a hydrophilic solvent, a thickening agent, water, and an optional care ingredient; (iii) drying the gel polish composition in air for about 1 minute; (iv) applying a second layer of the gel polish composition; (v) drying the gel polish composition in air for about 1 minute; (vi) optionally applying a third layer; and (vii) peeling off the nail gel film formed on the keratinous material of mammals without using a polish remover.
US10143645B2
The invention relates to a composition, especially a cosmetic composition, comprising at least one acrylic thickener and at least one oil, as well as to methods of using such compositions.
US10143644B2
Disclosed are compositions for washing, cleansing, and/or conditioning keratinous substrates, comprising, in a physiologically acceptable medium: a) at least one anionic film-forming polymer chosen from polymers and copolymers of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, and/or mixtures thereof; b) at least one ampholytic polymer having at least one acrylic acid moiety and a cationic charge density ranging from greater than 1 meq/g up to about 3.5 meq/g; and c) at least one surfactant base; wherein the at least one anionic film-forming polymer and the at least one ampholytic polymer form an association; and wherein the pH of the composition ranges from about 5 to about 7. Also disclosed are processes for washing, cleansing, and/or conditioning keratin substrates using the composition, and processes for imparting volume to the hair.
US10143639B2
A method of correcting the visible and microscopic signs of Dermatoheliosis (chronic ultraviolet light-damaged human skin) and its various clinical manifestations (wrinkling, sagging, fragility, melasma, Poikiloderma of Civatte, solar lentigines, and senile purpura) and also Androgenetic Alopecia and Seborrheic Keratoses consists of the administration of fatty acid derivatives capable of inhibiting mast cells and the mediators they release that cause local tissue damage. These fatty acid derivatives include palmitoylethanolamide (PEA) and related cannabinomimetic compounds and adelmidrol and related Autacoid Local Injury Antagonist amides (ALIAmides) which are administered orally or applied topically. Adelmidrol, the best absorbed topically, is applied in a concentration of between 1% and 10% by volume, with a preferred concentration of about 5% by volume. Normally produced in body tissues in response to the effects of painful and inflammatory mast cell mediators, these compounds must be added in these conditions to stop the progression of damage because the affected tissues lack inflammation due to the immunosuppressive effects of the chronic ultraviolet radiation that initiates and likely perpetuates them.
US10143623B2
According to the present invention, a packing member (20) is disposed between a mouth portion (2b) of a container body (2) and a lid base portion (5). A crushing protrusion (20b) which protrudes downward and is crushed to an upper end opening edge of the container body (2) is formed on a lower surface of the packing member (20). An overhang recess (20c) which is at least partially located just above the crushing protrusion (20b) is formed on an upper surface of the packing member (20). After the lid base portion (5), the movable lid portion (6) and the syringe tube (8) are detached from the container body (2), when mounting again, until a crushing protrusion (20b) is crushed, the packing member (20) forms a communication gap (30) between the mouth portion (2b) of the container body (2) and the packing member (20).
US10143622B2
An infusion apparatus containing a medicament and volume of diluent for reconstituting the medicament and dispensing in an infusion therapy in a controlled and measured amount.
US10143620B2
Methods to control the delivery of CPR to a patient through a mechanical CPR device are described. The method generally allows for a gradual increase in the frequency of CPR cycles. The gradual increase can be regulated by protocols programmed within the CPR device such as intermittently starting and stopping the delivery of CPR accelerating the delivery of CPR, stepping up the CPR frequency, increasing the force of CPR, and adjusting the ratio of compression and decompression in a CPR cycle. Combinations of each of these forms may also be used to control the delivery of CPR. This manner of gradually accelerating artificial blood flow during the first minutes of mechanical CPR delivery can serve to lessen the potential for ischemia/reperfusion injury in the patient who receives mechanical CPR treatment.
US10143616B2
According to the invention it is provided that a hose connecting device for connecting an elastic flexible hose to a rigid connection includes at least one coupling element having first positively locking means for coupling to the connection portion in positively locking relationship, and an annular support body which peripherally supports the coupling element, wherein the positively locking means extend radially internally on the annular support body and wherein the annular support body is adapted for fixing to the flexible hose.
US10143608B2
A person support apparatus includes a support adapted to support thereon an occupant of the person support apparatus and a sensor configured to detect an ambient air characteristic. The sensor generates an output signal based on the detected characteristic and communicates the output signal to a controller. The controller is configured to receive the output signal from the sensor and determine a usability status of the person support apparatus. The usability status may include an indication that the person support apparatus is ready for use by an occupant, whether a potential hazard exists for an occupant of the person support apparatus, a cleaning status of the person support apparatus, or a location of the person support apparatus.
US10143602B2
In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, an article includes a first web and second web underlying the first web. The article further includes a bonding pattern. The bonding pattern includes a plurality of discrete bonding points and a sized spacing between each adjacent bonding point sufficient to have inscribed therein a circle having a diameter of about 1 mm to about 12 mm. The bonding pattern is located solely in one of the front end region or the back end region.
US10143589B2
A method and apparatus for making improved surgical incisions in corrective eye surgery are provided. It was observed that a uniform elongated AK (or LRI) incision provides a non-uniform corrective effect due to non-uniform post-surgical relaxation of ophthalmic tissue. The method and apparatus leverage this observation to provide for creation of a surgical incision that is structured to be non-uniform along its length in such a manner as to at least partially counteract an expected variation in ophthalmic tissue relaxation to provide overall increased uniformity of corrective effect. An automated laser surgery system includes a laser control system configured to control laser delivery to cause selective ablation of ophthalmic tissue to provide an elongated structured incision that varies along its length in at least one of a depth, a profile, a width, and an angle of attack relative to a surface of the ophthalmic tissue.
US10143570B2
In a powered actuator for supplying torque, joint equilibrium, and/or impedance to a joint, a motor is directly coupled to a low-reduction ratio transmission, e.g., a transmission having a gear ratio less than about 80 to 1. The motor has a low dissipation constant, e.g., less than about 50 W/(Nm)2. The transmission is serially connected to an elastic element that is also coupled to the joint, thereby supplying torque, joint equilibrium, and/or impedance to the joint while minimizing the power consumption and/or acoustic noise of the actuator.
US10143569B2
An expandable fusion device may include a first endplate and a second endplate. The expandable fusion device may also include first and second ramps configured to mate with both the first and second endplates. The first ramp may include a mating feature having a first angle relative to a vertical axis, and the second ramp may include a mating feature having a second angle relative to the vertical axis such that the first angle is different from the second angle. In particular, the first and second ramps may be configured to provide for symmetrical expansion of the first and second endplates.
US10143561B2
An inflatable and implantable balloon for treatment of degenerative disc disease, bones, lesions, spinal deformities and spinal motion segment instabilities. The balloon is comprised of adjustable and expandable volumes. Further disclosed are methods of forming, inserting, expanding, and implanting the multi-volume balloon for proper placement and stabilization of the spinal lesion or disease. Still further disclosed are kits for aligning and stabilizing elements of the spine.
US10143559B2
The invention relates to a prosthesis for implantation into a long bone during joint arthroplasty, particularly Total Shoulder Arthoplasty and Total Hip Arthroplasty, and a method for use of the implant.
US10143557B1
A medical implant apparatus for total elbow arthroplasty is provided. The apparatus includes: a first rod member comprising a first nut, an eye hook, a first end, and a second end, wherein the first nut is disposed at the first end and the eye hook is disposed at the second end; a second rod member rotatably coupled to the first rod member, the second rod member comprising a first linear portion, a second linear portion, and an arcuate portion disposed between the first linear portion and the second linear portion, the arcuate portion being configured to form a predetermined angle between the first rod member and the second rod member; a positioning nut coupled to the first linear portion of the second rod member; and an aperture disposed in the eye hook.
US10143556B2
A design method for designing a guide tool including a guide channel for use during cartilage repair in a joint is disclosed. The design method includes: selecting a direction along a joint axis indicating placement of the guide tool in the joint; and placing a positioning mark on the guide tool. The positioning mark is designed to be aligned with the center of said guide channel on a determined joint axis direction and thereby indicating a placement direction of the guide tool in relation to the selected joint axis during use of the guide tool. A design method of insert tools and/or an implant comprising positioning marks and also the guide tool, implant and insert tools designed using this method are also disclosed.
US10143553B2
A heart valve annulus repair device having a tissue engaging member and a plurality of anchors. The tissue engaging member includes a loop of wire. Each of the anchors has a pointy front end and a back end and a slot that runs in a front-to-back direction. The anchors are distributed about the loop of wire with the front ends of the plurality of anchors facing the heart valve annulus and with the loop of wire passing through the slots. The device further includes means for implanting the anchors into the heart valve annulus tissue so that the tissue engaging member becomes affixed to the heart valve annulus.
US10143546B2
Provided are porous, biocompatible implant bodies and materials. These materials suitably comprise a population of randomly arranged and entangled thermoplastic constituents, with at least some of the constituents being bonded to one another The implant bodies are capable of being manipulated at room temperature from a first shape to a second shape, and of maintaining the second shape at about internal body temperature. Also provided are related methods of fabricating such implants and installing the implants into a subject.
US10143545B2
This document provides vascular filtering devices and methods for their use. In some embodiments, the vascular filtering devices include an elongate member having a wall with one or more apertures and a lumen. The vascular filtering devices can also include a porous membrane bag portion with multiple elongate extensions that extend through the apertures of the elongate member and through the lumen of the elongate member, exiting the lumen at the proximal region of the elongate member.
US10143538B2
Described is an orthodontic aligner implement that can ensure the accuracy and efficiency of clear aligner orthodontic therapies as well as increase patient compliance by reducing discomfort and combining functionality into a breath-freshening medium. The implement includes a consumable mass having at least two channels disposed on opposite sides of the mass and traversing the width of the mass. The channels are adapted to seat between opposing anterior or incisor teeth.
US10143537B2
Method and system for managing multiple impressions of a patient's jaw for an orthodontic treatment is provided. The method includes scanning at least a first impression and a second impression of same jaw for the orthodontic treatment; determining if the first jaw impression and the second jaw impression have distortion in different areas; selecting the first jaw impression or the second jaw impression as a base impression; and replacing a distorted tooth data from the base impression with data for the same tooth from a non-base impression. The method also includes scanning at least a first jaw impression for the orthodontic treatment; scanning a bite impression for the orthodontic treatment; matching the scanned first jaw impression with the scanned bite impression; comparing bite information with a tooth occlusal surface; and determining if reconstruction is to be performed on the tooth occlusal surface.
US10143534B2
Embodiments of surgical markers for marking internal and external tissues are provided herein. In some embodiments, a surgical marking device for marking tissue may include a body including an at least partially hollow interior, a first end and a second end; a tip coupled to the body at the second end; and a plunger movably coupled to the body at the first end and configured to control a pressure within the at least partially hollow interior of the body via movement of the plunger relative to the body, wherein the pressure control may control a flow of ink outward of the body via the tip during use. Alternatively, in some embodiments, a squeezable bulb may be provided in place of the plunger, the squeezable bulb having an interior volume fluidly coupled to the body, wherein a pressure within the body may be controlled via the squeezable bulb.
US10143530B2
According to embodiments, a membrane with a flat or curved surface is provided for protection of intraocular tissues. The membrane can be used to cover the cornea for protecting corneal endothelial cells, to cover the anterior and posterior surface of the iris, or to cover the surface of the posterior capsule for separating the intraocular tissues. The membrane has a layered structure, which is composed of a collagen and a hydrophilic biopolymer or an organic polymer material. In particular, the membrane has high transparency and high water retention in a wet state.
US10143528B2
A glove donning system including glove assemblies is provided that maintains the cleanliness of a glove until the glove is utilized. In addition, the glove donning system assists a user during a donning process thereby preventing contamination of the glove during the donning process.
US10143520B2
An antenna guide assembly including a guide body having a proximal end defining at least one proximal entry, a distal end defining at least one distal port, and at least one guide passage extending between the proximal and distal ends. The at least one guide passage is configured to receive at least a portion of an antenna therethrough via the at least one proximal entry such that a distal portion of the antenna extends through and distally from the at least one distal port for insertion into tissue. A locking assembly disposed at the distal end of the guide body is configured to receive the distal portion of the antenna therethrough. The locking assembly is configured to selectively engage the distal portion of the antenna to prevent translation of the antenna within the at least one guide passage.
US10143519B2
A method of treating a patient is described herein. The method can include the steps of identifying a target that contains biological tissue and directing one or more pulses of electromagnetic radiation at the target. The pulses of electromagnetic radiation can cause a temperature increase per unit of time in the biological tissue. Additionally, the temperature increase per unit of time can cause the change in the cell function in the biological tissue and can be within a range of approximately one degree Celsius per second to approximately one degree Celsius per microsecond.
US10143516B2
A remotely deflectable electrophysiology/ablation catheter of the type intended for placing into an interior passage of the heart. The distal end of the catheter has a pair of tension/compression members each with a flattened end portion connected to the distal electrode and extending through the catheter casing and attached to an actuator for effecting the tension/compression thereon for remotely curling the distal end of the catheter. Spaced ring electrodes are provided adjacent the distal electrode. A permanent bend is pre-formed in the casing and tension/compression members adjacent the ring electrodes about an axis perpendicular to the elongated tension/compression members. Movement of the remote actuator causes the distal portion of the catheter to curl into a lariat in a plane perpendicular to the axis along the elongated catheter casing, thus permitting electrical mapping or ablation with the distal and/or ring electrodes.
US10143514B2
Methods and devices are provided for retracting a cutting assembly in the event of a failure on a motorized electrosurgical device. For instance, a surgical device is provided that includes a handle portion with an elongated shaft having first and second jaws. The device includes a cutting assembly configured to cut tissue engaged between the first and second jaws. A motor is included to drive the cutting assembly, and a processor is coupled to the motor. An actuator on the device is configured to receive an input from a user that causes power to be supplied to the motor. The device has a normal mode in which the processor controls the motor, and the device has a bailout mode in which the processor is bypassed and power is delivered directly to the motor.
US10143513B2
A surgical instrument is separable into a transducer unit and a lower body portion. The lower body portion includes a waveguide and a casing. The transducer unit includes a transducer and a geared mechanism operable to couple the transducer to the waveguide. In some versions the geared mechanism includes bevel gears coupled to a rack and pinion such that linear motion may be used to rotatably couple a transducer to a waveguide. The rack gear may further include a handle extending out of the transducer unit casing to be actuatable by a user. The rack gear may also be flexible or rigid. In other versions, the bevel gears may be coupled to a threaded shaft that is operable to translate the transducer into the waveguide to form an interference fit. The transducer unit may also include a slide lock mechanism to couple to the casing of the lower body portion.
US10143507B2
A surgical assembly includes a first guidewire and a second guidewire, in which each of the first guidewire and the second guidewire are configured to be received by a bone block, a first suture loop, a second suture loop, a first locking component, and a second locking component, in which the first locking component is coupled to the first suture loop and the second locking component is coupled to the second suture loop. The locking component has a hole formed therethrough, in which the hole of the locking component is configured to receive the suture, and may be tethered to a suture by knots engaging a counterbore at opposed ends of a bore defined by the hole.
US10143501B2
Disclosed is a device that is configured to be implanted adjacent interspinous processes of a patient. In one aspect, a spinal implant device comprises: a spacer region adapted to be positioned between first and second spinous processes of first and second vertebral bodies to limit movement of the first spinous process and the second spinous process toward one another; and an attachment region attached to the spacer region, the attachment region adapted to attach to the first spinous process via a fastener, the attachment region comprising a pair of pads having attachment elements that are configured to attach onto the spinous process.
US10143494B2
A circular external fixator, comprising a plurality of rings mutually associated by means of spacer members, each of said rings comprising a plurality of axial bores adapted to engage a fastening means for wire retaining devices. The rings have coupling portions for the connection of the spacer members; each coupling portion has a radial slot adapted to receive a head of one of the spacer member with a snap-on connection.
US10143488B2
A catheter includes an elongate catheter body configured for insertion into a body lumen of a subject. A cutter is located generally at a distal end of the catheter body for rotation generally about a longitudinal axis of the cutter. An eccentric opening in a distal end portion of the cutter defines an angled cutting edge for cutting material from a wall of the body lumen. A center of the opening is offset from the longitudinal axis of the cutter. A cavity extends from the opening through the cutter from the distal end portion to a proximal end portion to allow material cut by the cutter to pass through the cutter into an interior passage of the catheter body for removal from the body lumen.
US10143482B2
Systems and methods can remove material of interest, including blood clots, from a body region, including but not limited to the circulatory system for the treatment of pulmonary embolism (PE), deep vein thrombosis (DVT), cerebrovascular embolism, and other vascular occlusions.
US10143476B2
An apparatus for introducing an implant into a hollow anatomical structure. The apparatus comprises a storage unit having an exit opening and defining a chamber in communication with the exit opening; an elongate, self-expanding vascular implant having an expanded condition and stored within the chamber in the expanded condition, proximal of the exit opening; and a pushrod having a distal end aligned with and proximal of the exit opening. The pushrod is pre-assembled to a distal end of the implant. Associated methods, and other apparatus and methods, are also disclosed.
US10143472B2
A surgical fastener applying apparatus includes an end effector assembly having an anvil assembly and a cartridge assembly. The anvil assembly and/or the cartridge assembly is movable relative to the other between open and closed positions. The cartridge assembly is configured to retain a plurality of surgical fasteners therein. A fluid-actuated drive assembly including a distal piston member is configured to oscillate between proximal and distal positions. The distal piston member includes a base and a rack extending distally from the base and slidably disposed within the cartridge assembly. A drive beam is configured for translation through the cartridge assembly to eject the surgical fasteners from the cartridge assembly. A pawl assembly couples the drive beam to the rack such that the drive beam is incrementally advanced along the rack and through the cartridge assembly as the distal piston member oscillates between the proximal position and the distal position.
US10143470B2
A tissue-fastening tool indwelling device includes: a sheath; a needle tube having a needle tip and disposed to be retractable from a distal end of a lumen of the sheath; a tissue-fastening tool having a restoring force to a curved shape with distal and proximal end side regions and disposed inside the needle tube in a stretched state; and a stylet coupled to a proximal end portion of the tissue-fastening tool in the needle tube. The stylet has a first state in which the stylet is advanced straight with respect to the needle tube and the sheath until the entire distal end side region of the tissue-fastening tool protrudes from the needle tube, and a second state in which the stylet is advanced while being rotated until a proximal end of the proximal end side region of the tissue-fastening tool protrudes from the needle tube.
US10143469B2
A method for bunion repair using a suture passing K-wire configured to easily pass through bone tunnels with suture trailing. The suture passing K-wire includes a tapered guide pin with a multi-diameter shaft (i.e., comprising at least two regions or sections that have different diameters) and a loop which is securely attached to an end of the guide pin (i.e., to the smaller diameter section of the guide pin). The reconstruction system may be formed of a pair of buttons connected by a flexible strand. The procedure offers indirect placement of buttons and a minimally invasive approach.
US10143468B2
A medical tube is disclosed, which can include a main body in which a distal portion of a tubular proximal separable piece is detachably connected to a proximal portion of a tubular distal separable piece; and a state maintaining mechanism for maintaining a connected state of the distal separable piece and the proximal separable piece. In addition, the main body is inserted into a body starting from the distal separable piece side, and is disposed inside the body in a state in which a distal end and a proximal end thereof are exposed outside of the body. In addition, the state maintaining mechanism can include a string which is disposed inside the main body and interlocks the distal separable piece and the proximal separable piece, and the connected state can be released by cutting the string.
US10143463B2
A method for closing a tissue puncture, where the method includes tensioning a suture loop disposed within a vascular tissue of a patient, the suture loop having two free ends and a knot disposed on one of the free end. Those two free ends are disposed through a suture snare comprising a snare. Following detachment of the suture snare from the two free ends, the knot is advanced to close the suture loop and a cutting member is advance towards the knot and the two free ends are cut.
US10143462B2
Methods are disclosed for attaching a suture to a bone. One exemplary method includes passing a portion of a suture through a bone so that a first portion of the suture extends from a first opening in the bone and a second portion of the suture extends from a second opening in the bone, passing the second portion of the suture through a portion of a suture anchor body in a proximal to distal direction, the suture anchor body having a proximal end and a distal end, passing the second portion of the suture alongside an outer surface of the suture anchor body in a distal to proximal direction, and then inserting the suture anchor into the bone through one of the first and second openings, the distal end being inserted first through the opening.
US10143457B2
The present invention provides, in certain aspects, medical devices deliverable into passageways and other open spaces in the body. In one embodiment, the invention provides a fistula plug for delivery into a fistula tract. This fistula plug includes an elongate plug body, and a removable core material that is received in the plug body and effective to increase the column strength of the plug body. The plug body may be formed with one or more of a variety of biocompatible materials including some that are naturally derived and some that are non-naturally derived. The present invention also provides apparatuses and methods for delivering these and other medical devices into the body. One such apparatus includes a fistula plug having a plug body, and a removable delivery device received in the plug body, wherein the delivery device is effective to deliver the plug body into a fistula tract when advanced therethrough.
US10143455B2
Methods and devices for providing improved ultrasound visibility of medical devices intended for intravascular use are described. The inclusion of gas/solid boundary regions within a medical devices improves the resolution of the device under ultrasound visualization. Gas/solid boundary regions may be provided through the use of embedded gas-filled microlumens, microwells, or enclosed pockets within the medical device.
US10143453B2
In a surgical tool, the treatment tool piece operating joint includes a first operating rotation member which is coupled to the moving member and is rotated around a predetermined rotation center; a second operating rotation member which is coupled to the first operating rotation member so as to relatively rotate around a rotation center coaxial with the second bending rotary shaft in a rotation direction opposite to a rotation direction of the first operating rotation member or around a rotation center that is a position closer to the first bending rotary shaft than the second bending rotary shaft in a rotation direction opposite to a rotation direction of the first operating rotation member; and a link which converts a rotational force of the second operating rotation member into the operation of the treatment tool piece.
US10143438B2
Disclosed herein is an X-ray imaging system, comprising: a first X-ray source; an image sensor, spaced apart from the first X-ray source; a table configured to be positioned between the first X-ray source and the image sensor and configured to accommodate a person for imaging in the X-ray imaging system; and a fiducial marker system; wherein the fiducial marker system comprises three markers, centers of the three markers not being collinear; wherein at least one of the three markers is distinct. The X-ray imaging system may be used to model the 3D shape and track the 3D motion of an object (e.g., a surgical instrument) in the person.
US10143431B2
A medical image processing apparatus, includes: a reconstructed moving image obtainer that obtains a reconstructed moving image; a focus region identifier that identifies a first focus region corresponding to the designated focus; a fluoroscopic moving image obtainer that obtains at least one-period data on a fluoroscopic moving image; a second characteristics identifier that identifies each of two or more second characteristics regions corresponding to the internal body portion; a comparison selector that compares the two or more first characteristic regions; a conversion parameter calculation unit that calculates a conversion parameter for converting the first characteristic region.
US10143426B2
Systems and methods for providing sensitive and specific alarms indicative of glycemic condition are provided herein. In an embodiment, a method of processing sensor data by a continuous analyte sensor includes: evaluating sensor data using a first function to determine whether a real time glucose value meets a first threshold; evaluating sensor data using a second function to determine whether a predicted glucose value meets a second threshold; activating a hypoglycemic indicator if either the first threshold is met or if the second threshold is predicted to be met; and providing an output based on the activated hypoglycemic indicator.
US10143423B2
Systems are described for monitoring extremities for injury following an impact. A system embodiment includes, but is not limited to, a device including a deformable substrate integrated with a textile; a sensor assembly coupled to the deformable substrate, the sensor assembly configured to generate one or more sense signals based on detection of a physical impact to a body portion and based on detection of a physiological parameter; circuitry operably coupled to the sensor assembly and configured to receive the one or more sense signals based on detection of the physical impact and to determine whether the physical impact exceeds a threshold impact value, the circuitry configured to instruct the sensor assembly to detect one or more physiological parameters of the body portion when the physical impact exceeds the threshold impact value; and a reporting device operably coupled to the circuitry; and an external device communicatively coupled with the device.
US10143414B2
An individual can exhibit one or more mental states when reacting to a stimulus. A camera or other monitoring device can be used to collect, on an intermittent basis, mental state data including facial data. The mental state data can be interpolated between the intermittent collecting. The facial data can be obtained from a series of images of the individual where the images are captured intermittently. A second face can be identified, and the first face and the second face can be tracked.
US10143406B2
A feature-quantity extracting apparatus is provided, which can calculate a proper feature quantity, by performing a simple calculating operation. The apparatus is provided with a code-string acquiring unit for acquiring code strings for every given period from a series of input data, wherein the code string is an arrangement of codes and the code is given to a value of each piece of input data, a code-string pattern frequency counting unit for counting the number of code-string patterns for every code-string pattern among the code strings acquired by the code-string acquiring unit, wherein the code-string pattern represents a code-string whose codes are arranged in accordance with a given order, and a feature-quantity outputting unit for outputting the number of code-string patterns for every code-string pattern counted by the code-string pattern frequency counting unit as a feature quantity of the series of input data.
US10143404B2
Patient swallow frequency is automatically determined by collecting patient data, analyzing the patient data to automatically identify swallow events, and automatically calculating the swallow frequency based upon the identified swallow events. In some cases, the patient data is collected by a patient interface that wirelessly transmits the data to a computing device for analysis.
US10143402B2
The invention relates to a length measuring device with a vernier caliper, a hollow profile, on which the vernier caliper is displaceably mounted externally so that it is capable of being brought into contact with an object to be measured in terms of its length, an inner slide, which is displaceably mounted inside the hollow profile, a magnet arrangement, which couples the vernier caliper and inner slide magnetically, so that the inner slide follows every movement of the vernier caliper along the hollow profile, a measuring means for measuring the position of the inner slide along the hollow profile, and a display, visible in the surrounding space of the hollow profile, of the length determined by the measuring means in accordance with the measured position of the inner slide.
US10143397B2
An electrode holding device is described using a headset having a neutral curvature with a radius smaller than a human skull. The headset adapted to provide spring load force against the human skull at the first and the second ends where first and second respective electrode holding panels are attached. The electrode holding panels conform to the human above the ears. The electrode panels are adapted to pivot about pivot points on the ends of the headset. The panels are adapted to contact the human skull under pressure from spring load force generated from the headset bent beyond the neutral curvature of the headset. The headset can in certain examples be further adapted in certain to accommodate an arm having an a third electrode panel that possesses a third electrode assembly, the third electrode assembly adapted to be spring loaded against and in contact with the human forehead.
US10143382B2
A photoacoustic apparatus disclosed in the present specification includes: a light source configured to emit light; an acoustic wave transmission unit configured to transmit an acoustic wave to a specific area; a photoacoustic wave reception unit configured to receive a photoacoustic wave generated by a subject due to emission of the light, which is emitted from the light source, to the subject and configured to output a time-series photoacoustic signal; an echo reception unit configured to receive an echo generated due to reflection, in the subject, of the acoustic wave transmitted from the acoustic wave transmission unit and configured to output a time-series echo signal; and a processing unit configured to acquire, based on the time-series photoacoustic signal and the time-series echo signal, optical property information in which information a component corresponding to a reflected wave of the photoacoustic wave generated in the specific area is reduced.
US10143378B2
An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit, a cutting-out unit, and a display controller. The storage unit is configured to store an image of fluorescence emitted from an observation target area of a living body in a recording medium as a fluorescence image of the observation target area, the image of fluorescence being captured with a first definition, the image of fluorescence being obtained by applying excitation light to the observation target area to which a fluorescent reagent is added in advance. The cutting-out unit is configured to cause a user to select at least a partial area of the fluorescence image and to cut out the selected area as a fluorescence image of a ROI area. The display controller is configured to cause a display unit to display the fluorescence image of a ROI area with a second definition that is lower than the first definition.
US10143370B2
A method of automatically detecting a retinal feature using an ophthalmic imaging system can include: acquiring an optical coherence tomography (OCT) image of a retina; segmenting the OCT image; generating a metric based on the segmented OCT image; detecting the retinal feature based on the metric; and providing an indication of the detected retinal feature to a user. An ophthalmic imaging system can include: an OCT system configured to acquire an image of a retina; a computing device coupled to the OCT system and configured to segment the image, generate a metric based on the segmented image, and detect a retinal feature based on the metric; and an audio/visual/tactile device in communication with the computing device and configured to provide at least one of an audio, visual, and tactile indication of the detected retinal feature to a user.
US10143368B2
A visual acuity test method, apparatus and system that may be utilized as an automatic test of the visual acuity level of a test object, to reduce the problem of complex operation of the existing visual acuity test solution. The method is applied by an apparatus with a display screen, and comprises: displaying a test picture including at least one optotypes on a display screen, and determining an active optotype for visual acuity test from the optotypes of the test picture according to a preset rule. The method includes the steps of obtaining indicating information of the test object for the active optotype of the test picture; and determining the visual acuity level of the test object according to orientations represented by active optotypes of at least one test pictures and the indicating information of the visual acuity test object for the active optotypes of at least one test picture.
US10143365B2
Provided are a light source unit for an endoscope and an endoscopy system, which clarify the color difference between a first dye and a second dye in an observation image. The light source unit has a white LED light source and a band limiting section. The white LED light source has an excitation light source that emits blue excitation light and a phosphor layer that emits yellow fluorescence upon receipt of the excitation light. As a mixture of the fluorescence and part of the excitation light, the white LED light source outputs light having an intensity spectrum continuous across blue, green and red regions. The band limiting section reduces part of the output light in a wavelength band of not lower than a threshold. The threshold is not less than 650 nm. At the threshold, the first dye (pyoktanin) has an optical reflectance of not less than a constant value, whereas the second dye (indigocarmine) has an optical reflectance of substantially zero.
US10143364B2
Controlling an image capturing process by tracking the positions of the capsule endoscope is described. The images are taken only when there is either new position and/or new orientation change of the capsule endoscope. The method described effectively decreases the total amount of images that a doctor needs to review, and improves the power consumption of the capsule endoscope examination process.
US10143363B2
An endoscopic instrument includes: a body extending in a lengthwise direction, and having a first channel and a second channel parallel to each other; and an optical portion provided with an incident surface formed at an end part of the first channel so as to receive an external image, the optical portion disposed at the first channel, wherein the second channel is formed such that a laser module is insertable thereinto, and the laser module is configured to output laser in a direction crossing the lengthwise direction, and wherein the incident surface is formed to be inclined from a sectional surface of the first channel, such that the optical portion captures an image disposed on a path of the outputted laser. With such a configuration, a surgery can be performed through a single punched hole.
US10143361B2
An endoscope system is provided with an operation part, an elongated part, an imaging part, a control part, a display part, a rotation operation input part, and a rotation coupling part that rotates an imaging field of view in the imaging part around the optical axis in accordance with the rotation amount provided to the control part, wherein the control part outputs to the display part an image which has been captured by the imaging part and is brought into a state in which the field of view is rotated by the rotation coupling part.
US10143359B2
A panning stereo endoscope which maintains an up-down orientation as the stereo endoscope pans an operative field, the panning stereo endoscope includes a shaft having an axis; first and second optical channels extending along the shaft, each of the first and second optical channels having an off-axis direction of view, and an actuating mechanism carried by the shaft including at least one cam follower having at least one follower point and adapted to (i) synchronously rotate the first and second optical channels about their respective axes, and (ii) synchronously, inversely piston the first and second optical channels along their respective axes.
US10143355B2
The present invention is directed towards surgical devices and a method used in minimally invasive surgery whereby a device is incorporated into or onto an instrument to strengthen its shaft and improve its functionality in minimally invasive surgery. The primary goal of the invention is to increase the strength and rigidity of an instrument by using a specially designed sleeve that strengthens the instrument, thereby reducing its ability to bend and increasing its load carrying capacity. The invention will provide a system that gives extra strength and rigidity to small instrument shafts, so that surgeons can still safely and reliably perform their procedures, but can also use incisions that are as small as possible.
US10143353B2
The present invention relates to a dishwasher and a method for controlling same, and the dishwasher may comprise a wash tub having an opening on at least one side thereof; a spray nozzle, provided in the interior of the wash tub, for spraying wash water; a reflecting module capable of moving in the interior of the wash tub, and reflecting the wash water sprayed by the spray nozzle; and a moving module, to which the reflecting module is detachably attached, for moving same in at least one direction.
US10143346B2
A separator for removing dirt particles from an airflow, the separator comprising a first separation stage having an impeller, and a second separation stage having one or more cyclone bodies arranged in parallel, the first separation stage being upstream of the second separation stage. The impeller generates the airflow through the separator and concentrates the dirt particles within the airflow to produce a clean portion and a dirty portion of airflow, and wherein only the dirty portion of airflow is passed through the second separation stage.
US10143340B2
A paper product dispenser assembly has a hood that includes a hood coupling component, as well as a first rear housing member that is configured for selective coupling with the hood. The first rear housing member has a first coupling component that cooperates with the hood coupling component for releasably coupling the hood and the first rear housing member to one another. The first rear housing member and the hood jointly define a first housing that is adapted to hold a roll of paper product therein. A second rear housing member of the assembly is configured for selective coupling with the hood in place of the first rear housing member. The second rear housing member has a second coupling component that cooperates with the hood coupling component for releasably coupling the hood and the second rear housing member to one another.
US10143334B2
Collapsible combustion containers are disclosed and described. Such combustion containers generally include a plurality of vertically oriented panels joined by hinges. The hinges include hinge pins that can be configured to form at least part of a base that supports the container or at least part of a heating platform above the container or both. Further, the panels can contain one or more fuel openings which allow a user to control placement of fuel in the container inserted from each opening so as to select a point inside the container where the fuel will converge and combust.
US10143326B2
A device for cooking with a combination of steam and smoke. This device employs a burner for heating a material to create smoke, a container to hold such material; a water pan to catch drippings and also having an aperture to direct the flow of the smoke; a tapered pipe having its inlet attached to a water pan with a taper of a pipe accelerating speed of flowing smoke; optionally, a substantially flat plate at an exit of a tapered pipe to cause the smoke to spread farther from a center of its flow through optional apertures in a tapered pipe; optionally, fins attached to an exit in order to cause smoke to rotate as it rises; and apertures in a steam tube for injecting steam into an intended path of smoke.
US10143323B2
A device to disintegrate comestible articles, comprising: a containment vessel with a floor and generally tubular sidewalls projecting upwardly from the floor, the sidewalls having a central longitudinal axis, a power rotated agitator disposed within the containment vessel above and proximate to the floor, having a rotational axis, and operable to both agitate and disintegrate comestible articles placed within the containment vessel, a power source, configured to rotate the agitator, a support housing which encloses the power source which is structured to removably mount the containment vessel. The containment vessel is canted relative to the motor shaft. Output of the containment vessel is filtered. A resiliently closed opening into the containment is formed in the vessel lid. A food handling mechanism introduces comestible articles into the containment vessel. A support mechanism mounts vessels below a device outlet.
US10143321B2
A foldable and collapsible safe box for securing packages or parcels is constructed to include a collapsible safe box body of rectangular shape having a horizontal top open side, a plurality of upright support elongated hinges respectively embedded in four corners of the box body, a horizontal cover flap for securing the box, and a horizontal bottom panel for supporting the contents inside the box.
US10143313B1
A blanket lifting apparatus for raising bedding above the feet of a person lying on a bed includes a threaded rod rotatably coupled to a bottom wall of a framework, the rod extending upwardly to an opposed distal end. A primary lift panel is operatively coupled to the rod and moved vertically when the rod is actuated to rotate. Spring clips are mounted to a top wall of the primary lift panel for selectively retaining the bedding such that the bedding is moved vertically according to movement of the primary lift panel. An auxiliary lift panel is pivotally coupled to the top wall, the auxiliary lift panel being movable between a stowed configuration generally parallel to the primary lift panel and a deployed configuration extending away from the primary lift panel in the direction of the bed.
US10143310B1
A rotary positioning device for an armrest includes a positioning member, a base, a sliding member, and a detent member. The positioning member includes a plurality of first engaging recesses formed at a side edge thereof. The base is rotatably connected to the positioning member. The sliding member is slidably arranged in base and is selectively switchable between a locked position and an unlocked position. The detent member is movably arranged in the base and is selectively engaged with one of the plurality of first engaging recesses to correspond to the locked position or the unlocked position of the sliding member.
US10143301B2
A panel for converting a cabinet (20) into unit specific storage. The cabinet conversion panel comprises a plurality of posts (21), rods (22) and or shelves (23) extending in a vertical, diagonal and or horizontal direction connected and fastened to create interconnected or intersecting lattice, square, rectangular, diamond, circular, herringbone, octagonal, triangular or other geometrical patterns with a frame surrounding and fastened to the operably connected partitions to complete the panel. The cabinet conversion panel also comprises insertable coasters (34-41) and interchangeable inserts (7-9, 14-15, 17, 47-48 and 50-51) to change the function, capacity and design of the panels. The cabinet conversion panel is sized for installation into standard cabinets (20). The panel is adapted so that when two or more of the panels are inserted into a cabinet (20), they will vertically support and hold various types of units including but not limited to wine bottles (26), plates (28), cups (29), dishware, stemware (27), shelves (23) and or other items.
US10143300B2
Material holders for use with a structure (e.g., a stand, tool box, etc.) may include material holding apparatus configured to hold a roll and/or box of material. The material holding apparatus may be configured to hold various material in an organized, open, and unobstructed manner to provide convenient access to the material.
US10143295B2
A retractable holder for a smartphone is formed with a housing, a connection mechanism for connecting and disconnecting the smartphone to the housing, a first lanyard loop comprising lanyard cords that are reeled onto or deployed from cord storage spools located inside the housing, a second lanyard loop comprising lanyard cords that are reeled onto or deployed from cord storage spools located inside the housing and a lanyard control mechanism. The lanyard control mechanism applies a retracting force to each of the cord storage spools, the retracting force operational to reel the lanyard cord extending from the housing in a deployed state to the cord's respective cord storage spool and to enable a user draw out and deploy a fixed length of the lanyard cord from the cord's respective cord storage spool.
US10143294B1
The disclosure is directed to a system for securing an article to a ladder attachment system. The system includes a flexible material tab that includes a locking hook that positively secures the tab to a ladder attachment. Flexible material tabs can be provided integral to a substrate or secured to an article.
US10143290B2
A cosmetic container includes a base assembly configured to hold a cosmetic product, and a lid. The lid and the base assembly are pivotably coupled with a hinge assembly that is completely hidden when the lid is closed. The hinge assembly may be positioned and secured within a recess of the base assembly.
US10143286B2
A hair shaving apparatus constituted of: a heating element arranged to be heated to a temperature sufficient to cut hair proceeding from a skin surface; a shaving head exhibiting a pair of opposing walls, the heating element positioned in between the opposing walls and juxtaposed to an opening plane defined by an end of each of the opposing walls; and a handle coupled to the shaving head and exhibiting a longitudinal axis arranged to present a device angle with the skin surface, wherein the opening plane is arranged to be rotated about a first and a second rotation axis, generally orthogonal to each other and generally parallel to the opening plane, the rotation about the first and second rotation axis maintains a generally parallel relationship between the opening plane and the skin surface when the device angle changes.
US10143279B2
The invention relates to a collapsible luggage bag that improves maneuverability of the bag when a user is towing the bag and collapses to a reduced size to improve portability. In particular, the invention relates to a handle that is slideably interconnected to one or more stays such that the upper ends of the stays change position along the length of the handle as the handle retracts into the luggage. Further, the handle disconnects from one or more of the stays such that the handle, stays, and other frame components collapse and lie in a common plane. This collapsibility improves the portability of the luggage bag when the internal volume of the luggage bag is not used to store items.
US10143275B2
A walking stick has a handle, a foot, and a compartment. A smoking implement is movably disposed within the compartment. The smoking implement is positionable in a first position within the compartment and a second position extending from the compartment.
US10143273B2
A multipurpose walking device is disclosed comprising a shaft (4) and a handle (6), the handle (6) being moveable in relation to the shaft between a first securable position and a second securable position, in which movement of the handle (6) between the first securable position and the second securable position causes a shoehorn (20) to move from a first retained position to a second deployed position. The incorporation of the shoehorn (20) into the multipurpose walking device allows a user to assist themselves when putting on footwear, while substantially reducing bending, and then to walk away. Such a restoration of mobility to a user is highly advantageous.
US10143272B2
The invention relates to an electronic strap for a timepiece, comprising: a printed circuit board an insert disposed on the printed circuit board, comprising a guide element provided to be placed between and fixed to a pair of horns of a watch case (BM), the guide element comprising a lightwave guide comprising: an input disposed on an interface between the guide element and the printed circuit board a first output disposed so as to be opposite a first zone of the watch case (BM) between the two horns when the guide element is placed between and fixed to the pair of horns a first portion connecting the input to the first output a lightwave emitter installed on the printed circuit board, at the level of the input of the wave guide.
US10143269B2
A charm holder device for attaching charms to a shoe is shown and described. The charm holder device allows a charm to be selectively attached to and detached from the shoe. A charm keeper is attached to the decorative body for attaching charms. In some of the described examples, the charm holder device is placed between the heel of the shoe and a ground-contacting portion of the shoe's sole such that the charm holder and the charm are spaced apart from the ground-contacting portion of the sole in a direction perpendicular to the ground-contacting portion of the sole.
US10143252B2
Integrating dynamic materials into articles for adjustable physical characteristics (e.g., aesthetic, functional) can include various systems and methods. For example, in response to a human's body heat, a dynamic material may change shape to allow additional permeability in an article of clothing. Similarly, in response to the presence of moisture, an article of clothing may change shape to prevent the introduction of rain into an internal portion of the article. Additionally, it is contemplated that the shape changing material may change shape that affects a geometric structure of the article as a whole (e.g., protrusions, dimples, vents, etc.).
US10143247B2
An ambidextrous glove for facilitating accurate tactility and dexterity on the distal finger pad tips. The glove has finger tip inserts facilitating tactile sensitivity. The inserts are located between the finger tips and first joint on both sides of at least the thumb, index finger, and middle finger. Optionally, the glove is turned inside out. Holes are cut in both sides of the finger tip. The inserts are adhered to the finger tip to cover the holes. If the glove was turned inside out, it is turned outside out.
US10143241B2
Aspects of the instant disclosure relate to electronic cigarettes. More particularly, to electronic cigarettes including a circumferential light guide that distributes light transmitted by a light source, and controller circuitry that variably illuminates the circumferential light guide of the electronic cigarette based on a user's draw strength.
US10143240B2
The section of the e-vaping device includes a power supply configured to send an electrical current to a heater in the e-vaping device, control circuitry configured to cause the power supply to send the electrical current to the heater if the control circuitry senses an air flow, and a removable insulator configured to disrupt an electrical circuit including the power supply, the heater and the control circuitry, a portion of the removable insulator being positioned between electrically conductive and passive components in the electrical circuit.
US10143238B2
An electronic cigarette includes a battery assembly, an atomizer assembly and a cigarette bottle assembly. An external thread electrode is located in one end of battery assembly. An internal thread electrode is located in one end of atomizer assembly. The battery assembly and the atomizer assembly are connected by the screwthread electrode. The cigarette bottle assembly is inserted into the other end of the atomizer assembly and both form a cigarette type or cigar type body.
US10143231B2
A smoking article is provided, including a blind combustible heat source having opposed front and rear faces and having a transverse cross sectional area of at least about 60 percent of a transverse cross-sectional area of the smoking article; an aerosol-forming substrate downstream of the rear face, wherein the rear face and the aerosol-forming substrate are exposed to one another; a mouthpiece downstream of the aerosol-forming substrate; and one or more air inlets located downstream of the rear face and upstream of the mouthpiece. The one or more air inlets are located between the rear face and a downstream end of the aerosol-forming substrate and include one or more first air inlets around a periphery of the aerosol-forming substrate. Air drawn through the aerosol-forming substrate enters the smoking article through the one or more air inlets.
US10143229B2
A food preparation device is disclosed. The food preparation device can include an ingredient combining apparatus to introduce a fluid food ingredient and a solid food ingredient to one another within a package. The food preparation device can also include a mixing apparatus to mix the fluid food ingredient and the solid food ingredient to form a food mixture in the package. In addition, the food preparation device can include a forming apparatus to form the food mixture into a predetermined shape within the package.
US10143226B1
Food-grade yellow pea protein concentrates prepared from yellow field peas and flours derived therefrom are provided. Also provided are method of making the concentrates and beverages and foodstuffs that include the concentrates. The yellow pea protein concentrates are characterized by a high yellow pea protein content, high digestibility, and complete essential amino acid profile.
US10143224B2
A low protein yogurt composition is provided comprising water, at least one dairy ingredient and a crosslinked waxy starch, wherein the crosslinked waxy starch is crosslinked with phosphate groups and has a peak Brabender viscosity of from about 600 to about 1500 Brabender units, and the cross-linked waxy starch is present in an amount sufficient to add viscosity to the yogurt. The crosslinked waxy starch can also be stabilized by acetylation to obtain longer shelf life.
US10143214B2
A method of preparing a tea beverage in a capsule-based brewing device is provided, the device comprising an infusion chamber (10); a capsule holder (20) sized and shaped so as to receive a capsule (30); a filter (25); an openable and closable passage (29) which terminates in an orifice (40); a vessel (60) located beneath the orifice (40) and having a spout (63); the method comprising the steps of: introducing liquid and infusible beverage material from the capsule (30) into the infusion chamber (10) so as to brew the beverage; and then after brewing has taken place for a sufficient time, opening the passage (29) to allow the beverage to flow from the infusion chamber (10) through the filter (25), along the passage (29), through the orifice (40), into the vessel (60) and out from the spout (63).
US10143202B2
The present invention provides a method of controlling bacterial contamination using synergistic interactions of antimicrobials. The invention consists of combinations of chlorine dioxide and organic acid whose combined antimicrobial effect is greater than the sum of their individual activities, i.e., synergistic.
US10143199B2
The present invention relates to a method of pre-rinsing laundry and treating other surfaces employing a composition that can kill bedbug eggs. The composition includes an anionic compound and is at pH just above neutral, e.g., about 7 to about 9.
US10143195B2
Provided is a solvent borne coating composition comprising (a) one or more polymeric biocide comprising multivalent metal cations and multivalent organic anions, (b) one or more polymer-encapsulated biocide, and (c) one or more ethoxylated triglyceride that has average number of moles of ethylene oxide units per mole of triglyceride molecules of 10 to 45. Also provided are a method of making such composition and a method of using such a composition.
US10143193B2
A device for electrocuting pests includes first and second electrodes and an infrared detector. The infrared detector is responsive to infrared radiation emitted by a pest and provides output signals indicating the presence of a pest. A circuit responsive to the output signals and responsive to sensing current flowing between the first and second electrodes, which indicates that a pest is present and in contact with the electrodes, provides high voltage across the first and second electrodes when a selected one of the output signals and the sensing current indicates that a pest is in contact with the electrodes.
US10143189B2
There is provided a reel comprising a bearing in which the inward surfaces of the outer ring and inner ring of the bearing are covered with a liquid water-repellent agent having lubricity, and further the exposed surfaces of the outer ring and the inner ring are also covered with the water-repellent agent or another water-repelling material.
US10143183B2
An animal toenail grip designed and configured to provide an animal with traction on slippery and/or hard surfaces. The toenail grip includes a tubular member removably securable via frictional interference to the nail of the animal. The tubular member is constructed of a flexible, returnably-resilient material having superior non-slip or gripping characteristics. The toenail grip enhances proprioception in animals having certain neurological deficits and yields long term improvement in gait and stance on hard-surface flooring.
US10143182B1
A multi-washer function box defines an interior space for accommodating a pet. A drying hood with an air blowing unit is attached to the box for drying of a pet. The pet is prevented from coming into contact with the air blowing unit by a mesh that covers and air blowing unit. The user can control the delivery of air by opening one side of the washing chamber, or by positioning the drying hood in various partially open positions. An accessory table is attached to the box with hinges, and can be used for grooming Stretchable water-proof cords are attached to the box for holding a pet A water-proof accessory kit protects the air-blowing unit from contact with water during washing.
US10143176B2
A new and distinct clonal line plant of Solanum tuberosum L. named KI964 and characterized by elevated levels of proteinase inhibitor II.
US10143173B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH276806. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH276806, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH276806 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH276806.
US10143159B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH668645. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH668645, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH668645 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH668645.
US10143153B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH174815. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH174815, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH174815 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH174815.
US10143152B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH205107. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH205107, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH205107 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH205107.
US10143151B2
Inbred corn line, designated IV4, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line IV4, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line IV4 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing inbred corn line IV4 with itself or another corn line. The invention also relates to products produced from the seeds, plants, or parts thereof, of inbred corn line IV4 and/or of the hybrids produced using the inbred as a parent. The invention further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line IV4.
US10143144B2
An improved ceramic discharge (hanging) lamp is designed for growing plants. A top mounted quick disconnect ballast provides maximum reflection area around the bulb. This also provides a quick disconnect for maintenance. Multiple ballasts can be daisy chained from one high voltage receptacle. An augmented LED or other light source can be attached to a lower frame or to the top frame to provide added light colors at various growth stages. A controller can vary the cycle times of each augmented light panel. The primary reflector maximizes the efficiency of the bulb.
US10143141B2
A threshing section of an agricultural harvester. The threshing section includes a threshing drum and at least one concave assembly positioned proximate to the threshing drum. The concave assembly has a plurality of modularized assemblies, each modularized assembly being independently configurable.
US10143139B2
A round hay bale unrolling device attaches to a flatbed vehicle presenting a foldable arm attaching to a square hitch receiver of the vehicle supported by the flatbed of the truck allowing the vehicle operator to turn right into the bale to drive an angular spike into the center of the bale, drive forward to despool the round bale and to turn left to disengage the bale in the event of an emergency or at the time the bale has been laid into flat hay. This device is designed to be used by a firefighting vehicle to despool inflamed hay bales without exposing the user to the heat and flames of the hay bale or for use by farmers to unroll the hay bale for feeding without exiting the vehicle in poor weather.
US10143136B2
A header has frame sections that are joined for articulation with each other. The frame sections each form a partial working width of the header. The frame sections include outer lateral frame sections and a central frame section. A relief element is connected to the central frame section and an outer lateral frame section adjacent to the central frame section. The relief element is adjustable between a springy setting and a locked setting. The relief element has a spring movable in a loading direction and also a spatial body rigid in the loading direction. The spring is connected to the first outer lateral frame section by a bolt guided in a slotted hole of the rigid spatial body. A pivotable stop element with stops is pivotable into a plurality of pivot positions. A spring travel of the spring is adjustable by the stops of the stop element.
US10143132B2
A combine including: a measurement sensor that measures a retention volume amount of a grain retained in a grain tank; a determination unit that determines whether or not the retention volume amount measured by the measurement sensor exceeds a preset threshold; a notification unit that, if it is determined by the determination unit that the retention volume amount exceeds the threshold, notifies an operator of information indicating that the amount of the grain exceeds the threshold; a change unit that can change the threshold; and a communication unit that communicates with an external server. The change unit changes the threshold based on data received from the external server.
US10143129B2
A flow splitter for distributing agricultural products may include a splitter body defining an inlet port and a plurality of outlet ports. The flow splitter may also include at least two baffle plates positioned within the splitter body so as to divide an internal flow chamber of the splitter body into a plurality of downstream flow channels. Additionally, the flow splitter may include a divider plate positioned within the splitter body upstream of the baffle plates such that the divider plate is spaced apart from upstream edges of the baffle plates in a direction of the inlet port of the splitter body. The divider plate may be configured to initially divide an input flow of agricultural product received at the input port into two separate product flows for subsequently delivery into the plurality of downstream flow channels.
US10143122B2
The present invention relates to a tool system for an agricultural ground cultivating machine having a base part which communicates, by means of a releasable connection, with a carrier element, in particular with a tine of the agricultural ground cultivating machine, wherein the base part comprises a cutter and, adjoining the cutter, at least one hard material element, and wherein the carrier element comprises, in its end region pointing in the operating direction, laterally arranged wing shares which are fitted with hard metal plates. In this case, it is provided that the edge of the wing share which is fitted with hard metal plates runs up to a lateral surface of the carrier element. The present invention additionally relates to an associated wing coulter. The tool system has reduced wear and tear and consequently extended changing intervals.
US10143121B2
A hand held tool for gardens, landscapes and the like; comprising a handle, and a tool head. The tool head is formed from a flat blade that has tapers and is bent in substantially a “J” shape that is beveled along a portion of its edges. The open end of the “J” has a beveled tip, preferably containing a center notch. The bent, closed portion of the “J” shape is beveled at least 50% and forms a heel. The short leg of the “J” forms a flange, which is preferably not beveled and provides an area for attaching the tool head to the handle, preferably via a tang. The blade width is generally four or more times wider than the thickness of the blade material.
US10149414B1
Technology is provided for a device sled with an interference shield. The device sled includes a sled chassis having a bottom wall and first and second opposed sidewalls. A shield support bracket is coupled to the first sidewall and an interference shield is removably coupled to the shield support bracket and the second sidewall. The interference shield includes a shield panel, first and second opposed side flanges extending from the shield panel, and a latch coupled to the first side flange and positioned to engage the shield support bracket.
US10149408B2
A liquid immersion bath for an electronic device includes: a bath body that is capable of housing the electronic device, is coupled to a circulation path through which a liquid coolant which cools the electronic device immersed in the liquid coolant circulates, and includes a gas phase portion corresponding to a space free from the liquid coolant; and a container that is disposed in the gas phase portion and has a volume which changes in accordance with a pressure of the gas phase portion, wherein an inside of the container is coupled to an outside of the bath body.
US10149402B1
An IO subsystem, for use with an IT computing device, includes a cage assembly configured to releasably engage a chassis of the IT computing device and to receive a plurality of IO adapter cards. A midplane adapter assembly, positioned within the cage assembly, includes a first electrical connector system configured to engage a generic connector system included within the IT computing device and a second electrical connector system configured to engage the plurality of IO adapter cards. A coupling system is configured to releasably couple the cage assembly to the chassis of the IT computing device.
US10149401B2
A system includes a rear panel of a housing that includes a first compartment and a second compartment. The system further includes a first module of a first type coupled to the first compartment and a second module of a second type coupled to the second compartment. The first compartment is configured to couple to modules of the first type and the second type, and the second compartment is configured to couple to modules of the first type and the second type.
US10149398B2
A method for improving fire prevention performance of a vehicle-carried data recording device and a protection device thereof are provided, where the method includes: mounting the vehicle-carried data recording device in a water-proof shell in a sealing manner; mounting the water-proof shell in a mounting space enclosed by an upper constant-temperature water shell and a lower constant-temperature water shell; injecting a liquid into the upper constant-temperature water shell and the lower constant-temperature water shell; mounting a constant-temperature water shell composed of the upper constant-temperature water shell and the lower constant-temperature water shell in a fire-proof box; and packing the fire-proof box in a protective housing with heat dissipation holes to prevent a data recording device from being damaged when the vehicle is damaged by the action of an external force. The device is majorly encased by a water-proof shell, a constant-temperature water shell, a fire-proof box and a protective housing successively. The present disclosure has advantages of long fire resistance time and high data security.
US10149393B2
There is provided a burning method of burning, on a base member, a precursor in which conductive particles are dispersed in a dispersion medium, and the burning method includes: a first pressurization step of pressurizing the precursor heated to a burning temperature or above; and a second pressurization step of pressurizing, after the first pressurization step, the precursor with a pressurization force higher than a pressurization force in the first pressurization step.
US10149390B2
The technology disclosed relates to accommodating embedded substrates during direct writing onto a printed circuit board and to other patterning problems that benefit from an extended depth of focus. In particular, it relates to multi-focus direct writing of a workpiece by the continuous or step-wise movement of the workpiece during the sequence of exposures having different focus planes. In one implementation, a multi-arm rotating direct writer is configured for interleaved writing focused on two or more focal planes that generally correspond to two or more surface heights of a radiation sensitive layer that overlays the uneven workpiece. Alternating arms can produce interleaved writing to the two or more focal planes.
US10149375B2
A method is described for measuring a moving property of a target. The method includes: forming a remaining plasma that at least partially coincides with an extended target region, the remaining plasma being a plasma formed from an interaction between a prior target and a prior radiation pulse in a target space; releasing a current target along a trajectory toward the target space that is at least partly overlapping the extended target region; determining one or more moving properties of the current target when the current target is within the extended target region and after a prior and adjacent target has interacted with a prior radiation pulse in the target space; and if any of the determined one or more moving properties of the current target are outside an acceptable range, then adjusting one or more characteristics of a radiation pulse directed toward the target space.
US10149373B2
A lighting control console for controlling a lighting system, wherein digital adjusting commands are generated in the lighting control console that can be transmitted to the lighting system via data links. At least one dual encoder is provided in the control panel of the lighting control console which allows users to enter input values. The dual encoder includes a first shaft and a second shaft rotatably mounted in a housing, first and second locking mechanisms for locking different rotational positions of the first and second shafts, and at least one first and at least one second rotation signal generator for generating a data signal showing a switchover between two locking positions. Both shafts include actuating elements at which adjusting movements can be transmitted onto the shafts by hand.
US10149371B2
A rain gutter illumination system having a cover for attaching to a rain gutter with an aperture along the substantial length of the cover, and opposing recesses for retaining a decorative insert. When the decorative insert is inserted in the cover, it is held in place by the recesses, and a light source and optional diffusing panel may be arranged in the cover so that the light source projects light through the aperture of the illuminable surface. The light source may be remotely controllable using a wireless remote control device, such as a smart phone over a network connection.
US10149370B2
In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a signal indicating that a timeout timer associated with a space has been has crossed a threshold in a space. If a motion sensor is disposed within the space, the method includes sending a signal to a connector operatively coupled to a light source such that the connector reverts to a default state. If (1) a motion sensor is not disposed within the space and (2) a light sensor is disposed within the space, the method includes sending a signal to the connector such that the connector is controlled by the light sensor.
US10149367B2
A wall-mountable wireless control device may include an antenna, a radio-frequency communication circuit, a control circuit, an enclosure, a conductive yoke, and/or a conductive member. The antenna may be configured to transmit and/or receive radio-frequency signals. The radio-frequency communication circuit may be configured to transmit and/or receive the radio-frequency signals via the antenna. The control circuit may be responsive to the radio-frequency communication circuit. The enclosure may be configured to house the radio-frequency communication circuit and the control circuit. The conductive yoke may be attached to the enclosure and configured to mount the control device to an electrical wallbox. The conductive member may extend around a rear side of the enclosure between opposite sides of the yoke.
US10149363B2
A method for making a light-emitting diode (LED) emitter module includes providing a substrate and providing two or more groups of LED dies disposed on the substrate. Each group has one or more LED dies, and each of the LED dies is coupled to an electrical contact and electrical paths are configured for feeding separate electrical currents to the groups of LED dies. The method also includes determining information associating a plurality output light colors with a corresponding plurality of combinations of electrical currents, each combination specifying a plurality of electrical current values, each electrical current value being associated with an LED die from one of the two or more groups of LED dies. The method also includes storing the information in the memory device, and providing a circuit for accessing the information in the memory device.
US10149360B2
A lighting control system includes: a first control device; a detector; a second control device; and a lighting device. The first control device transmits a PWM signal to the second control device. The second control device receives the PWM signal and acquires a detection signal indicating a detection result of the detector, and transmits to the lighting device a dimming signal corresponding to either one of the PWM signal or the detection signal. The PWM signal includes either one of a dimming PWM signal whose duty ratio is within a predetermined range or a detection control PWM signal whose duty ratio is outside the predetermined range. When the dimming PWM signal is received, the second control device performs dimming control on the lighting device, and when the detection control PWM signal is received, the second control device performs lighting control on the lighting device according to the detection signal.
US10149358B1
In accordance with various embodiments, a programmable current control device for an illumination system receives information representative of a desired output current level, stores information representative of the desired output current level, and maintains the desired output current level for at least a portion of the illumination system.
US10149353B2
A microwave oven includes an oven muffle, a high-frequency oscillator for generating microwaves propagating within the oven muffle, an opening within the muffle wall of the oven muffle for passing a rotatable shaft of a motor through the muffle wall, and an element for suppressing microwave leakage through the opening. The element for suppressing microwave leakage is arranged at a distance to the muffle wall by a motor mounting element bearing the motor, such that there is no direct physical contact between the muffle wall and the suppression element.
US10149351B2
A device for generating an alternating radio-frequency electromagnetic field in a working area includes an applicator emitting the electromagnetic field, an oscillator providing an alternate voltage and electric current having a predetermined value and a predetermined frequency to the applicator, a power supply supplying a substantially DC voltage to the oscillator, and a control system controlling the electrical parameters of the AC voltage, the AC current and/or the frequency provided to the applicator by the oscillator. The control system includes an input port connected to the electric power network, a first electronic control circuit connected to the input port and substantially instantaneously varying the electrical parameters and instantaneous control of the field emission power, and a second electronic control circuit regulating the operation of the oscillator. The first electronic circuit has an output connected to the power supply. A plant includes the device and a control method for the device.
US10149339B2
According to a first aspect of embodiments herein, the object is achieved by a method in a base station for handling a Random Access Channel (RACH) procedure in a mixed cellular and device to device (D2D) network. The base station receives from a first user equipment in a RACH message, an indication that the RACH relates to D2D communication. The base station then schedules a D2D link to the first user equipment based on the indication.
US10149335B2
The disclosure relates to an Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity module that can add connectivity to an otherwise non-connected host and simplify procedures to connect, configure, and enable device-to-device (D2D) communication between the host and various heterogeneous IoT devices. For example, according to various aspects, the connectivity module may comprise a connectivity chip configured to implement a wireless network platform (e.g., a radio-frequency front end and one or more wireless radios), one or more standard peripheral interfaces configured to interconnect the connectivity module to a host having at least one processor, and a D2D application configured to implement a proximal D2D communication framework and expose a command protocol associated with the proximal D2D communication framework via the standard peripheral interfaces. Furthermore, according to various aspects, the connectivity module may comprise a dedicated interrupt line that may be asserted to notify the host when data becomes available to consume.
US10149334B2
Macrocell communication resources are assigned for device-to-device (D2D) communication between two wireless communication user equipment (UE) devices. A scheduler in a communication system schedules (assigns) scheduled downlink communication resources for downlink transmission of signals from a base station, schedules (assigns) scheduled uplink communication resources for uplink communication from wireless communication (UE) devices to base stations, and schedules (assigns) (D2D) communication resources for (D2D) communication between wireless communication (UE) devices. The (D2D) communication resources are selected from either defined downlink communication resources or defined uplink communication resources that are defined by communication specification. The base station sends communication resource allocation (CRA) information to at least one of the wireless communication (UE) devices where the communication resource allocation information identifies the (D2D) communication resources for use by the wireless communication (UE) devices to communicate through a device-to-device (D2D) communication link.
US10149331B2
A communication system, a serving gateway, a communication method, and a base station are provided that make it possible to flexibly increase/decrease a U-plane processing function of a communication apparatus. A communication system in which a logical path is configured in a network to perform communication, comprises: second gateways (740-1, 740-2), which are deployed for a plurality of first gateways (720-1, 720-2), respectively; a transport network (760), which the logical paths configured between a base station (770) and the second gateways pass through; and a control apparatus (710) that controls packet forwarding in the transport network, wherein the control apparatus controls the transport network so that a logical path to which a packet belongs is identified and the packet will be forwarded to the second gateway corresponding to the identified logical path.
US10149326B2
This invention proposes efficient data transmission methods in the mobile cellular network. A specific resource pool is divided into several resource groups to indicate the size level of the data available for transmission. The base station allocates a proper UL grant to the terminal. Based on the allocated UL grant, the terminal compares the granted Transport Block (TB) size with the size of data available for transmission. If the UL grant is large enough, the terminal transmits the data available for transmission in the allocated UL resource, otherwise, re-attempts the random access procedure. In another example, the terminal transmits a BSR message and as much of the data as is available for transmission. The base station may grant additional UL resources if there is remaining data to be transmitted. A timer is used for the terminal to decide whether waiting for the additional UL grant from the base station.
US10149311B2
A method includes receiving one or more node connections from a mesh network external to the data processing hardware. The mesh network includes a network of nodes each operative to transmit and/or receive directional beams containing packets of data. The method also includes identifying a route within the mesh network for providing a data packet from a source to a destination and determining schedule information associated with the identified route, the schedule information coordinating wireless communication between at least a first node and a second node along the route to transfer the data packet. The method also includes providing the schedule information to the first node and the second node.
US10149308B2
A communication quality determination/acquisition device and method for a wireless communication system. The determination device includes: a measuring module configured to perform downlink channel quality measurement based on a distribution of static and dynamic downlink subframes of a target cell, wherein the static downlink subframes are downlink subframes relative to the target cell and at least one neighboring cell, while the dynamic downlink subframes are downlink subframes relative to the target cell and are uplink subframes relative to the at least one neighboring cell; and a communication module configured to report a downlink channel quality measurement result. By performing measurement and reporting while considering downlink subframe configurations and the distribution of the static and dynamic downlink subframes of the target cell, the device and method can accurately measure the channel quality under dynamic TDD UL/DL configurations and report the same to a network side.
US10149299B2
Collecting state information about the resources of radio access networks (RANs) and the Access Point Names (APNs) enables this information to be provided to mobile stations which employ this information to determine which radio access technology (RAT) to employ for connecting to the wireless access network, and to determine which APN to use. This decision is made relative to each application that the mobile station is executing, and these decisions are, optionally, revisited periodically, or as significant changes in the state information are recognized.
US10149295B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting/receiving using multiple carriers in a mobile communication system. A method for transmitting/receiving data by a terminal using multiple carriers in a mobile communication system according to the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving a serving cell addition control message including uplink subframe pattern information on a master serving cell group or a slave serving cell group from a base station; establishing synchronization with a serving cell included in the serving cell addition control message; and, when a command for activating the serving cell with which the synchronization is established is received, transmitting/receiving data to/from the base station through the added serving cell.
US10149283B2
A communications device transmits/receives data from/to a mobile communications network including one or more network elements arranged to form a wireless access interface for transmitting/receiving data. An up-link includes a control channel for transmitting signalling information from the communications device to the mobile communications network in accordance with a predetermined format in which signals which representing the signalling information occupy, in the time domain, the predetermined number of frequency division multiplexed symbols of the control channel. A controller is configured to control a transmitter unit to transmit the signals and a receiver unit to receive the signals to transmit or receive the data. The controller is configured to adapt the transmission of the signals representing the signalling information transmitted, by the transmitter unit, in the control channel to occupy a smaller number of the predetermined number of frequency division multiplexed symbols of the time period of the control channel.
US10149280B2
A user device may transmit a request to a base station for an allocation of device-to-device (D2D) discovery resources. In response to the request, the user device may receive from the base station a response that indicates whether the D2D discovery resources allocated to the user device are common or dedicated.
US10149279B2
A method by which an STA transmits a multi-user (MU) frame in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving, from an access point (AP), a second downlink frame including time synchronization information and frequency synchronization information; adjusting a time synchronization and a frequency synchronization by using the time synchronization information and the frequency synchronization information; receiving a third downlink frame including MU frame allocation information; and transmitting the MU frame according to the MU allocation information, wherein the time synchronization information is determined by comparing, to a reference value, a difference of measurement values relating to frames exchanged prior to the reception of the second downlink frame, and the reference value is a common value among STAs related to a multi-user transmission.
US10149272B2
Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, user equipment (UE) comprises processing circuitry to connect to a network via an untrusted wireless local area network (WLAN) and determine a location of the UE to provide the location of the UE if a voice call is made by the UE via the untrusted WLAN. The UE provides the location of the UE to a Public-Safety Answering Point (PSAP) via one or more network nodes of the network via the untrusted WLAN.
US10149266B2
An apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to acquire a device driver corresponding to a device, deploy the acquired device driver so as to be operable, generate an address allowing a function of the device to be called from one or more client apparatuses, register the address and a path to the device driver in association with each other, generate, based on first information in which a function to be provided by each device is described and the address, second information including the function of the device and the address, and register the second information.
US10149254B2
Disclosed is a terminal that performs an appropriate transmission power control for both signals intended for a base station and for D2D communication. The terminal includes: a reception processing section that receives a control signal including a TPC command selected from among a plurality of candidate values; and a transmission power control section that controls a first transmission power for an uplink data signal for a base station, using a first correction value corresponding to the received TPC command, and that controls a second transmission power for a signal for D2D communication using the first correction value or a second correction value corresponding to the received TPC command. In the terminal, the first and the second correction values are set for each candidate value of the TPC command; and the second correction value is set lower than the first correction value for at least one of the candidate values.
US10149249B2
A method and an apparatus for controlling uplink transmission power in a wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus receives transmit power command (TPC) monitoring information for receiving a plurality of TPCs for adjusting uplink transmission power for a plurality of serving cells. The apparatus obtains the plurality of TPCs by monitoring a downlink control channel on the basis of the TPC monitoring information.
US10149247B2
A communication system operates in the first power state during a communication session. The system transitions from the first to a second power state, when a first predefined time period expires after transfer of a packet and before a transfer of a next packet, for any of and no more than a first N packets in the communication session. Alternatively or in addition, the system transitions from the first to the second power state when: (a) the first predefined time period expires after transfer of a packet and before transfer of a next packet in the communication session and (b) the size of each packet transferred thus far in the communication session is not greater than S.
US10149246B2
A wireless device includes a first antenna and a second antenna that may be used to communicate with a wireless network. The wireless device initiates a traffic call with a wireless network and activates a first antenna to be used to communicate with the wireless network upon initiating the traffic call. The wireless device selectively activates a second antenna, when initiating the traffic call, based at least in part on a usage of the second antenna during a previous traffic call. For example, the wireless device may maintain the second antenna in an inactive state if the second antenna was deactivated during the previous traffic call and/or remained inactive for at least a threshold duration.
US10149244B2
An apparatus and a method for controlling power consumption of a terminal in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes deactivating one or more of hardware components for signal reception in a transmission interval if there is no data to be received in the transmission interval, and receiving a control signal by activating all the components in a next transmission interval.
US10149243B2
A base station for managing a cell includes a controller configured to perform an on/off operation to turn a downlink transmission of the cell on and off. The controller performs a process of transmitting a periodic radio signal including a cell-specific reference signal.
US10149241B2
Disclosed is a device for starting a mobile hotspot, including: a password sending module, configured to send a Bluetooth pairing password and a preset start password to a mobile terminal that previously accessed a mobile hotspot via WIFI; a working state detecting module, configured to: detect the working state of mobile hotspot; a sleep triggering module, configured to trigger the mobile hotspot to enter into a sleeping state when detecting that the mobile hotspot has no user access and/or no data service; a Bluetooth module, configured to establish a Bluetooth connection with the mobile terminal and receive a password sent by the mobile terminal when the mobile hotspot is in the sleeping state; a start controlling module, configured to compare the password with a locally stored start password and control the mobile hotspot to enter into the working state when the comparison result is that they are consistent.
US10149238B2
Intelligent radio access control selecting a first cell device of a first cell layer or a second cell device of a second cell layer or selecting a radio access technology for communication by a mobile device are provided. A device receives information indicative of an access assignment for communication. The access assignment is generated based on a defined criterion, which is associated with a policy of determining a cell layer assignment prior to determining a radio access technology (RAT) assignment. In response to receiving the information, the device can update its configuration to transmit via a transmission parameter based on the information. The cell layer assignment can offload traffic from the first cell device to the second cell device while the RAT assignment can re-assign the device from a first RAT to a second RAT. Assignment can be based on network conditions or mobility state or applications of the device.
US10149233B2
A communication apparatus having a direct wireless communication function includes a generation unit configured to generate a first two-dimensional code including an address of the communication apparatus and an SSID corresponding to the direct wireless communication function, and a second two-dimensional code including the address of the communication apparatus and not including the SSID corresponding to the direct wireless communication function, and an output unit configured to output the first two-dimensional code and the second two-dimensional code.
US10149229B2
Techniques described herein may allow for the selective enabling and/or disabling of shared access points (“SAPs”). The selective enabling and/or disabling may occur based on the analysis of key performance indicators (“KPIs”) associated with the SAPs. The selective enabling and/or disabling may cause the SAPs to cease (or continue) broadcasting their availability for User Equipment (“UEs”) of a particular wireless provider, decline (or accept) bearer requests for UEs of the particular wireless provider, or terminate existing connections with UEs of the particular wireless provider. The selective enabling and/or disabling may be performed for certain applications or Quality of Service (“QoS”) levels. The selective enabling and/or disabling may be performed proactively (e.g., without necessarily determining that the performance for a given SAP has not met a threshold performance), based on historical trends.
US10149227B2
A method for operating a user equipment (UE) adapted to transmit beacons includes adjusting an initial beacon interval between successively transmitted beacons in accordance with a value of at least one parameter and a beacon configuration received from a network entity, thereby producing an adjusted beacon interval, and transmitting a beacon selected in accordance with the adjusted beacon interval in a beacon transmission opportunity determined in accordance with the initial beacon interval.
US10149220B2
Disclosed is a method for notifying uplink and downlink configuration information. The method includes: a base station sending to a user equipment (UE) a downlink control information format, wherein the downlink control information format carries uplink and downlink configuration information used for indicating an uplink and downlink configuration.
US10149219B2
A user terminal, method, and apparatus receive an offload command instructing an offload from a cellular base station, the offload steering traffic from the cellular base station to a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point being while maintaining a connection between the user terminal and cellular base station. An attempt is made to connect to the WLAN access point in response to receiving the offload command, and in response to the attempt failing, determine whether a reason for the failure of connection to the WLAN access point is a first reason being an issue of a radio link between the user terminal and the WLAN access point or a second reason being an internal issue of the user terminal. A failure indication is transmitted to the base station in response to a connection failure indicates connection failure and indicates whether the reason is the first or second reason.
US10149218B2
A method and apparatus for handling radio access network (RAN) assistance information in a wireless communication system are provided. A user equipment (UE) receives the RAN assistance information with a time value via dedicated signaling from a first cell of a first radio access technology (RAT), and starts a timer with the received timer value. The UE performs a cell change from the first cell of the first RAT to a second cell of a second RAT, and determines whether to stop the timer based on the RAN assistance information. The UE applies the received RAN assistance information while the timer is running. While the timer is running, the UE applies the received RAN assistance information, which is received from the first cell for the first RAT, for RAN-assisted interworking with the second cell of the second RAT.
US10149215B2
An access point control node assists a wireless terminal to select an access node for a communication in a wireless communication network comprising a cellular network access node and a wireless local network access node. The access point control node communicates with the wireless terminal via one or both of the wireless local network access node and the cellular network access node, and establishes a state of a wireless local network unit in the wireless terminal. The access point control node also obtains at least one of a radio or load condition of each of the wireless local network access node and the cellular network access node, and determines which of the access nodes to use based on the established state of the wireless local network unit and the obtained conditions.
US10149213B2
A method and system for group handover is provided. In an embodiment, a method in a network component for group handover in a wireless network includes receiving, at the network component, a mobility command from a target base station. The method also includes processing, with the network component, the mobility command in a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer of a context for a remote user equipment (UE) to generate a PDCP Protocol Data Unit (PDU). The method also includes encapsulating the PDCP PDU as a field in a radio resource control (RRC) message to the relay UE.
US10149211B2
According to an embodiment, a method for selecting an access network at user equipment in a mobile communication system includes step of receiving, from a base station, first setting information, and step of selecting the access network based on second setting information if the second setting information is received from the base station, or selecting the access network based on the first setting information if no second setting information is received. Using the proposed method, the user equipment can reduce user's inconvenience and save battery by blocking unnecessary offloading and wireless LAN scanning, and also can improve the quality of use and immediately respond to a cell change by preventing a ping-pong phenomenon.
US10149200B2
In one implementation, interference generated by a constellation of satellites is mitigated. Each satellite is configured to provide multiple beams that define a coverage footprint. Anticipated positions are determined for satellites. Based on the anticipated positions, a determination is made that, during a defined period of time, portions of a coverage footprint for a first satellite will be covered by coverage footprints for other satellites. Based on this, a beam assignment for the first satellite is defined in which a first subset of beams configured to provide coverage of a first portion of the first coverage footprint are inactive, and a beam assignment for a second satellite is defined in which a second subset of beams are active, where the second subset of beams provide coverage within the first portion of the first coverage footprint.
US10149195B2
Apparatus is configured to scan for radio signals transmitted by at least first and second transmitting devices; for each radio signal identified in the scan, receive an identifier relating to the originating transmitting device from the radio signal; use the identifier and/or parameters of a radio signal received from the first transmitting device and the identifier and/or parameters of a radio signal received from the second transmitting device to detect whether the first and second transmitting devices are co-located; and in response to detecting that the first and second transmitting devices are co-located: create a group for the transmitting devices that are identified as being co-located; create wireless fingerprint data for the group as a whole and refrain from creating wireless fingerprint data for every transmitting device of the group; and cause transmission of the wireless fingerprint data to a remote server.
US10149194B2
A method, apparatus and system for establishing a bearer are provided. The method includes: after a core network node initiates a bearer setup request, receiving, by a gateway node, a first identifier and a third identifier that are sent by a macro access network node, where the first identifier is used to enable the core network node to identify uplink user data forwarded by the gateway node, and the third identifier is used to enable a first small access network node to identify downlink user data forwarded by the gateway node; and sending, by the gateway node, a second identifier and a fourth identifier to the macro access network node.
US10149185B2
It is provided a method for reporting quality of experience of receiving digital content over a cellular network. The method is performed in a wireless terminal and comprises the steps of: detecting an end of the reception of the digital content; obtaining a device identifier of the wireless terminal; generating a reception reporting message comprising the device identifier and quality of experience metrics related to the reception of the digital content; and transmitting the reception reporting message to a network node. Corresponding, wireless terminal, network node, computer programs and computer program products are also provided.
US10149182B2
A device and method for transmitting user equipment capability information to a network. In a first mechanism, the device and method transmits carrier aggregation (CA) combinations supported by the user equipment in a priority order to the network. The priority order may be determined based on most recent camped bands and the neighbor bands of the most recent camped bands. In a second mechanism, the device and method transmits indicators corresponding to types of gapless measurements, where when an indicator is set to the user equipment being incapable of performing the type of gapless measurement, the capability message does not include individual indications for the bands for that type of measurement.
US10149181B2
The present invention discloses a signal output apparatus, a board, and a signal output method. UE signals to be output are grouped, and UE signals having similar powers are combined and are then output by using one same antenna. This resolves a problem that a low-power UE signal is distorted when a large quantity of UE signals are output from an air interface.
US10149180B2
A radio device includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter transmits rotationally polarized radio waves in a plurality of transmission propagation directions using a plurality of antennas. The receiver receives rotationally polarized radio waves in a plurality of reception propagation directions using a plurality of antennas. The receiver measures changes in rotational loci of polarizations of the radio waves received in the plurality of reception propagation directions corresponding to radio waves transmitted in a plurality of transmission propagation directions. The transmitter performs transmission using a reception propagation direction at which the changes measured by the receiver in the rotational loci of the polarizations of the received radio waves stop.
US10149169B1
An apparatus for testing, inspecting or screening an electronic device for electrical characteristics, modified or unmodified hardware, or firmware modifications including Malware, Trojans, improper versioning, and the like, includes a transmitting antenna positioned at a distance from the electronic device and a electromagnetic energy receiver or sensor for examining a resulting unintentional derived electromagnetic energy from the electronic device. The receiver collects unintentional RF energy components emitted by the device and includes a processor and executable instructions that perform analysis in a response to the acquired electromagnetic energy input. The characteristics of the collected RF energy may be compared with RF energy characteristics of an exemplary device. The analysis determines one of a modified, unmodified or score of certainty of discerned condition of the device.
US10149167B2
Systems and methods for securing access to a mobile device are disclosed. A method includes: synchronizing, by a first mobile computer device, with a remote mobile computer device; transmitting, by the first mobile computer device, a tone to a surface of an object; receiving, by the first mobile computer device, a compound resonance frequency from the object based on the transmitted tone; determining, by the first mobile computer device, the received compound resonance frequency conforms to a stored compound resonance frequency; unlocking, by the first mobile computer device, the first computer device based on the determining; and establishing, by the first mobile computer device, a group connection with the remote mobile computer device based on the unlocking.
US10149154B2
An apparatus for connecting an Internet of Things (IoT) hub to a wireless network, the apparatus including: 1) a security module to generate a first secret and a second secret, and to encrypt a wireless key using the second secret to generate a first-encrypted key; and 2) a connection logic to establish a secure communication channel between an IoT hub and an IoT service using the first secret, transmit the second secret to the IoT hub and the first-encrypted key to the IoT service, receive from the IoT service a twice-encrypted key generated by encrypting the first-encrypted key using the first secret, and transmit the twice-encrypted key to the IoT hub, which decrypts it using the first secret to generate the first-encrypted key, which is further decrypted using the second secret to generate the wireless key. The IoT hub using the wireless key to connect to the wireless network.
US10149144B2
Described herein is a simulacrum security device and methods. In one embodiment, a simulacrum or likeness of a physical security device is provided for use in conjunction with a software emulation of the security device. In one implementation, a “faux SIM card” is provided that does not contain Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) information itself, but instead enables a user to download Electronic SIM (eSIM) information (e.g., from a network or eSIM server) which is loaded into a software emulation of a Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) device. The faux card is printed with an activation code, scan pattern, or other activation or access information. The subscriber purchases the faux card, and enters the activation code into a device; the entered activation code enables the device to log onto a network, and download the appropriate eSIM data. Delivery of eSIM information as enabled by the faux card addresses deficiencies in existing SIM distribution schemes, provides users with an enhanced perception of security, and further addresses various legal requirements.
US10149111B1
In one embodiment, a method includes determining a current location of a user based on location data received from a client device; and calculating a transition probability of the user transitioning, within a predetermined time window, from the current location to each of a number of candidate geographic locations. The calculating of the transition probability is based at least in part on previously logged location data associated with a number of users who were at the current location. The method also includes determining metadata associated with the user; and calculating an offline probability associated with each of the number of candidate geographic locations using a computer model and the metadata associated with the user. The computer model is generated using machine learning and metadata associated with users who were at the respective candidate geographic location.
US10149109B2
A computer-implemented method includes, by a first terminal device among a plurality of terminal devices in a vicinity of a user, receiving a frequency of coexistence from each of one or more second terminal devices among the plurality of terminal devices. The first terminal device and each of the second terminal devices each store a frequency of coexistence, wherein the frequency of coexistence shows a frequency that a terminal device which stores the frequency of coexistence and each of one or more other terminal devices coexisted in the vicinity at a predetermined location. The method further includes calculating a mean value of the frequencies of coexistence for each of the terminal devices which are not currently in the vicinity of the user, and, if the mean value is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold, concluding that a terminal device is not in the vicinity of the user.
US10149107B2
A method and apparatus for estimating a position of a terminal is provided. The method and apparatus include a technique for a sensor network, a machine to machine (M2M), a machine type communication (MTC), and Internet of things (IoT), and may be used for intelligent services based on the technique (smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail industry, and security and safety related services). The method includes identifying direction information of a received signal if setting up connection between a terminal and an access point (AP), receiving information about a barometric pressure sensor from the terminal, and calculating the position of the terminal based on the direction information and the information about the barometric pressure sensor of the terminal.
US10149106B2
A system that acquires at least position information, height information and first priority information corresponding to a first wireless communication system (20), and second priority information corresponding to a second wireless communication system (20); determines a use condition for a shared frequency band shared between the first (20) and second (30) wireless communication systems based on the position information, the height information, the first priority information and the second priority information; and outputs a notification based on the determined use condition.
US10149105B1
A system, method, and computer readable medium for providing information to a mobile device based on an event comprising detecting an occurrence of the event, determining if the event is a specific event and if the event occurred at or near a geographical location and sending an alert of the event to at least one mobile device if the event is the specific event, if the event occurs at or near the geographical location, and if the at least one mobile device is located at or near the geographical location.
US10149102B2
Initiation of a search query is accomplished by voice direction, rather than by reading choices and texting or clicking through options. A mobile phone includes a dedicated voice query service button for generating a signal for initiating a voice enabled service session, a speaker and microphone for transducing sounds and electrical signals, a display for displaying visual information to a user, memory for storing data, a transceiver for receiving and transmitting data and a processor. The processor receives a signal generated by the service button for initiating a voice enabled service session, communicates a prompt to a user to begin speaking, stores voice data from a user and transmits the stored voice data to a server for transforming the voice data to a result satisfying the spoken voice service request.
US10149101B2
A method for reminding a user to take a weather-related object with him or her when going outside, applied to an electronic device, includes obtaining weather information at the present time or for one or more predetermined future time points or periods. A reminder is given to the user according to the obtained weather information, wherein the reminder includes a weather-related object relevant to the obtained weather information.
US10149097B2
A geofence management system obtains location data for points of interest. The geofence management system determines, at the option of the user, the location of a user mobile computing device relative to specific points of interest and alerts the user when the user nears the points of interest. The geofence management system, however, determines relationships among the identified points of interest, and associates or “clusters” the points of interest together based on the determined relationships. Rather than establishing separate geofences for multiple points of interest, and then alerting the user each time the user's mobile device enters each geofence boundary, the geofence management system establishes a single geofence boundary for the associated points of interest. When the user's mobile device enters the clustered geofence boundary, the geofence management system notifies the user device to alert the user of the entrance event. The user then receives the clustered, geofence-based alert.
US10149092B1
A system for exchanging GPS or other position data between wireless devices for purposes of group activities, child location monitoring, work group coordination, dispatching of employees etc. Cell phones and other wireless devices with GPS receivers have loaded therein a Buddy Watch application and a TalkControl application. The Buddy Watch application communicates with the GPS receiver and other wireless devices operated by buddies registered in the users phone as part of buddy groups or individually. GPS position data and historical GPS position data can be exchanged between cell phones of buddies and instant buddies such as tow truck drivers via a buddy watch server. Emergency monitoring services can be set up with notifications to programmable individuals in case an individual does not respond. Positions and tracks can be displayed. TalkControl simplifies and automates the process of joining talk groups for walkie talkie services such as that provided by Nextel.
US10149091B2
Described is a system for directing employee movement to maintain a minimum distance between any two employees on a sales floor, and maximize employee coverage on the sales floor. The system includes a first mobile computing device carried by a first employee. The first mobile computing device includes a proximity detection module that detects the proximity of a second mobile computing device carried by a second employee. If it is determined that the distance between the first and the second employee is too small, the first mobile computing device will output a motion direction instruction to the first employee, telling the first employee to change direction, thus increasing the distance between the first and the second employee. The mobile computing devices can be in communication with a base station that receives proximity information and helps coordinate employee coverage and motion direction instructions.
US10149090B2
In one general aspect, an apparatus includes a cast terminal including a keyboard component and a display component physically coupled to the keyboard component. The keyboard component includes a first communication module configured to transmit keystroke data over a first wireless network to a primary processing device using a first wireless communication protocol. The display component includes a second communication module configured to receive multimedia data over a second wireless network from the primary processing device using a second wireless communication protocol.
US10149088B2
Various aspects of a system and method for speaker position identification with respect to a user based on timing information for enhanced sound adjustment in a multi-channel speaker system are disclosed herein. The system includes an electronic device that receives a first timing signal from a control device of the speaker system. The first timing signal indicates a first time instant at which an audio signal is communicated, by the control device, to a first speaker of a plurality of speakers of the speaker system. An output of the audio signal is recorded from the first speaker at a second time instant by the electronic device. An absolute distance between the first speaker and the electronic device associated with a user, is determined based on the first and second time instant. A first instruction to calibrate at least the first speaker is generated based on the determined absolute distance.
US10149083B1
In an audio processing system a center point stereo sound processor in combination with a digital transducer alignment sound processor converts regular left and right stereo audio source signals to sum and difference signals, enabling a center stage spatialized stereo acoustic image to be created directly from a forward-directed loudspeaker unit and a sideways-directed dipole loud speaker unit. The forward-directed loudspeaker unit includes one vertically-mounted loudspeaker. The sideways-directed dipole loudspeaker unit is located directly below and to the sides of the forward-directed loudspeaker unit and includes two speaker cones connected in parallel and wired out of phase with each other. The center point stereo sound processor receives a left and right, stereo, audio signal source and converts the left and right signals into sum and difference signals. The sum, left plus right signal drives the forward-directed loudspeaker unit. The difference, left minus right signal is subsequently processed by the digital transducer alignment sound processor, which then drives the sideways-directed dipole loudspeaker unit. The digital transducer alignment sound processor applies an audio time delay to the difference signal equal to or longer than that of the delay in sound transmission delay in air from the vertically-mounted loudspeaker of the forward-directed loudspeaker unit to the two speaker cones of the sideways-directed dipole loudspeaker unit. This acoustically repositions the sideways-directed dipole loudspeaker unit so it radiates in the time domain as if the sideways-directed dipole loudspeaker unit was centrally located in reference to the forward-directed loudspeaker unit.
US10149072B2
Presented herein are techniques for preservation/retention of binaural cues in a bilateral system, such as a bilateral hearing/auditory prosthesis system. The bilateral system comprises first and second bilateral prostheses, each of which includes an automatic gain control (AGC) system. The first and second bilateral prostheses communicate with one another over a AGC update channel/link to exchange AGC updates in a power-efficient manner.
US10149061B2
A speaker and a speaker-box using the same is provided in the present disclosure. The speaker includes a basket and a vibration system. The vibration system includes a diaphragm fixedly connected to the basket. The diaphragm includes a body part and a fixed part bent and extended from the edge of the body part to the basket, the basket includes a side wall encircling the receiving space, the side wall includes an upper surface opposite to the body part and an outer side surface extended from the outer edge of the upper surface, and the upper surface encircles an opening communicated with the receiving space; the body part covers the opening and is fixed with the upper surface, and the fixed part is extended along the outer side surface and fixed with the outer side surface.
US10149055B2
A loud-speaking apparatus can comprise a loudspeaker array comprising multiple loud-speaking units, wherein each loud-speaking unit is configured to produce sound according to an input signal; a fault detection module, configured to detect fault parameters of a loud-speaking unit in the loudspeaker array; and a compensation module, configured to adjust, according to the fault parameters, the input signal corresponding to a related loud-speaking unit in the loudspeaker array, to compensate for a sound effect of the loudspeaker array affected by the loud-speaking unit having a sound production fault. A loudspeaker array comprising multiple loud-speaking units can be arranged, and when a loud-speaking unit having a sound production fault is detected, an input signal corresponding to the loud-speaking unit can be adjusted, so as to reduce an impact of the loud-speaking unit having a sound production fault on the sound effect during use, and improve user experience.
US10149053B2
To resolve volume shortage of middle and high band of speaker reproduction sound. A DSP 4 performs LPF processing to extract low frequency component of an audio signal to which the first volume processing is performed, DRC processing to compress the audio signal to which the LPF processing is performed in case that the audio signal to which the LPF processing is performed is not less than a predetermined signal level, HPF processing to extract high frequency component of the audio signal to which the first volume processing is performed, second volume processing to attenuate the audio signal to which the HPF processing is performed based on the volume value that is received, and synthesis processing to synthesize the audio signal to which the DRC processing is performed and the audio signal to which the second volume processing is performed.
US10149048B1
A processor-implemented method for sound-source enhancement, including: capturing a signal from a sound source using a sensor array having a plurality of sensors, the sensor array being positioned between the sound source and the reflective surface; calculating a half-space propagation model by determining a modified steering vector associated with a plane sound wave produced by the sound source as a function of signal direction and the reflectivity value; calculating a half-space spatial coherence model by dividing a sphere with its center on the reflecting surface into two mirror symmetric parts intersected by a plane to create two half spheres; creating a half-space signal-enhancement module using the half-space propagation model and the half-space coherence model; and applying the half-space signal-enhancement module to the signal.
US10149016B2
The present invention relates to a mobile terminal performing wireless communication with a video output device for outputting a received broadcast content, the mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit capable of transmitting a media content outputtable by the video output device to the video output device, a touch screen divided into a first region outputting an icon corresponding to the media content, and a second region including a time bar extending in one direction to indicate a time, and a channel bar indicating output time information related to each of a plurality of broadcast contents and extending in the one direction, and a controller capable of controlling the touch screen to output an output bar indicating a reproduction time of the media content on a part of the second region, when a drag touch applied to the icon is released on the second region.
US10149001B1
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for detecting duplicate copies of a media asset and deleting or offloading one of the duplicate copies to different user devices. Specifically, a media guidance application, implemented at user equipment, may be used to record or store media assets from different media sources. The media guidance application may detect a duplicate copy of a previously stored media asset by comparing various attributes of the media asset. After detecting a duplicate copy of a media asset, the media guidance application may determine which of the duplicate copies of the same media asset is to be deleted, or to be transmitted for storage at a different user device.
US10149000B2
Methods and devices for remote altering of static video content in real time are provided. A method for encoding video includes removing an attribute from a video including the attribute and static content. The attribute and static content may be configured to be played by a first device. The method also includes replacing the removed attribute with content to be played by the first device in place of the removed attribute. The method further includes embedding a synchronization marker in the video. The embedded synchronization marker may be configured to synchronize streaming of content from a second device to the first device with playing of the static content by the first device. A system for encoding video includes a processor and a memory storing instructions configured to, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform steps of a method. A memory may be a non-transitory computer-readable medium.
US10148999B2
An automatic RF combiner receives signals from an over-the-air antenna, a cable television signal source and at least one satellite antenna, and combines the signals for output to one or more television receivers. The combiner includes a first signal combiner connected to the input for the over-the-air antenna and the cable television signal source and providing an output signal. The output from the first signal combiner is supplied to a second signal combiner together with signal at the input for the at least one satellite antenna. A switch or filter is connected between the input for the over-the-air antenna and the first signal combiner, and a logic controller is connected between the input for the cable television signal source and the switch or filter that is configured and operable to open the switch or activate the filter when a signal is detected at the input for the cable television signal source, and to close the switch or deactivate the filter when no signal is detected, thereby controlling whether the over-the-air signal passes to the first signal combiner.
US10148994B2
A mirroring transmission method is provided. The present method retrieves image frames and audio signals of a transmitter and transmits the retrieved image frames and retrieved audio signals to a receiver to be displayed wirelessly. In the meantime, the present method monitors status of a network connected with the transmitter and the receiver, and determines if the network is stable or not. Also, the method stops retrieving and transmitting the audio signal from the transmitter to the receiver, and controls the transmitter to display the audio signal directly through an internal audio module whenever the network is determined unstable.
US10148989B2
Systems and methods for encoding a plurality of alternative streams of video content using multiple encoders in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. An encoding system includes multiple encoders. Each of the encoders receives a source stream of video content that is divided into portions. Each of the encoders generates portions of the plurality of alternative streams from the portions of the source stream. The portions of the alternative streams generated by a particular encoder are stored in a container for the particular encoder. Each encoder also generates index information for the portion of the alternative stream generated by the encoder that is stored in a manifest for the encoder.
US10148979B2
The present disclosure relates to deblocking filtering which is applicable to smoothing the block boundaries in an image or video coding and decoding. In particular, the deblocking filtering is either strong or weak, wherein the clipping is performed differently in the strong filtering and the weak filtering.
US10148967B2
An image coding method includes: generating a predicted block; calculating a residual block; calculating quantized coefficients by performing transform and quantization on the residual block; calculating a coded residual block by performing inverse quantization and inverse transform on the quantized coefficients; generating a temporary coded block; determining whether or not an offset process is required, to generate first flag information indicating a result of the determination; executing the offset process on the temporary coded block when it is determined that the offset process is required; and performing variable-length coding on the quantized coefficients and the first flag information.
US10148963B2
To perform motion estimation for a video frame block to be encoded, a difference measure is determined for each of a plurality of reference frame block positions at a first, coarser resolution. The determined difference measures are then used estimate difference measures for reference frame blocks at positions at a second resolution that is finer than the first resolution. The estimated second, finer position resolution difference measures are then used to select a set of reference frame block positions for which to determine “full” difference measures. The determined “full” difference measures for each of the selected reference frame block positions are then used to select the reference frame block position to use when encoding the frame block and a motion vector corresponding to that reference frame block position is associated with and encoded for the frame block being encoded.
US10148962B2
An entropy decoder is configured to, for horizontal and vertical components of motion vector differences, derive a truncated unary code from the data stream using context-adaptive binary entropy decoding with exactly one context per bin position of the truncated unary code, which is common for horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector differences, and an Exp-Golomb code using a constant equi-probability bypass mode to obtain the binarizations of the motion vector differences. A desymbolizer is configured to debinarize the binarizations of the motion vector difference syntax elements to obtain integer values of the horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector differences. A reconstructor is configured to reconstruct a video based on the integer values of the horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector differences.
US10148953B2
A user equipment includes a transceiver and a decoder. The transceiver is configured to receive an encoded bitstream of video. The decoder includes processing circuitry. The decoder is configured to identify a first intra mode associated with a top prediction unit (PU) in relation to a current PU of the encoded bitstream of video. The decoder is also configured to identify a second intra mode associated with a left PU in relation to the current PU. The decoder is also configured to determine a plurality of most probable modes (MPMs) based on the first intra mode and the second intra mode, wherein a number of modes is greater than thirty-five.
US10148952B2
An image decoding method supporting a plurality of layers according to the present invention may comprise the steps of: generating an inter-layer reference picture set with respect to one or more reference layers to which a current picture can refer; generating an initial reference picture list including the inter-layer reference picture set; and predicting the current picture on the basis of the initial reference picture list. Accordingly, the present invention provides a method for generating a reference picture list including a picture of a layer, which is different from a layer to be currently encoded and decoded, and an apparatus using the same.
US10148944B2
A calibration method of an image capture system includes an image capture device of at least one image capture device capturing an image including a plurality of intersection coordinates among a plurality of geometric blocks of a test pattern and an information of a color of each geometric block of the plurality of geometric blocks; an operation unit executing a first operation on the plurality of intersection coordinates within the image to generate a plurality of geometric calibration parameters; the operation unit executing a second operation on an information of a color of each geometric block of the plurality of geometric blocks within the image to generate a plurality of color calibration parameters; and a calibration unit calibrating the image capture device according to the plurality of geometric calibration parameters and the plurality of color calibration parameters.
US10148936B2
An imaging system and method for generating a three-dimensional color image include an opening for allowing light from an object to enter the imaging system. Each sensor element in an array of sensor elements receives a portion of the light and generates a signal indicative of an intensity of the received portion of the light. Light from an optical element impinges on a filter comprising a plurality of filter regions, each filter region passes a predetermined band of wavelengths of the light and is associated with and disposed in alignment with one of the sensor elements such that light passing through each filter region impinges on the sensor associated and in alignment with the filter element. At least one of the filter regions is constructed to pass a visible color band, and at least one other of the filter regions is constructed to pass an infrared band.
US10148933B2
A three dimensional system including rendering with shifted compensation.
US10148926B2
An imaging apparatus may include an image sensor that includes a Bayer color filter array (CFA) of 2-by-2 cell groups each of which includes a red pixel, a blue pixel, and two green pixels, and an image signal processor for processing raw data from the Bayer CFA. The image signal processor corrects the raw data to reduce artifacts such as image contrast degradation caused by using green pixels with wide transmission spectrum.
US10148917B2
In order to recognize hazard areas and/or construction areas on a roadway, an environment sensor produces detected environment data regarding objects indicating the hazard areas and/or construction areas. A traffic light system is detected in the environment data, position data of the traffic light system is determined, an environment scenario is determined from the environment data and is compared with a reference model of the environment scenario. If the reference model does not indicate the presence of a traffic light system, or indicates a traffic light system having position data differing from the position data of the detected traffic light system, then it is concluded that the detected traffic light system is a traffic light system identifying a hazard and/or construction area.
US10148914B2
A method and system of intrusion detection, which includes displaying sensing device output data as an image of a field of view of a sensing device. Through interaction with a GUI: a user input defines an image detection area in relation to the image of the field of view, the image detection area being correlated to a detection area to be monitored for intrusion detection. A user input defining a detection vector in the image detection area is received, specifying a predetermined minimum displacement and displacement direction in the field of view. A graphical representation of the vector may be displayed on the image detection area. A target object is detected and tracked through the detection area and it is determined whether the progressive displacement of the target object has a component exceeding the minimum displacement in the direction of the vector.
US10148908B2
Systems, methods and media for providing modular cameras are provided. In some embodiments, a modular imaging device is provided, comprising: a base module comprising: a user device interface configured to receive signals from a user device; a first magnet; a first plurality of electrical contacts; and one or more circuits that are configured to receive information transmitted to the base module from the user device via the user device interface; and an image sensor module comprising: a second plurality of electrical contacts; a second magnet; a third plurality of electrical contacts; an image sensor; and one or more circuits that are configured to: receive a first control signal; cause the image sensor to capture image data; and transmit the captured image data.
US10148899B2
A counting apparatus may include: a count control unit suitable for controlling a counting operation of a common value and a differential value of two pixel signals according to two neighboring output signals of a comparator unit; a counting unit suitable for counting a clock during a period corresponding to the common value and the differential value, according to control of the count control unit; and a memory unit suitable for storing count information from the counting unit and operation information from the count control unit.
US10148894B2
[Object] To reproduce an image to which an effect desired by a user is added.[Solution] There is provided an image processing device including: an image reverse stabilization processing unit configured to add an effect of expressing shaking to an image on the basis of shaking information on shaking of the image. In addition, there is provided an image processing device including: an image reverse stabilization processing unit configured to decide a degree of an effect of expressing shaking to be added to an image, on the basis of an expectation value of an immersed feeling of an observer with respect to the image.
US10148891B1
A card operation device includes a body having a mounting hole for being mounted to a camera lens. A card is connected to the body and located in front of the lens. The card is movable up and down along rails in two insides of the body, and may be a masking card or a slotted card. The body has a driving unit and multiple positioning units. A controller is electrically connected to the body to control up-and-down movement, shaking and stopping of the card in front of the lens. The masking card and the slotted card are automatically operated when being set.
US10148890B2
According to the present invention, an image pickup apparatus includes, an image pickup control unit which drives shutter unit and picks up a still image by image pickup device, captures a first through image by the image pickup device when the shutter unit is opened, and picks up a second through image including a light-shielded area by the image pickup device, the light-shielded area being formed by shielding part of light incident upon imaging plane by the shutter unit when the shutter unit is half light-shielded, and a display control unit which causes a display device to display a through image using at least the first through image and the second through image.
US10148889B2
An image capturing apparatus detects the movement of a main body by an angular velocity sensor, detects the movement of the captured object image, and detects the angular velocity. An exposure time during image capturing is set by an automatic exposure setting processing. A longest exposure time is calculated based on a maximum drive amount of an optical system including a correction lens, and the exposure time is set so as not to exceed the longest exposure time by upgrading a photographing condition. When an operation instruction for photographing is received, a drive control to relatively change a position of the object image to be captured is performed by driving the correction lens of the optical system in the period before the passage of the set exposure time.
US10148882B2
Systems and methods are provided that capture and process frames of frame data. An image sensor captures frames of frame data representative of light incident upon the image sensor using a rolling shutter and outputs the frames of frame data. The image sensor captures at least one of the frames over a frame capture interval and then waits over a blanking interval before capturing another frame. A buffer receives and stores the frames output by the image sensor. An image signal processor retrieves the frames from the buffer and processes the frames over successive frame processing intervals to generate a video having a time interval per frame greater than the frame capture interval. At least one of the successive frame processing intervals is greater than the frame capture interval and is less than or equal to a sum of the frame capture interval and the blanking interval.
US10148881B2
Techniques to improve a digital image capture device's ability to stabilize a video stream—while enforcing desired stabilization constraints on particular images in the video stream—are presented that utilize an overscan region and a look-ahead technique enabled by buffering a number of video input frames before generating a first stabilized video output frame. More particularly, techniques are disclosed for buffering an initial number of input frames so that a “current” frame can use motion data from both “past” and “future” frames to adjust the value of a stabilization strength parameter and/or the weighted contribution of particular frames from the buffer in the determination of stabilization motion values for the current frame. Such techniques keep the current frame within its overscan and ensure that the stabilization constraints are enforced, while maintaining desired smoothness in the video stream. In some embodiments, the stabilization constraint may comprise a maximum allowed frame displacement.
US10148870B2
An image capturing apparatus includes a main image capturing system configured to capture an object image formed by a main optical system that can vary a magnification, a first sub capturing system configured to capture an object image formed by a first sub optical system having an angle of view equal to or wider than that at a wide-angle end of the main optical system, and a second sub capturing system configured to capture an object image formed by a second sub optical system having an angle of view narrower than that at a wide-angle end and equal to or wider than that at a telephoto end of the main optical system. An optical barrel configured to hold the main optical system can be retracted relative to a body of the image capturing apparatus. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
US10148869B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for determining a depth or reflectance of objects. Example methods may include illuminating a scene within a field of view of a device at a first illuminance value, detecting a reflected illuminance value, and determining a first reflectance value for a first object in the scene. Example methods may include identifying the first object, determining an orientation of the first object, and determining an estimated distance between the device and the first object based at least in part on the first illuminance value, the reflected illuminance value, and the first reflectance value.
US10148860B2
An imaging apparatus which communicates with an external apparatus via a network, includes an imaging unit; a first image processing unit configured to change, by image processing, a brightness of a captured image output from the imaging unit; a second image processing unit configured to change, by image processing that is different from the image processing by the first image processing unit, a brightness of a captured image output from the imaging unit; a receiving unit configured to receive, from the external apparatus via the network, a single command in which first image processing information for controlling an operation of the first image processing unit and second image processing information for controlling an operation of the second image processing unit may be described; and a control unit configured to control the first image processing unit and the second image processing unit in accordance with the command received by the receiving unit.
US10148859B2
An array imaging module includes a molded photosensitive assembly which includes a supporting member, at least a circuit board, at least two photosensitive units, at least two lead wires, and a mold sealer. The photosensitive units are coupled at the chip coupling area of the circuit board. The lead wires are electrically connected the photosensitive units at the chip coupling area of the circuit board. The mold sealer includes a main mold body and has two optical windows. When the main mold body is formed, the lead wires, the circuit board and the photosensitive units are sealed and molded by the main mold body of the mold sealer, such that after the main mold body is formed, the main mold body and at least a portion of the circuit board are integrally formed together at a position that the photosensitive units are aligned with the optical windows respectively.
US10148856B2
A portable teleprompter system, which comprises two sets of transparent reflective sheets with their respective support poles and associated displays, the system comprising a carry-on-sized suitcase that holds the system components and has two separable parts, each one of which is fit to be arranged in a stable manner on a floor, offering an upwards-facing operating face that is provided with at least means for firmly supporting a display; and means for anchoring a pole in such a position that the reflective sheet supported by said pole can reflect the content shown on the display.
US10148854B2
Jaggies in an edge portion are reduced while suppressing deterioration of an image to a minimum. There are provided a determination unit configured to determine an edge of an object from input image data, a unit configured to generate edge correction data used to correct a pixel value of a pixel constituting the edge, a screen data generation unit configured to generate screen data by performing screen processing on the input image dada, and an image combination unit configured to generate output image in which a screen dot existing in the edge in the screen data is shifted into the inside of the object.
US10148850B2
An image processing apparatus includes: an embed-data generating unit configured to generate embed-data, which is to be embedded in input-image-data, the input-image-data representing an image including a first color, the embed-data representing an image including a second color; an inverting unit configured to invert the image represented by the embed-data, in response to meeting a predetermined condition relating to the first color and the second color; and an output-image-data generating unit configured to embed, in the input-image-data, embed-data representing the image that is inverted by the inverting unit, in order to generate output-image-data in a case where the predetermined condition is met, and configured to embed, in the input-image-data, embed-data representing the image that is not inverted by the inverting unit, in order to generate output-image-data in a case where the predetermined condition is not met.
US10148849B2
A system comprises a server, a mobile device and an image forming apparatus. The server includes a storage manager for managing storage of documents and associated document identifiers, an image forming apparatus interface for receiving a set request identifying a user from the image forming apparatus and for providing associated document identifiers to the image forming apparatus, and a mobile device interface for receiving from the mobile device a document request containing a document identifier and for providing in response a document associated with the document identifier to the mobile device, the document identifier received by the mobile device from the image forming apparatus as a graphical code image. The mobile device includes a camera for capturing a snapshot of the graphical code image from the image forming apparatus, and a server interface for sending the document request to the server and for receiving the document.
US10148844B2
An imaging apparatus includes an optical system, an imaging unit that captures a subject image which is input via the optical system and generates an image signal, an image processor that performs predetermined processing on the image signal generated by the imaging unit and generates image data, a display unit that displays an image represented by the image data, and a control unit that controls the image processor and the display unit. The control unit records moving image data and generates, from all or a part of a plurality of frame images composing recorded moving image data, a still image based on user's specifying of an image or an area of the image. The display unit displays one frame image among the plurality of frame images composing the recorded moving image data, as a setting image for the user to specify an image or an area of the image, and adds highlighting to an in-focus portion in the setting image.
US10148834B1
An image reading device includes: a housing, a document loading surface, a reading unit, a first through hole, a second through hole, an insertion member, and a first member. The first through hole is provided in a manner such as to be pierced through the housing. The second through hole is provided oppositely to the first through hole in a manner such as to be pierced through the reading unit located at a predefined place. When being inserted in the first through hole and the second through hole, the insertion member stops movement of the reading unit in a horizontal direction and fixes the reading unit in the housing. The first member closes the first through hole and has a shape deforming in accordance with the insertion of the insertion member in the first through hole and the second through hole.
US10148832B2
An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes a projector that projects an image onto a predetermined projection area outside of the image forming apparatus, an interface, a printer, and a processor. The printer prints an image on an image recording medium based on image data acquired the image acquired through the interface. The processor controls the projector to display the image to be printed on the projection area.
US10148831B2
Information processing equipment includes an image formation apparatus and a server device mutually integrated together. The server device includes a housing, a server main body unit provided inside the housing, a fan which generates an air stream flowing from outside the housing toward inside the housing and supplies the air stream to the server main body unit to cool the server main body unit, and a filter disposed at a position upstream of the server main body unit in a direction in which the air stream flows. The image formation apparatus or the server device is provided with a control unit restricting an operation of at least one of the image formation apparatus and the fan when the server device undergoes maintenance and inspection.
US10148830B2
A printer control method enables even non-technical users to quickly and accurately set printer information in a printer. A control method of a printer having a first interface that connects through a first communication cable to a host computer, and a second interface that connects to nonvolatile memory storing printer information through a second communication cable, the nonvolatile memory being attached to the first communication cable, reads the printer information from the nonvolatile memory through the second communication cable and the second interface, and sets the read printer information in the printer, at a specific time.
US10148828B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image generating unit for generating a job image, a color verification image generating unit, a color converting unit for performing the same color conversion on the job image and the color verification image, a printing unit for printing the job image and the color verification image subjected to the color conversion, a colorimetry device for measuring the colors of a printout of the color verification image, a storage unit, a storing control unit for storing the job image in the storage unit in association with the color verification image and colorimetrical values thereof, and a reprinting control unit, wherein the printing unit performs a test print of the stored color verification image before reprinting, and the reprinting control unit compares colorimetrical values obtained during the test print with stored past colorimetrical values and outputs color differences.
US10148822B2
A method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for selecting a network for telecommunication are provided. A type of network supporting a called identifier is identified. Several types of networks are accessible to a calling communication device. A database is queried with a query including the called identifier to identify the types of networks that are accessible to a called communication device. A network corresponding to the called communication device is selected at the calling communication device. A communication session is established between the calling and called communication devices using the selected network.
US10148820B2
A system is provided for providing communication event routing and transfer capability in a multi-site communication-center environment. The system utilizes a presence protocol application and a routing application for determining availability of an agent or system and for setting up the transfer from a point of transfer on a network to a destination of transfer on the same or connected network. In a preferred use the presence protocol application is shared by communication-center sites cooperating in the transfer and routing of events and the presence protocol enables at least one event-handling process normally performed by the routing application.
US10148812B2
This present invention disclosure relates to a method for playing music prior to establishing a phone call. It specifically relates to music discovery and playing the music for around 8 seconds, when a person makes a call from his mobile phone. Since music is played from the user's phone, there is no telecom network integration required. Additionally, the disclosure provides discovering songs based on user's context and collecting the songs thereof.
US10148810B2
A structure protects a SLIC telephone line interface against overvoltages lower than a negative threshold or higher than a positive threshold. The structure includes at least one thyristor connected between each conductor of the telephone line and a reference potential. For all of the included thyristors, a metallization corresponding to the main electrode on the gate side is in contact, by its entire surface, with a corresponding semiconductor region. Furthermore, the gate of each thyristor is directly connected to a voltage source defining one of the thresholds.
US10148809B2
Methods, systems, and devices for dynamically adjusting a user interface provided by an external unit of a hearing device. In an example method, the external unit determines whether a state of the external unit is one of (i) a coupled state when the external unit and the stimulation unit are coupled or (ii) a decoupled state when the external and the stimulation unit are decoupled. The external unit then provides one of (i) a first user interface when the determined state is the coupled state or (ii) a second user interface when the determined state is the decoupled state. The second user interface provides access to a greater number of functions of the hearing device than first user interface provides.
US10148806B1
A system and method of intercepting text messages. A mobile device includes a processor, a memory storing data including a first threshold velocity, a user interface, a communications interface, a notification module operable to produce a notification when the mobile device receives a text message via the communications interface, and a velocity sensor operable to determine a velocity of the mobile device comprising a distance traveled by the mobile device per unit of time. When the mobile device receives a text message via the communications interface, the processor determines the velocity of the mobile device via the velocity sensor, and either activates the notification module if the mobile device is traveling under the first threshold velocity, or prevents the activation of the notification module if the mobile device is traveling over the first threshold velocity.
US10148802B2
Methods and apparatus implementing a telephony terminal for connecting a telephone to a data network. In one implementation, a telephony system includes: a phone connection for connecting to a telephone; a network connection for connecting to a network; and a controller connected to said phone connection and to said network connection; wherein said controller provides a phone service for processing information for said phone connection, said controller provides a network service for processing information for said network connection, and said controller provides a network voice service for converting information to and from a network voice format.
US10148797B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device for efficiently receiving particular media packets in a multimedia system. The method for receiving media packets in a multimedia system, in which media data are packetized into multiple media packets and then transmitted, according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: determining if received media packets comprise access information for receiving particular media data and/or particular information; and if the received media packets comprise the access information, using the access information so as to preferentially receive the particular media data and/or the particular information.
US10148796B2
A network device in a network is provided that is configured to implement a process for modifying a timestamp in a packet that is a timing protocol packet. The timing protocol packet is encapsulated by a user data protocol (UDP) datagram, where the modified timestamp is written into the packet, but does not require a checksum of the UDP datagram to be changed. The process includes receiving a packet including a first timestamp over the network, receiving the first timestamp from the packet and a second timestamp to be written to the packet, and determining a third timestamp that is a modification of the second timestamp to be written to the packet, the third timestamp having least significant bits modified from the second timestamp such that the checksum of the UDP datagram is unchanged. The process writes the third timestamp into the packet and transmits the UDP datagram to the network.
US10148793B2
A client computer requests a resource from an ISP/OSP. The ISP/OSP maintains multiple instances of the resource. In deciding to which instance of the resource to route the client computer, a resource selection server takes network routability information into account. Geographic proximity, resource utilization, network utilization, and/or maintenance of peering agreements may also be taken into account in selecting the instance of the resource.
US10148787B2
An information handling system is configured to poll a remote data store at an adaptable polling rate. The polling rate can be based on one or more usage characteristics of the information handling system, such as a time of day, geographical location, user profile, management profile, system usage pattern, or other usage characteristic. Between polling requests, the information handling system can be placed in a low-power mode, thereby conserving power.
US10148782B2
In a decoupled messaging system, a producer device sends produced messages to a message fabric. The message fabric either stores the received message in designated queues, from which consumer devices may retrieve the messages, or broadcasts the messages to consumer devices that subscribe to topics assigned to the messages. A message consumption orchestrator service gathers capabilities information for the message producer, the message fabric, and the message consumer, and configures resources allocated for the message consumer to more fully optimize message throughput. Further, the message consumption orchestrator identifies patterns in changes of the rate of produced messages, i.e., through analysis of historical data and/or received information. The message consumption orchestrator configures resources for the message consumer to account for predicted need based on the identified patterns.
US10148780B2
A comprehensive approach to streaming backups for virtual machines (“VMs”) in a storage management system comprises improvements to the assignment of data agent proxies for VM secondary copy operations. New considerations in performing a VM streaming backup job include without limitation: determining and enforcing a system-wide per-proxy limit of concurrent data streams; generating an ordered priority list of the VMs to be backed up as a basis for choosing which proxies will back up the respective VM, though the illustrative system may not strictly adhere to the priority list based on further considerations; identifying a next available proxy based on data stream utilization at the proxy; and dynamically re-generating the priority list and re-evaluating considerations if some VMs become “stranded” due to a failure to be backed up. Secondary copy operations are distributed to proxies in ways that improve the chances of successfully completing VM streaming backups.
US10148773B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for providing location services. Consistent with disclosed embodiments, disclosed systems and methods may include a beacon registering device for providing location services. The beacon registering device may include a non-transitory memory storing instructions. The beacon registering device may also include one or more processors that execute the stored instructions to perform operations comprising: receiving beacon information, the beacon information comprising connection information for a first beacon; updating at least one beacon entry stored in a database based on the received beacon information, the beacon entry including a beacon location, beacon connection information, and beacon metadata; receiving a beacon request from a user device, the beacon request indicating a user location; selecting beacons based on the beacon entry and the beacon request, the selected beacons including at least the first beacon; providing selected beacon information to the user device for registering the first beacon with the user device, the selected beacon information including the connection information for the first beacon.
US10148771B2
Exemplary methods for distributed multi-component service placement in a resource pool include utilizing a hierarchy of agents associated with computing resources of a cloud architecture. A root agent in the hierarchy can receive service requests specifying resource requirements and optionally location or affinity constraints, transform these into service request descriptions, and pass the service request descriptions down through the hierarchy to arrive at leaf nodes. The leaf nodes can each, perhaps in parallel, generate solution encodings indicating possible placements of some or all of the components of the service request that one or more computing devices associated with each agent can locally provide while still satisfying the resource requirements. The generated solution encodings can be passed back up and be consolidated as they flow through the hierarchy, allowing the root agent to quickly and accurately determine whether the service request may be fulfilled, and optionally place the service.
US10148767B2
A mobile unit with a memory is temporarily connected to a medical technology apparatus is temporarily connected to a central storage device for data transmission. When the mobile unit is connected to the medical technology apparatus, a real configuration of the medical technology apparatus is compared with a local virtual image of the configuration of the medical technology apparatus held in the memory of the mobile unit. Depending on this comparison, the local configuration and/or the real configuration are updated. When the mobile unit is connected to the central storage device, the local configuration is compared with a central virtual image of the configuration of the medical technology apparatus. Depending on this comparison, the central configuration and/or the local configuration are updated. Via the indirect route of the local configuration this enables the real configuration and the central configuration to be mutually updated.
US10148765B2
The invention discloses a security information interaction system, apparatus and method, the method comprising the following steps: establishing a first communication channel and a second communication channel between a security information interaction terminal and a security carrier; the security carrier actively sending a command to the security information interaction terminal via the first communication channel and the second communication channel so as to complete a corresponding security information interaction procedure. With the security information interaction system, apparatus and method disclosed by the invention, the security carrier can send a command to the security information interaction terminal flexibly and actively on its own, and thus greatly improving the efficiency of the security information interaction system.
US10148748B2
The techniques and systems described herein implement an improved peer matching service by coordinating peer matching requests across multiple peer matching nodes configured within a peer matching unit so that resource consumption can be spread out and resource limitations are not exceeded. Moreover, the peer matching service can determine if a peer matching unit is overloaded (e.g., experiencing an increased number of requests in a given time interval that is causing performance degradation), and the peer matching service can implement an action to scale out the number of requests within the peer matching unit (e.g., re-distribute some peer matching requests to another peer matching unit). In various examples, the peer matching service can determine if peer devices are co-located peer devices based on location information and can generate a list that prioritizes the co-located peer devices.
US10148739B2
The present invention provides M2M data querying and invoking methods, querying and invoking devices, and a system. The querying method includes: sending a data invoking request to an infrastructure node common services entity infrastructure node CSE, where the data invoking request includes an identifier AE/CSE ID of an application entity/a common services entity that provides to-be-invoked data and a data demand of the to-be-invoked data, where the data demand includes a data type demand, a time demand, or a combination thereof; and receiving data meeting the data demand and returned by the infrastructure node CSE.
US10148734B2
Methods of adding data identifiers and speech/voice recognition functionality are disclosed. A telnet client runs one or more scripts that add data identifiers to data fields in a telnet session. The input data is inserted in the corresponding fields based on data identifiers. Scripts run only on the telnet client without modifications to the server applications. Further disclosed are methods for providing speech recognition and voice functionality to telnet clients. Portions of input data are converted to voice and played to the user. A user also may provide input to certain fields of the telnet session by using his voice. Scripts running on the telnet client convert the user's voice into text and is inserted to corresponding fields.
US10148732B2
A method of distributing data over multiple Internet connections is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) providing a client computer with access to a plurality of Internet connections; and (b) providing a host computer for determining the allocation of data to be sent to the client computer over each of the plurality of Internet connections using at least one of (i) predetermined criteria and (ii) dynamically changing criteria.
US10148727B2
Described herein is an end-to-end solution (i.e., capable of constructing a content delivery network all the way from an origin server to end user devices) which provides a managerial overview to what has been a very disjoint build-out of networks. In the past, networks have evolved to serve particular needs, as opposed to being architected from a strategic view. What this does is to allow someone (e.g., content provider, network operator, etc.) to impose a strategy over those networks. Rather than having to construct solutions that deliver a particular kind of content, a particular security requirement, a particular latency requirement, etc., one can simply provision particular types of nodes as needed when needed.
US10148719B2
Stream processing can be performed using a pull-based, anchor-based methodology that guarantees once and only once processing and repeatability of the creation of output with no additional communication overhead during normal processing. Each node (computing device) in the graph (representing interconnected computing devices) establishes a system of anchors. An anchor describes a point in the output stream of the node, so that every event in the stream is either before or after any given anchor.
US10148718B2
A streams manager determines which portions of a streaming application process sensitive data, and when performance of the streaming application needs to be increased, selects based on the sensitive data which portion(s) of the streaming application can be moved to a public cloud. The streams manager then interacts with the public cloud manager to move the selected portion(s) of the streaming application to the public cloud. By taking sensitive data into account, the streams manager protects the integrity of sensitive data while still taking advantage of the additional resources available in a public cloud.
US10148700B2
Systems and methods for classification of web sites and/or their corresponding URLs based on a known web site classification are provided. According to one embodiment, a website URL is received that is known to be associated with a particular content classification. A list of candidate domain names including a host name of the website URL is generated based on a defined TLD list. For each of the candidate domain names it is determined whether an IP address of the candidate domain name is equal to an IP address of the website URL. When the result is affirmative, the particular content classification is associated with the candidate domain name; otherwise, a cosine similarity measurement process is performed between information associated with the candidate domain name and information associated with the website URL to determine whether to associate the particular content classification with the candidate domain name.
US10148698B2
Event record purging is selectively enforced in a high volume log system. A plurality of data retention policies is received for one or more data types. Each data retention policy can describe a retention duration for enforcement of different data types with respect to online retention and offline retention. Only online compressed file from a period of time potentially containing event records with an expiring retention duration are uncompressed. Other files are ignored to save I/O bandwidth for supporting queries of event records. Some implementations search records using the index as well.
US10148692B2
Systems and techniques are provided for aggregation of asynchronous trust outcomes in a mobile device. Trust levels may be determined from the signals. Each trust level may be determined independently of any other trust level. Each trust level may be determined based on applying to the signals heuristics, mathematical optimization, decisions trees, machine learning systems, or artificial intelligence systems. An aggregated trust outcome may be determined by aggregating the trust levels. Aggregating the trust levels may include applying heuristics, mathematical optimization, decisions trees, machine learning systems, or artificial intelligence systems to the trust levels, and wherein the aggregated trust outcome; and sending the aggregated trust outcome to be implemented by the enabling, disabling, or relaxing of at least one security measure based on the aggregated trust outcome.
US10148687B2
Methods and systems for content filtering of remote file-system access protocols are provided. According to one embodiment, a proxy, implemented within a network gateway device of a private network, monitors remote file-system access protocol sessions involving client computer systems and a server computer system associated with the private network. For each file on a share of the server computer system being accessed by one or more of the client computer systems: (i) a shared holding buffer corresponding to the file is created within a shared memory of the network gateway device; (ii) data being read from or written to the file by the monitored remote file-system access protocol sessions is buffered into the shared holding buffer; and (iii) responsive to a predetermined event, content filtering is performed on the shared holding buffer to determine whether malicious, dangerous or unauthorized content is contained within the shared holding buffer.
US10148685B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining a network security threat response. A data structure that represents communication events between computing devices of two or more network domains is received. The data structure is analyzed and a threat scenario that is based on a chain of communication events that indicates a potential attack path is determined. The chain of communication events include a sequence of communication events between computing devices proceeding from an originating computing device to a destination computing device, wherein the originating computing device and the destination computing device exist on different network domains. Attack pattern data, for the threat scenario and from a threat intelligence data source, that is associated with communications between computing devices that occurred during one or more prior attacks is received. Based on the threat scenario and the attack pattern data, one or more courses of action for responding to the threat scenario is determined, and information associated with the one or more courses of action is provided.
US10148682B2
Utilizing a virtual desktop interface, including receiving, from a server, a clone image comprising an instance of an operating system and an application executing on the server, and a copy of scan results, identify initiation of the application using the clone image, in response to identifying initiation of the application, determine that the copy of scan results includes scan results of the application, and in response to determining the copy of scan results includes scan results of the application, executing the application without any further scan of the application.
US10148678B2
An improved cyber security protection system with differentiated capacity to deal with complex cyber attacks in complex, highly-connected industries. The system architecture is goal-oriented and separates security goals and concerns by layers that are assigned specific functions to address only those goals. The functions operate concurrently within the layers and provide insight on their respective layers. The layers are interconnected with connection modules using bi-directional interfacing to establish a feedback look within the entire system. Complex adaptive systems (CAS) algorithms are used to identify the probably threats to the system.
US10148673B1
Techniques of operating intrusion detection systems provide a recommendation of an intrusion detection rule to an administrator of an intrusion detection system based on the experience of another administrator that has used the rule in another intrusion detection system. For example, suppose that electronic circuitry receives a numerical rating from a first intrusion detection system that indicates whether an intrusion detection rule was effective in identifying malicious activity when used in the first intrusion detection system. Based on the received rating and attributes of the first intrusion detection system, the electronic circuitry generates a predicted numerical rating that indicates whether the intrusion detection rule is likely to be effective in identifying malicious communications when used in a second intrusion detection system. If the predicted numerical rating is sufficiently high, then the electronic circuitry transmits a message to the second intrusion detection system recommending the intrusion detection rule for use in the second intrusion detection system.
US10148665B2
A provider of a subscription-based online service provides use of the online service to an end-user of an organization. A tenant account request is received from an administrator of the organization to establish a tenant account and authorize the end-user to acquire a subscription for the end-user to use the online service directly from the provider thereof. A subscription request is then received from the end-user to acquire the subscription for the end-user to use the online service. An individual license to use the online service is then assigned to the end-user, where this license allows just the end-user to access and use the online service. This individual license is then provided to the end-user.
US10148650B2
A method of user authentication is disclosed. The method is performed at a server device having one or more processors and memory for storing programs to be executed by the one or more processors. The method includes receiving, from a first terminal device, a service request including identification information of the user. The method includes generating a verification code in response to the service request. The method also includes establishing, based on the identification information of the user, a voice communication with a second terminal device in response to a failure of sending a non-voice message including the verification code to the user in a non-voice communication method. The method further includes sending, during the voice communication and to the second terminal device, a voice message including the verification code such that the user uses the verification code to authenticate the service request at the first terminal device.
US10148649B2
An automated process is disclosed for improving the functionality of computer systems and electronic commerce in user identity-proofing. Steps include verifying that a user who is electronically seeking identity proofing is on an electronic directory of persons eligible for such identity proofing; creating an attest list for the user that includes associates who can vouch for his or her identity; collecting a video or other data from the user; sending the video or data to the associates and asking them for a confirmation or a disavowal of the identity of the user; deriving a biometric from the video or data upon receiving the confirmation; and saving the biometric as an identify-proofed biometric.
US10148646B2
A computing platform may receive, from a social messaging server, a request to authenticate a user to a user account associated with a client portal. In response to receiving the request, the computing platform may send, to the social messaging server, an authentication token request message. Thereafter, the computing platform may receive, from the social messaging server, an authentication token. The computing platform may validate the authentication token received from the social messaging server. Based on validating the authentication token received from the social messaging server, the computing platform may generate a validation message directing a client support server to provide the user with access to the user account. Subsequently, the computing platform may send the validation message to the client support server, which may cause the client support server to initiate a client support session with the user via the social messaging service provided by the social messaging server.
US10148638B2
An authentication server system issues a first-type token for verification of whether a user operating a terminal is a valid user and a second-type token for verification of whether a service is usable with authority transferred to an authorized client cooperating with the service, verifies, based on a token received with a verification request and a scope regardless of a type of the issued token, and notifies a verification result.
US10148637B2
Techniques to perform secure authentication to provide mobile access to shared content are disclosed. In various embodiments, a user credential associated with a request to access content is received at a connector node from a mobile application running on a mobile device. The user credential is used to create at the connector node a secure credential token that includes the user credential. The secure credential token is used to provide to the mobile application on the mobile device, via the connector node, access to content on two or more servers residing on a protected network with which the user credential is associated.
US10148633B2
An information processing apparatus individually sets a login distance as a condition to be satisfied when a login request is transmitted for a plurality of devices. Further, the information processing apparatus determines whether a login distance condition, having been set, is satisfied based on receipt of a packet. The information processing apparatus transmits the login request to the transmission source device if it is determined that the login distance condition is satisfied.
US10148629B1
An application executing on a user device can receive a request to access a remote computer system. The application can automatically obtain an authentication code that is generated based at least in part on a seed value, which can be stored in the user device. The application can automatically generate an authentication request based at least in part on the access information and the authentication code, and transmit the authentication request to remote computer system.
US10148628B2
An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method enables endpoints to securely send and receive messages to one another within a hybrid peer-to-peer environment.
US10148624B2
In an example, there is disclosed a computing apparatus having one or more logic elements forming a non-encrypted flow processor engine; and one or more logic elements forming a service selection engine, wherein the one or more logic elements include a trusted execution environment (TEE), and wherein the service selection engine is operable to; receive from the flow processor engine an encrypted payload; determine that the encrypted payload satisfies at least one selection criterion; and provide a notification of satisfaction to the flow engine. There is further disclosed a method of performing the operations disclosed, and one or more computer-readable mediums having stored thereon executable instructions to perform the method.
US10148621B2
A processing device receives an unauthenticated provisioning request from a hardware resource. Responsive to determining that the hardware resource satisfies one or more provisioning criteria, the processing device forwards the provisioning request to a server residing behind a firewall, receives provisioning data from the server, removes sensitive information from the provisioning data to create modified provisioning data, and forwards the modified provisioning data to the hardware resource.
US10148618B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for network isolation. For example, nodes within a mesh of devices may be configured with routing rules, main routing tables, and alternative routing tables, such as at a layer-3 network layer. The routing rules may specify that packets received from downstream are to be routed upstream to either a gateway or a backhaul device for evaluation as to whether such packets are allowed to be communicated back downstream to destination recipients using main routing tables. An isolation rule may be configured to specify whether to block or allow packets. In an example, the gateway may either block or allow packets based upon whether a source and destination are within a same virtual local area network or are within different virtual local area networks. In this way, selective device isolation may be provided, such as at the layer-3 network layer.
US10148614B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for applying a subscriber based policy to a network service data flow are disclosed. According to one example, the method includes determining, based on message traffic communicated between a user equipment device and an operator network via GTP, a private socket address that identifies the user equipment device and conducting network address translation (NAT) on a spoofed Internet protocol (IP) protocol data unit (PDU) that includes the private socket address in order to derive a corresponding public socket address. The method further includes provisioning, in a network element positioned in the operator network, a mapping record that correlates the private socket address to the public socket address, and utilizing, by the network element, the mapping record to apply at least one subscriber-based policy to received service data flow associated with the user equipment device.
US10148613B2
Managing network ports is disclosed. Network session identification information is received. The network session identification information is associated with a destination IP address and a destination network port. An available source network port is determined using a data structure that is based on the destination IP address and the destination network port.
US10148610B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for using Zero Configuration Networking (ZeroConf) to automate the discovery of the Internet Protocol (IP) network address of a remote access controller (RAC). A RAC service associated with a networking device is registered programmatically or as a result of receiving user input to a command line interface. Available services that include the registered RAC service are browsed, followed by resolving the registered RAC service to an IP address, which is then discovered. The discovered IP address is then displayed within a user interface (UI) window.
US10148607B2
An interceptor, e.g., associated with an electronic messaging (EM) service, transmits a first request to the EM service. The interceptor receives from the EM service a first reply associated with the first request and a notification associated with a client. The interceptor receives, from the client, a second request. The interceptor forwards the second request to the EM service. The interceptor receives from the EM service a second reply associated with the second request. The interceptor creates a modified second reply including at least a portion of the notification by modifying an outer-protocol header of the second reply, an inner-protocol header of the second reply, and an inner-protocol body of the second reply. The interceptor transmits the modified second reply to the client.
US10148605B2
Exemplary embodiments of the invention disclose a method for processing invitation information using a messaging service of a mobile communication terminal, and a service server, a mobile communication terminal, and a computer readable recording medium for performing the same. The method for processing invitation information by a service server includes: generating the invitation information according to a request from an invitation transmitting mobile communication terminal; verifying identification information of an invitation receiving mobile communication terminal in response to the invitation information being requested from the invitation receiving mobile communication terminal installing a service application; and transmitting the invitation information to the invitation receiving mobile communication terminal when the identification information is verified.
US10148600B1
A system and method simulates conversation with a human user. The system and method receive media, convert the media into a system-specific format, and compare the converted media to a vocabulary. The system and method generate a plurality of intents and a plurality of sub-entities and transform them into a pre-defined format. The system and method route intents and the sub-entities to a first selected knowledge engine and a second knowledge engine. The first selected knowledge engine selects the second knowledge engine and each active grammar in the vocabulary uniquely identifies each of the knowledge engines.
US10148590B2
Pre-defined unlock codes are generated that are associated with defined access related error codes. When an access issue is encountered, the pre-defined unlock code associated with the received error code is provided to the blocked user. When the blocked user provides the pre-defined unlock code associated with the received error code, the user is provided access to the software application on a temporary basis. Therefore, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a technical solution to the long standing technical problem in the workflow application environment of users of a software application getting stuck and blocked from making progress with their workflows due to access and/or critical issues, without the need for applying a permanent data fix, releasing a patch, or developing, releasing, and/or installing a new application version, at least until a long-term solution can be formulated and implemented.
US10148586B2
A work conserving scheduler can be implemented based on a ranking system to provide the scalability of time stamps while avoiding the fast search associated with a traditional time stamp implementation. Each queue can be assigned a time stamp that is initially set to zero. The time stamp for a queue can be incremented each time a data packet from the queue is processed. To provide varying weights to the different queues, the time stamp for the queues can be incremented at varying rates. The data packets can be processed from the queues based on the tier rank order of the queues as determined from the time stamp associated with each queue. To increase the speed at which the ranking is determined, the ranking can be calculate from a subset of the bits defining the time stamp rather than the entire bit set.
US10148585B2
A communication control method includes: comparing the number of messages to be transmitted which are stored in a buffer with the number of communication processings in execution, each of the communication processings being to execute processing to transmit the messages stored in the buffer; and determining, by a processor, whether integration processing is performed on a newly generated first message to be transmitted based on a result of the comparing, the integration processing being processing that integrates the first message and a message which is in the buffer and of which the destination as a destination of the first message is specified.
US10148579B2
Conventional packet network nodes react to congestion in the packet network by dropping packets in a manner which is perceived by users to be indiscriminate. In embodiments of the invention, indiscriminate packet discards are prevented by causing packets to be discarded on lower priority flows and flow aggregates. Further action is taken to reduce the likelihood of packet discards. When an aggregate set of flows raises a congestion alarm, action is taken to try to increase aggregate capacity by excising capacity from pre-assigned donor aggregates. A donor aggregate may be carrying flows, for example, classified as best effort. Another type of donor capacity is donor re-assignable unused capacity. Aggregates may have capacity added either up to a defined limit or, temporarily, exceeding any limit provided there is free capacity available, but removable back to the defined limit when other aggregates need increased capacity and are below their defined limits.
US10148576B2
Systems and methods for facilitating offloading of communication sessions from layer 3 network devices are provided. According to one embodiment, session information pertaining to a session capable of being offloaded is received from a layer 3 network device by a layer 2 network device that includes multiple network processing units (NPUs). The session is assigned to one of the NPUs. Subsequently, responsive to receiving, by the layer 2 network device, a packet associated with the session, the packet is processed by the assigned NPU and forwarded on behalf of the layer 3 network device to a destination specified by the processed packet.
US10148548B1
The inventive system processes large quantities of client data. The inventive system can include an inbound message gateway (IMG) which receives event data from a plurality of clients. The IMG performs one or more processes on the event data and transmits sample data streams to an analytics cluster that includes a plurality of physical hardware nodes. Each of the physical hardware nodes can include a plurality of processes at a plurality of different time granularities. Database shards store recorded data from each of the processes in the physical nodes.
US10148546B2
In some implementations, a user device can schedule tasks based on user behavior. For example, the user device can receive a task request that includes a time window and user/device context parameters for performing the task. The user device can predict a time when the user/device context is optimal for performing the task during the time window based on historical context data. For example, the user device can generate an optimal context score for the task based on the context parameters and the historical context data. The user device can execute the requested task at a current time within the time window when a context score for the current context exceeds a threshold determined based on the optimal context score.
US10148544B2
For multiple multi-core nodes in a cluster, the filtered statistics clients contacts the aggregator on a master node of the cluster, referred to as the cluster configuration owner (“CCO”) or cluster coordinator and expects the stats aggregated from all the cluster nodes. The aggregator on the CCO nodes relay the client request to packet engines on the CCO node and to an aggregator on each of the other nodes in the cluster. Then the CCO node aggregator gets responses from other cores on the node and responses from all other cluster node aggregators. The CCO node aggregator aggregates the responses and sends back the aggregated response to the clients. Communication between nodes is via a static authenticated communication channel.
US10148540B2
An anomaly detection system is able to detect spatial and temporal environment anomalies and spatial and temporal behavior anomalies, and monitor servers for anomalous characteristics of the environment and behavior. If metrics and/or characteristics associated with a given server are beyond a certain threshold, an alert is generated. Among other options, the alert can take the form of a heat map or a cluster cohesiveness report.
US10148533B1
An originating server of a payment processing system comprising multiple communicating servers first processes a transaction event, generates a correlating identifier and transmits the correlating identifier and processing information to a central data log accessible by the multiple communicating servers. One or more intermediate servers and a terminating server then process the transaction event, each successive intermediate server and the terminating server receiving the transaction event and a correlation identifier associated with the transaction event generated by the previous server which processed the transaction event. Each successive intermediate server and the terminating server generates a correlation identifier, and transmits both the received and generated correlation identifiers to the central transaction log. A query comprising a correlation identifier associated with the transaction event is received. The payment processing system extracts successive sets of entries from the central data log by matching corresponding correlation identifiers and generates a transaction event history.
US10148530B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to techniques for providing a user with access to a service provided by a cloud infrastructure system based on an existing service. A user may be provided with a clone subscription based on a base subscription to an existing service provided by the cloud infrastructure system. A clone subscription can provide the user with an environment (e.g., a service) that is designated for one use (e.g., development and testing) different from another use (e.g., production) designed for a base subscription. Changes made to a base subscription may be propagated to the clone subscription based on rules. A clone subscription can be modified to vary the clone configuration independently from the base configuration.
US10148522B2
To provide better administrative access control for allowing access to network applications, an authorization framework is extended by dynamically adding administrative access control to the authorization framework. For example, the authorization framework can be extended by adding a plug-in to the authorization framework. The authorization framework manages the access control by generating tokens. For example, a token may be a digital certificate. The tokens define what access control an application, such as a client application has when accessing the network application. The tokens are based on the dynamically added administrative access control. When a request for a token is securely received, the authorization framework generates a token that identifies if the application (e.g., the client application) is allowed or not allowed to access the network application. The token is then used by the application to access the network application.
US10148514B2
A method for discovery of devices is described herein. The method includes connecting, via a processor, to a discovery node service. The method also includes sending, via the processor, a node name to the discovery node service. The method further includes sending, via the processor, data and content to be sent to a discovery node associated with the node name. The method also further includes receiving data and content from the discovery node, the data to include a list of devices subscribed to the discovery node.
US10148513B1
A method and system for improving mobile bandwidth consumption is provided. The method includes establishing a wireless connection between a mobile device and a first antenna of a wireless connection device located within a specified geographical zone. Movement of the mobile device is tracked within the specified geographical zone and it is determined that the mobile device has exited a first subzone of the specified geographical zone. Additionally, it is determined that that the mobile device has entered a second subzone of the specified geographical zone. In response, communications between the mobile device and the wireless connection device via the first antenna are disabled. Additionally, communications between the mobile device and the wireless connection device via a second antenna of the wireless connection device are enabled.
US10148509B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for session based software defined networking (SDN) management are disclosed. According to one method, the method occurs at a policy engine. The method includes determining, using a session identifier, Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) session information associated with a user device. The method also includes generating, using the 3GPP session information, SDN policy information for SDN related traffic associated with the 3GPP session, wherein the SDN policy information is for providing a quality of service (QoS) for the SDN related traffic corresponding to a QoS associated with the 3GPP session information, wherein the SDN related traffic is correlated with the 3GPP session using a source address associated with the user device.
US10148505B2
Improved techniques involve creating a feedback cycle between a framework for managing many data storage arrays and system for provisioning a data storage array using real-time usage statistics from the framework. Along these lines, a multi-system provisioning tool provides an initial configuration of storage systems in a datacenter; such an initial configuration includes provisioning of logical disks for each system. As this tool monitors activity within the datacenter, it generates live runtime data for each logical disk within each system. The tool then compares this live runtime data to external runtime data received from a central database and looks for anomalies in the live runtime data. Upon detecting an anomaly in a logical disk, the tool may respond by finding logical disks in other storage arrays from which storage resources may be swapped.
US10148499B2
Computing nodes are coupled via a network to communicate as a tree structure that performs a distributed computation. The nodes include a root node, intermediate nodes, and leaf nodes. At least some of the nodes obtain redundant results that are communicated together with a final result to the root node. The root node compares the redundant results to the final result to verify the final result.
US10148498B1
A cloud object model represents resources available in a cloud computing environment as hardware islands. A compute cluster is registered with a hardware island. The compute cluster is designated as being of a particular cluster type. An indication is received from a user to provision the compute cluster with storage. The object model is accessed to determine a cluster type of the cluster. The cluster is provisioned with storage of a type that corresponds to the cluster being of the particular type, where the storage provisioned includes one of replicated storage or non-replicated storage.
US10148491B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for detecting fault are disclosed. In one aspect, a signal having an initial pulse width is transmitted on a telecommunication line. A fault location index is identified based on at least one fluctuating echo tap of the signal. An updated pulse width is determined based on the initial pulse width and the fault location index. The fault location index is updated based on at least one fluctuating echo tap of an updated signal having the updated pulse width.
US10148488B1
Disclosed are systems, methods, and other embodiments relating to event processing. A plurality of events from a plurality of services are buffered in a server, each of the services being implemented in at least one service server. An indexed storage of the events is performed in a data store. Metrics are generated from the events, where a condition associated with an operation of the services may be determined from the metrics.
US10148486B2
Object-oriented network management includes defining an information model with one object class for each type of network resource and network entity to be managed. A hierarchy tree with a plurality of hierarchy levels is defined independent from an inheritance hierarchy. Each object class is assigned to one hierarchy level, and each object class of a lower hierarchy level is associated to one object class of a hierarchy level above the lower hierarchy level. An information entity including default version information is defined in the information model. The information entity is associated to one object class of a top hierarchy level or an instance thereof. An assumption is defined that the default version information for an instance of one object class and for all instances of an object class that belongs to lower hierarchy levels and that are associated to the one object class, or an instance thereof.
US10148485B2
An apparatus includes a first network controller configured to communicate over a higher-level industrial process control network, a second network controller configured to communicate over a first lower-level industrial process control network, and a third network controller configured to communicate over a second lower-level industrial process control network. The first network controller is configured to provide first data messages from the higher-level control network to the second and third network controllers for transmission over the lower-level control networks. The second and third network controllers are configured to provide second data messages from the lower-level control networks to the first network controller for transmission over the higher-level control network. Each of the second and third network controllers is configured to provide third data messages from one of the lower-level control networks to another of the second and third network controllers for transmission over another of the lower-level control networks.
US10148484B2
Some embodiments provide a novel method for distributing control-channel communication load between multiple controllers in a network control system. In some embodiments, the controllers manage physical forwarding elements that forward data between several computing devices (also called hosts or host computers), some or all of which execute one or more virtual machines (VMs). The method of some embodiments distributes a controller assignment list to the host computers. The host computers use this list to identify the controllers with which they need to interact to perform some of the forwarding operations of their associated logical forwarding elements. In some embodiments, agents executing on the host computers (1) review the controller assignment list to identify the appropriate controllers, and (2) establish control channel communications with these controllers to obtain the needed data for effectuating the forwarding operations of their associated physical forwarding elements. These agents in some embodiments are responsible for out-of-band control channel communication with the controllers.
US10148474B2
A receiving device includes: a receiver that receives a signal including PPM symbols; a clock generator that generates a clock for sampling; an A/D converter that digital-converts the received signal; a reference position detector that detects a leading position of the PPM symbols based on data from the A/D converter; and a clock error detector that detects a clock error. The clock error detector includes: a pulse position detector that detects a pulse position in the PPM symbols based on data from the reference position detector and A/D converter; a position error calculator that calculates a deviation of the pulse position based on data from the reference position detector, A/D converter, and pulse position detector; and a clock error calculator that calculates the clock error based on data from the position error calculator. The receiving device varies a frequency of the clock based on data from the clock error calculator.
US10148473B2
Methods and systems are provided for spreading spectral density of digital-to-analog conversion output signals. A spreading circuit may spread a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) output signal over a particular frequency spectrum, with the spreading circuit receiving the DAC output signal; generating a plurality of internal control signals; and generating based on the DAC output signal and the one or more internal control signal a corresponding spread output signal. The Internal control signals may comprise at least a first control signal, generated based on sequences meeting at least one particular criterion, a second control signal, generated based on a feedback corresponding to an intermediate output generated within the spreading circuit. The spreading circuit may generate the first control signal based on zero-sum sequences. The spreading circuit may generate a stream of pulses based on the intermediate output, and may generate the feedback signal based on the stream of pulses.
US10148471B2
A communication apparatus includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to receive a first reception signal and a second reception signal in a first period, calculate a first phase rotation quantity between the first reception signal and the second reception signal, receive a third reception signal and a fourth reception signal in a second period, calculate a second phase rotation quantity between the third reception signal and the fourth reception signal, determine whether to compensate for a frequency offset of a fifth reception signal based on a difference between the first phase rotation quantity and the second phase rotation quantity, and when it is determined to compensate for the frequency offset of the fifth reception signal, compensate for the frequency offset of the fifth reception signal.
US10148468B2
A multi building block architecture may be configured to generate a waveform (a “target wideband signal”) for use in a wireless communication system, where the waveform supports a variety of baseband signals. The task of generating a target wideband signal can be divided into several tasks, each task relating to the generating of one of a plurality of sub-carrier bands. Each of the sub-carrier bands (sub-bands) may be generated by one of the sub-band building units included in the sub-band building blocks of the architecture. Several sub-bands may be formed, by a sub-band group building block, into a sub-band group. Multiple sub-band groups may be formed, by a wideband building block, into the target wideband signal.
US10148457B2
Apparatus and methods of managing a virtual area based on communicant capabilities are described. The communicant capabilities are updated based on rules in response to events in the virtual area. An action by one communicant can affect the capabilities of another communicant. Communicant capabilities can be stored in respective server-side proxies and the virtual area can be managed without transmitting any of the capabilities to the communicants' client network nodes. Capability-based permissions checks can be performed against communicant capabilities with wildcarded attribute fields.
US10148452B2
The apparatus is adapted for connecting a home network with a service provider network via a broadband connection for providing Internet services and comprises a media relay for receiving a data stream of the home network in accordance with a first protocol and sending the data stream in accordance with a second protocol to the service provider network for an outgoing connection, and vice versa for an incoming connection. The media relay comprises a media device interface for linking the media relay with the home network and for separating signaling data from the media data of the receiving data stream, a signaling switch for converting the signaling data in accordance with the first protocol to the signaling data in accordance with the second protocol, a media switch for converting the media data in accordance with the first protocol to the media data in accordance with the second protocol, and a network interface for linking the media relay with the service provider network and for combining the signaling data from the signaling switch and the media data from the media switch.
US10148449B2
A push message service method and system capable of allowing a service server to develop a standardized push message format to keep up with different Operating Systems (OSs)-based multiple platforms environment or single user account-multiple platforms environment and preventing push messages from being lost is provided. The multi-push message system supporting multiple platforms includes at least one service server which generates a multi-push message including per-terminal granted push tokens and messages (pns) to be transmitted per push server, a multi-push message manager which checks validity of the multi-push message, parses the multi-push message, generates push messages corresponding to types of the platforms of the push servers based on the messages (pns), and sends the push message to the respective push servers, and a push server which transmits the push message to the terminal corresponding to the push token.
US10148443B2
The infrastructure according to the invention includes: a proprietary TOIP system including a call server connected to the network, integrating a certification module able to certify an IP telephone; an external certification architecture able to certify the certification module of the call server; an EAP-TLS authentication system including a RADIUS server and a directory server, the RADIUS server including a rule for verifying certificates consisting of verifying the entire certification chain formed by the certification of the IP telephone by the certification module of the call server and the certification of the certification module of the call server by the external certification architecture, the directory server including a user account for each IP telephone authorized to access the network and a match table associating a signature of the certificate of the corresponding IP telephone with each username of a user account.
US10148434B2
A random number generating device includes an uncertain circuit which outputs uncertain data, and a cipher processing device. The cipher processing device encrypts input data using a cipher function of the cipher processing device, and generates a random number including higher uniformity than data outputted from said uncertain circuit using the cipher function of the cipher processing device and the data outputted from the uncertain circuit.
US10148430B1
Encryption of data across an environment, such as a shared resource environment, can be updated using keys generated using one or more revocable stream cipher algorithms. Data stored in the environment can be encrypted under a first key, or other such secret. When it is desired to update the encryption, a second key can be generated under which the data is to be re-encrypted. Instead of distributing the second key, a revocable stream cipher generator can generate an intermediate key based on the first and second keys, that when processed with the first key will produce the second key. Such an approach enables data to be re-encrypted under the second key without distributing the second key. Further, the unencrypted data will not be exposed in the process. In some embodiments, the re-encryption can be performed on an as-needed basis in order to reduce processing requirements.
US10148426B2
Implementations of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption and decryption processes are disclosed. In one embodiment of S-box processing, a block of 16 byte values is converted, each byte value being converted from a polynomial representation in GF(256) to a polynomial representation in GF((22)4). Multiplicative inverse polynomial representations in GF((22)4) are computed for each of the corresponding polynomial representations in GF((22)4). Finally corresponding multiplicative inverse polynomial representations in GF((22)4) are converted and an affine transformation is applied to generate corresponding polynomial representations in GF(256). In an alternative embodiment of S-box processing, powers of the polynomial representations are computed and multiplied together in GF(256) to generate multiplicative inverse polynomial representations in GF(256). In an embodiment of inverse-columns-mixing, the 16 byte values are converted from a polynomial representation in GF(256) to a polynomial representation in GF((24)2). A four-by-four matrix is applied to the transformed polynomial representation in GF((24)2) to implement the inverse-columns-mixing.
US10148414B2
Systems and methods for high speed communications are described herein. In certain aspects, the systems and methods include innovative transceiver architectures and techniques for re-timing, multiplexing, de-multiplexing and transmitting data. The systems and methods can be used to achieve reliable high-speed point-to-point communication between different electronic devices, computing devices, storage devices and peripheral devices.
US10148412B1
A controller of a first communication device records a first time value of a first clock corresponding to transmission of a first communication frame associated with a timing measurement procedure. If an acknowledgment of the first communication frame was received by the first communication device, the controller records a second time value of the first clock. The controller receives a data unit corresponding to a second communication frame associated with the timing measurement procedure, wherein the data unit includes a time value of a second clock. If an acknowledgment of the first communication frame was not received, the controller compares the first time value of the first clock to the time value of the second clock, and uses i) the first time value of the first clock, and ii) the time value of the second clock to adjust time values corresponding to the first clock responsive to the comparison.
US10148411B2
The present disclosure provides a secure one-step IEEE 1588 clock using either a symmetric or asymmetric protection scheme. Clocks of mission-critical or highly-available devices in industrial automation systems connected to a communication network are synchronized by sending, by a master clock, a synchronization message, e.g., a single message of the one-step-clock type according to IEEE 1588, including a time stamp, and by receiving and evaluating, by a slave clock, the synchronization message. A synchronization component or module of the master clock prepares, or composes, prior to a projected send time, a synchronization message including a time stamp of the projected send time, and secures the synchronization message in advance of the projected send time. Securing the synchronization message occurs by suitable cryptographic means allowing for authentication of the time stamp at a receiving slave clock. At the projected send time, the secured synchronization message is transmitted.
US10148404B2
Methods, apparatuses, computer readable media for multi-user (MU) request-to-send (RTS) and clear-to-send (CTS) with null data packet (NDP) CTSs and response polling. An apparatus of a wireless device comprising processing circuitry is disclosed. The processing circuitry may be configured to encode a MU-RTS including station identifications and indications of 20 MHz channels for the stations to transmit CTSs. The processing circuitry may be configured to configure the access point to transmit the MU-RTS. The processing circuitry may be configured to encode a trigger frame for polling, the trigger frame including the station identifications and indications of short feedback resource units for the stations identified by the station identifications. The processing circuitry may be configured to decode short feedback from the stations in accordance with the short feedback resource units where the short feedback is in response to the trigger frame for polling and the MU-RTS.
US10148401B2
It is possible to provide a radio communication terminal device and a radio transmission method which can improve reception performance of a CQI and a reference signal. A phase table storage unit stores a phase table which correlates the amount of cyclic shift to complex coefficients {w1, w2} to be multiplied on the reference signal. A complex coefficient multiplication unit reads out a complex coefficient corresponding to the amount of cyclic shift indicated by resource allocation information, from the phase table storage unit and multiplies the read-out complex coefficient on the reference signal so as to change the phase relationship between the reference signals in a slot.
US10148399B2
A method for transmitting an 802.11ah packet is provided. A training field sequence is generated using control circuitry. A preamble for a packet is generated using the control circuitry. The preamble includes a training field symbol which includes the training field sequence. A portion of the training field sequence is within a plurality of guard tones of the training field symbol. The preamble is transmitted using transmit circuitry.
US10148394B2
A transmission resource in a time domain subframe is divided into a plurality of equal duration resource elements in a time and frequency domain, the plurality of resource elements are segregated into a plurality of resource regions, information to be transmitted is modulated to generate a sequence of modulation symbols at a transmitter, the sequence of modulation symbols is mapped into the plurality of resource elements in the plurality of resource regions, and the modulation symbols are transmitted via a plurality of antennas using the respective corresponding resource elements to a receiver. The mapping of the modulation symbols in at least one resource region is independent of a certain control channel information that is carried in the time domain subframe, and the mapping of the modulation symbols in at least another resource region is dependent upon that certain control channel information.
US10148379B2
One embodiment of the present specification provides a method for transmitting network support information in a serving cell in order to remove interference of a terminal. The method for transmitting the network support information comprises the steps of: enabling the serving cell to select a first terminal and a second terminal to which a multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) is applied; enabling the serving cell to select different codewords for a downlink data channel to the selected first and second terminals; enabling the serving cell to determine whether the first terminal can remove the interference; and transmitting, to the first terminal, the network support information for supporting the interference removal using the downlink data channel to the second terminal if the first terminal can remove the interference.
US10148372B2
A method and apparatus for handling emergency information for a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU). The WTRU configured to receive scheduling information and receive a first transmission with a plurality of earthquake and tsunami warning system (ETWS) sub-system information blocks (sub-SIBs) of a first part of a ETWS-SIB based on the scheduling information, wherein the plurality of ETWS sub-SIBs of the first part include segments of a secondary ETWS message. The WTRU is further configured to receive a second transmission of a plurality of ETWS sub-SIBs of a second part of the second ETWS-SIB interspersed with non-EWTS system information, wherein the plurality of ETWS sub-SIBs of the second part include segments of the secondary ETWS message. The WTRU is further configured to recover the secondary ETWS message from the first and second part of the second ETWS-SIB and then display the recovered secondary ETWS message via a user interface.
US10148367B1
Methods and apparatus to provide built-in-test and/or fault isolation of individual array elements in assignment-based AESAs. BIT beam states for array element testing can be stored in AESA memory for rapid assignment sequencing of RF waveform generators and receive processing. Assignment-based selection can be used for AESA BIT beam states.
US10148365B2
A communication interface apparatus can include a free-air optical transceiver for communicating signals at a first speed and an electrical contact for communicating at least one of: signals at a second speed or power. The communication interface can include a substrate having a plurality of electrical circuits. The optical transceiver can be electrically coupled to the substrate and configured to transceive an optical signal in free air. In an example, the optical transceiver can convert the optical signal to the signal at the first speed, such as an electrical signal. In an example, the electrical contact can be communicatively coupled to the substrate. The electrical contact and the free-air optical transceiver can be attached to the substrate in fixed relation with respect to one another.
US10148364B2
An example embodiment includes optical receiver that includes a polarization beam splitter (PBS), a polarization controller, and a forward error correction (FEC). The PBS is configured to split a received optical signal having an unknown polarization state into two orthogonal polarizations (x′-polarization and y′-polarization). The polarization controller includes no more than two couplers and no more than two phase shifters per wavelength channel of the x′-polarization and the y′-polarization. The polarization controller is configured to demultiplex the x′-polarization and the y′-polarization into a first demultiplexed signal having an first polarization on which a data signal is modulated and a second demultiplexed signal having a second, orthogonal polarization on which a pilot carrier oscillator signal is encoded. The FEC decoder module is configured to correct a burst of errors resulting from resetting one of the phase shifters based on error correction code (ECC) data encoded in the data signal.
US10148361B2
The present invention is directed to data communication system and methods. More specifically, various embodiments of the present invention provide a communication interface that is configured to transfer data at high bandwidth using PAM format(s) over optical communication networks. In various embodiments, amplitude and phase of the optical wave are modulated. There are other embodiments as well.
US10148357B1
Non-ideal downstream loading of a differential driver in a single ended circuit driving a communications laser—e.g., Electro absorption Modulated Laser (EML)—may be compensated by deploying a second matching network at the non-functional (terminated) driver output node. Certain embodiments may further compensate for distortion arising from circuit non-ideality, by introducing a laser replica downstream of the second matching network to mimic electrical properties of the laser. Embodiments may sufficiently compensate for downstream circuit non-ideality to allow replacing the bulky choke inductor of a bias tee, with a resistor. Substituting a resistor for a more complex inductor structure can simplify design and fabrication of the single-ended driver circuit, and also reduce footprint by eliminating area formerly occupied by the choke inductor. Embodiments may be particularly suited to bridge integration with other system components undergoing design migration toward double-ended modulator circuit architectures featuring a differential driver.
US10148343B2
Use of a drone base station companion increases diversity gain in a communications system to reduce error rates and the probability of the need for a retransmission due to channel fading. An apparatus includes a drone base station companion configured as a relay between a base station in a first cell and wireless user equipment in the first cell. The drone base station companion includes a wireless receiver path configured to receive a wireless communication including data from the base station. The drone base station companion includes a wireless transmitter path configured to transmit the data to the wireless user equipment. The drone base station companion may include a second wireless receiver path configured to receive a second wireless communication including the data from the wireless user equipment. The drone base station companion may include a second wireless transmitter path configured to transmit the second data to the base station.
US10148341B2
Technology for a cellular signal booster operable to amplify cellular signals is disclosed. The cellular signal booster can include a downlink cellular signal path configured to amplify and filter a received downlink cellular signal in a plurality of selected bands. The downlink signal path can combine at least a first band and a second band in the plurality of selected bands. The cellular signal booster can include a controller operable to perform network protection by adjusting an uplink gain or noise power for at least one of a first band or a second band in an uplink signal path. The uplink gain or noise power can be adjusted for the first band in the uplink signal path or the second band in the uplink signal path using a signal strength associated with the received downlink cellular signal on the downlink cellular signal path.
US10148339B2
A communication system and method for extending coverage of a base transceiver station. The communication system includes processing circuitry that receives a communication signal over a wireless channel. The received communication signal is processed through an adaptable equalizer to reduce noise, distortion, interference, and frequency errors. In another aspect of the invention, a frequency of a reference signal in the communication system is adjusted to compensate for frequency errors between the communication system and the source of the communication signal. The equalized and frequency adjusted communication signal is then retransmitted into an extended coverage area. Wireless coverage is thereby provided between a base transceiver station and a mobile device in the extended coverage area.
US10148326B2
Methods and apparatus for single and multi-user signal extensions or padding are provided. In various aspects, a number of symbols required to transmit a plurality of data bits to each of a plurality of wireless communication devices and a fraction of useful bits in a final symbol of each of the plurality of data bits is determined. A signaling extension length may also be determined based at least in part on the fraction of useful bits and a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) of each of the plurality of wireless communication devices. A plurality of data packets for each of the plurality of wireless communication devices are generated, with each data packet comprising the corresponding data bits and the signaling extension after the final symbol of each of the plurality of data packets.
US10148322B2
A demodulator including a peak sampler to control an ADC or a digital resampler to sample a carrier signal in an unmodulated state at peaks, and to sample the carrier signal in a modulated state at a phase of the unmodulated state; and an envelope builder to determine an envelope signal based on differentials between maximum and minimum peaks of respective cycles of the sampled carrier signal. Further, a demodulator having an offset estimator to estimate in-phase and quadrature components of a carrier signal in an unmodulated state to determine in-phase and quadrature component offsets; a load modulated signal estimator to estimate in-phase and quadrature components of a load modulated signal by removing the in-phase and quadrature component offsets from in-phase and quadrature component samples of the carrier signal; and an envelope builder to build an envelope signal by combining the in-phase and quadrature components of the load modulated signal.
US10148320B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for controlling a wireless power transmitting device. Information is received about a position of an electronic device from another wireless power transmitting device. Power is transmitted to the electronic device using the information about the position of the electronic device received from the other wireless power transmitting device.
US10148318B2
A method and a system for communicating personal health data in a Near Field Communication (NFC) environment are provided. An NFC manager sets control information in an NFC Data Exchange Format (NDEF) for providing synchronized communication of personal health data between the NFC manager and an NFC agent. The control information may include a direction flag, a state flag, sequence identifier field, and request/response flag. The NFC manager writes the NDEF format including the control information and payload data into an NFC tag associated with the NFC agent. Subsequently, the NFC manager reads the NDEF record stored in the NFC tag and determines whether the NDEF record is written into the NFC tag by the NFC agent based on the control information in the read NDEF format. Accordingly, the NFC manager repeats the above mentioned steps if the NDEF record includes payload data of the NFC agent.
US10148316B2
Technologies for determining the parameters of a transmission line such as a printed circuit board trace and a cable are disclosed. By measuring a reflection coefficient and a transmission coefficient of two different electrical structures with the same type of fixture on each end and transmission lines of different lengths, the attenuation coefficient of the transmission lines can be determined. The attenuation coefficient can indicate whether or not the performance of the transmission line is acceptable or may be used to calibrate a measuring device for subsequent measurements.
US10148310B2
RF circuitry, which includes an antenna VSWR RF duplexer and duplexer control circuitry, is disclosed. The antenna VSWR RF duplexer includes a first hybrid RF coupler having a first main port coupled to an RF antenna, a first isolation port, and a first pair of quadrature ports; a second hybrid RF coupler having a second main port, a second isolation port, and a second pair of quadrature ports; a third hybrid RF coupler having a third main port, a third isolation port, and a third pair of quadrature ports; and RF filter circuitry coupled to the first pair of quadrature ports, the second pair of quadrature ports, and the third pair of quadrature ports, such that the antenna VSWR RF duplexer provides an antenna VSWR signal. The duplexer control circuitry receives and processes the antenna VSWR signal, which is representative of VSWR mismatch conditions at the first main port.
US10148307B2
An electronic device protection apparatus conformal with an electronic device, the electronic device protection apparatus including a retaining sheath having a base section disposed so as to cover the rear of the electronic device and a ring section, including an inner channel, forming a perimeter around and receiving the exterior edge of the electronic device into the inner channel; and at least one fingerswipe indentation disposed on the ring section, wherein the at least one fingerswipe indentation is configured to interface with a touch-sensitive display region of the electronic device so as to effect off-screen swiping functionality of a graphical user interface of the touch-sensitive display region of the electronic device retained in the electronic device protection apparatus.
US10148303B2
Embodiments for managing aquatic infrastructure by one or more processors are described. A vehicle is detected within a vicinity of an aquatic infrastructure device. A wireless capability level of the vehicle is determined. Based on the determined wireless capability level of the vehicle, at least one of a wireless power transfer between the vehicle and the aquatic infrastructure device or a wireless data transfer between the vehicle and the aquatic infrastructure device is enabled.
US10148299B2
A method for cancelling interference and receiving a signal by a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the method includes identifying assistance information for cancelling an interference signal transmitted from an interfering base station; cancelling the interference signal based on the assistance information; and receiving a desired signal from a serving base station, wherein the user equipment assumes a part of the assistance information for cancelling the interference signal as a limited value and then receives the interference signal, and wherein a modulation order of the interference signal as the part of the assistance information is smaller than or equal to a specific value as the limited value.
US10148295B2
A semiconductor device (10) includes a transmitting circuit (12) that converts transmission data into a transmission signal with a specified frequency, an amplifier (13) that amplifies a power of the transmission signal, a matching circuit (14) that converts the transmission signal from a balanced signal to an unbalanced signal, and a filter circuit (14) that restricts a frequency band of the transmission signal. The matching circuit includes a primary inductor and a secondary inductor, the filter circuit includes an inductor for a filter, and the primary inductor, the secondary indictor and the inductor for a filter are wound substantially concentrically on one plane.
US10148294B2
Embodiments of the disclosure include a multi-band radio frequency (RF) front-end circuit. When a first antenna transmits an RF transmit signal in an RF transmit band, a second antenna may receive the RF transmit signal as an interference signal. The multi-band RF front-end circuit includes multiple receive filters for receiving an RF receive signal in multiple RF receive bands. A selected receive filter among the multiple receive filters is opportunistically reconfigured to help suppress the interference signal. Specifically, a bandpass bandwidth of the selected receive filter is expanded to include at least a portion of the RF spectrum of the interference signal. By doing so, it is possible to shunt the interference signal to a ground through the selected receive filter. As a result, it is possible to reduce an adverse impact of the interference signal to improve RF performance of the multi-band RF front-end circuit.
US10148286B2
A keyboard scanning circuit includes a plurality of switching elements, M scanning lines and N sensing lines. Each of the sensing lines has a common node extended to M transmission lines. A switching element is coupled where one of the transmission lines and one of the scanning lines intersects. Two scanning lines correspondingly coupled through two switching elements to two transmission lines extended from one sensing line are different from each other.
US10148284B2
The present disclosure describes a wired communication device having media access control (MAC) circuitry and physical layer (PHY) circuitry. The MAC circuitry frames one or more data packets in accordance with a wired communication standard or protocol to provide one or more data frames. The one or more data frames include one or more packets that are separated by interpacket gaps (IPGs). The MAC circuitry selectively choses a duration of the IPGs to maintain an average IPG duration. The PHY circuitry encodes the one or more data frames in accordance with a line coding scheme that is efficiently represents different possible combinations for types of characters present in the one or more data frames.
US10148282B1
An adapter, for coupling a first medical instrument to a control console having a console receptacle configured for attachment thereto of a different second medical instrument, includes a case, a receptacle, circuitry contained in the case and an output connector. The receptacle is configured to receive an input connector of the first medical instrument conveying modulated analog input signals from the first medical instrument. The circuitry includes an analog/digital converter coupled to sample and digitize the analog input signals to generate digital samples, digital processing circuitry configured to digitally downconvert the digital samples so as to generate a baseband digital signal, and a digital/analog converter configured to convert the baseband digital signal to an analog baseband signal compatible with an output of the second medical instrument. The output connector is configured to be inserted into the console receptacle and to convey the analog baseband signal to the console.
US10148274B1
A compensation circuit for an oven-controlled crystal oscillator serving as a reference for a phase-locked loop in holdover mode is disclosed. A non-linear function module generates a modified aging signal that is a non-linear function of an aging signal. A first Kalman filter generates an estimate of the frequency drift of the crystal oscillator based on the temperature signal. A second Kalman filter generates an estimate of the frequency drift based on the modified aging signal. A combining and comparing module combines the estimates generated by the first and second Kalman filters and compares the estimates with detected frequency drift to produce an error signal to update the Kalman filters. In holdover mode the Kalman filters generate an error signal to correct the oscillator frequency based on updates obtained during operation of the phase-locked loop in normal mode.
US10148271B2
The present invention discloses a new type of configurable gate array—a configurable computing array die based on two-sided integration. It is a monolithic die and comprises at least a configurable computing element and a configurable logic element formed on different sides of a semiconductor substrate. Each configurable computing element can selectively realize a basic function from a math library. It comprises a plurality of printed arrays for storing the look-up tables (LUT) for different basic functions.
US10148265B2
An RF switching device having distributed shunt switches distributed along transmission lines to improve RF bandwidth as well as the signal isolation of the device. The shunt switches may be physically positioned on both sides of the transmission lines to keep an integrated circuit (IC) design essentially symmetrical so as to provide predictable and reliable operational characteristics. Some embodiments include stacked FET shunt switches and series switches to tolerate high voltages. In some embodiments, the gate resistor for each FET shunt switch is divided into two or more portions.
US10148261B1
A low voltage differential signaling (LVDS) driver circuit, system, apparatus, and methodology are provided for controlling switching components in a primary current stage and a pre-emphasis current stage with an adaptive pre-emphasis gain tuning hardware control circuit arranged to provide control signals for periodically tuning a pre-emphasis gain setting for the secondary pre-emphasis current stage by selecting an optimum pre-emphasis gain setting from a plurality of pre-emphasis gain setting which minimizes an inter-symbol interference (ISI) jitter measure for the LVDS driver circuit.
US10148260B2
Methods, devices, techniques, and circuits are disclosed for fast current control of a buck converter. In one example, a device includes a pulse density modulator, an analog comparator, and an interconnect circuit. The analog comparator has a first input connected to a peak current reference. The interconnect circuit has a first input connected to an output of the pulse density modulator and a second input connected to an output of the analog comparator. The device has an output terminal of the interconnect circuit.
US10148259B1
A skew control loop circuit for controlling a skew between a plurality of digital signals, and a semiconductor device, and a method of operation, for the same, may be provided. The skew control loop circuit comprises a skew detector for detecting a phase difference between the digital signals, a skew control circuit adapted for controlling an operation of the skew control loop circuit. The skew control circuit is operable in a first operating mode and in a second operating mode. The skew control loop circuit comprises also an enable input of the skew detector, wherein the enable input is adapted for receiving an enable input signal, generated by the skew control circuit, wherein the enable input is adapted for selectively enable or disable a phase detection operation of the skew detector, and wherein the enable input signal is only active during the first operating mode.
US10148257B1
A clock generator and method operate by receiving an input clock; cascading a first inverter, a second inverter, a third inverter, and a fourth inverter in a ring topology to output a first phase, a second phase, a third phase, and a fourth phase of an interim clock; enabling the second inverter and the fourth inverter during a first phase of the input clock and enforcing a complementary relation between the second phase and the fourth phase of the interim clock by using a fifth inverter and a sixth inverter configured in a cross-coupling topology; enabling the first inverter and the third inverter during a second phase of the input clock and enforcing a complementary relation between the first phase and the third phase of the interim clock by using a seventh inverter and an eighth inverter configured in a cross-coupling topology.
US10148250B2
A ladder filter that sufficiently attenuates a signal in a frequency range in a vicinity of a pass band on a lower-frequency side of the pass band includes a plurality of series arm resonators and at least three parallel arm resonators provided in at least three respective parallel arms. One of the at least three parallel arm resonators farthest from an input terminal and an output terminal, is subjected to parallel division to include a first division resonator and a second division resonator. The second division resonator has the highest resonant frequency and the smallest electrostatic capacitance of all of the parallel arm resonators and the division resonators.
US10148249B2
A high frequency circuit includes a first demultiplexing circuit including a first high pass filter and a low pass filter and a second demultiplexing circuit including a band elimination filter and a band pass filter, the second demultiplexing circuit being connected in series with the first demultiplexing circuit. At least one of the band elimination filter and the band pass filter includes an elastic wave resonator. An attenuation band of the band elimination filter and a pass band of the band pass filter is located between a pass band of the first high pass filter and a pass band of the low pass filter.
US10148248B2
A longitudinally coupled resonator-type surface acoustic wave filter includes a low acoustic velocity film and a piezoelectric film stacked over a high acoustic velocity component in which a bulk wave propagates at an acoustic velocity higher than an acoustic velocity of an elastic wave that propagates in the piezoelectric film. IDT electrodes are provided on one surface of the piezoelectric film. The longitudinally coupled resonator-type surface acoustic wave filter uses a SH wave. At least one of the IDT electrodes has a duty factor that is adjusted over an entire length of the one of the IDT electrodes in the direction of elastic wave propagation to suppress a Rayleigh wave spurious response.
US10148246B2
A multiplexer includes a first filter disposed between an antenna common terminal and a first terminal, and a second filter that is disposed between the antenna common terminal and a second terminal and that has higher passband frequencies than the first filter. The second filter includes IDTs that are longitudinally coupled. Among IDT electrodes in the IDTs, first IDT electrodes are connected to the antenna common terminal side, and second IDT electrodes are connected to the second terminal side. The first and second IDT electrodes have different main pitches of the electrode fingers. At least one of the second IDT electrodes out of all of the electrode fingers has a maximum main pitch.
US10148242B2
An electronic device for reproducing data and a method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a memory; and a processor. The processor is configured to determine a spatial characteristic of a space where content is reproduced, store the spatial characteristic in the memory, and change a sound of the content based on the spatial characteristic when the content is reproduced.
US10148240B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in order to coordinate the control of the volume levels of both the playback sound and the ambient sound delivered to a user via headphones. In the context of a method for controlling sound reproduction from an electronic device, a control signal is received in response to user actuation of a single input. The method also receives both playback sound and ambient sound around the electronic device. In response to the control signal, the method controls volume levels of both the playback sound and the ambient sound provided to an output channel configuration of a headphone device.
US10148239B1
A circuit with co-matching topology for transmitting and receiving RF signals, said circuit comprising: a first sub-circuit comprising a first inductive component and a first capacitive component to form a low-pass filter for transmitting a first RF signal from a first amplifier to an antenna, wherein the first inductive component is coupled to a ground via a first switch; and a second sub-circuit comprising a second inductive component and a second capacitive component for receiving a second RF signal from the antenna to an input terminal of a second amplifier, wherein said input terminal of the second amplifier is coupled to the ground via a second switch; wherein when the first amplifier is transmitting the first RF signal, the first switch is turned off and the second switch is turned on, and wherein when the second amplifier is receiving the second RF signal, the first switch is turned on and the second switch is turned off.
US10148234B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for practical realization of an integrated circuit comprising a stack of transistors operating as an RF amplifier are described. As stack height is increased, capacitance values of gate capacitors used to provide a desired distribution of an RF voltage at the output of the amplifier across the stack may decrease to values approaching parasitic/stray capacitance values present in the integrated circuit which may render the practical realization of the integrated circuit difficult. Coupling of an RF gate voltage at the gate of one transistor of the stack to a gate of a different transistor of the stack can allow for an increase in the capacitance value of the gate capacitor of the different transistor for obtaining an RF voltage at the gate of the different transistor according to the desired distribution.
US10148233B2
Embodiments of radio frequency (RF) systems include a transmit/receive switch integrated with one or more power amplifiers and/or other components. The power amplifiers can have transformer-based architectures. A compensation circuit can act to protect the receive path during an RF transmit mode.
US10148226B2
A bias circuit includes first to fourth bipolar transistors and a filter circuit. The third bipolar transistor supplies a bias signal to an amplifier. The filter circuit is connected between a collector terminal of the first bipolar transistor and the ground through a base terminal of the first bipolar transistor. The filter circuit has frequency characteristics for attenuating a high frequency component of an RF signal to be input to the amplifier.
US10148225B2
A method for determining capacitance values of capacitances of a photovoltaic system including a multiphase inverter which includes an output current filter on an alternating current side thereof and is connected to a multiphase energy supply network via a switching element and is associated with at least one intermediate circuit capacitance on the direct current side thereof is provided. The method includes disconnecting the photovoltaic system from the energy supply network by opening the switching element; operating the inverter to set up an island network after the disconnecting, wherein an in-phase AC voltage is applied to at least two outputs of an inverter bridge of the multiphase inverter and a flow of current is produced between the at least one intermediate circuit capacitance and at least one filter capacitance of the output current filter; measuring currents (Ia, Ib, Ic) flowing at the outputs of the inverter bridge and at least one voltage present at one of the capacitances, and determining a capacitance value of at least one of the capacitances using the determined voltage and the measured currents (Ia, Ib, Ic).
US10148221B2
Provided herein is a solar energy light collecting device, which includes a light reflection module, a sun tracking module, and a control module. The light reflection module includes reflection units, reflection unit support beams and a support wheel frame assembly. The sun tracking module includes an angle adjustment set, a height adjustment set, and a supporter set. The control module includes a sense control unit and a driving motor. The sense control unit senses the direction of the sunlight and controls the driving motor to drive the sun tracking module, such that the light reflection module faces the direction of the sunlight. Moreover, an additional balance adjustment module can also be adopted to resolve the spatial disposition problem.
US10148218B2
A fixing device (1) according to a present invention includes a pressing tool (10) that abuts a part of a peripheral portion of a panel that is arranged on an upper surface portion of a hollow rod-like rack member (200) that has on the upper surface portion a slit-like opening portion extending along a longitudinal direction, a fixing tool (20) that abuts a back surface of the upper surface portion, the fixing tool configured insertable to the opening portion, and having in one direction a width wider than a width in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the opening portion, and a fastening member (30) that integrally fixes the pressing tool (10) and the fixing tool (20) that abut a part of the peripheral portion of the panel and the back surface of the upper surface portion of the rack member (200), respectively.
US10148203B2
A motor driving apparatus of the present invention includes a converter unit configured to convert an AC voltage into a DC voltage, a DC link unit configured to smooth the DC voltage by a capacitor to generate a DC link voltage, an inverter unit configured to convert the DC link voltage into a multiphase AC voltage for motor driving, short bars configured to electrically interconnect terminals of the DC link unit and terminals of the inverter unit, and a DC link voltage detection unit configured to detect the DC link voltage. At least parts of the short bars are located between the terminals of the DC link unit and terminals of the DC link voltage detection unit.
US10148200B2
An aspect of the present invention provides a circuit and arrangement for generating and amplifying an electric scalar potential field and a method for capturing the associated available electromagnetic energy into the system. The device is comprised of a transformer whose primary is powered periodically by short pulse durations; a resonant coupled transformer secondary circuit with synchronous parameter variation; and an extraction circuit of appropriate impedance and components to provide isolation and distribution to load.
US10148180B2
A DC-DC converter operating in pulse frequency modulation (PFM) and pulse width modulation (PWM) modes includes a plurality of PWM signal generators. The PWM signal generators generate PWM signals with different duty cycles. PWM signals with larger duty cycles may be selected for use in undervoltage situations.
US10148176B2
A DC-to-DC converter and a PWM device thereof are provided. The PWM device includes a ramp generator circuit, an error amplifier, a comparator and a clamping circuit. The error amplifier compares a voltage difference between the feedback voltage and the reference voltage to output a comparison voltage corresponding to the voltage difference. The comparator compares a ramp voltage of the ramp generator circuit and the comparison voltage of the error amplifier, so as to output a pulse signal. The clamping circuit determines whether to induce the comparison voltage to follow the ramp voltage. The clamping circuit is disabled when the PWM device is operated in the PWM mode, such that the comparison voltage and the ramp voltage are independent of each other. The clamping circuit is enabled when the PWM device is operated in the non-PWM mode, such that the comparison voltage follows the ramp voltage.
US10148165B2
The present invention relates to the field of power electronics and electric engines, and describes a harmonic content correction system in power systems. The invention solves the space and weight problem associated with the core of a harmonic content correction inductor, also providing performance advantages of electric engines, such as higher available voltage at full load and higher rotational speed at full load. The invention is particularly useful in refrigeration compressors comprising a switching device my associated with a reactive element.
US10148164B2
A topology of composite cascaded high-voltage and low-voltage modules is provided. It includes at least one high-voltage module, at least one low-voltage module, at least one local control circuit and at least one DC-to-DC module. At least one high-voltage module is connected with at least one low-voltage module in cascade manner. At least one local control circuit outputs at least one signal to at least one high-voltage driving circuit and at least one low-voltage driving circuit. An input of at least one DC-to-DC module is connected with two ends of a low-voltage bus capacitor, for receiving a low-voltage DC bus voltage and converting the low-voltage DC bus voltage into a DC output voltage, so as to provide one or more of at least one high-voltage driving circuit, at least one low-voltage driving circuit and at least one local control circuit with a power supply.
US10148161B2
A vibration motor includes a housing having an accommodation space, a cover plate connecting with the housing, a first vibration system and a second vibration system supported in the accommodation space elastically. The first vibration system includes a first weight and at least one permanent magnet. The second vibration system includes a second weight and at least one coil. A first limiting block is arranged on the cover plate, and a second limiting block is arranged on the bottom wall of the said housing. A first limiting hole corresponding to the first limiting block is formed for receiving at least part of the first limiting block; and a second limiting hole corresponding to the second limiting block is formed for receiving part of the second limiting block.
US10148153B2
A linear actuator includes a housing, a transmission assembly, a slider, and a motor. The housing includes a base case and a cover case which are opposite combined with each other. A screw bracket is formed on an outer surface of the base case. The transmission assembly includes a worm and a worm wheel disposed at an end of the worm. The slider is disposed on the housing and engaged with the worm. The motor is screwed to the screw bracket and disposed out of the base case. The motor has an actuating shaft penetrating into the base case and engaged with the worm wheel. The motor can be fixed to the screw bracket in advance, which facilitates the assembly of the transmission assembly to the base case.
US10148152B2
An axial brushless DC motor comprising a stator, a rotor including a magnet, a sleeve bushing extending through the stator and including a pair of opposed distal collars, a motor shaft extends through the sleeve bushing, and a pair of opposed bearings are seated in the respective pair of collars and mount the shaft and a rotor for rotation relative to the sleeve bushing and the stator. The bearings are adapted for thrust, radial support/self-alignment, and angular adjustment of the motor shaft. In one embodiment, a stator overmold member includes a central tube that defines the sleeve bushing and includes a stator shorting ring. In one embodiment, a metal pole piece is seated in a cup-shaped magnet with a rim and the magnetic flux travels through the rim of the magnet and through a magnetic flux sensor.
US10148146B2
A brush-commutated direct-current motor comprises a stator which includes a plurality of exciter poles, a rotor rotatable relative to the stator about an axis of rotation, a plurality of pole teeth arranged on the rotor, and grooves arranged between the pole teeth, wherein the pole teeth are separated from each other by the grooves along a circumferential direction around the axis of rotation. On the pole teeth coil windings are arranged. A commutator is arranged on the rotor and includes a plurality of lamellae, wherein each coil winding is connected with one of the lamellae via a first connecting arm and is connected with another one of the lamellae via a second connecting arm.
US10148144B2
A drive unit for a revolving door with an electronically commutated multipole motor having a quantity of coil elements and a quantity of magnet elements. The multipole motor has a flat base structure and a disk-shaped or cup-shaped stator part arranged at a stationary structural component part. A disk-shaped or cup-shaped rotor part is arranged in a plane-parallel manner with respect to the stator part and can be drivingly connected to a turnstile of the revolving door. The coil elements and the magnet elements are received in an area between the stator part and the rotor part.
US10148111B2
A battery pack, power tool, and power tool combination. The battery pack includes one or more battery cells, a first terminal electrically connected to the one or more battery cells, a high current power supply terminal, a power switch electrically connected between the one or more battery cells and the high current power supply terminal, and a low current power supply terminal electrically connected to the one or more battery cells. The first terminal and low current power supply terminal are operable to provide a substantially continuous low current to the power tool during a normal operating state of the battery pack. The battery pack also includes a controller operable to control the power switch to provide high current power through the high current power supply terminal in response to a call for power from the power tool.
US10148103B2
A portable charger is capable of jump starting a 12V car battery as well as charging 5V portable electronic devices. The charger includes a charger battery; a power supply operatively connected with the charger battery; at least one USB output jack operatively connected with the power supply for providing +5V USB power; and positive and negative jumper cable jacks operatively connected with the power supply for providing +12 V DC power to jump start a vehicle battery.
US10148100B2
A diagnostic system for a battery system having a battery module electrically coupled to a contactor is provided. The battery module has first, second, and third battery cells. The diagnostic system includes a first microcontroller that transitions the contactor to an open operational state if the first battery cell analog overvoltage flag is equal to the first battery cell analog overvoltage flag value. The first microcontroller further transitions the contactor to the open operational state if the first battery cell comparator overvoltage flag is equal to the first battery cell comparator overvoltage flag value.
US10148098B2
A system includes multiple power supplies connected in series and an active balancing circuit. The active balancing circuit includes an LC resonance circuit and multiple switches configured to selectively couple different ones of the power supplies to the LC resonance circuit. The LC resonance circuit includes an inductor, a capacitor, and an additional switch. The inductor is configured to store energy to be transferred between two or more of the power supplies. The additional switch is configured to selectively create a resonance between the inductor and the capacitor in order to reverse a direction of a current flow through the inductor. The active balancing circuit can transfer energy between individual power supplies or groups of power supplies.
US10148093B2
A number of DC-AC microinverters driven by separate photovoltaic sub-arrays are physically combined to use common components such as a common, common-mode choke. Each microinverter is controlled by a common switching controller to produce a portion of the desired output such that ripple on the combined output is minimized, and each microinverter produces a common mode signal on its associated sub-array equal in frequency to the desired AC output frequency.
US10148091B2
A high voltage direct current power transmission series valve group control device, is used for regulating a series circuit having two or more valve groups provided with controllable power semiconductors respectively. Each valve group is provided with a current regulation unit and a voltage regulation unit. The current regulation unit controls a direct current current flowing through a valve group corresponding thereto, and the voltage regulation unit controls a voltage across two ends of a valve group corresponding thereto. One valve group is selected from the series valve group as a master control valve group, while the others are taken as slave control valve groups. The master control valve group selects a trigger angle output by the current regulation unit to control same, and the slave control valve group selects a trigger angle obtained after the trigger angle transmitted from the master control valve group and an output value of the voltage regulation unit pass through a subtractor to control same.
US10148063B2
A device can include an active optical device (AOD) to at least one of transmit and receive optical signals. The device can also include an interposer having the AOD mounted thereon. The interposer can be in thermal contact with a heat sink and the interposer is mounted on a substrate. The interposer can be formed of a thermally conductive and electrically insulating material. The interposer can include a via to electrically couple the AOD to another electrical device.
