US10182064B1
Methods, computer program products, computer systems, and the like, which protect messages in an electronic messaging system, are disclosed. The methods, computer program products, computer systems, and the like include detecting an occurrence of an event, and, in response to the detecting the occurrence of the event, scanning a message. The occurrence of the event indicates that the message should be scanned. The message includes recipient information, which identifies a recipient of the message, and is stored in a message store. The message has been received at a message destination associated with the recipient. The scanning uses a malware definition. The scanning is performed prior to the message being retrieved from the message store in response to a request by the recipient to retrieve the message from the message store. The event is other than the request by the recipient to retrieve the message from the message store.
US10182060B2
A method for downloading a profile on an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) of a terminal is provided. The method includes transmitting a profile request containing eUICC authentication information to a profile providing server through a security channel, upon receiving, from the profile providing server, profile-related information generated in response to the profile request, displaying non-encrypted profile information contained in the profile-related information on a screen, identifying whether a user input indicating whether to proceed to download the profile is detected, and downloading the profile, corresponding to the identified user input.
US10182048B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for automatically populating one-time-password input fields may include (1) detecting, at a first computing device of a user, an input field that requires a one-time password that is included in a message that is sent by a one-time-password provider to a second computing device of the user, (2) identifying, at the second computing device, the message that includes the one-time password, (3) transmitting the one-time password from the second computing device to the first computing device, (4) receiving, at the first computing device, the one-time password, and (5) automatically populating, at the first computing device, the input field with the one-time password. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10182032B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium enable a domain name or host name registry to effectively manage status codes associated with the domain or host. Status codes are organized into status sets that can be added, removed, activated, or deactivated in accordance with a suitable change request. The status codes corresponding to a removed status set that are also enabled according to other active status sets are not removed when the removal of the status set is processed.
US10182030B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods automatically identify and communicate media content to users as the media content is uploaded to the internet. The disclosed systems and methods leverage an internet hosted data firehose in order to build and communicate streams of content that are relevant to users' determined interests. Real-time analysis of the continuous stream of content results in curated media streams being created and communicated to users thereby stimulating social interactivity between users and automating the discovery of other users on a network.
US10182022B2
In a particular implementation, a method includes dynamically adjusting a size of a buffer of a receiving terminal based on a comparison of a signal quality metric associated with a wireless communication channel between the receiving terminal and a transmitting terminal to a signal quality threshold. The method also includes storing a first set of data packets of a plurality of data packets in the buffer. The first set of data packets are received at the receiving terminal from the transmitting terminal. The method further includes outputting reconstructed speech based on the first set of data packets and replacement packets that are generated based at least in part on the first set of data packets. The replacement packets are associated with a set of unreceived data packets of the plurality of data packets.
US10182021B2
A crossbar switch has N input ports, M output ports, and a switching matrix with N×M crosspoints. Each crosspoint contains an internal queue (XQ), which can store one or more packets to be routed. Traffic rates between Input/Output (IO) pairs of the switch are specified in an N×M traffic rate matrix, where each element equals a number of requested cell transmission opportunities between each IO pair within a scheduling frame of F time-slots. An algorithm for scheduling N traffic flows with traffic rates is based upon recursive and fair decomposition of a traffic rate vector with N elements. To reduce memory requirements a shared row queue (SRQ) may be embedded in each row of the switching matrix, allowing the size of XQs to be reduced. A shared column queue may be used in place of the XQs.
US10182013B1
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and an application management computing device that assists with progressive image delivery includes obtaining one or more webpages requested by a client computing device. One or more images are identified in the obtained one or more webpages. The identified one or more images are prioritized based on a position of each of the identified one or more images in the obtained one or more webpages. The prioritized one or more images are progressively delivered to the requesting client computing device. By progressively delivering images over multiple passes, the technology is able to quickly convert the low quality images initially provided to high quality images. Additionally, by converting the low quality images to high quality images over multiple passes, the technology utilizes very less bandwidth thereby providing the requested content to the requesting one of the plurality of client computing devices quickly.
US10182005B2
In one embodiment, a system includes a switch controller in communication with a plurality of switches in a switch cluster via a communication protocol. The switch controller includes a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor. The logic is configured to cause the processor to receive an address resolution protocol (ARP) request packet as a unicast packet from an entry switch in the switch cluster, the entry switch being connected to a first host. The logic is also configured to cause the processor to send an ARP response packet as a unicast packet to the entry switch. The ARP response packet indicates a media access control (MAC) address of the switch controller as a source MAC (SMAC) for the ARP response packet, and an internet protocol (IP) address of a virtual router of the switch controller as being a source of the ARP response packet.
US10182002B1
A device may cause an optical signal to be transmitted via a network path. The device may receive, from a network device, a link layer discover protocol (LLDP) message. The LLDP message may include signal characteristic information regarding the optical signal. The device may adjust transmission of the optical signal based on receiving the LLDP message. The device may cause an adjusted optical signal to be transmitted via the network path based on adjusting transmission of the optical signal.
US10181994B2
A method is presented of probing a network using probing with a probe packet pair, the pair comprising a first probe packet (L1) and a second probe packet (L2), and wherein L1>L2. The L1 probe packet is transmitted before L2 and the probe packets are arranged to be back-to-back on the last link. Use of the method provides the capacity of the last link in the probed path. The method may be run from a gateway in a network to probe aspects of the network and is suitable for probing a domestic network behind a home gateway. A use for the method is also described.
US10181993B2
Some embodiments provide a method for a first network controller that manages a set of logical forwarding elements implemented in several managed forwarding elements. The method receives a request to trace a specified packet having a particular source on a logical forwarding element. The method generates the packet according to the packet specification. The generated packet includes an indicator that the packet is for a trace operation. The method sends the packet to a second network controller that manages a managed forwarding element associated with the particular source. The method receives a first set of messages regarding operations performed on the packet from a set of network controllers that receives a second set of messages regarding operations performed on the packet from a set of managed forwarding elements that process the packet.
US10181982B2
A performance management engine may be implemented to continuously detecting entity performance issues. The performance management engine may calculate one or more key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure performance of an entity. The performance management engine may further receive one or more additional sources of data regarding the entity via a data management platform that interfaces with multiple data sources. The performance management engine may aggregate the KPIs and the one or more additional sources of data into datasets according to one or more grouping parameters. The data in one or more datasets may be analyzed by the performance management engine to generate one or more comprehensive performance indicators. The comprehensive performance indicators are then provided for display on a user device. Each KPI or comprehensive performance indicator measures performance of a device, a component, a node, or a service of the entity.
US10181979B2
Various embodiments associated an inter-network policy that is implemented for use across multiple networks are described. Individual networks can have individual policies that govern how communications are handled, how resources are allocated, and other metrics. When individual networks work together, these networks can experience problems if their individual policies conflict with one another. Therefore, the inter-network policy can be generated that facilitates the individual networks working together.
US10181976B2
The present disclosure provides a system and a method of adjusting data collection frequency. the system includes a server, a gateway and a sensor. The gateway is communicated with the server for data transmission. The sensor is configured to transmit the sensor data to the gateway, wherein the gateway transmits the sensor data to the server based on a first frequency, and is triggered to transmit the sensor data and a historical sensor data based on a second frequency in case the server or the gateway detects an alert event when processing the sensor data, wherein the historical sensor data is related to the alert event, so that the server analyzes the historical sensor data to get a diagnostics on the alert event, wherein the second frequency is higher than the first frequency.
US10181975B2
An override subsystem on the host side of a serial data link between the host and a peripheral detects and diagnoses link errors by comparing the states of the port's link-layer component and physical layer. An override controller accesses a data-store containing stored policies for responding to particular errors. After selecting the appropriate policy, the override controller takes control of the physical layer, the link-layer component, or both, reconfigures them according to the policy to correct the errors, and returns control of the physical layer to the host controller and link-layer component. As well as error recovery, the override subsystem may be used by applications or drivers to asynchronously manage power consumed by the link.
US10181963B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for transferring data between multiple clients and a destination node. The method includes: receiving request data sent by the plurality of clients, adding a unique label to the request data sent by each client, and sending the labeled request data to the second node; removing the labels from the request data, and sending the request data with the labels removed to the destination node for processing; receiving processing result data returned by the destination node, adding unique labels to the processing result data, and returning the processing result data with the labels to the first node; removing the labels from the processing result data and returning the processing result data with the labels removed to the clients corresponding to the labels.
US10181962B2
Wireless access points detect neighboring wireless access points in different subnets. Upon connecting with a wireless client, a wireless access point determines predictive roaming information for the wireless client. Predictive roaming information identifies the wireless client; its home network subnet; and includes connection information associated with the wireless client. The wireless access point forwards the predictive roaming information associated with a wireless client to neighboring wireless access points while the wireless client is still connected with the wireless access point. Neighboring wireless access points store received predictive roaming information. Upon connecting with a wireless client, a neighboring wireless access point determines if the wireless client matches the stored predictive roaming information. If so, the neighboring wireless access point uses the predictive roaming information to quickly connect with the wireless client and to establish a tunnel to redirect network traffic associated with the wireless client through to its home subnet.
US10181949B2
A data device controls distribution of data to user devices through an edge router via an encryption scheme. The data device encrypts data using a first key and a public key, and sends the data to the edge router. The edge router encrypts the encrypted data with a second key and sends the re-encrypted data to a user device. The data device then authenticates the user device and issues a decryption key derived from a private key corresponding to the public key, the first key, and the second key to the user device. The user device uses the decryption key to decrypt and access the data.
US10181937B2
Disclosed herein is method of performing self-interference cancellation in the network nodes supporting full-duplex communication. Specifically, the method includes receiving a desired signal from a user equipment (UE), performing cancellation of self-interference according to a transmitted signal of the network node, the transmitted signal using the same radio resource as the desired signal, determining whether the cancellation of the self-interference is successful, performing, upon determining that the cancellation of the self-interference is successful, decoding of the desired signal and checking cyclic redundancy check (CRC), and performing power control and link adaptation depending on success in performing the cancellation of the self-interference and a result of checking the CRC.
US10181928B2
Rate adaptation is carried out using bit error rate (BER) to enable effective multimedia transmission. The BER can be estimated using signal strength in a MAC layer and modulation information (FIGS. 7-9), and can be compatibly used in different wireless networks by means of message standardization.
US10181925B2
A fault tolerant optical apparatus resilient to ballistic impact damages, capable of enabling distributed processing and networking and using the spectrophotometric transmission properties of polymer film.
US10181910B2
The present invention provides a method and system for transmitting data. The system includes an encoder for converting the data into one or more binary sequences using a binary encoding scheme, selecting one or more sets of frequencies from a frequency matrix based on the one or more binary sequences, and prepending a starter frequency to the one or more sets of frequencies. The system further includes an audio generator for generating one or more audio signals based on the one or more sets of frequencies, a storage module and an output module having one or more an electro acoustic transducers for generating an acoustic output based on the one or more audio signals.
US10181909B2
Embodiments of the present invention pertain to optical wireless architecture. More particularly, certain embodiments of the invention pertain to a novel method and apparatus to generate millimeter-wave signals with simple and/or low cost architecture. Simple millimeter-wave generation and dispersion-tolerant transmission is based on photonic mixing of two free-running lightwaves and self-mixing down-conversion. More particularly, heterodyne mixing of two free run lightwaves is achieved, wherein one lightwave is modulated by an external modulator driven by electrical data as one of the side-bands of a millimeter-wave signal. Optical to electrical conversion is performed and the millimeter-wave signal is broadcasted by a high-frequency antenna to a receiving side having a local oscillator with self-mixing architecture to down-convert the radio frequency to its baseband form.
US10181908B2
A timing recovery system generates a sampling clock to synchronize sampling of a receiver to a symbol rate of an incoming signal. The input signal is received over an optical communication channel. The receiver generates a timing matrix representing coefficients of a timing tone detected in the input signal. The timing tone representing frequency and phase of a symbol clock of the input signal and has a non-zero timing tone energy. The receiver computes a rotation control signal based on the timing matrix that represents an amount of accumulated phase shift in the input signal relative to the sampling clock. A numerically controlled oscillator is controlled to adjust at least one of the phase and frequency of the sampling clock based on the rotation control signal.
US10181903B2
Optical communication using optical resonators with noise margins is disclosed. A representative system includes an optical fiber for transmitting optical signals, a receiver configured to receive the optical signals, and a plurality of optical resonators optically connecting the optical fiber to the receiver. The individual optical resonators can have peak sensitivities at mutually different wavelengths of light. In some embodiments the optical resonators can be Q-switches.
US10181899B2
Apparatus and method for transmitter alignment in an optical communication system are provided. In certain configurations, a method of correcting for transmitter skew is provided. The method includes generating an optical signal using a transmitter based on an in-phase (I) component and a quadrature-phase (Q) component of a transmit signal, the optical signal having a baud rate that is based on a timing tone. The method further includes receiving the optical signal as an input to a receiver, and generating a signal vector representing the optical signal using the receiver. The signal vector includes an I component and a Q component. The method further includes calculating a power of the timing tone based on processing the signal vector using a tone power calculator of the receiver, and correcting for a skew of the transmitter based on the calculated power.
US10181892B2
An interference cancellation repeater for canceling an interference signal included in an input signal including a first adaptive filter configured to generate a first estimated signal; a second adaptive filter configured to generate a second estimated signal; a first scaler configured to scale the first estimated signal based on a first scale factor determined according to a channel state; a second scaler configured to scale the second estimated signal based on a second scale factor determined according to the channel state; a first canceller configured to generate a first interference canceled signal based on the input signal and the scaled first estimated signal; and a second canceller configured to generate a second interference canceled signal based on the first interference canceled signal and the scaled second estimated signal.
US10181891B2
A UE may receive a beam modification command that indicates a set of transmit beam indexes corresponding to a set of transmit beams of a base station, and each transmit beam index of the set of transmit beam indexes may indicate at least a transmit direction for transmitting a transmit beam by the base station. The UE may determine a set of receive beam indexes corresponding to receive beams of the UE based on the set of transmit beam indexes, and each receive beam index of the set of receive beam indexes may indicate at least a receive direction for receiving a receive beam by the UE. The UE may receive, from the base station, a signal through at least one receive beam corresponding to at least one receive beam index included in the set of receive beam indexes.
US10181889B1
Disclosed is a communication method using outdated channel state information in a network environment having a G-cell and 2-user terminal, by allowing a terminal and base stations to transmit and receive data symbols for G time slots, and to transmit and receive a reconfiguration signal for an additional one time slot.
US10181882B2
A method for determining a precoding matrix indicator, user equipment, and a base station are disclosed in embodiments of the present invention. The method includes: receiving a first reference signal set sent by a base station, where the first reference signal set is associated with a user equipment-specific matrix or matrix set; selecting a precoding matrix based on the first reference signal set, where the precoding matrix is a function of the user equipment-specific matrix or matrix set; and sending a precoding matrix indicator to the base station, where the precoding matrix indicator corresponds to the selected precoding matrix. In the embodiments of the present invention, CSI feedback precision can be improved without excessively increasing feedback overhead, thereby improving system performance.
US10181881B2
Systems, apparatuses, and techniques relating to wireless local area network devices are described. A described technique includes transmitting a sounding packet to wireless communication devices; receiving, in response to the sounding packet, feedback packets from the wireless communication devices, wherein the feedback packets collectively comprise beamforming feedback, the beamforming feedback being derived from received versions of the sounding packet; determining a steering matrix based on the beamforming feedback; and transmitting, within a frame, spatially steered data packets to the wireless communications devices. The spatially steered data packets can be based on the steering matrix and data streams intended respectively for the wireless communication devices. The spatially steered data packets can concurrently provide the data streams respectively within the frame to the wireless communication devices via different spatial wireless channels.
US10181875B2
Control module(s) and safety link(s) for ship communications arranging for emergency shutdown ESD communication between an unloading storage facility for hazardous goods on either ship or shore and a loading storage facility for hazardous goods on either ship or shore, with at least one umbilical line, connectors for coupling the control module(s) with the lines, the lines using bidirectional communication between a ship type control module and a shore type control module, and a transfer switch to switch the communication mode of the concerning control module between ship type and shore type.
US10181874B2
A system for transmitting power and data, particularly including a half-wave control, includes a control unit connected to grid phases, the system having a phase-failure detection device which has bistable multivibrators, especially bistable multivibrators assigned to a respective grid phase. Each bistable multivibrator has an input for setting and an input for resetting, one of the inputs being connected to a digitizing device for digitizing the positive half-waves of a respective grid phase, the other of the inputs being connected to a digitizing device for digitizing the negative half-waves of a respective grid phase. The effective value of the output voltage of the bistable multivibrator is compared by a comparison device to a threshold value to detect a phase failure.
US10181873B2
A powerline communication system includes a plurality of rail segments. Each of the rail segments is electrically isolated from other rail segments, and each receives power from a rail segment power supply. At least one cart operates on the rail segments. The cart has a powerline communications controller. Each rail segment has a current state defined by how many and which carts are operating on the rail segment. A central coordinator is coupled to each rail segment and configured to execute a channel estimation using a sounding protocol on its rail segment. The central coordinators store tone maps associated with the possible states of its rail segment, and possibly its adjacent rail segment. A main controller communicates with each central coordinator to direct the state and future state of its segment so that tone maps and network keys can be managed by the CCo in advance of an imminent state change. The main controller or CCo may also execute channel estimation using a sounding protocol and cause updated tone map information to be sent to each central coordinator in advance of an imminent state change.
US10181869B2
Methods and systems for a configurable low-noise amplifier with programmable band-selection filters may comprise a receiver with a low-noise amplifier (LNA) with first and second input terminals and differential output terminals; a low pass filter operably coupled to the LNA; a high pass filter operably coupled to the second input terminal of the LNA; and a signal source input coupled to the low pass filter and the high pass filter. The LNA may be operable to receive signals in a pass band of the high pass filter and a pass band of the low pass filter. The receiver may be operable to amplify input signals in the pass band of a first filter but not signals in the pass band of the second filter by operably coupling the second to ground.
US10181862B1
A delta-sigma modulator (DSM) includes: a first summation circuit coupled to an input signal for subtracting an error feedback signal from the input signal; a tunable signal transfer function coupled to the first summation circuit for setting a desired pole in a frequency response of the DSM; a second summation circuit coupled to the tunable signal transfer function for adding a noise transfer function to an output of the tunable signal transfer function; and a quantizer coupled to the second summation circuit for quantizing an output of the second summation circuit to generate an output of the DSM. The output of the DSM is used as feedback to the first summation circuit as the error feedback signal, and the tunable signal transfer function is dynamically tuned to allow selecting and tuning a center frequency and a bandwidth of the DSM.
US10181861B1
A circuit, which is usable in a flash analog-to-digital converter, includes a first switch configured to provide a first reference voltage to a first reference node responsive to a first control signal and a second switch configured to provide the first reference voltage to a second reference node responsive to a second control signal. A third switch is coupled to the first switch and is configured to provide a second reference voltage to the first reference node responsive to a clock signal. Further, a fourth switch is coupled to the second switch and configured to provide the second reference voltage to the second reference node responsive to the clock signal.
US10181845B1
A system may include a digital pulse width modulator subsystem, a first path coupled to an output of the digital pulse width modulator subsystem and configured to drive an open-loop driver stage, a second path coupled to the output of the digital pulse width modulator subsystem and configured to drive a closed-loop analog pulse width modulator, a controller to select between the first path and the second path for processing a signal based on one or more characteristics of the signal, and a calibration subsystem configured to calibrate at least one of a first gain of the first path and a second gain of the second path in order that the first gain and the second gain are at least approximately equal at the time of switching selection between the first path and the second path or vice versa, in order to minimize artifacts due to the switching.
US10181844B1
A clock duty cycle calibration and frequency multiplier circuit used in a square wave frequency multiplier has a multiplexing module, which performs a phase-inversion operation on a clock signal according to a control signal; a calibration module which adjusts the duty cycle according to a control signal, and outputs a clock signal with a 50% duty cycle; a delay module, which performs a delay operation on the clock signal according to a control signal; a detection module, which compares the clock signal and outputs a feedback signal; a control module, which outputs a control signal according to the feedback signal; a frequency multiplication module, which performs a frequency multiplication operation on the clock signal. Therefore, high-precision clock signal frequency multiplication is implemented with relatively low circuit complexity and low cost.
US10181840B1
Described herein is a power-efficient Gm-C filter, wherein the Gm-C filter includes several operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs). In an example, at least two of the OTAs share a common bias current. Further, output of one of the OTAs is used to bias another one of the OTAs. Also described herein is a power-efficient clock generator circuit that is configured to output non-overlapping clock signals. The clock generator circuit includes a ring oscillator circuit, which includes several inverter stages. The clock generator circuit is well-suited for controlling operation of switches.
US10181837B2
The present application is directed to a tunable filter system. The system includes a resonator having an inner wall surrounding a cavity. The resonator includes a MEMS device positioned in the cavity including a substrate, a movable plate and a thermal actuator. The thermal actuator is has a first end coupled to the substrate and a second end coupled to the plate. The actuator moves the plate between a first and a second position in relation to the substrate. The application is also directed to a method for operating the tunable filter.
US10181830B2
A method for operating a user device includes playing a media content on a screen, detecting a user input for lowering a volume of the media content, and decreasing the volume of the media content in response to the user input, determining whether a user input enters a play control zone after the detection of the user input for lowering the volume, and performing a pause of the media content in response to the user input entering the play control zone. A user device includes a touch screen configured to receive a user input for controlling a volume of the media content, and a controller configured to decrease the volume of the media content in response to a user input for decreasing a volume during playing of the media content, and perform a pause of the media content when the user input enters a play control zone.
US10181824B2
Metal pillars are placed adjacent to NPN transistor arrays that are used in the power amplifier for RF power generation. By placing the metal pillars in intimate contact with the silicon substrate, the heat generated by the NPN transistor arrays flows down into the silicon substrate and out the metal pillar. The metal pillar also forms an electrical ground connection in close proximity to the NPN transistors to function as a grounding point for emitter ballast resistors, which form an optimum electrothermal configuration for a linear SiGe power amplifier.
US10181816B2
A curtain wall or roof element, with built in solar panel or heat absorbing layer, and at least one blower for air circulation inside the enclosed device, one or more temperature sensors monitoring the temperature inside and outside the device and a microcontroller activating the blower according to predetermined program to heat or cool the room enclosed by the device. If solar cells or panels are used they will generate electrical power and heat. It is the purpose of this invention to increase the energy harvesting coefficient from the sun's radiation by utilizing the absorbed heat for increasing the temperature in a space enclosed by said device, moreover the smart configuration of the curtain wall will enable to change the system's isolation characteristics by changing its U values. U value of a curtain wall describes the heat isolation characteristics of the device in a numerical form.
US10181815B2
The invention relates to a receiver for production of electricity and heat in solar energy systems comprising focussing optical components wherein, the receiver has at least one surface covered with solar cells for production of electricity and at least one optically selective surface, wherein a greater portion of the surface of the receiver exposed to concentrated sunlight is covered with solar cells, while a greater portion of the surface of the receiver exposed to direct sunlight is covered with an optically selective surface.
US10181814B2
A power delivery device is disclosed, comprising at least one solar panel, a battery pack comprising at least one battery, and a heater, wherein the device is configured to measure the temperature of the battery pack and power the heater to heat the battery pack if it is too cold for optimal charging.
US10181813B2
A communication system for use in a switching module includes a low-side control block coupled to control switching of a low-side switch of the switching module. The low-side control block is further coupled to be referenced with a low-side reference system ground. A high-side control block is coupled to control switching of a high-side switch of the switching module. The high-side control block is further coupled to be referenced with a floating node of the switching module. During steady state operation, the low-side control block is coupled to send signals during each switching cycle to the high-side control block to turn the high-side switch on and off. A status update is communicated from the high-side control block to the low-side control block through a first single-wire communication link.
US10181804B1
A switched resonant power converter includes multiple switching transistors, a resonant circuit comprising a capacitor and an inductor, and an auxiliary soft-start bypass circuit that bypasses a default switching path that includes a first switching transistor of the switching transistors, and provides an alternative path through an impedance element. A corresponding control circuit is configured to switch between an operational mode in which the default switching path is periodically activated while the alternative path is deactivated to provide a first frequency-responsive power through the resonant circuit, and a soft-start mode in which the alternative path is periodically activated while the default switching path is deactivated to provide a second frequency-responsive power through the resonant circuit.
US10181797B2
The invention relates to a voltage converter comprising: an isolated DC/DC converter circuit having at least one first isolation transformer and switches whose opening and closing successions with at least one duty ratio make it possible to transmit energy through the isolated DC/DC converter by way of said first transformer; a circuit for regulating the input voltage of the isolated DC/DC converter circuit; the regulating circuit being configured to control the output voltage of the isolated DC/DC converter circuit by modifying the voltage delivered to the isolated DC/DC converter circuit, the duty ratio of the isolated DC/DC converter circuit remaining constant, and in said converter, the output of the regulating circuit is connected to a branch of the isolated DC/DC converter circuit comprising said first transformer.
US10181795B2
Controller and method for a power converter. For example, the controller includes a first controller terminal coupled to a gate terminal of a transistor. The transistor further includes a drain terminal and a source terminal, and the first controller terminal is at a first voltage as a first function of time. Additionally, the controller includes a second controller terminal coupled to the source terminal. The second controller terminal is at a second voltage as a second function of time. Moreover, the controller includes a third controller terminal coupled to a first resistor terminal of a resistor. The resistor further includes a second resistor terminal, and the third controller terminal is at a third voltage as a third function of time. Also, the controller includes a fourth controller terminal coupled to a first capacitor terminal of a capacitor.
US10181790B2
A direct-current voltage conversion circuit and a liquid crystal display device are disclosed. The direct-current voltage conversion circuit includes a control chip, a conversion circuit and a protection circuit, wherein, the control chip is electrically connected to the conversion circuit, the control chip generates a control signal and an original voltage signal; the conversion circuit receives the control signal and the original voltage signal, and under a controlling of the control signal, obtaining a direct-current voltage signal according to the original voltage signal; the protection circuit detects if the conversion circuit generates an abnormality according to the direct-current voltage signal, and turning off the conversion circuit when the conversion circuit generates the abnormality.
US10181782B2
A flyback power converter circuit includes: a transformer including a primary side winding coupled to an input power and a secondary side winding coupled to an output node, wherein the input power includes an input voltage; a primary side switch coupled to the primary side winding for controlling the input power to generate an output power on the output node through the secondary side winding, wherein the output power includes an output voltage; a clamping circuit including an auxiliary switch and an auxiliary capacitor connected in series to form an auxiliary branch which is connected with the primary side winding in parallel; and a conversion control circuit for adjusting an ON time of the auxiliary switch according to at least one of a current related signal, the input voltage, and the output voltage, such that the primary side switch is zero voltage switching when turning ON.
US10181770B2
A standby generator includes an engine including an output shaft, an alternator, and an enclosure including a base and a number of walls extending from the base including a front wall, a rear wall, a first wall, and a second wall. The standby generator includes an intake opening configured to allow air to be drawn into the enclosure and an exhaust opening configured to allow heated air and exhaust gases to be expelled from the enclosure. The intake opening is provided on the rear wall proximate the first wall and the exhaust opening is provided on the front wall proximate the second wall. The air drawn into the enclosure at the first intake opening directly flows over the engine and is expelled through the exhaust opening.
US10181758B2
A power supply apparatus includes a resonant circuit that determines a resonant frequency, a drive unit that drives the resonant circuit, and a controller that causes the resonant frequency to change between a first resonant frequency and a second resonant frequency. The first resonant frequency is higher than a frequency of a drive signal of the drive unit and the second resonant frequency is lower than the frequency of the drive signal.
US10181756B2
Disclosed are a wireless power transmitter and a power transmission method thereof. The wireless power transmitter includes a plurality of transmission resonance units, a detection power applying unit applying detection power to the transmission resonance units to detect a location of the wireless power receiver, and a current measuring unit measuring current generating from an inner part of the wireless power transmitter based on the applied detection power. The wireless power transmitter transmits the power through at least one transmitting resonance unit corresponding to the location of the wireless power receiver based on the measured current.
US10181755B2
A power transmitter and a power receiver are disposed with a space provided therebetween, and a power transmission device produces an electromagnetic field that periodically changes using the AC current in a space and forms a vibrating electromagnetic resonance field in which the space itself has energy. By obtaining electrical energy from the resonance field, a power reception device produces a resonance current, and a new electromagnetic resonance field is formed by the resonance current. The power transmission device or the power reception device is constituted of a conductor having a Peano curve shape that covers a surface having a given spread by passing through all regions obtained by dividing the surface having a given spread without intersecting with itself, and the electromagnetic field energy of a space in the periphery of the fractal-shaped device is increased.
US10181754B2
A primary side wireless power transmitter inductively couplable to a secondary side wireless power receiver for supplying power to the wireless power receiver for receiving communications from the secondary side wireless power receiver through the inductive coupling comprises a primary side tank circuit receiving a signal on from the secondary side wireless power receiver. A phase delay or time delay circuit generates a fixed delay clock signal. A sample and hold circuit samples a tank circuit voltage utilizing the fixed phase or time delayed clock signal. A comparator is coupled to an output of the sample and hold circuit for extracting data or commands from the signal stream. A method of operating a primary side wireless transmitter inductively coupled to a secondary side wireless power receiver for supplying power to the wireless power receiver to power a load coupled to the receiver is also disclosed.
US10181752B2
There is provided a control apparatus including: a determination unit configured to determine whether a control target apparatus drivable with first power supplied from an external power supply and second power supplied from a battery is driven with the second power, on the basis of a supply state of the first power and a transmission signal acquired via a power line from an external communication apparatus connected to the power line through which the first power is transmitted; and a target control unit configured to drive the control target apparatus with the second power when the control target apparatus is determined to be driven with the second power.
US10181751B2
An energy supply device with connection portion for an energy source and an energy consumer. The energy supply device is arranged to feed energy from an energy source to an energy consumer, and also comprises energy storage for supplying a connected energy consumer with energy in the event of an interruption of energy supply. There is also a control unit and sensing portion for sensing an energy flow to and/or from the energy storage portion. The sensing portion is connected to the control unit which detects a power disturbance if there is an energy flow from the energy storage portion during a predefined length of time.
US10181739B1
A power storage adapter may use a high efficiency charging method when supplying electrical power to a portable information handling system when the power storage adapter is not connected to AC line power. In particular, when the portable information handling system draws the electrical power below a low load threshold, such as during a low power state, the power storage adapter may avoid supplying electrical power. When an internal battery of the portable information handling system has an SOC less than a recharging state of charge for the internally battery, the power storage adapter may resume supplying power to the portable information handling system.
US10181737B2
A supply-and-demand adjustment system, that utilizes characteristics of supply-and-demand adjustment apparatuses and precisely matches a total supply-and-demand adjustment amount with a required adjustment amount when performing a supply-and-demand adjustment. The supply-and-demand adjustment system comprises a central control apparatus and one or more supply-and-demand adjustment apparatuses, the central control apparatus includes a state collection unit that collects information with regard to a state of each supply-and-demand adjustment apparatus, an allocation band calculation unit that calculates a frequency band and an intensity of a fluctuation of a supply-and-demand adjustment to be allocated to each supply-and-demand adjustment apparatus based on the information of the state, and an adjustment amount calculation unit that calculates a supply-and-demand adjustment amount for each supply-and-demand adjustment apparatus based on the frequency band and the intensity of the fluctuation of the supply-and-demand adjustment to be allocated to said each supply-and-demand adjustment apparatus.
US10181736B2
A method for operating a circuit for charging and discharging a capacitive actuator. The circuit has a series circuit of first and second power transistors with respective parallel-connected diodes connected between the potentials of a supply voltage source. The node between the power transistors is connected via a coil to the capacitive actuator. For charging the actuator, the first power transistor, which connects the capacitive actuator to the positive potential, is periodically turned on during a prescribed time and turned off when a first prescribed threshold value is reached by the current through the actuator, until a lower threshold value is reached by the current. If the actuator current no longer reaches the first prescribed threshold value then the first power transistor is turned off after a time that corresponds to the maximum value reached by the actuator current.
US10181734B2
The present invention provides a charging control method for controlling a power delivery unit to supply output power to a mobile unit, wherein the output power includes a DC output voltage and/or a DC output current. The method includes: receiving a power delivery configuration by the power delivery unit, wherein the power delivery configuration at least defines at least one execution time period and plural voltage(s) and/or current(s); the power delivery unit regulates the DC output voltage and/or DC output current according to the power delivery configuration during the at least one execution time period such that the DC output voltage and/or DC output current correspond to the power delivery configuration.
US10181728B2
A control system includes memory storing instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions. The processor is configured to receive a first indication of a power grid voltage, receive a second indication of a power grid phase angle, receive a third indication of a generator voltage of power provided by a generator, and receive a fourth indication of a generator phase angle of power provided by the generator. The processor is configured to determine a voltage gap between the generator voltage and the power grid voltage and a time difference between the generator phase angle and the power grid phase angle. The processor is configured to generate a signal to cause the generator voltage and the generator phase angle to synchronize with the power grid voltage and the power grid phase angle, respectively.
US10181726B2
An AC power transformer includes primary and secondary windings for at least a first AC phase and a second AC phase, and a core for said at least first and second phases. The transformer further includes a control unit for transferring power from the first phase to the second phase via magnetic coupling in the core such that the sum of the phase vectors of all of the at least first and second phases is substantially zero.
US10181725B2
The invention relates to a method of operating at least one distributed energy resource comprising a refrigeration system (1) with a number of cooling entities, wherein a power consumption information is communicated to a smart-grid setup (SG). According to the invention the method comprises the steps of: requesting (S0) a power consumption information from the refrigeration system; transmitting (S1) the power consumption information from the refrigeration system (1), wherein a total amount of power consumption (Pmin, Pmax) of the refrigeration system (1) is provided; wherein: a cooling capacity (dQ/dt_i) of at least one cooling entity is determined wherein an entity operation condition (CE) of the cooling entity (E1, E2) is taken into account (D1); a power consumption (W_i) of at least one cooling entity (E1, E2) is determined from the cooling capacity (dQ/dt_i) wherein a performance estimation (COP) of a refrigeration cycle for the cooling entity (E1, E2) is taken into account (D2); providing (D3) the total amount of power consumption (Pmin, Pmax) as a sum of power consumptions (W_i) of at least the one cooling entity of the number of cooling entities (E1, E2), in particular as a sum of relevant power consumptions of the number of cooling entities (E1, E2); receiving (S2) at the refrigeration system (1) a power reference (Wref) from the smart-grid setup (SG). The method presented enables power control of a centralized refrigeration system in a smart-grid setup where an aggregator provides the power reference. In addition, the method also enables the refrigeration system to improve determining flexibility margins beyond absolute max./min values of nominal and zero.
US10181716B2
A hot-swap protection circuit includes: a hot-swap circuit, a hot-swap detection circuit, and an N-well generation circuit, where the hot-swap detection circuit is configured to detect whether hot-swap is performed on the hot-swap circuit, and feed back a detection result to the N-well generation circuit; and the N-well generation circuit is configured to receive the detection result fed back by the hot-swap detection circuit, and output a control signal according to the detection result, to protect the hot-swap circuit. The hot-swap detection circuit is used to detect whether hot-swap is performed on the hot-swap circuit, and the detection result is fed back to the N-well generation circuit, so that the N-well generation circuit outputs a control signal according to the detection result fed back by the hot-swap detection circuit, to protect the hot-swap circuit, thereby preventing the hot-swap of the hot-swap circuit from burning a host or a peripheral device.
US10181713B2
At least one method, apparatus and system disclosed herein involves providing an integrated circuit device comprising a protection circuit. And integrated circuit device is formed. A protection component is formed in parallel to the integrated circuit device. The protection component is configured for protecting the integrated circuit device from a portion of a charge. A circuit break device in series to the protection component, wherein the protection component and the circuit break device are in parallel to the integrated circuit device. The circuit break device is configured to break an electrical path of the protection component for electrically terminating the protection component based upon a current signal.
US10181697B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including a laser including a layer having first and second regions, the first region including a void; a mirror section provided on the layer, the mirror section including a waveguide core, at least part of the waveguide core is provided over at least a portion of the void; a first grating provided on the waveguide core; a first cladding layer provided between the layer and the waveguide core and supported by the second region of the layer; a second cladding layer provided on the waveguide core; and a heat source configured to change a temperature of at least one of the waveguide core and the grating, where an optical mode propagating in the waveguide core of the mirror section does not incur substantial loss due to interaction with portions of the mirror section above and below the waveguide core.
US10181690B1
An adapter for a mobile device includes a housing, a connector coupled to a first side of the housing, and a plurality of adapter pins extending through the housing. Each of the adapter pins includes a first portion adapted to be electrically coupled to a corresponding port pin when the connector is inserted into a port of the mobile device. The adapter pins further include a second portion including a contact pad that is exposed on a second side of the housing opposite the first side of the housing. The adapter reduces the quantity of contact pads relative to the quantity of port pins, thereby facilitating increased contact pad sizes and improved contact pad distribution.
US10181688B1
A hermaphroditic electrical connector having a first connector half and a second connector half configured to mate with one another. Each of the connector halves includes a housing, a first projection, a second projection, and a central protrusion. The housing includes a first side, an opposite second side, a top side, and an opposite bottom side. The first projection extends from the first side of the housing proximate to the top side of the housing. The second projection extends from the first side of the housing proximate to the top side of the housing such that the first and second projections are spaced from one another by a slot. The central protrusion extends from the first side of the housing proximate to the bottom side of housing.
US10181687B1
A connector module includes a connector consisting of a housing, a main holder member, a waterproof gasket, a subsidiary holder member, a conductor element and a connection fitting, a conducting seat including a conducting board and a conducting terminal mounted to the conducting board for the connection of the connection fitting.
US10181686B1
An illuminated interface cable with a USB type C connector interface on at least one end. A light circuit including a light and a mechanical switch, the light circuit powered by a power level negotiation CC conductor of the cable to energize the light upon actuation of the mechanical switch. The light and switch coupled to the connector interface, the light oriented to illuminate an interconnection area of the connector interface. The light may be provided, for example, as a light emitting diode.
US10181673B1
A receptacle terminal includes a main box and a transverse box. The main box has a front, a rear, sides and ends extending between the front and the rear. The main box has a main blade slot open at the rear configured to receive a first blade terminal along a main plane. The main box has a deflectable spring contact configured to engage the first blade terminal when received in the main blade slot. The transverse box has a front, a rear, sides and ends extending between the front and the rear. The transverse box has a transverse blade slot open at the front configured to receive a second blade terminal along a transverse plane. The transverse box is oriented relative to the main box such that the transverse plane is perpendicular to the main plane.
US10181667B1
A receptacle terminal includes a box having a front, a rear, first and second sides and first and second ends defining a cavity. A front blade slot is open at the front configured to receive a first blade terminal. A rear blade slot is open at the rear configured to receive a second blade terminal. A spring contact is in the cavity between the front blade slot and the rear blade slot and includes a first mating interface configured to engage the first blade terminal when received in the front blade slot and a second mating interface configured to engage the second blade terminal when received in the rear blade slot. The first end is split including a first flap and a second flap facing each other at a seam. The first flap and the second flap are independently movable relative to each other.
US10181661B2
A cable connector that can, when an external force in a curling-up direction acts on a cable inserted in an insulator in a state where an actuator is in a closed position, prevent the cable from disconnecting from the insulator in the curling-up direction without deformation or breakage of the connector. A cable connector includes: an insulator (20) into which a sheet-like cable (70) is removably insertable; a contact (30) supported by the insulator; a rotatable actuator (40); and a fixed metal fitting (55) fixed to the insulator. The fixed metal fitting includes a cable press piece (61) extending from a part of the fixed metal fitting and facing the cable. The cable press piece is plate-like. The insulator includes a facing portion (28a) facing a tip part of the cable press piece from a side opposite to the cable at least when the actuator is in the closed position.
US10181654B2
A millimeter wave transceiver including a plate forming an interposer having its upper surface supporting an interconnection network and having its lower surface intended to be assembled on a printed circuit board by bumps; an integrated circuit chip assembled on the upper surface of the interposer; antennas made of tracks formed on the upper surface of the interposer; and reflectors on the upper surface of the printed circuit board in front of each of the antennas, the effective distance between each antenna and the reflector plate being on the order of one quarter of the wavelength, taking into account the dielectric constants of the interposed materials.
US10181650B2
Disclosed herein are polarization and frequency reconfigurable origami-folded antennas and methods for making the same. An origami-folded antenna can include at least one ground plane that can include a dielectric stratum and a conductive stratum that is at least partially disposed on the conductive stratum. The origami-folded antenna can further include at least two helical sections that can include a dielectric sheet and a conductive sheet. The origami-folded antenna can be expanded to an expanded state and compressed to a compressed state along a center axis, and the antenna can have a greater length along the center axis when in the expanded state than when in the compressed state.
US10181649B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose an antenna and a mobile terminal, which are relate to the field of antenna technologies, so as to improve radiation performance of the antenna. The antenna includes a first antenna arm and a second antenna arm that are not in contact with each other, where one end of the first antenna arm is configured for grounding, one end of the second antenna arm is configured to connect to a feed point, and the first antenna arm and the second antenna arm have at least one relative area.
US10181645B1
The present invention is a dual Ka-band, compact, high efficiency CP antenna cluster with dual band compact diplexers-polarizers that can be used as a basic building block for mobile satellite antenna arrays that require minimal dimensions and high efficiency.
US10181644B2
An antenna circuit includes a radiation conductor, a matching circuit disposed between a feeding port in the radiation conductor and a feeder circuit, and a frequency-characteristics adjusting circuit connected between a frequency-characteristics adjustment port in the radiation conductor and a ground and including a variable reactance circuit. The matching circuit includes a first inductance element connected in shunt. The frequency-characteristics adjusting circuit includes a second inductance element. The first inductance element and the second inductance element are magnetically coupled to each other.
US10181640B2
An electronic device such as a wristwatch may have a housing with metal portions such as metal sidewalls. The housing may form an antenna ground for an antenna. An antenna resonating element for the antenna may be formed from a stack of capacitively coupled component layers such as a display layer, touch sensor layer, and near-field communications antenna layer at a front face of the device. An additional antenna may be formed from a peripheral resonating element that runs along a peripheral edge of the device and the antenna ground. A rear face antenna may be formed using a wireless power receiving coil as a radio-frequency antenna resonating element or may be formed from metal antenna traces on a plastic support for light-based components.
US10181637B2
An antenna device includes a power feed coil to be connected to a RFIC and a coil antenna that couples with the power feed coil. The power feed coil includes a first power feed coil and a second power feed coil connected to the first power feed coil. The second power feed coil includes a coil opening with a planar or substantially planar shape. The coil antenna includes a coil opening with a planar or substantially planar shape along a plane identical, parallel, or substantially parallel to that of the coil opening of the second power feed coil. The center of gravity of the coil antenna is located within the coil opening of the second power feed coil when viewed in plan view. A winding axis direction of the first power feed coil crosses or intersects with a winding axis direction of the coil antenna. The first power feed coil and the second power feed coil magnetically couple with the coil antenna.
US10181631B2
A bi-directional coupler architecture that allows an entire radio frequency coupler to be fully integrated with other circuitry on a single IC substrate. Embodiments of the invention use a lumped component architecture instead of quarter-wave transmission lines to reduce area and limit loss on the primary signal line. In some embodiments, two directional couplers of opposite polarities are implemented at least in part using spiral secondary inductors electromagnetically coupled to a shared primary inductor signal line, thus providing a bi-directional coupler architecture.
US10181619B2
An organic acid included in a nonaqueous electrolyte solution of a secondary battery is reduced. During preparation of a film-covered battery 1, the nonaqueous electrolyte solution is injected into an covering 5 of the film-covered battery 1 having an electrode including: the electrode active material, the binder, and the organic acid, the organic acid in the nonaqueous electrolyte solution is decomposed by electrical charging of a battery until a voltage level is equal to or above a decomposition voltage of the organic acid, and the gas that is produced by decomposition is degassed from the cut portion 6 of the covering 5.
US10181612B2
A method is provided for determining a spatial distribution (Wcx,yf) of a parameter of interest (Wc) representative of a catalytic activity of an active layer of at least one electrode among two electrodes of an electrochemical cell, including steps of providing the cell, within which the parameter of interest (Wc) has an initial spatial distribution (Wcx,yi) of one or more values of catalytic load; defining a spatial distribution (Tx,yc) of a set-point temperature (Tc) within the cell in operation; measuring a spatial distribution (Dx,yr) of a first thermal quantity (Dr) within the cell in operation; estimating a spatial distribution (Wcx,ye) of a second thermal quantity (Qe) within the cell in operation, depending on the spatial distribution (Tx,yc) and on the measured spatial distribution (Dx,yr); and determining the spatial distribution (Wcx,yf) of the parameter of interest (Wc) depending on the estimated spatial distribution (Qx,ye) of the second thermal quantity (Qe).
US10181610B2
An electrical power supply system has a fuel cell module and a battery. The fuel cell can be selectively connected to the battery system through a diode. The system preferably also has a current sensor and a controller adapted to close a contactor in a by-pass circuit around the diode after sensing a current flowing from the fuel cell through the diode. The system may also have a resistor and a contactor in another by-pass circuit around the diode. In a start-up method, a first contactor is closed to connect the fuel cell in parallel with the battery through the diode and one or more reactant pumps for the fuel cell are turned on. A current sensor is monitored for a signal indicating current flow through the diode. After a current is indicated, a by-pass circuit is provided around the diode.
US10181601B2
The present invention makes a lithium ion secondary cell exhibit high capacity when lithium manganese phosphate is used as the active material of the lithium ion secondary cell. The present invention is directed to lithium manganese phosphate nanoparticles having a ratio I20/I29 of the peak intensity at 20° to the peak intensity at 29° obtained by X-ray diffraction of greater than or equal to 0.88 and less than or equal to 1.05, and a crystallite size determined by X-ray diffraction of greater than or equal to 10 nm and less than or equal to 50 nm.
US10181600B2
A submicron sized Si based powder having an average primary particle size between 20 nm and 200 nm, wherein the powder has a surface layer comprising SiOx, with 0
US10181598B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for cathodes having a metal sulfide thin layer, devices including cathodes, lithium ion batteries including cathodes, methods of making cathodes, and the like.
US10181587B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods described herein relate to the manufacture and use of single pouch battery cells. In some embodiments, an electrochemical cell includes a first current collector coupled to a first portion of a pouch, the first current collector having a first electrode material disposed thereon, a second current collector coupled to a second portion of the pouch, the second current collector having a second electrode material disposed thereon, and a separator disposed between the first electrode material and the second electrode material. The first portion of the pouch is coupled to the second portion of the pouch to enclose the electrochemical cell.
US10181576B2
A display device includes a display panel, and a protective member disposed outside the display panel. The circuit layer includes a display area and a non-display area, and a first bending line and a second bending line crossing the first bending line are defined are defined in the non-display area. The non-display area includes: a first non-display area bent from the display area with respect to the first bending line; a second non-display area bent from the display area with respect to the second bending line; and a corner non-display area bent from the second non-display area with respect to the first bending line and bent from the first non-display area with respect to the second bending line. A slit is defined in the protective member, and the slit overlap at least a part of the first bending line and the second bending line.
US10181572B2
An organic light-emitting device includes a substrate, an anode on the substrate, a hole transport region on the anode, an emission layer on the hole transport region, an electron transport region on the emission layer, and a cathode on the electron transport region, wherein the electron transport region includes an electron injection layer including a first material including at least one of a halide of an alkali metal, and a second material including at least one of a lanthanide metal and a alkaline earth metal, and wherein the cathode contacts the electron injection layer and includes a first metal including at least one of silver, gold, platinum, copper, manganese, titanium, cobalt, nickel, and tungsten, and a second metal including at least one of a lanthanide metal and an alkaline earth metal, wherein an amount of the first metal is equal to or greater than that of the second metal.
US10181565B2
The invention refers to quantum dots (QDs) composite particles and their preparation method, photoelectric elements and photoelectric equipment. The preparation method of QDs composite particles comprises: coating the surface of metal nanoparticles (MNPs) with silica; modifying the silica coated MNPs through amination to make the surface of the silica have amino functional groups; and combining the carboxyl-functionalized QDs with amino-functionalized silica coated MNPs, thereby preparing the QDs composite particles. The preparation method can enhance the fluorescent efficiency of QDs.
US10181559B2
There is provided an workpiece etching method executed in manufacturing a magneto-resistive effect element, the workpiece including first and second multilayer films, the first multilayer film including first and second magnetic layers and a tunnel barrier layer formed between the first and second magnetic layers, and the second multilayer film being a multilayer film constituting a pinning layer in the magneto-resistive effect element. The method includes: etching the first multilayer film; generating plasma of a first gas including hydrocarbon and noble gases inside a chamber of a plasma processing apparatus to etch the second multilayer film inside the chamber; and generating plasma of a second gas including gas containing carbon and oxygen, an oxygen gas and a noble gas and not containing hydrogen inside the chamber to remove a carbon-containing deposit formed on the workpiece in the generating the plasma of the first gas.
US10181555B2
A piezoelectric element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a thin piezoelectric layer. The thin piezoelectric layer is provided between the first electrode and the first electrode, and is formed of a perovskite type compound oxide which contains potassium, sodium, and niobium. In the piezoelectric layer, in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by θ−2θ measurement, peaks derived from a (002) plane and a (200) plane are provided in a range in which 2θ is from 45° to 47°, a peak position of the peak on a high angle side among the peaks satisfies 46.0°≤2θ≤46.5°, and a difference of 2θ between the peak on the high angle side and the peak on a low angle side is greater than 0.60°.
US10181543B2
A solar cell module includes a plurality of solar cells including a first solar cell and a second solar cell adjacent to each other, wherein each of the plurality of solar cells including at least one first current collector and at least one second current collector, wherein the at least one first current collector and the at least one second current collector being positioned on a non-light incident surface of each of the plurality of solar cells, which is opposite to a light incident surface of each of the plurality of solar cells, an insulating film having a conductive pattern part positioned on the insulating film, wherein the conductive pattern part including a first pattern which is connected to the at least one first current connector 161 of the plurality of solar cells and a second pattern which is connected to the at least one second current connector of the plurality of solar cells, wherein the first pattern being spaced apart from the second pattern; and an insulating sheet between the an insulating film and the non-light incident surface of the plurality of solar cells.
US10181542B2
A method comprises providing an expanded metal article having a plurality of first segments intersecting a plurality of second segments thereby forming a plurality of openings. The expanded metal article has a surface comprising a plurality of solder pads. A semiconductor material with a top surface and a bottom surface is provided, the bottom surface having a plurality of silver pads and the top surface serving as a light-incident surface of the photovoltaic cell. At a plurality of soldering locations, a majority of the plurality of solder pads on the surface of the expanded metal article is electrically coupled with the plurality of silver pads on the bottom surface of the semiconductor material. Also disclosed is a photovoltaic cell resulting from this method.
US10181538B2
The present disclosure provides a composite material of a pre-formed crystalline or polycrystalline semiconductor particles embedded in a crystalline or polycrystalline perovskite matrix material. The pre-formed crystalline or polycrystalline semiconductor particles and and crystalline or polycrystalline perovskite being selected so that any lattice mismatch between the two lattices does not exceed about 10%. The pre-formed crystalline or polycrystalline semiconductor particles and said crystalline or polycrystalline perovskite matrix material have lattice planes that are substantially aligned.
US10181533B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a semiconductor variable capacitor. The semiconductor variable capacitor generally includes a first non-insulative region disposed above a semiconductor region, and a second non-insulative region disposed adjacent to the semiconductor region. In certain aspects, the semiconductor variable capacitor also includes a first silicide layer disposed above the second non-insulative region, wherein the first silicide layer overlaps at least a portion of the semiconductor region. In certain aspects, a control region may be disposed adjacent to the semiconductor region such that a capacitance between the first non-insulative region and the second non-insulative region is configured to be adjusted by varying a control voltage applied to the control region.
US10181531B2
A minute transistor is provided. A transistor with small parasitic capacitance is provided. A transistor with high frequency characteristics is provided. A semiconductor device including the transistor is provided. A semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor, a first conductor and a second insulator embedded in a first insulator, a second conductor and a third conductor. Edges of the second conductor and the third conductor facing each other each has a taper angle of 30 degree or more and 90 degree or less.
US10181525B2
According to embodiments of the inventive concept, a gate electrode is formed on a substrate, and a first spacer, a second spacer, and a third spacer are sequentially formed on a sidewall of the gate electrode. The substrate is etched to form a recess region. A compressive stress pattern is formed in the recess region. A protective spacer is formed on a sidewall of the third spacer. When the recess region is formed, a lower portion of the second spacer is removed to form a gap region between the first and third spacers. The protective spacer fills the gap region.
US10181522B2
Structures for a field-effect transistor and fabrication methods for forming a structure for a field-effect transistor. The structure may include a gate electrode, a source/drain region formed adjacent to a vertical sidewall of the gate electrode, and a conductive link that couples the vertical sidewall of the gate electrode with the source/drain region.
US10181519B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor device comprising a substrate including an active region and an edge region and containing a semiconductor doped with impurities having a first conductivity type; an insulating film disposed on the edge region of the substrate; a field plate pattern disposed on the insulating film; and at least one first doped region having a second conductivity type buried in the edge region of the substrate and extending in a direction having a vector component parallel to an upper surface of the substrate.
US10181513B2
A power device having fast switching characteristic, while keeping EMI noise to a minimum and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The power device includes a first field stop layer having a first conductivity type, a first drift region formed on the first field stop layer and having a first conductivity type in an impurity concentration that is lower than the first field stop layer, a buried region formed on the first drift region and having the first conductivity type in an impurity concentration that is higher than the first drift region, a second drift region formed on the buried region, a power device cell formed at an upper portion of the second drift region, and a collector region formed below the first field stop layer.
US10181503B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a pixel electrode, a light emission layer over the pixel electrode, an opposite electrode covering the light emission layer, a plurality of upper layers over the opposite electrode, a light-shielding layer over the upper layers. A distance L between an edge of an emission area of the light emission layer and an edge of the light-shielding layer when viewed in a thickness direction satisfies Inequality below: L ≥ ∑ i = 1 m d i tan ( sin - 1 ( n air n i sin θ air ) ) + d BM tan ( sin - 1 ( n air n CF sin θ air ) ) [ Inequality ] wherein m represents the number of the upper layers, ni and di represent a refraction index and a thickness of each of the upper layers, respectively, dBM represents a thickness of the light-shielding layer, nCF represents a refraction index of the color filter layer, nair represents a refraction index of air, and θair represents a refraction angle in external air after light generated from the light emission layer passes through the color filter layer.
US10181499B2
Discussed in an organic light emitting display device including a first pixel, and a second pixel being adjacent the first pixel, wherein each of the first pixel and the second pixel includes a plurality of subpixels, wherein the plurality of subpixels include a green subpixel, a red subpixel, and a blue subpixel, and wherein the red subpixel and the blue subpixel are shared by the first pixel and the second pixel.
US10181494B2
The invention relates to a method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor chip (1). A semiconductor layer sequence (3) is provided, comprising a first semiconductor layer (3a) and a second semiconductor layer (3b). Furthermore, a first contact layer (5a) is provided which extends laterally along the first semiconductor layer (3a) and electrically contacts same. A third semiconductor layer (7) is applied onto a first contact layer (5a) face facing away from the semiconductor layer sequence (3). A recess (8) is formed which extends through the third semiconductor layer (7), the first contact layer (5a), and the first semiconductor layer (3a) into the second semiconductor layer (3b). A passivation layer (9) is applied onto a third semiconductor layer (7) face facing away from the semiconductor layer sequence (3). At least one first (9a) and at least one second passage opening (9b, 9c) are formed in the passivation layer (9). A second contact layer (5b) is applied which electrically contacts the second semiconductor layer (3b) in the region of the at least one first passage opening (9a) and the third semiconductor layer (7) in the region of the at least one second passage opening (9b, 9c). The invention additionally relates to an optoelectronic semiconductor chip (1).
US10181491B2
Disclosed is a method of fabricating a semiconductor image sensor device. The method includes providing a substrate having a pixel region, a periphery region, and a bonding pad region. The substrate further has a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The pixel region contains radiation-sensing regions. The method further includes forming a bonding pad in the bonding pad region; and forming light-blocking structures over the second side of the substrate, at least in the pixel region, after the bonding pad has been formed.
US10181482B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for manufacturing the array substrate includes forming a first transparent conductive layer and a metallic layer successively on a base substrate, and forming a gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode and a first transparent electrode by one patterning process.
US10181481B2
A display device includes a driver circuit including a logic circuit including a first transistor which is a depletion type transistor and a second transistor which is an enhancement type transistor; a signal line which is electrically connected to the driver circuit; a pixel portion including a pixel whose display state is controlled by input of a signal including image data from the driver circuit through the signal line; a reference voltage line to which reference voltage is applied; and a third transistor which is a depletion type transistor and controls electrical connection between the signal line and the reference voltage line. The first to the third transistors each include an oxide semiconductor layer including a channel formation region.
US10181480B2
A thin film transistor “TFT”) substrate includes a substrate, an active layer over the substrate, and first and second TFTs over the substrate. The active layer includes: a first drain region, a first channel region and a first source region, which function as a drain, a channel and a source of the first TFT: a first lightly doped region between the first drain region and the first channel region: a second lightly doped region between the first channel region and the first source region: and a second drain region, a second channel region and a second source region, which function as a drain, a channel and a source of the second TFT. An impurity concentration at the second drain or source region is lower than an impurity concentration at the first drain or source region and higher than an impurity concentration at the first or second channel region.
US10181478B2
An electronic component made up of field-effect transistor (FET) cells is disclosed. Each FET cell includes a finger region having drain, gate, and source fingers disposed over a semiconductor substrate. An isolation region extends across a first end of the finger region. An off-state linearization region abuts the first end of the isolation region. A doped well is disposed within the off-state linearization region over the semiconductor substrate. A dielectric layer is disposed over the doped region. A first conductive stripe is disposed over the dielectric layer in longitudinal alignment with the drain finger. A second conductive stripe is disposed over the dielectric layer in longitudinal alignment with the drain finger. A drain finger electrode is aligned over and coupled to both the drain finger and the first conductive stripe. A source finger electrode is aligned over and coupled to both the source finger and the second conductive stripe.
US10181469B2
Disclosed herein is a semiconductor integrated circuit device including a standard cell with a fin extending in a first direction. The fin and a gate line extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and provided on the fin constitute an active transistor. The fin and a dummy gate line provided in parallel with the gate line constitute a dummy transistor. The active transistor shares a node as its source or drain with the dummy transistor.
US10181466B2
An ESD protection apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate, a first gate structure, a first doping region, a second doping region and a third doping region. The semiconductor substrate has a doping well with a first conductivity one end of which is grounded. The first gate structure is disposed on the doping well. The first doping region having a second conductivity, is disposed in the doping well and adjacent to the first gate structure, and is electrically connected to a pad. The second doping region having the second conductivity is disposed in the doping well and adjacent to the first gate structure. The third doping region having the first conductivity is disposed in the doping well and forms a P/N junction interface with the second doping region, wherein the second doping region and the third doping region respectively have a doping concentration substantially greater than that of the doping well.
US10181457B2
Apparatuses and methods relating generally to a microelectronic package for wafer-level chip scale packaging with fan-out are disclosed. In an apparatus, there is a substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface opposite the upper surface. A microelectronic device is coupled to the upper surface with the microelectronic device in a face-up orientation. Wire bond wires are coupled to and extending away from the upper surface. Posts of the microelectronic device extend away from a front face thereof. Conductive pads are formed in the substrate associated with the wire bond wires for electrical conductivity.
US10181454B2
In a stack of chips which each include active circuit regions, a plurality of through-silicon via (TSV) structures are formed for thermally conducting heat from the multi-chip stack by patterning, etching and filling with thermally conductive material a plurality of TSV openings in the multi-chip stack, including a first larger TSV opening that extends through substantially the entirety of the multi-chip stack without penetrating any active circuit region, and a second smaller TSV opening that extends down to but not through an active circuit region.
US10181448B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a trace disposed adjacent to a surface of the semiconductor element, a bonding pad disposed adjacent to the surface of the semiconductor element and connected to the trace, and a pillar disposed on the bonding pad. The pillar includes a first end wall, a second end wall opposite the first end wall, a first side wall, and a second side wall opposite the first side wall. The first side wall and the second side wall connect the first end wall to the second end wall. One or both of the first side wall and the second side wall incline inwardly from the first end wall to the second end wall. The pillar is disposed on the bonding pad such that the first end wall is closer to the trace than is the second end wall.
US10181445B2
A power module includes a power semiconductor element, an interconnection material, a circuit board, an external terminal, a joining material, and a sealing resin. A clearance portion is continuously formed between the sealing resin and each of an end surface of the joining material and a surface of the interconnection material so as to extend from the end surface of the joining material to the surface of the interconnection material, the end surface of the joining material being located between the power semiconductor element and the interconnection material, the surface of the interconnection material being located between the end surface and a predetermined position of the interconnection material separated by a distance from the end surface.
US10181442B1
A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of L-shaped insulating layers and L-shaped electrically conductive layers located over a top surface of a substrate, such that each of the L-shaped insulating layers and the L-shaped electrically conductive layers includes a respective horizontally-extending portion and a respective non-horizontally-extending portion, memory stack structures extending through a memory array region of the alternating stack that includes the horizontally-extending portions of the L-shaped electrically conductive layers, such that each of the memory stack structures includes a memory film and a vertical semiconductor channel, dielectric spacers non-horizontally extending between neighboring pairs of a non-horizontally-extending portion of an L-shaped insulating layer and a non-horizontally-extending portion of an L-shaped electrically conductive layer, and contact via structures that contact a respective one of the non-horizontally-extending portions of the L-shaped electrically conductive layers.
US10181433B2
A first surface of a heat source is spaced from a support by a first gap, in a thermal path from the first surface to the support. A second surface of the heat source, opposite to the first surface, is spaced by a second gap from a heat sink, in a thermal path from the second surface to the heat sink. The thermal path to the support provides a first thermal resistance, based on a gap spacing of the first gap and the thermal path to the heat sink provides a second thermal resistance, based on a gap spacing of the second gap.
US10181427B2
Semiconductor devices may include a substrate including first to third regions, with first to third interfacial layers in the first to third regions, respectively, first to third high-k dielectric films on the first to third interfacial layers, respectively, first to third work function adjustment films on the first to third high-k dielectric films, respectively, and first to third filling films on the first to third work function adjustment films, respectively. Concentrations of a dipole forming element in the first to third high-k dielectric films may be first to third concentrations. The first concentration may be greater than the second concentration, and the second concentration may be greater than the third concentration. Thicknesses of the first to third work function adjustment films may be first to third thicknesses. The first thickness may be less than the second thickness, and the second thickness may be less than the third thickness.
US10181424B2
A peeling method at low cost with high mass productivity is provided. An oxide layer is formed over a formation substrate, a first layer is formed over the oxide layer using a photosensitive material, an opening is formed in a portion of the first layer that overlaps with the oxide layer by a photolithography method and the first layer is heated to form a resin layer having an opening, a transistor including an oxide semiconductor in a channel formation region is formed over the resin layer, a conductive layer is formed to overlap with the opening of the resin layer and the oxide layer, the oxide layer is irradiated with light using a laser, and the transistor and the formation substrate are separated from each other.
US10181420B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the semiconductor devices with chamfer-less via multi-patterning are disclosed. One method includes, for instance: obtaining an intermediate semiconductor device; performing a trench etch into a portion of the intermediate semiconductor device to form a trench pattern; depositing an etching stack; performing at least one via patterning process; and forming at least one via opening into a portion of the intermediate semiconductor device. An intermediate semiconductor device is also disclosed.
US10181417B2
A substrate transport mechanism receives two substrates from an upstream ID section using two arms of three arms. The substrate transport mechanism delivers one of the two substrates to and from an individual processing unit of a processing block using one of arms holding the one of the two substrates to be subjected to a given process by the processing block and one of the arms holding no substrate. The substrate transport mechanism then keeps holding the other substrate with the remaining one arm of the arms having received the substrates while the processing unit processes the substrate. The substrate transport mechanism transfers the two substrates to a downstream processing block using the one arm holding the substrate subjected to the given process by the processing block and the one arm holding the other substrate.
US10181413B2
A laser crystallization apparatus includes a laser generator that generates a laser beam including a plurality of line beams that are parallel to each other. An optical system includes a plurality of lenses and mirrors, wherein the optical system optically converts the generated laser beam to a converted laser beam. A chamber includes a stage and a substrate disposed on the stage, wherein a laser-crystallized thin film is formed on the substrate when the substrate is irradiated by the converted laser beam. A line focus adjuster that adjusts a line focus and a final focus of the plurality of line beams passing through the optical system, wherein the substrate is irradiated by the plurality of line beams at the final focus of the plurality of line beams.
US10181411B2
An insulating second element is provided and overlies a surface of a first element which consists essentially of a material having a CTE of less than 10 ppm/° C. and has a first thickness in a first direction normal to the surface. Openings extend in the first direction through the second element. The first element is abraded to produce a thinned first element having a second thickness less than the first thickness. Conductive elements are formed at a first side of the interposer coincident with or adjacent to a surface of the thinned first element remote from the second element. A conductive structure extends through the openings in the second element, wherein the conductive elements are electrically connected with terminals of the interposer through the conductive structure, and the terminals are disposed at a second side of the interposer opposite from the first side.
US10181408B2
A process for chemical mechanical polishing a substrate containing tungsten is disclosed to reduce corrosion rate and inhibit dishing of the tungsten and erosion of underlying dielectrics. The process includes providing a substrate; providing a polishing composition, containing, as initial components: water; an oxidizing agent; a polyglycol or polyglycol derivative; a dicarboxylic acid, a source of iron ions; a colloidal silica abrasive; and, optionally a pH adjusting agent; providing a chemical mechanical polishing pad, having a polishing surface; creating dynamic contact at an interface between the polishing pad and the substrate; and dispensing the polishing composition onto the polishing surface at or near the interface between the polishing pad and the substrate; wherein some of the tungsten (W) is polished away from the substrate, corrosion rate is reduced, dishing of the tungsten (W) is inhibited as well as erosion of dielectrics underlying the tungsten (W).
US10181407B2
This method for manufacturing a niobate-system ferroelectric thin-film device includes: a lower electrode film formation step of forming a lower electrode film on a substrate; a ferroelectric thin film formation step of forming a niobate-system ferroelectric thin film on the lower electrode film; an etch mask pattern formation step of forming an etch mask in a desired pattern on the niobate-system ferroelectric thin film, the etch mask being an amorphous fluororesin film laminated via a noble metal film; and a ferroelectric thin film etching step of shaping the niobate-system ferroelectric thin film into a desired fine pattern by wet etching using an etchant comprising: a chelating agent; an aqueous alkaline solution containing an aqueous ammonia solution; and an aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution.
US10181404B2
A metal film is deposited on a front surface of a semiconductor wafer of silicon. After the semiconductor wafer is received in a chamber, the pressure in the chamber is reduced to a pressure lower than atmospheric pressure. Thereafter, nitrogen gas is supplied into the chamber to return the pressure in the chamber to ordinary pressure, and the front surface of the semiconductor wafer is irradiated with a flash of light, so that a silicide that is a compound of the metal film and silicon is formed. The oxygen concentration in the chamber is significantly lowered during the formation of the silicide because the pressure in the chamber is reduced once to the pressure lower than atmospheric pressure and then returned to the ordinary pressure. This suppresses the increase in resistance of the silicide resulting from the entry of oxygen in the atmosphere in the chamber into defects near the interface between the metal film and a base material.
US10181397B2
Semiconductor devices and a method for forming the same are provided. In various embodiments, a method for forming a semiconductor device includes receiving a semiconductor substrate including a channel. An atmosphere-modulation layer is formed over the channel. An annealing process is performed to form an interfacial layer between the channel and the atmosphere-modulation layer.
US10181385B2
A control device includes a button assembly having one or more buttons and a button carrier that includes a plurality of resilient, independently deflectable spring arms. The control device may be configured as a wall-mounted keypad to control a load control device, or as a thermostat to control a temperature regulation appliance. The button carrier may be configured to prevent interference between the buttons during operation of the control device. The button assembly may be captured between a faceplate of the control device and a housing that is attached to a rear side of the faceplate. The control device may include one or more button retainers that are attached to the buttons and that are configured to align respective outer surfaces of the buttons relative to each other, and relative to the faceplate of the control device, when the buttons are in respective rest positions.
US10181381B2
A variable capacitor device that includes a dielectric layer comprising a shape-memory polymer, a first metal plate and a second metal plate, wherein the dielectric layer is sandwiched between the first and the second metal plates. The shape-memory polymer has a first thickness at a first temperature under a first external compressive load, a second thickness at a second temperature under a second external compressive load, wherein the first thickness is greater than the second thickness, the second temperature is greater than the first temperature, and the second external compressive load is greater than the first external compressive load. The shape memory polymer having the second thickness is configured to convert to the shape-memory polymer having the first thickness when sequentially subjected to the first external compressive load and the second temperature.
US10181373B2
A reversing linear solenoid polarized in a permanent magnetic manner having a first and second end stroke position as well as at least one armature, wherein it has a spring system or is operated at such a spring system which exerts a force in the direction of the center stroke position on the armature or armatures in the end stroke position(s). The spring system and the reversing linear solenoid are coordinated with one another such that the armature or armatures are held in a permanent magnetic manner against the spring force in both end stroke positions. The spring system is configured such that the potential energy (elastically) stored by movement of the armature or armatures into its/their end stroke movements is of equal magnitude. If external restoring forces caused by the application are present, they must be taken into account in the design of the spring system.
US10181372B2
An assembly has a two-stage cryogenic refrigerator and an associated mounting arrangement, and a sock having first and second stages corresponding to first and second stages of the refrigerator, with the first stage of the refrigerator being in thermal contact with the first stage of the sock and the second stage of the refrigerator being in thermal contact with the second stage of the sock.
US10181368B2
A circuit protection device including a PTC device and a diode. A first insulation layer is formed between first electrode surfaces of the diode and the PTC device. Vias for thermally and electrically connecting the first electrode surfaces of the diode and the PTC device are formed in the first insulation layer. First, second, and third external electrode pads are provided on a second insulation layer formed on the second electrode surface of the PTC device. The second electrode surface of the PTC device is electrically connected to the first external electrode pad. The first electrode surface of the diode and the first electrode surface of the PTC device are electrically connected to the second external electrode pad. A second electrode surface of the diode is electrically connected to the third external electrode pad.
US10181367B2
A resistor element includes a first terminal and a second terminal disposed on opposite end portions of a base substrate, respectively. A first resistance layer is connected to the first terminal and formed of a thick film resistor, and a second resistance layer is connected to the first resistance layer and the second terminal and is formed of a thin film resistor.
US10181363B2
Polymer compositions containing a polyoxymethylene base polymer that is compounded with a conductive filler, a polyalkylene glycol, and a metal oxide are disclosed that exhibit electrostatic dissipative (ESD) capabilities while also being resistant to degradation upon exposure to aggressive fuels. For instance, the polymer compositions can have a volume resistivity of from about 1 Ohm-cm to about 200 Ohm-cm and a surface resistivity of about 103 Ohms to about 104 Ohms. Further, the polymer compositions can have a strain at break of from about 15% to about 23%. The polymer compositions can be formed into a shaped or molded article such as a connector, filter housing, baffle, flange, reservoir, port, tube, or pipe, etc. for use in fuel systems where uniform increased conductivity and resistance to aggressive fuels are required.
US10181361B2
Provided herein are methods and systems for image registration from multiple sources. A method for image registration includes rendering a common field of interest that reflects a presence of a plurality of elements, wherein at least one of the elements is a remote element located remotely from another of the elements and updating the common field of interest such that the presence of the at least one of the elements is registered relative to another of the elements.
US10181357B2
The invention provides a code generating apparatus and an OTP memory block. The code generating apparatus of present disclosure includes a plurality of first one time programming (OTP) memory cells, a reference signal provider and a sense amplifier. The first OTP memory cells are coupled to a first bit line. The reference signal provider provides a reference signal. Wherein, at least one of the first OTP memory cells provides a read current to the first bit line, and the sense amplifier compares the read current and the reference signal to generate an output code. A current value of the reference signal is set within a range, and the range is set by the bit current corresponding to a maximum bit count, such as that the output code is determined by a manufacturing variation of the at least one first OTP memory cell.
US10181347B2
A method includes resetting an output timing adjustment circuit in each of a plurality of DRAM devices to a default output timing data value, measuring a default delay from read command to read data for each of the plurality of DRAM devices, identifying a slowest DRAM device having a maximum default delay from read command to read data among the plurality of DRAM devices, writing an output timing data value to the output timing adjustment circuit in each of the plurality of DRAM devices to set the delay from read command to read data for each respective DRAM device to an amount substantially equal to the maximum default delay, and reading data from any one of the plurality of DRAM devices with a delay from read command to read data substantially equal to the maximum default delay.
US10181334B1
The present disclosure generally relates to data storage devices, and more specifically, to a magnetic media drive employing a magnetic recording head. The head includes a main pole, a spin Hall structure surrounding at least a portion of the main pole at a location that is recessed from a media facing surface (MFS), and a spin-torque structure surrounding at least a portion of the main pole at the MFS. Spin-orbit torque (SOT) is generated from the spin Hall structure. The spin-torque structure magnetization switching (or precession) is induced by the SOT. The SOT based head with the spin-torque structure increases both track density (tracks per inch) and linear density (bit per inch). The areal density capability (ADC), which is the product of tracks per inch and bit per inch, can be further improved by removing the side shield and the leading shield, when the spin-torque structure is utilized in the SOT based head.
US10181322B2
A dialog system for use in a multi-user, multi-domain environment. The dialog system understands user requests when multiple users are interacting with each other as well as the dialog system. The dialog system uses multi-human conversational context to improve domain detection. Using interactions between multiple users allows the dialog system to better interpret machine directed conversational inputs in multi-user conversational systems. The dialog system employs topic segmentation to chunk conversations for determining context boundaries. Using general topic segmentation methods, as well as the specific domain detector trained with conversational inputs collected by a single user system, allows the dialog system to better determine the relevant context. The use of conversational context helps reduce the domain detection error rate, especially in certain domains, and allows for better interactions with users when the machine addressed turns are not recognized or are ambiguous.
US10181314B2
A computationally implemented system and method that is designed to, but is not limited to: electronically modulating two or more acoustic ultrasonic signals according to output information to be transmitted as two or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from two or more portable electronic device emitters of a portable electronic device; and electronically projecting said two or more acoustic ultrasonic signals from said portable electronic device emitters to produce a first set of one or more acoustic audio signals from a first set of said two or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at a first location and to produce a second set of one or more second acoustic audio signals from of a second set of said two or more acoustic ultrasonic signals at a second location. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
US10181313B2
There is provided an electronic percussion instrument including a struck surface and strike sensors. The strike sensors include a central sensor; a plurality of peripheral sensors; a first position calculation device configured to, when an initial half wave of a strike waveform of the central sensor is detected within a first predetermined time after the central sensor detects a strike, calculate a first strike position from the central sensor based on the initial half wave; a second position calculation device configured to calculate a second strike position based on a difference in strike detection by the plurality of peripheral sensors; and a sound production instruction device configured to instruct production of a striking sound based on the first and second strike positions respectively calculated by the first and second position calculation devices.
US10181306B2
A peep proof display method adapted to a display apparatus including a first backlight module and a second backlight module. At a narrow view angle display mode, output a first data signal and a second data signal according to the first data signal. During a first sub-frame period, enable the first backlight module and disable the second backlight module so as to display the first data signal on the display apparatus. During a second sub-frame, enable the second backlight module and disable the first backlight module so as to display the second data signal on the display apparatus. A peak of a first light intensity distribution curve of the first backlight module is in a narrow viewing angle range. Peaks of a second light intensity distribution curve of the second backlight module are in a wide viewing angle range individual to the narrow viewing angle range.
US10181296B2
A display device of the present disclosure is a display device capable of outputting, by a Carousel method, a visible light communication signal including a plurality of signal units. The display device includes a display panel that displays a video signal, a visible light communication processor that encodes the signal units, divides the encoded signal units into a plurality of blocks, generates a plurality of transmission frames by using the plurality of blocks, and uses the generated transmission frames as a backlight control signal, and a backlight that illuminates the display panel from the back surface of the display panel based on the backlight control signal. With regard to the plurality of transmission frames corresponding to one of the signal units generated by the visible light communication processor, an order of the plurality of blocks is different between at least two of the transmission frames.
US10181293B2
A display apparatus includes: a backlight to generate light; a display panel to display an image by utilizing the light; a driving part to provide image signals corresponding to the image to the display panel; and a timing controller to drive the backlight, to drive the driving part at a first frequency when the image is a moving image, and to drive the driving part at a second frequency lower than the first frequency when the image is a still image. The timing controller is to set the second frequency based on a value obtained by applying a reduction rate of a flicker index corresponding to a dimming index of the backlight to a flicker index of image signals of a previous frame.
US10181291B2
An organic light-emitting display device having a pixel structure able to significantly improve threshold voltage compensation capability and range by compensating for a loss in a threshold voltage that would occur during operation.
US10181290B2
Embodiments relate to a display device and a method of operating the display device. The display device includes a power supply circuit configured to generate a gate voltage at an output terminal of the power supply circuit based on an input voltage to supply the gate signal to the pixels of the panel. The display device generates a switching pulse signal for a predetermined time period after the input voltage dropping below the predetermined threshold voltage. The display device generates the gate voltage at a first voltage level responsive to the switching pulse signal, the gate voltage at the first voltage level higher than the gate voltage at a second voltage level absent the switching pulse signal. Charges stored in pixels are discharged by applying the gate voltage to the pixels through gate lines, responsive to the input voltage dropping below the predetermined threshold voltage.
US10181289B1
The present disclosure provides an AMOLED pixel driving circuit and pixel driving method, where the pixel driving circuit includes one side of a first capacitor coupled to the other side of a second capacitor, a gate of a fifth thin film transistor receives a first scanning signal, a drain of the fifth thin film transistor couples to a cathode of an OLED and a source of a third thin film transistor, a gate of the third thin film transistor receives a second scanning signal.
US10181284B2
There are provided a driving circuit and a repairing method thereof, and a display apparatus. The driving circuit comprises: a driving transistor (T1), whose first terminal is input a power supply signal (Vdd), second terminal is connected to a display unit (10), and control terminal is input a data signal (Vdata). The driving circuit further comprises: a standby driving unit (11) including a standby transistor (T3), a first capacitor (C1) and a second capacitor (C2), a first terminal of the standby driving transistor (T3) is input the power supply signal (Vdd), a second terminal thereof is connected to the display unit (10) through the first capacitor (C1), and a control terminal thereof is connected to the control terminal of the driving terminal (T1) or the first terminal of the driving transistor (T1) through the second capacitor (C2). When abnormality occurs to the driving transistor (T1), it is able to make the pixel operate normally by means of a repairing approach, so that display effect of the display panel can be enhanced and production yield of the display panel is enhanced.
US10181281B2
A quantum dot light-emitting diode and a display device including the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a plurality of pixels, each including a first sub-pixel configured to emit blue light and a second sub-pixel configured to emit different colors of light based on the intensity of an electric field applied thereto.
US10181276B2
A gate driving circuit sequentially outputting a gate voltage using a high level power voltage, a low level power voltage, a start voltage, a previous stage gate voltage, a next stage gate voltage and a clock, includes: a shift register including a plurality of stages connected to each other by a cascade connection, each of the plurality of stages including: a first thin film transistor (TFT) switched by the start voltage or the previous stage gate voltage and transmitting the high level power voltage to a Q node; a second TFT switched by the next stage gate voltage and transmitting the low level power voltage to the Q node; a third TFT switched by a voltage of the Q node and transmitting the clock to an output node; and a first resistor connected between the output node and the low level power voltage.
US10181271B1
A foldunder label includes a first label sheet with a top side and an opposing underside and a first label line of weakness defining a central region of the first label sheet; and a second label sheet comprising an upper side and an opposing lower side and a second label line of weakness defining a central portion of the second label sheet; and a carrier material with a first section and a second section separated by a line of demarcation, a first section line of weakness underlying the first label, and a second section line of weakness underlying the second label, wherein the underside of the first label sheet is removably adhered to the first section and the lower side of the second label sheet is removably adhered to the second section.
US10181270B1
A nasal model simulator for surgical/anatomical training includes (a) an anatomic model representing one or more anatomical structures; (b) a boney midface structure that simulates osseous midface and nasal structures; and (C) a simulated septal cartilage configured to fit within the boney midface structure and is constructed of a material which simulates cartilage tissue.
US10181268B2
A method for programmatic robot control including, at a user device: displaying a set of icons and receiving a program for a robot, wherein receiving a program for a robot includes receiving a selection of a state icon associated with a state; associating a transition with the state; and creating a relationship between the transition and an event. The method functions to provide a user with an environment for creating a program to control the robot, and can additionally function to control the robot.
US10181264B2
Systems and methods for intersection assistance using dedicated short range communications are disclosed. An example vehicle includes a dedicated short range communication transceiver and an intersection assistor. The example dedicated short range communication transceiver is configured to receive safety messages from other vehicles. The example intersection assistor is configured to, before the vehicle reaches an intersection, determine a likelihood that there will be space for the vehicle on the other side of the intersection, and display a recommendation on whether to proceed through the intersection based on the likelihood.
US10181260B2
A method of informing a user of an identity of an input of a remote control device is presented. In the method, user activation of one of the inputs of the remote control device is detected. An audible signal associated with the activated input is determined. Each of the inputs of the remote control device is associated with a unique one of a plurality of audible signals. The audible signal associated with the activated input is produced to inform the user of the identity of that input.
US10181259B2
Systems and methods grant immunity from a monitoring system. For example, a monitoring system comprises a portable device configured to communicate a unique identifier with a registration signal, and a monitoring system. The monitoring system comprises a database including the unique identifier, a sensor configured to detect a condition, and a controller configured to receive a detection signal from the sensor when the condition is detected. The monitoring system grants immunity from the sensor to the portable device when the registration signal is received by the monitoring system.
US10181251B2
A wearable device, a monitoring method and an intelligent monitoring system are disclosed. The wearable device includes an obtaining module, a timing module, a processing and a reminding module. The obtaining module is configured to obtain a current motion state of a user. The timing module is configured to generate a triggering signal when the time for which the user is in the current motion state reaches the predetermined time, so as to trigger the processing module to obtain a reminding signal corresponding to the current motion state of the user. The reminding module is configured to issue a reminder to remind the user to change the motion state.
US10181250B2
In a board work system, the CPU of a board work device transmits error related information which relates to an error in a case where the error has occurred in the own device. Then, the CPU receives the error related information which relates to the error of the other board work device, and stores the received error related information in the HDD. Then, the display operation section is controlled such that information (other device error notification screen) based on the stored error related information is notified to the operator in a case where the power source of the board work device (other board work device), in which the error has occurred, is detected to be switched off.
US10181245B2
A dryer vent monitor device includes a temperature sensor coupled to a dryer exhaust pipe to measure a temperature inside the dryer exhaust pipe. A differential air pressure sensor is coupled at an input connection between a dryer and the exhaust pipe and at an output connection between the dryer exhaust pipe and an outdoor vent. The differential air pressure sensor measures a differential air pressure between the input connection and the output connection. A transceiver communicates with a monitoring system registered with the dryer vent monitoring device. The dryer vent monitoring device compares both the temperature and the differential air pressure with a preset threshold, determines that at least one of the temperature and the differential air pressure exceed the preset threshold, and generates an alert signal in response to determining that at least one of the temperature and the differential air pressure exceed the preset threshold.
US10181243B1
An example security device is provided that includes a belt attached to a housing. The belt may be insertable into a receiving channel of the housing at an adjustment end of the belt. A lever may be pivotably coupled to the housing. The lever may be configured to pivot relative to the housing between a locked lever position and an unlocked lever position. A hub may be disposed within the housing and coupled to the lever such that the hub rotates as the lever pivots.
US10181238B2
The present invention provides a gamification platform to provide one or more gamification services to one or more users in an enterprise. In accordance with an embodiment, the gamification platform includes a server, an application component, a consumer component and a DB layer, wherein said components and the DB layer are communicably coupled to the server. The application component provides a unified and an integrated gamification mechanics across one or more enterprise applications and comprises a tracker, a rule engine and a recommendation engine. The consumer component is configured to support one or more types of client applications. The DB layer is configured to manage and manipulate data in underlying database. The gamification platform further allows one or more users to virtually engage in accomplishing one or more target activities as a team and publishes the one or more gamification services in a user interface of the client application.
US10181233B1
The system includes a digital counter adapted to display a number which is changed in response to an actuation signal. A lock assembly mounted to the cargo door is connected to the counter. The lock assembly has a hollow housing within which a member having a recess adapted to receive the handle is moveable by the handle between an unlocked position, wherein the door may be opened, and a locked position, in which the door is prevented from being opened. A magnetically actuated switch is mounted within the housing. The switch is adapted to generate an actuation signal to the digital counter in response to movement of the member within the housing from its locked position. The signal causes the counter to change the displayed number, indicating that the door may have been opened in transit.
US10181220B2
A contact center augmented reality system may include a supervisor device, a location tracker, a state monitor, and an augmenter. The supervisor device may include a display to augment a supervisor view of the contact center. The location tracker may monitor agent locations in the contact center and may monitor the supervisor device location in the contact center. The state monitor may monitor a state of agents of the contact center. The augmenter may instruct the display of the supervisor device to display an agent-state augmentation artifact such that a state of a first agent of the contact center is displayed at a location associated with the first agent.
US10181219B1
In one general aspect, a method can include receiving, by a first computing device from a virtual reality (VR) headset, data indicative of a position of a second computing device, rendering, by the first computing device, an aspect of the second computing device for inclusion in a VR space based on the position of the second computing device, and integrating the rendered aspect of the second computing device with content for display as integrated content in the VR space. The method can further include providing the integrated content to the VR headset for display on a screen included in the VR headset, receiving data indicative of an interaction of a user with the second computing device, and based on the received data indicative of the interaction of the user with the second computing device, altering the content for display as integrated content in the VR space.
US10181201B2
A time-of-flight camera system is described. The time-of-flight camera system includes an illuminator to illuminate a region within the time-of-flight camera system's field of view. The time-of-flight camera system includes an image sensor to receive optical signals from the illumination for determining depth profile information within the field of view using time-of-flight measurement techniques. The image sensor has circuitry to determine one or more regions within the field of view where a received optical signal from the illuminating was weak. The illuminator is also to re-illuminate the one or more regions with stronger light than the one or more regions received during the illuminating. Each of the one or more regions being smaller than the region. The image sensor is also to receive optical signals from the re-illumination for determining depth profile information within the one or more regions.
US10181196B2
The present disclosure relates to a trailer tracking apparatus (2) for monitoring movement of a trailer (3) connected to a vehicle (1). The trailer tracking apparatus (2) has a controller (5) comprising an electronic processor (6) having an electrical input for receiving image data (DAT) from an imaging sensor (10) disposed on the vehicle (1). An electronic memory device (7) having instructions stored therein is electrically coupled to the electronic processor (6). The electronic processor (6) is configured to access the memory device (7) and to execute the instructions stored therein. The electronic processor (6) is operable to select a subset of said image data (DATSUB1). One or more element (16) are detected and monitored within the selected subset (DATSUB1) of said image data (DAT). The electronic processor (6) determines movement of the trailer (3) relative to the vehicle (1) in dependence on evolution of said one or more detected element (16) with respect to time. The present disclosure also relates to a method of tracking a trailer (3); and to a vehicle (1) incorporating the trailer tracking apparatus (2).
US10181195B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can obtain a first video frame and a second video frame. The first video frame can be processed using a convolutional neural network to output a first set of feature maps. The second video frame can be processed using the convolutional neural network to output a second set of feature maps. The first set of feature maps and the second set of feature maps can be processed using a spatial matching layer of the convolutional neural network to determine an optical flow for at least one pixel.
US10181192B1
A method of classifying foreground and background in an image of a video by determining a pitch color model of the image, the pitch color model comprising a pitch color, color shades of the pitch color, and the pitch color and the color shades under different shades of shadow. Then determining a pitch mask based on a pitch segmentation of the image of the video, determining a pitch background model based on the pitch mask and the pitch color model. The method may continue by classifying each of the elements of the pitch mask as background if a color of the element of the pitch mask matches the pitch color model and updating the pitch background model and the pitch color model using the colors of the elements that have been classified to match the pitch color model.
US10181186B2
The invention is a system designed to assist a hospital pharmacy in the compounding of medications comprising hazardous drugs. The system comprising: a safety cabinet, at least two robotic arm assemblies configured to simultaneously move vials and syringes within the safety cabinet, a plurality of cameras each installed at a specific location in the safety cabinet or on the robotic arm assemblies, and a processor. Each of the cameras is dedicated to provide real time digital images of the stage of the preparation process carried out at its location. Dedicated software and algorithms in the system processor allow almost all steps in the compounding process to be carried out automatically by the robotic arm assemblies without intervention by the operator or a supervisor and the cameras and imaging process algorithms are adapted to provide real-time feedback control of all stages of the compounding process.
US10181185B2
Methods and systems for detecting anomalies in images of a specimen are provided. One system includes one or more computer subsystems configured for acquiring images generated of a specimen by an imaging subsystem. The computer subsystem(s) are also configured for determining one or more characteristics of the acquired images. In addition, the computer subsystem(s) are configured for identifying anomalies in the images based on the one or more determined characteristics without applying a defect detection algorithm to the images or the one or more characteristics of the images.
US10181179B2
The invention provides an image shooting apparatus and an image shooting method that obtain a recovered image with high precision by using an optimal point spread function (PSF) without deriving an image shooting distance of a photographed object, an image shooting program, and a recording medium that records the image shooting program. An image shooting apparatus includes an optical system, an image shooting element configured behind the optical system; an image recovery processing portion configured to perform image processing and recovery processing on obtained image data; and a recovered image output portion configured to output a recovered image; and the image recovery processing portion includes a recovery filter storage memory configured to store multiple recovery filters pre-manufactured by using multiple point spread functions; a recovery filter processing portion configured to obtain multiple middle candidate images; and an image comment portion configured to output a middle candidate image with an optimal profile.
US10181178B2
A privacy image generation system may use a light field camera that includes an array of cameras or an RGBZ camera(s)) is used to capture images and display images according to a selected privacy mode. The privacy mode may include a blur background mode and a background replacement mode and can be automatically selected based on the meeting type, participants, location, and device type. A region of interest and/or an object(s) of interest (e.g. one or more persons in a foreground) is determined and the privacy image generation system is configured to clearly show the region/object of interest and obscure or replace the background according to the selected privacy mode. The displayed image includes the region/object(s) of interest clearly shown (e.g. in focus) and any objects in a background of the combined image shown having a limited depth of field (e.g. blurry/not in focus) and/or the background replaced with another image and/or fill.
US10181172B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for disaggregated graphics asset delivery for virtualized graphics are disclosed. A virtual compute instance with attached virtual GPU is provisioned in a multi-tenant provider network. The virtual compute instance is implemented using a physical compute instance, and the virtual GPU is implemented using a physical GPU. An application comprising identifiers of graphics assets is executed on the virtual compute instance. Executing the application comprises sending graphics instructions and the identifiers from the virtual compute instance to the virtual GPU. The graphics assets are obtained by the virtual GPU from a graphics asset repository using the identifiers. The graphics instructions are executed on the virtual GPU using the graphics assets corresponding to the identifiers.
US10181171B2
A technique to share execution resources. In one embodiment, a CPU and a GPU share resources according to workload, power considerations, or available resources by scheduling or transferring instructions and information between the CPU and GPU.
US10181169B1
Display enhancement improves performance of constrained display devices such as electrophoretic displays (EPDs). With display enhancement, a display controller rapidly writes area updates to the display, while a union of the area updates is maintained. Area updates which the display controller cannot present are discarded, while the union provides a representation of what area on the screen has been affected. A repair operation takes place which generates an area update encompassing the areas which may have been affected.
US10181167B2
A system for predicting and prescribing actions for impacting policymaking outcomes may include at least one processor configured to access first information scraped from the Internet to identify, for a particular pending policy, information about a plurality of policymakers slated to make a determination on the pending policy. The processor may parse the scraped first information to determine an initial prediction relating to an outcome of the pending policy. The processor may access second information to identify an action likely to change at least one of the initial prediction and the propensity of at least one policymaker, to thereby generate a subsequent prediction corresponding to an increase in a likelihood of achieving the desired outcome. The processor may display to the system user a recommendation to take the action in order to increase the likelihood of achieving the desired outcome.
US10181164B2
A method is provided for processing data to establish lifecycle threads in the development of a structural product. The method includes defining a source lifecycle thread from process-related information for development of the structural product, and defining and matching a target lifecycle thread to the source lifecycle thread. The process, and source and target lifecycle threads are expressible as respectively a network and sub-networks of tasks described by a plurality of attributes. For defining either or each of the source lifecycle thread or target lifecycle thread, the method includes at least receiving user selection of an attribute of the plurality of attributes as user-selected criteria, performing a cluster analysis according to the user-selected criteria to produce a plurality of clusters of candidate tasks from the plurality of tasks, and selecting tasks from the plurality of clusters of candidate tasks for the source/target lifecycle thread.
US10181159B1
A computer device and method for processing loss related data to detect and initiate insurance claim events. Data is received from one or more sensor devices relating to insured property. Analysis is performed on the received data to determine one or more claim events regarding the insured property. An insurance policy, other product, or service contract associated with the insured property is received and analyzed to determine coverage for the insured property as prescribed by the insurance policy, other product, or service contract. Predefined business rules are applied using the determined one or more claim events and the determined coverage to determine if the insurance policy, other product, or service contract supports a claim regarding the one or more claim events. Notification of the claim is provided if it is determined supported by the insurance policy, other product, or service contract.
US10181152B1
A computing device is enabled to be networked into a delivery and authentication system. The user may geo-fence their property further marking points of interest with a drop down marker being displayed on a mobile device and on a map. POIs may be established for drone delivery systems. Large drones may be enabled with an open area to allow for smaller drones to fit into the large drone. The large drone may include in a loading bay the various other smaller drones. Upon reaching a specific destination the large drone may be enabled to open a transport bay and release the smaller drones for last mile delivery.
US10181143B2
A system and method for a service level application are described. The service level application receives authentication data from a client seeking access to establish an account in an online marketplace. The service level application identifies a source of truth corresponding to the authentication data and verifies the authentication data with the corresponding source of truth. The service level application determines an access level tier to the online marketplace for the client based on the source of truth.
US10181117B2
Logic to register a personal point of sale (POS) device. Logic may communicate with the registration processor to establish a secure communication channel. Logic may access a basic input output system to obtain platform information. Logic may transmit the platform information to the registration processor to identify a certification associated with the device. Logic may communicate with a payment instrument via a card reader. Logic may transmit an encrypted message from the card reader to the registration processor to bind the payment instrument to the device. Logic may receive a communication from the device comprising platform information. Logic may perform a security protocol to establish a secure communication channel with the device. Logic may determine an existence of the certification for the device in the database based upon the platform information. And logic may register the platform in response to locating the certification of the platform.
US10181115B2
Aspects include a method, a system and a computer program product. The method includes identifying, on an electronic platform providing for an exchange of messages among multiple participants, at least one open issue to be resolved. Data is collected from the exchanged messages to determine a participation interaction parameter and a solution quality parameter associated with at least one open issue. The participation interaction parameter includes an accountability dynamic factor and collaboration dynamic factor and the solution quality parameter includes a velocity factor, a dormancy factor, and an extinction factor. When a sum of the participation interaction parameter and the solution quality parameter is below a threshold value, at least one open issue participant is invited to the electronic platform. It is also determined when the at least one open issue becomes a closed issue.
US10181111B1
In some examples, a service provider may determine a courier placement location for a service area and a courier inventory for the service area. Based on the inventory, the service provider may order first items from a first merchant and second items from a second merchant. The service provider may dispatch a first courier to pick up the first items and a second courier to pick up the second items. Further, a third courier may go to a handoff location to receive the courier inventory made up of first items picked up by the first courier and second items picked up by the second courier. In some examples, the handoff location is determined dynamically based on the current locations of the first, second, and third couriers and predicted courier travel times. Additionally, or alternatively, the handoff location may be determined based in part on the courier placement location.
US10181110B1
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention would project a route and a delivery schedule for relevant mail pieces and would monitor carrier-recorded tracking events for those mail pieces to determine whether or not actual tracking events are following the projected route and the projected schedule, and/or whether or not issues that might impact their delivery and/or their delivery schedule, may have arisen along their projected route; such exemplary embodiments would provide an alert to the relevant user(s) and/or other authorized parties and/or relevant carrier(s) and would facilitate user interaction by the relevant user(s) and/or parties to provide intercept and/or rescue and/or confiscation instructions; exemplary embodiments would facilitate automatic interfaces with the relevant carriers and delivery services for the subject mail piece to resolve rescue, item loss, insurance coverage, postage refund, intervention and/or confiscation instructions and issues.
US10181108B1
Systems and methods for receiving objects into inventory are described. The objects are individually scanned to generate scan data. The scan data is processed to determine what the object is (and to add the object into inventory) and also to determine values for one or more additional attributes. The attribute values are stored in a data structure which may be analyzed to detect a change over time.
US10181104B2
A system and method for allocating drivers to procure targets, such as automobiles. These targets are then transported to a desired drop-off destination. The entire system is automated, such that a requestor may hire drivers that are certified by the system and would satisfy requirements associated with the target, such as proper driver's license and location of the driver relative to the target. The system is powered by an internet based mobile application that is designed to match individual drivers to auto dealers, auction houses, driving transport companies and other businesses and individuals (“requestors”) seeking to move automobiles, goods, services, tasks, etc. from one location to another. The system has been designed to find, organize, and manage drivers and all aspects of the trip on a real time basis and reduce the cost of the existing system.
US10181100B1
Described is system and method for cognitive recognition. The system receives a multi-dimensional scene array as input data. A foveation module divides the multi-dimensional scene array into a plurality of sub-arrays and outputs contents of a currently selected sub-array. The contents are clustered with a hierarchical clustering module to generate a spatially invariant hierarchical cluster of the contents comprising a plurality of components which are based on a statistical distribution of co-occurrence of features across the currently selected sub-array. Task-relevant components are selectively gated and robustly maintained into a component memory location of a pattern bank with a working memory module with an input gating module. If the task-relevant components activate an abstract category module based on pattern matching, then a category recognition label is generated for the contents of the currently selected sub-array with an executive control module.
US10181098B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating representations of input sequences. One of the methods includes obtaining an input sequence, the input sequence comprising a plurality of inputs arranged according to an input order; processing the input sequence using a first long short term memory (LSTM) neural network to convert the input sequence into an alternative representation for the input sequence; and processing the alternative representation for the input sequence using a second LSTM neural network to generate a target sequence for the input sequence, the target sequence comprising a plurality of outputs arranged according to an output order.
US10181094B2
A recording apparatus includes a head including a wire and performing recording on a medium by allowing the wire to strike the medium, a temperature detection unit that detects a temperature of the head, a driving circuit for driving the wire, and a control unit that controls an energization state of the driving circuit. The control unit switches the energization state of the driving circuit between an ON state and an OFF state at each time determined by the control unit, based on the temperature detected by the temperature detection unit such that a current flowing in the driving circuit is kept constant, when the head performs recording on the medium.
US10181088B2
A system and method for performing foreground/background separation on an input image. The method identifies a corresponding model visual element in a scene model associated with the input image, the model visual element being associated with a set of element models, each element model including a plurality of visual data sets. Select an element model from the set of element models, dependent upon a visual distance between the input visual element and a visual data set of the selected element model satisfying a predetermined criterion. The method classifies the input visual element as one of foreground and background, dependent upon the selected element model, and then updates each visual data set in the selected element model, dependent upon the input visual element and at least first and second different methods of updating a visual data set.
US10181079B2
Methods and systems for automating the management and processing of roof damage analysis. In some embodiments image data associated with damaged roofs is collected and automatically analyzed by a computing device. In some embodiments, the image data is modified automatically to include descriptive metadata and visual indicia marking potential areas of damage. In one embodiment, the systems and methods include a remote computing device receiving visual data associated with one or more roofs. In one embodiment, insurance company specific weightings are determined and applied to received information to determine a type and extent of damage to the associated roof. In one embodiment, results of the methods and systems may be used to automatically generate a settlement estimate or supplement additional information in the estimate generation process.
US10181066B2
There are provided systems and methods for a smart harbor device for intelligent updating and selection for use of transaction processing terminal devices. A smart harbor device may be used to provide updating, servicing, and other maintenance of transaction processing terminal devices, such as EMV terminals used in retail transaction processing. The smart harbor device may include a port where the transaction processing terminal devices may be places, and the smart harbor device may connect to each of the transaction processing terminal devices. Once connected, the smart harbor device may run diagnostics to determine the statuses and conditions for each of the transaction processing terminal devices and maintenance the transaction processing terminal devices. The maintenance may be performed at times where the transaction processing terminal devices are not required for use. Additionally, the smart harbor device may intelligently select one based on statuses and device capabilities.
US10181064B2
A device, a system, and methods for tracking conductive composite pressurized gaseous storage tanks. The system including anchoring an RFID device in a non-conductive blind boss, wherein the anchor material has a low dielectric and has minimal reflection of RF energy.
US10181063B2
An encoded information reading (EIR) system can comprise a microprocessor, a memory, and at least one RFID reading device, all communicatively coupled to a system bus. The EIR system can further comprise two or more external antennas electrically coupled to a multiplexing circuit. The multiplexing circuit can be configured to electrically couple each antenna to the RFID reading device by using a time division method or a frequency division method. The external antennas can be disposed according to a spatial pattern configured to provide a spatially continuous RFID signal reception within a pre-defined area or volume. The antennas can be configured to receive RFID signals from a plurality of RFID tags attached to a plurality of items and disposed within a radio frequency range of the antennas. The EIR system can be configured to store in its memory a plurality of responses received from the plurality of RFID tags.
US10181061B2
Systems, methods, and devices for concealed chip-card readers are disclosed. In one embodiment, a chip-enabled card reader may include a card slot that receives a chip-enabled card; a carriage comprising a smart chip connector for contacting a chip on the chip-enabled card; and at least one carriage track disposed within the chassis that slideably engages the carriage and defines a path of movement for the carriage between a protected position and a reading position. The carriage may move along the path of movement to a reading position. The smart chip connector may contact the chip on the chip-enabled card when the chip-enabled card is in a fully-inserted position. The carriage is in the protected position when no card has been inserted into the card slot. In one embodiment, the smart chip connector has reduced accessibility through the opening.
US10181059B1
Methods, mediums and systems are provided to enable a user to build and edit a UML model for a system containing one or more physical component, which includes the across variable and/or the through variable of the components. A UML model may include classifiers, such as classes, interfaces, datatypes, signals, components, nodes, use cases and subsystems, that describes the structural and behavioral features of the system. A UML model may include at least one of the classifiers that is described using the across variables and/or the through variables of the system. For example, the interface of a component in a UML model may be described using the across variables and/or the through variables of the component.
US10181058B2
Techniques are provided for assisting owners to recover missing devices. The missing device automatically performs certain actions proactively in response to detecting conditions that indicate that the device has been lost or stolen. Conditions that indicate the device has been lost or stolen (“triggering conditions”) may include that a password failure has occurred more than a predetermined number of times. Any number and type of recovery-assisting actions may be taken, in response to triggering conditions, to assist owners in recovering a missing device. For example, a device may generate a record that indicates the current location of the device, and synchronize the record with an online service or some other device. The generation and synchronization of such records may be repeated on a periodic basis until either (a) the device becomes disabled, or (b) a user enters an appropriate password.
US10181055B2
A data security system, and a method of operation thereof, includes a data security transceiver or receiver; an authentication subsystem operatively connected to the data security transceiver or receiver; and a storage subsystem connected to the authentication subsystem.
US10181036B2
A method includes a unified extensible firmware interface of a compute node identifying an option ROM or an OS boot loader within the compute node, wherein the option ROM or OS boot loader stores a signed image that can be verified using a required digital certificate. The method further includes determining that the unified extensible firmware interface does not store the required digital certificate in a revocation database or in an authorization database. Still further, the method includes automatically identifying the required digital certificate in a database of digital certificates other than the revocation database or the authorization database, and providing the required digital certificate to the authorization database.
US10181032B1
Systems and methods include: collecting digital event data for the digital account; using a trained machine learning model to extract account takeover (ATO) risk features from the collected digital event data; evaluating the extracted ATO risk features of the collected digital event data of the digital account against a plurality of ATO risk heuristics; identifying one or more of the plurality of ATO risk heuristics that is triggered by the extracted ATO risk features, wherein one or more of the plurality of ATO risk heuristics may be triggered if at least a subset of the extracted ATO risk features matches requirements of the one or more ATO risk heuristics; and generating an ATO risk assessment for the digital account using the one or more triggered ATO risk heuristics.
US10181020B2
A system receives a source and a metadata layer that describes the source. The source may comprise source records with fields containing source data, and the metadata layer may include metadata comprising at least one of a field data type, a field data length, a field description, or a record length. The processor may further validate the metadata layer against the source and write results to a log. The processor may further be configured for transforming the source records into transformed records for a load ready file. The processor may further balance a number of records in the source against a number of transformed records in the load ready file to generate a transformation failure rate.
US10181019B2
A privacy compliance monitoring system, according to particular embodiments, is configured to track a user's system inputs and responses to questions regarding a particular privacy campaign in order to monitor any potential abnormal or misleading response. In various embodiments, the system is configured to track changes to a user's responses, monitor an amount of time it takes a user to respond, determine a number of times that a user changes a response and/take other actions to determine whether a particular response may be abnormal. In various embodiments, the system is configured to automatically flag one or more questions based on determining that the user may have provided an abnormal response.
US10181016B2
An information processing device includes an identification part configured to, in response to a user's operation to start any given one of a plurality of first application programs, determine whether the start of the one of the first application programs is allowed; and a request part configured to request the one of the first application programs to display a first screen which indicates the start of the one of the first application programs is not allowed when the identification part determines that the start of the one of the first application programs is not allowed, and request a second application program to display a second screen including a message when the identification part determines that the start of the one of the first application programs is allowed and when the message needs to be given.
US10181012B2
Systems and methods for data analysis include constructing patient traces as a set of medical events for each patient of a patient population, the patient population being segmented based on patient outcomes. Medical events in one or more of the patient traces are reduced to provide processed patient traces. The processed patient traces are clustered to identify a cluster of patient traces. A process model is mined, using a processor, representing an aggregation of treatment pathways in the patient traces from the cluster. Patterns from patient traces are identified that are discriminative of patient outcomes. At least one of the patterns is represented with respect to the process model to identify treatment pathways correlated with the patient outcomes.
US10181007B2
A patient-specific finite element model of the cornea is generated for the purposes of modeling a cornea for simulating tissue cuts in the cornea. A first group of tissue fibers, with main fibers that extend parallel to the surface of the cornea, is distributed in the finite element model in accordance with a first distribution function. Moreover, a second group of tissue fibers, with inclined cross-linked fibers that do not extend parallel to the surface of the cornea, is distributed in the finite element model in accordance with a second distribution function. Here, the second distribution function distributes the cross-linked fibers with a non-uniform weighting function over the depth of the cornea, from the outer surface of the cornea to the inner surface of the cornea.
US10181004B1
Systems and methods are provided for identifying a wire of a plurality of wires to be adjusted to mitigate effects of electromigration. A method includes identifying a plurality of wires of a circuit, each wire comprising a one or more wire segments. An electromigration stress is determined for each wire path of each wire, a wire path being made up of one or more wire segments. For each wire, a highest determined electromigration stress is assigned for wire paths of that wire as the wire electromigration stress for that wire. An identification of the wire having the highest wire electromigration stress is stored, where the wire having the highest wire electromigration stress is a candidate for adjustment to mitigate electromigration effects.
US10181002B2
Circuitry for an efficient configuration data management is presented. The circuitry includes an encoding circuit that compares configuration data of a circuit design with base configuration data of a base circuit design. The encoding circuit compresses a difference between the configuration data and the base configuration data to produce compressed configuration data. The compressed configuration data can be stored in a storage circuit. For a purpose of implementing the circuit design in an integrated circuit, a decoding circuit can retrieve the compressed configuration data from the storage circuit, decompress the compressed configuration data, and compare a result of the decompression operation with the base configuration data to restore the configuration data. The restored configuration data can serve to program configuration memory bits on the integrated circuit, thereby implementing the circuit design.
US10180990B2
System and techniques for activity sensing online preference assay are described herein. An initial indication of an online activity preference for a member of a social network service may be obtained. A plurality of member activities corresponding with the online activity preference for a period of time subsequent to obtaining the initial indication may be collected. Respective decision trees of a set of decision trees may be traversed based on a set of inputs comprising the collected plurality of member activities to determine a probability that the online activity preference corresponds with the member. An actual online activity preference may be derived for the member using an aggregation of the determined probability for the respective decision trees of the set of decision trees. Social network content items may be filtered for the member based on the actual online activity preference.
US10180982B2
In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for managing playback of content delivered to a mobile device with a pause and resume functionality. The method and system including receiving delivered content on a mobile device, initiating playback of the delivered content, pausing playback of the content being delivered to the mobile device in response to an action and resuming delivery of the content upon a request.
US10180979B2
As disclosed herein, a computer-implemented method within a server system generates suggestions by a search engine in response to search queries. The method uses a database associated with the search engine, the database storing digital media items each selectively associated with queries, terms and/or objects. The search engine receives a search query from a user device. The method compares one or more parts of the search query with stored queries, terms and/or objects within the database to find matching digital media items and generates at least one suggestion based on search query, the suggestion comprising one of the matching digital media items and at least one search result based on search query. The search engine transmits an output to the user device comprising the at least one suggestion and/or the at least one search result.
US10180978B2
An interface provides decision support in complex problem environments. An interface engine selectively communicates with a database to display (e.g., in tree form) proposed decisions and various corresponding outcomes resulting from cause-effect relationships of selected decisions. Structured data objects store state information (e.g., current/projected/target) of multi-faceted, inter-connected entities. Object metadata can include entity attributes and/or entity relationship details. The interface allows traversing the tree to explore the cause-effect relationships and/or validate various solution paths. The tree (including the proposed decisions, outcomes, and solution paths) may be initially generated up front, based upon particular problem scenario characteristics. Limited subsequent interaction between the interface engine and the underlying backend data store may enhance speed/performance/user experience. Roundtrip interaction with the underlying database may take place where a user seeks to adjust a decision with specific metrics and simulate the result, and/or create an execution plan/activity based upon a solution path previously designed.
US10180974B2
Systems and methods for generating content corresponding to an event are provided. A method for generating content corresponding to an event, comprises defining a plurality of sub-events of the event, classifying one or more actual occurrences in the event into one or more of the sub-events, monitoring behavior of one or more users to determine areas of the event of interest to the one or more users, linking the one or more users to the one or more classified actual occurrences based on the areas of the event of interest, and generating content for the one or more classified actual occurrences.
US10180972B1
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that manages synchronization between a profile store and a source of truth that is used to update the profile store via a real-time link. During operation, the system obtains a request to compare a first set of attributes from a profile for an entity in the profile store with a source of truth. During a pre-specified period for delaying processing of the request, the system reduces a load on the source of truth by ignoring additional requests to compare the profile with the source of truth. After the pre-specified period has passed, the system obtains a first set of attributes from the profile and a second set of attributes for the entity from the source of truth. The system then compares the first and second sets of attributes to detect and correct mismatches between the first and second sets of attributes.
US10180970B2
A data processing method is executed by a computer to perform distributed processing of a first query and a second query. The data processing method includes calculating a first value indicating a dependency between a first partitioning key and a second partitioning key, the first partitioning key specifying a categorical attribute extracted from syntax of the first query, and the second partitioning key specifying a numerical attribute holding numerical values associated with the second query; generating a query group made of the first query and the second query based on the first value; and performing distributed processing of the first query and the second query based on the query group when executing the first query and the second query.
US10180969B2
In an environment containing big data, noisy data, and/or unstructured data, it is desirable to identify an entity referenced by input data. The entity can be identified by generating records corresponding to characteristics of the entity based on the input data. These records can be merged when it is determined that more than one record corresponds to the same entity. By doing so it is possible to more easily identify and classify information related to an entity, though such information may have been obtained in a manner that might otherwise be deemed unstructured or noisy. The method can be applied across large sets of data (“big data”) to obtain meaning from data that may otherwise be unclassifiable to a human observer.
US10180958B2
A method, which comprises determining a logical identifier used for communication over a network portion managed by a service provider and transmitting to a computing apparatus adapted to effect online transactions involving a payer and a payee an indication of the service provider having agreed to act as the payer for at least one online transaction requested by a requesting device that uses the logical identifier. Also, a method, which comprises determining a logical identifier used to identify a device during a request for an online transaction; identifying, based on the logical identifier, a third party that has agreed to act as a payer for the online transaction; providing a user of the device with an opportunity to confirm the third party as the payer for the online transaction; and completing the online transaction based on input from the user.
US10180954B2
Techniques are disclosed for disconnected operation in a distributed database system. In an embodiment, the distributed database system implements a disconnected mode of operation allowing isolated regions of database nodes to provisionally commit transactions, with the global requirements of those transactions later satisfied by a transparent healing process after network connectivity is reestablished between the regions. The healing process, in turn, enables the distributed database system to construct a consistent global state of the database that accounts for the transactions provisionally-committed in each isolated region during the disconnected mode. Once the healing process completes, database clients “see” a healed version of the database that simulates or otherwise closely approximates a state of the database had the distributed database system performed the transactions during a normal, fully-connected, mode of operation.
US10180943B2
The subject disclosure is directed towards partially recalling file ranges of deduplicated files based on tracking dirty (write modified) ranges (user writes) in a way that eliminates or minimizes reading and writing already-optimized adjacent data. The granularity of the ranges does not depend on any file-system granularity for tracking ranges. In one aspect, lazy flushing of tracking data that preserves data-integrity and crash-consistency is provided. In one aspect, also described is supporting granular partial recall on an open file while a data deduplication system is optimizing that file.
US10180942B2
A method and system for method for generating concept structures are disclosed. The method comprises receiving a request to create a new concept structure, wherein the request includes at least a multimedia data element (MMDE) related to the new concept structure; querying a deep-content-classification (DCC) system using the MMDE to find at least one sub-concept, wherein a sub-concept is a concept structure that partially matches the received MMDE; checking if the at least one sub-concept satisfies at least one predefined logic rule; generating one or more sub-concepts from the at least MMDE; and generating the new concept structure using one or more sub-concepts out of the at least one sub-concepts that satisfies the predefined logic rule.
US10180918B2
The present invention provides a mobile wireless communication system, network, and method for managing the use of one or more peripherals with a mobile wireless communication device in connection with an upcoming event. The method includes associating one or more peripherals with one or more users, where the one or more peripherals have an extended capability for use with a mobile wireless communication device, and maintaining a list of the peripheral associations and the respective extended capabilities. Upcoming events and any need for corresponding event supporting capabilities are monitored. Any unmet need for event supporting capabilities is compared with the extended capability of peripherals associated with at least some of the one or more users that will be attending the upcoming event. An indication is provided to at least one of the users that will be attending the upcoming event having an associated peripheral that will address the unmet need for event supporting capabilities of a request to bring the associated peripheral of the at least one of the users to the upcoming event for providing the associated extended capability for use with a mobile wireless communication device.
US10180909B2
A marking capability is used to provide an indication of whether a block of memory is being used by a guest control program to back an address translation structure. The marking capability includes setting an indicator in one or more locations associated with the block of memory. In a further aspect, the marking capability includes resetting the one or more indicators to indicate that the block of memory is no longer being used by the guest control program to back the address translation structure.
US10180905B1
In an embodiment, a processor may implement an access map-pattern match (AMPM)-based prefetch circuit for a multi-level cache system. The access patterns that are matched to the access maps may include prefetches for different cache levels. Centralizing the generation of prefetches into one prefetch circuit may provide better observability and controllability of prefetching at various levels of the cache hierarchy, in an embodiment. Prefetches at different levels may be controlled individually based on the accuracy of those prefetches, in an embodiment. Additionally, in an embodiment, access patterns that are longer that a given threshold may have the granularity of the prefetches change so that more data is prefetched and the prefetches occur farther in advance, in some embodiments.
US10180903B2
Embodiments of the invention relate a hybrid hardware and software implementation of transactional memory accesses in a computer system. A processor including a transactional cache and a regular cache is utilized in a computer system that includes a policy manager to select one of a first mode (a hardware mode) or a second mode (a software mode) to implement transactional memory accesses. In the hardware mode the transactional cache is utilized to perform read and write memory operations and in the software mode the regular cache is utilized to perform read and write memory operations.
US10180902B2
Garbage collection processing is facilitated. Based on execution of a load instruction and determining that an address of an object pointer to be loaded is located in a pointer storage area and the object pointer indicates a location within a selected portion of memory undergoing garbage collection, processing control is obtained by a handler executing within a processor of the computing environment. The handler obtains the object pointer from the pointer storage area, and determines whether the object pointer is to be modified. If the object pointer is to be modified, the handler modifies the object pointer. The handler may then store the modified object pointer in a selected location.
US10180893B2
A developer analytic module executing on an integrated development environment provides location tracing of a software development toolkit and automatic updated of the SDK. The developer analytic module further provides data container transfer functionality to ensure that analytic logic has access to necessary data containers to perform symbolication and/or error detection.
US10180891B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for monitoring processes running on a platform as a service architecture. One example method includes storing a received sample of monitored attributes of a computer process in a sample memory buffer that includes other stored samples. A determination is made that the sample memory buffer is full. The sample memory buffer is compressed. A starting position in a compressed sample file store at which to store the compressed sample memory buffer is determined. The compressed sample memory buffer is stored at the determined starting position in the compressed sample file store. The starting position of the stored compressed sample memory buffer is stored at a particular location in a file position index. A collection timestamp for the sample in a timestamp index is stored at a timestamp index location that matches the particular location in the file position index.
US10180883B2
A storage drive and associated system and method for storing data locally at the storage drive and/or at cloud storage may buffer, in a local storage buffer, data to be stored at the cloud and upload the data to the cloud storage from the local storage buffer. Upon receipt of an acknowledgement, from the cloud storage, that the data was successfully uploaded, the storage drive may delete the data from the local storage buffer. The storage drive may provide a ghost file representation of the uploaded data through the storage drive, through which the data uploaded to the cloud storage may be accessed. The storage drive may access multiple cloud storage accounts, each corresponding to a file folder on the storage drive, allowing the user to easily access different cloud storage accounts. The storage drive may recover data that was deleted from either local persistent storage or the cloud storage.
US10180881B2
Embodiments of the present invention also provide a system for increasing inter-application efficiency by conducting recovery of end-to-end transactions. Embodiments of the invention allow a transaction manager to track the status of a transaction being processed by a plurality of nodes in an array in order to perform error recovery of failed transactions within a node. The recovery process may involve restarting the transaction at the global step and the local step at which the transaction failed. By avoiding restarting the end-to-end transaction from the first step, the system may save precious computing resources of the computer systems within the nodes processing the end-to-end transaction, including, but not limited to, processing power, memory space, storage space, cache space, electric power, networking bandwidth, and I/O calls.
US10180880B2
A method for execution by one or more processing modules of a dispersed storage network (DSN), the method begins by monitoring an encoded data slice access rate to produce an encoded data slice access rate for an associated rebuilding rate of a set of rebuilding rates. The method continues by applying a learning function to the encoded data slice access rate based on a previous encoded data slice access rate associated with the rebuilding rate to produce an updated previous encoded data slice access rate of a set of previous encoded data slice access rates. The method continues by updating a score value associated with the updated previous encoded data slice access rate and the rebuilding rate and selecting a slice access scheme based on the updated score value where a rebuild rate selection will maximize a score value associated with an expected slice access rate.
US10180875B2
A method for performing error correction for a plurality of storage drives and a storage appliance comprising a plurality of storage devices is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes generating a first set of parity bits from a first set of data of at least one of the plurality of storage devices, the first set of parity bits capable of correcting a first number of error bits of the first set of data. The method further includes generating a second set of parity bits from a concatenated set of the first data and a second set of data from at least another of the plurality of storage devices, the second set of parity bits capable of correcting a second number of error bits of the first set of data, the second number being greater than the first number. The method further includes reading the first set of data and (i) correcting error bits within the first set of data with the first set of parity bits where a number of error bits is less than the first number of error bits; and (ii) correcting error bits within the first set of data with the second set of parity bits where the number of error bits is greater than the first number.
US10180873B2
Provided herein may be a semiconductor memory device and a method for operating the same. The semiconductor memory device may include a memory cell array, a peripheral circuit, control logic, a status storage unit, and an operating characteristic checking unit. The memory cell array may include memory cells. The peripheral circuit may perform an operation for writing data to the memory cell array, reading data from the memory cell array, or erasing data written to the memory cell array. The control logic may control the peripheral circuit so that a data write operation, a data read operation or a data erase operation is performed. The status storage unit may store an operational status of the memory cell array as a first status value. The operating characteristic checking unit may receive an operating characteristic value, and generate a second status value via a comparison with an operation threshold value.
US10180866B2
Effects of a physical memory fault are mitigated. In one example, to facilitate mitigation, memory is allocated to processing entities of a computing environment, such as applications, operating systems, or virtual machines, in a manner that minimizes impact to the computing environment in the event of a memory failure. Allocation includes using memory structure information, including, information regarding fault containment zones, to allocate memory to the processing entities. By allocating memory based on fault containment zones, a fault only affects a minimum number of processing entities.
US10180862B1
A method and system for interoperability between a first and second mark-up language application, both executable within a browser container, includes accessing a first exchange script in the first application and a second exchange script in the second application. The method and system includes executing a desktop services module in communication with the applications, the module disposed between the applications and the browser container. The method and system includes communicating between the first application and the desktop services module using the first exchange script and communicating between the second application and the desktop services module using the second exchange script. Therein, the method and system determines an interaction in the first application via desktop services module, generates an action command for the second application via an interoperability function in the desktop services module, and performs a processing operation in the second application based on the action command.
US10180854B2
A processing system includes an execution unit, communicatively coupled to an architecturally-protected memory, the execution unit comprising a logic circuit to execute a virtual machine monitor (VMM) that supports a virtual machine (VM) comprising a guest operating system (OS) and to implement an architecturally-protected execution environment, wherein the logic circuit is to responsive to executing a blocking instruction by the guest OS directed at a first page stored in the architecturally-protected memory during a first time period identified by a value stored in a first counter, copy the value from the first counter to a second counter, responsive to executing a first tracking instruction issued by the VMM, increment the value stored in the first counter, and set a flag to indicate successful execution of the second tracking instruction.
US10180853B2
Session reliability for a redirected mass storage device can be improved by delaying a device removal process when a redirected mass storage device is disconnected. Whenever a session employed to redirect a mass storage device is disconnected, the agent on the server can send a device removal notification to a virtual disk enumerator. Rather than immediately initiating the device removal process, the virtual disk enumerator can pause I/O requests pertaining to the mass storage device and wait a specified amount of time to allow the mass storage device to be reconnected. If the mass storage device is reconnected during the specified amount of time, the paused I/O requests can be resumed. Otherwise, the device removal process can be commenced after the specified amount of time has elapsed.
US10180850B1
Emulating a heterogeneous application having a kernel designated for hardware acceleration may include compiling, using a processor, host program code into a host binary configured to execute in a first process of a computing system and generating, using the processor, a device program binary implementing a register transfer level simulator using the kernel. The device program binary may be configured to execute in a second, different process of the computing system. A high level programming language model of static circuitry of a programmable integrated circuit that couples to a circuit implementation of the kernel may be compiled into a static circuitry binary. The static circuitry binary may be used by the register transfer level simulator during emulation.
US10180844B2
The concepts described herein include a storage access system including two access paths using different path configurations resulting in the ability to do a two part boot from the same boot memory. The two storage access paths address the boot memory using a globally unique identifier. The first storage path is a slower path that transfers instructions from the boot memory to configure the second storage path used to transfer the operating system from the boot memory.
US10180837B2
Methods and apparatuses for version management. Information corresponding to multiple versions of a file is maintained in a database. The information includes one or more versions of the file and change data associated with the one or more versions of the file. In response to a request, a graphical user interface (GUI) is presented that includes a timeline with entries corresponding to one or more versions of the file. The entries have at least a graphical representation of changes made.
US10180821B2
Combining specifications of dataflow graphs includes receiving: a first dataflow graph specification that specifies two or more components connected by links representing flows of data, and a second dataflow graph specification that specifies at least one component, and at least one sub-graph interface. The sub-graph interface includes at least one flow junction representing a connection between: (1) a flow of data outside the sub-graph interface, and (2) a flow of data inside the sub-graph interface. The method includes processing information including the first dataflow graph specification and the second dataflow graph specification, to generate a combined dataflow graph specification, including: identifying an association between the sub-graph interface and the first dataflow graph specification, for at least a first flow junction, determining a direction associated with transferring a value of a descriptor, and transferring a value of a descriptor according to the determined direction.
US10180818B2
A rotary fader apparatus includes a fader control knob that is directly attached to the rotor of a non-contact electrical motor. The apparatus may produce a fade effect based on the rotational position of the fader control knob and may be automated through signals to the motor. Such a rotary fader apparatus may be used, for example, in audio mixing applications to provide automated or manual rotary control of track fading. The motor may also be used to alter the feel of the movement of the fader control knob and/or provide tactile feedback in response to mixing parameters or signal properties.
US10180813B2
A processing device includes a reception unit, a processing unit, and an output unit. The reception unit receives a process designated by a user. The processing unit performs the process received by the reception unit. The output unit outputs the process to an external apparatus capable of executing the process received by the reception unit. When the reception unit receives multiple processes, a process that is included in the multiple processes and in which an output from the processing device has to be obtained is performed in the processing device, and at least a part of a process that is included in the multiple processes and in which an output from the processing device does not have to be obtained is output to the external apparatus by the output unit.
US10180812B2
A cluster of nodes can receive a request to perform a logging operation of a distributed data storage application. The logging operation can include writing of data to a secondary storage of each of the nodes of the plurality of nodes. The request can include an indication of a durability mode to use for the logging operation. The logging operation can be initiated at each node of the plurality of nodes according to the indication of the durability mode, a completion callback can be run at each node of the plurality of nodes according to the indication of the durability mode, a global durability state and a global commit state can be determined for the cluster, and a reply can be returned to the request once the global durability state and global commit state are consistent with the indication of the durability mode to be used for the logging operation.
US10180802B2
Storage sites are allocated pairs of nodes in which one node of the pair acts as an owner node while the other a backup node. When a local owner node receives a colliding write, the local owner node obtains a lock on the modified database and transfers both the write data and metadata to a remote owner node. The remote owner node returns a write complete message and the local site owner unlocks the modified database. When a local backup node receives a colliding write, the local backup node requests a lock from the local owner node and sends the write data to the remote owner node while the local owner node sends the write metadata to the remote owner node. The remote owner node then returns a write complete message to the local backup node which then requests the modified database be unlocked by the local owner node.
US10180798B2
An aspect of the invention is directed to a management server coupled to a first storage array which executes a given function and coupled to a plurality of second storage arrays. The management server comprises: a memory being configured to store information of hardware configurations of the plurality of second storage arrays and to store information of one or more configuration patterns which realize the given function using a plurality of storage arrays, the plurality of storage arrays including zero or more first storage arrays and zero or more second storage arrays; and a processor, in response to receipt of a request to create configuration for the given function on the plurality of second storage arrays, being configured to select at least one configuration pattern, of the one or more configuration patterns, which can be realized by the hardware configurations of the plurality of second storage arrays.
US10180796B2
A memory system includes: a plurality of first memory devices directly or indirectly coupled to one another, each first memory device including a first memory and a first memory controller suitable for controlling the first memory to store data; a second memory device including a second memory and a second memory controller suitable for controlling the second memory to store data; and a multi-processor including a plurality of processors, each processor executing an operating system (OS) and an application to access a data storage memory through the first and second memory devices.
US10180792B1
Data storage devices may store selected data received from a data source to a buffer memory. The selected data may be copied from the buffer to a non-volatile memory configured for sequential storage. The selected data may then be copied from the buffer to a solid state memory, such as dynamic random access memory. The selected data may be copied from the solid state memory to a main store, such as a magnetic disc memory. If the selected data cannot be found in the solid state memory, the selected data in the non-volatile memory can be copied to the main store.
US10180785B2
A system may include global controls, each associated with a different one of a plurality of user interface screens of a vehicle; contextual controls, each associated with a command function available from a selected one of the plurality of user interface screens; and a vehicle processor configured to display a current one of the plurality of user interface screens, and update command functions associated with the contextual controls responsive to user input to the global controls. A method may include, responsive to receiving an indication of a user input press of a global control, updating command functions associated with contextual controls in accordance with command function available from a user interface screen associated with the global control; and upon receiving a user input release of the global control within a predetermined threshold period of time, navigating to the user interface screen associated with the global control.
US10180783B2
An information processing apparatus including a processor that receives an output from a user interface indicating that a first icon is selected; acquires sensor information corresponding to movement of the information processing apparatus; and controls a display to move at least a second icon on the display based on the acquired sensor information corresponding to the movement of the information processing apparatus upon receiving the output from the user interface that the first icon is selected.
US10180779B2
In a computer-implemented method for dynamically presenting status information of a monitored system within a graphical user interface, a first view is displayed within the graphical user interface, the first view including a textual representation indicative of a status of a monitored system, the textual representation including at least one interactive portion that is user-selectable for presenting underlying information associated with the interactive portion. Responsive to a user selection, a second view is displayed within the graphical user interface, the second view including a plurality of status boxes representative of monitored attributes of the monitored system. A particular status box of the plurality of status boxes is selectively promoted to the first view in response to the detection of a particular condition based on the monitored attributes. A particular interactive portion associated with the particular status box is integrated into the textual representation.
US10180772B2
An electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface, a display, and one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts: displays a first user interface that includes objects of a first type and objects of a second type; detects a first portion of a first input that includes an increase in characteristic intensity of a first contact above an intensity threshold while a focus selector is over a respective user interface object; in response, displays supplemental information associated with the respective user interface object; while displaying the supplemental information, detects an end of the first input; and, in response: if the respective user interface object is the first type of object, ceases to display the supplemental information; and, if the respective user interface object is the second type of object, maintains display of the supplemental information after detecting the end of the first input.
US10180768B1
Techniques for presenting information on a graphical user interface are disclosed. In one embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for presenting information on a graphical user interface including displaying a deployment map via the graphical user interface on a display unit, determining whether an input has been detected with respect to the deployment map, determining a type of input when the input has been detected, generating an updated deployment map based on the determined type of input, and displaying the updated deployment map on the display unit.
US10180767B2
A portable device which simultaneously executes a plurality of applications by using a multi-screen and a method of operating a multi-application thereof. The method involves receiving an input according to a user selection of a multi-application icon for executing a plurality of applications in respective windows simultaneously. Based on the selected multi-application icon, the applications and respective windows are identified. Execution images respectively associated with the applications are then displayed on the windows simultaneously.
US10180765B2
A method for supporting multi-party collaboration over a computer network involves receiving messages at a server from a plurality of client computers in communication via the network and having common content displayed on an associated display area. The messages include cursor movement information and client content input by a user of at least one of the client computers and the method involves producing output messages corresponding to the cursor movement information and client content, causing the server to transmit the output messages that include client content to each of the plurality of client computers, including the client computer that generated the client content. The method further involves causing the server to transmit output messages that include cursor movement information to at least client computers other than the client computer that generated the cursor movement to facilitate display of a pointer on the respective client computers.
US10180763B2
A method includes driving, by a first driver circuit, a current through an electrode and detecting, by a sensing system, a touch based on a change in capacitance at the electrode. The first driver circuit includes a first operational transconductance amplifier and a first current mirror. A second current mirror is coupled to the sensing system. A first switch is coupled to the first current mirror. A second switch is coupled to the first current mirror and the first operational transconductance amplifier. A third switch is coupled to the first operational transconductance amplifier and the second current mirror. A fourth switch is coupled to the second current mirror. A fifth switch is coupled to the first operational transconductance amplifier. A sixth switch is coupled to the first operational transconductance amplifier. A seventh switch is coupled to the first operational transconductance amplifier, the first current mirror, and the second current mirror.
US10180759B2
A coordinate detecting apparatus includes: a plurality of light-emitting and -receiving units arranged along an outer edge of the coordinate input area, the plurality of light-emitting and -receiving units each including a light-emitting part and a light-receiving part; at least one retroreflective member arranged along the outer edge of the coordinate input area; and a control unit to control the plurality of light-emitting and -receiving units to detect coordinates of a position of input made with a designation input unit in a first detection state or a second detection state.
US10180758B2
A touch panel driving device that can easily perform a force sensing drive with a touch drive unit and a force drive unit that can be integrally formed in one-chip, a touch panel device can include the one-chip touch panel drive device, and a driving method thereof are provided. The touch panel device can include a bypass path that supplies a second touch sensing signal to a drive unit without passing through a sensing unit. Accordingly, the touch panel device can perform both touch sensing based on a first touch sensing signal and force sensing based on a second touch sensing signal using a single drive unit and prevent an erroneous second touch sensing signal from being transmitted to the drive unit due via the sensing unit, thereby easily and more accurately performing the force sensing.
US10180755B2
The systems and techniques described herein generally relate to an electronic device having a touch-sensitive surface or region that is configured to receive force-based user input and dynamically adjust a force threshold used to recognize the force-based user input. In particular, the device may include one or more force sensors that are configured to detect a touch that exceeds a dynamically adjustable threshold. In some embodiments, the threshold is dynamically adjusted in response to a detected or estimated stability condition. By dynamically adjusting the threshold, the device may be better adapted or optimized for use with a particular support accessory or support configuration. In some cases, multiple sub-regions may be defined over the touch-sensitive surface, each sub-region having a different force threshold.
US10180753B2
A touchscreen panel includes a base film having a bezel area and a free form active area; first touch electrodes and second touch electrodes crossing each other in the active area; first touch pads and second touch pads in the bezel area, and a guard pad between adjacent first and second touch pads; first routing lines in the bezel area, connecting the first touch electrodes and the second touch pads; second routing lines in the bezel area, connecting the second touch electrodes and the second touch pads; a guard line extending from the guard pads and disposed between adjacent first and second routing lines; and a bridge pattern over an insulating film that covers the first routing lines, second routing lines, and guard line, wherein one or more of the first routing lines and one or more of the first touch electrodes that correspond to each other are attached to the bridge pattern via contact holes penetrating the insulating film and electrically connected together.
US10180735B1
A mixed reality (MR) system that implements navigation methods for 3D models in MR environments. The navigation methods allow a user to navigate themselves about a 3D model (such as an MR environment including one or more buildings/structures) while in an MR environment. The navigation methods include an elevator feature or navigation mode that allows the user to move accurately between “floors” of the 3D model used to provide the MR environment (move to a next upper or lower floor from their present position). The navigation techniques include a jump feature or navigation mode. The jump feature allows the user to move to any point in an MR environment created using a 3D model that they can presently see in the display of the MR environment or a location that may be partially obscured from the user's view.
US10180729B2
A human machine interface (HMI) minimizing the number of gestures for operation control in which user-intended operation commands are accurately recognized by dividing a vehicle interior into a plurality of regions. The HMI receives an input of a gesture according to each region, and controls any one device according to the gesture. Convenience of a user is improved because the gesture may be performed in a state in which region restriction is minimized by identifying an operation state and an operation pattern of an electronic device designated according to each region to recognize the user's intention when the user performs the gesture in a boundary portion between two regions or even in multiple regions.
US10180725B2
The present application relates generally to haptic feedback actuators and their construction and use in touch based systems. The haptic feedback actuators are suitably bilayer structures including at least two materials having different thermal coefficients, allowing the structure to deflect from a first position to a second position in response to heating and/or cooling of the structure.
US10180718B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including a circuitry configured to control a state of a selection candidate object, when a predetermined condition concerning a selection of the selection candidate object is determined to be satisfied based on a relation between a display position of the selection candidate object and a position towards which the user gazes or a gazing direction, by bringing the selection candidate object to a selected state.
US10180717B2
There is provided an information processing device, information processing method, and program capable of realizing the authentication with high security using the movement of line of sight, the information processing device including: a line-of-sight movement identification unit configured to identify movement of line of sight of a user to a body of the user on a basis of an image of an eye of the user and an image of the body of the user positioned in a line-of-sight direction of the user, captured by an imaging unit; and a user authentication unit configured to authenticate the user on a basis of the identified movement of line of sight.
US10180716B2
Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for providing a last known browsing location cue using movement-oriented biometric data are presented. Movement-oriented biometric data is received and used to detect that a user is distracted from a computer interface. A visual cue is provided indicating a last known browsing location. The visual cue may be provided after a certain amount of time or in response to detecting that the user's attention is returned to the computer interface. The visual cue may be removed after a certain amount of time or in response to detecting that the user's attention is returned to the computer interface. An inattention time corresponding to the user distraction may be determined and used to identify the last known browsing location. The biometric data may be compared to thresholds and profiles to determine whether the user is attentive or distracted.
US10180712B2
An apparatus and method for limiting power in a symmetric multiprocessing system. The apparatus for limiting power in a symmetric multiprocessing system includes a power management unit for limiting power consumption of a system to correspond to a power limit value and a power-limiting mode, a QoS profile management unit for managing a QoS profile for each load, which is created using a resource utilization rate and a preset QoS value of the load, and a control unit for assigning the load to a core processor to correspond to the QoS profile for the load if the power-limiting mode is a smart power-limiting mode and if the power consumption is greater than the power limit value.
US10180711B2
There is provided a semiconductor device that can follow a fast voltage change such as a large voltage drop occurring at the time of rapid load fluctuation. The semiconductor device includes a voltage sensor which monitors a power supply voltage at a sampling speed higher than the assumed frequency of power supply voltage fluctuation and outputs a voltage code value, a voltage drop determination circuit which determines, from the voltage code value, that a voltage drop causing a malfunction of a system occurs, and outputs a clock stop signal, and a clock control circuit which controls clock stop, restart, and frequency change.
US10180707B2
A computing system can include a computing system chassis that includes a front end and a back end; a drive that includes a side that includes a mounting feature; and a drive bay chassis operatively coupled to the computing system chassis where the drive bay chassis includes at least one drive bay accessible via the front end of the computing system chassis, a bracket and a latch operatively coupled to the bracket and disposed between the front end and the back end of the computing system chassis where the bracket moves responsive to contact with the side of the drive during translation of the drive into one of the at least one drive bay to engage the bracket and the mounting feature and wherein the latch is movable to disengage the bracket and the mounting feature for translation of the drive out of the at least one drive bay.
US10180698B2
A knob structure includes a base, a rotational element, a clicking plate and a clicking sheet. The rotational element is rotatably disposed on the base and includes inner peripheral surfaces. The clicking plate is joined to the inner peripheral surfaces of the rotational element and includes a plurality of first engaging members. The clicking sheet is joined to the base and includes at least one second engaging member. The clicking plate is held between the base and the clicking sheet to force the clicking sheet against the clicking plate. The rotational element is configured to rotate the clicking plate with respect to the clicking sheet so that the second engaging member continuously engages with the first engaging members.
US10180697B2
A switching power converter is provided with a power-on-reset (POR) circuit that discharges essentially no current until a power supply voltage exceeds a POR threshold voltage.
US10180696B2
Disclosed is a method for reducing the variation in voltage, due to Ferranti effect, using the impedance injection capability of distributed impedance injection modules. The Ferranti effect is an increase in voltage occurring at the receiving end of a long transmission line in comparison to the voltage at the sending end. This effect is more pronounced on longer lies and underground lines when the high-voltage power lines are energized with a very low load, when there is a change from a high load to a very light load, or the load is disconnected from the high-voltage power lines of the power grid. This effect creates a problem for voltage control at the distribution end of the power grid.
US10180690B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a system may include a feedback controller and logic. The feedback controller may be configured to, based on a setpoint value and a measured process value calculate an error between the setpoint value and the measured process value and generate a driving signal based on the error. The logic may be configured to determine if oscillation is present in the driving signal, determine if oscillation is present in an operational parameter other than the driving signal such that oscillation of such operational parameter may cause oscillation in the measured process value, determine if oscillation present in the driving signal is correlated with oscillation present in the operational parameter, and adjust a control parameter of the feedback controller responsive to determining that oscillation present in the driving signal is not correlated to oscillation present in the operational parameter.
US10180688B2
In a method, a computer receives biometric data from sensors. The computer compares the biometric data to predefined levels of biometric data. The computer determines a score based on the biometric data. The computer compares the score to previously stored scores. The computer sends a score to conductive threads if the score is not acceptable.
US10180682B2
Control of functions associated with a vehicle can be shared between a vehicle operator and a communication device and associated user. The communication device can comprise a control component used to facilitate controlling or sharing control of certain functions associated with the vehicle. The functions can relate to vehicle operation, navigation system, climate control system, media system, or other functions. The communication device can be in the vehicle or can be remotely located from the vehicle. The control component can communicate with a vehicle control system of the vehicle to gain access rights to certain control functions to facilitate controlling certain functions of the vehicle. In instances where vehicle control is shared with more than one communication device, the vehicle control system or vehicle operator, which can be a device or a person, can resolve any conflicts between control requests or commands received from the communication devices.
US10180673B2
A multi-function thermostat for a building includes a touch-sensitive display, a communications interface, and a processing circuit. The touch-sensitive display is configured to present information to a user and receive input from the user. The communications interface is configured to receive weather information from a weather server and building emergency information from at least one of a building management system and a building device. The processing circuit configured to cause the touch-sensitive display to display emergency response directions when the weather information indicates emergency weather conditions or the building emergency information indicates a building emergency.
US10180672B2
There is provided air-conditioning control in a low power operation so as not to exceed a target demand power amount in a predetermined measurement period while preventing deterioration of comfortableness of a living space. There include a reducible-power-amount estimation unit configured to calculate, for each group, a reducible power amount by making indoor units perform, for each group, a shut-off operation for a minimum shut-off time in the first half of a demand time limit, and a reduced-power-amount determination unit configured to distribute, when a power consumption amount predicted by a power consumption amount prediction unit exceeds a target demand power amount after the first half of the demand time limit passes, the exceeding power amount to each zone, evenly distribute, in each zone, the distributed power amount to each group, and calculate, based on the reducible power amount of each group, a shut-off time of each group when each group performs the shut-off operation to reduce the distributed power amount.
US10180667B2
A machining apparatus is provided with a machine learning device that performs machine learning. The machine learning device performs the machine learning by receiving the input of machining accuracy between a machining shape of a workpiece measured on-machine and design data on the workpiece and machining time of the workpiece measured by a measurement device. Based on a result of the machine learning, the machining apparatus changes machining conditions such that the machining accuracy increases and the machining time becomes as short as possible.
US10180666B2
The present subject matter provides: a server and a method thereof; a communication device and a method thereof; and a controlled device and a method thereof. The present subject matter provides capturing of modification caused by the neural signals on a first signal. The present subject matter provides generation and broadcasting of the first signal which interacts with the neural signal. The neural signals correspond to instructions to operate a controlled device. The interaction between the first signal and neural signal causes modification of some characteristics of the first signal, resulting in a second signal. The second signal is than captured and analyzed for generating a command corresponding to the second signal. The command is reflective of the instructions to operate the controlled device and the subject matter provides causing the controlled device to operate according to the command.
US10180658B2
An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor, a developing unit, a transfer unit, a detecting unit, a fan, cleaning unit, and a controller. The developing unit develops a latent image with a developer. The transfer unit transfers a developer image onto a sheet. The detecting unit detects a temperature outside the apparatus. The fan takes outside air into the apparatus. The cleaning unit collects toner supplied onto the photoconductor. The controller determines whether dew condensation has occurred. If the controller determines that dew condensation has occurred, the controller executes a first dew condensation recovery operation for rotating the fan, and when an image forming job is input, the controller executes a second dew condensation recovery operation, in addition to the first dew condensation recovery operation, the second dew condensation recovery operation comprising supplying toner to the photoconductor and collecting the toner, before executing the image forming job.
US10180649B2
A system and method are provided for implementing a unique electrophotographic layered manufacturing scheme for creating higher fidelity electrophotographic composite laminate layers using tri-level electrophotography or electrostatic imaging scheme as a process for rendering individual laminate layers to be built up to form and/or manufacture three-dimensional objects, parts and components as 3D objects. A multi-stage 3D object forming scheme is described involving steps of multi-component laminate forming in a particularized electrophotographic layer forming process. This process renders a part component and a support component precisely next to one another with a single exposure by an exposing device to form a latent image of variable discharge voltages. Multiple toner product sources are used to dispose part component toner and support component toner in the forming of the multi-component laminate layer.
US10180648B2
A sensor includes a light emitter and a photodetector. The light emitter outputs light with which a toner pattern or a surface material of an image carrier is irradiated. The photodetector receives reflection light from the toner pattern or the surface material. The sensor light intensity control unit provides a control voltage to the light emitter and thereby controls light intensity of the light emitter. The density determining unit determines a toner density on the basis of output of the photodetector. Further, the density determining unit (a) determines as a correction parameter a first-order coefficient of the control voltage of the light emitter for an output voltage of the photodetector corresponding to reflection light from the surface material, (b) determines a correction amount corresponding to the correction parameter and the toner density, and (c) corrects the toner density on the basis of the correction amount.
US10180647B2
Disclosed herein is an image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a sensing unit having a window and a sensor which senses a developer through the window, and a shutter device which opens and closes the window, and thereby the sensing unit in a sensible state is maintained, and a lifetime thereof is extendable.
US10180640B2
Toner cartridge includes a housing, an agitator, an auger, a first protrusion, and a second protrusion. The housing includes a first toner accommodating portion having and a second toner accommodating portion. The auger is rotatable about a second axis extending in a first direction and is configured to convey toner from a first toner accommodating portion to the second toner accommodating portion. The first protrusion is positioned at a first side of the second toner accommodating portion. The first protrusion extends in the first direction. The second protrusion is positioned at a second side of the second toner accommodating portion and extends in the first direction.
US10180635B2
A liquid developer is characterized in that it includes toner particles and an insulating liquid, the toner particles include a resin and a pigment, the pigment includes a first pigment and a second pigment, the first pigment is carbon black, the second pigment is C.I. Pigment Brown 23 and/or C.I. Pigment Brown 25, and 20 to 60% by mass of the pigment is included relative to the toner particles.
US10180634B1
A chemically prepared multilayered toner composition, according to one example embodiment, includes a core having a first polymer binder, a second polymer binder, a colorant, and a release agent. A first layer is formed around the core wherein the first layer includes the same second polymer binder that is in the toner core. A second layer is formed on the surface of the first layer, wherein the second layer includes a third polymer binder. A borax coupling agent is between the first and second layers. In an embodiment the ratio of the second polymer in the core to second polymer in the first layer is about 50:50. The second layer can also be referred to as a shell that is formed over the toner particle having a center core, first layer and borax coupling agent. In another embodiment, the core does not contain a second polymer binder.
US10180628B2
A method of determining a critical-dimension-related property, such as critical dimension (CD) or exposure dose, includes illuminating each of a plurality of periodic targets having different respective critical dimension biases, measuring intensity of radiation scattered by the targets, recognizing and extracting each grating from the image, determining a differential signal, and determining the CD-related property based on the differential signal, the CD biases and knowledge that the differential signal approximates to zero at a 1:1 line-to-space ratio of such periodic targets. Use of the determined CD-related property to control a lithography apparatus in lithographic processing of subsequent substrates. In order to use just two CD biases, a calibration may use measurements on a “golden wafer” (i.e. a reference substrate) to determine the intensity gradient for each of the CD pairs, with known CDs. Alternatively, the calibration can be based upon simulation of the sensitivity of intensity gradient to CD.
US10180618B2
Embodiments include an apparatus and method. An apparatus includes a metasurface that coherently upconverts light waves having a first frequency f1. A substrate forms a first plasmonic surface. A plasmonic nanoparticle forms a second plasmonic surface. A layer of a second-order nonlinear dielectric material is disposed between the first plasmonic surface and the second plasmonic surface. The metasurface has at least three plasmonic resonant modes including a first plasmonic resonant mode having a first frequency f1, a second plasmonic resonant mode having a second frequency f2, and a third plasmonic resonant mode having a third frequency f3 that is a sum of the first frequency f1 and the second frequency f2. The apparatus includes a second light propagation path from a source of pumped monochromatic coherent light waves having the second frequency f2 to the metasurface. A digital image capture device captures the generated light waves having the frequency f3.
US10180614B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to the transmission of data based on a polarization of a light signal. In some embodiments, data may include 3D video data for viewing by a user. Systems for transmitting data may include a display device and a device for switching the polarization of a video source. Systems for receiving data may include eyewear configured to present images with orthogonal polarization to each eye. In some embodiments, the rate of switching of the polarization switcher may introduce a distortion to the optical data. A Pi-cell device may be used in some embodiments to reduce distortion based on switching speed. In some embodiments, polarization switchers may introduce a distortion based on the frequency of transmitted light. In some embodiments, optical elements including in the transmitting or receiving devices may be configured to reduce distortions based on frequency.
US10180613B2
An optical device (100) includes a first substrate (10), a second substrate (20) and an optical layer (30). The optical layer includes a medium (31) containing a liquid crystal material, and shape-anisotropic particles (32). At least one of the first substrate and the second substrate includes a film provided on the side of the optical layer, the film having a surface energy of 40 mJ/m2 or less, or having a contact angle with pure water of 75 degrees or greater or a contact angle with CH2l2 of 40 degrees or greater. Alternatively, at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate includes a vertical alignment film (15, 25) provided on the side of the optical layer.
US10180611B2
A liquid crystal display panel and a thin film transistor array substrate are provided. The thin film transistor array substrate includes a pixel area and a fan-out area. The fan-out area has a groove. The thin film transistor array substrate has a substrate, a light shielding layer, a buffer layer, a poly-silicon layer, a first insulating layer, a scan line layer, a second insulating layer, a data line layer, a third insulating layer, a common line layer, a touch-sensing line layer, a fourth insulating layer, and a pixel electrode layer. The present invention can prevent wire shorts.
US10180610B2
An array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a base substrate (200), gate lines (210), data lines (220), a common electrode layer (25), a plurality of pixels formed by intersecting the gate lines (210) and the data lines (220) formed on the base substrate (200), and an organic film insulation layer (260) located between the common electrode layer (250) and a layer on which the data lines (220) are located. Each of the pixels includes a light transmission area and a light shielding area, in a pattern of the organic film insulation layer (260), no organic film insulation material exists in the light transmission area, but the organic film insulation material at least remains in areas corresponding to the data lines (220). With the array substrate, the transmission of the display device is improved without influencing the display quality.
US10180602B2
Red pixels (R), blue pixels (B) and green pixels (G) are formed in parallel. First columnar spacers 10 and second columnar spacers 20 are formed on a first substrate. The distance between the first substrate and a second substrate in a normal state is determined by the first columnar spacers 10. The diameter of a light blocking film corresponding to each first columnar spacer 10 is greater than the diameter of a light blocking film corresponding to each second columnar spacer 20. The first columnar spacer 10 is not formed at a boundary between a green pixel (G) and a red pixel (R) or a boundary between a green pixel (G) and a blue pixel (B). The second columnar spacer 20 is formed at a boundary between pixels irrespective of the pixel color. Thus, appropriate color balance can be attained with ease without having a drop in the luminance.
US10180598B2
An in-plane switching liquid crystal display having a plurality of protrude electrodes of a special shape is disclosed. Each of the protrusion electrodes has a protrusion body with a surface coated with an electrically conductive material. The protrusion body has flat side located on the lower substrate of the liquid crystal display, defining the basewidth of the protrusion electrodes. The protrusion body has a top portion with a round head and a bottom portion with a waist portion, smaller than the basewidth. It has been found that, the round head of the top portion and the waist portion of the bottom portion can improve the efficiency of the optical transmissivity of the liquid crystal layer as well the contrast between the bright state and the dark state of the display.
US10180593B2
A display device includes a display area and a seal area which surrounds the display area. The display device includes a first display substrate, a second display substrate facing the first display substrate; and a sealant disposed between the first display substrate and the second display substrate, in the seal area. The first display substrate has a first base substrate, a first polarizing element including a plurality of first linear patterns extending along a first direction on the first base substrate, and a first protective layer on the first polarizing element and including a first opening. The sealant covers the first opening. Adjacent first linear patterns are separated from each other along a second direction, intersecting the first direction, by a first gap and the first opening exposes at least one first gap in the seal area.
US10180584B2
An anti-shake mechanism for a lens includes a movable mechanism that is disposed between a base and a cover and that can move relative to the base and the cover, where a sensor for sensing a displacement of the movable mechanism is disposed on the cover, a drive coil is disposed on the base opposite to a front side of the movable mechanism, a drive magnet set opposite to the drive coil is disposed on the movable mechanism, a ball that enables the movable mechanism to move relative to the base in a manner of keeping a distance from the base is disposed between the base and the movable mechanism, and a floating magnet capable of mutually attracting the drive magnet is disposed on a back side of the base.
US10180583B1
An optical coupling module reduces a number of optical elements, and includes a collimate lens 2a that collimates a light from the first semiconductor laser 1a and then outputs the first collimate light, a collimate lens 2b that collimates a light from the semiconductor laser 1b in a location at which an emission plane is approximately orthogonal to an emission plane of the semiconductor laser 1a and outputs the second collimate light. The collimate lens 2c collimates light from semiconductor laser 1c in-place in the location at which the emission plane faces the emission plane of the semiconductor laser 1b and outputs a third collimate light. A prism mirror 3 has a rectangular prism with a first reflection plane that reflects the second collimate light to a parallel direction to the first collimate light and a second reflection plane orthogonal to the first reflection plane and reflects the third collimate light to the parallel direction to the first collimate light.
US10180580B2
An optical module can include a beam steering portion and a first side defining an inner surface that faces the beam steering portion. The optical module can further include a second side that defines an inner surface adjacent to the inner surface of the first side. The inner surface of the second side can face the beam steering portion. The optical module can be configured to direct an initial light beam from the first side to the beam steering portion along a first direction. The optical module, and in particular the beam steering portion that can include a beam splitter, can divide the initial beam into a signal light beam and a fractional light beam.
US10180578B2
Systems, devices, and methods that integrate eye tracking capability into scanning laser projector (“SLP”)-based wearable heads-up displays are described. At least one narrow waveband laser diode is used in an SLP to define one or more portion(s) of a visible image. At least one corresponding narrow waveband photodetector is aligned to detect reflections of the portion(s) of the image from features of the eye. A holographic optical element (“HOE”) may be used to combine the image and environmental light into the user's “field of view.” Three narrow waveband photodetectors each responsive to a respective one of three narrow wavebands output by the RGB laser diodes of an RGB SLP are aligned to detect reflections of a projected RGB image from features of the eye.
US10180576B2
A half mirror layer has an angle dependency in which when an angle of incidence becomes larger than the angle of incidence range of image light, reflectance increases, such that it is possible to prevent unintended light, which is emitted to a light transmitting member from a light guiding member and is reflected inside a light transmitting member, from being returned to a Eight emission portion of the light guiding member after passing through the half mirror layer as a reflective film at a relatively large angle of incidence. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the image light passed through the light transmitting member from becoming ghost light while mitigating the demand for increasing processing accuracy of the light transmitting member, and bonding accuracy between the light guiding member and the light transmitting member, to provide a high quality virtual image displayed by a virtual image display device.
US10180571B2
A head-up display apparatus includes a light source portion that projects light from a light source, a screen member that has a diffusion portion inclined with respect to a hypothetical reference line that extends along a projection direction of the light from the light source, and a light-transmissive optical element that is disposed between the light source portion and the diffusion portion and has a first optical surface exposed to the light source portion and a second optical surface exposed to the diffusion portion. The projection direction corresponds to a center of the image. The diffusion portion diffuses the light from the light source. A distance between the first optical surface and the second optical surface increases in a direction from a side on which the diffusion portion is closer to the light source portion to a side on which the diffusion portion is farther from the light source portion.
US10180565B2
The disclosure relates to a viewing optic. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a viewing optic having an integrated display system. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a viewing optic having an integrated display system for generating images that are projected into the first focal plane of an optical system.
US10180564B2
A transport-of-intensity imaging system is proposed which incorporates a control element positioned in an optical relay system, such as a 4f optical relay system, between a microscope system for generating an image of a specimen, and an image capturing device. The control element is located with an optical relay system, and is controllable to vary the focal plane without changing the spacing of the specimen and the image capturing device. In one form the control element is an electronically tunable lens (ETL). In another form, the control element is a spatial light modulator (SLM). The arrangement may include a beam splitter arrangement for generating a plurality of beams, which are not all subject to the same control element, such that multiple images with different focal planes are captured from the respective beams.
US10180563B2
An optical lens is provided. The optical lens includes, in order from an object side to an image-forming side, a first lens having refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, a third lens having negative refractive power, a fourth lens having positive refractive power, a fifth lens having refractive power, a sixth lens having refractive power, a seventh lens having refractive power, an eighth lens having refractive power and a ninth lens having positive refractive power. The sixth lens, the seventh lens and the eighth lens constitute a composite lens, or the sixth lens and the seventh lens constitute a composite lens, or the seventh lens and the eighth lens constitute a composite lens.
US10180559B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure may include an imaging system with an optical device. The optical device may include a cam tube and a lens cell. The lens cell may be pre-loaded and centered within the cam tube by a plurality of springs and a plurality of bearings. The bearings may form a bearing surface to allow the lens cell to translate within the cam tube. The bearing may include a connector that stabilizes the bearing. The connector may allow for smoother translation of the lens cell within the cam tube.
US10180555B2
A shade for a camera module is disclosed. The shade includes an optical aperture; a deformed portion extending outward from a wall of the optical aperture; and a fixed portion extending outward from the deformed portion. The deformed portion includes a body and a plurality of notches communicating with the optical aperture, and the notches pass through an upper surface and a lower surface of the shade.
US10180550B2
A method for producing a lateral connection of an electro-optical interface is specified. In the method, a printed circuit board having a non-curved center plane is provided. An electro-optical component and an electrical component are arranged and oriented with respect to one another in a connection region. A first section of the printed circuit board is deformed in such a way that the center plane encloses an angle with the non-deformed layer in the region of the first section. An electro-optical interface and a control device are also specified.
US10180549B1
A pluggable optical transceiver is disclosed where the optical transceiver provides a housing, a lid, and a shield finger. The lid and the shield finger are assembled with the housing such that the shield finger fastens the lid against the housing. The housing provides a pocket that receives an end of the shield finger. The pocket provides negative slopes to gradually widen the cross section thereof as advancing a bottom of the pocket. The shield finger provides a tab in an end thereof, where the tab is bent inward to be hooked with the negative slope of the pocket.
US10180548B2
An optical transmission substrate of the disclosure includes a wiring substrate and an optical transmission line. The wiring substrate includes one main surface which includes a mounting area for a photoelectric conversion element. The optical transmission line includes a first cladding portion which is disposed on the one main surface of the wiring substrate and has a layer shape, at least one core portion which is disposed on the first cladding portion and has a strip shape, and a second cladding portion which is disposed on a part of the at least one core portion. The optical transmission line includes an end portion which is positioned in the mounting area. The end portion includes a part of the at least one core portion.
US10180537B2
Light from discrete red, blue, and green lasers are combined into a single output using a planar lightwave circuit (PLC). In some embodiments some light from an output of the PLC is reflected back to the lasers, and in some embodiments the reflected light is primarily of one of the red, green, or blue wavelengths. In some embodiments multiple lasers of slightly differing wavelengths are provided as light sources for some or all of the red, blue, and green light.
US10180526B2
A front light module including a light guide plate, a light source, a transparent cover lens and an annular connecting unit is provided. The light guide plate includes a first surface, a plurality of micro-structure groups, a second surface and a light entering surface. The first surface includes a first area and a second area surrounding the first area. The micro-structure groups are disposed on the first surface and within the first area. The micro-structure groups have a plurality of adjacent micro-structures, and the micro-structures groups are separate from each other. The light entering surface connects the first surface and the second surface. The light source is disposed beside the light entering surface. The annular connecting unit connects the second area of the first surface and the transparent cover lens, and keeps a gap between the micro-structure groups and the transparent cover lens. A display device is also provided.
US10180522B2
An optical arrangement is provided that includes a first optical element comprising a light guide that has a bevel face and a second optical element. The first optical element conducts light by total internal reflection at a wall and has a light entry area defined by a non-beveled end face and a light exit area formed by a surface area of the wall at that end proximate the bevel face. The second optical element has a light entry aperture arranged on or facing the light exit area. The light entry area has a width x and the light entry aperture has a height z, which meet the following relationship: x/z≤1.5·[tan(90°−α/2)−tan(90°−(2·[α/2+90°]−[180°−arcsin(1/n)]))]−1. Herein, α denotes the deflection angle of the light at the bevel face and n denotes the refractive index of the material of the first optical element.
US10180515B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, systems and methods for downsampling DAS data in a way that enables accurate interpretation of acoustic events occurring in the data are provided. Such methods may be particularly useful when interpreting large sets of data, such as DAS VSP data collected during hydrocarbon recovery operations. The methods generally involve identifying data channels affected by noise from a DAS data set, and then interpolating from the surrounding data. This may improve the quality of the resulting downsampled data, with respect to the signal to noise ratio, compared to what would have occurred by merely decimating unwanted data channels. In addition, a priori information about channel fading, the desired downsampling rate, and the slowest expected elastic waves may be used to filter the DAS data. This may achieve a higher signal-to-noise ratio in the downsampled data.
US10180509B2
An environment monitoring system is utilized for monitoring an environmental variation status of a riverbed, a lake floor, or a seabed. The environment monitor system includes a wire drawing device configured at a monitoring point for releasing and tightening a transmission wire; a fixing pipe laid between the monitoring point and a structure layer for containing the transmission wire; a plurality of vibration sensing devices respectively configured on the transmission wire for converting sensed vibration energy to a plurality of electric signals and transmitting the plurality of electric signals by the transmission wire; an analyzing device coupled with the wire drawing device and the transmission wire for obtaining a released length of the transmission wire by the wire drawing device and determining the environmental variation status according to the released length and the plurality of electric signals to perform monitoring.
US10180496B2
Laser radar systems include a pentaprism configured to scan a measurement beam with respect to a target surface. A focusing optical assembly includes a corner cube that is used to adjust measurement beam focus. Target distance is estimated based on heterodyne frequencies between a return beam and a local oscillator beam. The local oscillator beam is configured to propagate to and from the focusing optical assembly before mixing with the return beam. In some examples, heterodyne frequencies are calibrated with respect to target distance using a Fabry-Perot interferometer having mirrors fixed to a lithium aluminosilicate glass-ceramic tube.
US10180489B2
A unit transmits a call initiate signal over a communication network in response to the switch moving from the inactive position to the active position to establish a call with a 911 emergency service operator directly and enable voice communication. The unit is equipped to send a message indicative of ascertained location information of the unit to the 911 emergency service operator at an end of the established call. The unit contacts remote source to ascertain the location information and form the message. The unit maintains establishment of the call at least until the message is sent to the 911 emergency service operator. The unit itself lacks any GPS tracking module.
US10180487B2
The sensor group(s) comprise a group of sensing nodes at a location. The location comprises spatial boundaries. Each of the sensing nodes comprise a sensor area. Each of the sensor group(s) based on: range limits of each of the sensing nodes; shared sensing areas of the sensing nodes; and intersections between the sensor area for each of the sensing nodes and the spatial boundaries. Acoustic signals are captured from an acoustic event via sensing nodes of sensor group(s). Solution(s) are generated by processing the acoustic signals. The solution(s) indicate the location of the acoustic event. A strength of solution compliance value is determined for solution(s). A refined solution is generated employing: sensor contributions of sensing nodes; and the strength of solution compliance value with the spatial boundaries and solution(s). A report comprising the location of the acoustic event is transmitted.
US10180484B2
A MRI quality assurance device, according to the present invention, has a housing made of a rigid MRI invisible material containing one or more sealed reservoirs containing a fluid MRI signal producing material. Each sealed reservoir has a first volume portion and a second variable volume portion in fluid communication therewith.
US10180480B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a sequence controller and a storage unit. The sequence controller acquires magnetic resonance signals of a target imaging part including cerebrospinal fluid flowing therein of a subject in a condition where a supply of oxygen is receivable, at a plurality of time phases in an oxygen inhalation process of the subject. The storage unit stores therein the magnetic resonance signals acquired at the time phases.
US10180478B2
An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides a new MRI method to image the buildup of exchange transfer processes from nuclei in mobile solute molecules in tissue via another molecule (e.g. solvent such as water). The pulse sequence can detect Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST), relayed Nuclear Overhauser Enhancement (rNOE) CEST, and selective induced exchange transfer processes. Further, the proposed MRI pulse sequence involves acquiring two or more images with a difference in waiting period (delay) after a radiofrequency excitation, saturation pulse, or series of such pulses. This produces a series of exchange transfer images sensitive to the speed of transfer of changes in magnetization. Subtracting two images or fitting a time series produces maps with minimum interference from direct water saturation and from semi-solid magnetization transfer and other fast exchanging protons.
US10180474B2
Provided is a technique in calculating a magnetic susceptibility distribution by using an MRI, for reducing artifacts and noise and improving precision in the magnetic susceptibility distribution being calculated. According to this technique, a magnetic field distribution is obtained via a phase image from a complex image acquired through MRI. Under the constraint based on a relational expression between the magnetic field and the magnetic susceptibility, smoothing process is performed iteratively on the magnetic susceptibility distribution calculated from the magnetic field distribution. Specifically, a minimization process for minimizing through the iterative operation, an error function defined by a predetermined initial magnetic susceptibility distribution and the magnetic field distribution is performed, thereby calculating the magnetic susceptibility distribution. At this time, an updated magnetic susceptibility distribution calculated based on the error function during the minimization process is smoothed, every time the updated magnetic susceptibility distribution is calculated.
US10180470B2
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems and methods to effect improved and more efficient determination of the specific absorption rate (SAR) are described. The SAR is calculated based upon a derived relationship between a body surface area (BSA) and a portion of the total radio frequency (RF) energy delivered to RF transmit coil that is deposited in the imaging subject, and the scanning is controlled in accordance with the calculated SAR.
US10180459B2
A monitoring system is applied to an electrical system, which includes a DC power source and an electrical apparatus that is connected to the DC power source by a pair of electric power leads incorporating respective switches. To detect leakage current from the DC power source, a low-frequency AC signal is applied via a large-capacitance capacitor to a specific connection position, between a first terminal of the DC power source and the corresponding switch, and the resultant voltage of that signal is measured. To detect a short-circuit failure of one or both of the switches, a high-frequency AC signal is applied via a low-capacitance capacitor to the specific connection position, and the resultant signal voltage is measured. Judgement as to occurrence of leakage current and/or short-circuit failure is based on the measured signal voltage values.
US10180450B1
A transmitter with universal terminals supports flexible connection of an RTD sensor. The transmitter includes a plurality of terminals, a first switch, a second switch, and a microcontroller. The first switch is coupled to the plurality of terminals and a current source. The second switch is coupled to the plurality of terminals and a sink resistor. The microcontroller receives an indication that a sensor is connected to an undetermined number of the terminals. The microcontroller transmits control signals to the first switch and the second switch to test a voltage differential between each of a plurality of combinations of the terminals. The microcontroller determines which of the terminals are coupled to the sensor. The microcontroller sets the determined terminals as inputs received from the sensor.
US10180445B2
An accelerometer includes a first stator, a second stator, a proof mass assembly disposed between the first stator and second stator, and a controller. The first stator includes a first magnet and the second stator includes a second magnet. The proof mass assembly includes a first coil configured to receive a first amount of current and a second coil configured to receive a second amount of current. The controller is configured to distribute the first amount of current to the first coil and the second amount of current to the second coil. The first amount of current is different than the second amount of current.
US10180435B2
A method for modification of solid substrates with proteins for efficient surface preconcentration of an analyte from multi-component samples before the detection based on desorption-ionization mass spectrometry and immunochemical assays. The claimed subject is a method of modification of surfaces used as substrates for desorption-ionization mass spectrometry and immunochemical assays. The method is based on electronebulization (electrospraying) of protein solution, depending on the intended application either enzymes, lectins, or antibodies. The formed charged electrospray is dried in real time by its passing through an evaporation compartment and the resulting beam of desolvated ions impacts onto the surface and binds to it firmly. Such modified surface can be then used for a selective interaction with an affinity partner of the deposited protein, its preconcentration or enzymatic modification followed by an analysis by means of desorption-ionization mass spectrometry or immunochemical assays.
US10180433B2
The present invention is related to a method for detecting a protein comprising: (1) providing a fusion protein, wherein the fusion protein comprises the protein which is fused with a secondary antibody detected protein tag, wherein the secondary antibody detected protein tag comprises at least one epitope selected from the Fc region of at least one primary antibody which is capable of being detected by a corresponding secondary antibody; (2) contacting the fusion protein with a secondary antibody which binds to the secondary antibody detected protein tag to form a protein/antibody complex; and (3) detecting the protein/antibody complex.
US10180432B2
The invention generally relates to antibodies that bind to human folate receptor 1 and diagnostic assays for folate receptor 1-based therapies. Methods of using the antibodies to monitor therapy are further provided.
US10180428B2
There is disclosed a system for electrical charge detection comprising a nanoFET device. Also disclosed is a method of electrical charge detection for single molecule sequencing. The method includes attaching a macromolecule or assemblies thereof to a gate of a nanoFET device and flowing in a solution of charge tags, where a charge tag includes a nucleotide attached to a charge complex. The method also includes incorporating one charge tag into the macromolecule or assemblies thereof and cleaving the charge tags from the macromolecule or assemblies thereof. The method further includes detecting at least one of current and voltage from the nanoFET device.
US10180427B2
Novel grafted dinuclear metal complexes having formula (I) or of formula (II) wherein M represents a metal ion, and also the use thereof as sensors in a method for detecting and/or characterising cellular microparticles.
US10180421B2
Sample processing methods and systems to collect a biological sample. A device may be configured collect a predetermined volume of a sample in sample chamber, and seal the chamber upon activation. The device may be further configured to mix the mix the sample with a predetermined volume of a reagent and/or mix the sample and the reagent in a pre-determined ration.
US10180418B2
Disclosed is a lens-attached tissue cell pressurization device that is selectively coupled to an objective lens to perform pressurization in an optical device configured measure a cell tissue using the objective lens, the lens-attached tissue cell pressurization device including: a body extending in a lengthwise direction of the objective lens such that at least a portion of the objective lens is inserted into the body and having a connector selectively fixed to the objective lens; and an indenter provided at a lower end of the body, having a penetration part formed at a center of the indenter, and pressurizing the cell tissue by a change in a relative location of the objective lens and the cell tissue.
US10180413B2
The present invention provides an ink composition for forming a color-changing layer that changes color by plasma treatment, the ink composition exhibiting excellent heat resistance, with the gasification of the color-changing layer or the scattering of the fine debris of the color-changing layer caused by plasma treatment being suppressed to the extent that electronic device properties are not affected. The invention provides an ink composition for forming a color-changing layer that changes color by plasma treatment, the ink composition comprising metal oxide particles containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mo, W, Sn, V, Ce, Te, and Bi, and a binder resin.
US10180411B2
A magnetostrictive transducer assembly for generating a longitudinal elastic guided wave of a selected frequency and mode and for guiding the wave into an open end of a heat exchanger tube for testing the tube. The transducer assembly comprises a current-carrying coil of wire, a magnetostrictive material wrapped around the coil of wire, a mechanism for pressing the magnetostrictive material against an inner surface of the tube, and one or more biasing magnets placed in the vicinity of the current-carrying coil of wire and the magnetostrictive material.
US10180408B1
A method of treating a gas sensor with an improved pulse discharge technique is provided by adding measurements of additional parameters, modification of the data processing algorithm, and establishing new calibration procedure in the low, intermediate and high concentration ranges of NOx. Additional measurements of the charge transfer during the charging pulses of the pulse discharge technique are made, and utilizing these data in combination with discharge rates during the pauses of the pulse discharge technique allows for combined measurements of O2 and NOx, in the combustion exhaust.
US10180395B2
A functional water concentration sensor includes: a container used to contain functional water; a light source that emits ultraviolet light; a phosphor that emits fluorescence when excited by ultraviolet light emitted from the light source and transmitted through the container; and a light-receiving element that receives the fluorescence, wherein a peak wavelength of the ultraviolet light emitted from the light source is in a predetermined range that includes an absorption peak specific to the functional water.
US10180392B2
The present invention provides a plasma treatment detection indicator including a color-changing layer that changes color by plasma treatment, exhibiting excellent heat resistance, with the gasification of the color-changing layer or the scattering of the fine debris of the color-changing layer caused by the plasma treatment being suppressed to such a degree as to not affect the electronic device properties. Specifically, the present invention provides a plasma treatment detection indicator including a color-changing layer that changes color by plasma treatment, the color-changing layer containing at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of Mo, W, Sn, V, Ce, Te, and Bi in the form of a simple substance and/or an inorganic compound containing at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of Mo, W, Sn, V, Ce, Te, and Bi.
US10180388B2
An analyzer of a component in a sample fluid includes an optical source and an optical detector defining a beam path of a beam, wherein the optical source emits the beam and the optical detector measures the beam after partial absorption by the sample fluid, a fluid flow cell disposed on the beam path defining an interrogation region in the a fluid flow cell in which the optical beam interacts with the sample fluid and a reference fluid; and wherein the sample fluid and the reference fluid are in laminar flow, and a scanning system that scans the beam relative to the laminar flow within the fluid flow cell, wherein the scanning system scans the beam relative to both the sample fluid and the reference fluid.
US10180384B2
HEPA filter integrity testing apparatus including an automated mover, a scan module connected to the automated mover, and scan probes disposed along the length of the scan module. Assemblies also include HEPA filters and the filter integrity testing apparatus. A method of determining the integrity of HEPA filters with the filter integrity apparatus is disclosed.
US10180382B2
A linear elastic modulus measurement method and a linear elastic modulus measurement device can reduce external disturbances such as oscillation and electrical noise, and accurately and stably measure the linear elastic modulus of a linear elastic body even in the case where damping due to viscous stress is large. The measurement device computes the oscillation velocity (dx/dt) of an oscillator from the displacement of the oscillator brought into contact with the linear elastic body, and multiplies dx/dt by a linear velocity feedback gain to generate a feedback control signal. The measurement device applies, to the oscillator, a force proportional to the oscillation velocity of the oscillator by the feedback control signal, to cause the oscillator to self-oscillate. The measurement device computes the linear elastic modulus of the linear elastic body from the frequency when the self-oscillation of the oscillator is detected and the mass of the oscillator.
US10180380B2
This true density measurement device is a device for measuring the true density of a sample by a gas phase substitution method, and is provided with a sample chamber for housing the sample, and a lid for providing closure to an opening of the sample chamber. The lid is a non-rotating lid that is pressed against the rim of the opening to hermetically seal the sample chamber.
US10180377B2
A test bed for electric wheel comprehensive performance is characterized in that the test bed comprises a foundation, a portal frame set on the foundation and including a cross beam and two columns supporting both ends of the cross beam individually, a main pin arm movably connected to the portal frame, and a main rotation shaft revolvably and perpendicularly mounted on the top of the main pin arm, wherein the electric wheel is mounted on the main pin arm and is located inside of the portal frame and right below the main rotation shaft. The test bed further comprises at least one of a road simulation mechanism, an inertia simulation mechanism, a driving power mechanism, a perpendicular loading mechanism, and a steering mechanism which take the simulation test on the electric wheel.
US10180376B2
A ball bearing inspection device includes: an arbor supporting an inner ring on the outer circumferential surface; a rotary drive unit driving the arbor; a first pressing unit applying a preload to a ball bearing; a second pressing unit applying a preload in an opposite direction of the pressing direction; and a vibration detection unit detecting vibration from the ball bearing. The arbor includes an abutting section that protrudes outward from the outer circumferential surface, a movable flange arranged apart from the abutting section, and a flange drive mechanism switching the movable flange between a first state in which the movable flange protrudes from the outer circumferential surface and a second state in which the movable flange is accommodated within the arbor. The flange drive mechanism is additionally provided with a drive force supply unit that applies drive force for switching to the first or the second state.
US10180375B2
Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to the field of fiber optics, and more specifically to apparatuses, methods, and/or systems associated with testing fiber optic transmitters. In an embodiment, the present invention is an apparatus comprising a laser optimized multimode fiber having near minimally compliant effective modal bandwidth, near maximum channel length, and α-profile that produces an R-MMF DMD slope.
US10180370B2
A pressure sensor has a substrate and a transistor structure. The substrate has a cavity formed in the substrate. The transistor structure is arranged above the cavity. The transistor structure has a flexible heterostructure and at least one source contact, drain contact, and gate contact each connected to the heterostructure in an electrically conductive manner. The heterostructure is configured to assume a position corresponding to a pressure ratio between a first pressure in the cavity and a second pressure on a side of the heterostructure opposite the cavity. The transistor structure is configured to provide an electrical signal corresponding to the position.
US10180366B2
A torque detection device including a multipolar ring-shaped magnet fixed to a first shaft, a yoke holder configured to be fixed to a second shaft coaxially linked to the first shaft via a torsion bar and have a cylindrical portion surrounding the magnet, a pair of magnetic yokes each having a plurality of claw portions opposing the magnet and are fixed to the yoke holder, and a sensor part that detects a difference in rotational phase between the first shaft and the second shaft, wherein the pair of magnetic yokes are each provided with a plurality of swaging pieces swaged on the cylindrical portion, the swaging piece disposed at a position that overlaps in a radial direction of the cylindrical portion a specific claw portion selected from the plurality of claw portions and being formed so as to have a smaller width than a width of the claw portion.
US10180357B2
Devices, methods, systems, and computer-readable media for a multispectral band system are described herein. One or more embodiments include a filter comprising a first designated transmittance value for a first wavelength range and a second designated transmittance value for a second wavelength range, a sensor to receive transmitted radiation from the filter, and a computing device coupled to the sensor to detect any radiation within the first and second wavelength ranges from the received transmitted radiation from the filter and wherein the detected radiation in the first wavelength indicates a particular type of radiation source and detected radiation in the second wavelength range indicates one or more other items within a field of view of the received radiation.
US10180355B2
Provided are a multi-wavelength photoelectric measurement device, a confocal measurement device, an interference measurement device, and a color measurement device capable of measuring the characteristic amount of a measurement object such as the thickness, distance, displacement, or color with high accuracy using multi-wavelength light such as white light. The multi-wavelength photoelectric measurement device includes a laser light source, a light source optical member for concentrating light from the laser light source, a phosphor excited by light concentrated by the light source optical member, an optical fiber unit that includes one or a plurality of optical fibers and the phosphor disposed on a first end, receives light emitted by the phosphor from the first end, and transmits the received light toward a second end, and a head optical member that concentrates light emitted from the second end of the optical fiber unit toward a measurement object.
US10180346B2
A weight measurement system and a weight measurement method using a robot, by which a weight greater than a weight capacity of the robot can be measured. The system has a robot, a robot controller for controlling the motion of the robot, and an arithmetic processing unit for calculating the weight of an article to be measured. The robot is configured to apply a force to a working point connected to a tank so that at least one of support points or a part of a support surface of the tank is lifted, and simultaneously, the remaining support point or the remaining part of the support surface of the tank is grounded. The weight of the tank containing processing fluid can be measured based on a relationship between the force applied to the working point by the robot and a lever ratio.
US10180343B2
The invention relates to a filling level measuring device (10) for measuring the filling level in a container (2) through the wall (9) thereof by means of ultrasound, having an ultrasonic measuring head (12), a controller (20), and a fastening device (24) by means of which the filling level measuring device (10) can be fastened to the container (2) such that the ultrasonic measuring head (12) is pressed against the wall (9) of the container (2). The invention further relates to a method of operating such a filling level measuring device (10), wherein a sampling rate is used which is situation-dependent. The invention finally relates to an assembly made up of such a filling level measuring device and at least one spacer (50) which can be attached to the lower edge of a container (2) to be provided with the filling level measuring device (10).
US10180339B1
A system learns to automatically identify, and detect, contextual conditions that may serve as action triggers to help please a user (or avoid annoying a user). Among other features, a simple sensor arrangement is detailed which, in addition to producing a customary stream of high bandwidth sensor data, provides an output of low bandwidth data. This low-bandwidth data serves to identify a particular reference pattern with which the high-bandwidth sensor data is found to correspond. Such a sensor can employ reference patterns discovered through pseudo-random trials. A great number of other advantageous features and arrangements are also detailed.
US10180330B2
A system and method for providing position information of a transit object to a computing device is provided. Global positioning satellite (GPS) information of a transit object can be periodically received. For each of some of the GPS information, one or more candidate points of a transit system can be identified based on the GPS information. Using the one or more candidate points, a most likely path of travel can be determined. Additional position points along the most likely path of travel can be extrapolated and transmitted to a computing device.
US10180329B2
A autonomous robotic golf caddy which is capable of following a portable receiver at a pre-determined distance, and which is capable of sensing a potential impending collision with an object in its path and stop prior to said potential impending collision.
US10180323B2
A toroidal ring gyroscope with a robust outer perimeter anchor and a distributed suspension system. The vibrational energy in the design is concentrated towards the innermost ring, and the device is anchored at the outer perimeter. The distributed support structure prevents vibrational motion propagating to the outer anchor, which helps trap the vibrational energy within the gyroscope and provides a Q-factor of >100,000 at a compact size of 1760 μm. Due to the parametric pumping effect, energy added to each mode is proportional to the existing amplitude of the respective mode. As a result, errors associated with finding the orientation of the standing wave and x-y drive gain drift are bypassed. The toroidal ring gyroscope can be fabricated using any standard silicon on insulator process. Due to the high Q-factor and robust support structure, the device can potentially be instrumented in high-g environments that require high angular rate sensitivity.
US10180322B2
A civil engineering machine has a machine control unit configured to determine data which defines the position and/or orientation of a reference point on the civil engineering machine in relation to a reference system independent of the position and orientation of the civil engineering machine. A geometrical shape to be produced on the ground is preset in either a machine control unit or a field rover control unit. The field rover is used to determine a position of at least one identifiable point of the preset geometrical shape in the independent reference system. Curve data defining a desired curve in the independent reference system, corresponding to the preset shape, is determined at least partially on the basis of the position of the at least one identifiable point of the preset geometrical shape in the independent reference system.
US10180313B2
The present invention relates to an electric detonator (1) comprising a cap (2), comprising a priming charge (3) and an electrode (4), comprising a positive pole, a negative pole and a resistor element (8), the said priming charge (3) comprising at least two primary explosives, a first primary explosive (9) and a second primary explosive (10), and at least one secondary explosive (11). The electric detonator is characterized in that the two primary explosives (9, 10) and the secondary explosive (11) are arranged in layers, in an increasing degree of sensitivity, bearing one against the other, wherein the first primary explosive (9), constituting the most sensitive of the two primary explosives (9, 10), is arranged closest to the resistor element (8), and in that the second primary explosive (10) is arranged thereafter between the first primary explosive (10) and the secondary explosive (11). The invention also relates to a production method for the said electric detonator (1).
US10180309B1
A one man portable electromagnetic pulse transmitter includes a standard rifle having a muzzle and capable of firing a blank cartridge containing propellant. A blank firing adapter is fixed to the muzzle of the rifle. A piezolectric generator is aligned with the gas exit orifice of the blank firing adapter. An antenna is electrically connected to the piezolectric generator and an electromagnetic shield is disposed between the antenna and the piezolectric generator.
US10180304B2
A system and method for a secure weapon concealment compartment situated in a personal carrying item such as a purse, handbag, briefcase, backpack or luggage that allows a person to safely and efficiently carry, store and make available for use a weapon. The concealment compartment includes weapon securing having tapered holders or orifices formed to receive a weapon and provide safety against unintentional discharge of the weapon and resistive forces applied to a protective carrier of the weapon once stored to enable quick and effective withdrawal of the weapon from the concealment compartment.
US10180298B2
A bolt hold open mechanism assembly is disclosed. The bolt hold open mechanism assembly contains a connector rod, a follower lever associated with the connector rod, a bolt stop associated with the connector rod, and a lifter lever comprising at least one protrusion configured to interact with a magazine follower.
US10180295B1
A structure of a wheel-type positioning device includes a gun body, a wheel and a grip portion. A bullet is placed into a receiving slot of the wheel through a lead trajectory on the gun body. The receiving slots of the wheel can sequentially correspond to a barrel to complete loading actions through frontward and rearward reciprocating displacement actions of the grip portion, and through a linking rod of the grip portion driving a limiter thereon to rotate the wheel.
US10180294B2
The invention relates to a device for dispensing one or more jets of cryogenic fluid comprising a fluid supply pipe supplying one or more fluid-dispensing nozzles arranged downstream of said pipe, in which the fluid flow section of the fluid supply pipe has a first diameter. According to the invention, the device for dispensing one or more jets of cryogenic fluid also comprises at least one plenum chamber which is arranged between the fluid supply pipe and the fluid-dispensing nozzle(s) and which is fluidly connected to both the pipe and the nozzle(s). The fluid flow section of each plenum chamber has a second diameter greater than the first diameter of the fluid flow section of the fluid supply pipe.
US10180281B2
Methods and systems for periodic system diagnostic of a TRS are provided. In particular, a TRS controller is configured to periodically activate an engine control unit (ECU) of a genset to acquire engine sensor information while the engine is not running. The TRS controller is configured to determine an efficient time to bring the ECU out of a minimum electrical power consumption stage into a medium power consumption stage in order to determine a next action of the TRS.
US10180279B2
A refrigerator comprises: a cabinet including a storage chamber which has an opening formed on the front side thereof; a door pivotally connected to the cabinet so as to open and close the opening; a drawer disposed inside the storage chamber so as to receive stored goods; a drawer guide for supporting the drawer, and guiding the drawer such that the drawer can be moved forward and backward; a base part disposed below the drawer; a withdrawal mechanism including a rear frame which extends rearward of the drawer from the base part so as to push the drawer forward when the base part is moved forward; a link having a front end connected to the door at a point, which is positioned at a predetermined distance from the axis of rotation of the door with respect to the cabinet, so as to form a first rotary joint, and having a rear end connected to the base part so as to form a second rotary joint; and a pair of withdrawal mechanism guides disposed.
US10180268B2
Systems, methods and devices for utilizing an energy chassis device designed to sense, collect, store and distribute energy from where it is available using devices that harvest or convert energy to locations requiring energy such as but not limited to HVAC (heating, ventilation and cooling) systems. The systems, methods and devices can also be used with a next generation geothermal heat exchanger that achieves higher energy harvesting efficiency and provides greater functionality than current geothermal exchangers.
US10180263B2
A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) communication method comprising generating, at a transmitter device, a primary signal and a secondary signal. Each of the signals comprise digital temperature data and digital humidity data. The secondary signal is a phase shifted representation of the primary signal. The HVAC communication method further comprises transmitting the primary signal and the secondary signal to a receiver device via a wireless link. The method continues by storing a look-up table that maps bit streams to temperature values and humidity values. The method continues by performing, at the receiver device, a comparison using the primary signal to execute error checking, and determining, at the receiver device, a temperature value and a humidity value using the look-up table based on the comparison.
US10180259B2
Provided is a humidification and air cleaning apparatus. The humidification and air cleaning apparatus includes an air cleaner suctioning external air and generating filtered air by filtering suctioned external air; and an air washer separably placed on the air cleaner, supplied with filtered air from the air cleaner, and humidifying filtered air.
US10180254B2
A method processes slag occurring in a combustion chamber. An incineration grate is formed at least in its end region that is facing the slag-removing device as a separating grate, which has openings, via which the chamber is connected to a fine-slag discharge chamber, and at least one fine fraction of the slag is ejected through the openings into the discharge chamber and discharged in a substantially dry state, and the remaining coarse fraction is fed to the slag-removing device and discharged. In this case, the average particle size of the at least one fine fraction is smaller than the average particle size of the coarse fraction. The separating grate has at least in certain regions air feeds that are distributed over its entire width and via which air is fed in a controlled manner to the slag, and the air feeds are isolated from the openings and formed separately.
US10180245B1
A lamp assembly having fixture unit with electric connecting mechanism includes a fixture assembly which includes a fixed body, multiple conductive plates and multiple connectors. The fixed body has a first recessed area, multiple first slots, multiple second slots and multiple first connection portions. The conductive plates and the connectors are electrically connected to each other and are connected to the first connection portions. A lamp unit is connected to the fixed body and includes a base which has multiple hooks hooked with the first slots. Each hook has a third hole. A circuit board is located in the baes and includes light sources and multiple conductive pins. The conductive pins extend through the third holes and located in the second slots so as to be connected with the conductive plates to provide electric power to the circuit board.
US10180222B2
An optical unit includes a first light source, a second light source, a rotary reflector rotating around its rotation axis while reflecting a first light emitted from the first light source, and a projection lens configured to project the first light reflected by the rotary reflector in a light irradiation direction of the optical unit. The second light source is disposed such that a second light emitted from the second light source is incident on the projection lens without being reflected by the rotary reflector. The projection lens is configured to project the second light in the light irradiation direction of the optical unit.
US10180217B2
An LED architectural luminaire for providing the lighting characteristics of a fluorescent luminaire comprises an LED mounting plate having angled sides for mounting strips of LEDs to allow the LEDs to illuminate the entire face of the luminaire to achieve bat-wing light distribution and a favorable spacing criteria of about 1.5.
US10180216B2
This disclosure provides a light emitting apparatus, the apparatus may comprise a middle component, a first end component and a second end component. The middle component may comprise a light emitting device and the middle component has a recess and a protrusion at its two ends respectively. One of the first and second end components has a recess, and the other of the first and second end components has a protrusion. The middle component can be connected with the first and the second end components respectively by corresponding protrusion and recess so that adjacent components can rotate relative to each other in a plane perpendicular to a light exit direction of the light emitting device. The light emitting apparatus can be applied to a back light unit of a display apparatus to realize curved surface display of the display apparatus.
US10180211B2
A solution having a predetermined concentration is stably supplied to a use point, at which the amount of use of the solution changes, by only modifying currently-used equipment at a low cost and in a space-saving manner. In order to supply a solution containing a solute at a predetermined concentration from a preparation portion of the solution to a use point through a supply pipe, a retention portion that has no gas-liquid interface and at which the solution is retained is provided at an intermediate portion of the supply pipe. Even when the amount of use of the solution at the use point changes, the change is absorbed by the retention portion, whereby a solution having a predetermined concentration can be stably supplied to the use point.
US10180196B2
A fluid control apparatus configured to be able to reduce electric power consumption required for opening/closing operations of a fluid control valve includes a valve body and a valve seat one of which is formed of a magnetic material and the other of which includes a magnet, the valve body and the valve seat being incorporated in a fluid flow passage and movable to come into contact with or away from each other to control communication of fluid, an urging member configured to urge the valve body toward the valve seat, an electric pump for flowing the fluid in the flow passage, and a control section for effecting control to increase an output of the electric pump to a preset state when the valve body under a closed state as being in contact with the valve seat is to be opened.
US10180194B2
A servovalve comprising a motor, a motor bias mechanism, a first stage valve having a first position, a second stage valve movable with movement of the first valve, a reference member in fluid communication with the second valve, a transfer link acting between the first valve and the reference member, an eccentric drive acting between the motor and transfer link, wherein movement of the motor causes the transfer link to move the first valve, movement of the first valve causes the second valve member to move, movement of the second valve applies on the reference member a pressure differential from a load, the pressure differential on the reference member causes movement of the reference member, and movement of the reference member causes the transfer link to move the first valve back to the first position.
US10180188B2
A system may include a seal including first and second lip portions and an inner portion disposed between the first and second lip portions. The first and second lip portions may be formed from a different material than the inner portion. Additionally, the first and second lip portions may be configured to block the flow of fluid to the inner portion. Further, the first and second lip portions may be configured to block extrusion of the inner portion.
US10180186B2
A transmission and control method are disclosed which ensure proper stroke pressure and minimize torque transients during a shift event. The transmission includes a clutch having a torque capacity based on a fluid pressure, a torque sensor adapted to measure a torque value that varies in relationship to the torque capacity, and a controller. The method includes varying the fluid pressure around a predetermined value, measuring a resulting torque difference with the torque sensor, and adjusting a clutch control parameter if the resulting torque difference is less than a threshold value.
US10180185B2
A modular assembly is described for a power train. An assembly housing includes first and second cavities connected by an inter-cavity passage. An input shaft and an output shaft linked by a first clutch are disposed, at least in part, in the first cavity. A hydraulic control assembly provides hydraulic control signals to control, at least in part, the first clutch device. A hydraulic quill insert disposed, at least in part, in the inter-cavity passage, includes a plurality of control passages. The hydraulic quill insert receives the hydraulic control signals and directs the signals to control power flow from the input shaft to the output shaft.
US10180184B2
A detecting device includes a shift selector, a magnet disposed in the shift selector, four or more sensors arranged at positions facing the magnet and an ECU. The ECU is configured to (i) determine a shift position based on signals output from the four or more sensors when the magnet is relatively displaced with respect to the four or more sensors in response to an operation of the shift selector, (ii) determine the shift position based on signals output from three or more of the four or more sensors determined to be normal when any one of the four or more sensors is abnormal, and (iii) determine the abnormality based on whether or not the three or more sensors output, during the traveling of the vehicle, a signal to a shift position pertaining to a case of traveling in the direction opposite to a traveling direction of the vehicle.
US10180164B2
A resolver for a rotation position detection device comprises a rotor portion having a resin gear having a hole formed at a center portion thereof through which a stationary shaft passes, and a rotor core connected to the resin gear; and a stator portion having the stationary shaft, an excitation wiring and a detection wiring, a back core, and a resin housing, wherein the excitation wiring and the detection wiring are arranged around the stationary shaft at a constant distance from the stationary shaft in a diameter direction, the back core is adjacent to or in contact with the stationary shaft, and the resin gear has a shape whose central portion projects in the shaft direction so as to be in contact with the back core.
US10180161B2
A tapered roller bearing includes an inner ring, an outer ring, a plurality of tapered rollers, and an annular cage that holds the tapered rollers. The cage has a small annular portion positioned on one side, in the axial direction, of the tapered rollers, a large annular portion positioned on the other side, in the axial direction, of the tapered rollers, and a plurality of cage bars that couple the small annular portion and the large annular portion to each other. The cage bars each have a cage bar end portion that is positioned between the large annular portion and a large rib and that projects toward the other side in the axial direction with respect to large end surfaces of the tapered rollers.
US10180155B2
A furniture joinery includes a slide rail having a plurality of grooves or slides, a trapezoidal shaped slide block having the other of the plurality of grooves or slides, and a furniture support. One of the slide rail or the furniture support includes at least one tenon extending therefrom. The other of the slide rail or the furniture support includes an aperture which receives the at least one tenon. The at least one tenon includes at least one of a notch or a rib and the aperture includes the other of the notch or rib. The aperture is sized to allow movement of the tenon into the aperture and movement of one of the notch or rib toward the other of the notch or rib when the slide block is connected to the furniture support.
US10180154B2
A marker assembly is provided. The marker assembly is attachable to a roof or roof element to alert a worker to potential hazards nearby. For example, the marker assemblies may be attached to a roof, such as a corrugated roof, adjacent to four corners of a skylight, to alert a worker that the skylight may be nearby, particularly in the event that it may be buried or otherwise hidden or obscured. A transmitting beacon within the marker holder which may provide an output signal receivable by a computerized receiver. Upon receipt of the output signal by the computerized receiver, the computerized receiver can provide a notifying output.
US10180151B2
An apparatus for attaching a member to a honeycomb core-stiffened structure includes a body and one or more elements extending from the body configured to be adhesively bonded to one or more walls of a honeycomb core of the honeycomb core-stiffened structure. The apparatus further includes a fitting for attaching the member to the apparatus. A honeycomb core-stiffened structure includes a honeycomb core and an apparatus for attaching a member to the honeycomb core. The apparatus includes a body and one or more elements extending from the body configured to be adhesively bonded to one or more walls of the honeycomb core of the honeycomb core-stiffened structure. The apparatus further includes a fitting for attaching the member to the apparatus.
US10180150B2
A fastening device includes a male part secured to a first component and including a plate member, a female part secured to a second component and presenting a slot for inserting the plate member, a friction retainer including a friction zone and movable between a locking position, where each friction zone is in frictional engagement with the plate member, and a releasing position, where the plate member may be removed from the slot, a biasing component to bias each friction retainer towards the locking position so as to prevent the plate member from moving. Each friction retainer is composed of a magnetic material so that a magnetic force can move each friction retainer towards the releasing position and against the biasing component.
US10180143B2
A method of manufacturing a turbocharger which allows easy performance of assembly operations of a motor rotor and a stator in a motor overhang structural turbocharger is provided. In a method of manufacturing a turbocharger in which a motor is attached to an end portion of a rotor shaft (15) connected to a compressor portion, the motor includes a cylindrical housing (33), a stator (32) accommodated inside the housing (33), and a motor rotor (31) which is connected to an end portion of the rotor shaft (15) with permanent magnets rotating inside the stator (32), and the method includes a rotor installation step of connecting and attaching the motor rotor (31) to the rotor shaft (15), a housing installation step of fixing and supporting the housing (33) coaxial to the rotor shaft (15), and a stator installation step of using the housing (33) as a guide, and inserting the stator (32) into the housing (33) such that the stator (32) does not directly come into contact with the motor rotor (31) to incorporate the stator (32) into the housing (33).
US10180136B2
A dual-screw movement converter, in which a movement converter between a drive organ includes a screw fixed in translation and driven in rotation, having threads, a nut connected in translation to the receptor organ, having first threads engaging with the threads of the screw and second threads. A sleeve coaxially surrounds the nut, fixed in rotation and translation with respect to the screw and having threads with which the second threads of the nut engage. To the nut, slaved by its second threads to the threads of the sleeve, screw communicates a combined movement of rotation and translation whose translation component along an axis is transmitted to the receptor organ.
US10180135B2
An injection molding system, water jet cutting machine or other industrial system has a synthetically controlled variable displacement fluid working machine which outputs hydraulic fluid to one or more fluid consumers, such as rams or hydraulic motors, through hydraulically stiff fluid retaining volumes and receives hydraulic fluid back from one or more fluid consumers through the same or other said hydraulically stiff fluid retaining volumes. Individual piston cylinder assemblies can be allocated to different outputs. There may be no valve between the machine and the consumers. A working chamber of the machine can be caused to undergo a motoring cycle to enable the machine to output more power than is received from a motor driving the machine. An accumulator can be used to provide a source of hydraulic compliance. The machine can be controlled using pressure control, flow control, feed forward control or variable power/variable power limit control.
US10180133B2
A channel-less microfluidic pump includes a cartridge including a substrate and an actuatable film layer disposed on the substrate, and a manifold having at least three actuatable void volumes separated by a plurality of wall sections and an actuatable flexible layer disposed on the manifold interfacing the actuatable film layer. In operation, the pump can be in an unactuated state wherein the actuatable film layer is disposed against the surface of the substrate or an actuated state wherein at least a portion of the flexible layer and a corresponding portion of the actuatable film layer are deflected into a corresponding void volume thus forming a fluidic volume between the deflected portion of the actuatable film layer and the surface of the substrate. In the actuated state, there is a fluidic gap between immediately adjacent void volumes formed by a thinned region of the flexible layer at a point of contact with a top surface of a wall section. A method of transporting fluid using the channel-less microfluidic pump is described.
US10180128B2
The present subject matter is directed to a method for managing and/or categorizing trip faults of an electrical component, such as power converter, of a wind turbine. The method includes receiving, via a local controller of the wind turbine, an indication of at least one trip fault in the electrical component of the wind turbine. The method also includes determining, via the local controller, a unique identifier for the trip fault. More specifically, the unique identifier contains information regarding a type of the trip fault and at least one of an origin or a cause, of the trip fault. Further, the method includes sending, via the local controller, the unique identifier to a supervisory controller of the wind turbine. Thus, the method also includes implementing, via the supervisory controller, a control action based on the unique identifier.
US10180126B2
A wind turbine rotor blade, including a first blade section, a second blade section and at least one pre-stressed tensioning element for connecting the first blade section and the second blade section with each other, wherein the rotor blade is split at an interface thereof in a longitudinal direction into the first blade section and the second blade section, wherein the first blade section is arranged closer to a root of the rotor blade than the second blade section, wherein a length of the at least one pre-stressed tensioning element is larger than half of a chord length of the rotor blade at the interface and wherein the at least one pre-stressed tensioning element extends deeper into the first blade section than into the second blade section, is provided.
US10180117B2
A gas turbine engine includes a first annular portion that is stationary and adapted for partially surrounding an engine core. The first annular portion includes a fore pylon connecting portion. The gas turbine engine also includes a rail coupled to the fore pylon and extending in the aft direction from the first annular portion. The gas turbine engine also includes a second annular portion, arranged aft of the first portion and coupled to the rail. The second annular portion is movable along an engine core centerline between a closed position and at least one open position. The second annular portion is configured to engage the first annular portion in the closed position, thereby providing access to the engine core. The gas turbine engine further comprises a thrust reverser arranged in the second annular portion.
US10180113B2
A control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of controlling fuel injection valves while causing valve-closing delay time periods, which occur with the valves actually mounted on the engine, to be reflected thereon, thereby making it possible to improve exhaust emission characteristics and fuel economy performance. The ECU of the control system performs initial value-specific control in fuel injection control and ignition timing control, such that initial value acquisition conditions are satisfied, so as to calculate the initial values of the valve-closing delay time periods when the initial value acquisition conditions are satisfied. When normal-time control is performed, the valve-opening time periods of the valves are calculated using the initial values of the valve-opening time periods, and the valves are controlled to be open over the valve-opening time periods.
US10180106B2
A solenoid for a bleed valve includes a solenoid body with an actuation fluid passage, a bleed valve passage, and a drive fluid chamber. A main armature is disposed within the solenoid body and is movable between open and closed positions, the actuation fluid passage being in fluid communication with the control outlet in the open position, the actuation fluid passage being fluidly isolated from the bleed valve passage in the second position. A pilot armature is disposed within the solenoid body, is movable relative to the main armature, and is operably coupled to the main armature by the drive fluid chamber to move the main armature between the open and closed positions by controlling issue of a drive fluid into and out of the drive fluid chamber.
US10180105B2
A hanger includes a connector assembly for coupling the hanger to a first annular duct, a bracket for coupling the hanger to a second annular duct concentrically disposed within the first annular duct, and a cable formed by a plurality of wires bound together that extend from the connector assembly to the bracket. A plurality of circumferentially-spaced hangers placed in tension support an exhaust duct liner relative to an exhaust duct. The hangers permit circumferential and axial displacement at each hanger of the exhaust duct liner relative to the exhaust duct. The displacement of the exhaust duct liner relative to the exhaust duct at each hanger is permitted in a first radial direction that decreases tension in the cable and is restrained in a second radial direction that increases tension in the cable.
US10180103B2
Disclosed herein is a technique for providing an engine supercharger allowing an exhaust gas to efficiently act on a turbine in a wide operating range. A turbine for use in a supercharger includes a turbine housing, a turbine scroll formed inside the housing continuously with a turbine lead-in route, and a turbine wheel to turn on an axis of rotation close to a tongue portion. The turbine lead-in route is partitioned by a partition wall into first and second lead-in routes. Exhaust variable valves are provided upstream of the second lead-in route in order to change the flow rate of the exhaust gas to be introduced. When viewed in the direction in which the axis of rotation extends, a downstream end of the partition is aligned with the axis of rotation and the tongue portion.
US10180102B2
An intake air cooling device includes an intake manifold communicating with intake ports, and an intercooler disposed laterally of a cylinder head for cooling intake air. The intake manifold includes a manifold body fastened to the cylinder head, and a cooler forming portion communicating with the upstream end of the manifold body and constituting the lower end of the intercooler. Assuming that the cooler forming portion is a second cooler forming portion, the intercooler includes a first cooler forming portion mounted on the upper portion of the second cooler forming portion. The intercooler is constituted by the first and second cooler forming portions. The manifold body includes a plurality of fixing portions fastened to the surface of the cylinder head. The fixing portions are located on the outside of the second cooler forming portion in a side view along a direction orthogonal to the cylinder array direction.
US10180100B2
A cooling system 100 includes an electric oil pump 18, an outside air temperature sensor 22, an oil temperature sensor 21, and a controller 30. The controller 30 permits the actuation of the electric oil pump 18 in one of a first case where an oil temperature To is equal to or greater than a first threshold (A) and where an outside air temperature Ta is equal to or greater than a second threshold (B), a second case where the outside air temperature Ta is less than the second threshold (B) and where the oil temperature To is equal to or greater than a third threshold (C) higher than the first threshold (A), and a third case where the oil temperature To is less than the first threshold (A) and where the outside air temperature Ta is equal to or greater than a fourth threshold (D) higher than the second threshold (B).
US10180099B2
A heat insulating structure for an exhaust junction pipe to be disposed in an area in which exhaust gas passages having different respective lengths are merged together comprises a first heat insulation portion that covers and provides heat insulation for at least a portion of one branch part of branch parts that are branched in the exhaust junction pipe; the one branch part forms one exhaust gas passage in a not-yet-merged state of the exhaust gas passages, and forms the one exhaust gas passage having a short length.
US10180096B2
An exhaust treatment fluid delivery system (16, 22, 116) may include a supply passageway (46, 146), a supply manifold (38, 138), injectors (42, 142), a bypass passageway (50, 150) and first and second pressure sensors (34, 134, 40, 140). The supply passageway (46, 146) receives the exhaust treatment fluid from a tank (26, 126) and provides the exhaust treatment fluid to the supply manifold (38, 138). The bypass passageway (50, 150) connects the supply passageway (46, 146) with the return passageway (48, 148) and includes a bypass valve (36, 136) controlling fluid flow therebetween. The first pressure sensor (34, 134) measures a first pressure of exhaust treatment fluid in the supply passageway (46, 146) based upon which the bypass valve (36, 136) is controlled. The second pressure sensor (40, 140) measures a second pressure of exhaust treatment fluid in the supply manifold (38, 138) based upon which the injectors (42, 142) are controlled.
US10180080B2
Techniques are described for using an electrical motor to slow down or stop a propulsor during an operation mode where the engine is to be otherwise running but the speed of the propulsor should be low or the propulsor should be stopped.
US10180077B2
A moving-vane angle of attack probe is provided. The moving-vane angle of attack probe comprises: a vane having opposed first and second vane surfaces that define a leading edge and a trailing edge, the first and second vane surfaces, each extending between the leading edge and the trailing edge; a first vane opening located on the leading edge; at least one exhaust opening; a vane conduit extending between the first vane opening and the exhaust opening such that the first vane opening and the exhaust opening are in fluid communication, the vane conduit defining at least an interior chamber between the first and second vane surfaces; and a pitot-tube located within the interior chamber such that in use it receives air that enters the interior chamber via the first vane opening.
US10180069B2
A turbine engine blade made of composite material including fiber reinforcement obtained by weaving a first plurality of yarns with a second plurality of yarns, the yarns of the first plurality of yarns being arranged in successive layers and extending in a longitudinal direction of the fiber blank corresponding to a longitudinal direction of the blade, the reinforcement being densified by a matrix. The blade includes one or more internal channels extending in the longitudinal direction of the blade.
US10180067B2
A gas turbine engine component comprises a shroud, a U-channel, an internal cooling air passage and a U-channel cooling hole. The shroud comprises a forward face, an aft face, a first side face and a second side face. The U-channel is disposed in the aft face of the shroud. A gas path surface connects the forward face, aft face, first side face and second side face. A cooled surface connects the forward face, aft face, first side face and second side face opposite the gas path face. The internal cooling air passage extends through the shroud. The U-channel cooling hole extends into the first side face of the shroud adjacent the U-channel to intersect the internal cooling passage.
US10180066B2
The method for directionally swaying and resetting harrow teeth of a rolling harrow loader-excavator and the rolling harrow loader-excavator comprising a harrow rotary piece, directional sway and reset harrow teeth, a harrow supporter, a driving mechanism, a feeder mechanism and a body; each directional sway and reset harrow tooth comprises a torsion spring shaft supporting piece, a tooth handle sway limiting piece, a directional sway and reset tooth handle, a directional sway and reset tooth point, a torsion spring tooth handle shaft, a torsion spring and a torsion spring tooth handle shaft retaining piece.
US10180065B1
An improved tool is described that has a generally cylindrical slotted shank with a radially bulbous or extending portion adjacent a distal end of the shank, sized to interfere with a bore in which the shank is to be inserted. The dimension of the extending portion can be sized to change the retention force between the shank and the bore as desired. A top of the tool includes a metal carbide-metal disk-metal carbide diamond coated tip sandwich that is bonded inside a bore in the top of the tool.
US10180064B2
A system of formation sampling while drilling, comprising: a suction pup joint provided to pump out and clean the formation fluid; a sampling pup joint provided to sample and store the formation fluid; a setting pup joint provided between the suction pup joint and the sampling pup joint and provided to establish a fluid channel between the formation fluid and the suction pup joint, the sampling pup joint; and an electrohydraulic high voltage connection device provided between the setting pup joint and the sampling pup joint. The embodiments of the present invention can be applied in the field of formation exploration technology, the function of storing the formation sample in the process of logging while drilling can be accomplished and the current logging instrument can be effectively optimized, the universality and precision of the current logging function can be effectively improved according to the embodiments of the present invention.
US10180061B2
Methods of identifying rock properties in real-time during drilling, are provided. An example of such a method includes connecting a downhole sensor subassembly between a drill bit and a drill string, operably coupling acoustic sensors to a downhole data interface, and operably coupling a surface computer to the downhole data interface. The method can also include receiving raw acoustic sensor data generated real-time as a result of rotational contact of the drill bit with rock during drilling, transforming the raw data into the frequency domain, filtering the transformed data, and deriving a plurality of acoustic characteristics from the filtered data. This can be performed by a petrophysical properties analyzing program stored in memory of the computer. The method can also include deriving petrophysical properties from the filtered data utilizing a petrophysical properties evaluation algorithm employable to predict one or more petrophysical properties of rock undergoing drilling.
US10180056B2
A system may include a monitoring device that may receive data associated with one or more properties of a well. The well may produce a flow of hydrocarbons. The monitoring device may receive data associated with the well and determine whether the flow of hydrocarbons includes a percentage of water greater than a threshold based on whether the data is outside a profile associated with the flow of hydrocarbons at the well over time. The monitoring device may then send an alarm notification to another device indicating an increased water cut in the flow of hydrocarbon.
US10180054B2
The present disclosure describes methods and systems for fracturing geological formations in a hydrocarbon reservoir. One method includes forming a borehole in a hydrocarbon reservoir from a surface of the hydrocarbon reservoir extending downward into the hydrocarbon reservoir; transmitting an electromagnetic (EM) wave through the borehole: directing at least a portion of the EM wave to rocks at a location below the surface in the hydrocarbon reservoir; and fracturing the rocks at the location below the surface in the hydrocarbon reservoir by irradiating the rocks around the borehole using at least the portion of the EM wave, wherein irradiating the rocks elevates pore-water pressure in the rocks causing fracturing of the rocks.
US10180051B2
The present invention relates to a downhole pumping assembly for being introduced in a well inside a casing and submerged in well fluid, the downhole pumping assembly extending in a longitudinal direction and being adapted for connection with a wireline. The downhole pumping assembly comprises a pump section comprising a tubular pump housing providing a pump chamber, an inlet provided in the tubular pump housing, the inlet being in fluid communication with the pump chamber, a first valve which is a one-way valve arranged for opening and closing the inlet to allow fluid to flow into the chamber, a plunger slidably disposed in the pump chamber, a pump rod operably connected to the plunger and extending from the plunger through the tubular pump housing, an outlet provided in the tubular pump housing, the outlet being in fluid communication with the pump chamber, a second valve which is a one-way valve arranged for controlling a flow of fluid out of the chamber through the outlet. The downhole pumping assembly further comprises a linear actuator arranged in association with the tubular pump housing adapted to drive the pump rod, whereby, when the downhole pumping assembly is at least partially submerged into the well fluid, well fluid is drawn into the tubular pump housing through the inlet and expelled through the outlet in the tubular pump housing, and the pump section further comprises at least one sealing element for isolating a first part of the casing from a second part of the casing.
US10180048B1
Tools and methods for abrasively cutting downhole pipes and casing. The tools and methods are ideally suited for situations where the pipe to be cut or perforated is positioned partly or wholly inside another pipe and damage to the outer pipe must be avoided. The jet nozzles are positioned at a non-normal angle to the target surface to reduce the jets' effective cutting distance. While pumping the abrasive fluid, the jets are supported at a selected radial distance from the target surface so that within a predetermined operating time the jets will cut or perforate the inner pipe but leave the outer pipe substantially intact. The tool may be rotated with a motor to perform cutoff operations or held in a fixed position for perforating.
US10180032B2
A polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC), which is attached or bonded to a substrate to form a cutter for a drill bit, is comprised of sintered polycrystalline diamond interspersed with a seed material which has a hexagonal close packed (HCP) crystalline structure. A region of the sintered polycrystalline diamond structure, near one or more of its working surfaces, which has been seeded with an HCP seed material prior to sintering, is leached to remove catalyst. Selectively seeding portions or regions of a sintered polycrystalline diamond structure permits differing leach rates to form leached regions with differing distances or depths and geometries.
US10180028B2
The invention relates to a security grille system (1) for securing a passage at least partly. The security grille (2) is arranged to be brought from an extended state, in which the grille (2) can block the passage at least partly, into a retracted state, in which at least a part of the previously blocked part of the passage is unblocked. The security grille (2) comprises a multiplicity of bars (4), preferably substantially horizontally extending bars (4), connected by means of multiple elongated connecting elements for interconnecting respective bars (4). The security grille system (1) further comprises a chain connected to the grille (2), preferably a chain being flexible in only one dimension and/or being roller chain, and at least one chain limiting (28) member for at least locally limiting movement of the chain (19), e.g. in a direction in which it is flexible, such as to counteract that one or more links of the chain can be substantially moved away from a regular route along which the links move when the grille (2) is moved from its extended state to its retracted state or vice versa.
US10180022B1
A hinge assembly to pivotably mount a blind flange to a weld neck flange includes a front assembly having a front plate and a plurality of front link plates coupled to the front plate, the front plate having a plurality of openings, each opening in the front plate coupled to mechanical fasteners to secure the front plate to the blind flange, a rear assembly pivotably mounted to the front assembly and having a rear plate and a plurality of rear link plates coupled to the rear plate, the rear plate having a plurality of openings, each opening in the rear plate coupled to mechanical fasteners to secure the rear plate to the weld neck flange, each front link plate disposed between a pair of adjacent rear link plates, and a pin disposed through each front link plate and the pair of adjacent rear link plates.
US10180020B2
The invention relates to a motor vehicle door lock, having at least one housing (1) made of plastics material and having a locking mechanism (3, 4) comprising substantially a rotary latch (3) and a pawl (4), wherein the pawl (4) is mounted inside the housing (1) and the rotary latch (3) is mounted on the outside of the housing (1).
US10180017B2
A security device and its associate base are provided. The base includes a cable having a free end which is routed through the base and around an item of retail merchandise. When tension is applied to the cable, the base actuates a depressible button of an anti-theft component of the security device mounted to the base.
US10180009B2
An automatic spa or pool cover for covering a spa is described having a retractable frame, which rides along a top surface of the spa, attached to a front edge of an insulated cover. A motorized cover roller attached to a back edge of the insulated cover and functions to roll up and retract the insulated cover and pull the frame to slide along the top lip of the spa side walls to retract the frame. In one embodiment, the frame is spring-loaded and extends from its retracted position to its extended position by the force of the springs. In an alternative embodiment, conventional actuation devices may be used to extend the frame. It also includes a retractable angled top cover covering the retractable frame which is supported by a guide proximate the motorized cover roller.
US10180005B2
Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a vertical locking system on short edges including a displaceable tongue that is displaced in one direction into a tongue groove during vertical displacement of two panels. Building panels provided with a locking system for vertical locking of a first and a second building panel by a vertical displacement of the panels relative each other, a displaceable tongue is in a sidewardly open displacement groove provided at an edge of a first panel, said tongue cooperates with a tongue groove provided at an adjacent edge of a second panel for locking the edge and the adjacent edge vertically.
US10179997B2
Gypsum panels, sheathing systems, and methods of making and using the same are provided. A gypsum panel includes a gypsum core associated with a first fiberglass mat having a continuous barrier coating, the coating penetrating a portion of the first fiberglass mat opposite the gypsum core, wherein gypsum penetrates a remaining fibrous portion of the first fiberglass mat such that voids in the first fiberglass mat are substantially eliminated. A building sheathing system includes at least two gypsum panels and a seaming component to provide a seam at an interface between the gypsum panels.
US10179996B2
A method for manufacturing a facade structure includes fastening to a load-bearing underground of a facade a dimensionally stable insulating layer having a supporting outer surface. Spacers of the same height are fastened to the insulating layer such that the spacers protrude outward from the insulating layer. An elastic adhesive is applied at points and/or as rows onto the insulating layer and/or the tile elements in areas in which no spacers are disposed, the height of the applied adhesive being greater than the height of the spacers. The tile elements are adhered to the insulating layer by pressing the tile elements against the spacers, whereby hollow spaces remain between the tile elements and the insulating layer due to the point-like and/or rows of applied adhesive.
US10179992B2
A hanger for connecting a structural component to a wall having sheathing mounted thereon after the hanger is connected to the wall. The hanger includes a channel-shaped portion configured to receive a structural component. An extension portion extends from the channel-shaped portion and is configured to extend through the sheathing. A connection portion extends from the extension portion and is configured for attachment to the wall. The connection portion includes connector flanges configured to attach to a stud of the wall. The extension portion minimally disrupts the continuity of the sheathing to maintain the fire resistive rating of the sheathing.
US10179982B2
This invention relates to the art of removing snow from driveways, walkways, roads, and the like. The snow removing system removes snow from the driveway and disposes it. The system can be operated by a person or by a computer program or by remote controller. The system comprises of components that are relatively small that can be easily assembled and stowed away after use. The system is easy use and does not require manual labor other than an easy setup and dismantle operations.
US10179977B2
The present invention relates to a coating composition capable of embodying paper feel for food packing paper, comprising a resin mixture, additive and solvent, characterized in that said additive comprises 3 to 12% by weight of polyethylene-based wax.
US10179976B2
An industrial textile for use in a fibrous web forming and/or processing machine has a transversal edge section which can be joined together to render the textile endless. MD-yarns are interwoven with CD-yarns. At least two adjacent MD-yarns form a group, the MD-yarns of each MD-yarn group weaving side-by-side the same weave path with the CD-yarns. Each of the MD-yarn groups has adjacent first and second MD-yarns. The first MD-yarn of a MD-yarn group is non-adjacent the first MD-yarn of an adjacent MD-yarn group and the second MD-yarn of said MD-yarn group is non-adjacent the second MD-yarn of the adjacent MD-yarn group. At each transversal edge section the first MD-yarn of a first MD-yarn group forms a first loop and weaves back into the weave path of the first MD-yarn of a second MD-yarn group. The second MD-yarn group is adjacent the first MD-yarn group.
US10179972B2
A method of utilizing lignin-containing material separated from spent kraft pulping liquor including: acidifying the liquor to a pH not less than seven thereby precipitating solid particles, separating precipitated solid particles from the accompanying liquid, and subjecting the separated precipitated solid particles to a washing process in which: the separated precipitated solid particles are washed with an aqueous medium or aqueous media in one or more washing steps, in each one of the washing steps, the aqueous washing medium contains, in a dissolved form, significant amounts of one or more added sodium salts, and a combined concentration of the added sodium salts in the washing medium in each of the washing step exceeds three percent by weight; and utilizing as fuel in a lime kiln at least part of the washed lignin-containing material is utilized as fuel in a lime kiln of a pulp mill.
US10179971B2
Provided herein is a process for producing an alcohol from a sugar cane derived cellulosic feedstock comprising: subjecting the sugar cane derived cellulosic feedstock comprising bagasse, leaves, tops, or any combination thereof, to silica removal selected from processes comprising sieving, screening, washing, cyclone separation or any combination thereof. The bagasse, leaves or tops, or any combination thereof, from which at least a portion of the silica has been removed is treated in one or more processing stages to produce sugar, wherein the undissolved solids content of a slurry during said processing stages reaches a weight percent of at least 15%. Thereafter the sugar is fermented with yeast or bacteria to produce the alcohol and the alcohol is concentrated and recovered.
US10179970B2
In one aspect, the invention relates to methods for dyeing greige goods to produce a random dye pattern, compositions and articles produced therefrom. In a further aspect, the invention relates to methods of methods for dyeing greige goods to produce a random dye pattern using a dyeing machine. In still a further aspect, the invention relates to methods of producing unique dye patterns for greige goods. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
US10179959B2
A yarn producing apparatus produces carbon nanotube (CNT) yarn by aggregating CNT fibers. A substrate support supports a CNT forming substrate, a winding unit 7 continuously draws the CNT fibers, a yarn producing unit aggregates the CNT fibers, and a substrate replacing mechanism replaces the carbon nanotube forming substrate supported on the substrate support with another carbon nanotube forming substrate.
US10179955B2
A production method for a rare earth permanent magnet, wherein: a sintered magnet body comprising an R1—Fe—B composition (R1 represents one or more elements selected from among rare earth elements, including Y and Sc) is immersed in an electrodeposition liquid comprising a slurry obtained by dispersing a powder containing an R2 fluoride (R2 represents one or more elements selected from among rare earth elements, including Y and Sc) in water; an electrodeposition process is used to coat the powder onto the surface of the sintered magnet body; and, in the state in which the powder is present on the surface of the magnet body, the magnet body and the powder are subjected to a heat treatment in a vacuum or an inert gas at a temperature equal to or less than the sintering temperature of the magnet.
US10179948B2
A method for coating a turbine engine component, said method includes the steps of: placing the component into a chamber; injecting a non-reactive carrier gas containing a coating material into the chamber; and forming a coating on a desired portion of the component by locally heating the desired portion of the component by redirecting a directed energy beam onto the desired portion of the component.
US10179943B2
An article and method of forming the article are disclosed. The article has a surface comprising a nanostructured ferritic alloy. The surface includes a plurality of nanofeatures that include complex oxides of yttrium and titanium disposed in an iron-bearing alloy matrix. The iron-bearing alloy matrix at the surface includes about 5 weight percent to about 30 weight percent of chromium, and about 0.1 weight percent to about 10 weight percent of molybdenum. Further, a concentration of a chi phase or a sigma phase in the nanostructured ferritic alloy at the surface is less than about 5 volume percent. The method generally includes the steps of milling, thermo-mechanically consolidating, annealing, and then cooling at a rate that hinders the formation of chi and sigma phases in the nanostructured ferritic alloy at the surface.
US10179931B2
The present invention provides methods for immobilizing target nucleic acids on a solid support utilizing combinatorial capture probe pairs. These pairs contain first and second capture oligonucleotides that each comprise a target binding region, a capture region and a stem region positioned between the target binding and capture regions. The target binding regions comprise nucleic acid sequences that allow them to hybridize to adjacent regions on the target nucleic acid. The stem regions have nucleic acid sequences that are complementary to each other and the capture regions each comprise a sequence that when positioned adjacent to one another produce a combined nucleic acid sequence that is complementary to a portion of an oligonucleotide bound to a solid support. When the first and second capture oligonucleotides are annealed to the target nucleic acid, the stem regions are brought together allowing them to hybridize, which in turn brings the capture regions together to produce a combined nucleic acid sequence. This combined nucleic acid sequence is then able to hybridize to the oligonucleotide bound to the solid support thereby immobilizing the target nucleic acid.
US10179922B2
The present invention provides methods of processing a biomass, e.g., for producing lipid and non-lipid materials, by inducing autolysis of a biomass. The biomass may be generated using any species of microorganism and any available biodegradable substrate, including waste materials. The lipid and non-lipid materials are present in two separate layers of the autolysate, and they can be used to generate valuable products such as biofuels and nutritional supplements. The present invention further provides a processing apparatus useful for practicing the methods of the present invention.
US10179919B2
The present invention provides novel multigenome retroviral vectors, methods and packaging systems for making such retroviral vectors and methods of use.
US10179910B2
A rack for holding samples and various reagents, wherein the rack may be used for loading the samples and reagents prior to using the reagents. The rack accepts complementary reagent holders, each of which contain a set of reagents for carrying out a predetermined processing operation, such as preparing biological samples for amplifying and detecting polynucleotides extracted from the samples.
US10179909B2
The invention provides methods and compositions for a mutein aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase that preferentially charges a tRNA with a non-natural amino acid. Also provided are methods for incorporating the non-natural amino acids, pyridinyl-amino tetrazine amino acids, into a protein, and further conjugating a biologically active adduct to the pyridinyl-amino tetrazine.
US10179908B2
Provided are compositions comprising newly identified protein fragments of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, polynucleotides that encode them and complements thereof, related agents, and methods of use thereof in diagnostic, drug discovery, research, and therapeutic applications.
US10179902B2
This disclosure relates to compositions comprising human preprimitive streak cells and/or human mesendoderm cells as well as methods for their production. Additionally, disclosed herein are methods of identifying factors useful in the further differentiation of preprimitive streak and mesendoderm cell types.
US10179900B2
A stable and scalable process is provided to manufacture reduced serum umbilical cord tissue-derived (UTC)-conditioned media. The method includes the culture of a UTC under reduced serum conditions. Subsequently, the UTC is washed and grown in serum-free basal media. After approximately 24 hours, the conditioned media is collected, filtered and concentrated by use of an approximately 5 kDa or similar cut-off membrane.
US10179897B2
A number of novel improved microfluidic configurations and systems and methods of manufacture and operation for a microfluidic invasion assay system.
US10179896B2
Methods and systems are provided for a stem cell organ device including an array of alternating stem cell channels and fluid channels. In one example, a method may include loading a stem cell channel with stem cells and flowing blood through a fluid channel in order to allow an exchange of molecules between the stem cells and the blood.
US10179895B2
A process and apparatus for converting sequestered carbon to fuel, such as methane, and/or materials, such as fermentation substrates, biopolymers, bioplastics, oils, pigments, fibers, proteins, vitamins, fertilizers and animal feed. The apparatus comprises a deep well carbon-sequestering bioreactor coaxially located within a deep well anaerobic bioreactor. Carbon is sequestered into a photosynthetic biomass or a heterotrophic biomass, which is subsequently digested by an anaerobic biomass containing methanogenic microbes, whereby methane is a digestion product.
US10179889B2
The invention discloses detergent compositions containing acrylic acid polymers, including methacrylic acid/ethyl acrylate polymers. In certain embodiments compositions employ an acrylic acid polymer comprising at least 40 wt-% polymerized residues of acrylic monomers, at least 50 wt-% of at least one surfactant, a solvent, at least one water conditioning polymer, and water. The detergent compositions provide increased soil removal and soil suspension when treating textiles, namely through use of industrial laundering machinery. The detergent compositions and methods of employing the same beneficially clean and prevent redeposition of soils containing high concentrations of oil and metal particulates, as are customary in industrial laundering soils.
US10179887B1
The present invention relates to novel compounds and their use as fragrance materials.
US10179886B2
Lubricant compositions including an additive composition and methods for its use in engines that produce soot. The lubricant composition contains a base oil and an additive composition having (a) at least 0.05 percent by weight of a first dispersant that is a reaction product of A) a hydrocarbyl-dicarboxylic acid or anhydride, and B) at least one polyamine; and (b) at least 0.05 percent by weight, both based on a total weight of the lubricant composition, of a second dispersant that is a reaction product of A′) a hydrocarbyl-dicarboxylic acid or anhydride, and B′) at least one polyamine, wherein the reaction product is post-treated with C) an aromatic carboxylic acid, an aromatic polycarboxylic acid, or an aromatic anhydride wherein all carboxylic acid or anhydride groups are attached directly to an aromatic ring, and/or D) a non-aromatic dicarboxylic acid or anhydride having a number average molecular weight of less than about 500.
US10179885B2
A dispersant includes the reaction product of an amine and at least one equivalent of glycidyl ether where the amine is selected from a group consisting of aminoethylpiperazine, bis(2-(piperazin-1-yl)ethyl)amine, 4,4′-methylenebiscyclohexylamine, m-xylenediamine, diethylenetriamine, and triethylenetetramine and where the glycidyl ether has the structure (A), where R is selected from aromatic carbon chains, non-aromatic carbon chains and polyalkylene glycol groups. The dispersant is useful in a lubricant with a base oil for increasing soot dispersibility of the lubricant.
US10179884B2
Disclosed are a device and a method for manufacturing a natural gas hydrate. Provided is the device for manufacturing a natural gas hydrate comprising: an ice slurry generation unit for preparing ice slurry having 13-20% of ice at normal pressure; a first pipe, having one end connected to the ice slurry generation unit for withdrawing the ice slurry from the ice slurry generation unit, and in which a high-pressure pump for increasing pressure on the ice slurry is interposed; a hydrate preparation reactor, which is connected to the other end of the first pipe so as to receive the pressurized ice slurry, and to which natural gas is supplied and mixed, for generating natural gas hydrate slurry; a second pipe, having one end connected to the hydrate preparation reactor, for withdrawing the natural gas hydrate slurry; and a dehydrating portion, which is connected to the other end of the second pipe, for dehydrating the natural gas hydrate slurry.
US10179878B2
For a metal gate replacement integration scheme, the present disclosure describes removing a polysilicon gate electrode with a highly selective wet etch chemistry without damaging surrounding layers. For example, the wet etch chemistry can include one or more alkaline solvents with a steric hindrance amine structure, a buffer system that includes tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) and monoethanolamine (MEA), one or more polar solvents, and water.
US10179876B2
A nanocrystal particle including: a semiconductor material; boron and optionally fluorine, wherein the particle has an organic ligand bound to a surface thereof, the boron is present as being doped in the particle or as a metal boride and the fluorine is present as being doped in the particle or as a metal fluoride.
US10179874B2
A drilling fluid composition that contains micronized barite particles with a particle size in the range of 1 to 5 μm, and also a method of fracturing a subterranean formation using the drilling fluid composition. Various embodiments of the micronized barite particles and the method of making thereof, the drilling fluid composition, and the method of fracturing a subterranean formation are also provided.
US10179863B2
An ink jet recording method includes first attaching an ink composition to fabric so as to have an attached amount of 10 mg/inch2 to 30 mg/inch2, and second attaching the ink composition to the fabric so as to have an attached amount of 90 mg/inch2 to 250 mg/inch2, in which the ink composition includes a pigment and a resin dispersion, and a content of a resin included in the resin dispersion is 0.5 parts by mass to 2.5 parts by mass with respect to 1 part by mass of the pigment.
US10179858B2
The present invention provides a compound having a high chroma and also excellent dispersibility. The compound described above is represented by the following formula (1).
US10179852B2
A thermoplastic mixture is described that includes at least one impact-resistant polypropylene copolymer and at least one ethylene-1-octene copolymer. The weight ratio of impact-resistant polypropylene copolymer to ethylene-1-octene copolymer can be in the range of 35:65 to 65:35. The thermoplastic mixture has a high melting point and excellent flexibility. The mixture is suitable in particular for roof membranes and waterproofing membranes.
US10179844B2
Disclosed is a biaxially stretched polyester film containing an antimony compound as a catalyst component, and a magnesium compound and a phosphorus compound as additives, in which an amount of metal antimony included in residues on a membrane filter having an average pore diameter of 0.1 μm, after a solution in which 1 g of the biaxially stretched polyester is dissolved in 5 ml of hexafluoroisopropanol is filtered by the filter, is 10 to 100 mg per 1 kg of the biaxially stretched polyester.
US10179824B2
The present invention provides crosslinked carboxymethylcellulose having high elastic modulus coupled with high absorbance capacity when swollen in simulated gastric fluid/water (1:8) and simulated intestinal fluids. The invention further provides methods of making the crosslinked carboxymethylcellulose, compositions comprising the crosslinked carboxymethylcellulose and methods of using the crosslinked carboxymethylcellulose, for example, for treating overweight or obesity or for enhancing glycemic control.
US10179822B2
The present invention comprises a humanized monoclonal antibody that binds to the human immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region germline gene VH1-69. This antibody is derived from Mab G6 and recognizes the same epitope. Moreover, the antibody is used in combination with vaccines to augment an immune response to the antigen.
US10179808B2
The present invention relates to Kv1.3 antagonists, and polynucleotides encoding them, and methods of making and using the foregoing.
US10179804B2
Melanocortin receptor-specific cyclic peptides of the formula where R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10 and z are as defined in the specification, compositions and formulations including the peptides of the foregoing formula, and methods of preventing, ameliorating or treating melanocortin receptor-mediated diseases, indications, conditions and syndromes.
US10179802B2
Provided are a conotoxin peptide κ-CPTx-btl04 and a derivative polypeptide. The amino acid sequence of the conotoxin peptide is indicated by SEQ ID NO: 1. Also provided are a conotoxin peptide preparation method and uses of the conotoxin peptide in the treatment of diseases related to a calcium ion channel.
US10179791B2
The present invention relates to spiro-cyclic amine derivatives of the formula (I) wherein R1 is selected from cyano, (2-4C)alkenyl, (2-4C)alkynyl, (1-4C)alkyl each optionally substituted with CN or one or more fluoro atoms, (3-6C)cycloalkyl, (4-6C)cycloalkenyl or a (8-10C)bicyclic group, each optionally substituted with halogen or (1-4C)alkyl, phenyl, biphenyl, naphthyl, each optionally substituted with one or more substituents independently selected from halogen, cyano, (1-6C)alkyl optionally substituted with one or more fluoro atoms, (1-6C)alkoxy optionally substituted with one or more fluoro atoms, amino, di(1-4C)alkylamino and (3-6C)cycloalkyl optionally substituted with phenyl which may be substituted with (1-4C)alkyl or halogen, phenyl substituted with phenoxy, benzyl, benzyloxy, phenylethyl or monocyclic heterocycle, each optionally substituted with (1-4C)alkyl optionally substituted with one or more fluoro atoms, monocyclic heterocycle optionally independently substituted with halogen, (1-6C)alkyl optionally substituted with one or more fluoro atoms, (3-6C)cycloalkyl, or phenyl optionally substituted with (1-4C)alkyl or halogen, and bicyclic heterocycle optionally substituted with halogen or (1-4C)alkyl optionally substituted with one or more fluoro atoms; —Y—(Cn-alkylene)-X— is a linking group wherein Y is attached to R1 and selected from a bond, —O—, —CO—, —S—, —SO—, —SO2—, —NH—, —CH═CH—, —C(CF3)═CH—, —C≡C—, —CH2—O—, —O—CO—, —CO—O—, —CO—NH—, —NH—CO—, and trans-cyclopropylene; n is an integer from 0 to 10; and X is attached to the phenylene/pyridyl moiety and selected from a bond, —O—, —S—, —SO—, —SO2—, —NH—, —CO—, —CH═CH—, and trans-cyclopropylene; R2 is H or independently selected from one or more substituents selected from halogen, (1-4C)alkoxy and (1-4C)alkyl optionally substituted with one or more fluor atoms; and R3 is (1-4C)alkylene-R4 wherein the alkylene group may be substituted with one or more halogen atoms or with (CH2)2 to form a cyclopropyl moiety, or R3 is (3-6C)cycloalkylene-R4, —CH2-(3-6C)cycloalkylene-R4, (3-6C)cycloalkylene-CH2—R4 or —CO—CH2—R4, wherein R4 is —OH, —PO3H2, —OPO3H2, —COOH, —COO(1-4C)alkyl or tetrazol-5-yl; Q is a bond or —O—; —W-T- is selected from —CH═CH—, —CH2—CH2—, —CH2—O—, —O—CH2—, —O—CH2—CH2—, and —CO—O—; R5 is H or independently selected from one or more halogens; Z is CH, CR2 or N; and A represents a morpholine ring structure or a 5-, 6- or 7-membered cyclic amine; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a solvate or hydrate thereof or one or more N-oxides thereof. The compounds of the invention have affinity to S1P receptors and may be used in the treatment, alleviation or prevention of diseases and conditions in which (a) S1P receptor(s) is (are) involved.
US10179786B2
The present invention relates to a selective dual delta (δ) and gamma (γ) PI3K protein kinase modulator (S)-N-(5-(4-amino-1-(1-(5-fluoro-3-(3-fluorophenyl)-4-oxo-4H-chromen-2-yl)ethyl)-1H-pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidin-3-yl)-2-methoxyphenyl) methane sulfonamide, methods of preparing them, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and methods of treatment, prevention and/or amelioration of PI3K kinase mediated diseases or disorders with them.
US10179785B2
The present invention relates to a novel imidazotriazinone or imidazopyrazinone derivative, a tautomer thereof, a stereoisomer thereof and their mixture, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; and a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating a tankyrase-related disease, which contains the same as an active ingredient.
US10179784B2
The present invention disclosed a class of pyrimidine or pyridine compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, stereoisomers, prodrugs and solvates thereof, preparation method therefor and pharmaceutical compositions and pharmaceutical uses thereof. See e.g., Formula I below. The compounds can inhibit the variants of EGFR (Epidermis Growth Factor Receptor) proteinases, and therefore can inhibit the growth of a variety of tumor cells effectively. The compounds can be used to prepare antitumor drugs, used for the treatment, combined therapy or prevention of various different cancers. The compounds can overcome the drug resistance induced by the existing first-generation EGFR inhibitors such as gefitinib, erlotinib and so on. Particularly, the compounds can be used to prepare drugs for treating or preventing diseases, disturbances, disorders or conditions mediated by epidermis growth factor receptor variants (such as L858R activated mutants, Exon19 deletion activated mutants and T790M resistant mutants).
US10179773B2
The present disclosure provides substituted isoxazole carboxamides having Formula (I), and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof, wherein R1, R2a, R2b, R3a, R3b, X, n, and m are defined as set forth in the specification. The present disclosure is also directed to the use of compounds of Formula I to treat a disorder responsive to the blockade of SMYD proteins such as SMYD3 or SMYD2. Compounds of the present disclosure are especially useful for treating cancer.
US10179769B2
The present invention relates generally to compositions and methods for treating cancer and neoplastic disease. Provided herein are substituted amidopyridine or amidopyridazine derivative compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds. The subject compounds and compositions are useful for inhibition histone demethylase. Furthermore, the subject compounds and compositions are useful for the treatment of cancer, such as prostate cancer, breast cancer, bladder cancer, lung cancer and/or melanoma and the like.
US10179756B2
A process of oxidizing an alcohol for the production of its corresponding carbonyl compounds is disclosed, wherein the oxidation is performed with oxygen or gases containing oxygen in the presence of a catalyst comprising at least a gold compound and a copper compound. Said alcohol oxidation by gaseous oxidant can achieve a high yield and selectivity with minimized degradation products or waste organic solvents.
US10179755B2
A method for preparing a branched alcohol by dimerizing an aliphatic monoalcohol having three or more carbon atoms in the presence of a base and a catalyst. The dimerization reaction is performed under atmospheric pressure while injecting a hydrogen gas. With this method, it is possible to obtain a dimerized alcohol with excellent yield even when using a branched aliphatic monoalcohol as the starting material.
US10179754B2
The present invention relates to a process for isomerizing a C3-7 (hydro)(halo)fluoroalkene comprising (a) providing a reactor feed stream comprising the C3-7 (hydro)(halo)fluoroalkene; and (b) contacting the C3-7 (hydro)(halo)fluoroalkene with a catalyst comprising alumina to isomerize the C3-7 (hydro)(halo)fluoroalkene, wherein the catalyst has a sodium content of less than about 800 ppm.
US10179737B2
Provided are spherical silicon oxycarbide particle material and manufacturing method thereof, wherein the average particle size is in the range of 0.1-100 μm and having a sphericity of 0.95-1.0.Spherical silicon oxycarbide particle material and manufacturing method thereof are provided as follows. Organotrialkoxysilane is hydrolyzed in a pH 3-6 acetic acid aqueous solution, thereafter an alkaline aqueous solution such as a pH 7-12 ammonia water was added to the obtained hydrolysate. The condensation reaction is performed in an alkaline range to form spherical polysilsesquioxane particles that are spherical silicon oxycarbide precursors that has no melting point or softening point. Sintering was then performed at a sintering temperature of 600-1400° C. under inert atmosphere to obtain spherical silicon oxycarbide particle material.
US10179736B2
Disclosure relates to modified sulfur, preparation method thereof, preparation equipment thereof. The modified sulfur has spinnability or includes micro-structures such as fiber-, film- and network-like structure. The modified sulfur can be prepared by inducing polymerization with ultrasonic or ageing. The modified sulfur has various excellent features such as anticorrosiveness, waterproofing, strength, and fast drying and can control the features depending on its viscosity or polymerization degree. In addition due to the above features, the modified sulfur can be applied to anticorrosive or waterproofing material and can prepare anticorrosive or waterproofing material which has good workability, hardening, salt spray resistance, and weldability exceeding a certain level, and specially improved adhesiveness. Furthermore, when applying the modified sulfur to asphalt composition, gelation and depression are reduced, properties such as bending strength and tensile strength are improved, and it is possible to obtain asphalt composition with good working stability at RT.
US10179729B2
Embodiments of the invention describe hermetic encapsulation for MEMS devices, and processes to create the hermetic encapsulation structure. Embodiments comprise a MEMS substrate stack that further includes a magnet, a first laminate organic dielectric film, a first hermetic coating disposed over the magnet, a second laminate organic dielectric film disposed on the hermetic coating, a MEMS device layer disposed over the magnet, and a plurality of metal interconnects surrounding the MEMS device layer. A hermetic plate is subsequently bonded to the MEMS substrate stack and disposed over the formed MEMS device layer to at least partially form a hermetically encapsulated cavity surrounding the MEMS device layer. In various embodiments, the hermetically encapsulated cavity is further formed from the first hermetic coating, and at least one of the set of metal interconnects, or a second hermetic coating deposited onto the set of metal interconnects.
US10179727B2
A variable inlet device for a vehicle includes a first pipe and a second pipe arranged in parallel to each other, and a variable injection pipe configured to allow an exit thereof to be selectively connected to an entrance of the first pipe or an entrance of the second pipe by a rotation movement and a back and forth movement.
US10179724B2
Add-on device (1) to be attached to a lifting vehicle, having a movable fork arm unit (2) comprising at least one fork arm (3), having at least two units (4) for driving a lateral movement of the fork arm unit (2), in particular each comprising at least one drive chain (6), in particular running in opposite directions, wherein the drive chain (6) is in particular assigned to a respective fork arm (3), having in each case at least one hydraulic motor (11), by which the unit can be driven, wherein the hydraulic motors (11) of two units (4) can be connected in parallel for a lateral movement of the fork arms (3) in the same direction and/or the hydraulic motors (11) of two units (4) can be connected in series for a lateral movement of the fork arms (3) in opposite directions. Method for actuating said add-on device (1).
US10179723B2
A materials handling vehicle includes an operator platform from which an operator can drive the vehicle; a traction control system for advancing the vehicle across a floor surface; at least one sensor configured to detect the presence of an object located at a position proximate to the vehicle; and a controller communicably coupled to the at least one sensor and the traction control system. The controller is responsive to the output of the at least one sensor to stop or slow down the vehicle if an object is detected proximate to the vehicle and the vehicle is traveling in response to a remote travel request. However, the controller does not slow down or stop the vehicle if an object is proximate to the vehicle while the operator is driving the vehicle on the operator platform.
US10179716B2
A stacking wheel mechanism (30) includes a stacking wheel (32) that is arranged near a stacking unit (26) and having a plurality of elastic blades (32a) on an outer circumferential surface thereof, and a blade guiding member (38) that is arranged near the stacking wheel (32) to guide the blades (32a) of the stacking wheel (32). The blade guiding member (38) guides the blades (32a) of the stacking wheel (32) such that the blades (32a) of the stacking wheel (32) enter into a transport path (for example, an internal transport path (36)) when the stacking wheel (32) rotates in a feeding-in direction of a paper sheet toward the stacking unit (26) and the blades (32a) of the stacking wheel (32) retreat from the transport path when the stacking wheel (32) rotates in a feeding-out direction of the paper sheet from the stacking unit (26).
US10179701B2
A transportation support assembly and a transport device are provided in embodiments of the disclosure, the transportation support assembly comprising: a supporting plate; a first baffle plate; a second baffle plate; and at least one bundling strap. Each of the first baffle plate and the second baffle plate is hinged with the supporting plate and is provided thereon respectively with at least one through-hole through which the at least one bundling strap passes such that the first baffle plate, the second baffle plate and the bundling strap cooperate with one another to clamp an object to be supported. Thereby, human labor as required for handling and carrying an apparatus is saved, and any risk in handling and carrying of the apparatus is also reduced, by the transportation support assembly.
US10179694B2
A tamper-resistant shipping container for a live plant that includes a conical shaped lower pot containing the roots of a plant surrounded by planting soil. Disposed inside the lower pot and over the top surface of the soil is a disc-shaped, sealing cover made of neoprene or elastic foam. The sealing cover includes a center bore through which the stem of a plant extends. During assembly, the sealing cover is positioned around the stem and pressed firmly against the soil. Attached to the top edge of the lower pot is a lid made of translucent material with surrounding side walls and a closed upper end. Mounted on the upper end_of the lid is an illuminating light source containing LED bulbs and batteries and a switch. When activated the LED bulbs produces continuous light that shines downward onto the plant during shipment. Attached to the adjoining edges of the lid and the lower pot is a tamper-proof tie.
US10179693B2
A produce box for storing produce, including a base, including a series of side wall sections coupled together to form a parallelogram; a bottom end section coupled to the wall sections; pairs of face vents located in spaced apart lateral sections of respective ones of said side wall sections; and pairs of major score vents located centrally on respective top and bottom scores of each side wall section of a first opposed pair of said side wall sections. The produce box also includes a lid, including a series of side wall sections coupled together to form a parallelogram; a top end section coupled to the wall sections; pairs of face vents located in spaced apart lateral sections of respective ones of said side wall sections; and pairs of major score vents located centrally on respective top and bottom scores of each side wall section of a first opposed pair of said side wall sections. The pairs of face vents of the base at least partially overlap with corresponding pairs of face vents of the lid so that air can flow therethrough. Further, pairs of major score vents of the base at least partially overlap with major score vents of the lid so that air can flow therethrough.
US10179690B2
The present disclosure relates to an aerosol delivery device filling system. The system includes multiple source containers each respectively including a differing aerosol precursor composition. The system further includes a mixing container configured to engage the source containers to receive and mix the aerosol precursor compositions to form a mixed aerosol precursor composition. An aerosol delivery device may engage the mixing container to receive at least a portion of the mixed aerosol precursor composition. A related method for customizing an aerosol precursor composition is also provided.
US10179688B2
A container constructed from paperboard, card board stock, etc., includes at least one panel that is configured to be removed from the container. The panel is configured, for example, with a plurality of score lines, to enable the panel to transition from its primary configuration to a different, secondary configuration. The secondary configuration can form a handle, a stirrer or mixing stick, etc., for use with the contents of the packaging. The container can be included as part of a kit that is presented at a point of sale.
US10179679B2
A sealable pourer for mounting on a bottle is provided. The sealable pourer includes a cap to ensure that the pouring nozzle and air tube outlet are sealed, or otherwise closed, when in a first position of the cap and allow free flow of the liquid content of the bottle when in a second position. In one embodiment, the cap is rotated about a symmetry axis of the nozzle to achieve sealing of both the air passage and the pouring nozzle.
US10179677B2
An apparatus and method are provided for dispensing a liquid from within a flexible package. The apparatus includes a fitment and a piercing member. The fitment is secured to a wall of the flexible package and has a passageway extending through it and a screw-thread section. The piercing member has a passageway extending through it, a piercing tip, and a screw-thread section. The piercing member is configured for insertion in the passageway of the fitment, with the screw-thread sections engaging each other to cause the piercing tip to penetrate the package, whereupon the liquid within the package can flow into and through the piercing member.
US10179668B2
A method and machine for packaging smoking articles or other tobacco industry products in which the products and packaging may be transported from selected product supply systems and packaging material supply systems selectively along a plurality of alternative transport routes through the machine through a series of workstations arranged to incorporate batches of smoking products selectively in different packaging materials according to the transport route selected.
US10179664B2
Robotic pick-and-place automation is used to transfer oral solid pharmaceuticals from moveable trays or canisters. Sensors are used to verify that the pharmaceuticals have been properly placed in the desired pharmaceutical locations precisely according to the patient prescription data. A pharmacist places pharmaceutical products within dispensing trays or canisters to present the pharmaceutical products for picking and placing via the robotic pick-and-place machinery. Once the canister or tray is located adjacent the pick-and-place device, a sensor or imaging unit associated with the pick-and-place device verifies that the pharmaceutical product the size, shape, and/or color of an expected pharmaceutical product that is to be placed within the packaging material in accordance with patient prescription data stored by a computer associated with the system. Sensors verify that each individual pharmaceutical specified by a patient prescription have been deposited into each specified location strictly in accordance with the patient prescription data.
US10179663B2
A landing device for a low gravity lander having a main body. The landing device comprises a number of leg-like rods attached to the main body, wherein, in a deployment position of the rods, each of the number of rods is inclined with regard to a plane of a first side surface of the main body such that the rods substantially extend in a direction of movement of the low gravity lander. Furthermore, the number of rods is made such that they bend or buckle under forces within a predetermined range by an impact due to a landing on a landing surface, thereby absorbing an impact momentum.
US10179662B2
An assembly process for assembling at least part of an aircraft airframe, the assembly process comprising: providing a first assembly including a first part of the airframe and a first reference structure attached thereto; providing a second assembly including a second part of the aircraft airframe and a second reference structure attached thereto; receiving, by a first receptacle, the first reference structure; receiving, by a second receptacle, the second reference structure; moving, by an actuation device, the receptacles into a predetermined configuration, thereby moving the first part of the aircraft airframe and the second part of the aircraft airframe into a predetermined configuration; and performing an assembly operation on the airframe parts to fixedly attach together the first part of the aircraft airframe and the second part of the aircraft airframe, thereby producing the part of the aircraft airframe.
US10179661B2
A ground connect duct includes a ground connect flange with an inner diameter and an outer diameter, wherein the inner diameter is between 7.000 inches and 9.000 inches and the outer diameter is between 9.000 inches and 11.000 inches, a V-band flange, and a duct body with the inner diameter, wherein the duct body is coupled to the ground connect flange and the V-band flange to have an overall length between 6.261 inches and 8.261 inches and to dispose the V-band flange at an angle between 6.000 degrees and 8.000 degrees relative to the ground connect flange.
US10179651B2
To provide a simple seat fastening device with enhanced flexibility and the possibility of an easy movement of vehicle seats, a seat fastening device for fastening vehicle seats in a vehicle is provided comprising a seat track and a slider in a sliding engagement with the seat track. The slider includes a seat fixation element to fix a foot of a vehicle seat, wherein the seat track includes a C-shaped profile and the slider includes a base inserted in the C-shaped profile and wherein the slider includes a clamp to clamp the slider against an inner surface of the C-shaped profile. At least one linear roller contact bearing is located between the C-shaped profile and the slider.
US10179645B2
A surface travel system for military aircraft is provided that enables efficient, quiet, and safe ground operations of one or more aircraft in a wide range of military missions and operations. The surface travel system includes controllable onboard drive means that effectively drives one or more of the aircraft's wheels to move the aircraft autonomously, efficiently, quietly, and safely on any travel surface required for a military mission. The present invention allows the rapid safe deployment of multiple aircraft from tight spaces and enhances the readiness and availability of aircraft for a wide range of military operations.
US10179644B2
The present disclosure refers to a method for operating a landing gear system, preferably in a tricycle configuration, wherein main landing gear (MLG) and the nose landing gear (NLG) are operable from a retracted position where they are housed respectively inside landing gear bays, to a fully extended position where they are extended for landing the aircraft. According to the disclosure, the extension of the nose landing gear (NLG) is delayed in time with respect to the extension of the main landing gear (MLG), and the nose landing gear (NLG) is kept retracted during a major part of the time that the main landing gear doors (MLGD) are extended. In this manner, vibrations on the main landing gear doors are reduced and incidents caused by fatigue are also reduced, which in turn implies that the maintenance cost of the aircraft is greatly reduced.
US10179638B2
A dual-bracketed support system and a corresponding method are disclosed. The dual-bracketed support system includes (i) a first bracket connected to a support structure for a crown portion of an aircraft, (ii) a second bracket, and (iii) a support rod having a proximal end and a distal end. The proximal end is connected to the first bracket and the distal end is connected to the second bracket. The second bracket is configured to allow the support rod to translate along a longitudinal axis defined by the support rod.
US10179623B2
An inner fender includes a cover surface, a left projecting portion, and a right projecting portion. Under a condition that a body frame is in an upright state and that a left front wheel and a right front wheel are not turned, the left projecting portion projects forward from the cover surface behind a rear edge of the left front wheel; the right projecting portion projects forward from the cover surface behind a rear edge of the right front wheel; and a portion of the cover surface between the left projecting portion and the right projecting portion faces a space defined between the left front wheel and the right front wheel.
US10179617B2
A device for supporting and moving a load within an area may include a motive construct configured to support the load and move the load to a ground location within the area; a lift mechanism coupled to the motive construct, the lift mechanism being configured to effect movement of the motive construct to a height relative to the ground location; and a remote controller operatively coupled to the device via at least one of a cable connection and a wireless connection, the remote controller being configured to steer the motive construct and/or to control the lift mechanism. The device may further include at least one sensor to detect a characteristic of the load. The device may further include a braking system.
US10179616B2
A fixing system for a spare wheel for a motor vehicle of the type is provided with a housing for said spare wheel, said fixing system comprising a first element with a first threaded end, which can be fixed to a bottom wall of said housing, also comprising a clamping nut and a metal fixing screw which comprises a threaded shaft and is coupled with said clamping nut in order to constrain said spare wheel inside said housing. Said first element comprises a central metal body with a second end provided with a threaded hole, and said first threaded end being screwed into said bottom wall of said housing, in order to block the position of said first element and to permanently fix the same to said housing, said threaded shaft of said fixing metal screw being screwed into said threaded hole of said second end of said central metal body, in order to make said fixing metal screw integral with said first element, furthermore said first element comprising an outer polymeric portion made of a polymeric material which envelops said central metal body.
US10179615B2
An apparatus, system, and related methods for holding and maneuvering an industrial vehicle spare tire include a tire support positioned on an industrial vehicle. An industrial vehicle tire is removably securable to the tire support, wherein the tire support has at least two independently adjustable threaded members for controlling engagement of the tire support and the industrial vehicle tire. A winch is positioned proximate to the gate of the industrial vehicle. At least one pulley is positioned above the tire support, wherein at least one winch cable is connected between the winch and the at least one pulley.
US10179606B2
A steering system and method are described for a vehicle having steerable front and rear wheels. A rear hydraulic steering device may be coupled to one or more of the rear wheels. A rear valve assembly may hydraulically control the rear hydraulic steering device to steer the rear wheels based upon a rear steering command. In a rear steering assist mode, the rear steering command may be determined based upon a manual steering input received at a steering input device. In an automated steering mode, the rear steering command may be determined based upon a target path of the agricultural vehicle that is determined independently of the manual steering input.
US10179605B2
A vehicle traveling control apparatus includes a setter, a detector, and a determiner. The setter sets a lane-change route through which an own vehicle change lanes from a current target route to an adjacent lane. The detector detects a road surface pattern by irregularities on a road to which a lane change is to be made. The determiner determines whether the own vehicle interferes with the road surface pattern, and instructs correction of the set lane-change route based on a result of the determination. When there is not the interference, the determiner permits the lane change through the lane-change route. When there is the interference, the determiner instructs the setter to correct the lane-change route. The determiner permits the lane change through the corrected lane-change route when there is not the interference on the corrected lane-change route, and prohibits or cancels the lane change when there is still the interference.
