US10148040B2
An electrical plug connector includes an insulated housing received in a metallic shell, first and second terminal modules respectively above and below the insulated housing, and abutting plates (EMI (Electro-Magnetic Interference) plates). Each abutting plate (EMI plate) is between the metallic shell and the insulated housing. Each abutting plate (EMI plate) includes a main body and elastic arms outwardly extending from the main body. Each elastic arm includes a terminal contact portion and a shell contact portion. The terminal contact portion is extending toward a corresponding recessed hole of the insulated housing and contacts one or more first ground terminal of the first terminal module or one or more second ground terminal of the second terminal module. The shell contact portion contacts an inner surface of the metallic shell. Therefore, the high frequency features of the connector can be optimized effectively and resonant problems of the connector can be improved.
US10148033B2
An electrical outlet device includes water-resistant components to prevent the ingress of water to electrical components. One example includes a faceplate having a front surface, an outer edge extending around the front surface, and a first outlet opening extending through the front surface. A water-resistant seal is connected to the front surface of the faceplate. The seal has a first slit aligned with the first opening, a first flap adjacent the slit, and a second flap adjacent the slit. The first flap and the second flap are resiliently biased to a closed position and are moveable upon insertion of a plug.
US10148032B1
A seal that is configured to engage an elongate element, such as a wire cable, and a cavity wall is presented. The seal includes a seal body that is formed of a compliant material such as a silicone rubber. The seal has an outer surface that engages the cavity surface. The seal body defines a gallery extending therethrough and surrounded by an inner surface of the seal body. The seal body has a forward surface extending from a forward edge of the outer surface to a forward edge of the inner surface and a rearward surface extending from a rearward edge of the outer surface to a rearward edge of the inner surface. The seal further includes a support element formed of a rigid material, such as glass filled polyester or NYLON, extending through the seal body in a direction substantially parallel to the inner surface.
US10148030B2
An insulation body for an electrical connector unit includes at least two insertion channels into each of which a contact pin or a contact bush can be inserted, which preferably are aligned parallel to a main axis of the insulating body into which a securing channel empties, preferably perpendicular to it, in which a set screw is supported so as to turn, by means of which the related contact pin or the related contact bush can be mechanically impinged on, and to which an insulating collar is assigned, which is arranged on the outer side of the insulating body, at least approximately coaxial to the related securing channel. Preferably each of the insulating collars has at least one collar opening that is limited on both sides by collar ends.
US10148028B1
A terminal includes a conductive terminal main body and a spring terminal. The terminal main body includes an electric wire crimping portion which caulks a crimping piece and an electrical contact portion which and accommodates the spring terminal to be electrically connected with the electrical contact. The electrical contact portion is formed with a slit for guiding the spring terminal in a cylindrical direction and a locking portion to lock the spring terminal to the slit. The spring terminal includes a resilient contact member provided with an opening divided in the cylindrical direction, the resilient contact member including knob portions formed to protrude outward from the opening at opening ends of the opening, the knob portion being locked to the locking portion, and an end to be inserted with the electrical contact of the resilient contact member is formed into a trumpet shape which expands in diameter outward.
US10148021B2
An installation guide for a backshell installation guide is disclosed herein. The installation guide includes a first feature formed therein to receive at least a portion of the backshell to retain the backshell in the installation guide. The backshell guide also includes a second feature formed therein to align the installation guide with a portion of an equipment rack containing a circuit card to which the backshell is to be connected. The alignment feature positions mating connectors of the backshell in alignment with connectors of the circuit card facilitating interconnection of the mating connectors and the connectors by moving the installation guide toward the circuit card with the alignment feature engaged with the portion of the equipment rack.
US10148015B2
A dipole-shaped antenna element arrangement comprises two pairs of radiator halves which are arranged so as to be rotated by 90° to one another and are oriented in a radiator plane at a distance in front of a reflector and in parallel therewith. The radiator halves are arranged on a balancing and/or support arrangement. There is a passive beam-shaping frame which is arranged at a distance from the radiator halves towards the reflector. The passive beam-shaping frame has at the corners thereof a broadening of the peripheral frame web thereof, said broadening of the frame web extending in parallel with the radiator plane and/or transversely to the radiator plane.
US10148011B2
An antenna structure including a substrate, a grounding layer, a first antenna layer, a second antenna layer, an inductance element and a capacitance element is provided. The substrate has a surface. The grounding layer is formed on the surface of the substrate. The first antenna layer includes a first radiating portion and a second radiating portion. The second antenna layer includes a third radiating portion and a fourth radiating portion. The third radiating portion is connected to the first radiating portion at a connection portion. The connection portion is separated from the grounding player, and the fourth radiating portion and the second radiating portion are disposed oppositely and separated from each other. The inductance element bridges the grounding layer and the connection portion. The capacitance element bridges the fourth radiating portion and the second radiating portion.
US10147999B2
An NFC antenna includes a first metal back cover and an antenna coil located on the inner side of the first metal back cover, a through-hole and a first slit are formed in the first metal back cover, the first slit is connected with one edge of the through-hole and one edge of the first metal back cover, the antenna coil surrounds the through-hole and the first slit, and one part of the antenna coil does not coincide with the first metal back cover and is not intersected with the first slit. Through the above manner, the effect of optimally changing the flow direction distribution and intensity of eddy currents can be achieved, the eddy current loops are used to enhance the performance of the antenna, and the shielding effect of the metal back is eliminated.
US10147998B2
An antenna of a communication terminal is disposed on a side on which a bottom surface of a reflective plate, which is included in a display, is present. When the reflective plate is irradiated by an LED light source, the antenna cannot be seen from the side on which a display screen of the display is disposed. Accordingly, an antenna coil of the antenna does not need transparent electrodes and can be made of various materials each having a high conductivity. Therefore, the antenna has high sensitivity, low manufacturing cost, and very efficiently performs near field communication with an external device located on the display screen side of the display.
US10147996B2
A method for manufacturing an electronic device including configuring one or more circuit boards with a plurality of antennas connected to at least one circuit board having wire securing slots. The electronic device having vertical orientation and an outer casing including a case bottom piece, a case top front piece, and a case top back piece. Features include providing staging slots in the case top back piece holding the board at an angle with respect to the interior surface of the case top back piece to permit connections to the circuit board which includes connecting antenna wires to connectors on the circuit board having antenna wires secured in wire securing slots prior to connecting to antenna connectors. The circuit board attached to only one side wall of one of the case front top piece or the case top back piece.
US10147973B2
Provided is a battery in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode, to which electrode composite materials are seamlessly applied, are wound and accommodated in an exterior member, the battery having a part where foil exposed surfaces of the positive electrode and the negative electrode face each other with an insulator therebetween, the foil exposed surfaces being formed at one-side application parts on an outer side of the winding of the respective electrodes.
US10147972B2
The present application provides a lithium-ion battery, which comprises: a wound-type cell formed by winding a positive electrode plate, a separator and a negative electrode plate, a width of the separator is greater than widths of the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate; an electrolyte; and a packaging film packaging the wound-type cell and accommodating the electrolyte; a wound ending of the wound-type cell is adhered with a single-sided adhesive layer, an adhesive of the single-sided adhesive layer is a flowable curing adhesive, the wound-type cell and the packaging film are adhered together by the curing adhesive which flows and flows out from a periphery of the single-sided adhesive layer. The single-sided adhesive layer can prevent the wound-type cell from loosening or deforming, rupturing of the positive electrode tab and the negative electrode tab and bursting open of a top-seal in the process of dropping or tumbling.
US10147954B2
A positive electrode (10) for an air cell of the present invention includes: a catalyst layer (11) composed of a porous layer containing electrical conductive carbon (1), a binder (2), and a catalyst component (3); and a fluid-tight gas-permeable layer (12) composed of a porous layer containing an electrical conductive carbon (1a) and a binder (2). The fluid-tight gas-permeable layer is stacked on the catalyst layer. This configuration can facilitate series connection of the air cells while preventing electrolysis solution from leaking out of a positive electrode. It is therefore possible to enhance the manufacturing efficiency and handleability of the air cells.
US10147943B2
A positive electrode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery contains, as a main component, a lithium composite oxide in which a ratio of Ni relative to a total number of moles of metal elements other than Li is greater than 30 mol %. The lithium composite oxide is a secondary particle being aggregation of primary particles having an average particle diameter of 3 μm or more and 20 μm or less, and having a compression rupture strength of 100 MPa or more and less than 200 MPa. The lithium composite oxide contains at least one element selected from Ba, Ca, and Sr.
US10147938B2
Provided is an electrode material for secondary batteries, including a porous carbon material being derived from a plant and having an average particle size of less than 4 μm.
US10147927B2
A secondary battery including: an electrode assembly; a case accommodating the electrode assembly; a cap assembly including a cap plate coupled to the case, and a bottom plate attached to a bottom surface of the cap plate; and an electrode terminal protruding from the cap assembly and electrically connected to the electrode assembly, and the bottom plate includes a terminal plate electrically connected to the electrode terminal, and an insulation film stacked on the terminal plate and electrically insulating the terminal plate and the cap plate from each other, the insulation film being integrally formed with the terminal plate.
US10147922B2
A power storage device includes an outer casing and two battery units housed in the outer casing. Each battery unit includes a battery casing formed with a top casing and a bottom casing. The battery casing houses a battery block group in which battery lines are arranged in parallel in a direction substantially perpendicular to the battery line extending direction, and are arranged in a stacked straw bag arrangement, wherein the two or more battery units are vertically housed in the outer casing and are stacked in two or more stages in a horizontal direction, the bottom surface portions facing in the horizontal direction.
US10147920B2
The invention relates to an energy storage module (10) comprising a plurality of energy storage assemblies (100) positioned side by side, and a rigid enclosure (12) intended for surrounding the storage assemblies, each assembly including at least one side wall closed at each end by an end surface, wherein the storage assemblies are electrically connected in pairs by conductive strips (110) extending over at least one end surface of each assembly, the strips being arranged such that one strip connects a first end surface of at least one predetermined assembly to an end surface of a first adjacent assembly and a second strip connects a second surface of the predetermined assembly to an end surface of a second adjacent assembly. The module also includes at least one electrically insulating member (120), made of an electrically insulating material and comprising a bottom (122) and a rim (124) extending essentially perpendicular to the bottom and surrounding same, each electrically insulating member (120) being associated with a strip (110) and fitted onto the end surfaces of two adjacent assemblies connected by the strip such that the bottom is parallel to the end surfaces and the rim runs alongside the side walls of the two assemblies while overlapping same over at least a portion of the height thereof.
US10147919B2
A power storage apparatus includes an electrode assembly and a case for accommodating the electrode assembly. The power storage apparatus has a covering member that is arranged between the case and the electrode assembly to cover at least part of the electrode assembly. The covering member has an extending portion that extends in the protruding direction of the electrode terminals from one of the edges of the electrode assembly that is opposed to the electrode terminals. The coefficient of friction between the covering member and the electrode assembly is greater than the coefficient of friction between the case and the covering member.
US10147916B2
A battery cell includes: an electrode assembly; a pouch case accommodating the electrode assembly therein; and an electrode lead including an outer lead protruding to an outside of the pouch case and an inner lead disposed between the outer lead and the electrode assembly, accommodated in the pouch case, bent plural times in a direction in which it connects the electrode assembly and the outer lead to each other, and cut by expansion force of the pouch case.
US10147914B2
A thin battery includes a sheet-like electrode assembly; a non-aqueous electrolyte with which the electrode assembly is impregnated; and a housing in a sealed manner. The electrode assembly includes a pair of first electrodes located at an outermost side of the electrode assembly, a second electrode interposed between the pair of first electrodes, and a separator disposed between each first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode includes a first current collector sheet and a first active material layer attached to one surface of the first current collector sheet. The second electrode includes a second current collector sheet and second active material layers attached to both surfaces of the second current collector sheet. A content x of the non-aqueous electrolyte per unit area of the first active material layer is larger than a content y of the non-aqueous electrolyte per unit area of the second active material layer.
US10147906B2
A high efficacy multi-layer seal structure formed on an organic light emitting diode device and the process for depositing the same. A thin film seal is formed over the substrate having OLED layers, and includes a first metallic layer formed over the substrate, an inorganic layer formed over the first metallic layer, and a second metallic layer formed of the inorganic layer. The metallic layers comprise one or more oxide or nitride layers, each oxide or nitride comprising a metal. The inorganic layer comprises a metal oxide, a metal nitride or a metal oxynitride. The process for forming the multi-layer seal structure includes depositing the first metallic layer over the substrate using atomic layer deposition, depositing the inorganic layer over the first metallic layer using sputtering, and then depositing the second metallic layer over the inorganic layer using atomic layer deposition.
US10147902B2
A cover plate for packaging a curved display apparatus is provided. The cover plate includes a plate body having a plurality of grooves configured to assist to bend the plate body to cause the cover plate have a bending tendency for reducing a radial stress and tangential stress of the curved display apparatus.
US10147897B2
A synaptic transistor based on a metal nano-sheet and a method thereof are provided. A self-assembled floating gate layer is formed. The floating gate layer prevents leakage of electric charges transmitted from a channel layer, and also temporarily stores the transmitted electric charge. Thus, the synaptic transistor may be used as an effective memory for storing.
US10147894B2
A transparent diffusive OLED substrate includes (a) a transparent flat substrate made of mineral glass having a refractive index of between 1.45 and 1.65, (b) a rough low index layer including mineral particles, the mineral particles being attached to one side of the substrate by means of a sol-gel mineral binder, the mineral particles near, at or protruding from the mineral binder's surface creating a surface roughness characterized by an arithmetical mean deviation Ra comprised between 0.15 and 3 μm, the mineral particles and mineral binder both having a refractive index of between 1.45 and 1.65; (c) a high index layer made of an enamel having a refractive index comprised between 1.8 and 2.1 covering the rough low index layer.
US10147892B2
Compounds that act as capture agents to sequester unsaturated metal complexes are provided. In particular, the compounds may be host materials, dopant materials, or dopant materials containing functional groups, such as an isocyanide or a phosphine group, which are suitable for trapping an unsaturated coordination complex. These compounds may be used in organic light emitting devices, particularly blue devices, to provide improved device lifetime.
US10147875B1
A semiconductor device comprises includes memory cells, a first dielectric liner material overlying side surfaces of the memory cells, a high-k dielectric material overlying side surfaces of the first dielectric liner material, a second dielectric liner material overlying side surfaces of the high-k dielectric material, and an additional dielectric material overlying side surfaces of the second dielectric liner material. A memory structure, an electronic system, and a method of forming a memory structure are also described.
US10147870B2
A method for producing a porous piezoelectric polymer film with a dense surface, includes depositing a polymer solution onto a substrate to form a polymer film including a solvent; evaporating a portion of the solvent to form the dense surface away from the substrate; forming water droplets in interior of the polymer film; and substantially evaporating the water droplets and remaining solvent to form porous interior. A piezoelectric composition includes a piezoelectric material with a porous interior and a dense surface for interfacing with an electrode. A piezoelectric device includes a first electrode; a porous piezoelectric film with a dense surface and porous interior, wherein the porous piezoelectric film is deposited on the first electrode and the dense surface is away from the first electrode; and a second electrode deposited on the dense surface for, together with the first electrode, providing an electrical interface for the porous piezoelectric film.
US10147866B2
A piezoelectric driving device includes a vibrating plate and a piezoelectric vibrator provided on the vibrating plate. The piezoelectric vibrator has a first electrode, a second electrode, and a piezoelectric body located between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a thickness of the piezoelectric body is within a range from 50 nm to 20 μm.
US10147863B2
Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments provide pyroelectric sandwich thermal energy harvesters. In the various embodiment pyroelectric sandwich thermal energy harvesters, generated electrical energy may be stored in a super-capacitor/battery as soon as it is generated. The various embodiment pyroelectric sandwich thermal energy harvesters may harvest electrical energy from any environment where temperature variations occur. The various embodiment pyroelectric sandwich thermal energy harvesters may be power sources for space equipment and vehicles in space and/or on earth, as well as the for wireless sensor networks, such as health monitoring systems of oil pipes, aircraft, bridges, and buildings.
US10147844B2
A quantum dot includes: a core including at least one first positive ion precursor and at least one negative ion precursor; a shell including at least one second positive ion precursor and at least one negative ion precursor and wrapping the core; and a ligand formed on a surface of the shell, wherein the first positive ion precursor is an n-period element and the second positive ion precursor is an (n-1)-period element, where n is an integer of 3 to 6.
US10147842B2
We propose a method of producing a III nitride semiconductor light-emitting device 1 having a p-type semiconductor layer 150 in this order, wherein the p-type semiconductor layer 150 is formed by the steps comprising: an electron blocking layer formation step for forming an electron blocking layer 51 having an Al content higher than that of the barrier layer 42, on the light emitting layer 40; a nitrogen carrier gas supply step for supplying at least a carrier gas containing nitrogen as a main component to a surface of the electron blocking layer 51; and a second p-type contact formation step for forming a second p-type contact layer 55 made of AlyGa1-yN on the electron blocking layer 51 after the nitrogen carrier gas supply step, and wherein the second p-type contact formation step is performed using a carrier gas containing hydrogen as a main component.
US10147836B2
A method of producing a silicon film includes: forming a deposition composition comprising silicon dioxide dispersed in a molten salt; placing a metal substrate and a counter electrode in the composition; and passing a reducing current between the metal substrate and the counter electrode, wherein the reducing current causes reduction of silicon dioxide particles to form a silicon film on the metal substrate.
US10147819B2
A semiconductor device includes first channel layers disposed over a substrate, a first source/drain region disposed over the substrate, a gate dielectric layer disposed on each of the first channel layers, a gate electrode layer disposed on the gate dielectric. Each of the first channel layers includes a semiconductor wire made of a first semiconductor material. The semiconductor wire passes through the first source/drain region and enters into an anchor region. At the anchor region, the semiconductor wire has no gate electrode layer and no gate dielectric, and is sandwiched by a second semiconductor material.
US10147817B2
Techniques are disclosed for improved integration of germanium (Ge)-rich p-MOS source/drain contacts to, for example, reduce contact resistance. The techniques include depositing the p-type Ge-rich layer directly on a silicon (Si) surface in the contact trench location, because Si surfaces are favorable for deposition of high quality conductive Ge-rich materials. In one example method, the Ge-rich layer is deposited on a surface of the Si substrate in the source/drain contact trench locations, after removing a sacrificial silicon germanium (SiGe) layer previously deposited in the source/drain locations. In another example method, the Ge-rich layer is deposited on a Si cladding layer in the contact trench locations, where the Si cladding layer is deposited on a functional p-type SiGe layer. In some cases, the Ge-rich layer comprises at least 50% Ge (and may contain tin (Sn) and/or Si) and is boron (B) doped at levels above 1E20 cm−3.
US10147815B2
A method of making a semiconductor device includes forming a source/drain region on a substrate; disposing a gate stack on the substrate and adjacent to the source/drain region, the gate stack including a gate spacer along a sidewall of the gate stack; disposing an inter-level dielectric (ILD) layer on the source/drain region and the gate stack; removing a portion of the ILD layer on the source/drain region to form a source/drain contact pattern; filling the source/drain contact pattern with a layer of silicon material, the layer of silicon material being in contact with the source/drain region and in contact with the gate spacer; depositing a metallic layer over the first layer of silicon material; and performing a silicidation process to form a source/drain contact including a silicide.
US10147809B2
In a bipolar transistor, a collector layer includes three semiconductor layers: an n-type GaAs layer (Si concentration: about 5×1015 cm−3, thickness: about 350 nm), a p-type GaAs layer (C concentration: about 4.5×1015 cm−3, thickness: about 100 nm, sheet concentration: 4.5×1010 cm−2), and an n-type GaAs layer Si concentration: about 5×1015 cm−3, thickness: about 500 nm. The sheet concentration of the p-type GaAs layer is set to less than 1×1011 cm−2.
US10147807B2
A method of manufacturing a pixel structure is provided. A gate and a gate insulating layer are formed on a substrate. A channel layer is formed on the gate insulating layer, and the material of the channel layer includes a first metal oxide semiconductor material. A source and a drain are formed on opposite sides of the channel layer. An insulating layer has an opening exposing the drain. First and second transparent electrode material layers are formed on the substrate sequentially, the material of the first transparent electrode material layer includes a second metal oxide semiconductor material, and the material of the second transparent electrode material layer includes a metal oxide conductive material. The first and second transparent electrode material layers are patterned using the same mask to form first and second transparent electrode layers, wherein the first transparent electrode layer is in contact with the drain through the opening.
US10147804B2
An alternating stack of layers of a first epitaxial semiconductor material and a second epitaxial semiconductor material is formed on a substrate. A fin stack is formed by patterning the alternating stack into a shape of a fin having a parallel pair of vertical sidewalls. After formation of a disposable gate structure and an optional gate spacer, raised active regions can be formed on end portions of the fin stack. A planarization dielectric layer is formed, and the disposable gate structure is subsequently removed to form a gate cavity. A crystallographic etch is performed on the first epitaxial semiconductor material to form vertically separated pairs of an upright triangular semiconductor nanowire and an inverted triangular semiconductor nanowire. Portions of the epitaxial disposable material are subsequently removed. After an optional anneal, the gate cavity is filled with a gate dielectric and a gate electrode to form a field effect transistor.
US10147802B2
Circuit structures, such as inverters and static random access memories, and fabrication methods thereof are presented. The circuit structures include, for instance: a first transistor, the first transistor having a first channel region disposed above an isolation region; and a second transistor, the second transistor having a second channel region, the second channel region being laterally adjacent to the first channel region of the first transistor and vertically spaced apart therefrom by the isolation region thereof. In one embodiment, the first channel region and the isolation region of the first transistor are disposed above a substrate, and the substrate includes the second channel region of the second transistor. In another embodiment, the first transistor includes a fin structure extending from the substrate, and an upper portion of the fin structure includes the first channel region and a lower portion of the fin structure includes the isolation region.
US10147799B2
A method of fabricating tantalum nitride barrier layer in an ultra low threshold voltage semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming a high-k dielectric layer over a semiconductor substrate. Subsequently, a tantalum nitride barrier layer is formed on the high-k dielectric layer. The tantalum nitride barrier layer has a Ta:N ratio between 1.2 and 3. Next, a plurality of first metal gates is formed on the tantalum nitride barrier layer. The first metal gates are patterned, and then a second metal gate is formed on the tantalum nitride barrier layer.
US10147794B2
The present disclosure relates to a split gate memory device. In some embodiments, the split gate memory device includes a memory gate arranged over a substrate, and a select gate arranged over the substrate. An inter-gate dielectric layer is arranged between sidewalls of the memory gate and the select gate that face one another. The inter-gate dielectric layer extends under the memory gate. A first dielectric is disposed above the inter-gate dielectric layer and is arranged between the sidewalls of the memory gate and the select gate.
US10147791B2
A semiconductor device includes an n+-type source region having an impurity concentration higher than that of an n-type source region, formed in a surface layer of a p-type SiC layer and a p-type base region, farther on an outer side than the n-type source region, and contacting the n-type source region; an n-type region and an n+-type region having an impurity concentration higher than that of the n−-type SiC layer, formed in a portion of the n−-type SiC layer between p-type base regions and p-type SiC layers; and a second n-type region under the p-type base region and of a size smaller than that of the p-type base region, whereby low on-resistance and precision of the threshold voltage Vth are enhanced, increasing quality and enabling improved resistance to dielectric breakdown of the gate insulating film and resistance to breakdown.
US10147789B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a GaAs semiconductor nanowire in a bottom-up type and, more particularly, to a method for manufacturing a vertically-aligned gallium arsenide semiconductor nanowire array in a large area by applying a voltage and a current from the outside using a metal thin film, which has been made through an economical method of fabricating a mesh-type metal thin film in a large area, as an anode such that holes (h+) are injected into a gallium arsenide substrate, thereby inducing a wet etching process continuously. The obtained vertically-aligned gallium arsenide semiconductor nanowire of a large area can be applied to fabrication of nanoelements, such as a solar cell, a transistor, and a light-emitting diode.
US10147782B2
A tapered metal nitride structure having a gentle sloping (i.e., tapered) sidewall is provided that includes an oxygen rich metal nitride portion located between each metal nitride portion of a stack of metal nitride portions. The structure is formed by incorporating/introducing oxygen into an upper portion of a first metal nitride layer to form an oxygen rich metal nitride surface layer. A second nitride is then formed atop the oxygen rich metal nitride surface layer. The steps of oxygen incorporation/addition and nitride layer formation may be repeated any number of times. An etch mask is then provided and thereafter a sputter etch is performed to provide the tapered metal nitride structure. The tapered metal nitride structure may be used as an electrode in a semiconductor device.
US10147779B2
There is provided a display device including: a light emitting element; and a drive transistor (DRTr) that includes a coupling section (W1) and a plurality of channel sections (CH) coupled in series through the coupling section (W1), wherein the drive transistor (DRTr) is configured to supply a drive current to the light emitting element.
US10147775B2
A display substrate, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device including the display substrate disclosed. In one aspect, the display substrate includes a pixel circuit disposed over a base substrate, an insulation layer disposed over the base substrate and overlapping the pixel circuit in the depth dimension of the display substrate, and a pixel electrode disposed over the insulation layer and electrically connected to the pixel circuit. The display substrate also includes a pixel defining layer disposed over the insulation layer, the pixel defining layer formed over a portion of the pixel electrode, and a spacer structure including a first spacer and a second spacer disposed over the first spacer, the first spacer being separated from the pixel circuit and disposed over the insulation layer.
US10147768B2
An organic silicon electroluminescent display device includes a protective layer, a transparent conductive layer, an organic silicon electroluminescent layer and a basic conductive layer, which are combined to prepare a flat flaky or continuous wire or matrix point electroluminescent device. The basic conductive layer is made from a conductive material with good electroconductibility; the organic silicon electroluminescent layer is prepared through mixing an electroluminescent material with a resin or rubber material containing organic silicon; the transparent conductive layer is made from a conductive material with good electroconductibility; the organic silicon electroluminescent layer is located between the transparent conductive layer and the basic conductive layer; when an electric field is applied to both the transparent conductive layer and the basic conductive layer, the organic silicon electroluminescent layer with elasticity is bent, folded and pressed, and stretched to produce light with high brightness.
US10147762B2
Protective elements are provided for non-volatile memory cells in crossbar arrays in which each memristor is situated at a crosspoint of the array. Each memristor is provided with a protective element. The protective element includes a layer of a first oxide that upon heating converts to a second oxide having a higher resistivity than the first oxide.
US10147758B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a layout in which one sharing unit includes an array of photodiodes of 2 pixels by 4×n pixels (where, n is a positive integer), respectively, in horizontal and vertical directions.
US10147753B2
A stacked image sensor includes: a lower device including a lower inter-layer dielectric layer over an upper surface of a lower substrate, and a lower capping layer over the lower inter-layer dielectric layer; an upper device stacked over the lower device, including photodiodes in an upper substrate, an upper inter-layer dielectric layer below a lower surface of the upper substrate, and an upper capping layer below the upper inter-layer dielectric layer; and an air gap formed between the lower inter-layer dielectric layer and the upper inter-layer dielectric layer.
US10147752B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a method of forming a back-side image (BSI) sensor. The method may be performed by forming an image sensing element within a substrate and forming a pixel-level memory node at a position within the substrate that is laterally offset from the image sensing element. A back-side of the substrate is etched to form one or more trenches that are laterally separated from the image sensing element by the substrate and that vertically overlie the pixel-level memory node. A reflective material is formed within the one or more trenches.
US10147745B2
An array substrate, a display panel and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes: a substrate. A signal transmission line, first and second insulator layers, a pixel electrode layer and a common electrode layer are disposed on the substrate; wherein the signal transmission line, the first insulator layer and the second insulator layer are disposed between the common electrode layer and the pixel electrode layer, the signal transmission line is disposed on the first insulator layer, and the second insulator layer is disposed on the signal transmission line; and wherein a dielectric constant of the first insulator layer is less than or equal to a dielectric constant of the second insulator layer, and the signal transmission line is electrically connected with the common electrode layer. A parasitic capacitance between the signal transmission line and the common electrode layer is reduced in the array substrate.
US10147731B2
A semiconductor device includes a common source region formed in a semiconductor substrate, a bit line formed over the semiconductor substrate, first and second vertical channel layers coupled between the bit line and the common source region, wherein the first and second vertical channel layers are alternately arranged on the semiconductor substrate, first conductive layers stacked over the semiconductor substrate to surround one side of the first vertical channel layer, second conductive layers stacked over the semiconductor substrate to surround one side of the second vertical channel layer, and a charge storage layer formed between the first vertical channel layer and the first conductive layers and between the second vertical channel layer and the second conductive layers.
US10147727B2
Some embodiments include a conductive structure which has a first conductive material having a work function of at least 4.5 eV, and a second conductive material over and directly against the first conductive material. The second conductive material has a work function of less than 4.5 eV, and is shaped as an upwardly-opening container. The conductive structure includes a third conductive material within the upwardly-opening container shape of the second conductive material and directly against the second conductive material. The third conductive material is a different composition relative to the second conductive material. Some embodiments include wordlines, and some embodiments include transistors.
US10147724B2
A radio-frequency (RF) switch includes a field-effect transistor (FET) disposed between a first node and a second node, the FET having a source, a drain, a gate, and a body. The RF switch further includes a coupling circuit including a first path and a second path, the first path being connected between the gate and one of the source or the drain via a first resistor in series with a first capacitor, the second path being connected between the body and the one of the source or the drain via a second resistor in series with a second capacitor, the coupling circuit configured to allow discharge of interface charge from either or both of the gate and body.
US10147723B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first active fin and a second active fin on the substrate, respectively, a plurality of first epitaxial layers on the first active fin and on the second active fin, respectively, a plurality of second epitaxial layers on the plurality of first epitaxial layers, a bridge layer connecting the plurality of second epitaxial layers to each other, and a third epitaxial layer on the bridge layer.
US10147721B1
Various on-die-precision-resistor arrays, and methods of making and calibrating the same are disclosed. In one aspect, an apparatus is provided that includes a semiconductor chip and a precision resistor array on the semiconductor chip. A replica precision resistor array is on the semiconductor chip. The replica precision resistor array is configured to mimic the resistance behavior of the precision resistor array and has a characteristic resistance that is a function of temperature. The semiconductor chip is configured to calibrate the precision resistor array using the characterized resistance as a function of temperature, a resistance offset of the precision resistor array relative to the characterized resistance as a function of temperature, and a temperature of the precision resistor array.
US10147715B2
Methods to forming trigger-voltage tunable cascode transistors for an ESD protection circuit in FinFET IC devices and resulting devices. Embodiments include providing a substrate including adjacent first-type well areas, over the substrate, each pair of first-type well areas separated by a second-type well area; providing one or more junction areas in each first and second type well area, each junction area being a first type or a second type; forming fins, spaced from each other, perpendicular to and over the first and second type junction areas; and forming junction-type devices by forming electrical connections between the first and second type junction areas in the first-type well areas and the substrate, wherein a first-stage junction-type device in a first-type well area includes stacked first and second type junction areas, and wherein the first-stage junction-type device is adjacent a second-type well area including first and second type junction areas.
US10147714B2
At least one method, apparatus and system disclosed involves providing a functional cell for a circuit layout for an integrated circuit device. A determination as to a first location for a two-dimensional portion of a first power rail in a functional cell is made. A first portion of the first power rail is formed in a first direction. A second portion of the first power rail is formed in a second direction in the first location for the two-dimensional portion.
US10147711B2
A display module and system applications including a display module are described. The display module may include a display substrate including a front surface, a back surface, and a display area on the front surface. A plurality of interconnects extend through the display substrate from the front surface to the back surface. An array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) are in the display area and electrically connected with the plurality of interconnects, and one or more driver circuits are on the back surface of the display substrate. Exemplary system applications include wearable, rollable, and foldable displays.
US10147705B2
Stacked semiconductor die assemblies with die substrate extensions are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor die assembly can include a package substrate, a first die mounted to the package substrate, and a second die mounted to the first die. The first die includes a first die substrate, and the second die includes a second die substrate attached to the first die substrate. At least one of the first and second dies includes a semiconductor substrate and a die substrate extension adjacent the semiconductor substrate. The die substrate extension comprises a mold material that at least partially defines a planform.
US10147702B2
The present application provides methods, systems and devices for simultaneously bonding multiple semiconductor chips of different height profiles on a flexible substrate.
US10147691B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate; a post passivation interconnect (PPI) disposed over the substrate and including a plurality of first elongated members extended over a surface of the substrate and a plurality of second elongated members extended over the surface of the substrate and isolated from the plurality of first elongated members; a first polymeric layer covering the PPI; and a second polymeric layer disposed over the first polymeric layer, wherein the plurality of first elongated members are alternately disposed with the plurality of second elongated members, the first polymeric layer includes a recessed portion disposed between one of the plurality of first elongated members and one of the plurality of second elongated members, and the second polymeric layer includes a protruded portion disposed within the recessed portion.
US10147675B2
A semiconductor device includes a base including a substrate and a first insulating layer formed thereon. The base has a first surface and a second surface that is opposite to the first surface, and has an opening that passes through from the first surface to the second surface. A first width of the opening at the first surface is greater than a second width of the opening at the second surface. An electrode formed on the second surface of the base and covers the opening. A metal layer fills the opening and is electrically connected to the electrode.
US10147673B2
The present disclosure is directed to a semiconductor die on a tapeless leadframe and covered in encapsulant. The semiconductor package includes leads formed from the leadframe and electrically coupled to the semiconductor die, the leads being accessible through electrical contacts embedded in the encapsulant. Openings between the leads and the leadframe are formed from etching recesses from opposing sides of the leadframe. The resulting openings have non-uniform sidewalls. The leadframe is further electrically or thermally coupled to electrical contacts embedded in the encapsulant. The embedded electrical contacts forming a land grid array.
US10147668B2
A stacked cooler includes flow pipes that are stacked, each of the flow pipes having a flat shape and including a medium passage in which a heat medium flows, a heat exchange object that is disposed between each adjacent two of the flow pipes and is clamped between their flat planes, a protruding pipe part that is connected to at least one of the flow pipes and protrudes in a stacking direction of the flow pipes, and a load restraining part that restrains a load applied to a connection portion of the at least one of the flow pipes to the protruding pipe part as compared with a load applied to the other portion of the at least one of the flow pipes.
US10147664B2
Chip packages and electronic devices are provided that include a heat sink flexibly interfaced with a die for enhanced temperature control. In one example, a solid state electronic assembly is provided that includes a first integrated circuit (IC) die mounted to a substrate and a heat sink mounted over the first IC die. The heat sink includes a thermally conductive plate and a first thermal carrier. The first thermal carrier has a first end mechanically fixed to the conductive plate. The first thermal carrier has a second end cantilevered from the conductive plate. The second end is in conductive contact with a top surface of the first IC die.
US10147661B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate having a main plane; a semiconductor element provided on the main plane of the semiconductor substrate; an electrode pad provided on the main plane of the semiconductor substrate and connected to the semiconductor element; a guard ring surrounding the semiconductor element and the electrode pad, and provided on the main plane of the semiconductor substrate; and an insulating film covering all region of a semiconductor of the main plane of the semiconductor substrate exposed inside the guard ring, wherein the insulating film is made of a water impermeable material.
US10147655B2
Techniques herein include systems and methods for fine control of temperature distribution across a substrate. Such techniques can be used to provide uniform spatial temperature distribution, or a biased spatial temperature distribution to improve plasma processing of substrates and/or correct characteristics of a given substrate. Embodiments include a plasma processing system with temperature control. Temperature control systems herein include a primary heating mechanism to heat a substrate, and a secondary heating mechanism that precisely modifies spatial temperature distribution across a substrate being processed. At least one heating mechanism includes a digital projection system configured to project a pattern of electromagnetic radiation onto or into a substrate, or through the substrate and onto a substrate support assembly. The digital projection system is configured to spatially and dynamically adjust the pattern of electromagnetic radiation and selectively augment heating of the substrate by each projected point location.
US10147647B2
A method of detaching a growth substrate from a layer sequence includes introducing at least one wafer composite into an etching bath containing an etching solution such that the etching solution is located at least in regions within separating trenches, repeatedly varying a pressure of a base pressure prevailing in the etching bath with at least one pressure variation device, and detaching the growth substrate, wherein at least one of 1-3 is satisfied: 1) a buffer chamber attached to the etching bath and connected thereto is provided and the volume variation is effected by a movement of a piston or hydraulic plunger introduced into the buffer chamber, 2) the volume variation is at least partly effected with a compressor attached to the etching bath, and 3) the pressure variation is at least partly effected by at least one of removal of a gas and a liquid from the etching bath or by addition of at least one of the gas and the liquid thereto.
US10147644B2
An array substrate and a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device are provided. The method includes: forming a thin film transistor (TFT) structure of a display region and a TFT structure of the GOA region on a substrate; sequentially forming a first insulating layer, an indium tin oxide (ITO) layer and a photoresist layer on the TFT structure; exposing and developing the photoresist layer using a halftone mask plate, and etching the ITO layer, to form an electrode layer in the GOA region and an electrode layer in the display region; and ashing the remaining photoresist to completely remove the photoresist on the electrode layer in the display region and to thinning the photoresist on the electrode layer in the GOA region.
US10147633B2
A transfer apparatus transfers an object to be transferred onto a case. The transfer apparatus includes a transfer arm, an arm shaft, a plurality of electromagnets, and a control unit. The transfer arm has a pick unit on a front end thereof and extends and retracts in a horizontal direction. The object to be transferred is held on the pick unit. The arm shaft supports the transfer arm. The plurality of electromagnets apply an force in upward direction to the transfer arm by generating a magnetic field in the case. The control unit controls the plurality of electromagnets in such a manner that when the transfer arm extends and retracts in the horizontal direction, the force in upward direction applied to the transfer arm increases as a length from the arm shaft to the front end of the transfer arm increases.
US10147632B2
A wafer processing laminate including support, temporary adhesive material layer formed on support, and wafer stacked on temporary adhesive material layer, wafer having front surface on which circuit is formed and back surface to be processed, wherein temporary adhesive material layer includes a three-layered complex temporary adhesive material layer that includes first temporary adhesive layer composed of thermoplastic organopolysiloxane polymer layer (A) having thickness of less than 100 nm and releasably laminated to front surface of wafer, second temporary adhesive layer composed of thermosetting siloxane-modified polymer layer (B) releasably laminated to first temporary adhesive layer, and third temporary adhesive layer composed of thermoplastic organopolysiloxane polymer layer (A′) having thickness of less than 100 nm, releasably laminated to second temporary adhesive layer, and releasably laminated to support. This wafer processing laminate can withstand thermal process at high temperature exceeding 300° C., and can increase productivity of thin wafers.
US10147631B2
Fluoro-containing silicone-based storage stable temporary bonding adhesive compositions are disclosed. The adhesive compositions can be used in varied applications including, but not limited to, 3D chip integration, packaging applications, semiconductor devices, radio-frequency identification tags, chip cards, high-density memory devices, and microelectronic devices. The adhesive compositions generally comprise: a) a fluoro-containing silicone having the general formula (I); M′[DoDfpDxq]nM′ wherein M′ is a vinyl or hydrogen functionalized unit; Df unit comprises a fluoro-substituted group; Dx unit comprises a vinyl or SiH functionalized group; 1>o≥0, 1>p>0, and 1>q≥0 wherein o+p+q=1 and p is equal to or less than 20% mole percent of the sum of o+p+q; and n is an integer from 1 to 1000; b) an alkenyl functional polydimethylsiloxane fluid; c) an alkenyl functional MQ siloxane resin; d) an SiH functional siloxane crosslinker; and e) a hydrosilylation catalyst.
US10147630B2
Compositions and designs are described for a sectional porous carrier used in processing microelectronics where thin device substrates are affixed by adhesive to the carrier and form an impervious bonded stack that is resistant to thermal and chemical products during processing and is easily handled by a substrate handling vacuum robot, and subsequently allows rapid removal (debonding) in batch operations by directional penetration into sectional porous regions by selective liquids which release the carrier from the device wafer without harm. The invention carrier with porous regions is used for temporary support of thin and fragile device substrates having capabilities of selective penetration of chemical liquids to pass through the porous regions, access and breakdown the bonding adhesive, and allow it to release without damage to the device substrate. The sectional porous nature of the carrier allows passive diffusion of chemical liquids, the manner which in contrast to mechanical, thermal, or radiative methods, is considered to be a higher yield practice and one which enables batch processing in a manufacturing environment utilizing practices of high throughput and low cost. Preferred designs include the use of porous metal forms, including laminates, as well as surface treatment of the porous regions to facilitate exclusion principles and achieve an inert support mechanism during the stages of device manufacture. These benefits allow design flexibility and low-cost batch processing when choosing practices to handle thinned device substrates in the manufacture of semiconductors and other microelectronic devices.
US10147624B2
A front opening wafer container suitable for large wafers such as 450 mm utilizes componentry with separate fasteners to lock the componentry together in an expedient manner providing robust connections and cost efficiencies. A container portion has an open front and receives on a bottom surface a base plate secured by twist lock connectors that also provide recesses for purge grommets. Kinematic coupling components readily and robustly lock onto the base plate. Interior wafer support components latch onto brackets on the side walls utilizing a separate locking insert with holding tabs and locking detents. A wafer retainer provides support and counters enhanced wafer sag associated with 450 mm wafers when the door is installed and seated.
US10147622B2
An electric-programmable magnetic module comprising a micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) chip and a bonding equipment is provided. The MEMS chip comprises a plurality of electromagnetic coils and each of the electromagnetic coils is individually controlled. The MEMS chip is assembled with and carried by the bonding equipment.
US10147621B2
Provided is an adhesive tape separating tool which separates adhesive tape bonded to one face of a work which includes an opening on the one face from the work, in which a protrusion portion forming region in which a plurality of protrusion portions are formed is provided on a face on a side which comes into contact with the work in the tape separating tool, and the protrusion portion forming region is disposed at a position separated from a position facing the opening on the one face of the work.
US10147617B2
A process for the drying, and subsequent imidization, of polyimide precursors which minimizes or eliminates voids and which minimizes or eliminates discoloration. The process uses a sequential set of descending pressure operations that allow for time efficient processing of wafers. The set of descending pressure operations are interspersed with evacuation processes using heated gasses, which combine heating and byproduct evacuation. The process results in layers with reduced or eliminated voiding, discoloration, and solvent retention.
US10147615B2
A method for fabricating a package structure is provided, which includes the steps of: forming a first insulating layer on a carrier; forming a dielectric body on the first insulating layer, wherein the dielectric body has a first surface formed on the first insulating layer and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a circuit layer and a plurality of conductive posts formed on the circuit layer are embedded in the dielectric body; forming a second insulating layer on the second surface of the dielectric body, wherein the glass transition temperature of the first insulating layer and/or the second insulating layer is greater than 250° C.; and removing the carrier. Since the glass transition temperature of the first or second insulating layer is greater than that of the dielectric body, the package structure has a preferred strength to avoid warping, thereby dispensing with a support member.
US10147614B1
A method of manufacturing an oxide semiconductor transistor is provided in the present invention, which includes the step of providing an oxide semiconductor transistor on the front side of a substrate, attaching a wafer on the front side of the substrate, forming a contact hole extending from the back side of the substrate to the oxide semiconductor layer of the oxide semiconductor transistor, and filling the contact hole with metal material to form a back gate of the oxide semiconductor transistor.
US10147607B1
A semiconductor pitch patterning can include a method comprising directionally forming a mask material on a first set of spacers. The first set of spacers can be formed on a substrate. The method can include directionally forming a mask material on a surface of the substrate. The method can include selectively forming a second set of spacers on side surfaces of the first set of spacers and a portion of the surface of the substrate. The top portion of each of the second set of spacers remains unetched subsequent to removing portions of the mask material from the top portions of the first set of spacers.
US10147605B2
A process of forming an epitaxial substrate that includes nitride semiconductor layers is disclosed. The process includes steps of; (a) growing a nucleus forming layer on the substrate, and (b) growing a nitride semiconductor layer on the nucleus forming layer. The step (a) sets first and second growth temperatures in an upstream side and a downstream side, respectively, of the substrate for the flow of the source gases, where the first temperature of the upstream side is at least 5° C. but at most 10° C. lower than the second temperature of the downstream side, and the second temperature is higher than 1100° C.
US10147600B2
The present disclosure relates to the deposition of dopant films, such as doped silicon oxide films, by atomic layer deposition processes. In some embodiments, a substrate in a reaction space is contacted with pulses of a silicon precursor and a dopant precursor, such that the silicon precursor and dopant precursor adsorb on the substrate surface. Oxygen plasma is used to convert the adsorbed silicon precursor and dopant precursor to doped silicon oxide.
US10147599B2
Methods for the formation of SiCN, SiCO and SiCON films comprising cyclical exposure of a substrate surface to a silicon-containing gas, a carbon-containing gas and a plasma. Some embodiments further comprise the addition of an oxidizing agent prior to at least the plasma exposure.
US10147598B2
A manufacturing method for insulation layer, a manufacturing method for array substrate and an array substrate are disclosed. Wherein, the manufacturing method for insulation layer comprises steps of: depositing an insulation layer on a substrate; exposing and developing the insulation layer in order to obtain the insulation layer having an opening; light curing the insulation layer having the opening; and performing a high-temperature annealing treatment to the insulation layer having the opening after being light cured. Adopting the manufacturing method for insulation layer of the present invention, a situation of deformation at the opening of the insulation layer can be reduced.
US10147591B2
An ion mirror (10) for use in a time of flight mass spectrometer (100) comprises a first conductor (20) for producing a quadratic field along a first axis (80), and a second conductor (30) for producing a quadratic field along a second axis (90), the axes (80, 90) being orthogonal.
US10147578B2
A mechanism coupling structure of a molded-case circuit breaker according to an embodiment of the present disclosure including a shaft to one side of which a movable contactor is coupled, and on a part of which a rotating pinhole is formed in a penetrating manner; a base assembly into which the shaft is rotatably accommodated and coupled, a switch mechanism coupled to an upper portion of the base assembly and exposed with a first lower link and a second lower link at a lower side thereof, and a rotating pin coupled in a penetrating manner to the first lower link, second lower link and rotating pinhole may be provided therein, wherein the rotating pin has a protruding portion for release prevention at one end thereof.
US10147577B2
Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) structures, methods of manufacture and design structures are provided. The method of forming a MEMS structure includes forming fixed actuator electrodes and a contact point on a substrate. The method further includes forming a MEMS beam over the fixed actuator electrodes and the contact point. The method further includes forming an array of actuator electrodes in alignment with portions of the fixed actuator electrodes, which are sized and dimensioned to prevent the MEMS beam from collapsing on the fixed actuator electrodes after repeating cycling. The array of actuator electrodes are formed in direct contact with at least one of an underside of the MEMS beam and a surface of the fixed actuator electrodes.
US10147572B2
An embedded pole is provided which includes a conductive path and a movable contact. The movable contact is selectively movable between a first position in which the conductive path is closed and a second position in which the conductive path is open. An insulation element is coupled to and selectively movable in conjunction with the movable contact. The embedded pole further includes a sensor coupled to the insulation element and operable to detect a displacement of the insulation element that corresponds to a movement of the movable contact between the first position and the second position.
US10147562B2
Disclosed is an on-load voltage regulation tap switch for a transformer, comprising a main switch group, a switch contact protection branch and a switch control circuit, wherein the main switch group comprises a plurality of switch contacts, one end of the switch group is connected to a corresponding transformer winding tap, and the other end of the switch group is connected in parallel and is then connected to a power source; the switch contact protection branch is a series circuit formed by a plurality of groups of diodes and auxiliary switch contacts, and is respectively connected to both ends of a corresponding main switch in parallel; and the switch control circuit is composed of a power source, a single chip microcomputer and a peripheral circuit, and controls all of the main switches and auxiliary switches to act in a certain time sequence to complete the switching of the transformer windings.
US10147553B2
The invention provides novel hydrophilic conjugated polymers, e.g., hydrophilic poly(arylene vinylenes) or PAVs, and preparation thereof, and methods and devices for their application in photovoltaics, and the resulting improved solar cells.
US10147552B2
A conductive polymer microparticle dispersion contains a solvent, and polythiophene microparticles dispersed in the solvent. The polymerization unit of the polythiophene is one of thiophene and derivatives thereof, and the polythiophene contains a polyanion as a dopant. The conductive polymer microparticle dispersion has a pH value of 3 or greater and contains a solvent-insoluble iron compound containing iron with a concentration of 450 ppm or less.
US10147551B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing an electrolytic capacitor wherein—a primer solution e) is applied to a capacitor body (1), followed by an application of a solution or dispersion a) comprising a conjugated polymer b) and a solvent or dispersant d), followed by an at least partial removal of the solvent or dispersant d) for the formation of a polymeric outer layer (5) that is formed onto the capacitor body (1), and wherein the primer solution e) comprises at least one monofunctional amine and at least one carboxylic acid.
US10147542B2
There is a film capacitor capable of suppressing decrease in the electrostatic capacitance even after a self-healing phenomenon has occurred. A film capacitor includes a dielectric film; and an electrode film disposed on a principal surface of the dielectric film, the dielectric film containing an organic resin and an organic component having a higher volatility than the organic resin. The organic resin is preferably any one of a cyclic olefin-based resin, a polyarylate resin, a polyphenylene ether resin and a polyetherimide resin. The organic component is preferably at least one selected from the group consisting of cyclohexane, ethylcyclohexane, toluene, xylene, chloroform, and tetrahydrofuran.
US10147541B2
A uniaxially-stretched, high yield extruded capacitor film comprising a miscible polymer blend comprising a polyetherimide and a poly(carbonate-arylate ester), wherein the polyetherimide comprises units derived from polymerization of an aromatic dianhydride with a diamine comprising a m-phenylenediamine, a p-phenylenediamine, or combinations thereof, wherein the polyetherimide is endcapped with a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic primary monoamine, wherein the poly(carbonate-arylate ester) comprises repeating bisphenol carbonate units and repeating arylate ester units, wherein the repeating bisphenol carbonate units and the repeating arylate ester units are different from each other, and wherein the high yield extruded capacitor film comprises equal to or greater than about 90 wt. % of the miscible polymer blend entering an extruder used for manufacturing the capacitor film, based on the total weight of miscible polymer blend prior to entering the extruder.
US10147540B2
In a planar coil element and a method for producing the same, a metal magnetic powder-containing resin containing an oblate or needle-like first metal magnetic powder contains a second metal magnetic powder having an average particle size (1 μm) smaller than that (32 μm) of the first metal magnetic powder, which significantly reduces the viscosity of the metal magnetic powder-containing resin. Therefore, the metal magnetic powder-containing resin is easy to handle when applied to enclose a coil unit, which makes it easy to produce the planar coil element.
US10147539B2
A magnetic core for a rotary transformer, the core including bars arranged along a longitudinal axis of the core and at least two cheeks that are axially spaced apart from each other and that extend radially from the bars in order to cooperate with the bars to define at least one annular groove for receiving a toroidal coil, each cheek being made up of a packet of circular magnetic laminations that are arranged radially, and each bar being made up of a plurality of stacks of magnetic laminations, the stacks of laminations forming the bars being arranged axially and being assembled to the packets of circular laminations while being angularly spaced apart from one another around the longitudinal axis of the core.
US10147532B2
A holder holds a first magnetic member through which a first signal cable is passed and a second magnetic member through which a second signal cable is passed. The holder holds the first magnetic member with a first holding portion including an elastic engagement portion. The holder is also provided with a second holding portion to hold the second magnetic member at a position where the second magnetic member overlaps with the first magnetic member. A restrict portion is arranged on the elastic engagement portion and configured to restrict movement of the second magnetic member held by the second holding portion.
US10147529B2
An electromagnet that increases electromagnetic force involved with a current flowing through a coil includes a stacked body including a plurality of base material layers, a coil including an in-plane coil conductor on one main surface of each of the base material layers, and an electrically isolated dummy pattern extending along at least a portion of the coil outside of the in-plane coil conductor on each of the base material layers in a plan view.
US10147527B2
A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet exhibits reduced iron loss and reduced noise. The electrical steel sheet has magnetic domains refined by regions with a high lattice defect density being locally formed on the surface of or within the steel sheet, in which the regions with a high lattice defect density has a hardness, as measured by a micro Vickers hardness meter, equal to or lower than that of other regions.
US10147526B2
A sliding variable resistor includes a sliding base, a first supporting pole, two buffering members, a substrate, a casing assembly, an anchoring plate, a driving member, a driven member, a belt, and a belt guard. The sliding base includes two first through hole and at least one variable resistor sheet. The first supporting pole is inserted into the two first through hole. The first supporting pole has its two ends abut against the first buffering seats, respectively. The substrate is engaged with the two buffering members. The two buffering members are arranged in the casing assembly. The anchoring plate is fixedly arranged on the casing assembly. The belt is engaged with the driving member and the driven member, respectively. The belt guard is fastened to the sliding base, and is engaged with the belt. As such, the sliding base, while sliding, can have an improved smoothness.
US10147523B2
A cable for communicating electrical signals includes an outer sheath comprised of a polymeric material including an electrically conductive substance mixed with the polymeric material and causing the outer sheath to be electrically semiconductive. The outer sheath includes a plurality of insulated wires extending through the interior of the outer sheath along the length of the outer sheath. Each insulated wire includes an electrically conductive core surrounded by an electrically non-conductive material. A sheath ground wire disposed within the interior of the outer sheath extends along the length of the outer sheath. The sheath ground wire includes an electrically conductive core in direct electrical contact with the interior of the outer sheath at a plurality of locations
US10147515B2
A FFC structure includes transmission line units and a second insulating jacket. The adjacent transmission line units are spaced. Each of the plurality of transmission line units includes one or more signal lines, a first shield layer, a first ground conductor, and a second shield layer. Each of the signal lines includes a signal conductor to transmit a data signal or a power, and a first insulating jacket enclosing the signal conductor. The first shield layer surrounds the signal line and is connected to the first insulating jacket of each of the signal lines. The first ground conductor transmits a ground voltage. The second shield layer surrounds and is connected to the first ground conductor and the first shield layer. The second insulating jacket encloses the second shield layer of the plurality of transmission line units.
US10147513B2
An exemplary proton conductor according to the present disclosure has a perovskite-type crystal structure expressed by the compositional formula AaB1-xB′xO3-δ, where A is at least one selected from among group 2 elements; B is a group 4 element or Ce; B′ is a group 3 element, a group 13 element, or a lanthanoid element; 0.5
US10147511B2
Linear ribs are formed radially with a center at a through-hole on one face of an X-ray transmissive film (radiolucent film) in an X-ray transmissive window (radiolucent window) to be used for an X-ray detector (radiation detector). The X-ray transmissive window faces a sample. A beam for irradiation to the sample passes through the through-hole, and X-rays (radiation) are radially emitted on a line extending through the through-hole and enter the X-ray transmissive window. Since the linear ribs are formed radially with the center at the through-hole, even X-rays entering at shallow angles with respect to the X-ray transmissive window are transmitted through the X-ray transmissive window at a probability equivalent to X-rays entering at deep angles. More X-rays are transmitted through the X-ray transmissive window, and thus the X-ray detector can detect X-rays with high efficiency.
US10147509B2
A ventilated system for storing high level radioactive waste, such as used nuclear fuel, in a below-grade environment, in one embodiment, the invention is a ventilated system comprising an air-intake shell and a plurality of storage shells that are interconnected by a network of pipes configured to achieve double redundancy and/or improved air delivery. In another embodiment, the invention is a ventilated system that utilizes a mass of low level radioactive waste contained in a hermetically sealed enclosure cavity, the low level radioactive waste providing radiation shielding for high level radioactive waste stored in a storage cavity of said ventilated system.
US10147502B2
A patient data exchange system comprises at least one device. Each of the devices implements an interface. When a device in the patient data exchange system publishes patient data, the device generates a metadata envelope that encapsulates the patient data. The metadata envelope conforms to a schema that defines allowable metadata attributes of the metadata envelope. When a device in the patient data exchange system receives a metadata envelope that conforms to the schema, the device determines, based at least in part on a metadata attribute of the metadata envelope, a particular patient data handling policy to apply to patient data encapsulated by the metadata envelope. In some instances, the metadata attribute indicates that authorization is required from an authorization service to access the patient data encapsulated by the metadata envelope.
US10147498B1
A shift register device including a plurality of shift registers is provided. The shift registers are coupled to each other in series, where an Nth stage shift register includes a voltage setting circuit, at least two control signal generators, at least two backup control signal generators and an output stage circuit. The at least two control signal generators are coupled to a first control terminal and a second control terminal, and the at least two backup control signal generators respectively receive at least two backup bias voltages, and respectively generate the first control voltage and the second control voltage according to the at least two backup bias voltages.
US10147493B2
A system on-chip (SoC) device is provided. The SoC device includes an on-chip memory including memory banks, and internal clock generators. Each internal clock generator is coupled to one or more memory banks. Each internal clock generator generates one or more of an internal clock signal, a control signal and a clock reset signal locally for the memory bank to which the internal clock generator is coupled.
US10147488B2
Provided is a semiconductor device including nonvolatile memory cells each including a FinFET having excellent memory characteristics. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, memory cells each formed in the semiconductor substrate and having a split-gate structure including an opposed-gate selection gate electrode, a memory gate electrode, and a pair of terminals, and a word line driver circuit which supplies a selection voltage to a selection gate electrode of the selected one of the memory cells and supplies a non-selection voltage to the selection gate electrode of the non-selected one of the memory cells. The word line driver circuit supplies, as the non-selection voltage, a voltage which is negative or positive relative to a potential in the semiconductor substrate so as to bring a selection transistor corresponding to the selection gate electrode of the non-selected memory cell into an OFF state.
US10147484B1
An inverting reciprocal quantum logic (RQL) gate circuit has an input stage having a logical input asserted based on receiving a positive single flux quantum (SFQ) pulse and an output stage comprising phase mode logic (PML) inverter circuitry. The input stage includes one or more storage loops, at least one being associated with each logical input, each comprising an input Josephson junction (JJ), a storage inductor, and a logical decision JJ, the logical decision JJ being common to all the storage loops associated with the logical inputs and being configured to trigger based on biasing provided by one or more currents stored in the storage loops and a first bias signal provided to the input stage. The output stage de-asserts an output and is provided with a second bias signal having a second state opposite of a first state of the first bias signal.
US10147481B2
A clean data strobe signal generating circuit in a read interface device includes receivers configured to output first and second single ended data strobe signals. In the circuit, a gate signal generating unit is configured to generate a data strobe gate signal synchronized with the first single ended data strobe signal using the first and second single ended data strobe signals and a memory gate signal of which the pulse width varies in accordance with a burst length after termination of a read latency. The gating unit is configured to generate a clean data strobe signal using the first single ended data strobe signal and the data strobe gate signal.
US10147477B2
One controller for controlling operation of a memory device includes an output circuit configured to supply a chip select signal, an address signal, a command signal, and a clock signal to the memory device, and a data processing circuit configured to process read data and write data through a data terminal based on the chip select signal, the address signal, the command signal, and the clock signal supplied by the output circuit. The controller is configured to supply the address signal and the command signal to the memory device a predetermined duration after the output circuit supplies the chip select signal.
US10147471B2
A semiconductor system may include a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device. The first semiconductor device may be configured to output a reset signal, command/address signals and data. The second semiconductor device may be configured to generate internal commands, internal addresses and internal data for performing an initialization operation. The second semiconductor device may be configured to store the internal data in a plurality of memory cells selected by the internal commands and the internal addresses.
US10147469B2
A semiconductor device including: a sense amplifier; a branched line selectively connectable to the amplifier; a recycling arrangement selectively connectable to the branched line; an array of bit lines connected to corresponding memory cells; a multiplexer configured to selectively connect the branched line to a selected one of the memory cells through a corresponding line amongst the array of bit lines; and a controller configured to control the recycling arrangement and the multiplexer to perform intra-sense-amplifier recycling of a gleaned amount of charge (gleaned charge) recovered from a first read operation to a second read operation.
US10147464B1
An IC in which a power state of a circuit in one power domain is managed based at least in part on a power state of a circuit in another power domain is disclosed. In one embodiment, an IC includes first and second functional circuit blocks in first and second power domains, respectively. A third functional block shared by the first and second is also implemented in the first power domain. A power management unit may control power states of each of the first, second, and third functional circuit blocks. The power management circuit may, when the first functional circuit block is in a sleep state, set a power state of the third functional block in accordance with that of the second functional circuit block.
US10147463B2
In a video system, a video source, e.g., a camera, provides a source video stream. The source video stream comprises a stream of image data units. A buffer control unit writes the image data units consecutively to a circular buffer. A display control unit reads the image data units consecutively from the circular buffer to generate a target video stream in accordance with a read delay. The display control unit comprises a feedback loop which controls timing of the operation of reading the image data units from the circular buffer so as to reduce a difference between the read delay and a reference delay. The video system may, for example, be installed in a vehicle, e.g., for providing a driver with a live view from a camera.
US10147456B2
Audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices according to the present embodiments comprise a processor, a motion sensor, and a camera. In various embodiments, the A/V recording and communication devices are configured to reduce latency and/or to reduce false positive indications of motion.
US10147446B1
An apparatus comprises a slider configured for heat assisted magnetic recording and comprising a substrate. At least one component of the slider generates heat when energized. At least one thermal via extends through a portion of the slider from a location proximate the component to the substrate. The thermal via is configured to conduct heat away from the component and to the substrate.
US10147437B2
Higher Order Ambisonics represents three-dimensional sound independent of a specific loudspeaker set-up. However, transmission of an HOA representation results in a very high bit rate. Therefore compression with a fixed number of channels is used, in which directional and ambient signal components are processed differently. For coding, portions of the original HOA representation are predicted from the directional signal components. This prediction provides side information which is required for a corresponding decoding. By using some additional specific purpose bits, a known side information coding processing is improved in that the required number of bits for coding that side information is reduced on average.
US10147430B2
An apparatus for decoding an encoded signal includes: an audio decoder for decoding an encoded representation of a first set of first spectral portions to obtain a decoded first set of first spectral portions; a parametric decoder for decoding an encoded parametric representation of a second set of second spectral portions to obtain a decoded representation of the parametric representation, wherein the parametric information includes, for each target frequency tile, a source region identification as a matching information; and a frequency regenerator for regenerating a target frequency tile using a source region from the first set of first spectral portions identified by the matching information.
US10147419B2
An interactive response system directs input to a software-based router, which is able to intelligently respond to the input by drawing on a combination of human agents, advanced recognition and expert systems. The system utilizes human “intent analysts” for purposes of interpreting customer input. Automated recognition subsystems are trained by coupling customer input with IA-selected intent corresponding to the input, using model-updating subsystems to develop the training information for the automated recognition subsystems.
US10147414B1
A machine has a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to supply a name page in response to a request from an administrator machine. Name page updates are received from the administrator machine. The name page updates include participants and associated network contact information for the participants. A code is utilized to form a link to the name page. Prompts for textual name information and audio name information are supplied to a client machine that activates the link to the name page. Textual name information and audio name information are received from the client machine. The textual name information and audio name information are stored in association with the name page. Navigation tools are supplied to facilitate access to the textual name information and audio name information.
US10147409B2
Provided is an electronic percussion instrument that is capable of simulating a playing technique for an acoustic percussion instrument. A tubular body part is opened on an axial end surface, and a head is attached to the axial end surface to be struck on the front surface. A capacitance sensor includes an electrode that generates a capacitance with respect to a detected conductor, such as a human body, positioned on the front surface side of the head. Because the capacitance sensor detects a change of a capacitance corresponding to a distance between the electrode and the detected conductor, whether the detected conductor approaches (contacts) the head or presses the head can be determined. As a result, the playing technique for the acoustic percussion instrument is simulated.
US10147394B2
The present disclosure provides a GOA (gate driver on array) circuit for a display screen. The GOA circuit includes at least one GOA group, including a plurality of GOA units connected in series, and a switch control unit configured to transmit control signals. In each of the at least one GOA group, a first-stage GOA unit is connected to a frame-start signal. At least one edge GOA unit is connected to a control signal through the switch control unit. The edge GOA unit being any one of the plurality of GOA units except for the first-stage GOA unit and a last-stage GOA unit.
US10147383B2
A display device including a display panel is provided, the display device including a plurality of pixels, a display controller configured to input image data to the plurality of pixels during a second time within a first time, the first time being determined by a scanning frequency of the display panel and to maintain the image data input to the plurality of pixels during a third time, the third time being a part or all of the first time excluding the second time, and a power supply configured to supply power to the display panel and the display controller. The display controller generates a power sync signal which is enabled during the second time, and the power supply supplies the power based on the power sync signal.
US10147378B2
A scan line to which a selection signal or a non-selection signal is input from its end, and a transistor in which a clock signal is input to a gate, the non-selection signal is input to a source, and a drain is connected to the scan line are provided. A signal input to the end of the scan line is switched from the selection signal to the non-selection signal at the same or substantially the same time as the transistor is turned on. The non-selection signal is input not only from one end but also from both ends of the scan line. This makes it possible to inhibit the potentials of portions in the scan line from being changed at different times.
US10147366B2
The present invention provides driving methods for a color display device in which each pixel can display four high-quality color states. More specifically, an electrophoretic fluid is provided which comprises four types of particles, dispersed in a solvent or solvent mixture.
US10147362B2
A pixel circuit and a display apparatus. The pixel circuit comprises three sub-pixel circuits and one power supply circuit, wherein the three sub-pixel circuits share a data line; the power supply circuit is connected to a first voltage level terminal, a first signal control line and the sub-pixel circuits, and the power supply circuit is configured to supply a first voltage level to the sub-pixel circuits through the first voltage level terminal under the control of a signal of the first signal control line; and the sub-pixel circuits are connected to the power supply circuit and the data line), and are configured to display a gray scale under the control of the first voltage level supplied by the power supply circuit and a data signal of the data line.
US10147358B2
A driving method for a display panel is provided. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in an array. Each of the pixel circuits respectively includes a first switch and a second switch coupled in series. The driving method includes following steps. A first driving signal is received during an update period through a control terminal of the first switch of each of the pixel circuits, so that the first switch of each of the pixel circuits is continuously turned on during the update period. A second driving signal is sequentially received during the update period through a control terminal of the second switch of each of the pixel circuits.
US10147353B2
An organic light emitting display panel and a pixel compensation method are provided. The organic light emitting display panel includes: a pixel array including pixel regions divided into M rows and N columns; a plurality of pixel driving circuits, each includes a light emitting diode and a driving transistor for driving the light emitting diode, and the light emitting diodes are located in the pixel regions; and a plurality of pixel compensation circuits configured to sample an anode voltage of the light emitting diode are in at least one of the pixel driving circuits. A light emitting current flows through the light emitting diode, and generates a compensation signal based on the anode voltage and the light emitting current.
US10147351B2
An organic light emitting display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The display device has sub-pixels of multiple colors. In one aspect, the organic light emitting display device detects sub-pixels which are positioned at the edges of the panel. Data for the sub-pixels on the edges are reduced so that colors on the edges are less observable.
US10147345B2
Provided is a display device including: a data processor controlling color reproducibility of RGB data under a low illumination environment to process an input image signal; a signal controller dividing the input image signal in a frame unit according to a vertical synchronization signal and the input image signal in a scan line unit according to a horizontal synchronization signal to generate an image data signal; and a data driver receiving the image data signal to transfer a plurality of data signals to each of the plurality of data lines coupled to a plurality of pixels. The display device reduces glaring and provides a higher-definition image to a user due to the accurate representation of neutral white under the high illumination environment.
US10147340B2
Simulation systems for demonstrating and/or testing medical devices and methods for demonstrating and/or testing medical devices using simulation systems are disclosed. An example simulation system may include a simulation module. The simulation module may include circuitry and one or more indicators. The circuitry may be capable of establishing impedance levels simulating impedances at tissue-electrode conduction paths. In some cases, the circuitry may be capable of sensing a temperature at the simulated tissue-electrode conduction paths. The one or more indicators may be able to provide indications corresponding to the established impedance levels. An example method of demonstrating or testing a medical device may include determining whether established impedance levels match electrode activation settings of an ablation generator (e.g., a medical device).
US10147333B2
A system for interactive online instruction includes an instructional subscription website and video management system configured to process video recordings. The video recordings may include (i) student videos uploaded by a student and (ii) instructor videos providing feedback to said student videos. A method of interactive online instruction is also disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing prerecorded course materials on an instructional subscription website including video lessons accessible by subscribing students, and providing a video management system configured to process video recordings including (i) student videos submitted by a student and (ii) instructor videos providing feedback to said student videos.
US10147323B2
A driver assistance system for a vehicle includes at least one camera disposed at the vehicle and having an exterior field of view at least in a direction of forward travel of the vehicle. A control includes an image processor operable to process image data captured by the camera. At least in part responsive to image processing of captured image data, the control determines a projected driving path of the vehicle and the width thereof. At least in part responsive to image processing of captured image data, the control detects an object that is ahead of the vehicle and determines the detected object's location in the camera's exterior field of view. Responsive to the determined width of the projected driving path and to the determined location of the detected object, the control is operable to determine if there is sufficient clearance for the vehicle to pass the detected object.
US10147321B1
A parking exchange application method and system for securing an available parking space on a street corner. A responding driver in a car temporarily occupies an available parking space and informs a central processing database of the address of the available parking space. A requesting driver searching for an available parking space in a location vicinity, transmits a request to the central processing database. The central processing database compiles a list of available parking spaces addresses, and the requesting driver selects one of the available parking spaces, and drives toward the selected available parking space. Upon arrival, the central processing database makes payments of a transfer fee to the requesting drive, in exchange for the selected available parking space, and a commission fee to the parking exchange application, from an authorized fee payment from the requesting drivers, and the requesting driver occupies the available parking space.
US10147318B2
A system for alerting drivers to the presence of oncoming emergency vehicles. According to an embodiment, the system includes: a first transceiver located in an emergency vehicle for transmitting GPS coordinates of the emergency vehicle, and second transceiver located in an automobile. The second transceiver is receives the transmitted information and determines a proximity of the emergency vehicle relative to the automobile. If the emergency vehicle is within a predetermined proximity of the automobile, the second transceiver causes selective attenuation of audio and video signals currently being output in order to raise driver awareness to audio/video alerts generated by the emergency vehicle.
US10147317B2
This disclosure relates to a traffic information estimation device and a traffic information estimation method for estimating a time period of switching of a traffic signal display. The traffic information estimation device includes: an acquisition unit (203) acquiring arrangement information indicating an arrangement of vehicles in accordance with a time passage on a road on which a traffic signal is installed; a determination unit (205) determining changes in density of the vehicles by using the arrangement information; and a calculation unit (206) calculating a display change cycle indicating a time period of switching of a display of the traffic signal based on a time interval between the changes in density of the vehicles. According to such a configuration, it is possible to simplify processing to estimate of a change cycle of the traffic signal.
US10147314B2
Example apparatus and methods provide improved spatial and temporal resolution over conventional magnetic resonance renography (MRR). Example apparatus and methods reconstruct under-sampled three-dimensional (3D) data associated with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals acquired from a kidney. The data is reconstructed using a 3D through-time non-Cartesian generalized auto-calibrating partially parallel acquisitions (GRAPPA) approach. Example apparatus and methods produce a quantized value for a contrast agent concentration in the kidney from a signal intensity in the data based, at least in part, on a two compartment model of the kidney. The two compartment model includes a plasma compartment and a tubular compartment. The quantized value describes a perfusion parameter for the kidney or a filtration parameter for the kidney. Greater precision is achieved for estimates of the perfusion parameter or filtration parameter as a result of the quantization performed on data acquired with greater spatial resolution and temporal resolution.
US10147312B2
Embodiments are directed to a method of implementing an acoustic computing system for implant or dermal data communication, power supply and energy storage. The method includes receiving, by a first acoustic computing element in a live medium, input acoustic vibration. The method further includes converting, by the first acoustic computing element, a first portion of the input acoustic vibration to energy that powers operation of the first acoustic computing element. The method further includes converting, by the first acoustic computing element, a second portion of the input acoustic vibration to stored energy of the first acoustic computing element. The method further includes converting, by the first acoustic computing element, a third portion of the input acoustic vibration to a first input data that is processed by the first acoustic computing element. The method further includes generating, by the first acoustic computing element, a first output acoustic vibration based on the first input data.
US10147310B2
A trainable transceiver for controlling a remote device includes a transceiver circuit configured, based on training information, to control the remote device, a communications device configured to communicate with a mobile communications device, an output device, and a control circuit coupled to the transceiver circuit, coupled to the communications device, and coupled to the output device. The control circuit is configured to receive notification information from the mobile communications device via the communications device, and wherein the control circuit is configured to generate an output using the output device based on the notification information.
US10147301B2
A system for monitoring parameters of load equipment is provided. A power connector is provided with intelligence, at least one sensor, and a wireless communication component. The power connector is capable of monitoring physical parameters measured by the at least one sensor, such as voltage, current, temperature, and moisture. The system can further provide an alarm if the sensed parameter falls out of a predetermined range.
US10147299B1
Headwear positionable upon a head of a wearer has a front, a back, sides, and a generally circular open bottom. A band has a first section extending downwardly from the side of the headwear. The first section is folded upwardly and terminates in a second section with a free end. A snap separably couples the free end of the band to a section of the band above the bend thereby creating a chamber. A vibrator is positioned in the chamber over the temple of the wearer. A tilt switch is positioned in the chamber and is operatively coupled to the vibrator whereby a nodding wearer will tilt the tilt switch to activate the vibrator and awaken the wearer. Batteries operatively couple the vibrator and the tilt switch.
US10147290B2
An alarm system for protecting an occupant of an outdoor tent, warning the occupant of an approaching animal and serving as a defensive weapon against the animal. The alarm system comprises a plurality of individual alarms for positioning about a perimeter of the outdoor tent, each alarm being situated in a stand or a section of ground near the outdoor tent. Each individual alarm comprises a support post onto which a detector component is situated, said detector component including a motion sensor element, a sound speaker for playing a recorded alarm upon activation, a battery powered light element, and an on-off switch that connects to a remote control unit for the alarm.
US10147287B2
An image processing apparatus includes a generation unit, an obtaining unit, a determination unit, and a display control unit. The generation unit generates a movement trajectory of an object based on a plurality of images obtained from successive image capturing. The obtaining unit obtains setting information of a detection line for detecting passage of the object. The determination unit determines a display form of the movement trajectory according to a positional relationship of the detection line corresponding to the setting information obtained by the obtaining unit and the movement trajectory generated by the generation unit. The display control unit displays the movement trajectory on a display screen in the display form determined by the determination unit.
US10147275B2
A gaming method, apparatus and system for playing a game of chance is disclosed in which a plurality of gaming machines may be linked together for mutually competitive play. According to one embodiment, two or more gaming machines are linked to a centrally located display exhibiting a game board comprising one or more groups of earmarkable cells in one or more groups. Players on the gaming machines wager and attempt to achieve winning outcomes which earmark cells in the group with designators of their respective gaming machines. When a predetermined number or configuration of cells of a group are earmarked, an award may be distributed to those gaming machines having earmarked cells according to the number of designators within that group associated with each gaming machine. The game of chance may be configured for play on an individual gaming machine.
US10147274B2
A multilayer hybrid game system with a real world engine connected by a communication link to a game world engine wherein the real world engine comprises a real world credit meter, a random number generator, and a real world credit pay table, wherein the real world engine is configured to receive a trigger of a wager, determine a gambling outcome, and communicate the gambling outcome, an entertainment software engine connected to the game world engine configured to execute a multilayer entertainment game, generate a user interface display that depicts a representation of the multilayer entertainment game, a game world engine that communicate a wager trigger to the real world engine, generates a multilayer entertainment game impact that can be used to modify the multilayer entertainment game gameplay based a plurality of players' execution of the multilayer entertainment game and a global betting manager constructed to: manage multilayer wagers.
US10147273B2
Disclosed is a gaming system comprising a display and a game controller, the game controller being arranged to identify a player from received player identification data, receive associated player game data of the identified player, and control the display of one or more characteristics of, or associated with, an avatar such that the player is provided with a graphical representation of the player game data. A method of gaming is also disclosed.
US10147266B2
An apparatus, including a computer. The computer detects a posting of information regarding a gaming activity, gambling activity, or sporting event, and generates a notification message. The computer initiates a communication link with, and transmits the notification message to, a first communication device, or the computer transmits the notification message as an electronic mail message which is received by a first communication device. The computer receives a bet message transmitted from the first communication device or a second communication device. The first communication device or second communication device includes a global positioning device which determines a position or location of the first communication device or second communication device. The computer determines if the bet is allowed or disallowed using the position or location information. If allowed, the computer processes information for placing the bet. If disallowed, the computer processes information for disallowing the bet.
US10147260B2
An image processing method corrects an image acquired from a medium exposed to ultraviolet light and makes parts printed with UV ink easily recognizable. A control device acquires a first image captured by an image sensor from a check exposed to visible light, and acquires a second image captured by the image sensor from the check when exposed to ultraviolet light. The control device generates a first edge image by applying an image processing filter that extracts edges in the first image, and generates a second edge image by applying an image processing filter that extracts edges in the second image. The control device then finds common edges where a first edge extracted in the first edge image and a second edge extracted in the second edge match each other, removes the common edges from the second edge image, and outputs a second image from which the common edges are removed.
US10147257B2
Systems and methods for remotely providing access to a secured vehicle are disclosed. The methods can include receiving a permission parameter from a primary user authorizing a secondary user to enter, receiving an access permission request from a secondary user, evaluating the access permission request for compliance with the permission parameter, and unlocking a door of the vehicle to allow the secondary user to access the vehicle. The permission parameter can include time, user, and proximity criteria for secondary user entry. Systems for remotely providing access to a secured vehicle or location can include a central telematics unit in communication with portable electronic user devices such as smartphones.
US10147249B1
An intermediary device may be configured to allow an authorized visitor to access a secure facility (such as a home) on behalf of an owner. The intermediary device may generate an authenticator and provide the authenticator to a service provider, who may then present the authenticator to the intermediary device upon arriving at the facility. The intermediary device may unlock or open, or lock and close, any doors within the facility as necessary in order to grant access to a specific portion of the facility and restrict access to other portions of the facility. The intermediary device may also capture, or cause the capture of, images or other data regarding actions taken by the service provider, and establish a communications channel with the owner for the exchange of information or data regarding such actions, or any events or conditions of the facility.
US10147244B2
A first air data value is generated based on a first set of parameters. A second set of parameters that does not include any of the first set of parameters is processed through an artificial intelligence network to generate a second air data value. The second set of parameters is processed through a plurality of diagnostic artificial intelligence networks to generate a plurality of diagnostic air data values. Each of the plurality of diagnostic artificial intelligence networks excludes a different one of the second set of parameters. One of the second set of parameters is identified, based on the first air data value and the plurality of diagnostic air data values, as a fault source parameter that is associated with a fault condition.
US10147239B2
A server for content creation is described. A content creation tool of the server receives, from a first device, a content identifier of a physical object, a virtual object content, and a selection of a template corresponding to an interactive feature for the virtual object content. The content creation tool generates a content dataset based on the content identifier of the physical object, the virtual object content, and the selected template. The content creation tool provides the content dataset to a second device, the second device configured to display the interactive feature corresponding to the selected template.
US10147237B2
Systems described herein apply visual computer-generated elements into real-world images with an appearance of depth by using information available via conventional mobile devices. The systems receive a reference image and reference image data collected contemporaneously with the reference image. The reference image data includes a geo-location, a direction heading, and a tilt. The systems identify one or more features within the reference image and receive a user's selection of a foreground feature from the one or more features. The systems receive a virtual object definition that includes an object type, a size, and an overlay position of the virtual object relative to the foreground feature. The virtual object is provided in the virtual layer appearing behind the foreground feature. The systems store, in a memory, the reference image data associated with the virtual object definition.
US10147233B2
A computer-implemented method for generating a three-dimensional (3-D) model of a user. A plurality of images of a user are obtained. An angle of view relative to the user pictured in at least one of the plurality of images is calculated. It is determined whether the calculated angle of view matches a predetermined viewing angle. Upon determining the calculated angle of view matches the predetermined viewing angle, at least one of the plurality of images is selected.
US10147226B1
A method of converting three dimensional image data into two dimensional image data, includes identifying at least two vertices of an object to be rendered in a frame of three dimensional image data, calculating a three-dimensional (3D) motion vector for each vertex of the object to be rendered, determining a position of each vertex in a new frame, calculating the motion vectors for a block based upon the vertex position in the new frame and the motion vectors for the vertex, and using the motion vectors for the vertex to render pixels in the new frame.
US10147223B2
An apparatus and method for medical diagnostics includes receiving three-dimensional (3D) volume data of a part of a patient's body, and generating two-dimensional (2D) slices including cross-sections of the 3D volume data cut from a cross-section cutting direction. The apparatus and the method also determine whether a lesion in each of the 2D slices is benign or malignant and output results indicative thereof, select a number of the 2D slices based on the results, and make a final determination whether the lesion is benign or malignant based on the selected 2D slices.
US10147205B2
A visualization method for music-color synesthesia, belonging to the fields of cognitive psychology, color science and computer graphics, and relating to the visualization of the music synesthesia correlation of colors and the generation of a musical color combination scheme. In the method, a musical scale system is presented in the form of a color scale system, and the musical elements are presented through the color correlation to realize the synesthetic conversion between colors and musical elements, and on this basis, a color graphical conversion of the musical structure is performed. The implementations include: a conversion from colors to musical scales, a conversion from colors to chords, a conversion from colors to rhythm and a conversion from colors to texture etc.
US10147204B2
Systems and methods for creating platform positioning maps representing surface pad location feasibility for visually validating a current surface pad location and/or determining the suitability of another surface pad location.
US10147202B2
To encode a texture to be used in a graphics processing system, the texture is first downscaled to generate a lower resolution representation of the texture 41. An upscaled version 42 of the lower resolution version of the texture is then compared to the original texture to determine a set of difference values indicating for each texel the difference between the value of the texel in the upscaled version of the texture and in the original texture 43. An encoded texture data block is then generated for each 8×8 block of texels in the original texture 44. Each encoded texture data block contains a base color value taken from the lower resolution representation of the texture and a set of index values indicating the difference data from the determined set of difference data to be used when decoding the block of texture data to generate the data values to be used for the texture data elements that the block of texture data represents.
US10147201B2
The invention relates to a method of determining the absolute direction of an object of a scene (1), with a predetermined desired performance. It comprises a learning phase and an online operation phase, the learning phase comprising the following steps: acquisition by circular scanning by means of a first optronic imaging device of determined fixed position, of a series of partially overlapping optronic images (2), including an image or several images of the scene (step A1), automatic extraction from the images, of descriptors defined by their image coordinates and their radiometric characteristics, with at least one descriptor of unknown direction in each overlap (21) of images (step B1), from the descriptors extracted from the overlaps between images, automatic estimation of the mutual relative rotation of the images and mapping of the descriptors extracted from the overlaps (step C1), identification in the images, of at least one known reference geographic direction (22) of precision compatible with the desired performance, and determination of the image coordinates of each reference (step D1), from the descriptors extracted from the overlaps and mapped, the direction and the image coordinates of each reference, automatic estimation of the attitude of each image, called fine registration step (step E1), from the attitude of each image, the position and internal parameters of the first imaging device, and the image coordinates of each descriptor, computation of the absolute directions of the descriptors according to a predetermined model of image capture of the imaging device (step F1), the online operation phase comprising the following steps: acquisition of at least one image of the object called current image (20), from a second imaging device of determined fixed position (step A2), extraction of descriptors from each current image (step B2), mapping of the descriptors of each current image with the descriptors whose absolute direction was calculated in the learning phase, to determine the absolute direction of the descriptors of each current image (step C2), from the absolute directions of the descriptors of each current image, estimation of the attitude of each current image (step D2), from the image coordinates of the object in each current image, the attitude of each current image, the position and predetermined internal parameters of the second imaging device, computation of the absolute direction of the object according to a predetermined model of image capture of each current image (step E2).
US10147199B2
A method and an apparatus for determining an orientation of a video are suggested. The method comprises the steps of: estimating a motion of the video; extracting translation-based parameters from the estimated motion of the video; and computing at least one feature giving the evolution of the horizontal translation over time against the evolution of the vertical translation according to the translation based parameters, the feature being used for determining the orientation of the video.
US10147198B2
Provided is a measurement device that is highly accurate due to an optical configuration. The following are provided: a pattern projector that projects an optical pattern; and a pattern image receiver that receives the optical pattern which was projected. The pattern image receiver includes: a pattern image pickup unit that picks up an image of the optical pattern and converts the same to image pickup data; and a point coordinate value calculation unit that, on the basis of the converted image pickup data, calculates a 3D coordinate value for the position of the image pickup unit or a position known from the image pickup unit.
US10147192B2
A coordinate-conversion-parameter determination apparatus includes a marker detector that detects feature points of a marker from each of a first and second images; a three-dimensional position determiner that calculates three-dimensional coordinates of each of the feature points of the marker in a camera coordinate system in which reference is a first place, based on positions of the feature points in the first and second images; and a coordinate-conversion-parameter determiner that calculates a coordinate conversion parameter so that a sum of absolute values of errors between three-dimensional coordinates in a world coordinate system, the three-dimensional coordinates in the world coordinate system being obtained by converting the three-dimensional coordinates of the feature points of the marker in the camera coordinate system by using the coordinate conversion parameter, and three-dimensional coordinates of feature points in the world coordinate system that correspond to the feature points of the marker in real space is minimized.
US10147187B2
A DR radiography lung contour extraction method based on fully convolutional network, which includes the steps: Establish the fully convolutional network structure of lung contour segmentation; Conduct off-line training on the weighting parameters of the fully convolutional network; Read DR image and weighting parameters of the fully convolutional network; Input DR image into fully convolutional network and output segmentation results of image through network terminal with network layer-by-layer feedforward. Establish lung contour in accordance with segmentation results.
US10147185B2
A method for three-dimensional interactive segmentation, including: receiving a three-dimensional medical image of an interior volume of a patient's body; automatically performing three dimensional segmentation on the three dimensional medical image to detect and define a region of interest, wherein the performing of the three dimensional segmentation comprises automatically determining a boundary defining the region of interest; receiving from a user spatial information indicating one or more regions of disagreement in the three-dimensional medical image with respect to the determined boundary; and updating the three dimensional segmentation of the three dimensional medical image based on the spatial information received from the user, wherein the updating comprises updating the determined boundary based on the spatial information to redefine the area of interest.
US10147182B2
A method for calibrating a biological instrument is provided. The method comprises the steps of acquiring an image of at least one biological sample array, determining a first region of interest within the image, wherein the first region of interest comprises a first plurality of locations on the at least one biological array; and identifying within the first region of interest, a plurality of image elements associated with each of the first plurality of locations on the at least one biological array.
US10147180B2
An optical system is provided for clinical diagnostics that include methods and apparatus for rapidly detecting and characterizing rare circulating cells such as, but not limited to, circulating tumor cells/circulating stems cells (CTC/CSCs) in a biological sample. The sample is processed for analyses, loaded onto a “capture zone” in the optical system where, and subjected to a two stage optical process for very rapid detection and detailed characterization of detected cells. The detected rare cells are characterized with regards to biomarker profiles using fluorescent tags or chromophores for detection and optical imaging. Isolation of the captured rare cells is anticipated for down-stream assessments including, but not limited to, DNA, RNA, proteomic analyses and culture.
US10147172B2
When calculating true inter-camera distance, offset images of a reference object such as a lane marker from at least two cameras coupled to an articulating vehicle are overlaid and shifted until the reference objects in each image are aligned. The distance by which the reference object images are shifted, as well as any rotation required to align the images, is used to calculate the actual distance between the cameras and to compensate for average yaw angle between the cameras when positioning the images for digital stitching to generate a composite “surround view” image.
US10147168B2
Aspects include estimating structure models for a voxel(s) of a spectral image. The estimation is based on a noise model. Aspects further include fitting structure models to a 3D neighborhood about the voxel(s), selecting one of the structure models for the voxel(s) which is based on the fittings and predetermined model selection criteria. Aspects further include de-noising the voxel(s) based on the selected structure model, which produces a set of de-noised spectral images. Other aspects include generating a virtual contrast enhanced intermediate image for each energy image of a set of spectral images. The energies correspond to different energy ranges which are based on de-noised spectral images, decomposed de-noised spectral images, an iodine map, and a contrast enhancement factor. Aspects further include generating final virtual contrast enhanced images. The final virtual contrast enhanced images are generated by incorporating a simulated partial volume effect with the intermediate virtual contrast enhanced images.
US10147160B2
An image management apparatus controls a display of a captured image, the apparatus being connected to a communication terminal through a network. The apparatus includes a receiver and circuitry. The receiver receives, from the communication terminal, an instruction for displaying a drawn image drawn by a user on a captured image while the captured image is being displayed to the user, the captured image being a full spherical panoramic image. The circuitry generates an attachment image containing the drawn image, and attaches the attachment image containing the drawn image to the captured image, the attachment image containing the drawn image being a planar image.
US10147154B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for a communication system that can be configured to receive a request for a service from a user device associated with a user, transmit details about a specific service provider for the requested service to the user device, and receive an identification of a service provider from the user device subsequent to the transmitting of the details. The communication system can be configured to provide a first user notification in response to determining that the identified service provider is the specific service provider for the requested service. The communication system can be configured to provide a second user notification in response to determining that the identified service provider is not the specific service provider.
US10147153B2
A supervision and penalty method and system for expressway emergency lane occupancy based on public supervision and reporting. The system includes a mobile terminal and a central computer. When a citizen notices a violation behavior of emergency lane occupancy of another vehicle, evidence is collected by photographing and images are uploaded to the central computer; meanwhile, user location information is automatically read and uploaded. The central computer acquires, through network transmission, image information and location information uploaded by a client, distinguishes whether it is a malicious reporting behavior and performs technical processing and license plate recognition on the uploaded images, checks the road section where the violation behavior occurs, and determines whether the violation behavior is an emergency lane violation behavior. The computer automatically searches for and matches owner information corresponding to the license plate number of the violation vehicle, and automatically sends a penalty decision from the background.
US10147140B1
Systems and methods to implement a platform for investing allow customers to purchase shares of investment funds using a balance in a closed-loop stored-value account, a financial account, and/or both. Part of a balance is (periodically or automatically) withdrawn, and used to fund the purchase. Purchases may be triggered by predetermined and specified content and/or activity occurring in a social media stream associated with a customer. Withdrawals from multiple customers may be aggregated into a single periodical transaction.
US10147133B2
An embodiment includes a system comprising an initialization module and a platform module. The initialization module provides an initialization interface to a merchant that receives an indication from the merchant to initialize creation of a storefront application. The platform module receives a selection of mobile phone device operating systems; accesses stored templates from a template database, and maps elements in the stored templates to portions of source code to generate sets of operating system-specific source code. The stored templates correspond to the selected mobile phone device operating systems. The stored templates include source code used to implement portions of the storefront application on a mobile phone device operating system. When compiled, the sets of operating system-specific source code become versions of the storefront application executable by a respective one of mobile phone device operating systems.
US10147132B2
A method performed by one or more apparatuses is provided. The method comprises: obtaining information on a manipulation of a UI element performed by a user, wherein the UI element has a plurality of states allowing for a selection of one of the states by the user, a first state of the UI element being associated with a first value, the value being a value of a first parameter, and a second state of the UI element being associated with a second value, the second value being a value of a second parameter different from the first parameter. The method further comprises selecting a dataset from a set of datasets at least based on the obtained information, some or all of the datasets of the set of datasets associating a value of the first parameter with a value of the second parameter, and providing information on said selected dataset.
US10147130B2
Systems and related methods providing for online ordering of menu items from a merchant are discussed herein. Circuitry may be configured to generate an online menu based on menu information stored in a menu database. The menu information may be also configured to facilitate point-of-sale functionality at the merchant, such as by a point-of-sale device. The online menu may be provided to a consumer device. An online order may be received from the consumer device. The circuitry may be configured to process the online order, such as by facilitating a reservation, order preparation, and payment.
US10147129B1
Systems and methods are provided for identifying groups of items that consumers are likely to purchase together. In some embodiments, a graph may be generated based on information regarding items that have been previously ordered together and information regarding the similarity or affinity between items. The graph may be analyzed to identify groups of items, wherein consumers are likely to order items in each group together. In some embodiments, each group of items may be assigned to a storage facility, and a list representative of the items stored in that storage facility may be modified to include the items in the group assigned to the storage facility.
US10147125B2
An dynamic electronic communication device. The tag according to embodiments of the invention is designed or set to discount, promote, incentivize, or apply information at certain states or within a certain timeframe at initial deployment, the tags themselves being capable of handling the logic. The tag generally includes a circuit, such as a silicon chip, that controls a flexible printed display, which displays the information when applied. The tag is optionally encapsulated in a plastic or glass case. The tag is made of a suitably small size such that the tag can easily be placed on individual items, and can be secured to other objects via an adhesive backing, sewn in, pinned on, and the like.
US10147118B2
Mobile device proximity to purchase locations at times of purchases within at least one retail environment is monitored over time by a processor utilizing locationing technology. Mobile device identifiers of mobile devices in proximity to the purchase locations within the at least one retail environment at the times of the purchases are captured. A repeating mobile device proximity pattern of at least two mobile device identifiers being repeatedly located together and in proximity to the respective purchase locations at the times of the respective purchases is detected across several different purchases. Mobile devices identified by the at least two mobile device identifiers detected within the repeating mobile device proximity pattern across the several different purchases are paired.
US10147108B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify affinity between segment attributes and product characteristics. An example method includes identifying, with a processor, a set of product characteristics from purchase transactions that exhibit a threshold product affinity, selecting, with the processor, a set of products having at least one product characteristic from the set of product characteristics that exhibit the threshold product affinity, the set of products associated with first segments, extracting, with the processor, segment attributes from the first segments, and improving a market success of the product of interest by identifying, with the processor, target segments based on ones of the extracted segment attributes exhibiting a threshold segment affinity.
US10147104B1
Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for receiving consumer search data, aggregating by consumer and location, and utilizing the aggregated consumer search data in demand forecasting and relevance determination. An example method may include receiving consumer search data, the consumer search data indicative of search performed by a consumer, the consumer search data comprising one or more search terms and at least one of a consumer location or consumer identification information, storing the consumer search data for a predetermined time interval, and providing at least one of consumer aggregated search data to a relevance module for determining which of a plurality of promotions to present to a consumer at a second time or providing location aggregated search data to a demand forecasting module for utilization in forecasting promotion demand in a particular location.
US10147101B2
Disclosed are a method of generating social marketing group information of each affiliate store in which credit card payment information is associated with social network information and an after-marketing method intended for a social marketing group. A personal connection-based consumption group is formed by combining credit card members who are a consumption group with social network subscribers who are a personal connection group, and marketing intended for the person connection-based consumption group is conducted. A plurality of social marketing groups are formed for each affiliate store using credit card payment information and social network information. When a member of the social marketing group purchases a product or service in the affiliate store, the affiliate store provides purchasers belonging to the social marketing group with a benefit as the price for advertising expenses. Thus, it is possible to overcome the constraints in item of a product or service, the number of purchases, or time, which are problems of conventional social commerce, network marketing, and group purchase. Since credit card members having a personal interchange relation through a social network service form a marketing group for each affiliate, a consumption group is formed which is strong in purchasing power and high in information transfer power and reliability. Thus, customers can receive more benefits or services. In addition, a seller (advertiser) can conduct efficient advertising at low cost and secure a purchaser group having high loyalty.
US10147097B2
The disclosure provides a support to customer platform system, method, and server to serve as a marketing service platform providing various channel functions including sales, planning, technical support, maintenance, and customer management and perform an interactive support service with Internet Protocol (IP) connected devices based on cloud computing. Accordingly, a vendor may realize a comprehensive support service by applying the embodiments of the disclosure without complicated professional training.
US10147089B2
Systems and methods are disclosed in which data associated with a transaction are protected with encryption. At an access device, a PIN associated with a payment account may be encrypted with a first key derived from an initial key of the access device and sensitive data associated with the payment account may be encrypted with a second key derived from the initial key. At a secure module associated with a host server encrypted sensitive data of an authorization request message may be decrypted. The secure module associated with the host server can re-encrypt the sensitive data using a zone encryption key associated with a payment processing network. A translated authorization request message including the re-encrypted sensitive data can be transmitted by the merchant server to the payment processing network.
US10147067B2
A drone operated delivery receptacle for receiving packages. The delivery receptacle includes a housing having a base, sidewalls, and an open upper end, defining an interior volume. The open upper end includes one or more gates that are movable between an open and closed configuration, and are configured to open when a delivery drone is detected by a control unit of the delivery receptacle. Preferably, the one or more gates are configured to automatically open when a drone is detected so as to allow the drone to deposit the package therein. A front wall of the housing comprises one or more doors thereon that allow the user to access the interior volume of the housing to retrieve the package therein.
US10147064B2
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for representing components of an industrial system with a visualization tool, in accordance with a physical layout of the industrial system. Other embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for simulating the representations of the components of the industrial system with a simulation engine. In particular, in such embodiments, the utilization of these representations is optimized through an operator interface, and graphical indicia of the utilization are displayed. In addition, the graphical indicia may further comprise a representation of the normalized utilization for each representation. In yet other embodiments, the present invention provides techniques for auto-calibrating the representations of the components of the industrial system based on information received during operation of the industrial system.
US10147054B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer program products for displaying content of an enterprise social network feed on a mobile device. In some implementations, a server receives a request to display a parent container feed associated with a parent object in a hierarchical model of objects stored in a database of an on-demand service environment. The server identifies, based a plurality of criteria, a first plurality of information updates associated with a first child object having a child relationship with the parent object. The server also identifies a second plurality of information updates associated with the parent object. The server generates a first set of feed items comprising the first plurality of information updates and a second set of feed items comprising the second plurality of information updates. The server provides for display on a mobile device the first and second sets of feed items in the parent container feed.
US10147052B1
Embodiments are directed to assessing performances of physical activities. Assessment engines may collect performance content that includes information associated with performances of activities. The assessment engines may employ classifiers to classify the performance content to determine occurrences of features of the performance content and classify assessment content to determine scores that are associated with features included in the performances. The assessment engines may provide correlation values associated with the performances based on historical performance content, assessment content, or scores. The assessment engine may provide a report that includes a localized evaluation of the performances based on the correlation values, performance content, assessment content, and scores. In some cases, the performance content may include videos of the performances.
US10147051B2
A mechanism is provided for generating candidate answers to an explanatory question. Responsive to identifying an input question as the explanatory question, the explanatory question is decomposed into one or more explanatory queries. One or more passages are identified within a corpus of information that comprises an explanatory clause that provides an explanatory answer to the explanatory question based on pre-determined explanatory clause terms. Hypothesis evidence is received with one or passages comprising explanatory clauses from the corpus of information. One or more candidate explanatory answers are generated based on hypothesis evidence. The candidate explanatory answers are ranked and merged. Finally, the candidate explanatory answers are output.
US10147048B2
A storage device lifetime monitoring system for monitoring lifetimes of storage devices and a storage device lifetime monitoring method thereof are provided. The method includes collecting operation activity information corresponding to the storage devices; storing multiple training data having the operation activity information and corresponding operation lifetime values; constructing a storage device lifetime predicting model according to the operation activity information and the corresponding operation lifetime values of the training data; inputting the operation activity information of the storage devices into the storage device lifetime predicting model to generate a predicted lifetime value corresponding to each of the storage devices; and re-constructing the storage device lifetime predicting model according to operation activity information and predicted lifetime value of each storage device. Thereby, the lifetime of storage devices can be accurately predicted.
US10147033B2
The electronic component comprises: reference-obtaining means for obtaining a physical magnitude referred to as a reference magnitude, which magnitude is dynamically adjustable and representative of the expected activity of said component; comparator means suitable for comparing said reference magnitude with a magnitude of the same type representative of the real activity of said component; and detector means suitable for detecting an attack as a function of the result of said comparison.
US10147029B2
A method for providing content data to a user device, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining a reference code from the user device, the reference code corresponding to a printed or displayed linear code; identifying a reference within a content database corresponding to the reference code; identifying content data associated with the reference; and communicating the content data to the user device. Also disclosed is a content server for providing content, and a method for generating unique reference codes.
US10147027B2
An image processing apparatus includes: a raster data output that executes a first process of outputting raster data; a data transferer that generates image determination-purpose data, and executes a second process of storing the generated image determination-purpose data in a buffer; and a hardware processor that: executes a third process of determining whether an image presented by the image determination-purpose data contains a specific image, generates schedule information indicating a time schedule of the first, second, and third processes, determines each set of raster data on whether the time schedule satisfies an overflow condition, and performs control to extend the buffer, wherein the overflow condition is a condition that a part of a period of the second process overlaps with a part of a period during which the image determination-purpose data for which the third process has not been completed occupies an entire area of the buffer.
US10147026B2
A print control apparatus includes an output unit that outputs information for displaying a screen indicating that continuous printing processing is not executable in a case where it is determined that continuous printing processing is not executable. In a case where the information for displaying the screen indicating that continuous printing processing is not executable is output, the screen indicating that continuous printing processing is not executable is displayed on a display unit.
US10147023B1
Provided are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium for synthetically generating training data to be used to train a learning algorithm that is capable of generating computer-generated images of a subject from real images that include the subject. The training data can be generated using a facial rig by changing expressions, camera viewpoints, and illumination in the training data. The training data can then be used for tracking faces in a real-time video stream. In such examples, the training data can be tuned to expected environmental conditions and camera properties of the real-time video stream. Provided herein are also strategies to improve training set construction by analyzing which attributes of a computer-generated image (e.g., expression, viewpoint, and illumination) require denser sampling.
US10147018B2
There is provided with an image processing apparatus. An evaluation is set for each of the pairs. The evaluation is set based on at least one of the number of feature points in the first image where local feature amounts are similar to a local feature amount at one of the pair or the number of feature points in the second image where local feature amounts are similar to a local feature amount at one of the pair, in such a manner that the smaller the number of feature points, the higher the evaluation. A similarity between the first image and the second image is determined using a RANSAC method. A pair having a high evaluation is used with priority in derivation of a function for transforming coordinates using the RANSAC method.
US10146999B2
A video management apparatus includes a video database for holding a plurality of pieces of video information each associated with an image position, a geographic information database for holding a plurality of pieces of geographic information each indicating a position of a different one of spots on a map, and a controller. The controller extracts spots located within a first range from a current position as a first spot group, based on the current position and the plurality of pieces of geographic information. Further, the controller extracts spots located within a second range from the image position as a second spot group, based on the image position and the plurality of pieces of geographic information. Then, the controller selects video information from the plurality of pieces of video information, based on a similarity degree of the second spot group with respect to the first spot group.
US10146987B2
According to one embodiment, a sensor includes a first control line, a first signal line, a first detection switch, a common electrode, a first detection electrode, a first circuit and a second circuit. The common electrode is located above the first control line, the first signal line and the first detection switch, opposed to the first control line, the first signal line and the first detection switch. The first detection electrode is located above the common electrode. The first circuit and the second circuit are located under the common electrode, and are opposed to the common electrode.
US10146982B2
A method for assembling the fingerprint identification module is provided. Firstly, a protective cover and a fingerprint sensing element are combined together. Then, the fingerprint sensing element is placed on the circuit board. Then, a triggering element is placed on the circuit board. Then, an adhesive thickness is obtained according to a predetermined thickness and the thicknesses of the protective cover, the fingerprint sensing element, the triggering element and the circuit board. Then, an adhesive film corresponding to the adhesive thickness is placed on the circuit board. Since the appropriate adhesive film is selected according to the demand, the thickness of the fingerprint identification module is substantially identical to the predetermined thickness.
US10146979B2
Processing visual cues to improve understanding of an input is described herein, including receiving a visual cue, the visual cue including visual media of a target; storing a list of words representing the target; and updating a probable words dictionary to include the list of words.
US10146976B2
A tooling system may comprise a tool scanner, a tool database, and a user interface device. The tool scanner may be configured to scan a tool identifier on a tool. The tool database may have tool information associated with the tool identifier. The user interface device may be in communication with the tool scanner and the tool database. The user interface device may receive tool information from the tool database in response to the scan by the tool scanner, concurrently display a tool issue description and a tool issue image from the tool information of the tool database, receive a tool area selection with respect to the tool issue image, and provide access to a tool issue history from the tool database in response to the tool area selection.
US10146973B2
Systems for reading machine-readable labels, for example, two-dimensional barcodes, include a housing, a reader configured to read the machine-readable labels on sample receptacles as a sample rack holding the sample receptacles move between a first position and a second position within the housing. The system includes a processing and control unit configured to decode a read image of the machine-readable labels on each sample receptacle, and configured to associate a decoded read images with the corresponding sample receptacles based on measured positions of the sample rack when the machine-readable label was read.
US10146972B2
A management system includes: a reader that reads item information related to a target item from the target item; an identifier that identifies an authorized storage location where the target item is required to be stored, on the basis of the item information read by the reader; an acquisitor that acquires a reading location where the item information has been read; and a determiner that compares the authorized storage location with the reading location and determines whether or not the target item is stored in the authorized storage location.
US10146965B2
The invention relates to a method of reading RF transponders disposed in one and the same magnetic interrogation field, in which a magnetic coupling of the transponders is ensured with a passive resonant circuit during reading. The method is distinguished in that the passive antenna of the resonant circuit is associated with at least one transponder antenna, and the passive resonant circuit is tuned in such a way that the resonant frequency resulting from the association corresponds to one of the frequencies of the emission side bands of the transponder to be read. The invention also relates to the system corresponding to the method, a transponder structure and an object containing the transponder, in particular a travel document.
US10146964B1
Embodiments herein relate to a die to form a system-on-chip (SOC) with one or more other dies, with a policy arbitrator disposed on the die to manage security policies of the plurality of dies of the SOC, where the PA is to receive information about a security policy and a die type from a first of the one or more other dies, compare at least the received information about the security policy and the die type of the first other die with a security policy and a die type of the die, determine, based on the comparison, a common security policy for the plurality of dies of the SOC, and transmit the determined common security policy and the die type of the die to at least a second of the one or more other dies.
US10146962B2
A technique allows for protecting a PCI device controller from a PCI BDF masquerade attack from Ring-0 and Ring-3 malware. The technique may use Virtualization technologies to create guest virtual machines that can use a hypervisor to allocate ACPI information from ACPI tables to a secure VM and using extended page tables (EPT) and VT-d policies to protect the MMIO memory range during illegal runtime events.
US10146951B2
An electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a communication unit that transmits, to an external device, at least one of a Digital Right Management (DRM) content, a DRM content header, or a DRM content body. The electronic device may also include a storage unit that stores at least one of DRM content metadata, the DRM content header, the DRM content body, or the DRM content file. A controller in the electronic device may search for DRM meta data corresponding to a DRM content requested by the external device in response to a DRM content request of the external device, package the DRM content header based on the discovered DRM meta data, search for a DRM content body corresponding to the DRM content request, and transmit the packaged DRM content header and the discovered DRM content body through the communication unit.
US10146934B2
A system and method for sharing data and a risk assessment of the data comprises receiving data in a first application and obtaining a risk level of the data, performing an action in the first application necessitating passing a message comprising at least the data and the risk level to a second application, passing the message from the first application to the second application, receiving, at the second application, the message, determining by said second application whether the risk level exceeds a predetermined threshold, when the risk level exceed the predetermined threshold, implementing a protocol to perform actions in the second application using the data in accordance with the protocol, and when the risk level does not exceed the predetermined threshold, running the second application using the data.
US10146932B2
In some implementations, after one or more users have each been granted a respective access token allowing access to a resource device, revocation data is received by the resource device. The revocation data indicates that the previously granted access to the resource device should be revoked. For example, the revocation data may indicate (i) a user, role, or permission level for which access is revoked and (ii) a duration that access to the resource device was allowed. After receiving the revocation data, the resource device receives token data derived from an access token that allows access to the resource device. The resource device determines that the access token relies on authorization of the user, role, or permission level indicated by the revocation data, and in response, the resource device denies access.
US10146930B2
A method and system for controlling a computer machine such as a casino game machine includes a remote activation arrangement that does not require the computer machine to complete an online communication or series of communications. The method and system utilize a QR type code associated with each computer machine to simplify the communication of necessary information to an online website supported by a computer server. A separate mobile device of an operator or user scans a QR type code of the machine and uses the QR type code to simplify the communication and registration with the server. An authorization code is transmitted back to the mobile device and manually entered in the machine allowing the machine to function in its intended manner.
US10146927B2
A method to generate a dynamic keypad for access code input includes identifying a screen size of display of a computer device by accessing a configuration file associated with the display. The method includes identifying a set of possible objects for an access code. The method further includes generating a first set of electronic keys based on the set of possible objects for the access code and based on the screen size of the display. The method also includes generating a second set of electronic keys based on the screen size of the display. The method includes generating a keypad that includes the first set of electronic keys and the second set of electronic keys. The method further includes presenting the keypad in the display of the computer device.
US10146914B1
Systems and methods for determining whether a set of test perturbations discriminates over a null distribution for an on target effect against a first component of an entity are disclosed. The perturbations are perturbations of the first component and the entity comprises a plurality of components. For each perturbation in the set, a corresponding vector comprising a plurality of elements, is obtained. Each element comprises a distribution metric of measurements of a feature across instances of the entity upon exposure to the respective perturbation or (ii) a distribution metric of a respective dimension reduction component computed using the measurement of the plurality of features across instances of the entity upon the perturbation exposure. A composite metric is computed, using the vectors, and compared to a null distribution. When the composite metric is differentiated from the null distribution, the set of perturbations is deemed to discriminate the on target effect against the first component over the null distribution.
US10146907B2
A computer network system and a method are disclosed for accessing a dose image database for medical imaging using ionizing radiation via an imaging device. An embodiment includes a multiplicity of imaging devices connected via a network connection to the dose image database, each imaging device including a transmit unit to transmit the images captured by the imaging device to the dose image database. An allocation between an image or a class of images, a dose measurement value, an image quality measurement value and optionally further medical metadata are stored in the dose image database. A control unit is included to exchange date with the dose image database and to generate control variables automatically while accessing the dose image database depending on at least one selection parameter to be defined, the parameters being forwarded via a network connection to at least one imaging device to control the imaging.
US10146896B2
A method for selecting transistor design parameters. A first set of simulations is used to calculate leakage current at a plurality of sets of design parameter values, and the results are fitted with a first response surface methodology model. The first model is used to generate a function that returns a value of a selected design parameter, for which a leakage current specification is just met. A second set of simulations is used to calculate effective drive current for a plurality of sets of design parameter values, and the results are fitted with a second response surface methodology model. The second model is used, together with the first, to search for a set of design parameter values at which a worst-case effective drive current is greatest, subject to the constraint of meeting the worst-case leakage current specification.
US10146891B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable and executable instructions are provided for extracting relationship data from building information model (BIM) data. Extracting relationship data from BIM data can include generating a three dimensional geometric model of a number of objects within the BIM data. Extracting relationship data from BIM data can also include determining a number of spatial relationships between a number of objects, wherein the spatial relationships are determined from the three dimensional geometric model. Furthermore, extracting relationship data from BIM data can include exporting the spatial relationships based on a number of criteria.
US10146888B2
A flight procedure criteria prototyping system and method is described herein. According to embodiments, the system is configured to generate a prototype, generate a dependency tree based on the prototype, wherein the dependency tree is comprised of one or more dependency tree nodes, translate the dependency tree into one or more construction steps, wherein there is a mapping between the one or more dependency tree nodes and the one or more construction steps, maintain an ordered list of the one or more construction steps, and generate one or more software specifications based on the one or more construction steps.
US10146886B2
An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus and an apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus including a processor, and a memory storing instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to act as a display control unit configured to acquire display data through a network and display a screen based on the display data. The display control unit is configured to input data specified in the display data to a first application, identified by identification information specified in the display data, among a plurality of applications installed in the information processing apparatus.
US10146867B2
Methods and computer readable medium encoded with computer instructions are disclosed for automatically evaluating music tracks to determine which tracks will be suitable for mixing together, by determining a cost of mixing a current track and each of a number of potential next tracks and comparing the costs. Further, methods and computer readable medium encode with computer instructions are disclosed for automatically optimizing the mix of two music tracks by determining the cost of each of a number of possible mixes and selecting the mix associated with the lowest cost.
US10146864B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to systems and methods for obtaining and/or organizing information related to documents cited in a source document. For example, a legal brief may cite authority, such as judicial opinions, in support of the arguments in the brief. Embodiments of the invention relate to automatic identification in a document of citations to authority and preparation of information related to the cited authorities. For example, in an embodiment of the invention, a report may comprise normalized expressions of one or more legal principles asserted in one or more cited opinions and information associated with the ongoing vitality of one or more the legal principles, the cited authority, or both.
US10146858B2
A new document is processed for ingestion into a corpus of a cognitive computing system by associating with a category of documents already contained within the corpus, such as a topical category. Then, the cognitive computing system is engaged automatically to query one or more questions previously-associated with the category to discover discrepancies between the new document and those already in the corpus. If a discrepancy is found, a confidence factor based upon extracted natural language entities and relationships is assigned to the discrepancy, and it is flagged and reported to a user for reconciliation.
US10146850B2
Systems and methods for collecting, classifying, transmitting and updating personal information for completion and submission or supplementation of electronic forms or databases on any type of mobile or other computing device are provided. Information relating to a user is obtained from one or more sources through electronic means, and the information is then organized and securely stored in a database using field mapping and other techniques to classify the information into specific categories. The information that is obtained and organized may include contact information, financial information, health information and historical information. The organized information may then be accessed by the user to automatically and instantaneously populate or supplement an electronic document, form or web-based application without requiring the user to manually enter the information. The system automatically detects and stores updates to information and builds a database of forms and electronic documents for future use.
US10146849B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing search results. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query. A plurality of search results responsive to the query are identified. The search results are analyzed to determine that at least a first search result is associated with a first answer box topic. The search results are provided along with an answer box precursor for the first answer box topic.
US10146847B2
A system and method for managing a phone number-based Social Network Service (SNS) account. When a phone number change schedule information is received from the user terminal, a phone number change schedule message to user terminals included in a friend list of the corresponding account confirms when authentication of the new SNS account is requested from the user terminal, whether or not the account is an account of the changed phone number for the new authentication request based on the previously transmitted phone number change schedule information. If the account is an account of the changed phone number, a phone number change notification message is transmitted to user terminals in a friend list of the account of the changed phone number. Friends linked to the user of the SNS account are correctly informed of information on the change of the phone number.
US10146839B2
A method includes executing, via a processor, a document-oriented search based on a query in an index of documents to generate a set of document results, each document associated with at least one potential expert. The method includes analyzing the document results to produce a list of potential experts. The method includes calculating an expertise score for each potential expert based on a calculated content score and metadata score for each potential expert. The method includes calculating an evidence diversity score for each potential expert. The method includes calculating a confidence score for each potential expert based on a diversity-constrained content score and a diversity-constrained metadata score for each potential expert. The method includes displaying a list of potential experts with associated confidence scores.
US10146836B2
Systems and methods for reclaiming and reusing primary key values are provided. According to one embodiment, multiple unused primary key values of a database application are reclaimed by a key generator by locating a gap in a sequence of a primary key column of the database application. Reuse of the reclaimed unused primary key values is facilitated by the key generator by returning a reclaimed unused primary key value responsive to a request from the database system for a new primary key value for the primary key column.
US10146833B1
A fleet of query accelerator nodes is established for a data store. A particular node determines a write throughput limit for back-end writes from the fleet to the data store. A pool of write-back threads is established at the node. When a write request is received at the node, an entry is added to a selected partition of a write-back journal, and a write completion response is provided to the requester without applying the write to the data store. A write-back thread from the pool eventually schedules the back-end write.
US10146829B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for generating data describing context clusters and context cluster probabilities, wherein each context cluster includes query inputs based on the input context for each of the query inputs and the content described by each query input, and each context cluster probability indicates a probability that at a query input that belongs to the context cluster will be selected by the user, receiving, from a user device, an indication of a user event that includes data indicating a context of the user device, selecting as a selected context cluster, based on the context cluster probabilities for each of the context clusters and the context of the user device, a context cluster for selection input by the user device, and providing, to the user device, data that causes the user device to display a context cluster selection input that indicates the selected context cluster for user selection.
US10146825B2
Method for providing a way to verify the integrity of a document. The invention is characterized in that the method comprises the following steps: a) publishing the document with a visibly embedded piece of information; b) providing a communication channel over which a third party can send a depiction of the published document to the central server; c) accepting said depiction of the published document in the central server, and finding, in the central server and based upon the piece of information, the document; and d) if the document was found in the central server, communicating to the third party that document itself and/or information pertinent to that document. The invention further relate to a system for performing such a method.
US10146824B2
A system includes acquisition of executable code of a database job, generation of a definition of the database job in a database repository, the definition of the database job comprising metadata specifying the executable code of the database job and a schedule for executing the executable code, association of a user with the database job, and activation of the database job.
US10146815B2
One or more systems and/or methods of generating a query-goal-mission structure for a set of queries are provided. A set of queries may be evaluated to identify query information for the queries within the set of queries. The queries may be evaluated as query pairs to determine common goal probabilities (e.g., likelihood two queries correspond to a particular goal, such as to identify vacation planning information) for the query pairs. Responsive to the common goal probabilities for the query pairs exceeding a goal probability threshold, the query pairs may be grouped into goal clusters. The goal clusters may be evaluated as goal cluster pairs to determine common mission probabilities. Responsive to the common mission probabilities for the goal cluster pairs exceeding a mission probability threshold, the goal clusters may be grouped into mission clusters. The mission clusters and the goal clusters may be utilized to generate a query-goal-mission structure.
US10146799B2
A method, system, and computer program product for saving events information in image metadata are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A first event is detected at a first time, using a processor and a memory in a device. Information related to the first event is collected. At a second time, the capturing of a first image is detected, the second time being later than the first time. The information related to the first event is associated with the first image as first metadata of the first image.
US10146798B2
A method for automatically managing a plurality of slides associated with a slide-deck is provided. The method may include adding the plurality of slides to a computing system. The method may also include analyzing at least one slide within the plurality of slides. The method may further include generating a list including at least one key word or at least one tag based on the analyzing. The method may include matching the at least one key word or the at least one tag against at least one key word or at least one tag saved on a presentation server. The method may also include fetching at least one slide or at least one slide-deck from the presentation server based on the matching. The method may further include displaying the at least one fetched slide or the at least one fetched slide-deck on a user interface.
US10146792B1
Computer-implemented methods and systems for implementing smart contract modules on a decentralized network are disclosed.
US10146791B2
A processing device receives a request for access to a source file that is stored in an initial location in a file system. The processing device determines that the source file is associated with a migration to a new location. The processing device reads the source file from the initial location if the request is a read request and writes to the source file at the initial location and writes to a destination file at the new location if the request is a write request.
US10146789B1
Methods, systems and apparatus for identifying and utilizing content synchronization information are described. Methods for creating and utilizing a synchronization file that can be used to notify users when synchronization availability exists, and to identify ways to repair synchronization unavailability are described. The synchronization file includes a complete set of individual content elements that make up a content item, such as a book, where each content element has an indication whether play-back of an audio version of the content item can be synchronized with the presentation of a corresponding text version of the content item. Methods, systems and apparatus are al'so disclosed for providing the synchronization availability information to the user in a manner that enables the user to increase the benefits of synchronized presentation of the content item.
US10146787B2
Techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate the replication of data between storage nodes. According to various embodiments, a request to provide a data chunk to a target storage node may be received at a source data storage node. A reference data chunk may be identified based on fingerprint information associated with the requested data chunk. The reference data chunk may be stored on the target storage node. The reference data chunk and the requested data chunk may each include a first data portion. Data chunk reconstruction information may be transmitted from the source data storage node to the target data storage node. The data chunk reconstruction information may identify the reference data chunk. The data chunk reconstruction information may include data difference information for constructing the requested data chunk at the target data storage node based on the reference data chunk.
US10146769B2
A network system coordinates users who provide geographical location-based services to users. Users can provide textual feedback regarding the services provided by other users. To create a safe user experience and encourage users to continue using the services, the network system determines safety risks of the users by analyzing the textual feedback from users along with metadata associated with the textual feedback. For example, the network system determines a safety score for a user based on classifying textual feedback according to different types of safety risk related to topics such as vehicle operation or interpersonal behavior. The network system can train classifiers using feature vectors derived from textual feedback previously received from users of the network system, which may be labeled in a supervised training process. The network system may provide interventions to high-risk users to help mitigate their safety risk and prevent safety incidents from occurring.
US10146767B2
Automatic text skimming using lexical chains may be provided. First, at least one lexical chain may be created from an electronic document. Next, a list of positions within the electronic document may be created. The positions may include where at least one concept represented by one of the at least one lexical chain is mentioned. In addition, a list of the position where the at least one concept is mentioned may be assembled. A selection of at least one concept may be received from the list.
US10146761B2
A server includes a template data store that stores card templates for application cards and a processing device configured to: receive a card request having information that indicates an application and a particular state of the application; identify the application and the particular state of the application indicated in the request; query the template data store for card templates that correspond with the application and the particular state of the application indicated in the request; in response to the query, receive a card template that corresponds with the particular state of the application indicated in the request; determine a color scheme associated with the application indicated in the request; apply the color scheme associated with the application to the card template; generate a data container that represents a card object, the card object including information regarding the card template; and transmit the card object via the network communication device.
US10146759B2
A computing device includes a digital input system that allows freehand digital inputs to be received (e.g., via movement of a pen, stylus, finger, etc.). The digital input system provides functionality allowing applications to receive digital inputs from a user and control the display of data based on the digital inputs. The digital input system receives digital input from a user and analyzes the digital input to collect input data for the digital input. As the digital input is received, the input data is made available to an application, allowing the application to operate on the input data (e.g., modify the input data and/or generate additional input data) and provide the operated-on input data to the digital input system. The digital input system then proceeds to control the display of data based on the operated-on input data.
US10146753B2
Techniques are disclosed for performing visual regression testing for a software application. In one embodiment, a regression testing tool identifies a first collection of web pages from a first version of the application, and captures an image of each identified web page. The regression testing tool identifies, for one or more of the identified web pages, a corresponding web page in a second collection of web pages from a second version of the application, and captures an image of the corresponding web pages. The regression testing tool identifies differences in pixel values for images in the first collection and images in the second collection to determine differences between the image of at least one web page in the first collection and the image of the corresponding web page. The regression testing tool generates an image providing a visualization of the one or more differences.
US10146744B2
An information processing terminal device includes: an acquiring unit acquiring image data; a detecting unit detecting a posture of the information processing terminal device; a generating unit generating display image data based on the image data acquired in the acquiring unit according to the posture of the terminal device detected by the detecting unit; and a displaying unit displaying the display image data generated by the generating unit on a display unit. If the posture of the terminal device is changed, the generating unit generates the display image data according to the changed posture of the terminal device. If the posture of the terminal device is changed during the generation of the image data by the generating unit, the generating unit does not generate the display image data according to the changed posture of the terminal device, until the generation of the display image data is completed.
US10146731B2
A CAN module comprising a bit duration compensation component arranged to generate a compensated transmit command signal for controlling the driver component to drive a dominant state on the CAN bus. The compensated transmit command signal comprises dominant bits of a compensated-bit duration Tbit_cp=Tbit_Tx+tc, wherein tc comprises a compensation offset derived at least partly from a difference between a transmit-bit duration of a digital transmit command signal and a receive-bit duration of a received data signal.
US10146724B2
An example switchable power adapter may include power circuitry and an interface coupled to the power circuitry. An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) may be coupled to the power circuitry and the interface. The ASIC may be configured to receive a signal transmitted by an information handling system through the interface; determine whether a delay period within the signal satisfies a delay period condition; and cause the power circuitry to alter an output voltage level provided to the information handling system through the interface. The interface may comprise at least a Universal Serial Bus (USB) receptacle.
US10146717B2
A device is provided in which messages are received from a backplane through backplane connectors. Switching circuitry identifies which messages received from the backplane are intended for the operational circuitry of the device and interprets the input/output protocol of such messages while returning messages not intended for the operational circuitry to the backplane. The switching circuitry is removable from the device independently of the backplane connectors, allowing it to be changed for use with different backplane protocols without affecting other device elements.
US10146706B2
A data security system includes a first computer system including: a memory for containing data, and a processing unit connected to the memory for locking and unlocking the memory, the processing unit including: a first identification unit for providing a first identification, a modifying unit connected to the first identification unit to provide a modified number, and a checking unit for receiving the modified number; and the first computer system connectible to a second computer system, the second computer system including: a second identification unit for providing a second identification, and an application for receiving the second identification to provide a further modified number; and the first computer system connectible to the checking unit to have the processing unit unlock the memory when the modified number and the further modified number are the same and lock the memory when the modified number and the further modified number are different.
US10146698B2
A method and apparatus for reducing dynamic power consumption in a multi-thread content-addressable memory (CAM) is described. The disclosed apparatus includes a first input configured to receive a first virtual address corresponding to a first thread, a second input configured to receive a second virtual address corresponding to a second thread, a register bank including a plurality of registers each configured to store a binary word mapped to one of a plurality of physical addresses, a first comparator bank including a first plurality of comparators each coupled to one of the plurality of registers in a fully-associative configuration and configured to determine whether a first match is present, and a second comparator bank including a second plurality of comparators each coupled to one of the plurality of registers in a fully-associative configuration and configured to determine whether a second match is present.
US10146687B2
Embodiments of techniques and systems for execution of code with multiple page tables are described. In embodiments, a heterogenous system utilizing multiple processors may use multiple page tables to selectively execute appropriate ones of different versions of executable code. The system may be configured to support use of function pointers to virtual memory addresses. In embodiments, a virtual memory address may be mapped, such as during a code fetch. In embodiments, when a processor seeks to perform a code fetch using the function pointer, a page table associated with the processor may be used to translate the virtual memory address to a physical memory address where code executable by the processor may be found. Usage of multiple page tables may allow the system to support function pointers while utilizing only one virtual memory address for each function that is pointed to. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10146683B2
A method for releasing storage space in a space-efficient secondary volume includes placing a first lock on a free-space data structure stored on the space-efficient secondary volume. The method reads a copy of the free-space data structure into memory while the first lock is in place, and releases the first lock. The method then analyzes the copy to determine which storage elements in the space-efficient secondary volume are not being used. The method then places a second lock on the free-space data structure and, while the second lock is in place, analyzes the free-space data structure to determine which storage elements had their usage status change during analysis of the copy. The method then releases storage elements in the space-efficient secondary volume that are not being used and releases the second lock. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US10146682B2
A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for improving non-uniform memory access are disclosed. For example, the method divides a plurality of stream processing jobs into a plurality of groups of stream processing jobs to match a topology of a non-uniform memory access platform. The method sets a parameter in an operating system kernel of the non-uniform memory access platform to favor an allocation of a local memory, and defines a plurality of processor sets. The method binds one of the plurality of groups to one of the plurality of processor sets, and run the one group of stream processing jobs on the one processor set.
US10146673B2
In an example embodiment, a method of resolving source code changes is provided. It is determined whether there are any portions of source code dependent on a changed portion of source code. Then, for each portion of source code including the changed portion of source code and portions of source code dependent on the changed portion of source code, one or more pieces of metadata for the portion of source code are obtained, a danger score for the portion of source code is calculated based on the one or more pieces of metadata, an execution rule corresponding to the danger score is retrieved, and the execution rule is executed, causing a command to be executed on an external run-time component.
US10146670B2
A fix defining at least one unique change to at least a portion of a computer program can be identified. The fix can be applied to the computer program to generate a test version of the computer program As each of the unique changes is applied, program code unites in the computer program changed can be identified. A number of test cases available to test the program code units changed can be determined by matching each of the program code units changed to corresponding data entries. A test readiness index indicating a readiness of the fix to be tested can be generated. The test readiness index can be based on a number of unique changes to the computer program defined by the fix and a number of test cases available to test the unique changes to the computer program defined by the fix. The test readiness index can be output.
US10146667B2
Example embodiments relate to generalized snapshots based on multiple partial snapshots. An example method may include accessing multiple partial snapshots, each from a different client. The method may include creating a generalized snapshot from the multiple partial snapshots. The generalized snapshot includes multiple target pixels, and the color of each of the multiple target pixels may be determined by considering colors of multiple source pixels, each from a different partial snapshot.
US10146664B2
A test environment as described herein allows for testing webpages prior to deployment to a website. More particularly, a virtual test environment allows a developer to virtually test webpages instantiated from representations of webpages stored in a repository. In an example of testing, upon a change to a webpage of a website, one or more virtual test environments may be instantiated to test the webpage and associated webpages. In an example of test environment functionality, the test environment may generate templates representing webpages from a base template representing a set of features common to the webpages. Furthermore, a centralized computer may be used to coordinate templates representing webpages by, for example, managing naming. The centralized computer may further track virtual test environments. In a further example of test environment functionality, templates representing webpages may be generated from webpage source code of the webpages.
US10146659B2
A large event log replay method and system are provided. The large event log replay method includes counting event logs generated in a process before a next process performed subsequent to the process and maintaining a log file that records the event logs in a storage system, verifying a log file corresponding to a process included in an access command for a log replay page from the storage system in response to the access command being generated, and generating a plurality of split log files by dividing the verified log file into a set size and acquiring the plurality of split log files from the storage system.
US10146654B2
Disclosed aspects relate to controlling an electronic circuit having multiple units with at least one signal input each. A set of signal resources is determined by tracing back a dependency tree for each unit signal input until an endpoint representing a signal resource is reached. For each signal resource in the set a resource manager may be provided in dependence of its signal type. That resource manager may be assigned a set of signal inputs comprising each signal input in the circuit which was traced back to its respective signal resource. The resource manager is configured for controlling the signal resource. A control device may be provided to receive technical implementation requirements for one or more of the resource managers, detect conflicting requirements received for the one or more resource managers, and enable or disable one or more of the resource managers in response to the detected conflicting requirements.
US10146642B1
Methods and apparatus are provided for fault resilient distributed computing using a continuous data protection feature of virtual machines. An exemplary method by a compute node for executing a process of a distributed application comprises providing a virtual machine having continuous data protection to store a copy of a state of the process in a performance storage tier; and providing a virtual machine to intercept messages of the process and to store a copy of the intercepted messages in a message log, wherein the process communicates with a plurality of other processes executing on other compute nodes, and wherein the plurality of processes employ asynchronous checkpointing. The process optionally communicates with the other processes in the distributed application using one or more virtual networks. The state is optionally moved from the performance storage tier to a capacity storage tier when a new state is stored. The stored state and/or the message log can be purged using a stored epoch counter, or when an explicit checkpoint routine has completed.
US10146622B2
A method begins by receiving a storage request to store one or more portions of a data object. The method continues by determining whether the one or more portions are stored within a dispersed storage network memory. When stored, the method continues by determining a retrieval demand for each portion. When the retrieval demand for a first portion is below a first threshold, the method continues by indicating that an existing copy of the first portion will be used for retrieval requests of the first portion. When the retrieval demand is above the first threshold, the method continues by copying the existing copy to create a first portion copy and indicating that the existing copy will be used for retrieval requests from a first group of user computing devices and indicating that the first portion copy will be used for retrieval requests from a second group of user computing devices.
US10146610B2
Systems and methods for agentless remediation and recovery. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a Central Processing Unit (CPU); a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) coupled to the CPU; a logic controller coupled to the CPU; and a memory coupled to the logic controller, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the logic controller, cause the IHS to: during a first stage, check an operational state of a plurality of hardware components within the IHS in the absence of any involvement by the CPU or the BIOS; and during a second stage following the first stage, identify a failed hardware component amongst the plurality of hardware components in the absence of any involvement by the CPU or the BIOS.
US10146608B2
During system initialization, each data buffer device and/or memory device on a memory module is configured with a unique (at least to the module) device identification number. In order to access a single device (rather than multiple buffers and/or memory devices), a target identification number is written to all of the devices using a command bus connected to all of the data buffer devices or memory devices, respectively. The devices whose respective device identification numbers do not match the target identification number are configured to ignore future command bus transactions (at least until the debug mode is turned off.) The selected device that is configured with a device identification number matching the target identification number is configured to respond to command bus transactions.
US10146594B2
Embodiment pertain to facilitation of live migration of a virtual machine in a network system. The network system includes a first host, a second host, a first appliance for providing service to the first host, a second appliance for providing service to the second host, and a third appliance. At least one virtual machine is disposed on the first host and has an ongoing first network flow. The first appliance has generated state information about the first network flow. During the migration of the at least one virtual machine to the second host, the third appliance obtains a copy of the state information about the first network flow; and the third appliance takes over from the first appliance to serve the first network flow during the migration of the at least one virtual machine, until the first network flow is terminated.
US10146585B2
Ensuring the fair utilization of system resources using workload based, time-independent scheduling, including: receiving an I/O request associated with an entity; determining whether an amount of system resources required to service the I/O request is greater than an amount of available system resources in a storage system; responsive to determining that the amount of system resources required to service the I/O request is greater than the amount of available system resources in the storage system: queuing the I/O request in an entity-specific queue for the entity; detecting that additional system resources in the storage system have become available; and responsive to detecting that additional system resources in the storage system have become available, issuing an I/O request from an entity-specific queue for an entity that has a highest priority among entities with non-empty entity-specific queues.
US10146575B2
Methods, systems and computer-readable mediums for task scheduling on an accelerated processing device (APD) are provided. In an embodiment, a method comprises: enqueuing one or more tasks in a memory storage module based on the APD; using a software-based enqueuing module; and dequeuing the one or more tasks from the memory storage module using a hardware-based command processor, wherein the command processor forwards the one or more tasks to the shader cote.
US10146573B2
A method and an apparatus for batch processing of data between processors is provided. The method includes transmitting batch processing target information of at least one application to a second processor, by a first processor, transmitting, to the first processor, batch data generated to include at least a part of data acquired using one or more sensors based on the batch processing target information, by the second processor, and providing the received batch data received from the second processor to the at least one application, by the first processor.
US10146569B2
A discovery process to determine the software products deployed on machines of a computing environment. A machine obtains at least one of a deployment image or a software catalog to be used in determining products deployed on the machine. The deployment image and the software catalog are generated based on scanning a template used to create the machine. The deployment image includes information of one or more products in the template and the software catalog includes additional information for at least one product of the one or more products. The machine uses at least one of the deployment image or the software catalog to discover products deployed on the machine.
US10146568B2
A processor of a computing system receives a message while a virtual machine that is hosted by the computer system is asleep. The processor determines whether to wake the virtual machine in view of a parameter of the message.
US10146565B2
A method for executing a program includes: storing, in a table associated with each address of a specialized code of a parameterized function, a value of each of specialized parameters for generating the specialized code, and each time the address of a specialized code must be modified, deleted from, or added to the table, a microprocessor generates and records in a memory a search routine written in machine language of the microprocessor, this search routine containing, coded as constants, each address and each specialized parameter value stored in the table, such that the search routine does not include any reading operation of the value of a specialized parameter or of the address of a specialized code outside the continuous address range in which this search routine is recorded, and the microprocessor runs this recorded search routine directly.
US10146561B2
A processor-based device (e.g., a wireless device) may include a processor and a semiconductor nonvolatile memory to directly execute an application (e.g., an execute-in-place application) using an associated database. Within a flash memory, in one embodiment, an executable program may be separately stored in a non-fragmented manner from a resident database that includes program management information for use in an execution that does not involve a random access memory, saving time and resources.
US10146554B2
Systems and methods for specifying extended descriptor information in a device accessed using a communication interface are disclosed. One method includes transmitting a request to a device from a host computing system, and receiving an extended capability descriptor identifying to the host computing system at least one extended descriptor set stored on the device. The extended capability descriptor identifies a minimum operating system version able to support a corresponding extended descriptor set.
US10146546B2
An apparatus including first and second reservation stations. The first reservation station dispatches a load micro instruction, and indicates on a hold bus if the load micro instruction is a specified load micro instruction directed to retrieve an operand from a prescribed resource other than on-core cache memory. The second reservation station is coupled to the hold bus, and dispatches one or more younger micro instructions therein that depend on the load micro instruction for execution after a number of clock cycles following dispatch of the first load micro instruction, and if it is indicated on the hold bus that the load micro instruction is the specified load micro instruction, the second reservation station is configured to stall dispatch of the one or more younger micro instructions until the load micro instruction has retrieved the operand. The resources include an advanced programmable interrupt controller (APIC), configured to perform interrupt operations.
US10146543B2
A conversion system that converts a standard executable program according to a predetermined ISA into a custom executable program executable by a general purpose processor. The processor includes a PEU that is programmable to execute a UDI. The conversion system includes a PEU programming tool that converts a functional description of a processing operation to be performed by the PEU of the processor into programming information for the PEU to perform the processing operation in response to the UDI. A converter converts the standard executable program into the custom executable program and includes an optimization routine that replaces a portion of the standard executable program with the specified UDI and that inserts the UDI into the custom executable program, and that further inserts a UDI load instruction that specifies the UDI and a location of the programming information in the custom executable program.
US10146520B1
A computing device configured for updating a running application is described. The computing device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory. The computing device executes an old application. The computing device also renames an old application file that is currently in use. Furthermore, the computing device stores a new application file in the same folder as the old application file. The computing device additionally determines whether a new application is set up successfully. The computing device further executes the new application if the new application is set up successfully.
US10146518B1
A software package retention system that uses pre-defined rules to retain software packages based on how the packages are used, and not merely based on a package's date/time of creation (age) or type. A retention policy server in the system integrates with the build, deployments, and artifact storage systems of a software supplier/vendor to ensure appropriate retentions are met for audit and regulatory compliance and unneeded artifacts or packages are purged to save storage space and lower operational costs. The server has the capability to monitor software deployments to the customer and to developer test environments, and to make rule-based decisions on when and how to run retention policy clean-up jobs and on what packages. With increasing reliance on frequent build and release of software packages across the software industry, package management post-release using the rule-based retention policy provides an efficient and cost-effective solution for legal compliance with retention requirements.
US10146512B1
A system and method for feature switching in software applications. A feature switching action (FSA) is received and at least one user device is identified based on the received FSA. At least one feature switching instruction (FSI) is generated based on the received FSA and the FSI is sent to at least one of the identified user devices. A feature switching instruction response (FSIR) is received from each user device that received a FSI and a feature switching action response (FSAR) is generated based on the received FSIRs.
US10146508B2
A random number generator includes a photon source and one or more photon detectors of the SPAD type (311) configured to detect a photon flow equal to λ, wherein the photons are generated by the photon source. The random number generator furthermore includes an electronic sampler. The electronic sampler is configured in such a way as to detect the arrival time t of a photon incident on each SPAD photon detector (311) for each one of the observation windows Tw, and are also configured in such a way as to convert the arrival time t into a binary sequence. In the generator of the invention the photon source and the electronic sampler are configured in such a way that the product λ*Tw is lower than or equal to 0.01.
US10146500B2
A transform-based codec and method with energy smoothing for mitigating vector quantization errors (such as “birdies”) during the encoding process. Embodiments of the codec and method use an encoder to apply in combination an orthogonal transformation and a vector permutation to frequency transform coefficients. In some embodiments the transformation is performed first followed by the permutation and in other embodiments the order is reversed. The order used is reversed at the decoder. A smoothing parameter containing the level of energy smoothing to be applied is passed from the encoder to the decoder and used by both to compute a transform matrix and an inverse transform matrix. In some embodiments the transform matrix is a fraction Hadamard matrix that is invertible, energy preserving, controllable, and stable.
US10146493B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for starting a screen of a mobile device including a first screen and a second screen, the method including: detecting a screen starting operation; detecting and obtaining at least one of a first measurement parameter corresponding to the first screen, and a second measurement parameter corresponding to the second screen; determining a screen to be started, from the first screen and the second screen according to the detected at least one of the first measurement parameter and the second measurement parameter; and starting the determined screen. The embodiments of the disclosure enable the screen to be started adaptively to thereby avoid the user from operationally selecting the screen manually so as to improve the convenience in starting the screen.
US10146487B2
An information processing system includes first and second information processing apparatuses. The first information processing apparatus transmits a request for status notification to the second information processing apparatus, which transmits a response of the status notification to the first information processing apparatus. The second information processing apparatus transmits a header of the response to the first information processing apparatus when receiving the request for the status notification from the first information processing apparatus, and transmits a part of a body of the response to the first information processing apparatus in response to the occurrence of a status change to be reported in the second information apparatus. The part of the body includes information on the status change. The second information processing apparatus transmits a last part of the body of the response to the first information processing apparatus when the status notification becomes unnecessary.
US10146478B1
Techniques are disclosed for managing access to shared computing resources in a computing system which include representing resources as objects and managing access to those objects using the construct of a resource instance manager. A set of resource instance managers respond to all commands requesting access to a set of respective shared resources. Access to each shared resource is managed by a unique resource instance manager for that resource which maintains a consistent state for that shared resource. When commands are designed according to an appropriate model and processed by a set of resource instance managers disclosed herein, multiple processes may execute in parallel without causing deadlocks or introducing data corruption.
US10146476B2
According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a first interface, a first memory, a wireless antenna, a second memory and a second interface. The first interface is capable to electrically connect to a first host device. The first interface communicates with the first host device in accordance with an SD interface. The first memory includes a nonvolatile memory which operates based on power supplied through the first interface from the first host device. The wireless antenna generates power based on a radio wave from a second host device. The second memory is capable to operate based on power generated by the wireless antenna. The second memory has a memory capacity lower than the first memory. The second interface is capable to operate based on power generated by the wireless antenna. The second interface is connected to the second memory and the first interface.
US10146473B2
Systems and methods for notifying one or more observers of one or more state changes are provided. For instance, at least one subject can be configured to write data to a buffer in a shared memory space. One or more observers can have an associated notification group that includes one or more buffer identifiers corresponding to a buffer in the shared memory space. A scheduler can be configured to detect one or more state changes associated with one or more buffers in the shared memory space and to provide an update notification to at least one observer based at least in part on the one or more detected state changes.
US10146470B2
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for asynchronous replication. The mechanism creates a record in a write log in a host computing device for a write command and marking the record as uncommitted. The mechanism maintains a copy of data to be written by the write command at the host computing device. The mechanism issues the write command from the host computing device to a primary storage controller at the primary storage site. Responsive to receiving an acknowledgement from the primary storage controller that the data have been written to the primary storage site, the mechanism marks the record as unreplicated. Responsive to receiving an acknowledgement from the primary storage controller that the data have been replicated to a secondary storage site, the mechanism erases the record in the write log and deleting the copy of data.
US10146463B2
A virtual system on chip (VSoC) is an implementation of a machine that allows for sharing of underlying physical machine resources between different virtual systems. A method or corresponding apparatus of the present invention relates to a method that includes a plurality of virtual systems on chip and a configuring unit. The configuring unit is arranged to configure resources on the method for the plurality of virtual systems on chip as a function of an identification tag assigned to each virtual system on chip.
US10146458B2
A method includes receiving, by a read threshold number of storage units of a dispersed storage network (DSN), the read threshold number of read requests regarding the read threshold number of encoded data slices of a set of encoded data slices. The method further includes determining, by each storage unit of the read threshold number of storage units, whether the storage unit is capable of processing a respective read request. When a particular storage unit is not capable of processing the respective read request, the method further includes sending, by the particular storage unit, a proxy read request to another storage unit that is not in the read threshold number of storage units. The method further includes determining, by the other storage unit, whether the other storage unit is capable of processing the proxy read request and, when it is, processing the proxy read request.
US10146451B2
A memory controller includes a data modulator and a data demodulator. The data modulator is configured to translate original data into modified data according to a conversion operation and write the modified data to the array of memory locations. The modified data generated by the conversion operation reduces a likelihood of the original data suffering a read disturb in the array of memory locations.
US10146440B2
Provided are an apparatus, system and method for offloading collision check operations in a memory storage device to a collision check unit. A collision check unit includes a collision table including logical addresses for pending Input/Output (I/O) requests. An I/O request is received to a target logical address addressing a block of data in the non-volatile memory. The logical address is sent to the collision check unit. Resources to transfer data with respect to the transfer buffer to data for the I/O request are allocated in parallel while the collision check unit is determining whether the collision table includes the target logical address. The collision check unit determines whether the collision table includes the target logical address and returns indication of whether the collision table includes the target logical address indicating that current data for the target logical address is already in the transfer buffer.
US10146436B1
Efficiently storing low priority data in high priority storage devices is described. A system receives a request from an application to store a data chunk received from the application. The system determines a priority of the application. The system executes a write command to store the data chunk to a high priority storage device. If the application is low priority and the identifier of the received data chunk is a duplicate of any of the identifiers of the data chunks that were previously stored in the high priority storage device, the system stores, into the high priority storage device, the received data chunk as a low priority reference to a data chunk that was previously stored in the high priority storage device.
US10146430B2
A mobile terminal device includes a touch panel where a specified input operation is performed with an indicator, an input detection unit, and an operation determination unit. The input detection unit detects the pattern of the input operation based on the position of the indicator on the touch panel, and decreases the frequency of execution of processing arranged to detect the input operation performed on the touch panel when an input operation performed on the touch panel is not detected over a specified time period. When the pattern of the input operation is detected in the case where the execution frequency of the processing arranged to detect the input operation is low, the operation determination unit causes a controlled unit determined to be an operation target in relation to the pattern of the input operation to execute a specified operation.
US10146429B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method for recognizing characters that are input through touch strokes on a touch-sensitive sensor (e.g., a touch-sensitive display screen or a touch-sensitive surface) of a device (e.g., a mobile device, a remote control, a trackpad, etc.). In some embodiments, the sensor has a space-constrained area for receiving the touch input. In some embodiments, the method places no limitations on where the user can write in the space provided by the device. As such, successive characters might not follow each other in the space. In fact, later characters might overlap earlier characters or they might appear before earlier characters.
US10146420B2
An electronic device includes a display device and a processor. The display device includes a touch panel. The processor (i) generates a graph image to be displayed on the display device, (ii) when the generated graph image is displayed on the display device, acquires an object specified by a user, the object being contained in the graph image, and (iii) when the user performs a touch operation on the displayed graph image, changes a display style of the graph image according to a type of the acquired object and displays the graph image in the changed display style.
US10146418B2
This disclosure describes, generally, methods and systems for implementing in-lane exception handling. The method includes displaying, on a user terminal display device, a first user interface (UI) configured to display application data in organized rows and columns, receiving, by a data management system, updates and/or edits to the application data, and calculating, by the data management system, the updated and/or edited application data. The method further includes analyzing, by the data management system, the updates and/or edits to determine one or more of associated errors, warnings, and exceptions, and displaying, within the first UI, a graphical representation for each of the errors, warnings, and exceptions in the row and/or column of the application data where the error, warning, or exception has occurred.
US10146416B2
Systems, methods, and protocols for sensory memes are disclosed. Such a system can include: a computer processor and a sensory module configured to execute on the computer processor to enable the computer processor to: receive, from a first computing device, a sensory meme including multiple sensory signals, the sensory meme defined based on instructions from a first user; provide the sensory meme for playback by a second computing device, the playback involving concurrent output of the sensory signals, the second computing device receiving user input in response to playback of the sensory meme; receive a request from the second computing device after playback of the sensory meme; and provide content to the second computing device in response to the second request.
US10146412B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for providing information by an electronic device comprises recognizing at least one object from an image displayed on a screen of the electronic device, displaying at least one primary information item associated with the recognized object, and when at least one of the at least one primary information item is selected, displaying a secondary information item associated with the selected primary information item on the screen. Other various embodiments are also provided herein.
US10146407B2
An input device, such as a multifunction straight edge or a keyboard, has a recognizable contact shape when placed on a touchscreen display surface of a computing device. The contact shape of the input device can be a defined pattern of contact points, and a location and orientation of the input device on the touchscreen display surface is determinable from the defined pattern of the contact points. The input device includes an interaction module that interfaces with a companion module of the computing device. The companion module can initiate a display of an object responsive to the input device being recognized on the touchscreen display surface. The interaction module can receive a user input to the input device, and communicate the user input to the companion module of the computing device to modify the display of the object on the touchscreen display surface.
US10146402B2
A user terminal device including a screen processor which creates home screen divided into a plurality of spaces provided with different features from each other, a storage which stores data and programs that can be matched with at least one space, a display which displays one space from among the plurality of spaces, and a controller which controls the display to convert the space displayed on the display to another space according to a user's manipulation is provided. The controller controls the screen processor to constitute the plurality of spaces by using data and programs matched with the plurality of spaces, respectively.
US10146399B2
According to one embodiment, a plurality of spatial publishing objects (SPOs) is provided in a multidimensional space in a user interface. Each of the plurality of spatial publishing objects is associated with digital media data from at least one digital media source. The user interface has a field for the digital media data. A user is provided via the user interface with a user presence that is optionally capable of being represented in the user interface relative to the plurality of spatial publishing objects. The digital media data associated with the at least one spatial publishing object are combined to generate a media output corresponding to the combined digital media data.
US10146394B2
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented data processing method comprises, in a collaborative electronic information management system that is hosted using a collaboration computer, establishing operation of a plurality of event listener units, wherein each of the event listener units is configured to communicate with or listen for a plurality of application events that have been generated by a particular corresponding external application; determining that one or more of the application events relate to a particular content item from among a plurality of content items that are managed in the system; generating and causing displaying, as a part of a graphical user interface of the system for a user account associated with a user computer, a set of notifications comprising one or more first notifications generated from the system and one or more second notifications that are based upon the application events, in association with data identifying the particular content item.
US10146393B2
A control circuit stores a plurality of radiation treatment plan states as pertain to optimization of a given radiation treatment plan. The control circuit detects a user's selection of a particular one of the plurality of radiation treatment plan states and responsively displays dose distribution information as corresponds to that selected state. The control circuit can automatically store at least some of those states and/or can provide the user with an opportunity to selectively save a particular state. The control circuit can provide the user with an opportunity to modify optimization objectives such that at least two of the states correspond to different optimization objectives for the radiation treatment plan. The control circuit can also display a radiation treatment plan state selector to facilitate the user selecting the particular state. An individual selector for each state can provide a visual indication of merit as pertains to each such state.
US10146383B2
An input device is operable to detect input. The input device is a deflection based capacitive sensing input device. Deflection of a metal frame of the input device causes a change in capacitance that is used to control a function of an electrical device. The input device appears invisible because it is made of the same material as the housing it is contained in. Invisible backlit holes may make the input selectively visible or invisible to the user.
US10146376B2
A touch-sensitive apparatus operates by light frustration (FTIR) and comprises a light transmissive panel that defines a front surface and a rear surface, a light emitter optically connected to the panel so as to generate light that propagates by total internal reflection inside the panel, and a light detector optically connected to the panel to receive propagating light from the emitter. The emitter is a VCSEL array including a number of VCSELs driven to collectively form one light emitter, and a light coupling mechanism connecting the emitter to the panel is configured to give light from a plurality of the VCSELs in the VCSEL array substantially the same spread in the panel.
US10146370B2
In a touch panel device, an output control unit controls a process of outputting touch information acquired by a sensing unit and a touch detection unit of a touch sensor panel to host equipment, where the information indicates presence or absence and a coordinate of a touch of an indicator to the touch sensor panel. A state sensing unit senses an operation state of the sensing unit or the touch detection unit. A state restoration unit restores the sensing unit or the touch detection unit in the abnormal state to a normal state, based on a detection result of the state sensing unit. Upon detecting an abnormal state in the state sensing unit, an output control unit stops an output of the touch information to the host equipment for a fixed period of time.
US10146367B2
A synchronization method for a touch signal processing system is provided. The touch signal processing system includes a first and a second detecting unit. The method includes the following steps. First, the second detecting unit sends a sync start signal to the first detecting unit and then switches to an idle mode. After receiving the sync start signal, the first detecting unit sends a wake-up signal through a first hardware pin to the second detecting unit. The first detecting unit is then put on hold for a predetermined delay time. After receiving the wake-up signal through a second hardware pin, the second detecting unit switches to a working mode. The first detecting unit which has been put on hold for the predetermined delay time and the second detecting unit that is in the working mode respectively drive one or more analog-to-digital converters, so as to detect touch signals.
US10146365B2
According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function performs image display and touch detection in a time division manner in one frame period. The display device includes: a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix in a display region in which an image is displayed; a display function layer having an image display function for displaying an image in the display region; a plurality of touch detection electrodes opposed to the pixel electrodes; and a detection unit that performs noise detection. The one frame period includes a plurality of display operation periods for displaying the image and a plurality of detection operation periods for performing at least touch detection. The detection unit performs the noise detection in a period that is included in the detection operation period and shorter than one of the detection operation periods in the one frame period.
US10146352B2
A pressure-detecting sensor that includes a piezoelectric sensor, a rectangular plate member, and an attaching member. The piezoelectric sensor is attached to the plate member via the attaching member so that the piezoelectric sensor is located in the vicinity of an end of the plate member in the longitudinal direction of the plate member, and such that the longitudinal direction of the piezoelectric sensor is parallel to the transverse direction of the plate member. The attaching member is composed of a sticky agent having an elastic constant of 106 Pa or lower. The piezoelectric sensor has a shape having aspect ratio of 2.5 or higher.
US10146351B2
In one embodiment, a sensor includes a voltage driver operable to provide an alternating voltage and an integrator circuit. The sensor further includes a first variable resistance element coupled to a first output of the voltage driver and an input of the integrator circuit. The integrator circuit is operable to measure a parameter of the first variable resistance element over a period of time. The sensor further includes circuitry operable to determine, based on the measured parameter, an amount of force applied to a touch sensing panel.
US10146348B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes first and second substrate units, a display function layer, and a drive element. The first substrate unit includes a first substrate, a display unit, and a circuit unit. The first substrate has a first surface including a display region and a peripheral region. The display unit is provided in the display region, and includes first lines, second lines, switch elements, pixel electrodes, and third lines. The circuit unit is provided in the peripheral region, and is electrically connected to one of the second lines and one of the third lines. The second substrate unit includes a second substrate and fourth lines. The display function layer is provided between the first and second substrate units. The drive element is provided on the peripheral region. At least a portion of the circuit unit is disposed between the drive element and the first substrate.
US10146347B2
In an aspect, a display device including: an entire window, said entire window including a display area and a non-display area outside the display area; a display panel; a first adhesive layer disposed on the display panel; a touch screen panel disposed on the first adhesive layer; a first light blocking member disposed on the touch screen panel; a second adhesive layer disposed on the touch screen panel and the first light blocking member; and a protection window disposed on the second adhesive layer is provided.
US10146346B2
A touch display device including a touch display panel and a data line driving circuit is provided. The touch display panel includes a plurality of pixels and a first shift register unit. The first shift register unit provides a first shifted signal to a first portion of the pixels. A first transistor receives a clock signal, is coupled to an output node, and outputs the first shifted signal. A second transistor receives a first trigger signal, is coupled to the first transistor. A third transistor is coupled to the second transistor, receives a first operation voltage and a second trigger signal. A fourth transistor is coupled to the first source, receives a second operation voltage and the second trigger signal. A capacitor is coupled between the first transistor and stacked by a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and a third metal layer.
US10146342B2
An apparatus and a method for controlling an operation of an electronic device are provided. The method includes detecting a first input or a second input corresponding to a proximity distance of an input instrument in proximity to a display screen; identifying an input combination which includes at least one of the first input, the second input, or a combination of the first and second inputs which are inputted at a predetermined time interval; and performing a predetermined function corresponding to the identified input combination.
US10146338B2
The invention concerns a method to detect and evaluate movement patterns and pen positions of an electronic pen with inertial measurement sensors during writing on a two-dimensional writing substrate, comprising: •an initial specification of two axes X, Y, that are orthogonal to each other on the writing substrate, and an axis Z that is perpendicular to the two-dimensional writing substrate, •whereby the X-axis defines the predominant writing direction, as well as a compensation of undesired drift in the pen position signal of the electronic pen to be output, comprising: •a moving average process during a predefined time interval and a predetermined frequency of the pen movements on the writing substrate, determined by the inertial measurement sensors during writing through integration of the sensor data of the measurement sensors, along the two said axes X, Y, that are orthogonal to each other, and a •periodic comparison of currently determined moving average values with initial average values and/or with previously determined moving average values, as well as the •subtraction of deviations, arising during said comparison between currently determined moving average values and initial average values and/or deviations between currently determined moving average values and previously determined moving average values from a pen position signal to be output.
US10146334B2
Apparatus and systems directed to a wireless hand-held inertial controller with passive optical and inertial tracking in a slim form-factor, for use with a head mounted virtual or augmented reality display device (HMD), that operates with six degrees of freedom by fusing (i) data related to the position of the controller derived from a forward-facing optical sensor located in the HMD with (ii) data relating to the orientation of the controller derived from an inertial measurement unit located in the controller.
US10146329B2
A method for providing a mechanism by which different user interface effects may be performed for different motion events may include receiving an indication of a motion event at a motion sensor, determining a motion gesture of the motion event, determining a motion property of the motion event, and enabling provision a user interface effect based on the motion property of the motion event. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.
US10146327B2
An input system includes a memory unit, a fingerprint detecting unit, an input interface and a processing unit. The memory unit stores n hot-key profiles and n fingerprint files corresponding to the n hot-key profiles. The fingerprint detecting unit reads a fingerprint of a first user and issues a first data corresponding to the fingerprint of the first user. The input interface receives a first hot-key input of the first user. The processing unit is connected with the memory unit, the fingerprint detecting unit and the input interface. The processing unit recognizes the first user according to a result of comparing the first data with the n fingerprint files, selects a first hot-key profile corresponding to the first user from the n hot-key profiles, and converts the first hot-key input into a first function input according to the first hot-key profile.
US10146323B1
A wearable computing device such as a head-mounted display (HMD) may be equipped with a magnetometer for detecting presence and motion of a hand-wearable magnet (HWM). The HMD may analyze magnetic field measurements of the magnetometer to determine when the HWM moves within a threshold distance of the magnetometer, and may thereafter determine one or more patterns of motion of the HWM based the magnetic field measurements. The HMD may operate in a background detection state in order to determine a background magnetic field strength and to monitor for magnetic disturbances from the HWM. Upon occurrence of a trigger event corresponding to magnetic disturbance above a threshold level, the HMD may transition to operating in a gesture detection state in which it analyzes magnetometer measurements for correspondence with known gestures. Upon recognizing a known gesture, the HMD may carry out one or more actions based on the recognized known gesture.
US10146317B2
A vehicle includes a vehicle computing system (VCS) and a vehicle accessory system that may be a window wiper mechanism, a power lift gate, a door lock mechanism, a convertible mechanism or a sunroof mechanism. The VCS communicates with an activity tracking band worn on a wrist of a vehicle occupant. The activity tracking device detects motion of the wrist of the occupant, and is capable of exchanging that data with the VCS. The VCS generates at least one output signal based on data from the activity tracking device. For example, a controller may activate a window wiper mechanism based on signals indicative of a detected long wiping motion.
US10146314B2
A system and method of generating a set of preferred haptic settings for a user based on haptic settings chosen by other similar users is presented. The method includes maintaining a database of haptic software applications with associated haptic configuration settings. When a user loads a haptic software application such as a computer game or video, a server receives a communication identifying the particular computer game or video and the identity of the user. The server searches the database for other users of the computer game or video where the other users have similar setting preferences as the user. The server calculates a preferred set of configuration settings and sends those settings to the user where a haptic output device produces haptic effects based on the preferred set of configuration settings. A system that generates haptic setting based on similar users is also presented.
US10146307B2
A graphics presentation apparatus including a display unit, an eye-tracking module, and a data output module. The eye-tracking module registers image data representing at least one eye of a user of the apparatus. Furthermore, the eye-tracking module determines, based on the registered image data, an orientation of the at least one eye relative to the display unit. Finally, in response thereto, the eye-tracking module generates a control signal controlling the data output module to produce visual content with such orientation on the display unit that a misalignment between the orientation of said at least one part and the orientation of the at least one eye of the user is minimized.
US10146300B2
An apparatus for virtual reality object position includes a processor and memory that stores executable code to determine a position of an object in a simulated reality (“SR”) emulation with respect to a position of a user. The SR emulation is viewable by the user with an SR viewer. The SR viewer has a limited field of view. The code is executable to determine a position of the field of view of the SR viewer with respect to the object, and to emit a visual indicator from a direction of the object and in a direction of the user. The visual indicator is visible in the field of view of the SR viewer, and the visual indicator within the field of view includes an indication of the position of the object with respect to the user.
US10146297B2
A method includes: supporting a normal operation mode during which functionalities of a portable apparatus are available through an operating system of the apparatus, wherein the operating system includes a plurality of layers including a kernel and library functions-layer; supporting a limited operation mode during which the apparatus is configured to execute a physical activity algorithm based on physical activity data corresponding to a physical activity session performed by a user of the apparatus, wherein the physical activity algorithm applies a direct low-level hardware access bypassing at least the layers above the kernel and the library functions-layer; and switching between the normal operation mode and the limited operation mode.
US10146291B2
A serial point-to-point link interface to enable communication between a processor and a device, the high speed serial point-to-point link interface including a transmitter to transmit serial data, a receiver to deserialize serial data, and control logic to implement a protocol stack. The protocol stack supports a plurality of power management states, including an active state, a first off state, in which a supply voltage is maintained, and a second off state, in which the supply voltage is not to be provided to the device. The protocol stack provides a default recovery time to allow the device to begin a transition from the first off state to the active state prior to accessing the device. The protocol stack further provides for accessing the device prior to expiration of the default recovery time to complete the transition based on a device-advertised recovery time.
US10146288B2
A system including an intelligent power management device including a plurality of sub-devices, a communication component communicatively connect the device to a communication network, wherein an intelligent power management (IPM) agent is continually run on the device and is configured to save power consumption on the device based on a plurality of power management policies including power management actions for controlling power consumption of a sub-device, wherein the power management policy is received from a remote server, and wherein the IPM agent is configured to adaptively change, using historic usage data of a plurality of users of the intelligent power management device, the power management actions to optimize a power saving on the plurality of sub-devices for each of the plurality of users.
US10146286B2
In one embodiment, A processor includes a logic to receive performance monitoring information from at least some of a plurality of cores and determine, according to a power management model, a performance state for one or more of the plurality of cores based on the performance monitoring information, and a second logic to receive the performance monitoring information and dynamically update the power management model according to a reinforcement learning process. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10146285B2
Various examples of the present technology provide systems and methods for monitoring an AC power to a computing system, generating a power failure signal when the AC power is determined abnormal, and cause one or more components of the computing system to be switched to a low power mode or shut down to reduce power consumption of the computing system. In particular, the various embodiments of the present technology provide a method to extend hold time of a power supply unit (PSU), thus extend power-on time of a server system during an input power interruption.
US10146282B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for securing a performance state change of one or more processors. A disclosed method includes detecting a request to change a current performance state of a processor to a target performance state, and adjusting an operating level tolerance range of the current performance state to include operating levels associated with a transition from the current performance state to the target performance state. A disclosed system includes an operating system module operative to transmit a request for a performance state change of at least one processing core. The system includes performance state control logic operative to change the performance state of the at least one processing core based on the request. The system further includes performance state security logic operative to adjust, in response to the request, an operating level tolerance range of the current performance state to include operating levels associated with a transition from the current performance state to the target performance state.
US10146270B2
A hinge structure includes a fixing component and a pivoting base. The fixing component includes a fixing base and at least three torsion hooks. The fixing base includes a first sidewall and a second sidewall opposite to each other. The at least three torsion hooks are disposed side by side between the first sidewall and the second sidewall. Each of the torsion hooks includes a fixing end portion and a pressing end portion opposite to each other. The fixing end portion of the torsion hook at center is fixed to the first sidewall, and the pressing end portion is close to the second sidewall. The two fixing end portions of the two torsion hooks at two sides are respectively fixed to the second sidewall, and the two pressing end portions are respectively close to the first sidewall. A pivoting base is rotatably disposed at the torsion hook, and the three pressing end portions respectively press the pivoting base. An electronic device having a hinge structure is further provided.
US10146258B2
An electronic device including an optical sensor for optically sensing an image of an input object such as a user's fingerprint is provided. The electronic device includes a display layer, a detector, a pinhole layer, a cover layer and an illuminator. The display layer is configured to generate light within a visible light spectrum. The detector is configured to be sensitive to a wavelength of light. The pinhole layer is located above both the display layer and the detector. The cover layer is located above the pinhole layer, and the illuminator is configured to illuminate a sensing region of the cover layer with the wavelength of light. Further, the pinhole layer has an array of pinhole apertures formed in a material substantially transparent to the light generated by the display layer and substantially opaque to the wavelength of light from the illuminator.
US10146255B2
An accessory includes a main body including a communication module that is configured to communicate with a predetermined network, and a container having a main body-coupling portion that is located at an upper side of the container and that is configured to separably couple to the main body. The main body includes an exposed portion that is positioned at an upper part of the main body and exposed to an outside of the main body based on the main body being coupled to the container, and a side member that defines a side surface of the exposed portion. An upper end of the side member has an outer corner facing outward from a central axis of the main body. The outer corner of the upper end of the side member defines an upper edge of the main body, the outer corner having a predetermined curvature.
US10146251B2
The present invention solves a problem that the phases of clocks obtained by frequency-dividing PLL clocks output from local PLL circuits cannot be made the same in a plurality of data transfer blocks. A local PLL circuit outputs a PLL clock obtained by multiplying a common external clock. A frequency divider outputs a feedback clock obtained by frequency-dividing the PLL clock to the local PLL circuit. An FIFO buffer temporarily holds data input from the outside. The FIFO buffer outputs the held data on the basis of a frequency-divided PLL clock. A clock generator generates a frequency-divided PLL clock obtained by frequency-dividing the PLL clock. The clock generator controls the phase of the frequency-divided PLL clock on the basis of a common start signal.
US10146250B2
In a general aspect, a method for adjusting an oscillator clock frequency can include applying a first control value to a first oscillator, applying a second control value, different from the first control value, to a second oscillator, measuring a frequency of each of the first and second oscillators, determining, by interpolation, a corrected frequency measurement of the second oscillator depending on a frequency deviation measured between the first and second oscillators when subjected to a third control value, on the third control value, and on the control value applied to the second oscillator, determining by interpolation a new first control value depending on the measured frequency of the first oscillator, on the corrected frequency, on the first and second control values, and on a desired frequency, and applying the new first control value to the first oscillator.
US10146249B2
A control system controls First-In First-Out (FIFO) settings of a receiving system. The control system includes a FIFO settings controller that receives a first signal indicative of a first frequency of data received by the receiving system. The FIFO settings controller receives a second signal indicative of a second frequency of a clock that reads the data received by the receiving system. The FIFO settings controller determines a difference (e.g., a parts-per-million (PPM) difference) between the first frequency and the second frequency. The FIFO settings controller sends a third signal indicative of instructions to adjust FIFO configuration settings based on the PPM difference.
US10146248B2
A model calculation unit for calculating a data-based function model in a control unit is provided, the model calculation unit having a processor core which includes: a multiplication unit for carrying out a multiplication on the hardware side; an addition unit for carrying out an addition on the hardware side; an exponential function unit for calculating an exponential function on the hardware side; a memory in the form of a configuration register for storing hyperparameters and node data of the data-based function model to be calculated; and a logic circuit for controlling, on the hardware side, the calculation sequence in the multiplication unit, the addition unit, the exponential function unit and the memory in order to ascertain the data-based function model.
US10146245B2
An I-V converting module includes: a current output sensor, an I-V transforming circuit, a sampling and holding circuit, a source follower, a loop switch, and a bypass circuit. A drain of the source follower is connected to an input/output end of the sampling and holding circuit. A source of the source follower is connected to an input end of the I-V transforming circuit and an output end of the current output sensor, and a gate of the source follower is connected to an output end of the I-V transforming circuit via the loop switch, and to the bypass circuit. When the loop switch is closed and the bypass circuit is disabled, a feedback loop formed by the source follower, the I-V transforming circuit and the loop switch is conducted, and the I-V converting module enters into a sampling setup stage.
US10146244B2
A voltage reference circuit comprising: a main amplifier, having an output-terminal for providing a reference-voltage-output-signal, wherein the output-terminal is connected to the first-input-terminal; an offset-stage, connected to at least one of a first-input-terminal and a second-input-terminal of the main amplifier; and a PN junction. The PN junction is configured, in use, to provide a junction-voltage, between the first-junction-terminal and the second-junction-terminal, wherein the junction-voltage decreases with increasing temperature. The offset-stage is configured, in use, to provide an offset-voltage between the first-input-terminal and the second-input-terminal, wherein the offset-voltage increases with increasing temperature.
US10146231B2
A computer-implemented method regulates exhaust air temperature from direct interface liquid-cooled (DL) nodes in a rack information handling system (RIHS). The method includes receiving a first input corresponding to a desired ambient temperature of an exterior space and a second input is corresponding to an amount of heat being dissipated from functional components operating within an interior space of at least one LC node. An ambient temperature reading of the exterior space is received. A flow rate is calculated for liquid flowing through an air-to-liquid heat exchange (ATLHE) subsystem that results in an amount of heat exchange in the ATLHE subsystem, which generates exhaust air at a temperature that causes a change in the ambient temperature towards the desired ambient temperature. The flow rate is dynamically adjusted of the liquid flowing through the ATLHE subsystem to the calculated flow rate.
US10146227B2
An in-vehicle driving assistance apparatus includes an automatic garage leaving control unit that performs automatic garage leaving cooperation control in which the automatic garage leaving control unit cooperates with a shutter control apparatus to cause a vehicle to automatically leave the garage. The automatic garage leaving control unit acquires vehicle surrounding information on presence or absence of abnormality around the vehicle when the automatic garage leaving control unit accepts an automatic garage leaving request signal, transmits an open request signal requesting to open a shutter to the shutter control apparatus when the automatic garage leaving control unit determines based on the vehicle surrounding information that a space around the vehicle is safe, and suspends the automatic garage leaving cooperation control when the automatic garage leaving control unit determines that abnormality is present around the vehicle.
US10146226B1
Method and apparatus are disclosed for autonomous vehicle sequential car loading and alignment. A vehicle comprising a wireless communication module and a processor. The processor determines whether the vehicle will fit inside a string of railcars based on capacity and dimension data received from the railcars. When the vehicle fits, the processor autonomously navigates the vehicle to a farthest available space on the string of railcars, and positions the vehicle within the space to satisfy spacing requirements.
US10146223B1
The technology relates to identifying sensor occlusions due to the limits of the ranges of a vehicle's sensors and using this information to maneuver the vehicle. As an example, the vehicle is maneuvered along a route that includes traveling on a first roadway and crossing over a lane of a second roadway. A trajectory is identified from the lane that will cross with the route during the crossing at a first point. A second point beyond a range of the vehicle's sensors is selected. The second point corresponds to a hypothetical vehicle moving towards the route along the lane. A distance between the first point and the second point is determined. An amount of time that it would take the hypothetical vehicle to travel the distance is determined and compared to a threshold amount of time. The vehicle is maneuvered based on the comparison to complete the crossing.
US10146217B2
A method for controlling real world objects in an industrial installation, which is performed in a server node and includes the steps of: receiving a connection establishment request having a user identity; authenticating the user identity; establishing a connection; receiving a service request, wherein the service request includes a reference to an aspect object and a reference to an aspect of the aspect object; forwarding the service request and the user identity to a service dispatcher module; determining a target service provider from the reference to the aspect object by querying a directory server module; and sending the service request and the user identity to the target service provider.
US10146216B2
A collaborative automation platform and associated method include a fault-tolerant control server hosting one or more virtual controllers, and a fault-tolerant input/output server hosting a virtual input/output system. The collaborative automation platform also includes a master autonomous process interface system connected to the virtual input/output system, via a local area input/output network. The collaborative automation platform also includes a plurality of distributed autonomous process interface systems connected to the master autonomous process interface system, wherein each distributed autonomous process interface system is hardwired to a plurality of field instruments. The collaborative automation platform also includes real-time DDS middleware configured for execution with the fault-tolerant control server, the fault-tolerant input/output server, the master autonomous process interface system, and the plurality of distributed autonomous process interface systems.
US10146192B2
The invention relates to a method for adjusting at least one control parameter (KP) of an internal combustion engine (200) by means of at least two setting parameters (SP), having the following steps: determining an optimum steady-state combination (110) of the at least two setting parameters (SP) in order to obtain the setpoint value (104) under steady-state boundary conditions, producing a functional dynamic relationship (120) between the control error (100), a setting expenditure (130) for the at least two setting parameters (SP) and the determined steady-state combination (110), optimizing the dynamic relationship (120) in order to determine an optimum dynamic combination (140) of the at least two setting parameters (SP), and using the optimum dynamic combination (140) for the following adjustment step during the adjustment of the at least one control parameter (KP).
US10146178B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier; a developing device forming a toner image on the image carrier; a transfer section arranged at downstream from the developing device in a rotation direction of the image carrier and transfers the toner image onto a recording sheet; a fixing section arranged at downstream from the transfer section in a conveyance direction of the recording sheet and fixes the toner image transferred to the recording sheet on the recording sheet; an air path guiding air taken from an outside of the image forming apparatus to the developing device; and a control section that, when operating the developing device under a cooling mode for cooling the developing device, controls the developing device and causes the developing device to reduce an amount of developer on a developing roller so as to be smaller than that of under image forming operation.
US10146170B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, an electrification device, an exposing device, developing device, and a control unit. The developing device includes a developing roller for supplying toner to the image carrier, a developing container for storing developer containing the toner, and a seal member for preventing leakage of the toner from a gap between the image carrier and the developing container. The control unit is capable of executing a seal member cleaning mode, in which it forms an electrostatic latent image pattern having exposed parts and unexposed parts whose boundaries exist at a predetermined or less interval over the entire area in a width direction of an image forming area of the image carrier when an image is not being formed, and drives the image carrier to rotate so that the electrostatic latent image pattern passes the seal member.
US10146169B2
A cleaning blade including an elastic member configured to be in contact with a surface of a cleaning-target member to remove deposited matter deposited on the surface of the cleaning-target in member, wherein the elastic member includes a base and a surface layer formed of a cured product of a curable composition, the surface layer is formed on at least part of a bottom surface of the base including a contact part to be in contact with the cleaning-target member, where the bottom surface of the base is a surface of the base facing a downstream side along a traveling direction of the cleaning-target member relative to the contact part, and an average film thickness of the surface layer at the contact part is 10 μm or greater but 100 μm or less.
US10146168B2
In a belt cleaning device, a pivot member supports a first rotation shaft of a cleaning roller in a rotatable manner, and is supported by a second rotation shaft of a collection roller. An elastic member keeps the cleaning roller contact with an endless belt at a position. A first seal portion, fixed to the pivot member, is in contact with the collection roller. A housing has a first space storing the cleaning roller and the collection roller, and a second space storing waste toner rubbed off from the collection roller by a blade. The housing supports the second rotation shaft. The second seal portion is fixed to one of an inner surface of the housing and the pivot member, and is in contact with the other. The blade, the first seal portion, and the second seal portion partition the housing into the first space and the second space.
US10146162B2
Two types of correction data, first correction data and second correction data, are used to correct density on the basis of reading results obtained by a reading unit reading a test image formed on a sheet. The first correction data is data for correcting image density in the rotation axis direction of the photoconductor. The correction using the first correction data is performed in each of multiple areas on the photoconductor which correspond to an area in which a toner image of the test image is formed. The second correction data is data for correcting image density in the rotation axis direction of the photoconductor. The correction using the second correction data is performed in areas outside the area in which the toner image of the test image which is read by the reading unit is formed.
US10146160B2
A fixing device includes a heating body, a heating source, a pressuring body, a driving source, a moving part and a cooling part. The driving source rotates one body of the heating and pressuring bodies. The moving part moves the pressuring body relatively to the heating body at timing after the medium passes the nip between the heating and pressuring bodies to separate the pressuring body from the heating body. The cooling part cools the pressuring body separated from the heating body. If fixing operation is carried out when a specific value obtained in the last fixing operation by dividing a passing period of the medium through the nip by a rotating period of the one body, is smaller than a reference value, the timing is made early in comparison with a case where the specific value is equal to or more than the reference value.
US10146154B2
A powder container includes a powder chamber for containing powder for forming images, a powder outlet formed in a face of the powder container, and a shutter assembly to open and close the powder outlet and including first and second shutters. The first shutter is movable between a sealing position to close the powder outlet and an open position to open the powder outlet and includes a pressed member to cancel retention of the first shutter at the sealing position. The second shutter includes a pressing projection that interferes with the pressed member of the first shutter and is movable between a shielding position to cover the pressed member without interference between the pressing projection and the pressed member and a releasing position to press the pressed member with the pressing projection.
US10146145B2
The present invention provides a measurement apparatus that measures a position of an object, the apparatus including a detector configured to detect a mark formed on the object and generate a detection signal, and a processor configured to obtain the position of the object based on the detection signal, wherein the processor is configured to obtain the position of the object based on a portion of the detection signal that is limited based on information about a tolerance regarding a measurement precision for the object.
US10146136B2
An illumination system for an optical arrangement such as an EUV lithography apparatus, having: at least one optical element which has at least one optical surface, on which a coating which reflects illumination radiation is applied, and an actuator device aligning the optical surface in at least two angular positions in the radiation path. The coating either has a thickness (dOPT1) at which a mean value (½(R1+R2)) formed from a thickness-dependent reflectivity (R1, R2) of the coating at the at least two angular positions is maximized or has a thickness (dOPT2) at which a maximum change (max(ΔR1/R1, ΔR2/R2)) in the reflectivity (R1, R2) caused by a thickness tolerance of the coating is minimized at the respective angular positions or else the reflecting coating has a thickness (dO2) at which the reflectivity (R1, R2) of the coating has the same magnitude in the at least two angular positions.
US10146130B2
A composition for a base of a directed self-assembling film includes a compound including an oxo acid group, and a solvent. The compound is preferably represented by formula (1). A represents an organic group having 10 or more carbon atoms and having a valency of n. B represents an oxo acid group. n is an integer of 1 to 200. In a case where n is 2 or greater, a plurality of Bs are identical or different. AB)n (1)
US10146129B2
A photosensitive resin composition, a black pixel defining layer, and a display device, the composition including a binder resin; a black colorant; a photopolymerizable monomer; a photopolymerization initiator; and a solvent, wherein the solvent includes a first acetate solvent and a second acetate solvent and a boiling point difference between the first acetate solvent and the second acetate solvent is about 10° C. to about 60° C.
US10146127B2
A spacer manufacturing device is disclosed. The device includes a photo mask having a central light-transmitting region and a peripheral light-transmitting region disposed at a periphery of the central light-transmitting region; and an exposure device right opposite to the photo mask. Light emitted from the exposure device is irradiated to a negative photoresist material after passing through the photo mask, the light intensity passing through the peripheral light-transmitting region is less than the light intensity passing through the central light-transmitting region. A spacer is also disclosed. Only one exposure process is required to realize the spacer having a convex-shaped cross section. The process is simple and the manufacturing cost is low. At the same time, flatness of the convex shoulder of the spacer having a convex-shaped cross section is adjustable, which can satisfy the requirement for manufacturing spacers having different specifications.
US10146125B2
A glass substrate for a mask blank includes a rectangular-shaped main surface on which a film having a circuit pattern is to be formed. The main surface includes a quadrangular peripheral frame and a square-shaped center area defined by excluding the frame. The center area has a longitudinal length of 142 mm and a lateral length of 142 mm. A surface morphology of the center area is expressed by { z ( x , y ) = ∑ k = 0 N 1 ∑ l = 0 N 2 a kl P k ( x ) P l ( y ) P k ( x ) = 1 2 k k ! d k dx k [ ( x 2 - 1 ) k ] P l ( y ) = 1 2 l l ! d l dy l [ ( y 2 - 1 ) l ] . A flatness of a sum of compositing all of aklPk(x)Pl(y) is less than or equal to 20 nm when a sum of k and l is greater than or equal to 3 and less than or equal to 9. The flatness is less than or equal to 20 nm when a sum of k and l is greater than or equal to 10 and less than or equal to 30.
US10146119B2
A light source device, an illumination device, and a projector which are capable of thinning a bundle of light beams while being low in a focal magnification ratio, and are small in size are to be provided. The light source device includes a first light source unit adapted to emit a first light beam, a second light source unit adapted to emit a bundle of light beams including a second light beam and a third light beam, a reduction optical system adapted to reduce the bundle of light beams, and a combining optical system adapted to combine the first light beam and the reduced bundle of light beams with each other. The combining optical system is provided with a light transmitting area and a light reflecting area.
US10146118B2
A first illumination device includes a light source that emits light having directivity, and a uniform illumination optical system including a first fly-eye lens that includes a plurality of lenses two-dimensionally arranged and allows light based on emitted light from the light source to pass through the first fly-eye lens. An illumination target region has a planar shape having a side extending along a direction substantially parallel to a long-axis direction or a short-axis direction of an intensity distribution shape of emitted light from the light source, and a periodic direction of an array of the lenses in the first fly-eye lens is inclined with respect to the long-axis direction or the short-axis direction.
US10146116B2
An optical device includes a first plate having a first transparent region defining an exit face of the device, and a second plate having a second transparent region defining an entrance face of the device. At least one lens is formed over at least one of the first and second transparent regions. First and second planar reflectors are spaced apart and fixed between the first and second plates in mutually-parallel orientations diagonal to the first and second plates, thereby defining an optical path through the device from the entrance face, reflecting from the first and second reflectors, through the exit face and passing through the at least one refractive surface.
US10146112B2
Projecting type image display apparatus including light source control unit and cooling control unit
An image display apparatus including a light source; a light source control unit configured to control electric power to be supplied to the light source; a light source cooling unit configured to cool the light source; a cooling control unit configured to control the light source cooling unit; an image display device; an illumination optical system configured to introduce light from the light source to the image display device, and a projecting optical system configured to project light modulated by the image display device. When the light source control unit receives a turn-off command, the light source control unit first lowers electric power to be supplied to the light source to a predetermined electric power lower than normal electric power to be supplied when the lamp is on, and then blocks the supply of the electric power to the light source, thereby turning the light source off.
US10146107B2
An autonomous traveling apparatus includes: an apparatus main body; an autonomous traveling control portion which causes the apparatus main body to autonomously travel with a designated traveling parameter; a boom provided on the apparatus main body; a lifting and lowering control portion which lifts and lowers a position of one end of the boom to a designated height on the apparatus main body; and a state control portion which controls the autonomous traveling control portion so that the traveling parameter is limited based on the position of the one end of the boom or controls the lifting and lowering control portion so that the position of the one end of the boom is limited based on the traveling parameter. With such a configuration, provided is the autonomous traveling apparatus capable of safely performing autonomous traveling, and lifting and lowering of the one end of the boom.
US10146102B2
The invention relates to an iris device (1) for optical imaging systems (71), comprising an aperture arrangement (5) and to a medical imaging system (72) comprising a sensor (15), in particular a camera (15a). Conventional iris devices (1) known from the art unavoidably suffer a necessary trade-off between the depth of field and the amount of light transmitted through the optical system (71), i.e. in particular the amount of light incident on the sensor (15). This disadvantage results from the fact that iris devices (Wo one) of the art transmit or reject light in the same way for all wavelengths (43), i.e. show a spectrally flat transmission property. The disadvantages of prior art iris devices (1) are overcome by the present invention by providing an aperture arrangement (5) which comprises simultaneously at least two apertures (5a) coaxially arranged with respect to a light-transmission direction (70), each of the at least two apertures (5a) limiting light in a different spectral band (49) of the at least two discrete non-overlapping spectral bands (49). The inventive medical imaging system (72) solves the above disadvantages by further comprising at least one inventive iris device (1).
US10146091B2
A display apparatus includes gate lines extending in a first direction, data lines crossing the first direction and having polarities of data voltages consecutively repeated every four data lines, and pixels which each comprise three sub-pixels. One of the three sub-pixels has a width in the first direction different from a width in the first direction of another sub-pixel of the three sub-pixels. Each of the three sub-pixels is connected to a corresponding gate line and a corresponding data line. The polarities of the data voltages applied to a first data line and a third data line are opposite and the polarities of the data voltages applied to a second data line and a fourth data line are opposite. The pixels arranged between two adjacent data lines among the plurality of data lines are alternately connected to the two adjacent data lines.
US10146090B2
Display devices with a minimized border and methods of manufacturing display devices are described herein. In one example, a display unit is provided, the display unit having a display active area disposed between an encapsulation layer and a substrate such that the encapsulation layer encloses the display active area between a surface of the encapsulation layer and a surface of the substrate. A section of the display unit is cut at one edge of the display unit such that a portion of the encapsulation layer and a portion of the substrate are removed from the display unit while no display active area is removed. The cut section of the display unit is then sealed.
US10146088B2
The present invention provides a backlight module, a liquid crystal display device and a backlight adjustment method thereof; the backlight module comprises a light guide plate and a LED light bar located at an incident side of the light guide plate, and the LED light bar comprises a driving chip, LED lamps of at least two different color temperatures, which are alternately aligned, and the LED lamps of the same color temperature are coupled in series to construct a route, and each route is coupled to an adjustable resistance in series, and the routes constructed by the LED lamps after parallel connection are all coupled to the driving chip to construct a driving circuit, and the backlight module further comprises a control module, and the control module is coupled to the driving circuit.
US10146087B2
A backlight unit comprises a plurality of point light sources facing a rear surface of a liquid crystal panel; a bottom cover comprising a lower surface supporting the plurality of point light sources and two or more side surfaces disposed between the lower surface of the bottom cover and the liquid crystal panel; and a support side in contact with a first side surface of the bottom cover's side surfaces and in contact with the lower surface of the bottom cover in order to change a path of light from the plurality of point light sources toward the liquid crystal panel, the support side including a plurality of support side members oriented at different angles relative to the bottom cover.
US10146086B2
The present invention provides a mirror display that sufficiently prevents a decrease in the screen luminance in the display mode while sufficiently increasing the reflectance in the mirror mode, and also gives excellent production efficiency. The mirror display includes a half mirror plate including at least two half mirror layers; and a display device arranged on the backside of the half mirror plate, the display device including a polarizer, the at least two half mirror layers including at least one reflective polarizer, the transmission axis of the polarizer and the transmission axis of the at least one reflective polarizer being substantially parallel to each other or substantially perpendicular to each other, the mirror display configured to switch a display mode allowing display light to be emitted from the display device and to pass through the half mirror plate and a mirror mode preventing display light from being emitted from the display device, the mirror display exhibiting a sum of the transmittance in the display mode and the reflectance in the mirror mode of 100% or higher.
US10146084B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels and outputting an image through a first surface; and a first polarizer attached to the first surface of the display panel, the first polarizer transmitting linearly-polarized light of a first direction and reflecting linearly-polarized light of a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein when a voltage is not applied, the display device is used as a mirror mode and the first polarizer reflects external light, and when a voltage is applied, the display device is used as an image display mode and an image from the display panel is outputted through the first polarizer.
US10146080B1
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a display device includes providing an array substrate with a plurality of pixel unit areas formed on a surface thereof; defining a dividing line; dividing the pixel unit areas to a pixel calculating area, a predetermined displaying area, and a predetermined shielding area, and dividing the pixel calculating area to a first part and a second part by the dividing line; calculating areas of sub pixels according to light extraction efficiencies and effective light extraction areas of the sub pixels; forming a shielding layer according to the areas of the sub pixels.
US10146070B2
An optical phase modulator 100 according to an embodiment of this disclosure comprises a rib-type waveguide structure 110 comprising: a PN junction 106 comprising Si and formed in a lateral direction on a substrate; and a Si1-xGex layer 108 that is doped with a p-type impurity and comprises at least one layer laminated on the PN junction 106, so as to be electrically connected to the PN junction 106.
US10146069B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display and a fabricating method thereof, and a fabricating method of a photosensitive film. The display comprises: a display screen for displaying a picture, and a photosensitive film disposed on a light emergent surface of the display screen, wherein the photosensitive film is configured to automatically adjust corresponding transmittance according to a gray level brightness of the picture displayed by the display screen, and the transmittance of the photosensitive film increases with the increase of the gray level brightness of the picture displayed by the display screen. The display provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure can increase the contrast ratio without changing the existing design, thereby improving the display effect of the display.
US10146065B2
The present invention discloses methods and apparatus for methods and apparatus for manufacturing an Ophthalmic Lens with passive event coloration mechanisms, which may not require a power source. In some embodiments, the passive event coloration mechanisms may be combined with Rigid Inserts or Media Inserts, wherein the inserts may provide additional functionalities.
US10146060B2
A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel; a backlight configured to irradiate visible ray to the display panel in a 2D mode, and configured to irradiate ultraviolet ray to the display panel in a 3D mode; and a 3D film disposed between the display panel and backlight, wherein the 3D film comprises: a pattern formed by a plurality of lines distanced from one another by a predetermined distance; and a coating layer that is formed on one side of the plurality of lines pattern and transmits or reflects light patterned by the plurality of lines pattern, per line. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent deterioration of resolution of a screen image, provide a simple structure and enable a change to and from a 2D mode and a 3D mode.
US10146056B2
An image display apparatus includes a light source configured to emit image light, a scanning mirror configured to reflect the image light from the light source, and a reflective diffraction optical element configured to change a direction of the image light from the scanning mirror to a different direction in addition to regular reflection. The scanning mirror is arranged at a position and a height as different from an observing point as possible. A direction of extension of an interference fringe of the reflective diffraction optical element intersects incident light from the light source.
US10146041B1
An automatic focus system for an optical microscope that facilitates faster focusing by using at least two offset focusing cameras. Each offset focusing camera can be positioned on a different side of an image forming conjugate plane so that their sharpness curves intersect at the image forming conjugate plane. Focus of a specimen can be adjusted by using sharpness values determined from images taken by the offset focusing cameras.
US10146034B2
Disclosed is a cata-dioptric system. A cata-dioptric system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a reflecting optical system that reflects incident light through a plurality of reflective surfaces; and a refracting optical system that refracts the reflected incident light, wherein the respective internal diameters of the plurality of reflective surfaces are disposed on the same perpendicular line as the external diameters of other reflective surfaces adjacent to the respective internal diameters of the plurality of reflective surfaces, or at a closer distance from a perpendicular line including the top surface of the refractive optical system.
US10146031B2
The zoom lens consists of, in order from the object side, a first lens group that has positive refractive power, a second lens group that has a negative refractive power, a third lens group that has a positive refractive power, a stop, and a fourth lens group that has a positive refractive power. During zooming, the second lens group and the third lens group move, and the other lens groups and the stop remain stationary. The second lens group consists of, in order from the object side, a second A lens group that has a cemented lens at a position closest to the image side, consists of three or less lenses, and has a negative refractive power, a second B lens group that consists of one or more negative single lenses, and a second C lens group that consists of a cemented lens and has a negative refractive power.
US10146024B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing installation of optical fiber, non-fiber lines, and/or power lines in a ground surface. In various embodiments, a foldable base might be placed in a channel in a ground surface. The foldable base might include a base portion, two side wall portions, at least two points of articulation, and two plug contacts. Each point of articulation allows each side wall portion to fold relative with the base portion, forming a cavity. One or more lines may be placed within the cavity. A plug, placed above the lines in the cavity, may engage with the two plug contacts to secure the plug to the foldable base. Capping material, placed in microchannel on a top surface of the plug, may flow beyond the microchannel and over any openings between the plug and the foldable base and between the foldable base and edges of the channel.
US10146022B1
An electrical/optical signal conversion system includes a PoE powering device with powering device electrical data ports, and a PoE powered device (PD) with a power controller coupled to PoE-powered signal conversion subsystems that each include an electrical/optical signal converter coupled to a PD electrical data port and a PD optical data port. The PD electrical data ports receive power and electrical data signals transmitted by a powering device electrical data port, transmit the electrical data signals to their electrical/optical signal converter, and provide the power to the power controller. The corresponding PD optical data port then receives power from the power controller that was provided by the PD electrical data port, receives optical data signals from the electrical/optical signal converter that were converted from the electrical data signals transmitted by the PD electrical data port, and transmits the optical data signals to a first optical signal device.
US10146021B2
A modular fiber optic patch panel system is disclosed. The system includes an enclosure and at least one patch panel module mounted in the enclosure. The enclosure includes a chassis with multiple module bays, each configured to receive a corresponding patch panel module. The patch panel modules each include a module housing, an input connector and an output connector. An optical directional coupler is connected to the input connector and a photodiode is positioned adjacent the optical directional coupler to measure an optical power level conveyed on the optical fiber. A data acquisition device is connected to the photodiode to capture the optical power level data and a microcontroller is connected to the data acquisition device to store the data.
US10146020B1
An integrated optical assembly includes an optics mount. The optics mount has disposed thereon a light source for providing a beam of light and a lens configured to focus the beam of light. The integrated optical assembly includes a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) mechanically coupled to the optics mount. The PIC has disposed thereon a grating coupler for receiving the beam of light and coupling the beam of light into a waveguide. The integrated optical assembly includes a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) mirror configured to receive the beam of light from the lens and redirect it towards the grating coupler. A position of a reflective portion of the MEMS mirror is adjustable to affect an angle of incidence of the beam of light on the grating coupler.
US10146012B2
Optical fiber connectors configured to allow ease of change of the connector polarity by providing lockable outer housing. In an embodiment, an optical fiber connector comprises an inner housing, a key disposed along a side of the inner housing, wherein the inner housing includes at least one protrusion configured to lock the key, and an outer housing disposed around at least a portion of the inner housing and the key. The outer housing may be configured to be pulled rearward relative to the inner housing, and further configured to unlock the key to allow slideably moving the key from a first position to a second position.
US10146006B2
A reflective sheet, a backlight module and a display screen. The reflective sheet includes a first sheet body disposed between a light guide plate and LED light sources, a second and a third sheet bodies respectively formed by bending and extending from upper and lower edges of the first sheet body, a fourth sheet body formed by bending and extending from an edge of the third sheet body. The first, the third and the fourth sheet bodies are enclosed commonly to form a receiving slot where the LED light sources are disposed. The first sheet body has multiple light transmitting holes such that lights of the LED light sources can enter the light guide plate. A surface of the first sheet body except the light transmitting holes can reflect lights leaked from gap regions among the LED light sources back to the light guide plate to increase light utilization rate.
US10145999B2
An optical element includes a transparent substrate having a planar front surface, and a multilayer structure, which is formed on the front surface of the substrate and includes multiple thin film layers, including an outer layer that is exposed to ambient air. The multilayer structure defines, at a target wavelength, a series of resonant cavities that create, for a beam of light at the target wavelength that is incident on the optical element at a target angle, a passband for an s-polarization component of the beam and a stopband for a p-polarization component of the beam.
US10145996B2
The present invention relates to photochromic articles that include a substrate and at least one photochromic material that is adapted to change from an unactivated form to an activated form by exposure to radiation substantially in the wavelength range from 380 to 450 nanometers when measured over a range of from 380 to 700 nanometers. The photochromic article is also adapted to retain at least 12 percent of the delta OD measured in the Outdoor Test when tested in the Behind the Windshield Test. The photochromic material can be selected from certain compounds including, for example, fluoranthenoxazines, naphthopyrans, phenanthropyrans, fluoranthenopyrans, and indenonaphthopyrans, which each have bonded thereto at least one chiral or achiral lengthening group that provides the photochromic compound with dichroic properties. The present invention also relates to methods of forming a photochromic article.
US10145990B2
An optical film includes a polarizer and a first adhesive layer on the polarizer, where the first adhesive layer has a haze value of 90% or more.
US10145982B2
A pop-up monitoring base station for seafloor heat flow includes a recovery unit, a discarding unit and a cable chopping mechanism. The recovery unit includes a recovery support, internally accommodating two acoustic release devices provided with closable hooks on bottoms thereof and loaded with floating balls. The discarding unit includes a discarding support, below which a heat flow probe is fixedly connected. The recovery unit and the discarding unit are fixed together through a steel wire rope with two ends connected with the closable hooks at the bottoms of the acoustic release devices. A cable extends from the discarding unit through the cable chopping mechanism fixed on the bottom of the recovery support and connects with the floating balls. The cable can be chopped off and/or pulled out automatically to realize successful separation between the recovery unit and the discarding unit.
US10145979B2
Methods and related systems are described for gamma-ray detection. A gamma-ray detector is made depending on its properties and how those properties are affected by the data analysis. Desirable properties for a downhole detector include; high temperature operation, reliable/robust packaging, good resolution, high countrate capability, high density, high Z, low radioactive background, low neutron cross-section, high light output, single decay time, efficiency, linearity, size availability, etc. Since no single detector has the optimum of all these properties, a downhole tool design preferably picks the best combination of these in existing detectors, which will optimize the performance of the measurement in the required environment and live with the remaining non-optimum properties. A preferable detector choice is one where the required measurement precision (logging speed) is obtained for all of the required inelastic elements and/or minimization of unwanted background signals that complicate the data analysis.
US10145976B2
A nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus for estimating properties of an earth formation includes a carrier configured to be deployed in a borehole in the earth formation and at least one transmitting assembly disposed in the carrier and configured to generate an oscillating magnetic field in a volume of interest within the earth formation. The apparatus also includes at least one receiving assembly disposed in the carrier and configured to detect a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signal originating in the volume of interest. In this apparatus, the receiving assembly includes at least a first longitudinal region with a loop coil and a butterfly coil, the loop coil central axis being located over a region of the magnet assembly where a static magnetic field is predominantly along an azimuthal direction to the carrier and the butterfly coil being at least partially overlapped with the loop coil to reduce mutual coupling.
US10145946B2
An image processing device for capturing an ultrasonic image is provided with a probe to generate an ultrasonic wave and receives a reflective wave reflected at an object. A detection unit to detect one or more physical quantities of the probe. A display unit to display a tomographic image showing a cross-section of a predetermined position of the object, out of the ultrasonic image of the object. A sensor information acquisition unit to acquire a detection result by a sensor unit as sensor information. In a tomographic image generation unit, regarding the sensor information as a parameter, a reference tomographic image is transformed according to a change of the parameter, to generate the tomographic image. A display control unit to control the display unit to display the generated tomographic image. The present technique can be applied to an ultrasonic examination device.
US10145944B1
An optical alignment system includes a LADAR sub-system including: a laser source and a probe configured to deliver probe illumination from the laser source to a first optical surface of the optical system and an additional optical surface of the optical system. The probe is further configured to receive a first measurement signal from the first optical surface and an additional measurement signal from the additional optical surface of the optical system. The system also includes a detector configured to receive a first combined signal and an additional combined signal from an optical coupling assembly. The system further include a controller configured to determine a relative distance between the first optical surface and the additional optical surface based on the first combined signal or the additional combined signal.
US10145932B2
The method for instrumenting a container, especially intended to receive an assortment of materials, capable of being set moving in a preset coordinate system, said method comprises the following steps: placing at least one communicating element in the container on an internal surface of the container; and tracking the location of each communicating element over time in the preset coordinate system.
US10145925B2
A method for magnetic resonance (MR) phase imaging of a subject includes: (i) for each channel of a multi-channel MRI scanner, acquiring MR measurements at a plurality of voxels of the subject using a pulse sequence that reduces MR measurement phase error; and (ii) for each voxel, determining reconstructed MR phase from the MR measurements of each channel to form an MR phase image of the subject. The step of determining reconstructed MR phase may be performed for each of the voxels independently.
US10145919B2
An imaging system comprises determination of a charge block for each building block of an MRI pulse sequence and for each readout event of the MRI pulse sequence, determination, for each charge block, of a charge per request associated with the charge block, determination, for each charge block, of an associated charge reduction based on a charge per request associated with the charge block and on a charge available to the charge block after execution of a previous charge block of the MRI pulse sequence, determination, for each charge block associated with a non-zero charge reduction, of a flip angle of a corresponding building block of the MRI pulse sequence based on a charge per request and a charge reduction associated with the charge block, and control of a radio frequency system to deliver the MRI pulse sequence based on the determined flip angles of each building block of the MRI pulse sequence corresponding to a charge block associated with a non-zero charge reduction.
US10145913B2
According to some aspects, a method of producing a permanent magnet shim configured to improve a profile of a B0 magnetic field produced by a B0 magnet is provided. The method comprises determining deviation of the B0 magnetic field from a desired B0 magnetic field, determining a magnetic pattern that, when applied to magnetic material, produces a corrective magnetic field that corrects for at least some of the determined deviation, and applying the magnetic pattern to the magnetic material to produce the permanent magnet shim. According to some aspects, a permanent magnet shim for improving a profile of a B0 magnetic field produced by a B0 magnet is provided. The permanent magnet shim comprises magnetic material having a predetermined magnetic pattern applied thereto that produces a corrective magnetic field to improve the profile of the B0 magnetic field.
US10145902B2
A storage battery capacity measurement device is provided in in-plant equipment including a storage battery system connected to an intra-equipment electric wire. The storage battery system includes plural storage batteries connected in parallel to the intra-equipment electric wire. The storage battery capacity measurement device is configured to execute a determining one storage battery among the plural storage batteries as a measurement target storage battery, and at least one storage battery other than the measurement target storage battery as a measurement support storage battery, discharging an electricity amount of the measurement target storage battery from an upper limit to a lower limit, and charging the discharged electricity amount to the measurement support storage battery, and calculating a discharge capacity of the measurement target storage battery, based on an integrated value of a current flowing through the measurement target storage battery during discharge.
US10145901B2
This disclosure relates to a method for the management of the electrical current supply in a motor vehicle having a combustion engine, wherein the charge state of a battery is detected and characterized as a discrete variable that indicates whether the prevailing charge state is below or above a calibrated threshold value. If the discrete variable indicates that the prevailing charge state is below the calibrated threshold value, the battery is charged using a relatively high voltage over a predetermined time period in such a manner that all cells of the battery are charged. If the discrete variable indicates that the prevailing charge state is above the calibrated threshold value, different temperature-dependent voltage set points of an electric generator in the vehicle are set in dependence upon a prevailing energy conversion efficiency level of the drivetrain that is detected and characterized as a further discrete variable.
US10145898B2
A system for authenticating a rechargeable battery and for detecting counterfeit batteries includes battery characteristics detection circuitry and a battery. Battery characteristics detection circuitry performs an authentication routine on the battery such that battery characteristics of the battery are measured. Battery characteristics include state of health, state of charge, internal resistance, relaxation time, and impedance. The battery is validated by comparing the battery characteristics to validation parameters provided by a manufacturer. If battery characteristics are within ranges of the validation parameters, then the battery is authenticated as originating from a particular manufacturer or batch. If validation fails, then the device is disabled or protected. In one example, validation parameters are stored and compared locally on a device. In another example, the device communicates battery characteristics to a remote entity that performs the validation. In another example, the device receives validation parameters from the remote entity and performs the validation locally.
US10145894B1
A method involving the non-destructive testing of a sample electrical or electronic device is provided. The method includes measuring a power spectrum of the device and performing a Principal Component Analysis on the power spectrum, thereby to obtain a set of principal components of the power spectrum. The method further includes selecting a subset consisting of some of the principal components, and comparing the subset to stored reference data that include representations in terms of principal components of one or more reference populations of devices. Based at least partly on the comparison, the sample device is classified relative to the reference populations.
US10145880B2
An electric field sensor has a semiconductor stack, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The semiconductor stack includes a first semiconductor layer of a first conductive type and a second semiconductor layer of a conductive type opposite to the first conductive type stacked on the first semiconductor layer. The first electrode is arranged on one side of the semiconductor stack in the lamination direction. The second electrode is arranged on the other side of the semiconductor stack in the lamination direction. The electric field sensor detects the intensity of an electric field in the direction orthogonal to the lamination direction based on a current passing through the semiconductor stack.
US10145878B2
Apparatus and methods for radio frequency emissions testing based on harmonic beamforming are provided herein. In certain configurations, a method of emissions testing of cellular communication assemblies for emissions compliance is provided. The method includes transmitting a signal beam using an antenna array of a respective cellular communication assembly after manufacture thereof, the signal beam including a fundamental lobe and one or more harmonic lobes. The method further includes determining one or more testing locations of the signal beam based on detecting a direction of the fundamental lobe using test equipment, the testing locations corresponding to locations associated with the harmonic lobes. The method further includes evaluating a level of harmonic emissions at each of the one or more testing locations using the test equipment to establish whether or not the respective cellular communication assembly complies with emissions testing.
US10145877B1
In an exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, a signal analyzer includes at least one noise reduction system in the form of an adaptive noise reduction system. The adaptive noise reduction system executes an adaptive noise floor extension (NFE) procedure that includes determining a predicted standard deviation of a response by the signal analyzer to intrinsic noise in the signal analyzer when various signal processing parameters desired by a user are applied to an input signal. The predicted standard deviation is then used in the signal analyzer to select and apply various noise subtraction values upon the input signal before displaying of a signal spectrum of the input signal upon a display of the signal analyzer. The adaptive NFE procedure is directed at reducing or eliminating various ambiguities and/or errors in the displayed signal spectrum.
US10145864B2
A sensored electrical jumper comprises a conductor having a first end and a second end, the first end including a first connection interface and the second end including a second connection interface, a sensor section including at least one sensor disposed over the conductor between the first and second ends, the sensor section sensing at least one of current and voltage of the conductor, and a sensor output conduit extending from the sensor and oriented substantially perpendicular to the conductor axis to protect at least one sensor output wire from leakage current or other potential electrical damage.
US10145858B2
An automatic analyzing apparatus capable of obtaining an analysis result of a specimen high in urgency in a shorter time is provided. When a first rack 50 is present in a sampling line 103 and an analysis request for a second rack higher in the degree of urgency for analysis than the first rack 50 is detected, a control unit unloads the first rack 50 onto a transport line 100 through a return line 102, allows the first rack 50 to stand by at a rack standby position 120 on a transport line 101 between a loading line 101 and the return line 102 under control, and loads the second rack from the transport line 101 onto the sampling line 103 through the loading line 101 and transports the second rack to the dispensing position 111 under control while allowing the first rack 50 to stand by.
US10145855B2
Provided herein are methods and dose packs for the monitoring of medication adherence. In one aspect, the dose pack comprises comprise a multiplicity of doses of an agent and a multiplicity of doses of a marker and be configured to isolate a pair of at least one of the multiplicity of doses of the agent and at least one of the multiplicity of doses of the marker for co-administration of the pair to the subject according to the dosing schedule. In another aspect, the method comprises obtaining a sample from the subject subsequent to the conclusion of a monitoring window and analyzing the sample for the presence or absence of a marker or a degradation product thereof.
US10145854B2
An extended range test strip includes a simple system where the end user can determine the concentration of the analyte at high concentration with a single drop of whole blood. A single drop of blood spreads across a spreading layer and into multiple reagent stacks. Multiple reagent stacks of the test strip may be configured to test for different ranges by adding a peroxide modulator. Readings from multiple reagent stacks producing a colorimetric response may be tested simultaneously. Working from the lowest range to the highest range of reagent stacks, the first reagent stack to be less than its maximum range is considered to be the reagent stack that is producing a colorimetric response related to the actual amount of analyte in the sample.
US10145851B2
Methods are provided for the analysis, including the serial analysis, of very small samples of tissue. The methods utilize a nanofluidic proteomic immunoassay (NIA) to quantify total and low-abundance protein isoforms in a small amount of lysate. NIA detection accurately measure oncoprotein expression and activation in limited clinical specimens, including isoforms that differ in post-translational modifications, such as phosphorylation, and the like. The NIA detection method combines isoelectric protein focusing and antibody detection in a nanofluidic system.
US10145848B2
The present invention includes compounds that are useful in perturbing or disrupting the function of a transmembrane or intracellular protein, whereby binding of the compounds to the transmembrane or intracellular protein induces proteasomal degradation of the transmembrane or intracellular protein. The present invention further includes a method of inducing proteasomal degradation of a transmembrane or intracellular protein. The present invention further includes a method of identifying or validating a protein of interest as a therapeutic target for treatment of a disease state or condition.
US10145842B2
A combination of capillary forces and gas pressure is used to control the movement of liquid samples within a microfluidic device. A liquid sample introduced to a proximal portion of a capillary channel of a microfluidic device moves by capillary action partway along the capillary channel. As the liquid sample moves, a pressure of a gas acting upon a distal gas-liquid interface of the liquid sample increases by an amount sufficient to stop further movement of the liquid sample. To initiate further movement of the liquid sample, a pump connected to a distal portion of the capillary channel decreases the pressure of the gas acting upon the distal gas-liquid interface of the liquid sample by an amount sufficient to permit the liquid sample to move by capillary action further along the capillary channel of the microfluidic device.
US10145841B2
The present invention provides a method for detecting an antigen in an analysis sample, the method including: (a) contacting an analysis sample with a detection antibody with which a marker generating a detectable signal is combined and which specifically binds to the antigen; (b) contacting a capture antibody with the resultant product of step (a), the capture antibody specifically binding to an antigen to be detected; (c) contacting the detection antibody, with which the marker generating a detectable signal is combined, with a reference substance which is bound to a surface of a solid substrate and which includes an epitope to which the detection antibody specifically binds; (d) measuring signals generated from the markers of the resultant product of step (b) and the resultant product of step (c); and (e) analyzing the measured signals to determine the presence or absence and amount of the antigen in the analysis sample. The method for detecting an antigen of the present invention can control the flow and the reaction time of an analysis sample, thereby improving sensitivity and minimizing the influences by the concentration of the analysis sample or the temperature of the detection reaction, and thus improving stability, reliability, and reproducibility of data, when compared with the conventional method for detecting an antigen. Accordingly, the method and apparatus for detecting an antigen of the present invention can be easily operated without specialized skills, thereby instantly obtaining the presence or absence and amount of detection antigen in the analysis sample through on-site diagnosis.
US10145834B2
Incendivity test systems and methods are disclosed. Incendivity test systems include a non-flammable gas mixture and a test article in a test chamber. The non-flammable gas mixture includes a thermally reactive reagent that is formulated to thermally react to produce a reaction product. Incendivity test systems also include an energy source configured to apply an energy discharge such as a simulated lightning strike to the test article. Incendivity test systems also include a detection device configured to measure an indicator species in the non-flammable gas mixture (e.g., the thermally reactive reagent and/or the reaction product). Incendivity test methods include contacting the test article with the non-flammable gas mixture, applying the energy discharge to the test article, and then measuring the amount of the indicator species and determining the incendivity of the test article in response to the energy discharge based upon the amount of the indicator species.
US10145833B2
A method of analysis of a hydrocarbon fuel for the presence of a micro-organism comprises contacting a fuel sample with an aqueous diluent and with an antibody reactive with the micro-organism, or reactive with a metabolite or breakdown product produced by the micro-organism, to detect the presence or absence of the micro-organism.
US10145823B2
An apparatus for heating a GC column is described. The apparatus includes first and second temperature sensors. Temperature data are used to set power provided to a heating element of the apparatus.
US10145822B2
A probe, including a first input configured to receive a first input signal, a second input configured to receive a second input signal, a first cable connected to the first input, a second cable connected to the second input, an electronically adjustable delay connected to the first cable, the electronically adjustable delay configured to delay the first input signal to remove a skew between the first input signal and the second input signal, and an amplifier configured to receive the first input signal from the electronically adjustable delay and a second input signal.
US10145818B2
Embodiments are directed to a method, a computer readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed, perform a method, and a system for performing mass spectrometry analysis. Molecules of different samples may be labeled with a chemical tag, allowing a multiplexed analysis of multiple samples. The labeled molecules may be fragmented, each fragmented molecule creating at least two separate ions. The relative abundance of each of the heavier ions, which may comprise the original molecule from the sample, may be measured. A relative abundance of the labeled molecules in each of the samples may be determined from the measured relative abundances of the heavier ions.
US10145808B2
A micro beam generation unit capable of simultaneously capturing anisotropic images in a high signal-to-background ratio with a compact configuration and an X-ray small-angle scattering apparatus are provided. A micro beam generation unit 110 generates X-rays having a micro spot size, with which a sample is irradiated, in order to detect diffracted X-rays by a one-dimensional detector or a two-dimensional detector. The micro beam generation unit 110 includes a slit 115 that is provided on an X-ray optical path and reshapes X-rays into parallel beams, and two channel-cut monochromator crystals 117 and 118 that are arranged in arrangement of (+, −, −, +) and remove parasitic scattering of parallel beams reshaped by the slit. Accordingly, it is possible to simultaneously obtain anisotropic images in a high signal-to-background ratio with a compact configuration.
US10145805B2
An inspection apparatus and method to automatically inspect ceramic honeycomb bodies during the manufacturing thereof. The apparatus includes a light source to shine light through channels of the ceramic honeycomb body, a lens to receive at least a portion of the light transmitted through channels of the ceramic honeycomb body, a camera to capture images of the transmitted light, a support chuck to support the honeycomb body, and a controller to receive the captured images, to analyze each captured image, to adjust the support chuck and/or the lens based on the analysis, and to align the ceramic honeycomb body channels and the lens optical axis.
US10145796B2
The invention relates to an illumination filter (36, 44) for an illumination filter system (2) for medical imaging, in particular multispectral fluorescence imaging, as performed e.g. in a microscope (1) or endoscope, in particular a multispectral fluorescence microscope. The present invention provides an illumination filter for medical imaging, in particular a multispectral fluorescence imaging, that is capable of capturing simultaneously more than one fluorescence signal, and allow a homogeneous illumination for obtaining different images from the object illuminated by comprising a spatial filter pattern (43) masking a defined filtering fraction of a first illumination path (47) on the filter and masking a defined filtering fraction of a second illumination path (48, 49, 50) on the filter, wherein the filtering fraction of the first and the second illumination paths (47, 48, 49, 50) are different. The invention further relates to an illumination filter system (2) for medical imaging, in particular multispectral fluorescence imaging, as performed e.g. in a microscope (1) or endoscope, in particular a multispectral fluorescence microscope, comprising such illumination filter (36, 44).
US10145775B2
Methods and apparatuses for determining the swell of a subterranean formation sample when contacted with a fluid at subterranean conditions.
US10145768B2
The time period necessary for a staining process is shortened, and the apparatus is downsized. This smear preparation apparatus includes: a staining vessel for storing a staining liquid therein so as to allow a plurality of glass slides each having a sample smeared thereon to be immersed therein; and a transfer unit for holding and transferring each glass slide. The staining vessel includes a plurality of first holders configured to hold the glass slides. The staining vessel is configured such that a plurality of glass slides held by a plurality of the first holders are immersed in the stored staining liquid, and the transfer unit is configured to put in/take out the glass slides one by one with respect to a plurality of the first holders of the staining vessel.
US10145765B2
A method is provided for suppressing, in a color reagent solution which is used to measure a component within a sample and which contains an oxidative color reagent dissolved therein, a background rise that occurs when the color reagent solution is stored. The method includes adjusting a hydrogen ion exponent (pH) of the color reagent solution so as to be strongly acidic. The hydrogen ion exponent is preferably adjusted to 2.9 or below or to 2.1 or below. The color reagent solution is preferably used to measure the degree of oxidative stress. The oxidative color reagent is preferably a phenylenediamine derivative.
US10145760B2
A pump, including a compression compartment configured to receive, between first and second sides of the compartment, a flexible container holding a fluid and having an outlet; The pump also has a pump mechanism that is coupled to drive the first and second sides of the compartment together so as to force the fluid out of the container through the outlet. There are first and second electrodes the are fixed respectively to the first and second sides. The pump also includes a processor that is coupled to measure a capacitance between the first and second electrodes and to estimate, responsively to the capacitance, a volume of the fluid remaining in the container.
US10145759B2
Disclosed herein is a combustion oscillation estimating apparatus which estimates combustion oscillation in a combustion chamber connected with a burner so that a flame is injected by the burner, the combustion oscillation estimating apparatus including an input unit which receives data including an inlet pressure of the burner, and a control unit which detects a pressure in the combustion chamber based on a shape from the burner to the combustion chamber, a temperature distribution in the combustion chamber, and a shape of the flame. The combustion oscillation estimating apparatus may improve estimation accuracy of the combustion oscillation in the combustion chamber.
US10145753B2
A rotor is statically or dynamically balanced by driving the rotor to rotate at a desired speed, measuring an imbalance in the rotor, calculating an adjustment to be made in a mass distribution of the rotor based on the measured imbalance, and adjusting the mass distribution to reduce the imbalance. Mass adjustment is done by operating a laser to ablate material from the rotor according to operating parameters based on the adjustment calculated. The foregoing is done while the rotor is rotating.
US10145752B2
The data-accepting part accepts normal time information data and non-normal time information data, which are outputted from measurement equipment connected to the management apparatus, the data-identifying part identifies the normal time information data and the non-normal time information data based on the difference in the transmission path of the data, or based on identification information given to the data, and the data-output part outputs the above-mentioned normal time information data and the non-normal time information data, such that an operator identifies the information data.
US10145743B2
A superconducting thermal detector (bolometer) of THz (sub-millimeter) wave radiation based on sensing the change in the amplitude or phase of a resonator circuit, consisting of a capacitor (Csh) and a superconducting temperature dependent inductor where the said inductor is thermally isolated from the heat bath (chip substrate) by micro-suspensions. The bolometer design includes a thin film inductor located on the membrane, a single or/and multi-layered thin film capacitor, and a thin film absorber of incoming radiation. The bolometer design can also include a lithographic antenna with antenna termination and/or a back reflector beneath the membrane for optimal wavelength detection by the resonance circuit. The superconducting thermal detector (bolometer) and arrays of these detectors operate in a temperature range from 1 Kelvin to 10 Kelvin.
US10145738B2
An optical detection filter has a transmission spectrum for detecting fluorescence light of a plurality of different fluorescent dyes. In the range between 350 nm and 1000 nm, the transmission spectrum has a first stopband (DS1) from Dλ1 to Dλ2, a first passband (DD1) from Dλ2 to Dλ3, a second stopband (DS2) from Dλ3 to Dλ4, a second passband (DD2) from Dλ4 to Dλ5, a third stopband (DS3) from Dλ5 to Dλ6, and a third passband (DD3) from Dλ6 to Dλ7. The stopbands (DS1, DS2, DS3) each have a mean transmittance of at most 0.01, typically at most 0.001 or at most 0.0001, and the passbands (DD1, DD2) each have a mean transmittance of at least 0.5, typically at least 0.8 or at least 0.9; wherein 350 nm≤Dλ1
US10145732B1
This disclosure relates to measuring ultraviolet (UV) exposure. One example system includes an electronic sensor chip that includes a UV sensor that measures a UV intensity reading, an inertial measurement unit that acquires movement data of the UV sensor, and at least one processor. The system further includes a light pipe that guides light towards the UV sensor and a diffuser that has an angle-dependent transmission function and covers an end of the light pipe. Example operations can be performed by the processor include determining a solar incidence angle between a direction of the sun and a normal direction of the UV sensor, computing an estimation of a maximum UV intensity at normal incidence based on the UV intensity reading, the solar incidence angle, and the angle-dependent transmission function of the diffuser, and outputting a UV index based on the estimation of the maximum UV intensity at normal incidence.
US10145730B2
Apparatus and methods are described, including an apparatus for testing a light beam emitted by a light source. The apparatus includes a transparent substrate, a first face of the substrate being shaped to define a plurality of optical deflectors. At least one optical detector is positioned to face a second face of the substrate that is not opposite the first face. Each one of the deflectors is configured to deflect a portion of the light beam toward the detector, when the light beam is passed through the first face of the substrate. Other applications are also described.
US10145727B2
A method for diminishing the signal interference of a transmission path of an optical fiber interference system, belonging to the technical field of optical fiber sensing. A wavelength division multiplexer (19) is connected in series to the end of an induced optical fiber, a wavelength component (λ2) is separated from an operating path by means of the wavelength division multiplexer (19) so as to measure a signal picked up by a transmission path, and the signal is removed from overall interference sensing signals by taking same as a reference, thereby obtaining a target measurement signal. Also provided is a structure for diminishing the signal interference of a transmission path of an optical fiber interference system. The method and the structure are simple; moreover, the device connected to the end of an induced optical fiber is passive, so that power supply is not required, and it is easy to implement. The present invention can be used for a sensing structure with a single measurement point and can be used in a sensing structure with a plurality of discontinuous measurement points as well.
US10145723B2
A dispenser having an interior portion that is dimensioned for receiving a wheeled cart that is configured for storing items to be dispensed from the dispenser. The cart may, for example, be supported by at least two non-swiveled wheels disposed adjacent a first end of the cart and at least one swiveled wheel disposed adjacent a second end of the cart. In particular embodiments, the dispenser includes a pivotable wheel support that is adapted for: (A) supporting the cart's non-swiveled wheels; and (B) while supporting these non-swiveled wheels in respective, substantially fixed positions relative to the pivotable wheel support, pivoting from: (1) a first position in which the cart is positioned outside the dispenser; to (2) a second position in which the cart is positioned within the dispenser's interior. This may assist in loading the cart into the dispenser.
US10145721B2
A flexible float-type liquid level measurement device includes an outer tube securement member, a signal connection module, a flexible outer tube, a suspension member, a flexible supporting unit and a magnetic floating ball. The signal connection module is arranged on one end of the outer tube securement member. The flexible outer tube is connected to the outer tube securement member. The suspension member is connected to another end of the flexible outer tube. The flexible supporting unit is arranged inside the flexible outer tube, and the flexible supporting unit includes one end connected to the outer tube securement member and another end connected to the suspension member. The magnetic floating ball is moveably mounted onto the flexible outer tube. Accordingly, the elongated deformation of the flexible outer tube can be prevented while the measurement accuracy and useful lifetime of the measurement device can be increased.
US10145706B2
In a navigation method, coordinates and additional information concerning several places, so-called places of interest, are stored as data in a memory. Surrounding-area parameters are predefined by which, with respect to arbitrary places, one surrounding area respectively is defined which surrounds the place. During a traveling movement with a navigation device, one pertaining surrounding area respectively is acquired by use of the surrounding-area parameters and the respective current location of the navigation device. By way of the stored coordinates, at least one of the stored places of interest is determined which is situated in the acquired surrounding area. The additional information stored with respect to the determined place of interest is outputted by way of a user interface.
US10145699B2
A forest fire real-time escape route planning system may include a processor that receives real-time Geographical Information System data. The system may include a firefighter endurance and route-planning model for determining, based on data received by the processor, one or more firefighter evacuation routes to one or more safe areas. The model may determine a rating for each evacuation route based on a degree of risk. The model may predict a rate of fire progression based on fire fuel proximate the fire. They system may include a transmitting device for communicating the one or more firefighter evacuation routes along with the rating for each evacuation route to a mobile device. The mobile device may be configured to display the one or more firefighter evacuation routes overlaid on a map depicting a current location of a firefighter relative to the fire.
US10145697B2
The claimed subject matter provides a method for navigating to dynamic destinations. The method includes associating a leader mobile device with a follower mobile device. The method also includes displaying, on the follower mobile device, a first path from a follower vehicle to a first location of a leader vehicle. The follower vehicle is associated with the follower mobile device. The leader vehicle is associated with the leader mobile device. The method further includes displaying, on the follower mobile device, a second path from the follower vehicle to a second location of the leader vehicle.
US10145694B2
Technologies for providing information to a user while traveling include a mobile computing device to determine network condition information associated with a route segment. The route segment may be one of a number of route segments defining at least one route from a starting location to a destination. The mobile computing device may determine a route from the starting location to the destination based on the network condition information. The mobile computing device may upload the network condition information to a crowdsourcing server. A mobile computing device may predict a future location of the device based on device context, determine a safety level for the predicted location, and notify the user if the safety level is below a threshold safety level. The device context may include location, time of day, and other data. The safety level may be determined based on predefined crime data. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10145685B2
An angular velocity sensor element includes a fixing part, an extension part, a twisted extension part, a drive vibrator, a detection vibrator, and a counter beam. The extension part has a first end coupled to the fixing part, and a second end. The twisted extension part has a first end coupled to the second end of the extension part, and a second end. The drive vibrator has a first end coupled to the second end of the twisted extension part, and a second end. The drive vibrator is provided with a drive electrode. The detection vibrator is coupled to the second end of the drive vibrator, and is provided with a first detection electrode. The counter beam is coupled to the second end of the twisted extension part, disposed substantially parallel to the drive vibrator, and configured to vibrate in a direction opposite to a vibration direction of the drive vibrator.
US10145682B2
A method for reducing errors in a rotating device permitting rotation of a workpiece about a rotational axis during the determination of co-ordinates or during the machining of the workpiece. The workpiece is rotated about the rotational axis and first and second measuring signals of a first and a second course of the workpiece surface are generated by the coordinate measuring device while the device is positioned at different first and second circumferential positions of the rotational axis. The first and the second measuring signals are used for separating redundant surface information and error information contained in the signals. The redundant surface information relates to the workpiece surface revolving around the rotational axis and the error information relates to errors in the rotating device resulting from deviations between actual positions and orientations of the rotational axis and corresponding ideal positions and orientations.
US10145677B2
An impact test system includes a head model having a head exterior component; a skull component; a brain component; a fluid component; an interior cavity surface; and a translucent cover, wherein the head model is coupled with a mount, the brain component and fluid components are configured within the interior cavity, and wherein the translucent cover is configured over a portion of the brain component and fluid component. A mount is configured to a least partially restrain the head model. A camera is configured to take a plurality of images of the brain and the fluid components through the translucent cover when the head model is under an impact force.
US10145672B2
A method and apparatus in which retroreflective materials and surfaces are used for determining the position, orientation and scale of work pieces in order to accurately place process beams thereon for the purpose of surface patterning or treatment.
US10145664B2
A coordinate measuring machine including a workpiece support for mounting a workpiece to be measured; a mechanism for moving a sensor in a first coordinate direction and a second coordinate direction perpendicular thereto. The mechanism includes: a first measurement slide guided in the first coordinate direction along two parallel guides arranged on opposite sides of the workpiece support. The first measurement slide spans the support. The first slide is driven via a first drive, which drives the first slide along a first guide of the guides, and is driven via a second drive, which drives the first slide along the second of the guides; a second measurement slide guided movably in the second coordinate direction along the first measurement slide. The second slide is assigned a position measuring system, via which the position of the second measurement slide relative to the first measurement slide can be determined; a controller, which actuates the first and second drive. The controller includes a force feedforward control, which, depending on the detected position (xactual) of the second measurement slide and depending on a setpoint acceleration (asetpoint) to be set of the first measurement slide, brings about an actuation of the first drive and/or of the second drive in such a way that the torques which as a result of the acceleration of the first measurement slide by the first drive and by the second drive relative to a rotation axis (Rz) which is perpendicular to the first and second coordinate directions at least partly or completely compensate for one another.
US10145650B1
A handgun holster for an automobile interior can be attached to the interior components of a vehicle securely and can be adjusted to fit most vehicle moldings underneath the vehicle's steering wheel.
US10145644B1
A bow balancing tool according to various embodiments can include a mounting assembly, a floating bracket and a cradle assembly which provides a user an indication on where the bow is balanced to provide an improved shooting experience, better aiming stability and ultimately a more accurate configuration. The mounting assembly includes an elongated mounting plate attached to a housing having a pivotable shaft. The mounting assembly is configured to attach the bow balancing tool to the at least one flat surface. The floating bracket is attached to the pivotable shaft. The cradle assembly includes a clamping hub section, a clamping block section and a protective mechanism. The cradle assembly is attached to the floating bracket and holds the bow in a balanced configuration.
US10145639B2
A vehicle-mounted weapon station is configurable to adjust the height of a rotational elevation axis thereof. The weapon station is provided with at least one fixed hanging ammunition container that is reloadable under the armored protection of the vehicle and the weapon station shell. The weapon station may have both electrically-powered and manually-powered drive systems for rotating a pedestal about an azimuth axis relative to the vehicle, and for rotating weaponry and operational units about the elevation axis, wherein the electrical and manual drive systems transmit power through the same output gear.
US10145633B1
An improved jig for manufacturing a firearm lower receiver is comprised of a power tool mount; an adapter; a guide plate with plate screws; a rear support with mounting screws; a front support; and at least one of a carriages with at least one locating pin. A guide plate is disposed below the top surface of a lower receiver in conjunction with an adapter. The jig is a universal fitment and includes a bearing to support a rotary tool and at least one guiding feature can be used to facilitate in the guidance of the rotary tool without placing the rotary tool in direct contact with any of the guidance features. A removable locating pin is situated a long the front and rear takedown pin holes of a firearm receiver that is not threaded and is provided with at least one of a pull, string or other handle.
US10145616B2
A method for denitrification of flue gases and a system, wherein flue gases generated in a rotary kiln are conveyed to a calcining zone for the deacidification of raw cement meal. Aqueous ammonia solution, ammonia, or ammonia-releasing substances for denitrifying the flue gases injected into the calcining zone according to the method of selective non-catalytic reduction (SNCR), and the flue gas stream, together with an ammonia slip generated during the denitrification, is passed through a heat exchanger and through at least one dedusting device. The flue gas is guided through a exhaust gas line via a catalyst for the decomposition of excess ammonia with residues of nitrogen oxide in accordance with a method of selective catalytic reduction (SCR), wherein the catalyst is arranged in a reactor provided in the exhaust line, and is no larger than is required for a sufficient decomposition of the ammonia.
US10145615B2
A structure of composite crucibles and a high temperature adiabatic method in an arc heating process are disclosed. The structure may include a conventional water-cooled copper platform on which one or more graphite platform(s) are disposed and the topmost graphite platform is configured for disposing one or more metallic specimen(s). When arc smelts the metallic specimen(s) in the furnace in vacuum, and the heat of the metallic specimen(s) is transferred to the graphite platform, the graphite platform can reduce heat loss and improve heat preservation so as to cause the metallic specimen(s) to remain stable for the process of heating and melting to complete. The heat of the graphite platform is further transferred to the copper platform for lowering the temperature of the graphite platform.
US10145614B2
A furnace door sealing device for a low-pressure diffusion furnace is provided. The furnace door sealing device includes a furnace door, a fixed shaft and a fixed base which are coaxially arranged in sequence from front to back. A bearing pedestal is fixed at the center of the rear end surface of the furnace door. A centripetal knuckle bearing is arranged in the bearing pedestal. An outer ring of the centripetal knuckle bearing is fixed in the bearing pedestal. An inner ring of the centripetal knuckle bearing fixedly sleeves the front end of the fixed shaft. The rear end of the fixed shaft is fixed in the fixed base. A supporting plate is also fixed on the front end surface of the fixed base. Multiple spring adjusting assemblies are arranged on the supporting plate at an interval.
US10145607B2
A method for operating a refrigeration system in order to perform temperature control of a closed volume is disclosed. The refrigeration system comprising a compressor, a condenser, an expansion device and an evaporator connected in series in a refrigerant flow path. The refrigeration system further comprises one or more fans arranged to cause a flow of air across the evaporator.The compressor is controlled by switching the compressor on or off in accordance with a measured temperature, Tsup, of air which has passed across the evaporator and is being supplied to the closed volume, and in order to achieve a set point temperature, Tset, in the closed volume. During this a compressor switching pattern is determined.Temperature fluctuations inside the closed volume are minimized, and energy is conserved.
US10145602B2
An active gas-gap heat switch may significantly reduce the time required to transition between the open and closed states, reduce the heat require to warm the getter, and reduce the heat that leaks from the getter to the switch body. A thermal interface at one end of the active gas-gap heat switch may include a plurality of fins. A getter assembly may be hermetically attached to the thermal interface and a containment tube may surround and house the plurality of fins.
US10145601B2
An outdoor unit according to the present invention includes an air-sending-device chamber including a heat exchanger disposed at least on the rear side within an outdoor unit body, a propeller fan having a plurality of blades and disposed on the front side of the heat exchanger, and a bell mouth disposed on the front side of the propeller fan to face an air outlet, a machine chamber in which a compressor is disposed, and a partition plate that separates the air-sending-device chamber and the machine chamber. The partition plate has a protruding shape protruding from the air-sending-device chamber toward the machine chamber. The partition plate has, on the side of the air-sending-device chamber, a recessed area corresponding to the protruding shape. The amount of recess of the recessed area is maximized at a position equal in height to the center of rotation of the propeller fan.
US10145600B2
A refrigerator includes a main body including a freezing-compartment inner case forming a freezing compartment and a refrigerating-compartment inner case forming a refrigerating compartment, and a heat transfer module including a thermosiphon part having a portion provided in the freezing-compartment inner case and another portion provided in the refrigerating-compartment inner case and having a closed loop in which working fluid for transferring heat flows and a heating member coupled to one side of the thermosiphon part to heat the working fluid. Other configurations are possible.
US10145588B2
An ejector refrigeration cycle has a compressor, a radiator, an ejector, a swirl flow generator, an evaporator, and an oil separator. The compressor compresses refrigerant, mixed with refrigerant oil compatible with a liquid-phase refrigerant, and discharges the high-pressure refrigerant. The ejector has a nozzle and a body having a refrigerant suction port and a pressure increasing part. The swirl flow generator is configured to cause a decompression boiling in the refrigerant by causing the refrigerant to swirl about a center axis of the nozzle. The oil separator separates the refrigerant oil from the high-pressure refrigerant compressed by the compressor and guides the refrigerant oil to flow to a suction side of the compressor. The oil separator decreases a concentration of the refrigerant oil in the refrigerant, which is to flow into the swirl flow generator, so as to promote the decompression boiling of the refrigerant in the swirl flow generator.
US10145584B2
A method of determining presence of a flame in a furnace of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. The method comprises determining, using a controller, whether a processor signal (G) is active, responsive to a determination that the processor signal (G) is active, determining, using the controller prior to assertion of a flame-test input control signal, an output state of a first comparator, responsive to a determination that the output state of the first comparator is high, determining, using the controller prior to assertion of the flame-test input control signal, an output state of a second comparator, and responsive to a determination that the output state of the second comparator is low, transmitting, using the controller, a notification that a flame is present.
US10145583B2
Heating apparatus includes an air inlet, a plurality of air outlets, an impeller, a motor for rotating the impeller to draw air through the air inlet, a user interface for allowing a user to select a rotational speed of the motor from a user selectable range of values, and a plurality of heater assemblies each comprising at least one positive temperature coefficient (PTC) heating element for heating air passing from the air inlet to a respective air outlet. The magnitude of a current drawn by the heater assemblies is detected, and the rotational speed of the motor is controlled independently from the rotational speed selected by the user depending on a characteristic of the current drawn by the heater assemblies.
US10145578B2
A zone control panel that is easy and intuitive to use and to program. In some embodiments, a zone control panel may be configured to have an easy to use, single level menu structure with, for example, a configuration mode and/or a checkout mode. The configuration mode may, if present, include a number of menu screens sometimes without any sub-menu levels. Likewise, the checkout mode may, if present, include a number of menu screens sometimes without any sub-menu levels. A mode selector may be provided to select a particular mode, after which, the menu screens that correspond to the selected mode may be sequentially displayed to the user. Other features and aspects are also disclosed.
US10145577B2
A novel small format touch screen user interface for displaying, adding and editing program setpoints is described. When editing a setpoint the user's input is constrained such that the user can only alter one parameter (either time or temperature). As soon as the user begins to drag a setpoint icon in either a horizontal (i.e. adjusting time), or vertical (i.e. adjusting temperature), the other parameter is constrained. Additionally, the disclosed user interface includes displaying information as to how the setpoint was most recently added or adjusted. For example the display can be used to indicate whether a setpoint was added or adjusted (1) on the thermostat itself; (2) by an automated learning algorithm; (3) by a user on a web client; or (4) by a user using a mobile client (such as a smart phone or tablet PC). Further, the name of the particular device is also displayed if known.
US10145574B2
The vent port employs a pair of mated housing parts that define a space for two flap valves. Each flap valve is formed of an aluminum bracket with an aperture for the passage of air and a silicone flap that closes over the aperture. The flap valves are oriented so that gravity enhances the closing of the flaps. Resistors are mounted on the brackets to heat the brackets at a low wattage. In one embodiment, the flap valves are vertically arranged over each other. In another embodiment, the flap valves are horizontally disposed in criss-crossing relation.
US10145566B2
A door (1) for an oven (100) for closing and opening a cooking chamber (120) of the oven (100), comprising a frame (20) able to be hinged to the oven (100), and a first panel (30) fixed to the frame (20), comprising at least a second panel (31,32) associated to the frame (20) removably by means of jointing fastening elements (24,213,222).
US10145565B2
The present invention relates to a door (3) of a domestic cooking oven (1), in particular of the pyrolytic type. The door (3) comprises at least a first and a second plate (31, 32) and a first and a second upright beam (8, 9). The first plate (31) defines an outer surface of the door (3) and the two upright beams (8, 9) receiving at least the second plate (32) are fixed internally relative thereto. The door (3) further comprises a first and a second locking element (14, 15) removably engaged to the first and second upright beams (8, 9) and configured to be selectively movable between an operating position, wherein they are engaged to the respective upright beams (8, 9) in such a way as to lock at least the second plate (32) in a mounting position, and at least one unlocked position, wherein they enable the second plate (32) to be extracted from the door (3).
US10145559B2
A combustor for a gas turbine engine comprising a combustion liner defining a combustion chamber, wherein the combustion liner has at least one opening into which a combustor liner mount is received. The combustor liner mount can have at least one cooling passage defined therein having an inlet defining an inlet axis and an outlet defining an outlet axis, wherein the inlet axis is not collinear with the outlet axis for providing enhanced cooling to at least one of the combustor liner mount and an adjacent combustion component, such as an igniter or a borescope plug.
US10145557B2
A method supplies reactants, including fuel gas, to burners that discharge the reactants into a furnace process chamber. In a stable flame mode of operation, stable flames are projected from the burners into the furnace process chamber. At a time when the furnace process chamber has a temperature at or above an autoignition temperature of the fuel gas, a diffuse combustion mode is initiated by supplying a selected burner with additional reactants, including reactants diverted from another burner, to blow off the stable flame at the selected burner.
US10145550B2
A downlight assembly comprising:—(i) a mounting ring having a tubular body with an opening at a rear, the mounting ring being formed from a material that withstands temperatures used for fire rating tests and having a lower peripheral annular flange extending outwardly from a bottom end of the tubular body, and an upper peripheral annular flange extending inwardly from an upper end of the tubular body, said upper peripheral annular flange enabling the rear of the mounting ring to be substantially closed if required; (ii) a solid state lighting element comprising one or more LEDs mounted on a circuit board formed from a material having a melting point lower than 1000 degrees C.; (iii) a heat sink formed from a material having a melting point lower than 1000 degrees C. and being in thermal contact with the solid state lighting element and located substantially outside the mounting ring; and (iv) intumescent material wherein the intumescent material is adapted to expand to fill or occlude the tubular body in the event of a fire.
US10145545B2
A light-emitting element includes at least one flat light emitter having a first electrical contact portion formed on a side surface, and a housing partially surrounding the side surface of the flat light emitter, the housing including a second electrical contact portion formed on an inner surface of the housing and configured to mate with the first electrical contact portion.
US10145538B2
Provided are a light-emitting apparatus that can suppress manufacturing cost to a low level and perform light emission with high uniformity using a simple configuration, a calibration coefficient calculation method using the light-emitting apparatus, and a method for calibrating a captured image of an inspection target object. A plurality of light-emitting diodes arranged at equal intervals on the circumference of a virtual circle, and a milky white-colored emission window, which is provided on a top surface portion separated from the light-emitting diodes, has an outer edge that is smaller than the circumference on which the light-emitting diodes are arranged, and allows light of the light-emitting diodes to pass therethrough, are included. The diameter of the virtual circle on which the light-emitting diodes are arranged and a separation distance between the light-emitting diodes and the emission window are set to predetermined distances.
US10145534B2
A linear lighting apparatus, comprises a plurality of lighting sources aligned along a main axis of the apparatus a cylindrical lens with its axis parallel to the main axis of the apparatus, said cylindrical lens being suitable to receive most of the light emission generated by the lighting sources and to emit a substantially collimated light beam, and a reflector suitable to reflect at least a portion of the light emission not refracted by the cylindrical lens.
US10145533B2
There is provided a color sequential illumination device comprising in series: first and second light sources; a condenser lens; and a grating device. The grating device comprises at least one Bragg grating. The condenser lens directs light from the first and second sources into the grating device at first and second incidence angles respectively. The grating device diffracts light from the first and second sources into a common direction. Desirably, the Bragg gratings are Electrically Switchable Bragg Gratings. In one embodiment of the invention the light sources are Light Emitting Diodes. Alternatively lasers may be used.
US10145530B2
An arrangement of a heatsink for insertion in a headlamp, and a holder being provided in the headlamp, in which the heatsink is held. At least one semiconductor light source is provided, which can be cooled with the heatsink (10). A clamping element is provided, with which the heatsink is arranged in a holding manner on the holder and by means of which one or more semiconductor light sources are directly or indirectly held on the heatsink.
US10145524B2
An automated luminaire with dual over-sized graphic wheels that can be inserted and positioned into or out of the light path of the luminaire together as a unit and each graphic wheel can be rotated independent of the other wheel.
US10145520B1
A light assembly includes at least one power pack, multiple wire units, multiple connection parts and multiple light units. The at least one power pack includes a first sensor and a first locking portion. The wire units each have a first wire and two second connectors. A second connection portion is connected to each of two ends of the first wire, and connected to the first connection portion. The second connectors each are threadedly connected to the first locking portion. Each connection part is between the two wire units. The connection parts each have at least three third connection portions which are connected to the second connectors. The multiple light units are respectively connected to the multiple connection parts. The light units each include a fourth connector and a light part which is connected to the third connection portion by the second wire.
US10145519B1
A lighting device assembly includes: a heat sink; a light source attached to one end of the heat sink; and an optic assembly including an optic having a recess to receive at least a portion of the light source, the optic being configured to pivot about the light source while the portion of the light source remains within the recess.
US10145514B2
A cold-box system includes: a bulk gas tank, and a plurality of cold-box compartments operationally associated with the bulk gas tank. A cold-box apparatus includes a plurality of cold-box compartments operationally associated with a bulk gas tank. In one embodiment the cold-box compartments may be spaced apart from the tank aboard a waterborne platform. The system and apparatus provide redundancy regarding power aboard ship for the bulk gas tank.
US10145510B2
A fully contained, mobile, compressed natural gas (CNG), compressed breathing air, or other compressed gas refueling unit, and methods of use of said refueling unit, that use a pneumatically powered booster pump to provide a consistent, high pressure filling of CNG storage tanks without using an external power source.
US10145508B2
A fluid storage tank according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first outer wall section that forms a front face in the length direction, the width direction and the height direction so as to form a space portion in which a fluid is stored; a plurality of partition plates arranged along the length direction of the first outer wall portion to divide the space portion into the plurality of sub-space portions; and an end portion located between the outermost partition plate of the plurality of partition plates and the first outer wall portion, wherein each of the partition plates is formed with a fluid through hole comprising: a gas through hole located on the top of the partition plate; and a liquid through hole located on the bottom of the partition plate so that fluids between the sub-pace portions are in communication with each other.
US10145498B2
Provided is a flange joining structure having excellent earthquake resistance, for which the joining operation can be performed simply and easily, similar to conventional practice. A flange joining structure provided with a first member having a first annular flange part, a second member having a second annular flange part, and a seal body placed between the first member and the second member, these components being connected and joined together by a bolt and a nut. The seal body has an annular base part formed from a metal plate and an elastic seal part provided integrally to the annular base part, the elastic seal part being provided so as to cover the annular base part, and the elastic seal part of the seal body sealing the space between the first annular flange part and the second annular flange part.
US10145496B2
A thread structure in accordance to one or more embodiments includes a thread extending helically along the cylindrical member in spaced thread turns, the thread having a crest extending between a first flank and a second flank and a root extending between the thread turns, the root having a curvature defined by a portion of an ellipse tangentially adjoining the first and second flank at respective flank transition points, the ellipse having a major axis extending parallel to the axis and a minor axis extending perpendicular to the major axis and through a root bottom.
US10145495B2
A threaded tubular connection including a first tube and a second tube is provided. The first tube includes a pin member which extends from an end of a main body of the first tube to a terminal end of the first tube. The second tube includes a box member which extends from an end of a main body of the second tube to a terminal end of the second tube. A cross-sectional area of a pin critical cross-section is within approximately ±5% of cross-sectional area of a box critical cross-section of the box member. The cross-sectional areas of each of the pin and box critical cross-sections are within approximately ±5% of the sum of the cross-sectional areas of a box intermediate critical cross-section of the box member and a pin intermediate critical cross-section of the pin member.
US10145493B2
In general, a connector designed to slip on a tubular, or an extension thereof, may be locked onto the tubular and a seal created around the tubular to keep pressure trapped inside the tubular. Generally, the connector is slipped over and makes contact with the tubular via a sliding sleeve seal cover. In certain embodiments, when sufficient force is placed on the connector, one or more shear pins, which are holding the sleeve, are sheared, allowing the connector to be lowered onto the tubular and the seal to make contact with the tubular. The connector may be locked onto the tubular by means of a one piece slip energized by a cam typically held in place mechanically by one or more ratchets.
US10145491B2
A device for converting a rotational motion of a valve element into a translational motion of same having a valve element bearing-supported such that it is translationally movable along a translation axis, a cam element with a cam curvature. The cam element is rotatable about an axis of rotation, wherein connected with the valve element is a stem by means of which the valve element can be moved translationally along the translation axis and which comprises an engagement element in engagement with the cam curvature. The engagement element is braced from two sides of the cam element by the stem, and wherein, by rotation of the cam element about the axis of rotation, the engagement element is guided along the cam curvature such that the stem executes a translational motion whereby the valve element executes a translational motion.
US10145490B2
Servovalve with jet-type pilot stage including an ejector for ejecting a jet of fluid that is movable relative to a deflector adapted to generate a pressure differential that can be used to move a power distribution member of the servovalve, the ejector projecting radially from a column extending along a longitudinal axis and to which the ejector is fastened, being in fluid communication with a central passage of the column via which the ejector is fed with fluid, the column having a first end pivotably engaged in a part of the servovalve in the vicinity of a pressure feed thereof and via which the fluid is introduced into the central passage of the column, the column having a second end loaded by a torque motor to apply selectively to the column a rotation torque about the longitudinal axis in either direction relative to a rest position.
US10145488B2
A solenoid valve includes a sleeve, a spool valve, and a solenoid part. The solenoid part has an electromagnetic coil, a solenoid core, a plunger that moves in the axial direction with respect to the solenoid core, and a stopper that is interposed between the plunger and the solenoid core to restrict movement of the plunger. The solenoid core includes a cylindrical part and an extended part. The cylindrical part has an opposing surface facing the plunger in the axial direction and a contact surface that is contacted by the stopper. The extended part is extended in the axial direction from an outer peripheral end of the cylindrical part. At least a part of the opposing surface of the cylindrical part is located closer to the plunger than the contact surface.
US10145484B2
The presently-disclosed subject matter includes valve covers. The valve covers can protect valves from exposure as well as from tampering. In some embodiments the valve cover comprises a cap that includes a top end and a side wall that is substantially cylindrical. Embodiments of valve covers also include a plug on an interior side of the top end of the cap that projects toward the opening of the cap. When the valve cover is installed, the plug can extend beyond an opening of the valve.
US10145481B2
Provided is a pneumatic valve in which a seal member; a shaft provided with a valve body capable of abutting against the seal member; and a valve-actuating pressure chamber that moves the shaft in an axial direction to actuate the valve body is provided within a valve casing. The shaft has a first member that receives pressure from the valve-actuating pressure chamber, and a second member that includes the valve body and is movable relative to the first member in the axial direction. The pneumatic valve further has a stopper that is provided in a movement path of the first member, and a disc spring that is sandwiched between the first member and the second member, has elastic energy accumulated therein in a state where the first member is in contact with the stopper, and presses the valve body against the seal member.
US10145479B2
Provided is a diaphragm valve that is capable of increasing its flow rate and is capable of suppressing variation among the diaphragm valves in the flow rates. In a diaphragm valve 1, a fluid that has flown into the fluid inflow channel 2a enters a fluid outflow channel 2b via through holes 22a of a seat holder 5. On a bottom surface 13 of a depression 2c of a body 2, a seat receiving surface 13a that receives a seat 4 is flush with a seat-holder receiving surface 13b that receives a seat holder 5. In the bottom surface of the depression 2c of the body 2, an annular groove 14 facing through holes 22 of the seat holder 5 is formed.
US10145471B2
A dog clutch operable to bypass a variator of a transmission is disclosed. The dog clutch includes a housing engaged with an input ring of the variator. The dog clutch also includes a piston engaged with the housing and movable from a first position in which the piston is disengaged from an output ring of the variator to a second position in which the piston is engaged with the output ring. The variator input ring and output ring are locked together when the dog clutch is in the second position to prevent the variator from producing continuously variable torque output. The variator is operable to produce continuously-variable torque output when the dog clutch is in the first position.
US10145462B2
According to an aspect, a shaft internal lubrication system includes a shaft body having an outer wall and a central bore defining an inner wall. The shaft internal lubrication system also includes a plurality of lubrication holes axially distributed along the central bore and fluidically connecting the inner wall and the outer wall. At least one rifling groove on the inner wall forms a lubrication flow path to two or more of the lubrication holes. The shaft internal lubrication system further includes a feed tube within the central bore operable to drip feed a lubricant to the inner wall.
US10145448B2
An attachment device that includes two portions of cord extending from a junction point from which a loop also extends. A locking element brings the portions of cord together at a site other than that of the junction point. The locking element is able to be passed through the loop to close the device on itself and ensure locking. The locking element is also able to slide along the portions of cord, thereby allowing the attachment device to be adjustable.
US10145425B2
A clutch carrier includes a stamped carrier and a hub portion. The stamped carrier has a first circumferential wall, a second circumferential wall axially and radially offset from the first circumferential wall, and a first radial wall extending radially inward from the second circumferential wall. The hub portion has a third circumferential wall extending from the first radial wall, a fourth circumferential wall axially and radially offset from the third circumferential wall, and a second radial wall connecting the third and fourth circumferential walls. In some example embodiments, the first circumferential wall includes a plurality of axially extending fingers for driving engagement with a clutch plate. In an example embodiment, each of the plurality of axially extending fingers includes a groove for receiving a retaining ring.
US10145418B2
A bearing assembly comprises an outer ring and an inner ring radially inward of the outer ring and cooperating therewith to form a roller volume. The inner ring has opposed faces including slots extending axially and circumferentially spaced. The slots extend axially to openings into the opposed axial faces and communicate with partial circumferential slots in the inner circumferential surface and in fluid communication with the roller volume through passages in the inner ring. A first plurality of the axial slots has a radial depth increasing from a first of the axial faces to the respective partial circumferential slot. A second plurality of the axial slots has a radial depth increasing from the second of the axial faces to the respective partial circumferential slot. Bearing elements are in the roller volume rollingly disposed against the outer ring and the inner ring.
US10145390B2
A pressure accumulator includes a membrane (4) forming a movable separating element between media spaces (6, 8) and made of contiguous layers (16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26) of different materials. At least one layer of a basic structure (16, 20) has filaments. A gas-tight impregnation (24) is disposed between layers (18) made of an elastomer.
US10145385B2
A liquid pump has a pump housing defining a pump chamber. A motor is accommodated within the pump housing and separated from the pump chamber by an end cap. An impeller disposed within the pump chamber is driven by the motor. The pump chamber has an inlet and one or more outlets. The outlets are located on a sidewall of the pump chamber and extend in a direction substantially tangential to an outer circumference of the pump chamber. Each outlet has a first end near the pump chamber, and a second end remote from the pump chamber. A cross-sectional area S1 of the first end is smaller than a cross-sectional area S2 of the second end, forming a diffuser within the outlet.
US10145378B2
A rotary machine characterized by being equipped with: a rotary drive part; a drive shaft that is rotated about a horizontally extending axis by the rotary drive part; a large gear that is fixed to the drive shaft; a bearing part that rotatably supports the drive shaft, and to which a lubrication oil is supplied; multiple pinions that are driven by being engaged with the large gear; multiple compression parts that are arranged so as to correspond to the multiple pinions and are respectively rotated by the pinions; and a plate that is installed between the bearing part and the large gear and covers at least a portion of the bottom half of the large gear so as to separate the large gear and the bearing part from each other.
US10145377B2
A heat shield for a thrust bearing assembly of a pump. The heat shield includes a member having an inner surface and an outer surface. A raised flange is formed on a perimeter of the inner surface. The raised flange is configured to seal with a back surface of a thrust shoe holder, and form a cavity between the inner surface and the back surface of the thrust shoe holder. At least one weep hole is on the flange. The weep hole is configured to allow water to enter the cavity to form an insulating stagnant water layer.
US10145373B2
A rotary compression mechanism includes: a shaft attached to a casing; a drive cylinder rotatably supported on the shaft; a rotor provided inside the drive cylinder; a transfer mechanism connecting the drive cylinder and the rotor in rotational motion at a constant speed; and a partition plate dividing a space defined between an inner periphery of the drive cylinder and an outer periphery of the rotor. The rotor has a second rotation center which is eccentric with respect to a first rotation center of the drive cylinder such that the outer periphery of the rotor is in contact with the inner periphery of the drive cylinder at a contact portion. The partition plate has a structure by which one end of the partition plate is let in and out in a vicinity of the inner periphery of the drive cylinder or in a vicinity of the outer periphery of the rotor.
US10145370B2
A double-headed piston type swash plate compressor includes a rotation shaft, a housing, a swash plate, two cylinder bores, a double-headed piston, and two shoes. The double-headed piston includes two shoe holders, a neck, two heads, and two coupling portions. Each of the coupling portions includes an outer portion and an inner portion. A direction orthogonal to both of an opposing direction of the inner portion and the outer portion and the axial direction of the double-headed piston is referred to as a widthwise direction. The inner portion includes a narrow portion and a wide portion. The wide portion projects out of the narrow portion in the widthwise direction and has a larger width than the narrow portion. An outer surface of the wide portion is slidable on a wall surface of the corresponding cylinder bore when the double-headed piston reciprocates in the cylinder bores.
US10145365B2
Heat exchange apparatus (24, 80) includes first heat transfer tubes (50), contained within an enclosure (43) and coupled to receive a first fluid heated by an energy source (22, 36). Second heat transfer tubes (52) are interleaved with the first heat transfer tubes within the enclosure so as to heat a second fluid contained in the second heat transfer tubes by transfer of heat from the first fluid, and are coupled to output the heated second fluid to drive target equipment (30). A heat storage medium (48) fills the enclosure.
US10145363B2
The invention relates to a method for performing up-tower maintenance on a gearbox bearing of a wind turbine. In particular, a method for performing up-tower maintenance on a gearbox of a wind turbine is disclosed. The gearbox has at least one bearing with an outer race and an inner race that rotates with respect to the outer race. The method includes forming a through-hole in a front cover of the gearbox, the front cover being stationary with respect to an axis of rotation of the bearing. The method also includes forming a recess in the outer race of the bearing. Further, the method includes inserting a connecting member through the through-hole and the recess so as to prevent movement of the outer race of the bearing with respect to a torque arm of the gearbox.
